V. S. Pritchett

Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett CH CBE (16 December 1900 – 20 March 1997), was a British writer and literary critic.

Pritchett (alias VSP) was known particularly for his short stories, collated in a number of volumes. His most famous non-fiction works are the memoirs A Cab at the Door (1968) and Midnight Oil (1971), and his many collections of essays on literary biography and criticism.

Biography

Victor Sawdon Pritchett was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the first of four children of Walter Sawdon Pritchett and Beatrice Helena (née Martin). His father, a London businessman, relocated to Ipswich to establish a newspaper and stationery shop. The business ran into difficulty and his parents were lodging over a toy shop at 41 St Nicholas Street in Ipswich where Pritchett was born on 16 December 1900. Beatrice had expected a girl, whom she planned to name after Queen Victoria. Pritchett disliked his first name, hence he always preferred being styled by his initials "VSP", despite formally becoming "Sir Victor Pritchett" after being knighted.

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Vietnamese martial arts

Traditional Vietnamese martial arts (Võ thuật Cổ Truyền Việt Nam) can be loosely divided into those of the Sino-Vietnamese descended from the Han, and the Chams or indigenous Vietnamese.

Modern schools

Modern styles, or môn (schools), include:

Associations in Vietnam include vi:Liên đoàn võ thuật cổ truyền Việt Nam and vi:Tổng hội Võ học Việt Nam.

Overseas

Terminology

V8 engine

A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder V engine with the cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two sets of four cylinders, in most cases set at a right angle to each other, but sometimes at a narrower angle, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft.

In its simplest form, it is basically two inline-four engines sharing a common crankshaft. However, this simple configuration, with a flat- or single-plane crankshaft, has the same secondary dynamic imbalance problems as two straight-4s, resulting in vibrations in large engine displacements. Since the 1920s most V8s have used the somewhat more complex crossplane crankshaft with heavy counterweights to eliminate the vibrations. This results in an engine that is smoother than a V6, while being considerably less expensive than a V12 engine. Most racing V8s continue to use the single plane crankshaft because it allows faster acceleration and more efficient exhaust system designs.

Applications

The V8 with a crossplane crankshaft (see below) is a common configuration for large automobile engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 3.0 L (183 cu in) in displacement and in automobile use have exceeded 8.2 L (500 cu in) in production vehicles, such as the American Cadillac Eldorado for instance. In some applications, e.g. industrial and marine V8 engines, displacement can be even larger.

Vasa övningsskola

Vasa övningsskola (VÖS) is a Swedish-speaking normal school in Vaasa, Finland. VÖS is a part of Åbo Akademi, and the pedagogical faculty of ÅA is located in Vaasa. It is the only Swedish normal school in Finland. VÖS provides preschool, primary and lower and upper secondary education, and in addition is one of the 17 schools in Finland with an International Baccalaureate upper secondary school programme.

The predecessor of VÖS was Wasa Trivialskola, which was officially founded in 1684, although teaching began already in 1611. The name Trivialskola refers to the trivium, and in that time, the subjects were religion, Latin and Greek. In 1844, the school changed its name to Vasa Gymnasium. In the town fire of Vaasa in 1852, the school building was destroyed, and upon rebuilding, the school was located to its present location in the center of the city, next to the church of Vaasa on Kirkkopuistikko (Swedish: Kyrkoesplanaden).

In rankings based on scores of the Finnish matriculation examination, the upper secondary school of VÖS (Vasa övningsskola gymnasium) has been ranked as #8 of the 35 Swedish-speaking schools of Finland. The average score was 25.1, slightly higher than the national average of 24.0, which score nevertheless places it #1 in the city of Vaasa. 104 students completed the matriculation examination in 2009, and 49% gained admission to tertiary education immediately upon graduation.