Ndé
—  Department  —
Department location in Cameroon
Country	Cameroon
Province	West Region
Capital	Bangangté
Area
• Total	588 sq mi (1,524 km2)
Population (2001)
• Total	123,661
Time zone	WAT (UTC+1)

Ndé is a department of West Region in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 1,524 km² and as of 2001 had a total population of 123,661.^[1]The capital of the department lies at Bangangté.

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The department is divided administratively into 4 communes and in turn into villages.

Communes[link]

• Bangangté
• Bassamba
• Bazou
• Tonga

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Mary Neal CBE (5 June 1860–22 June 1944), born Clara Sophia Neal, was an English social worker and collector of English folk dances.

She was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham to a prosperous family, but in 1888 began voluntary social work among the poor of Soho and Marylebone in London, adopting the name "Mary". She began a girls' club – the Espérance Club in Cumberland Market – and seeing how much the girls enjoyed folk dances inspired her to begin collecting them. Her services to the preservation of these dances rather belatedly led to her being appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1937.

Mary Neal was also a prominent socialist and suffragette and a leading member of the Kibbo Kift.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

• "The Mary Neal Project", Mary Neal's grandniece recently unearthed Mary Neal's autobiography, Mary Neal Project documents Mary's life and donated her autobiography to the Cecil Sharp House
• "So who was Mary Neal anyway?", article by Janet Dowling
• Emmeline Pethick, Mary Neal and their work with young women
• Article on Mary Neal and morris dancing in America
• New Esperance Morris, Women's Morris Side in London, continuing the tradition of Mary Neal

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Valerie Jeanne Wilkinson (9 May 1931 – 11 October 2005) was an English actress who was known as Jan Holden.

Jan Holden was a stage actress known for her performances in light comedy and also for her appearances in several popular television series during the 1950s and 1960s. She was an elegant woman notable for her arresting pale blue eyes. She made her West End debut in 1958 in "Speaking of Murder" at St Martin's Theatre, which was followed by "The Tunnel of Love", a farce at the Apollo Theatre. She took her mother's maiden name for her stage name.

She was born in Southport, Lancashire and spent her early childhood in India. Her father was a senior manager at the Swadeshi cotton mills in Kanpur. Aged six, she and her twin brother Geoffrey were sent to a school in the hills near Shimla. This took a two day train journey. The term lasted nine months and there were three months at home during the cool season. The schools were not mixed, so she and her brother only met at church on Sundays.

On the outbreak of the Second World War, she and her mother returned to England, where she boarded at Lowther College in North Wales. When the war ended, her mother returned to India and Jan stayed with school friends.

At 18, she was offered places at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the Old Vic School and at the Bristol Old Vic. Her father declined to pay, as he disapproved of her ambition to go on the stage. Eventually he was persuaded to allow her to take a directors' course at the Old Vic. She was one of two pupils selected to be assistant stage managers at the Old Vic.

She then turned to repertory, where she met her first husband, the actor Edwin Richfield who appeared in the television series "The Buccaneers". They were married in 1952, while they were appearing in a stage version of "The Blue Lamp". They had three children.

Her television credits included "Fabian of the Yard", "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents", "The Champions", "The Vice", "The Avengers", "The Cheaters", "The Saint", "The Baron","Harper's West One", "Are You Being Served?", Casanova '73, "Agony" and "O Happy Band!".

Her film appearances included The Best House in London (with David Hemmings), The Camp on Blood Island (1958), The Stranglers of Bombay (1960), High Flight (with Ray Milland) and Work Is a Four-Letter Word (with David Warner and Cilla Black). She also appeared in The Haunted House of Horror (1969)

She was heartbroken when her twin brother drowned during the early 1960s and her marriage broke down in 1973, leaving her with three teenage children to raise. One of her twin daughters died from a brain tumour in 1999, and Holden was in poor health herself during her final two decades. She remained cheerful and courageous.

Jan Holden remarried in 1988 to Louis Manson, a solicitor and business executive, who survived her, with a son and a daughter from her first marriage, as well as two stepdaughters and four stepsons.

External links[link]

• Jan Holden at the Internet Movie Database

Kenneth Ring (born 1936) is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut, and a researcher within the field of near-death studies.

Biography[link]

Ring is the is co-founder and past president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and is the founding editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies.^[1]

Ring was born in San Francisco, California and currently lives in Kentfield, California.^[1] In November 2008, Ring visited Israel as part of a peace delegation and subsequently protested the Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as completely disproportionate.^[2]

Ring's book Life at Death was published by William Morrow and Company in 1980.^[3] In 1984, the company published Ring's second book, Heading Toward Omega. Both books deal with near-death experiences and how they change people's lives.^[3] Other books by Ring include The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, Ufo Encounters, and Mind at Large (1992), Mindsight: Near-death and out-of-body experiences in the blind (1999) and Lessons from the Light (2000). He is also the coauthor of Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital as a Last Resort.

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External links[link]

• Official website
• New York Times interview with Kenneth Ring
• Near Death Experience Research Foundation: Ken Ring Intro
• Kenneth RING, distinguished members of INREES (French)
• Dr. Kenneth Ring: summary of his research (WebCite archive)

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