Eight ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Centurion, after the centurions of ancient Rome. A ninth ship was planned but never built.
Ships
HMS Centurion was a 34-gun ship launched in 1650 and wrecked in 1689.
HMS Centurion was a 48-gun fourth-rate launched in 1691 and broken up in 1728.
HMS Centurion was a 60-gun fourth-rate launched in 1732 and broken up 1769.
HMS Centurion was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1774. She was reduced to harbour service in 1809, sank at her moorings in 1824 and was raised and broken up in 1825.
HMS Centurion was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1812 as HMS Clarence. She was renamed HMS Centurion in 1826 and was broken up in 1828.
HMS Centurion was an 80-gun third-rate launched in 1844. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1855, and sold in 1870.
HMS Centurion was a Centurion-class battleship launched in 1892 and sold in 1910.
HMS Centurion was a King George V-class battleship launched in 1911. She was converted to a target ship in 1926, rated as an escort ship in 1940, and was sunk off Arromanches as a breakwater in 1944.
HMS Centurion was to have been a 9,000 ton cruiser, planned in 1945, but cancelled in 1946.
Shore establishment
HMS Centurionwas the central drafting depot established at Haslemere in 1956, commissioned in 1957 and named in 1964. The base moved to Gosport, becoming a drafting depot and a pay and accounting centre, in 1970. It was paid off in 1994, becoming Centurion building, a tender to HMS Sultan, mainly responsible for personnel and Human Resources functions.
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Faaborg or Fåborg is a Danish town with a population of 7,207 (1 January 2009), located in Faaborg-Midtfyn municipality on the island of Funen. It was formerly the seat of Faaborg municipality. The seat of the new municipality is Ringe. Both municipalities use(d) Faaborg’s medieval coat of arms.
Faaborg is first mentioned in a document, located in the French National Archives in Paris, dated June 25, 1229. It is a deed of gift that gives Faaborg as a morning present to the daughter in law of Valdemar II. It is mentioned as a castle, so it must have existed before this date. However, this date has been used as the birth date of Faaborg and thus the town celebrated its 775th anniversary in 2004. It is noted as the birthplace of artist Niels Moeller Lund. Nearby are located Egeskov Castle, Hvedholm Castle and Horne Church.
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Faaborg municipality (abolished January 1, 2007).
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Coordinates: data for this location”>55°06?N10°14?E? / ?55.1°N 10.233°E? / 55.1; 10.233
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November 25, 1955 (1955-11-25)(age 54)
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Raymond Bruce Hopkins (born November 25, 1955) is an actor from New Zealand, most famous for his portrayal of Gamling in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy by Peter Jackson.
Hopkins was born in Invercargill, the son of Colleen Marguerite and Bill Hopkins, a crayfisherman. He was a crayfisherman himself (as well as PE teacher) before dedicating himself to the performing arts. He has worked as a professional dancer, theater company actor, television and film actor, voice actor, and radio host.
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Electoral reform in Maryland refers to efforts, proposals and plans to change the election and voting laws in Maryland. In 2007, Maryland became the first U.S. state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Bills have also been introduced to implement instant runoff voting statewide, but they have failed, largely due to legislators’ concerns about complicating the election process and causing technical problems similar to those encountered by Florida during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. However, Takoma Park, Maryland adopted IRV in 2006 after it won 84% approval in an advisory ballot measure on November 8, 2005. Maryland is the home of the electoral reform organization Fairvote. In 2007, Maryland’s Board of Elections Administrator, Linda Lamone, was quoted in Diebold advertising literature.
Ballot access
Party certifications are done for each gubernatorial cycle (e.g. 2006–2010). If the number of registered voters to a political party is less than 1%, then 10,000 petition signatures must be gathered for that party to be considered certified. A party must be certified before voters can register under that party. A party can also be certified for a two year term if their candidate receives more than 1% of the vote. Reformers would like to see the ballot access laws loosened.
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^ Maryland Election Official Endorses Diebold Machines in Marketing Literature, Kim Zetter, June 26, 2007.
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65 mm mle 1906 in Yad Mordechai, Israel.
The Canon de 65 M (montagne) modele 1906 (65 mm mle. 1906) was a French mountain gun which entered the regiments d’artillerie de montagne in 1906. By 1939, the weapon was generally used as an infantry support gun. This was one of the first soft-recoil guns. After 1940, the Germans would use these as 6.5cm GebK 221(f). The gun was also used by Albania, Greece, Israel (1948 Arab-Israeli War, as Napoleonchik) and Poland.
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Israel
The Canon de 65 M (montagne) modele 1906 was heavily used by the Israel Defense Forces in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and was nicknamed Napoleonchik by the Israelis due to its old look.
The first use of these cannons, lacking sights, was made in the Battle of Degania in northern Israel, which was also the first time the Israeli side employed field artillery. Subsequent uses were made in numerous major operations in the war, including Operation Bin Nun and Operation Pleshet.
Specifications
Calibre: 65 mm (2.5 in)
Elevation: ?9°30? to +35°
Muzzle velocity: 330 m/s (1,082 ft/s)
Range: 6.5 km (4 mi)
Weight: 400 kg (882 lbs)
Shell weight: 4.4 kg (10 lbs)
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The Anglican Diocese of Namibia is part of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, which is itself part of the Anglican Communion.
The diocese, which covers the whole country of Namibia, was originally known as the Diocese of Damaraland.
Most of the Anglicans in Namibia live in Ovamboland, in the north of the country, and speak the Kwanyama language.
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Anglicans came late to Namibia. The first Christian missionaries were Methodists, who worked mainly in the South of the country, then called Namaqualand. They were followed by German Lutherans of the Rhenish Mission Society, who were mainly based in the central part of the country around Windhoek, and in Damaraland, immediately north of Windhoek.
In the 1870s Germany claimed Namaqualand, Damaraland, Ovamboland and neighbouring territories as German South West Africa. Finnish Lutheran missionaries went to Ovamboland, and settled among the Ndonga-speaking people there.
Beginnings
During the First World War, in 1915, South African forces invaded, and the following year an Anglican priest, Nelson Fogarty established the first Anglican presence, initially to minister to the South African troops and civilians who had followed the military occupation. After the war South Africa administered the territory under a League of Nations mandate, and Nelson Fogarty began to think of ways of making the Anglican presence more permanent by evangelising the local people. It was established that the Finnish mission in Ovamboland had not really established churches among the Kwanyama people who lived in northern Ovamboland and southern Angola.
In 1924 the bishops of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa decided to create a missionary diocese in South West Africa, with Nelson Fogarty as bishop, based in Windhoek. George Tobias, a missionary priest, went to Ovamboland, and established St Mary’s Mission at Odibo, on the Angola border. Eventually Odibo, as the Anglican centre in Ovamboland, had a church, a school and a hospital.
Parishes were established to the east of Odibo, and were about 15 km (10 miles) apart, and moslt just south of the Namibia-Angola border. Since the Kwanyama people straddled the border, many church members lived in Angola, but crossed the border to attend church services.
Odendaal and persecution
In 1962 the South African government set up the Odendaal Commission which recommended that the apartheid policy be implemented in South West Africa, including the setting up of bantustans. While not all the recommendations of the Odendaal Commission were implemented, in 1969, shortly after Colin Winter became bishop, the South African government undertook a “rearrangement”, which would make Namibia more like a province of South Africa. Control of several government departments was transferred to Pretoria in order to apply the “homelands” policy.
This also led to divisions in the church, where some Anglicans wanted a separate diocese of Ovamboland, which would consist, in effect, of the “homeland” designated by the Odendaal Plan. Those who opposed this plan pointed out that it would mean importing apartheid into the church, because there would be a diocese based in Windhoek, which would be overwhelmingly white, and another based in Odibo, which would be overwhelmingly black.
Ovambo nationalists who supported the “homelands” policy, led by a deacon, the Revd Petrus Kalangula, and encouraged by South African government agents, broke away to form the “Ovamboland Anglican Church”. Most Ovambo Anglicans, however, preferred the idea of a united church in a united Namibia, and rejected both the homeland government of Ushona Shiimi and its religious arm, established by Petrus Kalangula. This crisis took up a great deal of the time of Bishop Colin Winter in the early part of his episcopate.
The turning point came for Namibia on 1971-06-21, when the World Court delivered its judgment that South Africa’s occupation of Namibia was illegal. The South African government asked the Lutheran churches for their opinion on the judgment, and the answer came on 1971-07-18 in the form of two letters, one in the form of an open letter to South African Prime Minister John Vorster and the other a pastoral letter read in all congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran OvamboKavango Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in South West Africa. The letters came as something of a shock for the South African government, for the accused the government of human rights abuses in its occupation of Namibia. Until then the Lutherans had been regarded as “good” by the South African government, and not given to criticicising government policies, like the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches.
Anglican bishop Colin Winter fully supported the Lutheran stand, while the Roman Catholic bishops offered qualified support.
“A form of slavery”
Soon after this there was a rather strange series of events that led to the deportation of Bishop Colin Winter. David de Beer, the diocesan treasurer, was asked to speak to a student group at the University of the Witwatersrand (his alma mater) on Namibia. Among other things he spoke about the contract labour system, saying that it was a form of slavery, and mentioned an incident in which the supervisor of a group of contact workers had threatened them with immediate dismissal if they bought Bibles, on the grounds that they were “communist Bibles”. So the employers controlled the workers’ leisure time, and told them what they could or could not read.
A journalist, who had come to report another event that had been cancelled had wandered into the room, and wrote a brief report. This report was picked up by Die Suidwester, the National Party newspaper, and made front-page news, leading to a week of Anglican-bashing by that newspaper. Following that the Commissioner-General for Ovamboland, Jannie de Wet, said in a radio broadcast on Radio Ovambo that the contract labour system was not a form of slavery, because the workers could go home whenever they liked. A group in Walvis Bay, after hearing the broadcast, wrote to other contract workers all over the south of Namibia, suggesting that they should take “the boer Jannie de Wet” at his word, and all go home. The result was a highly successful contract workers strike, which signified a new mood of boldness following the decision of the World Court.
In 1972-02 twelve contract workers from Windhoek appeared in court, charged with being ringleaders of the strike and Bishop Colin Winter arranged for their legal defence. At about the same time, four members of the congregation of St Luke’s Church, Epinga, were shot dead by South African security forces after a Sunday service. Bishop Winter was issued with deportation orders, as were three members of his staff.
Bishop in exile
In November 1972 the diocesan synod asked Colin Winter not to resign as bishop, but to remain as bishop in exile. To ensure that episcopal ministry would still be provided a priest, Richard Wood was elected as suffragan bishop. but was himsef deported on 1975-06-16.
Edward Morrow, who had gone to Windhoek from Durban to set up a building training scheme in 1970 has just finished training for the priesthood in England, and was hastily ordained and sent back to Namibia as Vicar-General, and himself received a deportation order on 1978-07-14.
By that time James Kauluma, who had left Namibia 12 years earlier to study overseas, has been elected and consecrated as suffragan bishop to replace Richard Wood. Since he had been born in Namibia, he could not be deported. On the death of Colin Winter in 1981, James Kauluma was elected as diocesan bishop, and so became the sixth Anglican bishop of Namibia, and the first who was Namibian born.
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Nelson Wellesley Fogarty (1924-1933)
Charles Christopher Watts (1935-1938)
George Wolfe Robert Tobias (1939-1949)
Cecil William Alderson (1950-1953)
John Dacre Vincent (1952-1960)
Robert Herbert Mize, Jr. (1960-1968)
Colin O’Brien Winter (1968-1981)
James Hamupanda Kauluma (1981-1998)
Nehemiah Shihala Hamupembe (1998-2005)
Nathaniel Ndaxuma Nakwatumbah (2006- )
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