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1963 in Ireland

Events in the year 1963 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Éamon de Valera
 * Taoiseach: Seán Lemass (FF)
 * Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee (FF)
 * Minister for Finance: James Ryan
 * Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
 * Dáil: 17th
 * Seanad: 10th

Events

 * 24 January – The Minister for Justice, Charles Haughey, announced that the government proposed to abolish the death penalty.
 * 29 January – A new control tower opened at Shannon Airport.
 * 25 March – The Lord Mayor of Dublin inaugurated Ireland's first escalator, in Roches Stores, a department store on Henry Street in Dublin.
 * 20 May – The Minister for Education, Patrick Hillery, announced plans for comprehensive schools and regional technical colleges.
 * 3 June – Teilifís Éireann closed down immediately after its 9pm news bulletin as a mark of respect following the death of Pope John XXIII.

Visit by John F Kennedy

 * 26 June – Following a three-day visit to West Germany which he concluded with his historic Cold War address in West Berlin earlier in the day, President Kennedy of the United States arrived in Ireland for a four-day visit. He was greeted at Dublin Airport by President De Valera and Taoiseach Seán Lemass. His motorcade to the US Ambassador's residence in the Phoenix Park in Dublin was met by large crowds in O'Connell Street and Dame Street.
 * 27 June – Kennedy flew to New Ross by helicopter where he made a speech to a crowd. He drove to his ancestral home nearby in Dunganstown where he met extended family. Afterwards he flew to Wexford where he was given the freedom of the town. That evening, he attended a garden party at Áras an Uachtaráin, home of the Irish president, and afterwards attended a state dinner hosted by the Taoiseach in his honour at Iveagh House in Dublin.
 * 28 June – Kennedy flew to Cork by helicopter. Following a motorcade through the crowded city he was awarded the freedom of the city. Back in Dublin in the afternoon, he visited Arbour Hill where he laid a wreath at the graves of executed leaders of 1916 Rising. Afterwards, he visited Leinster House where he became the first statesman to address both Houses of the Oireachtas. At Dublin Castle, he was conferred with degrees of Doctor of Laws by both the National University of Ireland and by Dublin University. He was also awarded the freedom of the city of Dublin.
 * 29 June – Kennedy flew by helicopter to Galway where a motorcade took him to City Hall where he was made a freeman of the city. He made a speech to a large crowd in Eyre Square before another motorcade took him to his helicopter in Salthill from where he flew to Limerick, where he landed at Greenpark Racecourse. He was conferred with the freedom of Limerick. After speaking to the crowd, he flew to Shannon Airport nearby where he made a farewell speech before flying to England on Air Force One for an informal meeting with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

 * 4 October – Speaking on the nuclear test ban treaty at the United Nations in New York, the Minister for External Affairs, Frank Aiken, called for an end to all nuclear weapons.
 * 16 October – Taoiseach Seán Lemass was greeted by US president John Kennedy at the White House where he inspected a guard of honour.
 * 1 November – Domhnall Ua Buachalla, the last Governor-General of the Irish Free State, was buried in Dublin.
 * 7 November – The Beatles arrived in Dublin for two concerts in the Adelphi Cinema, the only time they performed in Ireland. Gardaí struggled to maintain control in Abbey Street and O'Connell Street when unruly crowds created disorder.

Death of John F Kennedy

 * 22 November – President de Valera addressed the nation on the death of U.S. president John Kennedy.
 * 24 November – De Valera left to attend Kennedy's funeral. He was accompanied by cadets who were invited by Jacqueline Kennedy to form a guard of honour.
 * 26 November – Ireland held a national day of mourning for President Kennedy.

Arts and literature

 * 2 June – Benjamin Britten's A Hymn of St Columba premièred at Gartan in County Donegal.
 * Cork Opera House reopened after being fully rebuilt.
 * John McGahern's semi-autobiographical first novel, The Barracks, was published.
 * Seamus Heaney's poem Mid Term Break was published in Kilkenny Magazine

Sports

 * Shelbourne won the FAI Cup.
 * Paddy Prendergast became the first Irish-based horse trainer to be British flat racing Champion Trainer; he retained the title for two more years.

Births

 * 7 January – Tony O'Sullivan, Cork hurler.
 * February – Theresa Lowe, television presenter.
 * 3 March – Conor Lenihan, Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin South-West and Minister of State.
 * 19 March – Mark Dearey, businessman and Green Party councillor in Dundalk.
 * 25 March – Kevin O'Rourke, economic historian, born in Switzerland.
 * 26 March – Paul Doolin, association football player.
 * 29 March – Pat Gallagher, Labour Party politician.
 * 3 April – Ciarán Cuffe, Green Party TD for Dún Laoghaire.
 * 4 April – Graham Norton, actor, comedian and television presenter.
 * 1 June – Michael Creed, Fine Gael party TD for Cork North-West.
 * 3 June – Lucy Grealy, poet and memoirist (died 2002).
 * 13 June – Larry Tompkins, Kildare and Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 21 June – Carlos O'Connell, decathlete.
 * 25 June – Liam Walsh, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 26 June – Tomás Mulcahy, Cork hurler.
 * 23 July – Andy Townsend, association football player.
 * 28 July – Eamon Ryan, Green Party TD for Dublin South and Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications.
 * 22 August – Terry McHugh, javelin thrower.
 * 31 August – Todd Carty, actor.
 * 10 September – Marian Keyes, novelist.
 * 24 September – Margaret Cox, Fianna Fáil senator.
 * 25 September – Niall Cahalane, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 9 November – Kieran O'Regan, association football player.
 * 13 November – Joe Dooley, Offaly hurler, manager.
 * 1 December – Paul Bradford, Fine Gael senator.
 * 5 December – Tony Keady, Galway hurler (died 2017).

Full date unknown

 * Pat Boran, poet.
 * Orla Kiely, fashion and textile designer.
 * Bryan Smyth, singer, actor and television presenter.

Deaths

 * 17 January – Thomas Johnson, first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party, aged 91.
 * 1 February – John Cardinal D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1946 to 1963 (born 1882).
 * 4 February – Brinsley MacNamara, novelist and playwright (born 1890).
 * 22 February – Padraig O'Keeffe, fiddle player (born 1887).
 * 3 March – Brian O'Higgins, Sinn Féin party member of parliament and party president (born 1882).
 * 19 March – Joseph Brennan, civil servant and Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (born 1887).
 * 16 May – Patrick Little, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet minister (born 1884).
 * 31 May – Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (born 1881).
 * 12 June – Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British admiral of the Second World War and First Sea Lord (born 1883).
 * 23 June – George C. Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal party TD, later joined Fine Gael and Seanad Éireann member (born 1877).
 * 11 October – John Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1907).
 * 30 October – Hugh O'Flaherty, Catholic priest, saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in the Vatican during World War II (born 1898).
 * 30 October – Domhnall Ua Buachalla, member of the First Dáil, Fianna Fáil TD, last Governor-General of the Irish Free State (born 1866).
 * 2 November – Daniel Mannix, Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years (born 1864).
 * 22 November – C. S. Lewis, novelist (born 1898).
 * November – Patrick MacGill, journalist, poet, and novelist (born 1889).
 * 4 December – William Norton, Labour Party leader, TD, and Cabinet minister (born 1900).
 * 15 December – Oscar Traynor, Fianna Fáil politician (born 1886).
 * December – Andy Kennedy, association footballer (born 1897).

Full date unknown

 * Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy, peer (born 1885).

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Thurnham, Kent

Thurnham is a village and civil parish which lies at the foot of the North Downs 3 mi north east of Maidstone in the Borough of Maidstone and ceremonial county of Kent in England. It had a population of 1,085 in 2001 including Weavering, which increased to 1,205 following the 2011 Census.

There have been several archaeological finds in the area: an Anglo-Saxon burial ground was discovered within the grounds of Thurnham Friars in 1913, a 7th-century gold cross was found in 1967 and the remains of a Roman house were excavated in 1933. The remains of Thurnham Castle are just north of the village. Two miles further north are the fragmentary remains of Binbury Castle, a medieval fortified manor house beside a medieval motte.

St Mary's church (a Norman building) and Milgate House are Grade I listed buildings.

The railway station at Bearsted, opened on 1 July 1884, was originally named Bearsted and Thurnham. Residents of the village joined forces with the neighbouring village of Bearsted, in voicing their objections to the proposed Kent International Gateway development.

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I don't think this belongs in the Starfighters category, as I believe that in the Expanded Universe, they state that it requires an atmosphere for operation, like a modern plane. Oberiko 19:25, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I removed it from the category. Maybe the starfighters category should simply renamed "fighters," to allow atmoshpheric craft.  -LtNOWIS 04:58, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Why Snowspeeder?
Why has this vehicle been named a "Snowspeeder" in the merchandising world. There are at least 2 reasons that I can think of why it shouldn't be called that.

1. No character refers to the vehicle as a Snowspeeder. Actually, Han is the only one that ever refers to them and he calls it a "Speeder". Though this is probably a shortened name.

2. Why would the rebels be having trouble adapting a "Snow" speeder for cold weather operations? As stated by a technician when Han asks if the "Speeders" are ready when preparing to go search for Luke, who hasn't returned from his security patrol.

It should more correctally be called an Airspeeder, in that it uses movable surfaces to control attitude and maneuver while in flight. The only reason I can think of for calling it a Snowspeeder is that you only see them used on Hoth, but that would be quite a coincidence for the Rebels to just happen to have such highly specialized equipment for the off-chance that they would end up on a world where it would be useful (plus reason two stated above). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.153.239.164 (talk • contribs)

 * If you can provide a an official source that calls this vehicle an Airspeeder, it can be renamed. Until then, it stays "Snowspeeder", regardless of the evidence against the name. Note that I'm not saying you don't have good rationale, I'm just stating that we can't arbitrarily rename ships just because we want to. EVula 21:31, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't suggesting that the name be changed, I was just wondering how the vehicle got named a Snowspeeder, especially since it wasn't called that in the movie (among other reasons). I don't have any evidence that it was supposed to be called something else. It's just always struck me as wierd that the rebels would have trouble adapting a Snowspeeder for use in cold weather. "Airspeeder" was just my idea for a different name that would more correctly describe the vehicle. Since there are several vehicles in the Star Wars Universe that use the word speeder in their names it would be unlikely that this particular vehicle's name was just Speeder (as Han referred to them). I must have guessed pretty good though. Check this out: http://www.starwars.com/databank/vehicle/snowspeeder/
 * snowspeeder is from the toy line. when the esb toys came out in 1980 everything was snow, snowspeeder, snowtrooper etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pixiesick (talk • contribs) 20:11, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Snowspeeders are not modded A-Wings
Snowspeeders are actually modified versions of the T-47 Airspeeder. Snowspeeder refers to the version designed to take into account the freezing temperatures of Hoth.

this page needs to completely be rewritten as airspeeder 69.251.13.209 17:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Glass transition temperature

References for the table of values
What is the reference(s) for the table of values? According to the table here the glass transition temp of PVC is 81 C, but in the PVC article it says its 87 C. Neither have a reference listed. Wizard191 (talk) 14:41, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Merge Proposal
It's hardly possible to discuss glass transition and glass transition temperature independently of each other.

By the way: the glass transition can also be driven by pressure. Unless we do the merge, we cannot avoid the logic that warrants another article entitled glass transition pressure ...

-- Paula Pilcher (talk) 11:54, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

 * This merge proposal makes sense, but it looks like it could be a bit of work to get it right. I hope that you are up to the task, Paula. --Ben Best (talk) 13:48, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Primarily, it requires a major cleanup of glass transition. At present that article contains sections that are largely off-topic. I will wait some time for response before starting the purge ... Paula Pilcher (talk) 16:31, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

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1962 in Ireland

Events in the year 1962 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Éamon de Valera
 * Taoiseach: Seán Lemass (FF)
 * Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee (FF)
 * Minister for Finance: James Ryan (FF)
 * Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
 * Dáil: 17th
 * Seanad: 10th

Events

 * 26 February – The Irish Republican Army officially called off its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland.
 * 13 March – Irish artists left Dublin Airport for the Congo to entertain United Nations troops there.
 * 17 March – President Éamon de Valera and his wife Sinéad had a private audience with Pope John XXIII in Rome.
 * 5 April – A final train ran on the west Cork railway.
 * 8 May – Irish troops left for a peace-keeping mission in the Congo.
 * 6 July – Gay Byrne presented the first edition of The Late Late Show television programme on Telefís Éireann. He went on to present the show for 37 years.
 * 13 July – Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant arrived in Dublin. He paid tribute to Irish soldiers who fought in the Congo.
 * 21 August – Former United States President Dwight Eisenhower arrived in Belfast on a four-day visit to Ireland.
 * 13 November – Aer Lingus air hostesses received new uniforms. The colours were fern-green and St. Patrick's blue.

Arts and literature

 * 30 June – The Theatre Royal, Dublin closed.
 * 4 December – The first Jacob's broadcasting awards ceremony took place in Dublin.
 * Irish folk music group the Abbey Tavern Singers was formed in Howth.
 * Irish folk music band The Chieftains was formed by Paddy Moloney in Dublin.
 * Irish folk music band The Dubliners was formed at O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin.
 * Eavan Boland published 23 Poems while an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin.
 * Ewart Milne's poetry A Garland for the Green was published.
 * Eoghan Ó Tuairisc published his Irish language prose epic L'Attaque in Dublin.
 * Cecil Woodham-Smith published her history The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845–1849.

Association football

 * Shelbourne FC won the League of Ireland championship for the seventh time with a 1–0 play-off victory over Cork Celtic thanks to a Ben Hannigan goal.

Births

 * 1 January – Jamie O'Neill, author.
 * 9 January – Ray Houghton, association football player, in Scotland to an Irish father.
 * 2 March – Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, children's author and illustrator.
 * 13 April – Harry Kenny, association football player.
 * 7 May – Paul Kimmage, cyclist and sports journalist.
 * 9 June – Bobby Browne, association football player.
 * 15 June – Martin Earley, road bicycle racer.
 * 26 June – Cyprian Brady, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central.
 * 4 July – Martin Hayes, fiddle player.
 * 11 July – Pauline McLynn, actress and writer.
 * 14 July – Eamon Delaney, author and journalist.
 * 19 July – Caitríona Ruane, Sinn Féin party Member of the Legislative Assembly and Minister for Education in Northern Ireland.
 * 14 August
 * Dan Boyle, former Green Party TD, senator.
 * Peter Eccles, association football player.
 * 1 September – Tony Cascarino, association football player.
 * 11 October
 * Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author.
 * Eddie Hobbs, financial adviser and television presenter.
 * 2 December – Kevin Brady, association football player.
 * Full date unknown – Tom Spillane, Kerry Gaelic footballer.

Deaths

 * 1 February – Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal party member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of the Seanad (born 1867).
 * 13 March – Anne Acheson, sculptor (born 1882).
 * 14 March – Eileen Costello, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad.
 * 25 June – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (born 1877).
 * 4 July – William Harman, cricketer (born 1869).
 * 16 July – Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (born 1893).
 * 24 July – Margaret Buckley, president of Sinn Féin party from 1937 to 1950 (born 1879).
 * 26 October – Emily Anderson, British Foreign Office cryptanalyst, scholar of German and musicologist, in London (born 1891).

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Paddy Power (Irish politician)

Patrick Power (19 November 1928 – 14 August 2013) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

A national schoolteacher before entering politics, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare constituency at the 1969 general election.

He served as Minister for Fisheries and Forestry from 1979 to June 1981 and Minister for Defence in the government of March to December 1982. He was briefly Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism in October 1982 following the resignation of Desmond O'Malley to challenge for the leadership of the party. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1977 to 1979.

His son, Seán Power is a former TD and Minister of State. Another son, J. J. Power, served as a Green Party councillor on Kildare County Council.

Power retired from politics at the 1989 general election. He died on 14 August 2013 in Caragh, County Kildare. He had no connection with the Irish bookmakers of the same name.

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Hi Astragal Just a quick note to say -nice edit on carpet. Keep up the good work! Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 19:28, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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1961 in Ireland

Events in the year 1961 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Éamon de Valera
 * Taoiseach: Seán Lemass (FF)
 * Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee (FF)
 * Minister for Finance: James Ryan (FF)
 * Chief Justice:
 * Conor Maguire (until 11 June 1961)
 * Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (from 16 June 1961)
 * Dáil:
 * 16th (until 8 September 1961)
 * 17th (from 11 October 1961)
 * Seanad:
 * 9th (until 1 September 1961)
 * 10th (from 14 December 1961)

Events

 * 6 January – Lieutenant-General Seán Mac Eoin left Dublin for the Congo to take up his new post as General Commanding Officer of the United Nations.
 * 20 January – John F. Kennedy became President of the United States, the first of Irish-Catholic descent.
 * 27 January – Laid-up tanker Trigonosemus broke free from her moorings during a gale in Lough Swilly.
 * 9 April – The national census showed that County Cork's population had reached an all-time low, with just 330,000 (in the late 1950s it was 336,000).
 * 10 June – President Éamon de Valera and his wife Sinéad greeted Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco at their home, Áras an Uachtaráin during the couple's state visit to Ireland.
 * 15 June – Prince Rainier and Princess Grace took tea in the Kelly homestead, near Newport, County Mayo from which the princess's grandfather, John Henry Kelly, left for America almost 100 years before.
 * 16 September – Atlantic Hurricane Debbie made landfall at Dooega on Achill Island, then tracked across County Mayo, the only known tropical cyclone to make landfall in Ireland. Winds gusted up to 114 mph (183 km/h) off the island of Arranmore.
 * 4 October – 1961 Irish general election: The Fianna Fáil party under Seán Lemass retained most seats and formed a minority government when members of the 17th Dáil assembled on 11 October.
 * 25 October – St. John's Church in Sligo was reconstituted as the Cathedral Church for the Church of Ireland dioceses of Elphin and Ardagh, under the name of the Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist.
 * November – Minister for Justice Charles Haughey established military courts which handed down long prison sentences to convicted Irish Republican Army men.
 * 10 November – The Guinness ship Lady Gwendolen rammed and sank the Freshfield, anchored in fog on the River Mersey in Liverpool.
 * 20 December – The last legal execution in Ireland, of Robert McGladdery for murder, occurred in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
 * 31 December – Ireland's first television channel, Telefís Éireann, commenced broadcasting as President de Valera inaugurated the new service. The station's first broadcast was a new year countdown with celebrations at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, relayed from the transmitter on Kippure mountain.
 * The last Irish Sea sail-using cargo vessel (and the last sail ship to trade on the River Mersey in Liverpool), the Arklow auxiliary schooner De Wadden, ceased trading commercially.
 * German writer Enno Stephan's book Geheimauftrag Irland: Deutsche Agenten im Irischen Untergrundkampf 1939-1945 gave the first full account of Nazi spies in Ireland during "The Emergency" (the World War II period in Ireland).

Arts and literature

 * Dominic Behan's autobiography Tell Dublin I Miss Her and autobiographical novel Teems of Times were published.
 * John Montague's poetry Poisoned Lands was published.
 * Tom Murphy's play A Whistle in the Dark premièred at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London.

Association football

 * St Patrick's Athletic won the FAI Cup.
 * Drumcondra F.C. won the League of Ireland.
 * Linfield F.C. won the Irish League and the Irish Cup double.

Births

 * 5 January – Rachel Hardiman, Irish cricketer
 * 6 January – Fergal Keane, writer and broadcast journalist.
 * 19 January – Eoghan Corry, journalist and author.
 * 25 January – Liam Currams, Offaly hurler and Gaelic footballer.
 * 28 February – Barry McGuigan, world featherweight champion boxer.
 * 8 March – Kevin Hennessy, Cork hurler.
 * 20 March – Michael O'Leary, chief executive of the low-cost airline Ryanair.
 * 27 March – Mark Cohen, cricketer.
 * 28 March – Orla Brady, actress.
 * 17 May –
 * Enya, singer.
 * Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, fiddle player and singer.
 * 21 May – John Cregan, Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála (TD) for Limerick West.
 * 1 June – Michael Nugent, writer and dramatist.
 * 2 June – Liam Cunningham, actor.
 * 3 July – Mark Keane, cognitive scientist and author.
 * 7 August – Roddy Collins, association football player and manager.
 * 8 August – The Edge, guitarist with the band U2.
 * 27 August – John Hodgins, Cork hurler.
 * 30 August – Ger Cunningham, Cork hurler.
 * 25 September – Ronnie Whelan, association football player.
 * 13 October – Michael Walsh, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 25 October – Willie Walsh, chief executive officer of Aer Lingus and British Airways.
 * 27 October – Margaret Mazzantini, writer.
 * 31 October – Larry Mullen, rock drummer with the band U2.
 * 8 November – Seán Haughey, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin North-East, son of Charles Haughey and Maureen Haughey.
 * 11 December – Dave King, vocalist and songwriter.
 * 12 December – Daniel O'Donnell, singer.
 * Full date unknown
 * Michelle Rocca, socialite.
 * Kevin Sharkey, songwriter and painter.
 * John Spillane, singer songwriter.

Deaths

 * 14 January – Barry Fitzgerald, Academy Award-winning actor (born 1888).
 * 18 January – Joseph Connolly, Fianna Fáil politician (born 1885).
 * 4 February – Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford, politician, dramatist and poet (born 1902).
 * 7 May – Carmel Snow, journalist and editor of the American edition of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958 (born 1887).
 * 12 August – Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (born 1863).
 * 25 September – James Crichton, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 at Crèvecœur, France (born 1879).
 * 6 October – Achey Kelly, cricketer (born 1903).
 * 16 November – T. C. Hammond, Anglican clergyman, Principal of Moore Theological College in Sydney (born 1877).
 * 8 December – Séumas Robinson, member of Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican Army (born 1888).
 * 24 December – Con Clifford, retired Kerry Gaelic footballer and businessman (born 1887).
 * Full date unknown – Patrick MacDonogh, poet (born 1902).

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I'm working at the Institute of Medical Informatics of Gießen University (Germany).

Since we developed a tumour documentation system (GTDS) I'm especially interested in the fields of databases and classifications.

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Plantae Asiaticae Rariores

Plantae Asiaticae Rariores is a horticultural work (alternative title Descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants) published in 1830–1832 by the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich.

Plantae Asiaticae Rariores was published in London, Paris and Strassburg between 1829 and 1832 and consisted of 3 volumes bound from the 12 original parts in folio size (21½ × 14½ inches) with 294 hand-coloured plates lithographed by Maxim Gauci. Wallich went on extended leave in 1828 to supervise the printing and hand-colouring of the illustrations in England. Foremost of the watercolour artists who executed the original paintings were two Indian artists, Vishnupersaud, responsible for 114 plates and Gorachand for 87. Vishnupersaud (occasionally referred to as Vishnu Prasad) was an Indian artist frequently employed by naturalists working in India, such as John Forbes Royle and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton. Vishnupersaud's skill was legendary and Wilfrid Blunt included one of his watercolours in his book The Art of Botanical Illustration as displaying great craftsmanship. The remaining plates were done by Charles M. Curtis (7), William Griffith (3), Sarah Drake, and various others. A double-page engraved map of India created by John Arrowsmith, showed the routes followed by various botanists. A noteworthy point is that plate number 6 is an engraving by H. Weddell, and not a lithograph.

Plantae Asiaticae was seen to follow naturally on William Roxburgh's Plants of the coast of Coromandel (London: 1795–1820) and was sponsored by the East India Company who subscribed to 40 copies. The 12 parts were sold at £2 10s each, between September 1829 and August 1832.

Wallich writes in the introduction, "The present Work consists of a selection of plants made chiefly from a series of 1200 drawings, executed under my direction by Native Artists." He goes on to praise the work of the lithographer Maxim Gauci and the colourist John Clark: "For both of these worthy men and admirable artists I beg to express my sincere respect."

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Seaborough

Seaborough is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It is sited in the valley of the River Axe and lies approximately 2 mi south of Crewkerne in Somerset. The parish was previously part of the hundred of Crewkerne, but was transferred to within Dorset in 1896. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 60.

The village church is small and mostly not of ancient construction. Ralph Wightman, broadcaster, agriculturist and a native of Dorset, described it as "delightful", and claimed that the round arch of the porch was so low it "would remove the hat of any man of average height."

Seaborough lies on the northern side of the Axe valley, beneath the 204 m Seaborough Hill. The minor lane which passes through the village and up the hill is noted for being particularly steep. At the bottom of the village the river is crossed by a small stone bridge, close to which is an old ducking pool, into which scolding wives would historically have been dipped in an attempt to 'cure' them of their condition.

In March 2013 a fire at the 100 m piggery at Seaborough Manor destroyed the building and killed about nine hundred pigs. Fifty firefighters took about three hours to tackle the blaze.

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Hello everyone,actually I also agree that we should pay more effort on editing the text instead of adding new ideas.As text contents are given, what we should do is to compare the format in these essays based on what we have learnt.

Agreed, but that last thing you entered is utterly void of content and is patent nonsense to boot. Glad you created a user name and have an opinion to share, but please don't disrupt the site to make a point as you could be blocked from editing as a vandal. Do the right thing. :^) - Lucky 6.9 23:51, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Upchurch

Upchurch is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England. It is situated about 2 km north of the A2 road, between Rainham and Sittingbourne.

History
It is probable that, although today the land is low-lying and marshy, it was once higher than it is today.

Upchurch lay on a pre-Roman trackway; the many linking roads are the result of Roman occupation, which had built a community of ex-soldiers who wanted to settle in England. A Roman cemetery has been discovered here. It is also the site of several Roman pottery works. A more recent pottery was established here in 1909 called the Upchurch Pottery. It became well known and could be found retailing through such outlets as Liberty & Co. It closed in 1963.

The Upchurch Hoard is a hoard of well worn coins which date from the first and second century A.D. which were found close to Upchurch in 1950.

Under the grade I listed 14th century church is a small crypt (a charnel house) where bones were kept when the churchyard was full. It was discovered in 1877 and the bones re-interred. The church is also notable for its very unusual 'candle-snuffer' steeple where an octagonal pyramid appears to have been stacked on top of a square one resembling a couple of inverted ice-cream cones. It is believed that the distinctive shape was chosen to serve as a navigational aid for shipping on The River Thames. The wall surrounding the church was found in 2014 also to be listed within the church grade one status.

In 2008 residents with the aid of a National Lottery grant collected and published a book Upchurch in old picture postcards. The project, to collect and maintain photographs that reflected changing village life, continues under the heading, the Upchurch Collection.

The settlement of Otterham Quay lies a mile west of the village at the head of Otterham Creek. This small port gave young Francis Drake his first experience of the sea. When the last brick field was given planning permission for development, a publication Otterham, Kent: Your Heritage was produced. The book wanted to record the heritage of the area ahead of new housing.

Twinning
Upchurch is twinned with the Commune of Ferques, Pas de Calais, France.

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Puerto Rico Education Council

Their mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access to all the students.

The Council of Education of Puerto Rico —Consejo de Educación de Puerto Rico (CEPR)— is an agency of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico and the governing body that administers public policy on education standards in Puerto Rico, as well as issuing licenses to establish and operate educational institutions in Puerto Rico. Additionally, the Council guarantees that all Puerto Rican citizens and permanent residents have access to high-quality education at the level, in the format, and in the locations that they demand.

History
The Council was formed by consolidating the Council on General Education and the Council on Higher Education on July 26, 2010 as part of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 2010.

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1960 in Ireland

Events in the year 1960 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Éamon de Valera
 * Taoiseach: Seán Lemass (FF)
 * Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee (FF)
 * Minister for Finance: James Ryan (FF)
 * Chief Justice: Conor Maguire
 * Dáil: 16th
 * Seanad: 9th

Events

 * 13 January – The Broadcasting Authority Bill proposed to establish a national television service.
 * 16 January – The last regular ship on the Cork–Glasgow crossing sailed, ending a 103-year-old service.
 * 3 February – Frederick Henry Boland received the support of the United States for the presidency of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
 * 17 February – The Television Bill passed its final stage in Seanad Éireann (Senate).
 * 26 February – Alitalia Flight 618: An airliner flying to New York crashed into a cemetery shortly after takeoff from Shannon Airport, killing 34 of the 52 people on board.
 * 8 March – MV Plassy was wrecked off the coast of Inisheer in the Aran Islands.
 * 23 April – The first canoe race (of what will later become known as the Liffey Descent) took place along the River Liffey in Dublin from Grattan Bridge to Butt Bridge.
 * 27 May – The last barge on the Grand Canal left Dublin carrying Guinness beer to Limerick, ending a 156-year-old service.
 * 1 June – Radio Éireann was transferred from direct control of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs to a separate public authority.
 * 8 November – Nine Irish Army soldiers serving with the United Nations were killed in the Congo.
 * 22 November – Funerals took place for the soldiers killed in the Congo.

Arts and literature

 * 5 February – The film, Mise Éire, by George Morrison with music by Seán Ó Riada, had its Dublin première at the Regal Cinema following a 27 January première at Gweedore in County Donegal, the first feature-length Irish language film on general release.
 * 13 February–March – Orson Welles appeared for the last time in a stage production, his adaptation Chimes at Midnight with the Gate Theatre Company (with which he began his professional career in 1931), opening at the Grand Opera House in Belfast, and transferring to the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin.
 * 23 August – Samuel Beckett's play The Old Tune (a translation of Pinget's La Manivelle into a Dublin setting) was first broadcast by the BBC.
 * Patrick Kavanagh's poetry collection, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was published.
 * Edna O'Brien's novel The Country Girls was published; it was banned in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board.
 * Eoghan Ó Tuairisc's novel Murder in Three Moves was published.

Association football

 * Shelbourne F.C. won the FAI Cup.

Births

 * 6 January – Miriam O'Callaghan, broadcaster.
 * 10 January – Brian Cowen, Taoiseach (Fianna Fáil party).
 * 13 March – Adam Clayton, bass player for U2.
 * 13 March – Paul Colton, Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork
 * 1 April – Séamus McElwaine, Provisional Irish Republican Army member (killed in 1986).
 * 14 April – Liam Buckley, association football player and manager.
 * 23 April – Declan Lowney, television and film director.
 * 29 April – Seán O'Connor, businessman, member of the Seanad in 1982.
 * 10 May – Bono, lead singer with U2.
 * 14 May – Ronan Tynan, tenor.
 * 23 May – Christy Dignam, lead singer with Aslan.
 * 24 May – Packie Bonner, association football goalkeeper for Glasgow Celtic.
 * 11 June – Dave Henderson, association football player.
 * 28 June – Paul Dean, rugby player.
 * 1 July – Trevor Sargent, Teachta Dála (TD) representing Dublin North and leader of the Green Party.
 * 4 July – Phil Hogan, Fine Gael party TD for Carlow–Kilkenny.
 * 23 July – Gabrielle Reidy, actress (died 2014)
 * 1 August – Micheál Martin, Taoiseach (Fianna Fáil).
 * 10 August – Alan Campbell, association football player.
 * September – Maurice Seezer, musician.
 * 14 October – Seán Power, Fianna Fáil TD for Kildare South and Minister of State.
 * 17 October – Bernadette Nolan, singer and actress.
 * 25 November – Mick Neville, association football player and coach.
 * 25 December – Tonie Walsh, gay rights activist, journalist and disc jockey.

 * Full date unknown
 * Tom Reilly, historian, author and newspaper columnist.
 * Vincent Woods, poet and playwright.

Deaths

 * 21 January – Matt Moore, film actor (born 1888).
 * 13 February – Seán McLoughlin, nationalist and communist activist (born 1895).
 * 26 February – Amby Power, Clare hurler (born 1887).
 * 12 May – Augustine Kelly, cricketer (born 1894).
 * 13 June – Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (born 1881).
 * 7 July – Francis Browne, Jesuit priest and photographer (born 1880).
 * 20 July – Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh (born 1913).
 * 27 July – Ethel Lilian Voynich, novelist and musician (born 1864).
 * 23 September – Henry Barniville, member of the Seanad from 1922 to 1960 representing the National University of Ireland.
 * 6 October – Hubert de Burgh, cricketer (born 1879).
 * 23 October – Seumas MacManus, writer (born 1867).
 * 25 October – Harry Ferguson, early aviator and developer of the modern agricultural tractor (born 1884).
 * 14 December – Michael J. Stack, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (born 1888).
 * Undated – Annie O'Hanlon, last known speaker of the Leinster dialect of the Irish language.

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Robert Lee Moore

Robert Lee Moore (November 14, 1882 – October 4, 1974) was an American mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his racist treatment of African-American mathematics students.

Life
Although Moore's father was reared in New England and was of New England ancestry, he fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. After the war, he ran a hardware store in Dallas, then little more than a railway stop, and raised six children, of whom Robert, named after the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, was the fifth.

Moore entered the University of Texas at the unusually youthful age of 15, in 1898, already knowing calculus thanks to self-study. He completed the B.Sc. in three years instead of the usual four; his teachers included G. B. Halsted and L. E. Dickson. After a year as a teaching fellow at Texas, he taught high school for a year in Marshall, Texas.

An assignment of Halsted's led Moore to prove that one of Hilbert's axioms for geometry was redundant. When E. H. Moore (no relation), who headed the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, and whose research interests were on the foundations of geometry, heard of Robert's feat, he arranged for a scholarship that would allow Robert to study for a doctorate at Chicago. Oswald Veblen supervised Moore's 1905 thesis, titled Sets of Metrical Hypotheses for Geometry.

Moore then taught one year at the University of Tennessee, two years at Princeton University, and three years at Northwestern University. In 1910, he married Margaret MacLelland Key of Brenham, Texas; they had no children. In 1911, he took up a position at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1920, Moore returned to the University of Texas at Austin as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor three years later. In 1951, he went on half pay but continued to teach five classes a year, including a section of freshman calculus, until the University authorities forced his definitive retirement in 1969, his 87th year.

A strong supporter of the American Mathematical Society, he presided over it, 1936–38. He edited its Colloquium Publications, 1929–33, and was the editor-in-chief, 1930–33. In 1931, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Topologist
According to the bibliography in Wilder (1976), Moore published 67 papers and one monograph, his 1932 Foundations of Point Set Theory. He is primarily remembered for his work on the foundations of topology, a topic he first touched on in his Ph.D. thesis. By the time Moore returned to the University of Texas, he had published 17 papers on point-set topology—a term he coined—including his 1915 paper "On a set of postulates which suffice to define a number-plane", giving an axiom system for plane topology. The Moore plane, Moore's road space, Moore space, Moore's quotient theorem and the normal Moore space conjecture are named in his honor.

Unusual teacher
Robert Lee Moore is known to have supervised 50 doctoral dissertations, almost all at Texas, including those of R. H. Bing, F. Burton Jones, John R. Kline, Edwin Evariste Moise, Mary Ellen Rudin, Gordon Whyburn, Richard Davis Anderson, and Raymond Louis Wilder. Moore has been described as having been one of the most charismatic and inspiring university teachers of mathematics ever active in the United States. Accounts have been given of his ability to teach students who had never previously distinguished themselves in mathematics how to do proofs. He went out of his way to teach elementary and service courses every year, and actually forbade his pre-doctoral level students from consulting the mathematical literature.

It was while attending lectures at the University of Chicago that Moore first hit on his original teaching methods. Finding these lectures rather boring, even mind dulling, he would liven up a lecture by running a race in his mind with the lecturer, by trying to discover the proof of an announced theorem before the lecturer had finished his presentation. Moore often won this silent race, and when he did not, he felt that he was better off from having made the attempt. It was at the University of Pennsylvania, while teaching a course on the foundations of geometry, that Moore first tried out the teaching methods that came to be known as the Moore method. The success of this method led others to adopt it and similar methods.

Prejudice
Moore's record as a teacher of mathematics has been tarnished by his racism towards black students. Most of Moore's career was spent in a racially segregated part of the United States. African-American students were prohibited from even enrolling at the University of Texas until the late 1950s, and Moore himself was strongly in favor of segregation. After the University of Texas began admitting African-American students, he refused to allow them into his classes, even for mathematics graduate students such as Vivienne Malone-Mayes. He told another African-American mathematics student, Walker E. Hunt, "you are welcome to take my course but you start with a C and can only go down from there". On one occasion he walked out of a talk by a student, his academic grandchild, after discovering that the speaker was African-American.

Moore was also known for repeatedly claiming that female students were inferior to male students, and, though "less pronounced than his racism", for his antisemitism. However, while Moore's racism is confirmed by several first-hand accounts of his refusal to teach African-American students, the often-repeated description of him as a misogynist and antisemite is based largely on his oral remarks. Some of the sources reporting these remarks, such as Mary Ellen Rudin, also point out that in fact he encouraged females who showed mathematical talent and that he had Jewish students, such as Edwin E. Moise (who was asked about Moore's anti-Semitic reputation in an interview) and Martin Ettlinger, and close colleagues, such as Hyman J. Ettlinger. His encouragement of Rudin and other white female students is documented and between 1949 and 1970 (the earliest period when national data are known) 4 of Moore's 31 doctoral students (13%) were female, while nationally 175 were female out of 2646 doctoral graduates in mathematics and statistics (7%).

Honors

 * The Robert Lee Moore Hall, a classroom building at the University of Texas, was named after Moore from its construction in 1972 until 2020. In 2020, following complaints and petitions in 2019 and then the 2020 George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter movement, it was renamed to the "Physics, Math, and Astronomy Building".

Quotations

 * "That student is taught the best who is told the least." Moore, quote in Parker (2005: vii).
 * "I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Chinese proverb that was a favorite of Moore's. Quoted in Halmos, P.R. (1985) I want to be a mathematician: an automathography. Springer-Verlag: 258)

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Shapwick

Shapwick may refer to:
 * Shapwick, Dorset, England
 * Shapwick, Somerset, England
 * The Shapwick Hoard, a Roman coin discovery in Shapwick, Somerset

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1959 in Ireland

Events from the year 1959 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President:
 * Seán T. O'Kelly (until 24 June 1959)
 * Éamon de Valera (from 25 June 1959)
 * Taoiseach:
 * Éamon de Valera (FF) (until 23 June 1959)
 * Seán Lemass (FF) (from 23 June 1959)
 * Tánaiste:
 * Seán Lemass (FF) (until 23 June 1959)
 * Seán MacEntee (FF) (from 23 June 1959)
 * Minister for Finance: James Ryan (FF)
 * Chief Justice: Conor Maguire
 * Dáil: 16th
 * Seanad: 9th

Events

 * 7 January – Dáil Éireann debated a motion that Éamon de Valera's position as controlling director of the Irish Press newspaper could be regarded as incompatible with his duties as Taoiseach.
 * 23 January – The government was considering the introduction of a pay-as-you-earn system of income tax.
 * 10 February – Unions voted to end the 15-year split in the Irish trade union movement. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions resulted from the merger of the Irish Trades Union Congress and the Congress of Irish Unions.
 * 8 April – James Dillon of the Fine Gael party wanted to abolish compulsory Irish language studies at school as he felt they were counter-productive.
 * 17 June – In the 1959 presidential election, Fianna Fáil party candidate Éamon de Valera beat Fine Gael party candidate Seán Mac Eoin, and was inaugurated at Dublin Castle on June 25 as Ireland's third president.
 * 9 July – The first twelve female recruits were selected to join the Garda Síochána (police).
 * 29 July – The new Department of Transport and Power was established. Erskine Childers was the first Minister, and Thekla Beere was departmental Secretary, the first woman to achieve this grade in the Irish Civil Service.
 * 22 September – At its inaugural conference the Irish Congress of Trade Unions attacked the government of Northern Ireland for not recognising the new organisation.
 * 4 October – Three men collapsed and died at Croke Park during the All-Ireland Hurling Final Replay.
 * 21 October – James Dillon was elected leader of the Fine Gael Party. He replaced Richard Mulcahy as leader and John A. Costello as parliamentary leader.
 * 4 December – Twelve new female members of the Garda Síochána (police), known as ban gardaí, passed out of the training depot in the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
 * Figures released on 4 February 1960 showed that 118 million telephone calls were made in 1959.

Arts and literature

 * 2 February – John B. Keane's play Sive was premiered at Walsh's Ballroom, Listowel, by an amateur group.
 * 12 February – The first edition of the Irish Music Charts Top 10 was printed in the Evening Herald newspaper. Elvis Presley's "One Night" became the first song to top the charts. (The official charts were founded by RTÉ in 1962.)
 * 3 March – The film Home Is the Hero, based on the play by and starring Walter Macken, was released in Dublin.
 * 24 June – Walt Disney's film Darby O'Gill and the Little People, based on H. T. Kavanagh's short stories, had its world premiere in Dublin.
 * 15 September – Donagh MacDonagh's play Lady Spider, a retelling of the Deirdre myth, premiered at the Gas Company Theatre, Dún Laoghaire.
 * 28 September – Dominic Behan's play Posterity Be Damned premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.
 * 30 September – The film of Mise Éire, made by George Morrison with music by Seán Ó Riada for Gael Linn, premiered to conclude the Cork Film Festival, the first feature-length Irish language film.
 * December – British-Irish actor Peter O'Toole married Welsh actress Siân Phillips in Dublin.

Association football

 * St Patrick's Athletic won the FAI Cup
 * Shamrock Rovers won the League of Ireland

Hurling

 * Waterford GAA won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Births

 * 6 January – Davy Spillane, folk rock musician, uilleann piper.
 * 6 February – Dermot Bolger, novelist, playwright and poet.
 * 20 February – Patrick Walker, association football player and manager.
 * 22 February – Matthew Dwyer, cricketer.
 * 23 February – Linda Nolan, singer
 * 21 May
 * Fergus Johnston, composer.
 * Brian Lenihan, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin West and Minister for Finance (died 2011).
 * 13 June –
 * Mairead McGuinness, journalist, Member of the European Parliament.
 * Mary Wallace, Fianna Fáil TD for Meath East and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food.
 * 4 August – John Gormley, leader of the Green Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and TD for Dublin South-East.
 * 9 August – Hugh Brady, President of University College Dublin.
 * 28 August – Lorcan Cranitch, actor.
 * 28 September – Michael Scott, genre fiction author.
 * 1 October – Billy Timmins, Fine Gael TD.
 * 8 October – Gavin Friday, singer, songwriter, composer and painter.
 * 20 October – Niamh Cusack, actress.
 * 7 November – John Anderson, association football player.
 * 28 November – Stephen Roche, road racing cyclist, in 1987 won Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the World Cycling Championship.
 * 4 December – Paul McGrath, association football player.
 * Full date unknown – Lorcan O'Herlihy, architect and artist in the United States.

Deaths

 * 9 January – A. M. Sullivan, lawyer (born 1871).
 * January – Patrick O'Connell, association football player and manager (born 1887).
 * 1 February – Frank Shannon, Irish-born American actor (born 1874)
 * 4 February – Una O'Connor, actress (born 1880).
 * 7 March – T. C. Murray, dramatist (born 1873).
 * 13 March – Robert Forde, Antarctic explorer (born 1875).
 * 16 March – Dick Doyle, Kilkenny hurler (born 1884).
 * 21 April – Sep Lambert, cricketer (born 1876).
 * 15 May – Liam de Róiste, company director, member 1st Dáil (Pro Treaty), representing Cork City.
 * 16 May – Elisha Scott, footballer (born 1894).
 * 13 June – Seán Lester, diplomat and last Secretary General of the League of Nations (born 1888).
 * 25 June – Mick Kenny, Galway hurler (born 1893).
 * 21 August – Denis Devlin, poet and diplomat (born 1908).

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