Multiple issues notability July 2010 cleanup July 2010 Westwood , a neighborhood in South Memphis , has many pleasant homes. Also, the neighborhood is home to several churches, recreation facilities, businesses and schools including the more than 4,000 member Mt Vernon Baptist Church Westwood, Big Momma s Kitchen, Charles Powell Community Center, South Memphis Flea Market formerly The Twin Drive In , Westwood Swimming Pool, Westwood Shopping Center, Doubletree Montessori School, Westwood Elementary School and Westwood High School. Westwood is bounded by the ICRR on the west, South Third on the east, Raines Road on the north and West Shelby Drive on the south. History The Weaver Family, whose ancestors had owned a convert 4000 acre km2 adj on cotton plantation, sold some of their land in the 1950s for development of a subdivision in the Southern part of Shelby County, Tennessee Shelby County . The subdivision became Westwood and later the area in and near the subdivision was annexed into Memphis. And as the neighborhood grew in the 1960s, businesses were built and establish to serve the residents. Along with the growth of Westwood, was The Hill Top which include the Doubletree Community. The growth continued in the 1970s when a large number of blacks began moving in the neighborhood. In 1973, Rev. James Netters moved his congregation Mt Vernon Baptist Church from Mississippi Boulevard to the former all white Westwood Baptist Church on Parkrose. In 1991, the renovation of Mt Vernon Baptist Church Westwood was completed and now one of the largest congregations in Memphis . References See http en.wikipedia.org wiki Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist The Tales Of Old Whitehaven by Anna Leigh McCorkle Coord 35.0300 N 90.0990 W type city region US TN display title Category Neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee ... more details
Giller is a 19th Century term for a person who fishes using a gillnet , as used in the Chesapeake Bay region from the early 19th to the mid 20th centuries. ref Richard Gerstell American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin A Three hundred year History , The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., 1998, pp. 73, 116. ref Gillers worked individually or in groups of two or three men using a small boat from which they set and gathered a gillnet. Gillnets first appeared on the Potomac River in 1838 to fish for American shad , and rapidly became the most popular type of fishing gear in the bay region ref L. S. Chowning Harvesting the Chesapeake Tools and Traditions , Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., pp. 30 37. ref because they allowed the independent fisherman to work with limited resources, following the fish with his boat and net as they moved from place to place in search of food or to spawn. ref Hunter Davidson, Commander, Fishery Force of Maryland Report on the Oyster Fisheries Potomac River Shad and Herring Fisheries, and the Water Fowl of Maryland to His Excellency the Governor and Other Commissioners of the State O.P. Force , January, 1872, pp. 35 41. ref Gillnet fishing in Chesapeake Bay shad fisheries frequently led to conflict among states bordering the bay, with Pennsylvania seiners blaming Maryland gillers for over harvesting and blocking shad passage upstream into the Susquehanna River , and Maryland gillers blaming Virginia pound netters for intercepting fish on their northward migration up the bay. ref R. A. St. Pierre History of American shad fisheries of Chesapeake Bay , 134th Annual Conference, American Fisheries Society, Aug. 18 22, 2002, Baltimore, MD. ref Conflicts sometimes erupted into violent confrontations, called Gillers Wars, during one of which in 1876, a giller in Charles County, Maryland was indicted by the county court for assault with intent to kill the captains of a Steamboat steamer and a tug . ref Roberta J. Wear ... more details
7936 title Drawing author date work publisher FAO accessdate ref Seine netters the basic types of seine netters are the Anchor seiners and Scottish seiner in northern Europe and the Asian seiners in Asia. ref name Seine netters cite web url http www.fao.org fishery vesseltype 180 en title Fishing Vessel type Seine netters author date work publisher FAO accessdate cite web url http www.fao.org figis ... have the coiler and winch mounted transversally amidships. ref name Seine netters Scottish seiners ... transversally in the forward part of the vessel. ref name Seine netters Asian seiners In Asia the seine ..., they are often undecked and may be powered by outboards motors, or even by sail. ref name Seine netters ... accessdate ref Set netters also operate gillnets. However, during fishing operations the vessel is not attached ... fishery vesseltype 1000 en title Fishing Vessel type Set netters author date work publisher FAO accessdate ref Lift netters are equipped to operate lift nets, which are held from the vessel s side and raised and lowered by means of outriggers. Lift netters range from open boats about 10 meters long ... web url http www.fao.org fishery vesseltype 480 en title Fishing Vessel type Lift netters author date ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name Kobus image Kobus live.jpg caption Kobus , 2007 background group or band origin Cape Town , South Africa genre heavy metal music Heavy metal br Black metal , br Extreme metal years active 2000 present label associated acts website http kobusmusic.com current members Theo Crous br Francois Breytenbach Blom br Werner Von Waltsleben br Pierre Tredoux past members Rob Nel 2004 2007 br Paul Andr Blom 2004 2007 Kobus or K.O.B.U.S is an Afrikaans extreme metal band formed in 2000 by ex Springbok Nude Girls guitarist Theo Crous and ex Voice of Destruction vocalist Francois Breytenbach Blom . They performed as a duo until 2004 when they were joined by Rob Nel on bass and Paul Andr Blom on drums. In 2007 Rob Nel was replaced on bass by Pierre Tredoux and in 2008 drummer Paul Andre Blom was replaced by Werner Von Waltsleben. The band has released three albums The self titled debut Kobus in 2002, 100 Skuldgevoelvry in 2004, and Swaar Metaal in 2007. The first two releases contained an eclectic mix of styles, crossing genres from track to track. The album Swaar Metaal , which won the Best Afrikaans Rock Album award at the 2008 South African Music Awards, is sonically more uniform than its predecessors, an Afrikaans Afrikaans language Heavy Metal album, regarded as a first in Afrikaans music. ref cite news author Sabrina Dean publisher The Citizen South Africa The Citizen date 2007 04 24 title Best Afrikaans band in the universe? url http www.citizen.co.za index article.aspx?pDesc 36809,1,22 quote The new album puts Kobus on the map as the first band to do heavy I mean real heavy metal in Afrikaans. ref Beginning The seismic effects following the dissolution of the Springbok Nude Girls in 2001 have mostly dissipated, except for all the SA music websites still promote their stats with hits from the many Netters really looking for nude girls . But the band s presence sorely missed, and many fans watching and waiting ... more details
File Jens Book Jenssen.jpg thumb upright Jens Book Jenssen in 1939 Jens Peter Book Jenssen 14 November 1910 &ndash 28 March 1999 was a Norwegian singer of popular music, songwriter, revue artist and theatre director. From his stage debut in the early 1930s, his career included radio and television work, recordings, and extensive touring. His career spanned more than sixty years, and he was the top selling record artist in Norway in the 20th century. Personal life Book Jenssen was born in B rum as the son of gardener Olaf Jenssen and Pauline Book. ref name nbl cite encyclopedia title Jens Book Jenssen encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon first Svend Erik L ken last Larsen editor Knut Helle Helle, Knut publisher Kunnskapsforlaget location Oslo url http www.snl.no .nbl biografi Jens Book Jenssen utdypning language Norwegian accessdate 2 September 2009 ref He grew up at the farm Store Stabekk. ref name baalsrud cite book last Baalsrud first Kjell title Bekkene i B rum publisher Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature location B rum year 2001 page 23 chapter Stabekkvassdraget isbn 82 995824 0 7 language Norwegian ref He married Gerd Kv rnberg in 1936. ref name nbl Book Jenssen was often informally referred to as Book n or Booken in the press. ref name DB cite news url http www.dagbladet.no tekstarkiv artikkel.php?id 5001990018841&tag item&words booken title Farvel med Booken date 1999 04 10 publisher Dagbladet language Norwegian accessdate 2009 09 06 ref Career 1930s and 1940s He made his stage debut at Oslo Nye Teater Det Nye Teater in Oslo in 1933. As a revue artist he first performed on Scala Teater , and later on Chat Noir in Oslo. He started his recording career in 1933, and made about 400 recordings between 1934 and 1945. Among his hits during this period were songs such as N r lysene tennes der hjemme , En liten gyllen ring and De lyse netters melodi . ref name nbl ref name snl cite encyclopedia year 2007 title Jens Book Jenssen encyclopedia Store norsk ... more details
Drifters and Seine Netters. The Skaffie appeared at the beginning of the 19th Century. These boats were ... to operate. The Seine Netters initially were converted Fifies and Zulus. From 1906, petrol and paraffin ... more details
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