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The toponym "Lac à la Catin" was formalized on December 5, 1968 by the Commission de toponymie du Québec. |
1898 Cork Senior Football Championship |
The 1898 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 12th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. |
Dohenys were the defending champions. |
Fermoy won the championship after a successful appeal against Dohenys who defeated them by 0-01 to 0-02 in the final at Cork Park. |
This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1895. |
Ranjit Sitaram Pandit |
Ranjit Sitaram Pandit (1893 – 14 January 1944) was an Indian barrister, Congressman, linguist and scholar from Rajkot in the Kathiawar district of India. |
He is known for his role in the Indian non-cooperation movement, and for translating the Sanskrit texts "Mudrarakshasa", "Ṛtusaṃhāra" and Kalhana's "Rajatarangini" into English. |
He was the husband of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the son-in-law of Motilal Nehru, brother-in-law of Jawaharlal Nehru and father of Nayantara Sahgal. |
Until 1926, he was a barrister in Calcutta, a position he resigned to join the Indian non-cooperation movement. |
In 1930, he was the Secretary of the Peshawar Enquiry Committee, which investigated the troubles in the North West Frontier Province. |
Later, he was appointed a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (UP). |
Pandit died in 1944, shortly after being released from his fourth imprisonment by the British. |
Ranjit Sitaram Pandit was born in 1893, to the wealthy British-educated lawyer Sitaram Narayan Pandit, in Rajkot in the Kathiawar district of India. |
His ancestors came from Bambuli village in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra and his family consisted of a number of lawyers and Sanskrit scholars. |
Amongst his siblings was a brother, Pratap, and two sisters, Ramabai and Tarabai. |
He was a linguist and spoke eleven languages, including Hindi, Persian, Bengali, English, French and German, and like his father, he studied law in England. |
Prior to entering the Middle Temple, he attended Christ Church College, University of Oxford. |
He had also attended the Sorbonne University and the University of Heidelberg. |
He had an interest in horticulture, could play the violin and was proficient at tennis, polo, cricket, swimming and hunting. |
In 1920, Mahadev Desai, a friend of Pandit's from college, recommended that Sarup Nehru, Motilal Nehru's daughter, read Pandit's article published in "Modern Review" titled "At the Feet of the Guru". |
Desai was then secretary to Mahatma Gandhi, who was a family friend to the Pandits in Kathiawar. |
Pandit and Sarup Nehru were subsequently introduced to each other and he proposed to her the following day, writing in one note that "I have come many miles and crossed many bridges to come to you—but in the future you and I must cross our bridges hand in hand". |
On 10 May 1921, the anniversary of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, they married, upon which, she adopted the name Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. |
With the Nehrus now involved in the Indian non-cooperation movement and in boycotting British goods, the wedding was the last event in the Nehru household "approaching opulence at Anand Bhavan". |
Their first daughter, Vatsala, died at the age of nine months. |
Subsequently, they had three daughters; Chandralekha Mehta, Nayantara Sahgal and Rita Dar, born in 1924, 1927 and 1929 respectively. |
On 1 March 1926, Pandit, together with his wife Vijaya Lakshmi, his brother-in-law Jawaharlal Nehru, sister-in-law Kamala Nehru and niece Indira, sailed to Europe on the Lloyd liner "Triestino". |
He returned with Vijaya Lakshmi the following November. |
Until this European trip, Pandit was a successful lawyer who practiced in what was then called Calcutta with Sir B. L. Mitter. |
Against the wishes of his family in Rajkot, he became a Satyagrahi and joined Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru in the Indian non-cooperation movement and settled in Allahabad, where he took up cases in the courts. |
Later, they moved to Khali, in the hills near Almora. |
When the Indian National Congress's 1928 proposal for Dominion status was rejected by the British, the party took a pledge of non-cooperation and demanded "complete independence". |
Vijaya Lakshmi later recorded in her autobiography, that on 29 December 1929, upon the declaration of independence by the Congress's then president Jawaharlal Nehru, Pandit joined him in the celebrations. |
In 1930, Motilal Nehru appointed Pandit the Secretary of the Peshawar Enquiry Committee, to investigate troubles in the North West Frontier Province. |
Its report was published by Allahabad's Law Journal Press. |
In 1937, he was listed in "The Indian Annual Register" as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (UP), to which he was elected along with Vijaya Lakshmi. |
He served several prison terms, including two prison sentences with Jawaharlal Nehru, one in Naini Central Jail in 1931 and another at Dehradun. |
His daughter, Nayantara, later described how she ate chocolate cake the day her father first went to prison. |
She later became a writer, and associating chocolate cake with prison, wrote a book titled "Prison and Chocolate Cake". |
While in prison, Pandit translated into English Kalhana's "Rajatarangini", the 12th century history of the kings of Kashmir, written in Sanskrit, and described the poem as one of "great scope, a more or less complete picture of society, in which the bloody periods of the past are delightfully relieved by delicate tales of love, by episodes of marvel and mystery and by interesting digressions which the author permits himself". |
The foreword to the translation was written by Jawaharlal Nehru. |
He translated from Sanskrit to English, the play "Mudrarakshasa" and in 1942 completed the translation of "Ṛtusaṃhāra". |
In 1943, he was reported to have had pneumonia, pleurisy and a heart attack in Bareilly Central Jail. |
Vijaya Lakshmi visited him, and later described how "it was a tremendous shock to see Ranjit brought in to the superintendant's office on a stretcher. |
His head had been shaved and he was emaciated and almost unrecognisable”. |
He had been arrested that year by British authorities and was serving his fourth term in prison. |
He died shortly after being released. |
On 18 January 1944, Nehru wrote to his daughter Indu, that he was informed that Pandit (Pupha to Indu) died in Lucknow on 14 January 1944, before the reformation of personal law which was completed after independence, leaving his widow to raise their three daughters without an inheritance. |
Pandit's brother, Pratap, had frozen their assets. |
Author Katherine Frank wrote in her biography of Indira Gandhi, that Pandit's death "was an unnecessary death directly attributable to the poor conditions and treatment he had received in jail. |
Winston Churchill was later reported by Pandit's widow, on a visit to England after independence of India, to have said to her that “we killed your husband didn't we”. |
Pandit's daughter, Nayantara, wrote in her biography of Nehru that her mother replied "no, every man lives only to his appointed hour" and Churchill replied "nobly spoken". |
1899 Cork Senior Football Championship |
The 1899 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 13th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. |
Fermoy were the defending champions. |
Fermoy won the championship following a defeat of Nils in the final at Cork Park. |
This was their third championship title overall and their second title in succession. |
Rue des Petits-Champs |
Rue des Petits-Champs is a street which runs through the 1st and 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. |
This one-way street, running east-west, is located between rue de la Banque and Avenue de l'Opera. |
It was officially created in 1634 by orders of the king during the construction of Palais-Cardinal, it was named "rue Bautru" then "rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs", In 1881 it was given its present name. |
In 1944, the part of rue des Petits Champs which extends across Opera near the Place Vendome was renamed rue Danielle Casanova after a French Resistance fighter who died in 1943. |
The street received that name because of the small fields, or the large gardens. |
that used to be there (petits champs meaning small fields in French). |
There is a record of a street, in the same location and under the same name in the (1273). |
Rue des Petits-Champs is lined by several impressive mansions: |
Metro: Line 3 (Quatre Septembre), 1 & 7 (Palais-Royal-Musée du Louvre), 7 & 14 (Pyramides) |
Bus: Lines 39 (Bus Sainte-Anne - Petits Champs), 68 21 27 95 (Pyramides) |
Zoran Pažin |
Zoran Pažin (born 29 August 1966 in Šibenik, Croatia), is a Montenegrin jurist and politician, current Minister of Justice an Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro since was appointed by Duško Marković on 28 November 2016 |
Graduated in Laws by the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, he served as judge of the Basic Court in Podgorica. |
He is an independent politician affiliated with the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists. |
Schoenoplectus torreyi |
Schoenoplectus torreyi, common name Torrey bulrush or Torrey's bulrush, is a species of Schoenoplectus found in North America. |
It is listed as endangered and extirpated in Maryland, as endangered in Indiana and Pennsylvania, as threatened in Connecticut, as presumed extirpated in Ohio, and as a special concern in Rhode Island. |
Michael McMaster |
Michael McMaster (11 May 1896 – 29 March 1965) was an English first-class cricketer, Royal Naval Air Service officer and businessman. |
The son of the Test cricketer Emile McMaster, he was born in May 1896 at Porlock, Somerset. |
He served in the First World War in the Royal Naval Air Service, being commissioned as a probationary sub-lieutenant, with his probation expiring in April 1917. |
He was promoted to flight lieutenant in August 1917. |
Following the war, McMaster made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1920. |
He scored 13 runs in the match, in addition to taking the wicket of Gilbert Ashton in the Cambridge first-innings. |
He was placed on the retired list at his own request in September 1920. |
After leaving the Royal Navy, McMaster entered into the world of business, which took him to South Africa with Taylor and Ellis in Durban, before serving as the chairman of Slazenger. |
He died at Brook on the Isle of Wight in March 1965. |
His brother-in-law was the rugby union international Anthony Henniker-Gotley. |
Mount Lyell Standard & Strahan Gazette |
The Mount Lyell Standard was a Queenstown based newspaper in Western Tasmania, that was contemporaneous with the Zeehan and Dundas Herald. |
It operated between 1896 and 1902. |
It was also known as the "Mount Lyell standard & Strahan gazette". |
Editorial banners included Shakespearean quotes - such as: |
It was notable for carrying material related to the early Australian politician King O'Malley. |
Isamu Shiraishi |
Isamu Shiraishi (born 18 December 1920) was a Japanese weightlifter. |
He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. |
Sophie McNeill |
Sophie McNeill (born 1986) is an Australian journalist, television presenter, and author. |
She is best known for her work reporting from conflict zones. |