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3,474 | 604 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 0 | 249 | = Robert Boulter =
Robert Boulter is an English film, television and theatre actor. He had a guest-starring role on the television series The Bill in 2000. This was followed by a starring role in the play Herons written by Simon Stephens, which was performed in 2001 at the Royal Court Theatre. He had a guest role in ... |
3,418 | 572 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 1 | 0 | 248 | ter starred alongside Whishaw in the play Citizenship written by Mark Ravenhill. He appeared on a 2006 episode of the television series, Doctors, followed by a role in the 2007 theatre production of How to Curse directed by Josie Rourke. How to Curse was performed at Bush Theatre in the London Borough of Hammersmith an... |
3,390 | 580 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 2 | 0 | 249 | 2005 ===
In 2000 Boulter had a guest-starring role on the television series The Bill; he portrayed "Scott Parry" in the episode, "In Safe Hands". Boulter starred as "Scott" in the play Herons written by Simon Stephens, which was performed in 2001 at the Royal Court Theatre. A review of Boulter's performance in The Ind... |
3,458 | 548 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 0 | 248 | ; he starred alongside actors Mark Strong and Derek Jacobi. Boulter starred as "Darren", in the 2005 theatre productions of the Philip Ridley play Mercury Fur. It was performed at the Drum Theatre in Plymouth, and the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. He was directed by John Tiffany and starred alongside Ben Whishaw,... |
3,582 | 584 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 4 | 0 | 248 | which featured different playwrights, titled Burn / Chatroom / Citizenship. In a 2006 interview, fellow actor Ben Whishaw identified Boulter as one of his favorite co-stars: "I loved working with a guy called Robert Boulter, who was in the triple bill of Burn, Chatroom and Citizenship at the National. He played my brot... |
3,858 | 640 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 5 | 0 | 248 | Punch directed by Olly Blackburn. Boulter portrayed a character named "Sean" in Donkey Punch, who tags along with character "Josh" as the "quiet brother ... who hits it off with Tammi". Boulter guest starred on a two-part episode arc "Wounds" in May 2008 of the television series Waking the Dead as character "Jimmy Dear... |
542 | 88 | 4 | 190 | 46 | 6 | 0 | 46 | red in the 2011 film Mercenaries directed by Paris Leonti.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
=== Television ===
=== Theatre ===
red in the 2011 film Mercenaries directed by Paris Leonti.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
=== Television ===
=== Theatre ===
red in the 2011 film Mercenaries directed by Par... |
3,746 | 644 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 1 | 249 | = Du Fu =
Du Fu (Wade – Giles: Tu Fu; Chinese: 杜甫; 712 – 770) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. Along with Li Bai (Li Po), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets. His greatest ambition was to serve his country as a successful civil servant, but he proved unable to make the necessary... |
4,586 | 724 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 1 | 1 | 248 | ton, Burns, Wordsworth, Béranger, Hugo or Baudelaire".
== Life ==
Traditional Chinese literary criticism emphasized the life of the author when interpreting a work, a practice which Burton Watson attributes to "the close links that traditional Chinese thought posits between art and morality". Since many of Du Fu's po... |
3,994 | 696 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 2 | 1 | 248 | 's life comes from his poems. His paternal grandfather was Du Shenyan, a noted politician and poet during the reign of Empress Wu. Du Fu was born in 712; the exact birthplace is unknown, except that it was near Luoyang, Henan province (Gong county is a favourite candidate). In later life, he considered himself to belon... |
4,074 | 728 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 1 | 248 | / Zhejiang area; his earliest surviving poem, describing a poetry contest, is thought to date from the end of this period, around 735. In that year, he took the civil service exam, likely in Chang'an. He failed, to his surprise and that of centuries of later critics. Hung concludes that he probably failed because his p... |
3,962 | 708 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 4 | 1 | 248 | element in Du Fu's artistic development" because it gave him a living example of the reclusive poet-scholar life to which he was attracted after his failure in the civil service exam. The relationship was somewhat one-sided, however. Du Fu was by some years the younger, while Li Bai was already a poetic star. We have t... |
3,842 | 688 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 5 | 1 | 249 | 5. From 754 he began to have lung problems (probably asthma), the first of a series of ailments which dogged him for the rest of his life. It was in that year that Du Fu was forced to move his family due to the turmoil of a famine brought about by massive floods in the region.
In 755, he received an appointment as Regi... |
3,890 | 724 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 6 | 1 | 248 | led by wars, associated famines and imperial displeasure. This period of unhappiness was the making of Du Fu as a poet: Even Shan Chou has written that, "What he saw around him — the lives of his family, neighbors, and strangers – what he heard, and what he hoped for or feared from the progress of various campaigns — t... |
3,866 | 696 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 7 | 1 | 248 | (Baby Bear), was born. Around this time Du Fu is thought to have contracted malaria.
He escaped from Chang'an the following year, and was appointed Reminder when he rejoined the court in May 757. This post gave access to the emperor but was largely ceremonial. Du Fu's conscientiousness compelled him to try to make use ... |
3,774 | 656 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 8 | 1 | 247 | higher on my desk.
He moved on in the summer of 759; this has traditionally been ascribed to famine, but Hung believes that frustration is a more likely reason. He next spent around six weeks in Qinzhou (now Tianshui, Gansu province), where he wrote more than sixty poems.
=== Chengdu ===
In December 759, he briefly s... |
3,578 | 644 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 9 | 1 | 248 | ed hut". In 762, he left the city to escape a rebellion, but he returned in summer 764 when he was appointed an advisor to Yan, who was involved in campaigns against the Tibetan Empire.
=== Last years ===
Luoyang, the region of his birthplace, was recovered by government forces in the winter of 762, and in the spring... |
3,774 | 664 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 10 | 1 | 248 | region: he supported Du Fu financially and employed him as his unofficial secretary.
In March 768, he began his journey again and got as far as Hunan province, where he died in Tanzhou (now Changsha) in November or December 770, in his 58th year. He was survived by his wife and two sons, who remained in the area for so... |
4,118 | 692 | 4 | 997 | 248 | 11 | 1 | 247 | Criticism of Du Fu's works has focused on his strong sense of history, his moral engagement, and his technical excellence.
=== History ===
Since the Song dynasty, critics have called Du Fu the "poet historian" (詩史 shī shǐ). The most directly historical of his poems are those commenting on military tactics or the succ... |
4,034 | 632 | 4 | 1,000 | 247 | 12 | 1 | 247 | favourite epithet of Chinese critics is that of "poet sage" (詩聖 shī shèng), a counterpart to the philosophical sage, Confucius. One of the earliest surviving works, The Song of the Wagons (from around 750), gives voice to the sufferings of a conscript soldier in the imperial army and a clear-sighted consciousness of su... |
3,946 | 600 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 13 | 1 | 248 | for poetic treatment. Zhang Jie wrote that for Du Fu, "everything in this world is poetry", Du wrote extensively on subjects such as domestic life, calligraphy, paintings, animals, and other poems.
=== Technical excellence ===
Du Fu's work is notable above all for its range. Chinese critics traditionally used the ter... |
4,090 | 696 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 14 | 1 | 248 | shifts" in poems which enable the poet to represent different facets of a situation, while Chou uses the term "juxtaposition" as the major analytical tool in her work. Du Fu is noted for having written more on poetics and painting than any other writer of his time. He wrote eighteen poems on painting alone, more than a... |
4,146 | 708 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 15 | 1 | 247 | Fu is best known for his lǜshi, a type of poem with strict constraints on form and content, for example:
About two thirds of Du Fu's 1500 extant works are in this form, and he is generally considered to be its leading exponent. His best lǜshi use the parallelisms required by the form to add expressive content rather th... |
4,230 | 748 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 16 | 1 | 248 | ed extremely daring and bizarre by Chinese critics." There are few contemporary references to him — only eleven poems from six writers — and these describe him in terms of affection, but not as a paragon of poetic or moral ideals. Du Fu is also poorly represented in contemporary anthologies of poetry.
However, as Hung ... |
4,354 | 684 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 17 | 1 | 249 | ensive re-evaluation of earlier poets took place, in which Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu came to be regarded as representing respectively the Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian strands of Chinese culture. At the same time, the development of Neo-Confucianism ensured that Du Fu, as its poetic exemplar, occupied the paramount p... |
3,834 | 672 | 4 | 997 | 248 | 18 | 1 | 247 | Du Fu's popularity grew to such an extent that it is as hard to measure his influence as that of Shakespeare in England: it was hard for any Chinese poet not to be influenced by him. While there was never another Du Fu, individual poets followed in the traditions of specific aspects of his work: Bai Juyi's concern for ... |
3,630 | 624 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 19 | 1 | 247 | literature, especially on the literature from the Muromachi period and on scholars and poets in the Edo period, including Matsuo Bashō, the very greatest of all haiku poets. Even in modern Japanese, the term Saint of Poetry (詩聖, shisei) is mostly synonymous with Du Fu.
Until the 13th century, the Japanese preferred Bai... |
3,350 | 592 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 20 | 1 | 249 | anshi which were clearly stated "influenced by Du Fu" in their prefaces. Chūgan's student Gidō Shūshin had close connection with the Court and Ashikaga Shogunate and propagated Du Fu's poetry in the mundane world; one day Nijō Yoshimoto, the Kampaku regent of the Court and the highest authority of renga poetry, asked G... |
3,282 | 516 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 21 | 1 | 248 | ào Chuán (邵傳) of the Ming Dynasty's Collective Commentary on Du Fu's Lǜshi (杜律集解, Toritsu Shikkai) was imported into Japan, and it gained explosive popularity in Confucian scholars and chōnin (townspeople) class. The commentary established Du Fu's fame as the highest of all poets; for instance, Hayashi Shunsai, a notab... |
4,186 | 732 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 22 | 1 | 248 | also many of his other haiku have similar wording and themes. It is said that when he died in Osaka during a long travel, a copy of Du Fu's poetry was found with him as one of a few precious items which he was able to carry around.
== Translation ==
A variety of styles have been used in efforts to translate Du Fu's w... |
4,374 | 680 | 4 | 981 | 243 | 23 | 1 | 243 | translations, which seek to conceal the parallelisms through enjambement and expansion and contraction of the content; his responses to the allusions are firstly to omit most of these poems from his selection, and secondly to "translate out" the references in those works which he does select.
Other translators have pla... |
3,694 | 596 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 2 | 249 | = Kiss You (One Direction song) =
"Kiss You" is a song recorded by English-Irish boy band One Direction for their second studio album, Take Me Home (2012). It was released as the record's second single in Germany and the third overall single on 7 January 2013. The song was composed by Kristoffer Fogelmark, Kristian L... |
3,642 | 596 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 1 | 2 | 249 | 46 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of 500,000 copies. One Direction performed "Kiss You" on both the UK and US versions of The X Factor and 3 major concert tours: Take Me Home Tour (2013), Where We Are Tour (2014) and On the R... |
3,698 | 588 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 2 | 2 | 248 | The song was included in the dancing game Just Dance 2014, and is also one of the select songs available on the demo version. Additionally, it is the final main track on the US edition of Now That's What I Call Music! 46.
== Background and release ==
"Kiss You" was written by Kristoffer Fogelmark, Kristian Lundin, Al... |
3,698 | 656 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 2 | 248 | "Kiss You" was chosen as the second US single and third international from their second studio album, Take Me Home. Liam Payne, a group member, in a November 2012 interview with MTV News, explained why they chose "Kiss You" as the album's second single in the US. Payne was quoted as saying: "With the album, that's the ... |
3,942 | 668 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 4 | 2 | 248 | " breakdown, and a Motown-tinged melody. One Direction's vocal range in the song span from the note of E4 to C ♯ 6. Instrumentation includes guitar strings, piano lines and vocals. Written in the key of E major, the beat is set in common time and moves at a quick 90 beats per minute, according to the digital sheet musi... |
3,426 | 540 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 5 | 2 | 248 | album's highlights. Alexis Petridis for The Guardian commended the track's chorus as "hard to dislodge from your brain". Robert Copsey of Digital Spy noted the song's possibility to become an international hit, applauding it sonically. A reviewer for MTV News described the track's lyricism as "butterflies-inducing", an... |
3,190 | 580 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 6 | 2 | 248 | ing their sixth top ten appearance in Ireland. "Kiss You" entered at number 152 in the UK Singles Chart on 24 November 2012. It peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart on 26 January 2013, becoming One Direction's sixth top ten hit in the United Kingdom. On the week ending 18 November 2012, "Kiss You" debuted at n... |
3,506 | 568 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 7 | 2 | 247 | gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 25 April 2013, denoting shipments of 500,000 copies.
The song became One Direction's fourth top-forty hit on the Canadian Hot 100, peaking at number 30. The single bowed at number 13 on the Australian Singles Chart on 27 January 2013, marking its peak posi... |
3,710 | 592 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 8 | 2 | 248 | the top 40 in both Belgian territories (Flanders and Wallonia), as well as in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and South Korea. In addition, "Kiss You" received gold certifications from the IFPI Norway and Denmark associations, signifying collective shipments of 20,000 units.
== Music video ==
Th... |
3,306 | 548 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 9 | 2 | 248 | "pure stupidity" by Louis Tomlinson, and as "I wouldn 't say [it's] comedy, it's all tongue-in-cheek" by Arnell. Premiering worldwide on Vevo on 7 January 2013, the music video depicts the band shooting different scenes via a green screen, dressed as sailors, surfers, skiers and jailers. The video features scenes remin... |
3,702 | 596 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 10 | 2 | 248 | and preceding teaser videos earning 38 million views during the week, One Direction held at number two on the Billboard's Social 50 chart A 15 % rise in Facebook reaction gave way to a 154,000 increase in Facebook likes during the week. 191,000 Twitter followers added contributed to their overall fan base increase as w... |
3,562 | 616 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 11 | 2 | 248 | going through the motions.
== Live performances ==
As part of its promotion, One Direction performed the song on televised programmes and during their worldwide Take Me Home Tour (2013). One Direction performed the track on The Today Show at the Rockefeller Center on 13 November 2012, to a record crowd estimated at 1... |
3,482 | 548 | 4 | 977 | 242 | 12 | 2 | 242 | biggest success story", an editor for The Huffington Post opined that the boy band's prominent presence on both the US and UK versions of The X Factor seemed fitting. Not only Take Me Home Tour, they also performance in Where We Are Tour (2014) & On the Road Again Tour (2015)
== Track listing ==
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3,706 | 584 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 3 | 249 | = Ise-class battleship =
The Ise-class battleships (伊勢型戦艦, Ise-gata senkan) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I. Originally intended to be repeats of the preceding Fusō class, they were redesigned before construction began. Both ships carried supplies f... |
4,446 | 724 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 1 | 3 | 247 | rear pair of gun turrets to give them the ability to operate an air group of floatplanes. A lack of aircraft and qualified pilots, however, meant that they never actually operated their aircraft in combat. While awaiting their air group the sister ships were sometimes used to ferry troops and material to Japanese bases... |
4,010 | 664 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 2 | 3 | 247 | waters. The IJN's fleet of battleships had proven highly successful in 1905, the last year of the Russo-Japanese War, which culminated in the destruction of the Russian Second and Third Pacific Squadrons at the Battle of Tsushima.
In the aftermath, the Japanese Empire immediately turned its focus to the two remaining r... |
3,270 | 500 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 3 | 248 | , and eight modern armoured cruisers, 18,000 long tons (18,289 t) each. This was the genesis of the Eight-Eight Fleet Program, the development of a cohesive battle line of sixteen capital ships.
The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 by the Royal Navy raised the stakes, and complicated Japan's plans. Displacing 17,900 l... |
3,650 | 604 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 4 | 3 | 249 | ight Fleet Program were the two dreadnoughts of the Kawachi class, ordered in 1907 and laid down in 1908. In 1910, the Navy put forward a request to the Diet (parliament) to secure funding for the entirety of the program at once. Because of economic constraints, only four battlecruisers and a single battleship of the F... |
4,042 | 672 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 5 | 3 | 248 | gun turrets was the most obvious flaw as they complicated the protection of the midships magazine and exposed more of the ship to the blast effects of the guns when they fired. Another issue was that Japanese sailors had problems maintaining a high rate of fire with the 45.36-kilogram (100.0 lb) shells used in the manu... |
3,090 | 576 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 6 | 3 | 248 | h; 0.58 mph) to 23 knots (43 km / h; 26 mph). To save weight the forecastle deck was shortened so that the lower midships gun turret was lower than in the Fusō class. This reduced the crew's accommodations despite a significant increase in the crew's numbers and naval historian Fukui Shizuo believed that these ships ha... |
3,210 | 536 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 7 | 3 | 248 | than the preceding class. Their crew consisted of 1,360 officers and enlisted men. They had a metacentric height of 1.737 metres (5 ft 8.4 in) at deep load.
During the ships' modernization during the 1930s, their forward superstructures were enlarged with multiple platforms added to their tripod foremasts. Both ships w... |
2,742 | 460 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 8 | 3 | 248 | ,376 officers and enlisted men.
=== Propulsion ===
The Ise-class ships had two sets of direct-drive steam turbines, each of which drove two propeller shafts with 3.429-metre (11 ft 3 in) propellers. The high-pressure turbines drove the wing shafts while the low-pressure turbines drove the inner shafts. The turbines w... |
2,186 | 440 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 9 | 3 | 247 | sea trials; Ise reached 23.6 knots (43.7 km / h; 27.2 mph) from 56,498 shp (42,131 kW) and Hyūga exceeded that with 24 knots (44 km / h; 28 mph) from 63,211 shp (47,136 kW). Each of the boilers consumed a mixture of coal and oil and the ships had a stowage capacity of 4,607 long tons (4,681 t) of coal and 1,411 long to... |
2,686 | 488 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 10 | 3 | 248 | kilowatt (340 hp) turbo generators at 225 volts.
During their 1930s modernization, the boilers on each ship were replaced by eight new Kampon oil-fired boilers, fitted into the former aft boiler room, and the forward funnel was removed. The turbines were replaced by four geared Kampon turbines with a designed output of... |
2,970 | 564 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 11 | 3 | 249 | 4,580 km; 9,060 mi) at a speed of 16 knots (30 km / h; 18 mph).
=== Armament ===
The twelve 45-calibre 35.6 cm (14.0 in) Type 41 guns of the Ise class were mounted in three pairs of twin-gun, superfiring turrets. Numbered one through six from front to rear, each turret weighed 655 long tons (666 t). The hydraulically... |
2,758 | 492 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 12 | 3 | 248 | changed from a hydraulic to a pneumatic system, which allowed for a faster firing cycle of the main guns.
By World War II, the guns used Type 91 armour-piercing, capped shells. Each of these shells weighed 673.5 kilograms (1,485 lb) and was fired at a muzzle velocity of 770 – 775 metres per second (2,530 – 2,540 ft / s... |
3,070 | 548 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 13 | 3 | 249 | 930s for anti-aircraft use.
The ships'secondary armament consisted of twenty 50-calibre 14-centimetre Type 3. Eighteen of these were mounted in casemates in the forecastle and superstructure and the remaining pair were mounted on the deck above them and protected by gun shields. They had a maximum elevation of + 20 deg... |
2,250 | 424 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 14 | 3 | 248 | s) to a maximum height of 7,500 metres (24,600 ft). The ships were also fitted with six submerged 53.3-centimetre (21.0 in) torpedo tubes, three on each broadside. They carried twelve to eighteen 6th Year Type torpedoes which had a 200-kilogram (440 lb) warhead. They had three settings for range and speed: 15,000 metre... |
3,310 | 580 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 15 | 3 | 248 | in) Type 89 dual-purpose guns, fitted on both sides of the forward superstructures in four twin-gun mounts. When firing at surface targets, the guns had a range of 14,700 metres (16,100 yd); they had a ceiling of 9,440 metres (30,970 ft) at their maximum elevation of + 90 degrees. Their maximum rate of fire was 14 roun... |
3,542 | 588 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 16 | 3 | 248 | in 10 twin-gun mounts. This was the standard Japanese light AA gun during World War II, but it suffered from severe design shortcomings that rendered it a largely ineffective weapon. According to historian Mark Stille, the twin and triple mounts "lacked sufficient speed in train or elevation; the gun sights were unable... |
3,210 | 600 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 17 | 3 | 248 | this time and the maximum elevation of the remaining guns was increased to + 30 degrees.
=== Protection ===
The Ise-class ships' waterline protective belt had a maximum thickness of 299 mm (11.8 in) of Vickers cemented armour amidships; below it was a strake of 100 mm (3.9 in) armour. The upper armoured deck consiste... |
3,854 | 640 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 18 | 3 | 247 | roof. The casemate armour was 149 mm (5.9 in) thick and that of the barbettes was 299 mm thick rather than the originally planned 305 mm. The sides of the conning tower were 305 mm thick.
The Ise class were the only Japanese battleships to place the powder magazine above the shell magazine as the IJN wished to put as m... |
3,670 | 656 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 19 | 3 | 249 | ized, the deck armour over the machinery and magazines was increased to a total thickness of 140 mm. Inside the original skin of the ships, two torpedo bulkheads were also added and the turret roofs were increased to a total of 152 millimetres (6 in) of armour.
=== Fire control and sensors ===
While the details of th... |
3,154 | 552 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 20 | 3 | 248 | the late 1920s the fire-control systems were upgraded and additional platforms were added to the foremast to accommodate them. A pair of directors for the 12.7 cm AA guns were added, one on each side of the forward superstructure, in the early 1930s. The fire-control systems were again upgraded in the mid-1930s and dir... |
3,866 | 628 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 21 | 3 | 248 | ult and a collapsible 4-tonne (3.9-long-ton) crane were fitted on the stern during the mid-1930s modernization, and the ships were equipped to operate three floatplanes, although no hangar was provided. The initial Nakajima E4N2 biplanes were replaced by Nakajima E8N2 biplanes in 1938.
== Conversion to hybrid carriers... |
3,866 | 656 | 4 | 1,000 | 247 | 22 | 3 | 247 | rejected on the grounds of expense and, most critically, time, and the IJN settled on removing the rear pair of turrets and replacing them with a flight deck equipped with two catapults to launch floatplanes. The Ise-class ships were selected for the conversion because Hyūga had suffered an explosion in Turret No. 5 in... |
3,458 | 636 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 23 | 3 | 248 | abreast the conning tower. The original ten twin 25 mm gun mounts were replaced by triple mounts and nine new triple mounts were added, a total of 57 guns. Two each Type 94 and Type 95 AA directors were added to control the additional guns. The ammunition for these new guns was stored in the magazines originally used f... |
3,654 | 636 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 24 | 3 | 248 | its forward end and 13 metres (42 ft 8 in) at the stern. It overhung the stern and increased the overall length of the ships to 219.62 metres (720 ft 6 in). A pair of rotating gunpowder-propelled catapults were fitted on the sides of the hull, forward of the aft superstructure where they partially restricted the arc of... |
3,406 | 672 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 25 | 3 | 249 | 7 in) wide forward and 11 metres (36 ft 1 in) at the rear. It was 6 metres (19 ft 8 in) high and designed to stow nine aircraft. It was fitted with fire fighting foam and carbon dioxide dispensers as a result of wartime experience. The 'T' -shaped lift was 12.1 metres (39 ft 8 in) wide at its forward end and 6.6 metres... |
3,834 | 640 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 26 | 3 | 249 | uka D4Y dive bombers (Allied reporting name "Judy") and Aichi E16A reconnaissance aircraft (Allied reporting name "Paul") Both aircraft had development problems and neither air group ever had all of its intended aircraft. Coupled with a shortage of trained pilots, neither ship ever used its aircraft during combat.
===... |
3,226 | 576 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 27 | 3 | 248 | of 16 knots. A pair of Type 22 surface-search radars were also fitted during the conversion.
The removal of the secondary armament, the rear turrets and their supporting structures was generally compensated by the addition of the flight deck, hangar, AA guns and more fuel, and the metacentric height increased .23 metre... |
3,546 | 604 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 28 | 3 | 248 | to the 1st Battleship Division of the 1st Fleet. Hyūga had an explosion in one of her main gun turrets that killed 11 men and injured 25 in 1919; the following year she accidentally collided with and sank a schooner, losing two crewmen. Before the start of the Pacific War, both ships frequently exercised off the coasts... |
3,582 | 612 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 29 | 3 | 248 | ship was modernized in 1934 – 36 and Ise in 1935 – 37, both at Kure Naval Arsenal. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the sisters frequently patrolled the Chinese coast in support of the blockade imposed by Japan. In August 1937 Hyūga ferried two battalions of Special Naval Landing Forces to Port Arthur. Three years ... |
3,830 | 664 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 30 | 3 | 248 | for the fleet attacking Pearl Harbor, and returned six days later. On 11 March 1942 Ise and Hyūga sortied from their anchorage at Hashirajima to join the unsuccessful search for the American carrier force that had attacked Marcus Island a week earlier. Similarly they pursued but did not catch the American carriers that... |
3,822 | 644 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 31 | 3 | 248 | -Admiral Shirō Takasu, the 2nd Battleship Division set sail with the Aleutian Support Group on 28 May, at the same time that most of the Imperial Fleet began an attack on Midway Island (Operation MI).
They returned home on 14 June and the IJN began preliminary planning to replace the lost carriers with hybrid carriers ... |
3,942 | 664 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 32 | 3 | 248 | leship Division. On 1 May 1944, the sisters were transferred to Rear Admiral Matsuda Chiaki's reformed Fourth Carrier Division of the 3rd Fleet. The division's 634th Naval Air Group was formed that same day and conducted its first catapult launches in late June.
==== Battle of Cape Engaño ====
Shortages of aircraft a... |
3,954 | 672 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 33 | 3 | 247 | assigned to the Northern Force under the command of Vice Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa and the sisters sailed from Yashima on 20 October. On the morning of 24 October, the bulk of the few aircraft aboard were launched to attack the American carriers as a distraction. They inflicted no damage and caused the Americans to search... |
3,858 | 680 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 34 | 3 | 249 | 0 aircraft that was orbiting 50 miles (80 km) ahead of the American carriers while waiting for the Japanese ships to be located. This was just the first of a total of five airstrikes that the Americans launched that day. The sisters were not heavily engaged by the early airstrikes which are focusing on the group's airc... |
3,706 | 632 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 35 | 3 | 248 | ge outboard of the port catapult. Some 34 other bombs near missed her, spraying her with splinters and ruptured some hull plates that contaminated some fuel oil and caused leaks in her port boiler rooms. While an exact total of her casualties is not available, it has been estimated that 5 men were killed and some 111 –... |
4,034 | 672 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 36 | 3 | 247 | While en route for Kure, the division was unsuccessfully attacked by another submarine.
In early November the catapults were removed from both ships, and they loaded troops and munitions later that month. While en route they were diverted to the Spratly Islands upon reports of heavy air raids at Manila. After off-loadi... |
4,178 | 704 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 37 | 3 | 247 | tin and other strategic minerals back to Japan after the American carriers departed the South China Sea (Operation Kita). They loaded their cargoes beginning on 6 February at Singapore and departed four days later. Also carrying some 1,150 oilfield workers, they were escorted by Ōyodo and three destroyers. Decrypted Ja... |
4,034 | 732 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 38 | 3 | 248 | the attack, but her casualties, if any, are unknown.
The ships were turned into floating AA batteries over the next several months although it availed them little when they were attacked again by American carrier aircraft in July. On the 24th Ise was struck by five bombs and near missed multiple times; all told she los... |
194 | 32 | 4 | 62 | 14 | 39 | 3 | 14 | and their wrecks were scrapped after the war.
and their wrecks were scrapped after the war.
and their wrecks were scrapped after the war.
and their wrecks were scrapped after the war.
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3,730 | 596 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 4 | 249 | = Dick Rifenburg =
Richard Gale "Dick" Rifenburg (August 21, 1926 – December 5, 1994) was an American football player and a pioneering television broadcaster for the forerunner to WIVB-TV in Buffalo. He played college football for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1944 and from 1946 to 1948. He was a consensus... |
3,902 | 644 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 1 | 4 | 247 | records for both career touchdown and single-season touchdowns. He had also been a Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) state champion in both basketball and track and field. His college career was interrupted by World War II service, and his high school career was also affected by the war due to the MHSAA... |
3,578 | 588 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 2 | 4 | 248 | game. Rifenburg was also the state champion in 1944 in both the shot put 46 feet 11 inches (14.30 m) and high jump 5 feet 8.5 inches (1.74 m). He also led Arthur Hill in football, and his high school accomplishments are featured in Glory: The history of Saginaw County sports by Jack Tany (ASIN B0006RH9Z6), which is a b... |
3,838 | 636 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 4 | 248 | 's next step after excelling in MHSAA competition.
== College ==
In the fall of 1944, Rifenburg enrolled at the University of Michigan. The United Press syndicate ran a feature article about Rifenburg in September 1944 that opened as follows: "Another great end has made his appearance on the Big Ten football horizon ... |
3,654 | 576 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 4 | 4 | 247 | already in action, Michigan's teens rang the freshman bell loudest last week by winning their opener, 12 -to-7, against the strong Iowa Seahawks (Naval Pre-Flight); 6-ft. 4 Freshman End Dick Rifenburg caught passes and ran for both Michigan touchdowns."
Rifenburg's college career was interrupted by World War II service... |
3,362 | 548 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 5 | 4 | 248 | 's offense protested to officials, who "prowled the Wolverines secondary but never caught their man." Rifenburg continued to scramble Badger signals, as Rifenburg's teammates laughed at his scheme. In the January 1, 1948 Rose Bowl that season, Michigan rolled to a 49 – 0 victory over USC, and they outgained the Trojans... |
3,954 | 660 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 6 | 4 | 249 | 8, he did not finish among the top eight. By comparison, Notre Dame end Leon Hart won the Heisman Trophy in 1949 but made only eight of the 11 All-American teams. It is not clear why Rifenburg did not finish higher. However, it is fairly clear that sportswriters of that era had a bias against Michigan. In the Associate... |
3,810 | 664 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 7 | 4 | 248 | the University of Michigan's single season and career record for touchdown receptions (eight in a season; sixteen career) until his records were broken by Anthony Carter in 1980.
== Professional career ==
In 1948, Rifenburg was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 15th round of the NFL draft, and he was also dra... |
3,778 | 652 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 8 | 4 | 248 | play for the Detroit Lions. He played in 12 games and had ten receptions for 96 yards and one touchdown for the 1950 Lions. Rifenburg recalled that his playing time with the Lions was limited because the Lions also signed 1949 Heisman Trophy winner Leon Hart, who played the same position.
In May 1951, he announced he w... |
3,734 | 592 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 9 | 4 | 248 | play announcer. In addition, he served as the play-by-play announcer for the University of Buffalo Bulls football team. As a radio broadcaster, he is remembered for things ranging from ski reports, to 17 years worth of "Breakfast At —" programs live from various local restaurants, to 27 years as the WBEN-AM All Night S... |
3,434 | 608 | 4 | 975 | 243 | 10 | 4 | 243 | 2007. He was given the Golden Age Award which is reserved for "those who did it first, the people who had no pattern to follow." The Hall of Fame award was presented to Rifenburg's wife, Jane. In her acceptance speech, Jane Rifenburg observed that despite all of her late husband's achievements, there was one thing he h... |
3,614 | 572 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 5 | 249 | = 1933 Treasure Coast hurricane =
The 1933 Treasure Coast hurricane was the second-most intense tropical cyclone to strike the United States during the active 1933 Atlantic hurricane season. The eleventh tropical storm, fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the season, it formed east-northeast of the Leew... |
3,938 | 624 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 1 | 5 | 248 | ph (201 km / h). The hurricane moved across the state, passing near Tampa before moving into Georgia and dissipating. In Florida, the strong winds of the cyclone blew buildings off their foundations, and numerous trees were prostrated in citrus groves. The Treasure Coast region received the most extensive destruction, ... |
3,750 | 636 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 2 | 5 | 248 | data over the next few days as it tracked to the west-northwest. On August 31, a nearby ship reported gale force winds, which indicated that a tropical storm had developed to the east-northeast of the Lesser Antilles. Based on continuity, it is estimated the storm attained hurricane status later that day. Moving quickl... |
3,686 | 604 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 5 | 248 | Harbour Island with peak winds of 140 mph (225 km / h), making it the equivalent of a modern Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Interpolation suggested that the storm reached major hurricane status, or Category 3 status, on September 2.
The hurricane initially followed the course of another hurricane tha... |
3,930 | 668 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 4 | 5 | 248 | while crossing the state. It briefly emerged into the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm early on September 5. A few hours later while continuing to the northwest, it made another landfall near Rosewood — a ghost town in Levy County, east of Cedar Key — with winds of about 65 mph (105 km / h). Turning to the north, the... |
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