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Frank Ormsby

Francis Arthur Ormsby (born 1947) is an author and poet from Northern Ireland.

Life
Frank Ormsby was born in Irvinestown, County Fermanagh. He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen and then Queen's University Belfast.

From 1976 until his retirement in 2010, he was Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

Work
Over a period of fifty years he has published ten books of poetry and has also edited another ten collections.

From 1969 to 1989 he was editor of The Honest Ulsterman. He has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review.

Ormsby was appointed as the Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2019, to serve a three-year term between Trinity College Dublin, Queen's University Belfast and University College Dublin.

Edited volumes

 * Northern Windows: An Anthology of Ulster Autobiography, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1987.
 * The Long Embrace: Twentieth Century Irish Love Poems, London: Faber & Faber, 1987.
 * Thine in Storm and Calm: An Amanda McKittrick Ros Reader, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1988.
 * The Collected Poems of John Hewitt, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1991.
 * A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1992.
 * The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2001.
 * The Blackbird's Nest: An Anthology of Poetry from Queen's University Belfast, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2006.
 * The Selected Poems of John Hewitt (co-edited with Michael Longley), Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2007.
 * The Blackbird's Nest: An Anthology of Poetry from Queen's University Belfast, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2006.
 * The Selected Poems of John Hewitt (co-edited with Michael Longley), Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2007.

Recordings

 * the kiss of light, Frank Ormsby, Anthony Toner, Neil Martin, Linley Hamilton. Frank Ormsby reads his poems followed in each case by a musical composition inspired by the poems. Dozens of Cousins CD.

Prizes and awards

 * 2002 - Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, University of Saint Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
 * 1992 - Cultural Traditions Award, given in memory of John Hewitt,

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Yoichi Wada

Yoichi Wada (和田 洋一) is a former president and representative director of the Japanese video game and publishing company Square Enix as well as its subsidiary Taito. He is also the former chairman of the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA), the former chairman of the Digital Content Use Promotion Conference, former president of Shinra Technologies and a former member of the Japanese Brand and Contents Council. He is a current outside director of Metaps.

Personal life
Wada was born on May 28, 1959, in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. As a teenager and young student, Wada was a fan of Pong, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong and Xevious. When he lived in Warsaw, he also enjoyed games from the Nobunaga's Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms computer game series. Before joining Square, Wada has stated he was an "uneducated consumer", as he was a "big fan" of Final Fantasy but did not know that the company was responsible for the series. He particularly liked early 3D games, including D and titles from the Myst, Resident Evil and Metal Gear series. While CEO Wada proactively tried to play as many Western games as possible, including Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and provided comments about these games to Square Enix's staff.

Pre-Square years
As a student, Wada wanted to become the president of a company quickly, rather than gradually working his way up through his entire career. He set for himself the objective of becoming a president by the age of 40. After receiving a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Tokyo, he went through an apprenticeship in the financial services group and global investment bank Nomura Securities to build a track record of success. Starting in 1984, he served in the group as part of the corporate strategy division, the investment banking division, and the controller division. He also worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Warsaw, Poland. In 2000, he decided to join "a company with a 'theme'" and, thinking that one of the themes of the 21st century was "creating society", chose the video game company Square.

Square and Square Enix
Wada joined Square in April 2000. In June, he became an executive director and chief financial officer, the representative director and chief operating officer in September, and the president and chief executive officer in December. He helped reform the company's management system. When Square merged with Enix, he became the new company's president and representative director. Under his presidency, Square Enix acquired the video game companies Taito in 2005 and the British video game publisher Eidos Interactive in 2009. Wada also became the president and representative director of Taito following the subsidiary's restructuring in July 2006. Wada stated at the time that consolidation was a "part of [his] plan" since 2000, as he had foreseen "the first phase of a major reformation of the industry" and had concluded that "there was a limit to what [Square Enix] could do with the wholly independent business culture [the company] worked within". On March 26, 2013, Yoichi Wada announced his resignation as CEO of Square Enix and that former company director Yosuke Matsuda would replace him. The company planned the change to go into effect in June 2013.

Square Enix revealed that Wada resigned from his post in May 2013 and in June 2013 took up a new position as Chairman of the Board of Square Enix Co., Ltd. However, he did not hold the “right of representation” for the company. On June 16, 2015, Wada left Square Enix after the end of his contractual term.

Other positions
Wada became the chairman of the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA) in May 2006. The association aims to promote the computer entertainment industry through research activities and exhibitions, including the annual Tokyo Game Show. In March 2012, it was announced that he would step down from his position at CESA in May 2012. Namco Bandai's Vice President Shin Unozawa replaced him. He had also held the Chairmanship of the Digital Content Use Promotion Conference of the Keidanren and was a Japanese Brand and Contents Council member.

In September 2014, Square Enix announced the establishment of Shinra Technologies, an autonomous subsidiary offering cloud-based gaming services. Wada acted as its founder and president. In an interview with GameSpot in March 2015, Wada said the companies' goal was to offer the cloud-based gaming service as a platform with new and exclusive content instead of pre-existing content like other services. He also said that their cloud-based gaming service would utilize supercomputers, allowing developers to create higher quality games than what is possible for modern consoles and personal computers. On May 11, 2015, Metaps, an application analysis and marketing company, announced that Wada had joined their company as an outside director. On January 6, 2016, Square Enix announced that they would be dissolving Shinra Technologies due to a lack of investment.

Final Fantasy
In January 2010, Wada, asked about his opinion on "big-budget, long-in-development" Square Enix games such as Final Fantasy XIII, noted: "[W]hether we are going to continue to internally create this type of game remains to be seen, because I actually feel that the team that was involved with Final Fantasy XIII should next move on to create and generate some 'next generation' forms of play. Internally and externally I feel there's an expectation of Square Enix to offer something new, and I really think that the Final Fantasy team could create something completely different, but at the moment they're strictly catering to the particular audience they have now."

Piracy
Wada has stated that video game piracy significantly damages the video game industry, especially in Japan, with R4 cards for the Nintendo DS. Japan banned R4 after Nintendo, Square Enix, and Capcom brought the issue to court in 2009. Wada proposed that the best strategy to combat this involved personalized saves and a social community built around gaming to help players understand the product's value.

Online distribution
In November 2009, Wada stated: "In ten years' time, a lot of what we call 'console games' won't exist". According to him, the primary strategy of console manufacturers has switched from hardware to network starting in 2005, with any computer becoming a potential gaming platform. He claimed that sales firms and distributors were in for economic troubles, but “format holders” such as Sony and Microsoft were already prepared. Square Enix increased its production of social and browser games during this period as a result, though Wada restated his commitment to console gaming and the Final Fantasy series in particular.

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David Gates (author)

David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. His works have been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Education
Gates obtained his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1972.

Career
Gates' first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family,  was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls (1998), and two short story collections, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1999) and A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (2015).

Gates has published short stories in The New Yorker, Tin House, Newsweek, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, H.O.W, The Oxford American, The Journal of Country Music, Esquire, Ploughshares, GQ, Grand Street, TriQuarterly, and The Paris Review. Gates is also a Guggenheim Fellow.

Journalism
Until 2008, Gates was a senior writer and editor in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music.

Teaching
Gates teaches in the graduate writing program at The University of Montana as well as at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Here he is a member of the Dog House Band, performing on the guitar, pedal steel, and vocals.

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Beyer, Peacock and Company

Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English general engineering company and railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Openshaw, Manchester. Charles Beyer, Richard Peacock and Henry Robertson founded the company in 1854. The company closed its railway operations in the early 1960s. It retained its stock market listing until 1976, when it was bought and absorbed by National Chemical Industries of Saudi Arabia.

Founders
German-born Charles Beyer had undertaken engineering training related to cotton milling in Dresden before moving to England in 1831 aged 21. He became draughtsman at Sharp, Roberts and Company's Atlas works in central Manchester, which manufactured cotton mill machinery and had just started building locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. There he was mentored by head engineer and prolific inventor of cotton mill machinery Richard Roberts. By the time he resigned 22 years later he was well established as the company's head engineer; he had been involved in producing more than 600 locomotives.

Richard Peacock had been chief engineer of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's locomotive works in Gorton when he resigned in 1854, confident in his ability to secure orders to build locomotives. Beyer's resignation presented Peacock with a partnership opportunity. However, the business at the outset (Beyer, Peacock & Co.) was a legal partnership and the partners were therefore liable for debts should the business fail; in a mid-Victorian economic climate of boom and bust, it was a risky venture. Beyer could raise £9,524 (nearly £900,000 in 2015) and Peacock £5,500, but they still required a loan from Charles Geach (founder of the Midland Bank and first treasurer to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, of which Beyer and Peacock had been founding members). Soon afterwards, however, Geach died, the loan was recalled, and the whole project nearly collapsed. Thomas Brassey came to the rescue, persuading Henry Robertson to provide a £4,000 loan in return for being the third (sleeping) partner. It was not until 1883 that the company was incorporated as a private limited company and renamed Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd. In 1902 it took on its final form as a public limited company.

During the Great Depression, faced with competition from tramways and electric railways, the company began to look for alternatives so that they were not dependent on one product. In 1932 they acquired their first company and in 1949 formed a joint company with Metropolitan-Vickers to build locomotives other than steam. By 1953 Beyer, Peacock had acquired more than five subsidiary companies; two others followed five years later. In 1958 Beyer, Peacock (Hymek) Ltd was formed.

Gorton Foundry

Beyer and Peacock started building their Gorton Foundry in 1854 two miles east from the centre of Manchester at Openshaw on a 12-acre site, on the opposite (south) side of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) line from Peacock's previous works. The site was chosen because land was cheaper than in the city, allowing ample room to expand, and there was a good water supply from an MS&LR reservoir. At the Foundry, Beyer designed and manufactured machine tools needed to build the locomotives, and oversaw locomotive design and production. Peacock dealt with the business side, often travelling to continental Europe to secure orders.

In July 1855 the first locomotive, built for the Great Western Railway, left Gorton Foundry. Between 1854 and 1868 the company built 844 locomotives, of which 476 were exported. The company sold mainly to the British colonies, Southern Africa and South America. The London and North Western Railway had commissioned Beyer, Peacock to build a single copy of its Dreadnought Class for the Pennsylvania Railroad, as the former railway's shops were not legally permitted to sell their locomotives. Aside from this locomotive, and nine 2-6-0's built for the Costa Rica Railway, the company remained out of the North American market.

During the First World War Beyer, Peacock manufactured artillery; in August 1915 Gorton Works was put under government control with production switching almost entirely to the war effort, especially heavy field artillery. During the Second World War, the company was again brought under government control but continued to build locomotives throughout the war.

Condensing locomotives for underground railways

A technological innovation that strengthened the company's reputation was the world's first successful condensing locomotive design for London's first underground railway – the Metropolitan Railway A Class 4-4-0 tank engine. Between 1864 and 1886, 148 were built for various railways; most operated until the lines' electrification in 1905. The locomotives' main designer, Hermann Ludwig Lange (1837–92), was a native of Beyer's home town, Plauen, Saxony (now Germany) who had undertaken an apprenticeship followed by engineering training. Beyer had invited him to England in 1861 and employed him for the first year in the company workshops, then as a draughtsman under his direction. He became chief draughtsman in 1864 or 1865. After Beyer's death in 1876, he became chief engineer and co-manager of the company.

Beyer-Garratt articulated locomotives

An articulated locomotive design that became renowned in the 20th century was another innovation, the Garratt articulated locomotive, invented by Herbert William Garratt, who was granted a patent in 1908; Beyer, Peacock had sole rights of manufacture in Britain. After the patents ran out in 1928, the company began to use the name "Beyer-Garratt" to distinguish their locomotives. They became widely used throughout Africa, South America, Asia, Australia and the South Pacific, where difficult terrain and lightly laid, tightly curved track, usually narrow-gauge, severely limited the weight and power output of conventional locomotives. In Garratt's design, two girders holding a boiler and a cab were slung between two "engine" units, each with cylinders, wheels and motion. The weight of the locomotive was therefore spread over a considerable distance. Both engine units were topped by water tanks. The unit adjoining the cab end also held a fuel bunker.

Between 1909 and 1958, Beyer, Peacock built more than a thousand Garratts; significant types are listed below. Among them, three of the most significant are preserved (see the "Preserved steam locomotives" table below):

 * first: the Tasmanian Government Railways K class, built in 1909 for the North East Dundas Tramway of western Tasmania
 * most powerful: the East African Railways 59 class of 1955
 * last: the South African Railways NG G16 class locomotive of 1958.

Diesel and electric locomotives
In the decade following 1954, the company built four types of diesel-powered locomotives and two electric types, listed below.

Decline and closure
Locomotive manufacturing transformed rapidly in the late 1950s. In 1955 British Railways decided to switch from steam to diesel traction and by then overseas railways had done the same. A major problem the company soon faced was that it had chosen to make diesel-hydraulic locomotives when the Western Region had opted for lightweight locomotives with hydraulic transmission under the British Railways Modernisation Plan of 1955; but British Railways opted for diesel-electrics. The company all but closed down the Gorton Foundry at the end of 1958.

In 1966, after 112 years of operation, all production ceased at Gorton Foundry. During that time, the company had built nearly 8,000 locomotives.

In 1976 Beyer Peacock was sold to Sheikh Mohammed Y. Al Bedrawi's National Chemical Industries of Saudi Arabia. The remaining industrial parts of the company then were Space Deck, a supplier of steel roofing units, and its main industrial company Richard Garrett Engineering, a company that manufactured machines which made cardboard boxes in factories in Dereham with 90 employees and in Suffolk with 500 employees.

Space Deck and Beyer Peacock International were praised in 1982 for having achieved increased profitability.

National Chemical Industries itself went bust in the early to mid-1980s.

As of 2012 the building that housed the former boiler shop, tender shop and boiler mounting shop – 550 feet (167 metres) in length – remained in use as part of the Hammerstone Road Depot of Manchester City Council.

Beyer, Peacock & Company Ltd last filed accounts to Companies House in 1989. Since then it has been compulsorily struck off several times, but restored on the request of creditors. No activity has been registered since 2015.

Companies House also lists another company called Beyer, Peacock & Company that was founded it 1998, and is now dormant. It is not clear what connection there is between the two firms.

Archives
Beyer Peacock's archives are held at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester.

Gallery

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Non-articulated
List shows delivery year(s), railway and locomotive class, wheel arrangement (Whyte notation) and number in order.

 * 1859 Victorian Railways J class (1859), later
 * 1859 Victorian Railways P class
 * 1861 Victorian Railways B class (1861) (19)
 * 1861 Victorian Railways O class (11)
 * 1864–1885 Metropolitan Railway A class
 * 1867–1868, 1872 Great Southern and Western Railway Class 101 (12)
 * 1869 South Australian Railways G class (5)
 * 1869 Holdfast Bay Railway Company (later, became South Australian Railways G class) (3)
 * 1871–1886 District Railway
 * 1873–1926 Various locomotives for the Isle of Man Railway
 * 1880–1881 Midland Great Western Railway Class D (6)
 * 1874 Victorian Railways F class (pattern engine)
 * 1874 Victorian Railways T class (pattern engine)
 * 1875 South Australian Railways J class (2)
 * 1876 South Australian Railways U class (8)
 * 1876 South Australian Railways V class (4)
 * 1877–1882 South Australian Railways W class (35)
 * 1878 New South Wales Government Railways Z12 class
 * 1879 South Australian Railways L class (4)
 * 1879–1884 South Australian Railways K class (18)
 * 1879 Victorian Railways M class (pattern engine)
 * 1879 Victorian Railways 'Old' R class (pattern engine + 3)
 * 1880 Holdfast Bay Railway Company (later, became South Australian Railways Gd class) (2)
 * 1882, 1895, 1899 Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Leitrim Class (5)
 * 1884 South Australian Railways P class (6)
 * 1884 Victorian Railways 'Old' A class
 * 1885–1898 South Australian Railways Y class
 * 1885–1907 Tasmanian Government Railways C class (27)
 * 1888–1907 Silverton Tramway Y class ; two (50)
 * 1889 Western Australian Government Railways G class (7)
 * 1897–1898 Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Class B (5)
 * 1897 Glenelg Railway Company (later, became South Australian Railways Ge class) (2)
 * 1898 Tobu Railway B1 class (12 locos)
 * 1902 Victorian Railways DD class (20)
 * 1904 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Q Class (2)
 * 1905 Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway nos 65 & 66 (2)
 * 1905 Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway nos 67 & 68 (2)
 * 1906–1920 Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway Bandon Tank (8)
 * 1908, 1911 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Class RT (4)
 * 1912, 1915 Silverton Tramway A class (4)
 * 1913, 1915 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Class S & S2 (8)
 * 1913, 1915 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Class SG & SG2 (10)
 * 1913 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Class T (5)
 * 1915, 1947 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Class U (10)
 * 1921, 1929–1930 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Class T2 (10)
 * 1921 Rhymney Railway R class (6)
 * 1922 Dublin and South Eastern Railway nos 15 & 16 (2)
 * 1924 Dublin and South Eastern Railway nos 34 & 35 (2)
 * 1928 Great Eastern Railway class S69 (later, became London and North Eastern Railway class B12)
 * 1931 Great Western Railway 5700 class (25)
 * 1932 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Class V (5)
 * 1948 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Class VS (5)
 * 1949 Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Lough Class (2)
 * 1951–1952 Silverton Tramway W class (4)
 * 1951–1952 Western Australian Government Railways W class (60)
 * 1955 Western Australian Government Railways V class (sub-contracted to Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns) (24)

Beyer-Garratt (articulated)
List shows delivery year(s), railway and locomotive class, wheel arrangement (Whyte notation) and number in order.

 * 1909 Tasmanian Government Railways K class
 * 1910 Darjeeling Himalayan Railway D class
 * 1911 Western Australian Government Railways M class (6)
 * 1913 Western Australian Government Railways Ms class (7)
 * 1925 London and North Eastern Railway class U1
 * 1926 Victorian Railways G class
 * 1927 London, Midland and Scottish Railway Garratt
 * 1928 New Zealand Railways G class
 * 1928 South African Railways GL class
 * 1936–1939 Fyansford Cement Works Railway (nos 1&2)
 * 1939 South African class NG G16
 * 1940–1952 Rhodesia Railways 15th class
 * 1949 East African Railways 56 class
 * 1951 Queensland Railways Beyer-Garratt class
 * 1951 South Australian Railways 400 class (10)
 * 1952 RFFSA (6)(serial numbers 6966 to 6969 & 7136 to 7137)
 * 1952–1954, 1957 New South Wales Government Railways AD60 class (42)
 * 1954-68 Rhodesia Railways 20th class
 * 1955 East African Railways 59 class
 * 1956 South African Railways GMA/M Class

Steam turbine

 * 1935 Beyer-Ljungström steam turbine locomotive, under licence, for the LMS

Diesel

 * 1954–56 Western Australian Government Railways X class
 * 1961–63 British Rail Class 35
 * 1962 British Rail Class 25
 * 1964 British Rail Class 17 (as sub-contractor to Clayton Equipment Company)

Electric

 * 1956–58 New South Wales 46 class
 * 1960–62 British Rail Class 82

Preserved locomotives
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Varenne (disambiguation)

Varenne is a race horse.

Varenne or La Varenne may also refer to:

Places in France

 * La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, a village in the commune of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne department
 * La Varenne, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department
 * Varenne-l'Arconce, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department
 * Varenne-Saint-Germain, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department
 * Varenne (Paris Métro), a metro station in Paris
 * La Varenne–Chennevières station, a railway station in the Val-de-Marne department

Rivers in France

 * Varenne (Arques), a tributary of the Arques in the Seine-Maritime department
 * Varenne (Mayenne), a tributary of the Mayenne in the Orne and Mayenne departments

People with the surname

 * François Pierre La Varenne (1618–1678), French author
 * Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne (1560–1616), French statesman
 * Alex Varenne, French comic book artist and writer
 * Gaëtan Varenne, football player
 * Jean Varenne, French indologist

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Chaplygin (crater)

Chaplygin is a large lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the southeast of the huge walled plain Mendeleev, about midway between the craters Schliemann to the northeast and Marconi to the southwest. It is about the same size as Albategnius on the near side.

The rim of this crater is roughly circular; however, the edge is uneven. The inner wall is terraced around much of the circumference, and this structure is somewhat disrupted along the southern side. The rim is only mildly eroded, with few craters around the edge — the exception being Chaplygin K which is intruding into the inner wall along the southeast side. Within the walls is an interior plain that is level and smooth in comparison to the rugged terrain that surrounds the exterior of the crater. There is a central peak near the midpoint, and a few tiny craters lie scattered across the surface.

Chaplygin is one of the largest craters of Nectarian age.

The crater was named after Soviet mathematician and engineer Sergey Chaplygin by the IAU in 1970. The crater was known as Crater 297 prior to naming.

A small, bright crater on the northeastern rim is called Chaplygin B. It is nicknamed Chappy by the LROC team.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Chaplygin.

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Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis PC (28 December 1655 – 29 April 1698) was a British politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, in which capacity he personally served as Colonel of the Suffolk Militia Horse in 1692. He succeeded his father Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis as Baron Cornwallis in 1673. On 27 December that year, at Westminster Abbey, he married Elizabeth Fox (d. 28 February 1681 in Tunbridge Wells), daughter of Sir Stephen Fox. Their son Charles succeeded him as 4th Baron Cornwallis. After Elizabeth's death, he married Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, widow of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.


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Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland

Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland PC (16 February 1656 – 24 May 1694) was an English nobleman and politician.

Biography
Cary was born at Farley Castle, Somerset, the son of Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland, to whose peerage he succeeded as a child in 1663.

He married Rebecca Lytton and had one daughter:
 * Harriott Cary (d. 21 October 1683)

As his peerage title was Scottish, he was able to sit in the English House of Commons. He thus served as Tory MP for Oxfordshire for 1685–1689, Great Marlow from 1689 to 1690, and Great Bedwyn from 1690 until his death.

He was sworn of the Privy Council of England in 1692 and served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1693 to 1694. He had previously held office with the latter department as Treasurer of the Navy from 1681 to 1689, under Charles II and James II, and as Commissioner of the Admiralty from 1690 to 1693. Samuel Pepys had a rather low opinion of his abilities, while admitting that he suffered from chronic ill health.

In March 1694 he was committed to the Tower of London on charges of peculation, but was released three days later. He died of smallpox in May, aged 38, without male issue. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

The Falkland Islands are named in his honour. The Viscounts Falkland in turn take their title from the royal residence of Falkland in Fife, Scotland.

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My name is Robert Hunter, I'm 15 years old, a sophmore of Da Vinci High School. I live in Davis california, with my family of five. I am a twin and an older brother. I was born in Dublin Ireland and at age five due to my fathers job moved to America and have lived in California eversince. My family first moved to Davis and have liked it so much that we have decided to make it our perminent home. We often visit Ireland, but we much prefer to livre in the sunny state of California. We have enjoyed Davis for its good school system. I'm currently enrolled in Da Vinci High School. It is its enagrual year. The high school is a technology and comminication based high school. Students are given laptops and many group projects to prepare them for life beyond school. I plan to graduate from Davis and go to college. My intrests include singing, playing piano, and animals. I would like to go into a career that would include some or all of thesse aaspects. When i grow older i would love to travel, i would like to see Australia, Africa, the Gallapogose Islands, and Asia. I would like to visit these places for their exotic animals and interesting cultures.

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Russell Indexes

Russell indexes are a family of global stock market indices from FTSE Russell that allow investors to track the performance of distinct market segments worldwide. Many investors use mutual funds or exchange-traded funds based on the FTSE Russell Indexes as a way of gaining exposure to certain portions of the U.S. stock market. Additionally, many investment managers use the Russell Indexes as benchmarks to measure their own performance. Russell's index design has led to more assets benchmarked to its U.S. index family than all other U.S. equity indexes combined.

The best-known index of the series is the Russell 2000, which tracks US small-cap stocks and is made up of the bottom 2,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 index.

History
Seattle, Washington-based Russell's index began in 1984 when the firm launched its family of U.S. indices to measure U.S. market segments and hence better track the performance of investment managers. The resulting methodology produced the broad-market Russell 3000 Index and sub-components such as the small-cap Russell 2000 Index. Using a rules-based and transparent process, Russell forms its indexes by listing all companies in descending order by market capitalization adjusted for float, which is the actual number of shares available for trading. In the United States, the top 3,000 stocks (those of the 3,000 largest companies) make up the broad-market Russell 3000 Index. The top 1,000 of those companies make up the large-cap Russell 1000 Index, and the bottom 2,000 (the smallest companies) make up the small-cap Russell 2000 Index.

Construction methodology
The Russell indexes are objectively constructed based on transparent rules. The broadest U.S. Russell Index is the Russell 3000E Index which contains the 4,000 largest (by market capitalization) companies incorporated in the U.S., plus (beginning with the 2007 reconstitution) companies incorporated in an offshore financial center that have their headquarters in the U.S.; a so-called "benefits-driven incorporation". If 4,000 eligible securities do not exist in the U.S. market, the entire eligible set is included. Each Russell Index is a subset of the Russell 3000E Index and broken down by market capitalization and style. The members of the Russell 3000E Index and its subsets are determined each year during annual reconstitution and enhanced quarterly with the addition of initial public offerings (IPOs). The Russell 3000E Index represents approximately 99 percent of the U.S. equity market. Russell excludes stocks trading below $1, stocks that trade on the pink sheets and OTC Bulletin Board, closed-end mutual funds, limited partnerships, royalty trusts, non-U.S. incorporated stocks (other than the benefits driven incorporations described above), foreign stocks, and American Depositary Receipts (ADRs).

Annual reconstitution
Russell rebalances its indexes once each year in June, called "reconstitution". The reconstitution consists of updating the global list of investable stocks and assigning them to the appropriate indices. The Russell indexes do not immediately replace a company that merges with another firm or has its stock delisted. However, Russell adds initial public offerings (IPOs) on a quarterly basis, capturing these stocks in a systematic way.

Abnormal trading volumes caused by index fund managers re-balancing their portfolios has a history of significant market impact during the last few seconds before the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ closing prices are determined.

The index rebalance is typically scheduled for the closing price on the last Friday in June.

Primary indexes
In addition to the primary indices listed below, Russell publishes Value and Growth versions of each U.S. index. This divides each index roughly in half, separating companies classified as value stocks from those classified as growth stocks. Companies can appear in both the value and growth versions of an index, though the total number of shares between the value and growth versions will equal the number in the main index. The primary indices are:
 * Russell 3000 Index: The Russell 3000 Index measures the performance of the largest 3,000 U.S. companies representing approximately 98% of the investable U.S. equity market.
 * Russell 2500 Index: A mid-cap to small-cap index of the bottom 2,500 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index.
 * Russell 2000 Index: The small-cap benchmark index of the bottom 2,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index.
 * Russell 1000 Index: The large-cap index of the top 1,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index.
 * Russell Top 200 Index: The mega-cap index of the very largest 200 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index.
 * Russell Top 50 Index: Measures the performance of the 50 largest companies in the Russell 3000 Index.
 * Russell Midcap Index: The bottom 800 stocks in the Russell 1000 Index. The Russell Top 200 Index plus the Russell Midcap Index yields the Russell 1000 Index.
 * Russell Microcap Index: A micro-cap index of the stocks ranked from 2,001-4,000 in the Russell indexing universe, consisting of capitalizations ranging from about $50 million to $2.5 billion. Hence, this is an index of the 1,000 smallest Russell 3000 stocks, plus the 1,000 smaller stocks.
 * Russell Small Cap Completeness Index: The index includes stocks from the Russell 3000 Index that do not appear in the S&P 500 Index. The Index measures the performance of the Russell 3000 companies excluding S&P 500 constituents.

Russell indices in Japan
Russell/Nomura equity indices for Japan (calculated with Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.) offer broad market or style benchmarks for investors in that country. These pioneering, comprehensive, equity style indices offer free-float adjustment in the Japanese market.

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Dreimorengesetz

Dreimorengesetz ("three-mora rule") is a linguistic rule proposed by Hermann Hirt for placing the accent in a Germanic text. According to the rule, an enclitic cannot be more than three morae in length. That is, three shorts, a long and a short, or a short and a long. Within a single word the most that can follow the accent is a long and a short.

Latin
There is a similar rule for a Latin word, the penultimate rule:

With few exceptions, Latin words are stressed on the penult (second-to-last syllable) if it is "heavy" (having a long vowel or diphthong or ending in a consonant), and on the antepenult (third-to-last syllable) if the penult is "light" (ending with a short vowel).

Examples:

 * 1) Conditum "founded" = co•n—di—tum (heavy, light, final) = cónditum
 * 2) Condītum "seasoned" = co•n—di•i—tum (heavy, heavy, final) = condítum
 * 3) Conductum "brought together" = co•n—du•c—tum (heavy, heavy, final) =condúctum

(— marks a syllable boundary, • marks a mora boundary)

Moraic analysis of Latin
If one counts all "light" syllables as one mora and all "heavy" syllables as two morae, it becomes clear that the accent is essentially always placed three morae before the end of the word. Note, however, that for this analysis to work, one must always count the final syllable as one mora, regardless of its actual syllabic composition.

Examples:

 * 1) In condĭtum the third mora from the end is the n of the first syllable, so the accent falls on cón-
 * 2) In condītum the third mora from the end is the first part of the ī in the second syllable, so the accent falls on dí-
 * 3) In conductum the third mora from the end is the du of the second syllable, so the accent falls on duc-

A somewhat different, and possibly more accurate, analysis is to consider the final syllable as extra metric; then the accent always falls on the syllable with the penult metric mora, and there is no need to define a special type of mora counting for the last syllable.

Other languages
Many other languages have similar but not identical rules for the placement of the accent:
 * Arabic dialects (and certain other Semitic languages) originally used a similar rule, but this has been complicated by the loss of most final vowels.
 * Sanskrit (and certain other Indo-Aryan languages) use a version of this rule that allowed for placement on the fourth-to-last syllable if the antepenult was light.
 * Ancient Greek had a totally different rule, but it likewise restricted the accent to the last three syllables and could be seen as mora-based.
 * In Japanese, the pitch accent of the standard Tokyo dialect places the accent on the antepenultimate mora by default in loanwords. This has been argued to be the result of an underlying preference in Japanese for antepenultimate mora accentuation, with the exception of a certain phonological configuration (four-mora words ending in a sequence of light syllables and a non-epenthetic vowel) which loanwords are particularly unlikely to satisfy.

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Comstock (crater)

Comstock is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the northeast of the walled plain Fersman, and north of the crater Weyl.

This is an eroded crater formation with several small craters lying long the rim. One of these lies attached to the inner side of the rim and inner wall, extending part way across the floor. A cluster of small craters lie across the south-southwest rim and inner wall. The interior floor is marked by several tiny craterlets, and traces of ray material from the crater Ohm to the east-southeast.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Comstock.

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Kenny Richey

Kenneth Thomas Richey (born August 3, 1964) is a British-US dual citizen who in 1987 was convicted in Ohio of murdering a two-year-old girl and sentenced to death. He spent 21 years on death row before re-examination of his case led to his release, after he accepted a plea bargain in which he pleaded no contest to manslaughter.

Early life
Richey was born in the Netherlands to a Scottish mother and an American father. He was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland but moved to Ohio to join his father in late 1982. He served in the Marines before moving into government-subsidized housing in Columbus Grove.

Murder conviction and imprisonment
On June 30, 1986, a fire broke out in the apartment complex in which Richey lived. The fire originated in an apartment where Hope Collins lived with her two-year-old daughter, Cynthia; Cynthia died of smoke inhalation. Prosecutors argued that Richey started the fire and was targeting his ex-girlfriend, Candy Barchet, who lived in the same apartment complex. At the death penalty sentencing hearing, evidence was presented regarding Richey's history of mental health problems; a psychologist and social worker testified that Richey had borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and histrionic behavior disorder.

He was convicted in January 1987 of murder by arson, following which he spent 21 years on death row.

Release
In December 2007, he accepted a plea bargain, which led to his release from death row and return to Scotland on January 9, 2008.

Richey's plea bargain involved pleading 'no contest' to manslaughter, child endangering and breaking and entering. He was sentenced to time served, with the murder and arson charges dropped. A 'no contest' plea is not an admission of guilt. The accused, by entering a no contest plea, neither disputes nor admits to the charges.

During his 20-year incarceration, doubts arose about the circumstantial evidence that led to conviction, particularly the forensic evidence. This led to a campaign to re-examine the evidence. Amnesty International described the case as, "…one of the most compelling cases of apparent innocence that human rights campaigners have ever seen."

Life after prison
Richey was granted British citizenship in 2003, becoming the first to benefit from a change in British nationality law regarding the status of children of British mothers and non-British fathers born outside the United Kingdom.

2010 imprisonment
After returning to the United States in 2010, Richey was arrested in Mississippi and charged in Ohio with phoning in threatening messages to Judge Randall Basinger (who was assistant county prosecutor at the time of Richey's 1987 murder trial). Despite Richey's claim that the threats were merely a drunken prank, Visiting Judge Dale Crawford found Richey guilty and sentenced him to three years in prison. Richey was released after two years and spent some time working with the American charity Sanctuary Quarters, which builds houses for homeless veterans.

2020 imprisonment
In October 2019 Richey was arrested in Columbus, Ohio after posting a video threatening Judge Randall Basinger, his children, and his grandchildren. In July 2020 he was convicted of making threats and sentenced to 12 years in jail.

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