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"George French Ecton (1846 – September 19, 1929) was a civil rights activist and Illinois' second black state legislator. He was born a slave in Winchester, Kentucky, in 1846 to Antonio Ecton and Martha George. In June 1865, after the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, George and a friend received free papers in the mail and set off to escape slavery, as they were still being held in bondage. When they arrived in Cincinnati, Ohio, they were hired as deck hands on the steam packet Sherman, working a route between Cincinnati and Wheeling, West Virginia. Later, in Cincinnati, George took a job at a number of hotels, including the Broadway House, Walnut Street House, Burnett House, and Spencer House. He became ill with smallpox while at the Walnut Street House, but recovered. He also began to attend night school taught by Luella Brown. He was reported to be a college graduate. On October 28, 1873, he moved to Chicago and took charge of the dining room at the Hotel Woodruff. In 1877 he married Patti R. Allen, also from Winchester.Smith, Gerald L., Karen Cotton McDaniel, and John A. Hardin, eds. The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky, 2015. p161 In Chicago, Ecton became active in Republican politics. He held his job as a waitor until being elected to the Illinois General Assembly, serving from 1887 to 1889.Williams, Erma Brooks. Political Empowerment of Illinois' African- American State Lawmakers from 1877 to 2005. University Press of America, 2008. p3 Ecton was elected from the third district to the Illinois House of Representatives, and replaced John W. E. Thomas, Illinois' first black state senator. He introduced legislation that protected former slaves. After his term, he became owner of a baseball league. He continued to be a leader in Chicago Republican politics into the 1910s.Special Announcement, Broad Ax (Chicago, Illinois), Saturday, August 3, 1918, Page: 3 In Chicago, he was a member of Bethesda Baptist Church and was a freemason. He died on September 19, 1929, in Chicago. References Category:1846 births Category:1929 deaths Category:Activists for African-American civil rights Category:Politicians from Chicago Category:People from Winchester, Kentucky Category:Illinois Republicans Category:Members of the Illinois House of Representatives "
"Tresco Priory is a former monastic settlement on Tresco, Isles of Scilly founded in 946 AD. It was re-founded as the Priory of St Nicholas by monks from Tavistock Abbey in 1114. A charter of King Henry I mentions a priory as belonging to Tavistock Abbey in the reign of Edward the Confessor > Henry I, King of England, A.D. 1120, grants to William, Bishop of Exeter, > and to Richard, son of Baldwin, and to his Justitiary of Devonshire and > Cornwall in perpetual Alms to Osbert Abbat of Tavistock and Turold his monk, > all the churches of Sully with the Appurtenances and the Land such as the > Monks or Hermits held in the Time of King Edward and Burgal Bishop of > Cornwall. This was duly confirmed when Pope Celestine III by his Bull (dated 4 cal. June A.D. 1193) confirms to > Herbert Abbat of Tavistock and his successors the Islands of St Nicholas > (Tresco), St. Sampson, St Elidius (St. Helens), St. Theona (Tean) and the > Island called Nutho (possibly Nut Rock and land surrounding, where remains > of hedges etc. between it and Sampson are still to be seen underwater) with > their Appurtenances and all Churches and Oratories built throughout the > Islands of Sully, with the Tenths and Offerings, etc., and two pieces of > digg’d ground in the Island of Agnes, and three pieces in the Isle of Ennor > (St. Mary’s). In 1367 King Edward III took the Priory under his special protection as the monks had complained that it was almost destroyed and impoverished by mariners, and in 1351 pirates had destroyed most of the Abbey property. The Priory did not survive the Dissolution of the Monasteries and may well have closed earlier. The remains of the priory are now incorporated into Tresco Abbey Gardens. References Category:Monasteries in Cornwall Category:Benedictine monasteries in England Category:Ruins in the Isles of Scilly Category:Grade II listed buildings in Cornwall Category:Buildings and structures in the Isles of Scilly "
"Vinyltestosterone (also known as 17α-vinyltestosterone, 17α-vinylandrost-4-en-17β-ol-3-one, and 17α-hydroxypregna-4,20-dien-3-one) is a synthetic anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) that was never marketed. However, two 19-nortestosterone derivatives of vinyltestosterone, norvinisterone (17α-vinyl-19-nortestosterone) and norgesterone (17α-vinyl-δ5(10)-19-nortestosterone), have been marketed. They are used as progestins for female hormonal contraception, rather than as AAS. Vinyltestosterone is a relatively weak AAS. In one study, it showed approximately one-third and one-fifth of the respective androgenic and anabolic activity of other AAS such as nandrolone (19-nortestosterone), methyltestosterone (17α-methyltestosterone), and ethyltestosterone (17α-ethyltestosterone) in castrated male rats, whereas ethisterone (17α-ethynyltestosterone) showed almost no androgenic and anabolic activity (only 1/20th the anabolic potency of vinyltestosterone). Additionally, in women with metastatic breast cancer, vinyltestosterone was found to be ineffective in treating the disease (unlike other AAS such as testosterone propionate or fluoxymesterone) and produced little or no virilization in the women at a dosage of 100 mg intramuscularly three times per week. See also * Allyltestosterone References Category:Tertiary alcohols Category:Alkene derivatives Category:Androgens and anabolic steroids Category:Androstanes Category:Hepatotoxins Category:Enones Category:Vinyl compounds Category:Abandoned drugs "