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The company's cryolite was on 1 January 1940 ceded to Kryolitselskabet Øresund A/S (a company founded by Greenland's Home Office), Kryolith Mine og Handels Selskabet A/S and Øresunds chemiske Fabriker.
Kryolitselskabet Øresund A/S took over Øresunds Chemiske Fabrikker's premises on Strandboulevard.
The head office of Øresunds Chemiske Fabrikker was instead moved to Østbanegade 121.
The Strandboulevarden plant closed in 1990.
The company merged with Incentive A/S in 1882, and Incentive A/S went bankrupt in 2004.
Amanda Young Foundation
The Amanda Young Foundation was established in 1998 by Barry and Lorraine Young, following the death of their daughter Amanda in 1997 from meningococcal disease.
Amanda had been attending a rowing regatta in Penrith, New South Wales where she contracted the disease.
Young was born on 6 September 1979, and died on 12 October 1997 after contracting meningococcal disease while in Penrith, New South Wales; she was part of a rowing team attending a regatta.
The Australian University Rowing Championships had in 1997 been organised by the University of New South Wales.
There had been an outbreak of meningococcal disease in the Kensington Colleges; 450 people who had come into contact with the infected person were given the vaccination, with some also being given antibiotics.
Young was not amongst this group, as it was believed she had not come into contact.
On 13 October, following Young's death, the NSW Health Department vaccinated everyone in the Kensington Colleges.
A further 1100 students at Chevalier College were vaccinated after an outbreak there; one of the students infected had her feet amputated.
The two events involved identical strains of the bacteria, but it was not known how they were related, and an early unrelated outbreak had occurred at the Kensington Colleges in August 1997.
The Amanda Young Foundation was established in 1998, with its purpose being:
Kate Fandry a friend of Amanda at Penrhos College, and a member of the same sporting teams worked for the Foundation following support from the WA Health Department.
Fandry's role is to promote the ACWY vaccination to teenagers and young adults.
The Foundation relies on fundraising and the support of community groups across Perth to operate; they include open gardens, fetes, and other activities, such as the group of volunteers who in 2016 crocheted a wall of yellow flowers to be displayed during Channel Seven Perth Telethon.
Amanda's Garden is located in Southern River, Western Australia.
The garden is a labour of love, borne out of Young's parents need to do something to keep them busy following her death.
There is an annual fete and open day, supported by local community groups, held every October to raise money for the Foundation.
Century Building (Chicago)
The Century Building is a high rise office building in Chicago's Loop.
It was designed by Holabird & Roche, and was built in 1915.
It is a contributing property to the Loop Retail Historic District.
The building is representative of the transition of Chicago high rise design from the Chicago School to Art Deco, and its north and east facades feature Neo-Manueline ornamentation.
It is owned by the General Services Administration and currently sits vacant.
Originally known as the Buck & Rayner Building or the Twentieth Century Building, the building was completed in 1915.
Buck & Rayner was a Chicago chain of drug stores, and commissioned the construction of the building.
It occupied the corner store and basement.
In 1917, Lake and State Savings Bank signed a twenty-year lease for the building's second floor.
The bank's name was changed to the Century Trust and Savings Bank, and the building's name was changed to the Century Building.
Home Federal Savings and Loan purchased the Century Building in 1950, and moved its headquarters into the building on June 30, 1952.
Home Federal occupied the first five floors, as well as the two floors below street level.
The building's name was officially changed to the Home Federal Building.
In 1958, Home Federal Savings and Loan purchased the Republic Building across State Street.
The Republic Building was demolished and a new 16 story building was constructed.
Home Federal Savings and Loan moved its headquarters to the new building on December 17, 1962.
The building has also served as home to the headquarters of the Gideons International, Local 66 of the Elevator Operators and Starters Union, the main offices of Sterling Cleaners and Dyers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a Liggett's drug store, Family Loan Corporation, May Jewelers, Romas Restaurant, the Illinois Migrant Council, the National Alliance of Black Feminists, and the local office of the Guardian Angels.
Jesse Jackson's Chicago headquarters were in the Century Building during his 1984 presidential campaign.
In 2003, Marc Realty Co. purchased the building from Mitchell Macks for $1.25 million.
In 2005, the General Services Administration used eminent domain to seize the Century Building, also acquiring other nearby buildings, citing the need for increased security around the Dirksen Federal Building.
In 2011 and 2013, Preservation Chicago listed the Century Building and the nearby Consumers Building as one of Chicago's 7 most endangered buildings.
In 2017, CA Ventures reached an agreement to purchase the Century Building, the Consumers Building, and the two smaller buildings in between, for $10.38 million.
The Century Building and Consumers Building would have been converted to apartments, as part of a $141 million redevelopment project, while the historic Streamline Moderne storefront of 214 South State Street would have been restored and incorporated into a 25,000 square-foot structure built between the taller buildings for retail and commercial use.
Under the terms of the agreement, the City of Chicago would purchase the buildings from the federal government and then immediately sell them to CA Ventures.
However, the City of Chicago backed out of the agreement in December 2019, citing security concerns at the nearby Dirksen Federal Building.
Alana Filippi
Alana Filippi (1960 or 1961 – 11 January 2020) was a French singer and songwriter.
Her real name was Pascale Filippi, and she also sometimes used the pseudonym Jeanne Ermilova.
Born in Paris, Filippi moved to Nantes with her parents at a young age.
She took drama lessons at the Couturier Jacques Organization.
Couturier was also head of the Maison de la Culture Loire Atlantique.
When her acting career began, Filippi took the name Alana.
Filippi began her career in theatre.
She wrote songs for Calogero, Maurane, Jenifer, Pascal Obispo, Stanislas, Natasha St-Pier, and Grégory Lemarchal.
Wanneroo Lion Park
Wanneroo Lion Park, formerly Bullen's African Lion Safari Park, was an open-range zoo in Carabooda, in the north of Perth, Western Australia.
It operated for 17 years, between 1971 and 1988.
The park was opened on 21 August 1971 by brothers Ken and Stafford Bullen, in partnership with television station TVW7 and Michael Edgley, following the closure of Bullens Circus in 1969, and the success of similar ventures in New South Wales.
There were 32 lions and four cubs, in two separated prides, when it opened.
Cars and tourist buses would drive through the park, and the lions would come up to and onto the vehicles.
They would bite anything attached to the vehicles, especially windscreen wipers and tyres, and windows needed to be kept up to prevent them putting their paws inside.
A separate compound contained various other animals, and there were circus shows featuring cockatoos and monkeys.
The safari raised money for the Lions Club of Wanneroo, and lion cubs would appear on Telethon.
Lion cubs were also sent to appear in events in regional areas, such as the 1976 FeNaCl Festival in Dampier, where two cubs were inducted into the Dampier Lions Club, becoming the first female members.
The park received much media attention, especially following incidents of injuries and reported escapes of lions.
In 1971, a man had his arm clawed when a lion pushed down the car window, and later died in hospital following a reaction to the anaesthetic.
A second death occurred in 1982, an apparent suicide in which a man walked out of his cars towards the lions.
In 1977, lions escaped their enclosure, killed goats, and injured a donkey, and in the mid-1980s there were reports a lion had escaped the park, which were investigated by the police.
The American actress Tippi Hedren visited the park in 1981, and voiced her dismay at the treatment of lions to the media.
In the same year, the RSPCA investigated the animals' welfare, which resulted in the park improving the lions' care.
In 1988, the park closed due to the high costs associated with public liability insurance and feeding the animals, and amid dissent from animal rights activists.
The lions were shot, as there was nowhere for them to be released or transferred.
In 2014 the City of Wanneroo's Regional Museum collected stories and materials related to the park, including making two oral history recordings of former park workers John and Fran Gilbertson, and Marion Colmer.
, Wanneroo Lion Park is the only open-range zoo to have operated in Western Australia.
A new venture was considered in 2011, and premier Colin Barnett planned for Perth Zoo to operate a new open-range venue in the Perth Hills, but that plan was abandoned following the change in government at the 2017 state election.
Mount Llicho
Mount Llicho is a mountain on island of the United States territory of Guam.
Llicho's closest populated area is Umatac.
It is above sea level.
J/Boats
J/Boats is an American boat builder based in Newport, Rhode Island and founded by Rod Johnstone in 1977.
The company specializes in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats.
The company's boat model designations all start with "J/" and then the design's length overall, usually in feet or, more recently, in decimeters.
All J/Boat designs are monohull, sloop-rigged keelboats constructed of fiberglass.
The current company product line consists of ten models ranging in length from .
Past models have ranged from , from the J/22 to the J/65.
Sailboatdata describes the company, "the J/Boats company, a family affair started with brother Bob Johnstone is arguably the most successful producer of performance-oriented boats in the world with nearly 10,000 boats built to Johnstone designs."
Rod Johnstone had completed a correspondence course at the Westlawn School of Yacht Design in the 1960s and in 1975 was working selling advertising for "Soundings", a sailing trade magazine, when he started a homebuilt boat project.
His first boat design, named "Ragtime", was built on weekends, in his garage in Stonington, Connecticut.
He raced the boat in the summer of 1976, with a crew made up of family members and amassed a very successful racing record.
The co-founder of Pearson Yachts and owner of TPI Composites, Inc, Everett Pearson, made an agreement with Johnstone to produce the design in a new factory, in return for the exclusive United states building rights.
The factory was established in an old textile mill in Fall River, Massachusetts.
The design was designated as the J/24 and Johnstone arranged display advertising for the new boat in "Soundings".
Rod Johnstone's brother, Bob Johnstone joined the new company to handle marketing and also invested $20,000 in start-up costs.
He had been working as vice president of marketing for AMF/Alcort, the builders of the Sunfish sailboat at that time, but was unable to interest them in the J/24 design.
The two Johnstone brothers became business partners in J/Boats.
The company intentionally avoided the production aspect of the business, leaving that to Pearson Yachts and instead concentrating on design and marketing.