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Bois Brule River near Winneboujou, Wisconsin
The Bois Brule River (most often referred to as the Brule River) is a river situated in Douglas County, Wisconsin, near its eastern border with Bayfield County. The river, which is 44 miles (72 km) long, rises in central Douglas County near Upper St. Croix Lake, flows through the Brule River State Forest and drains into Lake Superior.
The river is called Wiisaakode-ziibi (”A river through a half-burnt woods”) in the Anishinaabe language, which was translated into French and incorporated into English. It was the site of the 1842 Battle of the Brule between the La Pointe Band of Ojibwe and a group of Dakota Sioux.
The river is well known for its trout fishing and canoeing. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has a fish hatchery and a ranger station that operates the state forest and nearby campgrounds.
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Richard Osterlind (born March 6, 1948) is an internationally famous mentalist who has created many magic effects and mentalist routines widely in use by other performers today.
His “Mind Mysteries” video series is considered by many to be the pre-eminent instructional video for learning the art of mentalism. Richard Osterlind has been performing for over 30 years for top corporations around the world. Besides Fortune 500 companies, Osterlind has appeared in Monte Carlo, England, Bermuda and Beijing. He is one of the highest paid mentalists working today.
In July 2009, Osterlind and business partner Jim Sisti, began working on an L&L Publishing DVD project, “Corinda’s 13 Steps to Mentalism starring Richard Osterlind.” The project, released in October 2009, was an effort to teach visually what Tony Corinda wrote about in his seminal book on mentalism. In a video interview, Osterlind said he received a letter from Corinda in which he congratulated Osterlind for doing a good job with bringing the book to DVD.
References
^ International Brotherhood of Magicians Web Portal: Osterlind Tackles Corinda’s 13 Steps
^ International Brotherhood of Magicians Web Portal: Osterlind Benefit Show Leaves Audience in Awe
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Richard Osterlind Web site
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The Dampier Archipelago (20°34?52?S116°36?00?E? / ?20.581°S 116.6°E? / -20.581; 116.6) is a group of islands near Dampier, Western Australia. It is named after William Dampier, an English buccaneer and explorer who visited in 1699. Dampier named one of the islands, Rosemary Island.
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The largest island (or peninsula) in the group was known as Murujuga by the earliest inhabitants, the Yaburara (or Jaburara) people. The first British settlers renamed it Dampier Island and it was later officially renamed Burrup Peninsula.
Marine Resources
Despite being a region through which considerable shipping and industrial activity occurs the archipelago has considerable marine resources
Indigenous heritage
In 1868, the area was the site of the Flying Foam massacre, in which between 20 and 150 members of the Yaburara are reported to have been killed.
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Vu Khoan is a former Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Jim McCrery
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana’s 4th district
In office
April 16, 1988 – January 3, 2009
Preceded by
Buddy Roemer
Succeeded by
John C. Fleming
Born
September 18, 1949 (1949-09-18)(age 60)
Shreveport, Louisiana
Political party
Republican
Spouse(s)
Johnette McCrery
Children
Scott and Clark McCrery
Residence
Shreveport, Louisiana
Alma mater
Louisiana Tech, Louisiana State University
Occupation
Attorney
Religion
Methodist
McCrery decided not to seek an eleventh full term in the United States House of Representatives after his Republican Party reverted to minority status in 2007.
James Otis “Jim” McCrery, III (born September 18, 1949), is an American lawyer who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1988-2009; he represented the 4th District of Louisiana, based in the northwestern quadrant of his state.
McCrery was a ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Republican Main Street Partnership (a group of moderate Republicans). Had the Republicans maintained control of the U.S. House in 2007, he would have been in line to chair the Ways and Means Committee. Instead, the slot went to the veteran Democrat Charles Rangel of Harlem in New York City.
On December 7, 2007 McCrery announced his decision not to seek reelection in 2008. Closed primaries were held by both parties in the fall to begin the process of choosing a successor to McCrery. In a general election scheduled for December 6, Republican physician John C. Fleming of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish, narrowly defeated the outgoing Caddo Parish District Attorney Paul J. Carmouche, a Democrat from Shreveport. McCrery’s choice as his successor, Jeff Thompson, was eliminated in the Republican primary. After Fleming won the Republican nomination, McCrery endorsed him in an appearance on Moon Griffon’s syndicated radio program.
Contents
1Before Congress
2Congressional career
3Subcommittees and laws
4Family and personal life
5Political controversies
62008 Presidential support
7Notes
8External links
Before Congress
McCrery at 20 as president of the junior class at Louisiana Tech University
McCrery was born in Shreveport and reared in Leesville, the seat of Vernon Parish. He graduated from Leesville High School in 1967. In 1971, McCrery earned a bachelor of arts degree in both English and history from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish. Thereafter, he obtained a law degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1975. McCrery joined the law firm of Jackson, Smith & Ford in Leesville, where he worked from 1975 to 1978. He then served in Shreveport as an assistant city attorney from 1979-1980.
From 1981 to 1984, McCrery was a district manager and later legislative director for then Democratic U.S. Representative Charles Elson “Buddy” Roemer, III, of Bossier City. He returned to Louisiana in 1984 to work for Georgia Pacific Corporation, a paper company. He remained there until his election to Congress four years later.
Congressional career
After Roemer resigned from Congress to become governor, McCrery ran for his former boss’ seat as a Republican.
McCrery emerged from the special election in a runoff with Democratic State Senator Foster L. Campbell, Jr., of Elm Grove in Bossier Parish. A third contender, Shreveport journalist and then public relations representative Stanley R. Tiner, a Democrat, was eliminated in the first round of voting. McCrery became only the sixth Republican to represent Louisiana in the House since the end of Reconstruction. In his bid for a full term in 1988, he handily defeated Adeline McDade Roemer (born 1923), the Democratic mother of his former benefactor Buddy Roemer.
In 1992, Louisiana lost a district as a result of sluggish population growth during the 1980s. Also, the state was ordered to draw a second black-majority district by the Justice Department. The legislature responded by shifting most of Shreveport and Bossier City’s black voters into a new 4th District. Most of McCrery’s former territory was merged with the 5th District, represented by 16-year incumbent Democrat Jerry Huckaby. On paper, McCrery was in serious danger, since Huckaby retained nearly all of his former territory. However, the old 4th was considerably more urbanized than the old 5th due to the presence of Shreveport, and 60 percent of the new 5th’s voters had been represented by McCrery. Also, the new 5th was only 5 percent African American (compared with a 30 percent black population in the old 5th). McCrery was thus such a heavy favorite that national Democratic leaders wrote off the seat as a loss and urged Huckaby to retire. Huckaby chose to stay in the race and was heavily defeated, carrying only one parish in the district. McCrery thus became the first Louisiana Republican to unseat a Democratic incumbent at the federal level.
McCrery was reelected seven more times with no substantive opposition, and was completely unopposed in 1996, 1998 and 2004. His district was renumbered as the 4th again in 1997, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the majority-black, Shreveport-to-Baton Rouge 4th was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
In the mid-term election of 2006, McCrery defeated Democratic challengers Patti Cox and Artis Cash and Republican Chester T. “Catfish” Kelley, a Shreveport businessman who advertises his catfish restaurant on the Rush Limbaugh radio program and who has been interviewed on the statewide Moon Griffon radio talk show.
From 2007–2009, McCrery was the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Subcommittees and laws
Congressman McCrery sat on the following House Ways and Means subcommittees:
Health
Human Resources
Social Security (chairman)
McCrery sponsored or cosponsored six public bills in the 109th Congress that have been signed into law by the president, all of which involved disaster mitigation and assistance in response to 2005 hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.
Family and personal life
On August 3, 1991, McCrery married the former Johnette Hawkins (born 1966), a former television newswoman. They have two children, Otis and Clayburn. McCrery is a Methodist.
Political controversies
McCrery was outed in the 2009 documentary Outrage as a closeted gay man. He was reported to have had a string of gay sexual relationships with his fraternity brothers, and returned to the fraternity house even after graduation for these relationships.
Also, during the China-U.S trade talks of March 2007, McCrery and New York Democrat Charles Rangel committed a gaffe when they accidentally insulted the Chinese Vice Premier, Wu Yi by referring to her as the Vice Premier of the “Republic of China” in a letter. The Republic of China is a name for the self-ruling government on the island of Taiwan, which the PRC considers a rogue province.
2008 Presidential support
In 2007, in the early stages of the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination for 2008, McCrery announced his endorsement of unsuccessful candidate Mitt Romney for president.
Notes
^International Herald-Tribune, December 8, 2007
^ChesterKelley.com (2006-08-23). “Chester T. Kelley for Congress Will Host a Town Hall Meeting at Semolina Restaurant”. Press release. http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=104189. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
^Buckley, Chris (2007-05-26). “China, U.S. face bumpy road after trade talks”. Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSPEK2434220070526?pageNumber=3. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
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Manoochehr Taherzadeh was one of the most prominent musicians in Iran. He has made a great contribution in advancing modern music in Iran by mixing the traditional, folkloric and pop music together with a very fine flavor of western Iran Kermanshah country music. The oldest son of Master Yadollah Taherzadeh and brother of Prof. Hamid Reza Taherzadeh, one of the greatest and most respected musicians of our time, died in Kermanshah at the age of 50 after a long time suffering incarceration. Manoochehr was a great violin player who perused the fine style of late Habibiollah Badiei and Parviz Yahaghi. He had a tenor voice too and was an incredibly talented composer. He learnt music from his father alongside Hamid who accompanied him in his early performances in Radio & TV of Kermanshah. He is a celebrity and one of the most respected artists in Iran. At his funeral more than 80,000 people took part to commemorate his great personality.
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Ale’s Stones, where Ale was buried according to tradition.
Ale the Strong (Heimskringla) or Ole (English: Olaf), in Scandinavian legend, belonged to the House of Skjöldung (Scylding), and he was the son of king Fridleif of Denmark and a cousin of Helgi’s (and consequently of the Hrothgar of Beowulf). He fought several battles against king Aun of Uppsala, and he ruled in Uppsala for 25 years until he was killed by Starkad the old.
Preceded by Aun
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According to Starbäck and Bäckström, Saxo Grammaticus tells a related story in Gesta Danorum.
Starkad was accepted with honour in the warband of the Norwegian hero Ole (Olo). However, when Ole had succeeded in conquering Zealand, Starkad was convinced to join Lennius/Lenus/Lennus scheme to attack and kill Ole. However, Ole was hard to kill as his gaze scared everyone. It was not until Starkad managed to cover Ole’s face that he could kill him. Starkad was rewarded with 120 pounds in gold, but regretted his crime, and avenged Ole’s death by killing Lennius.
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Saxo’s kings of Denmark
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Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
18 June 1812(1812-06-18)
Simbirsk, Russia
Died
27 September 1891 (aged 79)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
Russian
Writing period
1847–1871
Notable work(s)
Oblomov (1859)
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (Russian: ???? ????????????? ????????, Ivan Aleksandrovi? Gon?arov; 18 June 1812 – 27 September 1891) was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov (1859). He was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk); his father was a wealthy grain merchant. After graduating from Moscow University in 1834 Goncharov served for thirty years as a minor government official.
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov
Contents
1Literary career
2Oblomov
3Later career
4Major works
5Notes
6External links
Literary career
In 1847, Goncharov’s first novel, Obyknovennaia istoriia (usually translated into English as A Common Story), was published; it dealt with the conflicts between the excessive Romanticism of a young Russian nobleman, freshly arrived in Saint Petersburg from the provinces, and the emerging commercial class of the Imperial capital with its sober pragmatism. It was followed by Ivan Savich Podzhabrin (1848), a naturalist psychological sketch. Between 1852 and 1855 Goncharov voyaged to England, Africa, Japan, and back to Russia via Siberia as the secretary of Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin. His travelogue, a chronicle of the trip, The Frigate Pallada (The Frigate Pallas), was published in 1858 (”Pallada” is the Russian spelling of “Pallas”).
Oblomov
His wildly successful novelOblomov was published the following year, evolving from an 1849 short story or sketch entitled “Oblomov’s Dream. An Episode from an Unfinished Novel” (”Son Oblomova”), published in “Sovremennik”, No. 4. The short story was later incorporated into the finished novel as “Oblomov’s Dream” (”Son Oblomova”), Chapter 9. The main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, was compared to Shakespeare’s Hamlet who answers “No!” to the question “To be or not to be?”. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among others, considered Goncharov a noteworthy author of high stature. Turgenev, who fell out with Goncharov after the latter accused him of plagiarism (specifically of having used some of the characters and situations from The Precipice, whose plan Goncharov had disclosed to him in 1855, in Home of the Gentry and On the Eve), nevertheless declared: “As long as there is even just one Russian alive, Oblomov will be remembered!”
Later career
In 1867, Goncharov retired from his post as a government censor and then published his last novel - Obryv (in English The Precipice) (1869), which is the story of a romantic rivalry among three men and provides a condemnation of nihilism in defence of the religious and moral values of old Russia. Goncharov also wrote short stories, critiques, articles (including a famous essay in 1871 on Griboyedov’s Woe from Wit), and some memoirs that were only published posthumously in 1919. He spent the rest of his days absorbed in lonely and bitter recriminations because of the negative criticism some of his work received. Goncharov never married. He died in St. Petersburg.
Major works
Obyknovennaya istoriya (1847; A Common Story)
Ivan Savich Podzhabrin (1848)
The Frigate Pallada (1858; The Frigate Pallas)
“Oblomov’s Dream. An Episode from an Unfinished Novel”, short story, later Chapter 9 in the 1859 novel as “Oblomov’s Dream” (”Son Oblomova”) (1849)
Oblomov (1859)
Obryv (1869; The Precipice)
Notes
^ Towards the end of his life he wrote some memoirs entitled An Uncommon Story, in which he accused his literary rivals, above all Turgenev, of having plagiarized his works and prevented him from achieving European fame. This document, the product of an unstable and unhappy mind, was not published until 1924. D. S. Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature (New York: Vintage, 1958)
^ For example Anton Chekhov is quoted as stating that Goncharov was “…ten heads above me in talent.” (see Gayla Diment’s Introduction to Stephen Pearl’s translation of Oblomov (New York: Bunim & Brown, 2006)
^ “???? ????????? ???? ???? ???????, - ?? ??? ??? ????? ??????? ????????!”. Quoted in N. F. Budanova, “Ispoved’ Goncharova - Neobyknovennaia istoriia”, Literaturnoe nasledstvo, 102 (2000): 202.
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Wikisource has original text related to this article: Ivan Goncharov
Works by Ivan Goncharov at Project Gutenberg
Short biography and discussion of his works
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