title: Vincent Villafranca

abstract: Vincent Villafranca is an American sculptor. He creates bronze sculptures ranging from traditional wildlife imagery to futuristic science-fiction-based imagery.

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# Vincent Villafranca

**Vincent Villafranca** (born January 25, 1969) is an American sculptor. He creates bronze sculptures ranging from traditional wildlife imagery to futuristic science-fiction-based imagery.

## Biography

### Early life and education

Villafranca was born January 25, 1969, in Monterey, California and spent his early years in Venezuela, Mexico and Del Rio, Texas. Even at a young age, he used his unique imagination to create works of art out of common items, painting, sketching and creating small sculptures as a child. Much of his early work was influenced by television and film, particularly westerns and science-fiction films. He earned a B.A. in History from Southwest Texas State University in 1994 and apprenticed at Michael Hall's Studio Foundry during his final year of undergraduate studies.

### Career

Villafranca has worked extensively with David Iles of Bolivar Bronze in Bolivar, Texas.

In 2009, he created the physical bronze sculpture used as the Bradbury Award. This award is presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as part of the Nebula Awards ceremony.

In 2013, Villafranca designed and produced the Hugo Awards for the 71st World Science Fiction Convention.

In 2016, the new World Fantasy Award was debuted. Villafranca designed the award and creates the trophies every year. The trophy is that of a leafless tree in front of a full moon and replaced the bust of H. P. Lovecraft whose rampant racism made many uncomfortable. World Fantasy decided a new award would honor the winners and Villafranca's design was chosen as the new trophy.

### Marriage and children

Villafranca and Michelle Mitchell were married in Hays, Texas.

## Awards

* 2006: Best 3-D Art, World Fantasy Convention, "The Poacher's Nightmare"
* 2007: Body of Work, World Fantasy Convention
* 2008: Chesley Award, Best 3-D Art, "A Conscious Entity & Its Maker"
* 2008: Jurors' Award, World Science Fiction Convention, "The Celestial Itinerant"
* 2009: Chesley Award, Best 3-D Art, "Otherworldly Procession" (Bronze)
* 2010: Chesley Award, Best 3-D Art, "The Switching Hour"
* 2012: Chesley Award, Best 3-D Art, "Robo-Bike"

## InfoBox

| Vincent Villafranca | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | (1969-01-25) January 25, 1969<br>Monterey, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Southwest Texas State University |
| Known for | Sculpture |


title: Vincent Virga

abstract: Vincent Virga is a gay American-born editor and writer. He is the author of the novels Gaywyck (1980), A Comfortable Corner (1982), and Vadriel Vail (2001). His life partner since 1964 is fellow writer James McCourt. McCourt's and Virga's papers are held at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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# Vincent Virga

**Vincent Virga** (born September 28, 1942) is a gay American-born editor and writer. He is the author of the novels *Gaywyck* (1980), *A Comfortable Corner* (1982), and *Vadriel Vail* (2001). His life partner since 1964 is fellow writer James McCourt. McCourt's and Virga's papers are held at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

## Life

Vincent Virga was born and grew up in New York City. In 1952 the family moved to Lindenhurst, New York.

Virga attended St. Bonaventure University, (B.A., 1964) and Yale University (1964-1965). In 1964 at Yale he met fellow student James McCourt, who was to become his life partner. They were both enrolled in the acting program at Yale School of Drama, but Virga was not happy with the teaching at Yale, and therefore he and McCourt left to explore the theater scene in London. They lived in London from 1964 to 1967 and again from 1969 to 1971, both doing odd-jobs. Virga first job was as a typesetter at *The New York Review of Books*.

Virga and McCourt moved to New York City in the 1970s, where they currently live, in the same apartment they have rented since that time. They also spend time in Washington, D.C. (for Virga's work at the Library of Congress), and Ireland (where Virga has the role of United States Representative of the Jackie Clarke Collection in Ballina, County Mayo).

Vincent Virga was a friend of Susan Sontag (whom he met while working as a typesetter at *The New York Review of Books*) and poet James Schuyler. *Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations* (2007) is dedicated to Sontag, McCourt and Victoria de los Angeles, a friend of both McCourt and Virga.

## Work

Vincent Virga’s first novel, *Gaywyck* (1980), was also the first gay gothic romance ever published. *Vadriel Vail* (2001, nominated 14th Lambda Literary Awards) and *Children of Paradise* (2010) are the second and third books in the series of *Gaywyck*. *A Comfortable Corner* (1982) is a contemporary novel dealing with the issue of alcoholism in the gay community.

Virga is also an expert on cartography, and has a close collaboration with the Library of Congress. His researches on cartography have been published by the Library of Congress since the beginning of the 2000s.

Other than publishing his own work, since 1973 Virga is a photo editor and consultant for other authors. He has researched the picture sections of more than 150 books, including the biography of John Wayne, Jane Fonda, Arianna Huffington Stassinopoulos, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton.

## Bibliography

**Fiction**

* *Gaywyck* (1980)
* *A Comfortable Corner* (1982)
* *Theatricals* (1987)
* *Vadriel Vail--Gaywyck II* (2001)
* *Early Ripe* (2003)
* *Herald Angel* (2006)
* *Children of Paradise--Gaywyck III* (2010)
* *Three* (2015)
* *Nightsong* (2017)

**Nonfiction**

* *Deals* (1981), with Cheryl Moch
* *Summer* (1990), with Alice Gordon
* *Eisenhower* (1991), with Michael Beschloss
* *The Eighties* (1992), with foreword by Richard Rhodes
* *Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States* (1997), with The Library of Congress and Alan Brinkley
* *The American Civil War: 365 Days* (2005), with Margaret Wagner and The Library of Congress, Introduction by Gary Gallagher
* *Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations* (2007), with The Library of Congress and Introduction by Ronald E. Grim
* *Historic Maps and Views of New York* (2008)
* *Connecticut: Mapping the Nutmeg State through History* (2009), with Diana Ross McCain
* *Colorado: Mapping the Centennial State through History* (2009), with Stephen Grace
* *California: Mapping the Golden State through History* (2009), with Ray Jones
* *Texas: Mapping the Lone Star State through History* (2010), with Don Blevins
* *Massachusetts: Mapping the Bay State through History* (2010), with Dan Spinella
* *Illinois: Mapping the Prairie State through History* (2010), with Scotti Cohn
* *Florida: Mapping the Sunshine State through History* (2010), with E. Lynne Wright
* *Virginia: Mapping the Old Dominion State through History* (2011), with Emilee Hines
* *Mapping Ireland* (2012), with Sinead McCoole
* *Civil War Sketch Book: Drawings From The Battlefront* (2012), with Harry Katz, Preface by Alan Brinkley

**Photo editing** (not inclusive list)

* Allen, Margaret. *Selling Dreams: Inside the Beauty Business*
* Ambrose, Stephen. *Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1963-1990*
* Andersen, Christopher. *The Serpent's Tooth: A Family Story of Greed, Vengeance, and Multiple Murder*
* Balinger, Bill. *The Lost City of Stone: The Story of Nan Madol, The Atlantis of the Pacific*
* Barrett, Wayne. *Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth*
* Barrett, Wayne. *Trump: The Deals and the Downfall*
* Barry, Stephen. *Royal Service: My Twelve Years as Valet to Prince Charles*
* Bass, Jack. *Unlikely Heroes: The Implementation of the Brown Decision in the South by Southern Federal Judges*
* Bender, Marilyn & Selig Altshul. *The Chosen Instrument: Pan Am, Juan Trippe, The Rise and Fall of an American Entrepreneur*
* Bernstein, Leonard. *Findings: Fifty Years of Meditations on Music*
* Beschloss, Michael. *The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963*
* Biddle, Wayne. *Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare*
* Birmingham, Stephen. *California Rich*
* Birmingham, Stephen. *The Grandes Dames: From the Gilded Age to Modern Times*
* Bradley, Omar. *A General's Life*
* Brill, Stephen. *The Teamsters*
* Brynner, Rock. *Yul: The Man Who Would Be King*
* Burrough, Bryan & John Helyar. *Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco*
* Califano, Jr., Joseph A. *Governing America, A Memoir*
* Caute, David. *The Year of the Barricades: A Journey Through 1968*
* Chaney, Lindsay & Cieply Chaney. *The Hearsts*
* Chesler, Phyllis. *About Men*
* Clarke, Gerald. *Capote, A Biography*
* Clinton, Bill. *My Life*
* Clinton, Hillary Rodham. *Living History, An Autobiography*
* Clinton, Hillary Rodham. *It Takes a Village (Tenth Anniversary Edition)*
* Cohen, William & George Mitchell. *Men of Zeal: The Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings*
* Cohen, Marcia. *The Sisterhood; The Inside Story of the Women's Movement*
* Colby, William. *Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA*
* Collins, Joan. *Past Imperfect: An Autobiography*
* Cooke, Hope. *Time Change, An Autobiography*
* Cronkite, Walter. *A Reporter's Life*
* Davidson, Frank. *Macro: Big is Beautiful*
* Davis, Miles & Quincy Troupe. *Miles: The Autobiography*
* Dean, John. *Blind Ambition*
* Delderfield, R. F. *Napoleon in Love*
* Donahue, Phil. *Donaghue: My Own Story*
* Douglas, Kirk. *The Ragman's Son, An Autobiography*
* Dryer, Peter. *Martyrs and Fanatics: South Africa and Human Destinies*
* Dubinsky, David. *A Reporter's Memoir*
* Duke, Pony & Jason Thomas. *Too Rich: The Family Secrets of Doris Duke*
* Dunne, Gerald. *Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution*
* Durant, Will & Ariel. *Will and Ariel Durant: A Dual Autobiography*
* Edwards, Anne. *Vivien Leigh, A Biography*
* Edwards, Anne. *Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy*
* Ehrlichman, John. *Witness to Power*
* Eisenhower, Julie Nixon. *Special People*
* Eisenhower, Julie Nixon. *Pat Nixon: The Untold Story*
* Fairchild, John. *Chic Savages*
* Falwell, Jerry. *Strength for the Journey*
* Farnan, Dorothy. *Auden in Love*
* Flamini, Roland. *Ava: A Biography of Ava Gardner*
* Flippo, Chet. *Your Cheatin' Heart: A Biography of Hank Williams*
* Flexner, Stuart. *Listening to America*
* Follett, Ken. *On Wings of Eagles*
* Fonda, Jane. *Jane Fonda's Workout Book*
* Fonda, Jane. *Jane Fonda's New Workout Book*
* Fonda, Jane. *Women Coming of Age*
* Ford, Daniel. *Cult of the Atom*
* Fried, Stephen. *Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia*
* Friedrich, Otto. *Clover: The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams*
* Gaylin, Willard. *The Killing of Bonnie Garland*
* Givner, Joan. *Katherine Anne Porter: A Life*
* Gorgakas, Dan. *The Methuselah Factor*
* Green, Michelle. *The Dream at the End of the World: Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier*
* Gretsky, Wayne & Rick Reilly. *Gretsky: An Autobiography*
* Griffin, Merv. *Merv: Making the Good Life Last*
* Gronowicz, Antoni. *Garbo: Her Story*
* Grunwald, Lisa & Stephen Adler. *American Women's Letters*
* Grunwald, Lisa & Stephen Adler. *Letters of the Century*
* Harman, Nicholas. *Dunkirk, The Necessary Myth*
* Harris, Jay. *TV Guide; The First 2 Years*
* Hastings, Max. *The Korean War*
* Heilbrun, Carolyn. *Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem*
* Houseman, John. *Final Dress, An Autobiography*
* Houseman, John. *Front and Center, An Autobiography*
* Houseman, John, *Run-Through, An Autobiography*
* Hovig, Thomas. *The Search for Tutankhamun*
* Judis, John. *William F. Buckley, Jr., A Biography*
* Judson, Horace. *The Eighth Day of Creation*
* Kaplan, Justin. *Walt Whitman: A Life*
* Kelley, Kitty. *Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star*
* Kelley, Kitty. *Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography*
* Kelley, Kitty. *The Royals: The British Royal Family*
* Kennedy, Edward. *Our Day and Celebration*
* Kinney, Jean. *An American Journey: The Short Life of Willy Wolfe*
* Koch, Ed. *Mayor*
* Koch, Ed. *Politics*
* Korda, Michael. *Success: How Every Man and Woman Can Achieve It*
* Languth, A.J. *Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro*
* Laqueur, William. *Breaking The Silence: The Germans who Exposed The Final Solution*
* Leamer, Barbara. *Polanski: The Filmmaker As Voyeur, A Biography*
* Leamer, Laurence. *Ascent: The Physical and Spiritual Quest of Legendary Mountaineer Willi Unsoeld*
* Leamer, Laurence. *Make Believe: The Story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan*
* Lessard, Suzannah. *The Architect Of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family*
* Lindsey, Robert. *The Falcon and the Snowman*
* Lindsey, Robert. *A Gathering Of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder, and Deceit*
* Long, Jeff. *Outlaw: The True Story of Claude Dallas*
* Manso, Peter. *Mailer: His Life and Times*
* Matthews, Christopher. *Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit*
* Matthews, Christopher. *Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero*
* McCourt, James. *Queer Street*
* Merman, Ethel. *Merman*
* Michaud, Stephen & Hugh Aynsworth. *The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy*
* Milford, Nancy. *Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay*
* Millett, Kate. *The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice*
* Moore, Honor. *The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter*
* Morgan, Kay Summersby. *Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower*
* Morgan, Ted. *Maugham, A Biography*
* Morgan, Ted. *Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915*
* Morrisroe, Patricia. *Mapplethorpe, A Biography*
* Munro, Eleanor. *American Women Artists*
* Murphy, Patrick. *Commissioner*
* Muse, Vance. *Garbo Walking*
* Neff, Donald. *Warriors at Suez*
* Newfield, Jack & Wayne Barrett. *City For Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York*
* North, Oliver. *Under Fire: An American Story*
* Olivier, Laurence. *Laurence Olivier: Confessions of an Actor*
* Olivier, Laurence. *Laurence Olivier: On Acting*
* O'Neill, William. *A Better World: Stalinism and the American Intellectuals*
* Oppenheimer, Jerry. *State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton*
* Oppenheimer, Jerry. *Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon*
* Pakula, Hannah. *The Last Romantic: A Biography of Marie Queen of Roumania*
* Pearl, Minnie. *Minnie Pearl, An Autobiography*
* Persico, Joseph. *The Imperial Rockefeller*
* Picon, Molly. *Molly by Molly*
* Quayle, Dan. *Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir*
* Reston,Jr., James. *The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally*
* Rhodes, Richard. *The Making of the Atomic Bomb*
* Robinson, Archie. *George Meany and His Times*
* Robinson, Roxana. *Georgia O'keeffe: A Life*
* Rollins, Ed, & Tom DeFrank. *Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics*
* Rooney, Andy. *A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney*
* Root, Waverly. *Food: An Authoritative and Visual History and Dictionary of the Foods of the World*
* Schickel, Richard. *D.W. Griffith: An American Life*
* Sculley, John. *Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple*
* Sharon, Ariel. *Warrior, An Autobiography*
* Shawcross, William. *Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia*
* Sheehy, Gail. *The Man who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail Gorbachev*
* Siegel, Richard. *The Jewish Almanac*
* Smith, Richard Norton. *Thomas E. Dewey and His Times*
* Stassinopoulos, Arianna. *Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend*
* Stassinopoulos, Arianna Huffington. *Picasso: Creator and Destroyer*
* Stewart, James B. *Den of Thieves*
* Stockman, David. *The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed*
* Thomas, Bob. *Joan Crawford, A Biography*
* Thomas, Evan. *The Man to See: Edward Bennett Williams*
* Tyler, Patrick. *Running Critical: The Silent War, Rickover, and General Dynamics*
* Vadim, Roger. *Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda: My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World*
* Van der Vat, Dan. *The Pacific Campaign*
* Viorst, Milton. *Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s*
* Wagner-Martin, Linda. *Sylvia Plath, A Biography*
* Wallachinsky, David & Amy Wallace. *The Book Of Lists*
* Wallachinsky, David & Amy Wallace. *The People's Almanac 2*
* Watt, Richard. *Bitter Glory: History of Poland*
* Wayne, John. *America, Why I Love Her*
* Westin, Av. *Newswatch*
* Wilkins, Roger. *A Man's Life, An Autobiography*
* Winters, Shelley. *Shelley II*
* Wolfe, Linda. *Wasted: The Preppie Murder*
* Wolfe, Linda. *Double Life*
* Wyden, Peter. *Bay Of Pigs*
* Wynette, Tammy. *Stand by your Man, An Autobiography*

## InfoBox

| Vincent Virga | |
| --- | --- |
| "The central photo was taken by Laura Rubin a long time ago, and the ones on the far right were taken even longer ago: Jimmy McCourt in Central Park the summer before we met at Yale in '64 and me getting on a boat in Amsterdam in '65." Vincent Virga | |
| Born | (1942-09-28) September 28, 1942
New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | * Editor * writer |
| Education | St. Bonaventure University (BA)
Yale School of Drama |
| Partner | James McCourt |


title: Victoria HarbourCats

abstract: The Victoria HarbourCats are a summer-collegiate baseball team located in Victoria, British Columbia. The HarbourCats play in the West Coast League (WCL), a collegiate summer baseball league. The team's home games are played at Victoria's Royal Athletic Park. The HarbourCats were founded in 2012 as an expansion team. On October 12, 2012, the team announced it would be called the HarbourCats after a public naming contest was held that received more than 600 submissions.

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# Victoria HarbourCats

The **Victoria HarbourCats** are a summer-collegiate baseball team located in Victoria, British Columbia. The HarbourCats play in the West Coast League (WCL), a collegiate summer baseball league. The team's home games are played at Victoria's Royal Athletic Park.

The HarbourCats were founded in 2012 as an expansion team. On October 12, 2012, the team announced it would be called the HarbourCats after a public naming contest was held that received more than 600 submissions.

## History

### 2013

The Victoria HarbourCats entered the league with play in the 2013 season and went 22–32, missing the playoffs. A total of 38,793 fans attended home games.

### 2014

The Victoria HarbourCats went 25–29 in their 2nd season of play in the WCL. Victoria set the record for the most at-bats by a whole team having 1937 at bats in just one season. Victoria drew 45,571 fans through the gates in 30 home games, averaging about 1,576 fans a night. This put Victoria first in WCL attendance in the 2014 season.

### 2015

The HarbourCats went 29–24 in their 3rd season of play in the WCL. Victoria led the league with a team total of 36 home runs on the season. Victoria drew 49,647 fans through the gates in 26 home games, averaging 1,910 fans a night, a mark which led the West Coast League in attendance for the second straight season.

### 2016

The HarbourCats set a WCL record for wins in a single season, finishing with a 40-14 regular season mark. They won the WCL's North Division First Half Pennant with a 23–4 record, qualifying for the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, and the first time for a Victoria-based baseball team since 1954. The pennant was clinched in Victoria on June 30 in front of a WCL-record crowd of 5,133. Between June 5 and July 1, the team won a WCL-record 19 consecutive games. Attendance increased for the fourth straight year to an average of 2,239 per game, which ranked ninth in North America among summer league clubs.

### 2017

The HarbourCats finished 29-25 and reached the playoffs for the second consecutive season, winning the WCL's North Division Second Half Pennant on the season's final day. They would go on to win the franchise's first-ever playoff game and series over the Kelowna Falcons, qualifying for their first-ever WCL Championship Series, where they would fall in three games to the Corvallis Knights.

### 2018

The HarbourCats finished 27-27 and failed to reach the playoffs. With an attendance of 3,076 at their final home game, the HarbourCats beat their own WCL attendance regular-season attendance of 60,466, by welcoming a total of 62,599 fans through the gates of Wilson's Group Stadium in 2018.

### 2019

The HarbourCats 2019 regular season, their seventh, began in June 2019. On July 7, 2019, the team qualified for the playoffs, their third playoff appearance in franchise history. The team beat the Wenatchee AppleSox 2–1 in games in the northern division series, and advanced to the WCL championship final series versus the Corvallis Knights, but lost that series 2–1 in games.

### 2020

The HarbourCats 2020 regular season, their eighth, was scheduled to begin at home on June 5, 2020. The worldwide COVID-19 crisis forced the cancellation of the 2020 WCL season.

### 2023

On July 17th, Tyler Davis (Fresno State) was named player of the week.

### 2024

On July 9th, Carson Cormier and Tate Shimao were selected to represent the HarbourCats in the 2024 All Star Game in Bellingham.

The HarbourCats made the playoffs for the fourth straight season as a wildcard. The HarbourCats faced the AppleSox in the Divisional Series for the second year in a row. The HarbourCats would win game one 4-2 in Victoria, but would lose games two and three in Wenatchee.

## Results by Season

| Season | League | Division | Finish | Wins | Losses | Win% | GB | Postseason | Manager |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2013 |
| WCL | North | 4th | 22 | 32 | .407 | 9.5 | Did Not Qualify | Dennis Rodgers |
| 2014 | WCL | West | 2nd | 25 | 29 | .463 | 12 | Did Not Qualify | Bob Miller |
| 2015 | WCL | West | 2nd | 29 | 24 | .547 | 3.5 | Did Not Qualify | Graig Merritt |
|
| 2016 | WCL | North | 1st | 40 | 14 | .741 | - | Lost Division Series 0-2 (Bells) | Graig Merritt |
| 2017 | WCL | North | 3rd | 29 | 25 | .537 | 2 | Won Division Series 2-0 (Falcons)
Lost Championship Series 1-2 (Knights) | Brian McRae |
| 2018 | WCL | North | 3rd | 27 | 27 | .500 | 8 | Did Not Qualify | Brian McRae |
| 2019 | WCL | North | 1st | 39 | 15 | .722 | - | Won Division Series 2-1 (AppleSox)
Lost Championship Series 1-2 (Knights) | Todd Haney |
| 2020 | *Season cancelles (COVID-19)* | | | | | | | | |
| 2021 | *Season cancelles (COVID-19)* | | | | | | | | |
| 2022 | WCL | North | 4th | 26 | 28 | .481 | 7.5 | Lost North Divisional Series 0-2 (Bells) | Todd Haney |
| 2023 | WCL | North | 1st | 38 | 15 | .717 | 0 | Won North Divisional Series 2-0 (AppleSox)
Won North Division Championship Game 7-6 (Bells)
Lost WCL Championship Game 0-5 (at Knights) | Todd Haney |
| 2024 | WCL | North | 4th | 29 | 25 | .537 | 5.5 | Lost North Divisional Series 1-2 (AppleSox) | Todd Haney |

| **League Champions** | **Division Champions** | **Playoff Team** |
| --- | --- | --- |

## Playoff Appearances

* **2016** WCL North Division First Half Champions
* **2017** WCL North Division Second Half Champions
* **2019** WCL North Division Champions, WCL North Division Second Half Champions, WCL North Division First Half Champions
* **2022**
* **2023** WCL North Division Champions, WCL North Division Second Half Champions
* **2024**

## Ownership

Founder and original owner John McLean, who had changed GMs with Holly Jones leaving and Jim Swanson coming in, would lose the team in a civil claim, part of a larger lawsuit involving his other interests, in BC Supreme Court in the Fall 2014, taken over by the Bhootan Group, led by Matthew Stoudt. Bhootan would then sell the team to local ownership led by John Wilson, Jim Swanson, Ken Swanson and Rich Harder, who took care of local debts.

In February 2019, team ownership announced plans to operate an additional WCL team in the Nanaimo market, playing out of Serauxmen Stadium, in 2021. Lights and other stadium upgrades are expected to be completed before the new team can play.

## Notable alumni

On April 30, 2017, Nick Pivetta became the first former HarbourCats player to reach the major leagues when the right-hander started for the Philadelphia Phillies against the Washington Nationals. Following 2017, 40 HarbourCats players have been selected in the MLB draft. As of 2017, 14 were playing in an MLB team's organization. In the early part of the 2021 season, two former HarbourCats made their debuts - Alex De Goti for the Houston Astros and Andrew Vaughn for the Chicago White Sox. Opening Day 2023, 2014 Harbourcat Nathan Lukes made his debut.

Listed below are all former HarbourCats players who have played in a Major League Baseball game, alongside the season(s) in which they played for the HarbourCats:

## InfoBox

| Victoria HarbourCats | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Information | |
| League | West Coast League (West) |
| Location | Victoria, British Columbia |
| Ballpark | Royal Athletic Park (capacity 2,867 baseball, expandable to 5,200) |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Nickname(s) | "Cats" |
| League championships | 0 |
| Division championships | 3 (2017, 2019, 2023) |
| Colours | Navy blue, aqua blue, white
 |
| Mascot | Harvey the HarbourCat |
| Ownership | Shwing Batter Investment Group (Ken Swanson, Rich Harder, John Wilson, Jim Swanson) |
| Management | Jim Swanson (Managing Partner/GM) |


title: Villa Castelli

abstract: Villa Castelli is a comune in the province of Brindisi in Apulia, on the south-east Italy coast. It is a comune in Salento, the borderline with Itria Valley. Its main economic activities are tourism and the growing of olives and grapes.

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# Villa Castelli

**Villa Castelli** is a *comune* in the province of Brindisi in Apulia, on the south-east Italy coast. It is a comune in Salento, the borderline with Itria Valley. Its main economic activities are tourism and the growing of olives and grapes.

## Main sights

The main attractions are the Castle (or Ducal Palace) and the church of Immacolata. The castle was built by the Orsini del Balzo in the Middle Ages but was already in ruins in the 15th century. In the 17th century the Emperor bought it and turned it into a fortress, and later it was further expanded by the Ungaro. The church was built in the 10th century in an eclectic style, with both Gothic and Romanesque features.

The countryside around is home to numerous prehistoric trulli.

## Twin towns

## InfoBox

| Villa Castelli | |
| --- | --- |
| *Comune* | |
| Comune di Villa Castelli | |
|  | |
| Location of Villa Castelli | |
| Villa CastelliLocation of Villa Castelli in ItalyVilla CastelliVilla Castelli (Apulia) | |
| Coordinates: 40°35′N 17°29′E / 40.583°N 17.483°E / 40.583; 17.483 | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Apulia |
| Province | Brindisi (BR) |
| *Frazioni* | Monte Scotano, Pezza Petrosa, Antoglia, Lamie della Battaglia, Monte Fellone, Pezza delle Monache Centrale |
| Government | |
| Mayor | Giovanni Barletta (Diventerà bellissima) |
| Area | |
| Total | 35.15 km2 (13.57 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 251 m (823 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 325 m (1,066 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 149 m (489 ft) |
| Population (30 May 2017) | |
| Total | 10,640 |
| Density | 300/km2 (780/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Castellano |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 72029 |
| Dialing code | 0831 |
| Saint day | 3 October |
| Website | Official website |


title: Villa Cavrois

abstract: Villa Cavrois in Croix is a large modernist mansion built in 1932 by French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens for Paul Cavrois, an industrialist from Roubaix active in the textile industry.

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# Villa Cavrois

**Villa Cavrois** in Croix is a large modernist mansion built in 1932 by French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens for Paul Cavrois, an industrialist from Roubaix active in the textile industry.

## Context and genesis of the project

Paul Cavrois (1890-1965) was a textile industrialist from northern France who owned modern factories for spinning, weaving and dyeing cotton and wool. In the early 1920s he bought a site located on the hill of Beaumont, in Croix, not far from his factories situated in Roubaix, in order to build a mansion able to receive his family of 7 children and the servants.

Originally the architect and town-planner Jacques Greber was charged with the project, who suggested a house in the regionalist style, in vogue at that period. Finally Paul Cavrois turned to Robert Mallet-Stevens after he met him in 1925 at the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris.The owners gave the architect free rein on the project, and, for the first time in his career, Mallet-Stevens was responsible for the entire work, down to the last details. The villa is conceived by the architect as a total artwork and it represents the outcome of his technical and aesthetic reflections. The villa was inaugurated on 5 July 1932, for the wedding of Geneviève Cavrois, the eldest daughter of the couple Cavrois, after 3 years of work.

At the completion of the work the villa was astonishing for its bravery and modernity, and its style was a total break from that of other neighbouring houses in the suburb of Croix, even those of the same era. Clear guidelines governed the design of the building, which was commissioned in 1929, included: "air, light, work, sports, hygiene, comfort and efficiency".

## Decline and acquisition by the state

During the second world war the Cavrois family left the North region to take refuge in their manor in Normandy. The villa was occupied by German troops who turned it into a barracks able to receive 200 soldiers. The Cavrois family returned to their house after the war, when, in 1947, Paul Cavrois asked Pierre Barbe to modify the villa in order to create two apartments to house the families of their sons Paul and Francis. In this way two independent habitations were created in the west wing of the building while Paul and Lucie continued to live in the east section of the villa.

The Cavrois resided in the villa until the death of Lucie Cavrois in 1985: in the same year the sons sold the furniture of the villa in an auction. In 1987 the villa was sold to a real estate company who wanted to demolish it and divide the land into plots. However, the villa was abandoned and quickly looted, ransacked and occupied by squatters. In 1990, the property and grounds were classified as an historic monument by decree of the Conseil d'État. That same year saw the birth of an association to protect and preserve the house. Since its inception the association has lobbied the state authorities concerning the fate of the villa.\[1\] The French State, through its Ministry of Culture, purchased the building in 2001, and, in 2004, restoration work commenced on the exterior and the reinstatement of the internal features.

On December 18, 2008, the Ministry of Culture entrusted villa Cavrois to Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN), with the purpose of restoring it and opening it to the public. CMN conducted the restoration of the interior spaces and decor (floors, wall coverings, paintwork, furniture), in order to recreate, as closely as possible, the condition of the building in the 1930s. One room on the upper floor was intentionally left untouched to show the extent of the damage that was done in the decades before. CMN has also restored the gardens (replantation of trees, restoration of the water features and the original alleys) and the illumination of the park and the villa. The villa opened to the public on 13 June 2015.

## A modern concept

The Villa Cavrois is a masterpiece of modern architecture and a unique example in the North of France. The villa is 60 meters long, it has 3800 m2 including 1840 m2 habitables and 830 m2 of terraces and a garden of 17600 m2 (originally 5 ha). The Villa Cavrois is a testimony to the modernist vision of the 1920s as it was conceived by designers such as Le Corbusier, Pierre Chareau and the Bauhaus school. Luminosity, hygiene and comfort are the keywords that underlie such buildings. Villa Cavrois illustrates this concept with simplicity and elegance.

The large modern mansion was organized to offer the best possible lifestyle to the nine members of the family and to facilitate the daily work of the household staff. Mallet-Stevens' work was not limited to the design of the building. He also designed the interior decoration and the gardens which surround the house.

The choice of materials (concrete ceiling, metal, steel, glass, green Swedish marble in the main dining room, yellow Siena marble in the fireplace alcove of the hall-salon, parquets of oak, iroko, zebrawood, Cuban mahogany) and the furniture of the rooms echoed the hierarchy of space: everything was conceived and adapted for use in place. Simplicity and functionality of the furniture prevail in all parts. The luxury of this house does not lie in carved detailing or gilding, it unfolds in the richness of the materials used, such as unadorned marble, metal and wood.

The Villa Cavrois provided for its occupants a large number of amenities especially rare for the time, even in luxury houses. Use of the latest modern technology, especially electricity meant each room was provided with electric lighting, a radio loudspeaker, an electric clock and telephones enabled people to communicate between rooms or with the outside world. The villa was equipped with a modern boiler room and a wine cellar. The water system provided hot and cold water, as well as softened water for cooking and drinking. Lighting was the object of special care. The lighting, both direct and indirect, is very delicate and elegant. In collaboration with the lighting engineer André Salomon, Mallet-Stevens conceived an indirect lighting which fit in the architecture and he has provided most of the rooms of the villa of a lighting device system which direct the light towards the ceiling to obtain an unchanging light closer at the natural one. Hygiene was very important in the conception of the Villa Cavrois, as it is shown by the clinical aspect of the kitchen (metal and white paint) and also by the presence of a swimming pool of 27 metres long and 4 metres depth at the diving boards.

## Visiting the Villa Cavrois

The entrance of the estate is situated in the north-west corner of the terrain, displaced in relation to the main facade of the building. A round driveway enabled the cars to reach the garage, located in the caretaker's lodge, without having to manoeuvre. The villa introduce itself as yellow brick shell and it is the only realisation of Mallet-Stevens to have a similar frame. The French firm Bonzel produced twenty-six moulds of different form in order to make bricks capables to cover the diverse areas of the villa. The source of inspiration of this brick is the town hall of Hilversum, in the Netherlands, realized by the architect Willem Marinus Dudok. If the aesthetic canon of the villa is resolutely modern (large glass windows, flat-roofs, total absence of decoration, purity of lines), its plan is in line with the French tradition of the 17th- and 18-century châteaux: two symmetrical wings (the parents' wing and the children and household staff wing) evolve around the central corp of the villa, constituted by the vestibule and the hall salon. The plan of the villa is designed to facilitate the displacements and to organise the domestic life in a rational way. In the ground floor, the vestibule is a vast room used to distribute the spaces. The black door that opens to the hall-salon is framed by a pair of light boxes which look like those that Mallet-Stevens designed for the set of Marcel L'Herbier's movie Le Vertige. The hall-salon is a big double-height cubic room with a large glass window overlooking the park. The floor is covered with parquet and the walls are painted green. On the east side is situated the fireplace alcove wrapped in yellow Siena marble and set up with leather banquettes. Thanks to a sliding door situated on the west side one can reach the parents' dining room, which is characterised by the walls and the floor in green Swedish marble and the black lacquered pear wood furniture. Adjoining to the parents' dining room, the children's dining room is furnished with a table and six chairs in zebrawood (originals). This room has an independent access to the garden thanks to the exterior corkscrew stairs. from the two dining rooms one can gain access to the pantry and the kitchen. This spaces demonstrate the importance of hygiene in the conception of a modern house by Robert Mallet-Stevens as it is shown by the presence of a metal furniture, easy to clean, the black-and-white chequerboard floor and the walls covered with white tiles bringing additional luminosity. Still in the ground-floor, in the east wing, Paul Cavrois' study, furnished with varnished natural pear wood, give access to the smoking-room, a little circular room calling to mind a cabin of a liner that is provided with a cigar and alcohol cabinet in natural Cuban mahogany and leather bench seats. The east end of the ground-floor is occupied by the two young men's rooms, one with an intense and living polychromy of the walls, a tribute to the Dutch artistic movement De Stijl, and the other one with the walls painted in different shades of yellow and the furniture in black-and-white ceruse oak wood.

One can reach the first floor by the monumental staircase, built into the belvedere tower, with white marble steps and black marble risers. the west wing is reserved to the children and the governess's rooms while the east wing house the parental suite. In the children's wing, the boys' room has not be restored to show the condition of the villa before the restoration work. In the parents' wing, the master bedroom presents itself with a furniture in palm wood and the walls painted beige, which give it elegance et refinement. The boudoir of Lucie Cavrois looks more casual as a result of the blond tone of the furnitures in sycamore, the walls painted in light blue and the navy blue moquette. The master bathroom is a dual-aspect room of around 60 m2. This space is constituted of a part reserved to the dressing, with a black-and-white polka-dot moquette, and a part consecrated to the ablutions (bathtub and shower cabin equipped with water jets) with the floor in white Carrara marble. In this room are presented a barometer and a built-in scale.

The second floor, isolated from the rest of the villa, is constituted by the playroom and the study rooms. The playroom is a huge space with walls in red oilcloth above and aluminium below. From the playroom one can access to the terrace which could turn into a summer dining-room thanks to the dumbwaiter connected with the kitchen. In the basement, the laundry-room is equipped with a mangle, an ironing machine and a drying closet. In this space is displayed the original garden's furniture. Behind the laundry room is the boiler room which accommodates two fuel boilers, one for the heating and the other one for the hot water. The fuel storage tanks are hosted in a separate space in front of the boiler-room. The wine cellar has been converted in a resource center with a large choice of materials presents in the villa and a set original evidences of the villa.

Historian Willem de Bruijn has insisted on the omnipresence of mirrors in Villa Cavrois, believing this reflects Mallet-Stevens’ background as a set designer for films, where mirrors were abundantly used. Through the mirrors, “walls are broken in half” and any “sense of interior stability” is voluntarily broken. De Bruijn also insists on the black mirror found in “the young master’s bedroom on the ground floor,” creating “an impression of darkness and mystery.”

## Literature

## InfoBox

| Villa Cavrois | |
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| A panorama of Villa Cavrois | |
| Location within France | |
| General information | |
| Type | Private house |
| Architectural style | International style |
| Address | 60 Avenue du Président John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Town or city | Croix |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 50°40′00″N 3°09′51″E / 50.666736°N 3.164053°E / 50.666736; 3.164053 |
| Construction started | 1929 |
| Completed | 1932 |
| Renovated | 2015 |
| Client | Paul Cavrois |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Robert Mallet-Stevens |
| Website | |
| www.villa-cavrois.fr/en | |


title: Viljo Nousiainen

abstract: Viljo Nousiainen was a Finnish athletics coach.

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# Viljo Nousiainen

**Viljo Nousiainen** (9 March 1944 – 11 June 1999) was a Finnish athletics coach.

## Career

Nousiainen was born in Kiuruvesi. As an athletics coach, he specialized in training jumpers for Örgryte IS Sports Club in Gothenburg during the 1970s. He is best known as the coach and stepfather of Swedish world record high jumper Patrik Sjöberg. His other noted trainees were high jumpers Yannick Tregaro and Stefan Holm and triple jumper Christian Olsson. He died in Gothenburg, Sweden.

## Scandal

In April 2011, Sjöberg and Tregaro revealed they had been sexually molested as children by Nousiainen. Sjöberg recounted Nousiainen's abuse in his biography *Det du inte såg* (*"What you didn't see"*). In 2009, Norwegian athlete Christian Skaar Thomassen, contacted his friend Sjöberg and told him that Nousiainen had also molested him when he was 11 years old. That conversation was the starting point for the book.


title: Vijaya Tahilramani

abstract: Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani is a former Indian judge and prosecutor, who last served as the chief justice of the Madras High Court. Previously, as a judge of the Bombay High Court, she notably upheld the conviction of several persons for the rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during the 2002 Gujarat riots, chastising investigative authorities for their inaction in the matter, and also refused parole for those convicted in the 1993 Bombay bombings. She retired in 2019, after refusing to accept a controversial transfer from the Madras High Court to the Meghalaya High Court.

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# Vijaya Tahilramani

**Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani** (born 3 October 1958) is a former Indian judge and prosecutor, who last served as the chief justice of the Madras High Court. Previously, as a judge of the Bombay High Court, she notably upheld the conviction of several persons for the rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during the 2002 Gujarat riots, chastising investigative authorities for their inaction in the matter, and also refused parole for those convicted in the 1993 Bombay bombings. She retired in 2019, after refusing to accept a controversial transfer from the Madras High Court to the Meghalaya High Court.

## Career

### Judicial appointments and judgments

Tahilramani joined the Bar in 1982, enrolling with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa. She practiced law in the Mumbai City Civil, Sessions, and High Court, working on criminal and civil matters, and also taught criminal law at K.C. Law College in Mumbai between 1987 and 1993. In 1990, she was appointed a government pleader and public prosecutor, initially serving in sessions courts and later in the Bombay High Court.

On 26 June 2001, Tahilramani was appointed a judge of the Bombay High Court, and in 2015, she briefly served as the acting chief justice of the Bombay High Court after Justice Mohit Shah retired. On 5 December 2017, she became acting chief justice for the Bombay High Court once again, succeeding Justice Manjula Chellur. During her tenure at the Bombay High Court, Tahilramani notably rejected appeals and affirmed the conviction of persons accused in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case, in which a 19 year old pregnant Muslim woman was gang-raped during the 2002 Gujarat riots. While granting compensation to the victim, Tahilramani's judgment also noted significant lapses by the police and investigative authorities in recording and investigating the crime. In 2018, Tahilramani also declined a request from Devendra Fadnavis, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and then the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, to head an inquiry into the 2018 Bhima Koregaon incident, on the grounds that as a sitting judge of the High Court, it would be inappropriate for her to accept the government appointment. She also refused to grant parole to persons convicted in the 1993 Bombay bombings.

On 12 August 2018, Tahilramani was appointed the chief justice of the Madras High Court, succeeding Justice Indira Banerjee. At the Madras High Court, Tahilramani introduced several administrative changes, including the rule that cases concerning contempt of court would be heard only by the judges assigned to hear contempt matters. Notably one such case in which she instructed contempt proceedings to continue was against H. Raja, national secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who had made several allegations against judges of the court after he was denied permission to create a structure for religious worship in a public place.

### Transfer, protests, and resignation

On 28 August 2019, Tahilramani was transferred from the Madras High Court to the Meghalaya High Court by the Supreme Court of India. On 3 September 2019, she requested the collegium to reconsider their decision, but was ordered to undertake the transfer on 6 September 2019. The Supreme Court publicly refused to assign any reasons for the transfer, stating that it was to secure the "better administration of justice." Tahilramani's objections to the transfer occurred at a time when several other High Court judges had also made similar objections to transfers, which were also rejected and became the subject of public protests. Tahilramani, who was due to retire in October 2020, consequently submitted her resignation, declining the transfer. At the time of her resignation, she was only one of two female chief justices in constitutional courts in India. Tahilramani's transfer was met with widespread protests, and the Madras High Court Advocates' Association announced that they would be boycotting court proceedings for one day to object. The president of the association stated that Tahilramani had been "unfairly demoted," describing the unexplained transfer from the larger, established Madras High Court, consisting of 75 judges, to the newer and smaller 3-judge Meghalaya High Court as "undemocratic" Following her retirement, the chairman of the Madras Bar Association, A.R.L. Sundaresan, described the transfer as "shocking," stating that during her tenure as chief justice, Tahilramani had significantly improved the hearing and disposal of pending cases, especially pending criminal appeals. Other bar associations, including the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court Bar Association convened special meetings to pass resolutions condemning the transfer.

Along with protests from bar associations, the transfer was criticized by a number of public figures. *The Hindu* carried an editorial in which they stated that it revealed systemic flaws in judicial administration, especially with the Indian Supreme Court's collegium system. The All India Democratic Women’s Association described the transfer as "vindictive". Dravidar Kazhagam president K. Veeramani stated that Tahilramani's resignation demonstrated "self-respect," calling for a re-evaluation of judicial administration to increase transparency in transfers. Former Supreme Court judge Madan Lokur wrote that the transfer was " ex facie suggestive of humiliation" and praised her decision to resign instead.

In September 2019, the Madras High Court refused to hear a public interest petition filed by an advocate, which called upon the court to refrain from implementing the order transferring Tahilramani, holding petitioner did not have locus standi to challenge the decision.

Following her retirement, Tahilramani declined to accept any post-judicial appointments, or discuss the transfer with the media.

### Allegations of corruption

Although the Supreme Court of India had refused to publicly disclose reasons for Tahilramani's transfer, in September 2019, the *Indian Express* published certain allegations which they reported were the substance of the Supreme Court's reasons for the decision. According to the *Indian Express*, unnamed sources had indicated that there were three reasons for Tahilramani's transfer. According to the *Indian Express*, the Supreme Court had concerns that Tahilramani was allegedly not working for sufficient hours, was allegedly close to local politicians, had allegedly purchased property in Chennai, and further, had dissolved a bench which was refusing to allow the Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate cases concerning the theft of idols in temples in favour of allowing a retired police official to do so. On 25 September 2019, sitting Supreme Court Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, speaking at a public event, stated that transferring judges was not a solution for complaints against them, calling for reforms in judicial transfers.

On 30 September 2019, after Tahilramani's resignation, the Intelligence Bureau submitted a report based on which the then-Supreme Court Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi directed an investigation into Tahilramani for allegations of corruption relating to the purchase of properties and the dissolution of the bench hearing cases concerning idol thefts. In November 2019, media reports indicated that there were ongoing campaigns to raise funds to "reconstitute" this special bench that Tahilramani had dissolved, which resulted in a special investigation by the Madras High Court, as the constitution of benches is the prerogative of the court and cannot be compelled for financial reasons. A public interest petition seeking an investigation into these calls for the reconstitution of the special bench is ongoing.

In a memoir published after his retirement, Justice Gogoi, explained that he took the decision to transfer Tahilramani to a court "where there was less work" after he felt there were credible allegations concerning irregularities, against her.

## Personal life

Tahilramani is of Sindhi heritage.

## InfoBox

| Vijaya Tahilramani | |
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| Chief Justice of the Madras High Court | |
| **In office**
4 August 2018  6 September 2019 | |
| Nominated by | Dipak Misra |
| Appointed by | Ram Nath Kovind |
| Preceded by | Indira Banerjee |
| Succeeded by | Vineet Kothari (acting) |
| Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court | |
| **Acting** | |
| **In office**
5 December 2017  3 August 2018 | |
| Nominated by | Dipak Misra |
| Appointed by | Ram Nath Kovind |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | (1958-10-03) 3 October 1958
Bombay, Bombay State, India |
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title: Viktor Andrén

abstract: Viktor Andrén is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently playing with Almtuna IS of the HockeyAllsvenskan (Allsv).

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# Viktor Andrén

**Viktor Andrén** (born 17 February 1994) is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently playing with Almtuna IS of the HockeyAllsvenskan (Allsv).

## Playing career

Born in Mariestad, Sweden, Andrén played junior hockey, with local team Mariestad BoIS. In 2009–10, he debuted at the under-16 level, playing eight games in the J16 SM. He also competed with a regional all-star team from Västergötland in the annual TV-pucken, an under-15 national tournament. The following season he dressed for 27 U-18 games and moved on to Mariestad BoIS's U20 team. In 2011–12, after impressive performance in the youth ranks, Andrén was promoted to Mariestad BoIS's senior squad where he made his debut in the Swedish Hockeyettan. After a three-year stint at Mariestad BoIS, Andrén signed with Växjö Lakers.

After playing for Växjö Lakers's U20 team for two seasons, Andrén signed with IK Pantern. In 2014–15, Andrén played 33 games for IK Pantern, and became a significant contributor to the team's promotion to the HockeyAllsvenskan. Andrén left IK Pantern after the 2015–16 season, playing 34 games and finishing with a 2.17 GAA and .922 save percentage. In 2016–17, Andrén made his Swedish Hockey League debut.

Andrén played four seasons with the Växjö Lakers before leaving the club out of contract to sign a two-year deal with Brynäs IF on 27 March 2020.

## Career statistics

|  | | |  | Regular season | | | | | | | | |  | Playoffs | | | | | | | |
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| Season | Team | League | | GP | W | L | T/OT | Min | GA | SO | GAA | SV% | | GP | W | L | Min | GA | SO | GAA | SV% |
| 2010–11 | Mariestad BoIS | J20 | | 2 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3.50 | .926 | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 2011–12 | Mariestad BoIS | J20 | | 16 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2.97 | .917 | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 2011–12 | Mariestad BoIS | Div. 1 | | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 5.00 | .898 | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | - |
| 2012–13 | Växjö Lakers | J20 | | 33 | 16 | 17 | 0 |  |  | 1 | 2.98 | .917 | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 2013–14 | Växjö Lakers | J20 | | 40 | 17 | 22 | 0 |  |  | 3 | 3.28 | .919 | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 2014–15 | IK Pantern | Div. 1 | | 31 | 25 | 6 | 0 |  |  | 3 | 1.86 | .925 | | 9 |  |  |  |  |  | 2.55 | .902 |
| 2015–16 | IK Pantern | Allsv | | 34 | 15 | 18 | 0 |  |  | 4 | 2.17 | .922 | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

## Awards and honours

| Award | Year |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SHL | | |
| Le Mat Trophy (Växjö Lakers) | 2018 |  |

## InfoBox

| Viktor Andrén | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Born | (1994-02-17) 17 February 1994
Mariestad, Sweden | | |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | | |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb) | | |
| Position | Goaltender | | |
| Catches | Right | | |
| Allsv team
Former teams | *Almtuna IS*
Växjö Lakers
Brynäs IF | | |
| Playing career | 2011present | | |


title: Villa La Palestine

abstract: Villa La Palestine is a historic mansion in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. It was built from 1902 to 1905 for Pierre Leclerc. It has been listed as an official historical monument since November 16, 1993.

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# Villa La Palestine

**Villa La Palestine** is a historic mansion in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. It was built from 1902 to 1905 for Pierre Leclerc. It has been listed as an official historical monument since November 16, 1993.

43°21′40″N 5°18′45″E / 43.3611°N 5.3126°E / 43.3611; 5.3126

## InfoBox

| Villa La Palestine | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
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| General information | |
| Type | House |
| Address | 126 plage de l'Estaque |
| Town or city | Marseille |
| Country | France |
| Construction started | 1902 |
| Completed | 1905 |


title: Viktor Ajbek

abstract: Viktor Ajbek was a Croatian footballer who played international football for the Croatia national team.

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# Viktor Ajbek

**Viktor Ajbek** (9 September 1920 in Vukovar – 3 February 1993 in Zagreb) was a Croatian footballer who played international football for the Croatia national team.

## Club career

He started playing with the youth side of Vukovar's NK Sloga before moving to top-flight club Concordia Zagreb. He was champion of Croatia with Concordia in 1942.

## International career

With the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia and its respective national team, Ajbek played once for that Croatian team in an October 1942 friendly match against Greece.

## InfoBox

Viktor Ajbek
| Personal information | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Date of birth | (1920-09-09)9 September 1920 | | |
| Place of birth | Vukovar, Kingdom of Serbs,<br>Croats and Slovenes | | |
| Date of death | 3 February 1993(1993-02-03) (aged 72) | | |
| Place of death | Zagreb, Croatia | | |
| Senior career\* | | | |
| Years | **Team** | **Apps** | **(Gls)** |
|  | NK Sloga |  |  |
|  | Concordia Zagreb |  |  |
| International career | | | |
| 1942 | Croatia | 1 | (0) |
| \*Club domestic league appearances and goals | | | |


title: Vincent J. Donehue

abstract: Vincent Julian Donehue was an American director noted mainly for his theater work, with occasional film and television credits.

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# Vincent J. Donehue

**Vincent Julian Donehue** (September 22, 1915  January 17, 1966) was an American director noted mainly for his theater work, with occasional film and television credits.

## Biography

Vincent Donehue was born in Whitehall, New York. He was a graduate of the Christian Brothers Academy and the New York State Teachers' College, now University at Albany, both in Albany, New York. He served in the Army Air Force for 5 years.

His early theatre credits include playing the role of Cinna the Poet in the Mercury Theatre's 1938 touring production of *Caesar*.

His Broadway credits as director include *The Trip to Bountiful* (1953) starring Lillian Gish, Jo Van Fleet and Eva Marie Saint, *The Traveling Lady* (1954) with Kim Stanley, Tennessee Williams' *27 Wagons Full of Cotton* (1955) with Maureen Stapleton, *Sunrise at Campobello* (1958) which won him the Tony Award for Best Direction, the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical *The Sound of Music* (1959) starring Mary Martin, which earned him another Tony nomination, *Daughter of Silence* (1961), *Lord Pengo* (1962) with Charles Boyer and Agnes Moorehead, *Jennie* (1963) with Mary Martin and *Catch Me if You Can*. He also restaged the 1954 Mary Martin *Peter Pan* for television in 1960, the third telecast of the Broadway stage musical.

His film credits include *Lonelyhearts* (1958) with Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan and Myrna Loy and *Sunrise at Campobello* (1960) which won Greer Garson the Golden Globe for Best Actress and several Academy Award nominations. The film was also entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival.

He directed television plays in the 1950s.

He died in New York of Hodgkin's disease, age 50.


title: Viktor Bubanj

abstract: Viktor Bubanj was a Croatian general of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the JNA from 5 January 1970 to his death on 15 October 1972.

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# Viktor Bubanj

**Viktor Bubanj** (3 December 1918 – 15 October 1972) was a Croatian general of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the JNA from 5 January 1970 to his death on 15 October 1972.

## Literature

* Ivetić, Velimir (2000). *Načelnici generalštaba 1876—2000*. Beograd: Novinsko-informativni centar VOJSКA.

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| General
Viktor Bubanj | |
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| Bust of Viktor Bubanj in New Belgrade | |
| Born | 3 December 1918
Fužine (Delnice), Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died | 15 October 1972(1972-10-15) (aged 53)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Buried | Belgrade New Cemetery 44°48′34″N 20°29′14″E / 44.80944°N 20.48722°E / 44.80944; 20.48722 |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Service/branch | Royal Yugoslav Air Force
Yugoslav Partisans
Yugoslav People's Army |
| Years of service | 1940–1941
1941–1972 |
| Rank | Colonel General |
| Commands | Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army (1970–1972) |
| Battles/wars | Invasion of Yugoslavia
World War II in Yugoslavia |
| Awards | Order of the People's Hero (27 November 1953) |
| Spouse(s) | Mira Car |
| Children | 3 |


title: Violetta Schurawlow

abstract: Violetta Schurawlow is a German actress. She appeared in more than ten films since 2012.

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# Violetta Schurawlow

**Violetta Schurawlow** (born 1 March 1986) is a German actress. She appeared in more than ten films since 2012.

## Selected filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2014 | *Everything is Love* | Bianca |  |
| 2014 | *Head Full of Honey* | Nonne |  |
| 2015 | *Half Brothers* | Jenny |  |
| 2017 | *Iceman* | Mitar |  |
| 2017 | *Familiye* | Sila Morgenstern |  |
| 2017 | *Cold Hell* | Özge Dogruol |  |

## InfoBox

| Violetta Schurawlow | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Born | (1986-03-01) 1 March 1986<br>Angren, Uzbekistan, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2012-present |


title: Villa Rural El Palmar

abstract: Villa Rural El Palmar is a village and municipality in Chaco Province in northern Argentina.

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# Villa Rural El Palmar

**Villa Rural El Palmar**  is a village and municipality in Chaco Province in northern Argentina.

26°27′26″S 60°09′46″W / 26.45722°S 60.16278°W / -26.45722; -60.16278

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| Villa Rural El Palmar | |
| --- | --- |
| Municipality and village | |
| Villa Rural El Palmar | |
| Coordinates: 26°27′26″S 60°09′46″W / 26.45722°S 60.16278°W / -26.45722; -60.16278 | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Province | Chaco Province |
| Department | Quitilipi Department |
| Founded | 1940 |
| Elevation | 92 m (302 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| Total | 879 |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (ART) |
| Postal code | 3530 |
| Area code | 03732 |


title: Vincent Ledoux

abstract: Vincent Ledoux is a French politician of Agir who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the 10th constituency of the department of Nord.

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# Vincent Ledoux

**Vincent Ledoux** (born 21 June 1966) is a French politician of Agir who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the 10th constituency of the department of Nord.

## Political career

In the Republicans' 2016 primaries, Ledoux endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy as the party's candidate for the 2017 French presidential election.

In parliament, Ledoux serves on the Finance Committee. He was previously a member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education from 2016 until 2019.

He was substitute for Gérald Darmanin at the 2022 French legislative election, and replaced him when he was reappointed to the Borne government.

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| Vincent Ledoux | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
|  | |
| Member of the National Assembly
for Nord's 10th constituency | |
| **Incumbent** | |
| **Assumed office**
23 July 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Gérald Darmanin |
| **In office**
21 March 2016  21 June 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Gérald Darmanin |
| Succeeded by | Gérald Darmanin |
|  | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1966-01-21) 21 January 1966
Belfort, France |
| Political party | RPR
UMP
UDI
LR
Agir |
| Alma mater | Lille 2 University of Health and Law |
|  | |


title: Virginia State Route 200

abstract: State Route 200 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 19.23 miles (30.95 km) from SR 3 in White Stone north to U.S. Route 360 at Burgess. SR 200 is the main north–south highway of the eastern end of the Northern Neck. The state highway connects the Lancaster County towns of White Stone, Irvington, and Kilmarnock, where the highway intersects SR 3 again, with eastern Northumberland County.

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# Virginia State Route 200

**State Route 200** (**SR 200**) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 19.23 miles (30.95 km) from SR 3 in White Stone north to U.S. Route 360 (US 360) at Burgess. SR 200 is the main north–south highway of the eastern end of the Northern Neck. The state highway connects the Lancaster County towns of White Stone, Irvington, and Kilmarnock, where the highway intersects SR 3 again, with eastern Northumberland County.

## Route description

SR 200 begins at an intersection with SR 3 (Rappahannock Drive) in the town of White Stone. The state highway heads west as Chesapeake Drive, which becomes Irvington Road on leaving the town. SR 200 crosses the Eastern Branch of Carter Creek into the town of Irvington, where the highway curves north. The state highway leaves the town and passes through the hamlet of Pitmans Corner, the site of historic Christ Church. North of Pitmans Corner, SR 200 meets the northern end of SR 222 (Weems Road) and veers northeast to the town of Kilmarnock. In the center of town, the state highway briefly runs concurrently with SR 3 (Main Street).

SR 200 continues north along Church Street and roughly follows the height of land between the direct Chesapeake Bay drainage on the east and the watershed of the Corrotoman River, a tributary of the Rappahannock River, on the west; the drainage boundary also forms the boundary between Lancaster and Northumberland counties. Three blocks north of SR 3, the state highway runs on top of the county line to the northern edge of Kilmarnock, where the highway has two stretches where it veers west of the county boundary. At the hamlet of Good Luck, SR 200 fully enters Northumberland County for the first time and the route's name becomes Jessie DuPont Memorial Highway, named for the 20th century philanthropist Jessie Ball duPont. South of Mount Olive, the state highway briefly re-enters Lancaster County before returning to Northumberland County for good. SR 200 passes through the village of Wicomico Church and crosses the Great Wicomico River between Tipers and Blackwells. The state highway reaches its northern terminus at US 360 (Northumberland Highway) in the village of Burgess.

## Major intersections

| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lancaster | White Stone | 0.00 | 0.00 |
SR 3 (Rappahannock Drive) / SR 695 south (Chesapeake Drive) Palmer, Foxwells, Westland, Windmill Point, Gloucester | Southern terminus |
| |  |  |  |
SR 222 south (Weems Road) Weems | Northern terminus of SR 222 |
| | Kilmarnock | 6.43 | 10.35 |
SR 3 east (Main Street) White Stone | South end of concurrency with SR 3 |
| | 6.52 | 10.49 |
SR 3 west (Main Street) Warsaw, Fredericksburg | North end of concurrency with SR 3 |
| Northumberland | Burgess | 19.23 | 30.95 | US 360 (Northumberland Highway) Richmond, Reedville | Northern terminus |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Template:Attached KML/Virginia State Route 200KML is from Wikidata

## InfoBox

| State Route 200 | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by VDOT | |
| Length | 19.23 mi (30.95 km) |
| Existed | 1933–present |
| Tourist
routes | Virginia Byway |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | SR 3 / SR 695 in White Stone |
| Major intersections |  |
| North end | US 360 at Burgess |
|  | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| Counties | Lancaster, Northumberland |
|  | |
| Highway system | |
|  | |
| SR 199   SR 201 | |


title: Virginia State Route 201

abstract: State Route 201 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 16.17 miles (26.02 km) from SR 354 near Mollusk north to U.S. Route 360 in Heathsville. SR 201 connects western Lancaster County and, indirectly, the county seat of Lancaster with the Northumberland County seat of Heathsville.

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# Virginia State Route 201

**State Route 201** (**SR 201**) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 16.17 miles (26.02 km) from SR 354 near Mollusk north to U.S. Route 360 (US 360) in Heathsville. SR 201 connects western Lancaster County and, indirectly, the county seat of Lancaster with the Northumberland County seat of Heathsville.

## Route description

SR 201 begins at an intersection with SR 354 (River Road) near the hamlet of Mollusk. The state highway heads northeast as White Chapel Road and crosses Little Branch, a tributary of the Western Branch of the Corrotoman River. SR 201 intersects SR 3 (Historyland Highway) in the hamlet of Lively and crosses the Belwood Swamp on its way to McNeals Corner. There, the state highway turns north onto Court House Road. Courthouse Road heads south as SR 600 toward the Lancaster County seat of Lancaster; the 0.11-mile (0.18 km) long curved spur between SR 201 and SR 600 is SR 201Y. SR 201 has a right-angle turn south of Miskimon; from there to Miskimon, the state highway runs on top of the LancasterNorthumberland county line. The county line is also the height of land between the Corrotoman River drainage, which empties into the Rappahannock River, and the watershed of the Great Wicomico River, which flows directly into the Chesapeake Bay. SR 201 fully enters Northumberland County at Miskimon and has another sharp turn at Howland. The state highway crosses the two streams that form the Great Wicomico RiverBush Mill Stream and Crabbs Mill Streambefore reaching its northern terminus at US 360 (Northumberland Highway) in Heathsville.

## Major intersections

| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lancaster |  | 0.00 | 0.00 | SR 354 (River Road) Belle Isle State Park | Southern terminus |
| | Lively | 3.22 | 5.18 | SR 3 (Mary Ball Road) Fredericksburg, Kilmarnock |  |
| | McNeals Corner | 5.96 | 9.59 | SR 600 (Courthouse Road) Lancaster CH | former SR 3 east |
| Northumberland | Heathsville | 16.17 | 26.02 | US 360 (Northumberland Highway) Richmond, Reedville | Northern terminus |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi<br> | | | | | |

Template:Attached KML/Virginia State Route 201KML is from Wikidata

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| State Route 201 | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by VDOT | |
| Length | 16.17 mi (26.02 km) |
| Existed | 1933–present |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | SR 354 near Mollusk |
| Major intersections | SR 3 at Lively |
| North end | US 360 in Heathsville |
|  | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| Counties | Lancaster, Northumberland |
|  | |
| Highway system | |
|  | |
| SR 200   SR 202 | |


title: Vincenzino Culicchia

abstract: Vincenzino Culicchia was an Italian politician. He was the mayor of his hometown, Partanna, from 1962 to 1992, when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. Culicchia served one term as a national deputy, representing Sicily until 1994. He died at the age of 83 in 2016.

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# Vincenzino Culicchia

**Vincenzino Culicchia** (9 October 1932 – 17 October 2016) was an Italian politician. He was the mayor of his hometown, Partanna, from 1962 to 1992, when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. Culicchia served one term as a national deputy, representing Sicily until 1994.

He died at the age of 83 in 2016.

Mannix Vincenzino is related to this Italian politician.

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| Vincenzino Culicchia | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Mayor of Partanna | |
| **In office**
1962  22 April 1992 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| **In office**
23 April 1992  14 April 1994 | |
| Constituency | Sicily |
|  | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1932-10-09)9 October 1932
Partanna |
| Died | 17 October 2016(2016-10-17) (aged 83)
Partanna |
| Political party | Pact of Democrats for Reforms |
| Other political
affiliations | Christian Democracy |
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title: Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli

abstract: Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli (1760–1814) was an Italian ballerina and librettist. She is remembered today as the librettist of Rossini's first opera Demetrio e Polibio. Her husband was the tenor Domenico Mombelli.

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# Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli

**Vincenza** (or **Vincenzina**) **Viganò-Mombelli** (1760–1814) was an Italian ballerina and librettist. She is remembered today as the librettist of Rossini's first opera *Demetrio e Polibio*. Her husband was the tenor Domenico Mombelli.

## Life and career

Viganò-Mombelli was born in Naples to an artistic family. Both her father Onorato Viganò (1739-1811) and her brother Salvatore Viganò were prominent dancers and choreographers. Her mother Maria Ester Boccherini was a ballerina and the sister of composer Luigi Boccherini. In 1791 Vincenza was dancing with Onorato Viganò's company in Venice when she met the recently widowed tenor Domenico Mombelli. They married that same year and went on to have twelve children, three of whom became prominent opera singers: Ester born 1792, Anna born 1795, and Alessandro born 1796 (a tenor like his father). She continued her dancing career for some time after her marriage, appearing in the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice only a few months before the birth of her fourth child in 1798.

Although primarily based in Bologna by 1805, the Mombelli family also travelled from 1806 to 1811 to Lisbon and various theatres in Italy with their own opera company which included their daughters Ester and Anna and the bass Lodovico Olivieri. According to an account in Stendhal's *Vie de Rossini*, Olivieri was an old friend of Vincenza who not only sang "utility roles" in their company but also served as the family's cook and major domo. It was in Bologna that Vincenza and Domenico made the acquaintance of the young Rossini who was still a student at the Accademia Filarmonica. Vincenza wrote the libretto for Rossini's first opera *Demetrio e Polibio*. It was premiered privately in 1809 and had its official premiere on 18 May 1812 at Rome's Teatro Valle with three of its four roles sung by Domenico and their daughters Ester and Anna.

Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli died in 1814. Domenico Mombelli married for a third time in 1819.

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| Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | Vincenza Viganò
1760 (1760)
Naples, Italy |
| Died | 1814 |
| Other names | Vincenzina Viganò-Mombelli |
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title: The Arrangement (film)

abstract: The Arrangement is a 1969 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan, based upon his 1967 novel of the same title. It tells the story of Evangelos Topouzoglou, a successful Los Angeles-area advertising executive of Greek-American extraction who goes by the professional name "Eddie Anderson”. Eddie/Evangelos is portrayed by Kirk Douglas. Eddie is suicidal and slowly having a psychotic breakdown. He is miserable at home in his marriage to his wife, Florence, played by Deborah Kerr, and with his career. He is engaged in a torrid affair with his mistress and co-worker Gwen, and is forced to re-evaluate his life and its priorities while dealing with his willful and aging father.

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# The Arrangement (film)

***The Arrangement*** is a 1969 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan, based upon his 1967 novel of the same title.

It tells the story of Evangelos Topouzoglou, a successful Los Angeles-area advertising executive of Greek-American extraction who goes by the professional name "Eddie Anderson” (his second pseudonym). Eddie/Evangelos is portrayed by Kirk Douglas.

Eddie is suicidal and slowly having a psychotic breakdown. He is miserable at home in his marriage to his wife, Florence, played by Deborah Kerr, and with his career. He is engaged in a torrid affair with his mistress and co-worker Gwen (Faye Dunaway), and is forced to re-evaluate his life and its priorities while dealing with his willful and aging father (Richard Boone).

## Plot

Wealthy ad man Eddie Anderson attempts suicide by swerving his sportscar underneath a tractor trailer. Throughout the film, flashbacks—some memories, some hallucinations—reveal his contempt for his life and its "arrangements.” His contentious relationship with his Greek father, Sam Arness—a once-successful importer who despises Eddie for further Anglicizing his name, going to college and refusing to follow the family business—is made worse by Sam's accelerating brain damage from arteriosclerosis. Eddie's long marriage to Florence is now devoid of passion on his part and full of frustration on hers. Arthur, the family lawyer, advises her, to Eddie's disadvantage. Florence's psychoanalyst, Dr. Leibman, also weighs in. Eddie and Gwen, a research assistant at his advertising agency, have been lovers.

Eddie returns to work, where he insults a valued tobacco client by referring to “the big C”. He falls afoul of the police by buzzing L.A. in a small plane. Searching for his pilot's license, Florence finds nude photographs of Eddie and Gwen, just as Eddie learns that his father is in a New York City hospital.

In New York, Eddie's brother and sister-in-law want to place Sam in a nursing home, to ease the burden on their long-suffering mother, a burden made worse by Sam's violent paranoia and his insistence on starting a new business. Gwen is also in New York, living with Charles, who tells Eddie how devastated she was by their breakup. Gwen describes her own calculatedly promiscuous behavior to Eddie, behavior that Charles tolerates on the understanding that in the end, they will marry. She has a baby boy, Andy. She does not know who the father is.

Gwen and Eddie become lovers.

Florence follows Eddie to New York. She wants him to come home and work on the “reconstruction” of their marriage. She dismisses Eddie's desire to look after his father himself and explodes when he tells her he was with Gwen.

With the doctor's help, Eddie smuggles Sam out of the hospital to the family home, a huge Victorian mansion on Long Island Sound. Sam calls him Evangelos, stirring powerful memories. Gwen offers to be Eddie's mistress after she marries George, but Eddie insists that he is going to marry her.

Eddie cannot give Sam the money to start up his imaginary business, so decades of pent-up anger explode: Eddie admits he is ashamed of him. While Eddie and Gwen are out in a boat, the family removes Sam by force. Charles takes Gwen and the baby away.

Increasingly distracted, Eddie ultimately confronts the “successful” man that he was. Arthur interrupts this dialogue when he arrives from L.A. Arthur, Florence, and Dr. Liebman press Eddie to turn over all of his community property to Florence. She tells him not to sign, but he does, (using Arthur's name).

In a private conversation with Eddie, Florence confesses her love, She will “stick with him through anything.” But when Eddie says he wants to “do absolutely nothing” she replies “Fine. What will you do?” He wants to take time to think—which means selling their lavish holdings and living more simply. Florence simply cannot understand, and her jealousy of Gwen overwhelms her. Eddie accuses her—correctly—of talking to Arthur about committing him.

At the commitment hearing, we learn that Eddie subsequently set fire to the family home and we glimpse the alter egos at each other's throats. Eddie does not explain a gunshot wound: We see that Charles shot him in Gwen's apartment. Eddie asks to go to a psychiatric hospital. The judge tells Gwen that Eddie can release himself at any time by proving he has a job and a home.

Eddie seems to be content among his new friends at the asylum, but Gwen lures him out to try again. Eddie is reconciled to his dying father and tells Gwen that they both wanted the same thing—another chance. He tells her that he loves her. She thanks him and smiles. The final scene is at Sam's interment, where Florence gives Gwen a wry smile. The last shot is of Eddie smiling gently as his father's coffin is lowered into the grave.

## Cast

## Production

Kazan wanted Eddie to be portrayed by Marlon Brando, who Kazan felt could bring a greater depth to the role and bring it close to the character portrayed in the novel and who had experienced great success with Kazan previously in the films *A Streetcar Named Desire*, *Viva Zapata!*, and *On the Waterfront*. However, Brando refused to take the role, stating that he had no interest in making a film so soon after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Production was shut down twice, with Douglas catching Hong Kong Flu three times.

## Reception

The film has a rating of 15% based on 13 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes.

Vincent Canby of *The New York Times* wrote that it "reeks with slightly absurd movie chic but, unlike Douglas Sirk's *Written on the Wind* or Vincente Minnelli's *Two Weeks in Another Town*, it's not only not much fun, but it's a mess of borrowed styles. What's worse is that it may be largely incomprehensible, on a simple narrative level, unless one has read Kazan's best-selling, 543-page short story that the director has more or less synopsized in his movie." *Variety* called it "a confused, overly-contrived and overlength film peopled with a set of characters about whom the spectator couldn't care less."

Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4 in a more mixed review, writing that it was "one of those long, ponderous, star-filled 'serious' films that were popular in the 1950s, before we began to value style more highly than the director's good intentions. It isn't successful, particularly not on Kazan's terms (he sees it, doubtless, as a bitter sermon on the consequences of selling out). But it does draw nourishment from the remarkable performances of Kirk Douglas and Faye Dunaway." Gene Siskel of the *Chicago Tribune* gave it 2 stars out of 4, writing that Kazan "fails to give us a clear characterization of Eddie or the people in his life. What tensions are revealed are clouded by basic directing errors ... It would be nice to excuse Kazan's direction by saying that he was forced to jazz up a weak script, but he wrote the script too."

Pauline Kael of *The New Yorker* wrote, "If one did not know that Kazan is a major figure in films, one would find nothing in the way this movie has been made to suggest it. The direction is tight and almost cruelly coercive of the actors. There's nothing in this movie that looks spontaneous, either in the direction or the acting. The actors have no life of their own as performers, no trace of invention; they're just shouting ciphers, acting out ready-made popular ideas about selling out." Charles Champlin of the *Los Angeles Times* wrote, "The personal passion which informed the novel is still present in the movie, but on the screen the passion is so compromised and weakened by what passes for technique and invention that it becomes only an intermittent echo." Tony Mastroianni in *The Cleveland Press* referred to the film as a "bad novel \[that\] didn't improve very much in the transfer \[to film\]. Philip Strick of *The Monthly Film Bulletin* wrote that the film "turns out to have said no more in 125 minutes than it stated during the first six."

## InfoBox

| The Arrangement | |
| --- | --- |
| 1994 VHS cover | |
| Directed by | Elia Kazan |
| Written by | **Novel/screenplay:**
Elia Kazan |
| Based on | *The Arrangement*
1967 novel
by Elia Kazan |
| Produced by | Elia Kazan |
| Starring | Kirk Douglas
Faye Dunaway
Deborah Kerr
Richard Boone
Hume Cronyn |
| Cinematography | Robert Surtees |
| Edited by | Stefan Arnsten |
| Music by | David Amram |
| Production
company | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
| Release date | * November 18, 1969 (1969-11-18) (US) |
| Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4 million (US/Canada rentals) |


title: WVUV (AM)

abstract: WVUV was a radio station licensed to serve the community of Leone, American Samoa. The station, established in 1942, was owned and operated by South Seas Broadcasting, Inc., when its broadcast license was cancelled in 2011. WVUV was a sister station to NBC TV station KKHJ-LP, which went by the WVUV-LP callsign until 2008.

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# WVUV (AM)

**WVUV** (648 AM) was a radio station licensed to serve the community of Leone, American Samoa. The station, established in 1942, was owned and operated by South Seas Broadcasting, Inc., when its broadcast license was cancelled in 2011. WVUV was a sister station to NBC TV station KKHJ-LP, which went by the WVUV-LP callsign until 2008.

## Programming

Before signing off forever, WVUV broadcast a hot adult contemporary music format to American Samoa area and other neighboring islands.

## History

After being deleted from the FCC database in January 2005 after a period of inactivity, the station was re-licensed and reassigned the WVUV call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on May 5, 2006. The FCC application history shows a series of "Stay Silent" requests from February 2006 through 2008, as the station's antenna was damaged and the station was unable to repair it.

The station filed an application with the FCC to change broadcast frequencies from 648 kHz to 720 kHz. This would have included a reduction in power from 10,000 watts day and night to 5,000 watts during the day and 2,000 watts at night. The antenna would also have moved to 14°20'23"S, 170°46'21"W.

The WVUV broadcast license was due for periodic renewal on April 16, 2010. Per FCC regulations, the station should have applied for renewal no later than December 16, 2009. As the FCC had received no request to renew the license for nearly a year after its scheduled expiration, the Commission declared the license expired, ordered WVUV to cease broadcasting, and deleted the WVUV call sign from its database.

## InfoBox

WVUV
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| --- | --- |
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| Broadcast area | American Samoa, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Fiji, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Nauru |
| Frequency | 648 kHz |
| Programming | |
| Format | Defunct |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | South Seas Broadcasting, Inc. |
| Sister stations | KKHJ-FM, KKHJ-LP, WVUV-FM |
| History | |
| First air date | 1942 |
| Last air date | 2011 |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 54768 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 10,000 watts (unlimited) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 14°21′28″S 170°46′36″W / 14.35778°S 170.77667°W / -14.35778; -170.77667 |


title: Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp, 12th Baronet

abstract: Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp was an English baronet, lawyer, soldier, banker and landowner who also played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Cambridge University in a few matches in the 1870s. He was born at Erpingham, Norfolk and died at Sheringham, also in Norfolk.

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# Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp, 12th Baronet

**Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp** CBE (21 April 1853 – 22 April 1936) was an English baronet, lawyer, soldier, banker and landowner who also played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Cambridge University in a few matches in the 1870s. He was born at Erpingham, Norfolk and died at Sheringham, also in Norfolk.

## Family background

Kemp was the son of Nunn Robert Pretyman Kemp, a Norfolk clergyman; he owed his middle name to his mother, who had been a Miss Hagar. His father died when he was six years old, and Kemp was then educated at the Clergy Orphan School in Canterbury, followed by Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1874, following the deaths of two elderly and childless cousins (and the death the previous year of his own elder brother), he inherited the Kemp baronetcy which dated from 1642 and which brought him ownership of Gissing Hall in Norfolk and substantial landholdings.

## Cricket career

Kemp appeared in four first-class matches. He played once for MCC in 1872 and then in three games while he was at Cambridge University in 1873, though in only one of the three did he appear for the university side – he played *against* the university for an MCC team and a side that was called "An England XI". He was a middle- or lower-middle-order batsman and for the "England" team he bowled three overs without taking a wicket; his highest score was also in that game with an innings of 41.

Though Kemp's senior cricket ended in 1873, he continued to play in non-first-class MCC matches for the next decade and more, and also appeared in non-first-class games for the Norfolk county side which was founded in 1876.

## Career outside cricket

Following graduation from Cambridge University in 1875, Kemp had a varied career. He joined the part-time West Norfolk Militia as a supernumerary Second lieutenant on 10 January 1877 while he trained as a lawyer, being called to the bar in 1880. He was also a partner in the Norfolk bank, Lacon Youell & Kemp, and in the 1895 general election and the 1899 by-election he stood for the Conservatives in the North Norfolk constituency, unsuccessfully.

Kemp's parallel legal and militia careers lasted for many years. As a lawyer, he was the author of a book on the Law of Allotments and practised as a barrister on the South-East Circuit. Meanwhile, he steadily progressed through the West Norfolk Militia (which became the 3rd (1st Norfolk Militia) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, in 1881): Captain, 7 March 1883, Major 28 March 1894, and Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the battalion 15 October 1904. He served in South Africa during the Second Boer War. He retired from the militia (by then the Special Reserve) in 1910 with the honorary rank of Colonel, but returned to duty on the outbreak of World War I, commanding the 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in 1916, and then returning to his former command, 3rd Battalion Norfolk Regiment, until July 1917. At the end of the war he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for valuable services rendered in connection with the War".

## Family

Kemp married Henrietta Hamilton in 1876; they had one son, Richard Hamilton Kemp, and four daughters. Richard Kemp predeceased his father and left two daughters of his own, so the baronetcy became extinct on Kenneth Kemp's death in 1936.


title: Ram Asrey Singh Kushwaha

abstract: Ram Asrey Singh Kushwaha is an Indian politician based in Uttar Pradesh, who was elected to 13th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly via 1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections from Sarsaul Assembly constituency. He was a member of Bahujan Samaj Party then. Kushwaha has also served as an office bearer of 'Kushwaha Kalyan Parishad', an organisation working for the Other Backward Class. In later part of his political career, he joined Samajwadi Party and served as its National General Secretary. He also held the position of Uttar Pradesh Remote Sensing Centre based in Lucknow, which has similar status to the Minister of State in Government of Uttar Pradesh.

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# Ram Asrey Singh Kushwaha

**Ram Asrey Singh Kushwaha** is an Indian politician based in Uttar Pradesh, who was elected to 13th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly via 1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections from Sarsaul Assembly constituency. He was a member of Bahujan Samaj Party then. Kushwaha has also served as an office bearer of 'Kushwaha Kalyan Parishad', an organisation working for the Other Backward Class. In later part of his political career, he joined Samajwadi Party and served as its National General Secretary. He also held the position of Uttar Pradesh Remote Sensing Centre based in Lucknow, which has similar status to the Minister of State in Government of Uttar Pradesh.

## Political career

Ram Asrey Singh Kushwaha was born on 5 February 1953 to M.L Singh in Kanpur Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh in an Other Backward Class Kushwaha family. He is a doctorate and also holds a master's degree in Commerce. He was married to Sarala Singh on 24 June 1974. They had one son and a daughter from their marriage. Kushwaha was involved in pedagogy, before joining politics. His political career got a boost with his election to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in mid term elections of 1996 from Sarsaul Assembly constituency on the ticket of Bahujan Samaj Party.

Kushwaha was also active in social service and promoted art and literature. He was a president of Uttar Pradesh Kala Manch, which worked for promotion of art and culture. In 1986, he became the president of 'Kushwaha Kalyan Parishad', a caste organisation. Between 1997-98, he held the chair of Committee for Schedule Castes, Schedule Tribes and Denotified Tribes in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. On 27 October 1997, he was appointed as Minister for welfare of Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes in Kalyan Singh ministry.

He got 52,776 votes in 1996 Assembly elections and defeated Jagram Singh of Samajwadi Party. In 2013, Samajwadi Party entrusted him with the task of connecting people belonging to Kushwaha caste with the party, which was traditionally considered as a votebank of Bahujan Samaj Party. Kushwaha was also made National General Secretary of the party but removed from the post in October 2013 for giving irresponsible statements in the media causing embarrassment for the party.

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| Ram Asrey Singh Kushwaha | |
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| Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| **In office**
1997–2002 | |
| Constituency | Sarsaul Assembly constituency |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 February 1953
Kanpur Nagar, Uttar Pradesh |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Bahujan Samaj Party
Samajwadi Party |
| Spouse | Sarala Singh |
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abstract: The 1900 European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 21 in Berlin, German Empire. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.

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# 1900 European Figure Skating Championships

The **1900 European Figure Skating Championships** were held on January 21 in Berlin, German Empire. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.

## Results

| Rank | Name | Places |
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| **1** | Ulrich Salchow |  |
| **2** | Gustav Hügel |  |
| **3** | Oscar Holthe |  |
| 4 | Johan Lefstad |  |
| 5 | Franz Zilly |  |

Judges:

* Kurt Dannenberg
* Hugo Ehrentraut
* I. Forssling
* J. Olbeter
* Schiess (admiral)

## Sources

* Result List provided by the ISU

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| 1900 European Figure Skating Championships | |
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| Type: | ISU Championship |
| Date: | January 21 |
| Season: | 1900 |
| Location: | Berlin, German Empire |
| Champions | |
| Men's singles:
Ulrich Salchow | |
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| Previous:
1899 European Championships | |
| Next:
1901 European Championships | |


title: William Wells (minister)

abstract: William Wells was a minister and farmer at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and at Brattleboro, Vermont. William Wells was born at Biggleswade. He was orphaned when young, cared for by an uncle, Ebenezer Custerson a farmer at Cardington, Bedfordshire, and educated by Rev Samuel Sanderson (1702–66) at Bedford. He studied under Caleb Ashworth at Daventry Academy, 1765–70, a fellow student with Thomas Belsham. He was appointed minister at Bromsgrove Presbyterian Chapel in 1770, where he remained until 1793. In January 1771 he married Jane Hancox of Dudley. In the troubles which preceded American Independence, he took a strong interest in favour of the Colonies, taking an active part with Richard Price, Thomas Wren of Portsmouth, in garnering subscriptions for the relief of the American prisoners. Convinced of the benefits of smallpox inoculation, he inoculated his own children, and inoculated the children of poor neighbours, who could not afford the surgeons' fee. He is said to have spent two years riding about the country, inoculating as many as thirteen hundred children. During the Birmingham riots, his home was threatened and the meeting-house escaped only by accident. Wells had been contemplating emigration to New England since 1780. He was now resolved upon it, arriving at Boston, with his wife and eight children, 12 June 1793. He was soon joined by William Priestley, son of Dr Joseph Priestley, who stayed with the family, perhaps helping with Wells's farm. The next year, he purchased a farm at Brattleboro, Vermont, where he lived until his death. He corresponded with William Bentley and other Unitarians in New England After a year or two, he was invited to become minister at Brattleboro, but declined a formal appointment. He agreed, however, to perform the functions of that office as 'officiating pastor', on an annual basis, being annually chosen by the town for about twenty years. While he was absent on a visit to England, in 1818, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity from Harvard University.

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# William Wells (minister)

**William Wells** (1744  27 December 1827) was a minister and farmer at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and at Brattleboro, Vermont.

William Wells was born at Biggleswade. He was orphaned when young, cared for by an uncle, Ebenezer Custerson a farmer at Cardington, Bedfordshire, and educated by Rev Samuel Sanderson (1702–66) at Bedford. He studied under Caleb Ashworth at Daventry Academy, 1765–70, a fellow student with Thomas Belsham. He was appointed minister at Bromsgrove Presbyterian Chapel in 1770, where he remained until 1793. In January 1771 he married Jane Hancox of Dudley.

In the troubles which preceded American Independence, he took a strong interest in favour of the Colonies, taking an active part with Richard Price, Thomas Wren of Portsmouth, in garnering subscriptions for the relief of the American prisoners. Convinced of the benefits of smallpox inoculation, he inoculated his own children, and inoculated the children of poor neighbours, who could not afford the surgeons' fee. He is said to have spent two years riding about the country, inoculating as many as thirteen hundred children.

During the Birmingham riots, his home was threatened and the meeting-house escaped only by accident. Wells had been contemplating emigration to New England since 1780. He was now resolved upon it, arriving at Boston, with his wife and eight children, 12 June 1793. He was soon joined by William Priestley, son of Dr Joseph Priestley, who stayed with the family, perhaps helping with Wells's farm. The next year, he purchased a farm at Brattleboro, Vermont, where he lived until his death. He corresponded with William Bentley and other Unitarians in New England

After a year or two, he was invited to become minister at Brattleboro, but declined a formal appointment. He agreed, however, to perform the functions of that office as 'officiating pastor', on an annual basis, being annually chosen by the town for about twenty years. While he was absent on a visit to England, in 1818, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity from Harvard University.

## Publications

* Wells, William; *A sermon, delivered at Putney, Vermont, on the sixteenth day of November, 1797: at the funeral of the Rev. Josiah Goodhue, by the Rev. William Wells, late of Broomsgrove, England, now officiating Pastor of the Church of Christ in Brattleboro', Vermont* (Putney, VT, 1798).
* Wells, William; *The character of Josiah, King of Judah, considered and recommended to the imitation of young people, in two discourses, preached at Brattleboro', Vermont, A.D. 1802* (Brattleboro', VT, 1803).
* Wells, William; *Some observations, taken in part from an address delivered in the new meeting-house in Brattleborough, July 7th, 1816; being the first Christian communion held in that place* (Brattleboro, VT, 1816).
* Wells, William; *Some communications first published in the Brattleborough paper, containing besides some other things, extracts from a pamphlet published by the Rev. Benjamin Fawcett* \[1715-80\], *entitled "Candid reflections on the different manner in which the learned and the pious have expressed their conceptions concerning the doctrine of the Trinity"* (Brattleboro, VT, 1816)
* Wells, William; *Eight letters from an aged minister to the young men and youth of his flock: particularly including those who have left his ministry to settle at a distance* (Brattleboro, VT, 1818).

* Sprague, William B., *Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit* (New York, 1865), 254-61;
* Burnham, Henry, *Brattleboro* (Brattleboro, VT, 1880).
* Wells, Hayden Wells, and Wells, Anita, *The Reverend William Wells, Bromsgrove, England and Brattleboro, Vermont: his family and descendants* (Privately printed, San Diego Calif., 1951).

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| William Wells | |
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| portrait by Gilbert Stuart | |
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| Born | 1744 |
| Died | 27 December 1827  (aged 82–83) |