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1887, was the first Christian king of Niue. The island was visited by Captain John Erskine in H.M.S. Havannah in July 1849. British protectorate In 1887, King Fataaiki wrote to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, requesting that Niue be placed under British protection, but his request was turned down. In 1900, in res... | settled by Polynesian sailors from Samoa in around 900 AD. Further settlers (or possibly invaders) arrived from Tonga in the 16th century. The first known sighting of the island by a European was by Captain James Cook in 1774 during his second Pacific voyage. The pioneering missionary John Williams was the first Europe... |
slash-and-burn agriculture. Niue is a party to the following international agreements regarding the environment: Biodiversity, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification. Niue has signed but not ratified the Law of the Sea agreement. Boundaries Niue has signed a treaty with the United States in which the parties de... | It claims an exclusive economic zone of 200 nm, and a territorial sea of 12 nm. It is one of world's largest coral islands. Climate Niue's climate is tropical, modified by south-east trade winds. Cyclones pose a natural hazard. Terrain The terrain consists of steep coastal cliffs made from limestone and a central plate... |
diplomatic agent of, the New Zealand Government. The cabinet is chosen by the premier and appointed by the Speaker of the Niue Assembly and collectively responsible to Parliament. Cabinet The Cabinet is made up of four ministers, each overseeing a different portfolio. Each minister, with the exception of the Premier, h... | Politics of Niue takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the Chief Minister is the head of government, and of a non-partisan system. Niue is self-governing in free association with New Zealand and is fully responsible for internal affairs. New Zealand retains some res... |
take off with maximum weight. Boeing 737-300, 737-800 and Boeing 757 aircraft have used the airport. Air New Zealand is the only airline serving Niue, with a weekly flight from Auckland. The flight is operated with an A320 departing Auckland on Saturday and arriving the previous day due to the International Date Line. ... | extended in 1995 to allow Boeing 737 aircraft to take off with maximum weight. Boeing 737-300, 737-800 and Boeing 757 aircraft have used the airport. Air New Zealand is the only airline serving Niue, with a weekly flight from Auckland. The flight is operated with an A320 departing Auckland on Saturday and arriving the ... |
cellular: undisclosed (2011) Telephone system: domestic: single-line telephone system connects all villages on island international: provided by Telecom Niue (IDD code: 683) Radio Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 1,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997) Televisions: NA Newspa... | system connects all villages on island international: provided by Telecom Niue (IDD code: 683) Radio Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 1,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997) Televisions: NA Newspapers Niue has only one printed newspaper, the Niue Star, founded in 1993. Until... |
the terms of a trusteeship agreement. In 1976, Congress approved the mutually negotiated Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America. The Covenant was codified on March 24, 1976, as Public Law 94-241. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana ... | was no electricity or public water supply for weeks. In April 1990, the inhabitants of the western coast of Anatahan were evacuated after earthquake swarms and active fumaroles indicated that an eruption might be imminent, but no eruption occurred at that time. A further earthquake swarm occurred in May 1992. The first... |
active volcanoes on Anatahan, Pagan and Agrihan. The volcano on Agrihan has the highest elevation at . About one-fifth of the land is arable; another tenth is pasture. The primary natural resource is fish, some of which are endangered species, which leads to conflict. Also, development has created landfills which have ... | its east crater on May 10, 2003, at about 6 p.m. (0800 UTC). It has since alternated between eruptive and calm periods. On April 6, 2005, approximately of ash and rock were ejected, causing a large, black cloud to drift south over Saipan and Tinian. Climate The islands have a tropical marine climate moderated by season... |
-0.55% Birth rate 15.1 births/1,000 population Death rate 5.3 deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate -15.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population Sex ratio At birth: 1.16 male(s)/female 0–14 years: 1.17 male(s)/female 15–24 years: 1.17 male(s)/female 25–54 years: 1.07 male(s)/female 55–64 years: 1.19 male(s)/female 65 years a... | Population growth rate -0.55% Birth rate 15.1 births/1,000 population Death rate 5.3 deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate -15.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population Sex ratio At birth: 1.16 male(s)/female 0–14 years: 1.17 male(s)/female 15–24 years: 1.17 male(s)/female 25–54 years: 1.07 male(s)/female 55–64 years: 1.19 ma... |
"Resident Representative" in Washington, DC. As authorized by , the Commonwealth now elects a nonvoting delegate to the U.S. Congress, similar to other U.S. insular areas. The first election was held on November 4, 2008. Political parties and elections Judicial branch Commonwealth Supreme Court; Superior Court; Federal... | the Commonwealth now elects a nonvoting delegate to the U.S. Congress, similar to other U.S. insular areas. The first election was held on November 4, 2008. Political parties and elections Judicial branch Commonwealth Supreme Court; Superior Court; Federal District Court Federal representation In November 2008, the Nor... |
the canopy of which was made of Araucaria heterophylla (Norfolk Island pine) in exposed areas, and the palm Rhopalostylis baueri and tree ferns Cyathea brownii and C. australis in moister protected areas. The understory was thick with lianas and ferns covering the forest floor. Only one small tract, , of rainforest rem... | and found that 37% preferred free association with New Zealand, 35% preferred free association with Australia, 25% preferred full independence, and 3% preferred full integration with Australia. Geography The Territory of Norfolk Island is located in the South Pacific Ocean, east of the Australian mainland. Norfolk Isla... |
12 August 1788: “There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and N... | from the Kermadec Islands north of New Zealand or from the North Island of New Zealand. They arrived in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, and survived for several generations before disappearing. Their main village site has been excavated at Emily Bay, and they also left behind stone tools, the Polynesian rat, and b... |
Norfolk Island Regional Council was established to govern Norfolk Island at the local level as a local government area subject to the laws of New South Wales. Executive branch The Norfolk Island legislative Assembly was abolished on 1 July 2015 and replaced with the Australian Government maintaining authority on the is... | Island and transferring Norfolk Island into a council as part of New South Wales law. From 1 July 2016 Norfolk Island legislation will be transferred to New South Wales and subject to NSW legislation. From 1 July 2016, the Norfolk Island Regional Council was established to govern Norfolk Island at the local level as a ... |
given to a family of texts with similar readings due to common ancestors and mutual correction. Many early manuscripts contain individual readings from several different earlier forms of text. Modern textual critics have identified the following text-types among textual witnesses to the New Testament: The Alexandrian t... | the relationship both to broader "pagan" society, to Judaism, and to other Christians. Epistle to the Romans First Epistle to the Corinthians Second Epistle to the Corinthians Epistle to the Galatians Epistle to the Ephesians* Epistle to the Philippians Epistle to the Colossians* First Epistle to the Thessalonians Seco... |
parts, the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS consists of the brain, brainstem and spinal cord. The PNS consists mainly of nerves, which are enclosed bundles of the long fibers or axons, that connect the CNS to all remaining body parts. Nerves that transmit signals from the CN... | the neurons of a nerve have fairly high energy requirements. Within the endoneurium, the individual nerve fibres are surrounded by a low-protein liquid called endoneurial fluid. This acts in a similar way to the cerebrospinal fluid in the central nervous system and constitutes a blood-nerve barrier similar to the blood... |
closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions that are called in question." In England the more recent case of Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman [1990] introduced a 'threefold test' for a duty of care... | for emotional or non-pecuniary losses on the condition that If the plaintiff can prove pecuniary loss, then he can also obtain damages for non-pecuniary injuries, such as emotional distress. The requirement of pecuniary loss can be shown in a number of ways. A plaintiff who is physically injured by allegedly negligent ... |
bend region, with abundant resources including plants for grazing and fish. Like in the Fertile Crescent, many food crops were domesticated in the Niger River region, including yams, African rice (Oryza glaberrima), and pearl millet. The Sahara aridification may have triggered, or at least accelerated, these domesticat... | between Ségou and Timbuktu to seepage and evaporation. All the water from the Bani River, which flows into the Delta at Mopti, does not compensate for the 'losses'. The average 'loss' is estimated at 31 km3/year but varies considerably between years. The river is then joined by various tributaries but also loses more w... |
These theories reject the dichotomy of mind and matter, believing the fundamental nature of reality to be neither mental nor physical; in other words it is "neutral". Relations to other theories Physicalists believe reality is fundamentally material, idealists believe reality is fundamentally mental, dualists believe r... | well as property dualism, which he identified as a form of dualism. However, some neutral monist theories are panpsychist and some panpsychist theories are neutral monist. However, the two don't always overlap. For instance, Russellian monism is not panpsychism in response to the combination problem. Conversely, some v... |
short story "The Hound", written in 1922, though its purported author, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft's "The Nameless City". Among other things, the work contains an account of the Old Ones, their history, and the means for summoning them. Other authors such as August Derleth... | his own inherited, but defective, Dee edition. The Necronomicon passage in question states: Nor is it to be thought...that man is either the oldest or the last of earth's masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces... |
company. In 2012, Stephenson launched a Kickstarter campaign for CLANG, a realistic sword-fighting fantasy game. The concept was to use motion control to provide an immersive experience. The campaign's funding goal of $500,000 was reached by the target date of July 9, 2012 on Kickstarter, but funding options remained o... | while his paternal grandfather was a physics professor. His mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, and her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1960 and then in 1966 to Ames, Iowa. He graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson studied at Boston U... |
of Machiavelli's work, he often states that the ruler must adopt unsavory policies for the sake of the continuance of his regime. A related and more controversial proposal often made is that he described how to do things in politics in a way which seemed neutral concerning who used the advice—tyrants or good rulers. Th... | be) a match for such a great name" or "There is no praise equal to so great a name.") Major works The Prince Machiavelli's best-known book Il Principe contains several maxims concerning politics. Instead of the more traditional target audience of a hereditary prince, it concentrates on the possibility of a "new prince"... |
(United States) First Friday: November 5 Arbor Day (Samoa) First Saturday: November 6 Children's Day (South Africa) Health Day (Turkmenistan) National Bison Day (United States) Second Sunday: November 14 Father's Day (Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) Grandparents Day (South Sudan) National Day of the Pupu... | November 13 and Brumalia celebrations began on November 24. These dates do not correspond to the modern Gregorian calendar. November was referred to as Blōtmōnaþ by the Anglo-Saxons. Brumaire and Frimaire were the months on which November fell in the French Republican calendar. Astronomy November meteor showers include... |
Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled. 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov. 1989 – Cold Wa... | and playwright 1937 – Donald Trelford, English journalist and academic 1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Newfoundland 1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American author and critic 1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist and academic 1939 – Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, English academi... |
1885 – George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945) 1887 – Roland Young, English-American actor (d. 1953) 1888 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education (d. 1958) 1888 – J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (d.1982) 1891 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball pla... | recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy. 1028 – Constantine VIII died, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years. 1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland a... |
Montholon-Sémonville, French politician and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (d. 1886) 1820 – Rachel Brooks Gleason, fourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (d. 1905) 1823 – James Service, Scottish-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Victoria (d. 1899) 1833 – Princess Mary Adelaide... | – Dave Giusti, American baseball player and manager 1939 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001) 1940 – Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial artist, and screenwriter (d. 1973) 1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French footballer, coach, and manager 1941 – Eddie... |
1872 – Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872. 1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. 1901–present 1901 – Britain and the United States sign... | The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I. 401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy. 1095 – The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land. 1105 – Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV. 12... |
as Alec Douglas-Home), to bring him to the Commons Smoking Room to socialise with colleagues ended in embarrassing silence. Chamberlain compensated for these shortcomings by devising the most sophisticated press management system employed by a prime minister up to that time, with officials at Number 10, led by his chie... | to be integrated with the intent of co-ordinating the passage of legislation through the current Parliament, the term of which was to expire in November 1940. At the time of his appointment, Chamberlain's personality was not well known to the public, though he had made annual budget broadcasts for six years. According ... |
one of the most influential Spanish poetry collections of the twentieth century. It is cited as an inspiration by American Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg. A fictionalized version of Parra appeared in Alejandro Jodorowsky's autobiographical film Endless Poetry (2016). Death Parra died on 23 January 2018, at 7:00 am... | 1954; Nascimento, 1956; Cátedra, 2005, La cueca larga (The Long Cueca), 1958 Versos de salón (Parlor Verses), 1962 Manifiesto (Manifesto), 1963 Canciones rusas (Russian Songs), 1967 Obra gruesa (Thick Works), 1969 Los profesores (The Teachers), 1971 Artefactos (Artifacts), 1972 Sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui (... |
Friendly Ghost on The New Casper Cartoon Show, Gumby on The Gumby Show, Sweet Polly Purebred on Underdog, and Davey on Davey and Goliath. Early life MacMillan was born on September 15, 1921, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and began her career there as a stage actress. It was in Vancouver that she met, worked w... | on Davey and Goliath. Early life MacMillan was born on September 15, 1921, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and began her career there as a stage actress. It was in Vancouver that she met, worked with and married her producer/manager husband Thor Arngrim. In 1954, MacMillan, her husband and his business partner ... |
World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions, complained about the prize's honouring of Nevanlinna, as he was a supporter of Hitler and had acted as a representative for the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS during World War II. Soifer discussed Nevanlinna's wartime activities in a 2015 book, and fo... | computing and numerical analysis. Computational aspects of optimization and control theory. Computer algebra. The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union and named for the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna. It consists of a gold medal and cash prize. The priz... |
riots erupt. 1987 – British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors. 1993 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union. 2000 – Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed ... | (d. 2005) 1923 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (d. 2001) 1923 – Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (d. 2013) 1923 – Carlos Páez Vilaró, Uruguayan painter and sculptor (d. 2014) 1924 – Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (d. 2015) 1924 – Jean-Luc Pépin,... |
1601–1900 1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War. 1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created. 1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally. 1889 – North Dakot... | their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. 1901–present 1912 – Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople. 1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire a... |
all even orders, but are nonzero for odd orders. For any non-negative integer The last formula is valid also for any non-integer When the mean the plain and absolute moments can be expressed in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions and These expressions remain valid even if is not an integer. See also generalized... | must be normal deviates. This result is known as Cramér's decomposition theorem, and is equivalent to saying that the convolution of two distributions is normal if and only if both are normal. Cramér's theorem implies that a linear combination of independent non-Gaussian variables will never have an exactly normal dist... |
Autopoiesis only applies to networks of processes that reproduce themselves, but communications are reproduced by humans. For this reason, the analogy from biology to sociology does not, in this case, hold. On the other hand, Luhmann explicitly stressed that he does not refer to a "society without humans", but to the f... | Parsons' theory, developing a rival approach of his own. Leaving the civil service in 1962, he lectured at the national Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften (University for Administrative Sciences) in Speyer, Germany. In 1965, he was offered a position at the Sozialforschungsstelle (Social Research Centre)... |
Middle Eastern/South Asian focus. At the time, TGU had a top 40 hit, "Templehead", and Atlas became their lead singer / belly dancer. Additionally in 1991, Atlas collaborated with Bauhaus/Love and Rockets/Tones on Tail guitarist and vocalist Daniel Ash on his debut solo album Coming Down. She contributed extensive voca... | "Des Ronds Dans L'Eau." Voila was released via Rykodisc in the U.K. on 5 February 2007 and in the U.S. the following day. The 2007 film Brick Lane features four songs with vocals by Atlas, "Adam's Lullaby", "Running Through the Night", "Love Blossoms" and "Rite of Passage". On 23 May 2008 Atlas released a new album, An... |
during other events of royal importance. Some states use their royal anthem as the national anthem, such as the state anthem of Jordan. There are multiple claimants to the position of oldest national anthem. Among the national anthems, the first to be composed was the Dutch national anthem, the "Wilhelmus", which was w... | states use their royal anthem as the national anthem, such as the state anthem of Jordan. There are multiple claimants to the position of oldest national anthem. Among the national anthems, the first to be composed was the Dutch national anthem, the "Wilhelmus", which was written between 1568 and 1572. This has both Du... |
rarer. In early 1891, George Westinghouse explained his financial difficulties to Tesla in stark terms, saying that, if he did not meet the demands of his lenders, he would no longer be in control of Westinghouse Electric and Tesla would have to "deal with the bankers" to try to collect future royalties. The advantages... | ⅓ to Peck and Brown, and ⅓ to fund development. They set up a laboratory for Tesla at 89 Liberty Street in Manhattan, where he worked on improving and developing new types of electric motors, generators, and other devices. In 1887, Tesla developed an induction motor that ran on alternating current (AC), a power system ... |
means that is not a ring; instead it is a semiring (also known as a rig). If the natural numbers are taken as "excluding 0", and "starting at 1", the definitions of + and × are as above, except that they begin with and . Order In this section, juxtaposed variables such as indicate the product , and the standard order o... | the case under consideration. This can be done by explanation in prose, by explicitly writing down the set, or by qualifying the generic identifier with a super- or subscript, for example, like this: Naturals without zero: Naturals with zero: Alternatively, since the natural numbers naturally form a subset of the integ... |
as to prevent ambiguity. The natural logarithm of is the power to which would have to be raised to equal . For example, is , because . The natural logarithm of itself, , is , because , while the natural logarithm of is , since . The natural logarithm can be defined for any positive real number as the area under the cur... | any positive real number as the area under the curve from to (with the area being negative when ). The simplicity of this definition, which is matched in many other formulas involving the natural logarithm, leads to the term "natural". The definition of the natural logarithm can then be extended to give logarithm value... |
Homo habilis) appeared in Africa near the end of the period. In response to the cooler, seasonal climate, tropical plant species gave way to deciduous ones and grasslands replaced many forests. Grasses therefore greatly diversified, and herbivorous mammals evolved alongside it, creating the many grazing animals of toda... | hominins, the ancestors of humans may have appeared in southern Europe and migrated into Africa. The first humans (belonging to the species Homo habilis) appeared in Africa near the end of the period. In response to the cooler, seasonal climate, tropical plant species gave way to deciduous ones and grasslands replaced ... |
page (known as an eschatocol) to a document in order to make it valid for use overseas.In the case of some documents which are to be used in some foreign countries it may also be necessary to obtain another certificate known either as an "authentication" or an "apostille" (see above) (depending on the relevant foreign ... | may vary widely from state to state and in most cases bars a notary from acting outside their home state unless they also have a commission there as well. Likewise, as a public official, notaries generally must perform legal acts to any requesting party: in other words, notaries, being public officers, cannot turn down... |
is the regional headquarters of several international companies and organisations. In 2007, General Electric, Young & Rubicam, Google, Coca-Cola, IBM Services, and Cisco Systems relocated their African headquarters to the city. The United Nations Office at Nairobi hosts UN Environment and UN-Habitat headquarters. Sever... | real estate development projects Nairobi is undergoing a construction boom. Major real estate projects and skyscrapers are coming up in the city. Among them are:The pinnacle twin towers which will tower at 314 m, Britam Tower (200 m), Avic International Africa headquarters (176 m), Prism tower (140 m), Pan Africa insur... |
2n-th power of ten. Fractional numerals This is a table of English names for non-negative rational numbers less than or equal to 1. It also lists alternative names, but there is no widespread convention for the names of extremely small positive numbers. Keep in mind that rational numbers like 0.12 can be represented in... | However, by now most such languages have borrowed the numeral system or part of the numeral system of a national or colonial language, though in a few cases (such as Guarani), a numeral system has been invented internally rather than borrowed. Other languages had an indigenous system but borrowed a second set of numera... |
Dirac particles. It is possible to test this property experimentally. For example, if neutrinos are indeed Majorana particles, then lepton-number violating processes such as neutrinoless double beta decay would be allowed, while they would not if neutrinos are Dirac particles. Several experiments have been and are bein... | neutrinos can oscillate from one flavor to another, which requires that they must have a nonzero mass. While this shows that neutrinos have mass, the absolute neutrino mass scale is still not known. This is because neutrino oscillations are sensitive only to the difference in the squares of the masses. As of 2020, the ... |
drew additional wide-scale attention to the prospects of atomic control of matter. In the 1980s, two major breakthroughs sparked the growth of nanotechnology in the modern era. First, the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981 which provided unprecedented visualization of individual atoms and bonds, and... | nucleic acids. Approaches from the field of "classical" chemical synthesis (Inorganic and organic synthesis) also aim at designing molecules with well-defined shape (e.g. bis-peptides). More generally, molecular self-assembly seeks to use concepts of supramolecular chemistry, and molecular recognition in particular, to... |
by arrangements of ASCII or Extended ASCII glyphs, "DEC graphics", or "IBM graphics" mode. In addition to the environment, the interface also displays character and situational information. A detailed example: You see here a silver ring. ------------ ##....._.....| |...........# ------ #...........| |....| ------------... | optional graphical tilesets), and permadeath, forcing the player to restart anew should their character die. While Rogue, Hack and other earlier roguelikes stayed true to a high fantasy setting, NetHack introduced humorous and anachronistic elements over time, including popular cultural reference to works such as Discw... |
of nylon stockings and other lingerie stopped, and most manufactured nylon was used to make parachutes and tents for World War II. Although nylon stockings already made before the war could be purchased, they were generally sold on the black market for as high as $20. Once the war ended, the return of nylon was awaited... | In 1941, a second plant was opened in Martinsville, Virginia due to the success of the fabric. While nylon was marketed as the durable and indestructible material of the people, it was sold at almost twice the price of silk stockings ($4.27 per pound of nylon versus $2.79 per pound of silk). Sales of nylon stockings we... |
the seed inside a fruit. It most often refers to: Atomic nucleus, the very dense central region of an atom Cell nucleus, a central organelle of a eukaryotic cell, containing most of the cell's DNA Nucleus may also refer to: Science, technology, and mathematics Astronomy Active galactic nucleus in astronomy Comet nucleu... | central part of a comet Biology Cell nucleus, a central organelle of a eukaryotic cell, containing most of the cell's DNA Nucleus (neuroanatomy), a cluster of cell bodies of neurons in the central nervous system Nucleus that forms in the eye in nuclear sclerosis (early cataracts) Nucleus, a scientific journal concerned... |
buck teeth, severe acne and pants worn high at the waist. Following suit of popular use in emoticons, Unicode released in 2015 its "Nerd Face" character, featuring some of those stereotypes: 🤓 (code point U+1F913). In the media, many nerds are males, portrayed as being physically unfit, either overweight or skinny due... | young East Asian or Indian male stereotype in North America. Portrayal of "nerd girls", in films such as She's Out of Control, Welcome to the Dollhouse and She's All That depicts that smart but nerdy women might suffer later in life if they do not focus on improving their physical attractiveness. In the United States, ... |
naturally occurring DNA molecules are double-stranded and RNA molecules are single-stranded. There are numerous exceptions, however—some viruses have genomes made of double-stranded RNA and other viruses have single-stranded DNA genomes, and, in some circumstances, nucleic acid structures with three or four strands can... | non-living). All living cells contain both DNA and RNA (except some cells such as mature red blood cells), while viruses contain either DNA or RNA, but usually not both. The basic component of biological nucleic acids is the nucleotide, each of which contains a pentose sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), a phosphate group, ... |
environments as large deposits, particularly of nitratine, a major source of sodium nitrate. Nitrates are produced by a number of species of nitrifying bacteria in the natural environment using ammonia or urea as a source of nitrogen and oxygen as a source of free energy. Nitrate compounds for gunpowder were historical... | and other vegetables. Drinking water is also a dietary source. Dietary nitrate supplementation delivers positive results when testing endurance exercise performance. Ingestion of large doses of nitrate either in the form of pure sodium nitrate or beetroot juice in young healthy individuals rapidly increases plasma nitr... |
name Nike, daughter of Shahrbaraz Arts, entertainment, and media Nike Award, a Polish language literature prize Nike of Samothrace, an ancient statue of the goddess Nike Nike of Callimachus, an ancient statue of the goddess Nike "Nikes" (song), by Frank Ocean from the album Blonde (2016) Military Project Nike, a US Arm... | Ocean from the album Blonde (2016) Military Project Nike, a US Army missile project MIM-14 Nike-Hercules, a solid fuel propelled surface-to-air missile Nike (rocket stage) Various US sounding rockets named after the upper stage used, including: Nike Apache Nike-Asp Nike-Cajun Nike-Deacon Nike Hawk Nike Hydac Nike Iroqu... |
was damage from Hurricane Irma. Geography The formation of the island began in mid-Pliocene times, approximately 3.45 million years ago. Nine distinct eruptive centres from different geological ages, ranging from mid-Pliocene to Pleistocene, have contributed to the formation. No single model of the island's geological ... | cotton industry lasted almost 300 years, and greatly changed the island's ecosystem. In some places along the windswept southeast or "Windward" coast of the island, the landscape is radically altered compared with how it used to be in pre-colonial times. Due to extreme land erosion, the topsoil was swept away, and in s... |
audiobook recording of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was released through Audible. Kidman starred as an unstable mother in Park Chan-wook's Stoker (2013), to a positive response and a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In April 2013, she was selected as a member of the main competition jury at th... | confidence throughout the film [...] Kidman seems to specialize in 'ice queen' characters, but with Satine, she allows herself to thaw, just a bit." Subsequently, Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, among several other awards and nominations, including h... |
multifunctional: GART (reactions 2, 3, and 5) PAICS (reactions 6, and 7) ATIC (reactions 9, and 10) The pathway starts with the formation of PRPP. PRPS1 is the enzyme that activates R5P, which is formed primarily by the pentose phosphate pathway, to PRPP by reacting it with ATP. The reaction is unusual in that a pyroph... | shared with the pathways for the synthesis of Trp, His, and the pyrimidine nucleotides. Being on a major metabolic crossroad and requiring much energy, this reaction is highly regulated. In the first reaction unique to purine nucleotide biosynthesis, PPAT catalyzes the displacement of PRPP's pyrophosphate group (PPi) b... |
Riemann sum, because displacement is the integral of velocity. Ill-conditioned problem: Take the function . Note that f(1.1) = 10 and f(1.001) = 1000: a change in x of less than 0.1 turns into a change in f(x) of nearly 1000. Evaluating f(x) near x = 1 is an ill-conditioned problem. Well-conditioned problem: By contras... | within a finite number of steps (in general). Examples include Newton's method, the bisection method, and Jacobi iteration. In computational matrix algebra, iterative methods are generally needed for large problems. Iterative methods are more common than direct methods in numerical analysis. Some methods are direct in ... |
through evolution as a consequence of this growth in complexity/consciousness. The noosphere is therefore as much part of nature as the barysphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. As a result, Teilhard sees the "social phenomenon [as] the culmination of and not the attenuation of the biological phe... | Both conceptions of the noosphere share the common thesis that together human reason and the scientific thought has created, and will continue to create, the next evolutionary geological layer. This geological layer is part of the evolutionary chain. Second generation authors, predominantly of Russian origin, have furt... |
from Como, whom he met in Milan in 1813. The two gave concerts together throughout Italy. They had a son, Achille Ciro Alessandro, born on 23 July 1825 in Palermo and baptized at San Bartolomeo's. They never legalized their union and it ended around April 1828 in Vienna. Paganini brought Achille on his European tours, ... | friends with composers Gioachino Rossini and Hector Berlioz. Rossini and Paganini met in Bologna in the summer of 1818. In January 1821, on his return from Naples, Paganini met Rossini again in Rome, just in time to become the substitute conductor for Rossini's opera Matilde di Shabran, upon the sudden death of the ori... |
along the coast of Northwestern Europe. Other branches include the Irminger Current and the Norwegian Current. Driven by the global thermohaline circulation, the North Atlantic Current is part of the wind-driven Gulf Stream, which goes further east and north from the North American coast across the Atlantic and into th... | It then splits into a colder northeastern branch and a warmer eastern branch. As the warmer branch turns southward, most of the subtropical component of the Gulf Stream is diverted southward, and as a consequence, the North Atlantic is mostly supplied by subpolar waters, including a contribution from the Labrador Curre... |
the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, entraining with LSW. This water is less dense than (DSOW) and lays above it as it flows cyclonically in the Irminger Basin. DSOW is the coldest, densest, and freshest water mass of NADW. DSOW formed behind the ridge flows over the Denmark Strait at a depth of 600m. The most significant ... | water of the eastern North Atlantic, and flows to the western North Atlantic through the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, entraining with LSW. This water is less dense than (DSOW) and lays above it as it flows cyclonically in the Irminger Basin. DSOW is the coldest, densest, and freshest water mass of NADW. DSOW formed beh... |
and distribution can be augmented by nanoparticles, the dangers of nanotoxicity become an important next step in further understanding of their medical uses. The toxicity of nanoparticles varies, depending on size, shape, and material. These factors also affect the build-up and organ damage that may occur. Nanoparticle... | assays has been achieved by embedding different-sized quantum dots into polymeric microbeads. Nanopore technology for analysis of nucleic acids converts strings of nucleotides directly into electronic signatures. Sensor test chips containing thousands of nanowires, able to detect proteins and other biomarkers left behi... |
resonance Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance Protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Proton nuclear magnetic resonance Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance Magnetic resonance imaging, using NMR for non-invasive imaging Surface nuclear magnetic resonance, geophysical t... | also refer to: Applications of nuclear magnetic resonance Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance Protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Proton nuclear magnetic resonance Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance Magnetic resonance imaging, using NMR for non-invasive imaging S... |
role in the definition of the Lebesgue integral: if functions and are equal except on a null set, then is integrable if and only if is, and their integrals are equal. This motivates the formal definition of spaces as sets of equivalence classes of functions which differ only on null sets. A measure in which all subsets... | For example, any non-empty countable set of real numbers has Lebesgue measure zero and therefore is null. More generally, on a given measure space a null set is a set such that . Example Every finite or countably infinite subset of the real numbers is a null set. For example, the set of natural numbers and the set of r... |
(d. 1966) 1901–present 1904 – Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian captain and surgeon (d. 1988) 1908 – Libertad Lamarque, Argentinian actress and singer (d. 2000) 1910 – Larry Siemering, American football player and coach (d. 2009) 1911 – Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985) 1911 – Joe Medwick, American baseball player and m... | the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. 1922 – Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. 1929 – The Finnish far-right Lapua ... |
known as recurrent networks. Hyperparameter A hyperparameter is a constant parameter whose value is set before the learning process begins. The values of parameters are derived via learning. Examples of hyperparameters include learning rate, the number of hidden layers and batch size. The values of some hyperparameters... | significant experimentation. Robustness: If the model, cost function and learning algorithm are selected appropriately, the resulting ANN can become robust. ANN capabilities fall within the following broad categories: Function approximation, or regression analysis, including time series prediction, fitness approximatio... |
by the root. In the leaves, stomata open to take in carbon dioxide and expel oxygen. The carbon dioxide molecules are used as the carbon source in photosynthesis. Although nitrogen is plentiful in the Earth's atmosphere, very few plants can use this directly. Most plants, therefore, require nitrogen compounds to be pre... | proportions vary for their particular foods. Many herbivores rely on bacterial fermentation to create digestible nutrients from indigestible plant cellulose, while obligate carnivores must eat animal meats to obtain certain vitamins or nutrients their bodies cannot otherwise synthesize. Animals generally have a higher ... |
Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1956 – Richard Kind, American actor 1956 – Ron Randall, American author and illustrator 1957 – Donny Deutsch, American businessman and television host 1957 – Alan Stern, American engineer and planetary scientist 1958 – Horse, Scottish singer-songwriter and ... | 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967) 1869 – André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951) 1870 – Howard Brockway, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1951) 1870 – Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (d. 1911) 1873 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and po... |
Wilson's theorem. Western Europe in the Middle Ages Other than a treatise on squares in arithmetic progression by Fibonacci—who traveled and studied in north Africa and Constantinople—no number theory to speak of was done in western Europe during the Middle Ages. Matters started to change in Europe in the late Renaissa... | philosophy of Plato closely followed the teachings of the Pythagoreans, and Cicero repeats this claim: Platonem ferunt didicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). Plato had a keen interest in mathematics, and distinguished clearly between arithmetic and calculation. (By arithmetic he m... |
wave that propagates through the explosive medium at 30 times the speed of sound as a near-instantaneous pressure-induced decomposition of the fuel into a white-hot gas. Detonation of nitroglycerin generates gases that would occupy more than 1,200 times the original volume at ordinary room temperature and pressure. The... | spelling nitroglycerine) also known as trinitroglycerin (TNG), nitro, glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), or 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane, is a dense, colorless, oily, explosive liquid most commonly produced by nitrating glycerol with white fuming nitric acid under conditions appropriate to the formation of the nitric acid ester. Ch... |
end of World War II, the carrier had become the dominant force of naval warfare. World War II also saw the United States become by far the largest Naval power in the world. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the United States Navy possessed over 70% of the world's total numbers and total tonnage of naval vessel... | did carry armaments. In more recent times, navy ships have become more specialized and have included supply ships, troop transports, repair ships, oil tankers and other logistics support ships as well as combat ships. Modern navy combat ships are generally divided into seven main categories: aircraft carriers, cruisers... |
is a consequence of Riesz's lemma. (In fact, a more general result is true: a topological vector space is locally compact if and only if it is finite-dimensional. The point here is that we don't assume the topology comes from a norm.) The topology of a seminormed vector space has many nice properties. Given a neighbour... | a normed vector space, the norm induces a metric (a notion of distance) and therefore a topology on This metric is defined in the natural way: the distance between two vectors and is given by This topology is precisely the weakest topology which makes continuous and which is compatible with the linear structure of in t... |
this name because it was adopted at the Second Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople in 381 as a modification of the original Nicene Creed of 325. In that light, it also came to be very commonly known simply as the "Nicene Creed". It is the only authoritative ecumenical statement of the Christian faith accepted by ... | the "Almighty," and Jesus Christ as "the Son of God", as "begotten of ... the essence of the Father," and therefore as "consubstantial with the Father," meaning, "of the same substance" as the Father; "very God of very God." The Creed of 325 does mention the Holy Spirit but not as "God" or as "consubstantial with the F... |
Nuclear fusion in stars An important fusion process is the stellar nucleosynthesis that powers stars, including the Sun. In the 20th century, it was recognized that the energy released from nuclear fusion reactions accounts for the longevity of stellar heat and light. The fusion of nuclei in a star, starting from its i... | generally increases with the size of the nucleus but approaches a limiting value corresponding to that of a nucleus with a diameter of about four nucleons. It is important to keep in mind that nucleons are quantum objects. So, for example, since two neutrons in a nucleus are identical to each other, the goal of disting... |
November 2, 2015, that 9 percent of National Geographic's 2,000 employees, approximately 180 people, would be laid off, constituting the biggest staff reduction in the Society's history. Later, The Walt Disney Company assumed 21CF's share in National Geographic Partners, following the completion of Disney's acquisition... | succeeded him in 1897. In 1899, Bell's son-in-law Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was named the first full-time editor of National Geographic magazine and served the organization for fifty-five years (until 1954), and members of the Grosvenor family have played important roles in the organization since. Bell and Gilbert Hovey ... |
he was married to their sister Guðrún, Atli would soon be killed by her. In Guðrúnarkviða II, the Norns actively enter the series of events by informing Atli in a dream that his wife would kill him. The description of the dream begins with this stanza: Guðrúnarhvöt After having killed both her husband Atli and their so... | three norns are in some way connected with the past, present and future respectively, but it has been disputed that their names really imply a temporal distinction and it has been emphasised that the words do not in themselves denote chronological periods in Old Norse. Relation to other Germanic female deities There is... |
location which sometimes overlaps with the notions of Niflhel and Hel. The name Niflheimr appears only in two extant sources: Gylfaginning and the much-debated Hrafnagaldr Óðins. Niflheim was primarily a realm of primordial ice and cold with the frozen rivers of Élivágar and the well of Hvergelmir, from which come all ... | extant sources: Gylfaginning and the much-debated Hrafnagaldr Óðins. Niflheim was primarily a realm of primordial ice and cold with the frozen rivers of Élivágar and the well of Hvergelmir, from which come all the rivers. According to Gylfaginning, Niflheim was the second of the two primordial realms to emanate out of ... |
god of the moon in Sumerian mythology, also called Suen Nanna (Norse deity), goddess associated with the god Baldr in Norse mythology Nana Buluku, Fon/Dahomey androgynous deity creator of the universe People Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir (born 1989), Icelandic singer Nanna Egedius (1913–1986), Norwegian figure skater Nan... | Norwegian actress Bob Nanna (born 1975), American singer and guitarist Science 1203 Nanna, an asteroid Nanna (moth), a genus of moth Nanna (fly), a genus of fly Other uses Nanna (serial), a Telugu television serial Nanna (album), a 2015 album by Xavier Rudd and the United Nations Nanna, North 24 Parganas, an outgrowth ... |
market in the United States to trade online, using the slogan "the stock market for the next hundred years". The Nasdaq Stock Market attracted many companies during the dot-com bubble. Its main index is the NASDAQ Composite, which has been published since its inception. The QQQ exchange-traded fund tracks the large-cap... | by NASDAQ in 2001 and became NASDAQ Europe. In 2003, operations were shut down as a result of the burst of the dot-com bubble. In 2007, NASDAQ Europe was revived first as Equiduct and was acquired by Börse Berlin later that year. On June 18, 2012, Nasdaq OMX became a founding member of the United Nations Sustainable St... |
NYSE averages about 253 trading days per year. Trading The New York Stock Exchange (sometimes referred to as "The Big Board") provides a means for buyers and sellers to trade shares of stock in companies registered for public trading. The NYSE is open for trading Monday through Friday from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm ET, with th... | 1865, the New York Gold Exchange was acquired by the NYSE. In 1867, stock tickers were first introduced. In 1885, the 400 NYSE members in the Consolidated Stock Exchange withdraw from Consolidated over disagreements on exchange trade areas. In 1896, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is first published in The Wall... |
metal oxides or chlorides. These nanoparticles give the glass its vibrant colors. 9th-17th Centuries: A sparkling layer on the outside of ceramics was used containing silver, copper, or other metallic nanoparticles. 13th-18th Centuries: "Damascus" saber blades were crafted using techniques that resulted in nanotubes an... | the practice of engineering on the nanoscale. It derives its name from the nanometre, a unit of measurement equalling one billionth of a meter. Nanoengineering is largely a synonym for nanotechnology, but emphasizes the engineering rather than the pure science aspects of the field. History 4th Century Rome: The Lycurgu... |
contains many more problems, the hardest of which are called NP-complete problems. An algorithm solving such a problem in polynomial time is also able to solve any other NP problem in polynomial time. The most important P versus NP (“P = NP?”) problem, asks whether polynomial time algorithms exist for solving NP-comple... | and the witness the "certificate". Machine-definition Equivalent to the verifier-based definition is the following characterization: NP is the class of decision problems solvable by a nondeterministic Turing machine that runs in polynomial time. That is to say, a decision problem is in NP whenever is recognized by some... |
of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies. 1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle. 1811 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement. 1828 – Greek War of In... | a speech at a New York City hotel. 1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door. 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly. ... |
and elite intellectual culture that seeks to control them. By the 1980s, Chomsky's students had become prominent linguists who, in turn, expanded and revised his linguistic theories. In the 1990s, Chomsky embraced political activism to a greater degree than before. Retaining his commitment to the cause of East Timorese... | In collaboration with Edward S. Herman, Chomsky later articulated the propaganda model of media criticism in Manufacturing Consent and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. His defense of unconditional freedom of speech, including that of Holocaust denial, generated significant controversy in the Fa... |
average is / [sum, tally] average Arr |7. Computing a factorial fact is recur [ 0 =, 1 first, pass, product, -1 +] fact 4 |24 Reversing an array rev is reshape [ shape, across [pass, pass, converse append ] ] rev [1, 2, 3, 4] |4 3 2 1 Generating primes Contrast with APL primes is sublist [ each (2 = sum eachright (0 = ... | of functional model, and modified the Array Theory in the Version 6. Only Version 6 is available now. Nial defines all its data types as nested rectangular arrays. ints, booleans, chars etc. are considered as a solitary array or an array containing a single member. Arrays themselves can contain other arrays to form arb... |
Jabal al-Ṭārif near Nag Hammadi in 1945. The city was the site of the Nag Hammadi Massacre in January 2010, in which eight Coptic Christians were shot dead by three men. In total, nineteen Coptic Christians were attacked. Economy Sugar and aluminium are produced in Nag Hammadi. The Nag Hammadi Sugar factory was built i... | Egypt beginning in 1882. Nag Hammadi is about west of ancient Chenoboskion () The "Nag Hammadi Library", an important collection of 2nd-century Gnostic texts, was found at Jabal al-Ṭārif near Nag Hammadi in 1945. The city was the site of the Nag Hammadi Massacre in January 2010, in which eight Coptic Christians were sh... |
most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals. This question was one of the outstanding open problems of his day, and had been unresolved for over 250 years. He was also an innovator in the field of elliptic functions, discovere... | the university to publish it. However, the work was lost while being reviewed, never to be found thereafter. In mid-1823, Professor Rasmussen gave Abel a gift of 100 speciedaler so he could travel to Copenhagen and visit Ferdinand Degen and other mathematicians there. While in Copenhagen, Abel did some work on Fermat's... |
Australian cricketer 1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System 1939 – Emil Constantinescu, Romanian academic and politician, 3rd President of Romania 1939 – Tom Harkin, American lawyer and politician 1939 – Jane Mansbridge, American political scientist and academic 1... | (d. 1669) 1601–1900 1617 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter and educator (d. 1655) 1700 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770) 1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765) 1722 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809) 1722 – Benjamin Chew, ... |
physicist (d. 1962) 1873 – Georges Caussade, French composer (d. 1936) 1873 – Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer and music critic (d. 1953) 1874 – James Michael Curley, American lawyer, politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts, and criminal (d. 1958) 1875 – Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat (... | of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later. 1441 – The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the Galeas per montes. 1601–1900 1695... |
(d. 2011) 1931 – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian chemist and physicist (d. 1985) 1931 – Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms, English businessman 1931 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian pianist and composer (d. 2003) 1932 – Beryl Bainbridge, English author and screenwriter (d. 2010) 1932 – Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (d.... | a bomb is thrown onto a bus in Tel Aviv. 2013 – Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia. 2013 – Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement. 2014 – A stampede in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe ... |
English footballer and sportscaster 1960 – Michael O'Connor, Australian rugby player 1960 – Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player and coach 1961 – Innocent Egbunike, Nigerian sprinter and coach 1961 – Ian Morris, Trinidadian footballer and sprinter 1962 – Jimmy Del Ray, American wrestler and manager (d. 2014) 1962 – ... | director, producer, and production designer 1937 – Tom Simpson, English cyclist (d. 1967) 1937 – Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese-American physician and author 1938 – Jean Eustache, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981) 1938 – John M. Goldman, English haematologist and oncologist (d. 2013) 1940 – Kevin Phillips... |
coach, and sportscaster (d. 2021) 1941 – Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (d. 2012) 1942 – Michael Craze, British actor (d. 1998) 1942 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and academic (d. 1995) 1942 – Maggie Thompson, American author and critic 1942 – John Grillo, English actor and playwright 1... | Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole. 1943 – World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). 1944 – World War II: Albania... |
– Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria. 1893 – Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election. 1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins ... | 1971 – Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later. 1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization. 1972 – La... |
tsunami all along the Indonesian coast. 1839 – A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted... | and author 1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani spiritual leader and author 1942 – Bob Lind, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1942 – Mimis Papaioannou, Greek footballer and manager 1943 – Jerry Portnoy, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player 1944 – Ben Stein, American actor, television personality,... |
service, docks in Dubai. 2011 – NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others. 2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover. 2018 – The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Plani... | critic (d. 2011) 1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982) 1907 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist (d. 2013) 1908 – Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-Scottish businessman, founded Forte Group (d. 2007) 1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989) 1909 – Fritz Buchloh, German football... |
to the chapter, by the Prince-elector of Saxony and Luther. His position was a painful one, and he longed to get back to Magdeburg, but was persuaded by Luther to stay. After Luther's death (1546) and the Battle of Mühlberg (1547) he had to yield to his rival, Julius von Pflug, and retire to the protection of the young... | Naumburg (1542–1546), he became the first Lutheran bishop in the Holy Roman Empire. Biography He was born in Torgau, on the Elbe. He was educated at Leipzig, and then at Wittenberg, where he was one of the first who matriculated (1502) in the recently founded university. He soon obtained various academic honours, and b... |
Civil and Political Rights (art. 24(3)) Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) (art. 6(g) and (h)) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (art. 15) National law Nationals normally have the right to enter or return to the country they belong to. Pas... | (art. 24(3)) Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) (art. 6(g) and (h)) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (art. 15) National law Nationals normally have the right to enter or return to the country they belong to. Passports are issued to nation... |
god of the sea who was supplanted by Poseidon when Zeus overthrew Cronus. The earliest poet to link Nereus with the labours of Heracles was Pherekydes, according to a scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes. During the course of the 5th century BC, Nereus was gradually replaced by Triton, who does not appear in Homer, in the ... | fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climacteric battle of Issus (333 BC), and resorted to prayers, "calling on Thetis, Nereus and the Nereids, nymphs of the sea, and invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves." Nereus w... |
in Antarctica. Notes References Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. . Online ve... | the planet Neptune, is named after the Nereids, as is Nereid Lake in Antarctica. Notes References Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard ... |
Houses Film Nemesis (1920 film), Italian silent film Nemesis (1992 film), U.S.-American science fiction film Nemesis (2010 film), German film Nemesis (2020 film), Swiss documentary Nemesis (2021 film), British thriller Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), the 10th Star Trek movie Games Nemesis (draughts player), a checkers engin... | as Nemesis Nemesis (Game Boy), a 1990 Game Boy game, part of the Gradius series Nemesis, a story arc and 2000 expansion set of the fantasy collectible card game, Magic: The Gathering Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, a 1999 video game by Capcom Zork Nemesis, a 1996 PC based adventure game Nemesis, a 2018 semi-cooperative board... |
Nereid's rotation could be either in the state of forced precession or even chaotic rotation (like Hyperion) due to its highly elliptical orbit. In 2016, extended observations with the Kepler space telescope showed only low-amplitude variations (0.033 magnitudes). Thermal modeling based on infrared observations from th... | is named after the Nereids, sea-nymphs of Greek mythology and attendants of the god Neptune. It was the second and last moon of Neptune to be discovered before the arrival of Voyager 2 (not counting a single observation of an occultation by Larissa in 1981). Physical characteristics Nereid is third-largest of Neptune's... |
school systems. School leagues and domestic competitions emerged during the first half of the 20th century, and in 1924 the first national governing body was established in New Zealand. International competition was initially hampered by a lack of funds and varying rules in different countries. Australia hosted New Zea... | women's basketball was used to refer to both netball and basketball. During the 1950s and 1960s, a movement arose to change the Australian name of the game from women's basketball to netball in order to avoid confusion between the two sports. The Australian Basketball Union offered to pay the costs involved to alter th... |
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