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= = = Delik-e Tayebi = = = |
Delik-e Tayebi (, also Romanized as Delīk-e Ţayebī) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 32, in 8 families. |
= = = Delik = = = |
Delik () may refer to: |
= = = Dam Tang-e Hermu-ye Mahtab = = = |
Dam Tang-e Hermu-ye Mahtab (, also Romanized as Dam Tang-e Hermū-ye Mahtāb) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
= = = Dam Tang-e Nal Ashkenan-e Mahtab = = = |
Dam Tang-e Nal Ashkenan-e Mahtab (, also Romanized as Dam Tang Naʿl Ashkenān-e Mahtāb) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 16, in 5 families. |
= = = Dasht-e Azadi-ye Javardeh = = = |
Dasht-e Azadi-ye Javardeh (, also Romanized as Dasht-e Āzādī-ye Jāvardeh; also known as Dast Āzādī) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 670, in 119 families. |
= = = Sarah Bixby Smith = = = |
Sarah Bixby Smith (1871–1935) was a California writer and an advocate of women's education. "Adobe Days", her memoir of growing up in southern California, is considered a classic of the genre. |
Sarah Hathaway Bixby Smith was born at Rancho San Justo near San Juan Bautista, California, in 1871. Her parents were Llewellyn Bixby, a rancher, and Mary Hathaway Bixby. Llewellyn Bixby was a sheepman, and with other members of the Bixby family had come to California in 1852, driving sheep and cattle from the East. Llewellyn, together with his brother Jotham and three cousins (John William Bixby, Thomas Flint, and Benjamin Flint), formed the Flint-Bixby Company in 1855 to buy land to run their livestock. By the mid-1880s they had amassed large landholdings: in addition to Rancho San Justo were Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach, California (both now run as museums), Rancho San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana, and part of Rancho de los Palos Verdes. Sarah spent her childhood on the San Justo, Los Cerritos, and Los Alamitos ranches. |
She earned her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1894 and became a writer and advocate for women's independence and higher education. |
Bixby Smith wrote both lyric poetry and nonfiction. Her volumes of poetry include "My Sage-brush Garden" (1924), "Pasear" (1926), "Wind Upon My Face" (1930), and "The Bending Tree" (1933). |
Bixby Smith is best known for three highly personal memoirs of California history. The first, "A Little Girl of Old California" (1920), was a brief memoir of her girlhood, later expanded into the book "Adobe Days" (1925). "Adobe Days" uses details of Smith's childhood on the family sheep ranches to tell the intertwined stories of the pioneering Bixby family as it rose to prominence in California and the development of Los Angeles from its frontier-town days to the end of the 19th century. It has been called "deservedly a classic of California autobiography ... [capturing] perfectly that intersection of civilization and frontier, New Englandism and Spanish Southwest, which turn-of-the-century California defined as its own special heritage." She also wrote "Milestones in Los Angeles: Being a Brief Narrative of Los Angeles Through Five Decades" (ca. 1933). At the time of her death, she was working on a book about the history of southern California. |
Bixby Smith collaborated with second husband Paul Jordan-Smith on a manifesto extolling an elevated and spiritual feminism. Entitled "The Soul of Woman: An Interpretation of the Philosophy of Feminism", it was published under his name in 1916. |
Bixby Smith was involved with women's groups and served at various times as president of the Friday Morning Club and vice-president of the American Association of University Women. She was also a trustee of Scripps College and a member of the Claremont School Board and the Historical Society of Southern California board. In the early 1930s, she was a delegate to the Pacific Relations Conference in Shanghai. |
Bixby Smith was an amateur painter of landscapes and portraits in a realist style that hearkens back to the mid-nineteenth century. Her paintings prompted her second husband Paul Jordan-Smith's Disumbrationism hoax. |
Bixby Smith was married and divorced twice. In 1896, she married Arthur Maxson Smith. With her inherited wealth, she financed Arthur’s graduate divinity school studies at the University of Chicago and Harvard on his way to becoming a Unitarian minister. In 1900, they moved to Hawaii for two years when Arthur was appointed the head of Honolulu’s Oahu College and Punahou School. They returned to the mainland as a result of Arthur's liaisons with Oahu College students and moved to Claremont, California, where Arthur taught philosophy at Pomona College from 1904 to 1909. They commissioned architect Arthur B. Benton to build them a 14-room mansion on 20 acres directly across the street from the campus. |
In 1909, when Bixby Smith discovered that her husband had been having an affair with the children's au pair, she helped him to get a new position in northern California at the First Unitarian Church in Berkeley. Smith's life became more complicated when she got romantically involved with Paul Jordan-Smith, a married minister at the same church, who was also a graduate student in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. When their liaison was discovered, the English Department faculty voted not to renew his fellowship. |
After Bixby Smith's 1916 divorce from Arthur and marriage the same year to Paul, the couple moved with the children to her mansion in Claremont, which had in the meantime been turned into a school for boys by W. E. Garrison. In 1917, the school's lease ended and they began renovating the house back into a private residence, which they named Erewhon on completion. Around this time, they met and subsequently became friends with one of Bixby Smith's cousins, the photographer Edward Weston, who made a photographic portrait of her around 1919. There are also a number of Weston photographs of bathers shot around Erewhon's indoor pool. Later, the couple moved to a mansion on Los Feliz Boulevard in Los Angeles, where their dinner parties were famous for bringing members of the city's bohemian circles together with the ruling oligarchy. Eventually, Paul left Bixby Smith and they got divorced. |
From her marriage to Arthur Maxson Smith, she had five children: Arthur Jr. (known as Maxson), Bradford, Llewellyn, Roger, and Janet. Her marriage to Paul added his three children from a prior marriage to the household: Isabel, Ralph, and Wilbur Smith. |
Bixby Smith died of a trichinosis infection in Long Beach, California, on September 13, 1935, at the age of 64. |
Bixby Smith's correspondence, along with photographs, press clippings, and other documents, are in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Los Angeles. Rancho Los Cerritos (now run as a museum) houses the Sarah Bixby Smith Manuscript Collection and has four of her oil paintings on display. |
= = = Claude Bertrand (actor) = = = |
Claude Bertrand (24 March 1919—14 December 1986) was a French film, television and voiceover actor. |
In a career that has spanned four decades, Bertrand was best known in French film and television as a voice over actor. He was the French dub for Roger Moore, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, Bud Spencer and Burt Lancaster. He also shared his voice in animation, he provided the voice of Baloo in the French version of The Jungle Book, O'Malley in The Aristocats and Little John in Robin Hood. He also voiced Captain Haddock in Tintin and the Temple of the Sun and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks. |
He also dubbed Roger Moore into French in the James Bond series between 1973 and 1985. |
Bertrand died in 1986 after suffering from cancer. |
= = = Do Bandab Chati-ye Mahtab = = = |
Do Bandab Chati-ye Mahtab (, also Romanized as Do Bandāb Chātī-ye Mahtāb) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 22, in 5 families. |
= = = Faryab Tut = = = |
Faryab Tut (, also Romanized as Fāryāb Tūt; also known as Pāryāb Tūt) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 224, in 41 families. |
= = = Steve Rizzo = = = |
Steve Rizzo is an American motivational speaker, author, and former stand-up comedian, who is notable for his humorous style of motivational speaking and writing. Rizzo is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and an inductee of its "Council of Peers Award for Excellence" (CPAE) Speaker Hall of Fame. His book, "Becoming a Humor Being: The Power to Choose a Better Way" won the Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards. |
Steve Rizzo is a native of Brooklyn in New York City. While growing up, "Rizzo was [once] told by a [high school] guidance counselor that he didn't have the intelligence for college." He went on to study at the Long Island University C. W. Post Campus, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and Education (with Honors) and Master of Arts in Theater Arts. |
Rizzo was once an English teacher for the 7th and 8th grade students at West Babylon Junior High School in West Babylon, New York, and counselor to students with behavioral problems in the 9th to 12th grades. He later became a comedian, and was roommate to Drew Carey, had Dennis Miller and Rosie O'Donnell open shows for him and shared the stage with Eddie Murphy, Rodney Dangerfield, Jerry Seinfeld and Ellen DeGeneres before moving on to become a motivational speaker. Rizzo left a promising career of over 18 years in stand-up comedy to pursue a new career in motivational speaking; he became a professional speaker in 1994. |
As a stand-up comic, Rizzo performed at various comedy clubs, including the Pittsburgh Comedy Club in Dormont and the Improv. He also was featured in many television comedy shows, including An Evening at the Improv, Showtime Special, The Comedy Channel and Fox TV's "Comic Strip Live". In "The Pittsburgh Press" of June 2, 1983, Lenny Litman described Rizzo's comedy style as "whip-cracking satire cushioned with warm and funny stories." |
While Rizzo was transitioning from being a stand-up comedian to a motivational speaker, after one of his shows at a New Jersey comedy club, he met Al Parinello, president of the National Speakers Association (NSA)—New Jersey chapter, he encouraged Rizzo to attend a workshop of the National Speakers Association. After the workshop, Rizzo was asked to present "How to Add Humor to Your Presentations" at a national convention of the National Speakers Association. At this transitioning period, Rizzo also met Nancy Lauterbach, the founder of Five Star Speakers and Trainers after a show in Orlando, Florida, and according to Kelli Vrla in "Speaker" (a publication of National Speakers Association) of September 2010, "she took him under her wing and helped him structure his presentation. In his first showcase, Rizzo ranked dead last out of 23 speakers because he tried to sound like a "serious motivational speaker." He soon realized his humor was the key to his authenticity. "I was light years ahead of many professional speakers because I had command of an audience," Rizzo says. When Rizzo incorporated humor in his next showcase, buyers immediately hired him. He signed an exclusive agreement with Five Star, and his speaking business took off. Rizzo credits Lauterbach with helping him establish a foothold in his new career." |
Rizzo had a PBS Special which he created by himself, and he was also the executive producer. In an article published on December 08, 2006 by Oprah Radio (via Oprah.com), Mehmet Oz wrote that "Steve Rizzo is the author of "Becoming a Humor Being", and the creator and executive producer of his own nationally syndicated PBS special. After doing stand-up comedy for many years, Steve transitioned to being a professional humorist speaker." A publication by McGraw-Hill (introducing Rizzo's book, "Get Your SHIFT Together: How to Think, Laugh, and Enjoy Your Way to Success in Business and in Life") says, "[Rizzo reaches] well over 50,000 people a year through his talks and weekly Rizzo-Gram e-mails." |
Rizzo was featured on MSNBC and Oprah and Friends radio network as a consultant. In the introduction of Rizzo's book, "Get Your SHIFT Together: How to Think, Laugh, and Enjoy Your Way to Success in Business and in Life", published on the website of McGraw-Hill, Rizzo is described as ""The Attitude Adjuster", is a personal development expert whose clients include American Airlines, BP, JPMorgan Chase, Scholastic, and Sprint, among others. As a standup comic, he has headlined with many titans of comedy, including Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, Drew Carey, and Ellen DeGeneres." |
At a National Association of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM)'s event in 2002, Rizzo was a keynote speaker. While addressing the members of the association on "How to be a Humor Being", he described himself as a "Professional Humor Being (PhB)". Rizzo was also a speaker at ISPA EXPO 2006, where he "kept his [International Sleep Products Association] audience laughing while they learned how to deal with every-day stressors and embrace change in their lives during the ISPA Industry Breakfast." At the "Community Leaders Breakfast" at the Decatur Confenrence Center and Hotel in Decatur, Illinois in 2008, "Rizzo spoke of the benefits of unleashing your "humor being" as a way to bring out the best in yourself during trying times." Rizzo was also a speaker at "Surf Summit 13", an event organized jointly by the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) and the Board Retailers Association (BRA), which was held in Los Cabos, Mexico in 2010; he made a presentation on "The Atti-Tools for Success". |
Rizzo has written some notable inspirational books, including: |
In the description of Rizzo's book, "Get Your SHIFT Together: How to Think, Laugh, and Enjoy Your Way to Success in Business and in Life", published on the website of McGraw-Hill, Mehmet Oz is quoted to have said that "Through shifting your focus and way of thinking, Steve Rizzo shows how to succeed on all levels of life, while actually enjoying the process. What could be better?! You will love the truth, the humor, and the wisdom this book contains." |
Rizzo is an inductee of the National Speakers Association's "Council of Peers Award for Excellence" (CPAE) Speaker Hall of Fame, "a lifetime award for speaking excellence and professionalism." |
The Writer's Digest magazine awarded Rizzo's book, "Becoming a Humor Being: The Power to Choose a Better Way" with its 10th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards in the inspirational books category. |
= = = Piper–Beebe House = = = |
The Piper–Beebe House, located at 2 S. A St. in Virginia City, Nevada, is a historic Italianate house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was an 1876 work of Virginia City builder/architect A.F. MacKay, the only one of his works in Virginia City that survives. It was built after the "Great Fire" of 1875 that destroyed much of the city. |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It has also been known as the Piper–Clegg House. It is also listed on the National Register as a contributing building within the National Historic Landmark Virginia City Historic District. It was deemed significant for association with its owners and for its architecture. |
= = = Nepal Government Railway = = = |
The Nepal Government Railway (NGR) was Nepal's first railway. Established in 1927 and closed in 1965, it linked Amlekhganj with Raxaul across the border in India in the south. The narrow gauge railway was 47 km long. |
In 1923, a short narrow gauge railway was built by J. V. Collier of the Indian Forest Service to transport Nepalese timber to India. Collier had been assigned by Nepal's Rana prime minister to manage the forest department in Nepal. In the winter of 1924, Martin and Co. of Kolkata conducted a survey to construct a light railway from the border north to Bichako (Amlekhganj). |
Construction began in March 1926, and the Nepal Government Railway opened on 16 February 1927. The narrow gauge railway used a track gauge of . The railway possessed seven steam locomotives, 12 coaches and 82 wagons. It operated steam-powered Garratt locomotives manufactured by Beyer, Peacock and Company of the United Kingdom. |
Until the highway was built, the Amlekhganj-Raxaul railway was the only route indirectly connecting the capital Kathmandu with India. From Kathmandu, travellers journeyed over the hills on foot, and then by lorry to Amlekhganj where they took the train to India. The need to walk was eliminated after Tribhuvan Highway linking Kathmandu with Amlekhganj was built in 1956. The first daily bus service began operating on it in 1959, conducted by a private company named Nepal Transport Service. |
The Nepal Government Railway remained in service till 1965 when the construction of the highway linking the southern border made it redundant. The railway was closed down 1965 subsequently. |
The Nepal Government Railway appears in the opening scenes of the first Nepali film "Aama" ("Mother") made by the government of Nepal and released in 1964. It shows the hero, a Gurkha soldier returning to Nepal on leave, travelling on the train as he heads for home. |
= = = Javardeh, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad = = = |
Javardeh (, also Romanized as Jāvardeh and Jāvar Deh) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,582, in 239 families. |
= = = Leilane Neubarth = = = |
Leilane Neubarth Teixeira (Rio de Janeiro-RJ, November 15, 1958) is a Brazilian journalist, news presenter and writer. |
Neubarth was born in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of an Ad Executive father and a speech therapist mother. Her parents moved to Brasilia while she was still a child and she grew up there. Leilane made her television career debut in 1979 at Rede Globo as a trainee, while still in university. In 1982, after graduation, Neubarth moved back to Rio de Janeiro, seeking for better career opportunities. She achieved a deep interest in news covering. In 1986, she married the SporTV production designer, Olivio Petit, with whom she remains married until now. |
During her years, Neubarth was developing a new type of journalism, very fit to plenty different sorts of coverage, from documentaries to interviews, daily news programs and music events, such as Rock in Rio. In 1990, she left Globo and joined Rede Manchete, where she hosted a Sunday night show, focused on many issues and sorts of news. A year later, Globo invited her back to present their Sunday night show "Fantástico". Years later, following her instinct of daily journalism, Leilane began presenting Bom Dia Brasil with Renato Machado from its studios in Rio de Janeiro. In 1999, she had a participation in the Granada-Dakar Rally as the navigator, which she published her experiences in the book "Faróis de Milha", in 2000. |
Later, Neubarth moved to Globonews, the Cable TV channel from "Rede Globo", where she currently presents the news at 18:00. |
= = = Gol Zadini-ye Zirkal = = = |
Gol Zadini-ye Zirkal (, also Romanized as Gol Zadanī-ye Zīrkal; also known as Gol Zadanī) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 21, in 6 families. |
= = = Gashtiari = = = |
Gashtiari (, also Romanized as Gashtīārī) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 142, in 29 families. |