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85701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasa | Lasa | Lasa or LASA may refer to:
Places
Lassa, Lebanon, a village in the Byblos District
Lasa, Paphos, a village in Paphos District, Cyprus
Lasa, the Italian name for Laas, a municipality in South Tyrol, Italy
Lhasa, the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region of People's Republic of China
Other uses
Laboratory Animal Science Association, a member of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations
Lares or Lasas, gods and goddesses in Etruscan mythology
Latin American Studies Association
Liberal Arts and Science Academy in Austin, Texas, a magnet high school
People with the name
Bernardo Estornés Lasa (1907–1999), writer and promoter of Basque culture
Mikel Lasa (born 1971), Spanish football player
or Lasa III (born 1972), Spanish player of Basque pelota
Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, German chess master
Ernst von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1851–1924), German politician and landowner
See also
Lhasa (disambiguation)
Lahsa (disambiguation)
Lassa (disambiguation) |
85702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losna%20%28mythology%29 | Losna (mythology) | Losna was the Etruscan moon goddess. She is also associated with the oceans and the tides. She is similar to Greek Leucothea. Losna's Roman equivalent is Luna.
See also
Luna (goddess)
References
Etruscan goddesses
Lunar goddesses |
18037596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband%20Forum | Broadband Forum | The Broadband Forum is a non-profit industry consortium dedicated to developing broadband network specifications. Members include telecommunications networking and service provider companies, broadband device and equipment vendors, consultants and independent testing labs (ITLs). Service provider members are primarily wire-line service providers (non-mobile) telephone companies.
History
The DSL Forum was founded in 1994 with about 200 member companies in different divisions of the telecommunication and information technology sector. It is used as a platform for companies that operate in the broadband market. Its initial main purpose was the establishment of new standards around digital subscriber line communication products such as provisioning. This cooperation has brought different standardizations for ADSL, SHDSL, VDSL, ADSL2+ and VDSL2.
The group was established in 1994 as the ADSL Forum, but became the DSL Forum in 1999. It was renamed after the digital subscriber line (DSL) family of technology, also known collectively as xDSL.
Among its early design documents, the Forum created TR-001 (1996) system reference model, which together with later TR-012 (1999) core network architecture, recommended PPP over an ATM transport layer as the best practice for a DSL ISP. This was subsequently refined in TR-025 and TR-059.
Starting in 2004, the Forum expanded its work into other last mile technologies including optical fiber. On 17 June 2008 it changed its name to "Broadband Forum". DSL-related specifications, while still a key part of the forum's work, are no longer its only work. For instance, the forum produced work specific to passive optical networking (PON). Its Auto-Configuration Server specification TR-069, originally published in 2004, was adapted for use with set-top box and Network Attached Storage units.
The Forum's TR-101 specification (2006) documents migration toward an Ethernet-based DSL aggregation model (Ethernet DSLAMs).
In May 2009, IP/MPLS Forum merged with the Broadband Forum. It had promoted the Frame Relay and Multiprotocol Label Switching technologies.
Technical work of IP/MPLS Forum continued in a newly created "IP/MPLS and Core" Working Group of the Broadband Forum. The historical specifications from the IP/MPLS Forum's predecessors, ATM Forum, Frame Relay Forum, MFA Forum, and MPLS Forum, are archived on the Broadband Forum's website, under IP/MPLS Forum specifications.
Broadband Forum issued Femto Access Point Service Data Model TR-196 during April 2009 and version 2 released during November 2011.
Broadband Forum specified in TR-348 for Hybrid Access Networks an architecture that enables network operators to efficiently combine XDSL and LTE.
See also
TR-069
TR-196
References
External links
Advantages Of Leased Lines Over Broadband
Technology consortia
Digital subscriber line
Broadband
Digital television |
18037598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinkapook | Chinkapook | Chinkapook is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 67 km from Swan Hill. It is on the Robinvale railway line, 70 km south of the terminus at Robinvale.
The Post Office opened on 12 September 1910 as Christmas Tank, was renamed Chinkapook in 1914 and closed in 1974.
Many of Australian poet John Shaw Neilson's notebooks were destroyed or severely damaged in a mouse plague at Chinkapook. Douglas Stewart's poem "The Mice of Chinkapook" refers to this event.
Gallery
References
External links
Towns in Victoria (state)
Rural City of Swan Hill |
18037604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auja%20al-Hafir | Auja al-Hafir | Auja al-Hafir (, also Auja) was an ancient road junction close to water wells in the western Negev and eastern Sinai. It was the traditional grazing land of the 'Azazme tribe. The border crossing between Egypt and Ottoman/British Palestine, about south of Gaza, was situated there. Today it is the site of Nitzana and the Ktzi'ot prison in the Southern District of Israel.
Etymology
Other sources name the locality el-Audja, 'Uja al-Hafeer, El Auja el Hafir and variations thereof.
A‘waj means "bent" in Arabic, and "Al-Auja" is a common name for meandering streams (the Yarkon River in Israel and a smaller stream near Jericho on the West Bank both are called Al-Auja in Arabic).
"Hafir" means a water reservoir built to catch runoff water at the base of a slope; in Sudan it can also mean a drainage ditch.
History
2nd century BCE to 7th century CE
Pottery remains found in the area date back to the 2nd century BC. and are associated with the traces of massive foundations of an unknown building probably of Nabatean construction. The area appears to have remained under the Nabatean sphere of influence, outside the Hasmonaean and Herodian Kingdoms, until AD 105 when Trajan annexed the Nabataean Kingdom. A large rectangular hill-top fort probably dates from the 4th century AD. A church and associated buildings have been dated as having been built before AD 464. Auja al-Hafir was struck by the great plague which swept the Eastern Mediterranean around AD 541. During the 1930s a large number of papyri, dating from the 6th and 7th century, were found. One of which is from the local Arab governor granting Christian inhabitants freedom of worship on payment of the appropriate tax. After 700 AD the town appears to have lost its settled population, possibly due to changing rainfall patterns.
Late Ottoman period
'Auja al-Hafir lay in a tract of 604 dunams privately owned by the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid II. After the establishment of Beersheba as the main regional center, the governor of Jerusalem Ekram Bey planned for a new city at al-Hafir, 10km to the west of 'Auja, but decided to establish it instead at 'Auja and give it the combined name of 'Auja al-Hafir. A new Kaza was established there. A barracks, inn and a government office were built, and a police station was raised in 1902. From 1905 to 1915 the Ottoman authorities built a railroad, as well as a large administrative centre complete with an apartment building for the clerks.
However, the town didn't develop until it became an outpost on the Egyptian front during World War I. In mid-January, 1915, a Turkish Army force of 20,000 entered Sinai by way of El-Auja on an unsuccessful expedition against the Suez Canal. At this time most of the dressed stone was taken from the ancient buildings for building work in Gaza.
British Mandate
According to the 1931 census Auja al-Hafir had a population of 29 inhabitants, all Muslims, living in 9 houses, in addition to 35 people living at the police post.
The local population were not involved in the disturbances of 1929 and 1936 but there was some disorder in the summer of 1938.
At the start of the 1936 disturbances the British Mandate authorities used Auja as a prison camp for arrested Palestinian Arab leaders including Awny Abdul Hadi. It was also used to hold Jewish Communists who were being deported. The prisoners were later transferred to the army base at Sarafand.
The central route across the desert to the Suez Canal crossed from El Auja to Ismailia, until 1948 this was the only paved road between Palestine and Egypt. During the British Mandate of Palestine it was part of the District of Beersheba.
An elementary school was established by the Mandate Government, but closed in 1932 due to insufficient and irregular attendance. It was reopened in 1945 at tribal expense and had 23 pupils.
In 1947, 'Auja al-Hafir was granted an official Town Planning Scheme.
According to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, the area was designated as part of the Arab state.
1948 Arab–Israeli War
In 1948 the Egyptian Army used the area as a military base. In the Battle of 'Auja, a campaign of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, it was captured by the 89th Mechanized Commando Battalion of Israel, which had an English-speaking platoon of volunteers from England, Germany, the Netherlands, Rhodesia, South Africa, and the U.S.
Israel
As a result of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, the area around the village, known as the al-Auja Zone, became a 145 km2 demilitarized zone (DMZ), with compliance monitored by the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO). On 28 September 1953 the Israeli army established a fortified settlement, Ktzi'ot, overlooking the al-Auja junction. The first name given to this Nahal outpost was Giv'at Ruth -named after the nearby Tell-abu-Rutha. Despite a recent request for compliance with the armistice and over the objections of UNTSO Chief of Staff Burns and UN Secretary General Hammarskjöld, Israel re-militarized the area on September 21, 1955. Israel continued to occupy the area until after its withdrawal from Sinai and Gaza, which ended the 1956 Suez Crisis. After this, and until the Six-Day War, the DMZ and the border were monitored by the United Nations Emergency Force. Israel has controlled the area since 1967 where it has a large military base and detention camp.
See also
Nitzana Border Crossing
Battles of Bir 'Asluj
Nitzana (Nabataean city)
Operation Volcano
References
Bibliography
Israel Unit in Neutral Zone, Strategic Village Occupied, The Times, September 21, 1955, page 8.
Ending Strife in Auja Zone, Egypt Accepts U.N. Plan, Mr. Hammarskjöld's Statement, The Times, January 25, 1956, page 8.
External links
Welcome To 'Awja Hafir PS,
Uja al Hafeer, Zochrot
Nitzana (Auja El-Hafir) Memorial Board For The 1948 Independence War Fighters In The Negev
P. Colt. No. 60 - A Bilingual Entagion From The Year 54 AH / 674 CE
Australian War Memorial AWM Collection Record: P02041.015
Australian War Memorial AWM Collection Record: P02041.008
Detailed map of 1953 with Al Āwja Neutral Zone
Geography of Palestine (region)
History of Palestine (region)
Geography of Israel |
18037605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Byrnes | Greg Byrnes | Greg Byrnes (born 19 January 1987 in Atherton, Queensland) is an Australian former professional rugby league player. He last played for the Northern Pride in the Queensland Cup. He previously played for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL.
Playing career
Byrnes made his debut for the North Queensland side in round 15 of the 2008 NRL season against Melbourne.
Statistics
Club career
References
1987 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
North Queensland Cowboys players
Northern Pride RLFC players
Redcliffe Dolphins players
Rugby league props
Sportsmen from Queensland
Rugby league players from Queensland
People from Atherton, Queensland |
18037608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%CA%BDdan-e%20Karkar | Maʽdan-e Karkar | Madan-e Karkar (معدن کرکر) is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahajer | Mahajer | Mahajer is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch%20hit | Switch hit | A switch hit is a modern cricket shot. A switch hit involves the batter effectively changing from a right-hander to a left-hander (or vice versa) just before the ball is delivered by the bowler for the purpose of executing the shot. It is a variation of the reverse sweep, in which the hands on the bat handle are switched and the stance is changed during the bowler's delivery action, and has been compared to switch-hitting in baseball.
Early history
An early instance of a switch hit in Test matches happened in the fourth Test between Australia and England at Manchester in 1921. Australian captain Warwick Armstrong was bowling wide outside the leg stump to slow the scoring. To take advantage of the absence of fielders on the offside, Percy Fender switched his hands on the bat handle and played the ball towards cover point. The Times reported the shot thus:
in dealing with Mr. Armstrong, he [Fender] contrived at times to get away and place the ball on the deserted off side. He once shifted hands on the handle of the bat and pulled him back-handed across the wicket to the place where cover-point generally stands.
The Herald reported that the crowd laughed uproariously when Fender hit a "wide-pitched ball from Armstrong left-handed for two and converting a square cut into a square leg hit".
In 1924 the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) ruled that the shot was illegal and a batsman using it should be given out "obstructing the field". New Zealand authorities, on the other hand, saw nothing wrong with it, and noted that the rare instances when it had happened had amused the players and the spectators. Like Percy Fender, the New Zealand cricketer and clergyman Ernest Blamires had also used it to counter the leg theory bowling of Warwick Armstrong. In Australia, The Australasian described the MCC ruling as "so ridiculous that it leaves one in wonderment", and noted that the Victorian batsman of the 1890s Dick Houston had employed the shot frequently.
The modern shot
In modern times, the shot is usually attributed to Kevin Pietersen. Pietersen played the shot in a Test match for the first time off Muttiah Muralitharan against Sri Lanka in May 2006, and used it again on 15 June 2008 in a one-day international against New Zealand. Despite the shot becoming known due to Pietersen's successful execution of it, it is believed that Jonty Rhodes actually executed this shot before Pietersen: he hit a switch-hit six off Darren Lehmann in a one day international between Australia and South Africa on March 27, 2002. However, Krishnamachari Srikanth played a switch hit for four off Dipak Patel in India's last league match of the 1987 World Cup against New Zealand on 31 October 1987. Australia's Glenn Maxwell and England's Ben Stokes are notable users of this shot with the former being endorsed to use a double-faced bat in Twenty20 cricket.
The shot has generated debate in the cricket world, some heralding it as an outstanding display of skill and others arguing that if the batsman changes stance he gains an unfair advantage over the bowler, because the field is set based on the batsman's initial stance at the crease. The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), guardians of the laws of cricket, has confirmed it will not legislate against the switch shot and cited that the shot was perfectly legal in accordance with cricketing laws. The MCC believes that the stroke is exciting for the game of cricket, and highlighted Law 36.3 which defines the off side of the striker's wicket as being determined by his stance at the moment the bowler starts his run-up. The MCC has also acknowledged that the switch hit has implications on the interpretation of the 'on side' and 'off side' for the purposes of adjudicating on wides or leg before wicket decisions.
In June 2012, the International Cricket Council (ICC) committee declared it to be a legitimate shot. They issued a statement saying they have decided to make no change to the current regulations.
On the other hand, if defined by baseball equivalent, where a player change stance before even facing the ball, players that are able to bat both left handed and right handed straight up (notably David Warner) do not actually change handedness in the course of a match.
See also
Marillier shot
Paddle scoop
References
External links
KP switch shot cleared by MCC
Switch hit basics video by David Warner - WisdomTalkies
How to Play KP's Switch Hit - PitchVision
Batting (cricket)
Cricket terminology
Cricket captaincy and tactics |
18037632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%CA%BDman | Naʽman | Naman is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninda%2C%20Victoria | Ninda, Victoria | Ninda is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 13 km from Sea Lake, Victoria.
Ninda Post Office opened on 2 November 1914 when the railway arrived and closed in 1958.
References
Towns in Victoria (state) |
18037642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilan | Nilan | Nilan is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue%20Is%20Its%20Own%20Reward | Virtue Is Its Own Reward | Virtue Is Its Own Reward (aka Virtue Its Own Reward) is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. It was written by Harry G. Stafford from a story by John Barton Oxford.
The film is basically considered to be a lost film, although in 2018, a 25-foot fragment of the film was found in a Brooklyn attic stuck inside a Keystone Moviegraph projector and the footage was donated to the George Eastman House. The footage only runs about 17 seconds and includes two very brief shots of Lon Chaney in it.
Actor Tom Forman (who played Seadley Swaine in the film) later directed Lon Chaney in Shadows (1922). A still exists showing Lon Chaney as the unsavory department manager, Duncan Bronson.
Plot
Annie Partlan works long hours in a local canning factory so that she can pay for her sister Alice's education. Unknown to Annie, Alice is engaged to Seadley Swaine, the son of a wealthy businessman. Alice ignores Annie's advice and secretly takes a job herself at the canning factory to earn enough money to purchase a wedding gown. In the factory, Alice meets Duncan Bronson (Lon Chaney), a department manager who has a very bad reputation. Bronson starts making advances toward Alice, and against Annie's wishes, she cultivates a relationship with the unsavory character, and starts to ignore her fiance Seadley Swaine. Annie thinks Alice is making a big mistake, and sets about to save her sister.
One day, Annie shows up at work in a brand new sexy dress that she has purchased with her savings, and starts acting more like a loose woman. Bronson forgets all about Alice and turns his attentions to the more attractive Annie. A spurned Alice goes back to her former fiancee, Seadley Swaine, and they are married. Now, the danger past, Annie goes back to wearing her old plain clothes and wearing her hair up in an unattractive bun once again. Everyone in the factory gossips about Annie now, but she is content knowing that she saved her sister from an unsavory fate.
Cast
Pauline Bush as Annie Partlan
Gertrude Bambrick as Alice Partlan
Tom Forman as Seadley Swaine
Lon Chaney as Duncan Bronson
Reception
"There is some very good acting in this number on the part of all the principals and it gets up a strong interest. Some real life in this number."—Moving Picture World
"Rather a pathetic story, in which Pauline Busch (sic) and Lon Chaney play the leads." --- Motion Picture News
See also
List of lost films
References
External links
1914 films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
1914 drama films
1914 short films
Lost American drama films
Films directed by Joseph De Grasse
Universal Pictures short films
Silent American drama films
1914 lost films
American drama short films
1910s American films |
18037656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavan%20Tash | Pahlavan Tash | Pahlavan Tash is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qandahari | Qandahari | Qandahari is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qeshnehabad | Qeshnehabad | Qeshnehabad is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robatak%2C%20Afghanistan | Robatak, Afghanistan | Robatak or Rabatak (Persian/Pashto: رباطک) is a village in Baghlan Province in northeastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
Rabatak inscription
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston%20Hunt | Thurston Hunt | Thurston Hunt (executed 31 March 1601 at Lancaster) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was tried and executed with Robert Middleton, also a priest. They were declared to be martyrs by the Catholic Church, and beatified in 1987, by Pope John Paul II.
A contemporary sang of
Hunt's hawtie corage staut,
With godlie zeale soe true,
Myld Middleton, O what tongue
Can halfe thy vertue showe!
History
Thurston Hunt was born in 1555, and belonged to a family living at Carlton Hall, near Leeds. He also had studied for the priesthood at Rheims (1583–84). When Middleton was arrested by chance near Preston, an attempt to rescue him was then made by four Catholics, of whom Hunt was one, but the attempt failed. After a long tussle, Hunt was himself captured.
Robert Middleton was from York. Born in 1571, he was a nephew of Margaret (Middleton) Clitheroe, who was pressed to death in 1586 for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. Initially a member of the Church of England, he became a practising Catholic and went to Rheims to study at the English College. From there he went to the English College of St Gregory in Seville, and then in 1597 to the English College in Rome. He was ordained on 4 January 1598 and then a few months later left for the English mission. Prior to being captured in the autumn of 1600, he had expressed a wish to join the Jesuits.
The two were heavily shackled night and day. By order of the Privy Council, with their feet tied beneath their horses' bellies, they were carried in public disgrace up to London and back again to Lancaster, where they were condemned and executed for having been ordained overseas and daring to return as priests. The local population showed their disapproval; no one would hire his horse to drag them to the place of execution. They were hanged until almost dead, then cut down and beheaded. Their relics were quickly carried off after their death.
See also
Douai Martyrs
References
Attribution
The entry cites:
John Hungerford Pollen, Unpublished Documents relating to the English Martyrs, Catholic Record Society Records series V (1908), 384–9;
1601 deaths
16th-century English Roman Catholic priests
English beatified people
Year of birth unknown
16th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
17th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales
Martyred Roman Catholic priests
Clergy from Leeds |
18037690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Salang | North Salang | North Salang or Sālangi Shamāli (, ) is a village at an altitude of 3,365 meters in the Khinjan District of Baghlan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan, to the northern side of the Salang Tunnel.
Climate
North Salang has a tundra climate (Köppen: ET) with cool to mild summers and very cold winters. Precipitation is significantly higher than in much of the rest of Afghanistan due to North Salang's location on the windward side of the Hindu Kush mountain range, and mostly falls in the form of snow.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenloth%20East%2C%20Victoria | Glenloth East, Victoria | Glenloth East is a locality in the Shire of Buloke and the Shire of Loddon, Victoria, Australia.
References |
18037702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangborran | Sangborran | Sangborran is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarab%20%28Baghlan%29 | Sarab (Baghlan) | Sarab (also spelled as Sar Ab, ) is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towaninny%2C%20Victoria | Towaninny, Victoria | Towaninny is a locality in the Victoria, Australia, located approximately 35 km from Wycheproof, Victoria.
Towaninnie (sic) Post Office opened on 1 October 1864 and closed in 1953. The pastoral run here was known as Towaninnie, but when the area was surveyed and gazetted as a parish in 1871 the spelling was Towaninny.
See also
List of places in Victoria (Australia) named from pastoral runs
References
Towns in Victoria (state) |
18037724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyad | Sayyad | Sayyad is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillman%2014 | Hillman 14 | The Hillman Fourteen is a medium-sized 4-cylinder car announced by Hillman's managing director Spencer Wilks, a son-in-law of William Hillman, at the end of September 1925. This new Fourteen substantially increased Hillman's market share and remained on sale into 1931. During this time it was the main product of the company.
Late 1920s fashion when engines and other mechanicals were firmly fixed to the chassis decreed that a medium-sized car like the Fourteen should be given a six-cylinder engine to reduce vibration. So the 2-litre Fourteen's place was taken by the 2.1-litre six-cylinder Hillman Wizard 65 in April 1931. This Wizard 65 was itself dropped in 1933. The 2.8-litre Wizard 75 continued (renamed 20/70) alongside a 2.6-litre Sixteen and a 3.2-litre Hawk, all of six cylinders. For four years Hillman had no offering in the 2-litre slot.
The six-cylinder cars were not as successful as had been expected, and in October 1937 a new 2-litre four-cylinder Hillman Fourteen with a handsome new body filled their previous place in the Hillman range. Hillman now offered just their Minx and this new Fourteen.
In 1946 production resumed but the former Hillman Fourteens were now given a protruding boot lid and no running boards and badged Humber Hawk.
New market segment
In the early 1920s Hillman had concentrated on smaller cars with the 10 and 11 hp models but with their 14 horsepower car they entered the larger sized class taking on the Austin 12 hp and Humber 14/40. The new Hillman was priced at £345 for the saloon, undercutting the Austin which sold for £455, it was advertised as "the car that costs less than it should".
Engine
The engineering was largely conventional with a 72 x 120 mm long stroke, monobloc, side-valve 1954 cc, four-cylinder 35 bhp engine built in-unit with a four-speed gearbox and spiral bevel geared rear axle.
Chassis
Four wheel, cable operated, drum brakes were fitted from the start but unusually a vacuum servo was an option. The handbrake had its own set of shoes on the rear brakes. The steel section chassis had semi-elliptic leaf springs all round.
In a test by The Autocar magazine, the top speed was around and fuel consumption 23-24 mpg.
Bodies
A range of bodies were offered including saloons and tourers. The cars were well fitted out and spacious with a right-hand gear change by the driver's door, a feature regarded as up-market at the time. Safety glass was fitted in the windows of the 1928 Safety Saloon. Wire spoked or artillery wheels could be specified. A V-windscreened landaulette was advertised in 1927.
Standard equipment included: clock, speedometer, oil gauge, screen wiper, driving mirror, shaded dash-lamp, licence holder, rug rail, floor carpets etc.
Road test
In early January 1925, The Timess motoring correspondent described the new Hillman's engine as lively enough, quiet and vibration-free, but said the suspension was hard. There was no undue grumble or hum from the gears. All the controls including steering and brakes were said to work well, and the seats, front and back, were described as comfortable. The car's maximum speed over level ground was said to be 50-55 mph.
Update September 1927
Following two years of production improvements were introduced in September 1927 for that year's motor show. The wheelbase was lengthened by but not the car's overall length. The steering was improved for a smoother and lighter action and the column rake was now adjustable. The front brake cables were replaced with rods. The engine received larger crankshaft and connecting rod bearings and an anti-detonating ("anti-knock") design adopted for the cylinder head. A Weymann fabric bodied 4-light 4-door sports saloon (as chosen for personal use by Henry Segrave) with safety glass option and a 6-light Safety saloon (fitted with Triplex safety glass) joined the range. The artillery wheel option was dropped. Dipping headlights were a new feature. Separate seats replaced the front bench seat and both back and front seats were widened. There were also changes to the mudguards and running boards. The export car was widened to inches and its track to inches. A water-impeller and a large top radiator tank were also fitted to export cars.
Major facelift September 1928
During 1928 the Rootes brothers obtained control of Hillman.
A new deeper radiator appeared in early September 1928 with larger headlamps on a cross-bar between the wings. The wider bodies had been lowered three inches without reducing ground clearance or head clearance. The body range was rationalised to a standard saloon, fabric saloon, Segrave coupé, tourer and Huski (sic) fabric-bodied sports tourer. There were major changes to a strengthened chassis and an increase in the track of the home market cars from to . Other upgrades included a stronger Hardy-Spicer propellor shaft with metal joints, more powerful brakes and shock absorbers all round. An oil pressure gauge was added to the dashboard.
October 1929
For 1930 a stronger frame was provided together with longer springs employing Silentbloc spring shackles and improved brakes.
Olympia Motor Show October 1930
Three Fourteens were on Hillman's stand, a 2-door drop head coupé, a 4-door safety tourer and a 6-light Weymann saloon with a sunshine roof. Front seats could now slide for adjustment and a petrol gauge was provided on the instrument panel. The brakes receive servo assistance on the safety model. All the cars displayed had safety glass.
The following month the chairman advised shareholders at the annual meeting that the Fourteen continued to be well-received but six months after the motor show at the end of April 1931 its place was taken by the Hillman Wizard 65.
All new car
Olympia October 1937
First displayed at the Olympia Motor Show in October 1937 some of its thunder was stolen by the "Ghost Minx" displayed beside it. Holes had been cut in the Minx's body and replaced by Perspex panels.
Body
The new 2-litre Hillman Fourteen was a much prettier car than their Minx's sole remaining stable-mate their 3.2-litre Hawk which it replaced. It was a straightforward, in essence simple, design for an economical four-cylinder car. Full use had been made of the wheelbase and track so five passengers may be carried in comfort. There were six side-windows and swivelling quarter lights in the leading edges of the front windows. Further air was supplied through a ventilator in the scuttle. The de luxe model's sliding roof was steel like the rest of the body. Passengers' feet were not restricted by footwells. Lockable luggage space at the back of the car was considered adequate, the spare wheel was carried in a separate compartment below the luggage. The windscreen could be opened high enough for a clear view in fog. Two wipers were fitted and three swivelling ashtrays. Front seats slide forward and back.
New engine
The new engine was a return to the medium-sized simpler and more efficient 4-cylinder type rather than the 6-cylinder engines fashionable earlier in the 1930s. It had been given an oil bath air cleaner and an automatic choke for the downdraught carburettor. The valves were mounted to one side of the block and operated by pushrods. Cooling water was circulated by an impellor and the amount of cooling provided by the radiator was regulated by thermostat. The design, then displacing 1669 cc, was a scaled down version of the Snipe's engine first used in Humber's Twelve of 1933 and now bored out to 75 mm.
The engine, the clutch and the gearbox were mounted together on rubber which allowed them to rock and so absorb vibration. Accordingly the driver's engine controls were provided by cables. Claimed output was 51 bhp at 3,600 rpm. The tax rating was just under 14 horsepower.
The engine continued in the Humber Hawk range and Sunbeam-Talbot and Sunbeam Alpine ranges. Converted for the Sunbeam-Talbot alone to overhead valves from July 1948 it was bored out 6 mm to 2,267 cc for 1951 It continued in side valve form for the Hawk until the summer of 1955 and remained in production for the Hawk until production ended in 1968.
Road test
Eighteen months after the new car's announcement The Times published a road test. Their motoring correspondent liked the new smooth clean look. He described the car as inexpensive and said it was easy to control and displayed quick power and smoothness. Altogether, he said, there was much to commend though the synchromesh required a short pause before engagement and under certain circumstances braking could affect the steering. The suspension was described as excellent, a rear passenger travelled in comfort without being tossed about on bad surfaces. 50 mph was easily maintained without scurry and 67 mph was the Hillman's mean maximum speed.
Luxury sports saloon variant
At the end of August 1939 it was announced the shape of the Sunbeam-Talbot Ten would be used on the Hillman Fourteen's engine and running gear to make a new car. It was badged Sunbeam-Talbot 2 Litre and was available as a 4-light sports saloon, a 4-seater sports tourer, a drop head foursome coupé and a sports 2-seater. The new coachwork was of steel and ash on a shorter wheelbase and narrower track.
Three days later the United Kingdom declared war on Germany.
In the British Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda, where motor vehicles had famously been banned from the public roads before the First World War (although motor ambulances, fire-engines, and a road works vehicle had been authorised between the wars), even the Police force, the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force were not permitted motor vehicles until the Second World War. General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, KCB, CMG, DSO, resigned his offices of Governor and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) in 1939 after the House of Assembly of Bermuda twice refused to allow him a motor car. With the declaration of war, however, the legislature soon authorised naval and military vehicles to use the public roads, including cars for both the naval Commander-in-Chief and the Officer Commanding Troops, a Brigadier subordinate to the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief in the command structure of the Bermuda Garrison. A car was also authorised for the Governor, and in December, 1943, Governor Lord Burghley, his wife, and his Aide-de-Campe, Flight Lieutenant L. S. Litchfield, RAF, each obtained a Bermudian driving licence in order to drive the car obtained for the use of the Governor, a Hillman 14.
References
14
Cars introduced in 1925
Cars introduced in 1938
1930s cars |
18037734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemys%C5%82aw%20Sta%C5%84czyk | Przemysław Stańczyk | Przemysław Stańczyk (born 12 February 1985 in Szczecin) is an Olympic and national record holding swimmer from Poland. He has swum for Poland at the:
Olympics: 2004, 2008
World Championships: 2003, 2005, 2007
World University Games: 2005, 2009
References
1985 births
Living people
Polish male freestyle swimmers
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Poland
Sportspeople from Szczecin
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Universiade medalists in swimming
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Poland
Universiade bronze medalists for Poland
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade
21st-century Polish people |
18037737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahab%20od%20Din%2C%20Afghanistan | Shahab od Din, Afghanistan | Shahab od Din is a village in Baghlan Province in northeastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashan | Shashan | Shashan is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her%20Life%27s%20Story | Her Life's Story | Her Life's Story (aka Her Life Story in some references) is a 1914 American silent supernatural drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. It was written by James Dayton, based on a poem called "The Cross" by Miriam Bade Rasmus. The film is now considered to be lost.
Plot
Carlotta, born into a poor family, is adopted by the wealthy nobleman Don Velasquez (Chaney). She grows up with her step-brother Don Manuel, and when they reach adulthood, they fall in love with each other. Don Velasquez doesn't approve of the union however. The son goes off to join the king's court for a time and when he returns six years later, he brings with him a wife and son. Carlotta develops an intense hatred for all of them, and later when she sees the young boy in a perilous situation, balancing on a window sill as he reaches out for a rose, she does nothing and allows the child to plummet to his death. Realizing the gravity of what she has done, Carlotta repents by entering a convent and becoming a nun. From the window of her cell, she arranges it so that she can see the child's gravestone, only magnifying her sense of guilt.
Thirteen years later, Carlotta confesses what she did to Sister Agnes, and tells her how every year on the anniversary of his death, the little boy's ghost appears before her, with a cross of blood on his forehead. When the anniversary arrives the next day, the ghost appears again and this time holds out his arms to her. She recognizes the ghost as the Christ child and realizes that God has forgiven her, because she confessed her sin to Sister Agnes the day before.
Cast
Pauline Bush as Carlotta
Lon Chaney as Don Valesquez
Ray Gallagher as Don Manuel
Beatrice Van as The Wife
Felix Walsh as The Child
Laura Oakley as Sister Agnes
References
External links
1914 films
1914 short films
1914 drama films
Silent American drama films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Lost American films
Films directed by Joseph De Grasse
Universal Pictures short films
1914 lost films
Lost drama films
1910s American films |
18037745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholoktu | Sholoktu | Sholoktu is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleh%20va%20Barfak | Taleh va Barfak | Taleh va Barfak is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerahmin | Gerahmin | Gerahmin is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 80 km from Swan Hill, Victoria.
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Rural City of Swan Hill |
18037755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkhian | Talkhian | Talkhian is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall-e%20Mir%20Ghazi | Tall-e Mir Ghazi | Tall-e Mir Ghazi is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torkan%2C%20Afghanistan | Torkan, Afghanistan | Torkan, Afghanistan is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakhshak | Vakhshak | Vakhshak is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Women%27s%20Pan-American%20Volleyball%20Cup%20squads | 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup squads | This article shows all participating team squads at the 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, held from May 30 to June 7, 2008 in Mexicali and Tijuana, Mexico.
Head coach: Horacio Bastit
Head coach: Luizomar De Moura
Head coach: Naoki Miyashita
Head coach: Braulio Godínez
Head coach: Luis Calderón
Head coach: Beato Miguel Cruz
Head coach: Luis León
Head coach: José dos Santos
Head coach: Juan Carlos Núñez
Head coach: Francisco Cruz Jiménez
Head coach: Thomas Hogan
Head coach: Tomás Fernández
References
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18037799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaram-e%20Sofla | Yaram-e Sofla | Yaram-e Sofla is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan.
See also
Baghlan Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Baghlan Province |
18037800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillingollah%2C%20Victoria | Chillingollah, Victoria | Chillingollah is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 52 km from Swan Hill, Victoria.
Chillingollah Post Office opened on 1 July 1905 and closed in 1973.
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Rural City of Swan Hill |
18037822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adineh%20Masjed | Adineh Masjed | Adineh Masjed is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrakh | Amrakh | Amrakh is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowie%2C%20Victoria | Nowie, Victoria | Nowie is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 26 km from Swan Hill, Victoria.
A Post Office opened as Hill's around 1914, was renamed Nowie South in 1915 and closed in 1918. A Nowie North Post Office opened on 1 July 1923 and closed in 1958.
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Rural City of Swan Hill |
18037843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almoghul | Almoghul | Almoghul is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20zeta%20function | Multiple zeta function | In mathematics, the multiple zeta functions are generalizations of the Riemann zeta function, defined by
and converge when Re(s1) + ... + Re(si) > i for all i. Like the Riemann zeta function, the multiple zeta functions can be analytically continued to be meromorphic functions (see, for example, Zhao (1999)). When s1, ..., sk are all positive integers (with s1 > 1) these sums are often called multiple zeta values (MZVs) or Euler sums. These values can also be regarded as special values of the multiple polylogarithms.
The k in the above definition is named the "depth" of a MZV, and the n = s1 + ... + sk is known as the "weight".
The standard shorthand for writing multiple zeta functions is to place repeating strings of the argument within braces and use a superscript to indicate the number of repetitions. For example,
Definition
Multiple zeta functions arise as special cases of the multiple polylogarithms
which are generalizations of the polylogarithm functions. When all of the are nth roots of unity and the are all nonnegative integers, the values of the multiple polylogarithm are called colored multiple zeta values of level . In particular, when , they are called Euler sums or alternating multiple zeta values, and when they are simply called multiple zeta values. Multiple zeta values are often written
and Euler sums are written
where . Sometimes, authors will write a bar over an corresponding to an equal to , so for example
.
Integral structure and identities
It was noticed by Kontsevich that it is possible to express colored multiple zeta values (and thus their special cases) as certain multivariable integrals. This result is often stated with the use of a convention for iterated integrals, wherein
Using this convention, the result can be stated as follows:
where for .
This result is extremely useful due to a well-known result regarding products of iterated integrals, namely that
where and is the symmetric group on symbols.
To utilize this in the context of multiple zeta values, define , to be the free monoid generated by and to be the free -vector space generated by . can be equipped with the shuffle product, turning it into an algebra. Then, the multiple zeta function can be viewed as an evaluation map, where we identify , , and define
for any ,
which, by the aforementioned integral identity, makes
Then, the integral identity on products gives
Two parameters case
In the particular case of only two parameters we have (with s > 1 and n, m integers):
where are the generalized harmonic numbers.
Multiple zeta functions are known to satisfy what is known as MZV duality, the simplest case of which is the famous identity of Euler:
where Hn are the harmonic numbers.
Special values of double zeta functions, with s > 0 and even, t > 1 and odd, but s+t = 2N+1 (taking if necessary ζ(0) = 0):
Note that if we have irreducibles, i.e. these MZVs cannot be written as function of only.
Three parameters case
In the particular case of only three parameters we have (with a > 1 and n, j, i integers):
Euler reflection formula
The above MZVs satisfy the Euler reflection formula:
for
Using the shuffle relations, it is easy to prove that:
for
This function can be seen as a generalization of the reflection formulas.
Symmetric sums in terms of the zeta function
Let , and for a partition of the set , let . Also, given such a and a k-tuple of exponents, define .
The relations between the and are:
and
Theorem 1 (Hoffman)
For any real , .
Proof. Assume the are all distinct. (There is no loss of generality, since we can take limits.) The left-hand side can be written as
. Now thinking on the symmetric
group as acting on k-tuple of positive integers. A given k-tuple has an isotropy group
and an associated partition of : is the set of equivalence classes of the relation
given by iff , and . Now the term occurs on the left-hand side of exactly times. It occurs on the right-hand side in those terms corresponding to partitions that are refinements of : letting denote refinement, occurs times. Thus, the conclusion will follow if
for any k-tuple and associated partition .
To see this, note that counts the permutations having cycle type specified by : since any elements of has a unique cycle type specified by a partition that refines , the result follows.
For , the theorem says
for . This is the main result of.
Having . To state the analog of Theorem 1 for the , we require one bit of notation. For a partition
of , let .
Theorem 2 (Hoffman)
For any real , .
Proof. We follow the same line of argument as in the preceding proof. The left-hand side is now
, and a term occurs on the left-hand since once if all the are distinct, and not at all otherwise. Thus, it suffices to show
(1)
To prove this, note first that the sign of is positive if the permutations of cycle type are even, and negative if they are odd: thus, the left-hand side of (1) is the signed sum of the number of even and odd permutations in the isotropy group . But such an isotropy group has equal numbers of even and odd permutations unless it is trivial, i.e. unless the associated partition is
.
The sum and duality conjectures
We first state the sum conjecture, which is due to C. Moen.
Sum conjecture (Hoffman). For positive integers k and n,
, where the sum is extended over k-tuples of positive integers with .
Three remarks concerning this conjecture are in order. First, it implies
. Second, in the case it says that , or using the relation between the and and Theorem 1,
This was proved by Euler and has been rediscovered several times, in particular by Williams. Finally, C. Moen has proved the same conjecture for k=3 by lengthy but elementary arguments.
For the duality conjecture, we first define an involution on the set of finite sequences of positive integers whose first element is greater than 1. Let be the set of strictly increasing finite sequences of positive integers, and let be the function that sends a sequence in to its sequence of partial sums. If is the set of sequences in whose last element is at most , we have two commuting involutions and on defined by
and
= complement of in arranged in increasing order. The our definition of is for with .
For example,
We shall say the sequences and are dual to each other, and refer to a sequence fixed by as self-dual.
Duality conjecture (Hoffman). If is dual to , then .
This sum conjecture is also known as Sum Theorem, and it may be expressed as follows: the Riemann zeta value of an integer n ≥ 2 is equal to the sum of all the valid (i.e. with s1 > 1) MZVs of the partitions of length k and weight n, with 1 ≤ k ≤ n − 1. In formula:
For example, with length k = 2 and weight n = 7:
Euler sum with all possible alternations of sign
The Euler sum with alternations of sign appears in studies of the non-alternating Euler sum.
Notation
with are the generalized harmonic numbers.
with
with
with
As a variant of the Dirichlet eta function we define
with
Reflection formula
The reflection formula can be generalized as follows:
if we have
Other relations
Using the series definition it is easy to prove:
with
with
A further useful relation is:
where and
Note that must be used for all value for which the argument of the factorials is
Other results
For all positive integers :
or more generally:
Mordell–Tornheim zeta values
The Mordell–Tornheim zeta function, introduced by who was motivated by the papers and , is defined by
It is a special case of the Shintani zeta function.
References
Notes
External links
Zeta and L-functions |
18037847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aq%20Kupruk | Aq Kupruk | Aq Kupruk is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
Archaeological sites
Aq Kupruk is also an archaeological site consisting of four sites, numbered I, II, III and IV.
Aq Kupruk I, or Ghar-i Asb, is a rock shelter of the Kushan-Sasanian period, containing some fragmentary Buddhist frescos and some simple architecture.
Aq Kupruk II, or Ghār-i Mār, is another rock shelter, probably the most productive of the three sites, producing material from all periods except the Kushan-Sasanian. About 10% of the occupation area was excavated.
Aq Kupruk III, is an open-air site on the river terrace consisting of two periods, both in the Epipalaeolithic.
Aq Kupruk IV, was excavated briefly by McBurney nearer to the village, producing a "Middle Mousterian" type of industry differing from that found by Dupree.
Finds included an extensive and sophisticated stone tool industry, very early stone sculpture, domesticated sheep and goat remains, fragments of beaten copper from the ceramic Neolithic, many projectile points, terracotta and simple jewellery.
Collections:
AMNH - excavated material.
BIAS - flint and stone.
Kabul Museum - excavated material, stone head.
Field-work:
1959 Dupree, American Universities Field Staff - survey.
1960 Hayashi & Sahara, Kyoto University - survey.
1962 & 65 Dupree, AMNH - excavations.
1971 McBurney, Cambridge University - sondage.
See also
Balkh Province
References
Archaeological Gazetter of Afghanistan / Catalogue des Sites Archéologiques D'Afghanistan, Volume I, Warwick Ball, Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, Paris, 1982.
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Further reading
Hayashi and Sahara in Mizuno. S. (ed) 1962. Haibāk and Kashmir-Smast. Kyoto: 54–5, 105.
Dupree, L. et al. 1972. Prehistoric Research in Afghanistan (1959-1966) (4.12). Philadelphia.
McBurney, C.B.M. 1972. 'Report of an archaeological survey in northern Afghanistan'. July–August 1971'. Afghanistan 25, 2: 22–32.
Davis in Allchin, R. and Hammond, N. (eds) 1978. The Archaeology of Afghanistan. London: 55–63.
Shaffer in Allchin, R. and Hammond, N. (eds) 1978. The Archaeology of Afghanistan. London: 74–81, 89–90.
Gupta, S.P. 1979. Archaeology of Soviet Central Asia and the Indian Borderlands (2 vol). New Delhi.
Derevyenko and Liu Zun-E in Dani, A.H. and Masson, V.M. (eds) 1992. History of Civilizations of Central Asia (volume 1): The dawn of civilization - earliest times to 700 B.C. Paris.
Sarianidi in Dani, A.H. and Masson, V.M. (eds) 1992. History of Civilizations of Central Asia (volume 1): The dawn of civilization - earliest times to 700 B.C. Paris.
Populated places in Balkh Province
Archaeological sites in Afghanistan
Neolithic
Mousterian
Epipalaeolithic |
18037848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights%20and%20Shadows%20%281914%20film%29 | Lights and Shadows (1914 film) | Lights and Shadows is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, starring Tom Forman, Pauline Bush and Lon Chaney. The screenplay was written by Ida May Park (De Grasse's wife). A still exists showing Lon Chaney as Bentley, just before he deserts his wife in the film. The picture is now considered to be a lost film.
Plot
Eve, a poor flower girl, learns that her mother, a singer, had married Bentley (Lon Chaney), the son of a rich man, but Bentley's father disinherited him for marrying a stage performer. So Bentley deserted his wife the night Eve was born, leaving the young mother penniless, and their nurse Matilde raised the girl after her mother died. When the old nurse falls ill, Eve gets a job in a cafe selling flowers to raise money to help the nurse. There she meets Victor Austin who makes advances towards her, but she manages to escape from him. When she returns home, she finds the nurse dead.
Eve discovers some old letters that she thinks could aid her in locating her deadbeat father. Along the way, she is robbed of her ticket and all of her money and joins up with a theatrical troupe who feel sorry for her. The star of the company, James Gordon, falls in love with her, but she learns that he is married and runs away. Gordon later receives an important offer from the New York stage. Meanwhile Eve manages to find her father Bentley who has since come into great wealth. He plans to force Eve to marry the loutish Victor Austin, but then Eve learns that Gordon's wife, who never really loved him, has died. Gordon is now free to remarry. Eve travels to New York and finds Gordon at the New York theatre where they are happily reunited.
Cast
Pauline Bush in a dual role as both Eve and Eve's mother
Lon Chaney as Bentley, Eve's deadbeat father
Tom Forman as the loutish Victor Austin
Joe De Grasse as James Gordon
Laura Oakley
Betty Schade
Beatrice Van
William C. Dowlan
Helen Wright
Reception
"This story is slightly too complicated to make a good picture and too much time is covered. The ending is abrupt and one is left to speculate upon the final outcome."—Motion Picture News
"This offering is peculiar in construction, and while not uninteresting, contains much of a semi-morbid character. It lacks bright, attractive scenes and is brought to a very abrupt close. The acting and photography are good."—Moving Picture World
See also
List of lost films
References
External links
1914 films
1914 short films
1914 drama films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Lost American drama films
Films directed by Joseph De Grasse
Universal Pictures short films
Silent American drama films
1914 lost films
English-language drama films
1910s American films
1910s English-language films
American drama short films |
18037852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aranji | Aranji | Aranji is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arigh%20Batur | Arigh Batur | Aregh Batur is a farming village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan. Situated on the Amu Darya river next to Joi Wakli.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party%20of%20Peace%20and%20Unity | Party of Peace and Unity | Party of Peace and Unity (PME; ; Partiya mira i yedinstva, PME) is a political party in Russia.
It was founded in 1996, uniting several communist groups that opposed president Yeltsin's policies. Its leader was Sazhi Umalatova, a Russian politician of Chechen nationality, who was a devoted opponent of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Umalatova supported the August coup in 1991 and the anti-Yeltsin opposition in the October 1993 events. However, she later became an ardent supporter of President Vladimir Putin.
At the December 7, 2003 legislative elections, the party won 0.25% of the popular vote and no seats. The party did not participate in the 2007 legislative election and merged with the party Patriots of Russia in 2008.
The party received 34 million barrels worth of oil vouchers in the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, according to the paper "The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270".
The party was revived on May 24, 2012
References
1996 establishments in Russia
2008 disestablishments in Russia
2012 establishments in Russia
Anti-Americanism
Eurasianism
Nationalist parties in Russia
Political parties disestablished in 2008
Political parties established in 1996
Political parties established in 2012 |
18037871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala%20Kuh | Bala Kuh | Bala Kuh is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
It has a population of 30,419 and a total area of 652,230 km. The capital city is Kabul and the currency is Afghanis.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Storms%20of%20Chai | The Storms of Chai | The Storms of Chai is a game book in the Lone Wolf series by Joe Dever. It is part of the New Order series, which details the adventures of one of Lone Wolf's disciples in the New Kai Order and not Lone Wolf himself. The book is set in MS 5102, 18 years after the ending of book 28, The Hunger of Sejanoz.
After encountering problems with a number of publishers, author Joe Dever announced on 1 April 2016 that he would self-publish the book. It was published on 13 May 2016, 18 years after the publication of book 28. It was the last Lone Wolf gamebook published by Dever before his death.
Plot
The Claw of Naar is the evil wand of power used by Agarash the Damned during his ancient conquest of Magnamund. After retrieving it in Vampirium, the reader handed it over to the Elder Magi who tried to destroy it. That was 18 years ago, but Elder Magi are still trying to figure out how to annihilate it.
The reader is now living in the new Kai Monastery on the Isle of Lorn and receives grim news: several hordes of Agarashi have been spotted all over Magnamund. Lone Wolf, the Supreme Grand Master of the Kai Order, dispatches his six Grand Masters to missions across the world to investigate and stop the menaces.
One of those hordes of Agarashi is marching towards the country of Chai, ruled by the young Khea-khan Lao Tin. The reason: one of the gems that embellish the Khea-khan's throne is the Eye of Agarash, a stone that can be coupled with the Claw of Naar to increase its destructive power. The reader's mission is to retrieve the Eye of Agarash before their enemies. But that is the easy part: bringing back the gem to the Elder Magi, with Agarashi roaming the land of Chai, is where the real challenge resides for the reader.
Publication history
In its December 2010 issue of Signs & Portents, Mongoose published the timeline of the events that took place in Magnamund between the end of book 28 and the beginning of book 29. In the same issue, the first section of the book, the Story so Far, was also published, revealing the mission that the reader had to undertake, as it is a "game book", a book where the reader must make choices to determine the outcome.
Mongoose Publishing had the rights to publish this book but in February 2013, it was announced that the publisher had lost its publishing rights of the series. German publisher Mantikore-Verlag picked up the rights to publish books 18 to 28 shortly after that, and on April 1, 2015, it was announced that it would also publish book 29.
English publisher Cubicle 7 picked up the rights for this book from Mantikore-Verlang in December 2015, but came back on its decision the following month. On April 1, 2016, Joe Dever announced that he would published the remaining Lone Wolf's books himself with his own imprint, Holmgard Press, starting with the publication of book 29, which was released on May 13, 2016.
However, The Storms of Chai was first published in Italian by Vincent Books in November 2015. Alberto Dal Lago did provide the cover artwork while Marvel artist Giuseppe Camuncoli did the interior illustrations. The French version was published in June 2017.
References
2016 fantasy novels
Lone Wolf (gamebooks) |
18037874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dic%C4%83 | Dică | Dică may refer to:
Nicolae Dică, a Romanian football player, playing for Viitorul Constanța;
Emil Dică, another Romanian football player playing for CFR Cluj.
DICA may refer to:
Directorate of Investment and Company Administration |
18037886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baluchi%2C%20Balkh | Baluchi, Balkh | Baluchi is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20J.%20Carpinello | Anthony J. Carpinello | Anthony J. Carpinello is a former justice of the New York State Supreme Court and of the Appellate Division, Third Department.
Carpinello received a bachelor's degree from Union University in 1970 and a Juris Doctor from Albany Law School in 1973. He practiced law from 1974 to 1994 with the law firm of Muffson, Hessberg & Blumberg, later known as Hiscock & Barclay. During this period, he also served in various public service capacities, including Councilman for the Town of East Greenbush from 1975 to 1981, as a Rensselaer County legislator from 1982 to 1989, and as East Greenbush Town Justice from 1993 to 1994.
In November 1994, Carpinello was elected as a Republican to a 14-year term as a justice of the Supreme Court, Third Judicial District. He served as a trial judge in until 1996, when Governor George Pataki promoted him to the Appellate Division, Third Department, which hears appeals from all trial-level courts in 28 counties of Upstate New York. In November 2008, Carpinello was defeated in his race for reelection.
Carpinello serves as a mediator with JAMS. Since 2006, he has also served as Chair of the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board.
Carpinello is married to Sharon E. Kelly, a mental health official, Their son is actor James Carpinello.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20080513235144/http://www.nycourts.gov/ad3/CarpinelloBios.html #judicial biography#
http://www.jamsadr.com/carpinello/ #JAMS biography page)
Living people
New York Supreme Court Justices
New York (state) Republicans
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18037893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Holland | Elizabeth Holland | Elizabeth Holland (died 1547/8), commonly known as Bess Holland, was the mistress of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and maid-of-honour to his niece, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England.
Life
The daughter or sister of the Duke's secretary, it is often said that Bess had worked for eight years as a laundress in the household of Norfolk's wife, Elizabeth Stafford, Duchess of Norfolk. This is from one of the Duchess of Norfolk's letters in which she describes Bess as a "churl’s daughter who was but a washer in my nursery for eight years". Kate Emerson points out that since she was a gentlewoman, she was probably not a laundress in the household, or the children's nurse, but may have been the children's governess. Bess was certainly on good terms with Mary Howard, Norfolk's daughter.
When Anne Boleyn was created Marquess of Pembroke, Bess Holland was one of her maids of honour, and she was still at court in 1537, when she rode in the funeral cortege of Queen Jane.
Paternity
According to Kate Emerson's A Who's Who of Tudor Women Elizabeth Holland was the daughter (some sources say the sister) of John Holland of Wartwell Hall in RedenHall, Norfolk and a kinswoman, probably a niece, of John Hussey 1st baron Hussey of Sleaford.
The Visitations of Norfolk, however, identifies Bess as "Elizabeth Holland da. to Thomas Holland of Swynested", as does The Gawdy Papers.
It is known that Holland had a brother, George, who signed for her jewellery “for and in the name of my said sister” when it was returned to her in February 1547. After the Duke of Norfolk's fall the commissioners had seized rings, brooches, strings of pearls, silver spoons, ivory tables, and other treasures from her lodgings at Kenninghall. Bess had at her disposal an outer chamber, a bedchamber, and an adjoining garret. Bess herself was taken to London for questioning but was eventually released. At the time her jewellery was returned to her, Bess was identified as living in Mendham, Suffolk. Mary, Duchess of Richmond, Norfolk's daughter, granted her an annuity of £20. It is also known that her eldest brother was called Thomas, because he was involved in a dispute with her husband over her inheritance after her death.
John Holland, of Wortwell Hall, in Redenhall, trustee to the Duke of Norfolk, died 10 February 1542. However, Bernard Henry Holland in The Lancashire Hollands also separates this family of Hollands from that of Elizabeth and her brother George:Another Holland, George, was secretary to the same Duke, when he was arrested for treason in 1547, and the officials found in the house Elizabeth Holland, a mistress of the Duke. But George Holland was certainly one of the Hollands of Estovening, Lincolnshire, and so, probably, was Miss Elizabeth, descendants from Sir Thomas Holland, who mostly lived in the Holy Land, and his wife, Elizabeth, the "devilish dame." In the seventeenth century the Hollands of Quidenham were for two generations trustees of the Howard estates in Norfolk.This other Holland family does have an apparent abundance of Elizabeths and an eldest son named Thomas, but lacks a George, while Thomas Holland of Swinsted did have both a son named George and an eldest son named Thomas.
On 3 July 1551 Thomas Holland of Swynested, Lincolnshire, wrote to Simon Lowe, Citizen and Merchant Scissor-dealer of London, regarding a statute staple for 40 pounds payable to Lowe next Bartholomew-tide. The Gawdy Papers here describes him as "son and heir apparent of Thos. Holland, Esq., sen." This again fits with the father of Thomas and George.
Kate Emerson writes:Jeffrey Miles or Myles of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk, is identified as her husband by Gerard Brenan and Edward Phillips Stratham in The House of Howard (1908), but a hundred years later, the Oxford DNB states that her husband was Henry Reppes of Mendham (1509-February 10, 1558), that she married him in 1547, and that she died in childbirth in 1547/8.This confusion is again due to the mix-up of the two families. This other Holland family did have a daughter called Elizabeth Holland who married Jeffrey Miles of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk, but the Duke of Norfolk's Bess married Henry Reppes.
Thomas Holland of Swynested was first Comptroller of the Household, and afterwards Treasurer to the Duke of Richmond, the husband of Mary and the son-in-law of Norfolk. His son, George Holland, was something of a family historian, and Francis Blomefield was given the opportunity to study his papers. George was the secretary to the Duke of Norfolk, and writes of him, oddly touchingly: Geo. Holland was Secretary to the most worthy and mighty prince, Thomas Duke of Norfolk, grandfather to the present Duke, and served him in that calling, and Clerk of the Counsail in the warrs both in France, England, and Scotland, and when he was committed to the Tower, and his son of Surrey beheaded in the last year of King Henry the VIIIth, and being most worthily delivered thence by Q. Mary, I served him in that callinge till his death, and was with him against Sir Tho. Wiatt his godson, where he was most slenderly appoynted by his own men & capt; trayterously.Thomas Holland of Swynested (1486–1558) was married twice, first to Jane, daughter of William Hardeby of Evedon, and secondly to Jane, daughter of Henry Smyth of Walpole in Norfolk. His son and heir Thomas Holland of Estovening (b.1512) married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Smyth of Walpole in Norfolk, sister of Jane. George Holland of Croyland (1514–1567/8), second son, married Elizabeth Lewes and had an illegitimate daughter named Elizabeth, his heiress. Bess Holland also had two sisters. Dorothy (d.1571), wife to William Hunston of Walpole (1519/20–1566), and mother of William Hunston of Boston in Lincoln (1540–1586), Edward Hunston who drowned in saving a child, Henry Hunston, Jane who married Edward Knightbridge, and another daughter who married Tupholme of Boston. Frances married Gregory Woolmer or Woolmer of Bloxham (d.1575), the son of Richard Wolmer of Swineshead and Isabel Upton (d.1564). They had Sir Gregory Woolmer (d.1618/9), Jasper, Samuel, Susan, Sarah, Beatrix, Anne and Mary who married Bolle. From her father's second marriage Bess had the brothers Henry Holland of Gonville Gollege, Cambridge, Vicar of Boston (d.1584), who married Joane Fox; James Holland; and Christopher Holland of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, who was baptised at Spalding on 26 August 1546 and had Edward Holland, student at Cambridge in 1601.
The fall of Norfolk
Despite a relationship of fifteen years duration with the Duke, when he and his son, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were arrested in December 1546, Elizabeth Holland gave information which helped to seal their fates. Kate Emerson points out that she probably had no choice. Surrey was executed on the eve of the King's own death. Norfolk's execution was not carried out after the King's death; instead, he was kept in the Tower of London throughout the minority reign of King Edward VI, and was released in 1553, at the start of the reign of Queen Mary I, whose Catholic beliefs were similar to his.
In April, 1547 or earlier, Edmond of Sybeton, Suffolk, sent to Elizabeth Holland, a receipt for 100 pounds from Mrs. Holland by hands of Mr. Henry to be paid unto my Lord of Norfolk his Grace. It appears that Elizabeth sent money to the Duke of Norfolk whilst he was incarcerated in the Tower.
In 1547 Elizabeth Holland married Henry Reppes (d.1558) but soon afterwards died in childbirth.
Henry Reppes (d.1558) was the son of Henry Reppes of Thorp Market in Norfolk and Elizabeth, daughter of Edmond Grymston of Rushangles in Suffolk, Esq. His paternal uncle John Reppes of West Walton in Norfolk, Esq. (d.1561), was married to Margaret, daughter and one of the heirs of Henry Smyth of Walpole in Mershland, gentleman. Margaret was the sister of Bess Holland's mother or stepmother Jane, and her sister-in-law Elizabeth, making the two families related through several connections.
In 1547 or 1548 Symon Lowe of London wrote to William Andros, Beeball. The nature of their correspondence is recorded in The Gawdy Papers:Andros’ son Edmond, who is with Lowe, is in good health. Harry Reppes married Elizabeth Holland of Mendham, who died in childbed, the Caesarean operation being performed. Reppes says the child was born alive and claims tenancy by the curtesy in her lands. Lowe thinks it impossible and, fearing foul play, asks Andros or his friends about Mendham or Harleston to make cautious enquiry. Thomas, Elizabeth’s eldest brother and heir, sold the land to Lowe, but unthriftily spent the money and more (to the amount of 1,000 l.) within a year, so cannot defend the title except at Lowe’s charges. Phillipa Oon, of Mendham, was the midwife; Richard Spayne of Harleston was the surgeon who operated; Edmond Halle, another surgeon of Mendham or Harleston, was present but refused to operate. One William Rochester of Mendham or Harleston has been tampering with the witnesses; he is “truly the falsest and craftiest man in the country,” for “a forty shilling” he will confess all, if well handled. Get the witnesses to a tavern, make them talk, and have men by to hear them.After her death, Henry Reppes remarried to Anne Wootton or Wotton (1536–1587). Anne was the daughter of John Wootton of North Tuddenham in Norfolk and the great-niece of Henry Wotton. Anne was the widow of Henry Reppes's nephew Thomas Woodhouse of Hickling, Norfolk, the son of his sister by her husband Sir William Woodhouse. After the death of Henry Reppes on 10 February 1557/8, Anne married thirdly Bassingbourne Gawdy (d. 1590).
A book of hours belonging to Anne Boleyn and currently preserved in the British Library contains the names of Elizabeth and Henry Reppes, written in the hand of Henry Reppes (d. 1558). It is also inscribed by Anne Boleyn in English, Be daly prove you shall me fynde To be to yu bothe lovynge and kynde, and while her lover King Henry VIII gallantly replied in French, Si silon mon affection la sufvenance sera en voz prieres ne seray yers oblie car vostre suis Henry R. a jammays, which in English would be If you remember my love in your prayers as strongly as I adore you, I shall hardly be forgotten, for I am yours. Henry R. forever.
Historian Sylvia Barbara Soberton writes:One of the most interesting aspects of Anne’s last days is the question of the identity of the four women who accompanied her to the scaffold on 19 May 1536. Eyewitnesses described them as young, and yet the women who accompanied Anne in the Tower of London were by no means young. Is it possible that in his last act of mercy, Henry VIII allowed Anne to have her most trusted women with her in her last hours? A book of hours belonging to Anne Boleyn and currently preserved in the British Library contains the names of Elizabeth and Henry Reppes. Elizabeth Reppes served as Anne Boleyn’s maid of honour when she was known as Bessie Holland. Mistress Holland accompanied Anne to her coronation in 1533 and was placed in Anne’s household because she was mistress of the Queen’s uncle, Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. Why does Bessie Holland’s married name appear in the book of hours that belonged to Anne Boleyn? This overlooked connection between the Queen and her maid raises the possibility that Bessie Holland accompanied Anne to the scaffold and perhaps received this book as a gift.
References
Further reading
House of Treason: the Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty by Robert Hutchinson, 2009
A Tudor Tragedy: Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk by Neville Williams, 1989
The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune: Life of Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk by David M. Head, 1995
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times... by Jessie Childs, 2008
1547 deaths
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Year of birth unknown
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Household of Anne Boleyn |
18037894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-e%20Sheram | Band-e Sheram | Band-e Sheram is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauragai | Bauragai | Bauragai is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajemison%20Rakotomaharo | Rajemison Rakotomaharo | Guy Rajemison Rakotomaharo (born January 12, 1950) is a Malagasy politician who was appointed as vice-president of Madagascar in September 2009. Previously he was President of the Senate of Madagascar from 2002 to 2008 and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva beginning in 2008.
Life and career
Rakotomaharo, a Merina, was born in Andilamena. From 1973 to 1990, he was an advisor to the Director-General of the Maritime Auxiliary of Madagascar (Auximad); subsequently, from 1990 to 1992 he was director of an Auximad agency and then administrative and financial director of a French company. He was Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Antananarivo, as well as at the Higher Institute of Business and Management Communication (ISCAM), from 1992 to 1996, and he held important positions at TIKO, Marc Ravalomanana's dairy company, from 1996 to 1999. Ravalomanana was elected as Mayor of Antananarivo in November 1999, and Rakotomaharo, who supported him, was elected as a municipal councillor from the Second Arrondissement of Antananarivo. Under Ravalomanana, he was appointed as Deputy Mayor of Antananarivo in February 2000.
In the December 2001 presidential election, Rakotomaharo was Ravalomanana's campaign director. After the election, Ravalomanana declared victory and took office as president under controversial circumstances, and Rakotomaharo served as Interim Mayor of Antananarivo in 2002. He was chosen as a member of the national political bureau of the Tiako i Madagasikara (TIM) ruling party in mid-2002. He was also appointed by Ravalomanana as a Senator, and on July 24, 2002, he was elected as President of the Senate.
In the April 2008 Senate election, Rakotomaharo was elected to another term in the Senate from Analamanga region; he received unanimous support from the 147 electors who voted, despite the presence of three other candidates. Yvan Randriasandratriniony was subsequently elected to succeed Rakotomaharo as President of the Senate on May 6, 2008. Rakotomaharo officially proposed Randriasandratriniony for the position, and he said that the decision that he would not serve a second term was an internal TIM matter. Rakotomaharo was instead elected as First Vice-president of the Senate. At a TIM congress later in May 2008, Rakotomaharo was not included in the party's political bureau.
Rakotomaharo was subsequently appointed as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, and he was accordingly replaced as First Vice-president of the Senate by Noël Rakotondramboa on July 2, 2008. He was also replaced in his Senate seat. He departed Madagascar to take up his new post on July 12, 2008.
President Ravalomanana was forced out of office through popular protests and military intervention in March 2009; opposition leader Andry Rajoelina assumed the presidency with support from the military. On March 23, 2009, Rajoelina's High Authority of the Transition revoked the appointment of various ambassadors, but it notably left Rakotomaharo in his post. Rakotomaharo was subsequently present at the national conference which began on April 2, 2009, and was promoted by Rajoelina's government; he was invited to attend by the High Authority of the Transition due to his status as a former President of the Senate, and he said that he was representing only himself. His presence, indicating disloyalty to his party, was perceived as a setback to the TIM.
Rajoelina appointed Rakotomaharo as vice-president on 8 September 2009; he also appointed a new government on the same date. He ostensibly did so in the spirit of the Maputo agreement between Malagasy political leaders, which called for the creation of a national unity government, but the opposition denounced Rajoelina's appointments, and Rakotomaharo was considered to have completely broken with Ravalomanana.
Rakotomaharo is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar.
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People from Alaotra-Mangoro
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Malagasy Protestants
1950 births
Living people |
18037908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bawragai | Bawragai | Bawragai is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bawrchi | Bawrchi | Bawrchi is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhlaq%20Mohammed%20Khan | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan | Akhlaq Mohammad Khan (16 June 1936 – 13 February 2012), better known by his takhallus Shahryar, was an Indian academician, and a doyen of Urdu poetry in India. As a Hindi film lyricist, he is best known for his lyrics in Gaman (1978) and Umrao Jaan (1981) directed by Muzaffar Ali. He retired as the head of the Urdu Department at the Aligarh Muslim University, and thereafter he remained sought after name in mushairas or poetic gatherings, and also co-edited the literary magazine Sher-o-Hikmat.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for Khwab Ka Dar Band Hai (1987), and in 2008 he won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award and only the fourth Urdu poet to win the award. He has been widely acknowledged as the finest exponent of modern Urdu poetry.
Early life and education
Shahryar was born at Aonla, Bareilly to a Muslim Rajput family. His father Abu Mohammad Khan was posted as a Police Officer, though the family hailed from village Chaundhera in Bulandshahr District, Uttar Pradesh. He received his early education at Bulandshahr. In his childhood days, Shahryar wanted to be an athlete but his father wanted him to join the police force. It is then that he ran away from home and was guided by Khaleel-Ur-Rehman Azmi, the eminent Urdu critic and poet. He then studied at Aligarh Muslim University and passed his BA in psychology in 1958. He joined MA in psychology but quit it after a year and got admission to the Urdu department of AMU. In 1961 he passed his MA in Urdu. He also completed his Ph.D. in Aligarh.
Career
Shahryar started his career as a writer at Hamari Zubaan, the weekly magazine of the Anjuman Tarraqqi-e-Urdu in 1961 and worked there until 1966. After that in 1966 he joined Aligarh Muslim University as a lecturer in Urdu. He was appointed professor in 1986 and in 1996, he retired as chairman of the Urdu Department. He co-edited the literary magazine Sher-o-Hikmat (Poetry and Philosophy).
Literary career
His first poetry collection Ism-e-azam was published in 1965, the second collection, Satvan dar (Satva yet in English), appeared in 1969, and the third collection titled Hijr Ke Mausam was released in 1978. His most celebrated work, Khwab Ke dar band hain, arrived in 1987, which also won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for that year. In addition, he published five collections of his poetry in Urdu script. In 2008, he became the fourth Urdu writer to win the Jnanpith Award, after Firaq, Ali Sardar Jafri, and Qurratulain Hyder.
Lyricist
Shahryar wrote lyrics for select films, from Aligarh where he was approached by filmmakers. Muzaffar Ali and Shahryar were friends from their student days, and Shahryar had shared some of the ghazals with him. Later when Ali made his directorial debut with Gaman in 1978, he used two of his ghazals Seene Mein Jalan Ankhon Mein Toofan Sa Kyun Hai and Ajeeb Saneha Mujhpar Guzar Gaya Yaaron in the film, and they are still considered classic. All his ghazals from Umrao Jaan, 'Dil Cheez Kya Hai Aap Meri Jaan Lijiye', 'Ye Ka Jagah Hai Doston', 'In Aankhon Ki Masti Ke' etc. are among the finest lyrical works in Bollywood. He also wrote for Yash Chopra's Faasle (1985), thereafter Chopra offered him three more films to write for, but he refused as he didn't want to become a "song shop". Though he wrote for Muzaffar Ali's Anjuman (1986). He also left behind unfinished contributions to Ali's Zooni and Daaman.
Personal life
Shahryar married Najma Mahmood, a teacher in the English department in the Women’s College at Aligarh in 1968. They had three children, Humayun Shahryar, Saima Shahryar, and Faridoon Shahryar who is an entertainment journalist.
He died on 13 February 2012 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, after a prolonged illness due to lung cancer.
Awards
Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for his poetry collection, Khwab Ka Dar Band Hai (1987).
The fourth Urdu writer to win the Jnanpith Award – 2008.
Firaaq Samman
Bahadur Shah Zafar Award.
Four theses have been written on Shahryar's works.
Selected bibliography
Ism-e-azam, 1965.
Satvan dar, 1969.
Hijr Ke Mausam, 1978.
Khwab Ke dar band Hain, 1987.
Neend ki Kirchen – (English: Shards of Shattered Sleep).
Through the Closed Doorway: A Collection of Nazms by Shahryar, tr. Rakhshanda Jalil. 2004, Rupa & Co., .
Shahryar, Akhlaq Mohmmad Khan: Influence of the western criticism on the Urdu criticism, Aligarh.
Dhund ki Roshni (English: The Light of Dusk): Selected Poems of Shahryar, 2003, Sahitya Akademi, .
Further reading
Urdu language and literature: Critical Perspectives, New Delhi, 1991.
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Deaths from lung cancer in India
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18037918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bawshi%2C%20Balkh | Bawshi, Balkh | Bawshi is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lion%2C%20the%20Lamb%2C%20the%20Man | The Lion, the Lamb, the Man | The Lion, the Lamb, the Man is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Tom Forman and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. Though once believed to be lost, a shortened version of the film was preserved by the Museum of Modern Art in 2008, and was re-premiered at the 2017 Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California.
A nitrate print was discovered by film collector Bob Geoghegan and his Archive Film Agency in England in 2007. They loaned it to the Museum of Modern Art who made a dupe negative and a release print in 2008. The first public screening was at Cinecon in September, 2017. Though the film was originally released at 2 reels, the print that survives appears to be only 1 reel. Most of the opening footage is missing, so the film begins with Agnes already living in the Kentucky mountains. A still exists showing one of the actors in makeup as a cave man (see plot synopsis).
Co-star Millard K. Wilson and Chaney became life-long friends. Wilson worked as an assistant director on many of Chaney's later films for MGM.
Plot
Agnes Duane returns from college to her New England home and is surprised to find that her parents have chosen an effeminate minister named Percival Higginbotham to be her husband. She laughs at their poor choice, and to cure her of her intransigence, she is sent to live with her uncle in the mountains of Kentucky. There she meets the two Brown brothers who both fall in love with her. The younger brother tries to force himself on her, but he is stopped by the older brother. In a flashback fantasy sequence, the brothers are shown as two savage cave men in the prehistoric past who fight over the primitive woman they love. Back in the present, Agnes later escapes from the two men and meets the Reverend Hugh Baxton, a real man, and Agnes realizes he is the only man she could ever truly love.
Cast
Pauline Bush as Agnes Duane (The Woman)
Lon Chaney as Fred Brown (The Lion)
Millard K. Wilson as Bert Brown (The Fox)
William C. Dowlan as the Reverend Hughe Baxton (The Man)
Gus Inglis as the Reverend Percival Higginbotham (The Lamb)
Reception
"Produced in a telling manner by Joseph De Grasse. Pauline Bush, Lon Chaney and Millard K. Wilson are well cast. The director has fitted the remote past with the present in a fine way, and the two reels are always entertaining."—Motion Picture News
"This has been done frequently in about the same way. It always possesses a certain amount of interest. This is handled with a fair degree of strength."—Moving Picture World
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1914 short films
American silent short films
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Rediscovered American films
1910s American films |
18037931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayanan | Bayanan | Bayanan is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baybul | Baybul | Baybul is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brayden%20Lyle | Brayden Lyle | Brayden Lyle (born 6 March 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles and vice-captained Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL).
AFL career
West Coast Eagles career (1995–1996)
Lyle played for the West Coast Eagles in the 1995 and 1996 seasons, taking part in the club's finals campaign in the former year but then continued to struggle to break into the West Coast midfield, which was one of the AFL's strongest at the time. When not playing for West Coast, Lyle appeared for Western Australian Football League (WAFL) club East Perth.
Port Adelaide career (1997–2001)
Lyle returned to Port Adelaide in 1997 for their inaugural AFL season. He was named vice-captain alongside teammate Matthew Primus and captained Port in their first game (due to Gavin Wanganeen being suspended). Lyle averaged a career high 22 disposals the 1997, a remarkable turnaround after only playing 25 games in three years at West Coast. He was mostly used in the midfield as a centreman. Lyle won Port's Best Team Man award in his first two seasons (1997 and 1998). In 1997 he also represented South Australia in a State of Origin game against Victoria at Football Park and won the Fos Williams Medal.
With development of Port's depth in midfield he struggled in 2001 as younger, quicker players overtook Lyle and he was delisted at the end of the year.
References
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
1973 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from South Australia
West Coast Eagles players
Port Adelaide Football Club players
Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions)
Port Adelaide Magpies players
South Australian State of Origin players
Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players
East Perth Football Club players |
18037948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatella%20della%20Porta | Donatella della Porta | Donatella della Porta (born 1956, in Catania) is an Italian sociologist and political scientist, who is Professor of political science and political sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She is known for her research in the areas of social movements, corruption, political violence, police and policies of public order. In 2022, she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Biography
della Porta is Full Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore. Between 2003 and 2014, she had been Full Professor in political sociology at the European University Institute. Previously, she had been Full Professor of Political Science, president of the corso di laurea in Administrative Sciences, and Director of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Florence. She has received a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris, and a Ph.D in political and social sciences at the European University Institute in Florence.
della Porta directs COSMOS - Center on Social Movement Studies actually at the Scuola Normale Superiore, the DEMOS project (Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of the Society) founded by the European Commission. She also coordinated the Gruppo di Ricerca sull'azione collettiva in Europa (GRACE).
della Porta has conducted research also at Cornell University, Ithaca College, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. In 1990, she received a Career Development Award of the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, and in 1997, a Stipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Her main research interests concern social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, police and policies of public order. On these issues she has conducted investigations in Italy, France, Germany and Spain.
Publications
Della Porta, Donatella, Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements, Wiley, 2013.
Della Porta, Donatella, Social Movements in Times of Austerity, Cambridge, Polity, 2015.
Della Porta, Donatella, Dieter Rucht (eds.), Meeting Democracy: Power and Deliberation in Global Justice Movements, New York, Cambridge, 2013.* Della Porta, Donatella, Hanspeter Kriesi and Dieter Rucht (eds.), Social Movements in a Globalizing World, New York, Macmillan, second expanded edition, 2009.
Della Porta, Donatella (ed.), Democracy in Social Movements, Houndsmill, Palgrave, 2009.
Della Porta, Donatella and Manuela Caiani, Social Movements and Europeanization, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Della Porta, Donatella (ed.) Another Europe. London, Routledge, 2009.
Della Porta, Donatella I partiti politici, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2nd updated and expanded edition, 2009.
Della Porta, Donatella and Gianni Piazza, Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: How Protest Creates Communities, Berghahn Books, 2008
Della Porta, Donatella and Michael Keating, eds.), Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences. A Pluralist Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Della Porta, Donatella Introduzione alla scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008 (new expanded edition).
Della Porta, Donatella, Maurizio Cotta and Leonardo Morlino, Scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008 (new expanded edition).
Della Porta, Donatella and Gianni Piazza, Le ragioni del no. Le campagne contro la Tav in Val di Susa e il Ponte sullo Stretto, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2008.
Della Porta, Donatella and Alberto Vannucci, Mani Impunite. Vecchia e nuova corruzione in Italia, Roma-bari, Laterza, 2007.
Della Porta, Donatella Et al., Global democracy and the World Social Forum, Boulder Co., Paradigm, 2007.
Della Porta, Donatella (ed.), The Global Justice Movement. Cross National and Transnational perspectives, Boulder Co. Paradigm, 2007.
Della Porta, Donatella, O movimento por unma nova globalizacao, Sam Paulo do Brasil, Edicoes Loyola, 2007.
Della Porta, Donatella, Abby Peterson and Herbert Reiter (eds.), The Policing of Transnational Protest, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006.
Della Porta, Donatella La Politica locale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006, third revised edition.
Della Porta, Donatella, Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca and Herbert Reiter, Globalization from Below, Minneapolis, The University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Della Porta, Donatella and Olivier Fillieule (eds.), Police et manifestants, Paris, Presses de Science Po., 2006.
Della Porta, Donatella Manuela Caiani, Quale Europa? Europeizzazione, identità e conflitti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani, Social Movements: an introduction, 2nd edition, Oxford, Blackwell, 2006
Della Porta, Donatella and Sidney Tarrow (eds), Transnational Protest and Global Activism, New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
Della Porta, Donatella (ed.), Comitati di cittadini e democrazia urbana, Cosenza, Rubbettino, 2004.
Della Porta, Donatella and Herbert Reiter, La protesta e il controllo. Movimenti e forze dell’ordine nell’era della globalizzazione, Milano, Berti/Altreconomia, 2004.
Della Porta, Donatella and Maurizio Cotta and Leonardo Morlino, Fondamenti di scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani, Movimenti senza protesta? L’ambientalismo in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
D. della Porta and H. Reiter, Polizia e protesta, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003.
D. della Porta, I new global, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003
M. Andretta, D. della Porta, L. Mosca and H. Reiter, Global, noglobal, new global. Le proteste contro il G8 a Genova, Roma, Laterza, 2002 (also in German by Campus Verlag)
D. della Porta and S. Rose-Ackerman (eds.), Corrupt exchanges, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlag, 2002
D. Della Porta, Introduzione alla scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002.
D. Della Porta, I partiti politici, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001.
M. Cotta, D. della Porta, L. Morlino, Scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001.
D. della Porta, M. Greco, A. Szakolczai (eds.), Identità, riconoscimento, scambio. Saggi in onore di Alessandro Pizzorno, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000.
D. della Porta, A. Vannucci, Un paese anormale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999.
D. della Porta, H. Kriesi and D. Rucht (eds.), Social Movement in a Globalizing World, New York, Macmillan, 1999.
D. della Porta, M. Diani, Social Movements: An Introduction, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1999.
D. della Porta, A. Vannucci, Corrup Exchanges, Aldine de Gruyter, 1999.
D. della Porta, La politica locale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1999.
D. della Porta and H. Reiter (eds.), Policing Protest. The Control of Mass Demonstration in Western Democracies, Minneapolis, The University of Minnesota Press.
D. della Porta e M. Diani, I movimenti sociali, Roma, Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1997.
D. della Porta, Movimenti collettivi e sistema politico in Italia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996.
D. della Porta, Social Movements, Political Violence and the State, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995 (Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association in 1996).
D. della Porta, Y. Meny (eds.), Démocratie et corruption en Europe, Paris, La Découverte, 1995 (published also in Italian by Liguori, in Portuguese by Inquerito, and in English by Pinter).
D. della Porta, A. Vannucci, Amministrazione pubblica e corruzione. Risorse, meccanismi, attori, Bologna, Il Mulino 1994.
D. della Porta, Lo scambio occulto. Casi di corruzione politica in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992.
References
External links
Donatella della Porta Personal page
Homepage at European University Institute
European University Institute
DEMOS Project Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of the Society
Project Executive Summary Edited by Donatella Della Porta and Herbert Reiter Florence, February 2008
European Political Science Review
"Global-net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a Movement of Movements". By Donatella Della Porta and Lorenzo Mosca. Journal of Public Policy, 25, I, 165-190, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Living people
Italian sociologists
Italian women sociologists
Italian political scientists
Academic staff of the European University Institute
Academic staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Women political scientists
1956 births |
18037951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20Temor | Bay Temor | Bay Temor is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murnungin | Murnungin | Murnungin is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 49 km from Swan Hill, Victoria.
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Rural City of Swan Hill |
18037972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazarak%2C%20Balkh | Bazarak, Balkh | Bazarak is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot%20On%20%28TV%20programme%29 | Spot On (TV programme) | Spot On is a New Zealand children's television programme that aired from 1973 to 1988. The format was a weekly programme with three or four presenters, based on the format of the British programme Blue Peter where they would introduce their young audience to experiences they might not be familiar with: going out in the field and participating in jobs, events, or sports, to learn what is involved. Examples included fire-fighting, flying in rescue helicopters, visiting a chocolate factory, rock climbing and abseiling, or travelling to other countries. Studio-bound sketches and interviews filled out the half-hour show.
Commonly one presenter was replaced each year. The programme was produced by TVNZ at their Dunedin studios, except for the final two seasons which were produced at the TVNZ Studio 4 facility in Christchurch.
Presenters
Ray Millard
Erin Dunleavy
Douglas Blair
Evelyn Skinner
Ian Taylor
Danny Watson
Margaret Rishworth (Campbell)
Marcus Turner
Helen McGowan
Sandy Beverley
Peta Carey
Ole Maiava
Wendy Nuzum
Josie McNee
Phil Keoghan
Amber Cunliffe
Producers
Murray Hutchinson
Michael Stedman
Huntly Eliott
Judith Thomas
Ian Garner
References
External links
Spot On series overview at NZ On Screen
New Zealand children's television series
1970s New Zealand television series
1980s New Zealand television series
1973 New Zealand television series debuts
1988 New Zealand television series endings
TVNZ original programming |
18037983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo%20Gentilomo | Giacomo Gentilomo | Giacomo Gentilomo (5 April 1909 – 16 April 2001) was an Italian film director and painter.
Early life
He was born in Trieste. Gentilomo moved to Rome at a young age.
Career
At 21 years old he entered the cinema industry, working as a script surveyor and an assistant director. Active between 1933 and 1937 as a film editor, in 1939 he debuted as a director with Il Carnevale di Venezia. His 1945 film O sole mio got critical acclaim. His later career was mainly devoted to genre films, and failed to achieve significant critical interest. Dissatisfied with cinema, in the mid-1960s Gentilomo decided to abandon films and to instead fulfill his passion for painting.
Filmography
References
External links
1909 births
2001 deaths
Italian film directors
Italian film editors |
18037986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Weckerling | Otto Weckerling | Otto Weckerling (Magdeburg, 23 October 1910 — Dortmund, 6 May 1977) was a German professional road bicycle racer. Weckerling won two stages in the Tour de France.
Major results
1936
Frankfurt
1937
Deutschland Tour
Tour de France:
Winner stage 8
1938
Tour de France:
Winner stage 17
1950
National Track Madison Championship (with Werner Richter)
References
External links
Official Tour de France results for Otto Weckerling
1910 births
1977 deaths
German male cyclists
German Tour de France stage winners
Sportspeople from Magdeburg
Sportspeople from the Province of Saxony
Cyclists from Saxony-Anhalt |
18037992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boria%20Bal | Boria Bal | Boria Bal is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18037993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Night%20of%20Thrills | A Night of Thrills | A Night of Thrills is a 1914 American silent supernatural drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Ida May Park (uncredited)
(who was De Grasse's wife) and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. The film is now considered to be lost. Some sources say this film may never have actually been released at all, since not a single review of the film has ever turned up anywhere, but the Blake book claims it was released theatrically on Dec. 13, 1914.
Plot
Howard Wild, a kindly old gentleman, bequeaths his old mansion to his young niece Hazel and her fiancé Jack as a wedding present. A few days before the wedding, Hazel hears some terrible gossip about Jack, and after a spat, she leaves him and flees to the mansion to be alone. That night some thieves arrive to rob the house and Hazel watches them, helpless and terrified. When the criminals go down into the wine cellar, she runs for the door, but just then Jack enters and, mistaking him for another burglar in the dark, she screams and faints. Hearing her scream, The burglars run from the house, thinking the place is haunted, and leave the loot behind. Jack revives Hazel, but she still refuses to make up with him. Suddenly the ghost of old Uncle Howard appears before them and acts as a peacemaker, reuniting them again. The two lovebirds return home to be married.
Cast
Pauline Bush as Hazel
William C. Dowlan as Jack
Charles Manley as Uncle Howard Wild (the ghost)
Lon Chaney credited as "The Visitor"
References
External links
1914 films
1914 short films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
1914 drama films
Lost American films
Films directed by Joseph De Grasse
Universal Pictures short films
Silent American drama films
1914 lost films
Lost drama films
1910s American films |
18037999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowz%20Arigh | Bowz Arigh | Bowz Arigh is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton%2C%20Victoria | Bolton, Victoria | Bolton is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately from Robinvale, Victoria.
Bolton Post Office opened on 17 July 1920 and closed in 1975.
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Rural City of Swan Hill |
18038003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chahar%20Kent | Chahar Kent | Chahar Kent is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Chahar Kint District
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province
Villages in Afghanistan |
18038012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahram%20Kevorkian | Vahram Kevorkian | Vahram Kevorkian (17 December 1887– 17 July 1911) was a football player of Armenian descent. His position on the field was striker.
Kevorkian was born in a rich merchant family in Yerevan, and had been sent to study in Boston. He arrived in Belgium presumably in 1902, after he had been studying in the United States. He settled in Bruges and also started playing football for Cercle Brugge in 1902. He made his debut at the highest level of Belgian football one season later.
In 1905, Kevorkian went to Antwerp side Beerschot. Even though Beerschot relegated that season, Kevorkian chose to stay and Antwerp were back again at the top level in 1907.
Kevorkian was called up for Belgium in 1908, for a match against Sweden. Kevorkian scored the 1–0 in the 30th minute. Belgium won the match 2–1. Even though Kevorkian did not have the Belgian nationality, he was allowed to appear in the match. Because when the rule started counting that players had to have the nationality of the country they were playing for, Kevorkian was already playing in Belgium. Such players were still allowed too. (grandfather clause)
He played the last match of his career with Beerschot against his former team Cercle Brugge. The match ended in a 2–2 draw. Shortly afterwards, Kevorkian had to undergo surgery for his appendicitis. However, Kevorkian's situation worsened after the surgery. He died on 17 July 1911.
Honours
Individual
Belgian First Division top scorer: 1908-09 (30 goals)
References
External links
Cerclemuseum.be
An article about him on a Russian football website (translated)
1887 births
1911 deaths
Belgian people of Armenian descent
Belgian Pro League players
Belgium men's international footballers
Belgian men's footballers
Armenian men's footballers
Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players
Men's association football forwards
K. Beerschot V.A.C. players
Naturalised citizens of Belgium
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Belgium
Deaths from appendicitis
Expatriates from the Russian Empire in the United States |
18038016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenton%20Rickard | Brenton Rickard | Brenton Scott Rickard (born 19 October 1983) is a retired breaststroke swimmer from Australia. He emerged at the international level in 2006, swimming at the Commonwealth games. He has captured multiple Olympic and World Championship medals, as well as world and Commonwealth records. During this period he was coached by Vince Raleigh.
In 2009, he was Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year.
Olympic Games
He arrived in Beijing as a medal contender and a serious threat for the gold medal in all three of his events. He set Australian, Commonwealth and Oceanic records, capturing silver medals in the 200-metre breaststroke and 4×100-metre medley relay, and finished 5th in the 100-metre breaststroke.
Beijing Olympics in Beijing, China:
200-metre breaststroke.
4×100-metre medley relay.
(5th) 100-metre breaststroke.
FINA World Championships
Rickard's first World Championships were a good one, consistently capturing medals in all of his pet events. No Australian records were set, however his status in the world rankings leapfrogged.
FINA World Championships 2007 in Melbourne, Australia:
200-metre breaststroke.
100-metre breaststroke.
4×100-metre medley relay.
In the final of the 100-metre breaststroke, Rickard won the gold medal and surpassed the old world record of 58.91 held by Kosuke Kitajima with a time of 58.58.
FINA World Championships 2009 in Rome, Italy:
100-metre breaststroke.
4×100-metre medley relay.
(5th) 200-metre breaststroke.
Career best times
Doping Allegations
In 2020, the IOC began proceedings in the Court of Arbitration of Sport to void Rickard's results from the 2012 London Olympics after his urine samples from that competition tested positive for furosemide, a banned diuretic. If the IOC's findings are upheld, six Australian swimmers would be stripped of their bronze medal in the medley, in which Rickard swam the breaststroke leg of the heat.
The proceedings were withdrawn on August 24, 2021.
See also
List of world records in swimming
List of Commonwealth records in swimming
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
World record progression 100 metres breaststroke
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
Australian male breaststroke swimmers
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Olympic swimmers for Australia
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Swimmers from Brisbane
Australian Institute of Sport swimmers
World record setters in swimming
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in swimming
Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
21st-century Australian people
Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Sportsmen from Queensland |
18038020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chahar%20Mahalleh | Chahar Mahalleh | Chahar Mahalleh is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chahi | Chahi | Chahi is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapchal | Chapchal | Chapchal is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her%20Escape | Her Escape | Her Escape is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. Lon Chaney not only acted in this film, he also wrote the screenplay. The Blake book on Chaney states the film was actually released earlier on December 13, 1914, but all other sources say December 27. The film is now considered to be lost.
A creepy still exists of Chaney in the role of Pete, the blind man, showing him attacking his sister in the film (see plot synopsis). Chaney played the blind man in this film simply by rolling his eyes up into his head, similar to the method he used to play Pew, the blind pirate, in Treasure Island (1920).
Plot
Tom Walsh and his son Pete Walsh (Lon Chaney) are criminals, but his daughter Pauline is basically a good kid. One day, while they are forcing her to act as a lookout for them, a group of Salvation Army singers gives her a pamphlet on how to lead a good life. Pauline tells her father and brother that she wants to repent and cannot go on aiding them in their life of crime any more. In a wild rage, Tom attacks his daughter with a knife, but he falls down the stairs and is killed.
Pauline relocates to a much nicer town where she gets a job as nurse to a wealthy family that is planning to move out west. Pete follows her to her new home and confronts her in a park one day. Paul Reeves, a rich young mine owner, sees Pete harassing the young woman and comes to her rescue, knocking Pete down. Paul and Pauline soon after fall in love and get married.
Meanwhile, her brother Pete has become the leader of an outlaw gang and is befriended by a drug addict he helps out in a barroom brawl. Pete is permanently blinded in a bar when a shaken beer bottle explodes in his eyes, and the dope addict becomes Pete's permanent companion. Soon after, Pete learns of his sister's marriage from the society pages of a newspaper. The dope fiend leads Pete to Pauline's home where Pete tries to get her to give him a large sum of money. She refuses and when Pete threatens to kill her, she flees. As Pete chases her, he falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his neck, dying the same way his father had done.
Cast
Pauline Bush as Pauline Walsh
William C. Dowlan as Paul (Pauline's husband)
Lon Chaney as Pete Walsh (Pauline's brother)
Richard Rosson as the Dope Fiend
Laura Oakley in an Undetermined Role
Reception
"Not many dramas are as tense and full of action as this. Produced by Joseph De Grasse, this film bears the marks of fine direction."—Motion Picture News
"The (villain) is played by Lon Chaney, the author, and his character dominates the story...The picture tells its story pretty well and its big situation is certainly striking. The spirit of it is not of the highest; although there is nothing vulgar about it." --- Moving Picture World
References
External links
1914 films
1914 short films
1914 drama films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Lost American drama films
Films directed by Joseph De Grasse
Universal Pictures short films
Silent American drama films
1914 lost films
1910s American films |
18038041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chehel%20Gazi | Chehel Gazi | Chehel Gazi is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunat | Kunat | Kunat is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 28 km from Swan Hill, Victoria.
Kunat Post Office opened on 14 July 1900 and closed in 1949.
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Rural City of Swan Hill |
18038050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshmeh-ye%20Shafa | Cheshmeh-ye Shafa | Cheshmeh-ye Shafa or Cheshm-e-Shafa (English: "the gorge of the healing spring") is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
In October 2008, the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA) believed they have found a vast ancient city of Bactria. It is believed that the site could be where Alexander the Great married Bactrian princess Roxana.
It is located 30 km south of Balkh.
Tangi Cheshmeh Shafa is Afghanistan's largest Achaemenid site discovered to date. It spans about 3 km square. The site dates back to 500-600 BC. In the oasis, a huge white rock, shaped like an anvil, is evidence of Zoroastrian priests that performed rituals for people who lived in the region around 600 BC. On the altar's flat top is a well for oil.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chub%20Bash | Chub Bash | Chub Bash is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
It lies on the border with Uzbekistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDE%20Pod%C4%9Bbrady | CDE Poděbrady | The Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies at Charles University established the Centre for Distance Education (; CDV) in order to prepare distant on-line courses. The Centre is located in Poděbrady at the Poděbrady Castle.
Initially, language courses in the form of blended learning, which is a combination of e-learning and attendance conversational meetings, were chosen. The language courses include courses of Czech language for foreigners and courses of English. English courses available are intended for elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate and FCE students, Czech courses available are intended for A1 and A2 levels (CEFR). A B1 level course is being prepared.
The Institute cooperated on a project called @languages within the framework of the European Union program Leonardo da Vinci. Its aim was to create a course of business English for SMEs.
See also
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Electronic learning
Blended learning
External links
Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies at Charles University
Charles University
Charles University
2004 establishments in the Czech Republic |
18038070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream%20Stuff | Dream Stuff | Dream Stuff is a collection of short stories by the Australian writer David Malouf, published in 2000.
Contents
"At Schindler's"
"Closer"
"Blacksoil Country"
"Jacko's Reach"
"Lone Pine"
"Night Training"
"Sally's Story"
"Great Day"
Australian short story collections
2000 short story collections
Chatto & Windus books |
18038072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowie | Nowie | Nowie may refer to:
Nowie, Victoria, Australia
Nowie, Poland |
18038076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dali%2C%20Afghanistan | Dali, Afghanistan | Dali is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
It lies near the border with Uzbekistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darabad%2C%20Afghanistan | Darabad, Afghanistan | Darabad is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20A.%20Nugawela | E. A. Nugawela | Major Edward "Eddie" Alexander Nugawela, ED (21 September 1898 – 5 July 1972) was a Ceylonese lawyer, soldier and politician. He was the first Cabinet Minister of Education in independent Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) (1947–1954), later Cabinet Minister of Health (1954–1956), a Member of Parliament and State Council.
Early life and education
Born in Kandy, to the Radala Nugawela family. His father was Punchi Banda Nugawela who was the Rate Mahatmaya of Sarasiyapattuwa and the Diyawadana Nilame of the Temple of the Tooth. His mother was Mallika Dunuwila, daughter of Dunuwila Disawa. Nugawela was educated at Royal College, Colombo.
Legal career
Studying law at the Ceylon Law College, Nugawela qualified as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. He established his legal practice in the Unofficial Bar in Kandy.
Military service
Nugawela joined the Ceylon Light Infantry as a volunteer officer having been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1928. Mobilized for war service during World War II in 1940, he was prompted to the rank of Major in 1942. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration, the Defence Medal and the War Medal 1939–1945.
Political career
State Council of Ceylon
Captain Nugawela entered politics in the 1936 Ceylonese State Council election, succeeding his father P. B. Nugawela Dissawe to the Galagedera seat in the second State Council of Ceylon. In the State Council he was elected a member of the Executive Committee of Health and served as a member of the Special Committee on Education setup in 1940. He on the Board of Income Tax and District Road Committee, Kandy.
House of Representatives
Major Nugawela was elected to the House of Representatives of the first Parliament of Ceylon, in the 1947 general election from Kadugannawa representing the United National Party and was appointed the Minister of Education by Prime Minister D. S. Senanayake on 26 September 1947. He retain the Education portfolio in Dudley Senanayake's cabinet having been re-elected in 1952 general election. He is noted for educational reforms and increasing the number of state schools during his tenure, implementation the free education scheme started by Dr C.W.W. Kannangara. He was the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Ceylon. In October 1953, he was appointed Minister of Health by the newly appointed Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala and served in this capacity till early 1956. He lost his seat in the 1956 general election to C. A. S. Marikkar.
Legacy
The Government of Sri Lanka issued a stamp in his honor on 22 May 1988 and the E.A. Nugawela Primary School in Werellagama was named after him.
Family
He married Louise Gooneratna.
References
External links
Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka
The first cabinet of Ministers
Sri Lanka 54th Independence Anniversary
SRI LANKA: THE UNTOLD STORY
Education ministers of Sri Lanka
Health ministers of Sri Lanka
Members of the 2nd State Council of Ceylon
Members of the 1st Parliament of Ceylon
Members of the 2nd Parliament of Ceylon
United National Party politicians
Sri Lankan educational theorists
20th-century Sri Lankan lawyers
Ceylonese advocates
Ceylonese military personnel of World War II
Ceylon Light Infantry officers
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
People from Kandy
1898 births
1972 deaths |
18038097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darreh-ye%20Suf | Darreh-ye Suf | Darreh-ye Suf is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh%20Deraz%2C%20Afghanistan | Deh Deraz, Afghanistan | Deh Deraz is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pira%2C%20Victoria | Pira, Victoria | Pira is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 23 km from Swan Hill. It was a stop on the Piangil railway line but the station is now closed.
Pira Post Office opened on 14 July 1924 and closed in 1975.
In December 2017 Amanda Maher, a farmer from Pira, was awarded a Victorian Young Farmer's Scholarship.
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Rural City of Swan Hill |
18038114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh%20Now%2C%20Afghanistan | Deh Now, Afghanistan | Deh Now is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
See also
Balkh Province
References
Populated places in Balkh Province |
18038115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enathi | Enathi | Enathi is a village in Tamil Nadu, India, located in india
The village has many temples, such as Boongulam, Ancheneya, Kali, and some Vinayagar and Ayyanar. Kabaddi is a popular game in the village, and a number of well-known players are from here.
Enathi village is known for having many cultural activities. Veera Pandiya Kattabomman and Harichnadra dramas are periodically staged and acted by village locals during festivals. Village cultural activities include oyilattam for men, and kummy for both men and women.
The village contains one bank, the Primary Agriculture Cooperative Bank. The nearby village's Chitrangudi Bird Sanctuary is popular.
The saintly devotees of Shiva are known as Nayanmar or Nayanar). There are 63 of them, one of them from this village is called "Enathi natha nayanar".
The climate of Karisal Kaadu is semi-arid, with hot and dry summers. Both the temperature and humidity are usually high; the village is close to the equator and from the coast.
Geography
The village of Enathi has an average elevation of . The Vinayagar and Ayyanar Swamy Temple occupies the major area of Enathi.
Schools
Anjaneya Matriculation School
Government primary school
Business
The majority of the population works in agriculture; commercial activity in the area is also related to this.
Politics
Enathi is part of Ramanathapuram (Lok Sabha Constituency) and the Mudukulathur Assembly Constitution.
References
About Enathi natha nayanar
About Boongulathan Kabaddi Club
Rajaboopathy
Cities and towns in Ramanathapuram district |
18038116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Technology%20and%20Textile%20Industry | Museum of Technology and Textile Industry | The Museum of Technology and Textile Industry - a branch of the Museum in Bielsko-Biała, Poland - was founded on January 1, 1979 with the aim of evidencing the traditions of the local wool industry centre by means of collecting machines, devices and documents related to this field of production. Apart from this the Museum also exhibits items connected with firefighting, printing and metal machine industry. The Museum occupies some parts of the Büttners' former cloth factory, which used to be one of the biggest textile factories in Bielsko.
History of the Museum
The Museum of Textile Technology took over the exhibits connected with weaver’s craft from the main seat of the Museum in Bielsko-Biała, and then gradually it enriched its collection with machines and devices taken from the local textile factories. At first the branch occupied the buildings of ZPW Rytex (Wool Industry Works), but in 1983 the museum was relocated in the part of the ZPW Bawelana buildings. The renovation works in the buildings started in 1992, and the first part of the exhibition was open for public on 2 December 1996. The exhibition on the first floor was opened a year later.
Till 1995 the branch was called The Museum of Textile Technology. However it received lots of items connected with other kinds of technology so its name was changed into the present one. Along with the machines and devices connected with textile industry, which take up most of the exhibition, there are also items devoted to the history of Bielsko-Biała fire-brigade and waterworks, a small printing room and a so-called museum storage. Even the traditions of the local metal processing industry were not omitted. Depending on the financial means a restoration of the further rooms and the extension of the exhibitions are planned.
The Museum occupies some of the buildings of the old cloth factory which used to belong to the Büttners family. The factory was one of the biggest textile factories at the time. In 1868 the local clothier master Karol Traugott Büttner bought a garden in the Żywiec Suburb, where he put up a two-storey building with annexes. In 1884 the company was inherited by his sons Karol Teodor and Gustaw Adolf who ran it as Karl Büttners Söhne (Karl Büttners Sons). They expanded the company. In 1889 the factory hall was put up on Sukinnicza Street, a boiler room was built and steam drive was introduced. In the first decade of the 20th century a storied factory hall with a vast garret was built, now housing the main part of the museum exhibition.
In the 1930s the company was taken over K.T. Büttner’s sons: Karol August, Paweł Maurycy and Herbert Oskar, and G. A. Büttner’s sons: Jan Karol and Kurt Ernest, and their brother-in-law, Erwin Kerger. With starting the carpet weaving mill they offered more products. The company owned the main factory and its branch in Biała which until 1910 was Krebok & Then cloth factory belonging to the Büttners. It burned down completely in the 1930s. Also a Kerger’s dyeing house in Biała was in use.
After the World War II the nationalized factory in Bielsko was a part of the L. Lasek Textile Industry Works, later known as Bawelana factory B. After stopping the production in 1983 some of the factory objects were given to the Museum of Technology and Textile Industry.
Exhibits
There are many kinds of textile products made from various raw materials. The museum exhibits mostly machines and devices used for producing woolen coarse textile including the famous Bielsko cloth. The exhibits are gathered in four rooms corresponding particular mills of the old factory.
In the Spinning Mill the sheep wool was turned into yarn. In this mill we can see a spinning waste cleaner, open raw material beater, willow used for opening and mixing the raw material, two carding machine sets (double- and triple-component, which turned the wool into roving, and finally the self-actor mule (spinning frame), where the roving changed into yarn. The last two machines produced by Bielsko machine factory G. Josephy’s Erben at the end of the 19th century, belong to the unique monuments of the old textile technology. We also have here a tearing machine used for woolen rags, from which reclaimed fibers to produce low-quality yarn were obtained.
Next the yarn went to the Preliminary Treatment Mill. In here it was wound on the winding machines, the warp threads were prepared on the warping machines, while the weft threads on the weft-winders. The interesting objects here are mechanical warping machine produced in Bielsko Georg Schwabe machine factory in the 1930s, and the weft-winder by G.Josephy’s Erben dating back to the beginnings of the 20th century. By the preliminary treatment mill one can also visit Master’s office who supervised his workers.
In the Weaving Mill the warp and the weft were turned into textile by means of looms. The Museum presents a varied collection: manual vertical looms dating back to the Lusatian Culture (700-400 B.C.), wooden manual harness looms, and shuttleless pneumatic and rapier looms (1960s). On one of them we have a weaving process demonstrated. The exhibition is completed by rich collection of the pattern cards punching machines which controlled the Jacquard and harness looms.
Textiles, before taken to a warehouse, undergone many chemical and mechanical treatments, which took place in the Finishing Mill. In this part of the exhibition we can see a boiler used for dyeing wool and yarn, cylinder fulling mill for coarse textile, two power gig-mills (one with metal needles, the other with thistle) hand shears, and automatic shearing machine, and finally a textile folding machine. This exhibition is completed by laboratory devices, the collections of various shuttles, a catalogue of sample textiles produced in Bielsko and Biała (1928–1940), lithographies presenting local factories (ca.1870), as well as paintings and graphic arts connected with textile industry.
The Museum also presents many machines used to produce hats: cone carding machine, felting machines, hammer fulling mill, dyeing apparatus, drawing frame, sand press and others.
Fire and water
The exceptional exhibitions are devoted to fire-fighting and the city waterworks. The former was prepared in the Spring 2004 on the occasion of 140th anniversary of the Bielsko-Biała Volunteer Fire Department. The Museum presents its own collection as well as souvenirs belonging to local headquarters of the National Fire Service, to Volunteer Fire Department from different city districts, as well as to private individuals. The largest exhibits are two horse-drawn carriages and the interwar sleighs equipped with fire hoses. In two showcases there are archival photographs (originals and replicas) showing fire stations in Bielsko and Biała, portraits of fire chiefs, a group of fire-fighters, emblems and badges, documents etc. Next, there are souvenirs connected with fire stations in Komorowice, Bystra, Lipnik, Leszczyny, Hałcnów and Straconka. The Exhibition is completed by OSP (Volunteer Fire Department) units’ banners, fire-fighting and life-saving equipment, a collection of nozzles, helmets and belts.
The exhibition devoted to the history of water supply to Bielsko-Biała is the most recent one (November 2005). It was prepared on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of Bielsko waterworks launch. One can find here many original technical drawings dating back to the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Kept in the AQUA S.A. Company in Bielsko-Biała this is the first time they have been presented to the public. The drawings are: never executed Bielsko-Biała waterworks project by engineer Grahn (1887) with the aim to build water intake on the River Soła in Kęty-Podlasie, the project of waterworks for the City of Biała with water intake in Straconka by engineer Pfister (1898), and the project of the dam in Wapienica by Dyckerhoff & Widmann company (1927). The technical drawings are complemented by various postcards, photos and archives available thanks to National Archives in Katowice, Bielsko-Biała branch as well as a few old water meters.
Metal machine industry
The rapid development of the textile industry resulted in the appearance of the metal machine industry in Bielsko and Biała. It provided the local factories with machines and devices. The next part of the exhibition is devoted to that industry. The Museum holds an antique lathe (the beginning of the 20th century), various drills, a collection of manual blacksmith tools. The exhibit includes a 22-kilo album containing photos depicting the board of directors and the employers working in the textile machinery factory, Gustav Josephy's Erben. The exhibition is completed by photographs and paintings connected with the metal machine industry.
Printing room
A separate room is occupied by the exhibition devoted to printing techniques. There are two machine presses (19th/20th century) and two printing machines. The new generation devices are English monotype with a taster i.e. a machine used for programming and casting single types (1960) and a Russian built typesetting machine (copy of the Linotype) used for casting whole lines of text (1982). The exhibition is completed by various printing types as well as printing blocks decorated with Secession elements used for printing posters and placards.
Museum storage
Opened in 1996 the exhibition presented only machines and devices connected with the textile industry. However, the Museum also received objects connected with other fields of technology, so in 2002 a new separate exhibition was opened. The storage holds radios, TV sets, tape recorders, gramophones, counting machines and typewriters. There is also a large collection of household supplies such as irons (with heaters, coal irons, gas iron] and others), sewing machines, manual wooden washing machines, one of the oldest electric drum washing machines (1930s), mangles, wringers, vacuum cleaners, scales, paraffin lamps, meat cutting machines, bread cutters and many others.
Bibliography
Kenig, Piotr & Chorąży, Bogusław Zarys Dziejów Bielskiego Przemysłu i Przewodnik po Ekspozycji Włókienniczej, 1st. Ed, Museum in Bielsko-Biała, Bielsko-Biała 2006, .
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