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wide . The outer layer ran vertically and the inner layer horizontally . Her armor was backed by 3 inches ( 76 mm ) of oak , vertically oriented , and two layers of 7 @.@ 5 inches ( 191 mm ) of pine , alternating in direction . The bottom of the casemate was some 20 inches ( 508 mm ) from the waterline and its top was... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
, approximately 130 kilometres ( 81 mi ) east @-@ south @-@ east of Wave Hill . Setting out from Wave Hill on 23 April , Eaton led a ground party across rough terrain that reached the crash site four days later and buried the crew , who had perished of thirst and exposure . Not a particularly religious man , he recall... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Saprang is the youngest of 9 children of Lieutenant Colonel Sri ( Thai : ศรี กัลยาณมิตร ) and Phenkaew Kalayanamitr ( Thai : เพ ็ ญแก ้ ว กัลยาณมิตร ) . Sri was the eldest of the 8 children of Phraya Sucharitraksa , ruler ( Chao Muang ) of the northern border city of Tak .
The Kalayanamitrs are a military aristocr... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Bombay in the spring of 1944 . There , he was welcomed by the city 's governor , John Colville , before heading by train to Delhi and then Simla , where the headquarters of the Archaeological Survey of India were located . Wheeler had been suggested for the job by Archibald Wavell , the Viceroy of India , who had been... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
's repetitive grating call . The common name was formerly spelt as a single word , " corncrake " , but the official version is now " corn crake " . The English names refer to the species habit of nesting in dry hay or cereal fields , rather than marshes used by most members of this family .
= = Description = =
The... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the southwestern Ontario snowbelt , sometimes receives large quantities of lake @-@ effect snow . Sarnia averages 112 @.@ 0 cm ( 44 @.@ 1 in ) of snow per year , while London averages 194 @.@ 3 cm ( 76 @.@ 5 in ) .
The lake creates a seasonal lag , and compared to the rest of Canada and inland Ontario , Sarnia has a... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
reviewed refused to run any critical correspondence ( e.g. The New Republic , The Atlantic Monthly , Commentary ) . Periodicals that had yet to review the book rejected a manuscript on the subject as of little or no consequence ( e.g. The Village Voice , Dissent , The New York Review of Books ) . Not a single national... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
own friends . Conceived as a young woman who is unprepared for adulthood , the character Rachel Green was originally named Rachel Robbins . Although critics and audiences initially perceived Monica as the show 's main character when Friends premiered , the writers had actually given Rachel the pilot 's most prominent ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Transportation as part of plans to construct the Snapper Creek Expressway along with the South Dade Expressway ( now known as the Don Shula Expressway ) and the West Dade Expressway ( now known as the Homestead Extension of Florida 's Turnpike ) , with an expected completion date of early 1973 . Construction was halte... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Robyn and Kody 's baby and the Browns ' struggle to adjust to life in Las Vegas . The episodes following the Season 2 hiatus focus largely on Robyn 's pregnancy and the kids ' adjustment to their new lives . The abrupt move to Las Vegas brings about behavioral problems in some of the older kids , which is also discuss... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
, different from the wishes of the nation . "
The monarch could force the dissolution of Parliament through a refusal of royal assent ; this would inevitably lead to a government resigning . By convention , the monarch always assents to bills ; the last time the royal assent was not given was in 1704 during the reig... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
in the late 10th century . However , it again fell into ruin after the Crusaders were driven out by the Ayyubids . In modern times , the ruins of St. George 's Church have become a tourist attraction . During the period of Ottoman control in Palestine the tower of an ancient Roman structure in Jifna became the locatio... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
fragment of stone found at El Porvenir and aptly called the " El Porvenir Fragment " was also discovered that bore the name of Ha ' K 'in Xook .
= Tommy Lawton =
Thomas " Tommy " Lawton ( 6 October 1919 – 6 November 1996 ) was an English football player and manager . A strong centre @-@ forward with excellent all ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
2004 ) .
In 1918 she published her first , and perhaps best , novel The Citadel of Fear ( Argosy , 1918 ) . This lost world story focuses on a forgotten Aztec city , which is " rediscovered " during World War I. It was in the introduction to a 1952 reprint edition of the novel which revealed for the first time that ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Stories for the cover of the September 1950 issue .
Sf historian Mike Ashley regards Super Science Stories as marginally better than its companion magazine , Astonishing , adding " both are a testament to what a good editor can do with a poor budget " . According to sf critics Brian Stableford and Peter Nicholls , t... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
The school has no affiliation with a particular religious denomination , but religious education is given throughout the school , and boys may opt to take the subject as part of their GCSE course . Although morning assemblies take place and are Christian in nature , they are non @-@ denominational . Students participa... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
were severely damaged with the partial melting of their pipes . Paintings by Rafael Jimeno y Planas , Juan Correa and Juan Rodriguez Juarez were damaged in other parts of the cathedral . After the fire , authorities recorded the damage but did nothing to try to restore what was damaged . Heated discussions ensued amon... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
were at the height of their power . They dominated the southern ivory trade , and also held sway over the Jubba and Shebelle valleys in the hinterland . The Omani Sultans ' authority in Mogadishu , however , was largely nominal . When Imam Azzan bin Qais of Oman sought to build a fort in the city , he was thus obligat... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Farts " ) , who may as a result be reluctant to acknowledge his achievements . He was made an OBE in 1991 .
Described as arguably " the greatest forward " to play for England , Martin Johnson played 84 Tests for England , and 8 Tests for the British and Irish Lions . He first represented England in 1993 , and later ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
" the eight costume changes to the dancers to the theatrics to , hell , even the music itself " and avouched that she sounded completely different from how she did with No Doubt . Moss asserted that the No Doubt lead vocalist was the " most captivating thing onstage " with her " confident strut and dead @-@ on vocals ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
ridiculed the movie 's large @-@ scale destruction of foreign cities , writing : " Audiences who thrilled to the sight of Paris under biochemical attack in Cobra will be pleased to watch London endure an even more horrific fate here , although the sequence is tossed off in quick , almost ho @-@ hum fashion , with no t... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
2013 , following a Windows @-@ only public beta testing phase that began in 2011 . Dota 2 is one of the most actively played games on Steam , with peaks of over a million concurrent players , and was praised by critics for its gameplay , production quality , and faithfulness to its predecessor , despite being criticize... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
th @-@ grade literature teacher at the school , John Rook , who has recently had his second divorce and is undergoing , in his words , a " bizarre midlife crisis " that has led him to quit his career in computers and become a teacher . The students in his class are Arianna Belle @-@ Essai , Kendall Flowers , Taylor Gib... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
s junta had been behind the attack , even though the Viet Cong had claimed responsibility through a radio broadcast . When the Americans started making plans to retaliate against North Vietnam , they did not tell Khánh and his junta . Westmoreland , Taylor , and other senior US officers in Saigon and Washington urged P... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
in Iowa , which was decommissioned during the same period . The fort operated as a military post until 1867 .
Fort Abercrombie was built in 1858 on the Red River at what is now the border between Minnesota and North Dakota near modern McCauleyville . The fort had to be moved soon afterward because of flooding proble... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
this era .
One of the most famous of the early African Americans in the territory was George Bonga . He was born in Minnesota in 1802 , his father Pierre Bonga the son of a freed slave and his mother a member of the Ojibwe tribe . Bonga was schooled in Montreal and eventually became a fur trader in the Northwest ter... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
with kitsunebi . Some stories identify them as magical jewels or pearls . When not in human form or possessing a human , a kitsune keeps the ball in its mouth or carries it on its tail . Jewels are a common symbol of Inari , and representations of sacred Inari foxes without them are rare .
One belief is that when a ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
three vignettes that take place almost entirely during a single day following the characters Peggy , Roger , and Don .
= = = Peggy = = =
The episode begins with Peggy 's day and a heated argument with her boyfriend Abe , over her preoccupation with work and the effect this has on their sex life . The argument ends... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
some species of mole cricket may move as far as 8 kilometres ( 5 @.@ 0 mi ) during the breeding season . Mole crickets are active most of the year , but overwinter as nymphs or adults in cooler climates , resuming activity in the spring .
= = = Burrowing = = =
Mole crickets live almost entirely below ground , digg... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the Army Corps of Engineers to build a dike around the lake . Further floods in 1947 prompted an unprecedented construction of canals throughout southern Florida . Following another population boom after World War II , and the creation of the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project , the Everglades was divi... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
and smaller condoms with increased breakage and decreased slippage rates ( and vice versa ) , but other studies have been inconclusive .
It is recommended for condoms manufacturers to avoid very thick or very thin condoms , because they are both considered less effective . Some authors encourage users to choose thin... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
2005 , the invisible condom is in the clinical trial phase , and has not yet been approved for use .
Also developed in 2005 is a condom treated with an erectogenic compound . The drug @-@ treated condom is intended to help the wearer maintain his erection , which should also help reduce slippage . If approved , the ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
belong to the related Mantellisaurus or Dollodon ( described as I. atherfieldensis , at that time believed to be another species of Iguanodon ) .
Iguanodon material has also been used in the search for dinosaur DNA and other biomolecules . In research by Graham Embery et al . , Iguanodon bones were processed to look... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
and MS @-@ DOS . It is the sequel to Barbarian : The Ultimate Warrior ( released in 1987 ) , which offers sword fighting action to one or two players . Unlike its predecessor , Barbarian II features only a single @-@ player mode , in which the player assumes the role of either sword @-@ wielding Princess Mariana or th... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
and flees to town . The police are notified and set a trap , but the convict avoids the growing crowd of pursuers until he arrives at the theater . There " the convict " takes a pose under an advertisement and the pursuers understand it was all an advertising ploy , they purchase tickets and go to see the film . The f... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
] meeting , it was apparent that here was someone who knew how many beans made five and after about half an hour he moved round the table to sit next to me , and from then on he and I started operating as a team . Within a very short time , the two of us were doing everything for the GPCA , instead of everyone moving ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the development of very powerful , very high @-@ revving engines , which some say have little applicability to road cars . Mosley has announced a 10 @-@ year freeze on the development of engines , which would allow manufacturers to spend more of their budgets on environmentally friendly technology such as the Kinetic ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
. At this time , Nixon operative Anna Chennault secretly spoke with the South Vietnamese , explaining that they could receive a better deal under Nixon . The charge that , along with remarks from Nixon supporter and future Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird , Johnson had deliberately misinformed Nixon during briefs ang... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
The intersection of the free throw line and the free throw lane is referred to as the elbow of the key .
= The General in His Labyrinth =
The General in His Labyrinth ( original Spanish title : El general en su laberinto ) is a novel by the Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez . It is a fic... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Portuguese , FRELIMO proceeded to spend seven years attempting to halt its construction by force . No direct attacks were ever successful , but FRELIMO had some success in attacking convoys en route to the site . FRELIMO also lodged a protest with the United Nations about the project , and their cause was aided by neg... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
darkening . That is , the brightness decreases towards the edge of the stellar disk . Red dwarf flare stars such as UV Ceti may also possess prominent starspot features .
= = = Magnitude = = =
The apparent brightness of a star is expressed in terms of its apparent magnitude . It is a function of the star 's lumino... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
-@ oxygen cycle .
In evolved stars with cores at 100 million kelvin and masses between 0 @.@ 5 and 10 M ☉ , helium can be transformed into carbon in the triple @-@ alpha process that uses the intermediate element beryllium :
4He + 4He + 92 keV → 8 * Be
4He + 8 * Be + 67 keV → 12 * C
12 * C → 12C + γ + 7 @.@ 4 M... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
and mucus in trees , and the fungus is eaten by the wasp 's larva as food . The fungus propagates vegetatively through the formation of asexual spores in newly emerged females that are stored in special structures adapted for the transport of symbiotic fungi . The A. areolatum – Sirex woodwasp ( S. noctilio ) symbiont... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
1 April ( Easter Sunday ) in the Jewish section of Montmartre Cemetery , Paris , not far from the tomb of his contemporary Fromental Halévy ; his sister Céleste was later buried in the same tomb .
For many years it was believed that Alkan met his death when a bookcase toppled over and fell on him as he reached for a... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
additional five stories were added to ensure the building , at 1 @,@ 050 feet ( 320 m ) , would be just taller than the Chrysler . An observation deck was built to attract tourists , which proved to be a valuable source of revenue . The limestone , granite , and aluminium skyscraper was specially designed to be easily... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
fortified police station at Yagur in Israel , where he spent nine months . The Israelis were unwilling to take him to trial based solely on the evidence in documents and witness testimony , so the prisoner was subject to daily interrogations , the transcripts of which totalled over 3 @,@ 500 pages . The interrogator w... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
it were a page from the fake title to the supplemental piece .
In " Marooned " , a young mariner ( called " The Sea Captain " ) journeys to warn his home town of the coming of the Black Freighter , after he survives the destruction of his own ship . He uses the bodies of his dead shipmates as a makeshift raft . When... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
s to squeaking bass drum pedals , is important in many musical pursuits , but noise is also used creatively in many ways , and in some way in nearly all genres .
= = Definition of noise = =
In conventional musical practices sounds that are considered unmusical tend to be treated as noise . Oscillations and Waves de... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
and dialogue . Otoboku follows a branching plot line with multiple endings , and depending on the decisions that the player makes during the game , the plot will progress in a specific direction .
There are six main plot lines that the player will have the chance to experience , one for each of the heroines in the s... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the Flag Day is not a public holiday , although making a bridge , i.e. taking a day off on that day is common practice ( see Holidays in Poland ) .
Other days when the Polish flag is often flown on official buildings include :
May 5 and May 9 – Europe Days ( together with the European flag ) ;
August 15 – Polish... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
of teeth and denticles ( smaller teeth ) on the inside margin . The gynes have long legs and long mesosomas , an elongated petiole ( a narrow waist between the mesosoma and gaster ) which is usually smooth in profile on the upper surface . The petiole structure in combination with little to no constriction between abd... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
I have no passion for it . ' – Johnson continued . ' Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour ; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable , more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.'
In an article printed in the Gentleman 's Magazine , Hes... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
February 1945 it was tasked with securing a forward supply base near Dogreto Bay and clearing up to the Anumb River , about 8 miles ( 13 km ) to the east of the river . They came up against only minor opposition and by 23 February they had crossed the Anumb ; less than a month later they had progressed 6 miles ( 9 @.@... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
ibniz of plagiarism . The dispute then broke out in full force in 1711 when the Royal Society proclaimed in a study that it was Newton who was the true discoverer and labelled Leibniz a fraud . This study was cast into doubt when it was later found that Newton himself wrote the study 's concluding remarks on Leibniz . ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
with a mathematical design . Above him is a pyramid and a celestial globe showing the signs of the Zodiac and the path of the comet of 1680 . A relief panel depicts putti using instruments such as a telescope and prism . The Latin inscription on the base translates as :
Here is buried Isaac Newton , Knight , who by ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
at the forward end of the upper hangar , and gave her a small island on the starboard side . Furious resumed her training duties after the completion of the refit and continued them until October 1939 . As a deck @-@ landing training carrier in 1939 Furious embarked 767 Squadron , flying Shark , Swordfish and Fairey A... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
= Certifications = =
= Red Rackham 's Treasure =
Red Rackham 's Treasure ( French : Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge ) is the twelfth volume of The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . The story was serialised daily in Le Soir , Belgium 's leading francophone newspaper , from Februar... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
receipt of the letter , Galle and his student Heinrich d 'Arrest discovered Neptune , exactly where Le Verrier had predicted . There remained some slight discrepancies in the giant planets ' orbits . These were taken to indicate the existence of yet another planet orbiting beyond Neptune .
Even before Neptune 's dis... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
– 400 AU ; one with a mass of 2 times that of Earth , further than 496 – 570 AU ; and finally one with a mass of 15 times that of Earth , further than 970 – 1111 AU . Moreover , Iorio stated that the modern ephemerides of the Solar System outer planets has provided even tighter constraints : no celestial body with a m... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
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So there is an infinity of values which are possible candidates for the value of ii , one for each integer k . All of them have a zero imaginary part so one can say ii has an infinity of valid real values .
= = = Failure of power and logarithm identities = = =
Some identities for powers and logarithms fo... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
lutetium from ytterbium was first described by Urbain and the naming honor therefore went to him , but neoytterbium was eventually reverted to ytterbium and in 1949 , the spelling of element 71 was changed to lutetium . Ironically , Charles James , who had modestly stayed out of the argument as to priority , worked on... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the Spanish provincial capital of Santa Fe down the Red River and then northward into present @-@ day Nebraska . Although no Spanish records of the Melgares expedition are known to exist , it is believed that its purpose was to find and arrest the Lewis and Clark party , and to establish alliances with the Native Amer... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
øyen and Lysaker , so there is little regularity or speed potential to gain from the construction , since the Oslo Tunnel from Skøyen to Oslo Central Station will still remain a bottleneck with only two tracks . Advocates have claimed that there is no gain from building this section without building two additional trac... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
9 locomotives and owned or leased over 1 @,@ 500 cars including over 600 covered hoppers for grain and cement shipments . In 2001 , the number of locomotives owned stayed about the same , while the number of cars increased to about 5 @,@ 000 with 52 % of them in dedicated grain service .
= = Company officers = =
DM... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Place , Texas within hours of one another . In 2010 the city voted 5 @-@ 2 to ban the feeding of cats on public property and establish a rule requiring the permission of the owner of a piece of private property in order to feed cats on private property . The city received negative e @-@ mail feedback from various loca... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
942 , after which she joined the fleet in La Spezia and replaced Littorio as the fleet flagship . Impero was laid down at the Ansaldo shipyard on 14 May 1938 . She was launched on 15 November 1939 , but she was never completed . After the entrance of Italy to World War II , the Italian Navy moved the unfinished ship fr... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the selected player character , and clicking on a passive non @-@ player character ( NPC ) will initiate dialogue . When conversations occur , the game presents multiple dialogue options . The game world is separated into area maps — obscured by fog of war — that are revealed as the area is explored . A multiplayer mo... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
The website 's critical consensus reads , " Jessica Jones builds a multifaceted drama around its engaging antihero , delivering what might be Marvel 's strongest TV franchise to date . " Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned a score of 81 out of 100 based on 31 critics , indicating what the website con... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
" Let 's Stay Together " ) . Winfrey stated , " We don 't need another hero . We need more heroines like you , Tina . You make me proud to spell my name w @-@ o @-@ m @-@ a @-@ n , " In November , Turner released All the Best – Live Collection and it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Amer... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Chittering valley . Its subspecific name is derived from the Latin pumilio " small " , relating to the flowers .
= = Distribution and habitat = =
Banksia sphaerocarpa is distributed widely across southwestern Western Australia — from Eneabba in the north , south to the Whicher Range , Nannup , Albany and Jerramung... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
els . Panzer Dragoon ranked 140th in EGM ′ s " The Greatest 200 Videogames of their time " feature published in 2006 .
= The Converted Deacon =
The Converted Deacon is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film follows the daughter who disobeys her father by associated with the... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
01 , New Jersey Congressman Steven Rothman introduced legislation to revive the Assay Commission , stating that re @-@ establishing the commission would assure public confidence in the gold , silver , and platinum bullion coins struck by the Mint . The bills died in committee .
= = Functions and activities = =
The ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Contz and Sierck , at the apex of the Dreiländereck , over the three borders area , he shot down his first aircraft of the war , a Curtiss P @-@ 36 ( according to other historians , it was one of a trio of French Hawk H @-@ 75As ) , of Groupe de Chasse II / 5 ( Sgt Queginer bailed out ) . Thanks to that victory , he e... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
of delivery and lyrical & poetic substance . His lyrics contain layered rhythms , multi @-@ syllabic compounded rhymes , internal half rhymes , assonance , and ear @-@ bending enjambment . Music critic Marc Lamont Hill of PopMatters elaborates on Nas 's lyricism and delivery throughout the album , stating " Nas ' comp... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Alisia Dragoon and repeated much of the same sentiments as the Mean Machines reviewers . Noting Gainax 's catalog of games , he noted that Alisia Dragoon was very different from the rest ; instead of targeting hardcore fans of anime and focusing on exploitive themes , the game 's appeal was for everyone . In light of ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
ant " , had filed its own application for registration . The applicant must also demonstrate that the marks can both be used in their specific geographic areas without causing a likelihood of confusion .
The USPTO will contact the senior registrant to inform that party of the claim against their mark . The proceeding... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the pilgrim sanctity and ecological fragile geography . Being an island town , the traditional occupation was fishing , but due to poor returns , the people in fishing community have gradually shifted to other professions . Banks such as State Bank of India , Indian Bank and RDCC Bank have their branches in Rameswaram... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
60 walks . His 1959 season was the first with more than 20 home runs or 90 runs batted in . López twice had .350 on @-@ base percentages , but in each season he recorded over 400 plate appearances without recording the qualifying number for unofficial league leadership . Thus , his career high on @-@ base percentage i... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
-@ nineteenth century people and things , such as : artists Francisco Goya , Cruikshank , and Rowlandson ; writers Frances Burney , William Beckford , Monk Lewis , Lord Byron , and Ann Radcliffe ; Maria Edgeworth 's Belinda and Austen 's Emma ; publisher John Murray ; politicians Lord Castlereagh and George Canning ; T... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
outside Switzerland . The bank had total assets of nearly CHF578 billion and shareholders ' equity of nearly CHF28 billion as of the end of 1997 .
= = History = =
= = = Origins of the Union Bank of Switzerland = = =
In 1862 , The Bank in Winterthur was founded in Winterthur , Switzerland , with an initial share ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
management and board unanimously rebuffed the proposed merger . Ebner , who supported the idea of a merger , led a major shareholder revolt that resulted in the replacement of UBS 's chairman , Robert Studer . Studer 's successor Mathis Cabiallavetta would be one of the key architects of the merger with Swiss Bank Cor... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
In October 1934 , she conveyed King Alexander to France for a state visit , and carried his body back to Yugoslavia following his assassination in Marseille .
During the German @-@ led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 , Dubrovnik was captured by the Italians . After a refit , which included the replacement ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
there along with an ally from the Convention , Philippe @-@ François @-@ Joseph Le Bas . The two men were charged with " extraordinary powers " to impose discipline and reorganize the troops .
From the start , Saint @-@ Just dominated the mission . He was relentless in demanding results from the commanders as well a... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
security in material possessions and personal independence . Property must be protected by the state but , in order to secure universal independence , all citizens ( including women ) must own property .
= = = = Posthumous publications = = = =
Saint @-@ Just , Fragments sur les institutions républicaines ( French ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Lovefilm and 25 Fireman Street — were influenced by the French New Wave in their experimentation with flashbacks , dream sequences , and unconventional narrative structures built on these techniques .
Szabó emphasizes iconography in his films , insofar as he tends to invest certain objects and places with symbolic m... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
of the average daily number of vehicles on a segment of roadway . MDOT 's surveys in 2010 showed that the highest traffic levels along M @-@ 99 were the 32 @,@ 262 vehicles daily north of Mount Hope Avenue in Lansing ; the lowest counts were the 2 @,@ 300 vehicles per day between the state line and the M @-@ 34 juncti... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
. The Home Guard company then took over the post from the Ustaše . The same day , two new battalions arrived in Mostar , the 23rd Battalion from Osijek and the 15th Battalion from Travnik . These reinforcements arrived just as Prpić received confirmation that Avtovac had been captured by the rebels . The remaining sma... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
887 . Haggard claimed that this period was an intensely creative moment : the text " was never rewritten , and the manuscript carries but few corrections " . Haggard went on to declare : " The fact is that it was written at white heat , almost without rest , and that is the best way to compose . " He admitted to having... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
assumption that whites are naturally superior to blacks , and that Britain 's imperial extensions into Africa are a noble , civilising enterprise " . Although Haggard penned a number of novels that portrayed Africans in a comparatively realistic light , She was not among their number . Even in King Solomon 's Mines , ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
They may be soldiers . ' Ice too observed , ' No one then knew who the enemy were – of what tribe . ' ... They were soon to find out . " ( Utley 1992 : 122 – 24 )
Sitting Bull 's refusal to adopt any dependence on the US government meant that at times he and his small band of warriors lived isolated on the Plains . ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
ally sexually dimorphic , with no difference in plumage and little in size between males and females . The juvenile vulture has a dark bill and eyes , and a downy , gray neck that soon begins to turn the orange of an adult . Younger vultures are a slate gray overall , and , while they look similar to the adult by the t... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Beamer announced that he would not be departing for North Carolina or any other school . Beamer also was considered for the vacant head @-@ coaching position with the NFL 's Washington Redskins , but he also declined that position . Other Virginia Tech football coaches were targeted by teams to fill vacant head @-@ co... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
quarterback Michael Vick completed a 23 @-@ yard pass to Jared Ferguson for a touchdown . The extra point kick by Carter Warley was successful , and Virginia Tech had a 7 – 0 lead with 13 : 23 remaining in the first quarter .
Virginia Tech 's post @-@ touchdown kickoff was downed at the Clemson 26 @-@ yard line , wh... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
km / h ( 106 @.@ 43 mph ) , July 29 , 2003 .
500 Kilometer Triangle World Record * 187 @.@ 12 km / h ( 116 @.@ 27 mph ) , November 15 , 2003 .
1 @,@ 000 km Out @-@ and @-@ Return World Record * 166 @.@ 46 km / h ( 103 @.@ 43 mph ) , December 12 , 2002 .
1 @,@ 500 km Out @-@ and @-@ Return World Record * 156 @.@ ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
what easily stands as the most emotional trade in Capitals history since Laich was dealt to Washington in a package for Peter Bondra , one journalist wrote " It 's ironic that money is what ultimately forced the Caps to move Laich . This is a guy who loves the game so much , he 'd probably play for free . "
Laich 's... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
of Max Fenig to be that person .
Scott Bellis , who had previously portrayed Fenig in the first season episode " Fallen Angel " , had auditioned for other roles on the show in the interim , but had always been rejected by the producers because his character was felt to be too memorable . Bellis met series star David... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Johor sovereignty over any other territory .
= = = Sovereignty over Pedra Branca passed to Singapore = = =
The ICJ noted that under certain circumstances , sovereignty over territory may pass due to the failure of the state which has sovereignty to respond to the other state 's conduct à titre de souverain , that ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
aka , Yoshifumi ( 2008 ) , Passing of Sovereignty : The Malaysia / Singapore Territorial Dispute before the ICJ , The Hague Justice Portal , archived from the original ( PDF ) on 21 January 2012 .
Wan Siti Adibah Wan Dahalan ; Adina Kamarudin ; Mahmud Zuhdi Mohd Nor ( 2009 ) , " Article 121 of the 1982 Law of the Sea... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
School of Texas . After his family moved to Washington , D.C. , he attended the St. Albans School .
Fisher graduated from Harvard University , where he was an English major . At Harvard , he was a member of the Porcellian Club , the Hasty Pudding Club and the a cappella singing group the Krokodiloes . Fisher served ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
a large book of fairy tales he has , insisting that all of the stories in it are real . When they arrive in Storybrooke , Henry informs her that everyone in town is in reality a fairy tale character , exiled by the curse and with no memory of their real identities . This includes his therapist Archie Hopper ( Raphael ... | Medium | wikitext-103-excerpt |
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