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41911052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title%2049%20of%20the%20Code%20of%20Federal%20Regulations | Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations | CFR Title 49 - Transportation is one of fifty titles comprising the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Title 49 is the principal set of rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law) issued by the Departments of Transportation and Homeland Security, federal agencies of the United States regarding transportation and transportation-related security. This title is available in digital and printed form, and can be referenced online using the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR).
History
Publication of Title 49 began in 1938, at which point it was entitled Transportation and Railroads. It was renamed in 1949 to Transportation.
Current structure
The table of contents, as reflected in the e-CFR updated February 18, 2014, is as follows:
Code of Federal Regulations
Transportation in the United States |
19130814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosa-Kure%20Station | Tosa-Kure Station | is a railway station on the Dosan Line in Nakatosa, Takaoka District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku and has the station number "K22".
Lines
The station is served by JR Shikoku's Dosan Line and is located 179.7 km from the beginning of the line at .
In addition to the local trains of the Dosan Line, the following limited express services also stop at Tosa-Kure Station:
Nanpū - to , and
Shimanto - to , and
Ashizuri - to and
Layout
The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. A station building, which is located at a lower level than the tracks, houses a waiting room. The island platform is accessed by means of a ramp and a level crossing. There is also a passing loop and a siding which leads to a separate freight platform used for the loading of ballast.
JR Shikoku closed its ticket window at the station on 1 October 2010. Subsequently, a kan'i itaku agent reopened the window and continued selling tickets from a JR Shikoku POS machine.
Adjacent stations
History
The station opened on 15 September 1939 as the terminus of the Dosan Line which was extended westwards from . It became a through-station on 20 October 1947 when the track was further extended to . At the time it was opened, the station was operated by Japanese Government Railways, later becoming Japanese National Railways (JNR). With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
Railway stations in Kōchi Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1939 |
60705845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Hobday | Ralph Hobday | Ralph Hobday OBE (September 1899 – October 1975) was a British architect who worked for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Career
Hobday joined the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in 1944, became Senior Architect in 1956, and retired from the Commission in 1975.
Works
His works include:
Cemeteries
Ambon War Cemetery on Ambon Island, Indonesia
Jakara War Cemetery in Menteng Pulo, Jakarta, Indonesia
Shelters and entrance gates at Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Hoy, Orkney, Scotland
Memorials
The Brookwood Memorial in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, England. Unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 1958, it commemorates 3,428 Commonwealth men and women who died during the Second World War and have no known grave.
A war memorial in the form of an obelisk, which was placed in 1961 by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission opposite the World War II war graves plot at Willesden Jewish Cemetery in the London Borough of Brent, England. The first national Jewish war memorial in the UK, it is Grade II listed.
Honours
Hobday was appointed Officer in the Order of the British Empire in the 1959 Birthday Honours.
References
1899 births
1975 deaths
20th-century British architects
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Officers of the Order of the British Empire |
6821613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream%20hunter | Dream hunter | Dream hunter can refer to:
Dream Hunter Rem, an anime OVA series
Sandman: The Dream Hunters, a graphic novella by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano
The Dream-Hunter, a book by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dream Hunter, a non-player character in Kirby's Adventure |
69856432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20in%20Jordan | 2016 in Jordan | The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Jordan.
Incumbents
Monarch - Abdullah II
Prime Minister - Abdullah Ensour, and Hani Mulki
Events
May
29 May - Parliament is dissolved by King Abdullah.
September
20 September - 2016 Jordanian general election.
November
4 November - King Faisal Air Base shooting
7 November - Abdullah II of Jordan opens the 18th Parliament of Jordan with his speech from the throne.
December
18 December - 2016 Al-Karak attack
References
*
2010s in Jordan
Jordan
Years of the 21st century in Jordan
Jordan |
41105270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Clohesy | Bill Clohesy | William John Clohesy (5 November 1894 – 8 November 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
External links
Bill Clohesy's profile at Blueseum
1894 births
1945 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Carlton Football Club players |
41674836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstorffst%C3%B8tten | Bernstorffstøtten | The Bernstorff Memorial (Danish: Bernstorffstøtten) is a memorial to Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff located at Lyngbyvej, just south of Kildegårds Plads, Gentofte Municipality, in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was erected by local farmers to a design by Johannes Wiedewelt to commemorate the agricultural reforms that Bernstorff introduced on his estate, Bernstorff Palace.
History
The memorial was inaugurated on a hilltop just south of Gentofte on 28 August 1783. The 100 years anniversary for the agricultural reforms at Bernstorff Palace was celebrated on 20 June 1866. It was listed in 1918.
Description
The Neoclassical memorial is executed in Norwegian marble and stands on a granite plinth. It features reliefs representing the harvest and a plaque inscription:
Æreminde efter Døden / for / Johan Hartvig Ernst / Greve af Bernstorff / som gav / udskiftede :::hovningsfrie arvelige /Gaarde / med dem Stræbsomhed Velstand alt / til Mønster for Efterslægten / :::MDCCLXVII / oprettet / af Godsets takfulde Beboere MDCCLXXXIII.
Publication
Møller, N: Kort Beskrivelse over Forfatningen paa Godset Bernstorff for og efter Fælledskabets Ophævelse og Eiendoms Meddelelse, med Forklaring over den af Bønderne oprettede Obelisk, Copenhagen1783.
See also
Liberty Column, Copenhagen
References
External links
Unrealized project for the Bernstorff Memorial
Listed buildings and structures in Gentofte Municipality
Listed monuments and memorials in Copenhagen
Outdoor sculptures in Copenhagen
Obelisks in Denmark
Buildings and structures completed in 1886
Buildings and structures associated with the Bernstorff family |
29542178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%20Australian%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20doubles | 1980 Australian Open – Women's doubles | Judy Chaloner and Diane Evers were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Lee Duk-hee and Elizabeth Little.
Betsy Nagelsen and Martina Navratilova won in the final 6–4, 6–4 against Ann Kiyomura and Candy Reynolds.
Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All four seeded teams received byes into the second round.
Rosemary Casals / Wendy Turnbull (semifinals)
Pam Shriver / Betty Stöve (quarterfinals)
Ann Kiyomura / Candy Reynolds (final)
Betsy Nagelsen / Martina Navratilova (champions)
Draw
Final
Top half
Bottom half
External links
1980 Australian Open – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Women's Doubles
Australian Open (tennis) by year – Women's doubles |
42295207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board%20on%20Infrastructure%20and%20Constructed%20Environment | Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment | The Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment (BICE) is a part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences division in the National Research Council (NRC).
History
The Board was first organized in 1946 as the Building Research Advisory Board. BICE and its predecessor organizations have been the principal units of the NRC concerned with the built environment.
Programs
Although most of the BICE activities are advisory services, a number of specific programs have been created and maintained over the years, one of which was the Federal Construction Council and its successor, the Federal Facilities Council.
Federal Construction Council (FCC)
The Federal Construction Council was founded in 1953 at the request of the National Bureau of Standards as part of the NRC's division of Engineering and Industrial Research and its subdivision, the Building Research Advisory Board (BARB, later the BICE). It operated through the late 1990s, often supported by arrangements with the National Bureau of Standards, or the Department of Commerce. Its main purpose was to encourage continuing cooperation among those agencies with a direct or indirect interest in federal construction to advance the practice of design, construction, and operation of government facilities. It sought to minimize duplication of effort on technical studies as well as disseminate what are now termed best practices. It also sought to resolve technical problems of particular concern to the federal construction agencies.
Its membership comprised 19 members appointed by the BRAB chairman, with the approval of the Chairmen of the National Research Council; ten of its members were from the BARB and nine from nominations made by the Federal agencies providing financial support.
Early work
Practice surveys
In both 1954 and 1958, the FCC surveyed engineering practices in Building Technology by the thirty-six Federal agencies that had a direct or indirect interest in building or heavy construction, consisting of over 300 projects. The FCC would continue this survey practice to the late 1960s, producing updates in 1961 (SP3), 1963 (SP5), 1965 (SP6), 1968 (SP8).
Underground heat-distribution systems
An example of the work performed by this committee is its study of underground piping systems which at that time (1957-1964) was a ..."major and continuing concern to the Federal Construction Council." As result of its efforts, technical reports were published and sound design criteria were developed.
1970-1980
The Federal Construction Council's technical program for the 1970s included three broad categories of activities: continuing programs, ad hoc studies, and other activities. The council carried on 8 continuing programs: the Federal Construction Guide Specifications program (ended 1978), the Cost Engineering proqram, the Computer Technology proqram, the Design Criteria proqram, the Information Exchange program, the Fire Technology program, the Facilities Safety program, and the Procurement policy program.
The FCC conducted many "ad hoc" studies over the years to address "...specific problems or issues of mutual concern to federal construction agencies ... [dealing with] ... with both technical and administrative problems.
Federal Facilities Council (FFC)
The Federal Facilities Council is a successor to the Federal Construction Council. It is a cooperative association of 20 federal agencies with interests and responsibilities related to all aspects of facility design, acquisition, management, maintenance, and evaluation.
Project management at the Department of Energy (DOE)
The 105th Congressional Committee of Conference on Energy and Water Development in its appropriation conference report directed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to undertake an independent review and assessment of its project management structure and processes for identifying, managing, designing and constructing facilities. The concern was the quality of the technical scopes, cost estimates, schedules, and supporting data regarding these construction projects as well as the validity of the proposed costs, scopes, and schedules. The study was to also include a review of large operating projects such as environmental projects which may or may not involve much construction, but should clearly be managed with the same principles and guidelines. The overall objective was achieve departmental processes that controlled the projects' cost and schedule as well as reduce cost growth and schedule slippages.
While the original congressional direction was for the US Army Corps of Engineers to perform the review, the final version allowed the DOE to ask the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct such a study. In 1998, prior to delivering the later general study in 1999, NRC completed a short time frame study using a generic approach to assess DOE's FY98 budget request, which did not attempt to address the broader issues of systems acquisition and project delivery within DOE raised by the conference report.
In its 2003 assessment report, NRC recommended that DOE ..."develop detailed procedures and guidance for identifying risks, planning strategies to address risks, and managing risks throughout the life cycle of projects, and should require their implementation for all projects." The DOE Office of Engineering and Construction Management (OECM) requested the committee to provide assistance for following this recommendation by summarizing practices
the committee believes constitute excellence in risk management. Over the next seven years, NRC delivered four more reports on its assessments of DOE project management.
See also
Official website for the NRC's Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment (BICE)
List of all BICE reports from 1985
Official website for BICE's Federal Facilities Council (FFC)
References
United States National Academies |
39100656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabasheane%20Masupha | Gabasheane Masupha | Gabasheane Masupha (26 December 1903 - 28 January 1941) was the Regent paramount chief of Basotho (modern Lesotho) from 1940 to 1941. Principal Chief of Ha-'Mamathe, Teya-teyaneng, Thupa-kubu and Jorotane. Died 1949; spouse 'Mamathe Masupha (nee. Nthati Lebona). Issues 'Mankhabe Masupha (daughter), Mathe Masupha (daughter), Masupha Masupha (son), Koali Masupha (son), 'Mabatho Masupha (daughter), Sempe Masupha (son), Michele Masupha (son).
References
1903 births
1941 deaths
House of Moshesh
Basutoland in World War II
Basutoland people |
42260466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Erik%20D%C3%BCring | Jan Erik Düring | Jan Erik Düring (15 June 1926 – 13 March 2014) was a Norwegian film director. He was born in Bærum. Among his films are Hjelp - vi får leilighet! (1965), Lucie (1979), the musical Bør Børson Jr. from 1974, and the comedy Deilig er fjorden! from 1985.
Düring also chaired the trade union .
References
1926 births
2014 deaths
People from Bærum
Norwegian film directors |
24305742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina%20Nature%20Photographers%20Association | Carolina Nature Photographers Association | The Carolinas Nature Photographers Association (CNPA) is a photography group based mainly in North and South Carolina. It is a group focused on photographing nature and wildlife and began in 1992. It is approaching 1200 members (May 2016) and is split into 13 regional groups.
Each regional group typically meets monthly to plan photo outings, photo workshops, gallery shows, and the occasional group project. For all of the regions there is one collective Annual Meeting where, for 3 days, there are nationally known nature photographers and educational speakers providing lectures on a variety of nature subjects and opportunities for photo outings, and a Mid-Year Outing that is held at different locations around the region with programs tailored for each location and a focus on field trips.
Camera in the Wild is the official magazine for the Carolina Nature Photographers Association, mailed quarterly to all members.
External links
CNPA.org
CNPA Forums
Nature photography
American photography organizations
Arts organizations established in 1992
1992 establishments in the United States |
60800938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Redmond | Joan Redmond | Joan Redmond (born 1946) is an American photographer.
Her work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Norton Simon Museum and in the Art Institute of Chicago.
References
1946 births
Living people
American women photographers
20th-century American photographers
20th-century women photographers
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women |
26833165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set%20You%20Free%20%28The%20Black%20Keys%20song%29 | Set You Free (The Black Keys song) | "Set You Free" is a single by American blues rock duo The Black Keys from their second album, Thickfreakness. It was recorded in Patrick Carney's basement at his old house in Akron, Ohio. The song appears in the film School of Rock (2003) and the soundtrack album, as well as in the film I Love You, Man.
Usage in media
Although The Black Keys had always refused to allow their music to be used for commercialism, for fear of being branded "sell-outs", they decided to license "Set You Free" for use in a Nissan advert. Dan Auerbach later said, "It's helped us immensely. Before "Tighten Up", we'd never had a real song regularly played on rock radio. We didn't have that support, and getting these songs in commercials was almost like having your song on the radio."
The track was also included on the soundtrack to the film School of Rock (2003).
Track listing
All songs written by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, unless otherwise noted.
"Set You Free"
"Hard Row" (lyrics by Dan and Chuck Auerbach)
"Evil" (previously unreleased)
Personnel
Dan Auerbach - vocals, guitars
Patrick Carney - drums and percussion
References
The Black Keys songs
2003 songs
Songs written by Dan Auerbach
Songs written by Patrick Carney |
22300233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle%20Castle | Newcastle Castle | Newcastle Castle may refer to one of two medieval castles in Great Britain:
The Castle, Newcastle, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Newcastle Castle, Bridgend, a ruinous Norman castle in Bridgend, Wales. |
62229450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killigan | Killigan | Killigan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aria Killigan, from Daybreak (2019 TV series)
Duff Killigan, from Kim Possible (see List of Kim Possible characters)
Kip Killigan, Small Soldiers
See also
McKilligan |
3289556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildary | Kildary | Kildary () is a small village in Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland.
The village is located on the Balnagown River and is bordered by Balnagown Castle and the Balnagown estate, owned by Mohamed Al Fayed, former owner of Harrods department store. The main road A9 passes close by, running parallel to the Far North Line.
The only landmark visible from the A9 is Ken's Garage, which has been on the same site for many decades. Ken's Garage gets its name from the original proprietor Mr Ken Mackay. It is now owned by the Bannerman brothers. The A9 used to run in front of the garage until the road was realigned. Close by is an unusual Tudor-style lodge, known as East Lodge, attached to the Tarbat Estate.
Kildary railway station served the village until its closure on 13 June 1960. It was opened on 1 June 1864 as Parkhill and renamed Kildary on 1 May 1868. The station was demolished when the A9 was realigned, although the station building remains as a listed building.
The village is a good starting point for walks or drives – the Scotsburn area to the north is a warren of single track roads, and the village of Milton around to the south allows access to woodland and the Balnagown River, which can be followed down to the coast at the Cromarty Firth. The Scotsburn area was home to a number of German prisoners of war during World War II, who were employed in helping the farming community locally.
Kildary is an important site for those researching the Clan Ross. However, the castle is on private land and limited access permission must be obtained well before any visit.
References
External links
Fearn Peninsula website
STV documentary - A Day in the Life - Balnagown
Populated places in Ross and Cromarty
Clan Ross |
9920302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Blackall%20Simonds | George Blackall Simonds | George Blackall Simonds (6 October 1843 – 16 December 1929) was an English sculptor and director of H & G Simonds Brewery in Reading in the English county of Berkshire.
Biography
George was the second son of George Simonds Senior of Reading, director of H & G Simonds, and Mary Anne, the daughter of William Boulger of Bradfield. His grandfather was Reading brewing and banking entrepreneur, William Blackall Simonds. He added Blackall to his name after the death of his brother, Blackall Simonds II, in 1905. He was brother-in-law of the portrait painter, John Collingham Moore, and cousin of the botanist, George Simonds Boulger. He served as the inaugural Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1884-85.
His best known works are The Falconer (1873) in Central Park, New York City (US) and the Maiwand Lion (1886) in the Forbury Gardens, Reading in Berkshire (UK).
In 1922, he temporarily came out of retirement to build the war memorial in Bradfield, the village where he lived in Berkshire. This commemorates the deaths of local men in the First World War, including his son, a lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers.
In 2005, users of Reading Borough Libraries, voted him winner of the 'Great People of Reading' poll.
Works
Notes
References
External links
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation: The Falconer
Reading Borough Libraries: George Blackall Simonds
Royal Berkshire History: George Blackall Simonds
1843 births
1929 deaths
Artists from Reading, Berkshire
English brewers
English businesspeople
English sculptors
English male sculptors
People educated at Bradfield College
People from Bradfield, Berkshire
People from Westminster
20th-century British sculptors
19th-century British sculptors
Masters of the Art Worker's Guild |
22986006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20on%20My%20Mind | You on My Mind | "You on My Mind" is a song by the British pop group Swing Out Sister. It was the lead-off single from the group's second album, Kaleidoscope World. It featured a more sophisticated blend of musical components.
Music video
The music video was strongly inspired by the 1968 cult film, The Thomas Crown Affair.
Remixes
You On My Mind (Vinyl 7") 872964-7
"You On My Mind" (Album Version) - (3:36)
"Coney Island Man" - (3:38)
You On My Mind (CD Maxi) 874 229-2
"You On My Mind" (Album Version) - (3:36)
"Coney Island Man" - (3:38)
"Precious Words (Earth Bound Mix) - (3:46)
"You On My Mind" (12" Mix) - (6:32)
You On My Mind (Vinyl 12") 872 965-1, SWING 612
"You On My Mind" (Extended Version) - (6:32)
"You On My Mind" (3:29)
"Coney Island Man" - (3:38)
Charts
References
1989 singles
Swing Out Sister songs
1989 songs
Fontana Records singles
Songs written by Andy Connell
Songs written by Corinne Drewery
Songs written by Paul Staveley O'Duffy |
41074425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qazi%20Gavaber | Qazi Gavaber | Qazi Gavaber (, also Romanized as Qāẕī Gavāber) is a village in Ahandan Rural District, in the Central District of Lahijan County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 54, in 16 families.
References
Populated places in Lahijan County |
909507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend%20reinvestment%20plan | Dividend reinvestment plan | A dividend reinvestment program or dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) is an equity investment option offered directly from the underlying company. The investor does not receive dividends directly as cash; instead, the investor's dividends are directly reinvested in the underlying equity. The investor must still pay tax annually on his or her dividend income, whether it is received as cash or reinvested.
DRIPs allow the investment return from dividends to be immediately invested for the purpose of price appreciation and compounding, without incurring brokerage fees or waiting to accumulate enough cash for a full share of stock. Some DRIPs are free of charge for participants, while others do charge fees and/or proportional commissions.
Similarly income trusts and closed-end funds, which are numerous in Canada, can offer a distribution reinvestment plan and a unit purchase plan which operate principally the same as other plans.
Because DRIPs, by their nature, encourage long-term investment rather than active trading, they tend to have a stabilizing influence on stock prices.
Cash purchase
Although the name implies that reinvesting dividends is the main purpose of these plans, many companies offer a complementary share purchase plan (SPP). An SPP allows the enrollee to make periodic optional cash purchases (OCP) of company stock. The dollar amount of the OCP is sometimes subject to minimum and maximum limits, e.g. a minimum of $25 per OCP or a maximum that cannot exceed $100,000 per year. Low-fee or no-fee SPPs may be advantageous to enrollees as they offer a quick and cost-effective way to increase their holdings. And just like when dividends are reinvested, optional cash purchases are for fractional shares to 3 or 4 decimal places.
DRIPs have become popular means of investment for a wide variety of investors as they enable them to effectively take advantage of dollar-cost averaging with income in the form of corporate dividends that the company is paying out. This way, the investor is guaranteed the return of whatever the dividend yield is, but he or she is also subject to market risk due to the price fluctuations of the stock.
Acquiring stock
The majority of plans require the potential investor to become a registered shareholder, as opposed to a beneficial shareholder. Registered shareholders are direct owners of company stock and are listed with a company's transfer agent, whereas beneficial shareholders hold their stock through a proxy, such as a brokerage account or an investment dealer. In the past, this meant having to keep stock certificates as proof of ownership, but now most plans are in paperless, "book-entry" format. In Canada, you must start a DRIP with a certificate and, as such, Canadian enrollees must have the share certificates to do so. All subsequent shares acquired through the DRIP or SPP would be in "book-entry" format.
In addition, certain DRIPs offer (with SEC approval in the US) a direct enrollment option, in which the initial share purchase may itself be made through the DRIP, thereby avoiding retail brokerage fees and commissions. This option is often called a "direct share purchase plan" or "direct stock purchase plan" (DSPP). DRIP expert Charles Carlson has dubbed such plans "no-load stocks". However, describing such plans as "no-load stock" plans is extremely misleading. In the mid-1990s, when investing through company-sponsored plans became more popular, such "no-load" plans were created and promoted by certain transfer agents in order to create fees each time an investment is made through the plan (and, in many cases, for each dividend reinvestment). Traditional DRIPs, those available only to those who are already shareholders, are more likely to be "no-fee" plans. There are many no-fee versions of DRIPs, SPPs and DSPPs which are an efficient way to build holdings over time by making small regular investments on a dollar-cost averaging basis.
In some DRIPs, the investor has the option of receiving some or all dividends by check, as opposed to full reinvestment. Also, if a DRIP is discontinued, the investor's shares typically continue to be held in book-entry form, either including fractional shares or with a refund check issued for the fractional part of the position.
A downside of using DRIPs is that the investor must keep track of cost basis for many small purchases of stock, and maintain records of these purchases in paper or electronic form. This assures that the investor can accurately calculate the capital gains tax when any shares are sold, and document cost basis to their government if requested. This record keeping can become burdensome (or costly, if done by an accountant) if the investor participates in more than one DRIP for many years. For example, participating in 15 DRIPs for ten years, with all of the stocks paying quarterly dividends, would result in at least 615 share lots to keep track of—the 15 initial purchases, plus 600 reinvested dividends. Further complications arise if the investor periodically buys or sells shares, or if the company is involved in an event requiring adjustments to cost basis, such as a spin-off or a merger.
While the term "DRIP" is usually associated with company-sponsored plans, reinvestment of stock dividends is also available at no cost through some brokerage firms. This is called a synthetic DRIP. The drawback to broker DRIPs is that they do not allow for optional cash purchases. If the investor wants to acquire additional shares, he or she must pay a commission for each subsequent purchase.
References
External links
Are DRIPs Worth it? Pros and cons of using dividend reinvestment plans
DRIP Investing Resource Center A community of people involved in dividend reinvestment programs
Dividend Information A searchable database of dividend payouts and history for all stocks
Canadian DRIP Primer Step by step guide to starting a Canadian dividend reinvestment plan and lists of Canadian companies and trusts with DRIPs
Australian DRIPs resources, information, and guides to Dividend Reinvestment Plans in Australia including a searchable database of listed DRIPs.
FirstShare membership organization that helps investor's acquire one share of stock for DRIP enrollment.
What is a Dividend Reinvestment Plan An article about dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) including a variety of examples so you can easily understand how DRIPs work.
directinvesting.com educational articles, resources and a complete list of Dividend Reinvestment Plans.
Things to consider before buying a share and enrolling in a dividend reinvestment plan This article takes an in-depth look at the things you need to consider before buying a share and enrolling in a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP).
Reinvestment program
Stock market |
29390036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible%20Lessons%20International | Bible Lessons International | Bible Lessons International (BLI) is a non-profit Bible study ministry and 501(c)(3) corporation based in Marshall, Texas. The ministry, according to information published on its website, "is dedicated to reaching the world for Jesus Christ with the goal of empowering God's people to interpret the Bible for themselves." Verse-by-verse, exegetical commentaries are offered entirely for free by the organization, which says its materials are "committed to the trustworthiness and authority of Scripture, emphasizing the intent of the original inspired authors by means of their historical setting, literary context, grammatical features, choice of words, genre and parallel passages."
History
BLI was founded in Lubbock, Texas in 1976 under its original name of International Sunday School Lessons, Inc. by Dr. Robert James (Bob) Utley, a retired professor of Biblical Hermeneutics (interpretation). A certificate of restated articles of incorporation with the new name of Bible Lessons International was issued by the Secretary of the State of Texas on Sept. 30, 1998. The organization currently has its offices in Marshall, Texas. BLI is funded by individual donors from all over the world, and publishes a semi-annual newsletter that is sent to nearly 10,000 people on the organization's mailing list.
In its early days, BLI published written materials through the Uniform Sunday School Series offered by the Southern Baptist Convention. Utley also presented his commentaries in the "You Can Understand the Bible" television series and radio programs. Materials in the form of printed commentaries, cassette tapes and VHS tapes, as well as CDs and DVDs, were also offered for sale on the organization's original website, www.biblelessonsintl.com.
Activities
At present, BLI distributes its free materials through its website www.freebiblecommentary.org. Here are posted for free download the entire collection of Dr. Utley’s audio, video and written commentaries, sermons and other Bible study aids. All materials are copyrighted, but can be printed or copied if credit is given to Dr. Utley and if a link to the website is included in the copied material.
Resources offered by BLI may also be obtained at other online locations and libraries, including www.WorldCat.org, www.archive.org, www.ibiblio.org, East Texas Baptist University's online Mamye Jarrett Library and www.logos.com.
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In addition to mailing CDs and DVDs to individuals, BLI has sent entire sets of printed commentaries to numerous state and federal prison libraries. The materials are also distributed through several organizations, including the National Baptist Educational Convention, World Baptist Alliance and Sovereign World Trust.
Organization
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References
External links
www.biblelessonsintl.com
www.freebiblecommentary.org
Christian publishing companies
Non-profit organizations based in Texas
Christian organizations established in 1976
Marshall, Texas
1976 establishments in Texas |
28675241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20J.%20Castellani | John J. Castellani | John J. Castellani is an American public affairs executive and public policy advocate. He was the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) a trade group representing U.S. pharmaceutical research and biopharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining PhRMA, Castellani led the Business Roundtable, a U.S. advocacy and lobbying group. Currently he is on the Pharmacist Partners Advisory Board.
Biography
Castellani is originally from Skaneateles, New York and is a Roman Catholic. He is married to the former Therese Ann Mulroy. They have two sons. Castellani is a graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York. He majored in biology and graduated in 1972.
Career
Castellani started his career at General Electric in 1972 as an environmental scientist and strategic planner and left the company in 1977. He then served as Vice President of State, Federal and International Government Relations for TRW, a major defense contractor, from 1980–1992 and as. Vice President for Resources and Technology with the National Association of Manufacturers from 1977 to 1980.
He then became Executive Vice President of Tenneco Inc. from 1992 to 1999 .
Before joining PhRMA, Castellani was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of leading U.S. corporations with a combined workforce of nearly 12 million employees and $6 trillion in annual revenues. The Business Roundtable was cited by the Financial Times as "the most influential chief executive lobbying group in the U.S." Castellani served at the Business Roundtable from May 2001 to July 2010.
Non-profit work and community service
Castellani is a former member of the Union College board of trustees. He is also an Ethics Resource Center Executive Fellow and a member of the Advisory Council of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, in addition to being a member of The Economic Club of Washington, D.C.
He has served on the Connecticut Governor's Prevention Task Force as vice chair, on the board of directors of Keep America Beautiful, and on the U.S. Olympic Committee. He was president of the Business Government Relations Council and chair of the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority.
References
External links
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
American lobbyists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
12959694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QF%202.95-inch%20mountain%20gun | QF 2.95-inch mountain gun | The QF 2.95-inch mountain gun was the designation given by the British to a Vickers 75 mm calibre gun. It was originally produced for the Egyptian Army. It was taken into British service in the late 19th century to provide the 'movable armament' at some coaling stations. Also known as 'The Millimetre Gun', it was used by the West African Frontier Force in several theatres in Africa during World War I. It was also used by United States and Philippines.
Service history
The weapon could be broken down and carried by 4 horses or mules, or in British use in Africa by men.
British service
The weapon was not adopted by the British Army or the Indian Army, which used the BL 10 pounder Mountain Gun and later the BL 2.75-inch Mountain Gun, but it was used from 1900 by the defence forces of some British African colonies as part of the Royal West African Frontier Force (WAFF). The officers and most NCOs were British, and the gunners, gun carriers and some NCOs were African. As part of the British Empire these units became part of the British war effort in World War I.
Thirty guns were originally supplied to West Africa (Sierra Leone, Gold Coast and Nigeria). Guns involved in the West Africa campaign were used by the Sierra Leone Company Royal Garrison Artillery (6 guns), Gold Coast Battery WAFF (6 guns), 1st and 2nd Nigerian Battery WAFF (6 guns each).
The guns seem to have been fielded in small numbers as stockade breakers during the War of the Golden Stool, as The Ashanti Campaign of 1900 mentions their presence and details their correct tactical usage as follows: "Vickers, Sons, & Maxim's 75-millimetre mountain gun will breach any stockade in from three to six rounds; it is therefore most essential for this gun to be kept well up in front, and as soon as the scouts have located a frontal stockade, the gun should be mounted, run up to the front, and take up a position where either the top or bottom of the stockade can be seen. While fire is being opened with the gun, a company should be deployed to either flank, to a sufficient depth in the bush to outflank the ends of the stockade."
Guns of the Gold Coast Battery fired the first British Empire artillery rounds of World War I, in the attack on Khra in Togoland on 22 August 1914.
The gun was also used in the East Africa campaign, originally a section of the Gold Coast Battery, and from December 1916 the 1st Nigerian Battery.
In one action, Corporal Awudo Kano and five Nigerian gunners stayed by their gun during the British attack near Melong in Kamerun, 4 March 1915. Their officer was wounded and the infantry forced to retire, but though isolated they refused to abandon the officer or their guns, and continued firing until relieved.
US service
The US purchased 12 guns in 1899 and used them in the Philippine–American War (otherwise known as the Philippine Insurrection).
By 30 June 1904 another 120 guns were purchased. Carriages and pack saddles were manufactured at Watertown and Rock Island.
It was also used in World War II by US and Philippine forces defending against the Japanese invasion. Approximately 50 were issued to the Filipino Army artillery regiments. The US Army Philippine Division had one battalion of the 23rd Artillery (Philippine Scouts) equipped with the 2.95 in mountain gun.
Ammunition
British ammunition
The British "Treatise on Ammunition" of 1915 stated that available rounds were Shrapnel (203 bullets), Case shot (330 bullets), Star shell and the Double common shell of 18 lb (exploding charge of 14 oz "P" mixture – gunpowder).
US ammunition
According to the US manual of 1916 the "Double explosive" shell was no longer in US use.
Gallery
See also
List of mountain artillery
West Africa Campaign (World War I)
Surviving examples
A British example is on display at US Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA
HM Royal Armouries Fort Nelson, Fareham, Hampshire, UK
At the Military Museum in Bogota, Colombia
U.S. Army Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA
Notes and references
Bibliography
Dale Clarke, British Artillery 1914–1919. Field Army Artillery. Osprey Publishing, Oxford UK, 2004]
Major-General Sir John Headlam, The History of the Royal Artillery : From the Indian Mutiny to the Great War, Volume II (1899–1914). Woolwich [England] : Royal Artillery Institution, 1937. Facsimile reprint by Naval and Military Press 2004.
General Sir Martin Farndale, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base 1914–18. London: Royal Artillery Institution, 1988.
I.V. Hogg & L.F. Thurston, British Artillery Weapons & Ammunition 1914–1918. London: Ian Allan, 1972.
US Army Ordnance Dept, Handbook of the 2.95-inch Mountain Gun Matériel and Pack Outfit. 1912, updated 1916
Louis Morton, "The Fall of the Philippines". United States Army Center of Military History, 1953.
Further reading
External links
Handbook for the 2.95inch q.f. mountain gun, mark I mule equipment. 1906 from State Library of Victoria
1908 (provisional) Drill Regulations for mountain Artillery US Army Manual provided online by University of California and www.archive.org
2.95-Inch Vickers-Maxim Mountain Gun Matériel. in https://archive.org/details/handbookofartill00unitrich" Handbook of Artillery : including mobile, anti-aircraft and trench matériel (1920)"] United States. Army. Ordnance Dept May 1920. provided online by University of California and www.archive.org
Diagram, photographs, video & data at Victorian Forts and Artillery website
photo of a 2.95-inch shell casing at big-ordnance.com
Artillery of the United States
World War I artillery of the United States
World War I artillery of the United Kingdom
Mountain artillery
World War I mountain artillery
75 mm artillery
Vickers
Weapons of the Philippine Army |
59469988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timon%20Parris | Timon Parris | Timon Parris (born September 1, 1995) is an American football offensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Stony Brook and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Washington Redskins in 2018.
Early life and high school
Parris was born in Elmont, New York, and grew up in Floral Park, New York. He attended Floral Park Memorial High School, where he was a member of the basketball, football and track & field teams. He played both offensive and defensive line for the Knights and was named All-Nassau County as a senior.
College career
Parris joined the Stony Brook Seawolves football team as a walk-on and eventually earned a scholarship. He redshirted his freshman season and became a starter at tackle for the Seawolves as a redshirt freshman. Overall, Parris started 41 games for Stony Brook and was named first team All-CAA in each of his final three seasons and was an FCS All-American as a redshirt senior.
Professional career
Washington Redskins
Parris signed with the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent on April 28, 2018. He was cut by the Redskins at the end of training camp and subsequently re-signed to the team's practice squad on September 2, 2018. Parris was promoted to the Redskins' active roster on December 21, 2018 after Austin Howard was placed on injured reserve. Parris made his NFL debut on December 22, 2018 in a 25-16 loss to the Tennessee Titans.
Parris was waived on August 31, 2019, but was signed to the practice squad the following day. He was promoted to the active roster on December 14, 2019 after the Indianapolis Colts attempted to sign him off the Redskins practice squad. Parris played in three games on special teams in 2019. Parris was waived by Washington on September 5, 2020.
Atlanta Falcons
Paris was claimed off waivers by the Atlanta Falcons on September 6, 2020, before being waived on September 15, 2020.
Cleveland Browns
Parris was signed to the Cleveland Browns' practice squad on October 13, 2020, but was released on November 9, 2020.
Washington Football Team
Parris rejoined the Washington Football Team's practice squad on December 1, 2020. His practice squad contract with the team expired after the season on January 18, 2021.
Miami Dolphins
On May 20, 2021, Parris signed with the Miami Dolphins. He was waived on June 14, 2021, and re-signed with the team on July 19, 2021. He was waived on August 17, 2021.
Minnesota Vikings
On October 26, 2021, Parris signed to the Minnesota Vikings practice squad. He was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list on November 8 and activated on November 16. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Vikings on January 10, 2022.
References
External links
Stony Brook Seawolves bio
1995 births
Living people
American football offensive tackles
Atlanta Falcons players
Miami Dolphins players
Minnesota Vikings players
People from Elmont, New York
Players of American football from New York (state)
Sportspeople from Nassau County, New York
Stony Brook Seawolves football players
Washington Redskins players
Washington Football Team players |
4385560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiahmoo%20Shopping%20Centre | Semiahmoo Shopping Centre | Semiahmoo Shopping Centre ( ) is an indoor shopping mall on the Semiahmoo peninsula in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1980, the shopping centre is named after the nearby Semiahmoo Bay and is currently anchored by Save-On-Foods and Winners.
Other stores of note: Black Bond Books, The Body Shop, GS & Company.
History
The mall opened with a Kmart discount department store as an anchor tenant featuring an Automotive Centre and a Kmart Cafeteria. Kmart closed this location in 1998.
In 2013, the mall featured one of only three remaining Zellers-branded department stores still operating in the country, with plans for the brand to continue as a crossover with Hudson's Bay. In June 2014, First Capital announced that the Zellers store would close and be replaced by another retailer. It was confirmed on May 15, 2019, that a Winners store would be replacing the former Zellers.
Redevelopment
Bosa Properties purchased the mall in 2002 and had major plans to expand and redevelop the property.
In March 2010, Semiahmoo Shopping Centre went through a much-needed upgrade to the interior of the mall. The exterior of the mall lost several tenants as the structures that housed their businesses were demolished to accommodate the exterior upgrade.
Plans for residential and commercial redevelopment were put on hold amid concerns that nearby developments in Grandview Heights and Morgan Crossing affected the commercial and residential viability of the town centre. Bosa sold the mall in June 2010 to First Capital Realty, an investment company.
Transportation
White Rock Centre is adjacent to the mall, with TransLink bus services to other parts of White Rock, Surrey, Langley, and Richmond. Parking access is available from Martin Drive and 152nd Street.
See also
List of shopping malls in Canada
References
External links
Official website
Shopping malls in Metro Vancouver
Shopping malls established in 1980
1980 establishments in British Columbia
White Rock, British Columbia
Buildings and structures in Surrey, British Columbia |
31097017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Wings%20of%20Eagles%20%28miniseries%29 | On Wings of Eagles (miniseries) | On Wings of Eagles (also known as Teheran) is a 1986 American television miniseries starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Crenna, and directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. It was adapted from Ken Follett's 1983 book of the same name.
Synopsis
The story is set during the Iranian Revolution (1978–1979). As Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is overthrown by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the takeover of Iran, two executives of Electronic Data Systems, are arrested on false charges and then imprisoned. The head of the company, H. Ross Perot (Richard Crenna), travels to Tehran to negotiate for their release. Meanwhile, a retired US Army Special Forces Colonel, Arthur D. 'Bull' Simons (Burt Lancaster), is hired by Perot to formulate a rescue plan at any cost.
Cast
Awards
The miniseries was nominated for Outstanding Miniseries at the 38th Primetime Emmy Awards.
References
Burt Lancaster: An American Life, by Kate Buford
External links
1986 American television series debuts
1986 American television series endings
1980s American television miniseries
1986 television films
1986 films
Adaptations of works by Ken Follett
English-language television shows
Films set in Iran
Films shot in Mexico
Iranian Revolution films
Ross Perot
Television series set in 1978
Television series set in 1979
Television shows set in Iran |
13849334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bavarian%20royal%20consorts | List of Bavarian royal consorts | There have been three kinds of Bavarian consorts in history, Duchesses, Electresses and Queens. Most consorts listed are Duchesses. The first ever consort of Bavaria was Waldrada in the 6th century. The final consort was Maria Theresia of Austria-Este in 1913.
The longest serving House was the Wittelsbach Dynasty, who played a major role in Bavarian History. During the medieval period under the Wittelsbach Dynasty, Bavaria was split into two parts, Upper and Lower Bavaria. This meant that there may have been more than one Duchess of Bavaria at the same time, due to messy inheritance among heirs. Three of the break-away Wittelsbach families were: Landshut, Munich and Ingolstadt.
Since 555 there have been 99 Bavarian consorts: 78 duchesses, 11 queens, 10 electresses and one margravine. The number doesn't add up because Elizabeth of Lorraine and Caroline of Baden, held two titles. There was a few consort that married twice usually their brothers-in-law. It was common for the ruler of Bavaria to have more than one wife. His wives may have died childless or they divorced, because the marriage was childless. Most of the marriages were to make a treaty with the family of the consort.
Ducal Bavaria
{| width=95% class="wikitable"
| colspan="9" bgcolor=#E6E6AA align=center| Agilolfing Dynasty
|-
!width = "8%" | Image
!width = "10%" | Name
!width = "9%" | Father
!width = "10%" | Birth
!width = "9%" | Marriage
!width = "9%" | Became Duchess
!width = "9%" | Ceased to be Duchess
!width = "9%" | Death
!width = "6%" | Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Waldrada of the Lombards
|align="center"| Wacho, King of the Lombards(Lethings)
|align=center| c. 531
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 556
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 572
|align="center"| Garibald I
|-
|align="center" colspan="9"| No names of Bavarian duchesses are mention during until 610.
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Geila of Friuli
|align="center"| Gisulf II, Duke of Friuli
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| c. 610husband's accession
|align=center| c. 625/630husband's death
|align=center| ?
|align="center"| Garibald II
|-
|align="center" colspan="9"| Bavarian duchesses or dukes for a half of a century after Garibald II is not very clear until Folchiade of Salzeburg.
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Fara of Bavaria
|align="center"| A King of the Lombards
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Theodo I
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Gleisnod de Friuli
|align="center"| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Folchiade of Salzeburg
|align="center"| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Theodo II
|-
|align="center" rowspan="2"|
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Regintrude of Austrasia
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Dagobert I, King of the Franks?(Merovingians)?
|align="center" rowspan="2"| c. 660–665
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| c. 716husband's death
|align="center" rowspan="2"| c. 730–740
|-
|align=center| ?
|align=center| c. 716husband's accession
|align=center| c. 719husband's death
|align="center"| Theodbert
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Waldrada
|align="center"| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| c. 716husband's accession
|align=center| c. 719husband's death
|align=center| ?
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Theobald
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Biltrude
|align="center"| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| c. 716husband's accession
|align=center| c. 719husband's death
|align=center| ?
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Waldrada
|align="center"| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| c. 716husband's accession
|align=center| c. 719husband's death
|align=center| ?
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Tassilo II
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Imma of Alamannia
|align="center"| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| ?
|align=center| c. 716husband's accession
|align=center| c. 719husband's death
|align=center| c. 750
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Biltrude
|align="center"| ?
|align=center| ?
|align="center" colspan="2"| somewhere after 719
|align=center| c. 725husband's accession as Duke of All Bavaria
|align=center| after 725
|align="center"| Grimoald
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Hiltrud of the Franks
|align="center"| Charles Martel, Duke and Prince of the Franks(Carolingians)
|align=center| c. 715/720
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 741
|align=center| 18 January 748husband's death
|align=center| c. 754
|align="center"| Odilo
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Unnamed mother of his two sons
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| 753husband usurped power
|align="center"| 753husband lost power
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| Grifo
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Liutperga of the Lombards
|align="center"| Desiderius, King of the Lombards
|align=center| c. 715/720
|align="center" colspan="2"| before 770
|align=center| c. 788husband and herself deposed and enter monastery
|align=center| c. 793
|align="center"| Tassilo III
|-
| colspan="9" bgcolor=#AACC99 align=center| Carolingian Dynasty
|-
!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameConsort
!Ceased tobe Consort
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Fastrada of Franconia
|align="center"| Raoul III of Franconia
|align="center"| c. 765
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 784as sole-Queen consort of the Franks and co-Queen consort the Lombardsc. 788 husband became ruler of Bavaria
|align="center" colspan="2"| 10 October 794
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Charlemagne, Emperor and King of the Franks
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Luitgard of Sundgau
|align="center"| Luitfrid II, Count of Sundgau(Etichonids)
|align="center"| c. 776
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 794as sole-Queen consort of the Franks and co-Queen consort of the Lombards
|align="center" colspan="2"| 4 June 800
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Ermengarde of Hesbaye
|align="center"| Ingerman, Count of Hesbaye(Robertians)
|align="center"| c. 778
|align="center"| c. 794/5
|align="center"| c. 813as Holy Roman Empress and Queen consort of the Franksc. 817as senior Holy Roman Empress
|align="center"| c. 817son became king of Bavaria
|align="center"| 3 October 818
|align="center"| Louis the Pious, Emperor and King of the Franks
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Emma of Altdorf
|align="center"| Welf, Count of Altorf(Elder Welfs)
|align="center"| c. 808
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 827as Queen consort of BavariaAugust 843as Queen consort of the East Franks
|align="center" colspan="2"| 31 January 876
|align="center"| Louis the German, King of the East Franks and Bavaria
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Liutgard of Saxony
|align="center"| Liudolf, Duke of the Eastern Saxons(Liudolfings)
|align="center"| c. 845
|align="center"| 29 November 874
|align="center"| 28 August 876as Queen consort of Saxony29 September 880as Queen consort of Bavaria
|align="center"| 20 January 882husband's death
|align="center"| 17 November 885
|align="center"| Louis the Younger, King of Saxony and Bavaria
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Richardis of Swabia
|align="center"| Erchanger, Count of the Nordgau(Ahalolfings)
|align="center"| c. 840
|align="center"| c. 862
|align="center"| 29 November 874 as Queen consort of Alemannia12 February 881as Holy Roman Empress20 January 882as Queen consort of the East Franks12 December 884as Queen consort of the West Franks
|align="center"| 17 November 887husband's desposition
|align="center"| 18 September, between 894 and 896
|align="center"| Charles the Fat, Emperor and King of the Franks
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Ota of Neustria
|align="center"| Berengar I of Neustria(Conradines)
|align="center"| c. 874
|align="center"| c. 888
|align="center"| c. 888as Queen consort of the East Franks 22 February 896as Holy Roman Empress and Queen consort of Italy
|align="center"| 8 December 899husband's death
|align="center"| 899–903
|align="center"| Arnulf of Carinthia,Emperor and King of the East Franks
|-
| colspan="9" bgcolor=#CCEEFF align=center| Luitpolding Dynasty
|-
!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameConsort
!Ceased tobe Consort
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Cunigunde of Swabia
|align="center"| Berthold I, Count Palatine of Swabia(Ahalolfings)
|align="center"| c. 870/880
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| ?as Margravine of Bavaria
|align="center"| 4 July 907husband's death
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| Luitpold
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Judith of Friuli
|align="center"| Saint Eberhard, Duke of Friuli(Unruochings)
|align="center"| c. 888
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 910
|align="center"| 14 July 937husband's death
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| Arnulf
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Biltrude
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| c. 938 husband's accession
|align="center"| 23 November 947husband's death
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| Berthold
|-
| colspan="9" bgcolor=#FFFFCC align=center| Ottonian Dynasty
|-
!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Judith, Duchess of Bavaria
|align="center"| Arnulf(Luitpoldings)
|align="center"| c. 925
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| 23 November 947 husband's accession
|align="center"| 1 November 955husband's death
|align="center"| June soon after 985
|align="center"| Henry I
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Gisela of Burgundy
|align="center"| Conrad I of Burgundy(Elder Welfs)
|align="center"| before 952
|align="center" colspan="2"| before 972
|align="center"| c. 976husband's desposition
|align="center"| 21 July 1006
|align="center"| Henry II
|-
| colspan="9" bgcolor=#CCEEFF align=center| Luitpolding Dynasty
|-
| colspan="9" bgcolor=#FFFFCC align=center| Ottonian Dynasty
|-
!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Gisela of Burgundy
|align="center"| Conrad I of Burgundy(Elder Welfs)
|align="center"| before 952
|align="center"| before 972
|align="center"| c. 985 husband's restoration
|align="center"| 28 August 995husband's death
|align="center"| 21 July 1006
|align="center"| Henry II
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg
|align="center"| Siegfried, Count of Luxembourg(Elder Luxembourg)
|align="center"| c. 975
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1000
|align="center"| c. 1004Bavaria given to Henry V
|align="center"| 3 March 1040
|align="center"| Henry IV
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=purple align=center| Luxembourg Dynasty
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=#f2e0ce align=center| Salian Dynasty
|-
!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Gunhilda Knutsdotter of Denmark
|align="center"| Knut the Great(Denmark)
|align="center"| c. 975
|align="center" colspan="2"| May 1035/1036
|align="center" colspan="2"| 18 July 1038
|align="center"| Henry VI
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=purple align=center| Luxembourg Dynasty
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=yellow green align=center| Ezzonian Dynasty
|-
!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Judith of Schweinfurt
|align="center"| Otto III, Duke of Swabia
|align="center"| ?
|align="center" colspan="2"| ?
|align="center"| c. 1053Bavaria given to Henry V
|align="center"| c. 1104
|align="center"| Conrad I
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=#f2e0ce align=center| Salian Dynasty
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=periwinkle align=center| Northeim Dynasty
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!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Richenza of Swabia
|align="center"| Otto II, Duke of Swabia(Ezzonids)
|align="center"| c. 1020/1025
|align="center"| c. 1050
|align="center"| c. 1061Bavaria granted to husband
|align="center"| c. 1070Bavaria taken from husband
|align="center"| c. 1083
|align="center"| Otto of Nordheim
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=#FFB6B6 align=center| Welf Dynasty
|-
!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Ethelinde of Northeim
|align="center"| Otto of Nordheim(Northeim)
|align="center"| c. 1160
|align="center"| c. 1062
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1070
|align="center"| ?
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Welf I
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Judith of Flanders
|align="center"| Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders(Flanders)
|align="center"| c. 1030
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1071
|align="center"| May 1077Bavaria deprived from husband
|align="center"| 5 March 1094
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=#f2e0ce align=center| Salian Dynasty
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!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Bertha of Savoy
|align="center"| Otto, Count of Savoy(Savoy)
|align="center"| 21 September 1051
|align="center"| 13 July 1066
|align="center"| 1077Bavaria taken back from Welf I
|align="center" colspan="2"| 27 December 1087
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Henry VIII
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Eupraxia Vsevolovna of Kiev
|align="center"| Vsevolod I, Grand Prince of Kiev(Rurikids)
|align="center"| c. 1071
|align="center" colspan="2"| 14 August 1089
|align="center"| c. 1096Bavaria given to Welf I
|align="center"| 20 July 1109
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=#FFB6B6 align=center| Welf Dynasty
|-
!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Judith of Flanders
|align="center"| Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders(Flanders)
|align="center"| c. 1030
|align="center"| c. 1071
|align="center"| c. 1096Bavaria recovered by husband
|align="center" colspan="2"| 5 March 1094
|align="center"| Welf I
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Matilda of Canossa
|align="center"| Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany(Canossa)
|align="center"| c. 1046
|align="center"| c. 1089
|align="center"| 6 November 1101 husband's accession
|align="center" colspan="2"| 24 July 1115
|align="center"| Welf II
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Wulfhilde of Saxony
|align="center"| Magnus, Duke of Saxony(Billung)
|align="center"| c. 1075
|align="center"| c. 1095/1100
|align="center"| c. 1120 husband's accession
|align="center"| early 1126husband abdicated as duke and retired to Weingarten Abbey
|align="center"| 29 December 1126
|align="center"| Henry IX
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Gertrude of Süpplingenburg
|align="center"| Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor(Süpplingenburg)
|align="center"| 18 April 1115
|align="center" colspan="2"| 29 May 1127
|align="center"| 20 October 1139 husband's death
|align="center"| 18 April 1143
|align="center"| Henry X
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=red align=center| Babenberg Dynasty
|-
!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameConsort
!Ceased tobe Consort
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align="center"|
|align="center"| Maria of Bohemia
|align="center"| Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia(Přemyslids)
|align="center"| c. 1024/25
|align="center"| 28 September 1138
|align="center"| c. 1139 Bavaria granted to husband
|align="center"| 18 October 1141 husband's death
|align="center"| c. 1160
|align="center"| Leopold I
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|align="center" rowspan="2"|
|align="center"| Gertrude of Süpplingenburg
|align="center"| Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor(Süpplingenburg)
|align="center"| 18 April 1115
|align="center" colspan="2"| 1 May 1142
|align="center" colspan="2"| 18 April 1143
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Henry XI
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|align="center"| Theodora Komnene
|align="center"| Sebastokrator Andronikos Komnenos(Komnenos)
|align="center"| –
|align="center" colspan="2"| 1148
|align="center"| 17 September 1156Privilegium Minus
|align="center"| 2 January 1184
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=#FFB6B6 align=center| Welf Dynasty
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!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
|-
|align=center|
|align=center| Clementia of Zähringen
|align="center"| Conrad, Duke of Zähringen(Zähringen)
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|1148/49
|align="center"|17 September 1156Privilegium Minus
|align="center"| 1162divorce
|align="center"|1148/49
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Henry XII
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|align="center"|
|align=center| Matilda of England
|align="center"| Henry II of England(Plantagenet)
|align="center"| June 1156
|align="center" colspan="2"| 1 February 1168
|align="center"| 1180 husband lost the duchy'
|align="center"| 28 June 1189
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| colspan="9" bgcolor=#FFDEAD align=center| Wittelsbach Dynasty
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!Image
!Name
!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameConsort
!Ceased tobe Consort
!Died
!Husband
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|align=center|
|align=center| Agnes of Loon
|align="center"| Louis I, Count of Loon(Loon)
|align="center"| c. 1150
|align="center"| c. 1157/1169
|align="center"| 16 September 1180Bavaria given to husband|align="center"| 11 July 1183husband's death|align="center"| 26 March 1191
|align="center"| Otto I Wittelsbach
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Ludmilla of Bohemia
|align="center"| Frederick, Duke of Bohemia(Přemyslids)
|align="center"| 1170
|align="center" colspan="2"| October 1204
|align=center| 15 September 1231husband's death|align=center| 14 August 1240
|align=center| Louis I
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|align=center|
|align=center| Agnes of the Palatinate
|align="center"| Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine(Welf)
|align="center"| c. 1201
|align="center"| May 1222
|align=center| 15 September 1231husband's accession|align="center"| 29 November 1253husband's death|align="center"| 16 November 1267
|align="center"| Otto II Wittelsbach
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|align="center" colspan="9"| Bavaria partitioned into Upper and Lower Bavaria.
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|align=center|
|align=center| Elizabeth of Hungary
|align="center"| Béla IV of Hungary(Árpád)
|align="center"| c. 1236
|align="center"| c. 1250
|align=center| 29 November 1253husband's accession|align="center" colspan="2"| 24 October 1271
|align="center"| Henry XIII(Lower Bavaria)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Maria of Brabant
|align="center"| Henry II, Duke of Brabant(Leuven)
|align="center"| 1226
|align="center" colspan="2"| 2 August 1254
|align="center" colspan="2"| 18 January 1256
|align="center" rowspan="3"| Louis II(Upper Bavaria)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Anna of Glogau
|align="center"| Konrad I, Duke of Silesia-Glogau(Piast)
|align="center"| 1250/52
|align="center" colspan="2"| 24 August 1260
|align="center" colspan="2"| 25 June 1271
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|align=center|
|align=center| Matilda of Habsburg
|align="center"| Rudolph I of Germany(Habsburg)
|align="center"| 1252
|align="center" colspan="2"| 24 October 1273
|align="center"| 2 February 1294husband's death|align="center"| 23 December 1304
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|align=center|
|align=center| Isabelle of Lorraine
|align="center"| Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine(Metz)
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| c. 1287
|align="center"| 3 February 1290husband's accession|align=center| 9 October 1296 husband's death|align="center"| c. 1335
|align="center"| Louis III(Lower Bavaria)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Jutta of Schweidnitz
|align="center"| Bolko I, Duke of Jawor and Świdnica(Piast)
|align="center"| c. 1285/87
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1297/99
|align=center| 10 December 1310husband's death|align="center"| 15 September 1320
|align="center"| Stephen I(Lower Bavaria)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Agnes of Glogau
|align="center"| Henry III, Duke of Silesia-Glogau(Piast)
|align="center"| c. 1293/96
|align="center" colspan="2"| 18 May 1309
|align=center| 9 November 1312husband's death|align="center"| 25 December 1361
|align="center"| Otto III(Lower Bavaria)
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Mechtild of Nassau
|align="center"| Adolf, King of the Romans(Nassau)
|align="center"| before 1280
|align="center" colspan="2"| 1 September 1294
|align="center"| c. 1317husband's desposition|align="center"| 19 June 1323
|align="center"| Rudolf I(Upper Bavaria)
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Beatrix of Świdnica
|align="center"| Bolko I, Duke of Jawor and Świdnica(Piast)
|align="center"| 1290/2
|align="center" colspan="2"| 14 October 1308/11as Duchess consort of Upper Bavaria
|align="center" colspan="2"| 25 August 1322
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Louis IV(United Bavaria)
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|align="center"|
|align="center"| Margaret of Holland
|align="center"| William I, Count of Hainaut(Avesnes)
|align="center"| 1311
|align="center" colspan="2"| 26 February 1324as Duchess consort of Upper Bavaria20 December 1340as Duchess consort of Lower BavariaJanuary 1341as Duchess consort of All Bavaria
|align="center"| 11 October 1347 husband's death|align="center"| 23 June 1356
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|align=center|
|align=center| Richardis of Jülich
|align="center"| Gerhard V of Jülich(Jülich)
|align="center"| c. 1314
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1330
|align=center| 14 December 1334husband's death|align="center"| c. 1360
|align="center"| Otto IV(Lower Bavaria)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margaret of Bohemia
|align="center"| John I of Bohemia(Luxembourg)
|align="center"| 8 July 1313
|align="center" colspan="2"| 2 August 1328
|align=center| 1 September 1339husband's death|align="center"| 11 July 1341
|align="center"| Henry XIV(Lower Bavaria)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Anna of Austria
|align="center"| Frederick I, Duke of Austria(Habsburg)
|align="center"| c. 1318
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1326–1328
|align=center| 18 June 1333husband's death|align="center"| 14/15 December 1343
|align="center"| Henry XV(Upper Bavaria)
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|align="center" colspan="9"| Bavaria reunited in 1341 under Louis IV. It passed to his six sons in this state, in 1347, until it was repartitioned into Upper and Lower Bavaria with each brother co-ruling with each other, in 1349.
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margarete Maultasch
|align="center"| Henry of Bohemia(Meinhardiner)
|align="center"| c. 1318
|align="center"| 10 February 1342
|align="center"| 11 October 1347as Duchess consort of Bavariac. 1349as Duchess consort of Upper Bavaria
|align=center| 18 September 1361husband's death|align="center"| 3 October 1369
|align="center"| Louis V(Bavaria and 2nd Partition)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Elisabeth of Sicily
|align="center"| Frederick III of Sicily(Barcelona)
|align="center"| c. 1310
|align="center"| 27 June 1328
|align="center"| 11 October 1347as Duchess consort of Bavariac. 1349as Duchess consort of Lower Bavaria
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1349
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Stephen II(Bavaria and 2nd Partition)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margarete of Nuremberg
|align="center"| John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg(Hohenzollern)
|align="center"| c. 1315
|align="center" colspan="2"| 14 February 1359as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshut13 January 1363as Duchess consort of Upper Bavaria
|align="center"| 13 May 1375husband's death|align="center"| 19 September 1377
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|align=center|
|align=center| Cunigunde of PolandAlso Electress consorts of Brandenburg.
|align="center"| Casimir III of Poland(Piast)
|align="center"| c. 1334
|align="center"| 1 January 1352
|align="center"| 11 October 1347as Duchess consort of Upper Bavaria
|align="center" colspan="2"| 26 April 1357
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Louis VI(Bavaria and 2nd Partition)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Ingeborg of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
|align="center"| Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg(Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
|align="center"| c. 1340
|align="center" colspan="2"| 15 February 1360as Duchess consort of Upper Bavaria
|align="center"| 17 May 1365husband's death|align="center"| 25 July 1395
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|align=center|
|align=center| Maud of LancasterAlso Countess consorts of Holland.
|align="center"| Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster(Plantagenet)
|align="center"| 4 April 1339
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1352as Duchess consort of Lower Bavariac. 1353as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Straubing
|align="center" colspan="2"| 10 April 1362
|align="center"| William I(Bavaria and 2nd Partition)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margaret of Legnica-Brzeg
|align="center"| Ludwik I, Duke of Legnica-Brzeg(Piast)
|align="center"| c. 1342/1343
|align="center" colspan="2"| after 19 July 1353as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Straubing
|align="center" colspan="2"| February 1386
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Albert I(Bavaria and 2nd Partition)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margaret of Cleves
|align="center"| Adolph I, Count of Cleves(De la Marck)
|align="center"| c. 1375
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1394 as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Straubing
|align="center"| 13 December 1404husband's death|align="center"| 14 May 1411
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|align=center|
|align=center| Katharine of Bohemia
|align="center"| Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor(Luxembourg)
|align="center"| 19 August 1342
|align="center" colspan="2"| 19 March 1366as Duchess consort of Upper Bavaria13 May 1375as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Straubing
|align="center"| 15 November 1379husband's death|align="center"| 26 April 1395
|align="center"| Otto V(Bavaria and 2nd Partition)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margaret of Austria
|align="center"| Albert II, Duke of Austria(Habsburg)
|align="center"| c. 1346
|align="center"| 4 September 1359
|align="center"| 18 September 1361as Duchess consort of Upper Bavaria
|align="center"| 13 January 1363husband's death|align="center"| 14 January 1366
|align="center"| Meinhard(Upper Bavaria)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Katharina of Görz
|align="center"| Meinhard VI, Count of Görz(Görz)
|align="center"| c. 1346
|align="center"| c. 1372
|align="center"| 13 May 1375as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshut
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1391
|align="center"| John II(Bavaria-Munich)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Anna of Neuffen
|align="center"| Berthold VII of Neuffen(Neuffen)
|align="center"| ?
|align="center"| 16 May 1360
|align="center"| 13 May 1375as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshut
|align="center" colspan="2"| c. 1381
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Frederick(Bavaria-Landshut)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Maddalena Visconti
|align="center"| Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan(Visconti)
|align="center"| c. 1366
|align="center" colspan="2"| 2 September 1381as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshut
|align="center"| 4 December 1393husband's death|align="center"| 17 July 1404
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|align=center|
|align=center| Taddea Visconti
|align="center"| Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan(Visconti)
|align="center"| c. 1352
|align="center"| 13 October 1364/12 August 1367
|align="center"| 13 May 1375as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshutc. 1392as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
|align="center" colspan="2"| 28 September 1381
|align="center" rowspan="2"| Stephen III(Bavaria-Ingolstadt)
|-
|align=center|
|align=center| Elisabeth of Cleves
|align="center"| Adolph I, Count of Cleves(De la Marck)
|align="center"| c. 1378
|align="center" colspan="2"| 16 January 1401 as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
|align="center"| 26 September 1413husband's death|align="center"| c. 1424
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margaret of Austria
|align="center"| Albert IV, Duke of Austria(Habsburg)
|align="center"| 26 June 1395
|align="center" colspan="2"| 25 November 1412as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshut1 May 1447as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
|align="center" colspan="2"| 24 December 1447
|align="center"| Henry XVI(Bavaria-Landshut)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margaret of Cleves
|align="center"| Adolph I, Duke of Cleves(De la Marck)
|align="center"| 23 February 1416
|align="center" colspan="2"| 11 May 1433as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria-Straubing
|align="center"| 12 September 1435husband's death|align="center"| 20 May 1444
|align="center"| William III(Bavaria-Munich)
|-
|align=center|
|align=center| Elisabetta Visconti
|align="center"| Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan(Visconti)
|align="center"| c. 1374
|align="center"| 26 January 1395
|align="center"| c. 1397as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Munichc. 1429as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Straubing
|align="center" colspan="2"| 2 February 1432
|align="center"| Ernest(Bavaria-Munich)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margaret of Burgundy
|align="center"| Philip II, Duke of Burgundy(Valois-Burgundy)
|align="center"| October 1374
|align="center"| 12 April 1385
|align="center"| 13 December 1404as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Straubing
|align="center"| 31 May 1417husband's death|align="center"| 8 March 1441
|align="center"| William II(Bavaria-Straubing)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Catherine of Alençon
|align="center"| Peter II, Count of Alençon(Valois-Alençon)
|align="center"| c. 1396
|align="center" colspan="2"| 1 October 1413 as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
|align="center"| c. 1443husband's imprisonment1 May 1447husband's death|align="center"| 25 June 1462
|align="center"| Louis VII(Bavaria-Ingolstadt)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Elisabeth of Görlitz
|align="center"| John of Görlitz(Luxembourg)
|align="center"| November 1390
|align="center" colspan="2"| 10 March 1418as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Straubing
|align="center"| 6 January 1425husband's death|align="center"| 2 August 1451
|align="center"| John III(Bavaria-Straubing)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck
|align="center"| Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen(Brunswick-Grubenhagen)
|align="center"| c. 1414/20
|align="center"| 22 January 1437
|align="center"| 2 July 1438as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Munich
|align="center"| 29 February 1460husband's death|align="center"| c. 1474
|align="center"| Albert III(Bavaria-Munich)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Margaret of Brandenburg
|align="center"| Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg(Hohenzollern)
|align="center"| c. 1410
|align="center"| 20 July 1441
|align="center"| c. 1443as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
|align="center"| 7 April 1445husband's death|align="center"| 27 July 1465
|align="center"| Louis VIII(Bavaria-Ingolstadt)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Amalia of Saxony
|align="center"| Frederick II, Elector of Saxony(Wettin)
|align="center"| 4 April 1436
|align="center" colspan="2"| 21 March 1452as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshut
|align="center"| 18 January 1479husband's death|align="center"| 19 October 1501
|align="center"| Louis IX(Bavaria-Landshut)
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|align=center|
|align=center| Jadwiga Jagiellonca
|align="center"| Casimir IV Jagiellon(Jagiellon)
|align="center"| 21 September 1457
|align="center"| 14 November 1475
|align="center"| 18 January 1479as Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshut
|align="center" colspan="2"| 18 February 1502
|align="center"| George(Bavaria-Landshut)
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!Father
!Born
!Married
!BecameDuchess
!Ceased tobe Duchess
!Died
!Husband
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Duchy of Bavaria
Electorate of Bavaria
Kingdom of BavariaNote: All Frankish queens in the Ducal Bavaria section were also Queens consorts of Bavaria not Duchess consorts of Bavaria.
Notes
People from the Kingdom of Bavaria
Bavaria, Queen of
Bavaria, Duchess of
Bavaria |
3151934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Opposite%20Sex | The Opposite Sex | The Opposite Sex is a 1956 American musical romantic comedy film shot in Metrocolor and CinemaScope. The film was directed by David Miller and stars June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Jeff Richards, Agnes Moorehead, Charlotte Greenwood, Joan Blondell, Sam Levene, Dick Shawn, Jim Backus, Bill Goodwin, and Harry James.
The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women. Both films are based on Clare Boothe Luce's original 1936 play.
Plot
The story concerns Kay Hilliard (June Allyson), a former nightclub singer who discovers her husband Steven (Leslie Nielsen) is having an affair with showgirl Crystal Allen (Joan Collins). Kay is the last to find out among her circle of gossiping girlfriends. Kay travels to Reno to divorce from Steve who then marries Crystal, but when Kay finds out that Crystal isn't true to Steve, she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back.
Cast
June Allyson as Kay Hilliard
Joan Collins as Crystal Allen
Dolores Gray as Sylvia Fowler
Jeff Richards as Buck Winston
Ann Sheridan as Amanda Penrose
Ann Miller as Gloria Dell
Leslie Nielsen as Steven Hilliard
Agnes Moorehead as Countess Lavaliere
Charlotte Greenwood as Lucy
Joan Blondell as Edith Potter
Sam Levene as Mike Pearl
Bill Goodwin as Howard Fowler
Alice Pearce as Olga
Barbara Jo Allen as Dolly
Sandy Descher as Debbie Hilliard
Carolyn Jones as Pat
Barrie Chase as Specialty Dancer
Dick Shawn as Psychiatric Patient
Jim Backus as Psychiatrist
Alan Marshal as Ted
Harry James as Himself
Gordon Richards as Hilliards' Butler
Dean Jones as Backstage Delivery Person
Leslie Parrish as Leg Model
Juanita Moore as Powder Room Attendant
Dolores Fuller in a bit role
Production notes
Unlike the 1936 play and the 1939 film adaptation, The Opposite Sex includes musical numbers and features male actors who portray the husbands and boyfriends, whose characters were only referred to in the previous film and stage versions. This alters the structure and tone of the base storyline significantly.
Fay Kanin who cowrote the script with her husband Michael said the studio's argument was "you can't play a love scene alone." Michael said the studio "felt the movie audience would somehow be disappointed at not seeing men in it. After all, a man is a fact."
Fay Kanin thought the "manless world" of the play "was a stunt, an artificial trick, but it was accepted. But in a movie, which has the freedom to go out, the device would seem constrained and self conscious." Michael claimed "we only put in men to relieve the strain - and only when they are called for."
The Kanins gave the story a show business background to help justify it being turned into a musical, but "there are no big production numbers," according to Fay Kanin.
Elaine Stewart was promised Joan Collins' role before filming. Grace Kelly was supposed to have June Allyson's role, but she retired from acting before filming. MGM studio head Dore Schary envisioned Esther Williams in June Allyson's role. According to her 2000 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid, Williams objected to Schary's casting suggestion, resulting in her suspension from the studio. Shortly after, on agent Lew Wasserman's advice, she left Metro after 14 years. Eleanor Parker was cast as Kay Hilliard but replaced by June Allyson.
Jo Ann Greer dubbed Allyson's ballad "A Perfect Love".
In November 1955, Joe Pasternak was pursuing Marlene Dietrich and Miriam Hopkins. In December 1955, MGM announced the lead roles would be played by June Allyson, Dolores Gray, Ann Miller (as the husband stealer), and Leslie Nielsen with filming to begin January 16, 1956. In the 1939 version of The Women, actress Lucile Watson was featured in the cast as Mrs. Morehead, the loving, wise, and supportive mother of Norma Shearer's character Mary Haines. For the 1956 version, the role was eliminated, and a new character was created instead - Amanda Penrose, a playwright who served as Kay Hilliard's kind friend confidante. Ann Sheridan was cast in this part.
Barbara Jo Allen had the distinction of being in both the 1939 and 1956 versions - in the first film, she had a small, uncredited part as a receptionist; in the second, she played the gossip columnist Dolly DeHaven.
This was June Allyson's final film for MGM after having worked at the studio for nearly 15 years.
Reception
According to MGM records, the film earned $1,735,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $1,025,000 in other markets, resulting in a loss of $1,513,000.
Award nomination
The film was nominated for a Best Musical or Comedy Picture Golden Globe Award in 1957.
See also
List of American films of 1956
References
External links
1956 films
1956 musical comedy films
1956 romantic comedy films
Remakes of American films
American films
American musical comedy films
American romantic comedy films
1950s English-language films
American films based on plays
Films directed by David Miller
Films scored by Georgie Stoll
Musical film remakes
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Films produced by Joe Pasternak |
2152077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20Machine%20%28album%29 | Sex Machine (album) | Sex Machine is a 1970 double album by James Brown. It showcases the playing of the original J.B.'s lineup featuring Bootsy and Catfish Collins, and includes an 11-minute rendition of the album's title song, different from the original recording of the title song which was released as a two-part single in 1970.
Sex Machine purports to be a live recording. However, the first LP's worth of material consists of tracks recorded in studio settings with added reverberation and overdubbed applause (some of which subsequently were released in unadulterated mixes, most notably on the 1996 Funk Power compilation CD.). All but one track of the second LP apparently were recorded live in concert in Brown's hometown of Augusta, Georgia, although this material, too, features added reverb and overdubbed applause. It charted #4 R&B and #29 Pop.
Sex Machine is often considered to be one of the greatest and most important funk records of all time, and arguably the high point of Brown's creative heyday from 1967 to 1971. It was ranked 1st in SPIN magazine's 25 greatest albums of all time in 1989, and 96th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. Sex Machine was also voted the 34th greatest album of all time in a VH1 poll of over 700 musicians, songwriters, disc jockeys, radio programmers, and critics in 2003. In Rolling Stones 2020 edition of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, it was ranked number 439.
Track listing
All tracks on sides one and two are studio recordings with added reverberation and audience noise. All tracks on sides three and four recorded live at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, GA unless otherwise noted.
"Brother Rapp" and "Lowdown Popcorn" are the same studio performances initially released as singles. Audience-free studio versions of "Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine" and "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" appear on the CD compilation Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang, along with a previously unreleased take of "There Was a Time" from the same session. "Mother Popcorn", which was indeed recorded live, appears without added audience noise and with a longer running time on the CD compilation Foundations of Funk: A Brand New Bag 1964-1969. In addition, the album Motherlode includes a live rendition of "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud" purportedly from the same Augusta 1969 concert.Side one (studio recordings produced to sound in concert)
"Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine" (Brown, Bobby Byrd, Ron Lenhoff) – 10:48
"Brother Rapp (Part I & Part II)" – (Brown) 5:09Side two (studio recordings produced to sound in concert)
Medley: – 13:42
"Bewildered" (Teddy Powell, Leonard Whitcup) – 6:09
"I Got The Feelin'" (Brown) – 1:07
"Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" (Charles Bobbit) – 6:26Side three"I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I'll Get It Myself)" (Brown) – 4:31
"Licking Stick - Licking Stick" (Brown, Byrd, Pee Wee Ellis) – 1:19
"Lowdown Popcorn" (Brown) – 3:25 (studio recording)
"Spinning Wheel" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 4:02
"If I Ruled the World" (Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel) – 4:03Side four"There Was a Time" (Brown, Bud Hobgood) – 4:04
"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (Brown, Betty Jean Newsome) – 3:42
"Please, Please, Please" (Brown, Johnny Terry) – 2:26
"I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)" (Brown) – 1:28
"Mother Popcorn" (Brown, Pee Wee Ellis) – 5:50
Personnel Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, MedleyJames Brown – vocals, piano (Sex Machine)
Clayton "Chicken" Gunnels – trumpet
Darryl "Hassan" Jamison – trumpet
Robert "Chopper" McCollough – tenor sax
Bobby Byrd – organ, vocals (Sex Machine)
Phelps "Catfish" Collins – guitar
William "Bootsy" Collins – bass
John "Jabo" Starks – drums (Sex Machine)
Clyde Stubblefield – drums (Medley)
Johnny Griggs – congas (Medley)Bell Auditorium, Augusta, GA'''
James Brown – vocals, organ (Spinning Wheel)
Richard "Kush" Griffith – trumpet
Joseph Davis – trumpet
Fred Wesley – trombone
Maceo Parker – tenor sax, organ, emcee
Eldee Williams – tenor sax
St. Clair Pinckney – tenor and baritone sax
Jimmy Nolen – guitar
Alphonso "Country" Kellum – guitar
Sweet Charles Sherrell – bass
Clyde Stubblefield – drums
John "Jabo" Starks – drums
Melvin Parker – drums
References
External links
Sex Machine'' at Discogs
James Brown albums
James Brown live albums
1970 albums
1970 live albums
King Records (United States) albums |
28959882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hall%20%28footballer%29 | David Hall (footballer) | David Henry Hall (born 16 March 1954) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1970s.
Career
After beginning as a trainee at Sheffield Wednesday, Hall began his senior career at Bradford City, where he made 54 appearances in the Football League between 1975 and 1977. He later played non-League football with Mossley.
References
1954 births
Living people
English footballers
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Bradford City A.F.C. players
Mossley A.F.C. players
English Football League players
Association football midfielders
Footballers from Sheffield |
15112796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmina%20Mi%C5%82ki | Gmina Miłki |
Gmina Miłki is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Giżycko County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Miłki, which lies approximately south-east of Giżycko and east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 3,861.
Villages
Gmina Miłki contains the villages and settlements of Bielskie, Borki, Czyprki, Danowo, Jagodne Małe, Jagodne Wielkie, Jedamki, Kąp, Kleszczewo, Kleszczewo-Osada, Konopki Małe, Konopki Wielkie, Lipińskie, Lipowy Dwór, Marcinowa Wola, Miechy, Miłki, Paprotki, Przykop, Ruda, Rydzewo, Staświny, Staświny-Osada, Wierciejki and Wyszowate.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Miłki is bordered by the gminas of Giżycko, Mikołajki, Orzysz, Ryn and Wydminy.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
Milki
Giżycko County |
1480276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford%20Avenue%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bedford Avenue (disambiguation) | Bedford Avenue may refer to:
Bedford Avenue (Brooklyn), the longest street in Brooklyn, New York City
New York City Subway stations
Bedford Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) at North Seventh Street; serving the train
Bedford–Nostrand Avenues (IND Crosstown Line) at Lafayette Avenue; serving the train |
58363826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skai%20Moore | Skai Moore | Skai Moore (born January 8, 1995) is an American football linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at South Carolina and signed with the Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2018.
Professional career
Moore signed with the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent on May 1, 2018. After making the Colts 53-man roster, he played in three games, starting one, before being waived on September 28, 2018. He was re-signed to the practice squad on October 1, 2018. He was promoted back to the active roster on October 4, 2018. He was waived again on October 13, 2018 and was re-signed to the practice squad. He was promoted back to the active roster on November 9, 2018. He was placed on injured reserve on December 18, 2018.
On August 31, 2019, Moore was waived by the Colts and was signed to the practice squad the next day. He was promoted to the active roster on December 28, 2019.
Moore chose to opt-out of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic on August 4, 2020. He was waived/injured on August 23, 2021 and placed on injured reserve.
References
External links
Indianapolis Colts bio
South Carolina Gamecocks bio
1995 births
Living people
American football linebackers
Indianapolis Colts players
People from Cooper City, Florida
Players of American football from Florida
South Carolina Gamecocks football players
Sportspeople from Broward County, Florida |
2461646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20I%2C%20Prince%20of%20Anhalt-Bernburg | Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg | Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, also known as Christian of Anhalt, (11 May 1568 – 17 April 1630) was a German prince of the House of Ascania. He was ruling prince of Anhalt and, from 1603, ruling prince of the revived principality of Anhalt-Bernburg. From 1595 he was governor of Upper Palatinate, and soon became the advisor-in-chief of Frederick IV, Elector Palatine.
Life
Christian was the second son of Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, by his first wife Agnes, daughter of Wolfgang I, Count of Barby-Mühlingen. Born in Bernburg, Christian was trained from 1570 in Dessau by Caspar Gottschalk in Latin, Italian, and French. Still a child, he participated in diplomatic missions, among other places, to Constantinople; thus prepared, he developed into an ambitious, urbane diplomat.
In the early months of 1586 he went to Dresden and remained there several years as the closest friend of his namesake, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, whose Calvinist sympathies he shared. It is known that he suffered from alcoholic excesses during his stay at the electoral court.
Taking possession of his family lands in December of the same year (1586), Christian remained a devoted Calvinist and later served as advisor to Frederick IV, Elector Palatine. In 1591 he led the Palatine army in aid of the French king Henry IV. When a dispute for the possession of the bishopric of Strasbourg—the so-called Bishops' War—erupted in 1592, he supported Brandenburg against Lorraine. In 1595 he was appointed Governor of the Upper Palatinate by Frederick IV and settled in the Bavarian town of Amberg.
In 1603 the principality of Anhalt was formally divided between Christian and his surviving brothers. He received Bernburg, and with this settlement revived the old principality of the same name that had been extinct since 1468.
As a diplomat, Christian played an important role in the formation of the Protestant Union in 1608. With the death of the Elector Frederick IV, Christian served his son, Frederick V, and was appointed to command the Protestant forces to defend Bohemia against Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and his allies when the Bohemian nobles elected Frederick as their king in 1619. The same year, Christian was accepted in the Fruitbearing Society. When Bohemian forces were defeated at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, Christian advised Frederick against making a stand in Prague. In 1621, in response to his affiliation with the Palatines, Christian was put under an imperial ban that effectively made him an outlaw within the Holy Roman Empire and stripped him of his lands.
Christian fled first to Sweden, and then became a guest of King Christian IV at his court in Denmark-Norway. He appealed to Emperor Ferdinand for mercy in 1624 and was allowed to return to his principality, where he died six years later.
Marriage and issue
In Lorbach on 2 July 1595 Christian married Anna of Bentheim-Tecklenburg (b. Bentheim, 4 January 1579 – d. Bernburg, 9 December 1624), daughter of Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg. They had sixteen children:
Frederick Christian (b. and d. Amberg, 2 May 1596).
Amalie Juliane (b. Amberg, 10 September 1597 – d. Neinburg, Hannover, 11 August 1605).
Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (b. Amberg, 11 August 1599 – d. Bernburg, 22 September 1656).
Eleonore Marie (b. Amberg, 7 August 1600 – d. Strelitz, 17 July 1657), married on 7 May 1626 to John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.
A daughter (b. and d. Amberg, May? 1601).
Sibylle Elisabeth (b. Amberg, 10 February 1602 – d. Strelitz, 15 August 1648).
Anna Magdalene (b. Amberg, 8 March 1603 – d. 30 October 1611).
Anna Sophie (b. Amberg, 10 June 1604 – d. Bernburg, 1 September 1640).
Louise Amalie (b. Amberg, 14 January 1606 – d. Bernburg, 17 October 1635).
Ernest (b. Amberg, 19 May 1608 – d. Naumburg, 3 December 1632), colonel of a cavalry regiment in Saxon service, fatally wounded at the Battle of Lützen (1632).
Amöena Juliane (b. Amberg, 13 November 1609 – d. Bernburg, 31 July 1628).
Agnes Magdalene (b. Amberg, 8 October 1612 – d. Wildungen, 17 July 1629).
Frederick, Prince of Anhalt(-Bernburg)-Harzgerode (b. Ensdorf, 16 November 1613 – d. Plötzkau, 30 June 1670).
Sophie Margarete (b. Amberg, 16 September 1615 – d. Dessau, 27 December 1673), married on 14 July 1651 to John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.
Dorothea Matilde (b. Amberg, 11 August 1617 – d. Bernburg, 7 May 1656).
Frederick Louis (b. Amberg, 17 August 1619 – d. Harzgerode, 29 January 1621).
Footnotes
References
Parker, Geoffrey (ed.) (1997): The Thirty Years' War: Second Edition. Routledge.
Pursell, Brennan C. The Winter King. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
Yates, Frances. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. London; New York: Routledge, 1972.
1568 births
1630 deaths
Princes of Anhalt
Princes of Anhalt-Bernburg
German Calvinist and Reformed Christians
Military personnel of the Thirty Years' War
People from the Electoral Palatinate
Burials at Schlosskirche St. Aegidien (Bernburg)
Palatinate nobility |
53005324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esthlogena%20dissimilis | Esthlogena dissimilis | Esthlogena dissimilis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 2011.
References
Pteropliini
Beetles described in 2011 |
18522080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%99bina%2C%20Che%C5%82m%20County | Dębina, Chełm County | Dębina is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Leśniowice, within Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
References
Villages in Chełm County |
21503110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon%20River%20Bridge%2C%20Nova%20Scotia | Salmon River Bridge, Nova Scotia | Salmon River Bridge is a community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, along the Marine Drive, also known as Route 7, on the Eastern Shore of the province. The bridge crosses the Salmon River. The historic Salmon River Country Inn is situated on the eastern shore of the river and Jeddore Lodge & Cabins across the bridge, on the western shore. The bridge is a popular spot for mackerel fishing.
References
Explore HRM
Communities in Halifax, Nova Scotia
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia |
44181937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda%20Nash | Belinda Nash | Belinda Jacqueline Nash (October 27, 1946 – February 16, 2016) was an American historian, author and activist. She wrote a biography of Grace Sherwood, the last person "convicted" by ducking of being a witch in Virginia. As a result of Nash's work, Sherwood was given a pardon, 300 years after her trial by ordeal.
History
In the 1980s, Nash moved from Stratford Ontario, Canada to Virginia Beach. She became interested in the etymology of the name Witchduck Road which was close to her home. As a result, she researched Grace Sherwood for around 20 years and with her daughter, Danielle Sheets, co-wrote a biography of her, A Place in Time: The Age of the Witch of Pungo. Sherwood's life had been described before by Louisa Venable Kyle in The Witch of Pungo and Other Historical Stories of the Early Colonies, a fiction book written for children including biographical data, published in 1973.
Nash has been on the board of Directors of the Ferry Plantation House in Virginia Beach from 1996 and its director from 1999. She has provided information on Sherwood to visitors, dressed in a period costume. The ducking has been re-enacted annually. Sherwood was an unusual character who survived the ordeal and lived into her eighties.
In response to Nash's activity, the Governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine, pardoned Sherwood on July 10, 2006, 300 years after her trial by ordeal. He wrote: "We also can celebrate the fact that a woman's equality is constitutionally protected today, and women have the freedom to pursue their hopes and dreams."
During the ceremony at the Ferry Plantation House, where Sherwood's trial was partly held, the annual re-enactment was performed.
Also in 2006, Nash successfully raised funds for a bronze statue of Sherwood, despite finding that "No one wanted a statue of a witch". The statue was finally erected in 2007 at the Sentara Independence outpatient care center in Witchduck Rd.
In 2014, a memorial marker was placed at a herb garden of the Old Donation Episcopal Church, Sherwood's former parish church. Nash commented: "I was so happy when I heard this stone was going to be placed. My heart was relieved to hear the church was welcoming it."
Nash died on February 16, 2016, aged 69, after a long battle with cancer.
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1946 births
2016 deaths
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American historians
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Historians of Virginia
American women historians
Writers from Virginia
20th-century American women writers
Deaths from cancer in Virginia
Place of birth missing
21st-century American women |
6446363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s%20Fire | Dragon's Fire | Dragon's Fire is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd McCaffrey, Published in 2006, it was the twentieth book in the Dragonriders of Pern series that she initiated in 1967.
Dragon's Fire may be considered the second of a trilogy by the McCaffreys, between Dragon's Kin and Dragon Harper. Primarily the three books feature Kindan as a boy and young man, about 500 years after landing on Pern (500 AL). He is not the protagonist of Dragon's Fire, however, which is told from the viewpoints of three others in his generation, Cristov, Pellar, and Halla.
Plot summary
Pellar's story provides background information related to the previous title Dragon's Kin. Cristov's story is mostly new material (blue firestone that survives in water) and takes place after the events in Pellar's. The focus of Cristov's story is the problem-laden transition from firestone to the phosphine-bearing rock that is used by later generations of dragons.
Notes
References
External links
2006 novels
2006 fantasy novels
2006 science fiction novels
Dragonriders of Pern books
Collaborative novels
Novels by Anne McCaffrey
Novels by Todd McCaffrey
Del Rey books |
68026637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andranombao | Andranombao | Andranombao is a commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Iakora, which is a part of Ihorombe Region. The population of the commune was 5,809 in 2018.
References
Populated places in Ihorombe |
4344727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8r-Fr%C3%B8ya | Sør-Frøya | Sør-Frøya is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1906 until its dissolution in 1964. Sør-Frøya included the southwestern part of the island of Frøya in what is now the municipality of Frøya in Trøndelag county. The main population center of Sør-Frøya was the village of Titran on the western tip of the island. The main church for the municipality was Hallaren Church (Sør-Frøya Church) which is located in Storhallaren on the southern coast of the island.
History
The municipality was established on 1 January 1906 when the old municipality of Frøien was divided into two new municipalities: Sør-Frøya in the south (population: 2,091) and Nord-Frøya in the north (population: 3,972). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the municipalities of Sør-Frøya (population: 2,208) and Nord-Frøya (population: 4,348) were merged to form the municipality of Frøya.
Name
The municipality is named after the island of Frøya. The prefix Sør- means "southern", literally meaning the southern part of Frøya. The second part of the name comes from Norse mythology. Although Frøya is a variant of the name of the Norse goddess Freyja, the Old Norse form of the name of the island was Frøy or Frey (the ending -a in the modern form is actually the definite article - so the meaning of Frøya is 'the Frøy'). Therefore, the name of the island probably has the same root as the name of the Norse god Freyr, brother to Freyja. The names originally were titles: "lord" or "lady". The oldest meaning of the common word was "(the one) in front; the foremost, the leading" and here in the sense "the island in front of Hitra". Until 1906, the island and municipality name was spelled Frøien (-en is the definite article in Danish-Norwegian).
Government
All municipalities in Norway, including Sør-Frøya, are responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elects a mayor.
Municipal council
The municipal council of Sør-Frøya was made up of 17 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:
See also
List of former municipalities of Norway
References
Frøya, Trøndelag
Former municipalities of Norway
1906 establishments in Norway
1964 disestablishments in Norway |
54635689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Therese%20Henderson | Marie Therese Henderson | Marie Thérèse Henderson is a Scottish music director and composer. She teaches at the Sophia University Institute of the Focolare Movement. She is linked to the music group Gen Verde.
References
British women composers
Scottish composers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
59746920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanchang | Wanchang | Wanchang may refer to the following places in China:
Wanchang, Jilin (万昌), a town in Yongji County, Jilin
Wanchang, Weiyuan County (碗厂), a town in Weiyuan County, Sichuan
Wanchang Township (碗厂乡), a township in Zhaojue County, Sichuan
Wanchang, Yunnan (碗厂), a town in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan
See also
Wangchang (disambiguation) |
29361035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetoslav%20Sakadzhiyski | Svetoslav Sakadzhiyski | Svetoslav Sakadzhiyski () (born 1 April 1987) is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for Malesh Mikrevo as a forward.
References
Bulgarian footballers
1987 births
Living people
PFC Marek Dupnitsa players
FC Malesh Mikrevo players
Association football forwards |
59925965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear%C3%A1-Piau%C3%AD%20border%20dispute | Ceará-Piauí border dispute | A vast region of 3,000 km2 at Serra de Ibiapaba is claimed by the Brazilian states of Ceará and Piauí. The regions became popularly known as Cerapió and Piocerá.
Background
The dispute dates back to the colonial government of Manuel Inácio de Sampaio e Pina Freire in Ceará, when engineer Silva Paulet presented a map of the then-province which showed the west coastline border reaching the mouth of Igaraçu River. As such, the location known as Amarração, currently Luís Correia, would be part of Ceará's territory.
During the 19th century Amarração was assisted by the neighboring Ceará city of Granja, until 1874, when the state deputies decided to grant Amarração village status. This caught the attention of politicians from Piauí, who claimed the territory. A solution arose with the General Decree 3.012, of 22 November 1880, determining that there would be an exchange in which Piauí would reestablish its coastline and Ceará would incorporate the municipalities of Crateús and Independência.
Since then, the border of Ceará and Piauí features several points of indefiniteness and both states keep claiming those places. According to Ceará state deputy Neto Nunes (PMDB), the indefiniteness persists because "Piauí wants a part of the range that is fertile and has good weather, inns, a touristic region of the state", while the land exchanged for the coastline would be of pure sertão.
Pending solution proposal
After the 1988 constitution, it was proposed that the dispute would be settled, but it wasn't until 2008 that an actual agreement was presented, one that would give Piauí 1,500 hectares and 1,000 to Ceará. In October 2011, however, the talks were disturbed by Piauí's decision to resort to Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) with a public civil act, claiming a 2,821 km2 area that currently belongs to Ceará.
If STF accepts Piauí's request, Ceará would lose 66% of Poranga, 32% of Croatá, 21% of Guaraciaba do Norte, 18% of Carnaubal, 8% of Crateús and 7% of Ipaporanga.
Involved populations
The population in the disputed area are supposedly using health and education systems provided by the government of Ceará. According to the deputy general-prosecutor of Piauí, João Batista de Freitas Júnior, the government of Ceará is irregularly providing such services, since they're not part of either states.
Due to the conflict, most of the local population is deprived of public medical assistance and public security services. According to a story published in Diário do Nordeste, people from Cocal dos Alves must go to Viçosa do Ceará in order to have access to public health. According to Sérgio Fontenele, infrastructure secretary of Viçosa do Ceará, mayor Pedro da Silva Brito has ordered medical posts to treat every patient regardless of their state of origin, "but we pay the bill while Piauí enjoy the services".
According to him, around 100 families are found in this situation.
References
Geography of Ceará
Geography of Piauí
Internal territorial disputes
Internal borders of Brazil
Territorial disputes of Brazil |
1134154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20the%20Realm%20of%20the%20Senses | In the Realm of the Senses | In the Realm of the Senses (, Japanese: , Ai no korīda, "Bullfight of Love") is a 1976 pornographic art film written and directed by Nagisa Ōshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of a 1936 murder committed by Sada Abe. An international coproduction of France and Japan, the film generated great controversy at the time of its release. While intended for mainstream wide release, the film contains scenes of unsimulated sexual activity between the actors (Eiko Matsuda and Tatsuya Fuji, among others).
Plot
In 1936 Tokyo, Sada Abe is a former prostitute who now works as a maid in a hotel. The hotel's owner Kichizo Ishida molests her, and the two begin an intense affair that consists of sexual experiments and various self-indulgences. Ishida leaves his wife to pursue his affair with Sada. Sada becomes increasingly possessive and jealous of Ishida, and Ishida more eager to please her. Their mutual obsession escalates until Ishida finds that she is most excited by strangling him during lovemaking, and he is killed in this fashion. Sada then severs his penis. While she is shown next to him naked, it is mentioned that she will walk around with his penis inside her for several days. Words written with blood can be read on his chest: "Sada Kichi the two of us forever."
Cast
Title
The film was released under the title of In the Realm of the Senses in the U.S. and the U.K., and under L'Empire des sens (Empire of the Senses) in France. The French title was taken from Roland Barthes's book about Japan, L'Empire des signes (Empire of Signs, 1970).
Censorship
Strict censorship laws in Japan would not have allowed the film to be made according to Ōshima's vision. This obstruction was bypassed by officially listing the production as a French enterprise, and the undeveloped footage was shipped to France for processing and editing. At its premiere in Japan, the film's sexual activity was optically censored using reframing and blurring.
In the United States, the film was initially banned upon its premiere at the 1976 New York Film Festival but was later screened uncut, and a similar fate awaited the film when it was released in Germany. It was also banned because of a scene in which Kichi pushes an egg into Sada's vulva, forcing her to push it out of her vagina before Kichi eats the egg. The film was not available on home video until 1990, although it was sometimes seen uncut in film clubs.
At the time, the only European country in which the film was banned was Belgium. The ban was lifted in 1994, and Belgium has not censored a film of any kind since.
At the time of its initial screening at the 1976 London Film Festival, the British Board of Film Censors recommended that it be shown under private cinema club conditions to avoid the need for heavy cuts, but only after the Obscene Publications Act had been extended to films in 1977 to avoid potential legal problems. The film opened at the Gate Cinema Club in 1978. It was given an official countrywide cinema release in 1991, though the video release was delayed until 2000 when it was passed with an "18" certificate (suitable for adults only). All of the adult sexual activity was left intact, but a shot in which Sada yanks the penis of a prepubescent boy after he misbehaves was reframed, zooming in so that only the reaction of the boy was shown. In Australia, the film was originally banned, but a censored version was made available in 1977. In 2000, it finally became available in its complete version. The pornographic content of the production also caused it to be banned in Israel in 1987.
The film is available in uncut form in France, Germany, the United States (as part of The Criterion Collection), the Netherlands, Belgium and several other territories.
In Canada, when originally submitted to the provincial film boards in the 1970s, the film was rejected in all jurisdictions except Quebec and British Columbia. It was not until 1991 that individual provinces approved the film and gave it a certificate. However, in the Maritimes, the film was rejected again as the policies followed in the 1970s were still enforced.
In Brazil, the film was banned during the military dictatorship due to its explicit sex scenes. The ban was lifted in 1980.
Controversy
Because of its sexual themes and explicit scenes, the film was the cause of great controversy in Portugal in 1991 after it aired on RTP. Some deemed it inappropriate even for the watershed slot, while others appreciated its airing. The film aired again on RTP2, almost unnoticed.
Box office
In France, the film sold 1,730,874 tickets, grossing approximately ($5,203,732). In Germany, where it was released in 1978, the film sold 693,628 tickets, grossing approximately ($2,446,050). Combined, the film sold 2,424,502 tickets and grossed approximately in France and Germany.
Critical reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 86% based on 36 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.7 out of 10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Sexual taboos are broken and boundaries crossed In the Realm of the Senses, a fearlessly provocative psychosexual tale."
See also
Unsimulated sex
Nudity in film (East Asian cinema since 1929)
References
Sources
Kenny, Patrick T. M. (2007) Conflicting Legal and Cultural Conceptions of Obscenity in Japan: Hokusai's Shunga and Oshima Nagisa's "L'Empire des sens". Earlham College thesis
Further reading
Joan Mellen. L'Empire des sens. London: British Film Institute, 2004.
External links
In the Realm of the Senses: Some Notes on Oshima and Pornography an essay by Donald Richie at the Criterion Collection
Nagisa Oshima on In the Realm of the Senses an essay by Nagisa Oshima at the Criterion Collection
1976 films
1970s erotic drama films
Japanese films
Japanese erotic drama films
French films
French erotic drama films
Japanese multilingual films
French multilingual films
Japanese-language films
Drama films based on actual events
Films about prostitution in Japan
Films set in 1936
Films set in Tokyo
Films shot in Japan
Adultery in films
BDSM in films
1970s multilingual films
Censored films
Obscenity controversies in film
Controversies in Japan
Necrophilia in film
Films directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Films produced by Anatole Dauman
Cultural depictions of Sada Abe
1976 drama films
Controversies in France |
591201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey%20Commission | Dewey Commission | The Dewey Commission (officially the "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials") was initiated in March 1937 by the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky. It was named after its chairman, the philosopher John Dewey. Its other members were Carleton Beals, Otto Rühle, Benjamin Stolberg, and Secretary Suzanne La Follette, Alfred Rosmer, Wendelin Thomas, Edward A. Ross, John Chamberlain, Carlo Tresca, and . It was seen by some at the time, as Dewey feared it would be, as a Trotskyist front organization.
Following months of investigation, the Dewey Commission made its findings public in New York on September 21, 1937.
Sub-commission
A sub-commission, comprising the first five commission members above, conducted thirteen hearings at Leon Trotsky's home in Coyoacan, Mexico, D.F., from April 10 to April 17, 1937. Trotsky was defended by the lawyer Albert Goldman. John Finerty acted as the commission's legal counsel.
The commission proclaimed that it had cleared Trotsky of all charges made during the Moscow Trials and, moreover, exposed the scale of the alleged frame-up of all other defendants during these trials. Among its conclusions, it stated: "That the conduct of the Moscow trials was such as to convince any unprejudiced person that no effort was made to ascertain the truth."
Background
The American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky had been set up following the first of the Moscow "Show Trials" in 1936. It comprised Franz Boas, John Chamberlain, John Dos Passos, Louis Hacker, Sidney Hook, Suzanne La Follette, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Novack, Norman Thomas and Edmund Wilson. Dewey, then seventy-eight years old, agreed to head its Commission of Inquiry.
The hearings claimed to bring to light evidence which established that some of the specific charges made at the trials could not be true.
The Dewey Commission published its findings in the form of a 422-page book titled Not Guilty. Its conclusions asserted the innocence of all those condemned in the Moscow Trials. In its summary the commission wrote: "Independent of extrinsic evidence, the Commission finds:
That the conduct of the Moscow Trials was such as to convince any unprejudiced person that no attempt was made to ascertain the truth.
That while confessions are necessarily entitled to the most serious consideration, the confessions themselves contain such inherent improbabilities as to convince the Commission that they do not represent the truth, irrespective of any means used to obtain them.
That Trotsky never instructed any of the accused or witnesses in the Moscow trials to enter into agreements with foreign powers against the Soviet Union [and] that Trotsky never recommended, plotted, or attempted the restoration of capitalism in the USSR."
The commission concluded: "We therefore find the Moscow Trials to be frame-ups."
Trotsky remarked at the start of the Commission that:
Trotskyist historian Pierre Broué noted that Trotsky had misinformed the Commission, claiming to have had no contacts with oppositionists inside the USSR to form an Opposition bloc (one of the charges of the Moscow Trials) despite being reminded during the Commission by his secretary, Jean van Heijenoort, of the opposite being the case. American historian J. Arch Getty also noted this, pointing out that "Trotsky and Sedov were reminded of the bloc at the time of the 1937 Dewey Commission but withheld the matter from the inquiry."
Resignation of Beals
Following the resignation of Beals, Dewey added the following text to the report:
Your sub-commission reports with regret the resignation, before the hearings were concluded, of one of its members, Mr. Carleton Beals. Toward the close of the hearing on the afternoon of April 16, Mr. Beals put to Mr. Trotsky a provocative question based on alleged information which the sub-commission could not check and place on the record. After the hearing our counsel, Mr. John Finerty, advised the sub-commission that questions based on private information were highly improper, would be sufficient cause for mistrial in any ordinary court, and that he could not continue as counsel if they were to be permitted in future. Mr. Beals then angrily declared that either he or Mr. Finerty must leave the sub-commission. Still, he promised to attend a conference that evening to discuss the matter. But although we waited for him until midnight he did not come. The next morning, before the opening of the session, Mrs. Beals brought us his resignation, in which he charged that the Commission was not conducting a serious inquiry.
Beals subsequently wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post entitled "The Fewer Outsiders the Better", criticizing the Commission as biased and in the hands of a "purely pro-Trotsky clique".
Nuremberg Trials
Some ten years later, the Dewey Commission was cited in great detail, when in an open letter to the British press dated 25 February 1946, written by George Orwell and signed by Arthur Koestler, C. E. M. Joad, Frank Horrabin, George Padmore, Julian Symons, H. G. Wells, F. A. Ridley, C. A. Smith and John Baird, among others, it was suggested that the Nuremberg Trials then underway were an invaluable opportunity for establishing "historical truth and bearing upon the political integrity" of figures of international standing. Specifically they called for Rudolf Hess to be interrogated about his alleged meeting with Trotsky and that the Gestapo records then in the hands of Allied experts be examined for any proof of any "liaison between the Nazi Party or State and Trotsky or the other old Bolshevik leaders indicted at the Moscow trials...".
Footnotes
Further reading
Arthur Jay Klinghoffer and Judith Apter Klinghoffer, International Citizens' Tribunals: Mobilizing Public Opinion to Advance Human Rights. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Leon Trotsky, I Stake My Life! Trotsky's Address to the NY Hippodrome Meeting. New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1937.
Mass Meeting Called by the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, to Answer His Accusers - At the Hippodrome, New York City, February 5th, 1937: Stenographic Report. New York: American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, 1937.
Alan B. Spitzer, Historical Truth and Lies About the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
External links
The Case of Leon Trotsky: Report of Hearings on the Charges Made Against Him in the Moscow Trials (PDF HTML)
Not Guilty: Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials (PDF HTML
Shannon Jones: 60 years since the Dewey Commission
Political repression in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union–United States relations
Leon Trotsky
1937 conferences
Defunct Trotskyist organizations in the United States |
44201756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Caledonian%20Society%20of%20South%20Australia%20Inc. | Royal Caledonian Society of South Australia Inc. | The Royal Caledonian Society of South Australia was founded in Adelaide in 1881 as the South Australian Caledonian Society to promote Scottish culture and traditions in South Australia.
History
Foundation members included A. W. Dobbie and Patrick Gay.
Chiefs
1881–1883 Alexander Hay MLC.
1883–1885 Dr. Allan Campbell MLC.
1885–1886 Hon. Sir J. Lancelot Stirling
1886–1887 Hon. James Henderson Howe MLC.
1887–1888 David Murray
1888–1891 Aloysius MacDonald
1891–1892 Hugh Fraser
1892–1894 Hon. John Darling MLC.
1894–1895 Aloysius MacDonald
1895–1897 Hon. A. Wallace Sandford MLC.
1897–1899 John Wyles JP.
1899–1902 A. J. McLachlan
1902–1903 G. Fowler Stewart
1903–1904 P. D. Haggart
1904–1907 John Darling Jr.
1907–1909 John Wood Sandford
1909–1914 Robert Weymss
1914–1917 George McEwin
1917–1918 John Drummond
1918–1921 J. W. Hill
1921–1923 Duncan Fraser SM.
1924–1925 James W. McGregor
1925–1928 Andrew Douglas Young
1928–1930 John Tassie, brother of Henry Tassie
1930–1933 Hon. Sir David J. Gordon MLC.
1933–1936 Maxwell A. Fotheringham
1936–1938 Hon. Sir George Ritchie, KCMG
1938–1940 C. B. Anderson ISO.
1940–1943 Capt. Duncan Menzies
1943–1945 John McLeay
1945–1949 Andrew Small
1949–1952 F. R. Forgan JP.
1952–1954 J. McGregor Soutar
1954–1959 Norman H. Campbell
1959–1968 Sir Lyell McEwin KBE., MLC.
1968–1971 Clarrie Martin
1971–1980 Charles Gardiner
1980–1983 Ron A. Layton
1983–1985 Donaldina Nicolson Richards
1985–1986 Dr. Gordon C. Greig MB MRCGP
1987–1989 Marian Macaulay Johnson
1989–1993 William Paterson
1993–1995 Jeffrey C. McFarlane
1995–2000 J. Lennox Pawson JP.
2000–2003 Ann Calver (née Lumsden)
2003–2004 Jim D. Wallace
2004–2007 David Porteous
2007–2010 Anne Miller
2010–2012 Christina Forbes Cockerill
2012–present (2015) Roselee Bruce
Activities
The Caledonian Society commissioned W. J. Maxwell to produce the statue of Robert Burns on North Terrace, which was unveiled on 5 May 1894. They commissioned James White to produce the statue of John McDouall Stuart in Victoria Square commemorating his crossing of the continent in 1861–1862. The statue, paid for by public subscription and the South Australian Government, was unveiled on 4 June 1904.
External links
Royal Caledonian Society of South Australia official website
References
1881 establishments in Australia
Organisations based in Adelaide
Clubs and societies in South Australia
Culture of South Australia
Organisations based in Australia with royal patronage |
44081570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olim%20L%27Berlin | Olim L'Berlin | Olim L'Berlin (Hebrew: , lit. "Let's Ascend to Berlin" but more accurately "Let's Move to Berlin," also known as the Milky protest) was the name of a Facebook page that coined a snowclone in 2014, and was terminated in early 2015. Comparing the high cost of living in Israel with the comparatively cheaper economic climate in Berlin, which has a growing community of Israeli expatriates, the page urged more Israelis to move to Germany, raising a storm of protest in Israeli social and political circles. Compounding the reaction was the Facebook page's use of the same verb (olim) that Jews use for aliyah (immigration to Israel).
The Facebook page based its cost-of-living comparison on the price of grocery items in Israel and Germany, among them a pudding dessert similar to the popular Israeli pudding known as Milky. The grocery bill was found to be three times higher in Israel than in Germany. The Facebook page and subsequent public debate became known as the "Battle of the Milky" () in Israel, or "Milky Protest" in international media.
Background
Milky pudding, based on a former Danone product and produced by Strauss, is one of the best-known and best-selling dessert products in Israel. The chocolate-flavored Milky was introduced in 1979, followed by the vanilla-flavored version in 1980. In 1986, a video commercial called "Battle of the Milky" () was released in cinemas, showing supermarket customers racing each other down the aisle to grab the last chocolate-flavored Milky off the shelf. Evoking the cottage cheese protests in Israel in 2011, the Facebook site owner chose the popular Milky pudding as a new symbol of protest against Israel's high consumer prices, calling for Israelis to emigrate to Berlin to enjoy a lower cost of living.
Berlin is known as a "cheap and shabby-chic" city with a lower cost of living than Israel and a growing population of Israeli expatriates. It is among the cities that now attract "the type who made Tel Aviv cool" – young, single, and often female graduates; artists, filmmakers, musicians, and other members of the creative class. According to unofficial estimates, between 3,000 and 20,000 young Israelis and Western European Jews relocated to Berlin between 2009 and 2014; an estimated 25,000 Israelis were residents of the city in 2014.
Controversy
On September 29, 2014, a Hebrew-language Facebook page called Olim L'Berlin was launched by an anonymous site owner. On October 5, the page showed a picture of a Berlin supermarket receipt for a variety of products, including bread, eggs, noodles, orange juice, and three containers of a chocolate pudding dessert. Beside it was a picture of a Milky-like chocolate pudding product topped with whipped cream. The site challenged Israelis to buy exactly the same list of groceries in Israel for less. The pudding alone cost the equivalent of 1 shekel in Germany, as opposed to 4 or 5 shekels in Israel. The equivalent grocery bill was found to be three times higher in Israel than in Germany.
Besides reminding Israelis of the high cost of living in their country, the name of the Facebook page was a distortion of the Zionist ideal of aliyah, using the same verb (olim) to suggest emigration to Germany instead. Finance Minister Yair Lapid called the owner of the site "anti-Zionist". The fact that Germany was chosen as the destination struck a raw nerve across the social and political spectrum, considering Israel's founding in 1948 in the wake of the Holocaust, its large population of Holocaust survivors, and the many citizens who still refuse to buy products made in Germany. "Are the gas chambers in Berlin also cheaper than here?" one visitor posted to the Facebook page. Israel HaYom branded the Facebook page as "an insult to all Holocaust survivors". Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir stated, "I pity the Israelis who no longer remember the Holocaust and abandoned Israel for a pudding".
The Facebook page garnered 13,000 likes within hours of its posting and reached 1 million hits within four days. The so-called "Milky Protest" was widely covered by international media. The site owner refused to reveal his identity or to be interviewed by the Israeli press; he was known only as a 25-year-old Israeli and ex-IDF officer living in Berlin.
Five days after the page went live, the site owner claimed he had received 12,000 messages from Israelis and was actively advising Israelis how to emigrate. He told Channel 2 that he had petitioned German Chancellor Angela Merkel to issue 25,000 temporary visas to accommodate Israelis looking for work in Germany. From his home in Berlin, he organized an "emigration fair" in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on October 14, 2014. Though 2,300 people registered on the Facebook page to attend, fewer than 100 participants showed up.
On October 14th 2015 The Washington Post revealed that the site owner was Naor Narkis, a 25-year-old former officer of the Intelligence Corps and a freelance mobile app designer living in Berlin. Narkis had first emigrated to France five months earlier, but was put off by strains of antisemitism and the high cost of living in Paris. He found much less antisemitism in Germany and a more welcoming atmosphere for Israelis there, as well as the "cheap and cool" factor of Berlin. He claimed that the high cost of living in Israel was "forcing young people into exile".
By October 26, The Jerusalem Post had reported that Narkis planned to return to Israel, saying that his Facebook protest had become "less effective" since he revealed his identity, and that the site would be taken down upon his return to Israel.
Other responses
In a play on the original page, other Olim L'... Facebook pages sprang up to provide destinations for emigrating Israelis, including Olim L'Prague, Olim L'Detroit, and Olim L'Mars. Like the original page, these groups were mocked by Right-wing Zionists as Post-Zionism, which harmed their potential popularity.
References
External links
Facebook page
2000s neologisms
2014 controversies
2014 in Israel
Anti-Zionism
Culture in Berlin
Economic problems
Jews and Judaism in Israel
Judaism in Germany
Israeli culture
Mottos
Neologisms
Post-Zionism
Protests in Israel
Snowclones |
7176657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spined%20pygmy%20shark | Spined pygmy shark | The spined pygmy shark (Squaliolus laticaudus) is a species of squaliform shark in the family Dalatiidae found widely in all oceans. Growing no larger than roughly , it is one of the smallest sharks alive, with this record beaten by the dwarf lanternshark. This shark has a slender, cigar-shaped body with a sizable conical snout, a long but low second dorsal fin, and an almost symmetrical caudal fin. Its sister species S. aliae and it are the only sharks with a spine on the first dorsal fin and not the second. Spined pygmy sharks are dark brown to black, with numerous bioluminescent organs called photophores on their ventral surface. The shark is believed to use these photophores to match ambient light conditions, which break up its silhouette and help the shark to avoid being seen by predators below.
Usually inhabiting nutrient-rich waters over upper continental and insular slopes, the spined pygmy shark feeds on small bony fishes and squid. Like its prey, it is a diel vertical migrator, spending the day at close to deep and moving towards a depth of at night. Reproduction is presumably aplacental viviparous, with females giving birth to litters of up to four pups. This diminutive shark has no economic value. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed this species as of Least Concern, as it faces little threat from commercial fisheries and has a wide distribution.
Taxonomy and phylogeny
The spined pygmy shark was one of many new species discovered during the course of the 1907–1910 Philippine Expedition of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross. It was described by American ichthyologists Hugh McCormick Smith and Lewis Radcliffe in a 1912 paper for the scientific journal Proceedings of the United States National Museum, based on two specimens collected in Batangas Bay, south of Luzon in the Philippines. One of these, a 15-cm-long adult male, was designated the type specimen.
Smith and Radcliffe coined the new genus Squaliolus for this shark, and gave it the specific epithet laticaudus, from the Latin latus meaning "broad" or "wide", and cauda meaning "tail". The spined pygmy shark may also be referred to as the dwarf shark or the bigeye dwarf shark. Based on similarities in their claspers (male intromittent organs), the closest relative of the spined pygmy shark and the related S. aliae is thought to be the pygmy shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus).
Distribution and habitat
The spined pygmy shark has a wide distribution around the world. In the Atlantic Ocean, it occurs off Bermuda, the United States, Suriname, southern Brazil, and northern Argentina in the west, and off northern France, Madeira, Cape Verde, and the Azores in the east. In the Indian Ocean, this species has only been recorded off Somalia. In the Pacific Ocean, it is found off southern Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The spined pygmy shark is found at depths of and seldom approaches the surface, unlike the related pygmy shark and cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis). This shark prefers areas of high biological productivity over upper continental and insular slopes. It may also be found over outer shelves, but avoids central ocean basins. The range of this species does not overlap that of the pygmy shark, which has a similar ecology, and is also largely separate from that of the cookiecutter shark.
Description
One of the world's smallest sharks, the spined pygmy shark attains a maximum recorded length of for males and for females. This species has an elongated, spindle-shaped body with a long, bulbous, moderately pointed snout. The eyes are large, with the upper rim of the orbit almost straight. Each nostril is preceded by a short flap of skin. The mouth has thin, smooth lips and contains 22–31 tooth rows in the upper jaw and 16–21 tooth rows in the lower jaw. The upper teeth are narrow and smooth-edged with single upright cusps. The bases of the lower teeth are broad and interlocked to form a continuous cutting surface, with each tooth bearing a single upright, smooth-edged, knife-like cusp. The openings of the five pairs of gill slits are minute and uniform in size.
The two species of Squaliolus are the only sharks with a spine on the first dorsal fin but not the second. The spine is sexually dimorphic, being typically exposed in males and enclosed by skin in females. The first dorsal fin is tiny and originates over the trailing margin of the pectoral fins. The second dorsal fin is low, with a base twice as long as that of the first, and originates over the anterior half of the pelvic fin bases. The pectoral fins are short and triangular, with the rear margin slightly curved. The pelvic fins are long and low, and there is no anal fin. The caudal peduncle is slender and laterally expanded into weak keels. The caudal fin is broad and paddle-like, with the upper and lower lobes of similar size and shape, and a deep notch in the trailing margin of the upper lobe.
The dermal denticles are flat and blocky, not elevated on stalks or bearing marginal teeth. The coloration is dark brown to black, with light fin margins. The underside is densely carpeted by light-emitting photophores, which extend to the tip of the snout and around the eyes and nostrils, and thin to almost non-existent on the back. This species has on average only 60 vertebrae, the fewest of any shark.
Biology and ecology
The diet of the spined pygmy shark consists mainly of bony fishes (including the dragonfish Idiacanthus, the lanternfish Diaphus, and the bristlemouth Gonostoma) and squid (including members of the genera Chiroteuthis and Histioteuthis). Catch records suggest that the spined pygmy shark follows its prey on their diel vertical migrations, spending the day close to a depth of and ascending towards a depth of at night. The ventral photophores of the spined pygmy shark have been theorized to function in counter-illumination, a form of camouflage in which the shark disguises its silhouette from would-be predators by matching the ambient light welling down from above. There is no evidence that this shark swallows its shed teeth like the pygmy and cookiecutter sharks.
The spined pygmy shark is aplacental viviparous like the rest of its family, with the developing embryos being sustained by a yolk sac until birth. Adult females have two functional ovaries that may each contain up to 12 mature eggs. However, the actual litter size is much smaller; a pregnant female caught off southern Brazil in 1999 contained four near-term pups. The young are born at long. Males mature sexually at a length of , and females at a length of . The spined pygmy shark was widely considered to be the smallest living shark species until the discovery of the dwarf lanternshark (Etmopterus perryi), though the pygmy ribbontail catshark (Eridacnis radcliffei) is also known to mature at a size comparable to these two species. Whether one of these sharks is definitively smaller than the others cannot yet be stated with certainty, because of the difficulties involved in assessing reproductive maturity in sharks.
Human interactions
Spined pygmy sharks have no commercial value; they sometimes appear in the bycatch of trawl fisheries, but are generally too small to be captured. In light of its wide distribution and the absence of substantial threats from human activity, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed this species as of Least Concern.
References
Squaliolus
Fish described in 1912 |
67105120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahzadipur | Shahzadipur | Shahzadipur, also spelled Sahzadepur, is a village in Gosainganj block of Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 847, in 161 households. It is part of the gram panchayat of Rasulpur Ashik Ali.
References
Villages in Lucknow district |
27662973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Gamarra | Pierre Gamarra | Pierre Gamarra (; 10 July 1919 – 20 May 2009) was a French poet, novelist and literary critic, a long-time chief editor and director of the literary magazine Europe.Gamarra is best known for his poems and novels for the youth and for narrative and poetical works deeply rooted in his native region of Midi-Pyrénées.
Life
Pierre Gamarra was born in Toulouse on 10 July 1919. From 1938 until 1940, he was a teacher in the South of France. During the German Occupation, he joined various Resistance groups in Toulouse, involved in the writing and distributing of clandestine publications. This led him to a career as a journalist, and then, more specifically both as a writer and a literary journalist.
In 1948, Pierre Gamarra received the first in Lausanne for his first novel, La Maison de feu. Members of the 1948 Veillon Prize jury included writers André Chamson, Vercors, Franz Hellens and Louis Guilloux. The novel is described in Books Abroad as "a beautifully written tale of humble life, which Philippe and Jammes would have liked".
From 1945 to 1951, he worked as a journalist in Toulouse. In 1951, Louis Aragon, Jean Cassou and André Chamson offered him a position in Paris as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Europe. He occupied this position until 1974, when he became director of the magazine. Under Pierre Gamarra's direction, Europe continued the project initiated in 1923 by Romain Rolland and other writers. Until 2009, Pierre Gamarra also contributed to most of the magazines's issues with a book review column titled "La Machine à écrire" (The Typewriter).
Most of his novels take place in his native South-West of France: he wrote a novel trilogy based on the history of Toulouse and various novels set in that town, along the Garonne or in the Pyrenees.John L. Brown, in World Literature Today, writes that Pierre Gamarra's descriptions of Toulouse, its people and its region were "masterly", "skillfully and poetically" composed "with a vibrant lyricism" and that: Pierre Gamarra is also the author of The Midnight Roosters, a novel set in Aveyron during the French Revolution. The book was adapted for the French television channel FR3 in 1973. The film, casting , was shot in the town of Najac.
In 1955, he published one of his best known novels, Le Maître d’école; the book and its sequel La Femme de Simon (1962) received critical praise.Reviewing his 1957 short stories collection Les Amours du potier, Lois Marie Sutton deems that, although war affects the plots of many of "all (those) delightful thirteen stories", "it is the light-hearted plot that Gamarra maneuvers best" and that "as in his previous publications, (the author) shows himself to be a master delineator of the life of the average peasant and employee."
In 1961, Pierre Gamarra received the for L'Aventure du Serpent à Plumes and in 1985, the SGDL Grand Prize for his novel Le Fleuve Palimpseste.
Pierre Gamarra died in Argenteuil on 20 May 2009, leaving a substantial body of work, not yet translated into English for the most part. The Encyclopædia Britannica sees in him a "delightful practitioner with notable drollery and high technical skills" in the art of children's poetry and children's stories. His poems and fables are well known by French schoolchildren.
Selection of works
Literature for the youth
Stories
Les Vacances de tonton 36 (2006)
Moustache et ses amis de toutes les couleurs (2005)
New edition of Moustache et ses amis (1974)
Douze tonnes de diamant (1978)
L'Aventure du Serpent à plumes, Prize for the Youth 1961
Berlurette trilogy:
Berlurette contre Tour Eiffel (1961)
Le Trésor de Tricoire (1959)
Le Mystère de la Berlurette (1957)
La Rose des Karpathes, (1955)
The Bridge on the River Clarinette in Cricket: the magazine for children, vol. 2 No. 11, (La Salle, Illinois) 1975, (p. 22-29) – illustrated by Marilyn Hafner, translated by Paulette Henderson
Meet your author (op. cit. pp. 30–33), Paulette Henderson
Fables collections
Salut, Monsieur de La Fontaine (2005), Frédéric Devienne,
La Mandarine et le Mandarin (1970)
Poetry
Mon cartable et autres poèmes à réciter (2006)
Des mots pour une maman (1984)
Voici des maisons (1979)
Les Mots enchantés (1952)
'My schoolbag', in Berthe Mouchette Celebration, Melbourne Alliance française (2019), p. 74-75
CD
Les Aventuriers de l'alphabet (2002)
Adaptations
Les Fariboles de Bolla (1981), , original Swedish text and by Gunilla Bergström,
Novels
L'Empreinte de l'ours (2010), De Borée (Sayat)
Les Coqs de minuit (new ed. including Rosalie Brousse) 2009, De Borée
Le Maître d'école (new ed. including La Femme de Simon) 2008, De Borée
Les Lèvres de l’été (1986)
Le Fleuve palimpseste PUF (1985) ; SGDL Prize for the novel
Cantilène occitane (1979)
La Femme et le Fleuve (1952)
L’assassin a le prix Goncourt (1951)
Les Enfants du pain noir (1950)
La Maison de feu (1948), Éditions La Baconnière (Neuchatel)/Éditions de Minuit,
Reedited De Borée (2014)
Editions of the book since 1948
Toulouse trilogy:
72 soleils, 1975
L'Or et le Sang, 1970
Les Mystères de Toulouse, 1967
Short stories
Les Amours du potier, (Neuchatel), 1957
Un cadavre; Mange ta soupe, Prix National de la Résistance 1944
Poetry collections
Mon Pays l'Occitanie (2009), Cahiers de la Lomagne
Romances de Garonne (1990)
Essais pour une malédiction, Hélène Vacaresco Prize for Poetry 1943
About Pierre Gamarra
List of reviews of Pierre Gamarra’s books (Worldcat)
Les Lèvres de l’été reviewed by John L. Brown, World Literature Today, Vol. 61, No. 2, The Diary as Art (Spring, 1987), p. 236 (University of Oklahoma)
La Maison de feu reviewed by Georgette R. Schuler, Books Abroad, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Spring, 1949), p. 156
Literary journals special issues
Poésie Première "Tarn en Poésie 2003: Avec Pierre Gamarra"
Poésie Première No. 29 (2004)
Interviews
Tohoku University Faculty of Letters Bulletin, No. 27 (Year 2007) (Sendai, Japan)
Vivre en Val-D’Oise, No. 112, November–December 2008 (Argenteuil)
Homages
Charles Dobzynski, Michel Delon, Jean Métellus, Roger Bordier, Béatrice Didier, Raymond Jean, Bernard Chambaz, Michel Besnier, Marc Petit, Claude Sicard, Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Henri Béhar, Gérard Noiret, Francis Combes, in Europe No. 966 (October 2009)
Les Cahiers de la Lomagne (Los Quasèrns de la Lomanha), No. 15 (Year 2009), pp. 1 & 16-29
Two streets (one in Argenteuil, one in Montauban) and a cul-de-sac in Boulazac—, two schools (one in Montauban, the other in Bessens)— and two public libraries (one in Argenteuil, the other in Andrest) are named after Pierre Gamarra.
Notes
See also
Europe (magazine)
References
External resources
Encyclopædia Britannica about Pierre Gamarra
Encyclopædia Universalis article
Pierre Gamarra in the Dictionary of the workers' movement
Pierre Gamarra on the website of
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French fabulists
French children's writers
French literary critics
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
21st-century French dramatists and playwrights
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French male essayists
20th-century French novelists
21st-century French novelists
20th-century French poets
21st-century French poets
21st-century French male writers
French male poets
French male novelists
French male dramatists and playwrights
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21509792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Cockman | Thomas Cockman | Revd Dr Thomas Cockman, Doctor of Divinity (1675–1745) was an Oxford academic and administrator. He was Master of University College, Oxford.
Cockman was an undergraduate at University College, Oxford, matriculated in 1692, then a Fellow of the College during 1701–13, before becoming Master of the College later.
Thomas Cockman was Rector at Chidingstone in Kent, in 1705.
Cockman's mastership at University College was a contested one, with William Dennison, who also served as Master between 1722–29. There were two disputed elections held in 1722. Cockman appealed to the Crown and was declared Master of University College in 1729. The success of Thomas Cockman's appeal involved accepting that King Alfred had founded the College. This myth originated from the late 1380s but it was widely believed by Cockman's time. The ruling at the court hearing meant that the Visitor of University College, who is responsible for resolving such disputes, should be the Crown rather than the University. This event acted as the impetus for the college antiquary, William Smith, to write a history of the college, refuting this medieval myth. This materialised as The Annals of University College (1578), the first scholarly Oxford history. Cockman received this book coldly, dismissing it as "the private opinion of a partial disgusted old man, who was always famous for opposition and confounding thing".
In 2008, University College acquired a painting including Thomas Cockman. The painting had remained in Thomas Cockman's family, but was auctioned at Sotheby's. The picture is presumed to be a celebration of the success of Cockman's appeal to the Crown to be declared Master of University College in 1729. The painting was probably commissioned by his brother, John Cockman, who is also in the picture along with a number of Fellows of University College. It was painted by Benjamin Ferrers.
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1745 deaths
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19673841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanda | Nanda | Nanda may refer to:
Indian history and religion
Nanda Empire, ruled by the Nanda dynasty, an Indian royal dynasty ruling Magadha in the 4th century BCE
Mahapadma Nanda, first Emperor of the Nanda Empire
Dhana Nanda (died c. 321 BCE), last ruler of the Nanda dynasty
Nanda (Buddhist nun), half-sister of Siddhartha Gautama, who became Gautama Buddha
Nanda (half-brother of Buddha) or Sundarananda
Nanda Baba, a character in Hindu mythology, foster-father of god Krishna
Other people
Nanda (surname), an Indian surname
Nanda (actress) (1939–2014), Indian film actress
Nanda Bayin (1535–1600), king of Burma (r. 1581–99)
Nanda people, an indigenous Australian group
Other uses
Nanda (film), a 2009 Indian Kannada film
NANDA, formerly the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
Nanda, Maharashtra, India, a town
Nanjing University or Nanda, in Jiangsu, China
See also
Nandha, a 2001 Indian Tamil film
Fernanda, a feminine given name
Nand (disambiguation) |
49315707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesta%20%28name%29 | Vesta (name) | Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth, home, and family.
The given name may also refer to:
People:
Vesta Hathaway (Marina Oliver, born 1934), British writer
Vesta Kasputė (born 1984), Lithuanian chess player
Vesta M. Roy (1925–2002), American politician
Vesta Tilley (Matilda Alice Powles, 1864–1952), English actress
Vesta Victoria (1873–1951), English actress
Vesta Williams (1957–2011), American singer
Fictional characters:
Vesta, a non-player character from Fer.al
Vesta (Marvel Comics), Marvel Comics character
Sailor Vesta or VesVes, character in Sailor Moon
See also
Vesta (disambiguation)
Feminine given names |
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