Michael Whelan
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 73 |
Web site | www.michaelwhelan.com |
Date of birth | June 29,1950 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Culver City |
California | |
United States | |
Periods | Surrealism |
Parents | William Whelan |
Known for | Painting |
Drawing | |
Painting, drawing | |
Job | Visual Artist |
Education | ArtCenter College of Design |
San José State University | |
Oak Grove High School | |
Awards | Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist |
Spectrum Award for Grand Master | |
Hugo Award for Best Related Work | |
Locus Award for Best Artist | |
World Fantasy Award—Artist | |
Official site | michaelwhelan.com |
Children | Adrian Price-Whelan |
Spous | Audrey Price Whelan |
Nominations | Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist |
Period by artworks | Surrealism |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 544701 |
Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder
Wonderworks: Science Fiction and Fantasy Art
Something in My Eye
The Snow Queen
2061: Odyssey Three
I Travel by Night
The Adventures of Little Fuzzy: From the Original Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
Tales from Planet Earth
Last Exit to Babylon
Power & Light
Isle of Darksmoke
The Parish of Aughavas, Co. Leitrim: Its History and Its People
Michael Whelan, Folk Poet of Renous River: A Collection of His Poetry
Bt-M. whelan Yr Wn89cal
The Art of Michael Whelan
Elmer Gantry
Poor Little Rich Girl
Missile to the Moon
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Wee Willie Winkie
Blonde Ice
Professional Soldier
The Living Christ Series
Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God
Gas House Kids in Hollywood
The Country Doctor
Parole, Inc.
The Dawn Express
Sky Liner
Sing, Baby, Sing
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Walking Down Broadway
Thunder in the Pines
White Fang
Outlaw Treasure
Career Woman
Fingerprints Don't Lie
Time Out for Murder
While New York Sleeps
The Mysterious Miss X
According to Mrs. Hoyle
Time Out for Romance
Pardon Our Nerve
Tough Assignment
Tahiti Honey
The Man I Marry
Son of a Badman
Woman-Wise
Island in the Sky
Shep Comes Home
I'll Sell My Life
Inside Story
Speed to Burn
Highway 13
Sarumba
They Asked for It
The Lady Escapes
Outside These Walls
Mask of the Dragon
Change of Heart
The Silver Star
Song and Dance Man
Sign of the Wolf
Michael Whelan Life story
Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art.
Russia accused of sabotaging Ukraine water pipe to Mykolaiv
By Viktoriia Zhuhan & Nader IbrahimBBC News
For six months, homes in Ukraine's southern Coastal City of Mykolaiv have been without clean Drinking Water .
Military and UN experts have told a BBC investigation they believe Russian forces deliberately cut off the water supply last April.
Satellite imagery and data suggest the pipeline to The City was deliberately destroyed while under Russian control.
Destroying resources vital for civilian life is widely regarded as violations of international humanitarian law.
But in recent weeks Russia has further targeted Ukraine's power and water infrastructure, prompting shortages across the country.
Queuing in The Street in Mykolaiv to collect clean Drinking Water is dangerous as The City is close to the Front Line and is often shelled. Since Russia's invasion it has remained under Ukrainian control.
" You are standing In Line . It's terribly scary to go out, God Forbid something will fly in now, " says Anya, a 36-year-old mother who fled to Mykolaiv from the neighbouring Kherson region under Russian occupation.
Residents like Anya, who also cares for four other members of her family, do have access to what is called technical water in their homes, but it can't be used for drinking or cooking.
Even washing in it inflames their skin. " It is really very salty. It has a brown, greenish colour, " she says.
These are the conditions that residents have had to endure for six months after the water supply to The City was cut off.
Evidence collected by The Bbc points to this being a deliberate act by Russian forces.
Water pipeline destroyedIn April this year, a Ukrainian news outlet published the above images which it says show damage caused by Russian forces to Mykolaiv's only water supply pipeline.
The Bbc has analysed satellite and Social Media pictures which back up this claim.
We obtained the satellite image below, which multiple sources confirm shows the same location as the Ukrainian news outlet's photos.
It reveals that the pipeline was damaged at its most fragile point - where It Comes to The Surface from beneath the ground.
A source in Mykolaiv told The Bbc that the pipeline had leaked for around eight hours after it was broken on 12 April, losing an estimated 40 million litres of water, before the supply to it was cut off.
Analysis of the topography of the area indicates the water from the leak should have flowed south of the pipeline.
The below image, from the messaging app Telegram and geolocated by The Bbc , confirms that an area in The Path of the expected flooding was indeed saturated by a huge amount of water.
As well as confirming that this section of the pipeline was damaged, The Bbc has also found satellite images showing Russian forces near by.
Four tanks can be seen close to The Pipe in The Image below, at time when The Governor of Mykolaiv, Vitaly Kim, confirmed to The Bbc that the area was under Russian control. He says plans had been made to repair the pipeline but they couldn't go ahead as it was " an active military position".
The Bbc also met Dmytro Butrii, who was at The Time The Exiled governor of the Kherson region, at a Secret Location . He gave us more details about the attempts to repair the pipeline saying " there were negotiations [with the Russians] conducted by The Authorities in Mykolaiv" but occupying forces " did not allow the repair team to access the site".
So if the pipeline was damaged, and Russian troops were in the area, was it deliberate?
Use of explosivesThe Bbc showed the satellite photos and the open source images of The Pipe to a security expert to assess if it was damaged by random shelling or intentional sabotage.
Chris Cobb Smith, a military forensics expert who served in the British Army as an artillery officer for over 20 years and spent three years as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq, said: " The chance that This Was the result of one stray round is infinitesimal, and extremely unlikely that it was a result of an intended indirect fire strike. "
He doesn't believe it was caused by shells fired by tanks, as there are no tell-tale craters nearby.
" I believe the destruction was caused by the intentional placement of an explosive charge either directly under The Pipe or possibly on top of it, at The Most vulnerable point. "
The Bbc also showed the images to Michael Whelan , a security expert who served in The British military for over 20 years. He agrees that the damage to the pipeline was deliberately caused by explosives.
Further damageWhilst in Mykolaiv, The Bbc was given an exclusive image (above) showing a second, unreported, section of the pipeline which had been damaged.
The Photograph has been geolocated confirming that another part of The Pipe has been cut and that satellite images from the area show that military vehicles were nearby at a time when the area was under Russian control.
'A violation of humanitarian law'That two separate points on the same pipeline have been damaged in ways that are consistent with sabotage points to occupying Russian forces deliberately cutting off the water supply to Mykolaiv.
The Bbc shared its evidence with experts to assess the legality of such a move.
A UN expert, speaking anonymously because of having no authorisation to talk publicly on the subject, says the Mykolaiv water pipeline would be classified within the specially protected category of " objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population" under international humanitarian law, making any sabotage of it illegal.
Marco Sassòli, professor of humanitarian law at Geneva University, who was part of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism mission of experts sent to Ukraine to report on humanitarian violations following The Russian invasion, agrees: " This certainly shows a violation of international humanitarian law. Destruction of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population is prohibited. "
The Russian Ministry of Defence has not responded to The Bbc 's request for comment on What Happened .
A city still sufferingThe Front Line close to the damaged pipeline has shifted back and forth following Ukraine's recent counterattack against Russian forces, giving hope to people in Mykolaiv that the pipeline might soon be repaired.
But weeks after the offensive started, and with winter approaching, The Bbc visited The City again, where we met elderly people who were still queuing for clean water and humanitarian aid.
Authorities in Mykolaiv say the area close to the pipeline needs to be safe from Russian artillery strikes and de-mined before the engineers can fix the damaged sections.
It's not clear when this might happen, and when The City 's residents will get clean running water in their homes again.
Source of news: bbc.com