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The male is rufous brown with an elongated golden crest extending from its golden forehead, dark grey feet and buffish yellow underparts.

The female is an unadorned olive brown bird.

An Indonesian endemic, the male builds a tower-like "maypole-type" bower decorated with colored fruit.

Originally described in 1895 based on trade skins, this elusive bird remained a mystery for nearly a hundred years, until 31 January 1981 when the American ornithologist Jared Diamond discovered the home ground of the golden-fronted bowerbird at the Foja Mountains in the Papua province of Indonesia.

In December 2005, an international team of eleven scientists from the United States, Australia and Indonesia led by Bruce Beehler traveled to the unexplored areas of Foja Mountains and took the first photographs of the bird.

References External links BirdLife Species Factsheet Amblyornis Birds of Western New Guinea golden-fronted bowerbird Endemic birds of Indonesia

The Felgemaker Organ Company was a manufacturer of pipe organs based out of Erie, Pennsylvania, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

History It was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1865 but relocated to Erie, Pennsylvania.

In 1872, the company was known as the Derrick and Felgemaker Pipe Organ Company.

During the 1870s, the company employed over 55 workers and had $75,000 worth of capital.

The firm produced between 15 and 20 organs per week.

Specialties of the company included church organs and portable pipe organs for small churches, schools and residential parlors.

By 1878 the company was renamed as the A.B. Felgemaker Company, relocating the factory to larger facilities in 1888 and 1890.

At the invitation of Mr. Felgemaker, German organ maker Anton Gottfried moved to Erie in 1894, where he leased space from the Felgemaker plant.

Amid booming business, in 1911 the Erie factory underwent major renovations, adding open two-story factory floor space, renovating the offices, electrifying, and adding an electric travelling crane.

The A.B. Felgemaker Company remained in business until 1917.

Several workers from the Felgemaker Company, including Gottfried, joined to form the Organ Supply Industries in Erie, which is today North America's largest pipe organ manufacturer and supply house.

The company produced organs until 1918, when it ceased operations.

The company's service agreements and pending contracts were then assumed by the Tellers-Kent Organ Company.

Surviving organs Organs produced by the company are still in use at Lawrence University, Appleton Wisconsin, St. John's Lutheran Church, Erie, Pennsylvania, Crawford Memorial United Methodist Church, Bronx, New York, Trinity Episcopal Church, Iowa City, Iowa, St. John's Episcopal Church, Canandaigua, New York, First Congregational Church, St. Johns, Michigan, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Sacred Heart Music Center, Duluth, Minnesota, Spencerport United Methodist Church, Spencerport, New York, and Prince of Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bangor, Pennsylvania, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Minersville, Pennsylvania has a A.B. Felgemaker that was installed in 1906, Zion Lutheran Church, Everett, Pennsylvania has a A.B. Felgemaker Organ that was installed in 1903.

An additional organ exists at Emmanuel Lutheran in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, however, the organ has been rebuilt four times since Felgemaker's presence and its remaining extent is indeterminant.

Capitol Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church in Washington, DC maintains one of the original Felgemaker pipe organs, produced before 1917.

Two still exist in Buffalo at the former St. Agnes RC Church (relocated from Sacred Heart RC in Buffalo) and Emmanual Temple SDA, originally St. Stephen's Evangelical.

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Taneytown, Maryland, has a Felgemaker pipe organ built in 1897.

It was completely restored in 1987 by the Columbia Organ Works and is still in weekly Sunday service.

Emmanuel Catholic Church in Dayton, Ohio originally dedicated its three-division Felgemaker pipe organ in 1887.

Since then, the organ has undergone multiple major renovations and additions, most recently in 2015.

Formal re-dedication of the Emmanuel Felgemaker organ is scheduled for November 11, 2016.

Freemasons' Hall in Indianapolis has 6 matching Felgamaker Pipe Organs installed in 1908.

They are all in unrestored, playable condition.

The pipe organ at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz, CA is based on an A. B. Felgemaker Co. organ (Opus 506, 1889) with additional pipes and Zimbelstern added by Stuart Goodwin & Co. (Opus 10, 1988) after moving it from its previous home in Ohio.

The organ is in active use at the 5:00 Saturday and 7:00 and 8:30 Sunday Masses.

An A.B. Felgemaker still exists in working order at the former M.E. Richmond Ave.

Church at West Ferry Street & Olmsted Circle and will be cleaned and remain in working order.

A.B. Felgemaker Organ Co. built an organ in 1882 for a Lutheran church in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

After 1905 the organ was moved to St. Cecilia's Catholic Church, Hubbell, Michigan.

In 2011 the organ was rebuilt and moved to St. Albert the Great Catholic University Parish, Houghton, Michigan, where it is in regular use for mass, organ instruction, and recitals.

St. Mary Parish in Taylor, Texas founded in 1886, has a rare one of only two-of-its-kind in the state of Texas.

In 1902, William Kielihar donated an A. B. Felgemaker Pipe Organ Opus 770 to St. Mary; its value then was $3,600.

It's ivory keys, pulls, and stops played full melodic sounds every Sunday, wedding, and funeral until the church was torn down in November 1954.

Otto Hoffman, an organ builder from Austin, Texas, disassembled the organ for storage until the new church was built.

When the new St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic church was completed in 1955, Hoffman cleaned and re-built the organ in the present church, where it is still used today.

Oddly, when the organ was reassembled in the present church, it was placed in a room to the right of the altar instead of upstairs in the balcony.

If it had been placed in the balcony, the acoustics of the current church would make the organ's music even more heavenly.

In 2020, St. Mary of the Assumption reviewed renovation options to relocate the historic organ to the balcony.

References Companies based in Erie, Pennsylvania Defunct manufacturing companies based in Pennsylvania Pipe organ building companies Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1918 1918 disestablishments in Pennsylvania Manufacturing companies established in 1865 1865 establishments in New York (state) Musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United States American companies disestablished in 1918 American companies established in 1865

Akeake is the name of at least three New Zealand species of tree: Dodonaea viscosa, akeake Olearia avicenniifolia, mountain akeake or tree daisy Olearia traversiorum, Chatham Island akeake or Chatham Island tree daisy The species are small trees.

The name goes back to pre-European times when it was used in different areas of New Zealand.

In post-European times it is used most frequently, but not exclusively, for Dodonaea viscosa.

Trees of New Zealand

Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra (1905 – 1975) was a South African palaeontologist whose work focused on the therapsida|mammal-like reptiles]] of the Middle (Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone) and Late Permian, whose fossil remains are common in the South African Karoo.

He was the author of a large number of papers on Therapsids and Pareiasaurs, and described and revised a number of species.

Work In 1927 Boonstra was appointed Assistant Palaeontologist of the South African Museum and promoted to Palaeontologist in 1931.

He remained at the museum until his retirement in 1972.

He was the sole curator of the museum's Karoo vertebrate fossil collection for 45 years.

Awards He was awarded the Queen Victoria Scholarship by the University of Stellenbosch and received the Havenga prize for Biology from Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns in 1959.

Publications Volume 64 of the Annals of the South African Museum (1974) was dedicated to Boonstra.

The 88 publications and books he wrote between 1928 and 1969 are listed in it.

References External links South African Museum - Dr. Boonstra's Publications Brief biography of Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra South African paleontologists 1905 births 1975 deaths

Orli Shaham (born 5 November 1975) is an American pianist, born in Jerusalem, Israel, the daughter of two scientists, Meira Shaham (nee Diskin) and Jacob Shaham.

Her brothers are the violinist Gil Shaham and Shai Shaham, who is the head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at Rockefeller University.

She is a graduate of the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York, and of Columbia University.

She also studied at the Juilliard School, beginning in its Pre-college Division and continuing while a student at Columbia.

Orli Shaham performs recitals and appears with major orchestras throughout the world.

She was awarded the Gilmore Young Artist Award in 1995 and the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1997.

Her appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit and Atlanta Symphonies, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala (Milan), Orchestra della Toscana (Florence), and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

In November 2008, she began her tenure as artistic advisor to the Pacific Symphony and curator of their "Cafe Ludwig" chamber music series.

In 2020, Orli Shaham was named as Regular Guest Host and Creative for NPR’s “From the Top”, the nationally broadcast radio program featuring performances and conversations with teenage musicians.

She also served as the host of America’s Music Festivals in 2012 and 2013, and from 2005-2008 she was host of The Classical Public Radio Network’s "Dial-a-Musician", in which she called expert colleagues to answer listener questions.

For this program she interviewed more than forty artists, including John Adams, Emanuel Ax, Natalie Dessay, Christine Brewer, Colin Currie, and others.

In 2003, Shaham married David Robertson, then Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and became stepmother to his sons, Peter and Jonathan.

Shaham and Robertson are the parents of twin sons Nathan Glenn and Alex Jacob, born in 2007 in New York City.

Discography Mozart Piano Concertos (with SLSO and David Robertson) (2019) Letters from Gettysburg (2019) Alberto Ginastera: One Hundred (with Gil Shaham, violin) (2016) Brahms Inspired (2015) American Grace: Piano Music from Steve Mackey and John Adams (with pianist Jon Kimura Parker, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and conductor David Robertson) (2015) Nigunim: Hebrew Melodies (with violinist Gil Shaham) (2013) Chamber Music for Horn (with Richard King, horn) (2012) Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant (with pianist Jon Kimura Parker and San Diego Symphony) (2011) Mozart in Paris (with violinist Gil Shaham) (2008) Mozart: Violin Sonatas (with violinist Gil Shaham) (DVD; 2006) Prokofiev: works for violin and piano (with violinist Gil Shaham) (2004) Dvorak for Two (with violinist Gil Shaham) (1997) References External links Orli Shaham's website Profile page on her agent's website Orli Shaham, Co-Host/Creative on From The Top American classical pianists American women classical pianists Jewish classical pianists Jewish American classical musicians Columbia University alumni Horace Mann School alumni Artists from Jerusalem 1975 births Living people 21st-century American women musicians 21st-century American Jews

George Robert Stow Mead (22 March 1863 in London – 28 September 1933 in London) was an English historian, writer, editor, translator, and an influential member of the Theosophical Society, as well as the founder of the Quest Society.

His works dealt with various religious and philosophical texts and traditions, including Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and Gnosticism.

Birth and family Mead was born in Peckham, Surrey, England, to British Army Colonel Robert Mead and his wife Mary (née Stow), who had received a traditional education at Rochester Cathedral School.

Education at Cambridge University Mead began studying mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge.

Eventually shifting his education towards the study of Classics, he gained much knowledge of Greek and Latin.

In 1884 he completed a BA degree; in the same year he became a public school master.

He received an MA degree in 1926.

Activity with the Theosophical Society While still at Cambridge University Mead read Esoteric Buddhism (1883) by Alfred Percy Sinnett, which presumably prompted his initial interest in Theosophy and led him to join Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's Theosophical Society in 1884.

After becoming Blavatsky's private secretary in 1889, Mead was elected as the general secretary (jointly with Bertram Keightley) of the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society as well as one of twelve members of its Inner Group.

Mead met Laura Mary Cooper (later to become his wife) in the latter group, and attended all but one of the total of twenty meetings held for its members.

Together with Annie Besant, Mead was the last editor of the Theosophical magazine Lucifer (renamed The Theosophical Review in 1897) and served as the magazine's sole editor between 1907 and 1909, when it became defunct due to Mead leaving the Theosophical Society.

As of February 1909, Mead and some 700 members of the British Section of the Theosophical Society's British Section resigned in protest of Annie Besant's reinstatement of Charles Webster Leadbeater to membership in the society.

Leadbeater had been a prominent member of the Theosophical Society until he was accused in 1906 of teaching masturbation to, and sexually touching, the sons of some American Theosophists under the guise of occult training.

While this prompted Mead's resignation, his frustration at the dogmatism of the Theosophical Society may also have been a major contributor to his break after 25 years.

The Quest Society In March 1909 Mead founded the Quest Society, composed of 150 defectors of the Theosophical Society and 100 other new members.

This new society was planned as an undogmatic approach to the comparative study and investigation of religion, philosophy, and science.

The Quest Society presented lectures at the old Kensington Town Hall in central London but its most focused effort was in its publishing of The Quest: A Quarterly Review which ran from 1909 to 1931 with many historically important contributors.

Influence Notable persons influenced by Mead include Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, Hermann Hesse, Kenneth Rexroth, and Robert Duncan.

The influence of G.R.S. Mead on Carl Gustav Jung has been suggested by Gnosticism scholar and a friend of Jung's, Gilles Quispel, and the issue has been further discussed by a number of scholars.

Being the first individual to provide an English translation of the Gnostic text Pistis Sophia, Mead played an important role in the popularization of the notion of "Gnosis" as an important facet of ancient Gnosticism, as well as general concept in religions across time and space.

Works Address read at H.P. Blavatsky's cremation (1891) Simon Magus (London: Theosophical Publ.

Soc'y, 1892) The Word-Mystery: Four Essays (London: Theosophical Publ.

Soc'y, 1895), revised as The Word-Mystery: Four Comparative Studies in General Theosophy (London: Theosophical Publ.

Soc'y, 1907) Select Works of Plotinus (Lonson: George Bell, 1896) Orpheus (London: Theosophical Publ.

Soc'y, 1896) Pistis Sophia: The Book of the Saviour (London: J.M. Watkins, 1896; revised 2nd ed.

1921) Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (London: Theosophical Publ.

Soc'y 1900) Apollonius of Tyana (London: Theosophical Publ.