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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.
Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family. His maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a nobleman of African origin who was kidnapped from his homeland by Ottomans, then freed by the Russian Emperor and raised in the Emperor's court household as his godson.
He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycée, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his exile by Emperor Alexander I. While under strict surveillance by the Emperor's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, Boris Godunov. His novel in verse Eugene Onegin was serialized between 1825 and 1832. Pushkin was fatally wounded in a duel with his wife's alleged lover and her sister's husband, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, also known as Dantes-Gekkern, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment.
Ancestry
Pushkin's father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848), was descended from a distinguished family of the Russian nobility that traced its ancestry back to the 12th century.[10] Pushkin's mother, Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal (1775–1836), was descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian nobility. She was the daughter of Ossip Abramovich Gannibal (1744–1807) and his wife, Maria Alekseyevna Pushkina (1745–1818).
Ossip Abramovich Gannibal's father, Pushkin's great-grandfather, was Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), an Eritrean page kidnapped and taken to Constantinople as a gift for the Ottoman Sultan and later transferred to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. Abram wrote in a letter to Empress Elizabeth, Peter the Great's daughter, that Gannibal was from the town of "Lagon". Largely on the basis of a mythical biography by Gannibal's son-in-law Rotkirkh, some historians concluded from this that Gannibal was born in a village called Geza-Lamza near Dubarwa in the Seraye province of Mdre Bahri kingdom in today's Eritrea.
Vladimir Nabokov, when researching Eugene Onegin, cast serious doubt on this origin theory. Later research by the scholars Dieudonné Gnammankou and Hugh Barnes eventually conclusively established that Gannibal was instead born in Central Africa, in an area bordering Lake Chad in modern-day Cameroon. After education in France as a military engineer, Gannibal became governor of Reval and eventually Général en Chief (the third most senior army rank) in charge of the building of sea forts and canals in Russia.
Early life
Born in Moscow, Pushkin was entrusted to nursemaids and French tutors, and spoke mostly French until the age of ten. He became acquainted with the Russian language through communication with household serfs and his nanny, Arina Rodionovna, whom he loved dearly and to whom he was more attached than to his own mother.
He published his first poem at the age of 15. When he finished school, as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo, near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized on the Russian literary scene. At the Lyceum, he was a student of David Mara, known in Russia as David de Boudry, a younger brother of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of St. Petersburg, which was then the capital of the Russian Empire. In 1820, he published his first long poem, Ruslan and Ludmila, with much controversy about its subject and style.
Social activism
While at the Lyceum, Pushkin was heavily influenced by the Kantian liberal individualist teachings of Alexander Kunitsyn, whom Pushkin would later commemorate in his poem 19 October. Pushkin also immersed himself in the thought of the French Enlightenment, to which he would remain permanently indebted throughout his life, especially Voltaire, whom he described as "the first to follow the new road, and to bring the lamp of philosophy into the dark archives of history".
Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform, and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals. That angered the government and led to his transfer from the capital in May 1820. He went to the Caucasus and to Crimea and then to Kamianka and Chișinău in Bessarabia, where he became a Freemason.
He joined the Filiki Eteria, a secret organization whose purpose was to overthrow Ottoman rule in Greece and establish an independent Greek state. He was inspired by the Greek Revolution and when the war against the Ottoman Empire broke out, he kept a diary recording the events of the national uprising.
Rise
He stayed in Chișinău until 1823 and wrote two Romantic poems which brought him acclaim: The Captive of the Caucasus and The Fountain of Bakhchisaray. In 1823, Pushkin moved to Odessa, where he again clashed with the government, which sent him into exile on his mother's rural estate of Mikhailovskoye, near Pskov, from 1824 to 1826.
In Mikhaylovskoye, Pushkin wrote nostalgic love poems which he dedicated to Elizaveta Vorontsova, wife of Malorossia's General-Governor. Then Pushkin worked on his verse-novel Eugene Onegin.
In Mikhaylovskoye, in 1825, Pushkin wrote the poem To***. It is generally believed that he dedicated this poem to Anna Kern, but there are other opinions. Poet Mikhail Dudin believed that the poem was dedicated to the serf Olga Kalashnikova. Pushkinist Kira Victorova believed that the poem was dedicated to the Empress Elizaveta Alekseyevna. Vadim Nikolayev argued that the idea about the Empress was marginal and refused to discuss it, while trying to prove that poem had been dedicated to Tatyana Larina, the heroine of Eugene Onegin.
Authorities summoned Pushkin to Moscow after his poem Ode to Liberty was found among the belongings of the rebels from the Decembrist Uprising (1825). After his exile in 1820 Pushkin's friends and family continually petitioned for his release, sending letters and meeting Emperor Alexander I and then Emperor Nicholas I on the heels of the Decembrist Uprising. Upon meeting Emperor Nicholas I Pushkin obtained his release from exile and began to work as the emperor's Titular Counsel of the National Archives. However, because insurgents in the Decembrist Uprising (1825) in Saint Petersburg had kept some of Pushkin's earlier political poems, the emperor retained strict control of everything Pushkin published and he was banned from travelling at will.
During that same year (1825) Pushkin also wrote what would become his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov, while at his mother's estate. He could not, however, gain permission to publish it until five years later. The original and uncensored version of the drama was not staged until 2007.
Around 1825–1829 he met and befriended the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, during exile in central Russia. In 1829 he travelled through the Caucasus to Erzurum to visit friends fighting in the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish War. At the end of 1829 Pushkin wanted to set off on a journey abroad, the desire reflected in his poem Let's go, I'm ready. He applied for permission for the journey but received negative response from Nicholas I on 17 January 1830.
Around 1828 Pushkin met Natalia Goncharova, then 16 years old and one of the most talked-about beauties of Moscow. After much hesitation Natalia accepted a proposal of marriage from Pushkin in April 1830, but not before she received assurances that the Tsarist government had no intention of persecuting the libertarian poet. Later Pushkin and his wife became regulars of court society. They officially became engaged on 6 May 1830 and sent out wedding invitations. Owing to an outbreak of cholera and other circumstances, the wedding was delayed for a year. The ceremony took place on 18 February 1831 (Old Style) in the Great Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow.
When the Emperor gave Pushkin the lowest court title, Gentleman of the Chamber, the poet became enraged, feeling that the Emperor intended to humiliate him by implying that he was being admitted to court not on his own merits but solely so that his wife, who had many admirers including the Emperor himself, could properly attend court balls.[citation needed] Pushkin's marriage to Goncharova was largely a happy one, but his wife’s characteristic flirtatiousness and frivolity would lead to his fatal duel seven years later, for Pushkin had a highly jealous temperament.
In 1831, during the period of Pushkin's growing literary influence, he met one of Russia's other great early writers, Nikolai Gogol. After reading Gogol's 1831–1832 volume of short stories Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Pushkin supported him and would feature some of Gogol's most famous short stories in the magazine The Contemporary, which he founded in 1836.
Death
By the autumn of 1836, Pushkin was falling into greater and greater debt and faced scandalous rumours that his wife was having a love affair. On 4 November, he sent a challenge to a duel to Georges d'Anthès, also known as Dantes-Gekkern. Jacob van Heeckeren, d'Anthès' adoptive father, asked that the duel be delayed by two weeks. With efforts by the poet's friends, the duel was cancelled.
On 17 November, d'Anthès proposed to Natalia Goncharova's sister, Ekaterina. The marriage did not resolve the conflict. D'Anthès continued to pursue Natalia Goncharova in public and rumours that d'Anthès had married Natalia's sister just to save her reputation circulated.
On 26 January (7 February in the Gregorian calendar) 1837 Pushkin sent a "highly insulting letter" to Gekkern. The only answer to that letter could be a challenge to a duel, as Pushkin knew. Pushkin received the formal challenge to a duel through his sister-in-law, Ekaterina Gekkerna, approved by d'Anthès, on the same day through the attaché of the French Embassy, Viscount d'Archiac.
Pushkin asked Arthur Magenis, then attaché to the British Consulate-General in Saint Petersburg, to be his second. Magenis did not formally accept but on 26 January (7 February) approached Viscount d'Archiac to attempt a reconciliation; however d'Archiac refused to speak with him as he was not yet officially Pushkin's second. Magenis, unable to find Pushkin in the evening, sent him a letter through a messenger at 2 o'clock in the morning, declining to be his second as the possibility of a peaceful settlement had already been quashed, and the traditional first task of the second was to try to bring about a reconciliation.
The pistol duel with d'Anthès took place on 27 January (8 February) at the Black River, without the presence of a second for Pushkin. The duel they fought was of a kind known as a barrier duel. The rules of this type dictated that the duellists began at an agreed distance. After the signal to begin they walked towards each other, closing the distance. They could fire at any time they wished, but the duellist that shot first was required to stand still and wait for the other to shoot back at his leisure.
D'Anthès fired first, critically wounding Pushkin; the bullet entered at his hip and penetrated his abdomen. D'Anthès was only lightly wounded in the right arm by Pushkin's shot. Two days later, at 2.45 pm on 29 January (10 February), Pushkin died of peritonitis.
At Pushkin's wife's request he was put in the coffin in evening dress, not in chamber-cadet uniform, the uniform provided by the emperor. The funeral service was initially assigned to St Isaac's Cathedral but was moved to Konyushennaya church. Many people attended. After the funeral the coffin was lowered into the basement, where it stayed until 3 February, when it was removed to Pskov province. Pushkin was buried in the grounds of Svyatogorsky monastery in present-day Pushkinskiye Gory, near Pskov, beside his mother. His last home is now a museum.
Pushkin's ancestry
Descendants
Pushkin had four children from his marriage to Natalia: Maria (b. 1832), Alexander (b. 1833), Grigory (b. 1835) and Natalia (b. 1836), the last of whom married morganatically Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau of the House of Nassau-Weilburg and was granted the title of Countess of Merenberg. Her daughter Sophie married Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I.
Only the lines of Alexander and Natalia still remain. Natalia's granddaughter, Nadejda, married into the extended British royal family, her husband being the uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and is the grandmother of the present Marquess of Milford Haven. Descendants of the poet now live around the globe in the United Kingdom, Czechia, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the United States.
Legacy
On 6 June 2009, Google celebrated Alexander Pushkin's Birthday with a doodle.
Literary
Critics consider many of his works masterpieces, such as the poem The Bronze Horseman and the drama The Stone Guest, a tale of the fall of Don Juan. His poetic short drama Mozart and Salieri (like The Stone Guest, one of the so-called four Little Tragedies, a collective characterization by Pushkin himself in 1830 letter to Pyotr Pletnyov) was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer's Amadeus as well as providing the libretto (almost verbatim) to Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart and Salieri.
Pushkin is also known for his short stories. In particular his cycle The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, including The Shot, were well received. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas,
"the narrative logic and the plausibility of that which is narrated, together with the precision, conciseness – economy of the presentation of reality – all of the above is achieved in Tales of Belkin, especially, and most of all in the story The Stationmaster. Pushkin is the progenitor of the long and fruitful development of Russian realist literature, for he manages to attain the realist ideal of a concise presentation of reality".
Pushkin himself preferred his verse novel Eugene Onegin, which he wrote over the course of his life and which, starting a tradition of great Russian novels, follows a few central characters but varies widely in tone and focus.
Onegin is a work of such complexity that, though it is only about a hundred pages long, translator Vladimir Nabokov needed two full volumes of material to fully render its meaning into English. Because of this difficulty in translation, Pushkin's verse remains largely unknown to English readers. Even so Pushkin has profoundly influenced western writers such as Henry James. Pushkin wrote The Queen of Spades, a short story frequently anthologized in English translation.
Musical
Pushkin's works also provided fertile ground for Russian composers. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila is the earliest important Pushkin-inspired opera, and a landmark in the tradition of Russian music. Tchaikovsky's operas Eugene Onegin (1879) and The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya Dama, 1890) became perhaps better known outside of Russia than Pushkin's own works of the same name.
Mussorgsky's monumental Boris Godunov (two versions, 1868–9 and 1871–2) ranks as one of the very finest and most original of Russian operas. Other Russian operas based on Pushkin include Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka and The Stone Guest; Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri, Tale of Tsar Saltan, and The Golden Cockerel; Cui's Prisoner of the Caucasus, Feast in Time of Plague, and The Captain's Daughter; Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa; Rachmaninoff's one-act operas Aleko (based on The Gypsies) and The Miserly Knight; Stravinsky's Mavra, and Nápravník's Dubrovsky.
Additionally, ballets and cantatas, as well as innumerable songs, have been set to Pushkin's verse (including even his French-language poems, in Isabelle Aboulker's song cycle "Caprice étrange"). Suppé, Leoncavallo and Malipiero have also based operas on his works. Composers Yudif Grigorevna Rozhavskaya, Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova, Yevgania Yosifovna Yakhina, Maria Semyonovna Zavalishina, Zinaida Petrovna Ziberova composed folk songs using Pushkin's text.
The Desire of Glory, which has been dedicated to Elizaveta Vorontsova, was set to music by David Tukhmanov (Vitold Petrovsky – The Desire of Glory on YouTube), as well as Keep Me, Mine Talisman – by Alexander Barykin (Alexander Barykin – Keep Me, Mine Talisman on YouTube) and later by Tukhmanov.
Romanticism
Pushkin is considered by many to be the central representative of Romanticism in Russian literature although he was not unequivocally known as a Romantic. Russian critics have traditionally argued that his works represent a path from Neoclassicism through Romanticism to Realism. An alternative assessment suggests that "he had an ability to entertain contrarities which may seem Romantic in origin, but are ultimately subversive of all fixed points of view, all single outlooks, including the Romantic" and that "he is simultaneously Romantic and not Romantic".
Russian literature
Pushkin is usually credited with developing Russian literature. He is seen as having originated the highly nuanced level of language which characterizes Russian literature after him, and he is also credited with substantially augmenting the Russian lexicon. Whenever he found gaps in the Russian vocabulary, he devised calques. His rich vocabulary and highly-sensitive style are the foundation for modern Russian literature. His accomplishments set new records for development of the Russian language and culture. He became the father of Russian literature in the 19th century, marking the highest achievements of the 18th century and the beginning of literary process of the 19th century. He introduced Russia to all the European literary genres as well as a great number of West European writers. He brought natural speech and foreign influences to create modern poetic Russian. Though his life was brief, he left examples of nearly every literary genre of his day: lyric poetry, narrative poetry, the novel, the short story, the drama, the critical essay and even the personal letter.
According to Vladimir Nabokov,
Pushkin's idiom combined all the contemporaneous elements of Russian with all he had learned from Derzhavin, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Karamzin and Krylov:
The poetical and metaphysical strain that still lived in Church Slavonic forms and locutions
Abundant and natural gallicisms
Everyday colloquialisms of his set
Stylized popular speech by combining the famous three styles (low, medium elevation, high) dear to the pseudoclassical archaists and adding the ingredients of Russian romanticists with a pinch of parody.
His work as a critic and as a journalist marked the birth of Russian magazine culture which included him devising and contributing heavily to one of the most influential literary magazines of the 19th century, the Sovremennik (The Contemporary, or Современник). Pushkin inspired the folk tales and genre pieces of other authors: Leskov, Yesenin and Gorky. His use of Russian formed the basis of the style of novelists Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov and Leo Tolstoy, as well as that of subsequent lyric poets such as Mikhail Lermontov. Pushkin was analysed by Nikolai Gogol, his successor and pupil, and the great Russian critic Vissarion Belinsky, who produced the fullest and deepest critical study of Pushkin's work, which still retains much of its relevance.
Soviet centennial celebrations
The centennial year of Pushkin's death, 1937, was one of the most significant Soviet-era literary centennials in Stalinist Russia, rivaled only by the 1928 centennial commemorating Leo Tolstoy's birth. Despite the public display of visage on ever present billboards and candy wrappers, Pushkin's "image" conflicted with that of the ideal Soviet (he was reputed as a libertine with unrepentant aristocratic tendencies) and was subject to a repressive revisionism, similar to the Stalinist state's clean up of Tolstoy's Christian anarchism.
Honours
Shortly after Pushkin's death, contemporary Russian romantic poet Mikhail Lermontov wrote "Death of the Poet". The poem, which ended with a passage blaming the aristocracy being (as oppressors of freedom) the true culprits in Pushkin's death, was not published (nor could have been) but was informally circulated in St. Petersburg. Lermontov was arrested and exiled to a regiment in the Caucasus.
Montenegrin poet and ruler Petar II Petrović-Njegoš included in his 1846 poetry collection Ogledalo srpsko (The Serbian Mirror) a poetic ode to Pushkin, titled Sjeni Aleksandra Puškina.
In 1929, Soviet writer, Leonid Grossman, published a novel, The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel. The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime. In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel. The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk. Pushkin was portrayed on screen by Sergei Bezrukov.
His life was dramatised in the 1951 Australian radio play The Golden Cockerel
In 2000, the Statue of Alexander Pushkin (Washington, D.C.) was erected as part of a cultural exchange between the cities of Moscow and Washington. In return, a statue of the American poet Walt Whitman was erected in Moscow.
The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, is named after him. A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
1999 Russian 1 rouble coin commemorating the 200th anniversary of Pushkin's birth
MS Aleksandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as "poet" or "writer" class).
A station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.
A statue of Pushkin was unveiled inside the Mehan Garden in Manila, Philippines to commemorate the Philippines–Russia relations in 2010.
The Alexander Pushkin diamond, the second largest found in Russia and the former territory of the USSR, was named after him.
On 28 November 2009, a Pushkin Monument was erected in Asmara, capital of Eritrea.
In 2005 a monument to Pushkin and his grandmother Maria Hannibal was commissioned by an enthusiast of Russian culture Just Rugel in Zakharovo, Russia. Sculptor V. Kozinin
In 2019, Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport was named after Pushkin in accordance to the Great Names of Russia contest.
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine monuments dedicated to Pushkin in Ukraine were demolished and Pushkin streets were renamed.
In December 2022, a monument to the poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was unveiled on the territory of Gymnasium No. 1 in Sevastopol. The bust of the poet was created by the sculptor Denis Stritovich.[citation needed]
Gallery
Narrative poems
1820 – Ruslan i Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила); English translation: Ruslan and Ludmila
1820–21 – Kavkazskiy plennik (Кавказский пленник); English translation: The Prisoner of the Caucasus
1821 – Gavriiliada (Гавриилиада); English translation: The Gabrieliad
1821–22 – Bratia razboyniki (Братья разбойники); English translation: The Robber Brothers
1823 – Bakhchisarayskiy fontan (Бахчисарайский фонтан); English translation: The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
1824 – Tsygany (Цыганы); English translation: The Gypsies
1825 – Graf Nulin (Граф Нулин); English translation: Count Nulin
1829 – Poltava (Полтава)
1830 – Domik v Kolomne (Домик в Коломне); English translation: The Little House in Kolomna
1833 – Andzhelo (Анджело); English translation: Angelo
1833 – Medny vsadnik (Медный всадник); English translation: The Bronze Horseman
1825–1832 (1833) – Evgeniy Onegin (Евгений Онегин); English translation: Eugene Onegin
Drama
1825 – Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов); English translation by Alfred Hayes: Boris Godunov
1830 – Malenkie tragedii (Маленькие трагедии); English translation: Little Tragedies [ru]
Kamenny gost (Каменный гость); English translation: The Stone Guest
Motsart i Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери); English translation: Mozart and Salieri
Skupoy rytsar (Скупой рыцарь); English translations: The Miserly Knight, or The Covetous Knight
Pir vo vremya chumy (Пир во время чумы); English translation: A Feast in Time of Plague
Prose
Short stories
1831 – Povesti pokoynogo Ivana Petrovicha Belkina (Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина); English translation: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
Vystrel (Выстрел); English translation: The Shot, short story
Metel (Метель); English translation: The Blizzard, short story
Grobovschik (Гробовщик); English translation: The Undertaker, short story
Stantsionny smotritel (Станционный смотритель); English translation: The Stationmaster, short story
Baryshnya-krestianka (Барышня-крестьянка); English translation: The Squire's Daughter, short story
1834 – Pikovaya dama (Пиковая дама); English translation: The Queen of Spades, short story
1834 – Kirjali (Кирджали); English translation: Kirdzhali, short story
1837 – Istoria sela Goryuhina (История села Горюхина); English translation: The Story of the Village of Goryukhino, unfinished short story
1837 – Egypetskie nochi (Египетские ночи); English translation: The Egyptian Nights
Novels
1828 – Arap Petra Velikogo (Арап Петра Великого); English translation: The Moor of Peter the Great, unfinished novel
1829 – Roman v pis'makh (Роман в письмах); English translation: A Novel in Letters, unfinished novel
1836 – Kapitanskaya dochka (Капитанская дочка); English translation: The Captain's Daughter, novel
1836 – Roslavlyov (Рославлев); English translation: Roslavlev, unfinished novel
1841 – Dubrovsky (Дубровский); English translation: Dubrovsky, unfinished novel[citation needed]
Non-fiction
1834 – Istoria Pugachyova (История Пугачева); English translation: A History of Pugachev, study of the Pugachev's Rebellion
1836 – Puteshestvie v Arzrum (Путешествие в Арзрум); English translation: A Journey to Arzrum, travel sketches
Fairy tales in verse
1822 – Царь Никита и сорок его дочерей; English translation: Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters
1825 – Жених; English translation: The Bridegroom
1830 – Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде; English translation: The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
1830 – Сказка о медведихе; English translation: The Tale of the Female Bear, or The Tale of the Bear (was not finished)
1831 – Сказка о царе Салтане; English translation: The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1833 – Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке; English translation: The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
1833 – Сказка о мертвой царевне; English translation: The Tale of the Dead Princess
1834 – Сказка о золотом петушке; English translation: The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
La Fontaine Saint-Michel (Saint Michael Fountain) was built in 1860 by French architect Davioud. The fountain's centerpiece is a bronze sculpture by Duret, inspired by a RaphaÃŽl painting in the Louvre, depicting St. Michel (St. Michael) slaying the devil over two watching dragons. .
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Boulevard Saint-Michel was created in the 19th century by Baron Haussman to run parallel to Rue Saint-Jacques, which marks the historical North-South axis of Paris. Hausmann commissioned the fountain, which was originally proposed to be of Napoleon I, to serve as a northern terminus point, where it meets Rue Danton, and forms Place St-Michel. La Place St-Michel is the core of the Left Bank's artsy, liberal, bohemian district. It was the location of Les Miz-style citizen uprisings against the government in 1830, 1848 and 1871. In World War II, locals stood up to their Nazi oppressors here. May '68 brought about confrontations between students and university officials. The de Gaulle administration's attempts to quash the strikes with further police action inflamed the situation, leading to street battles, and a general strike of roughly two thirds of the French workforce that nearly toppled the government.
Mining barges back in action, Mandovi River Ferry wharf
Update 4.4.2018
After some miners knocked at SC doors, the Court has now allowed them to transport royalty paid extracted ore lying at the jetty, barges, ports etc
Update 7.3.2018
Supreme Court once again stopped Mining effective 16.3.18 . SC quashed 88 mining leases granted by the Goa government for violating procedure and ordered that fresh licences be granted through a bidding process
However, transportation of Iron ore continued which was later on stopped by High court effective 27.3.18
It was late afternoon in October. A Friday, I believe. The air was thin; the light of the lowering sun fell heavy and bloated amid the shambling foliage drooping and dying its last gasps before onset of Winter’s cold chill blanketed the ridge and the long dark nights descended like a gallows guillotine, sharp and final.
I had come home from school that day to find the house strangely empty. Oh, for certain, there were times my mother would leave on some errand to the neighbors, or go off with some friend from the church for a doctor’s appointment, but she always left a note.
This time there was no note.
A vague uneasiness tried to assert itself then, but I quashed it. It was not that unusual. Nevertheless, I could not shake the sense of ominous foreboding. Something of import was creeping through the air that day, and I did not want to accept it. As I tossed my book bags in the corner and turned on the television, my mind began wandering over the events of the last few months. My mother’s unusual spells of vomiting and incoherence. The general malaise which, while always there, had begun to ripen into the rotting fruit of depression.
I sat unseeing, nibbling some snack crackers, shoving down thoughts of such like into the deep chasm-like hole where I wanted them to stay, but they clung tightly to the sides, incessantly slithering out from whatever lid I tried to cover that hole with.
I waited.
No one came home.
For several hours did I refuse to acknowledge something was even more wrong than it usually was. Never before had I had to wait this long for someone to come home, and the longer it took, the more I insisted to myself that nothing was amiss; nothing untoward had happened.
Suddenly unable to stand the not knowing for a single moment more, I quickly put on my coat and left the house as if it were any other normal day. Certainly this was preferable to jumping up at the sound of every approaching vehicle. Or pacing past the windows, circling the phone, and starting at every vague noise the house belched forth with wicked, sentient regularity.
It was my usual routine to play outside after diner, often exploring the dark hidden recesses around the farm.
excerpt from: "Darkly Springs the Soul" © road less trvled
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.
Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family. His maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a nobleman of African origin who was kidnapped from his homeland by Ottomans, then freed by the Russian Emperor and raised in the Emperor's court household as his godson.
He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycée, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his exile by Emperor Alexander I. While under strict surveillance by the Emperor's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, Boris Godunov. His novel in verse Eugene Onegin was serialized between 1825 and 1832. Pushkin was fatally wounded in a duel with his wife's alleged lover and her sister's husband, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, also known as Dantes-Gekkern, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment.
Ancestry
Pushkin's father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848), was descended from a distinguished family of the Russian nobility that traced its ancestry back to the 12th century.[10] Pushkin's mother, Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal (1775–1836), was descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian nobility. She was the daughter of Ossip Abramovich Gannibal (1744–1807) and his wife, Maria Alekseyevna Pushkina (1745–1818).
Ossip Abramovich Gannibal's father, Pushkin's great-grandfather, was Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), an Eritrean page kidnapped and taken to Constantinople as a gift for the Ottoman Sultan and later transferred to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. Abram wrote in a letter to Empress Elizabeth, Peter the Great's daughter, that Gannibal was from the town of "Lagon". Largely on the basis of a mythical biography by Gannibal's son-in-law Rotkirkh, some historians concluded from this that Gannibal was born in a village called Geza-Lamza near Dubarwa in the Seraye province of Mdre Bahri kingdom in today's Eritrea.
Vladimir Nabokov, when researching Eugene Onegin, cast serious doubt on this origin theory. Later research by the scholars Dieudonné Gnammankou and Hugh Barnes eventually conclusively established that Gannibal was instead born in Central Africa, in an area bordering Lake Chad in modern-day Cameroon. After education in France as a military engineer, Gannibal became governor of Reval and eventually Général en Chief (the third most senior army rank) in charge of the building of sea forts and canals in Russia.
Early life
Born in Moscow, Pushkin was entrusted to nursemaids and French tutors, and spoke mostly French until the age of ten. He became acquainted with the Russian language through communication with household serfs and his nanny, Arina Rodionovna, whom he loved dearly and to whom he was more attached than to his own mother.
He published his first poem at the age of 15. When he finished school, as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo, near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized on the Russian literary scene. At the Lyceum, he was a student of David Mara, known in Russia as David de Boudry, a younger brother of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of St. Petersburg, which was then the capital of the Russian Empire. In 1820, he published his first long poem, Ruslan and Ludmila, with much controversy about its subject and style.
Social activism
While at the Lyceum, Pushkin was heavily influenced by the Kantian liberal individualist teachings of Alexander Kunitsyn, whom Pushkin would later commemorate in his poem 19 October. Pushkin also immersed himself in the thought of the French Enlightenment, to which he would remain permanently indebted throughout his life, especially Voltaire, whom he described as "the first to follow the new road, and to bring the lamp of philosophy into the dark archives of history".
Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform, and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals. That angered the government and led to his transfer from the capital in May 1820. He went to the Caucasus and to Crimea and then to Kamianka and Chișinău in Bessarabia, where he became a Freemason.
He joined the Filiki Eteria, a secret organization whose purpose was to overthrow Ottoman rule in Greece and establish an independent Greek state. He was inspired by the Greek Revolution and when the war against the Ottoman Empire broke out, he kept a diary recording the events of the national uprising.
Rise
He stayed in Chișinău until 1823 and wrote two Romantic poems which brought him acclaim: The Captive of the Caucasus and The Fountain of Bakhchisaray. In 1823, Pushkin moved to Odessa, where he again clashed with the government, which sent him into exile on his mother's rural estate of Mikhailovskoye, near Pskov, from 1824 to 1826.
In Mikhaylovskoye, Pushkin wrote nostalgic love poems which he dedicated to Elizaveta Vorontsova, wife of Malorossia's General-Governor. Then Pushkin worked on his verse-novel Eugene Onegin.
In Mikhaylovskoye, in 1825, Pushkin wrote the poem To***. It is generally believed that he dedicated this poem to Anna Kern, but there are other opinions. Poet Mikhail Dudin believed that the poem was dedicated to the serf Olga Kalashnikova. Pushkinist Kira Victorova believed that the poem was dedicated to the Empress Elizaveta Alekseyevna. Vadim Nikolayev argued that the idea about the Empress was marginal and refused to discuss it, while trying to prove that poem had been dedicated to Tatyana Larina, the heroine of Eugene Onegin.
Authorities summoned Pushkin to Moscow after his poem Ode to Liberty was found among the belongings of the rebels from the Decembrist Uprising (1825). After his exile in 1820 Pushkin's friends and family continually petitioned for his release, sending letters and meeting Emperor Alexander I and then Emperor Nicholas I on the heels of the Decembrist Uprising. Upon meeting Emperor Nicholas I Pushkin obtained his release from exile and began to work as the emperor's Titular Counsel of the National Archives. However, because insurgents in the Decembrist Uprising (1825) in Saint Petersburg had kept some of Pushkin's earlier political poems, the emperor retained strict control of everything Pushkin published and he was banned from travelling at will.
During that same year (1825) Pushkin also wrote what would become his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov, while at his mother's estate. He could not, however, gain permission to publish it until five years later. The original and uncensored version of the drama was not staged until 2007.
Around 1825–1829 he met and befriended the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, during exile in central Russia. In 1829 he travelled through the Caucasus to Erzurum to visit friends fighting in the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish War. At the end of 1829 Pushkin wanted to set off on a journey abroad, the desire reflected in his poem Let's go, I'm ready. He applied for permission for the journey but received negative response from Nicholas I on 17 January 1830.
Around 1828 Pushkin met Natalia Goncharova, then 16 years old and one of the most talked-about beauties of Moscow. After much hesitation Natalia accepted a proposal of marriage from Pushkin in April 1830, but not before she received assurances that the Tsarist government had no intention of persecuting the libertarian poet. Later Pushkin and his wife became regulars of court society. They officially became engaged on 6 May 1830 and sent out wedding invitations. Owing to an outbreak of cholera and other circumstances, the wedding was delayed for a year. The ceremony took place on 18 February 1831 (Old Style) in the Great Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow.
When the Emperor gave Pushkin the lowest court title, Gentleman of the Chamber, the poet became enraged, feeling that the Emperor intended to humiliate him by implying that he was being admitted to court not on his own merits but solely so that his wife, who had many admirers including the Emperor himself, could properly attend court balls.[citation needed] Pushkin's marriage to Goncharova was largely a happy one, but his wife’s characteristic flirtatiousness and frivolity would lead to his fatal duel seven years later, for Pushkin had a highly jealous temperament.
In 1831, during the period of Pushkin's growing literary influence, he met one of Russia's other great early writers, Nikolai Gogol. After reading Gogol's 1831–1832 volume of short stories Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Pushkin supported him and would feature some of Gogol's most famous short stories in the magazine The Contemporary, which he founded in 1836.
Death
By the autumn of 1836, Pushkin was falling into greater and greater debt and faced scandalous rumours that his wife was having a love affair. On 4 November, he sent a challenge to a duel to Georges d'Anthès, also known as Dantes-Gekkern. Jacob van Heeckeren, d'Anthès' adoptive father, asked that the duel be delayed by two weeks. With efforts by the poet's friends, the duel was cancelled.
On 17 November, d'Anthès proposed to Natalia Goncharova's sister, Ekaterina. The marriage did not resolve the conflict. D'Anthès continued to pursue Natalia Goncharova in public and rumours that d'Anthès had married Natalia's sister just to save her reputation circulated.
On 26 January (7 February in the Gregorian calendar) 1837 Pushkin sent a "highly insulting letter" to Gekkern. The only answer to that letter could be a challenge to a duel, as Pushkin knew. Pushkin received the formal challenge to a duel through his sister-in-law, Ekaterina Gekkerna, approved by d'Anthès, on the same day through the attaché of the French Embassy, Viscount d'Archiac.
Pushkin asked Arthur Magenis, then attaché to the British Consulate-General in Saint Petersburg, to be his second. Magenis did not formally accept but on 26 January (7 February) approached Viscount d'Archiac to attempt a reconciliation; however d'Archiac refused to speak with him as he was not yet officially Pushkin's second. Magenis, unable to find Pushkin in the evening, sent him a letter through a messenger at 2 o'clock in the morning, declining to be his second as the possibility of a peaceful settlement had already been quashed, and the traditional first task of the second was to try to bring about a reconciliation.
The pistol duel with d'Anthès took place on 27 January (8 February) at the Black River, without the presence of a second for Pushkin. The duel they fought was of a kind known as a barrier duel. The rules of this type dictated that the duellists began at an agreed distance. After the signal to begin they walked towards each other, closing the distance. They could fire at any time they wished, but the duellist that shot first was required to stand still and wait for the other to shoot back at his leisure.
D'Anthès fired first, critically wounding Pushkin; the bullet entered at his hip and penetrated his abdomen. D'Anthès was only lightly wounded in the right arm by Pushkin's shot. Two days later, at 2.45 pm on 29 January (10 February), Pushkin died of peritonitis.
At Pushkin's wife's request he was put in the coffin in evening dress, not in chamber-cadet uniform, the uniform provided by the emperor. The funeral service was initially assigned to St Isaac's Cathedral but was moved to Konyushennaya church. Many people attended. After the funeral the coffin was lowered into the basement, where it stayed until 3 February, when it was removed to Pskov province. Pushkin was buried in the grounds of Svyatogorsky monastery in present-day Pushkinskiye Gory, near Pskov, beside his mother. His last home is now a museum.
Pushkin's ancestry
Descendants
Pushkin had four children from his marriage to Natalia: Maria (b. 1832), Alexander (b. 1833), Grigory (b. 1835) and Natalia (b. 1836), the last of whom married morganatically Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau of the House of Nassau-Weilburg and was granted the title of Countess of Merenberg. Her daughter Sophie married Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I.
Only the lines of Alexander and Natalia still remain. Natalia's granddaughter, Nadejda, married into the extended British royal family, her husband being the uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and is the grandmother of the present Marquess of Milford Haven. Descendants of the poet now live around the globe in the United Kingdom, Czechia, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the United States.
Legacy
On 6 June 2009, Google celebrated Alexander Pushkin's Birthday with a doodle.
Literary
Critics consider many of his works masterpieces, such as the poem The Bronze Horseman and the drama The Stone Guest, a tale of the fall of Don Juan. His poetic short drama Mozart and Salieri (like The Stone Guest, one of the so-called four Little Tragedies, a collective characterization by Pushkin himself in 1830 letter to Pyotr Pletnyov) was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer's Amadeus as well as providing the libretto (almost verbatim) to Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart and Salieri.
Pushkin is also known for his short stories. In particular his cycle The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, including The Shot, were well received. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas,
"the narrative logic and the plausibility of that which is narrated, together with the precision, conciseness – economy of the presentation of reality – all of the above is achieved in Tales of Belkin, especially, and most of all in the story The Stationmaster. Pushkin is the progenitor of the long and fruitful development of Russian realist literature, for he manages to attain the realist ideal of a concise presentation of reality".
Pushkin himself preferred his verse novel Eugene Onegin, which he wrote over the course of his life and which, starting a tradition of great Russian novels, follows a few central characters but varies widely in tone and focus.
Onegin is a work of such complexity that, though it is only about a hundred pages long, translator Vladimir Nabokov needed two full volumes of material to fully render its meaning into English. Because of this difficulty in translation, Pushkin's verse remains largely unknown to English readers. Even so Pushkin has profoundly influenced western writers such as Henry James. Pushkin wrote The Queen of Spades, a short story frequently anthologized in English translation.
Musical
Pushkin's works also provided fertile ground for Russian composers. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila is the earliest important Pushkin-inspired opera, and a landmark in the tradition of Russian music. Tchaikovsky's operas Eugene Onegin (1879) and The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya Dama, 1890) became perhaps better known outside of Russia than Pushkin's own works of the same name.
Mussorgsky's monumental Boris Godunov (two versions, 1868–9 and 1871–2) ranks as one of the very finest and most original of Russian operas. Other Russian operas based on Pushkin include Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka and The Stone Guest; Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri, Tale of Tsar Saltan, and The Golden Cockerel; Cui's Prisoner of the Caucasus, Feast in Time of Plague, and The Captain's Daughter; Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa; Rachmaninoff's one-act operas Aleko (based on The Gypsies) and The Miserly Knight; Stravinsky's Mavra, and Nápravník's Dubrovsky.
Additionally, ballets and cantatas, as well as innumerable songs, have been set to Pushkin's verse (including even his French-language poems, in Isabelle Aboulker's song cycle "Caprice étrange"). Suppé, Leoncavallo and Malipiero have also based operas on his works. Composers Yudif Grigorevna Rozhavskaya, Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova, Yevgania Yosifovna Yakhina, Maria Semyonovna Zavalishina, Zinaida Petrovna Ziberova composed folk songs using Pushkin's text.
The Desire of Glory, which has been dedicated to Elizaveta Vorontsova, was set to music by David Tukhmanov (Vitold Petrovsky – The Desire of Glory on YouTube), as well as Keep Me, Mine Talisman – by Alexander Barykin (Alexander Barykin – Keep Me, Mine Talisman on YouTube) and later by Tukhmanov.
Romanticism
Pushkin is considered by many to be the central representative of Romanticism in Russian literature although he was not unequivocally known as a Romantic. Russian critics have traditionally argued that his works represent a path from Neoclassicism through Romanticism to Realism. An alternative assessment suggests that "he had an ability to entertain contrarities which may seem Romantic in origin, but are ultimately subversive of all fixed points of view, all single outlooks, including the Romantic" and that "he is simultaneously Romantic and not Romantic".
Russian literature
Pushkin is usually credited with developing Russian literature. He is seen as having originated the highly nuanced level of language which characterizes Russian literature after him, and he is also credited with substantially augmenting the Russian lexicon. Whenever he found gaps in the Russian vocabulary, he devised calques. His rich vocabulary and highly-sensitive style are the foundation for modern Russian literature. His accomplishments set new records for development of the Russian language and culture. He became the father of Russian literature in the 19th century, marking the highest achievements of the 18th century and the beginning of literary process of the 19th century. He introduced Russia to all the European literary genres as well as a great number of West European writers. He brought natural speech and foreign influences to create modern poetic Russian. Though his life was brief, he left examples of nearly every literary genre of his day: lyric poetry, narrative poetry, the novel, the short story, the drama, the critical essay and even the personal letter.
According to Vladimir Nabokov,
Pushkin's idiom combined all the contemporaneous elements of Russian with all he had learned from Derzhavin, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Karamzin and Krylov:
The poetical and metaphysical strain that still lived in Church Slavonic forms and locutions
Abundant and natural gallicisms
Everyday colloquialisms of his set
Stylized popular speech by combining the famous three styles (low, medium elevation, high) dear to the pseudoclassical archaists and adding the ingredients of Russian romanticists with a pinch of parody.
His work as a critic and as a journalist marked the birth of Russian magazine culture which included him devising and contributing heavily to one of the most influential literary magazines of the 19th century, the Sovremennik (The Contemporary, or Современник). Pushkin inspired the folk tales and genre pieces of other authors: Leskov, Yesenin and Gorky. His use of Russian formed the basis of the style of novelists Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov and Leo Tolstoy, as well as that of subsequent lyric poets such as Mikhail Lermontov. Pushkin was analysed by Nikolai Gogol, his successor and pupil, and the great Russian critic Vissarion Belinsky, who produced the fullest and deepest critical study of Pushkin's work, which still retains much of its relevance.
Soviet centennial celebrations
The centennial year of Pushkin's death, 1937, was one of the most significant Soviet-era literary centennials in Stalinist Russia, rivaled only by the 1928 centennial commemorating Leo Tolstoy's birth. Despite the public display of visage on ever present billboards and candy wrappers, Pushkin's "image" conflicted with that of the ideal Soviet (he was reputed as a libertine with unrepentant aristocratic tendencies) and was subject to a repressive revisionism, similar to the Stalinist state's clean up of Tolstoy's Christian anarchism.
Honours
Shortly after Pushkin's death, contemporary Russian romantic poet Mikhail Lermontov wrote "Death of the Poet". The poem, which ended with a passage blaming the aristocracy being (as oppressors of freedom) the true culprits in Pushkin's death, was not published (nor could have been) but was informally circulated in St. Petersburg. Lermontov was arrested and exiled to a regiment in the Caucasus.
Montenegrin poet and ruler Petar II Petrović-Njegoš included in his 1846 poetry collection Ogledalo srpsko (The Serbian Mirror) a poetic ode to Pushkin, titled Sjeni Aleksandra Puškina.
In 1929, Soviet writer, Leonid Grossman, published a novel, The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel. The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime. In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel. The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk. Pushkin was portrayed on screen by Sergei Bezrukov.
His life was dramatised in the 1951 Australian radio play The Golden Cockerel
In 2000, the Statue of Alexander Pushkin (Washington, D.C.) was erected as part of a cultural exchange between the cities of Moscow and Washington. In return, a statue of the American poet Walt Whitman was erected in Moscow.
The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, is named after him. A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
1999 Russian 1 rouble coin commemorating the 200th anniversary of Pushkin's birth
MS Aleksandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as "poet" or "writer" class).
A station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.
A statue of Pushkin was unveiled inside the Mehan Garden in Manila, Philippines to commemorate the Philippines–Russia relations in 2010.
The Alexander Pushkin diamond, the second largest found in Russia and the former territory of the USSR, was named after him.
On 28 November 2009, a Pushkin Monument was erected in Asmara, capital of Eritrea.
In 2005 a monument to Pushkin and his grandmother Maria Hannibal was commissioned by an enthusiast of Russian culture Just Rugel in Zakharovo, Russia. Sculptor V. Kozinin
In 2019, Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport was named after Pushkin in accordance to the Great Names of Russia contest.
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine monuments dedicated to Pushkin in Ukraine were demolished and Pushkin streets were renamed.
In December 2022, a monument to the poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was unveiled on the territory of Gymnasium No. 1 in Sevastopol. The bust of the poet was created by the sculptor Denis Stritovich.[citation needed]
Gallery
Narrative poems
1820 – Ruslan i Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила); English translation: Ruslan and Ludmila
1820–21 – Kavkazskiy plennik (Кавказский пленник); English translation: The Prisoner of the Caucasus
1821 – Gavriiliada (Гавриилиада); English translation: The Gabrieliad
1821–22 – Bratia razboyniki (Братья разбойники); English translation: The Robber Brothers
1823 – Bakhchisarayskiy fontan (Бахчисарайский фонтан); English translation: The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
1824 – Tsygany (Цыганы); English translation: The Gypsies
1825 – Graf Nulin (Граф Нулин); English translation: Count Nulin
1829 – Poltava (Полтава)
1830 – Domik v Kolomne (Домик в Коломне); English translation: The Little House in Kolomna
1833 – Andzhelo (Анджело); English translation: Angelo
1833 – Medny vsadnik (Медный всадник); English translation: The Bronze Horseman
1825–1832 (1833) – Evgeniy Onegin (Евгений Онегин); English translation: Eugene Onegin
Drama
1825 – Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов); English translation by Alfred Hayes: Boris Godunov
1830 – Malenkie tragedii (Маленькие трагедии); English translation: Little Tragedies [ru]
Kamenny gost (Каменный гость); English translation: The Stone Guest
Motsart i Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери); English translation: Mozart and Salieri
Skupoy rytsar (Скупой рыцарь); English translations: The Miserly Knight, or The Covetous Knight
Pir vo vremya chumy (Пир во время чумы); English translation: A Feast in Time of Plague
Prose
Short stories
1831 – Povesti pokoynogo Ivana Petrovicha Belkina (Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина); English translation: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
Vystrel (Выстрел); English translation: The Shot, short story
Metel (Метель); English translation: The Blizzard, short story
Grobovschik (Гробовщик); English translation: The Undertaker, short story
Stantsionny smotritel (Станционный смотритель); English translation: The Stationmaster, short story
Baryshnya-krestianka (Барышня-крестьянка); English translation: The Squire's Daughter, short story
1834 – Pikovaya dama (Пиковая дама); English translation: The Queen of Spades, short story
1834 – Kirjali (Кирджали); English translation: Kirdzhali, short story
1837 – Istoria sela Goryuhina (История села Горюхина); English translation: The Story of the Village of Goryukhino, unfinished short story
1837 – Egypetskie nochi (Египетские ночи); English translation: The Egyptian Nights
Novels
1828 – Arap Petra Velikogo (Арап Петра Великого); English translation: The Moor of Peter the Great, unfinished novel
1829 – Roman v pis'makh (Роман в письмах); English translation: A Novel in Letters, unfinished novel
1836 – Kapitanskaya dochka (Капитанская дочка); English translation: The Captain's Daughter, novel
1836 – Roslavlyov (Рославлев); English translation: Roslavlev, unfinished novel
1841 – Dubrovsky (Дубровский); English translation: Dubrovsky, unfinished novel[citation needed]
Non-fiction
1834 – Istoria Pugachyova (История Пугачева); English translation: A History of Pugachev, study of the Pugachev's Rebellion
1836 – Puteshestvie v Arzrum (Путешествие в Арзрум); English translation: A Journey to Arzrum, travel sketches
Fairy tales in verse
1822 – Царь Никита и сорок его дочерей; English translation: Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters
1825 – Жених; English translation: The Bridegroom
1830 – Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде; English translation: The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
1830 – Сказка о медведихе; English translation: The Tale of the Female Bear, or The Tale of the Bear (was not finished)
1831 – Сказка о царе Салтане; English translation: The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1833 – Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке; English translation: The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
1833 – Сказка о мертвой царевне; English translation: The Tale of the Dead Princess
1834 – Сказка о золотом петушке; English translation: The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
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Heard .The learned counsel represented for the applicant. This is an application
filed for renewal of regular permit in respect of the S/C KL-7-CG-8604 for the period
from 12/09/2013 to 11/09/2018 and 12/09/2018 to 11/09/2023
on the route Compayar-Ernakulam(via)Nedumkandam,Erattaya,Thankamony
Cheruthony,Neendapara ,Kothamangalam,Perumpavure NGO Quarters,Palarivattam
,Kaloore, and Return Via Erattayar ,Kattappana as LSOS.The renewal application for the
period from 12/09/2013 to 11/09/2018 was already considered by RTA on 26/08/2014
and adjourned since total rouite length is 174km .After the expiry of regular permit this
stage carriage is operating on the strength of temporary permit which was issued as per
government orders and interim directions of Honorable High Court. Later, on 29/08/2018
the permit holder of this stage carriage has also applied for renewal of permit for the
period from 12/09/2018 to 11/09/2023.. In the light of the several judgment
of Honarable High Court of Kerala( quashing the clause (4) of the modified
scheme,8/2017 dated 23/03/2017) there is no legal impediment to renew this regular
permit since it is issued prior to 09-05-2006 . There is no need for any concurrence from
sister RTAs for renewal of permit. Hence Renewal of permit granted subject to
clearance of Government dues and NOC from the financier if applicable.
The Photograph
A giant duck and lots of little ducks in one of Selfridges windows.
Selfridges, Oxford Street
Selfridges is a Grade II* listed retail premises on Oxford Street in London. It was designed by Daniel Burnham for Harry Gordon Selfridge, and opened in 1909.
Still the headquarters of Selfridge & Co. department stores, with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m2) of selling space, the store is the second largest retail premises in the UK, half as big as the biggest department store in Europe, Harrods.
Selfridges was named the world's best department store in 2010, and again in 2012.
Background to The Store
In 1906, Harry Gordon Selfridge travelled to England on holiday with his wife, Rose. Unimpressed with the quality of existing British retailers, he noticed that the large stores in London had not adopted the latest selling ideas that were being used in the United States.
Selfridge decided to invest £400,000 in building his own department store in what was then the unfashionable western end of Oxford Street, by slowly buying up a series of Georgian buildings which were on the desired block defined by the surrounding four streets: Somerset, Wigmore, Orchard and Duke.
Design and Construction of Selfridges
The building was designed by American architect Daniel Burnham, who was respected for his department store designs. He created Marshall Field's, Chicago, Filene's in Boston, Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, and Gimbels and Wanamaker's in New York City.
The building was an early example in the UK of the use of a steel frame, five stories high with three basement levels and a roof terrace, originally laid out to accommodate 100 departments.
American-trained Swedish structural engineer Sven Bylander was engaged to design the steel frame structure. As the building was one of the early examples of steel frame in the UK, Bylander had to first agree appropriate building regulations with the London County Council, requiring amendments to the London Building Act 1844.
Using as a basis the regulations which covered the similarly-designed London docklands warehouses, Bylander then agreed changes which enabled greater spans within lesser beam dimensions due to the use of steel over stone.
Bylander designed the entire supporting structure which was approved by the LCC in 1907, with a steel frame based on blue brick pile foundations, supporting a steel frame which holds all of the internal walls and the concrete floors.
Bylander had to include additional supported internal walls, as the LCC would not approve store areas above 450,000 cubic feet (13,000 m3) due to the then-approved fire safety regulations, many of which were removed 20 years later in light of new legislation.
Bylander submitted a 13-page fully illustrated account of the design of the building to Concrete and Constructional Engineering, which was published in 1909. The work of Burnham and Bylander with the LCC led to the passing of the LCC (General Powers) Act 1909, also called the Steel Frame Act, which gave the council the power to regulate the construction of reinforced concrete structures.
American architect Francis Swales, who trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, was briefed to design the frontispiece. Aided by British architects R. Frank Atkinson and Thomas Smith Tait, the final design was highly influenced by John Burnet's 1904 extension to the British Museum.
The steel supporting columns are hidden behind Ionic columns, to create a façade which presents a visually uniform, classical, Beaux-Arts appearance.
The distinctive polychrome sculpture above the Oxford Street entrance is the work of British sculptor Gilbert Bayes.
The final frontage, through the use of cast iron window frames to a maximum size of 19 feet 4 inches (5.89 m) by 12 feet 0 inches (3.66 m), means that both the Oxford Street and Duke Street frontages are made up of more glass than stone or iron.
Construction of Selfridges
Opening on the 15th. March 1909, the store was built in phases. The first phase consisted of the nine-and-a-half bays closest to the Duke Street corner, a site of 250 feet (76 m) wide on Oxford Street by 175 feet (53 m) along Duke Street. The floor heights averaged 15 feet (4.6 m), and the initial structure contained nine passenger lifts, two service lifts and six staircases.
The main entrance and all of the bays to its left were added some 18 years after the store first opened, using a modified construction system. The complete building opened fully in 1928, and through the use of supporting spandrel steel panels, the scale of the glass panes within the main entrance could be greatly enlarged.
A scheme to erect a massive tower above the store post-World War I was never carried out. Harry Selfridge also proposed a subway link to Bond Street station, and renaming it "Selfridges"; however, contemporary opposition quashed the idea.
The final design of the building was completed in 1928, and although classical in visible style and frontage, it is modern in its steel frame construction.
In part due to new schools of architectural thought emerging apart from the classical schools, and in part due to the close proximity of World War I, the building is seen as the last of the great classical buildings undertaken within the UK.
Although the UK was late in adopting modern architecture only from the 1930's onwards, by the mid-20th. century many architects looked at Selfridges as if it were pre-historic in design, accepted just because Harry Gordon Selfridge wanted to advertise his business with a confident display of classicism in stone.
Selfridges in Operation
When it opened the new store employed 1,400 staff, thereby setting new standards for the retailing business.
At that time, women were beginning to enjoy the fruits of emancipation by wandering unescorted around London. A canny marketer, Selfridge promoted the radical notion of shopping for pleasure rather than necessity.
The store was extensively promoted through paid advertising. The shop floors were structured so that goods could be made more accessible to customers. There were elegant restaurants with modest prices, a library, reading and writing rooms, special reception rooms for French, German, American and "Colonial" customers, a First Aid Room, and a Silence Room, with soft lights, deep chairs, and double-glazing, all intended to keep customers in the store as long as possible.
Staff members were taught to be on hand to assist customers, but not too aggressively, and to sell the merchandise. Oliver Lyttleton observed that, when one called on Selfridge, he would have nothing on his desk except one's letter, smoothed and ironed.
Selfridge also managed to obtain from the GPO the privilege of having the number "1" as its own phone number, so anybody had to just dial 1 to be connected to Selfridge's operators.
The roof terrace hosted terraced gardens, cafes, a mini golf course and an all-girl gun club. The roof, with its views across London, was a common place for strolling after a shopping trip and was often used for fashion shows.
The Basements at Selfridges
There are two levels of basement beneath the lower-ground shop floor: the ‘sub’ and the ‘sub-sub’. Combined, these descend 60 metres (200 ft) below street level. These two areas are then split into two more areas: the dry sub and sub-sub, and their "wet" equivalents. The wet area is beneath the original nine-and-a-half bays closest to the Duke Street corner of the 1909 building. The "dry" is under the rear of the building, known as the SWOD after the surrounding four streets – Somerset, Wigmore, Orchard and Duke – that once enclosed it.
Selfridges in WWII
During World War II after the entry of the United States into the conflict, from 1942 the dry sub-sub SWOD was used by the United States Army. The building had one of the only secure telex lines, was safe from bombing, and was close to the US Embassy on Grosvenor Square.
Initially used by U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the commander of SHAEF, it later housed 50 soldiers from the 805th. Signal Service Company of the US Army Signal Corps, who installed a SIGSALY code-scrambling device connected to a similar terminal in the Pentagon building.
The first conference took place on the 15th. July 1943. Initial visitors included Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to enable secure communications with the President of the United States, although later extensions were installed to both 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet War Rooms.
Rumours persist of a tunnel built from Selfridges to the embassy so that personnel could move between the two in safety, with interrogation cells for prisoners hewn from the resultant uneven space available.
As with much of central London during World War II, Selfridges suffered serious damage on a number of occasions during the 57 nights of the London Blitz from the 7th. September 1940, and in 1941 and 1944. After the heavy bombing of the west end on the 17th./18th. September 1940 by a combined force of 268 Heinkel 111 and Dornier Do 17 bombers – after which the store's Art Deco lifts were out of service until post-WW2, and the signature window was shattered – Harry had the ground floor windows bricked-up.
The bomb on 17 April 1941 destroyed only the Palm Court Restaurant, venue for the rich and famous. However, at 11 pm on 6 December 1944, a V-2 rocket hit the Red Lion pub on the corner of Duke Street and Barrett Street. A canteen in the SWOD basement area (see above) was massively damaged, with eight American servicemen killed and 32 injured, as well as ten civilian deaths and seven injuries. In the main building, ruptured water mains threatened SIGSALY, and while the Food Hall was the only department that did not need cleaning, Selfridges’ shop-front Christmas tree displays were blown into Oxford Street.
By 2010, only three of the four major pre–World War II Oxford Street retailers—Selfridges, House of Fraser and John Lewis—survive in retail, while Bourne & Hollingsworth and Peter Robinson (acquired in 1946 by Burton's), are no longer trading. Selfridges is the only retailer still trading in the same building, which still bears the scars of war damage, while John Lewis has moved. Bourne & Hollingsworth was located in the now closed Plaza Shopping Centre at No 120, while Peter Robinson is now Niketown at No 200-236.
A Milne-Shaw seismograph was set up on the third floor in 1932, attached to one of the building's main stanchions, unaffected by traffic or shoppers. It recorded the Belgian earthquake of 11 June 1938 which was also felt in London. At the outbreak of war, the seismograph was moved from its original site near the Post Office to another part of the store. In 1947, the seismograph was given to the British Museum.
Bombing by the IRA
Parts of Selfridges were damaged in the Oxford Street bombing in 1974 committed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The IRA planted other bombs too - on 21 February 1976 inside the store, injuring five people; just outside the store on Oxford Street on 28 August 1975, injuring seven; and inside the store on 29 January 1977, setting the building ablaze and causing an injury.
The 2002 Restoration of Selfridges
While restoration work was carried out in 2002, the scaffold surround was used to carry the largest photographic artwork ever produced, 60 feet (18 m) tall by 900 feet (270 m) long and weighing two tons. Created by Sam Taylor-Wood, it showed a gathering of well-known pop and cultural figures of the time, including Sir Elton John.
In 2002, Selfridges was awarded the London Tourism Award for visitors' favourite London store. Selfridges was named world's best department store in 2010, and again in 2012. It claims to contain the UK's largest beauty department, and Europe's busiest doorway which siphons 250,000 people a week past the Louis Vuitton concession on to Oxford Street.
The Roof Terrace
The roof terrace reopened in July 2011, for a promotional event staged by Truvia as part of their UK launch.
In Summer 2012, Bompas & Parr designed an art installation themed as "The Big British Tea Party", which included a cake-themed 9-hole crazy golf course, accompanied by a Daylesford Organic sponsored tea house.
Selfridges' Windows
Selfridges' 27 Oxford Street windows have become synonymous with the brand, and to a certain degree have become as famous as the store and the Oxford Street location itself. The windows consistently attract tourists, designers and fashionistas alike to marvel at the current designs and styling and fashion trends.
Selfridges has a history of bold art initiatives when it comes to the window designs. When the building opened, Harry Selfridge initiated a "signature" window which was signed by all of the stars and famous people who came to shop at the store. This was cracked in the first bombing during the blitz, and was never restored.
Today, the visual merchandising team calculate that 20% of business-winning trade is from the windows. When Alannah Weston became Creative Director after the purchase by her family in 2003, she approached artist Alison Jackson to put her trademark Tony Blair and David Beckham lookalikes in the windows.
The resultant display brought traffic to a standstill, with the Metropolitan Police finally insisting they stop the project because it was clogging up Oxford Street.
Since 2002, the windows have been photographed by London photographer Andrew Meredith and published in magazines such as Vogue, Dwell, Icon, Frame Magazine, Creative Review, Hungarian Stylus Magazine, Design Week, Harper's Bazaar, New York Times, WGSN and much more including worldwide press, journals, blogs and published books all over the world.
Ownership of Selfridges
In 1951 the store was acquired by the Liverpool-based Lewis's chain of department stores, which was in turn taken over in 1965 by the Sears Group owned by Charles Clore. Expanded under the Sears group to include branches in Oxford, Manchester and Birmingham, in 2003 the chain was acquired by Canada's Galen Weston for £598 million.
Expansion of Selfridges
In 2011, the Weston family bought 388–396 Oxford Street, which is located immediately to the east of the Selfridges building across Duke Street, on which fashion chain French Connection has a lease until 2025.
In early 2012, Selfridges commissioned Italian architect Renzo Piano (responsible for London's The Shard skyscraper), to work on an extension to the 1909 department store. The project could feature a hotel as well as office space, or additional retail space.
In December 2012, Selfridges acquired the 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) Nations House office building from Hermes, which is located immediately behind its Oxford Street store in Wigmore Street, for around £130m.
Speculation about the future of Hornsea Mere was clarified this week with suggestions that the public were no longer able to use facilities firmly squashed
Hornsea Gazette - 12th July 2012
The Xibe are Manchu warriors settled in the far west of China to quash both Mongol and Muslim unrest. Today, a small community of Xibe still live just south of the Chinese town of Gulja or Yining in Chinese.
For more info, check out my book, "The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China" or visit Horsethatleaps.com.
Beningbrough Hall, North Yorkshire.
King George I (1660-1727), Reigned 1714-27.
By Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1646-1723).
Oil on canvas, 1716.
The great-grandson of James I, he became King in 1714 at the death of Queen Anne under the terms of the Act of Settlement which was designed to ensure a Protestant succession. His coronation was followed by the ill-prepared 1715 Jacobite Rising in Scotland. A distinguished soldier and Elector of Hanover from 1698, George I continued to spend much of his time at Hanover after his accession to the British throne. (The Elector was one of the princes who elected the German King who was then crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope).
The purpose of royal portraiture was not individual depiction but the representation of power. Artists conveyed this symbolically using traditional poses and symbols: crown, sceptre, orb and ermine robes of state. This repetition helped assert the continuity of the Royals. Although not great art patrons, such propaganda was important to George I and his son George II. In order to ensure a Protestant succession these Hanoverian rulers, from Germany, had come to the British throne in 1714. They faced constant challenge from the rebellious Catholic Jacobites until they were quashed in 1745.
The tomb of St. Francis Xavier took the Florentine sculptor Giovanni Batista Foggini ten years to complete. It is made of three tiers of marble and jasper; the upper tier holds four bronze plaques depicting scenes from the saint’s life. Built in a mixture of Italian and Indian styles, the silver reliquary containing the sacred relics is surmounted by a cross with two angels. The silver casket has three locks, the keys being held by the Governor, the Archbishop and the Convent Administrator.
After his canonization, St Francis’s body was shown on each anniversary of his death until 1707, when it was restricted to a few special private expositions. In 1752, the cadaver was again paraded to quash rumours that the Jesuits had removed it. The exhibition now happens every 10 to 12 years (the last exposition was in 2014), when the relics are taken to the Sé Cathedral.
By the 18th century the people of Edinburgh began to feel more secure and it was decided to build a new town outside the original walls. The competition for its design was won by a young Scottish architect, James Craig who put forward the simple grid design which survives today. It is based on three parallel streets, Queen Street, George Street and Princes Street. These streets represented money, power and status to those who had enough money to leave the over crowded Old Town for the New Town of Edinburgh, as it has become known they would have appreciated the wide streets, private gardens, formal rooms for socialising and space for kitchens and servants, as well as private toileting facilities! After the quashing of the Jacobite Rebellion, Scotland was desperate to prove it’s loyalty to the King (George lll) and what better way than to honour him through naming these new streets after him and his Queen?
The North Elmham ruins are those of a small Norman Chapel of a unique design, which was converted into a small Castle whose defensive banks and moats still surround the site. In the late Saxon period North Elmham was the principal seat of the Bishops of East Anglia and the centre of a great episcopal estate.
Excavations have revealed evidence for an earlier timber structure, probably the Anglo-Saxon Cathedral, which went out of use when the seat of the Bishop was transferred to Thetford in 1071. Some time between 1091 and 1119 Bishop Herbert de Losinga founded a new parish church for the village and built a small private chapel for his own use on the site of the old timber church.
In the 14th century, Bishop Henry le Despencer held the manor of North Elmham, he turned the chapel into a house and in 1388 obtained a royal licence to fortify. He was not a popular man, especially in Norfolk where he was despised for his merciless quashing of the Peasants’ Revolt, and this fortification suggests he felt ill at ease among his tenants. There is no record of any bishop occupying the site after Henry’s death in 1406 though manorial courts continued to be held there. When Elmham passed into the hands of the notorious Thomas Cromwell the ''castle'' site was assigned to the vicarage and gradually fell into ruin.
The conversion of the chapel into a fortified house makes the ruins rather difficult to interpret at first sight. The rather eccentric design of the chapel reflects that of much grander European churches of the period. Unusually, the west tower was the same width externally as the nave and had an external stair turret to its upper storeys. The transept had flanking towers, reminiscent of contemporary German churches, and there was a semicircular apse at the east end. The church was built mainly of blocks of local, dark brown conglomerate with courses of large flints and limestone dressings, most of these have been robbed but remaining ashlar fragments have distinctively Norman diagonal tooling. The towers are distinguished by having slightly thicker walls than the nave and transepts. The north support for the tower arch and the surviving jamb of the north doorway are also clearly Norman in design.
Bishop Despencer’s 14th century alterations are mostly of small flints with brick and ashlar dressings. The ground level foundations are the remains of his cellars and the circular bases of the piers that supported a new upper floor. The existing flight of stairs led up to the living rooms and hall. Despencer created a fortified first-floor entrance by building a second semicircular turret alongside the Norman stair turret. He surrounded his house with a moat, the bailey to the north and east, and outer ditch around the western, northern and eastern sides, are probably also his work.
Information sourced from - www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/north-elmham-cha...
If there's any doubt that Santa Fe is a prime destination for photographers, Canyon Road quashes it. Situated just east of the Santa Fe Plaza, Canyon Road is home to a slew of art galleries selling renowned artwork from famed artists such as Fernando Botero and cultural treasures like hand-woven Navajo rugs and Southwestern wood carvings. The area is touted as an art lover's mecca because of the variety of mediums used to highlight art. Pop into the different galleries (there are more than 50) along the street and you'll find everything from jewelry and pottery to sculptures and paintings. The street itself is also a feast for the eyes: Many of the galleries found here are housed in historic adobe buildings laced with brilliantly colored flowers, art installations are often showcased outside.
Permit Number :KL66/33/2003
Permit Owner:JOHNY EDASSERY
Permit Owner Address: EDASSERY, KALADY
Cochin KL 36 D 3911
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Item No.17
Heard. The learned counsel represented for the applicant . This is an application filed for the renewal of regular permit of S/C KL 63 D 3911 on the route Kumily Ernakulam Via Kattappana, Cheruthoni, Neendapara, Kothamangalam,
Perumbavoor, NGO Quarters, Palarivattom, Kaloor as LSOS for a period of 5 Years from 27/06/2015.The regular permit of S/C KL 63 D 3911 was valid upto26/06/2015 as Super Fast Service On 24/11/2015 the permit holder applied for
variation of permit as LSOS and for a temporary permit as per G.O(ms) 45/2015/Trans dated 20/08/2015 and temporary permit is allowed as LSOS.
As per the interim order of Hon.Highcourt of Kerala in WP(c) No.18062/2017(g) dated 31/05/2017 in which Hon.Court directing Sec.RTA Idukki that status quo with regards to the re-issue of Temporary Permit application should be
maintained untrammeled by G.O(P) No.6/2017/Tran dated 15/03/2017 and the same was issued. The permit holder has submitted a request for re-consider the renewal application. In the light of the several judgment of Honarable High Court
of Kerala( quashing the clause (4) of the modified scheme,8/2017 dated 23/03/2017) there is no legal impediment to renew this regular permit since it is
issued prior to 09-05-2006 . There is no need for any concurrence from sister RTAs for renewal of permit.
Hence Renewal of permit granted subject to clearance of Government dues and NOC from the financier if applicable.
...gobbling up photographers that wander about in the wee hours of the day, are not true according to sources at the Moab Times Independent. The Moab City Council has quashed the story, afraid that tourism will be damaged. However, it is speculated that a group of long-time local residents, afraid that Moab will become another Aspen, is actively spreading this story to deter the influx of itinerant homeowners and tourists.
Despite the denial of this story by Moab City Council members, our crack photographers at Flickr now have the evidence.
June 28, 2008 Arches National Park
Transfer News - Barca banned from signing Wijnaldum, Chelsea agree Mendy deal, Bale and Reguilon deals confirmed
Man City close in on Kounde
Villa sign Lyon forward Traore
Villa sign Lyon forward Traore
Transfer News
Aston Villa have completed the signing of Lyon forward Bertrand Traore for an undisclosed fee, but it is said Villa paid an amount in the region of £19m for the 25-years-old.
"We're delighted that Bertrand has chosen to come to Villa. He's a player with immense talent who will really enhance our attacking options," Villa manager Dean Smith said in a statement on the club's website.
Man City close in on Kounde
Transfer News
Manchester City are close to sign Sevilla defender Jules Kounde – According to AS.
Talks are ongoing between the two clubs for the transfer of 21-years-old, who are likely to agree a fee worth around €50 million (£46m/$59m).
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola is keen to strengthen his back-line and already secured the signing of Nathan Ake from Bournemouth and wants another centre-back at the Etihad Stadium.
The citizens are heavily linked with Napoli defender Koulibaly in recent weeks but the Senegal’s high price-tag forced then to explore other options and they turned their attention to the French man.
Barcelona Banned from signing Wijnaldum
Barcelona hopes of signing Liverpool midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum and Lyon forward Memphis Depay are set to be quashed by La Liga, claims The Mirror. epltables.com/transfer-news-barca-banned-from-signing-wij...
Permit Number :KL66/33/2003
Permit Owner:JOHNY EDASSERY
Permit Owner Address: EDASSERY, KALADY
Cochin KL 36 D 3911
COMBAYAR 04:45
NEDUMKANDAM BUS STAND 05:00
CHERUTHONI BUS STAND 06:30
NERIAMANGALAM 08:20
KOTHAMANGALAM 09:00 - 09:03
PERUMBAVOOR 09:38 - 09:41
ERNAKULAM 10:51
ERNAKULAM 11:24
PERUMBAVOOR 12:34 -12:46
KOTHAMANGALAM 01:21 - 01:30
NERIAMANGALAM 02:10
CHERUTHONI BUS STAND 04:00
KATTAPPANA BUS STAND 05:05 - 05:15
NEDUMKANDAM BUS STAND 06:10 - 06:30
COMBAYAR 06:45
Item No.17
Heard. The learned counsel represented for the applicant . This is an application filed for the renewal of regular permit of S/C KL 63 D 3911 on the route Kumily Ernakulam Via Kattappana, Cheruthoni, Neendapara, Kothamangalam,
Perumbavoor, NGO Quarters, Palarivattom, Kaloor as LSOS for a period of 5 Years from 27/06/2015.The regular permit of S/C KL 63 D 3911 was valid upto26/06/2015 as Super Fast Service On 24/11/2015 the permit holder applied for
variation of permit as LSOS and for a temporary permit as per G.O(ms) 45/2015/Trans dated 20/08/2015 and temporary permit is allowed as LSOS.
As per the interim order of Hon.Highcourt of Kerala in WP(c) No.18062/2017(g) dated 31/05/2017 in which Hon.Court directing Sec.RTA Idukki that status quo with regards to the re-issue of Temporary Permit application should be
maintained untrammeled by G.O(P) No.6/2017/Tran dated 15/03/2017 and the same was issued. The permit holder has submitted a request for re-consider the renewal application. In the light of the several judgment of Honarable High Court
of Kerala( quashing the clause (4) of the modified scheme,8/2017 dated 23/03/2017) there is no legal impediment to renew this regular permit since it is
issued prior to 09-05-2006 . There is no need for any concurrence from sister RTAs for renewal of permit.
Hence Renewal of permit granted subject to clearance of Government dues and NOC from the financier if applicable.
Japanese samurai armour, probably 19th century. Christopher Dresser's visit to Japan in 1877 coincided with a rebellion of samurai against the government which started in the Satsuma province but was quickly quashed. He even met Imperial General Saigo, brother of a rebel leader, Saigo Takamori. The film The Last Samurai is loosely based on this rebellion.
Reflections from another display look like screens or light projections in a cyber-tastic way!
I'm dining at Cedars restaurant with friends, talking politics while nibbling on a scrumptious variety of Lebanese "mezze," and the topic of the U.S. health care debate comes up. The intellectual Kenyans (plus one Swede) I'm out with think Americans are cuckoo, what with the current attempts of many to quash government health care. The U.S. is the only rich country in the world, they remind me, that doesn't cover its citizens with basic care. I attempt to explain about Americans' fear of taxes and government intervention, and then we all joke about which "individual rights" the health-care opponents think they're preserving by battling Obama.
"What, the right to be sick and poor?" says the Swede. "The right to be left alone to die?" quips a Kenyan.
It occurs to me that even though we finally got rid of W., we've managed to make ourselves the laughing stock of the world yet again.
this may have been the best meal i've been part in creating... (ok maybe not the best ever... but it rocked my world)
Since the violent quashing of political protests after Ethiopia’s 2005 elections, following the win of another term of office by the ruling party, this East African nation has seen little in the way of political dissent. That is, until the last few months.
If there's any doubt that Santa Fe is a prime destination for photographers, Canyon Road quashes it. Situated just east of the Santa Fe Plaza, Canyon Road is home to a slew of art galleries selling renowned artwork from famed artists such as Fernando Botero and cultural treasures like hand-woven Navajo rugs and Southwestern wood carvings. The area is touted as an art lover's mecca because of the variety of mediums used to highlight art. Pop into the different galleries (there are more than 50) along the street and you'll find everything from jewelry and pottery to sculptures and paintings. The street itself is also a feast for the eyes: Many of the galleries found here are housed in historic adobe buildings laced with brilliantly colored flowers, art installations are often showcased outside.
M62 coach bombing memorial at the Welcome Break Hartshead Moor Services (East) between junctions 26 and 25 westbound on the M62
The M62 coach bombing occurred on 4 February 1974 on the M62 motorway in northern England, when a 25-pound (11 kg) Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb hidden inside the luggage locker of a coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members exploded, killing twelve people (nine soldiers and three civilians, including 2 young children) and injuring thirty-eight others aboard the vehicle.
Ten days after the bombing, 25-year-old Judith Ward was arrested in Liverpool while waiting to board a ferry to Ireland. She was later convicted of the M62 coach bombing and two other separate, non-fatal attacks and remained incarcerated until her conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1992, with the court hearing Government forensic scientists had deliberately withheld information from her defence counsel at her October 1974 trial which strongly indicated her innocence. As such, her conviction was declared unsafe.
Ward was released from prison in May 1992, having served over 17 years of a sentence of life imprisonment plus thirty years. Her wrongful conviction is seen as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history.
The M62 coach bomb has been described as "one of the IRA's worst mainland terror attacks" and remains one of the deadliest mainland acts of the Troubles
The actual perpetrator or perpetrators of the M62 coach bombing were never arrested or convicted
Ardath Cigarettes, "Photocards" 1936.
Quashed leading Alcazar in the Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket, October 1935.
The 1981 Movie Excalibur was filmed here.
Cahir Castle is built on an island of rock outcrop in the River Suir. This castle was probably built in the 13th century either by Philip Worcester or his nephew and heir William. It passed by marriage to the Berminghams, who lost it to the Crown in 1332. In 1375 it was granted to James Butler, the third Earl of Ormond and the Butlers continued to live in Cahir castle until the 18th century despite fluctuations in the family fortune. In 1599 the Earl of Essex, with the aid of newly developed artillery including cannon, culverin and two 'petayers' or mortars, captured the hitherto impregnable castle as part of a campaign to quash an Irish rebellion. The castle was again captured in 1647 by Lord Inchiquin on behalf of the Cromwelliams and had to be retaken by Cromwell in 1650. In the 18th century the family left the castle vacant and moved to a new house facing the main square of the town. Between 1840 and 1846 repair works were carried out on the castle by the then owner Richard Butler of Glengall and his architect William Tinsley. No further work was carried out until the castle was taken into State care as a National Monument in 1964. Although Cahir castle was built in the 13th century, its appearance today is largely due to 15th and 16th-century rebuilding and 19th and 20th-century restoration. Within the curtain wall, which itself incorporated six mural towers/turrets, there is a great hall, a square keep and three courts. The keep was actually the gatehouse of the original 13th-century castle and bawn, the latter now forming the inner court. The keep was originally two storeys high. The arched gateway through the centre of the ground floor has a vaulted chamfer on either side and a large chamber above at first-floor level. In the 15th/16th century the gate of the keep was blocked up and a gate built immediately E of the keep. At this stage an extra floor was inserted at first-floor level the gatehouse was also heightened by the addition of battlements with a gabled attic within. Also during this period a projecting square turret was built onto the SW angle. The 15th/16th-century doorway, placed at the W end of the N wall, is protected by a machicolation at parapet level, there is evidence for an external yett and on entering the lobby it was defended by a cross-loop facing the doorway. The flat-headed single and two-light windows with hood-mouldings date to the 16th-century modifications. On the E wall of the keep there is an unusual incised carving depicting the interlocked outline of two heads and a central figure. The great hall was also entirely rebuilt in the 19th century, only the present W wall is early. The S wall may have originally extended further back incorporating the large fireplace to the W of the N face of the keep, though it is also probably that the fireplace was built to serve a kitchen beyond the hall. A large three-storey square tower at the NW angle of the bawn dates from the 15th century. The original entrance, which is in the S wall and entered from the hall, was protected by a murder-hole. The ground floor is vaulted with two early gun-loops in the N wall and the first floor has a fireplace and a garderobe chamber. The circular tower to the N of the entrance gate and the ground floor of the NE tower in the inner court, appear to have been prisons. To the W of the NE tower there are steps leading down to a well tower, an important feature in times of seige. The rock-cut steps seem to be early in date, though the upper portion of the tower is probably 17th century. The house known as 'Cahir Cottage' and the conical roofs of the towers at the S end of the outer court were built in the 1840s.
Shy and coy, there lies a feeling,
Deep at the core of my heart,
That waits for just a nod of yours, or a slight smile,
To muster the courage and break the bounds imposed by my silence...
Weaker and helpless, my heart becomes,
Every time it senses a dagger of your ignorence thrown towards it,
Drop after drop, it oozes out all that wonderful life force,
That could have grown boundless, had you cared for it a bit...
Perplexed and confused, grows my mind,
Every time we encounter each other,
Questioning incessantly if you really are unaware of this spark,
Or whether you pretend to be ignorant...
Darker and lifeless, my shimmering hope becomes,
Every time I close my eyes, and see you fading into oblivion,
Life, they say, is not fair,
And yet, it seems to be more inclined towards inreasing my fair share of sorrows...
Whatever be the outcome of this affair,
There is one certain resolve, that grows stronger deep within,
That when I meet the Maker, I shall surely demand an answer,
As to why He lit a bright spark of affection in my already darkened heart,
Only to quash it with icy cold indifference of yours,
And leaving it charred for eternity...
Here are some Zen rocks, with the Seoul Tower. Someone designated as Wise said that if someone else didn’t build the Seoul fortifications to include these rocks, Buddhism would be quashed by Confucianism, which was pretty much true.
Item No.10
Heard .The learned counsel represented for the applicant. This is an application
filed for renewal of regular permit in respect of the S/C KL-7-CG-8604 for the period
from 12/09/2013 to 11/09/2018 and 12/09/2018 to 11/09/2023
on the route Compayar-Ernakulam(via)Nedumkandam,Erattaya,Thankamony
Cheruthony,Neendapara ,Kothamangalam,Perumpavure NGO Quarters,Palarivattam
,Kaloore, and Return Via Erattayar ,Kattappana as LSOS.The renewal application for the
period from 12/09/2013 to 11/09/2018 was already considered by RTA on 26/08/2014
and adjourned since total rouite length is 174km .After the expiry of regular permit this
stage carriage is operating on the strength of temporary permit which was issued as per
government orders and interim directions of Honorable High Court. Later, on 29/08/2018
the permit holder of this stage carriage has also applied for renewal of permit for the
period from 12/09/2018 to 11/09/2023.. In the light of the several judgment
of Honarable High Court of Kerala( quashing the clause (4) of the modified
scheme,8/2017 dated 23/03/2017) there is no legal impediment to renew this regular
permit since it is issued prior to 09-05-2006 . There is no need for any concurrence from
sister RTAs for renewal of permit. Hence Renewal of permit granted subject to
clearance of Government dues and NOC from the financier if applicable.
Permit Number :KL66/33/2003
Permit Owner:JOHNY EDASSERY
Permit Owner Address: EDASSERY, KALADY
Cochin KL 36 D 3911
COMBAYAR 04:45
NEDUMKANDAM BUS STAND 05:00
CHERUTHONI BUS STAND 06:30
NERIAMANGALAM 08:20
KOTHAMANGALAM 09:00 - 09:03
PERUMBAVOOR 09:38 - 09:41
ERNAKULAM 10:51
ERNAKULAM 11:24
PERUMBAVOOR 12:34 -12:46
KOTHAMANGALAM 01:21 - 01:30
NERIAMANGALAM 02:10
CHERUTHONI BUS STAND 04:00
KATTAPPANA BUS STAND 05:05 - 05:15
NEDUMKANDAM BUS STAND 06:10 - 06:30
COMBAYAR 06:45
Item No.17
Heard. The learned counsel represented for the applicant . This is an application filed for the renewal of regular permit of S/C KL 63 D 3911 on the route Kumily Ernakulam Via Kattappana, Cheruthoni, Neendapara, Kothamangalam,
Perumbavoor, NGO Quarters, Palarivattom, Kaloor as LSOS for a period of 5 Years from 27/06/2015.The regular permit of S/C KL 63 D 3911 was valid upto26/06/2015 as Super Fast Service On 24/11/2015 the permit holder applied for
variation of permit as LSOS and for a temporary permit as per G.O(ms) 45/2015/Trans dated 20/08/2015 and temporary permit is allowed as LSOS.
As per the interim order of Hon.Highcourt of Kerala in WP(c) No.18062/2017(g) dated 31/05/2017 in which Hon.Court directing Sec.RTA Idukki that status quo with regards to the re-issue of Temporary Permit application should be
maintained untrammeled by G.O(P) No.6/2017/Tran dated 15/03/2017 and the same was issued. The permit holder has submitted a request for re-consider the renewal application. In the light of the several judgment of Honarable High Court
of Kerala( quashing the clause (4) of the modified scheme,8/2017 dated 23/03/2017) there is no legal impediment to renew this regular permit since it is
issued prior to 09-05-2006 . There is no need for any concurrence from sister RTAs for renewal of permit.
Hence Renewal of permit granted subject to clearance of Government dues and NOC from the financier if applicable.
The North Elmham ruins are those of a small Norman Chapel of a unique design, which was converted into a small Castle whose defensive banks and moats still surround the site. In the late Saxon period North Elmham was the principal seat of the Bishops of East Anglia and the centre of a great episcopal estate.
Excavations have revealed evidence for an earlier timber structure, probably the Anglo-Saxon Cathedral, which went out of use when the seat of the Bishop was transferred to Thetford in 1071. Some time between 1091 and 1119 Bishop Herbert de Losinga founded a new parish church for the village and built a small private chapel for his own use on the site of the old timber church.
In the 14th century, Bishop Henry le Despencer held the manor of North Elmham, he turned the chapel into a house and in 1388 obtained a royal licence to fortify. He was not a popular man, especially in Norfolk where he was despised for his merciless quashing of the Peasants’ Revolt, and this fortification suggests he felt ill at ease among his tenants. There is no record of any bishop occupying the site after Henry’s death in 1406 though manorial courts continued to be held there. When Elmham passed into the hands of the notorious Thomas Cromwell the ''castle'' site was assigned to the vicarage and gradually fell into ruin.
The conversion of the chapel into a fortified house makes the ruins rather difficult to interpret at first sight. The rather eccentric design of the chapel reflects that of much grander European churches of the period. Unusually, the west tower was the same width externally as the nave and had an external stair turret to its upper storeys. The transept had flanking towers, reminiscent of contemporary German churches, and there was a semicircular apse at the east end. The church was built mainly of blocks of local, dark brown conglomerate with courses of large flints and limestone dressings, most of these have been robbed but remaining ashlar fragments have distinctively Norman diagonal tooling. The towers are distinguished by having slightly thicker walls than the nave and transepts. The north support for the tower arch and the surviving jamb of the north doorway are also clearly Norman in design.
Bishop Despencer’s 14th century alterations are mostly of small flints with brick and ashlar dressings. The ground level foundations are the remains of his cellars and the circular bases of the piers that supported a new upper floor. The existing flight of stairs led up to the living rooms and hall. Despencer created a fortified first-floor entrance by building a second semicircular turret alongside the Norman stair turret. He surrounded his house with a moat, the bailey to the north and east, and outer ditch around the western, northern and eastern sides, are probably also his work.
Information sourced from - www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/north-elmham-cha...
Moliere's Le Medecin Malgre Lui. Performed in the assembly hall, now the Blake Theatre. Ben Quash on the right.
Item No.08
Heard. The learned counsel represented for the applicant . This is an application
filed for renewal of regular permit in respect of the S/C KL-7-CG-6282 for the period
from 11/12/2012 to 10/12/2017 and further 5years on the route Ernakulam –
Kumily(via)M.G.Road, Palarivattom ,Kakkanad,Pukkattupady
,Perumbavoor,Kothamangalam,Neendapara,Idukki,Kattappana and Puttady with an
additional cut trip from Ernakulam t o Perumbavoor-via, Palarivattom,Kakkanad
,Navodaya,Kangarapady,Pukkattupady Chamberkey as LSOS.This application was
already considered by RTA on 09/07/2013 and decided to seek concurrence from sister
RTAs.After the expiry of regular permit this stage carriage is operating on the strength of
temporary permit which was issued as per government orders and interim directions of
Honorable High Court. Later, on 24/11/201 the permit holder of this stage carriage has
also applied for renewal of permit for further 5 years. In the light of the several judgment
of Honarable High Court of Kerala( quashing the clause (4) of the modified
scheme,8/2017 dated 23/03/2017) there is no legal impediment to renew this regular
permit since it is issued prior to 09-05-2006 . There is no need for any concurrence from
sister RTAs for renewal of permit. Hence Renewal of permit granted subject to
clearance of Government dues and NOC from the financier if applica
Palestinians stand on the rubble of the central security headquarters and prison, known as the Saraya, after it was hit in an Israeli missile strike in in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008. More than 270 Palestinians have been killed and more than 600 people wounded since Israel's campaign to quash rocket barrages from Gaza began midday Saturday.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)
"Line Clear man told to clear out.
Court gives all clear for Latiff to take over famed outlet now.
George Town: The current operator of the famous Line Clear nasi kandar outlet here has to vacate the premises in Penang Road in three weeks.
Abdul Hamis Seeni Parkir, 6, had sought a High Court judicial review to quash a decision made by Penang Island City Council in 2014 but the court has dismissed his application.
The court decision comes almost exactly a year after council enforcement officers raided the shop. In the wee hours of Jan 19 last year, the officers carried away tables and chairs from the outlet as Abdul Hamid's licence had expired on Dec 31, 2014.
Abdul Hamid however continued to run the business after getting a stay and seeking the court's intervention."
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REVEALED: Kapil Sharma asserts that his health is the only reason behind his break
With a fresh controversy being brewed related to Kapil Sharma, there have been several speculations regarding the break that the actor-comedian has taken from his ongoing comedy show The Kapil Sharma Show. From rumours of him being thrown out of the channel owing to low TRPs to him joining a rehab to deal with alcoholism, several such reports have been doing the rounds and now, Kapil Sharma has decided to put an end to all.
Kapil Sharma is currently in Bengaluru undergoing a treatment for anxiety, blood pressure and sugar problems. The popular stand-up comedian asserted that he is indeed extremely unwell which is a result of his unbalanced diet and hence is taking up Ayurvedic treatment to deal with the issues. He explained that since he has been working for the past 10 years without a break and ignoring his health in the process, he now wants to focus on the same before his health condition worsens.
Denying that the break from the show is a consequence of low TRPs, Kapil Sharma asserted that he continues to share a great camaraderie with the Sony officials and that the channel has been supportive even when he asked for a break. Furthermore, he also quashed the ongoing reports about his arrogant behaviour towards Shah Rukh Khan stating that he wouldn’t jeopardize his biggest source of income by disrespecting a superstar like Shah Rukh Khan. He also appreciated the niceness and kindness with which the superstar has always behaved towards him and also about how much he respects Mr. Khan. He also clarified that he wouldn’t make any superstar or any other person wait for his show.
If that wasn’t enough, the comedian turned actor also spoke about his ‘big fight’ with Sunil Grover wherein the reports claimed that he had allegedly hurled a shoe at Grover in a drunken state. Terming it to be an accident, Kapil admitted that the incident, which happened when he was shooting with Sunil for seven days a week, was wrong on his part. He maintained that it was the result of him grappling about 50 things and hence wasn’t able to handle the situation tactfully. He however extended his best wishes to co-star Sunil Grover for his future endeavours.
Talking about his alleged romance Preeti Simoes walking out of his life as well as their fallout professionally that resulted in her starting up a new show titled The Drama Company, all Kapil Sharma had to say was that he never asked anyone to leave or be a part of the show. While he and Sunil had prior to this sorted out their differences as the latter even returned to the show, Kapil continued to state that even now, he would be happy to welcome anyone who wants to re-join the show. He also wished Preeti all the luck for her new show and added that personal equations do not decide his professional moves.
As for his own return, Kapil revealed that his treatment would be completed by the end of September and that he would be back with the show on Sony network once he finishes the promotions of his film Firangi. He also added that Firangi is almost on the verge of completion and that only the shoot of a promotional video and a song is left to be shot in Mumbai.
REVEALED: Kapil Sharma asserts that his health is the only reason behind his break
“4me4you” visits Lazarides Gallery showcasing Karim Zeriahen: “It’s Taken Me All of My Life to Find You”
Lazarides Gallery.>>” It's Taken Me All of My Life to Find You” breaks free from the confines of film, to which Zeriahen previously limited his artistic output. Instead the works in his debut exhibition utilise light, lines and shapes to show movement and emotion in a quest to uncover the creative impetus inside, a force the artist sees quashed by the commercial art world in an exchange for an admiration of the idolatry of branded individuals.
Portraits of five women side by side of different ages, backgrounds and origins displaying strength, originality and freedom. These muses - La Contessa Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda, Julia Peyton Jones, Cecilia Bengolea, Victoire de Pourtales, Marie Donnelly - are selected upon the artist's admiration for their lifetime achievement, both personally and professionally. Inspired by their individuality, Zeriahen highlights the leader inherent in each and everyone one of his viewers.
Item No.08
Heard. The learned counsel represented for the applicant . This is an application
filed for renewal of regular permit in respect of the S/C KL-7-CG-6282 for the period
from 11/12/2012 to 10/12/2017 and further 5years on the route Ernakulam –
Kumily(via)M.G.Road, Palarivattom ,Kakkanad,Pukkattupady
,Perumbavoor,Kothamangalam,Neendapara,Idukki,Kattappana and Puttady with an
additional cut trip from Ernakulam t o Perumbavoor-via, Palarivattom,Kakkanad
,Navodaya,Kangarapady,Pukkattupady Chamberkey as LSOS.This application was
already considered by RTA on 09/07/2013 and decided to seek concurrence from sister
RTAs.After the expiry of regular permit this stage carriage is operating on the strength of
temporary permit which was issued as per government orders and interim directions of
Honorable High Court. Later, on 24/11/201 the permit holder of this stage carriage has
also applied for renewal of permit for further 5 years. In the light of the several judgment
of Honarable High Court of Kerala( quashing the clause (4) of the modified
scheme,8/2017 dated 23/03/2017) there is no legal impediment to renew this regular
permit since it is issued prior to 09-05-2006 . There is no need for any concurrence from
sister RTAs for renewal of permit. Hence Renewal of permit granted subject to
clearance of Government dues and NOC from the financier if applica
Sally Clark at the Court of Appeal in London after her conviction for murdering her two sons was quashed.
News photograph for The Salisbury Journal (www.journalphotos.co.uk) by Lara Ball. Our picture shows: Sally Clark outside the Court Of Appeal in London after her conviction for murder was quashed, on Wednesday 29th January 2003
On 70 minutes, any remaining doubts over Saudi qualification were quashed when left back Abdullah Al-Dhosari shimmied past several defenders to spank a delightful angled finish into the net.
Just two minutes later Al-Qahtani was again released down the middle by Tayseer Al-Jasim.
Instead of going for goal himself, Al-Qahtani drew Nasser before unselfishly passing for Al-Furaidi to score into an empty net.
Surprisingly, this was the most interesting part of the whole science park -- and I am a biologist at heart and not a history buff. But the rest of the park was too juvenile or out-dated to be of much interest but learning about the history of science and scientific discovery by the Moorish and Arabic peoples, and later Spanish Muslims (and quashing by Christians) was actually really interesting.