Unreferenced date February 2008 align right Image Warded locked.png frame right The key enters the lock through a keyhole. Image Warded with key.png frame right When the key is fully inserted, a cavity in the tip of the key fits over a cylindrical post inside the lock. This provides a pivot point about which the key can rotate. Image Warded unlocked.png frame right The notches in the key align with the obstructions, or wards , allowing it to rotate freely. In rotating, the key may then activate a lever or sliding bolt to open the lock. A warded lock also called a ward lock is a type of Lock device lock that uses a set of obstructions, or wards , to prevent the lock from opening unless the correct key is inserted. The correct key has notches or slots corresponding to the obstructions in the lock, allowing it to rotate freely inside the lock. Large warded locks are still in use today in the UK and Ireland for internal and external doors. Warded locks in America are commonly used in inexpensive padlock s, cabinet locks, and other low security applications, since a well designed skeleton key can successfully open a wide variety of warded locks. History The warded lock is one of the most ancient lock designs still in modern use. During the Middle Ages they were used prolifically on monasteries where, because money and time were not issues, their complexity grew. All had the same inherent problem by removing most parts of the key, except the bare minimum to operate the bolt, and so producing a skeleton key , the wards could be bypassed. Design In the most basic warded lock, a set of obstructions, often consisting of concentric plates protruding outwards, blocks the rotation of a key not designed for that lock. Warded locks may have one simple ward, or many intricate wards with bends and complex protrusions the principle remains the same. Unless the notches or slots in the key ... recognized when discussing warded locks, it is more applicable to current locksmithing applications ... more details
wiktionary skeleton key A skeleton key is a key that has been filed in such a way as to bypass the security measures placed inside a warded lock. Skeleton Key may also refer to Skeleton Key novel Skeleton Key novel , a novel by Anthony Horowitz Skeleton Key band , a rock band Skeleton Key comics Skeleton Key comics , a comic book by Andi Watson The Skeleton Key , a 2005 film Skeleton Key A Dictionary for Deadheads , a book by David Shenk and Steve Silberman See also A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake , a work of literary criticism by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson disambig nl Skeleton Key ... more details
the levers to their correct heights while the warded section of the key just has to pass uninterrupted ... door will have different wards. A skeleton key has the warded section of the key removed so ... more details
Thorbardin is a fictional city in the Dragonlance setting. Description The ancient home of the mountain Dwarf Dungeons & Dragons dwarves deep under the Kharolis Mountains. The city is composed of four separate districts situated around a large underground sea, called the Urkhan Sea. A large stagmite rises from the Sea, which houses the Halls of the five Thanes as well as several governmental facilities. The four surrounding districts are named Klar, Hylar, Theiwar, and Diewar. At the north and south ends of the city lays a gate. Southgate stands operational leading into the Plains of Dust, while the Northgate which warded the way to the Plains of Death was completely destroyed. The means to support the underground residents is supplied by the Farming Warrens, where crops are grown. Light is provided through crystal shafts running to the surface. Far under the city lies the Deep Warrens, where many sorts of dark magicks and evil plotting almost always by the Theiwar are undertaken, in the absolute darkness and secrecy. Category Dragonlance locations ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2007 Rustomji Dorabji Patel was a Parsi people Parsi community leader who helped the British India British forces fight off an invasion of the Mumbai islands by Siddi forces. In gratitude, the British accorded him the title of Patel . The Parsis, originally from Iran, migrated to India about 900 years ago. This they did to save their religion, Zoroastrianism, from invading Arabs who proselytized Islam. However, in 1689 90, when a severe plague had struck down most of the Europeans, the Siddi Chief of Janjira made several attempts to re possess the islands by force, but the son of the former, a trader named Rustomji Dorabji Patel 1667 1763 , successfully warded off the attacks on behalf of the British with the help of the Kolis , the original fisher folk inhabitants of these islands. The remnants of the Koli settlements can still be seen at Backbay reclamation, Mahim, Bandra, Khar, Bassien and Madh island. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Patel, Rustomji Dorabji ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Patel, Rustomji Dorabji Category Parsi people Category People of British India Category History of Mumbai India bio stub ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Infobox military person name Alfred Smith image File Abu Klea .jpg 250px caption Depiction of the battle of Abu Klea birth date birth date df yes 1861 death date death date df yes 6 January 1932 aged 70 birth place London death place Plumstead placeofburial Wych Hill Cemetery, Plumstead nickname allegiance UK branch army United Kingdom serviceyears rank Gunner unit Royal Regiment of Artillery commands battles Mahdist War awards Victoria Cross relations laterwork Alfred Smith Victoria Cross VC 1861 &ndash 6 January 1932 was an England English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United Kingdom British and Commonwealth of Nations Commonwealth forces. Smith was about 24 years old, and a gunner in the Royal Regiment of Artillery , British Army during the Mahdist War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 17 January 1885 at the Battle of Abu Klea , Sudan , Gunner Smith saved a lieutenant who was being attacked by a native. The officer was superintending his gun at the time and had no weapon in his hand, but Gunner Smith, wielding the hand spike of his gun, warded off the thrust of the spear, giving the lieutenant time to draw his sword and bring the assailant to his knees. The latter, however, made a wild thrust at the officer with a long knife, which Gunner Smith again warded off, but not before the lieutenant was wounded. Gunner Smith then managed to kill the native before he could attack again. In 1895 while working at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich Smith was involved in an accident when his forearm was crushed by machinery. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Artillery Museum , Woolwich , England. Gunner Smith s unit, 1 Battery, Southern Division, Royal Artillery, was later re numbered 176 Abu Klea Battery Royal Artillery 176 Battery and still exists today. In 1955 it was awarded the honour title Abu K ... more details
Wiktionarypar pick TOCright Pick may refer to Tools and weapons Horseman s pick , a weapon used by cavalry units during the Middle Ages in Europe Icepick Pickaxe , a tool used for manual labour Lock pick , a tool used for lock picking Lock picking , the art of unlocking a lock without its intended key Toothpick , a piece of wood or other substance to remove food from the teeth after a meal Warded pick , a device for opening warded locks Medical Niemann Pick disease , an inherited condition Pick s Disease , a dementing illness Mathematics and computers Pick s theorem in geometry Pick operating system , a computer operating system built around a multidimensional, variable data length database, often called the Pick system or simply Pick Pick matrix , a specific type of matrix mathematics Schwarz Ahlfors Pick theorem , a mathematics theorem Entertainment 52 Pick up , a thriller action film starring Ann Margret and Roy Scheider Pick A Box , a radio program U Pick Live , a 2002 2005 Nickelodeon show Music Plectrum , a device for picking or strumming a stringed instrument Guitar pick , a plectrum for a guitar Fingerpicking , a technique for playing the guitar using the fingertips and or fingernails Sweep picking , a guitar technique that involves playing one note per string Places Pick City, North Dakota Pick Mere , a lake in Cheshire, England People Albert Pick , German numismatist Frank Pick , British transport administrator Georg Alexander Pick , Austrian mathematician Lewis A. Pick , United States Army Chief of Engineers Ludwig Pick , see Niemann Pick disease Lupu Pick , German actor Sherwood Picking , United States Navy submarine commander Thomas Pickering Pick , British surgeon and author Tzvika Pick , Israeli popular music composer Gaming and sports 52 Pickup , a practical joke disguised as a card game Interception American football Odds and evens , a hand game Pick and roll , an offensive play in basketball Screen sports Miscellaneous Call pick up , a system used ... more details
wiktionary ward Ward may refer to A Watchman law enforcement Watchman as in Watch and Ward Ward law , someone placed under the protection of a legal guardian USS Aaron Ward USS Aaron Ward , a series of U.S. Navy destroyers USS Ward DD 139 USS Ward , the first ship to open fire in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, named after James Harmon Ward Warring Adolescents Revenge Division WARD , organization in The Hardy Boys graphic novels Ward band , electronica duo Ward fencing , defensive position in the sport of fencing TOC right Designated areas or social units Ward fortification , part of a castle Ward country subdivision , electoral district or unit of local government Wards of Japan Wards of the United Kingdom Wards of the United States Ward LDS Church , local congregation A division, floor or room of a hospital set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example a convalescent or psychiatric ward. Places Ward, New Zealand United States Ward, Arkansas Ward, California Ward, Colorado Wards of New Orleans Ward Reservation , Massachusetts Ward Township, Todd County, Minnesota Ward, New York Ward Township, Hocking County, Ohio Ward Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania Names Ward, short form of the given name Howard Ward surname Businesses Montgomery Ward , an online retailer and former department store chain Ward Body Works , a school bus manufacturer, now IC Bus Ward s , a publisher of Ward s AutoWorld and Ward s Dealer Business See also The Ward disambiguation Warded lock disambig geo cs Ward de Ward fr Ward it Ward nl Ward ja pl Ward pt Ward ru sk Ward fi Ward sv Ward olika betydelser vo Ward ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2008 Kushtaka are myth ical creatures found in the stories of the Tlingit people Tlingit and Tsimshian Indians of Southeastern Alaska . Loosely translated, kushtaka means, land otter man . They are similar to the Nat ina of the Dan aina Indians of South Central Alaska, and the Urayuli of the Eskimos in Northern Alaska. Physically, kushtaka are Shapeshifting shape shifter s capable of assuming either human form or the form of an otter . In some accounts, a kushtaka is able to assume the form of any species of otter in others, only one. Accounts of their behaviour seem to conflict with one another. In some stories, kushtaka are cruel creatures who take delight in tricking poor Tlingit sailors to their deaths. In others, they are friendly and helpful, frequently saving the lost from death by freezing. In many stories, the kushtaka save the lost individual by distracting them with curiously otter like illusion s of their family and friends as they transform their subject into a fellow kushtaka, thus allowing him to survive in the cold. Naturally, this is counted a mixed blessing. However, kushtaka legends are not always pleasant. In some legends it is said the kushtaka will imitate the cries of a baby or the screams of a woman to lure victims to the river . Once there, the kushtaka either kills the person and tears them to shreds or will turn them into another kushtaka. Legends have it kushtaka can be warded off through copper, urine, and in some stories fire. Since the kushtaka mainly preys on small children, it has been thought by some that it was used by Tlingit mothers to keep their children from wandering close to the ocean by themselves. It is also said that the kushtaka emit a high pitched, three part whistle in the pattern of low high low. Kushtaka in modern literature Kushtaka s appear in Pamela Rae Huteson s Legends in Wood, Stories of the Totems in the legend War with the Land Otter Men , as well as Pamela Rae Huteson s Transformation ... more details
Multiple issues in universe October 2009 unreferenced February 2008 context October 2009 In the Forgotten Realms setting in the continent of Faer n , a mythal is a powerful Epic Level Handbook epic level magical effect. Description A mythal is created by a circle of Elf Dungeons & Dragons elven High Mages to protect and ward a large area with numerous powerful enchantments. A typical mythal prevents certain Magic Dungeons & Dragons Schools of magic schools of magic from being employed, affects everyone within its bounds with certain magics, and may allow everyone or certain classes of people to call magical effects from the mythal as though using a magical item. It may restrict access of the warded area to certain classes of beings. For example, Silverymoon s mythal excludes evil Dragon Dungeons & Dragons dragons and forbids casting magic to Teleportation teleport into the mythal. Creation of a mythal sometimes requires the willing sacrifice of the lead caster s life, a result that led to the first mythal s being named after its creator. In addition, many Mythal spells corrode over time, and if not maintained can become corrupted. This has occurred in Myth Drannor and resulted in the current state of that city. Other media In Icewind Dale , it is revealed that a failed mythal created by the mage Larrel caused the destruction of the Severed Hand, an elven fortress. Extant Mythals Silverymoon Evereska Former or Corrupted Mythals Myth Drannor Myth Glaurach References Sean K. Reynolds Reynolds, Sean K. , Duane Maxwell, and Angel Leigh McCoy . Magic of Faer n TSR, Inc. TSR , 2001 . Category Forgotten Realms ForgottenRealms stub ... more details
Superherobox Wikipedia WikiProject Comics image caption comic color background ff8080 character name Nuwa real name species Mutant Marvel comics Human Mutant publisher Marvel Comics debut X Force Annual 3 creators alliance color background cccccc alliances Mutant Liberation Front br China Force br 3 Peace aliases powers cause biomolecular feedbacks within human anatomy, releasing a tranquilizing wave that sedates her victims. Nuwa is a fictional character , a Mutant Marvel comics mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. Her first appearance was in X Force Annual 3 . Fictional character history She was a member of the Chinese super powered team 3 Peace which had allied with the Mutant Liberation Front MLF under Reignfire s leadership. Nuwa was portrayed as a more reasonable member of 3 Peace and questioned their alliance with the MLF. Ultimately, Reignfire betrayed Nuwa to the Chinese government. ref X Force Annual 3 ref When the events of Decimation comics M Day occurred, where the Scarlet Witch removed the mutant gene from over 90 of the world s Mutant Marvel Comics mutant population, Nuwa was one of the few to retain her powers. She later resurfaced in San Francisco where she confronts the mutant Tabitha Smith Boom Boom . ref X Men Manifest Destiny 1 ref Powers and abilities Can cause biomolecular feedbacks within human anatomy, releasing a tranquilizing wave that sedates her victims. More a state of drowsiness than a real sedation, the effects of her powers can actually be warded off by assuming preventively strong amounts of stimulant s, like caffeine . References reflist External links http www.comicbookdb.com character.php?ID 25561 Category Marvel Comics mutants Category Marvel Comics superheroes Category Marvel Comics supervillains marvel villain stub ... more details
Infobox Military Award name Merchant Marine Medal for Outstanding Achievement image Image 03 MM OAM.jpg 125px caption Merchant Marine Medal for Outstanding Achievement awarded by United States Merchant Marines type Medal eligibility status Current first award last award total posthumous recipients individual higher same image2 caption2 The Merchant Marine Medal for Outstanding Achievement is a decoration of the United States Merchant Marine awarded by the United States Maritime Administration . It was established in 2002 and is awarded to members of the maritime industry who have made extraordinarily valuable contributions to the merchant marine. blockquote A warded to recognize merchant mariners who have particiated in an act or operation of humanitarian nature directly to an individual or groups of individuals. This medal may be awarded to those leaders in the maritime industry who have dedicated years of service or achievement and or given an extraordinary valuable contribution or work to the maritime industry. This medal requires the Maritime Administrator s approval for award. ref retrieved 14 December 2008 from http www.marad.dot.gov mariners landing page mariner medals mariner medals.htm ref blockquote See also Awards and decorations of the United States government Awards and decorations of the United States government Maritime Administration Awards and Decorations of the United States Maritime Administration Awards and decorations of the United States Merchant Marine Awards and decorations of the United States military References Reflist External links Commons category Merchant Marine Outstanding Achievement Medal United States Merchant Marine Outstanding Achievement Medal http www.seafarers.org log 2006 032006 Honors.xml Award Criteria Retrieved 30 March 2007 Use dmy dates date September 2010 Category Awards and decorations of the United States Merchant Marine Category Awards established in 2002 ... more details
Image Santa Ifig nia MG, s c. XVIII.jpg 150px right thumb Santa Ifig nia , image from 18th. century from Museu Afro Brasil. According to the Golden Legend , Ephigenia was the daughter of Ethiopia Ethiopian King Egippus . She was dedicated to God by Saint Matthew . ref The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine , trans. and adapted by Ryan, Granger and Helmut Ripperger. Arno Press Longmans, Green & Co 1941. pp. 561 566. ref When Hirtacus succeeded the King, he promised the Twelve Apostles apostle half of his kingdom if he could persuade Ephigenia to marry him. Matthew thus invited the king to Mass the following Sunday where he explained that she was already espoused to the eternal King and thus could not be purloined by Hirtacus. The king thus sent a swordsman to kill Matthew who stood at the altar, making him a martyr . Not having managed to bend Ephigenia to his will, Hirtacus tried to destroy her home with fire. However, the apostle appeared and warded the flames from the house, turning them upon the royal palace. The king s son was seized by the devil and the king himself contracted leprosy , eventually killing himself. The people thus chose Ephigenia s brother as their king, who reigned for seventy years, leaving his kingdom to his son who filled Egypt with Christian churches. References Reflist External links http www.mcah.columbia.edu medmil pages non mma pages text links gl matthew.html St Matthew the Apostle from The Golden Legend Category Catholic saints es Efigenia pt Santa Ifig nia ... more details
Infobox Film name The Sergeant image image size caption director John Flynn director John Flynn producer Robert Wise br Richard Goldstone writer Dennis Murphy screenplay br Dennis Murphy novel starring Rod Steiger br John Phillip Law br Ludmilla Mikael music cinematography editing distributor Warner Bros. Seven Arts Productions released 25 December 1968 runtime 108 min country United States language English budget The Sergeant 1968 in film 1968 is an American drama film starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law , directed by John Flynn director John Flynn , and released by Warner Brothers . ref http www.imdb.com title tt0063585 IMDB entry ref Plot A dedicated, decorated war veteran, Sgt. Callan, is posted in France at a fuel supply depot in 1952. Finding a lack of discipline under the frequently drunk Capt. Loring, he takes charge in a tough, no nonsense manner. But distracting the sergeant is a physical attraction to one of his men, Private First Class Swanson, that seems at odds with everything in Callan s personality. He makes Swanson his orderly and befriends him socially, but behind his back scares off Solange, the private s girlfriend. Callan s confusion and depression grows and he begins to drink. Unable to resist the urge, the sergeant attempts to kiss Swanson and is violently warded off. He turns up for morning formation hungover and Loring relieves him of duty. Callan goes off to a nearby woods alone, rifle in hand, and commits suicide. Legacy The film was excerpted in the documentary film The Celluloid Closet 1996 . References reflist See also Reflections in a Golden Eye film Reflections in a Golden Eye 1967 External links http www.imdb.com title tt0063585 The Sergeant at IMDB http www.tcm.com tcmdb title 19251 The Sergeant The Sergeant at TCM Database drama film stub John Flynn DEFAULTSORT Sergeant, The Category 1968 films Category Drama films Category Warner Bros. films it Il sergente film 1968 ... more details
of a relic supposedly used by the preceding Deliverer himself. Arlen Bales The Warded Man Having ... weakness or misalignment of a warded area. All other demons fear and respect the power of the rock ... to Rock demons, who hope to be the first to enter a warded area if the Rock demon is able to find ... http www.hollywoodreporter.com news resident evil duo picks warded 870258 title Resident Evil duo picks up Warded publisher HollywoodReporter.com year 2009 accessdate 2011 04 11 deadurl yes Dead link ... more details
from common items, or machined at home with relative ease. This is also the case with warded lock warded locks . The process of picking pin tumbler and wafer tumbler lock wafer locks is concerned ... bumping bumping protection such as false setting pins and impact absorbent foam. Warded pick The warded pick, also known as a skeleton key , is used for opening warded lock s. It is generally made to conform ... action. The keys for warded locks only require the end section which is the one which actually .... I.e if you have a chest of drawers with a warded lock you can make a skeleton key for that type of warded ... more details
Alcyoneus or Alkyoneus lang grc is a name that refers to several distinct figures in Greek mythology . The Giant Image Athena contra Alkyoneus, Nike.JPG thumb right Athena contra Alkyoneus, Pergamonmuseum Berlin Alcyoneus was the eldest of the Thrace Thracian Giants Greek mythology Gigantes of Greek mythology. ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Schmitz first Leonhard authorlink title Alcyoneus editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 108 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0117.html ref He was born like all other Gigantes in full armor with a spear in his hand. He was the most prominent of the Gigantes who led a major rebellion against the Olympian Gods and was born to defeat Hades, and was said to be immortal in his homeland, Pallene. Alcyoneus was in possession of the Isthmus of Corinth at the time when Heracles drove away the oxen of Geryon . The giant attacked him, crushed twelve wagons and twenty four of the men of Heracles with a huge block of stone. Heracles himself warded off the stone with his club and slew Alcyoneus. The block with which the giant had attacked Heracles was shown on the isthmus down to a very late period. ref Pindar , Nemean Odes iv. 44, with the Scholiast ref In another passage Pindar calls Alcyoneus a Thracian shepherd, and places the struggle with him in the Phlegraean plains. ref Pindar , Isthmian Odes vi. 45, &c. ref According to Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Pseudo Apollodorus , Heracles sneaked up on Alcyoneus and wounded him, although the giant did not die until Heracles dragged him out of his homeland, Pallene. ref Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Pseudo Apollodorus , 1. 34 ref His seven daughters are the Alkyonides . ref http www.theoi.com Gigante GiganteAlkyoneus.html Alcyoneus at Theoi.com ref Other characters Alcyoneus is also the name of three minor mythologic ... more details
otheruses2 Jurgi Unreferenced date March 2008 In ancient Latvia , Jur i was a festival held on April 23. It was the beginning of summer, and the first day of outdoor farmwork and shepherding. It was sacred to the god Usins . Livestock were allowed to graze outside after this day. In the morning, their stalls were locked, with a riding crop and a knife hanging above them because Ragana and other evil spirits were on the hunt the night before. A black rooster was sacrificed to Usins, and then eaten by the man. The blood of the rooster was sprinkled around the barns and the ground bones were scattered among the rushes. The horses were bathed and brushed, but nothing else, in order to bring good luck. They were not fed before the sunrise. The farmers gathered under an oak and then let out the livestock, sprinkled with ashes so that bees would not sting them. Three pitchforks full of manure were removed from the stones. Some of the men were given eggs, boiled with hot stones, and these were thrown in shrubs or a knothole in an oak tree. The horses drank the water left over from the baking to help them grow strong. Cows snouts were washed in milk, bringing an increased milk production. A heavy dew on this day also increased milk production. Wolves were warded away by tying a special knot with a sheep s tether and repeating magical words, and by refraining from chopping wood on this day. If possible, washing in the morning snow was good luck. Fires were not lit, warding away fires for the rest of the summer. Washing one s face on this day would cause fires and all washing was done in a river. Beer, bread and mead were laid out for the spirits. Jurgi was often used for moving, preferably on a Saturday. The movers brought the rushes, salt, bread, eggs thrown onto the house, then sprinkled on the pigs , and wisps of hair from the animals from their old house. Milk and brooms were not brought from the old house. On the way to the new house, salt was sprinkled on the ground, pr ... more details
merge Rakshasa date October 2010 File Ravana.jpg thumb 250px Ravana the leader of the Raksha of Sri Lanka In Hindu mythology , a Rakshas Sanskrit for to be guarded against or warded off is a kind of evil demon. Ramayana According to the Ramayana, the Raksha people also known as Raksasas were the mythical inhabitants of Sri Lanka who were said to have lived among the N ga Naga , Yakkha , and Deva Hinduism Deva , and governed Sri Lanka in 2370 BCE. ref name park H. Parker 1909 . Ancient Ceylon. New Dehli Asian Educational Services. 7. ref They were led by Sumali and Sukesha of the Raksha, who were ousted by the Deva with the help of Lord Vishnu , and then subsequently ruled by Ravana King Ravana . ref name hel Ramayana Research. 2008 . A Short History OF Heladiva. Available http ramayanaresearch.com heladiva.html. Last accessed 14 March 2010. ref The Raksha vanish from history after their mention in the Ramayana, except in Sri Lankan folk stories. ref name park European scholars consider the story of Ravana and the Raksha to have been made in historic times, due to the knowledge of Sri Lankan locations mentioned in the stories, and therefore the story is considered not to be based on fact. ref name park The Mahavansa also makes no mention of a great Raskha civilization and there is no archaeological evidence suggesting a civilization ruled by King Ravana existed. ref H.R Perera. 1988 . Buddhism in Sri Lanka A short history. Available http www.buddhanet.net pdf file bud srilanka.pdf. Last accessed 02 10 10. ref According to the Ramayana, the Raksha invaded Sri Lanka and began to harass the Deva. Sumali and Sukesha of the Raksha ruled Sri Lanka before being ousted by the Deva with Lord Vishnu s help. Sunali s grandson Ravana, then went to Sri Lanka, reclaimed his army and conquered Sri Lanka ref name hel The Ramayana says the Raksha had cities, forts, palaces, parks, dancing halls, stables, and chariot houses. ref M.S Purnalingam Pillai 1928 . Ravana the Great King of L ... more details
Norman David Inkster , Order of Canada OC born August 19, 1938 served as 18th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police , from September 1, 1987 to June 24, 1994. From 1992 until 1994 he also served as President of International Criminal Police Organization Interpol Interpol . Early life and career Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba , but spending nearly all of his early years in Broadview, Saskatchewan where his father Harold was a Master mechanic with the CPR and his mother, Martha was a housewife, he was educated at the University of New Brunswick , where he studied sociology and psychology during his studies he was continuously employed in the Human Resources department of the RCMP. In 1961 he married Mary Anne Morrison. They raised three children. Leslie Anne 1965 , Scott 1967 and Dana 1972 . Recent life and career From 1994 to 2003 he was a partner with KPMG in Toronto, the latter part of which he was global managing partner of the forensic practice. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada . In 2003 he retired from KPMG and started Inkster Group. He was the President of the Inkster Group , which provides various security and policing services to a list of international clients, including the Province of Ontario . In 2006 Inkster Group was acquired by Navigant Consulting where Inkster served as a managing director. In 2007, Inkster became an independent consultant. He was engaged to marry Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women s Executive Network in 2008. They later were married in of October in a service in Toronto with friends and family. He was warded 2011 with the Gusi Peace Prize External links cite web url http www.britishempire.co.uk forces armyunits canadiancavalry rcmpinkster.htm title Norman Inkster accessdate June 25, 2006 start box s civ pol succession box title Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police before Robert Simmonds after Joseph Philip Robert Murray Joseph Murray years 1 ... more details
William Armstrong of Kinmont or Kinmont Willie was a border reivers border reiver and outlaw active in the England Anglo Scotland Scottish Border country in the last decades of the 16th century. Armstrong was captured by the forces of the English Warden of the West March in violation of a truce day in 1596. At the Truce Day all who attended to witness the criminal trials were granted safe conduct for the Day and until the following sunrise. Kinmont, a witness to the trials, was taken against the safe conduct and imprisoned in Carlisle Castle . Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch Walter Scott of Buccleuch the Bauld Buccleuch , keeper of Liddesdale on whose land the arrest had been made, protested to the English Warden, Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton . When Scrope refused to release Armstrong, Buccleuch led a party of men on a daring raid into England and broke Armstrong out of the castle with inside help from the English Grahams and Carletons. Elizabeth I of England was furious that one of her Border fortresses had been broken into at a time when peace existed between England and Scotland. Her relationship with James VI of Scotland was tested to the point where James thought he might lose succession to the English throne. He had been all but promised this and a pension from the English in 1586. Elizabeth demanded that Buccleuch should be handed over to the English for punishment. James was caught between allegiance to the Scots who were adamant Buccleuch had done no wrong in rescuing a man who was captured illegally and his desire to pander to his English benefactor, Elizabeth. Buccleuch was eventually warded in England although no action was taken against him. Kinmont Willie Armstrong was never recaptured. Legend supposes he died in his bed of old age, sometime between 1608 and 1611. The story of the raid on Carlisle Castle is told in the ballad Kinmont Willie Child ballads Child No. 186 . References George MacDonald Fraser Fraser, George MacDonald ... more details
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