The initiation and propagation of this design element is strongly associated with England.
A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Perpendicular Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner resembling a fan.
The earliest example, dating from about the year 1351, built by Thomas of Cambridge. In the fourteenth century the structure was known as the Abbey Church at Gloucester. A fine later example, from 1640, is the vault over the staircase at Christ Church in Oxford. The largest fan vault in the world, however, can be found in the chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

Further examples

Georges "Rush" Saint-Pierre (born May 19, 1981), often referred to as GSP

Biography

MMA career
St. Pierre had dreamed of becoming a UFC champion since watching Royce Gracie fight in 1993 at UFC 1.
St. Pierre's pro debut was against Ivan Menjivar and ended in a first round TKO win. GSP went on to win his next three fights before making his TKO debut against Pete Spratt at TKO 14 (November 29, 2003). St. Pierre defeated Spratt with a rear naked choke in the first round.

Early career
St. Pierre made his Octagon debut at UFC 46 where he defeated Karo Parisyan by decision. His next fight with the UFC was against Jay Hieron at UFC 48. St. Pierre defeated Hieron via TKO (strikes) in only 1:42.
Following his second straight win in the UFC, he faced Matt Hughes at UFC 50 for the welterweight title. Despite a competitive performance, St. Pierre tapped out to an armbar with only one second remaining in the first round.

Joining the UFC
After his loss to Hughes, GSP rebounded with a win over Dave Strasser at TKO 19 with a first round kimura submission. He then returned to the UFC to face Jason "Mayhem" Miller at UFC 52, defeating Miller by unanimous decision.
With momentum behind him, St. Pierre was then matched up against top contender Frank Trigg at UFC 54. St. Pierre controlled the fight and eventually sunk in a rear naked choke with less than a minute remaining in the first round. He then faced current lightweight champion Sean Sherk at UFC 56. Midway through the second round St. Pierre became the second fighter to defeat Sherk, and the first to finish him.
At UFC 58, St. Pierre defeated former UFC welterweight champion B.J. Penn to become the number one contender for the UFC welterweight title. St. Pierre won the match by split decision and was set to rematch then-champion Matt Hughes on September 23, 2006 at UFC 63. The UFC had announced afterwards that St. Pierre would have the opportunity to fight for the title when his condition was fully healed.

Road to the title
St. Pierre was seen as a trainer on The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback on Spike TV, which featured fighters who were previously seen in UFC events including Matt Serra, Shonie Carter, Pete Sell, and Travis Lutter. St. Pierre was seen vocally supporting fellow Canadian, and training partner, Patrick Côté during the season's airing.

Winning the championship
At UFC 69 St. Pierre lost the welterweight title to The Ultimate Fighter 4 winner Matt Serra via TKO (strikes) at 3:25 of round one. Matt Serra was an 8-1 underdog going into the bout.

Losing the title

Next Scheduled Bout

1x UFC welterweight champion (former)
TKO Canadian welterweight champion (former) MMA record

List of male mixed martial artists

Natural religion might have the following meanings:
A synonym for "natural theology"; religion based on reason and ordinary experience rather than supernatural revelation, although not necessarily denying it. This usage was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries— see, for example, David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
In the modern study of religion it's used to refer to the notion that there is some sort of natural, spontaneous religious apprehension of the world common to all human beings.
As a reverent form of nature-worship, embodied in a well-known quote from Frank Lloyd Wright: "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Cookstown District Council (Irish: Comhairle Ceantair na Coirre Críochaí) is a district council covering an area largely in County Tyrone and partly in County Londonderry. Council headquarters are in Cookstown. Small towns in the Council area include Pomeroy, Moneymore, Coagh and Stewartstown and in the east the area is bounded by Lough Neagh. It covers an area of 235 square miles and has a current population of over 35,500.
The Council has 16 elected representatives. Local elections are held every four years using a Single Transferable Vote system. The Chairman and Vice Chairman are elected on an annual basis at the Annual General Meeting in June.
The Cookstown District Council area consists of 3 electoral areas: Drum Manor, Ballinderry and Cookstown Central. At the last elections in 2005 members were elected from the following political parties: 5 Sinn Féin, 5 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 3 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and 3 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). In 2006-07 the Council Chairman is Councillor Patrick Pearse McAleer of Sinn Féin and the Vice-Chairman is Councillor Trevor Wilson of the Ulster Unionist Party.
The next election is due to take place in May 2009.
In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is part of Mid Ulster.
See Also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland
Antrim · Ards · Armagh · Ballymena · Ballymoney · Banbridge · Belfast · Carrickfergus · Castlereagh · Coleraine · Cookstown · Craigavon · Derry · Down · Dungannon and South Tyrone · Fermanagh · Larne · Limavady · Lisburn · Magherafelt · Moyle · Newry and Mourne · Newtownabbey · North Down · Omagh · Strabane

Paul W. Schroeder is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, specializing in the late sixteenth- to twentieth-century European international politics, Central Europe, and the theory of history. His current research focuses on European international politics, 1648-1945, emphasizing systemic evolution and development.
He received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1958.

Awards

Fulbright Scholar in Austria, 1956-1957
United States Steel Foundation Fellow, 1957-1958
Senior Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1973
Senior Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1976-1977
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1983-84
Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford, 1984
Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow, United States Institute of Peace, 1992-93 Fellowships

Secretary-Treasurer, Conference Group for Central European History, 1967-1968
Research Division Committee, American Historical Association, 1974-1977
Adams Prize Committee, American Historical Association, 1974-1977
Member, Advisory Council, West European Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1984-92.
Member, American Committee to Promote the Study of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1983-88.
Section editor, AHA Guide to Historical Literature.
Member, Advisory Council, German Historical Institute Washington, 1995-. Books

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"Austria as an Obstacle to Italian Unification and Freedom, 1814-1861," Austrian History Newsletter, 1962, 1-32.
"American Books on Austria-Hungary," Austrian History Yearbook, II (1966), 1972-196.
"The Status of Habsburg Studies in the United States," Austrian History Yearbook III. Pt. 3 (1967), 267-295.
"Bruck versus Buol: The Dispute over Austrian Eastern Policy, 1853-1855," Journal of Modern History, XL, 2 (June 1968), 193-217.
"Austria and the Danubian Principalities, 1853-1856," Central European History, II, 3 (Sept. 1969), 216-36.
"A Turning Point in Austrian Policy in the Crimean War: the Conferences of March, 1954," Austrian History Yearbook, IV-V (1968-1969), 159-202.
"World War I as Galloping Gertie: A Reply to Joachim Remak," Journal of Modern History, 44, No. 2, (Sept. 1972), 319-344.
"The 'Balance of Power' System in Europe, 1815-1871," Naval War College Review, March-April 1975, 18-31.
"Romania and the Great Powers before 1914," Revue Roumaine d'Histoire, XIV, 1 (1975), 39-53.
"Munich and the British Tradition," The Historical Journal, 19, I (1976), pp. 223-243.
"Alliances, 1815-1945: Weapons of Power and Tools of Management" in Klaus Knorr, ed., Historical Problems of National Security, (Lawrence, Kansas: Univ. of Kansas Press, 1976), pp. 247-286.
"Quantitative Studies in the Balance of Power: An Historian's Reaction," and "A Final Rejoinder," published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, XXI, No. 1 (March 1977), 3-22, 57-74.
"Austro-German Relations: Divergent Views of the Disjoined Partnership," Central European History, XI, 3 (September 1978), 302-312.
"Gladstone as Bismarck," Canadian Journal of History, XV (August 1980), pp. 163-195.
"Containment Nineteenth Century Style: How Russia was Restrained," South Atlantic Quarterly, 82 (1983), 1-18.
"The Lost Intermediaries: The Impact of 1870 on the European System," International History Review, VI (Feb. 1984), 1-27.
"Oesterreich und die orientalische Frage, 1848-1883," in Das Zeitalter Kaiser Franz Josephs von der Revolution zur Gruenderzeit (Vienna, 1984), Vol. I, 324-28.
"Does Murphy's Law Apply to History?", The Wilson Quarterly (New Year, 1985), 84-93.
"The European International System, 1789-1848: Is There a Problem? an Answer?", colloquium paper presented March 19, 1984 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (52 pp.).
"The European International System, 1789-1848: Is There a Question? An Answer?", Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe (1985), 1-29.
"The 19th-Century International System: Changes in the Structure," World Politics 39, 1 (October 1986), 1-26.
"Old Wine in Old Bottles: Recent Contributions to British Foreign Policy and European International Politics, 1789-1848," Journal of British Studies 26, 1 (January 1987), 1-25.
"Once More, the German Question," International History Review IX, 1 (February 1987), 96-107.
"The Collapse of the Second Coalition," Journal of Modern History 59, 2 (June 1987), pg. 244-290.
"An Unnatural 'Natural Alliance': Castlereagh, Metternich, and Aberdeen in 1813," International History Review X, No. 4 (November 1988), 522-540.
"The Nineteenth Century Balance of Power: Balance of Power or Political Equilibrium?", Review of International Studies (Oxford), 15 (April 1989), 135-153.
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"Die Habsburger Monarchie und das europaische System im 19t. Jahrhundert," in A. M. Birke and G. Heydemann, eds. Die Herausforderung des europaischen Staatensystems (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1989). 178-82.
"Europe and the German Confederation in the 1860s," in Helmut Rumpler, ed., Deutscher Bund und Deutsche Frage 1815-1866 (Vienna, 1990), 281-91.
The Years 1848 and 1989: The Perils and Profits of Historical Comparisons," in Samuel F. Wells, ed., The Helsinki Process and the Future of Europe (Washington, DC, 1990), 15-21.
"Review Article. Napoleon Bonaparte," International History Review, XII (May 1990), 324-29.
"Napoleon's Foreign Policy: A Criminal Enterprise," Journal of Military History 54, No. 2 (April 1990), 147-61.
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"A Just, Unnecessary War: The Flawed American Strategy in the Persian Gulf." ACDIS Occasional Paper, March 1991. 14 pp.
"The Neo-Realist Theory of International Politics: A Historian's View." ACDIS Occasional Paper, April, 1991. 12 pp.
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National team caps and goals correct as of 20:08, 26 May 2007(UTC). * Appearances (Goals)
Craig Douglas Bellamy (born 13 July 1979 in Canton, Cardiff) is a Welsh international footballer. He currently plays for West Ham United in the Premier League.

Background

Club career
Bellamy came through the youth system of Norwich City after a short spell at Bradford Park Avenue and a trial at Bradford City, scoring seven goals in three trial games, but was released as it was thought he would not make the grade as a professional footballer.
His first team debut for the Canaries came at Crystal Palace on 15 March 1997. Bellamy became a first team regular in the 1997–98 season, making 38 appearances with 13 goals. He missed the first two months of the 1998–99 season through injury after a clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Kevin Muscat, but still managed to have a successful season, amassing 17 goals in 38 appearances.
1999–2000 again saw Bellamy miss a substantial amount of the season after sustaining a knee injury during a pre-season game against Southend United. He only returned to action in April 2000. The summer of 2000 saw much transfer speculation surrounding Bellamy with Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Celtic and Wimbledon all reportedly interested. Bellamy eventually completed a move to Coventry City for a sum of £6.5 million (financed through the sale of Robbie Keane to Inter Milan).
In 2002, Norwich fans voted Bellamy into the Norwich City F.C. Hall of Fame.

Early years
Bellamy had an unsuccessful start to his career with Coventry, scoring only three goals by December, two of which were penalties. This fueled rumours of a return to Norwich, but it never materialised. Coventry stood by their man despite them facing relegation and Bellamy stating that he would want to leave if they dropped down a division. This duly happened and despite his inability to find the net in a Sky Blue shirt, notching up six goals in 34 appearances, there was still demand for his services in amongst bigger teams.

Coventry City
Bellamy's Newcastle career got off to a flying start as he scored on his debut in their 4-0 win over Belgian side Lokeren. Under manager Bobby Robson he formed a productive striking partnership with Alan Shearer, Bellamy's pace complementing the former England captain's guile. At the end of his first season, Bellamy was awarded the PFA Young Player of the Year award, ahead of players such as Steven Gerrard.
During his second season at 'the toon' came probably his most important moment for the club as he scored two goals (including the winner) in the 3-2 win over Feyenoord which took Newcastle through to the second group stage of the UEFA Champions League. Unfortunately, in the next match (a 4-1 defeat to Inter Milan) he was sent off for kicking out at an Inter defender, which resulted in a three-match ban. In March 2004, he threw a chair at then-first-team coach John Carver.

Celtic & Blackburn Rovers
On 20 June 2006 he was the subject of a transfer bid from FA Cup winners Liverpool, rumoured to be in the region of £6.5 million. The offer triggered a clause in Bellamy's contract involving bids from clubs playing Champions League football, and Blackburn were obliged to allow him permission to talk to the club.
Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez subsequently stated that Bellamy "has the ability, the pace and the talent we've been looking for", and that he expected talks to go well, particularly as Bellamy is known to have supported Liverpool in his youth.

Liverpool
Bellamy completed a move to West Ham United for a fee of £7.5 million on 10 July 2007, signing a five-year contract with the club.

West Ham United
Bellamy made his international debut for Wales during the 1997-98 season, playing in a friendly game against Jamaica.
In October 2006, Bellamy was awarded the captain's armband by Welsh manager John Toshack when Ryan Giggs was unavailable through injury for the Euro 2008 qualifier against Slovakia. His captaincy got off to a poor start with a 5-1 defeat. However, in his second game as captain against Cyprus, Wales won 3-1. Bellamy was appointed captain of the Wales national football team following the retirement of Giggs on 2 June, 2007.
To date he has attained 45 caps, scoring 14 international goals.

International career

Celtic

2006–07 Community Shield

Richard Updike Sherman (1819 - 1895) was a New York State politician and newspaper publisher/editor. He was also the father of U.S. Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman.
Richard Sherman was:
Trustee, New Hartford Cotten Company - he restocked the lakes of the Adirondack Mountains area with fish; also protected the forests from unscrupulous lumber dealers

Editor, Oswego Daily Times & The Herkimer Journal (1844-46)
Owner/editor of Rochester Daily Evening Gazette (1847)
Co-owner/editor Utica Morning Herald (1847-82)
Brigadier general, New York State militia (1841-57)
Clerk, New York State Assembly (1851-57)
New York Assemblyman, 1st District of Oneida County 1857/1875-1876
Delegate,New York State Constitutional Covention (1867)
Assistant clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (1870)
Secretary, New York State Fish and Game Commission (1879-1890)