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In Schneverdingen a citizen's initiative was begun in 1986 to reduce the military impact in the Lüneburg Heath. They gathered 13,000 signatures demanding the end of the Soltau-Lüneburg Agreement. Its members organised many protests. In 1988 they collected around 100 oil drums from the red areas and protested to the Lower Saxon parliament in Hanover. In 1990 they obstructed the railway ramp at Reinsehlen Camp to prevent the off-loading of tanks. In 1991, the blockade of an underpass near the camp was set up to prevent tanks entering the heath. In another citizen's initiative was started in Amelinghausen in 1988 to reduce military exercises. In 1992, both movements, together with other environmental organisations, demanded that the minister president of Lower Saxony, Gerhard Schröder, put an end to the exercises and the agreement.

In 1989, at the end of the Cold War, the Soltau-Lüneburg Agreement was renegotiated by defence ministers, Gerhard Stoltenberg, and Tom King, in order to reduce the impact of exercises on the local population. In 1990, a break in training of several weeks was agreed during the time when the heath was in bloom during the peak tourist period of August and September. In addition no tanks were permitted to use the red areas on Sundays and public holidays. Villages were given a 400 metre wide buffer zone from armoured exercises and tanks were not permitted to drive through them at night.

After German reunification, the two defence ministers, Stoltenberg and King, reached an agreement on 17 October 1991 for the cessation of training in the heath. On 31 July 1994 the Soltau-Lüneburg Agreement ran out and the last red areas were returned to the VNP. They have subsequently restored the areas with the assistance of the Federation.

= = = Operation Faustschlag = = =

The Operation Faustschlag ("Operation Fist Punch"), also known as the Eleven Days' War, was a Central Powers offensive in World War I. It was the last major action on the Eastern Front.

Russian forces were unable to put up any serious resistance due to the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War. The armies of the Central Powers therefore captured huge territories in the Baltics, Belarus, and Ukraine, forcing the Bolshevik government of Russia to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

Bolsheviks took power in Russia during the October Revolution and announced that Russia would be withdrawing from war. Talks with the Central Powers started in Brest-Litovsk on 3 December 1917 and on the 17th a cease-fire went into effect. Peace talks soon followed, starting on 22 December.

As negotiations began, the Central Powers presented demands for the territory that they had occupied during the 1914–1916 period, including Poland, Lithuania and western Latvia. The Bolsheviks decided not to accept these terms and instead withdrew from the negotiations, eventually resulting in the breakdown of the ceasefire. Leon Trotsky, head of the Russian delegation, hoped to delay talks until a revolution occurred within Germany, which would force them out of the war.

Trotsky was the leading advocate of the "neither war nor peace" policy and on 28 January 1918 announced that Soviet Russia considered the war over. This was unacceptable to the Germans who were already transporting troops to the Western Front. The German Chief of Staff, general Max Hoffmann, responded by signing the peace treaty with Ukrainian People's Republic on 9 February and announced an end to the cease-fire with Russia in two-days time on 17 February, leading to the resumption of hostilities.

While negotiations were ongoing, Soviet Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Krylenko oversaw the demobilization and democratization of the Russian army, introducing elected commanders, ending all ranks, and sending troops home. On 29 January, Krylenko ordered demobilization of the whole army.

On 18 February, the German and Austro-Hungarian forces started a major three-pronged offensive against the Soviets with 53 divisions. The northern force advanced from Pskov towards Narva, the central force pushed towards Smolensk, and the southern force towards Kiev.

The northern force, consisting of 16 divisions, captured the key Daugavpils junction on the first day. This was soon followed by the capture of Pskov and securing Narva on 28 February. The central forces of the 10th Army and XLI corps advanced towards Smolensk. On 21 February Minsk was captured together with the headquarters of the Western Army Group. The Southern forces broke through the remains of the Russian Southwestern Army Group, capturing Zhitomir on 24 February. Kiev was secured on 2 March, one day after the Ukrainian Central Rada troops had arrived there.

Central Powers armies had advanced over within a week, facing no serious Soviet resistance. German troops were now within of Petrograd, forcing the Soviets to transfer their capital to Moscow. The rapid advance was described as a "Railway War" ("der Eisenbahnfeldzug") with German soldiers using Russian railways to advance eastward. General Hoffmann wrote in his diary on 22 February:

It is the most comical war I have ever known. We put a handful of infantrymen with machine guns and one gun onto a train and rush them off to the next station; they take it, make prisoners of the Bolsheviks, pick up few more troops, and so on. This proceeding has, at any rate, the charm of novelty.

As the German offensive was ongoing, Trotsky returned to Petrograd. Most of the leadership still preferred continuing the war, even though Russia was in no position to do so, due to the destruction of its army. At this point Lenin intervened to push the Soviet leadership into acceptance of German terms, which by now had become even harsher. He was backed by other senior communists to include Kamenev, Zinoviev, and Stalin.

After a stormy session of Lenin's ruling council, during which the revolution's leader went so far as to threaten resignation, he obtained a 116 to 85 vote in favour of the new German terms. The vote in the Central Committee was even closer, seven in favour and six against. In the end, Trotsky switched his vote and German terms were accepted; on 3 March, the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

On 24 February, one day before the arrival of German troops to Tallinn, the Estonian Salvation Committee declared the independence of Estonia. German occupation authorities refused to recognize the Estonian government and Germans were installed in positions of authority.

The Bolshevik capitulation on 3 March only ended the advance along a line from Narva to Northern Ukraine, as with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk the Soviet government gave up all rights to Southern Russia. During the next few months, the southern Central Powers forces advanced over 500 miles further, capturing the whole of Ukraine and some territory beyond.

German operations also continued in the Caucasus and Finland, where Germany assisted the White Finnish forces in the Finnish Civil War. Under the treaty all Russian naval bases in the Baltic except Kronstadt were taken away, and the Russian Black Sea Fleet warships in Odessa were to be disarmed and detained. The Bolsheviks also agreed to the immediate return of 630,000 Austrian prisoners-of-war.

With the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Soviet Russia had given up Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine, enabling those territories to develop independently from Russian influence. Germany's intention was to turn these territories into political and territorial satellites, but this plan collapsed with Germany's own defeat within a year. After the German surrender, the Soviets made an attempt to regain lost territories. They were successful in some areas like Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus, but were forced to recognize the independence of the Baltic States, Finland, and Poland.

In Ukraine Ukrainian troops took control of the Donets Basin in April 1918. In the same month, Crimea was also cleared of the Bolsheviks by Ukrainian troops and the Imperial German Army. On 13 March 1918 Ukrainian troops and the Austro-Hungarian Army had secured Odessa. On 5 April 1918 the German army took control of Yekaterinoslav, and 3 days later Kharkiv. The German/Austro-Hungarian victories in Ukraine were due to the apathy of the locals and the inferior fighting skills of Bolsheviks troops compared to their Austro-Hungarian and German counterparts.

In the Bolshevik government, Lenin consolidated his power; however, fearing the possibility of a renewed German threat along the Baltic, he moved the capital from Petrograd to Moscow on 12 March. Debates became far more restrained, and he was never again so strongly challenged as he was regarding the Brest-Litovsk treaty.

= = = Guo Mingyi = = =

Guo Mingyi (; born December 1958), is a philanthropist from Anshan in Liaoning, China. He became famous due to the large number of generous deeds which were popularised by the Communist Party of China as a role model along the line of the 'learn from Lei Feng' propaganda campaign.

Guo Mingyi's career started with him joining the army in 1977. He became a member of the Communist Party of China in 1980 and was demobilised from the army in 1982. He started work for Angang/Anshan Iron and Steel Group working at Qidashan mine, just north of Anshan. He was noted for his diligence and commitment to work, as well as his philanthropic works. These included attending his work two hours early every day for 15 years, many blood donations, campaigns to find bone marrow donors for children with leukemia and donating significant amounts of money to fund poor children's education, despite his own low earnings. He continues to live with his family in a single room, 40 square metre apartment that he first moved into in the 1980s. He has been offered improved accommodation but passed it up so that other colleagues could get better housing. For these acts, from 2010 onwards he has received many national level awards.

In 2011, a movie biography of Guo Mingyi was produced. The movie was directed by Chen Guoxing and Wang Jing, with the lead part played by Hou Yong and supporting parts by Jiang Hongbo, Li Qin and Feng Yuanzheng.

Guo is an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; he is ranked close to the end of the list of alternate members, which is ranked by number of confirmation votes received at the 18th Party Congress. His elevation to the Central Committee was notable in that he had no political or business experience prior to his joining the elite committee. In 2013, he was named a vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.

On Oct 23, 2013, Guo Mingyi posted on Sina Weibo describing an encounter with Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of Communist Party and president of China. In the post he used the phrase "smile like an affectionate father" () for Xi. The post raised a lot of attention and mockery because Xi is only 5 years his senior. Guo removed the phrase afterwards.

= = = Jordan Sinnott = = =

Jordan James Sinnott (14 February 1994 – 25 January 2020) was an English footballer who played as a midfielder. He was the son of the former Huddersfield Town captain Lee Sinnott and was contracted to Northern Premier League side Matlock Town at the time of his death in January 2020. He died following an altercation in Retford town centre where he was attacked.

He attended St Mary's Menston Catholic Voluntary Academy and, later, joined Huddersfield's Town Academy in the late 2000s, eventually becoming the captain of the under-18 team in 2012. During the same year, Sinnott was offered a professional contract.

Following the sacking of Simon Grayson as Huddersfield manager on 24 January 2013, the manager of the under-18 team, Mark Lillis, was promoted to the role of caretaker manager, and gave Sinnott his first appearance in the Huddersfield first team in their 1–1 draw against Leicester City in the 4th round of the FA Cup at the John Smith's Stadium on 26 January 2013. After the match, Sinnott expressed being positive on his debut and described himself as "not really the nervous type!" His first league appearance was as a substitute in Town's 6–1 defeat by Nottingham Forest at the City Ground on 19 February 2013.

Despite only making two appearances, Sinnott was offered a new two-year contract by the club, which he signed, keeping him at the club until 2015.

After eight years at the club, Sinnott was released by Huddersfield after having his contract terminated by mutual consent on 2 February 2015, with his contract due to expire in the summer.

After being told by Huddersfield Town's management that he would be loaned out, it was announced on 6 December 2012, he joined his father, Lee, at Conference North side Altrincham for a month, making six appearances before returning in January 2013.

On 7 August 2013, Sinnott joined Bury on a six-month loan from Huddersfield Town. Sinnott then made his Bury debut three days later, coming on as a substitute for John Rooney in the second half, in a 2–1 loss against Oxford United. Sinnott then scored his first goal in the next game, as Bury beat Accrington Stanley 3–0. After making 10 appearances for the Shakers, he was recalled by Huddersfield on 18 October.

After being released by Huddersfield Town, Sinnott rejoined his father at Conference North side Altrincham for the second time. He then had spells at F.C. Halifax Town and Chesterfield before joining Alfreton Town in 2018; at the time of his death he was playing for Matlock Town.

Sinnott was found unconscious with a suspected fractured skull in Retford, Nottinghamshire, in the early hours of 25 January 2020, following an altercation in which he was attacked and sustained a head injury. He was admitted to the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield in a critical condition where he died just before 19:00 that evening. Matlock Town and his former club Alfreton Town had both postponed their respective matches earlier that day. Police arrested a 21-year-old man and a 27-year-old man in connection with the fight.

= = = 1947 Preston Municipal Borough Council election = = =

Elections to Preston Municipal Borough council were held in late 1947.

= = = Paddy McConville = = =

Patrick "Paddy" McConville (25 March 1902 – after 1932) was an Irish professional footballer who made 138 appearances in the Football League playing for Lincoln City. He played as a full back, predominantly as a left back. He also played in Ireland for Portadown Celtic and Glenavon.

McConville was born in Gilford, County Down, and played football for Portadown Celtic and Glenavon before moving to England to join Third Division North club Lincoln City in 1925. He spent seven seasons with Lincoln, contributing to their divisional title in 1931–32. He made 145 appearances in senior competition without scoring, before returning to Glenavon in 1932.

= = = Maria Antonia Scalera Stellini = = =

Maria Antonia Scalera Stellini (5 February 1634 – 21 September 1704) was a 17th-century Italian poet and playwright.

Born into a modest family in Apulia, in southern Italy, Scalera spent her youth in a convent. Following the wishes of her family, she left the convent to be married, but was soon widowed with two children. She remarried the Tuscan Silvestro Stellini, an official of Prince Agostino Chigi, a nephew of Pope Alexander VII, and went to live in their palaces at Ariccia and in Rome. Her poetic works qualified her to be received in the Academy of Arcadia on June 20, 1694, where she was named "Aricia Gnateatide".

In 1677, in Rome, she published a collection of poems in two volumes entitled "Li divertimenti poetici" ("The poetic entertainments"), which was reprinted in 1706. She also published the plays and musical dramas "La Tirannide abbattuta dal trionfo della fede", "Serenata spirituale", "La ninfa del Tebro", "Il trionfo di sant'Agata" and "Il Coraspe redivivo". The latter was staged in Ariccia in 1683.

= = = William Scharff = = =

Niels William Scharff (1886–1959) was a Danish painter, one of the leading proponents of Cubism in Denmark.

After training as a painter at Copenhagen's Technical School, Scharff attended Kristian Zahrtmann's art school (1907–1909) where he met young talents including Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Jais Nielsen and Olaf Rude. As a student, he travelled to Berlin, Dresden and Paris.

During the First World War, Scharff was involved in Grønningen, a new artists' cooperative with an interest in Cubism. His Cubist tendencies can clearly be seen in his "Legende I" (1911, Randers Kunstmuseum) and in a series of pictures depicting poultry (1917–1918) and representing harmony between man and nature. His style was inspired by Cubism and the Abstract art movement while many of his subjects were based on his upbringing with his grandparents in the farming community of Tisvilde in the north of Zealand.

In addition to his paintings, he decorated the students' residence "Studentergaarden" with frescoes (1943–1953), designed tapestries for Christiansborg (1951–1958) and created the curtain for Tivoli's concert hall (1956).

Scharff was awarded the Eckersberg Medal in 1924 and the Thorvaldsen Medal in 1957.

= = = Kyrgyzstan national bandy team = = =

The Kyrgyz national bandy team won the bronze medal at the 2011 Asian Winter Games, the country's first medal of any sport in those games.

The team also participated at the 2012 Bandy World Championship. They have yet (2018) to make another World Championship appearance.

It was planned to participate in the first Asian Championship, a tournament which in the end did not take place.

Team picture

= = = Connors Brothers Limited = = =

Connors Brothers Limited was a fish packing company founded by Lewis and Patrick Connors in the 1880s and based in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick. It is known by the Brunswick brand, and is the only remaining producer of sardines in North America. Brunswick claims to be the largest sardine producer in the world.

Connors Brothers was purchased by George Weston in 1967, and he merged with BC Packers (Clover Leaf Seafood brand) of Steveston, British Columbia in 1995 before selling off the Clover Leaf brand in 1999. Cloverleaf and Bumblebee brands were merged, then re-merged with the Connors Brothers to become the Connors Brothers Income Fund in 2004. This company was acquired by Centre Partners, a middle market private equity firm in 2008. In 2010, Connors Brothers (now part of Bumble Bee Foods) was sold to a British Private equity firm Lion Capital LLP.

= = = Who Killed Captain Alex? = = =

Who Killed Captain Alex? is a 2010 Ugandan action-comedy film written, produced, and directed by Nabwana Isaac Geoffrey Godfrey (IGG), in Wakaliwood, an ultra low-budget studio in Kampala, Uganda. It has gained viral notoriety for being a no-budget action film, produced on a reported budget of under $200 though producer Alan Hofmanis admitted that it was a meager $85. A trailer for the film was uploaded to YouTube in January 2010, and has been viewed over 3.2 million times as of November 2018. The original version of the film was lost due to power outages and "strained conditions", while the surviving version of "Who Killed Captain Alex?" released online includes an English "Video Joker" commentary that adds in running gags about the characters.

Captain Alex, one of the most decorated officers in the Uganda People's Defence Force, is sent out to destroy the evil Richard and his Tiger Mafia, a criminal organization that controls the city of Kampala from the shadows. After Captain Alex captures Richard's brother during a commando mission in Wakaliga, losing countless men in the process, Richard sets out for revenge. He sends a female spy to the military camp and seduce Captain Alex for the Tiger Mafia to capture him. Later that night, a scream is heard from the tent, Captain Alex is found dead — but nobody is sure who killed him. Captain Alex's brother, a Ugandan Shaolin Monk nicknamed Bruce U (a play on Bruce Lee as he is known for his exceptional kung fu skills), arrives in Kampala in search of the murderer. After getting into a fight with nearby temple martial artists, he meets the temple's master. Bruce U desperately begs the master to help him on his mission for vengeance, but the master refuses, saying that martial arts should not be used for vengeance and rage, but instead for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Bruce U leaves in frustration, with the master giving him a reminder to bring cake in their next meeting. After spending the night in a tree, Bruce U wakes up and begins his training routine. After starting up a fire to cook some fish, he finds a woman in the grass. The woman is apparently named Ritah, one of Richard's wives who has lost her memory after being shot by Richard (Richard has so many wives they are expendable).

The UPDF, now deprived of a leader as magnificent as Alex, struggles to formulate a capture plan for Richard. However, after analyzing a map of Uganda, they find a jungle area that links to the suspected warehouse that Richard is currently hiding in. Meanwhile, Richard tells Puffs, his subordinate from Russia, to steal a helicopter from the military and bomb Kampala. As Puffs wreaks havoc on Kampala with the helicopter, Bruce U is captured by the Tiger Mafia. Now in the warehouse, Bruce U finds himself face to face with Richard, who commands Puffs' assassins to attack Bruce U and fight him one on one. Bruce U however, challenges all of them at once until he is overwhelmed by one of the assassins' kickboxing style. Just in the nick of time however, the military closes in on the warehouse and forces the Tiger mafia to evacuate. After the Ugandan military tracks down Richard, an action sequence ensues including a number of helicopters, myriad explosions, and an immense body count. Following an extended ambush, a chain reaction kills Puffs and overwhelms Richard to the point where he is wounded and taken into custody, while swearing revenge in the sequel. In the end, however, as the government places Uganda under martial law, no one knows who actually killed Captain Alex.

The film was produced on an estimated US$200 budget. Production began in late 2009 in the ghettos of Nateete. Filmmaker Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana (nicknamed Nabwana IGG) was inspired by his love of Hollywood action movies and martial arts films from childhood. The helicopter scenes in the film were based on Nabwana's experiences during the Ugandan Bush War where he and his brother were chased by a helicopter.

Nabwana shot the film in January 2010 and edited it using a computer he assembled from old parts. The film's props and camera equipment were fabricated from scrap metal at a machine shop next to Nabwana's house. The actors supplied their own costumes; one of them was given a mask so he could play two different roles in the same scene. Squibs used to simulate gunshot wounds were made from condoms filled with red food coloring and tied to fishing lines before being taped to the actors' chests; Nabwana previously used cow blood, but was forced to discontinue it after one of his actors developed tetanus.

Throughout the film, a panpipes cover of the Seal song "Kiss from a Rose" can be heard.

"Who Killed Captain Alex?" has sold over 10,000 copies in DVD sales in Uganda, and pirated copies of the film have sold an estimated 10 times of that amount.

The official trailer of the film uploaded to YouTube on 30 January 2010 quickly developed a cult following and currently has over 4 million views. The film itself was uploaded on Wakaliwood's YouTube channel on March 1, 2015. It currently has over 4.0 million views.

The film was released alongside "Bad Black" in the "Wakaliwood Supa Action Vol. 1" Blu-ray/DVD combo by the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) on 14 May 2019. The Blu-ray release features the option to watch "Who Killed Captain Alex?" with or without the VJ Emmie narration, plus subtitles in 40 languages, and welcome videos by Nabwana IGG for 14 countries.

"Who Killed Captain Alex?" was generally received well by critics and audiences alike, who saw it as an endearing "so bad it's good" experience, despite its limitations.

Nabwana IGG had completed work on the 2010 sequel "Tebaatusasula" (Luganda: "Those Who Were Screwed Over") when a massive power surge in Wakaliga destroyed the hard drive that contained the film footage, resulting in it being a lost film.

On 2 March 2015, Wakaliwood set up a Kickstarter campaign to raise US$160 for the film "Tebaatusasula: Ebola". The studio was able to receive US$13,181 from 374 backers by 1 April. "Tebaatusasula: Ebola" serves as the direct sequel to "Who Killed Captain Alex?" and a remake of the lost "Tebaatusasula" film.

= = = Robert F. Greenhill = = =

Robert F. Greenhill (born 1936) is an American businessman widely credited with helping create and pioneer the modern mergers and acquisitions advisory business on Wall Street. He is the Founder and Chairman of Greenhill & Co., an investment bank headquartered in New York City.

Greenhill was born in 1936 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Yale University in 1958, and he received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 1962, where he was a Baker Scholar.

He joined Morgan Stanley in 1962 and became a partner in 1970. In 1972, he created and directed its mergers and acquisitions department, the first of its kind on Wall Street, during which time he was credited with inventing the modern investment banking analyst program. In the 1980s, he sat on its management committee. From January 1989 to January 1999, he served as its vice chairman, and from January 1991 to June 1993, as its president. From 1993 to 1996, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Smith Barney. He also served on the board of directors of The Travelers Companies during that time.