title: U.S. Route 360

abstract: U.S. Route 360 is a spur route of US 60. The U.S. Highway runs 225.3 miles (362.6 km), entirely within the state of Virginia, from US 58 Business, Virginia State Route 293, and SR 360 in Danville east to SR 644 in Reedville. US 360 connects Danville, South Boston, Keysville and Burkeville in Southside Virginia with the state capital of Richmond. The highway connects Richmond with Tappahannock on the Middle Peninsula and the eastern Northern Neck, where it serves as the primary route through Northumberland County. US 360 is a four-lane divided highway for almost all of its length.

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# U.S. Route 360

**U.S. Route 360** (**US 360**) is a spur route of US 60. The U.S. Highway runs 225.3 miles (362.6 km), entirely within the state of Virginia, from US 58 Business, Virginia State Route 293 (SR 293), and SR 360 in Danville east to SR 644 in Reedville. US 360 connects Danville, South Boston, Keysville and Burkeville in Southside Virginia with the state capital of Richmond. The highway connects Richmond with Tappahannock on the Middle Peninsula and the eastern Northern Neck, where it serves as the primary route through Northumberland County. US 360 is a four-lane divided highway for almost all of its length.

## Route description

### Danville to Keysville

US 360 begins at a four-way intersection on the north side of the Dan River, across from downtown Danville. Main Street heads south across the river into downtown Danville as SR 293, and north as SR 293 and SR 360 (SR 360 is a two-lane highway, the old alignment of US 360 from Danville to northeast of South Boston). The west leg of the intersection is Riverside Drive, which is followed by US 58 Business. US 360 heads east along four-lane divided River Street with US 58 Business, and passes under Norfolk Southern Railway's Danville District rail line. The highway's name changes to South Boston Highway on crossing Fall Creek and veering away from the Dan River. US 360 reaches the eastern end of its concurrency with US 58 Business and joins with US 58 at the highway's cloverleaf interchange with US 29 (Danville Expressway). US 360 and US 58 leave the city of Danville after passing along the north side of Danville Regional Airport.

US 360 and US 58 meet at the northern end of SR 62 (Milton Highway) in eastern Pittsylvania County before entering Halifax County. The highway's name changes to Philpott Road and it crosses the Dan River. US 360 and US 58 pass through the hamlets of Delila (where the U.S. highways meet the northern end of SR 119 (Calvary Road)) and Turbeville before reaching the crossroads community of Riverdale on the south side of the Dan River opposite downtown South Boston. The U.S. Highways have a grade crossing at Norfolk Southern's Durham District rail line and then intersect US 501 (Huell Matthews Highway), where the highways begin to follow Bill Tuck Highway. A short distance east of US 501, US 360 and US 58 diverge, with US 360 turning north onto the James D. Hagood Highway. The highway crosses the Dan River, its floodplain, and Norfolk Southern's DanvilleRichmond rail line via a 2,000-foot-long bridge. On entering the town limits of South Boston, the highway follows John Randolph Boulevard and has intersections with the eastern ends of SR 304 (Seymour Drive) and SR 34 (Hodges Street).

After leaving South Boston, US 360 becomes James D. Hagood Highway again, and heads northeast past South Boston Speedway and William M. Tuck Airport. The U.S. Highway crosses the Banister River at Terrys Bridge and meets the coincident termini of SR 360 (Bethel Road) and SR 344 (Scottsburg Road) near Scottsburg. US 360 crosses over the DanvilleRichmond rail line and meets the western end of SR 92 (Clover Road) south of the town of Clover. It crosses the Roanoke River into Charlotte County and follows Kings Highway, which intersects SR 92 (Jeb Stuart Highway) again and US 15 (Barnesville Highway) at Wylliesburg. US 360 and US 15 run concurrently north through Crafton Gate, where the highways intersect SR 47 (Craftons Gate Highway). South of Keysville, at the southern end of US 15 Business and US 360 Business (Old Kings Highway), the highway becomes a freeway that bypasses Keysville. US 15 and US 360 cross over the Virginia Southern Railroad and have a partial interchange with the business routes. Just east of the town of Keysville, the U.S. Highways have a diamond interchange with SR 40 (Lunenburg County Highway). US 15 and US 360 pass under the Virginia Southern rail line before diverging at a partial-cloverleaf interchange that also marks the northern end of their respective business routes and the end of the freeway section of US 360.

### Keysville to Richmond

US 360 briefly runs atop the Prince Edward  Lunenburg county line before fully entering Prince Edward County, where the highway parallels the Virginia Southern Railroad to the south and Norfolk Southern Railway's Blue Ridge District to the north. It passes around the community of Bruceville and through the town of Meherrin, where the highway crosses to the north side of the Blue Ridge rail line. As US 360 passes through Meherrin, the highway briefly enters into Lunenburg County before reentering Prince Edward County, although no signs mark the county line there. US 360 begins to parallel the two rail lines at Green Bay, where the road temporarily becomes undivided. It parallels both rail lines to Burkeville, in the southwestern corner of Nottoway County, where the road's name changes to Patrick Henry Highway. US 360 crosses over the Farmville Belt Line, a part of the Blue Ridge District that serves Farmville and joins the main Blue Ridge line in Burkeville. Just north of the rail crossing, the highway has a partial-cloverleaf interchange with US 460 (Colonial Trail Highway) and US 360 Business and US 460 Business, which parallel the rail line into town as 2nd Street. US 360 and US 460 bypass the town to the north and receive the eastern end of their respective business routes before diverging at a partial interchange. There is no direct access from westbound US 360 to eastbound US 460 or from westbound US 460 to eastbound US 360; those movements are made via SR 723 (Lewiston Plank Road) or SR 49 (Watsons Wood Rd).

US 360 parallels Norfolk Southern's Richmond District rail line northeast from Burkeville. The highway meets the northern end of SR 49 (Watsons Wood Road) before entering Amelia County. West of Jetersville, the highway intersects the eastern end of SR 307 (Holly Farms Road), which connects to US 460 northwest of Burkeville. US 360 continues to Amelia Court House, which is directly served by US 360 Business (Goodes Bridge Road). North of the county seat, the highway crosses the rail line and has a partial-cloverleaf interchange with its business route before receiving the northern end of the business route west of Winterham, where the highway and railroad diverge. US 360 has a junction with SR 153 (Military Road) between Winterham and the Appomattox River, where the highway enters Chesterfield County. US 360 becomes Hull Street Road and passes through the village of Skinquarter before entering the suburban area surrounding Richmond. The U.S. Highway expands to eight lanes through Woodlake and crosses Swift Creek just downstream from the dam that holds back Swift Creek Reservoir west of the highway's cloverleaf interchange with SR 288.

US 360 continues northeast as a six-lane highway through additional suburban areas before its partial-cloverleaf interchange with SR 150 (Chippenham Parkway), where the it enters the city of Richmond and reduces to four lanes. The U.S. Highway crosses CSX's North End Subdivision and becomes Hull Street at its intersection with SR 161 (Belt Boulevard). US 360 heads into the Manchester section of Richmond as a four-lane undivided highway that has intersections with SR 10 (Broad Rock Road), Midlothian Turnpike, and US 1 and US 301, which head south toward Petersburg as Jefferson Davis Highway and north toward their James River crossing as Cowardin Street. US 360 passes the Art Works artist colony before passing over Norfolk Southern and the James River on the Mayo Bridge, which crosses Mayo Island in the middle of the river. US 360 reaches the north side of the river just west of the Triple Crossing; it passes under the eastwest viaduct of CSX's Rivanna Subdivision and has a grade crossing of Norfolk Southern's Richmond District. US 360 passes under SR 195 (Downtown Expressway) and follows 14th Street into the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood, where US 360 turns east onto Main Street, which carries US 60 and the GRTC Pulse rapid-transit bus line. The two highways pass under I-95 (RichmondPetersburg Turnpike) and CSX's Bellwood Subdivision and by the Main Street Station serving Amtrak's *Northeast Regional* trains during their four-block concurrency.

### Richmond to Reedville

US 360 turns northeast onto 18th Street at Mason's Hall to pass along the west edge of the Church Hill neighborhood. At Grace Street, the highway splits into a one-way pair; westbound US 360 follows 17th Street. US 360 meets the eastern end of US 250 (Broad Street), then curves north and passes under the Leigh Street Viaduct, which carries SR 33. The two directions of US 360 come together one block before the highway turns east onto Fairfield Way. US 360 turns north onto four-lane undivided Mechanicsville Turnpike and has a partial-cloverleaf interchange with I-64 before exiting the city of Richmond as a six-lane divided highway. US 360 passes through the Henrico County community of East Highland Park, where it intersects Laburnum Avenue, which leads to Richmond Raceway. The highway crosses the Chickahominy River into Hanover County, where it reduces to four lanes at the southern end of Mechanicsville's US 360 Business. While on the Mechanicsville Bypass, US 360 has a diamond interchange with SR 156 (Cold Harbor Road). The movement from westbound US 360 to SR 156 is provided at the northern end of the bypass, which occurs a short distance south of US 360's cloverleaf interchange with I295.

Northeast of I-295, US 360 gradually transitions from suburban to rural surroundings. The transition is complete by the time it crosses the Pamunkey River into King William County, where the highway's name changes to RichmondTappahannock Highway. US 360 passes through Manquin and Central Garage, where it intersects SR 30 (King William Road). At Aylett, the site of Zoar State Forest, US 360 crosses the Mattaponi River into King and Queen County, where it meets the western end of SR 14 at the community of St. Stephens Church. US 360 enters Essex County at Miller's Tavern, where the highway crosses the watershed divide between the York River tributaries and the Rappahannock River. US 360 is named Richmond Highway northeast past Tappahannock-Essex County Airport to Brays Fork, where the highway meets US 17 (Tidewater Trail) at a directional intersection. The U.S. highways run concurrently into the town of Tappahannock. Within the town, US 17 and US 360 cross Hoskins Creek and become a four-lane undivided highway. On the north side of the downtown area, US 360 turns east onto two-lane Queen Street and crosses the Rappahannock River on a high-level two-lane bridge.

US 360 expands to a four-lane divided highway on arriving in Richmond County. It heads east as Richmond Road past the historic plantation Mount Airy to the town of Warsaw. In the center of town, through which US 360 is an undivided highway, the highway runs concurrently with SR 3 Business from Main Street to SR 3 (Historyland Highway). US 360 expands to a divided highway at the hamlet of Indian Field and passes through Haynesville before entering Northumberland County at Village. The highway veers northeast at Luttrellville and meets the eastern end of SR 202 (Hampton Hall Road) in Callao. At SR 202, US 360 turns east onto Northumberland Highway, which is two lanes within the unincorporated village. US 360 briefly expands to a four-lane divided highway but is two lanes through Lottsburg. US 360 has another divided-highway section before reducing to two lanes through Heathsville, where it passes St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and intersects SR 201 (Courthouse Road). The highway passes through Claraville, Horse Head, and Downings Corner before reaching its junction with SR 200 (Jesse DuPont Memorial Highway) at Burgess. US 360 has its final four-lane divided section between Folly and Lilian. At Beverlyville, it curves south toward Reedville. At SR 657 (Fleeton Road), US 360 follows Main Street south to its eastern terminus at the intersection of Main Street and Reed Avenue, which are both part of SR 644.

## Major intersections

| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| City of Danville | | 0.00 | 0.00 |

US 58 Bus. west (Riverside Drive) / SR 293 / SR 360 east (Main Street) | Western terminus; west end of concurrency with US 58 Business |
| | 1.88 | 3.03 |
US 29 / US 58 west (Danville Expressway) Lynchburg, Greensboro, Martinsville, Dan Daniel Memorial Park, Chapel Hill | interchange; east end of concurrency with US 58 Business; west end of concurrency with US 58; future northern terminus of I-785 |
| Pittsylvania |  | 7.13 | 11.47 |

SR 62 south (Milton Highway) / SR 726 north (Ringgold Depot Road) Milton, NC |  |
| Halifax | Delila | 13.93 | 22.42 |

SR 119 south (Calvary Road) / SR 694 north (Medley Road) |  |
| | South Boston (Riverdale) | 29.76 | 47.89 | US 501 (Huell Matthews Highway) South Boston, Roxboro, NC | west end of US 501 Truck overlap |
| |  | 30.46 | 49.02 |
US 58 east (Bill Tuck Highway) Clarksville, South Hill | East end of concurrency with US 58 |
| | South Boston | 31.07 | 50.00 |
SR 304 west (Seymour Drive) South Boston Business District |  |
| | 31.59 | 50.84 |
SR 34 west (Hodges Street) South Boston Business District |  |
| |  |  |

US 501 Truck north (Hamilton Boulevard) | north end of US 501 Truck overlap |
| |  | 38.83 | 62.49 |

SR 344 east (Scottsburg Road) / SR 360 west (Bethel Road) Halifax, Scottsburg, Staunton River State Park |  |
| |  | 44.02 | 70.84 |

SR 92 east (Clover Road) / SR 720 south (Guill Town Road) Clover, Staunton River Battlefield State Park |  |
| Charlotte |  | 48.48 | 78.02 | SR 92 (J.E.B. Stuart Highway) Chase City, Clarksville, Barnes Junction |  |
| |  | 53.12 | 85.49 |

US 15 south (Barnesville Highway) / SR 611 west (Hebron Church Road) Wylliesburg, Clarksville | West end of concurrency with US 15 |
| | Crafton Gate | 57.00 | 91.73 | SR 47 (Craftons Gate Highway) Drakes Branch, Chase City |  |
| | Ontario | 63.60 | 102.35 |

US 15 Bus. north / US 360 Bus. east (Old Kings Highway) / SR 622 west (Old Kings Road) Keysville |  |
| |  |  |  |

US 15 Bus. / US 360 Bus. Keysville | Interchange; no westbound entrance |
| |  | 66.96 | 107.76 | SR 40 Keysville, Victoria | interchange |
| |  | 69.00 | 111.04 |

US 15 north / US 15 Bus. south / US 360 Bus. west Farmville, Keysville | interchange; north end of concurrency with US 15 |
| Lunenburg | Meherrin |  |  | no major junctions |  |
| Prince Edward | Green Bay |  |  | SR 696 (Green Bay Road) Farmville | former SR 135 north |
| Nottoway |  | 86.53 | 139.26 |

US 460 west / US 360 Bus. east / US 460 Bus. east Farmville, Lynchburg, Roanoke, Burkeville | interchange; west end of US 460 overlap; no access from US 360 west to US 360 Bus. east / US 460 Bus. east or US 460 east to US 360 west |
| | Burkeville | 87.78 | 141.27 |

US 360 Bus. west / US 460 Bus. west (2nd Street) Burkeville |  |
| |  | 88.21 | 141.96 |
US 460 east Petersburg | Interchange; east end of US 460 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance |
| |  |  |  |

SR 723 (Lewiston Plank Road) to US 460 east Victoria |  |
| |  |  |  | SR 323 Piedmont Geriatric Hospital |  |
| |  | 90.90 | 146.29 |
SR 49 south (Watsons Wood Road) Crewe, Victoria |  |
| Amelia |  | 95.56 | 153.79 |

SR 307 west (Holly Farms Road) to US 460 west Farmville, Lynchburg, Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park |  |
| |  | 104.03 | 167.42 |

US 360 Bus. east (Goodes Bridge Road) Amelia |  |
| |  |  |  | SR 681 (Pridesville Road) Tobaccoville | former SR 38 west |
| |  |  |  |
US 360 Bus. Amelia | interchange |
| |  | 106.75 | 171.80 |

US 360 Bus. west (Goodes Bridge Road) |  |
| | Chula Junction |  |  |
SR 604 (Chula Road) to US 60 Chula, Amelia Wildlife Management Area | former SR 148 north |
| |  |  |  |
SR 153 south (Military Road) Blackstone, Fort Barfoot | former SR 148 south |
| Chesterfield |  |  |  |
SR 621 (Winterpock Road) to SR 602 Winterpock | former SR 153 south |
| |  | 126.86 | 204.16 |

SR 288 to I-95 / SR 76 north (Powhite Parkway) Chesterfield | interchange |
| |  | 134.52 | 216.49 |
SR 150 (Chippenham Parkway) to I-95 / Powhite Parkway | interchange |
| City of Richmond | | 137.31 | 220.98 | SR 161 (Belt Boulevard) |  |
| |  |  |
SR 10 east (Broad Rock Road) |  |
| |  |  |

US 60 Truck west (Midlothian Turnpike) | west end of US 60 Truck overlap |
| | 139.08 | 223.83 | US 1 / US 301 (Cowardin Avenue / Jefferson Davis Highway) | no left turn from either direction |
| |  |  | East Commerce Road | former SR 416; no left turn eastbound |
| |  |  | Mayo Bridge over James River | |
| | 140.67 | 226.39 |
US 60 west (East Main Street) | east end of US 60 Truck overlap; west end of US 60 overlap |
| | 140.97 | 226.87 |
US 60 east (East Main Street) | East end of concurrency with US 60 |
| | 141.17 | 227.19 | East Broad Street (US 250 west) |  |
| | 143.06 | 230.23 |
I-64 to I-95 | I-64 exit 192 |
| Henrico
 | No major junctions | | | | | | | |
| Hanover | Mechanicsville | 146.65 | 236.01 |

US 360 Bus. east (Elm Drive) |  |
| | | 147.25 | 236.98 | SR 156 Cold Harbor, Seven Pines | interchange; no westbound exit |
| | | 147.38 | 237.19 |

US 360 Bus. west to SR 156 south Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Seven Pines, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Beaver Dam Creek | Westbound exit only |
| | | 147.98 | 238.15 |

I-295 to I-64 / I-95 north Charlottesville, Washington, Norfolk, Rocky Mount, NC | I-295 exit 37 |
| King William | Central Garage | 164.24 | 264.32 | SR 30 (King William Road) Bowling Green, West Point, King William CH, Mattaponi Indian Reservation, Pamunkey Indian Reservation |  |
| King and Queen | St. Stephens Church | 170.49 | 274.38 |

SR 14 east (The Trail) / SR 721 north (Newtown Road) Bowling Green, King & Queen CH, Newtown |  |
| Essex | Millers Tavern |  |  |
SR 620 / SR 684 (Dunbrooke Road / Howerton Road) to US 17 Center Cross, Bowlers Wharf, Dunbrooke |  |
| | Brays Fork | 183.64 | 295.54 |
US 17 south (Tidewater Trail) Saluda, Portsmouth | West end of concurrency with US 17 |
| | Tappahannock | 186.08 | 299.47 |
US 17 north (Church Lane) / SR 1014 (Queen Street) Fredericksburg | East end of concurrency with US 17 |
| Rappahannock River | |  |  | Downing Bridge | |
| Richmond |  |  |  | SR 624 (Newland Road) Naylors, Newland, Foneswood | former SR 204 north |
| | Warsaw | 192.73 | 310.17 |

SR 3 Bus. west (Main Street) / SR 1004 (Court Circle) Fredericksburg, George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Westmoreland State Park, Stratford Hall Lee Birthplace | West end of concurrency with SR 3 Business |
| | 193.51 | 311.42 | SR 3 (Historyland Highway) Fredericksburg, Kilmarnock | East end of concurrency with SR 3 Business |
| Northumberland | Callao | 204.63 | 329.32 |
SR 202 west (Hampton Hall Road) Montross |  |
| | Heathsville | 211.76 | 340.79 |
SR 201 south (Courthouse Road) Lively |  |
| | Burgess | 219.67 | 353.52 |
SR 200 south (Jesse Dupont Memorial Highway) Kilmarnock |  |
| | Reedville | 225.31 | 362.60 | SR 644 (Reed Avenue / Main Street) | Eastern terminus |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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## Special routes

### Keysville business route

| U.S. Route 360 Business | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Location | Keysville |
| Length | 5.93 mi (9.54 km) |

U.S. Route 360 Business in Charlotte County is the westernmost of several business routes of US 360. The highway, which runs 5.93 miles (9.54 km) between junctions with US 360 and US 15 south and north of Keysville, is entirely concurrent with US 15 Business.

### Burkeville business route

| U.S. Route 360 Business | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Location | Burkeville |
| Length | 1.13 mi (1.82 km) |
| Existed | 1968–present |

**U.S. Route 360/460 Business** (US 360/460 Bus.) is the shared business route of US 360 and US 460 in Nottoway County. The highway runs 1.13 miles (1.82 km) between junctions with US 360 and US 460 west and east of Burkeville. US 360/460 Business begins at the partial-cloverleaf interchange where the two highways begin to run concurrently west of Burkeville. There is no direct access from the westbound bypass to the eastbound business routes. The business routes pass through the town as 2nd Street before rejoining US 360 and US 460 a short distance west of their eastern divergence point.

### Amelia Court House business route

| U.S. Route 360 Business | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Location | Amelia Court House |
| Length | 2.94 mi (4.73 km) |

U.S. Route 360 Business (US 360 Business) is the business route of US 360 in Amelia County. The highway runs 2.94 miles (4.73 km) between junctions with US 360 west and northeast of Amelia Court House. US 360 Business is called Goodes Bridge Road and runs parallel to Norfolk Southern Railway's Richmond District along the northwest side of the village center, where the highway meets the western end of SR 38 (Virginia Street). Northeast of the village, the business route has a partial-cloverleaf interchange with US 360 before reaching its northern terminus at the mainline U.S. Highway.

### Mechanicsville business route

| U.S. Route 360 Business | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Location | Mechanicsville |
| Length | 0.78 mi (1,260 m) |

U.S. Route 360 Business (US 360 Business) is the business route of US 360 in Hanover County. The highway runs 0.78 miles (1.26 km) between junctions with US 360 west and east of Mechanicsville. The business route begins as a one-way westbound ramp to westbound US 360. US 360 Business gains an eastbound lane and heads east as Mechanicsville Turnpike to an intersection with SR 156 (Cold Harbor Road) and SR 638 (Atlee Road). The business route continues a few more blocks before again becoming a one-way westbound ramp from westbound US 360. This westbound ramp is used to access SR 156 from westbound US 360 because there is no direct ramp in US 360's diamond interchange with SR 156.

Template:Attached KML/U.S. Route 360KML is from Wikidata

## InfoBox

| U.S. Route 360 | |
| --- | --- |
| US 360 highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Auxiliary route of US 60 | |
| Maintained by VDOT | |
| Length | 225.31 mi (362.60 km) |
| Existed | 1933–present |
| Tourist
routes | Virginia Byway |
| Major junctions | |
| West end |
US 58 Bus. / SR 293 / SR 360 in Danville |
| Major intersections |  |
| East end | SR 644 in Reedville |
|  | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| Counties | City of Danville, Pittsylvania, Halifax, Charlotte, Prince Edward, Nottoway, Amelia, Chesterfield, City of Richmond, Henrico, Hanover, King William, King and Queen, Essex, Richmond, Northumberland |
|  | |
| Highway system | |
|  | |
| SR 359   SR 360 | |


title: Tŷ Glyn

abstract: Tŷ Glyn, or Tyglyn, is a small village in the community of Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion, Wales, which is 67.1 miles (107.9 km) from Cardiff and 180.5 miles (290.4 km) from London. Tŷ Glyn is represented in the Senedd by Elin Jones and is part of the Ceredigion Preseli constituency in the House of Commons.

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# Tŷ Glyn

**Tŷ Glyn**, or **Tyglyn**, is a small village in the community of Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion, Wales, which is 67.1 miles (107.9 km) from Cardiff and 180.5 miles (290.4 km) from London. Tŷ Glyn is represented in the Senedd by Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru) and is part of the Ceredigion Preseli constituency in the House of Commons.

## InfoBox

| Tŷ Glyn | |
| --- | --- |
| Tŷ GlynLocation within Ceredigion | |
| OS grid reference | SN 4986 5993 |
| Cardiff | 67.1 mi (108.0 km) |
| London | 180.5 mi (290.5 km) |
| Community |  |
| Principal area |  |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Aberaeron |
| Postcode district | SA48 |
|  | |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
|  | |
| UK Parliament |  |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament |  |
|


title: Tŷ Mawr, Castle Caereinion

abstract: Tŷ Mawr is a Grade I-listed timber framed house in the township of Trefnant in the historic parish of Castle Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Originally occupied by the Lloyd family, descendants of Alo ap Rhiwallon who had settled in Trefnant in the 13th century, the house was re-discovered in 1971 and fully restored to its late 17th-century appearance in 1997–8. The restoration gained the RICSs "Building of the Year" award in 2000. In 2001, a volume of the Montgomeryshire Collections was devoted to a detailed description of the discovery and the research programme that was carried out on the building. The house is open on an occasional basis or by appointment.

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# Tŷ Mawr, Castle Caereinion

**Tŷ Mawr** is a Grade I-listed timber framed house in the township of Trefnant in the historic parish of Castle Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, Wales.

Originally occupied by the Lloyd family, descendants of Alo ap Rhiwallon who had settled in Trefnant in the 13th century, the house was re-discovered in 1971 and fully restored to its late 17th-century appearance in 1997–8. The restoration gained the RICSs "Building of the Year" award in 2000. In 2001, a volume of the *Montgomeryshire Collections* was devoted to a detailed description of the discovery and the research programme that was carried out on the building. The house is open on an occasional basis or by appointment.

## Discovery and reconstruction

Tŷ Mawr was discovered by Peter Smith and Cecil Vaughan Owen in 1971, by when it was used as a farm building, clad in corrugated sheeting. The house was the subject of a building survey in 1979. In 1997 dendrochronological dating of the building was commissioned by Cadw, which showed a felling date of 1460 AD for the timber used in the initial construction of the building. Archaeological excavations were carried out in conjunction with the building survey in 1979, and again in 1997 by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, which established the main phases of occupation of the house. This showed that the house was a good example of a Welsh longhouse with a cattle byre at one end. A study of the carpentry techniques and the geometric basis for the laying-out of the house was also undertaken. Other studies included agricultural evidence including the survival of early fruit trees in the surrounding hedge rows and the landscape history of Trefnant township. The property had been purchased by the Secretary of State for Wales in 1975 for £2,000 and was leased back to Powis Estates for 999 years by the Welsh Office in 1997. Restored for Cadw in 1997–8 by Michael Garner, the work being undertaken by Frank Galliers and Co. of Shrewsbury. The house is a Grade I listed building.

## Architecture

The limewashed box-framed house, four bays long, sits on a stone platform built into the hillside, under a broad half-hipped roof (now replaced with tiles rather than slates, for which evidence was found in the archaeological excavations thatch). The principal timbers are tree-ring dated to 1460: dendrochronology has also provided dates of 1594, when a first floor was inserted within the hall, and 1631 when the internal timber-framed smoke-hood was added. The restoration has retained the smoke-hood, but has otherwise restored the three-unit plan of storeyed units at either end of the open, aisled hall. The two trusses within the hall are a single pair of chamfered wooden speres or posts set in the floor and forming a box-frame which carries the roof, and a pair of arch-braced base-crucks with two tiers of cusped struts above the tie-beam, which spanned the whole width of 7.5 m. The analogies are with the partly aisled halls of important houses in north-east Wales and north-west England. Gable and partition trusses, also aisled. Wind-braces were employed both below the wall-plate and along the purlins

## History

Descended from the Alo ap Rhiwallon family (who had settled there in the 13th century), the builder of Tŷ Mawr was probably Dafydd ap Gwilym, the great-great grandson of Alo ap Rhiwallon. The Lloyd family became the principal landowners in the Trefnant and eventually in 1911 all of Trefnant township had been acquired by the Earl of Powis's estates.

Timber-framed houses in Montgomeryshire:

## InfoBox

| Tŷ Mawr, Castle Caerenion | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Location in Wales Powys | |
| General information | |
| Location | Powys, Wales, UK |
| Coordinates | 52°37′51″N 3°13′25″W / 52.630738°N 3.223720°W / 52.630738; -3.223720 |
| OS grid | SJ 17273 04365 |


title: UMass Memorial Health

abstract: UMass Memorial Health is a non-profit healthcare network based in Worcester, Massachusetts, operated by the University of Massachusetts and primarily serving Central Massachusetts. It is the largest health system in Central Massachusetts, and is the clinical partner of the UMass Chan Medical School.

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# UMass Memorial Health

**UMass Memorial Health (UMM Health)** is a non-profit healthcare network based in Worcester, Massachusetts, operated by the University of Massachusetts and primarily serving Central Massachusetts. It is the largest health system in Central Massachusetts, and is the clinical partner of the UMass Chan Medical School.

## History

Memorial Hospital was founded in 1871 as the Washburn Dispensary. Worcester industrialist Ichabod Washburn endowed it through a bequest in memory of his wife and daughters. Memorial Hospital moved to its current location in 1888 and later merged with Hahnemann Hospital (founded in 1896) and Holden Hospital to become the Medical Center of Central Massachusetts.

The University of Massachusetts Medical Center (University Hospital) opened in 1974 as the principal teaching hospital of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. UMass Memorial Health Care was formed in 1998 through the merger of Memorial Hospital with the clinical system of the University of Massachusetts UMass Medical Center has operated LifeFlight, New England's first hospital-based air ambulance, for over 30 years.

## About

UMass Memorial Health (UMM Health) is a not-for-profit healthcare network in Worcester, Massachusetts that is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School. It consists of UMass Memorial Medical Center, a Level 1 Trauma Center and the major teaching hospital of UMass Medical School; two community hospitals; and a number of ambulatory clinics throughout Central Massachusetts.

UMMH has over 1,700 active medical staff, and 3,166 registered nurses active in over 22 communities. They offer emergency services such as LifeFlight; long-term care facilities; and home health, rehabilitation and behavioral health services. They host a variety of informational patient seminars and classes on health-related topics throughout the year.

## UMass Memorial Medical Center

| UMass Memorial Medical Center | |
| --- | --- |
| UMass Memorial Health | |
| UMass Memorial's University campus | |
|  | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
| Organization | |
| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Type | Teaching |
| Services | |
| Standards | Joint Commission |
| Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
| Beds | 818 |
| Helipad | Yes |
| History | |
| Opened | Memorial Hospital - 1871, UMass Medical Center - 1974; Merged 1998 |
| Links | |
| Website | UMass Memorial Health |
| Lists | Hospitals in Massachusetts |

**UMass Memorial Medical Center** (UMMMC) is a designated academic medical center which consists of 818 inpatient beds across three campuses in Worcester, Massachusetts: University Campus, Memorial Campus, and Hahnemann Campus. The largest of these is the University Campus, which is a 640-bed tertiary, research and academic medical center located in Worcester, servicing central Massachusetts. UMMMC is the region's only academic university-level teaching hospital, and is the largest hospital in the system. UMMMC is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Emergency Care at UMass Memorial Medical Center is the only center in the region that is verified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level 1 Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center. They also offer LifeFlight air ambulance for emergency response. Attached to the medical center is the UMass Hospital for Children that treats infants, children, adolescents, and young adults up to the age of 21.

### History

The hospital was known as Memorial Hospital, which was founded in 1871 as the Washburn Dispensary. Worcester industrialist Ichabod Washburn endowed it through a bequest in memory of his wife and daughters. Memorial Hospital moved to its current location in 1888 and later merged with Hahnemann Hospital (founded in 1896) and Holden Hospital to become the Medical Center of Central Massachusetts.

Hahnemann Hospital, founded 1896 The University of Massachusetts Medical Center (University Hospital) opened in 1974 as the principal teaching hospital of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

In 1991, UMass Medical Center became the home of Worcester EMS services after Worcester City Hospital closed.

UMass Memorial Healthcare was formed in 1998 through the merger of Memorial Hospital with the clinical system of the University of Massachusetts. The merger was a result of higher insurance costs and the system has increased hospital revenue and amount of patient beds. UMass Medical Center has operated LifeFlight, New England's first hospital-based air ambulance, for over 30 years.

In 2018, a renovation project to the medical center was completed that included a renovated 250,000 squ. ft of public space. The hospital also renovated patient care units and nurses' stations on all floors to provide updated services to patients and hospital staff alike.

In late February 2020, hospital authorities disclosed that they had a patient under quarantine at UMass Memorial Medical Center after traveling to China. The hospital has since started a program to prepare for higher amounts of COVID-19 cases.

In March 2020, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts chose UMass Memorial Medical Center as a Blue Distinction Center for multiple specialties because of the hospitals' dedication to patient safety and better health outcomes.

## UMass Memorial Health Children's Medical Center

The **UMass Memorial Health Children's Medical Center** is a pediatric acute care hospital located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The hospital has 101 beds and is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The hospital is a member of UMass Memorial Health and provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 throughout central Massachusetts. UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center also features the only level 1 pediatric trauma center in the region. The hospital is the only children's hospital in central Massachusetts.

## UMass Memorial Health - HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital

UMass Memorial Health - HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital has campuses in Clinton, Leominster and Fitchburg, MA. 40 service areas are available at the hospital, which is a full-service, acute care hospital with 163 beds, over 1,600 employees and 400 physicians. The Central New England HealthAlliance also includes the Simonds Sinon Regional Cancer Center, Simonds-Hurd Complementary Care Center, Outpatient physical therapy centers, and a Home health and hospice agency.

## UMass Memorial Health- Marlborough Hospital

UMass Memorial Health- Marlborough Hospital has campuses in Marlborough and Southborough, MA. The hospital has 79 licensed beds. It campus offers a variety of healthcare services including emergency care, comprehensive cardiac care services, surgical services, behavioral health services, diagnostic imaging, intensive care, cancer care, and laboratory services. Its other services include Woman's imaging, MedWorks (Occupational Health), Colonoscopy/endoscopy imaging, and a variety of physician specialists. They also offer physical rehabilitation services in Marlborough.

## Milford Regional Medical Center

UMass Memorial Health acquired Milford Regional Medical Center on October 1, 2024.

## Awards and recognition

* UMass Memorial Medical Center has ranked as number one hospital in New England for surviving and treating a heart attack for many years. In 2008, the hospital ranked second in the US for heart attack survival.
* UMass Memorial Medical Center was recognized in Becker's Hospital Review (2016 edition) as being in among "100 hospitals and health systems with great heart programs".
* UMass Memorial Medical Center was identified as being amongst the Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals in the US by Truven Health Analytics.
* The cardiac surgery program of UMass Memorial Medical Center, UMMHC's flagship hospital, has been awarded the highest quality 3-star rating for performing cardiac bypass graft surgery by the US Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) consistently since reporting started in 2006. The hospital has also been awarded the highest 3-star quality rating for aortic valve replacement and combined cardiac surgery. Only 1.6% of US cardiac surgery programs (17 of 1009) in the STS database achieved such high-quality standards in all three categories.
* UMass Memorial Medical Center was the first hospital in Central Massachusetts to offer transcatheter aortic valve replacement and mitral valve repair. It is also among the only hospitals in New England with access to custom manufactured fenestrated endovascular grafts for minimally invasive treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms.
* UMass Memorial Medical center has received the award of best Health-system pharmacy by the Massachusetts Society of Health-system pharmacists.
* UMass Memorial received the 11th annual Cheers Award by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in recognition of the medical center's work to prevent medication errors and promote patient safety. The UMass pharmacy residency program is the largest in New England. UMass Memorial and UMass Medical School offer one of only two postgraduate residency programs in the country dedicated to medication safety.
* Clinton Hospital is consistently rated among the state leaders in patient satisfaction; in 2013 Clinton Hospital was declared the best hospital in New England for patient satisfaction. HealthAlliance hospital ranked number one in safety in Massachusetts by a leading consumer ratings magazine in 2012 and 2013.

## Criticism and restructuring

UMass Memorial Health Care faced a downhill financial slide over a 5-year period, starting with an operating surplus of $83 million in 2009 to a $55 million operating loss in the 2013 fiscal year. The organization was criticized for being inefficient. In addition, changes in healthcare reimbursement impacted the Medical Center more severely than other hospitals as its proportion of Medicaid patient business, the state-federal health plan for the poor that tends to be less lucrative for hospitals, is 25% higher than the statewide average (24% in 2012 compared to state average of 19%). The financial decline culminated in the downgrading of the system's rating by Moody's Investors service in 2013.
In response to this criticism and challenges, UMMHC underwent significant restructuring towards a more lean business model. Shedding of assets included the sale of UMass home healthcare and hospice business, UMass outreach laboratories and the Caitlin Raymond International Registry (although dissociation from the latter has been postulated to also relate to the public criticism of the Registry's practices). A number of employee positions (reportedly over 500), predominantly in non-patient contact areas, were also eliminated in an effort to improve system efficiency. In December 2013, UMMHC announced its intent to transfer ownership of Wing Memorial hospital to Baystate Health in Springfield, MA. Following the above changes, along with an effort to standardize clinical and business processes, the system reported a stabilization of its financial position in 2014.

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## InfoBox

UMass Memorial Health
| UMass Memorial Health Care | |
| --- | --- |
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| Formation | March 1998 (1998-03) |
| Headquarters | Worcester, Massachusetts |
| Region | Central Massachusetts |
| Board Chair | Lynda Young |
| President & CEO | Eric Dickson |
| Parent organization | University of Massachusetts |
| Affiliations | UMass Chan Medical School |
| Website | www.ummhealth.org |


title: Minima naturalia

abstract: Minima naturalia were theorized by Aristotle as the smallest parts into which a homogeneous natural substance could be divided and still retain its essential character. In this context, "nature" means formal nature. Thus, "natural minimum" may be taken to mean "formal minimum": the minimum amount of matter necessary to instantiate a certain form. Speculation on minima naturalia in late Antiquity, in the Islamic world, and by Scholastic and Renaissance thinkers in Europe provided a conceptual bridge between the atomism of ancient Greece and the mechanistic philosophy of early modern thinkers like Descartes, which in turn provided a background for the rigorously mathematical and experimental atomic theory of modern science.

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# Minima naturalia

***Minima naturalia*** ("natural minima") were theorized by Aristotle as the smallest parts into which a homogeneous natural substance (e.g., flesh, bone, or wood) could be divided and still retain its essential character. In this context, "nature" means formal nature. Thus, "natural minimum" may be taken to mean "formal minimum": the minimum amount of matter necessary to instantiate a certain form.

Speculation on *minima naturalia* in late Antiquity, in the Islamic world, and by Scholastic and Renaissance thinkers in Europe provided a conceptual bridge between the atomism of ancient Greece and the mechanistic philosophy of early modern thinkers like Descartes, which in turn provided a background for the rigorously mathematical and experimental atomic theory of modern science.

## Aristotle's initial suggestion

According to Aristotle, the Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Anaxagoras had taught that every thing, and every portion of a thing, contains within itself an infinite number of like and unlike parts. For example, Anaxagoras maintained that there must be blackness as well as whiteness in snow; how, otherwise, could it be turned into dark water? Aristotle criticized Anaxagoras' theory on multiple grounds, among them the following:

* Animals and plants cannot be infinitely small according to Aristotle; thus the relatively homogeneous substances of which they are composed (e.g., bone and flesh in animals, or wood in plants) could not be infinitely small, either, but must have a smallest determinate size—i.e., a natural minimum.
* On Anaxagoras' argument in which all things contain all others infinitely, water could be drawn from flesh, then flesh from that water, and water from that flesh, and so on. However, as above, because there is a smallest determinate size beyond which a further divided substance would no longer be flesh, any further cycle of such drawings out would be impossible.
* Moreover, "\[s\]ince every body must diminish in size when something is taken from it, and flesh is quantitatively definite in respect both of greatness and smallness, it is clear that from the minimum quantity of flesh no body can be separated out; for the flesh left would be less than the minimum of flesh."

Unlike the atomism of Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus, and also unlike the later atomic theory of John Dalton, the Aristotelian natural minimum was not conceptualized as physically indivisible--"atomic" in the contemporary sense. Instead, the concept was rooted in Aristotle's hylomorphic worldview, which held that every physical thing is a compound of matter (Greek *hyle*) and a substantial form (Greek *morphe*) that imparts its essential nature and structure. For instance, a rubber ball for a hylomorphist like Aristotle would be rubber (matter) structured by spherical shape (form).

Aristotle's intuition was that there is some smallest size beyond which matter could no longer be structured as flesh, or bone, or wood, or some other such organic substance that (for Aristotle, living before the microscope) could be considered homogeneous. For instance, if flesh were divided beyond its natural minimum, what would remain might be some elemental water, and smaller amounts of the other elements (e.g., earth) with which water was thought to mix to form flesh. But whatever was left, the water (or earth, etc.), would no longer have the formal "nature" of flesh in particular – the remaining matter would have the form of water (or earth, etc.) rather than the substantial form of flesh.

This is suggestive of modern chemistry, in which, e.g., a bar of gold can be continually divided until one has a single atom of gold, but further division of that atom of gold yields only subatomic particles (electrons, quarks, etc.) which are no longer the chemical element gold. Just as water alone is not flesh, electrons alone are not gold.

## Scholastic elaboration

Aristotle's brief comments on *minima naturalia* in the *Physics* and *Meteorology* prompted further speculations by later philosophers. The idea was taken up by John Philoponus and Simplicius of Cilicia in late Antiquity and by the Islamic Aristotelian Averroes (Ibn Rushd).

*Minima naturalia* were discussed by Scholastic and Renaissance thinkers including Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Dacia, Richard of Middleton, Duns Scotus, John of Jandun, William of Ockham, William Alnwick, Walter Bury, Adam de Wodeham, Jean Buridan, Gregory of Rimini, John Dumbleton, Nicole Oresme, John Marsilius Inguen, John Wycliffe, Albert of Saxony, Facinus de Ast, Peter Alboinis of Mantua, Paul of Venice, Gaetano of Thiene, Alessandro Achillini, Luis Coronel, Juan de Celaya, Domingo de Soto, Didacus de Astudillo, Ludovicus Buccaferrea, Francisco de Toledo, and Benedict Pereira. Of this list, the most influential Scholastic thinkers on *minima naturalia* were Duns Scotus and Gregory of Rimini.

A chief theme in later commentary is reconciling *minima naturalia* with the general Aristotelian principle of infinite divisibility. Commentators like Philoponus and Aquinas reconciled these aspects of Aristotle's thought by distinguishing between mathematical and "natural" divisibility. For example, in his commentary on Aristotle's *Physics*, Aquinas writes of natural minima that, "although a body, considered mathematically, is divisible to infinity, the natural body is not divisible to infinity. For in a mathematical body nothing but quantity is considered. And in this there is nothing repugnant to division to infinity. But in a natural body the form also is considered, which form requires a determinate quantity and also other accidents. Whence it is not possible for quantity to be found in the species of flesh except as determined within some termini."

## Influence on corpuscularianism

In the early modern period, Aristotelian hylomorphism fell out of favor with the rise of the "mechanical philosophy" of thinkers like Descartes and John Locke, who were more sympathetic to the ancient Greek atomism of Democritus than to the natural minima of Aristotle. However, the concept of *minima naturalia* continued to shape philosophical thinking even among these mechanistic philosophers in the transitional centuries between the Aristotelianism of the medieval Scholastics and the worked-out atomic theory of modern scientists like Dalton.

The mechanist Pierre Gassendi discussed *minima naturalia* in the course of expounding his opposition to Scholastic Aristotelianism, and his own attempted reconciliation between the atomism of Epicurus and the Catholic faith. Aristotle's *mininima naturalia* became "corpuscles" in the alchemical works of Geber and Daniel Sennert, who in turn influenced the corpuscularian alchemist Robert Boyle, one of the founders of modern chemistry. Boyle occasionally referred to his postulated corpuscles as *minima naturalia*.

1. John Emery Murdoch; Christoph Herbert Lüthy; William Royall Newman (1 January 2001). "The Medieval and Renaissance Tradition of Minima Naturalia". *Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories*. BRILL. pp. 91–133. ISBN 90-04-11516-1.
2. Alan Chalmers (4 June 2009). *The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms*. Springer. pp. 75–96. ISBN 978-90-481-2362-9.
3. Aristotle, *Physics* 1.4, 187b14–21.
4. Thomas Aquinas. *In octo libros Physicorum expositio*. Sed dicendum quod licet corpus, mathematice acceptum, sit divisibile in infinitum, corpus tamen naturale non est divisibile in infinitum. In corpore enim mathematico non consideratur nisi quantitas, in qua nihil invenitur divisioni in infinitum repugnans; sed in corpore naturali consideratur forma naturalis, quae requirit determinatam quantitatem sicut et alia accidentia. Unde non potest inveniri quantitas in specie carnis nisi infra aliquos terminos determinata.


title: Minimaks

abstract: Milovan Ilić, better known by his nickname and stage name Minimaks, was a Serbian radio and television personality.

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# Minimaks

**Milovan Ilić** (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Илић; 5 November 1938 – 10 February 2005), better known by his nickname and stage name **Minimaks** (Serbian Cyrillic: Минимакс), was a Serbian radio and television personality.

## Early life

He was born on 5 November 1938 in the village of Lipnica near Kragujevac, Yugoslavia. He completed primary and secondary school in Kragujevac, and studied law in Belgrade. He started in the satirical magazine *Jež*, and in 1960 he moved to Radio Belgrade.

## Career

He became known as the leader of the radio program *Minimaks*. This program was broadcast on Radio Belgrade in the 1970s. "Minimaks" was one of the first programmes in which there was a lot of popular music and its motto was "minimum talk, maximum music". He was one of the first unconventional journalists in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia who inserted jokes, witty remarks and jingles between the standard radio host notices.

With shows *Sutra je petak* (It's Friday Tomorrow) and *Tačno u podne* (Exactly at noon), better known as *Tup-Tup*, which he hosted for 22 years, he achieved great success. After cutting of his radio show, he continued his career on the Radio Television of Serbia, where he led the program *Od glave do pete* (From head to toe).

However, the show was taken off air in the 1990. He moved to RTV Politika where he hosted show *Minimaksovizija*. He later led shows *Minimaksovizija*, *Maksovizija*, *Sunday with Minimaks* and *Fonto* at TV Pink and TV Palma. Throughout his time on radio and television he promoted numerous up-and-coming folk singers, most notably Lepa Brena, even giving her the stage name.

Through his programs passed a large number of Serbian singers, musicians, actors, politicians and other public figures. For each guest Minimaks was thoroughly prepared using comprehensive documentation and news. He is the author of several books aphorisms and songs, as well as many columns in various newspapers. With his wife Biljana he had a daughter Hannah and son Vladimir, and from the first marriage, son Igor.

He worked with and knew many Balkan singers, including being manager to Silvana Armenulić, until her death in a car crash in 1976. Ksenija Pajčin worked as his assistant while trying to make a name for herself in the 1990s.

## Death

At the end of 2004, Minimaks received a liver transplant at the clinic of the University of Padova, where he died on 10 February 2005 at age 66.

## InfoBox

| Minimaks | |
| --- | --- |
| Минимакс | |
|  | |
| Born | Milovan Ilić
(1938-11-05)5 November 1938
Lipnica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Died | 10 February 2005(2005-02-10) (aged 66)
Padova, Italy |
| Occupation(s) | Radio and television host |


title: Miraflores, Distrito Nacional

abstract: Miraflores is a Sector in the city of Santo Domingo in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic. This neighborhood is populated in particular by individuals from the upper middle class.

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# Miraflores, Distrito Nacional

**Miraflores** is a Sector in the city of Santo Domingo in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic. This neighborhood is populated in particular by individuals from the upper middle class.

## Sources

## InfoBox

| Miraflores | |
| --- | --- |
| Miraflores | |
| Coordinates: 18°30′N 69°59′W / 18.500°N 69.983°W / 18.500; -69.983 | |
| Country | Dominican Republic |
| Province | Distrito Nacional |
| Government | |
| Mayor | Roberto Salcedo |
| Population (2008) | |
| Total | 76,862 |
| Demonym | capitaleño/capitaleña |
| Time zone | UTC-4 UTC |
| Summer (DST) | UTCNone |
| Website | http://www.adn.gov.do/ |


title: Ministry of Finance (Iceland)

abstract: The Icelandic Ministry of Finance is responsible for overseeing the finances of the Icelandic government. The Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs is Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson.

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# Ministry of Finance (Iceland)

The Icelandic **Ministry of Finance** (Icelandic: **Fjármálaráðuneytið**) is responsible for overseeing the finances of the Icelandic government. The Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs is Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson.

## Organization of the Ministry of Finance

The top civil servant in the Ministry of Finance is Baldur Gudlaugsson, who was appointed Permanent Secretary from November 1, 2000. From February 6 to April 30, 2009, Indridi H. Thorlaksson is acting Permanent Secretary while Mr. Gudlaugsson is on leave. He runs the ministry on a day-to-day basis and is the chief liaison between the Minister and the civil servants. There are six departments of the Ministry of Finance, each of which is headed by a Director-General. The Ministry staff numbers around 80 specialists and support personnel.

### Administration Department

The Administration Department is responsible for general operations of the Ministry, preparation of the ministry's annual operational budget and supervision of the Ministry's information services. It is headed by Angantyr Einarsson since September 1, 2007.

### Budget Department

The Budget Department's main job is to oversee the production of the government's fiscal budget. In addition the Budget Department provides support for the supplementary budget and the government accounts bill. The Budget Office oversees relations with other Ministries and the Parliament concerning the preparation of the Treasury's budget. Nokkvi Bragason is in charge of this department since March 1, 2008.

### Economic Department

The Economic Department is in charge of economic studies in Iceland. This involves surveying the economic situation and its prospects, and forecasting economic trends based on macroeconomic models. The Economic Department is also responsible for providing the revenue forecast for the fiscal budget and performing research into tax and benefit systems. The department oversees the Treasury’s domestic and international cooperation concerning economic matters. Thorsteinn Thorgeirsson is Director-General for this department since January 1, 2005.

### Financial Management Department

The Financial Management Department manages the government's assets and the Treasury fund. This department also ensures the proposed budget is carried out as per legal requirements and that the executive branch is run efficiently. The Director-General of this department is Thorhallur Arason.

### Personnel Policy Department

The main role of the Personnel Policy Department is to represent the Ministry in labor market matters and to present its views. The department also offers advice on the implementation and interpretation of laws, regulations, agreements and government decisions. The Wage Negotiations Committee of the government operates in close cooperation with the department. Gunnar Bjornsson is in charge of this department.

The main task of the department is to deal with tax matters, to draft bills for the Althingi and interpret existing laws. It also conducts research into the impact of existing taxes and tax changes. The Director-General of this department is Marianna Jonasdottir.

### National Tax Investigation Police

## Goals of the Ministry

The Ministry's main goals are:

* Economic stability and a high standard of living
* A balanced treasury over the longer term
* An economical and efficient tax environment
* Responsible and performance oriented management of state finances
* Transparent government operations and an effective organizational structure
* State of staff of the highest quality
* Delivery of a reliable service with the emphasis on professional work

## Former Ministers of Finance

### Kingdom of Iceland (1918–1942)

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### Republic of Iceland (1942 – present)

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abstract: The Minister of State for Exiting the European Union was a position in the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Government of the United Kingdom. The minister deputised for the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

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# Minister of State for Exiting the European Union

The **Minister of State for Exiting the European Union** was a position in the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Government of the United Kingdom. The minister deputised for the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

## History

David Jones was removed as minister after the 2017 general election.

## List of ministers

**Colour key** (for political parties):

Conservative

| Portrait | | Name | Term of office | | Length of term | Party | Prime Minister | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  | David Jones<br>MP for Clwyd West | 17 July 2016 | 12 June 2017 | 10 months and 26 days | Conservative |  | Theresa May |
|  |  | The Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 12 June 2017 | 27 October 2017 | | | | 4 months and 15 days |
|  |  | The Lord Callanan | 27 October 2017 | 31 January 2020 | | | | 2 years, 3 months and 4 days |
| | | | | | |  | Boris Johnson |


title: Minnesota State Highway 111

abstract: Minnesota State Highway 111 is a short 9.789-mile-long (15.754 km) highway in south-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with U.S. Highway 14 in Nicollet and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 22 in New Sweden Township.

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# Minnesota State Highway 111

**Minnesota State Highway 111** (**MN 111**) is a short 9.789-mile-long (15.754 km) highway in south-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with U.S. Highway 14 in Nicollet and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 22 in New Sweden Township.

## Route description

Highway 111 serves as a northsouth route in south-central Minnesota between the cities of Nicollet and Gaylord.

Highway 111 is also known as *Main Street* in the city of Nicollet.

The route is legally defined as Route 122 in the Minnesota Statutes. It is not marked with this number.

## History

Highway 111 was authorized on April 22, 1933.

The route was paved by 1960.

## Major intersections

The entire route is in Nicollet County.

| Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nicollet | 0.000 | 0.000 | US 14 Mankato, New Ulm

CSAH 23 south |  |
| | 0.329 | 0.529 |
MN 99 east St. Peter |  |
| New Sweden Township | 9.798 | 15.768 | MN 22 Gaylord, St. Peter |  |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
 | | | | | |

Template:Attached KML/Minnesota State Highway 111KML is from Wikidata

## InfoBox

| Trunk Highway 111 | |
| --- | --- |
| MN 111 highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by MnDOT | |
| Length | 9.789 mi (15.754 km) |
| Existed | April 22, 1933–present |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | US 14 at Nicollet |
| Major intersections | MN 99 at Nicollet |
| North end | MN 22 at New Sweden Township |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| Counties | Nicollet |
|  | |
| Highway system | |
| * **Minnesota Trunk Highway System** | |
| MN 110   MN 112 | |


title: UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group I

abstract: This page shows the standings and results for Group I of the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying tournament.

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# UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group I

This page shows the standings and results for **Group I** of the **UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying** tournament.

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Spain | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 6 | +20 | 24 | Qualify for final tournament |  |  | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 6–0 |
| 2 | Czech Republic | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 13 | Advance to play-offs |  | 0–2 |  | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 |
| 3 | Scotland | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 11 |  |  | 2–3 | 2–2 |  | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| 4 | Lithuania | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 9 | | 5 |  | 1–3 | 1–4 | 0–0 |  | 0–0 |
| 5 | Liechtenstein | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 14 | | 4 |  | 0–4 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 |  |

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

## Matches

Group I fixtures were negotiated between the participants at a meeting in Madrid, Spain, on 19 February 2010.

| Lithuania | 0–0 | Scotland |
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S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, KaunasAttendance: 5,248Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

| Liechtenstein | 0–4 | Spain |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report | Torres  18', 54'
Villa  26'
Silva  62' |

Rheinpark Stadion, VaduzAttendance: 6,100Referee: Bülent Yıldırım (Turkey)

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| Czech Republic | 0–1 | Lithuania |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report | Šernas  25' |

Andrův stadion, OlomoucAttendance: 12,038Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

| Scotland | 2–1 | Liechtenstein |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Miller  62'
McManus  90+7' | Report | Frick  46' |

Hampden Park, GlasgowAttendance: 37,050Referee: Viktor Shvetsov (Ukraine)

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| Czech Republic | 1–0 | Scotland |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hubník  69' | Report |  |

Synot Tip Arena, PragueAttendance: 14,922Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

| Spain | 3–1 | Lithuania |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Llorente  47', 56'
Silva  79' | Report | Šernas  54' |

Estadio El Helmántico, SalamancaAttendance: 16,800Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

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| Liechtenstein | 0–2 | Czech Republic |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report | Necid  12'
V. Kadlec  29' |

Rheinpark Stadion, VaduzAttendance: 2,555Referee: Stanislav Sukhina (Russia)

| Scotland | 2–3 | Spain |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Naismith  58'
Piqué  67' (o.g.) | Report | Villa  44' (pen.)
Iniesta  55'
Llorente  79' |

Hampden Park, GlasgowAttendance: 51,322Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)

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| Spain | 2–1 | Czech Republic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Villa  69', 73' (pen.) | Report | Plašil  29' |

Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes, GranadaAttendance: 16,301Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

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| Czech Republic | 2–0 | Liechtenstein |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Baroš  3'
M. Kadlec  70' | Report |  |

Stadion Střelecký ostrov, České BudějoviceAttendance: 6,600Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hategan (Romania)

| Lithuania | 1–3 | Spain |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stankevičius  57' | Report | Xavi  19'
Kijanskas  70' (o.g.)
Mata  83' |

S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, KaunasAttendance: 9,180Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France)

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| Liechtenstein | 2–0 | Lithuania |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Erne  7'
Polverino  36' | Report |  |

Rheinpark Stadion, VaduzAttendance: 1,886Referee: Artyom Kuchin (Kazakhstan)

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| Lithuania | 0–0 | Liechtenstein |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, KaunasAttendance: 3,500Referee: Ken Henry Johnsen (Norway)

| Scotland | 2–2 | Czech Republic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Miller  44'
Fletcher  82' | Report | Plašil  78'
M. Kadlec  90' (pen.) |

Hampden Park, GlasgowAttendance: 51,564Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

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| Scotland | 1–0 | Lithuania |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Naismith  50' | Report |  |

Hampden Park, GlasgowAttendance: 34,071Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

| Spain | 6–0 | Liechtenstein |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Negredo  34', 37'
Xavi  44'
Ramos  52'
Villa  60', 79' | Report |  |

Estadio Las Gaunas, LogroñoAttendance: 15,660Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)

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| Czech Republic | 0–2 | Spain |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report | Mata  6'
Alonso  23' |

Generali Arena, PragueAttendance: 17,873Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

| Liechtenstein | 0–1 | Scotland |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report | Mackail-Smith  32' |

Rheinpark Stadion, VaduzAttendance: 5,636Referee: Tom Harald Hagen (Norway)

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| Spain | 3–1 | Scotland |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Silva  6', 44'
Villa  54' | Report | Goodwillie  66' (pen.) |

Estadio José Rico Pérez, AlicanteAttendance: 27,559Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

| Lithuania | 1–4 | Czech Republic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Šernas  68' (pen.) | Report | M. Kadlec  2' (pen.), 85' (pen.)
Rezek  16', 45' |

S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, KaunasAttendance: 4,000Referee: David Fernández Borbalán (Spain)

## Goalscorers

There were 54 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.7 goals per match.

**7 goals**

**4 goals**

**3 goals**

**2 goals**

**1 goal**

**1 own goal**

## Discipline

| Pos | Player | Country |  |  | Suspended for match(es) | Reason |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DF | Steven Whittaker | Scotland | 3 | 1 | vs Czech Republic (3 September 2011) | Sent off in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match
Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Tomáš Hübschman | Czech Republic | 2 | 1 | vs Lithuania (11 October 2011)
vs Montenegro (11 and 15 November 2011) | Sent off in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match |
| MF | Edgaras Česnauskis | Lithuania | 2 | 1 | vs Scotland (6 September 2011) | Sent off in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match |
| MF | Roman Hubník | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | vs Montenegro (11 November 2011) | Sent off in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match |
| FW | Thomas Beck | Liechtenstein | 3 | 0 | vs Lithuania (2 September 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| FW | Mario Frick | Liechtenstein | 3 | 0 | vs Lithuania (3 June 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Michele Polverino | Liechtenstein | 3 | 0 | vs Czech Republic (12 October 2010) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| DF | Martin Stocklasa | Liechtenstein | 3 | 0 | vs Czech Republic (12 October 2010) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Sandro Wieser | Liechtenstein | 3 | 0 | vs Czech Republic (12 October 2010) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Ramūnas Radavičius | Lithuania | 3 | 0 | vs Liechtenstein (2 September 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Jaroslav Plašil | Czech Republic | 2 | 0 | vs Spain (7 October 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Jan Rezek | Czech Republic | 2 | 0 | vs Spain (7 October 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| DF | Franz Burgmeier | Liechtenstein | 2 | 0 | vs Scotland (8 October 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| DF | Martin Rechsteiner | Liechtenstein | 2 | 0 | vs Lithuania (3 June 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| DF | Deividas Šemberas | Lithuania | 2 | 0 | vs Czech Republic (11 October 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Darvydas Šernas | Lithuania | 2 | 0 | vs Liechtenstein (2 September 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| DF | Andrius Skerla | Lithuania | 2 | 0 | TBD | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Scott Brown | Scotland | 2 | 0 | vs Lithuania (6 September 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Lee McCulloch | Scotland | 2 | 0 | vs Czech Republic (8 October 2010) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| FW | Kenny Miller | Scotland | 2 | 0 | vs Lithuania (6 September 2011) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |
| MF | Barry Robson | Scotland | 2 | 0 | vs Spain (12 October 2010) | Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches |


title: USS Ancon (AGC-4)

abstract: USS Ancon (AGC-4) was one of three identical ships built for the Panama Railroad Company put into operation in 1938. The ship was converted to a troop ship by the Army in January 1942, making several voyages to Australia with troops as an Army Transport. In August 1942 the ship's operation was transferred to the United States Navy for the duration of World War II and converted to a combined headquarters and communications command ship.

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# USS Ancon (AGC-4)

**USS *Ancon* (AGC-4)** was one of three identical ships built for the Panama Railroad Company put into operation in 1938. The ship was converted to a troop ship by the Army in January 1942, making several voyages to Australia with troops as an Army Transport. In August 1942 the ship's operation was transferred to the United States Navy for the duration of World War II and converted to a combined headquarters and communications command ship.

## Early civilian service

*Ancon* was laid down 23 October 1937 as hull number 1468, second of three identical ships ordered by the Panama Railroad Company, launched on 10 December 1938 at Fore River Shipyard (Bethlehem Steel Company), Quincy, Massachusetts. The ship was sponsored by Mrs. Harry Woodring, wife of the Secretary of War. The ship was owned and operated by the Panama Railroad Company, and on 22 June 1939 she began cargo and passenger service between New York City, New York and Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone.

## Army

*Ancon* was delivered by the Panama Railroad Company to begin war operations with the Army Transport Service on 11 January 1942 at Balboa, Canal Zone. The ship sailed to San Francisco for conversion, including 1,500 bunks, required to transport troops. She made two voyages to Australia carrying Army Air Corps units and elements of the 32nd Infantry Division to bolster that continent's defenses; the first voyage left on 31 January 1942 headed for Brisbane, Australia from San Francisco, the second left San Francisco on 23 April 1942 bound for Adelaide and Sydney. According to the diary of Edgar Roy Cochrun, Chaplain, United States Army, who had boarded the ship on 20 April, the *Ancon* departed San Francisco on its second voyage to Australia at 5:55 p.m. on Wednesday, 22 April 1942, and not on 23 April. She returned to San Francisco 18 June 1942,

*Ancon* underwent extensive repairs and alterations in San Francisco during June and July 1942 before sailing for Boston to be turned over to the Navy.

*Ancon* was acquired by the Navy under bareboat charter on 7 August 1942 and placed in commission at the Boston Navy Yard as *Ancon* **(AP-66)** on 12 August 1942. Following her commissioning, *Ancon* underwent a month's work at Boston, being converted for naval service.

On 12 September, she got underway for the Virginia Capes and, on arrival at Norfolk took on cargo and troops to transport to Baltimore, Maryland. She reached Baltimore on 6 October and disembarked her passengers. She then conducted trials and exercises in the Chesapeake Bay. After pausing at Norfolk to take on more troops and equipment, she left the East Coast on 24 October, sailing for North Africa to take part in Operation Torch as the flagship of Transport Division 9, Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet.

## Mediterranean service

*Ancon* anchored off Fedhala, French Morocco on 8 November and began lowering her boats at 0533. The first troops were debarked an hour later. During the course of the assault, men on the ship witnessed the sinking of four other transports, and *Ancon* sent out boats to rescue their survivors. On 12 November the transport headed out and, three days later, put into Casablanca harbor. She got underway on the 15th with a convoy bound for Norfolk.

After a brief pause there, *Ancon* traveled to Brooklyn, New York for voyage repairs. A brief period of sea trials preceded the ship's loading cargo and troops for transportation to Algeria. She sailed on 14 January 1943 as a member of the Naval Transport Service. The ship reached Oran on the 26th and spent five days discharging her cargo before heading back toward New York City, where she arrived on 13 February. On that day, the vessel was reassigned to the Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Forces. On the 16th, *Ancon* entered the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, to undergo conversion to a combined headquarters and communications command ship. She was redesignated **AGC-4** on 26 February with the conversion completed on 20 April 1943.

On 21 April, *Ancon* held trials and exercises in the Chesapeake Bay through May and into early June 1943, when she was designated the flagship of Vice Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, Commander of the Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Forces. The ship got underway for Oran on 8 June with Task Force (TF) 85. The ship had been selected to participate in the invasion of Sicily, and her preparations continued after her arrival at Oran on 22 June.

Carrying Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, Commander, TF 85, and Lieutenant General Omar Bradley on board, *Ancon* sailed on 5 July for the waters off Sicily. She reached the transport area off Scoglitti on the 10th and lowered her boats early that morning. Despite enemy fire, the ship remained off Scoglitti providing communications services through the 12th and then got underway to return to North Africa. At the end of a fortnight there, she shifted to Mostaganem, Algeria, on 29 July. In mid-August, the vessel moved to Algiers. During her periods in port, she prepared for the upcoming invasion of mainland Italy for which she had been designated flagship for the Commander of the 8th Fleet Amphibious Forces in Northwest African Waters.

On 6 September, *Ancon* got underway for Salerno, serving as VADM Hewitt's flagship for the overall Task Force 80. During the operation, the ship carried Lieutenant General Mark Wayne Clark, who commanded the 5th Army. At 0330 on 9 September, the first wave of Allied troops hit the beach. Thereafter, she remained in the transport area, undergoing nearly continuous enemy air harassment, until she moved to Palermo, Sicily, to pick up ammunition to replenish her sister ships. She returned to the area off Salerno on the 15th but, the next day, arrived back in Palermo.

## Normandy

After two weeks in that Sicilian port, *Ancon* shaped a course for Algiers. She reached that port on 2 October and spent almost six weeks undergoing repairs and replenishment. In mid-November, she set sail for the United Kingdom and, on 25 November, arrived in Devonport, England, where she was designated the flagship of the 11th Amphibious Force. An extended period of repairs and preparations for the impending invasion of France kept *Ancon* occupied through the winter and much of the spring participating in numerous training exercises with other Allied warships. On 25 May, King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Montgomery visited the ship. U.S. military advisor George Elsey wrote that during the trip a junior officer refused to admit the King into the ship's intelligence centre because, as he explained to a superior officer, "...nobody told me he was a BIGOT." The codeword signified personnel cleared to know the top-secret details of Overlord (known as the BIGOT list; people cleared to be on it were "Bigots").

The preparations culminated on 5 June, when *Ancon* got underway for Baie de la Seine, France. She served as flagship for the assault forces that landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy. Throughout the invasion, the ship provided instructions for forces both afloat and ashore. She transferred various units of the Army command to headquarters ashore and made her small boats available to other ships to carry personnel and materials to the beachhead. On 27 June, she got underway to return to England and, the next day, arrived at Portland.

George Hicks, a radio journalist, broadcast the invasion live. The *New York World-Telegram* called his broadcast "The greatest recording yet to come out of the war."

*Ancon* remained in British waters through late September, when she sailed in a convoy bound for the East Coast of the United States. She reached Charleston, South Carolina on 9 October and was then assigned to the Amphibious Training Command. At the completion of repairs at the Charleston Navy Yard on 21 December, the ship got underway for sea trials. Five days later, she shaped a course for the Pacific. On the last day of 1944, the ship transited the Panama Canal and joined the Pacific Fleet. She continued on to San Diego, California, where she arrived on 9 January 1945.

## Pacific service

Upon reaching San Diego, *Ancon* entered Amphibious Group 5. She then proceeded to Pearl Harbor and, during the first two weeks of February, carried out training exercises in Hawaiian waters. On 15 February 1945, she set out for Eniwetok where she paused to refuel before pushing on to Saipan. Ancon reached Saipan late in February 1945 and began holding rehearsals off that island and Tinian for the upcoming assault on Okinawa. The ship sailed for the Ryūkyūs with Transport Squadron 15 on 27 March.

*Ancon* arrived with TG 51.2 off the southeast coast of Okinawa on 1 April. Due to heavy enemy air activity, the ship stood out to sea on the 3rd and set out for Saipan on the 11th. She disembarked Marines at Saipan on the 15th. After replenishment, *Ancon* left Saipan to return to Okinawa. For three weeks, she was anchored off the western beaches of Okinawa and supported forces ashore. During this time, the ship was almost continuously at general quarters due to Japanese air raids.

*Ancon* left Okinawa on 3 June and proceeded to Subic Bay and Manila, Philippines. There, she served as flagship of Commander, 7th Amphibious Force. For the next two months, the ship was involved in preparations for invasion of the Japanese home islands. However, this operation never materialized because Japan capitulated on 15 August. Shortly thereafter, *Ancon* got underway for Tokyo Bay with an intermediate stop at Iwo Jima. On 22 August, the ship rendezvoused with units of the 3d Fleet and sailed on toward Japan.

On the morning of the 29th, *Ancon* sailed into Tokyo Bay and assumed duties as a press release ship in coordination with battleship USS *Iowa* (BB-61). From the ship's anchorage between USS *Missouri* (BB-63) and USS *South Dakota* (BB-57), her crew witnessed the official Japanese surrender on 2 September. *Ancon* left Japanese waters on 20 September and set a course for Guam. She briefly stopped at Apra Harbor on the 27th, pushing on that same day for Saipan. There, the ship embarked occupation troops and supplies before reversing her course on 29 September and heading back to Japan.

On 2 October, *Ancon* was assigned to the 5th Fleet as the headquarters ship for a strategic bombing survey. She touched at Yokohama, Japan on 3 October and remained in that area through November. Then, her survey duties being completed, the ship got underway on 1 December to return to the United States. *Ancon* reached San Francisco Bay on 14 December. She remained at San Francisco in availability until 4 January 1946 when she sailed for the East Coast. The vessel again passed through the Panama Canal on 14 January and rejoined the Atlantic Fleet. She continued on to the New York Naval Shipyard, where she arrived on the 23rd and began deactivation preparations.

## Awards

European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, 8 Nov 41 – 11 Nov 42, Algeria-Morocco Occupation, Operation Torch, the Allied Invasion of French North Africa.

European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, 9 Jul 43 – 15 Jul 43, Sicily Occupation, Operation Husky, the Allied Invasion of Sicily.

European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, 9 Sep 43 – 21 Sep 43, Salerno Landings, Operation Avalanche, the Allied Invasion of Italy.

European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, 6 Jun 44 – 25 Jun 44, Normandy Landings, Operation Overlord, D-Day.

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, 1 Apr 45 – 3 Jun 45, Ryuku Islands Landings, Operation Iceberg, The Battle of Okinawa.

Philippine Liberation Medal, 5 Jun 45 – 20 August 1945, Subic Bay Philippines, Philippines Campaign of 1944-45.

World War II Victory Medal, 7 Dec 41 – 31 Dec 46

Navy Occupation Service Medal with Pacific Clasp, 2 Sep 45 – 20 Sep 45 or from 2 Oct 45 – 30 Nov 45, Tokyo, and later Yokohama, Occupation of Japan.

## Decommissioning and disposal

*Ancon* was decommissioned on 25 February 1946 and struck from the Navy List on 17 April 1946. The ship was returned to the Panama Canal Company 25 February 1946 with commercial service discontinued 20 April 1961. On 29 June 1962 title was transferred to the Maritime Administration at New Orleans and loaned to the Maine Maritime Academy. *Ancon* was renamed *State of Maine* on 14 July 1962. The Academy operated the ship as a training ship until returning her to the Maritime Administration 25 May 1973 when the ship was delivered to North American Smelting Company for scrapping.

## Footnotes

1. Pacific American Steamship Association; Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast (June 1939). "Bethlehem Steel Company, Inc". *Pacific Marine Review*. San Francisco: J.S. Hines: 68. Retrieved 23 July 2019.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Pacific American Steamship Association; Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast (January 1939). "Fore River Launches *Ancon*". *Pacific Marine Review*. San Francisco: J.S. Hines: 54. Retrieved 23 July 2019.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
3. Naval History And Heritage Command (17 June 2015). "Ancon". *Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships*. Naval History And Heritage Command. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
4. Charles, Roland W. (1947). *Troopships of World War II* (PDF). Washington: The Army Transportation Association. p. 8. LCCN 47004779. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
5. Maritime Administration. "Ancon". *Ship History Database Vessel Status Card*. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
6. Rogers, LCdr David A. (February 1962). "Development of Amphibious Force Flagship". *Bureau of Ships Journal*. Vol. 11, no. 2. pp. 10–13. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
7. "Untold Stories of D-Day". *National Geographic*. June 2002. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
8. Elsey, George (2005). *An Unplanned Life*. University of Missouri Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-8262-1622-6. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
9. *Broadcasting, Volume 26*. Broadcasting Publications. 1944. p. 9.

## InfoBox

| *Ancon* in 1945 | |
| --- | --- |
| History | |
| United States | |
| Name | * *Ancon* (1939–1962) * *State of Maine* (1962–1973) |
| Namesake | Ancón, Panama |
| Builder | Fore River Shipyard |
| Laid down | 23 October 1937 |
| Launched | 10 December 1938 |
| Acquired | (by Navy) 7 August 1942 |
| Commissioned | (by Navy) 12 August 1942 |
| Decommissioned | (by Navy) 25 February 1946 |
| In service | 1939–1973 |
| Stricken | (by Navy) 17 April 1946 |
| Honours and<br>awards | five battle stars for World War II service |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 14,150 tons |
| Length | 493 ft (150 m) |
| Beam | 64 ft (20 m) |
| Draft | 26 ft 3 in (8.00 m) |
| Propulsion | two steam turbine engines, 9,166 shp |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 707 |
| Armament |  |


title: Mircea Stan

abstract: Mircea Valerică Stan is a former Romanian footballer who played as a right back. His son, Antonio Stan, is also a footballer. Stadionul Mircea Stan in Colonești, Olt is named after him.

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# Mircea Stan

**Mircea Valerică Stan** (born 3 August 1977) is a former Romanian footballer who played as a right back. His son, Antonio Stan, is also a footballer.

Stadionul Mircea Stan in Colonești, Olt is named after him.

## Honours

### Manager

Vedița Colonești

## InfoBox

Mircea Stan
| Personal information | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Full name | Mircea Valerică Stan | | |
| Date of birth | (1977-08-03) 3 August 1977 | | |
| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | | |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | | |
| Position(s) | Defender | | |
| Team information | | | |
| Current team | Vedița Colonești (manager) | | |
| Youth career | | | |
|  | CSȘ Aripi Pitești | | |
| Senior career\* | | | |
| Years | **Team** | **Apps** | **(Gls)** |
| 1995–1997 | Universitatea Cluj | 45 | (4) |
| 1998–2000 | Farul Constanța | 111 | (6) |
| 2000–2001 | Argeș Pitești | 30 | (2) |
| 2002–2003 | Brașov | 37 | (4) |
| 2003–2004 | Argeș Pitești | 31 | (2) |
| 2005–2006 | Zimbru Chișinău | 40 | (6) |
| 2006–2010 | Argeș Pitești | 76 | (3) |
| 2010–2011 | Mioveni | 2 | (0) |
| Total |  | **372** | **(27)** |
| Managerial career | | | |
| 2021– | Vedița Colonești | | |
| \*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 May 2021 | | | |


title: Miradź

abstract: Miradź is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Człopa, within Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) north-west of Człopa, 33 km (21 mi) south-west of Wałcz, and 100 km (62 mi) east of the regional capital Szczecin. Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland, an in 1772–1945 it belonged to Prussia and Germany. For more on its history, see Wałcz County.

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# Miradź

**Miradź** \[ˈmirat͡ɕ\] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Człopa, within Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) north-west of Człopa, 33 km (21 mi) south-west of Wałcz, and 100 km (62 mi) east of the regional capital Szczecin.

Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland, an in 1772–1945 it belonged to Prussia and Germany. For more on its history, see Wałcz County.

## InfoBox

| Miradź | |
| --- | --- |
| Village | |
| Miradź | |
| Coordinates: 53°9′10″N 16°0′45″E / 53.15278°N 16.01250°E / 53.15278; 16.01250 | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | West Pomeranian |
| County | Wałcz |
| Gmina | Człopa |
| Population | 38 |


title: Minor Scale

abstract: Minor Scale was a test conducted on June 27, 1985, by the United States Defense Nuclear Agency involving the detonation of several thousand tons of conventional explosives to simulate the explosion of a small nuclear bomb.

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# Minor Scale

**Minor Scale** was a test conducted on June 27, 1985, by the United States Defense Nuclear Agency (now part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency) involving the detonation of several thousand tons of conventional explosives to simulate the explosion of a small nuclear bomb.

## Test

The purpose of the test was to evaluate the effect of nuclear blasts on various pieces of military hardware, particularly new, blast-hardened launchers for the MGM-134 Midgetman ballistic missile.

The test took place at the Permanent High Explosive Testing Grounds of the White Sands Missile Range in the state of New Mexico, for which 4,744 tons of ANFO explosive (ammonium nitrate and fuel oil), equivalent to 4 kilotons of TNT, were used to roughly simulate the effect of an eight kiloton air-burst nuclear device. With a total energy release of about 17 TJ (or 4.2 kilotons of TNT equivalent), Minor Scale was reported as "the largest planned conventional explosion in the history of the free world", surpassing another large conventional explosion, the "British Bang" disposal of ordnance on Heligoland in 1947, reported to have released 13 TJ of energy (about 3.2 kilotons of TNT equivalent).

The Q&A released as part of the effort states: "Future tests are not expected to get bigger than Minor Scale", and in particular, "There are no plans for a test called Major Scale".

## InfoBox

| Minor Scale | |
| --- | --- |
| Minor Scale fireball immediately after detonation. The F-4 Phantom aircraft in the foreground is 63 feet (19 m) long. | |
| Information | |
| Country | United States |
| Test site | White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 33°37′16″N 106°28′29″W / 33.6210°N 106.4746°W / 33.6210; -106.4746 |
| Date | June 27, 1985 |
| Number of tests | 1 |
| Agency | Defense Nuclear Agency |
| Explosive | ANFO |
| Configuration | Segmented hemisphere |
| Yield | 4 kilotons of TNT (17 TJ) |
| Test chronology | |
|  | |


title: Zinda Dil

abstract: Zinda Dil is a 1975 Bollywood film directed by Sikandar Khanna. The film stars Rishi Kapoor, Rajesh Leher and Neetu Singh in the lead roles. The film was based on East of Eden, a 1955 American period drama film directed by Elia Kazan.

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# Zinda Dil

***Zinda Dil*** is a 1975 Bollywood film directed by Sikandar Khanna. The film stars Rishi Kapoor, Rajesh Leher and Neetu Singh in the lead roles. The film was based on East of Eden, a 1955 American period drama film directed by Elia Kazan.

## Plot summary

This is the story of two brothers and a father. The brothers are twins Arun Sharma (played by Rishi Kapoor) and Kewal Sharma (Actor Rajesh Leher, look-alike of Rishi Kapoor, who also played lead role in the film *Subh Din* of Rajshri Productions), and the father is Major Hemraj Sharma (Pran), a war veteran who became disabled in the last war, and has to rely on crutches to walk. The Major has a soft corner for Kewal, but shows open disapproval of Arun, thus alienating him. He constantly asks Arun to make sacrifices for Kewal, including giving up his love, Rekha (Zaheera). Heartbroken Arun leaves his father's home and meets an old acquaintance who he had saved from committing suicide, Jyoti (Neetu Singh). Jyoti gets Arun a job at her dad's (Pinchoo Kapoor) Diwan Pratap chand's hotel. Here Arun meets with a hotel waiter who tells him that his mother is still alive. Arun is shocked to note this and asks his mother to accompany him to confront his father. Was Arun's father really that cold-hearted to let go of his wife, and keep this secret from his sons?

## Songs

1. "Nahi Nahi Jana Nahi Abhi Nahi" - Lata Mangeshkar
2. "Zindagi Jindadili Ka Nam Hai" - Mohammed Rafi
3. "O Meri Jan By God Mai Teri Life Banadunga" - Kishore Kumar
4. "Sham Suhani Ayi Khusiya Banke Pahli Bar" - Mahendra Kapoor, Shailendra Singh, Lata Mangeshkar

## Cast

## InfoBox

| Zinda Dil | |
| --- | --- |
| Directed by | Sikandar Khanna |
| Produced by | * K. L. Bhatia * K. Shorey |
| Starring |  |
| Cinematography | Sudarshan Nag & S.N.Dubey |
| Music by | Laxmikant–Pyarelal |
| Release date | * 15 October 1975 (1975-10-15) |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |


title: Montirat, Tarn

abstract: Montirat is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.

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# Montirat, Tarn

**Montirat** (French pronunciation: \[mɔ̃tiʁa\] ) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.

## InfoBox

| Montirat | |
| --- | --- |
| Commune | |
| A general view of Montirat | |
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| Location of Montirat | |
| MontiratMontirat | |
| Coordinates: 44°09′36″N 2°06′12″E / 44.16°N 2.1033°E / 44.16; 2.1033 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitania |
| Department | Tarn |
| Arrondissement | Albi |
| Canton | Carmaux-2 Vallée du Cérou |
| Intercommunality | Carmausin-Ségala |
| Government | |
| Mayor (20202026) | Xavier Ichard |
| Area**1** | 27.78 km2 (10.73 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | 260 |
| Density | 9.4/km2 (24/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 81180 /81190 |
| Elevation | 170–516 m (558–1,693 ft)
(avg. 380 m or 1,250 ft) |
| **1** French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers \> 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |


title: Team WE

abstract: Team WE, formerly known as World Elite, is a Chinese esports organisation based in Xi'an. It is one of the oldest esports organisations in China.

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# Team WE

**Team WE**, formerly known as **World Elite**, is a Chinese esports organisation based in Xi'an. It is one of the oldest esports organisations in China.

## *League of Legends*

### Roster

| Team WE *League of Legends* roster | |
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| Players | Coaches |
| Role Handle Name Nationality  Top Wayward Huang Renxing China  Jungle Heng Yang Cuiheng China  Mid FOFO Chu Chunlan Taiwan  Bot Prince Lee Chaehwan South Korea  Support Iwandy Liao Dingyang China   Bot Stay  Guo Yiyang China | Head coach WarHorse<br>Assistant coach(es) Changan |
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| **Legend:** * **(I)** Inactive * **(S)** Suspended * Substitute * Injury / Illness | Roster |

### Tournament highlights

## *Warcraft III*

### Former players

| ID | Name | Race | Joined |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sky | Li Xiaofeng | Human | 2005 |
| Infi | Wang Xuwen | Human | 2007 |

## InfoBox

Team WE
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| Short name | WE |
| Divisions |  |
| Founded | 21 April 2005 (2005-04-21) |
| Based in | Xi'an, China |
| Partners |  |
| Website | www.teamwe.com |


title: María Eugenia Catalfamo

abstract: María Eugenia Catalfamo is an Argentine journalist and politician served as a National Senator for San Luis Province. A member of the Justicialist Party, Catalfamo was elected in 2017 and currently sits in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc.

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# María Eugenia Catalfamo

**María Eugenia Catalfamo** (born 4 October 1987) is an Argentine journalist and politician served as a National Senator for San Luis Province. A member of the Justicialist Party, Catalfamo was elected in 2017 and currently sits in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc.

## Early life and education

Catalfamo was born on 4 October 1987 in San Luis, Argentina. She finished high school at Instituto Aleluya, and later studied social communication at the National University of Córdoba (UNC), graduating 2012. From 2012 to 2013, she worked as a journalist for Agencia de Noticias San Luis, San Luis Province's state-owned news agency. She was also a writer for *Vivir Urbano* magazine from 2013 to 2015. From 2015 to 2017, she headed the press department of the Universidad de La Punta.

## Political career

From 2013 to 2015, she was chief of press and protocol of the San Luis Province Ministry of Security. Later, in May 2017, she was appointed as State Secretary of Youth of San Luis by Governor Alberto Rodríguez Saá.

That same year, Catalfamo was the second candidate in the Justicialist Party list to the National Senate in San Luis, behind Adolfo Rodríguez Saá. The PJ list was the most voted in the province, with 55.48% of the vote, and took the two seats for the majority. She originally formed part of the dissident Justicialist Unity bloc, alongside Rodríguez Saá. In March 2019, she broke away from the Justicialist Unity bloc, forming a single-member bloc by the name of "San Luis Justicialism". Following the 2019 general election, both Rodríguez Saá and Catalfamo became part of the Frente de Todos bloc.

As a national senator, she formed part of the parliamentary commissions on Industry and Commerce, Rights and Guarantees, Population and Human Development, Science and Technology, Women's Affairs, and General Legislation. During the 2018 vote on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill, which would have legalised abortion in Argentina, Catalfamo was the only senator to be absent in the session. Two years later, when the bill was once again debated by the Senate, Catalfamo was present and voted in favour.

## InfoBox

| María Eugenia Catalfamo | |
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| National Senator | |
| **In office**
10 December 2017  10 December 2023 | |
| Constituency | San Luis |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | (1987-10-04) 4 October 1987
San Luis, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political
affiliations | Federal Commitment (since 2017)
Frente de Todos (since 2019) |
| Alma mater | National University of Córdoba |
| Profession | Journalist, politician |
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