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Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English author who wrote 34 novels, 7 volumes of short stories and a daily journal of more than a million words. He also wrote or co-wrote 13 plays, wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the UK's Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. He was the most financially successful British author of his day. Because his books appealed to a wide public rather than to literary cliques and élites, and for his adherence to realism, Virginia Woolf and other writers and supporters of the modernist school belittled him, and his fiction became neglected after his death. Studies of his writing since the 1970s have led to a re-evaluation of Bennett's work, and his finest novels, including Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910) and Riceyman Steps (1923), are now widely recognised as major works. (Full article...) Recently featured: Torture Mckenna Grace Etika Archive By email More featured articles About
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UN docs [1] Law No 2289/1995, as amended by Law No. 4001/2011: [2] ("the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone (once declared), to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured […] the outer limit of continental shelf and of the exclusive economic zone (once declared) is the median line, every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points on the baselines (both continental and insular) from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured" 2012/2013 oil concessions dispute, near Kastellorizo; Greek statement: [3] ("all Greek islands, including the islands of Rhodes and the insular group of Castellorizo, enjoy, beyond their territorial waters, maritime zones as any other land territory" [...] "ab initio and ipso facto sovereign rights"; pointing to "Law No 2289/1995, as amended by Law No. 4001/2011" Turkish response, 2013: equity versus strict application of median lines, "semi-enclosed seas where special circumstances prevail" 2016, Turkish note [4]: "islands do not necessarily generate full maritime jurisdiction zones […] when they are competing against continental land areas", points to precedents (UK vs. France over Channel Islands, Tunisia vs Italy, Romania vs Ukraine over Serpent Island, Bangladesh vs Myanmar, Nicaragua vs Colombia) Further refs Yiallourides, Constantinos (2019). Maritime disputes and international law: Disputed waters and seabed resources in Asia and Europe. London: Routledge. "In some situations involving small islands that are remote from the coast of the State to which they belong and midway or even closer to the coast of another State, it is possible that they may [be] 'substantially discounted' for delimitation purposes if their use is perceived to have an inequitable distorting effect on the final boundary line". Several precedents from ICJ, ITLOS and others: Libya/Malta (discounting Filfla); Tunisia/Libya (discounting Djerba); Guinea/Guinea-Bissau arbitration (discounting Alcatraz); Qatar/Bahrain (discounting Qit'at al Jaradah and Fasht al Jarim); Romania/Ukraine (discounting Serpent Island) Van Dyke, Jon M. (1993). "The Role of Islands in Delimiting Maritime Zones: The Case of the Aegean Sea" (PDF). Trasporti: Diritto, economia, politica (61): 17–50. Retrieved 15 December 2019.. Also in: The Aegean Sea: Problems and Prospects, Ankara 1990, and in Ocean Yearbook 8 (1990), 44–64.
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June 27 A. E. J. Collins 1864 – American Civil War: General Sherman's frontal assault against the Confederate Army of Tennessee failed, but did not stop the Union Army from advancing on Atlanta. 1899 – A. E. J. Collins (pictured) scored 628 runs not out, the highest recorded score in cricket until being surpassed in 2016. 1954 – Jacobo Árbenz resigned as President of Guatemala following a CIA-led coup against his administration. 1957 – Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana, U.S. 2017 – Websites of Ukrainian organizations were swamped by a massive cyberattack, blamed on Russian military hackers, using the malware Petya. Thomas Erpingham (d. 1428) George Vincent (bap 1796) Rosalie Allen (b. 1924) Violet Milstead (d. 2014) More anniversaries: June 26 June 27 June 28 Archive By email List of days of the year

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Sabella spallanzanii is a species of marine polychaete worms in the family Sabellidae. It is native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and North Sea, but has spread to various other parts of the world and is included on the Global Invasive Species Database. The species grows to a total length of 9 to 40 centimetres (4 to 16 inches) and is usually larger in deep water. It features stiff, sandy tubes formed from hardened mucus secreted by the worm that protrude from the sand, and a two-layered crown of feeding tentacles that can be retracted into the tube. This S. spallanzanii worm was photographed in Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal.

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