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1919 Polish coup attempt in Lithuania | Background | Poland and Lithuania formed one state the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth from the Union of Lublin in 1569 to the Third Partition in 1795 Both Poland and Lithuania regained their independence in the aftermath of World War I but both soon became engaged in territorial disputes over the Suwalki and Vilnius Regions During t... |
Shih Mingteh | Early life | Shih Mingtehs father Shih Kuotsui was a wellknown practitioner of Chinese medicine In February 1947 Shih Mingteh witnessed at Kaohsiung Station that would later be known as the February 28 Incident The student leaders of schools were charged as instigators and some were executed as riots broke out Students seized weapo... |
Edward Prince | Early life and education | Edward was born on 9 November 1841 in Buckingham Palace He was the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert of SaxeCoburg and Gotha He was christened Albert Edward at St Georges Chapel Windsor Castle on 25 January 1842 He was named Albert after his father and Edward after his maternal... |
Portland Choir Orchestra | Equipment | King used equipment characteristic of the different periods he played in He played guitars made by various manufacturers early in his career He played a Fender Esquire on most of his recordings with RPM Records Later he was best known for playing variants of the Gibson ES355 In the September edition 1995 of Vintage Gui... |
Kanam Kerala | Communist Party | The Mahathma Library sowed the seeds of the Communist movement in Kanam The Life of Karl Marx written by Swadesabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai Pattabhakki other dramas by K Damodharan and similar books lead to a consciousness of the evils of inequality The second general election to the State Assembly when Kangazha Baskara... |
Carbon Trade Exchange | Purpose | The economic problem with climate change is that the emitters of greenhouse gases GHGs do not face the external costs of their actions which include the present and future welfare of people the natural environment and the social cost of carbon This can be addressed with the dynamic price model of emissions trading An e... |
Sarin | Ornamentation and decorative accessories | Saris are woven with one plain end the end that is concealed inside the wrap two long decorative borders running the length of the sari and a one to threefoot section at the other end which continues and elaborates the lengthwise decoration This end is called the pallu it is the part thrown over the shoulder in the niv... |
Grand Valley State University | Academics | Grand Valley State University is a large primarily residential comprehensive university that has a large undergraduate enrollment and emphasis GVSU offers over 200 areas of study including 82 undergraduate majors and 36 graduate programs that include 74 graduate emphases and certificate programs at the certificate bach... |
Phnom Penh | Administration | Phnom Penh is an autonomous municipality of area 67846 square kilometres 26195 sq mi with a government status equal to that of the provinces The autonomous municipality is subdivided into 14 administrative divisions called khans sections The district s are subdivided into 105 sangkats quarters and further subdivided in... |
These Girls song | Background | In December 1994 the Spice Girls persuaded their former managersfatherandson team Bob and Chris Herbertto set up a showcase in front of industry writers producers and AR men at the Nomis Studios in Shepherds Bush London Producer Richard Stannard was originally at the studio to meet pop star Jason Donovan but he ended u... |
Stop Hitting Yourself | Effects | Mona OMoore of the AntiBullying Centre at Trinity College in Dublin has written There is a growing body of research which indicates that individuals whether child or adult who are persistently subjected to abusive behavior are at risk of stress related illness which can sometimes lead to suicide Those who have been the... |
Effects of overtime | Risk mitigation | While a definitive conclusion could not be made suggestions exist to minimize the potential risks of long working hours Creation of the work schedule should be managed properly to avoid multiple consecutive shifts long periods of working without rest and balanced breaks during the day For families with children it is v... |
Tibicen | Cultural references | The Australian magpie featured in aboriginal folklore around Australia The Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara in the northwest of the country used the bird as a signal for sunrise awakening them with its call They were also familiar with its highly territorial nature and it features in a song in their Burndud or songs ... |
Mothra | Noteworthy moths | Atlas moth Attacus atlas one of the largest moths in the world Hercules moth Coscinocera hercules largest moth in Australia White witch moth Thysania agrippina the Lepidopteran with the longest wingspan Madagascan sunset moth Chrysiridia rhipheus considered to be one of the most impressive and beautiful Lepidoptera Dea... |
List of Hollyoaks characters 2018 | Jay Johnson | Jay Johnson portrayed by Michael Dixon was a criminal associate of Glenn Donovan Bob Cryer who threatens to stop purchasing drugs from Glenn after his employee Shane Sweeney Michael Salami confesses to the murders of Trigger Adam Sina and DS Geoff Thorpe James Bradshaw Glenn tries persuading Jay to stay and when Jay se... |
Coming out | Legal issues | In areas of the world where homosexual acts are penalized or prohibited gay men lesbians and bisexual people can suffer negative legal consequences for coming out In particular where homosexuality is a crime coming out may constitute selfincrimination These laws still exist in 75 countries worldwide including Egypt Ira... |
The Diamond Age | Setting | The Diamond Age depicts a nearfuture world revolutionised by advances in nanotechnology much as Eric Drexler envisioned it in his 1986 nonfiction book Engines of Creation Molecular nanotechnology is omnipresent in the novels world generally in the form of Matter Compilers and the products that come out of them The book... |
Z 1969 film | Background | The 1963 murder of Greek politician and physician Grigoris Lambrakis and subsequent military junta served as the basis for the story Among CostaGavras references to the actual events was the frequency with which the military compared ideologies to diseases seen when the General compares isms to mildew The Magistrate wa... |
Peace symbols | Broken rifle | The broken rifle symbol is used by War Resisters International WRI and its affiliates but predates the foundation of WRI in 1921 The first known example of the symbol is in the masthead of the January 1909 issue of De Wapens Neder Down with Weapons the monthly paper of the International Antimilitarist Union in the Neth... |
GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance | Other activities | In 1994 GAPA participated in the Chinese New Year Parade in San Franciscos Chinatown District wearing sweatshirts with the phrase We are one family written in Chinese Members of GAPA carried a 25foot lavender Godzilla Current GAPA Chair Michael Nguyen explains how GAPAs purpose has broadened to advocate for anyone with... |
List of awards and honours received by Nelson Mandela | 1998 | Received Honorary Doctoral Degree from the University of South Australia University of Fort Hare 23 April Awarded Honorary Doctorate University of Zululand 30 May Awarded the Freedom of the City and County of Cardiff Cardiff 16 June Awarded the Chris Hani Award at the 10th National Congress of the South African Communi... |
Naples | Geography | The city is situated on the Gulf of Naples on the western coast of southern Italy it rises from sea level to an elevation of 450 metres 1480 ft The small rivers that formerly crossed the citys centre have since been covered by construction It lies between two notable volcanic regions Mount Vesuvius and the Campi Flegre... |
Culture Health Sexuality | Health hazards | Several chemical substances have been found to be effective in skin whitening but some have been proven or suspected to be toxic This includes compounds containing mercury which can cause neurological and kidney problems These products also contain collagen which can be harmful to the skin It is present in day creams a... |
Johnson County War | Background | Conflict over land was a common occurrence in the development of the American West but was particularly prevalent during the late 19th century when large portions of the West were being settled by new immigrants for the first time through the Homestead Acts It is a period that one historian Richard Maxwell Brown has ca... |
Our Lady of Guadalupe | Veneration | The shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage destination in the world Over the Friday and Saturday of December 11 to 12 2009 a record number of 61 million pilgrims visited the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the apparition Religious imagery of Our ... |
Michael Dummett | Philosophical work | Dummetts work on the German philosopher Frege has been acclaimed His first book Frege Philosophy of Language 1973 written over many years is seen as a classic It was instrumental in the rediscovery of Freges work and influenced a generation of British philosophers In his 1963 paper Realism he popularised a controversia... |
Blood cell | Platelets | Platelets or thrombocytes are very small irregularly shaped clear cell fragments 23 mm in diameter which derive from fragmentation of megakaryocytes The average lifespan of a platelet is normally just 5 to 9 days Platelets are a natural source of growth factors They circulate in the blood of mammals and are involved in... |
Sullivan County New York | Government and politics | Sullivan County is a swing county backing the national winner in all but three presidential elections from 1952 to the present In 2004 Republican George W Bush defeated Democrat John Kerry by a margin of 4947 to 4855 or a difference of 285 votes In 2008 however it was won by Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John M... |
Oneida County New York | Education | Tertiary Hamilton College Mohawk Valley Community College Oneida Institute defunct State University of New York Polytechnic Institute Utica University Public school districts Adirondack Central School District Brookfield Central School District Camden Central School District Central Square Central School District Clint... |
Xinxin Ming | Bibliography | Blyth R 1960 Zen and Zen Classics Vol I Hokuseido Press ISBN 9780893462055 Clarke Richard 1973 1984 Hsin Hsin Ming Verses on the FaithMind Buffalo New York White Pine Press Third Chan Patriarch Chienchih Sengtsan Faith Mind Inscription Hsinhsin Ming Online text sacredtextscom Archived from the original on February 19 2... |
Dual systems model | Adolescent risk-taking | Risktaking in certain but not all domains peaks during adolescence Most notably mortality and morbidity rates increase significantly from childhood to adolescence despite the fact that physical and mental capabilities increase during this period The primary cause for this increase in mortalitymorbidity among adolescent... |
Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility | The construction of SARAF | The construction of SARAF was initiated by the Soreq NRC in 2003 and is divided into two phases Phase I Achievements of Phase I include the first acceleration of 1 mA CW 4 MeV proton beams through a HWR based superconducting accelerator routinely delivered to targets and beam dumps and low duty cycle acceleration of 5 ... |
HMS Agamemnon 1781 | Construction | Agamemnon was ordered from the commercial shipbuilder Henry Adams at his Bucklers Hard shipyard on the Beaulieu River on 5 February 1777 to be built to the lines of the Ardent class as designed by Sir Thomas Slade Her keel was laid down in May She was constructed using timber sourced from the surrounding New Forest The... |
Denali National Park and Preserve | Climate | According to the Koppen climate classification Denali National Park has a subarctic climate Dfc The plant hardiness zone at Denali Visitor Center is 3a with an average annual extreme minimum temperature of 389 degF 394 degC Long winters are followed by short growing seasons Eighty percent of the bird population returns... |
Education in Sudan | Female education | Girls education was traditionally of the most rudimentary kind frequently provided in Muslim areas by a khalwa or religious school in which Quranic studies were taught Such basic schools did not prepare girls for the secular learning mainstream from which they were virtually excluded In 1902 the Coptic community in Kha... |
Thomas Nazario | Work for the United Nations and the U.S. State Department | In 1999 Nazario traveled to Dharamshala India as part of a team of attorneys and psychologists sent by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to interview Tibetan children who escaped Tibet and went to India as refugees The report A Generation in Peril The Lives of Tibetan Children under Chinese Rule d... |
Gobichettipalayam | Transport | The municipality of Gobichettipalayam has 67604 kilometres 42007 mi of roads of which 66 kilometres 41 mi is owned by the State Highways Department The town is well connected by roads with the major arterial roads including State Highway 81 State Highway 15 State Highway 15A The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation o... |
British Fashion Council | Awards, nominations and prizes | 16 November 2016 The British Fashion council awarded Guccis New Creative Director Alessandro Michele the International Designer Award 2 September 2020 As part of its PS500000 grant scheme the British Fashion Council distributed grants to 30 British labels including Emilia Wickstead Preen by Thornton Bregazzi Rokh and C... |
Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science | History | An Engineering Science program first emerged in the early 1960s from a previous program offering the first two years of an engineering education to be completed at either Columbia University or Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn now NYU Tandon School of Engineering By 1963 several fouryear degree options were being offe... |
Living Greyhawk | Administration | The campaign was overseen by the Circle a group of six RPGA staff Five of the members had individual oversight for one of the five metaregions the sixth Circle member had responsibility for Core adventures The responsibilities of the Circle included approval of all adventures that rewarded treasure coordination of over... |
UrtenenSchonbuhl | Education | In UrtenenSchonbuhl about 2254 or 426 of the population have completed nonmandatory upper secondary education and 619 or 117 have completed additional higher education either university or a Fachhochschule Of the 619 who completed tertiary schooling 679 were Swiss men 229 were Swiss women 58 were nonSwiss men and 34 we... |
J N Adam Co | Function | When AMPK phosphorylates acetylCoA carboxylase 1 ACC1 or sterol regulatory elementbinding protein 1c SREBP1c it inhibits synthesis of fatty acids cholesterol and triglycerides and activates fatty acid uptake and boxidation AMPK stimulates glucose uptake in skeletal muscle by phosphorylating RabGTPaseactivating protein ... |
Apraxia | Causes | Aphasia is most often caused by stroke where about a quarter of patients who experience an acute stroke develop aphasia However any disease or damage to the parts of the brain that control language can cause aphasia Some of these can include brain tumors traumatic brain injury epilepsy and progressive neurological diso... |
Maria Crawford | Career | In her 40 year long career Maria Luisa Crawford wrote 68 separate articles in various journals Her area of research changed several times throughout her career However the majority of Crawfords work centered around gaining an understanding of past geological processes related to Earths crust There was a period of time ... |
Boolean satisfiability algorithm heuristics | Data structures for storing clauses | Source As SAT solvers and practical SAT problems eg circuit verification get more advanced the Boolean expressions of interest may exceed millions of variables with several million clauses therefore efficient data structures to store and evaluate the clauses must be used Expressions can be stored as a list of clauses w... |
Jonathan L | Album Network Years | In the fall of 1995 Rosen left Phoenix and radio to accept an opportunity to become senior editor of the long time now defunct music industry trade publication the Album Network He took control of Virtually Alternative magazine one of many music format magazines the Album Network published The monthly was not only info... |
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children | History | The original KABC was developed from neuropsychological theory merging left brainright brain research on cerebral specialisation eg Sperry 1968 with Lurias sequential simultaneous processing dichotomy Luria 1966 and work in cognitive psychology The KABC focuses on the processes needed to solve problems rather than thei... |
RMS Atrato 1888 | Bibliography | Haws Duncan 1982 Royal Mail Nelson Lines Merchant Fleets Vol 5 Crowborough Travel Creatours Ltd Publications ISBN 0946378002 Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping Vol ISteamers London Lloyds Register of Shipping 1910 via Internet Archive The Marconi Press Agency Ltd 1913 The Year Book of Wireless Telegraphy a... |
The Newtown School | Aftermath | The school was closed indefinitely following the shooting partially because it remained a crime scene Sandy Hook students returned to classes on January 3 2013 at Chalk Hill Middle School in nearby Monroe at the towns invitation Chalk Hill at the time was an unused facility refurbished after the shooting with desks and... |
The Hamburg Syndrome | Plot | A deadly epidemic breaks out in Hamburg Out of the blue victims fall dead in an embryonic posture In one scene a doctor who autopsies the dead says Three days ago it was 12 bodies the day before yesterday 57 and now we dont have any more space Politicians and the military intervene set up quarantine stations and develo... |
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority | History | MARTA was originally proposed as a rapid transit agency for DeKalb Fulton Clayton Gwinnett and Cobb counties These were the five original counties in the Atlanta metropolitan area and to this day are the five largest counties in the region and state MARTA was formed by an act of the Georgia General Assembly in 1965 In ... |
Tottenham Hotspur FC | Statistics and records | Steve Perryman holds the appearance record for Spurs having played 854 games for the club between 1969 and 1986 of which 655 were league matches Harry Kane holds the club goal scoring record with 280 goals scored Tottenhams record league win is 90 against Bristol Rovers in the Second Division on 22 October 1977 The clu... |
James Garrard | Later life and death | His dispute with the General Assembly over the naming of a land registrar left Garrard embittered and he retired from politics at the expiration of his second term He privately backed Christopher Greenups bid to succeed him in 1804 and Bourbon Countys vote broke heavily for Greenup in the election Although his sons Wil... |
Skylab V | Experiments | Prior to departure about 80 experiments were named although they are also described as almost 300 separate investigations Experiments were divided into six broad categories Life science human physiology biomedical research circadian rhythms mice gnats Solar physics and astronomy sun observations eight telescopes and se... |
Gwendolyn Brooks | Works | The Poetry Foundation lists these works among others A Street in Bronzeville Harper 1945 Annie Allen Harper 1949 Maud Martha Harper 1953 Bronzeville Boys and Girls Harper 1956 The Bean Eaters Harper 1960 We Real Cool Brooks Press 1960 In the Mecca Harper 1968 For Illinois 1968 A Sesquicentennial Poem Harper 1968 Riot B... |
Happy Pharrell Williams song | Music video | To coincide with the single release the website 24hoursofhappycom was launched It features a visual presentation of Happy advertised as being the worlds first 24hour music video The video was directed by the French directing team We Are from LA with creative director Yoann Lemoine and shot by steadicam operator Jon Bea... |
Ernest de Silva | Formative years | Sir Ernest de Silva was born to one of the most affluent families in Ceylon His parents and grandparents were extremely wealthy and owned much land all over the country His greatgrandfather Emans de Silva Gunasekere and his grandfather S D S Gunasekere bequeathed the properties to his father A E de Silva who later beca... |
Google Play | Google Play Store on Android | Google Play Store shortened to Play Store on the Home screen and App screen is Googles official preinstalled app store on Androidcertified devices It provides access to content on Google Play including apps books magazines music movies and television programs Devices do not ship with the Google Play Store in China with... |
Decompression sickness | Predisposing factors | Although the occurrence of DCS is not easily predictable many predisposing factors are known They may be considered as either environmental or individual Decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism in recreational diving are associated with certain demographic environmental and dive style factors A statistical stu... |
Kissena Creek | Kissena Park | The creek then turns west and flows into Kissena Lake Located at the northwestern corner of Kissena Park Kissena Lake is fed by the creek and was also fed by a smaller stream from the north that has since been buried with a playground built on top In its center is a bird sanctuary isle constructed following the lakes m... |
Universe mathematics | In a specific context | Perhaps the simplest version is that any set can be a universe so long as the object of study is confined to that particular set If the object of study is formed by the real numbers then the real line R which is the real number set could be the universe under consideration Implicitly this is the universe that Georg Can... |
January Uprising | Background | Despite the Russian Empires loss of the Crimean War and weakened economic and political state Alexander II warned in 1856 against further concessions with the words forget any dreams There were two prevailing streams of thought among the population of the Kingdom of Poland One had patriotic stirrings within liberalcons... |
History of Saturday Night Live 20152020 | Cast overhaul: 1995–2005 | With the show being near cancellation Michaels decided to overhaul the show for the 19951996 season The only holdovers from the previous season were Norm Macdonald Mark McKinney Tim Meadows Molly Shannon and Spade Michaels added a number of performers that would become important to the show including Will Ferrell Cheri... |
Mayday | Bulgaria | On May Day Bulgarians celebrate Irminden or Yeremiya Eremiya Irima Zamski den The holiday is associated with snakes and lizards and rituals are made in order to protect people from them The name of the holiday comes from the prophet Jeremiah but its origins are most probably pagan It is said that on the days of the Hol... |
John Mauchly | EDVAC | The ENIAC design was frozen in 1944 to allow construction Eckert and Mauchly were already aware of the limitations of the machine and began plans on a second computer to be called EDVAC By January 1945 they had procured a contract to build this storedprogram computer Eckert had proposed a mercury delayline memory to st... |
Paris Peace Conference 19191920 | French approach | French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau controlled his delegation and his chief goal was to weaken Germany militarily strategically and economically Having personally witnessed two German attacks on French soil in the last 40 years he was adamant for Germany not to be permitted to attack France again Particularly Clem... |
The Jitsu Foundation | Uniform and customs | Jitsuka wear a plain white or blue keikogi usually referred to simply as a gi which can either be a standard judogi or something slightly lighter Very light gis such as those used in karate are not worn as they are susceptible to damage during groundwork or when using certain throws A coloured belt is worn according to... |
Diane Barber | Early life and education | Barber was born and raised in Bakersfield California Her father Leo Barber Berberian and mother Helen Barber nee Garabedian were firstgeneration Armenian Americans whose families emigrated from the Anatolia region of Eastern Turkey Karput and Diyarbakir respectively She earned a BS in Biological Sciences in 1975 and MS... |
Anthony van Dyck | Studio | Van Dycks success led him to maintain a large workshop in London which became virtually a production line for portraits According to a visitor he usually only made a drawing on paper which was then enlarged onto canvas by an assistant he then painted the head himself The costume in which the client wished to be painted... |
Manmarziyaan | Plot | Rumi a young woman is in love with Vicky a parttime DJ One day they are caught by Rumis family and pressure builds for them to get married Rumi promises her family that Vicky will come with his parents to ask for her hand in marriage and if he doesnt show up she will marry whomever her family chooses However nervous an... |
Suleiman I of Persia | Legacy | The reign of Suleiman I is often seen as the start of the final decline of the Safavid realm According to the modern historian Rudi Matthee Suleiman was what the British historian Hugh Kennedy calls an internal absentee in reference to the tenthcentury Abbasid caliph AlMuqtadir a ruler who had no real appreciation of t... |
Alexander Bogomazov | Early life | Oleksandr Bohomazov was born in Yampil Kharkiv Region now Sumy Oblast Ukraine as a second child to Kostiantyn Anisia Bohomazovs The artists father was an accountant who worked at the local sugar factory and later rose to the status of a merchant The boy hardly knew his mother she left the family and remarried a visitin... |
Voodoo Dirty Dozen Brass Band album | Beginnings | The Dirty Dozen Brass Band grew out of the youth music program established by Danny Barker at New Orleans Fairview Baptist Church In 1972 Barker started the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band to provide young people with a positive outlet for their energies The band achieved considerable local popularity and transfo... |
William Light | After resignation | By this time Light had spent a considerable amount of his own fortune on his work and was suffering illhealth He resigned from his position on 21 June 1838 after being directed to survey 150 sq mi 390 km2 within a week and refusing to use less accurate surveying methods for country surveys In July 1838 he formed a priv... |
Nabucco pipeline | Alternative projects | The main competitor for the original project was South Stream In 2006 Gazprom proposed an alternative project in competition with the Nabucco pipeline that would involve constructing a second section of the Blue Stream pipeline beneath the Black Sea to Turkey and extending this up through Bulgaria and Serbia to western... |
Nordic round churches | Bibliography | Ann Catherine Bonnier Goran Hagg Ingrid Sjostrom Svenska kyrkor En historisk reseguide Medstroms bokforlag Stockholm 2008 ISBN 9789173290159 Hugo F Frolen Nordens befasta rundkyrkor en konst och kulturhistorisk undersokning Lars Frolen Stockholm 1911 Rikard Hedvall Kyrkorna i Klastad in Manniskors rum och manniskors mo... |
Rod Parsley | Early life and education | Parsley was born in Cleveland Ohio and was raised primarily in the Columbus area His parents had grown up in eastern Kentucky and his family traveled there often to visit relatives when Parsley was a young boy He still speaks with a noticeable Kentucky accent Parsley was raised as a Free Will Baptist At 8 years old Par... |
William Jackson Boston loyalist | Nonimportation agreement | In 1767 the merchants of Boston signed a nonimportation agreement in response to the Townshend Acts The aim was to pressure Great Britain into withdrawing what they saw as punitive taxation legislation Author Richard Archer described the committee that drew up this agreement which included John Rowe William Phillips an... |
List of Coronation Street characters 2009 | Rick Peach | Rick Peach was a vicar who was involved in scenes with Sophie Webster Brooke Vincent and Blanche Hunt Maggie Jones During Easter Sunday he allowed people to bring their animals to the church and Simon Barlow Alex Bain brought his rabbit Blanche wasnt happy however after she stood in dog excrement and accused Rick of us... |
Cutter GI Joe | Hardtop | Hardtop is the designer and driver of the GI Joe Teams Crawler His real name is Nicholas D Klas and his rank is that of sergeant E5 Hardtop was born in Chicago Illinois and was first released as an action figure in 1987 packaged with the Defiant space vehicle launch complex In 2004 he was released as part of the 40 Yea... |
Taos New Mexico | In popular culture | Taos has been featured in The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca 1960 and And Now Miguel 1966 Country music artist Waylon Jennings sang a song titled Taos New Mexico on his 1967 album Love of the Common People A different song also called Taos New Mexico was a chart hit for Canadian singersongwriter R Dean Taylor in 1972 The so... |
North East National Board of School Education | Foreign schools | According to the official website of CBSE there are 28 government as well as private affiliated schools in different countries outside India The reason of their establishment is largely serving the Indian community abroad or at least children or relative of Indian diplomats For countries where the population of Indian ... |
Oil sands | Refining | Heavy crude feedstock needs preprocessing before it is fit for conventional refineries although heavy oil and bitumen refineries can do the preprocessing themselves This preprocessing is called upgrading the key components of which are as follows removal of water sand physical waste and lighter products catalytic purif... |
Humphrey Lyttelton | Humphrey Lyttelton Band | For several years during the postwar period at 100 Oxford Street his regular band included Wally Fawkes the Christie brothers Pat Hawes and Johnny Parker From 1958 Lytteltons favoured lineup was an eightpiece band with three saxophones alto tenor and baritone although this was reduced to seven occasionally to save mone... |
Dressage | Rider clothing | Dressage riders like their horses are dressed for formality In competition they wear white cream or palecoloured breeches often fullseat leather to help them stick in the saddle with a white shirt and stock tie with a small pin Gloves are usually white although lessexperienced riders or those at the lower levels often ... |
Willis family | Ned Willis | Ned Willis played by Ben Hall made his first screen appearance on 6 April 2016 Halls casting was announced on 11 March 2016 while the character has been referred to for several years following his offscreen birth Following his initial guest stint Hall later returned to filming and Ned returned on 10 August Ned is the s... |
James Francis Edward Stuart | End of papal support | Following Jamess death the pope refused to recognise the claim to the British and Irish thrones of his elder son Charles which had severely exacerbated the hostility between England and the Catholic Church Instead from 14 January 1766 in stages over the following decade Rome accepted the Hanoverian dynasty as the legit... |
Novi Pazar | Economy | Lying on crossroads between numerous old and new states Novi Pazar has always been a strong trade center Along with the trade the city developed manufacturing tradition During the 20th century it became a center of textile industry Paradoxically during the turbulent 1990s and Novi Pazar prospered even during the UN san... |
Jack Liebowitz | Early life | Jack Liebowitz was born Yacov Lebovitz in Proskuriv presentday Khmelnytsky Ukraine in October 1900 to a Jewish family His mother Mindl never identified his biological father her first husband who had left the family but married Yulyus Lebovitz when her son was three Yacov soon adopted his stepfathers surname and in 191... |
RomanPersian Wars | Historical background | According to James HowardJohnston from the third century BC to the early seventh century AD the rival players in the East were grand polities with imperial pretensions which had been able to establish and secure stable territories transcending regional divides The Romans and Parthians came into contact through their re... |
Loadfollowing power plant | Base load and peaking power plants | Base load power plants are dispatchable plants that tend to operate at maximum output They generally shut down or reduce power only to perform maintenance or repair or due to grid constraints Power plants operated mostly in this way include coal fuel oil nuclear geothermal runoftheriver hydroelectric biomass and combin... |
Swedish Police Authority | General structuring | The agency is headed by the National Police Commissioner who is appointed by the Government and has the sole responsibility for all activities of the police Although formally organised under the Ministry of Justice the Swedish police issimilar to other authorities in Swedenessentially autonomous in accordance with the ... |
Phila Hach | Success | During one of her Paris flight layovers a young tobacco exporter visiting from the United States saw Phila and offered to help her with her luggage He was a wealthy Sorbonneeducated businessman named Adolph Hach Jr Two years after he returned to his home in Clarksville Tennessee he happened to see her again this time o... |
Udipur | Climate | Udaipur city has a hot semiarid climate The three main seasons summer monsoon and winter respectively dominate the city of Udaipur Being located in the desert lands of Rajasthan the climate and weather of Udaipur is usually hot The summer season runs from midMarch to June and touches temperature ranging from 23 degC 73... |
Pilgrim | In culture | Some prominent literary characters who were pilgrims include Chaucers The Canterbury Tales recounts tales told by Christian pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral and the shrine of Thomas Becket In the epic poem Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri portrays himself as a pilgrim traveling through the afterlife realms of... |
Jewels of Mary I of England | Jewels at Marys accession | In April 1553 Lady Mary was given a table diamond with a pendant pearl which had belonged to Anne Seymour Duchess of Somerset At the same time Jane Dudley Duchess of Northumberland was given a tablet locket with a clock enamelled black which had also belonged to the Duchess of Somerset Mary got custody of jewels which ... |
New Ancient Strings | Music | Composed by Diabate the albums eight duets each reinterpret or adapt a piece from the traditional jeli repertoire Two of the eight tracks are new versions of pieces from Ancient Strings under different titles Critics have compared the sound of the kora duets on New Ancient Strings to Western classical music Francis Dor... |
High Orbit Ion Cannon | Legality | Primarily HOIC has been designed as a stress testing tool and can be lawfully used as such to stress test local networks and servers provided the person initiating the test has authorization to test and as long as no other networks servers clients networking equipment or URLs are disrupted HOIC can also be used to perf... |
University of South Florida | Libraries | The USF Tampa Library is the largest and most comprehensive library in the USF System In addition to providing students access to more than 2 million academic journals databases and books the sevenstory USF Tampa library offers tutoring and writing services laptops a career resource center Course Reserves and reservabl... |
Emergency medical services in New Zealand | Communications | The EMS system in New Zealand is served by three dispatch centres located in Auckland Wellington and Christchurch The dispatch centre in Christchurch provides coverage to the entire South Island and is operated by St John Ambulance The dispatch centre in Auckland provides coverage for the north half of North Island and... |
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