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October 18

 * 2012 – Syrian Air Force jets destroy two residential buildings and a mosque in the rebel-held town of Maarrat al-Nu'man, reportedly killing at least 44 people.

 * 2011 – Iran Air Flight 742, a Boeing 727-200, from Moscow, Russia to Tehran, Iran lands without nose gear at Mehrabad International Airport. All 94 passengers and 14 crew members survive without injuries.

 * 2002 – Boeing reveals its Bird of Prey stealth technology demonstrator, which has conducted a number of flights during the period 1996 to 1999.

 * 2002 – Two Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets collide during Air Combat Maneuvering off the Southern California coast and crash into Pacific 80 mi SW of Monterey, California. All four crew (two Pilots and two WSOs) are KWF.

 * 1993 – Launch: Space Shuttle Columbia STS-58 at 10:53 am EDT. Mission highlights: Spacelab mission.

 * 1989 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-34 at 12:53:40 EDT. Mission highlights: Galileo Jupiter probe deployment, IMAX.

 * 1983 – Pan Am and American Airlines announce they will trade aircraft; Pan Am will send 15 McDonnell Douglas DC-10s to American in exchange for 8 Boeing 747s. It is the first time in history two airlines agree to a swap.

 * 1979 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80

 * 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.

 * 1958 – The last Canadian-built North American Sabre, the 1815th produced, was delivered to representatives of West Germany.

 * 1958 – NAVY SQUADRON AEWRON FIFTEEN (VW-15) AIRCRAFT: Lockheed WV-2 Warning Star, BuNo 141294, LOCATION: NAS Argentia, Newfoundland. EVENT: Crashed into Placentia Bay 1000 feet short of runway during CGA landing trying to get under weather; flight from Pax to Arg. U.S. Naval Aviation Safety Center, Accident Brief No. 10, May 1960: "The ceiling was reported indefinite 200 feet, visibility 2 miles in drizzle and fog. A precision approach was commenced to the duty runway. The approach was within tolerances and normal until after passing through GCA minimums, at which time the aircraft went below glide path and the pilot was instructed to take a waveoff. The waveoff was not executed until after the aircraft had actually made contact with the runway. After climbout, GCA was contacted and a second approach was requested to commence with no delay. The pilot advised GCA that the runway was in sight just before GCA gave him a waveoff on the first approach. The second approach was again normal until the final controller gave the instructions, "Approaching GCA minimums." The aircraft immediately commenced dropping below glide path. An emergency pullup was given, but the aircraft collided with the water [Placentia Bay] and came to rest 2050 feet east of the approach end of the runway. It sank in 26 feet of water and 11 persons lost their lives." LOSS: 11 of 29-man crew & passengers killed: CREW: LT Donald A. Becker, PPC, CDR Raymond L. Klassy, VW-13, ENS Donald E. Mulligan, Lyle W. Foster, American Red Cross, A. S. Corrado, Robert N. Elliot, AN, R. J. Emerson, Clarence J. Shea, J. E. Strange, William Jerome Taylor, AD3 (body never recovered), and D. D. Wilson.

 * 1948 – A USAF Douglas C-54D-10-DC Skymaster, 42-72688, c/n 10793, participating in the Berlin Airlift, crashes near Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, killing three crew, Capt. James A. Vaughn, 1st Lt. Eugene Erickson and Sgt. Richard Winter.

 * 1944 – A United States Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24H-20-CF Liberator, 42-50347 broke up in mid air over the town of Birkenhead, England. The aircraft was on a flight from New York to Liverpool and the accident killed all 24 airmen on board the aircraft.

 * 1943 – No. 168 (Heavy Transport) Squadron was formed at Rockcliffe, Ontario.

 * 1943 – From Dobodura, New Guinea, the Fifth Air Force mounts another raid on Rabaul of about the same size as the October 12 raid, but bad weather hampers the aircraft and only 54 B-25 Mitchell bombers get through.

 * 1938 – The first major air transfer of RCAF to the West as Wapities of the No. 3 Squadron flew from Ottawa to Calgary.

 * 1933 – First flight of the Grumman F2F, a Grumman’s first single-seat, enclosed-cockpit aircraft

 * 1927 – Count Jacques de Lesseps and his mechanic were lost in a Schreck flying boat in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near St. Felicite, Quebec.

 * 1925 – Sadi Lecointe wins the Beumont Cup, with a speed of 194 mph (312 km/h).

 * 1909 – Charles Comte de Lambert, Wilbur Wright’s first aviation pupil, flies around the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

 * 1908 – Wilbur Wright climbs to 115 m above Auvours.


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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/December 31

December 31

 * 2012 – EasySky Flight 735,While attempting to land at San Pedro Sula Airport, the aircraft veered off the runway and ran into a ditch about 130 feet off the runway before coming to a stop. There were no serious injuries among the crew of 2 and 17 passengers. The captain received minor injuries. The crew reported a problem with the brakes during roll out just before the aircraft veered off the runway.

 * 2012 – The Kachin Independence Army again claims to be under attack by Myanmar Air Force aircraft.

 * 2012 – Aleppo International Airport is closed due to fighting between Syrian government and rebel forces around the base of the Syrian Army force protecting the airport.

 * 1999 – Fear of the Y2 K computer bug and possible in-flight consequences for those planes flying during the night of December 31, 1999 and the early morning of January 1, 2000, spreads around the airline industry.

 * 1989 – First flight of the Sukhoi Su-30

 * 1985 – Singer-songwriter and actor Ricky Nelson and six others die in the crash of a Douglas DC-3 near DeKalb, Texas.

 * 1972 – Baseball player Roberto Clemente dies when his chartered DC-7 crashes into the ocean off the coast of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, immediately after takeoff. Clemente was attempting to deliver relief supplies to Managua, Nicaragua, after a massive earthquake on December 23.

 * 1970 – Jeanne Holm becomes the USAF's first female General

 * 1968 – First flight of the Tupolev Tu-144

 * 1968 – MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750, a Vickers Viscount, crashes in Australia, killing all 26 people on board.

 * 1967 – The Royal Air Force's V-bomber force begins to be dismantled, pending the deployment of the Polaris missile aboard Royal Navy submarines to act as Britain's nuclear deterrent.

 * 1967 – NASA begins initial talks to develop guidelines for a re-usable space plane.

 * 1958 – First flight of the Boeing C-137 Stratoliner

 * 1956 – A United States Air Force Lockheed C-121C, 54-165, crashed on approach to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia while flying UN troops into the Suez Canal zone. It was also carrying Hungarian refugees back to Charleston AFB, South Carolina. 12 of 38 onboard killed.[citation needed]

 * 1951 – The year-end tally showed that for the first time, total passenger flying miles exceeded that of railroad miles at 10.6 million.

 * 1944 – Entered Service: Grumman F8F Bearcat with the United States Navy

 * 1944 – University Air Training Squadrons were disbanded.

 * 1943 – Japanese Rabaul-based aircraft raid U. S. forces off Arawe, losing four aircraft.

 * 1943 – Since mid-December, when they began staging through Tarawa Atoll, U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators have dropped 601 tons (545,227 kg) of bombs on the Marshall Islands.

 * 1943 – Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden Kai (“Violet Lightning Modified”), Allied reporting name “George”

 * 1942 – (Overnight) Guided by an Oboe-equipped Mosquito, eight Pathfinder Force Avro Lancasters bomb on sky markers suspended by parachute for the first time in a raid on Düsseldorf. Bomber Command previously had employed only ground markers, and the new capability allows British bombers to bomb through ten-tenths cloud cover.

 * 1942 – During 1942, the U. S. Army Air Forces' Eleventh Air Force has destroyed at least 50 Japanese aircraft in the Aleutian Islands campaign in exchange for the loss of 12 aircraft in combat and almost 80 to other causes. Japanese non-combat aircraft losses in the Aleutian Islands have been equally high. Since October 1, Eleventh Air Force aircraft have dropped 500000 lb of bombs on Japanese bases in the Aleutians.

 * 1940 – A Vickers Wellington IA bomber, N2980, R for Robert, of No. 20 OTU, out of RAF Lossiemouth, suffers starboard engine failure at 8,000 feet in a snow storm whilst on a training flight over Great Glen, Scotland. Pilot, Squadron Leader Marlwood-Elton orders crew of six trainee navigators and the tail gunner to bail-out, all escaping safely save the gunner whose chute fails to open. Marlwood-Elton and P/O Slatter (also reported as Slater) then notice a body of water and they successfully ditch in the northern basin of Loch Ness near the A82 road, both escaping before the airframe sinks. Discovered by side-scan sonar in 1976, the rare Wellington is raised on 21 September 1985, and restored at Weybridge where she was built. Now on display at the Brooklands Museum, it is one of only two known intact Wellingtons.

 * 1922 – The first German aircraft flies over Britain since the end of World War I, a Deutsche Luft-Reederei Dornier Komet

 * 1908 – Wilbur Wright wins a prize of FF 20,000 from Michelin for the longest flight of the year – 124 km from Camp d'Auvours.


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February 23

 * 2011 – Two United States Marine Corps helicopters, a Bell UH-1Y and a Bell AH-1W, collide at night on the Yuma training range, Arizona, United States. All seven crew members were killed.

 * 2010 – A house cat escapes from its carrier as its owner is traversing a TSA search at Newark Liberty Airport. The 25-lb cat proceeds to wedge itself under a baggage screening machine, forcing a temporary closure of the Terminal A checkpoint.

 * 2010 – Kingfisher Airlines formally submits its application to join the oneworld alliance.

 * 2009 – Lion Air Flight 972, a McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30, registration PK-LIO, lands at Hang Nadim Airport, Indonesia, with the nosewheel stuck in the raised position. The aircraft is damaged significantly.

 * 2008 – Andersen Air Force Base B-2 crash: A Northrop-Grumman B-2A Spirit, 89-0127, 'WM', "Spirit of Kansas", of the 393rd Bomb Squadron, 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman AFB, Missouri, crashed shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. Both pilots ejected from the plane before it crashed, the aircraft was destroyed. Moisture in flight sensors caused steep pitch-up and stall to port.

 * 2008 – Andersen Air Force Base Northrop Grumman B-2 Spririt accident: A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2. The crew of two ejects safely, but the aircraft would be the most expensive write-off in history, as each B-2 rings up to around $1.2 billion. The cause of the crash is later determined to have been moisture in the air-data pressure sensors, producing inaccurate speed readings and then an early rotation and subsequent stall.

 * 1997 – A small fire occurs on the Russian Space station, Mir, when a solid-fuel, oxygen-generating canister bursts into flames. There are no injuries.

 * 1991 – Iraqi antiaircraft artillery downs a U. S. Marine Corps AV-8 B Harrier II near Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait.

 * 1990 – A Marine Corps student pilot and his U.S. Navy instructor from Whiting Field, Florida, were killed after two Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentors collided in mid-air, near Summerdale, Alabama. One plane crashed near the edge of the field, killing the instructor pilot, Lt. Gordon Bruce Wulf, 29, a Wichita, Kansas, native who lived in Cantonment, Florida, and his student, Marine 1st Lt. Cary K. Smith Jr., 25, of Columbia, South Carolina. The second plane made an emergency landing at another outlying field about 15 miles away near Silverhill, Alabama, with only slight damage and without injury to the instructor pilot or his student.

 * 1981 – Death of Chester Stairs Duffus, Canadian WWI flying ace.

 * 1976 – Death of Pjotr Michailowitsch Stefanowski, Soviet WWII test pilot.

 * 1972 – First flight of the PAC CT/4 Airtrainer, an all-metal construction, single-engine, two place side-by-side seating, fully aerobatic, piston engined, basic training aircraft built in New-Zealand.

 * 1959 – First flight of the Dornier Do 28D Skyservant, a German twin-engine STOL utility aircraft evolution of the Do-28. Redesigned aircraft with box fuselage, larger wing, new tail.

 * 1959 – EWR (Entwicklungsring Süd GmbH) was formed of a Bölkow, Heinkel, and Messerschmitt design consortium to develop a Mach 2 VTOL intercepter.

 * 1959 – Birth of Clayton Conrad Anderson, American engineer and NASA astronaut.

 * 1955 – First flight of the CAC Winjeel, an Australian Two-seat basic trainer aircraft for the RAAF.

 * 1954 – Flying a Douglas XF4D-1, Robert Rahm climbs to 10000 ft in 56 seconds.

 * 1951 – First flight of the Dassault Mystère, a French fighter-bomber prototype with a 30-degree swept wing.

 * 1949 – Death of Thomas Neville Stack AFC, British test pilot, air racer and aviation pioneer. He served in WWI and WWII and was managing director of Pakistan-Orient airways.

 * 1949 – Birth of Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, CC CD FCASI MP, Canadian retired military officer, astronaut, engineer and politician. First Canadian in space.

 * 1945 – (February 23-March 2) The night fighter squadron aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6), operating off Iwo Jima, keeps planes airborne for a record 174 consecutive hours.

 * 1945 – Last allied ship sunk by the Luftwaffe in WWII is the Liberty ship SS Henry Bacon, torpedoed in the Barents Sea.

 * 1944 – Aircraft from six aircraft carriers of Task Force 58 make the first Allied strike against Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands, attacking Guam, Rota, and Tinian, discovering the location of Japanese airfields in the islands for the first time, destroying 168 Japanese aircraft, sinking two cargo ships and several smaller craft, and conducting the first Allied photographic reconnaissance missions ever flown over the Marianas.

 * 1942 – First flight of the Polikarpov ITP, a Soviet fighter prototype.

 * 1937 – Douglas delivers its first production B-18 Bolo bomber.

 * 1935 – Leland Andrews breaks Doolittle's January record, completing a transcontinental transport flight in 11 hours 34 min.

 * 1934 – First flight of the Lockheed Model 10 Electra, a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Model_10_Electra

 * 1932 – First flight of the Gloster TC.33, a British large four-engined biplane designed for troop carrying and medical evacuation.

 * 1929 – First flight of the Breguet 27, a French two-seat biplane all-metal observation aircraft.

 * 1928 – Birth of Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, a Soviet cosmonaut.

 * 1924 – Lt. John S. Ansley of the 111th Observation Squadron, Texas National Guard, crashes in Curtiss JN-4H, 24-158, (one source gives the type as a Curtiss JN-6) at Ellington Field, Texas, when he enters a tailspin during practice, but at insufficient altitude to recover, the airframe smashing into a pile of stacked lumber. The pilot dies later in hospital.

 * 1921 – A team of pilots completes an experimental coast-to-coast mail flight; flying by day and night, they have linked San Francisco and Long Island in a day and half’s flying time.

 * 1916 – Birth of Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr., brigadier general in the USAF, best known for being the pilot of the B-29 ‘Enola Gay’, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare.

 * 1914 – First flight of the Bristol Scout, a simple, single seat, rotary-engined biplane originally intended as a civilian racing aircraft.Like other similar fast, light aircraft of the period – It was acquired by the RNAS and the RFC as a “scout”, or fast reconnaissance type. In the event it was one of the first single-seaters to be used as fighter aircraft.

 * 1909 – First flight of the AEA Silver Dart

 * 1901 – Birth of Ruth Rowland Nichols, American aviation pioneer, who was the only woman to hold simultaneous world records for speed, altitude, and distance for a female pilot.

 * 1899 – Birth of George Raby Riley, British WWI fighter ace.

 * 1896 – Birth of Maurice Leblanc-Smith, British WWI flying ace.

 * 1886 – Birth of Didier Masson, pioneering French aviator, barnstormer, second flier in history to bomb a surface warship, WWI fighter pilot and early manager of Pan American World Airways.


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Garnerville, New York

Garnerville, previously known as Calicotown, is a hamlet in the town of Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of New York City; east of Mount Ivy; south of Stony Point and west of West Haverstraw. Most of the hamlet is within the West Haverstraw village, while a small portion of Garnerville defaults to the town of Haverstraw.

The hamlet was named after the Garner family, who operated a textile printing industry called Garner Printworks on Minisceongo Creek near Railroad Avenue beginning in 1838. East of where the Garner printworks operated is the abandoned Calico Hill Cemetery.

The community is bisected by U.S. Route 202. The Haverstraw town hall is located in the hamlet, along with several small shopping centers and the King's Daughters Library. The schools in Garnerville include North Garnerville Elementary School and St. Gregory Barbarigo Parochial School; the hamlet is part of the North Rockland Central School District.

Rockland Community College symbolically recognized David J. Rojas of Garnerville as the "millionth graduate" of the State University of New York (SUNY) at the 46th commencement ceremony held on June 3, 2007.

History
Around 1760, Cornelius Osborn built a grist mill at a waterfall on the Minisceongo Creek; this later became the site of the Calico Works. In 1828, a rolling mill and a nail factory were established a bit upstream on the site of a former grist mill by John I. and George Suffern. From 1850 to 1858, John I. Suffern manufactured coarse wrapping paper at that location.

Also in 1828, Scotsman John Glass purchased forty-five acres south of the Minisceongo for a calico print works. On June 7, 1831, Glass was loading goods to be shipped to New York City on board the General Jackson, docked at Grassy Point, New York. The steamboat's boiler exploded, killing fourteen people, including Glass. In 1838 the property was purchased by James and Thomas Garner and Charles Wells. The Garner print works prospered; buildings were enlarged and extended. The works employed about 800 people, and a village sprang up around the factory, to be called "Garnerville". In 1853 the Rockland Print Works Company was incorporated for the purpose of "Printing and Dyeing Woolen, Cotton, and Linen Goods."

During the Civil War, the Rockland Print Works made uniforms for the Union Army. The Garnerville Railroad was a spur that ran from the print works to the New Jersey and New York Railroad at Miner's Creek.

In 1840, Resolve Waldron and Charles Benson established a chemical factory for the manufacture of pyroligneous acid, much used in calico printing. The business closed in 1843, but was revived the following year by William Knight at a location near Cedar Pond.

The Garnerville post office was established in June 1875; John D. Norris was US postmaster for the hamlet.

Historical markers

 * Calico Hill - 31 West Railroad Avenue
 * Garner Works - 55 West Railroad Avenue

Landmarks and places of interest

 * Garner Mansion Site - Railroad Avenue
 * King's Daughters Public Library - 10 W. Ramapo Road
 * Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center - 55 W. Railroad Avenue. This is a not-for-profit art center with over 14 0 sqft of unique performance and exhibition space. The center is in a landmark pre-Civil War factory complex.

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Al Rodrigo

Al Rodrigo is an American character actor who has starred in theatre, films and on television since the 1980s.

Early life and education
Rodrigo was born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents. He graduated from the High School of Performing Arts and received a BFA in theatre from Syracuse University.

Career
Some of his film credits include Last Rites, The Glass Shield, Brown's Requiem, The Great White Hype, The Birdcage, and House of Sand and Fog, and others.

Rodrigo has made many guest appearances on TV shows, including Truth Be Told, Mayans MC, Martin, Something Wilder, SeaQuest DSV, Beverly Hills, 90210, ARLI$, The West Wing, Wanted, High Incident, CSI: Miami, Days of Our Lives, and Supernatural. He also guest starred in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the season three two-part episode "Past Tense" as Bernardo Calvera, and numerous others.

He is the voice of Quinlan Vos in season three of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Among some of his many voice over credits are the animated features Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, Penguins of Madagascar, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Coco, and others. In video games he is the voice of Padre Sebastian and Gallo in Cyberpunk 2077, Oscar Diaz in Gears 5, Grand Theft Auto V, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Fallout 76, Asura's Wrath, Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel, Tomb Raider, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Dishonored, and others. He also does extensive work in the ADR community on numerous film and television projects.

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Marcel Dalio

Marcel Dalio (born Marcel Benoit Blauschild; 23 November 1899 in Paris – 18 November 1983) was a French movie actor. He had major roles in two films directed by Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939).

Early life in France
Dalio was born Marcel Benoit Blauschild in Paris to Romanian-Jewish immigrant parents. He trained at the Paris Conservatoire and performed in revues from 1920. Dalio appeared in stage plays from the 1920s and acted in French films in the 1930s. His first big film success was in Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko (1937). He followed them with two films for Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu, 1939).

After divorcing his first wife, Jany Holt, he married the young actress Madeleine Lebeau in 1939.

Wartime exile
In June 1940, Dalio and Lebeau left Paris ahead of the invading German army and reached Lisbon. They are presumed to have received transit visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes, allowing them to enter Spain and journey on to Portugal. It took them two months to get visas to Chile. However, when their ship, the S.S. Quanza, stopped in Mexico, they were stranded (along with around 200 other passengers) when the Chilean visas they had purchased turned out to be forgeries. Eventually they were able to get temporary Canadian passports and entered the United States. Meanwhile, the advancing German Nazi army in occupied France used posters of his face as a representative of "a typical Jew". All other members of Dalio's family died in Nazi concentration camps.

In Hollywood, although Dalio was never quite able to regain the profile he had in France, he appeared in 19 American films during the Second World War, in stereotypical roles as a Frenchman. Dalio's first film in the United States was the Fred MacMurray comedy One Night in Lisbon (1941) in which he portrayed a hotel concierge. Around the same time, he appeared in the Edward G. Robinson film Unholy Nights and the Gene Tierney film The Shanghai Gesture (also 1941). He remained busy, appearing in Flight Lieutenant (1942) starring Pat O'Brien and Glenn Ford. Dalio next portrayed a Frenchman, Focquet, in the film The Pied Piper (also 1942). In this film, Monty Woolley portrayed an Englishman trying to get out of France with an ever-increasing number of children ahead of the German invasion. Dalio then appeared among the star-studded cast in Tales of Manhattan (both 1942).

In the uncredited role of Emil the croupier in Casablanca (also 1942), he appeared in the scene when Captain Renault closes down Rick's Cafe American using the pretext, "I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!", Emil approaches him and hands him his usual bribe money saying, "Your winnings sir", while Rick darts Emil a flabbergasted look. His wife Madeleine Lebeau was also in the film, playing Yvonne, Rick's intermittent girlfriend. On 22 June, while Lebeau was filming her scenes with Hans Twardowski as the German officer, Dalio filed for divorce in Los Angeles on the grounds of desertion. He was cast in some larger roles, for example in the war dramas Tonight We Raid Calais and Paris After Dark (both 1943), in the latter his ex-wife Lebeau also appeared. Dalio played a French policeman in The Song of Bernadette (also 1943). His penultimate wartime role in an American film was in the adaptation of To Have and Have Not (1944) reuniting him with Humphrey Bogart.

Postwar
When the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dalio returned to France to continue his movie career. His first appearance that year was in Her Final Role (Son dernier rôle, 1946). He appeared in ten more movies in France and one in England through the late 1940s. He played Captain Nikarescu in Black Jack (1950).

Dalio appeared in four American movies in the mid-1950s. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe and Flight to Tangier (both 1953) starring Joan Fontaine, Lucky Me starring Doris Day and Sabrina (both 1954) starring Bogart and Audrey Hepburn. In Sabrina, the bearded Dalio played one of Hepburn's fellow cooking students in Paris. He then briefly returned to France.

Dalio portrayed the Claude Rains character, Captain Renault, in the short-lived television series Casablanca (1955). Dalio had the role of a French sergeant in the war drama Jump into Hell (also 1955) about the French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. Dalio appeared in the musical comedy Ten Thousand Bedrooms starring Dean Martin, with Paul Henreid in the supporting cast. He also appeared as a French priest in a war movie, again about the French involvement in Vietnam, called China Gate which features the acting of Nat King Cole. Finally that year, Dalio played Zizi in The Sun Also Rises (all 1957) his third movie based on an Ernest Hemingway novel, this time starring Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner. Over the next four years, he appeared in Lafayette Escadrille, The Perfect Furlough (both 1958) starring Tony Curtis, The Man Who Understood Women starring Henry Fonda, Pillow Talk (both 1959) starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day, Can-Can (1960) starring Frank Sinatra and The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961) starring Sinatra and Spencer Tracy.

After making more movies in France, Dalio received a major supporting role in the mystery The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), set entirely in England but filmed primarily in Hollywood. Two of Dalio's previous co-stars, Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra, had cameos in the film. This was followed with the part of Father Cluzeot in the John Wayne movie, Donovan's Reef (also 1963). After appearing again with Tony Curtis in Wild and Wonderful (1964), Dalio returned to France. He continued making movies for Hollywood, but he also appeared in many French productions.

Later movies featuring Dalio include Lady L (1965) starring Sophia Loren and Paul Newman, How to Steal a Million (1966) starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole and How Sweet It Is! (1968) starring Debbie Reynolds and James Garner. In Mike Nichols' Catch-22 Dalio played the old Italian living in the whorehouse, while he also appeared in The Great White Hope (both 1970) with James Earl Jones. From then on, he did movies almost entirely in France, the best known of them being The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) and La Bête (1975) directed by Walerian Borowczyk. His last appearance was in a TV movie portraying Lord Exeter in Les Longuelune (1982).

Television
Dalio also appeared in numerous television shows both in the United States (between 1954 and 1963) and in France (1968 to 1981). These include guest appearances in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Peter Gunn, 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick (in "Game of Chance" with James Garner and Jack Kelly), Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond and Ben Casey.

Dalio married Hollywood based French journalist Madeleine [Alena] Prime in Los Angeles, in 1981.

Dalio, who appeared in almost 150 movies, died in Paris on 18 November 1983, just 5 days shy of his 84th birthday. He is buried in Cimetière parisien de Montrouge in Hauts de Seine, France.

Selected filmography

 * Olive passager clandestin (1931) – Caravanos
 * The Night at the Hotel (1932) – Jérôme
 * My Hat (1933) – Bokalas
 * Les affaires publiques (1934) – Le speaker / Le sculpteur / Le capitaine des pompiers / L'amiral
 * Turandot, Princess of China (1935) – Hippolyte
 * Return to Paradise (1935) – Le notaire
 * Le golem (1936) – (uncredited)
 * When Midnight Strikes (1936)
 * Beethoven's Great Love (1936) – L'éditeur Steiner
 * Pépé le Moko (1937) – L'Arbi
 * White Cargo (1937) – Pérez
 * L'Homme à abattre (1937)
 * Marthe Richard, au service de la France (1937) – Pedro
 * The Pearls of the Crown (1937) – Le ministre d'Abyssinie
 * La Grande Illusion (1937) – Le lieutenant Rosenthal
 * Sarati the Terrible (1937) – Benoît
 * The Kiss of Fire (1937) – Le photographe
 * Miarka (1937) – Le maire
 * Rail Pirates (1938) – Le mercenaire
 * Mollenard (1938) – Happy Jones
 * Chéri-Bibi (1938) – Le donneur
 * La Maison du Maltais (1938) – Matteo Gordina – le Maltais
 * The Curtain Rises (1938) – Le jude d'instruction
 * Conflict (1938) – L'usurier / The Money-Lender
 * The White Slave (1939) – Le sultan Soliman
 * Midnight Tradition (1939) – Édouard Mutter, l'antiquaire
 * La Règle du jeu (1939) – Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest
 * Sacred Woods (1939) – Zakouskine, le danseur
 * Thunder Over Paris (1940) – Barel
 * One Night in Lisbon (1941) – Concierge
 * Unholy Partners (1941) – Molyneaux
 * The Shanghai Gesture (1941) – The Master of the Spinning Wheel
 * Flight Lieutenant (1942) – Marcel Faulet (uncredited)
 * The Pied Piper (1942) – Focquet
 * Tales of Manhattan (1942) – 2nd Salesman at Santelli's (Fields sequence) (uncredited)
 * Casablanca (1942) – Emil, Croupier at Rick's (uncredited)
 * Tonight We Raid Calais (1943) – Jacques Grandet
 * The Constant Nymph (1943) – Georges
 * Paris After Dark (1943) – Luigi, Quisling Barber
 * Flesh and Fantasy (1943) – Clown (uncredited)
 * The Desert Song (1943) – Tarbouch
 * The Song of Bernadette (1943) – Callet
 * Action in Arabia (1944) – Chakka, Arab Henchman at Airport
 * Pin Up Girl (1944) – Pierre (uncredited)
 * Wilson (1944) – Premier Georges Clemenceau
 * To Have and Have Not (1944) – Gérard (Frenchy)
 * A Bell for Adano (1945) – Zito
 * Her Final Role (1946) – Ardouin
 * Pétrus (1946) – Luciani
 * Temptation Harbour (1947) – Inspector Dupré
 * The Damned (1947) – Larga
 * Snowbound (1948) – Stefano Valdini
 * Judicial Error (1948) – Dinari
 * Dédée d'Anvers (1948) – Marco
 * Dark Sunday (1948) – Max – l'éditeur
 * The Lovers Of Verona (1949) – Amedeo Maglia
 * Wicked City (1949) – Aimé – un nervi
 * Portrait of an Assassin (1949) – Fred dit Bébé
 * Maya (1949) – Le steward
 * Death Threat (1950) – Denis
 * Black Jack (1950) – Captain Nikarescu
 * Oriental Port (1950) – Zarapoulos
 * On the Riviera (1951) – Philippe Lebrix
 * Rich, Young and Pretty (1951) – Claude Duval
 * Nous irons à Monte-Carlo (1951) – Poulos, l'imprésario
 * Lovely to Look At (1952) – Pierre
 * The Merry Widow (1952) – Police Sergeant
 * The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) – Emile
 * The Happy Time (1952) – Grandpere Bonnard
 * Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) – Magistrate
 * Flight to Tangier (1953) – Goro
 * Monte Carlo Baby (1953) – Melissa Farrell's Agent
 * Lucky Me (1954) – Anton
 * La Patrouille des sables (1954) – Maillard
 * Sabrina (1954) – Baron St. Fontanel
 * Tres hombres van a morir (1954) – Maillard
 * The Lovers of Lisbon (1955) – Porfirio
 * Jump Into Hell (1955) – Sergeant Taite
 * Razzia sur la chnouf (1955) – Paul Liski
 * Miracle in the Rain (1956) – Marcel, Waiter
 * Anything Goes (1956) – Ship's Captain (uncredited)
 * Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) – Vittorio Cisini
 * China Gate (1957) – Father Paul
 * The Sun Also Rises (1957) – Zizi
 * Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957) – Toto del Aro
 * Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958) (Season 3 Episode 22: "The Return of the Hero") - Corporal Marcel Marchand
 * Lafayette Escadrille (1958) – Drill Sergeant
 * The Perfect Furlough (1958) – Henri Valentin
 * Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (10/2/1959) ('The Dark Room', episode) -Jean Gabeau, Ghost
 * The Man Who Understood Women (1959) – Le Marne
 * Pillow Talk (1959) – Pierot
 * Can-Can (1960) – Andre, the head waiter
 * Classe Tous Risques (1960) – Arthur Gibelin
 * Song Without End (1960) – Chelard
 * The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961) – Gaston
 * Jessica (1962) – Luigi Tuffi
 * Cartouche (1962) – Malichot
 * Le Petit Garçon de l'ascenseur (1962) – Antonio
 * The Law of Men (1962) – L'avocat Plautet
 * Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (1962) – Le bijoutier / Jeweler (segment "Luxurieux point ne seras")
 * L'Abominable Homme des douanes (1963) – Gregor
 * The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) – Max Karoudjian
 * Donovan's Reef (1963) – Father Cluzeot
 * À couteaux tirés (1964) – Jean Grégor / Gregor Veloni
 * Wild and Wonderful (1964) – Dr. Reynard
 * The Monocle Laughs (1964) – Elie Mayerfitsky
 * Male Companion (1964) – Socratès
 * Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1964) – (voice, uncredited)
 * Lady L (1965) – Sapper
 * Made in Paris (1966) – Georges
 * Un garçon, une fille. Le dix-septième ciel (1966) – Le maître d'hôtel
 * How to Steal a Million (1966) – Senor Paravideo
 * Tender Scoundrel (1966) – Le père de Véronique
 * The 25th Hour (1967) – Strul
 * The Oldest Profession (1967) – Me Vladimir Leskov (segment "Aujourd'hui")
 * How Sweet It Is! (1968) – Louis
 * Du blé en liasses (1969) – Vanessian
 * Justine (1969) – French Consul General
 * Catch-22 (1970) – Old Man in Whorehouse
 * The Great White Hope (1970) – French Promoter
 * L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste (1971) – M. Paul
 * Aussi loin que l'amour (1971) – Le milliardaire
 * Papa les p'tits bateaux (1971) – Boudu, le clochard
 * Les Yeux fermés (1972) – Le vieux monsieur
 * La punition (1973) – Le Libanais
 * The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) – Rabbi Jacob
 * Ursule et Grelu (1974) – Le réceptionniste
 * Dédé la tendresse (1974)
 * La Bête (1975) – Duc Rammendelo De Balo
 * Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975) – Le noble suffocant au repas (uncredited)
 * Trop c'est trop (1975) – Saint-Pierre
 * La chatte sur un doigt brûlant (1975) – Hector Franbourgeois
 * Le faux-cul (1975) – Cohen
 * Hard Love (1975) – Le maître d'hôtel
 * The Wing or the Thigh (1976) – Le tailleur de Duchemin
 * Solemn Communion (1977) – Old Charles Gravet
 * Shadow of the Castles (1977) – Père Renard
 * L'Honorable Société (1978) – Marcel
 * One Page of Love (1978) – Le père de Fanny
 * Surprise Sock (1978) – Monsieur L'église
 * Le paradis des riches (1978) – Mathieu
 * Brigade mondaine: Vaudou aux Caraïbes (1980) – Mazoyer

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Shadowfist

Shadowfist was created by Robin Laws and Jose Garcia. It was released in June 1995 as a collectible card game (CCG), but was shifted to a fixed distribution of cards as of 2013. It shares the same background as the Feng Shui, a role-playing game created by Laws and Garcia and released the following year. In September 2018 ownership of Shadowfist switched to Vetusta Games.

Overview
Shadowfist is a multi-player asymmetrical strategic game, the design of which is influenced by games such as Cosmic Encounter, Dune by Avalon Hill, Magic: The Gathering and its direct predecessor, On the Edge.

Shadowfist is primarily inspired by Hong Kong action cinema and wuxia films of the late 1980s and 1990s, and by action films in general. In the game, various factions from across time battle for control of the world's Feng Shui sites in a conflict known as the "Secret War." Time travel takes place through an alternate dimension known as the Netherworld which opens to various time junctures. The current open junctures are AD 86, 1867, and 2013. The pulp (1942) and future (2072) junctures were closed with the 2013 Combat in Kowloon release. Unlike Feng Shui, Shadowfist's time junctures move forward as time actually progresses, permitting new game releases to reflect the present.

The titles of cards and the flavor text in the game are rife with humor and pop culture references, especially the Jammers faction, which contains cards such as "Furious George" and "Entropy is Your Friend."

Publication history
Shadowfist was originally published as a CCG by Daedalus Entertainment until they went out of business in 1996. The license was acquired by Zev Shlasinger in 2000; Shlasinger had primarily established his game company, Z-Man Games, to bring Shadowfist back. Z-Man Games released ten new sets over the next five years, before moving on to other projects. The next year a group of fans formed Shadowfist Games to continue publishing sets. This group worked with Shlasinger to publish the next three sets between 2006 and 2009.

Shadowfist remained a CCG, with randomized distribution of cards within decks or packs, from its inception through the last Shadowfist Games set in 2009. No new sets were then published, until 2013.

The game is now being published by Inner Kingdom Games, founded by Daniel Griego and Braz King, but currently managed solely by Griego. The card set that would become Combat in Kowloon and Back for Seconds (in January 2013) was originally slated to be a single booster pack release using the long-standing CCG model. It carried the working title "Hong Kong 2010" from its design and development in 2009 through play-testing in 2010 and art design in early 2011.

In 2011, Inner Kingdom Games re-published the award-winning Seven Masters vs. the Underworld expansion. After only moderate success with this release, Inner Kingdom Games switched Shadowfist from the CCG model to the fixed distribution Dynamic Card Game (DCG) model. The DCG model was directly inspired by the Living Card Game (LCG) model used by several other card games, many of which also transitioned from the CCG model.

To fund new sets, Inner Kingdom Games conducted a Kickstarter campaign in August 2012 that exceeded the required funding targets. Inner Kingdom Games broke up "Hong Kong 2010" into two separate releases ("Combat in Kowloon" and "Back for Seconds"), and published them beginning in January 2013.

Following the release of Combat in Kowloon and Back for Seconds, 2013 saw the release of the first expansion block in the DCG model. Dubbed the "Rebirth Cycle" It included the decks, "Reloaded", "Reinforcements", and "Revelations". Reloaded is composed primarily of reprinted cards deemed necessary for the new environment. Included with these were nine new cards and updates to seven previously printed cards. Reinforcements and Revelations included 50 never before seen cards each.

Included in this release was the first Action Pack, a 50 card pack of cards from the expansion that players would want more of for their decks. An acknowledgement that a flat distribution wouldn't fulfill the needs for some cards that would have been more common in the CCG model.

A second Kickstarter campaign in 2014 resulted in the release of the Coming Darkness block, consisting of the Queens Gambit, Knight's Passage, and Endgame sets. A second Action Pack was released in the same model as the previous one.

A third Kickstarter campaign occurred in 2015. It resulted in the release of the Year of the Goat starter expansion, with each of the six remaining factions receiving a pre-constructed starter.

Basic story
The world of Shadowfist follows the background of the Feng Shui role playing game, where the art of Chinese geomancy, or Feng Shui, is real. Thus, control of this world does not depend on military might or political pull but on control of major Feng Shui sites. These are in-game locations that channel the greatest amount of Chi, the energy of life. Having more personal Chi than your opposition causes everything to go your way, statistically speaking. With enough Chi, characters can see and use portals to the Netherworld, an alternate dimension that connects the various junctions in time.

These characters are generally aligned with one of several warring factions. Each game of Shadowfist represents one battle in this ‘secret war’. Each battle contributes to the story, since controlling enough sites in a past juncture would allow a faction to take control of the planet and dramatically alter all subsequent junctures. Of course, those who already control the past and the future are all trying to do the same.

Gameplay
Players create a deck of cards (typically 40–80 total) and draw blind from a randomized stack, playing cards when possible and discarding unneeded cards. Card types include: Sites, Characters, Events, Edges and States. Sites are considered locations that stay in play permanently until removed or destroyed. Characters are used to attack and defend locations or other characters or generate effects and stay in play until 'smoked' or 'toasted', Events are played at any time and generate a specific effect and are then discarded. Edges are permanent cards that generate effects. States are played on other card in order to modify them or provide an additional effect.

The goal of Shadowfist is to accumulate five Feng Shui sites (or six in a two-player game). These can be played from a player's hand or taken from other players. However, in order to win the game, a player's final Feng Shui site must be taken from another player. Attacking and attacking to win the game are very different events during the game. The former might only draw a response from the defending player while the latter will certainly draw a response from all the other players in the game.

Players must meet both the power cost and resource requirements of a card to play it. Power represents a player's assets (money, firepower, chutzpah, etc.) and is primarily generated by players’ sites at the beginning of their turn. Resources represent either a faction's increasing involvement in the conflict or additional access to one of three talents (Tech, Magic, and Chi). Resources are typically provided by players’ characters. Spent power is taken from the player's power pool but resources remain available, even after characters are killed off in game.

Shadowfist uses a "last in, first out" or LIFO system for resolving effects. When an effect is generated by the playing of a card or from the rules text of a card in play, a new scene begins and players can generally respond with new effects. After the final new effect in the scene is generated, they begin to resolve beginning with the newest effect and ending with the oldest.

Shadowfist, released in 1995, differs from its CCG contemporaries in that focuses on multi-player gameplay rather than dueling. A key factor in Shadowfist gameplay is that players must team together to stop the player who is poised to win the game. All players can play cards that affect any other player's cards, even if they are not directly involved in attacking or being attacked. One of the most important skills in the game is judging when and how to use resources for defense against other players in lieu of attacking power. One of the other major differences between Shadowfist and other CCGs in multi-player is the fluidity of the game: players are never removed from the game and can often recover quickly from even the most crushing defeat.

Factions
There have been up to ten factions involved in the secret war:
 * The Eaters of the Lotus are a cabal of evil eunuch sorcerers from ancient China who have usurped power in the Imperial court using black magic and demons.
 * The Architects of the Flesh are scientists from the future who figured out how to combine magic and technology into a perverse new form of science called Arcanotechnology, which they use to convert captured demons into creatures known as abominations. The Architects formerly controlled the future, but a civil war split them in half, and then a critical shift in 1934 essentially wiped them out of the timestream. The faction's two halves have now been split across the time-stream: The BuroMil, the military arm led by Johann Bonengel has taken over Nazi Germany from within, while the CDCA, the research division headed by Dr. Curtis Boatman, heads a multinational corporation in 2072. In the game, their home juncture was first radically changed by the critical shift, and then subsequently closed.
 * The Dragons are a rag-tag collection of mavericks and heroes from across time who've banded together to fight against evil and tyranny in the name of freedom and justice. Their success in the 1930s, in the Pulp juncture (1942—in conjunction with the Purists' major failure) caused the most recent 'critical shift' and made their de facto leader, Zheng Yi Quan, the new master of the modern world. With his disappearance, the Dragon's tenuous hold on the Modern juncture has been weakening.
 * The Guiding Hand are a secret society composed of monks, revolutionaries, and martial artists led by the Perfect Master Quan Lo who seek to drive all foreign influences out of China in 1866 and extend their vision of a world based on Neo-Confucianism principles across time.
 * The Ascended are animals who achieved human form long ago and who once controlled the world both in AD 1866 and 2012 from the heart of a vast conspiracy. They still have control of the 1866 juncture, but have lost much of their power and influence in 2012 following the 'critical shift' in 1942.
 * The Jammers are a loose organization of rebels, malcontents, anarchists, and cyborg monkeys. Originally a rebel group in opposition to the Architects of the Flesh, they believe that the only way to free humanity from tyranny and oppression is through the destruction of every feng shui site in existence. They operate primarily out of the Netherworld. With the release of the Year of the Goat expansion, the portals to the Future juncture have reopened with the Jammers in control.
 * The Four Monarchs were two brothers and two sisters of incredible magical might who once ruled the modern world in an alternate timeline. Their version of reality was erased by the Ascended, forcing them into exile in the Netherworld. With the defection of their sister, Ming I to the Eaters of the Lotus (in the Coming Darkness cycle), the faction is now referred to as "The Monarchs".
 * The Seven Masters are a group of legendary warrior-monks who live in isolation and practice a philosophy of non-intervention, except in the most dire of situations. They appear to be based in the AD 85 juncture.
 * The Purists began as Lotus infiltrators of the Architects sent to study that faction's Arcanotechnology and, being unbound by Lotus traditions, developed a radical new "pure" and math-based sorcery known as Paradox Magic. Having recently lost their stronghold in the future, they've quietly re-established themselves in 1942.
 * The Syndicate is a secretive organization which rules the world in 2072 through control of all the major criminal organizations and corporations. They came into existence after the critical shift in 1942 that erased the Architects' version of reality. In game, this juncture has been closed.

Initial sets

 * 1995 – Release of the first Shadowfist 'Limited' set, with art direction by Jesper Myrfors. Consisted of randomly packed 60-card starter decks and 12-card booster packs the company referred to as shadowpacks. This set was printed by Upper Deck and boosters have fancy foil packaging. Included the original five factions: Architects, Ascended, Dragons, Hand, and Lotus, and a few cards from the Four Monarchs and Jammers. These cards bear a gold foil Ting Ting (a popular card from the Dragons faction) logo in the upper right hand corner.
 * Late 1995 - Shadowfist 'Standard' set. Identical to the Limited run, except for certain Unique characters that were said to have "died" (though some copies of these cards made it into Standard boxes anyway). Cards from this set bear no foil stamp or other set logo. So many Limited and Standard cards were printed that they are relatively easy to find online today.
 * 1996 – Netherworld. This booster-only set included cards from the first five factions and also fleshed out the Monarchs and Jammers, though they would remain the less well-rounded of the seven. These cards also bear the gold foil Ting Ting logo. Netherworld boxes are practically extinct.
 * 1996 – Flashpoint. Another booster set, with a focus on the Architects and Dragons (though still including cards for all seven factions). Cards from this set bear a gold foil rifle logo. Flashpoint had a very annoying rarity distribution scheme and was the last expansion printed by Daedalus. Boxes of Flashpoint can still be found online with relative ease.
 * 2000 – Year of the Dragon. This set marked the beginning of the Z-Man Games era and consisted of a brand new set of 50-card fixed starters, one for each of the original five factions. Many of these were Daedalus reprints but the starters also included quite a few new cards. YotD cards bear a white, non-foil, dragon's-head-in-profile logo.
 * 2000 – Throne War. Booster-only. It was originally scheduled for an October 1996 release. Focused heavily on the Lotus, who got 1/4 of the cards in the set, bringing them into line with the power level of the other four original factions. Throne War cards bear a white pagoda logo.
 * 2001 – Netherworld II: Back Through The Portals. This booster expansion focused on the Monarchs, who got 1/3 of the cards in the set. Despite this their power level would remain a bit below the other factions until later. N2 cards have a black-and-white vortex logo.
 * 2001 – Shaolin Showdown. The cards in this booster expansion focused somewhat on the Ascended and Hand. This set generated some complaints about low power level, but still included quite a few important cards. SS cards have a white crossed-swords logo.
 * 2002 – Dark Future. This booster expansion introduced the Purists as a new faction and also emphasized the Architects. Boxes of DF are now hard to find because they contain most of the foundation cards for the Purists; without foundations they are, of course, hard to play. Dark Future cards have a three-diamond logo that is white, gray, or black if the card is rare, uncommon, or common, respectively. (This rarity color-coding has continued in every booster expansion since.) This set was reprinted with the release of Critical Shift in July 2007.
 * 2002 – Boom Chaka Laka. A small (91-card) booster expansion that generated some controversy based on its '70s theme. BCL had a very short print run. Cards from this expansion have a nunchuks logo.
 * 2002 – 10,000 Bullets. A fixed 50-card starter expansion with one deck for each of the eight factions. 10kB cards have a row-of-bullets logo that is overlaid with the faction symbol of the deck it came from. There is no rarity coding since all the cards are fixed.
 * 2003 – Red Wedding. Generally held to be the best booster expansion to date for reasons of playability, balance, and art. Naturally, RW sold out quickly; another, smaller run was reprinted in 2006. Red Wedding cards have a knife-through-the-heart logo.
 * 2004 – Seven Masters vs. the Underworld. This booster expansion introduced the Seven Masters mini-faction, bringing the faction total to nine. 7M cards have a scroll logo. This release won the 2004 Origins award for best Collectible Card Game (2005). By popular demand, this set was re-released in 2011.
 * 2004 – Two-Fisted Tales of the Secret War. Another 'themed' booster expansion, this time based on pulp fiction; gave fairly equal weight to the first eight factions. Last of the Z-Man Games expansions. 2FT cards have a 'dime' logo.
 * 2006 – Shurikens & Six-Guns. This booster expansion is the first to be printed by Shadowfist Games. It, too, is themed, based on Westerns, and introduces the Syndicate faction. SSG cards have a US Marshal's badge logo.
 * 2007 – Critical Shift. The second Shadowfist Games set's storyline focuses on the aftermath of the most recent Critical Shift. Both this set and the previous set were designed to be "draft-friendly" by including more Feng Shui sites and new foundation characters for most factions. The symbol for the set is a figure with arrows pointing to a parallel figure.
 * 2009 – Empire of Evil. The final Shadowfist Games booster set. The storyline focuses on a bid for mastery by the new leadership of the Eaters of the Lotus by the way of an infernal marriage. The symbol is a standard with a crowned skull.
 * 2013 – Combat in Kowloon. This first original release from Inner Kingdom Games (IKG) transitions the game from a CCG to a customizable, non-collectible format (Dynamic Card Game). It features a starter deck of 50 cards for each of four factions, the Ascended, the Dragons, the Eaters of the Lotus and the Guiding Hand. The set symbol is an eight-sided feng shui mirror.
 * 2013 – Back for Seconds. This second release by IKG features two expansion decks for Combat in Kowloon. It introduces the Monarchs and the Jammers into the DCG format. This set features the same feng shui mirror for its symbol.
 * 2013 – Reloaded - This third release by IKG is the first true expansion for the DCG format. It adds 50 new cards (including reprints) in a 50-card Shadowpack. This set has a pistol silhouette for its symbol.

Rebirth cycle
The storyline for this block features the departure of The Queen of the Darkness Pagoda from the faction "The Four Monarchs" and joining the faction, "The Eaters of the Lotus".

 * 2013 – Reinforcements - This fourth release by IKG adds 50 all new cards in a 50 card Shadowpack. This set has a black-bordered shield with a red field and a white outline for its symbol.
 * 2013 – Revelations - The fifth release by IKG adds 50 all new cards in a 50 card Shadowpack. This set has a seven petaled white lotus flower in profile outlined in black for its symbol.
 * 2013 – Action Pack 1 - This 50 card set consists of reprints from the 2013 releases of cards that would normally fill the 'common' slot in a standard CCG release. The cards in this pack retain the symbol of the set in which they were originally released.

Coming Darkness cycle
The storyline follows a grand scheme by Ming I to supplant Xin Ji Yang on the Dragon Throne by setting a trap for her in the Modern Juncture.

 * 2014 – Queens Gambit - This release is a set of 50 new cards. Its symbol is a black queen chess piece within a grey circle.
 * 2014 – Knight's Passage - This release is a set of 50 new cards. Its symbol is a black knight chess piece within a grey circle.
 * 2014 – Endgame - This release is a set of 50 new cards. Its symbol is a black rook (castle) chess piece within a grey circle.
 * 2014 – Action Pack 2 - This 50 card set consists of reprints from the Coming Darkness Cycle in the same fashion as the 2013 Action Pack. The cards retain their original set symbol.
 * 2015 – Year of the Goat - This set consists of 6 faction-specific decks of 55 cards each with a total of 157 new cards. The symbol for this set is a hand-drawn goat face, the color matching the faction color to easily identify which deck it came from.

Upcoming sets
Continuing with the Dynamic Card Game (DCG) model, Inner Kingdom Games is settling into a pattern of a Starter set block, followed by two expansion blocks of three decks each. The first expansion after the Year of the Goat expansion is under the working title of "A Better Tomorrow" and will focus on the newly reopened Future juncture.

Storyline
Each set has some back-story involved, which often is shown via the card names and their flavor text (the italicized non-rules text on the cards). There is often fiction posted which fleshes out the story.

 * Limited/Standard: The major plot involved the Ascended's Operation Killdeer which led to the deaths of Adrienne Hart, Jack Donovan, Mad Dog McCroun, Jueding Shelun, and the Thing with 1000 Tongues (a disgusting demon). Collateral damage in the meleé were Sun Chen and Nirmal Yadav. Iala Mané, another combatant was presumed dead.
 * Netherworld: Following up to the story in Limited, the action takes place around the alliance of the Monarchs, Ascended and Jammers leading to the creation (and otherwise destruction of) the Molten Heart.
 * Flashpoint: The plotline centered around the Architects of the Flesh creation of the Arcanotower, an organic structure which was seeded in modern-day South America which, when fully grown will create a Critical Shift.
 * To this point... Starting with the storyline of Critical Shift and following through Empire of Evil, the doomsday prophecy of the Syndicate came true. No one's sure what happened, but the end result is the closing of the portals to the 2063 juncture. This leaves the future(!) of the Architects of the Flesh, Purists and Syndicate up in the air.
 * Combat in Kowloon/Back for Seconds: The fiction for this set is in review at this time.

Reception
Andy Butcher reviewed Shadowfist for Arcane magazine, rating it an 8 out of 10 overall. Butcher comments that "In all,Shadowfist is an impressive achievement. It's not only a superb card game, but it's also a great introduction to a new and imaginative game world."

Andy Butcher reviewed the Netherworld expansion set for Shadowfist for Arcane magazine, rating it an 8 out of 10 overall. Faragher comments that "As with all expansion sets, Netherworld increases the complexity of the game, but otherwise there's precious little to criticise. Shadowfist was one of the best card games to be released last year, and Netherworld just makes it even better."

Ken St. Andre comments: "A game of Shadowfist is more than card against card. It's guile against guile. And don't we all want to be the mastermind who controls both Time and Fortune?"

Reviews

 * Pyramid #17 (Jan./Feb., 1996)
 * Australian Realms #25

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Open fiber control

In telecommunication, Open fiber control is a protocol to ensure that both ends of a fiber-optic cable are connected before laser signals are transmitted in order to protect people from eye damage. When a device is turned on, it sends out low powered light. If it does not receive light back, it assumes that the fiber is not connected. When it receives light, it assumes that both ends of the fiber are connected and it switches the laser to full power. If one of the devices stops receiving light, it will revert to the low power mode.

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/October 30

October 30

 * 2012 – The Syrian Air Force carries out scores of airstrikes around Syria, the most widespread bombing in a single day since the Syrian Civil War began 19 months before, according to anti-regime activists. Maarat al-Numan is among the hardest-hit places, and air strikes level areas of Douma, leaving 18 people dead.

 * 2012 – Syrian Air Force Major General Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi is assassinated in Damascus, Syria.

 * 2003 – AH-64D Apache　00-5211 (ex AH-64A 86-9009) of 6–6th Cavalry Regiment crashes near Balad AAF, Iraq, and burned out. Both crewmembers are safe.

 * 1985 – Launch: Space Shuttle Challenger STS-61-A at 17:00:00 UTC. Mission highlights: Spacelab-D1, Germany funded mission, last successful mission of Challenger.

 * 1981 – A United States Air Force Boeing B-52D Stratofortress, 55-078, of the 22d Bomb Wing, March AFB, California, crashes on the eastern Colorado prairie near La Junta at 0630 hrs. while on a low-level (400 foot altitude) training mission, killing all eight crew. No weapons were on board.

 * 1979 – Sir Barnes Wallis dies, aged 82.

 * 1978 – The Indian government approves the purchase of the SEPECAT Jaguar for the Indian Air Force

 * 1976 – Pan Am Flight 50, operated by the 747SP named Clipper New Horizons (N533 PA), lands back in San Francisco 54 hours 7 min 12 seconds after it left, thereby setting a new speed record for a round-the-world polar flight. Over 170 passengers paid $2222 (economy) to $3333 (first class) for the privilege of flying over the North and South Poles with musicians, a hair dresser and a Gucci fashion show on board. The flight also made stops in London, Cape Town and Auckland along the way. Earlier that year, the same aircraft (though named Clipper Liberty Bell at the time) set a speed record for circumnavigating the globe around the Equator.

 * 1975 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashes on approach in Prague suburb, killing 75 of 120 on board.

 * 1963 – Mrs. Hester Dunlap, spouse of A/M CR Dunlap, christened the first production Canadair CL-41 for the RCAF, “Tutor”.

 * 1962 – Third prototype Hawker Siddeley P.1127, XP972, first flown 5 April 1962, is severely damaged when the Bristol-Siddeley Pegasus 2 fails following a main bearing seizure during a high-G turn. Hawker's chief experimental test pilot Hugh Merewether attempts forced landing at RAF Tangmere, but the undercarriage collapses, followed by a titanium fire. Pilot escapes unhurt but the airframe is not repaired.

 * 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates Tsar Bomba over an island in the Arctic Ocean. The 58 megaton bomb remains the largest manmade explosive ever detonated.

 * 1959 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 349, a Douglas DC-3, crashes on Bucks Elbow Mountain near Charlottesville, Virginia, killing the crew of three and 23 of 24 passengers; the sole survivor is seriously injured; the cause is a navigational error during an Instrument Landing System approach.

 * 1957 – In Service: GAM-63 RASCAL surface-to-air missile

 * 1945 – No. 166 Squadron was disbanded.

 * 1944 – Kamikazes damage the aircraft carriers USS Franklin (CV-13) and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) off Leyte.

 * 1942 – F/O DF Raymes and crew in a Douglas B-18 Digby of No. 10 (BR) Squadron destroyed the German submarine U-520 far out in the Atlantic Ocean.

 * 1942 – F/O EL Robinson and crew in a Lockheed Hudson of No. 145 (BR) Squadron, destroyed the German submarine U-658, 320 miles east of St. John’s Newfoundland.

 * 1938 – Another Nationalist counteroffensive begins in the Battle of the Ebro, preceded by a three-hour bombardment of Republican positions by artillery and over 100 Nationalist aircraft.

 * 1935 – The United Airlines Cheyenne test crash occurred on 1935 during a flight to check the instruments of a Boeing 247D. The aircraft was seen to enter a turn, drop its nose, impact the ground and burst into fire. The Probable Cause was the pilot’s initiation of an abrupt maneuver with insufficient altitude for safety.

 * 1935 – Prototype Boeing Model 299, NX13372, 'X13372', c/n 1963, the future Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, crashes on take-off from Wright Field, Ohio, due to locked control surfaces, killing early military aviator and test pilot Maj. Ployer Peter Hill. Other engineers taken to hospital with injuries. Boeing test pilot and observer Les Tower died later. Ogden Air Depot, Utah, renamed Hill Field, (later Hill Air Force Base), on 1 December 1939. As the prototype was owned by Boeing, it had no USAAC serial.

 * 1918 – Flying a SPAD XIII fighter, Eddie Rickenbacker shoots down a German observation balloon near Remonville, France, for his 26th and final aerial victory. His 26 victories (22 aircraft and four balloons) will make him the top-scoring American ace of World War I.

 * 1909 – John Moore-Brabazon in a Short Brothers aircraft flies the first circular mile in the UK and wins £1,000 from the Daily Mail newspaper.

 * 1908 – Henry Farman performs the first cross-country flight in Europe as well as the first flight between two towns.


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Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II

Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language film starring Arshad Warsi. The film is Shashanka Ghosh in his directorial debut.

Plot
Puneet Sayal is a copywriter with a dream: to earn enough cash to dump his job and live peacefully in Nainital. Till the said dream materialises however, he's living in Bombay with his girlfriend Agni.

Things go asunder one day when he finds out his brother's been shot dead — a brother he's hardly acknowledged in the past. Agni finds out and, following an argument, throws him out of the house. Puneet goes on a drinking spree that leads him to a park bench where he witnesses someone being shot. He doesn't know it yet, but this is the end of his life as he knows it.

He saves the injured man — a gangster called Vishnu — and the act lands him squarely in the middle of Bombay's famed gang wars.

The war between ganglords Ganpat and Gangu is a second thread in the film. Ganpat is the dominant kingpin, and Gangu is the perpetual second-in-place who's never given up her dreams of displacing Ganpat as top don.

Cast

 * Arshad Warsi as Puneet Sayal
 * Prashant Narayanan as Vishnu
 * Sandhya Mridul as Inspector Agni Sinha
 * Anant Jog as Ganpat
 * Pratima Kazmi as Gangu Tai
 * Suchitra Pillai as Shalu
 * Manini De as Sumi
 * Skand Mishra as Chandu
 * Kurush Deboo as Cyrus

Singers Kailash Kher, Shibani Kashyap and Rabbi Shergill make a cameo in the film and sing their songs on-screen. Mahima Chaudhry and Maria Goretti also make special appearances. The barista trio in the film comprises Channel V VJs Ranvir Shorey and Shruti Seth, and John Owen.

Reception
Ronjita Kulkarni of Rediff.com wrote, "Debutant director Shashanka Ghosh deserves a lot of the credit. Besides great dialogues and subtle comedy (a rarity these days), Ghosh has made the story believable. It's not the regular gangster flick. Nor is it another Satya." Anupama Chopra of India Today praised the performances and music but criticised the tone of the film.

Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film 2 out of 5, writing, "On the whole, WAISA BHI HOTA HAI: PART II is a good attempt from a first-timer, but the treatment of the film is such, it caters to a niche audience i.e the multiplex-going cinegoers."

Awards
Kailash Kher won the Best Male Playback Singer award at the 2004 Star Screen Awards. The film was nominated for Best Performance in a Negative Role (Pratima Kazmi), Best Dialogues, Best Editing, Best Lyrics and Best Screenplay at the Star Screen Awards but failed to win any.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack features seven songs by composers including Vishal–Shekhar, Shibani Kashyap, Saibal Basu and Abhinav Dhar and written by Sadaquat Hussain, Vishal Dadlani, Abhinav Dhar and Virag. The soundtrack listing is given below.

 * 1) "Aao Aa Jao Aa Bhi Jao" (Sunidhi Chauhan) (Music: Vishal–Shekhar) – 4:48
 * 2) "Allah Ke Bande" (Kailash Kher) (Music: Vishal–Shekhar) – 4:06
 * 3) "Laundiya Ke Pallu Mein" (Rabbi Shergill) – 4:51
 * 4) "My Name Is Gurdeep" (Bali Brahmbhatt) – 3:53
 * 5) "Saajna Aa Bhi Ja" (Shibani Kashyap) – 4:26
 * 6) "Tum Bas Tum" (Shibani Kashyap) – 3:57
 * 7) "Prem Dunk" (Shibani Kashyap) – 3:40

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/November 3

November 3

 * 2012 – Syrian rebel units attack the Syrian Air Force base at Taftanaz.

 * 2009 – UM-239, a Xian MA60 operated by Air Zimbabwe, hits five warthogs on take-off from Harare International Airport. The take-off is rejected but the undercarriage collapses causing substantial damage to the aircraft.

 * 2006 – Qantas announces an order for 8 more Airbus A380 along with an order for 4 Airbus A330-200.

 * 2003 – British Airways Concorde G-BOAG leaves London Heathrow at 1500Z as BA9093C for the final time. She would fly on to Seattle Boeing Field and retire to the Museum of Flight.

 * 2002 – An McDonnell-Douglas FA-18C Hornet from VFA-34 failed to return to USS George Washington from a night at sea bombing mission and crashed into Adriatic Sea. Pilot was killed.

 * 2000 – Last flight of an EC-135E Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft as a flight crew from the Air Force Flight Test Center delivers the last EC-135E, (serial number 60-374 – nicknamed “The Bird of Prey”), with full Prime Mission Electronic Equipment (PMEE), to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

 * 1994 – Haris Keč, a Bosnian, hijacks a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating as Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 347 en route from Bardufoss Airport to Bodø Airport in Norway with 128 people on board, and makes demands that the Norwegian government take action to stop huminatrian suffering in Bosnia-Herzegovina. No one is injured in the incident.

 * 1994 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-66 at 11:59:43.060 am EDT. Mission highlights: ATLAS-3 science platform.

 * 1986 – While attempting to land at Zahedan airport, an Iranian Hercules C-130 army transport plane crashes into a mountain; all 103 passengers are killed.

 * 1973 – The number three engine of National Airlines Flight 27, a Douglas DC-10-10, explodes while the aircraft is over New Mexico. Fragments penetrate the fuselage, causing one passenger to be sucked from the plane; his body is found two years later. The aircraft lands safely.

 * 1973 – NASA launches Mariner 10, a robotic space probe intended to fly past Venus and Mercury, reaching both planets the following February and March respectively. After a year and a half of service and over 2,000 photos sent back to Earth, its nitrogen supply dwindled and its transponder was shut off. It still orbits the sun today.

 * 1957 – The Ruskians launch Sputnik 2, an orbiter that delivered the first animal into a space; a female terrier named Laika. The 3-year-old dog was sent to determine if a living creature could withstand launch and weightlessness, but she ultimately died a few hours after launch due to overheating due to a thermal control issue. Regardless, she proved that oxygen-craving creatures could enter space, and Laika was considered a hero.

 * 1952 – First flight of the Saab 32 Lansen

 * 1950 – Air India Flight 245, a Lockheed L-749 A Constellation, crashes into Mont Blanc in France; all 40 passengers and 8 crew are killed. Sixteen years later, Air India Flight 101 crashes in almost exactly the same spot.

 * 1949 – Charles Moore makes the first manned flight in a polyethylene balloon over Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 * 1948 – Boeing RB-29A Superfortress, 44-61999, "Overexposed", of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division, Strategic Air Command, USAF, crashes on Shelf Moor, Bleaklow, in between Manchester and Sheffield, Derbyshire, while descending through cloud. All 13 crew KWF. It is doubtful they ever saw the ground. The time was estimated from one of the crew members wrist watch. The plane, piloted by Captain L. P. Tanner, was on a short flight, carrying mail and the payroll for American service personnel based at USAF Burtonwood. The flight was from Scampton near Lincoln to Burtonwood near Warrington, a flight of less than an hour. Low cloud hung over much of England, which meant the flight had to be flown on instruments. The crew descended after having flown for the time the crew believed it should have taken them to cross the hill. Unfortunately the aircraft had not quite passed the hills and struck the ground near Higher Shelf Stones, being destroyed by fire.

 * 1947 – English Electric test pilot Johnny W.C. Squier takes off from Salmesbury, Lancs. in English Electric-built de Havilland Vampire F.3, VP732, intended for the RCAF as 17043, experiences engine failure, force lands on a farm, narrowly missing trees. Fighter is wrecked but pilot survives.

 * 1945 – The prototype Boeing 314, named the Honolulu Clipper, makes an emergency landing in the Pacific 650 miles east of Oahu due to double engine failure; the aircraft is intentionally sunk after salvage was deemed impractical; all 26 passengers on board survive.

 * 1944 – The first Japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs are launched against the United States.

 * 1936 – New Soviet Polikarpov I-15 and I-16 fighters fly their first missions of the Spanish Civil War, supporting Republican forces. Their superior performance will allow the Republican side to gain air superiority over Nationalist forces.

 * 1933 – First fatal accident involving a Fokker YO-27 occurs when pilot Lt. Lloyd E. Hunting with Sgt. John J. Cunningham aboard, departs Olmsted Field, Middletown Air Depot, Pennsylvania, in 31-589 of the 30th Bombardment Squadron at 1800 hrs. after darkness had fallen. Pilot had apparently not observed a mountain ridge, 400 ft to 800 ft high, one mile from the airfield, when he landed during the afternoon, and upon departure did not see it in the dark, crashing head-on into the ridge, aircraft burned, both crew KWF.

 * 1926 – First flight of the Boeing F2B

 * 1926 – Captain Charles Lindbergh jumped from his disabled airplane during a night airmail flight, making this the fourth time he has had to use his parachute to save his life.

 * 1915 – Royal Naval Air Service Flight Sub-Lieutenant Fowler makes the first British take-off of an aircraft with a conventional, wheeled undercarriage from a ship when he flies a Bristol Scout from HMS Vindex.

 * 1915 – Flt Sub-Lt Fowler makes the first take-off of an aircraft with a conventional, wheeled undercarriage from a ship when he flies a Bristol Scout C from HMS Vindex.

 * 1914 – Alec Ogilvie patents the first practical airspeed indicator (Wrong Date!) See December 3 (1914). Improvements in or connected with Combined Pitot and Static Pressure Tubes. Filed 1913-12-04 • Granted 1914-12-03 • https://patents.google.com/patent/GB191327931A/en?assignee=Alec+Ogilvie [To be removed for wrong date]

 * 1897 – The first flight in a rigid airship was made by Ernst Jägels, flying an all-aluminum craft designed by the Austro-Hungarian engineer David Schwarz and built by Carl Berg. The Schwarz machine was 134 feet long and roughly 45 feet in diameter, weighing-in at 5,720 pounds. The craft took to the air without the inventor and constructor (having died before the flight).  His death led to his wife, Melanie, completing the project to honor his life's work.  However, the result was the craft's completion with some key technologies left out to save weight.   The airship, having reached its designed altitude, was uncontrollable at that altitude in the face of a strong wind, and the inexperienced pilot, Jägels, released too much gas too suddenly, losing control of the rate of descent, resulting in a crash which destroyed the craft. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin buys the wreck and its plans from Schwarz’s widow Melanie.


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Andy Warren (British musician)

Andrew Warren (born 1958) is an English bassist. He was originally in the band Adam and the Ants, but left in 1979 to join former bandmates Bid and Lester Square in The Monochrome Set.

Since 2004, he has been a member of British indie-pop band Would-Be-Goods. In 2010 he co-reformed The Monochrome Set with Bid and Lester Square.

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/November 4

November 4

 * 2010 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883, an ATR-72-200, crashes in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, killing all 68 on board in the joint worst ever accident involving the ATR 72 (at the time of the incident).

 * 2010 – Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380 "Nancy-Bird Walton" VH-OQA, suffered a substantial mechanical failure of its left inboard engine after taking off from Singapore Changi Airport. The flight turned back and landed safely. All the 433 passengers and 26 crew on board were safe. Cowling parts of the failed engine fell over Batam island.

 * 2008 – A Learjet 45 carrying Mexican interior secretary Juan Camilo Mourino and 8 others plunged into a Mexico city neighborhood, killing all on board and 7 on the ground.

 * 1993 – China Airlines Flight 605, a Boeing 747-409, overruns Kai Tak Airport runway 13 while landing during a typhoon. The 747 was unable to stop before crashing into Hong Kong harbor; all 374 aboard escape, with only 23 suffering injuries. The hull is written off as a total loss, making this crash the first loss of a Boeing 747-400.

 * 1982 – Pan Am inaugurates service from Los Angeles to Sydney; at 7,487 non-stop miles (11,979 km), it is the longest non-stop flight in the world.

 * 1981 – NASA aborted the second flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia, 31 seconds before the launch due to a computer mis-match.

 * 1980 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer and the world's first female aircraft designer, died (b. 1905).

 * 1977 – Introduction: Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet

 * 1976 – A Bali Air Service Fokker F27 Friendship overruns a runway in Indonesia, killing 29 of the 38 on board.

 * 1972 – A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Ilyushin Il-14 diverts to Provdiv due to fog at the original destination. Without charts, however, for the diversion airport, the crew accidentally drives the aircraft into terrain, killing all 35 on board.

 * 1968 – First flight of the Aero L-39 Albatros

 * 1967 – Iberia Airlines Flight 062, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, crashes at Black Down Hill, Sussex, United Kingdom; all 37 passengers and crew are killed.

 * 1964 – First ever automatic blind landing by a passenger aircraft when a British European Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident landed in dense fog

 * 1962 – The United States Air Force detonates a nuclear-tipped Nike-Hercules ground-to-air missile 69,000 feet over Johnston Island. It would be the last atmospheric nuclear test ever performed by the U. S.

 * 1958 – A United States Air Force Boeing B-47E-56-BW Stratojet, 51-2391, of the 12th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Wing (M), catches fire during take-off from Dyess AFB, Texas, crashes from 1,500 feet (460 m) altitude. Three crew eject, okay: Capt. Don E. Youngmark, 37, aircraft commander; Capt. John M. Gerding, 27, pilot; and Capt. John M. Dowling, 30, observer and navigator. The crew chief was killed - no bail out attempted. Fire sets off single bomb casing on board, creating crater 35X6 feet. Some tritium contamination at crash site.

 * 1954 – A USAF Convair T-29A-CO, 50-189, on a routine training flight departs Tucson Municipal Airport, Arizona, after refueling for return leg to Ellington AFB, Texas. Shortly after departure, the pilot radios that he has mechanical problems and requests emergency return to Tucson. Aircraft strikes power lines on final approach and crashes into a perimeter fence short of the runway. All crew are KWF.

 * 1954 – Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart, BuNo 135762, disintegrated in mid-air over San Diego Bay, California, during a demonstration for Navy officials and the press, killing Convair test pilot, Charles E. Richbourg. Pilot inadvertently exceeded airframe limitations.

 * 1953 – The Douglas DC-7 begins service with American Airlines, allowing the company to offer coast-to-coast, nonstop service.

 * 1942 – First flight of the Latécoère 631.

 * 1941 – The tail section of Lockheed YP-38 Lightning 39-689 separates in flight over Glendale, California, causing the plane to crash inverted on a house at 1147 Elm Street, killing Lockheed test pilot Ralph Virden. The home owner, who slept right through the crash, survived.

 * 1938 – In the 1938 Jersey Airport disaster, a Jersey Airways de Havilland DH.86 crashes on takeoff from Jersey Airport due to pilot error; all 13 passengers and crew die as well as one person on the ground.

 * 1936 – Soviet fighters see combat for the first time in the Spanish Civil War, dispersing a squadron of Italian Fiat CR.32 fighters escorting German Junkers Ju 52 s over Madrid.

 * 1933 – Brazilian airline VASP is established.

 * 1932 – First flight of the Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing

 * 1927 – US Army Air Corps Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray succeeds in setting new altitude record in a silk, rubberized, and aluminum-coated balloon out of Scott Field, Illinois, reaching 42,270 feet, but dies when he fails to keep track of his time on oxygen, and exhausts his supply. The record is recognized by National Aeronautical Association, but not by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale because the dead aeronaut "was not in personal possession of his instruments." Gray is posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his three ascents on 9 March, 4 May and 4 November.

 * 1927 – Flying a Macchi M.52 seaplane, Mario de Bernardi sets a new world airspeed record of 479.290 mi.

 * 1924 – Prototype Canadian Vickers Vedette was test flown at Montreal by F/O WN Plenderleith, RAF.

 * 1923 – Flying a Curtiss R2C-1, U. S. Navy Lieutenant Alford J. Williams, Jr., sets a new world airspeed record of 429.03 kilometers per hour (266.59 miles per hour).

 * 1910 – Welshman Ernest Willows makes the first airship crossing from England to France with Willows No. 3 City of Cardiff.

 * 1909 – John Moore-Brabazon makes the first live cargo flight by airplane when he puts a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his airplane.

 * 1894 – German meteorologist Berson climbs up with an airship to 9,155 m.

 * 1884 – Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor and the first person to fly in Ireland, was born (d. 1960).


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Les Podervianskyi

Les Podervianskyi (Олександр «Лесь» Сергійович Подерв'янський, ; born 1952 in Kyiv ) is a Ukrainian painter, poet, playwright and performer. He is most famous for his absurd, highly satirical, and at times obscene short plays. Their average duration is five to fifteen minutes, with some exceptions. Podervianskyi has a cult following among Kyiv intellectuals.

Cultural background
In 1968, he graduated from the Republican Art School in Kyiv.

In 1976, he graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute (specialty: easel and monumental painting, graphics, theatrical painting).

Podervianskyi wrote most of his works in the Soviet Union in the mid to late 1980s, a time of stagnation in politics and social life—the era of "zastoy" and the time of rapid changes in consciousness. He observed the people in that situation, their reactions and behaviour. And most thoroughly he watched the speech patterns of outsiders and commoners, people from the country. The author places common people in grotesque absurd situations and shows how they would act and speak much the same regardless of what happens.

Podervianskyi's works are highly regarded owing to his attention to detail. Many behavioural modes are easily recognizable, and people are able to recognize themselves in the plays. The general absurdity of the situation makes the characters' absurd actions more acceptable, and although certain phrases the author uses are politically incorrect, his humour is generally neutral.

Podervianskyi says he draws a lot of his inspiration from the years of his army service. There is also an opinion that his plays are in some way inspired by works of Samuel Beckett. This writer was favorite also for his friend artist Nicholas Zalevsky.

Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1980.

Language
Podervianskyi's works have often been criticized because of his use of vulgar unprintable language. They are written mostly in Surzhyk and include much swearing and obscenities, which make them appear as if they were composed by an uneducated person. Often it seems that the only reason one would read the works is for their comic impact and to hear creative swearing. But this is not the case. The numerous citations from Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Taoism and dzen buddhism philosophers give the idea of several intellectual layers in his works. Although a number of Podervianskyi's expressions have entered Ukrainian slang, he uses crude language to show the flaws and grotesqueness of his characters. Podervianskyi carefully matches up language with his characters. Thus a self-made intellectual spouts scientific-sounding nonsense, while more "straightforward" characters use simple words to express complex things.

Because Podervianskyi's works are known primarily in the form of audio recordings of the author's recitals, his voice adds extra dramatic effect to the text.

Works

 * Tainstvennij Ambal – Таінствєнний амбал
 * Hamlet – Гамлєт, або феномен датського кацапізму
 * Pavlik Morozov – Павлік Морозов
 * Pizdets – Піздєц
 * Khujnja – Хуйня
 * Katsapy – Кацапи
 * Danko – Данко
 * Tsikavi Doslidy – Цікаві досліди
 * Patsavata Istorija – Пацавата історія
 * Heroj Nashoho Chasu – Герой нашого часу
 * Vasilisa Jehorovna i Muzhychki – Васіліса Єгоровна і мужичкі
 * Mjesto vstrjechi izmenitj nizzja, bljad – Місце встрєчі ізмєніть ніззя, блядь
 * Ostanovisj mhnovenije ty prjekrasno – Остановісь мгновєніє ти прєкрсно
 * Utopija – Утопія
 * Snoby – Сноби
 * Khvoroba Ivasyka – Хвороба Івасика
 * Korol Litr – Король Літр
 * Nirvana, abo Aljzo Shprekh Zaratustra – Нірвана, або Альзо Шпрех Заратустра
 * Johy – Йоги
 * Svoboda – Свобода
 * Kazka pro rjepku abo khuli nje jasno – Казка про репку або хулі нє ясно
 * Vostok – Восток
 * Do khuja masla – До хуя масла
 * P'jatj Khvylyn Na Rozdumy – П'ять хвилин на роздуми
 * Joko ta Samuraji – Йоко та самураї
 * Rukh zhyttja abo Dynamo – Рух життя або Динамо
 * Zhan Mare ta joho druzi – Жан Маре та його друзі
 * Dokhtory – Дохтори
 * Kam'janyj Dovbojob – Кам'яний довбойоб
 * Irzhyk – Іржик
 * Denj kolhospnyka – День колгоспника
 * Mnozhennja v umi, abo plynnistj chasu – Множення в умі, або плинність часу
 * Triasovyj Period – Тріасовий період
 * Diana – Діана
 * Bljesk i nishchjeta pidarasiv – Блєск і ніщєта підарасів

Hamlet
Podervianskyi's Hamlet is a short, satiric retelling of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, set in an imaginary Denmark that closely resembles the Soviet Union of the 1980s. A bored and indifferent hero doesn't care about religion, revenge, truth, or politics; all he wants is to get drunk. Eventually he kills everyone, including his father, and he is taken to an asylum by a famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.

Pavlik Morozov
A longer (one-hour) play set in the Siberian taiga, where a group of members of the Soviet youth Pioneer Movement is led by a Communist official in search of God in order to prove (by not finding God) that God does not exist. Things rapidly change when God's messenger Mykola Ostrovsky (a reference to Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky), is found in the process. The result of rapid change from atheism to paganism is minimal in terms of human behaviour. The name of the play refers to pioneer Pavlik Morozov, a young Soviet communist "martyr".

Pizdets
(Devoted to artists unions)

A group of passive art-men live in a freight car, eat state-supplied noodles every day, and do absolutely nothing except pseudo-intellectual chat. They are completely happy inside because they are guaranteed their supply of noodles. They are too scared to leave the car for fear of losing their daily meal. On the contrary, local passers-by (non-art-men) are extremely intrigued by what is happening inside, and seek whatever ways to get into the community. In the end, car brakes are removed, it rolls and crashes offscene.

Katsapy
Four Russian tourists enjoy the seaside in mid-level resort city (possibly Feodosiya), speaking with heavy Moscovite pronunciation (known as akanye). Four Ukrainian natives are approaching the city by train, speaking in Surzhyk and discussing various things, events and nations with equal enmity. As train arrives to the destination in the last act, the Ukrainians meet Russians and proceed to attack them.

As said at, the train described was the suburban one heading from Vladislavovka back to Feodosiya. Katsaps were pictured being in Novyi Svit (everything of that is in Crimea).

Katsapy (sing. Katsap) is a Ukrainian ethnic slur for Russians, particularly those residing in Ukraine.

Danko
This play is one of the shortest and at the same time one of the most often referred to and cited in unofficial communication and in public critical literature and media discourse. Its plot is a parody of a classical play by a Soviet writer Maksim Gorky, an idyllic myth of totalitarian Communist ideology. In Gorky's play a hero named Danko leads poor people to the light and happiness through hardships and darkness, burns his own heart to show them the way and dies after this self-sacrifice. Les Podervianskyi's Danko is a rather strange and pathetic fellow, he is also leading a mob of people somewhere but he does not know the way and as he is afraid that people would be angry with his poor directions he burns his heart first, then his liver and finally his kidneys. He dies without any sense and is forgotten by the mob at once.

title: Les Podervianskyi