2011-09-27

181st Fighter Group




181st Intelligence Wing

181st Intelligence Wing
181st Intelligence Wing - Emblem.png
181st Intelligence Wing emblem
Active 1923–present)
Country United States
Branch United States Air Force/Air National Guard
Type Wing
Role Intelligence analysis and information protection
Part of Air National Guard/Air Combat Command
Garrison/HQ Hulman Field, Terre Haute, IN

The United States Air Force's 181st Intelligence Wing is a unit located at Hulman Field, Terre Haute, Indiana. It is one of six Air National Guard wings that works with the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency.

Mission

The 181st IW monitors near real time video feed from unmanned aerial vehicles hovering the skies over any military area of operation. It second mission is to advise the ground commanders on the best way to utilize assets for close air support.

History

The 181st Intelligence Wing, Indiana Air National Guard, dates back to 1921, after Wilbert F. Fagley was given authority to organize Headquarters Battery, 81st Field Artillery in Kokomo, Indiana.

The Unit was redesignated the 137th Observation Squadron before being changed to the 113th Observation Squadron. During 1926, the unit moved to Schoen Field and later to Stout Field, both in Indianapolis. Finally, in 1954 the Wing moved to its present location at Terre Haute International Airport.

The unit served in World War II, flying anti-submarine patrol along the East Coast of the United States and the Gulf of Mexico. The 181st was also activated for the Korean War and the Berlin Crisis of 1961. Additionally, portions of two units within the Wing were activated for Operation Desert Storm. The Wing has served the citizens of Indiana many times during floods and other natural disasters.

Known as the 'Racers,' the Wing participated from 31 August 1995 to 30 August 1997 in a humanitarian deployment to Romania. It also provided security for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Later it deployed to Al Jabar Air Base, Kuwait, on two separate occasions in support of Operation Southern Watch.

In 2001, the 181st Fighter Wing flew Combat Air Patrols over the Midwestern United States less than four hours after the September 11 attacks. The 181st Fighter Wing drastically increased its operations tempo since these terrorist attacks to guard America's skies and protect freedom. The 181st deployed members and equipment to 19 countries to simultaneously supported seven different military operations, including Operation Southern Watch, Operation Northern Watch, Operation Joint Forge, Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Deep Freeze, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

In 2005, the Base Realignment and Closure commission mandated the end of the flying era for the 181st Wing. On 8 September 2007, the 181st Fighter Wing flew their last training mission out of Terre Haute Field International Airport.

The wing squadrons were redesignated, now being an Distributive Ground Station (DGS) and an Air Support Operations Squadron (ASOS). The DGS is an intelligence based mission, monitoring near real time video feed from unmanned aerial vehicles hovering the skies over any military area of operation. The service members process, exploit, and disseminate the video feed, providing intelligence to the ground commanders and fighting forces. The ASOS brings unity to joint forces fighting in the War on Terror. Their mission is to advise the ground commanders on the best way to utilize assets for close air support. On 3 May 2008 the 181st Fighter Wing was re-designated as the 181st Intelligence Wing.

Assignments

Major Command

Previous designations

Squadrons assigned

Bases stationed

Aircraft & missiles operated

Decorations

References

External links


Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/181st_Intelligence_Wing

2011-09-15

Elder-Beerman Stores




Elder-Beerman

Elder-Beerman
Type Subsidiary
Industry Retail
Founded 1883 Dayton, Ohio
Headquarters Dayton, Ohio
Number of locations 55 (2010)
Products Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares.
Parent The Bon-Ton
Website www.elder-beerman.com

Elder-Beerman is a U.S. chain of department stores founded in 1883 and owned by The Bon-Ton. The chain is based primarily in the United States' Midwest region. As of 2009, it comprises sixty-three stores in eight states.

History

In 1883, Elder-Beerman history began when Boston Dry Goods Store opened in Dayton, Ohio, and was later incorporated under the name Elder & Johnston Company. In 1930, After a short career with Elder & Johnston, Arthur Beerman, founder of Elder-Beerman Stores Corp., branched out on his own and by 1945 Beerman Stores was incorporated. In 1953, Beerman formed a partnership with Max Gutmann and together they established the Bee Gee Shoe Corporation, which operated the El-Bee Shoe Outlets and Shoebilee! stores for many years before its recent sale. Beerman and Gutmann spent ten years opening Beerman Stores in suburban areas and expanding their product lines.

Elder-Beerman

In 1962, Beerman Stores merged with Elder & Johnston Company to form the Elder-Beerman. For the next 20 years, the Elder-Beerman Stores Corp. grew to include furniture and home lines, and the company expanded with new stores throughout western Ohio and several surrounding states, competing with its Dayton rival, Rike Kumler. After Arthur Beerman's death in 1970, Max Gutmann was promoted to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In 1985, Herb Glaser was named president and CEO of the department store division. With Herb Glaser as president, Gutmann and Glaser developed the Elder-Beerman franchise through the 1980s and early 1990s. When the company was forced to file for Chapter 11 reorganization in 1995, Max Gutmann and Herb Glaser returned from retirement to turn the company around. During the bankruptcy, Frederick J. Mershad asked to replace Gutmann as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Elder-Beerman has acquired three chains throughout its history: Cincinnati, Ohio based Mabley & Carew in 1978;Terre Haute, IN-based Meis in 1989, and Wheeling, WV-based Stone & Thomas in 1998 .

1999 and 2003 Prototypes

In Fall 1999, Elder-Beerman saw introduction of their new concept in retailing, with the opening of two prototype stores in Warsaw, Indiana, and Frankfort, Kentucky. The prototype included centralized Service Centers that are always staffed; trained Sales Specialists who are committed to serving customers in the store; open-stock cosmetic and shoe departments that allow customers to select items without searching for assistance; courtesy telephones for free local calls; and pager buttons in the women's fitting rooms so customers may page for assistance.

In 2003, Elder-Beerman opened smaller-scale prototypes in Dekalb, Illinois (now Carson Pirie Scott) and Muscatine, Iowa, the latter being the chain's first Iowa location. These stores represented a new marketing strategy of operating smaller-format stores in mid-sized markets.

Today

Elder-Beerman was acquired by The Bon-Ton in 2003. At that point, Elder-Beerman had exited bankruptcy and was in discussions to go private when Bon-Ton stepped in offering more cash for outstanding stock. Today Elder-Beerman operates 63 department stores in 8 states.

References

  1. The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. 2010 Annual Report
  2. The Elder-Beerman Stores Corp | Further Reading: International Directory of Company Histories
  3. Elder-Beerman Buying Stone & Thomas. | Daily News Record | Find Articles at BNET.com

Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder-Beerman

2010-020D




Akatsuki (spacecraft)

Akatsuki
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Operator Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Mission type Orbiter
Satellite of Venus
Orbital insertion date 2010-12-06 23:49:00 UTC (anticipated)
Launch date 2010-05-20 21:58:22 UTC
Carrier rocket H-IIA 202
Launch site Tanegashima Space Center
Tanegashima, Japan
Mission duration ~2 years
elapsed: 1 year, 3 months and 26 days
COSPAR ID 2010-020D
Homepage Venus Climate Orbiter
Mass 320 kg (710 lb)
Power 1,200 W
Orbital elements
Eccentricity 0.992
Inclination 172 degrees
Apoapsis 79,000 km (49,000 mi)
Periapsis 300 km (190 mi)
Orbital period 30 hours
References:

Akatsuki (あかつき, 暁, literally "dawn"), formerly known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C, is a Japanese unmanned spacecraft which was intended to explore Venus. It was launched aboard an H-IIA 202 rocket on 20 May 2010, after being delayed because of weather from its initial 18 May scheduled target. The total launch mass of the spacecraft including propellant was 480 kg, 34 kg out of this was scientific instruments. The mission reached Venus on 7 December 2010 (JST) but failed to enter orbit around the planet. It had been intended to conduct scientific research for two or more years from an elliptical orbit ranging from 300 km to 80,000 km from Venus.

Akatsuki is Japan's first planetary exploration mission since the Nozomi probe, which was launched in 1998 but failed to go into a Mars orbit in 2003 as planned.

Design

The mass of the spacecraft is 640 kg (1,400 lb), including 320 kg (710 lb) of propellants and 34 kg (75 lb) of scientific instruments.

The main bus is a 1.6 m x 1.6 m x 1.25 m box with two solar arrays, each with an area of 1.4 m (15 sq ft). The solar array panels provide over 1,200 watts of power in Venus orbit.

Propulsion is provided by a 500 newton (N) bi-propellant, hydrazine / nitrogen tetroxide orbital maneuvering engine and 12 mono-propellant hydrazine reaction control thrusters, eight with 23 N thrust and four with 3 N.

Communications is via a 8 GHz X-band 20 W transponder using the 1.6 m slot array high gain dish antenna used for most telemetry data. Akatsuki also has a pair of medium gain horn antennas mounted on turntables and two low gain antennas for command uplink. The medium gain horn antennas will be used for housekeeping data downlink when the high gain antenna is not facing Earth.

Instruments

The scientific payload consists of six instruments including a Lightning and airglow camera (LAC), an ultraviolet imager (UVI), a longwave infrared camera (LIR), a 1-μm camera (IR1), a 2-μm camera (IR2), and the radio science (RS) experiment. The five cameras will explore Venus in wavelengths from ultraviolet to the mid-infrared.

The LAC will look for lightning in the visible wavelengths of 552 to 777 nanometers. The LIR will study the structure of high-altitude clouds at a wavelength where they emit heat (10 micrometres). The UVI will study the distribution of specific atmospheric gases such as sulfur dioxide in ultraviolet wavelengths (293 to 365 nanometers). The IR1 will peer through semi-transparent windows in Venus' atmosphere to see heat radiation emitted from Venus' surface rocks (0.9 to 1.01 micrometres) and will help researchers to spot active volcanoes, if they exist. The IR2 will peer through semi-transparent windows in Venus' atmosphere to see heat radiation emitted from the lower reaches of the atmosphere (1.65 to 2.32 micrometres).

Mission

Planned investigations include surface imaging with an infrared camera and experiments designed to confirm the presence of lightning and to determine whether volcanism occurs on the surface.

The budget for this mission is ¥13 billion (US$110 million) for the satellite and ¥12 billion (US$100 million) for the launch.

Public relations

There was a public relations campaign held between October 2009 and January 2010 by The Planetary Society and JAXA, to allow individuals to send their name and a message aboard Akatsuki. Names and messages were printed in fine letters on an aluminum plate and placed aboard Akatsuki. 260,214 people submitted names and messages for the mission. Around 90 aluminum plates were created for the spacecraft, including three aluminum plates in which the images of the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku and her super deformed figure Hachune Miku were printed.

Operation

Launch

Akatsuki left the Sagamihara Campus on 17 March 2010, and arrived at the Tanegashima Space Center's Spacecraft Test and Assembly Building 2 on 19 March. On 4 May, Akatsuki was encapsulated inside the large payload fairing of the H-IIA rocket that launched the spacecraft, along with the IKAROS solar sail, on a 6-month journey to Venus. On 9 May, the payload fairing was transported to the Tanegashima Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, where the fairing was mated to the H-IIA launch vehicle itself. The spacecraft was launched on May 20, 2010 at 21:58:22 (UTC) from the Tanegashima Space Center.

Orbit insertion failure

Akatsuki was planned to initiate orbit insertion operations by igniting the orbital maneuvering engine at 23:49:00 on 6 December UTC. The burn was supposed to continue for 12 minutes, to an initial orbit of 180,000 – 200,000 km apoapsis / 550 km periapsis / 4 days orbital period around Venus.

The orbit insertion maneuver was confirmed to have started on time. But after the expected blackout due to occultation by Venus, the communication with the probe did not recover as planned. The probe was found to be in safe-hold mode, spin-stabilized state with 10 minutes per rotation. Due to the low communication speed through low-gain antenna, it took a while to determine the state of probe. JAXA stated on December 8, that the probe's orbital insertion maneuver has failed. At a press conference on 10 December, officials reported that Akatsuki's engines fired for less than 3 minutes far short of what was required to enter into Venus orbit.

JAXA is developing plans to attempt another orbital insertion burn when the probe returns to Venus in 6 years. This requires placing the probe into a hibernation state to prolong its life beyond the original 4.5 year design. JAXA expressed some confidence in keeping the probe operational, pointing to reduced battery wear, since the probe is orbiting the Sun instead of its intended Venusian orbit.

See also

References

External links


Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki_(spacecraft)

2011-09-09

Apalina

Reghin

Reghin
Szászrégen
Municipality

Coat of arms
Location of Reghin
Coordinates: 46°46′33″N 24°42′30″E / 46.77583°N 24.70833°ECoordinates: 46°46′33″N 24°42′30″E / 46.77583°N 24.70833°E
Country Romania
County Mureş County
Status Municipality
Government
- Mayor András Nagy (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania)
Area
- Total 56.09 km (21.7 sq mi)
Population (2003)
- Total 36,173
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Website http://www.primariareghin.ro/

Reghin (Romanian pronunciation: ; Hungarian: Szászrégen, Hungarian pronunciation: [’saːsreːɡɛn] or Régen; German: (Sächsisch) Regen) is a city and municipality in Mureş county in Romania, on the Mureş River in Transylvania. It is the place of origin of the Sasregen Hasidic Jewish dynasty. It had a population of approximately 35,700 in 2004.

Location

Reghin lies 29 km north-northeast of Târgu Mureş, extending on both shores of the Mureş River, at the confluence with the Gurghiu River. It was created by the 1926 union of the German-inhabited (formerly Szászrégen) and the Hungarian-inhabited (formerly Magyarrégen) city, and later joined with the two smaller communities of Apalina (Hungarian: Abafája; German: Bendorf) and Iernuţeni (Hungarian: Radnótfája; German: Etschdorf), added in 1956.

History

Reghin was first mentioned in 1228 in a charter of Hungarian King Andrew II as Regun - however, evidence of its strategic location and defence system suggests that the town might have been considerably older, possibly founded during by Ladislaus I.

Despite the devastations of the city during the Mongol invasion (1241) and during the Tatar and Cuman incursions (1285), the town developed rapidly: already in the second half of the 13th century the city was the residence and power centre of the families Tomaj and Kacsik, to whom the nearby lands were awarded by the Hungarian Crown. Reghin became a minor ecclesiastical centre in 1330, with the building of the Gothic church (Roman Catholic at the time, it now serves the Protestant community) in the German part of the city; it is still the largest church in the area, and hosts the oldest Medieval Latin inscription of any church in Transylvania. The Hungarian part of the city has an even older church, initially built in the Romanesque style.

At the beginning of the 15th century the settlement gained city rights, and, from 1427, the right to hold fairs. In the 16th and 17th century Reghin was devastated by Habsburg and Ottoman troops on several occasions. It burned to the ground in 1848. In 1910, the population of the city included 7,310 inhabitants, of which 2,994 were Germans (Transylvanian Saxons), 2,947 Hungarians, and 1,311 Romanians. [1]

In 1920 Reghin was assigned to Romania by the Treaty of Trianon, together with the rest of Transylvania. In 1940, as result of the Second Vienna Award, the city became part of Hungary, together with the North of Transylvania. Almost 30% of the inhabitants were Jews at that time. In May 1944, the Jews were gathered in the ghetto of Reghin and on June 4, 1944 were deported to Auschwitz. In 1945 the city again became part of Romania.

After World War II, Reghin lost some of its former Transylvanian Saxon character - as many Germans left for Western Germany during the latter stages of Communist Romania - and ethnic Romanians were settled in their place. The data of the 1992 census showed a population of 24,601 Romanians, 12,471 Hungarian, 1,790 Roma, and 346 Germans.

Demographics

Ethnic groups (2002 census ):

Landmarks

Traditional German architectural heritage:

Traditional Hungarian architectural heritage:

Traditional Romanian architectural heritage:

New landmarks:

People

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Reghin is twinned with:

Images

See also

Notes

  1. 2002 Census





Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reghin

Abbott Lawrence Pattison

Abbott Lawrence Pattison

Abbott Lawrence Pattison (1916 Chicago - 1999) was an American abstract artist. His sculpture, Kneeling Women, won the 1942 Logan Medal of the Arts.

Life

He graduated from Yale University with a BA and BFA. He served in the US Navy in World War II. He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. He lived in Winnetka, Illinois, from 1958 until 1993. He moved to Maine.

His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.

References

Extenrla links






Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_Lawrence_Pattison

Castnia melanolimbata

Duboisvalia ecuadoria

Duboisvalia ecuadoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Castniidae
Genus: Duboisvalia
Species: D. ecuadoria
Binomial name
Duboisvalia ecuadoria
(Westwood, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Castnia ecuadoria Westwood, 1877
  • Castnia buckleyi Druce, 1883
  • Gazera albicornis Houlbert, 1917
  • Castnia melanolimbata Strand, 1913
  • Castnia pellonia Druce, 1890
  • Castnia coarctifascia Talbot, 1929
  • Gazera plethoneura Bryk, 1930
  • Castnia strandi Niepelt, 1914
  • Castnia truxilla Westwood, 1877
  • Castnia truxilla fassli Pfeiffer, 1914
  • Castnia pellonia catenigera Pfeiffer, 1917
  • Castnia pellonia extensa Pfeiffer, 1917
  • Castnia pellonia punctimargo Rothschild, 1919

Duboisvalia ecuadoria is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.

Subspecies

References






Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duboisvalia_ecuadoria

Castnia coarctifascia

Duboisvalia ecuadoria

Duboisvalia ecuadoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Castniidae
Genus: Duboisvalia
Species: D. ecuadoria
Binomial name
Duboisvalia ecuadoria
(Westwood, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Castnia ecuadoria Westwood, 1877
  • Castnia buckleyi Druce, 1883
  • Gazera albicornis Houlbert, 1917
  • Castnia melanolimbata Strand, 1913
  • Castnia pellonia Druce, 1890
  • Castnia coarctifascia Talbot, 1929
  • Gazera plethoneura Bryk, 1930
  • Castnia strandi Niepelt, 1914
  • Castnia truxilla Westwood, 1877
  • Castnia truxilla fassli Pfeiffer, 1914
  • Castnia pellonia catenigera Pfeiffer, 1917
  • Castnia pellonia extensa Pfeiffer, 1917
  • Castnia pellonia punctimargo Rothschild, 1919

Duboisvalia ecuadoria is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.

Subspecies

References






Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duboisvalia_ecuadoria

Bezidu Nou

Sângeorgiu de Pădure

Sângeorgiu de Pădure
Erdőszentgyörgy
Town
Landscape near the town

Coat of arms
Coordinates: 46°25′49″N 24°50′30″E / 46.43028°N 24.84167°E
Country Romania
County Mureş County
Status Town
Government
- Mayor András Tar (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania)
Area
- Total 7,142 km (2,757.5 sq mi)
Population (2002)
- Total 5,492
- Density 78/km (202/sq mi)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code 547535
Area code(s) +40 265
Website Mayor's Office website

Sângeorgiu de Pădure (Hungarian: Erdőszentgyörgy, Hungarian pronunciation: [’ɛrdøːsɛnɟørɟ], meaning "St. George of the Forest") is a town in Mureş County, Romania.

Bezid (Bözöd), Bezidu Nou (Bözödújfalu) and Loţu (Lóc) villages are administratively part of the town.

History

The first written record of the town is preserved in a papal tithe applotment list from 1333 in which mention is made of a priest „de Sancto Georgio” who paid a sum of 6 dinars to the neighboring diocese. In 1347, a man named Erdő, count of the Székelys, and the sons of Erdő of Erdőszentgyörgy were mentioned. In 1442, Anna Herepei, wife of Erdő of Erdewzenthgergh is written about. The village was the estate of Francis I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania. The Rédey castle was built in 1647. In 1788, Péter Bodor was born here. In 1818-1809, the Rédey castle was rebuilt. In 1913, the official Hungarian name of the village is Erdőszentgyörgy.

Its Romanian name was originally Erdeo-Sângeorgiu, after 1919 Sîngeorgiul de Pădure which later was changed by Romanian authorities to the current official name.

In the mid-1780s as part of the Josephine administrative reform, Marosszék was integrated into Küküllő county, however, the szék-system was restored in 1790. After the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1849, the village formed part of the Kibéd military sub-division of the Marosvásárhely division in the Udvarhely military district. Between 1861–1876, the former Marosszék was restored. As a result of the administrative reform in 1876, the village fell within Nyárádszereda district of Maros-Torda County in the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, it became part of Romania and fell within Mureş-Turda County during the interwar period. In 1940, the Second Vienna Award granted the Northern Transylvania to Hungary and it was held by Hungary until 1944. Administered by the Soviet authorities after 12 November 1944, the village, together with the rest of Northern Transylvania, came under Romanian administration on 13 March 1945 and became officially part of Romania in 1947. Between 1952 and 1960, the commune fell within the Magyar Autonomous Region, between 1960 and 1968 the Mureş-Magyar Autonomous Region. In 1968, the province was abolished, and since then, the settlement has been part of Mureş County. It became a town in 2004.

The grave of Claudia Rhedey, grandmother of Queen Mary of England, is placed in the crypt of the Reformed church which was renovated in 1936 from donation of Queen Mary of England, great-granddaughter of count Rhedey and grandmother of Queen Elisabeth II of Great Britain.British Royal Family.

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority.

In 1900, the village had, in order of population size, 4,131 Hungarian (91,23%) and 352 Romanian (7,77%) inhabitants. In 1930, the census indicated 2,954 Hungarians (61,17%), 1,194 Romanians (24,73%), 334 Jews (6,92%) and 334 Gypsies (6,92%). As of the 2002 census, 4,169 (75,547%) residents reported themselves as Hungarian, while 1,096 Romanian (19,95%) and 244 Gypsy. As of 2002, 2,121 households were registered in the town along with 1,912 residential buildings.

Historical population of Sângeorgiu de Pădure
1850188019001910193019561977199220022007
3 3543 8824 2774 5284 8296 3605 7145 7155 4925 571

The 2002 Census reported Calvinism being professed by 54.71% of the total population, while 19.61% of the respondents belonged to the Romanian Orthodox Church, 10.34% of the respondents reported themelves as Unitarian, 8.55% as Roman Catholic and 1.07 % as Baptist.

Politics

The local Municipal Assembly has 15 members divided into 6 political parties:

Landmarks

Notable people

Twinnings

The town is twinned with:

See also

References

External links






Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A2ngeorgiu_de_P%C4%83dure

Castnia walkeri

Yagra fonscolombe

Yagra fonscolombe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Castniidae
Genus: Yagra
Species: Y. fonscolombe
Binomial name
Yagra fonscolombe
(Godart, [1824])
Synonyms
  • Castnia fonscolombe Godart, [1824]
  • Athis jäpyx Hübner, [1825]
  • Castnia kirstenii Thon, 1829
  • Castnia walkeri Strand, 1913 (nom. nud.)

Yagra fonscolombe is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Brazil.

References






Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagra_fonscolombe

Castnia kirstenii

Yagra fonscolombe

Yagra fonscolombe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Castniidae
Genus: Yagra
Species: Y. fonscolombe
Binomial name
Yagra fonscolombe
(Godart, [1824])
Synonyms
  • Castnia fonscolombe Godart, [1824]
  • Athis jäpyx Hübner, [1825]
  • Castnia kirstenii Thon, 1829
  • Castnia walkeri Strand, 1913 (nom. nud.)

Yagra fonscolombe is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Brazil.

References






Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagra_fonscolombe

Edmund Ward

Heinemann (publisher)

Heinemann
Heinemann IG websafe.gif
Parent company Pearson (UK education)
Random House (UK trade)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US education)
Founded 1890
Founder William Heinemann
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location London (UK)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire (US)
Official website www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk (UK education)
www.randomhouse.co.uk (UK trade)
heinemann.com (US education)

Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890. On William Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S. publisher Doubleday. It was later acquired by commemorate Thomas Tilling in 1961. BTR bought Thomas Tilling in 1983, and were not interested in its publishing division, so Heinemann was put on the block.

Heinemann was purchased by the Octopus Publishing Group in 1985; Octopus was purchased by Reed International (now Reed Elsevier) in 1987. Random House bought Heinemann's trade publishing (now named William Heinemann) in 1997. Heinemann's educational unit became part of Harcourt Education when Reed Elsevier purchased the company in 2001. Pearson purchased the UK, South African, Australian and New Zealand arms of Harcourt Education in May 2007, while Houghton Mifflin purchased the American operations a few months later.

Today

Heinemann is now a leading educational publisher, formerly part of Harcourt Education, and has also been a pioneer in recruiting developing world authors and publishing especially in Africa. Heinemann Kenya is a (now locally owned) spin off from this pioneering stance. Heinemann was awarded the 1992 Worldaware Award for Social progress in recognition of this role.

It is best known among educators and learners in the United Kingdom and in Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand. It publishes for the Primary and Secondary school curriculum in the UK, as well as for further education and vocational colleges. It has a similar market profile in Australia. Heinemann Southern Africa publishes for southern African schools, colleges, technikons and universities.

History

Famous authors of the 20th century on their imprint have included:

The publishing house also introduced many translations of the classics into Britain, especially the pioneering translations from Russian by Constance Garnett.

External links

Official website (UK education)
Official website (UK trade)
Official website (US)






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