Kanata, Ontario

Kanata (, ) is one of the largest suburbs of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is about  west of the city's downtown. As of 2016, Kanata had a population of 90,806 (117,304 in the population centre)  and is growing rapidly. Before it was amalgamated into Ottawa in 2001, it was one of the fastest growing cities in Canada and the fastest growing community in Eastern Ontario. Located just to the west of the National Capital Commission Greenbelt, it is one of the largest of several communities that surround central Ottawa. It is a planned community and an important high tech centre.

History

The area that is today Kanata was originally part of the Township of March, and was first settled by Europeans in the early nineteenth century. One site dating from this era is Pinhey's Point.

It remained mainly agricultural until the 1960s when it became the site of heavy development. Modern Kanata is largely the creation of Bill Teron, a developer and urban planner who purchased over  of rural land and set about building a model community. Unlike other suburbs, Kanata was designed to have a mix of densities and commercial and residential properties. It had large amounts of open space, and was to be surrounded by a greenbelt. A reflection of the garden city movement, the area was divided into a series of communities, each of which was intended to have its own commercial centre and unique culture. These include Beaverbrook, Glen Cairn, Bridlewood, Katimavik, Hazeldean, Morgan's Grant, and Kanata Lakes. The first street to be built was Tiffany Crescent in 1964.

The community grew rapidly due to the influx of hi-tech workers looking to capitalize on the new economical cityscape. The Province of Ontario incorporated Kanata as a city in 1978 out of the Township of March, and portions of the Township of Goulbourn and the Township of Nepean (subsequently the City of Nepean). The name "Kanata" was chosen in a referendum, defeating "Hazeldean", "March" and "Kairnwood".

On September 20, 1998, the city of Kanata dedicated a cenotaph in Village Green Memorial Park dedicated to those who served their country in war and peace.

It remained a city until 2001, when the province created a new (amalgamated) City of Ottawa that included the City of Kanata (pop. 59,700).

The Kanata Avenue–Castlefrank Road overpass next to Royal Canadian Legion National Headquarters, opened in December 2003 and renamed Valour Bridge on December 1, 2006, is dedicated to all Canadians who have served in defence of freedoms in the great battles and campaigns since the turn of the 20th century.

As of the 2006 census, the population of Kanata had increased to 85,000, and was most recently estimated to be just over 90,000. The city became an important hi-tech centre. DEC was one of the pioneer technology companies in Kanata. The DEC campus has been successively Digital, Compaq, and HP, and is now occupied by the Gilmore Printing group of companies. Kanata remains home to many of the major hi-tech employers of Ottawa, such as Ericsson, Avaya, Juniper Networks, Research In Motion (now BlackBerry), Mitel, March Networks, Nokia, Bridgewater Systems, DragonWave, Solace, Protecode, Dell Canada, HP, Smart Technologies, Norpak, MDS Nordion, Breconridge, AMCC, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Ciena. Nortel Networks and the former Bell-Northern Research had a major campus of buildings just outside the Kanata boundary to the east. The hi-tech industry is clustered along March Road, in the Kanata North Business Park and Kanata Research Park, and along Eagleson Road, in the Kanata South Business Park.

Location
Situated in the Ottawa Valley, Kanata is about  west-southwest of Downtown Ottawa along Highway 417 at a latitude of 45°18' North and a longitude of 75°55' West, with an area of . Its northern end is just to the west of the Ottawa River.

To the east, Kanata is separated from the former City of Nepean by the National Capital Commission's Greenbelt. The community of Bells Corners borders the inner side of the Greenbelt. Bells Corners is itself a hi-tech suburb that was established around 1950, and was home to such Canadian technology icons as Computing Devices Canada, the Ottawa-based defence electronics company (bought by General Dynamics), which blazed the trail for later defence technology firms, in what is now unofficially known as Silicon Valley North, or Kanata.

To the south of Kanata is Stittsville, Ontario. First a farming community, then a village, then part of the township of Goulbourn, Stittsville is now a large suburb which was amalgamated into the new City of Ottawa in 2001, and largely employed by the hi-tech industry.

Further to the south of Kanata is the former village of Richmond, Ontario, which pre-dated what is now the City of Ottawa.

Main neighbourhoods (North to South)

South March: This area of Kanata is north of the Kanata North Business Park on either side of March Road and is bounded by Terry Fox Drive to the south and the urban boundary, which basically runs along the Old Carp Road to the north. Extensive developments are underway towards the north. The development area along the west side of March Road is often referred to as Morgan's Grant, while the development area along the east side of March Road can be referred to as BriarBrook, BriarRidge and Brookside (depending on what area one is referring to). Many developers have developed the land along the east side.

Kanata North Business Park: Frequently referred to as Silicon Valley North during the late 1990s, this area is bounded by Terry Fox Drive to the north, Herzberg Road to the east, March Road to the south and Goulbourn Forced Road to the west. Many high-tech companies reside in this area including Xceedium, Nokia, Dell, Mitel, Bridgewater Systems, Solace, AMD, Protecode, and Cisco. The 18-story, luxury Brookstreet Hotel is in the middle of the Kanata Research Park, surrounded by the first of two urban 18-hole golf courses, called the Marshes Golf Club.  Unlike the members-only Kanata Lakes Golf & Country Club, the Marshes Golf Club is open to the general public.

Marchwood Lakeside : Frequently referred to as Kanata Lakes, this area is bounded by Campeau Drive to the south, Knudson Avenue & Weslock Way to the east, Terry Fox Drive to the west and Terry Fox Drive to the north. It has a main arterial street called Kanata Ave. which runs north-south all the way to the 417 (where it then switches to Castlefrank Road that continues south past Glen Cairn).  This area has the second of two urban, 18-hole golf courses in Kanata. Unlike the Marshes Golf Course in the Kanata North Business Park, this golf course is not open to the public.

Beaverbrook: Bounded by the Kanata North Business Park to the north, March Road to the east, Campeau Drive to the south and Knudson Avenue & Weslock Way to the west. The first and oldest neighbourhood in Kanata, Beaverbrook is known for its hedged houses and community facilities. Beaverbrook is also home to Canadian businessman Terry Matthews.

Kanata Town Centre: Bounded by Campeau Drive to the north, March Road to the east, Katimavik Road to the south and Terry Fox Drive to the west. The provincial highway 417 bisects this neighbourhood, with most of the undeveloped areas on the north side of the 417. North of the 417, this area has a large mix of high density homes (townhomes and stacked townhomes) to the east, as well as Kanata's major shopping area called Kanata Entertainment Centrum which houses many big-box stores, as well as Landmark Cinemas and its own shopping centre. Between the commercial development and the residential developments to the east, there is a large undeveloped area zoned for high density residential, institutional and commercial spaces. South of the 417, this area again has a mix of residential, institutional and commercial spaces, although the amount of commercial spaces seems to have moved to the newer section of Kanata Town Centre, north of the 417. Again, most of the high density homes are to the east, mainly consisting of townhome developments. As one ventures further to the west, towards Terry Fox Drive, the residential switches from townhomes developments to single family homes.

Terry Fox Business Park: Bounded by the provincial highway 417 & Terry Fox Drive to the north, Terry Fox Drive to the east, Maple Grove Road to the south and Huntmar Drive to the west. Canadian Tire Centre, home arena of the Ottawa Senators, is in the neighbourhood, as well as many newer big-box stores such as Home Depot, Staples, Canadian Tire and more recently Costco. The Bell Sensplex is also in this area, providing Kanata with an additional Olympic sized rink, three NHL sized rinks and an indoor soccer/lacrosse field.

Katimavik-Hazeldean: Bounded by Katimavik Road to the north, Eagleson Road to the east, by Hazeldean Road to the south and Terry Fox Drive to the west.

Kanata West: A new community under construction situated along the Stittsville/Kanata boundary. Bounded by Maple Grove Road to the north, Hazeldean Road to the south, and Terry Fox Drive to the east, this neighbourhood also contains big-box stores such as Lowe's.

Glen Cairn: Bounded by Hazeldean Road to the north, Eagleson Road to the east, the Trans Canada Trail to the south, and Terry Fox Drive to the west. Glen Cairn features some low income housing, and is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Kanata, along with Beaverbrook.

Kanata South Business Park: Bounded by the Trans Canada Trail to the north, Eagleson Road to the east, Fernbank Road to the south and Terry Fox Drive to the west. Again, many smaller high-tech companies are home to the KSBP. Most of this area was undeveloped until just recently. A Real Canadian Superstore recently opened and a large residential/small office development is under construction in the south end of the KSBP.

Bridlewood: Bounded by the National Capital Commission Green Belt to the north and east,  Hope Side Road to the south, and Eagleson Road to the west. This area was part of the City of Nepean, but was transferred to the new City of Kanata when it was incorporated in 1978. Still under development, there are several residential projects underway in the core and to the south end of Bridlewood. Parts of southern Bridlewood may also be referred to as Emerald Meadows or Monahan Landing.

Politics
Until 2015, Kanata was in the federal and provincial riding of Carleton—Mississippi Mills. Kanata was the largest centre in the riding, with more than half the population being in Kanata. Both federally and provincially, the riding had tilted strongly conservative, with greater Liberal support in Kanata itself being swamped by more conservative voters in the rest of the riding. Norm Sterling represented the area for decades in the Ontario legislature for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario until he lost the nomination to Jack MacLaren in 2011. Federally, the area went Liberal for most of the 1990s, but in 2000, the riding, then known as Lanark—Carleton, was one of only two in Ontario to elect a Canadian Alliance MP. it was easily won by Conservative Gordon O'Connor in 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2011. O'Connor served as a cabinet minister under Stephen Harper from 2006 to 2013.

In 2015, Liberal candidate and Canadian Forces veteran Karen McCrimmon won the newly created riding of Kanata—Carleton, as the new riding had largely become devoid of more conservative rural areas due to population growth.

On the municipal level, the area has been more competitive. From 1994 to 2000, the area was represented on regional council by Kanata native Alex Munter, then a member of the New Democratic Party. In 2000, Munter was elected as the representative to the new Ottawa City Council. Munter retired in 2003 and was replaced by another progressive, Peggy Feltmate. Redistricting prior to the 2006 Ottawa election has seen Kanata divided into two wards, Kanata North and Kanata South. On November 13, 2006, Munter lost to Larry O'Brien in his bid to be mayor of Ottawa, though he carried Kanata.  Feltmate won in the ward of Kanata South, and Marianne Wilkinson, seen as one of the more right-wing, developer-friendly members of council, was elected Councillor of Kanata North.  Feltmate retired in 2010 and the Kanata South seat was won by Allan Hubley.

Economy
First Air, a Canadian airline, has its headquarters in Kanata.

The palladium auto park along Palladium avenue has seven car dealerships.

The Kanata Research Park is mostly along Terry Fox Drive in the north end of Kanata. Kanata Research Park is a significant location for several hi-tech companies, including Mitel, Ericsson, Blackberry Canada, Halogen Software, DragonWave, Wesley Clover, Ciena and Nokia.

Notable buildings and institutions

 Canadian Tire Centre, 1000 Palladium Drive. Home arena of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League, some Ottawa 67's hockey games, and many large concerts, such as Bryan Adams, who opened the arena with a show on 15 January 1996, it was known as the Palladium (pre-construction-1996), the Corel Centre (1996–2006), and Scotiabank Place (2006–2013). For several years before the merger, the Canadian Tire Centre was in the City of Kanata, which was in the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton.
 The Kanata Recreation Complex, 100 Charlie Rogers Place; has two skating rinks, a toboggan hill and a splash pad.
 The Kanata Leisure Centre and Wave Pool, 70 Aird Place
 The Brookstreet Hotel, 525 Legget Drive
 The Kanata Centrum power centre; together with adjacent developments, Ottawa's third largest shopping centre.
 The Royal Canadian Legion's national headquarters, near the Kanata Leisure Centre and the bridge over Hwy. 417 which links Castlefrank Road and Kanata Avenue. The Department of National Defence named the Valour Bridge on 1 December 2006, in an official naming ceremony to honour Canada's Armed Forces.
 Ron Maslin Playhouse, 1 Ron Maslin Place. The 350-seat theatre was completed in 1996, and was funded by an all-volunteer theatre company which was founded in 1968 in the homes of original Kanata residents.
 Bell Sensplex, 1565 Maple Grove Road. Houses four ice rinks (three NHL sized and one Olympic sized), an indoor soccer pitch, Stanley's restaurant, several meeting rooms, and Peak Centre for Performance.
 Landmark Cinemas Kanata 24, in the Kanata Centrum, the largest movie theatre in Ottawa (formerly AMC Kanata 24 and Empire Theatres Kanata 24).
 Jack Charron Arena (formerly The Glen Cairn Arena) on Castlefrank Road at McKitrick Drive
 Hazeldean Branch – Ottawa Public Library
 Glen Cairn Tennis Courts – Four hard-courts plus a practice wall with a clubhouse.
 Hazeldean Mall – indoor shopping mall bounded by Hazeldean Road, Eagleson Road, Carbrooke Street and Abbeyhill Drive
 Tanger Outlet Mall – a large shopping complex across from Highway 417, Canadian Tire Centre and Palladium Auto Park which opened in October 2014.

Media
Kanata's community Newspaper is  "The Kanata Community Voice " which is distributed every second week to ALL 34,867 homes, apartments and businesses by Canada Post. This newspaper was started in March 2018. The Kanata Community Voice details may found at:  ottawavoice.ca

Former publications > The Kanata Kourier-Standard newspaper  was the result of a merger in 1989 between two longtime community newspapers — the Kanata Kourier which was launched in 1983 by Alex Munter and the Kanata Standard which was launched in 1965 by Kanata's community association. The paper was sold in November 27, 2017 by Torstar Metroland to Postmedia who closed the publication January 2018.

Sports
Kanata is home to the Ottawa Senators professional ice hockey team, who play at Canadian Tire Centre. A women's Ottawa Senators team plays at the Bell Sensplex. The annual Bell Capital Cup youth minor amateur ice hockey tournament is held at the Sensplex during the Christmas holiday break. The Kanata Lasers, formally known as the Kanata Stallions (and Valley Lasers), is the junior team that plays at the Kanata Recreational Complex. The Kanata Soccer Club is the largest sports club in Kanata and the second largest in the city with close to 4,500 players. The Kanata Rhythmic Gymnastics Club is the largest rhythmic gymnastics club in Ontario, and was founded by Head Coach Dasa Lelli in 1975. Following the first rhythmic gymnastics club, Olympia Gymnastics, the first artistic gymnastics and recreational centre in the area, was founded in 2005 on Iber Road.

Kanata is also home to the Kanata Knights football club, one of the 16 teams that play in the National Capital Amateur Football Association (NCAFA). The Knights play and practice at Robert Barr field on 573 Hazeldean Rd. They are rivals of the Bell Warriors, West-Carleton Wolverines and other sports franchises.

Arts
Arts groups in Kanata include the Kanata Symphony, Kanata Civic Art Gallery and Kanata Theatre.

Schools

Elementary schools

English public elementary schools
Bridlewood Community Elementary School
Castlefrank Elementary School
Glen Cairn Public School
Jack Donohue Public School
John Young Elementary School
Kanata Highlands Public School
Katimavik Elementary School
Roch Carrier Elementary School
Roland Michener Public School
South March Public School
Stephen Leacock Public School
W. Erskine Johnston Public School
W. O. Mitchell Elementary School

English Catholic elementary schools
Georges Vanier Catholic School
Holy Redeemer High School
St. Anne Catholic School
St Gabriel Catholic School
St Isidore Catholic School
St James Catholic School
St Martin de Porres Catholic School

French Catholic elementary schools
École élémentaire catholique Élisabeth-Bruyère
École élémentaire catholique Roger-Saint-Denis
École élémentaire catholique Saint-Remi

French public elementary schools
Ecole Elementaire Publique Julie-Payette
École élémentaire publique Maurice-Lapointe

Montessori schools
Becca's Home Montessori
Kanata Montessori School
March Montessori School and Childcare Centre Kanata (Ottawa)

High schools

Public high schools
A.Y. Jackson Secondary School
Earl of March Secondary School

Catholic high schools
All Saints Catholic High School
Holy Trinity Catholic High School

French-Catholic high schools
École Secondaire Catholique Paul-Desmarais

Demographics
Former city of Kanata population history
Population (2011): 80,781
Population (2006): 70,078
Population (2001): 58,636
Population (1996): 47,909
Population (1991): 37,344
% change (2001–2006): 19.5
Dwellings: 24,044
Area (km²): 132.21
Density (persons per km²): 530.1

Population by neighbourhood

Mayors
Marianne Wilkinson (1978–1985)
Des Adam (1985–1991)
Merle Nicholds (1991–2000)

Kanata was amalgamated with the City of Ottawa in 2001, so no longer has its own mayor.

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List of military veterans in British politics

This is a list of currently serving (2016) members House of Commons, House of Lords, Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales, Northern Ireland Assembly, Police and Crime Commissioner and UK members of the European Parliament who are Military veterans.

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Valverde de Valdelacasa

Valverde de Valdelacasa is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca,  western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 63 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 76 people.

Geography
The municipality covers an area of 8 km².  It lies 803 metres above sea level and the post code is 37791.

See also
List of municipalities in Salamanca

References

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Edith Sempala

Edith Grace Sempala (née Edith Bafakulera), is a Ugandan civil engineer, civil servant, diplomat and political activist, who has served as Director and Senior Adviser at the World Bank since 2008. She previously served as Uganda's representative to the Nordic countries, the United States, the African Union, Ethiopia and Djibouti.

Background and education
She was born in 1953 in Namutamba, in modern-day Mityana District, in the Central Region of Uganda. She attended Namutamba Demonstration School for her elementary education. She attended Gayaza High School for her O-Level studies and went to Nabumali High School for her A-Level schooling. In 1973, she entered Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, then known as Lumumba University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering, completing her studies in 1979.

Career
Following her studies in the then Soviet Union, she spent next seven years (1979 to 1986), in Sweden as a refugee. In 1986, following the change of government in Kampala, she was named Uganda's ambassador to the Nordic countries, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, serving in that capacity for 10 years. In 1986, she was named Uganda's ambassador to the United States, based in Washington DC. She served in that capacity for another 10 years. In 2006, she was named to become Uganda's ambassador to the African Union, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She concurrently served as Uganda's representative to Ethiopia and Djibouti. She served in this capacity from 2006 until 2008. In 2008, she joined the World Bank as Director and Senior Adviser, International Affairs, Office of the World Bank's Vice-President for External Affairs. In 2015, she was named by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to serve on the Advisory Group of Experts on Review of Peacebuilding Architecture.

Personal
Edith Grace Sempala is a married mother of three children.

See also
Mityana District
List of political parties in Uganda
Amama Mbabazi

References

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Texas State Highway 222

State Highway 222 or SH 222 is a state highway in north-central Texas. It runs  between U.S. Highway 82/State Highway 114 (US 82/SH 114) and US 380. SH 222 was established in 1935 as a renumbering of SH 126.

History

The route was originally designated by 1928 between Knox City and Munday as SH 126. On March 19, 1930, SH 126 was removed from the state highway list, but was still designated. On August 27, 1935, SH 126, which was not on the State Highway List, was upgraded to a state highway, and renumbered to SH 222. On September 26, 1939, SH 222 extended north to US 82, replacing SH 252. The section north of Munday was transferred to FM 267 on January 7, 1948. On September 25, 1973, an extension of SH 222 was signed, but not designated along FM 143, FM 1587, part of FM 266, and part of FM 1720. On August 29, 1990, the extension of SH 222 was officially designated, replacing FM 143, FM 1587, part of FM 266, and part of FM 1720.

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Church of Living Water, Istanbul

The Church of Living Water () is an Evangelical Christian church in Istanbul, Turkey.
The building lies in the Istanbul district of Osmanbey, in the neighborhood of Pangalti, along Ergenekon Caddesi.

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Damien Quinn (rugby league)

Damien Quinn (born 24 August 1981) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer.

Quinn's position of choice is as a . He was a key player for the Crusaders since joining in 2006, and he won National League One's Player of the Year award in 2008

In August 2009, Quinn, along with five team mates, was ordered to leave the United Kingdom after the UK Border Agency identified breaches to their visa conditions. The Celtic Crusaders cancelled Quinn's contract with immediate effect.

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Pedra de Guaratiba

Pedra de Guaratiba is a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Pedra de Guaratiba is in the administrative region of Guaratiba.  It has a population of 9488 people within a territory of 363,69 hectares.  It is a rescidential zone bordering the Bay of Sepetiba.  The Bay of Sepetiba is an area of commercial fishing.  The town contains an Area of Environmental Protection (Forest of Casqueiro) in which the flora and fauna is of the Tropical Alanatic Forest (Mata Alantica).  The population has grown in recent years principally after the work carried out on the beach and waterfront.  Several shows occur in the town including New Year and Carnival, organised by the local district council.  The town also includes several renowned restaurants including Cândido's, Amendoeira and 476 <http://www.viagemesabor.com.br/noticias/roteiros/br/sudeste/rj/rj/barra_e_pedra_de_guaratiba />famous for its sea food.
The town also is the site of the Church of Our Lady of Desterro constructed in 1626 and the 3rd oldest church in Rio de Janeiro.

The town was to be the site of the Popes World Youth Day Field of Faith Mass but after extensive work and considerable cost it was moved at the last moment to Copacabana beach due to the heavy rains in Pedra de Guaratiba.

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Oddleif Stensland

Oddleif Stensland is the vocalist and guitarist of Norwegian progressive/power metal band Communic.
Stensland appeared on  the 2007 Nuclear Blast All-Stars album, which celebrated the 20th anniversary of Nuclear Blast Records.

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Tarcenay

Tarcenay is a former commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Tarcenay-Foucherans.

Geography
Tarcenay lies  north of Ornans on the first plateau of the Jura mountains near the Loue.

Population

See also
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References

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SM UB-87

SM UB-87 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 27 December 1917 as SM UB-87.

UB-87 was surrendered to France on 20 November 1918 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany. She was broken up in Brest in 1921.

Construction

She was built by AG Weser of Bremen and following just under a year of construction, launched at Bremen on 10 November 1917. UB-87 was commissioned later that same year . Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-87 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a  deck gun. UB-87 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of . UB-87 had a displacement of  while surfaced and  when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at  when surfaced and  when submerged.

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Matilda of Hungary

Matilda of Hungary is an opera in three acts composed by William Vincent Wallace to an English libretto by Alfred Bunn. It was first performed on 22 February 1847 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with Emma Romer in the title role. Unlike its predecessor, Wallace's first opera, Maritana, it was not a success and quickly vanished from the repertory.

Composition
Wallace's first opera, Maritana, had been produced in 1845 under the management of Alfred Bunn at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and went on to international success. Seeking to repeat its success, Bunn wrote a libretto, evidently based on a story of his own devising, about a fictional Queen of Bohemia. The hero's name was borrowed from a 15th-century king of Bohemia, George of Podiebrad, but the events depicted by Butt bear no resemblance to the historical figure's life. Wallace set the piece in a more ambitious musical style than he had used for Maritana, aiming at the manner of grand opera.

Productions
The opera opened at Drury Lane on 22 February 1847. The premiere had been scheduled for a week earlier, but was postponed at the last minute because the leading lady, Emma Romer, was taken ill. The delay caused great annoyance among some of the audience, but whetted public curiosity, and the first performance was given to a capacity audience.

Despite a tumultuous reception at the first night, the piece did not prove popular with the public. In March, Bunn added a ballet, Spanish Gallantries, as an after-piece. In April, Matilda was reduced to one performance a week, and other productions, including a revival of  Maritana, starring the same principal performers, were staged on the other nights. After April 1847, no further performances were advertised in the London papers.

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Synopsis

Matilda of Hungary is the queen consort of King Ladislaus of Bohemia. He is missing, either killed or captured in battle by Turkish forces, and in his absence Matilda is striving to prevent a faction at court from seizing the throne. Fleeing the court, Matilda takes refuge in the mountains, followed by her Minister, Count Magnus. Seeking the throne for himself Magnus proposes marriage and is vehemently rejected by the queen.

Falling in with Podiebrad, a young mountaineer who happens to have an extraordinary likeness to the lost king, Magnus prevails on him to impersonate the missing king. Podiebrad has gallantly saved Matilda's life while hunting, and fallen in love with her without knowing her identity. When he realises that his beloved is the queen he agrees to perpetrate the fraud. He appears as the king, and is joyfully received by the people and by Matilda herself. At first she really believes that he is her husband, but when she realises the deception she goes along with it.

As king, Podiebrad leads his troops to victory and becomes immensely popular with his people. Count Magnus, finding that Podiebrad is not the puppet he planned for, forces an innkeeper, Mathias, to try to shoot the impostor. Mathias fails, and Magnus then seeks to make the deception known in the senate. Podiebrad admits that he is not the real Ladislaus, is nevertheless hailed as king by the senate, and is crowned king by Matilda. Magnus is sentenced to death.

Musical numbers

Act I
1. Chorus: "May Heaven protect the Queen"
2. Song – Mathias: "The Prophet his standard was rearing"
3. Recitative and air – Podiebrad: "One day I wandered. … It was a form"
4. Cavatina – Magnus: "She comes in all her loveliness"
5. Duet: Queen and Magnus: "What? shall my bright and spotless crown"
6. Chorus: "Before our Queen we kneel
7. Recitative and duet – Podiebrad and Magnus: "What form is that … It is my queen"
8. Ballad – Podiebrad: "Adieu – fair land"
9. Finale – Chorus, Magnus and Podiebrad: "The soldier silently doth stand"

Act II
10. Recitative and air – Queen: "At length in absence mourned"
11. Chorus: "This happy day we celebrate"
12. Chorus: "Long live the King"
13. Canon – Podiebrad, Magnus and Mathias: "The moment comes"
14. Barcarole – Podiebrad: "Like waves which o'er the ocean"
15. Ballad – Podiebrad: "Gonve is the calmness"
16. Duet – Podiebrad and Magnus: "O vengeance – rage and shame"
17. Chorus: "Thy fondest wish, they highest aim"
18. Romance – Queen: "They who would still be happy"
19. Duet – Podiebrad and Queen: "This deep affront I did not need"
20. Finale – Chorus, Ottokar, Mathias, Lillia, Podiebrad, Magnus and Queen: "The people, past assuaging"

Act III
21. Recitative – Lillia: "These halls of revels once the scene"
22. Ballad – Lillia: "A lovely youth, the mountain child"
23. Chorus and Podiebrad: "Oh, welcome with shouts"
24. Romance – Queen: "In that devotion which we breathe"
25, Chorus: "Suppress these giddy transports"
26. Trio – Magnus, Podiebrad and Mathias: "To see my king"
27. Duet – Queen and Podiebrad: "What do I hear?"
28. Ensemble – All: "Here by our laws for justice"
29. Rondo finale – Queen: "One gentle heart"

Source: libretto.

Critical reaction
The opera received lukewarm reviews. The Morning Post thought the libretto suffered from having an obscure and unfamiliar subject. John Bull commented, "We do not greatly object to mere improbability in the story of a drama especially a musical one; but, though a Drury-Lane grand serious opera is scarcely above the level of [a] melodrama yet neither the one nor the other should contain absurdities palpable to a child of ten years old." There was criticism that the character of Matilda was morally repugnant for receiving the attentions of Podiebrad while believing her real husband might be alive.

The music was no better received. Both The Morning Post and The Era found the overture far too long and poorly constructed. Wallace's music was judged "showy but superficial", lacking the freshness and novelty of the score of Maritana. The papers thought the ballads for the soprano and tenor to have nothing to do with the drama and everything to do with their sales as sheet music. In 2012 the critic Andrew Lamb wrote that Bunn's libretto has been dismissed as one of the worst ever written.

Notes

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Parama Veera Chakra

Parama Veera Chakra is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language action film produced by C. Kalyan on Teja Cinema banner and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao as his 150th film. Starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, Ameesha Patel, Sheela, Neha Dhupia, Jayasudha in the lead roles and music was composed by Mani Sharma.

The film released during the 2011 Sankranthi weekend to poor reviews. However, it won the Sarojini Devi Award for a Film on National Integration at the 2010 Nandi Awards.

Plot
Chakradhar (Nandamuri Balakrishna) is a famous movie actor though his mother (Jayasudha) doesn't approve of his celebrity status. Instead, she yearns to see her son as a Major in the Army, true to the promise she has given to Bobbili Puli (N. T. Rama Rao). As Chakradhar dons various roles, an army Colonel Jeetendra (Murali Mohan) tells him that he has a story in which he wants Chakradhar to act. The Colonel narrates him a story of an army major – Major Jaya Simha (again Balakrishna). However, there is a catch. Major Jaya Simha is not a fictional character, but a real time army man who looks ditto like Chakradhar, and valiantly arrested a dreaded terrorist – Abdul Ghani. The tragedy is Jaya Simha is now in a vegetative state (on mechanical ventilation), thanks to a conspiracy plotted by politicians, few army men and terrorists themselves. Colonel Jeetendra asks Chakradhar to act like Major to ensure that the nation's security plans are not compromised. How Chakradhar attacks the terrorists and how he brings back the honor of the Major forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack and background score is composed by Mani Sharma. The audio was released on 29 December 2010. The audio function of the movie is held at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad. The audio rights of the soundtrack were purchased by Aditya Music.

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Toby the Tram Engine

Toby the Tram Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic tram engine in The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry and his son, Christopher; he also appears in the spin-off television series Thomas & Friends. Toby, a tram engine with cowcatchers and sideplates, carries the North Western Railway running number seven and works on the same Ffarquhar Branch Line as Thomas the Tank Engine.

Toby first appeared in the seventh book in The Railway Series, Toby the Tram Engine in 1952, and appeared in several subsequent books. The second book focused on Toby was the sixth of Christopher Awdry's books, Toby, Trucks and Trouble.

Prototype and back-story

Toby is based on a J70 tram engine from the Great Eastern Railway (GER Class C53). His cowcatchers and sideplates allow him to run on roadside tramways, which other engines are not allowed to do for safety reasons. J70s were used for light duties, such as branch line work and dock shunting.

Many J70s could be found working on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway in East Anglia only 28 miles (46 km) from Rev. W. Awdry's parish at Elsworth in Cambridgeshire in the same diocese.  Rev. W. Awdry wrote about Toby the Tram Engine in 1952, shortly before he was transferred to Emneth parish. The Tramway ran from Wisbech, through Emneth – the next station on the line – then through Outwell and Upwell. This area and its line was well known to Rev. W. Awdry who often visited Ely nearby. The Tramway was primarily used for the transportation of fruit and other farm produce to the main line at Wisbech. The line closed to passengers in 1927, but freight services continued until lorries and road transport boomed in the 1950s. In 1952, the steam tram engines were replaced by diesel Drewry Shunters (the BR Class 04). Inspiration for Toby came from the Awdrys watching a J70 – probably 68221, one of three J70s built in 1914 (as GER 127) – at Great Yarmouth in 1951. Further inspiration was drawn soon after when the Rev. 'Teddy' Boston, then curate at Wisbech, arranged for Awdry to ride on the footplate of one of the last surviving steam tram engines on the Tramway. Fascinated by the unusual engines, Awdry sought a way to incorporate them in the stories. Research by Awdry's brother, George, revealed that tramway regulations required the fitting of cowcatchers and sideplates for railway locomotives running on tracks alongside roads, and the story "Thomas in Trouble" (published in 1952, the year steam trams were replaced) evolved to provide a reason for Toby being summoned to Sodor. The story includes a description of Toby's final journeys on the line:

This was a common occurrence during the closing of real railway lines; demand decreased to an unprofitable amount, but services were often full for the last workings of steam.

On Awdry's model railway, Toby was represented by a Y6, an 0-4-0 locomotive similar to but smaller than the J70 and better suited to the 4-wheel motor bogie available to power the model. In 1961, Awdry wrote an article for Railway Modeller magazine on the construction of this locomotive.

Christopher Awdry has said that Toby is his favourite character, partly because he was there when his father received the inspiration to create him, but also because as a child he had travelled in the cab of two J70s.

Rev. W, Awdry served as parish priest in two parishes in Cambridgeshire, the county associated with Toby the Tram Engine. First, he was Rector of Elsworth with Knapwell from 1946 to 1953, then he was Vicar of Emneth from 1953 until 1965 when he retired from full-time ministry and moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Toby in The Railway Series
Toby is introduced in the 7th book in The Railway Series. The first story, "Toby and the Stout Gentleman", describes the closure of Toby's branch line due to the lack of passengers and freight. Shortly before the line was to close, a "stout gentleman" arrived on a holiday with his family; the children rode on Toby everyday for a fortnight and the stout gentleman gave Toby's crew a present. The day after the Tramway closed, ironically after an overcrowded final journey by Toby and Henrietta, a letter arrived from the stout gentleman which was to give Toby a reprieve.

In "Thomas in Trouble", Thomas encounters an officious policeman, who says that, when running from the quarry, along public roads, engines who have the right to go on public roads must be fitted with cowcatchers and sideplates for safety to prevent people and animals from getting killed if they should have the right to stray onto the line. The Fat Controller, urgently needing to rectify this, is discussing the fitting of these, when Thomas remarks that "everyone will laugh...they'll say I look like a tram". The Fat Controller (the "stout gentleman") remembered Toby immediately and arranged for him to come to Sodor. Toby arrives with his coach, Henrietta, and became a friend of Thomas after Toby rings his bell and frightens the policeman.

In "Dirty Objects", James makes fun of Toby's "shabby" appearance. James later has an accident with tar wagons. Toby and Percy help to clear up the mess and Toby is rewarded with a new coat of paint. His chosen livery of chocolate brown with blue sideplates replicates that which he would have worn on the GER.

Toby suffers from having small water tanks, meaning he is unsuitable for long distance work. In "Double Header" (in The Eight Famous Engines), Toby uses the Main Line to travel to the Works for servicing. He has stopped at a water-crane to refill his tanks, when he is urged on to the next station by a new Signalman who didn't understand Toby's condition. Toby tries to hurry to the next station, but uses up the water and runs out of steam, ending up marooned on the mainline far from the station. Toby is pushed by James to the station, where some boys misunderstand the situation and suggest that James was unable to pull the Express, and Toby was needed to double-head the train.

Toby is also associated with the coach Victoria, who forms the "vintage train" with Henrietta that takes workers to and from the quarry.

Toby in the television series

Toby first appeared towards the end of the first season of the TV show and is considered to be one of the central characters. Toby has his own song, of the same name, which is based upon his theme composed by Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell.

Toby was originally depicted as a wise, brave and kind old engine, often giving advice to younger engines like Thomas,Percy and Mavis. Due to his experience and wisdom Toby rarely ever had accidents or derailments, and almost never got into trouble with the Fat Controller. In recent seasons, Toby has been feeling more insecure with the world around him as he is an old engine, and is not on the same page as the younger engines, like Percy, who feel more rough and ready.

Toby was dropped from the main cast in the 22nd season as part of the attempt to bring the Steam Team's gender balance to a near 50/50 split. However, he was not dropped entirely, and he still can be seen in the series doing various jobs around the island and is the focus of the season 23 episode Heart of Gold.

Voice actors
 Colm Feore (Thomas and the Magic Railroad)
 Ben Small (UK (Hero of the Rails – Season 18))
 Rob Rackstraw (UK (Season 19 onwards))
 William Hope (US (Hero of the Rails onwards))
 Yasuhiko Kawazu (Japan (Season 1–8))
 Tomohiro Tsuboi (Japan (Season 9 onwards))

Toby in Thomas and the Magic Railroad
In the film, Toby is first seen reminding the other engines that they must not let Diesel 10 push them around. Later, after Diesel 10 overhears Thomas and Percy's conversation about how Mr. Conductor travels to Sodor, Toby manages to stall Diesel 10 ringing his bell. Diesel 10 tries to attack Toby with his claw, but instead fails and brings a shed down by himself as well as his cronies.

Colm Feore provided the voice of Toby in the film.

Henrietta
Henrietta is Toby's faithful coach, based on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway non-articulated GER four-wheeled coach. She worked with Toby on their old railway, and when that line closed Toby could not bear to leave her behind. The stationmaster had wanted to turn her into a henhouse, but The Fat Controller agreed that "that would never do." The two are inseparable, and whenever they are apart they worry about each other:

Henrietta carries passengers and is used to bring quarry workers to and from work. In "The Fat Controller's Engines" (The Eight Famous Engines), she is used as the Fat Controller's private coach when the locomotives take a trip to The Other Railway.

Henrietta was the only named character not to be illustrated with a face in The Railway Series until book 41 of the series, Thomas and Victoria. In this book, Henrietta is depicted with a small rectangular face where a window on the end doors would be. It was the same colour as her cabin, like the other coaches. She even didn't have a visible face in the television series until the eighteenth season. Her face in this series is larger than in the Railway Series, and it completely replaces the door on one end, as well as the immediately adjoining window on both sides. The face is also whitish-gray as are those of the engines and much of the rolling stock, as opposed to the same brown as her paintwork as she appears in the book.

Voice actors
 Maggie Ollerenshaw (Season 18 onwards)
 Yumi Nakatani (Japan (Season 1 only))
 Keiko Nemoto (Japan (Season 18 onwards))

Elsie
Toby also has a baggage car named Elsie, mentioned in The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways and the 1979 Thomas the Tank Engine Annual. However, she has not yet appeared in any stories. According to the Rev. W. Awdry, she is based upon a Wisbech and Upwell Tramway luggage van and shares a shed with Henrietta.

Heritage railways

There are no surviving J70 trams; a replica, based at the East Anglian Railway Museum, is a diesel-hydraulic 0-4-0 shunter with a metal casing over it. When this diesel was converted a replica Henrietta was built from scratch. The underframe was taken from an old box van, but the body was a complete new build. Toby and Henrietta can be seen running on the Museum's Day out with Thomas events.

A project to build a steam-powered replica of a GER Class G15 Wisbech and Upwell tram based on a Belgian Cockerill 0-4-0 tram engine has been underway for some time at the Nene Valley Railway. Named "Toby", work on the project stalled following the deaths of the tram's owners, but the project was sold in January 2011 with a view to recommencing work on the replica.

A project to build a J70 replica to resemble a tram engine based on the 'Wisbech and Upwell Tram Railway's "Toby the Tram Engine" is under way at Mangapps Railway Museum near Burnham on Crouch in Essex. The engine is a Drewry – Vulcan industrial diesel locomotive '11104'.

Not based on the character, the Királyrét Forestry Railway built a diesel railcar in 2010. Because of its rather rectangular shape and the wooden sheathing very similar to that of Toby the Tram Engine the railcar is nicknamed Toby, or with a Hungarian spelling, Tóbi.

Notes

References

External links
A fansite page on Toby the Tram Engine.
The Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine page on Toby.
The Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine page on Henrietta and Elsie. This section also includes a link to the article on Toby from Railway Modeller.

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247°F

247°F is a suspense thriller film directed by Levan Bakhia and Beqa Jguburia. Cast members include Scout Taylor-Compton, Travis Van Winkle, Christina Ulloa, Michael Copon  and Tyler Mane. It was filmed in Tbilisi, Georgia and wrapped in July, 2011. It received its first international release date in Georgia on 1 September 2011. The film is about a group of friends who get trapped in a sauna.

Plot
Jenna (Scout Taylor-Compton) gets into a car accident with her boyfriend, Jamie, who eventually dies. Three years later, while coping with her past tragedy, Jenna is invited to stay for the weekend in a lakeside cabin with her best friend Renee (Christina Ulloa). They are joined by Renee’s irresponsible boyfriend, Michael (Michael Copon), and his friend, Ian (Travis Van Winkle), and sail off at Ian's uncle, Wade's (Tyler Mane) lakeside cabin. They are greeted by Wade along with his friendly dog, named Beau. They settle in the cabin and plan on attending a party, since there is a festival happening around the nearby town at night. Jenna goes to her room and refuses to take her pills so she could have fun with her friends. While they all eat dinner, Wade mentions how he may not be around while they are away since he has work to do. The group gets fascinated when they stumble inside a sauna Wade built. While they enjoy spending time inside, the temperature gets warmer and they decide to swim at the lake. Trembling in cold, they all head back inside the sauna. Meanwhile, Michael gets high from the marijuana Wade had given to him, where Renee rebuffs his sexual advances. This upsets Michael and gets out of the sauna. As the temperature continues to rise, Renee ultimately decides to leave but the door is blocked from the outside. The trio think it is just one of Michael's pranks since they all know he's mad at Renee, which they don't find amusing. They soon realize that they are trapped in the sauna and attempts to break a small window on the door, injuring Ian's hand. They all take turns gasping for air as the temperature raises even higher with another unsuccessful attempt to unblock the door from the outside. The group then finds a hidden controller which they all can't risk destroying, since Ian believes it would just alter the temperature.

Meanwhile, Wade is seen handling the fireworks for the festival with another guy, when Beau tracks the trio's scream, begging for help, from the back of the house. Michael shows up at Wade's and both disregard Beau's barking. Michael clearly thinks the three left him and attended the party, since he couldn't help himself from getting high. The two hang out and start a conversation as Michael explains that he wasn't permitted to catch up at the party with the group since he didn't have a ticket and returned home.

Back at the sauna, the situation escalates as the group runs out of water to drink and Renee gets sick from the temperature. Renee ultimately decides to break the controller, thinking it would lower down the temperature, but is stopped by Jenna who inadvertently strikes her head, leaving her unconscious. Jenna starts freaking out and decides to break the controller herself, which does in fact increase the heat as Ian feared. Ian becomes hysterical and burns himself badly in an attempt to prevent the steamer from heating the room out of control. He fails and the steamer blows up, killing him. The explosion frees the door and Jenna steps out in shock and wanders the house before reality snaps her back from unconsciousness to the floor of the sauna. She finds Renee alive and lets her near the window to breathe as Jenna herself goes unconscious as well from the heat.

Michael returns to the cabin where flashbacks shows him absentmindedly knocking over wooden steps and setting them against the door. It is revealed that the steps fall into place against a raised floor by the occupants as they talk and move the door themselves. Meanwhile, Wade arrives at the cabin and discovers the two girls, alive and calls the paramedics who take Jenna and Renee away on stretchers as they hold hands.

Cast
Scout Taylor-Compton as Jenna
Travis Van Winkle as Ian
Christina Ulloa as Renee
Michael Copon as Michael
Tyler Mane as Wade

Home release
247°F was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the U.S. on October 23, 2012, from Anchor Bay Entertainment.

References

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Irbisia fuscipubescens

Irbisia fuscipubescens is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in North America.

References

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Justin Eleveld

Justin Eleveld (born 26 May 1992) is a Dutch tennis player.

Eleveld has a career high ATP singles ranking of 828 achieved on 1 November 2010. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1727 achieved on 25 November 2019.

Eleveld won the 2010 Australian Open boys' doubles title, partnering Jannick Lupescu. They defeated Kevin Krawietz and Dominik Schulz in the final. Eleveld had a career high junior ranking of 24, achieved in 2010.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles

References

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Duane Robinson

Duane Robinson (born September 20, 1968 in Trenton, New Jersey) is a retired professional soccer forward who played in the American Professional Soccer League and the United States Interregional Soccer League. He was the 1990 # 1 overall pick of the Illinois Thunder of National Professional Soccer League. He also earned 10 caps with the United States Under – 20 National Team.

High School and youth career
Robinson grew up in Trenton, New Jersey and graduated in 1986 from Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Robinson recorded 24 goals his senior year leading Notre Dame to two Parochial A state titles, in 1984 and 1985. He was selected to the New Jersey State Olympic Development Team his senior year and was one of the top five recruits coming out of the state of New Jersey. The summer of his senior year he led his club team (Union Lancers) Union, New Jersey to the United States Youth National Championship (McGuire Cup) in St. Louis, Missouri scoring four goals and adding two assist in the final four. Robinson also represented the United States Under – 20 National team as a right back in World Cup qualifying play that summer in Trinidad and Tobago.

College
After graduating high school in 1986, Robinson attended Adelphi University where he played forward for the men’s soccer team from 1986–1989. During his four seasons with the Panthers he was one of the top three goal scores in the country, being named All New York 1987–1989 and 2nd Team All – America in 1988 and 1989. His senior year he was named the "Most Outstanding Athlete" at Adelphi University and was the MVP of the Senior Bowl. Robinson finished his career as the universities All – Time leading goal scorer and points leader, amassing 55 goals and 26 assist for 136 points. Over twenty five years later, his records still stand today. Robinson graduated in 1990 with a B.S. degree in Health and Physical Education.

Professional career
After finishing his collegiate career Robinson embarked on a life as a soccer journeyman. Like many U.S. soccer players in the late 1980s and early 1990s moving from one failing indoor and outdoor club to another. In 1990–1991 he played in the American Professional Soccer League (APSL) for the Penn–Jersey Spirit, and was the team’s leading goal scorer in their inaugural season. That winter he was the #1 overall pick of the Illinois Thunder of the National Professional soccer League (NPSL). He later starred for the North Jersey Imperials of the United States Soccer League being named to the All – Star team 3 times and leading the league in scoring in 1995. In 1997 with the start of Major League Soccer, Robinson was selected as a 1st round draft choice of the Metro Stars but decided to forgo the new league due to the financial constraints.  He instead played for the New Jersey Stallions of the USISL.

Coaching
In 1995, Robinson was splitting time playing overseas and in the (USISL) and as the Head Men's soccer coach at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey. Robinson also spent time as the head coach at Teaneck High School and was the assistant coach at Rider University.

In 2004, Adelphi inducted Robinson into the school's Hall of Fame.

Robinson went on to earn his master's degree in Educational Administration and completed his Doctoral course work in Sports Marketing and Management at Temple University. He is currently a high school administrator at Steinert High School in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey He resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with his wife Kimberly Robinson who have five children Kayla, Maximino Cameron, Kirsti and Trey.

References

External links
 Billikins press guide

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Vindeholme

Vindeholme is an early 20th-century mansion overlooking the Baltic Sea in the extreme south-western corner of Lolland, Denmark. It is now rented out as a venue for hunts, weddings and corporate events.

History
Vindeholme was built by Count Ferdinand Reventlow, a Danish diplomat who sought a place to retire after a long career abroad, most recently as Danish Ambassador to Paris. He acquired the land from his brother, Count Ludvig Reventlow, who had acquired Rudbjerggaard manor  in 1891. Set amid forests of small-leaved linden trees, the house was completed in 1911 to a design by architect H. C. Amberg, most known for his restoration work at Ribe Cathedral and St. Nicolas' Church in Copenhagen.

Vindeholme today
The current owners of Rugbjerggaard restored the house in 2004 and it is now being rented out for smaller conferences, hunts, corporate events and private celebrations.  The estate covers 298 hectares of land.

Owners
 (1910-1928) Ferdinand Einar Julius Gottlieb greve Reventlow
 (1928-1973) Frederik Detlef Carl greve Reventlow
 (1973-1978) Einar Ludvig August greve Reventlow
 (1978-) Gustav Erik von Rosen

References

External links

 Official website

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Martin Blunden

Martin Blunden is a British firefighter. He is the Chief Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.

Career
Blunden started his career in 1992 as a retained firefighter in Beaconsfield with Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service before joining wholetime in 1994. He served at High Wycombe, Beaconsfield (Day Crewing) and Great Holm in Milton Keynes. He was promoted to Station Officer in 2001, leading on the New Dimension Programme as part of the South East team and then ADO in 2003. In 2004 he was seconded to the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) where he was the Project Manager for the roll out of the successful High Volume Pumps as part of his Water Safety and Rescue Project. He and his team were awarded two Excellence in Delivery awards during this time.
In 2006 Blunden transferred to Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service where he continued to lead for Water Safety & Rescue for the Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) and was part of the team awarded the International Higgins & Langley Award for his contribution to Water Rescue in the UK.
In 2008 Blunden transferred to Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service and in 2010 led for CFOA, working with DCLG, on the review and establishment of the Enhanced Logistics Support capability, designed for major incidents across the UK.
In 2013, Blunden was seconded to Surrey Constabulary to lead for the UK FRS on the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP). He authored the first version of the JESIP Joint Doctrine.
In 2015 he joined South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, serving first as Assistant Chief Officer and then Deputy Chief Fire Officer in 2017 until his appointment as Scotland's 2nd Chief Officer in 2019.

References

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Nora Kelly

Nora Kelly may refer to:
 Nora Kelly (writer) (born 1945), American-born Canadian mystery writer
 Jane Toppan (1857–1938), born Honora Kelley, American serial killer


Cover Version

Cover Version is a compilation album released in 2014 by British musician and record producer Steven Wilson. The album compiles the 12 songs originally released as six "2 song" singles. Every release was made up of one original song and one cover song that involved new interpretations of other artist's songs in ways much different from their original versions. The only exception to this format is in "The Unquiet Grave" which is actually an old English folk song, and not an original song written by Wilson.

Track listing

Original release chart

References

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The Early Language Milestone

The Early Language Milestone Scale (The ELM Scale) is one of the tools for detecting and measuring language delays in children. It is one of the first lines in the investigation process in diagnosing the delay, and also one of the tools for monitoring the progression. Because of the high sensitivity, it is used as a language-specific screener in the primary care setting in regard to development and growth. It provides a quick screening-evaluation approach and gives promise for meeting the criticisms directed at most of the other screeners.

Other tests such as Clinical Adaptive Test/Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale (CAT/CLAMS) or MCHAT (available in different languages) are also performed if the results of The ELM Scale become positive or equivocal.

See also
Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers

References

External links
 The Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale (CLAMS)

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Prelude of Lotus Lantern

Prelude of Lotus Lantern () is a 2009 Chinese mythology fantasy television series. The television series directed by Hong Kong director Mang San Yu and written by Wang Biao, and starring Vincent Chiao, Zhou Yang, Liu Xiaoqing and Liu Tao. It tells the story of Erlang Shen, a popular Chinese God in Chinese mythology.  The series serve as a prequel of the 2005's Lotus Lantern (TV series)

Plot

This is the prequel to Lotus Lantern. The story this time focus on around Chen Xiang's uncle Er Lang Shen and his mother Sanshengmu .

Cast
 Vincent Chiao as Erlang Shen (Yang Jian).
Niu Junfeng as young Erlang Shen
 Zhou Yang as Sanshengmu, a niece of Jade Emperor, the third daughter of Yaoji.
 Liu Xiaoqing as Xi Wangmu.
 Liu Tao as Yaoji.
 Li Guangjie as Yang Tianyou.
 Jenny Guo as the seventh fairy.
 Kira Lu as Bamei.
 Li Xinru as Chang'e.
 Wang Weiguo as Jade Emperor.
 Tan Xiaoyan as Guanyin.
 Alvin Wong as Yuding Zhenren.
 Wu Guohua as Taiyi Zhenren.
 Xie Ning as Zhu Bajie.
 Ding Jian as Sun Wukong.
 Chen Chuang as Xiaotianquan
 Song Zuer as Nezha.
 Yvonne Lim as Princess San, the third daughter of Dragon King.
 Cao Jun as Chenxiang. (Guest Star in episode 46)

Production
The television series shot the scene in Zhuozhou World Studios of Zhuozhou city, Hebei province, China.

It was a hot TV series in CCTV-8 and one of the most watched ones in mainland China in that year.

References

External links
  Prelude of Lotus Lantern Sina

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Push th' Little Daisies

"Push th' Little Daisies" is a song by the band Ween, appearing on their third album, Pure Guava in 1992. It was released as a single in 1993. A music video was released, featuring Dean and Gene Ween eating various foods while fooling around (with cuts to a beautiful girl) and interspersed with them performing the song. The video (which replaced the word "shit" with a sample of Prince squealing) and song gained exposure after being critiqued on MTV show, Beavis and Butt-head.

The song was a hit in Australia, spending 13 weeks on the Australian singles chart and peaking at #18. It also came 40th in Triple J's annual Hottest 100 music poll in 1993. It was also successful on United States Alternative rock radio, charting at #21 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and is one of only two Ween songs–the other being "Voodoo Lady"–to chart on any Billboard chart.

The A.V. Club said, "there’s something undeniable about the madness of "Push th’ Little Daisies", with its roots in alternative-nation open-mindedness, pop subversion, and lots of drugs. It’s crazy catchy, too, even as it’s deliberately annoying."

The song is mentioned in the book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, on the appendix list of 10,001 songs recommended for download.

Single track listing
"Push th' Little Daisies" (Shitless Radio Edit – No Shit) – 2:49
"Push th' Little Daisies" (Happier Than Shit Album Version) – 2:49
"Ode to Rene" – 2:21
"I Smoke Some Grass (Really Really High)" – 7:45
"Mango Woman" – 2:23
"Push th' Little Daisies" (Funky Drummer Mix) – 2:52

References

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Jessica Roland-Pratt

Jessica Julia Roland-Pratt (born June 1, 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Puerto Rico.

Biography
Born in Hollywood, California, Roland is a graduate of Hollywood High School, where she was a two-time Los Angeles City singles champion. She is of Puerto Rican descent on her mother's side, which she chose to represent in international competition, making her first Fed Cup appearance in 2000.

From 2000 to 2004 she attended Texas A&M on a tennis scholarship, earning All-American honors in her senior year.

Roland, a right-handed player, continued to play Fed Cup tennis for Puerto Rico until 2010 and finished with 26 ties to her name, for a 16/18 overall win-loss record. At the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games she partnered Monica Puig in the women's doubles and at the 2011 Pan American Games she was a quarter-finalist in the women's singles competition.

During her professional career she won three $10,000 ITF doubles titles and played her last tournament in 2012.

She was previously known as known as Jessica Roland-Rosario.

References

External links

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Category:Sportspeople from Los Angeles
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Category:Texas A&M Aggies women's tennis players
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Minuscule 289

Minuscule 289 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 7138 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1625.
It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 336 paper leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page. The text is divided according to the  (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin (in Latin).

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.

History

The manuscript was written by Lucas, the αρχιθυτης. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).
It was examined and described by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1885.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 100A) at Paris.

See also

 List of New Testament minuscules
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

References

Further reading

 Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 71.

External links

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Category:17th-century biblical manuscripts
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Peugeot Type 10

The Peugeot Type 10 was a 5-seater closed-top car (body style similar to that of an estate car) produced from 1894 to 1896 by Peugeot. The engine was a V-twin that displaced 1645 cc. Three units were made.

References
Histomobile, Peugeot Type 10
Peugeot Car Models from 1889 to 1909

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Olizy

Olizy  is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

See also
Communes of the Marne department

Category:Communes of Marne (department)


Eremophila retropila

Eremophila retropila is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with hairy, greyish leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, and lilac or violet-coloured flowers which are white inside.

Description
Eremophila retropila is a shrub which grows to a height of . The branches and leaves are covered with a dense layer of simple greyish-white hairs. The hairs on the branches are long and curve downwards. The leaves are crowded near the ends of the branches, are linear to elliptic in shape, mostly  long,  wide and appear felty due to the covering of greyish hairs.

The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on densely hairy stalks,  long. There are 5, green to dark purple, densely hairy sepals which are linear to lance-shaped and about  long. The petals are  long and are joined at their lower end to form a tube. The petal tube is violet or lilac-coloured and white inside with small violet spots. The petal tube and lobes are hairy on the outside, the lobes are mostly glabrous on the inside but the tube is inside of the tube is filled with woolly hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruits which follow are dry, oval-shaped when mature and  long.

Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described by Robert Chinnock in 2007 and the description was published in Eremophila and Allied Genera: A Monograph of the Plant Family Myoporaceae. The specific epithet (retropila) is derived from the Latin words retro meaning "back" or "backwards" and pilus meaning "hair" or "felt", referring to the bent hairs on the branches.

Distribution and habitat
Eremophila retropila grows on stony flats near Meekatharra in the Murchison biogeographic region.

Conservation
This eremophila is classified as "Priority One" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.

References

Category:Eudicots of Western Australia
retropila
Category:Endemic flora of Western Australia
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Orleans, Santa Catarina

Orleans is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Santa Catarina. The town is located in the south of the state.

The municipality contains part of the  Serra Furada State Park, created in 1980.

History
Named after emperor Dom Pedro II's son-in-law, Gaston, Count of Eu, from the House of Orléans on December 26, 1884.
It was first colonized by Italians, then Germans, Austrians, Poles, Norwegians, Latvians, Dutch and other nationalities from Europe.

References

 http://www.orleans.sc.gov.br

Category:Municipalities in Santa Catarina (state)


Kalpitiya fort

Kalpitiya Fort ( Kalpitiya Balakotuwa; ) was built by the Dutch between 1667 and 1676. Kalpitiya was important as it commands the entrance to the adjacent bay, Puttalam Lagoon. The surrounding Puttalam area was one of the major cinnamon cultivation areas in Sri Lanka. The Dutch even constructed a canal from Puttalam via Negombo to Colombo to transport cinnamon from the area.

History
Kalpitiya was known by the ancient Tamils as Kav Putti and was a popular hub for Arab merchants. In 1544 the Portuguese invaded the area, naming the area Kardiv Island. The King of Portugal bestowing the territory to the Jesuits, who built a chapel here, established a small garrison to defend it. In an effort to free the port from the Portuguese the King of Kandy, King Rasjasinha II, sought assistance from the Dutch, who in 1659 conquered the area but did not return it to the King. Instead, they commenced construction of a fort in 1667, which was completed in 1676. Kalpitiya was strategically important for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), as it enabled them to control the external trade of the Kingdom of Kandy, by controlling the large Muslim trading community in the area.

The fort is nearly square in shape, with walls about  high, constructed out of coral and limestone from the surrounding area. It has a single entrance, which fronts the lagoon, which has a pediment, with a belfry above and looks like the entrance to a church.

The yellow bricks that comprise the entrance arch were reportedly brought especially from Holland. The story is that the King of Kandy had granted permission only to build a church here and that the Dutch had built the arch to mislead the King into believing that this was simply a fortified church.

Kalpitiya Fort has four bastions on each corner, each with its own guard post, with two smaller bastions facing the lagoon. Inside, the buildings are located around the periphery creating an empty space in the middle of the fort. The walls of a chapel, barracks, dining hall, commander's residence and prison are still evident, though the roofs have been replaced. There were two tunnels leading away from the fort — one led to the sea and the other to the Dutch Reformed Church approximately  outside the fort. These tunnels are blocked and are inaccessible.

In 1795 the fort was surrendered to the British. The British continued with their military occupation of the Kalpitiya Fort till 1859.

Kalpitiya fort was neglected for many years until it was turned into a Sri Lankan Navy base for training and operational activity during the escalation of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The ramparts are in good condition today.

References

See also
 Forts of Sri Lanka

Further reading

Category:British forts in Sri Lanka
Category:Dutch forts in Sri Lanka
Category:Forts in North Western Province, Sri Lanka
Category:Buildings and structures in Puttalam District
Category:Archaeological protected monuments in Puttalam District


Waubra

Waubra (formerly known as The Springs) is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Sunraysia Highway,  north west of Ballarat and split between the Pyrenees Shire and City of Ballarat local government areas. At the , Waubra and the surrounding area had a population of 275.

The town is known for the Waubra Wind Farm, one of the largest windfarms in Australia. It was the biggest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere on completion.

The town was named after the local Wathaurong tribe "Waubra" that populated the area prior to European settlement.

History
The original inhabitants were the "Waubra" a Wathaurong indigenous Australian tribe.

Thomas Mitchell  was the first European to visit the area, and during his 1839 journey, planted a flag on nearby Mount Mitchell.

The first settler was Mr John Warne who established a pastoral run in 1857.  The settlement was originally known as "The Springs". The Post Office opened on 20 April 1860.

The railway came in October 1888 with the opening of a Victorian Railways  gauge branchline. It was renamed Waubra in 1889. In 1931, passenger services were withdrawn and the line continued as a "goods only" line through to its closure in January 1968.

The centenary of the town was celebrated in 1939 marking 100 years since Major Mitchell's sighting of the area.

Culture

The Waubra Kangaroos football team competes in the Central Highlands Football League.

Since 2010, the town has celebrated an annual Community Festival. It began as the Waubra Windfarm Festival and was sponsored by Acciona Energy, the name changed to the Waubra Windfarm Community Festival in 2011 and in 2012 became the Waubra Community Festival & Farmers Market. It has attracted large crowds and is held at the recreation reserve.

Economy
Waubra's economy is based on agriculture and associated services, more than 38% of residents are farmers. The farming is mostly livestock although a number of wineries operate in the district.  Due to the proximity to Ballarat and struggling local industry, many people commute to the city by motor vehicle for work - the  found that 67.5% of employed people travelled by car (either as driver or as passenger).

Facilities in the town include a general store and a primary school.  The pub is now closed.

References

External links

Travel guide
Waubra community website

Category:Towns in Victoria (Australia)


Franck Pourcel

Franck Pourcel (14 August 1913 – 12 November 2000) was a French composer, arranger and conductor of popular music and classical music.

Biography
Born in Marseille on 11 August 1913, Pourcel started learning the violin at the age of six.  Later, Pourcel studied violin at the Conservatoire in Marseille, and also drums because he loved jazz, and spent a year in Paris at the Conservatoire.

By 1931, he was working as a violinist in several theaters in Marseille, marrying Odette eight years later. He then became the musical director for Lucienne Boyer, with whom he went on a world tour.

He immigrated to the United States in 1952 but returned to France the following year to record "Blue Tango" and the follow-up "Limelight". In 1954, Pourcel recorded his first album on the Pathé-Marconi record label, with whom he would record a total of nine albums in a three-year period. In 1956, he recorded his version of "Only You", which sold over three million copies by 1959, and was awarded a gold disc. It peaked at #9 on the United States Billboard pop chart during a 16 weeks chart run.

Between 1956 and 1972, he was the conductor for France at the Eurovision Song Contest with the exceptions of 1957 and 1968. Four of the songs that he conducted won first place for France. As a result, France became the most successful country in the contest's early years, until Luxembourg matched its four wins in 1973.

By 1958, Pourcel started recording classical music.  His series of Pages Célèbres led him to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra, The Society of Concerts for the Conservatoire, The BBC Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, and the Lamoureux Orchestra at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. In 1961, he co-composed with Paul Mauriat the hit "Chariot", which was recorded by Petula Clark and followed up by Peggy March as "I Will Follow Him". The song became the main theme for the film, Sister Act.

In 1975, at the request of Air France, Pourcel composed an anthem for their new supersonic plane, Concorde.

Pourcel recorded 250 albums, over 3000 songs, and he conducted famous orchestras such as London Symphonic Orchestra, BBC Orchestra and Orchestre des concerts Lamoureux.
He created the series Amour Danse et violons (54 albums) and the classical series Pages Célébres.
His first recordings from 1956 to 1962 were released under the series Originals.

Pourcel recorded until 1995 with EMI. He died on 12 November 2000 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, at the age of 87, from Parkinson's disease.
His daughter Françoise Pourcel, is taking care of his musical legacy.

Awards
He was rewarded with the following distinctions:
1956: The Grand prix du disque Français
1957: The Grand prix du disque in Brazil
1963: The Golden disc in Venezuela Discomoda
1965: Amsterdam: The Edison Prize for his orchestrations of pop music
1966: Gold record for his sales in France
1968: Golden disc in Colombia for Disco Mundo
1969: Grand Prix du disque of the Charles Cros Academy in Paris
1969: Gold record in Japan for the album Continental Tango
1970: Gold record in Japan for album Adoro, featuring "Adoro"
1972: Tokyo Music Festival; Arranger award
1973: Guacaipuro de Oro in Venezuela
1973: Gold record in Japan for the album For Your Lovely Baby

References

External links
Official website

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Ingjald Helgasson

Ingjaldr Helgason was a Hiberno-Norse chieftain of the 9th Century.

According to the Landnámabók Ingjald was the son of Helgi, the son of Olaf, the son of Gudrod, the son of Halfdan Hvitbeinn; he was thus distantly related to the Yngling kings of Vestfold and later Norway. According to Eyrbyggja saga, Ingjald's mother was Thora, a daughter of Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, who was a son of Ragnar Lodbrok. However, this connection is dubious, as Ingjald appears to have been born in the early 9th Century – either before or at around the same time as Ragnar.

Ingjald had at least one son, Olaf the White, who became King of Dublin.

Notes

References
Forte, Angelo, Richard Oram and Frederik Pedersen. Viking Empires. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 .
Category:Norse-Gaels


Planomicrobium koreense

Planomicrobium koreense is a bacterium, the type species of its genus. It was first isolated from jeotgal, a Korean dish, hence its name. Its type strain is JG07T.

References

Further reading
De Vos, Paul. Endospore-forming soil bacteria. Ed. Niall A. Logan. Vol. 27. Springer, 2011.
Horikoshi, Koki, ed. Extremophiles Handbook:... Vol. 1. Springer, 2011.

External links

LPSN
Type strain of Planomicrobium koreense at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Category:Bacillales
Category:Bacteria described in 2001


Twistaplot

Twistaplot is a series of children's gamebooks, that were published by Scholastic from 1982 to 1985. Books #1, #4, #9, and #14 were written by R.L. Stine, who would go on to write the Fear Street series and the Goosebumps series, which in turn spawned the gamebook spin-off series Give Yourself Goosebumps. The remaining books were written by various authors including Louise Munro Foley. They were Scholastic's response to the Choose Your Own Adventure series. After the success of the Goosebumps series, the Twistaplot titles that were written by R. L. Stine were reissued with new covers in 1994 and 1995.

Style and gameplay
Twistaplot covers a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Similar to the Give Yourself Goosebumps series, they are novels with branching plots. The books are written from the second-person perspective, in present-tense form. The protagonist in each book is never referred to by name, and the protagonist's gender is ambiguous. Thus the reader can easily imagine himself/herself as the protagonist of the storyline. But unlike the Give Yourself Goosebumps series, the books have interior illustrations.

Spin-offs
After the success of Twistaplot, the series spawned a series of computer games for Scholastic's electronic magazine, Microzine. It also spawned another gamebook spin-off titled Pick-a-Path, which was intended for a younger audience.

Books

Twistaplot
The Time Raider
The Train of Terror
The Formula for Trouble
Golden Sword of Dragonwalk
The Sinister Studios of KESP-TV
Crash Landing!
The Video Avenger
Race into the Past
Horrors of the Haunted Museum
Mission of the Secret Spy Squad
Camp-Out on Danger Mountain
Journey to Vernico 5
Midnight at Monster Mansion
Instant Millionaire
Spellcaster
Secrets of the Lost Island
Ghost Riders of Goldspur
Calling Outer Space

Pick-a-Path
The Dandee Diamond Mystery
The Roller Coaster Ghost
The Great Baseball Championship
The Amazing Bubblegum Caper
The Super Trail Bike Race
Mystery at Mockingbird Manor
The Fantastic Journey of the Space Shuttle Astra
The Magic Top Mystery
Jungle Adventure
The Mystery of the Missing Mummy
Dinosaur Adventure
The Ballerina Mystery
The Secret of 13
RIM, The Rebel Robot
The Hot Dog Gang Caper
Adventure at Camp Schoonover
Murf the Monster

See also
 R. L. Stine
 Give Yourself Goosebumps
 Choose Your Own Adventure
 Scholastic Corporation
 Parachute Press
 Louise Munro Foley

External links
Twistaplot at Gamebooks.org

Category:Gamebooks
Category:Series of children's books
Category:Scholastic Corporation books


Lidija Horvat-Dunjko

Lidija Horvat-Dunjko (born 1967) is a Croatian soprano vocalist and a Docent at the Zagreb Academy of Music. She was awarded the highest Croatian national decoration for her achievement in culture, the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić. Her opera roles include The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and Gilda in Rigoletto. Along with Magazin, she finished sixth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, performing the song "Nostalgija", which achieved success in the country at the time.

Career
Born in Varaždin, she graduated in the class of professor Zdenka Žabčić–Hesky at the University of Zagreb, where she now teaches.

She played the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute; Marie, a vivandière in La fille du régiment; Rosina in The Barber of Seville; Gilda in Rigoletto; Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and created more than thirty successful opera roles in Croatia as well as abroad. She has performed in Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), Vienna (Musikverein), Toronto (Ryerson Theatre, Massey Hall), Berlin, Munich, Brussels, Dublin, Salzburg, Turin, Venice, Zürich, Geneva, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón, Teatro Nacional Cervantes), Madrid, Santiago de Chile, Lisbon, Montevideo, Moscow (Tchaikovsky Hall of the Moscow Conservatory), Johannesburg, Pretoria.

She cooperates with greatest names in opera of today as well as most eminent directors and orchestras. Horvat-Dunjko founded the Opera School of Mirula in 2003, in conjunction with the International Summer Music School Pučišća, on the island of Brač.

Together with the group Magazin, she performed the song "Nostalgija" for Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 and finished 6th in a field of 23 entries.

Book
 Ljuven sanak, a collection of seventy songs of Croatian composers from the 16th century to this day, published by Music Play, Zagreb, 2004

References

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Gonzalo Heredia

Gonzalo Ezequiel Heredia (born 12 March 1982) is an Argentine actor.

Filmography

Film

Television

Telenovelas

Miniseries

Theater

Endorsements
 Coca-Cola "Mundo CD"
 Coca-Cola "Represa"
 Banco Hipotecario "Departamento"
 Parque de la costa "Montaña Rusa"
 2010: Impulse
 2009-10: Fiume
 2011-12: Lady Stork
 2012: "Fiume"

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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Mancipium Mariae

Mancipium Mariae (Latin the slavery/a slave of Mary) – a Christian devotion.

Its rules, referring to older traditions, were formulated from the inspiration of Jesuit Kasper Drużbicki in following works:
Franciscus Phoenicius (Franciszek Stanisław Fenicki), Mariae mancipium, Lublin 1632
Jan Chomentowski (Chomętowski), Pętko Panny Maryjej albo sposób oddawania się Błogosławionej Pannie Marii za sługę i niewolnika, Lublin 1632

In ancient Rome mancipium meant the relation of subjection of one person to another, existing because of mancipatio (the reverse process is the emancipation), as well as a person subjected thus.

The devotion consisted on the act of yielding oneself prisoner to the Mother of God – of subjection to her will. Each slave of Mary had also the duty of praying a litany in the morning and evening and an office on Saturday. The sign of the slavery was a fetters-shaped chainlet with the inscription ego mancipium Mariae.

This sort of piety gained a great popularity in the age of Baroque (perhaps, among others, Wespazjan Kochowski used to practise it) and had a significant impact on the development of Marian veneration in the Church.

See also
Kasper Drużbicki
Louis de Montfort
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Sacred Heart
Miraculous Medal
Stefan Wyszyński
Totus Tuus

Bibliography
Encyklopedia wiedzy o jezuitach na ziemiach Polski i Litwy. 1564-1995, Ludwik Grzebień (ed.), Kraków 1996.
Karol Górski, Zarys dziejów duchowości w Polsce, Kraków 1986.
Maria Eustachiewicz, "Wstęp", Wespazjan Kochowski, Utwory poetyckie. Wybór, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1991, p. III-LXXX.

References

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Category:Baroque
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Category:Prayer
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Prittitz

Prittitz is a village and a former municipality in the district Burgenlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Teuchern.

References

Category:Villages in Saxony-Anhalt
Category:Province of Saxony


Aidan Daniels

Aidan Jun Valcarcel Daniels (born September 6, 1998) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Colorado Springs Switchbacks in the USL Championship.

Club career

Toronto FC
On April 13, 2018, Daniels signed as a homegrown player with Major League Soccer side Toronto FC. On 21 April 2018, Daniels made his MLS debut with Toronto FC against Houston Dynamo.

Toronto FC II
When Daniels turned 17 on 8 July 2016, he signed a professional contract with Toronto FC II. A product of the Toronto FC Academy, he was rewarded with a loan to affiliate club Toronto FC II ahead of the 2016 USL season. Having already been capped internationally while playing for the academy, Daniels made his professional debut in the season opener on March 26, 2016. He played for 78 minutes in a 2–2 draw with New York Red Bulls II, before being replaced by Malik Johnson.
During the 2017 offseason, Daniels would train with Danish club HB Køge. Upon completion of the 2017 season, Daniels would re-sign with the club for the 2018 season. Daniels would be named the #20 rated prospect under 20 by the league in 2018. Daniels would have his option for the 2020 season declined by Toronto, ending his time with the club after two seasons.

Loan to Ottawa Fury FC

On March 6, 2019, it was announced that Daniels would be loaned to USL Championship club Ottawa Fury FC for the 2019 season.

Colorado Springs Switchbacks

Daniels would sign with USL Championship club Colorado Springs Switchbacks for the 2020 season.

International

Youth

Daniels also qualifies to represent South Africa or the Philippines at senior level as his father hails from Johannesburg and his mother from Manila. After call-ups to the Canada Under-15 camps in USA and Laval in 2013, Daniels finally made his international debut in 2015. He made two appearances at the Under-17 CONCACAF Championship, the first coming in a 3–1 victory over Saint Lucia on March 9, 2015. His next appearance came just three days later in a 1–0 defeat to Panama. In February 2017, Daniels was named to Canada's roster for the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship In May 2018, Daniels was named to Canada's under-21 squad for the 2018 Toulon Tournament.

Career statistics

References

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Category:Sportspeople from Markham, Ontario
Category:Canada men's youth international soccer players
Category:Canadian people of South African descent
Category:Canadian sportspeople of Filipino descent
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Category:Ottawa Fury FC players
Category:Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC players


Bobby Brown (third baseman)

Robert William Brown (born October 25, 1924) is an American former professional baseball third baseman and executive who was the president of the American League (AL) (1984–1994). He also was a physician who studied for his medical degree during his eight-year playing career with the New York Yankees (1946–1952, 1954).

Biography

Education
Born in Seattle, Washington, Brown attended Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco, then Stanford University and UCLA, before receiving his medical degree from Tulane University. During his time at Stanford, he and another student were involved in the rescue of a Coast Guardsman from a plane crash, for which Brown received a Silver Lifesaving Medal.

Playing career
Sometimes known as "Golden Boy" during his baseball career, Brown played 548 regular-season games for the Yankees, with a lifetime batting average of .279 and 22 home runs. In addition, he appeared in four World Series (1947, 1949, 1950, 1951) for New York, batting .439 (18-for-41) in 17 games. Brown batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He missed  seasons due to military service during the Korean War.

Brown had a bases-loaded triple in Game 4 and a two-run triple in the championship-clinching Game 5 of the 1949 World Series. He tripled again in the final game of the 1950 World Series.

A famous apocryphal story that has made the rounds for years in baseball circles concerns the time when Brown's road roommate was star Yankee catcher Yogi Berra, who had little formal education. The two were reading in their hotel room one night — Berra a comic book and Brown his copy of Boyd's Pathology. Berra came to the end of his comic, tossed it aside, and asked Brown, "So, how is yours turning out?"

Brown is the last living member of the Yankees team that won the 1947 World Series. There are no living players who played on an earlier World Series-winning team.

Baseball executive career
Brown practiced cardiology in the Dallas-Fort Worth area until May , when he took a leave of absence to serve as an interim president of the AL Texas Rangers — then, returned to medicine following the season. In , he succeeded Lee MacPhail as AL president and held the post for a decade; Gene Budig replaced him. In 1992 and 1993, Brown presented the World Series Trophy (on both occasions to the Toronto Blue Jays) instead of the Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig. The presidencies of both the American League and the National League were eliminated in , and their duties were absorbed by the office of the Commissioner.

Legacy
A decorated veteran of two wars, a noted baseball player who served on five championship teams, an accomplished physician, and the former President of the American League, Brown is considered to have few equals in the history of major league baseball. He is a regular at the Yankees' annual Old-Timers' Day celebrations.

On March 26, 1957, Brown was a contestant on the game show To Tell The Truth. (Repeats of the episode are occasionally broadcast on the Game Show Network and can also be seen on YouTube.)

Brown's wife of more than 60 years, Sara, died on March 26, 2012. They were married in October 1951, shortly after 1951 World Series.

References

External links

Bobby Brown at SABR (Baseball BioProject)

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Category:American cardiologists
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Maksim Agapov

Maksim Agapov (ru: Максим Агапов; born 20 March 1988) is a Kyrgyzstani footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Xorazm FK Urganch. He previously played for Neftchi Kochkor-Ata, but after the dissolution of the club, he moved to his current club.

Career

Club
In September 2014, Agapov returned to Dordoi Bishkek.

International
He is a member of the Kyrgyzstan national football team.

Career statistics

International

Statistics accurate as of match played 21 March 2013

Honours

Individual
Goalkeeper of the year (1): 2009

References

External links

Category:1988 births
Category:Living people
Category:Kyrgyzstani footballers
Category:Kyrgyzstan international footballers
Category:Kyrgyzstani people of Russian descent
Category:Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Category:FC Dordoi Bishkek players
Category:Association football goalkeepers
Category:Asian Games competitors for Kyrgyzstan


Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3929

POxy 3929 (or P. Oxy. LVIII 3929) is one of four examples of libelli found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.

Image: P. Oxy. LVIII 3929 (© Copyright the Egypt Exploration Society).

"This document belongs to the category of certificates of sacrifice issued to those who satisfied the pagan commissioners during the Decian persecution of Christians," according to Oxyrhynchus Papyri. It was issued somewhere between 25 June and 24 July, in the year 250, according to the same source. The text must supply the month Epeiph of the Egyptian calendar, but the day is either not supplied, indistinct, or lost.

Text

See also
Lapsi (Christian)
Oxyrhynchus papyri
Other libelli: POxy 658, POxy 1464, POxy 2990
Warrant to arrest a Christian: POxy 3035

References

External links
'P.Oxy. XLI 3929' at Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, Oxford University.

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