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octave lower than the oboe. Delius, Strauss and Holst scored for the instrument. Similar to the bass oboe is the more powerful heckelphone, which has a wider bore and larger tone than the baritone oboe. Only 165 heckelphones have ever been made. Not surprisingly, competent heckelphone players are difficult to find due ... | from the conservatoire oboe. In The Oboe, Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes write "The differences are most clearly marked in the middle register, which is reedier and more pungent, and the upper register, which is richer in harmonics on the Viennese oboe". Guntram Wolf describes them: "From the concept of the bore, th... |
specifications from IUPAC. Systematic nomenclature starts with the name for a parent structure within the molecule of interest. This parent name is then modified by prefixes, suffixes, and numbers to unambiguously convey the structure. Given that millions of organic compounds are known, rigorous use of systematic names... | the fragmentation patterns, its structure. High-resolution mass spectrometry can usually identify the exact formula of a compound and is used in place of elemental analysis. In former times, mass spectrometry was restricted to neutral molecules exhibiting some volatility, but advanced ionization techniques allow one to... |
the phonemes of spoken languages; different physical forms of written symbols are considered to represent the same grapheme if the differences between them are not significant for meaning. Thus, a grapheme can be regarded as an abstraction of a collection of glyphs that are all functionally equivalent. For example, in ... | slashes (, ), and from phonetic transcription, which is placed between square brackets (, ). Types The writing systems on which orthographies are based can be divided into a number of types, depending on what type of unit each symbol serves to represent. The principal types are logographic (with symbols representing wo... |
pad of letters to encode plaintext directly as in the example below. Leo Marks describes inventing such a system for the British Special Operations Executive during World War II, though he suspected at the time that it was already known in the highly compartmentalized world of cryptography, as for instance at Bletchley... | send the message hello to Bob. Assume two pads of paper containing identical random sequences of letters were somehow previously produced and securely issued to both. Alice chooses the appropriate unused page from the pad. The way to do this is normally arranged for in advance, as for instance "use the 12th sheet on 1 ... |
game in the state forest "Geisterholz". These events were commonly known as "diplomatic hunts." In 2001 Oelde hosted one of the most important flower shows ever organized in Westphalia with more than 2.2 million visitors. Since then, the city garden, included in the exhibition grounds and embellished for the occasion, ... | hunts." In 2001 Oelde hosted one of the most important flower shows ever organized in Westphalia with more than 2.2 million visitors. Since then, the city garden, included in the exhibition grounds and embellished for the occasion, has been commercially exploited under the name "Park of the four seasons" (Vier-Jahresze... |
as sequence transformations. Bounded linear operators over Banach space form a Banach algebra in respect to the standard operator norm. The theory of Banach algebras develops a very general concept of spectra that elegantly generalizes the theory of eigenspaces. Bounded operators Let U and V be two vector spaces over t... | > 0 such that for all x in U. Bounded operators form a vector space. On this vector space we can introduce a norm that is compatible with the norms of U and V: In case of operators from U to itself it can be shown that Any unital normed algebra with this property is called a Banach algebra. It is possible to generalize... |
a positive critical reception, and the soundtrack won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002, making it the only motion picture soundtrack to have ever received the accolade. The country and folk musicians who were dubbed into the film included John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Emmylou Harris, Gillian W... | married. Pete is enraged at Everett, because he had two weeks left on his original sentence, and must serve fifty more years for the escape. The trio stumble upon a rally of the Ku Klux Klan, who are planning to hang Tommy. The trio disguise themselves as Klansmen and attempt to rescue Tommy. However, Big Dan, a Klan m... |
State was elected into membership in the Association of American Universities. The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan football programs participated in "The Ten Year War" between 1969 and 1978. In consistently close matches, it pitted coaches Woody Hayes of Ohio State and Bo Schembechler of Michigan a... | the university. Admission standards tightened and became greatly more selective throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Ohio State's political science department and faculty have greatly contributed to the construction and development of the constructivist and realist schools of international relations; a 2004 LSE study ranked... |
water" in the Iroquoian languages. Ontario has about 250,000 freshwater lakes. The first mention of the name Ontario was in 1641, when "Ontario" was used to describe the land on the north shore of the easternmost part of the Great Lakes. It was adopted as the official name of the new province at Confederation in 1867. ... | the late 19th century, leading to the rise of important mining centres in the northeast, such as Sudbury, Cobalt and Timmins. The province harnessed its water power to generate hydro-electric power and created the state-controlled Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, later Ontario Hydro. The availability of chea... |
the Kingston area, was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located within the major, yet mostly dormant Western Quebec Seismic Zone, Ottawa is occasionally struck by earthquakes. Examples include the 2000 Kipawa earthquake, a magnitude-4.5 earthquake on 24 February 2006, the 2010 Central Canada earthquake, and ... | area for thousands of years. Étienne Brûlé, widely regarded as the first European to travel up the Ottawa River, passed by Ottawa in 1610 on his way to the Great Lakes. Three years later, Samuel de Champlain wrote about the waterfalls in the area and about his encounters with the Algonquin Indians, who had been using t... |
"reason" as "the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses". Rand wrote "The fundamental concept of method, the one on which all the others depend, is logic. The distinguishing characteristic of logic (the art of non-contradictory identification) indicates the nature of the actions (a... | of action and causation from the axiom of identity, referring to causation as "the law of identity applied to action". According to Rand, it is entities that act, and every action is the action of an entity. The way entities act is caused by the specific nature (or "identity") of those entities; if they were different ... |
হইয়া সকলের প্রতি আইন-অনুযায়ী যথাবিহীত আচরণ করিব।” In English, "I, (name) do swear with honor (or solemnly affirm) that I, according to the laws, shall faithfully discharge the functions of the office of the Prime Minister (or Minister or State Minister or Sub-minister, as the circumstances allow). I shall possess pur... | shall deal with all with equity as suggested by laws, without being affected by fear or mercy, love or hatred." Speaker: The Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad, takes the oath of his or her office as well as the presidential oath, since the acts of president is practiced by the Speaker, whenever necessary: "আমি, (নাম) ........ |
human mind: thought and extension. Modes are properties of a substance that follow from its attributes and therefore have only a dependent form of existence. Spinoza sees everyday-things like rocks, cats or ourselves as mere modes and thereby opposes the traditional Aristotelian and Cartesian conception of categorizing... | neither void nor vacuum; and true reality neither may come into being nor vanish from existence. Rather, the entirety of creation is eternal, uniform, and immutable, though not infinite (Parmenides characterized its shape as that of a perfect sphere). Parmenides thus posits that change, as perceived in everyday experie... |
ago, due to the break-up of the L chondrite parent body. It is not associated with any major extinction event. Geochemistry The Ordovician was a time of calcite sea geochemistry in which low-magnesium calcite was the primary inorganic marine precipitate of calcium carbonate. Carbonate hardgrounds were thus very common,... | number of regional terms have been used to subdivide the Ordovician Period. In 2008, the ICS erected a formal international system of subdivisions. There exist Baltoscandic, British, Siberian, North American, Australian, Chinese Mediterranean and North-Gondwanan regional stratigraphic schemes. The Ordovician Period in ... |
are purple, long, produced in erect spikes in summer. It is sometimes called wild marjoram, and its close relative, O. majorana, is known as sweet marjoram. Both are very widely used as culinary herbs, especially in Spanish, Italian, Mexican, and French cuisine. Oregano is also an ornamental plant, with numerous cultiv... | flowers are purple, long, produced in erect spikes in summer. It is sometimes called wild marjoram, and its close relative, O. majorana, is known as sweet marjoram. Both are very widely used as culinary herbs, especially in Spanish, Italian, Mexican, and French cuisine. Oregano is also an ornamental plant, with numerou... |
native of the U.S. state of Oregon The Oregonian, the daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon, | Portland, Oregon, United States The Oregonian (film), a 2011 horror film USS Oregonian (ID-1323), a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from |
not necessarily frowned upon, but a common netiquette convention is to mark a new off-topic posting or email by beginning it with "OT" - for example in a forum discussing the | it with "OT" - for example in a forum discussing the Linux operating system someone might post: "OT: Wow, did you feel that earthquake?". Posting off-topic messages to deliberately aggravate other members is a form of trolling. See also Netiquette References External links NewsReaders.com: Getting |
which led to the group disbanding. During this time period, Donald Tardy played in Andrew W.K.'s touring band (during W.K.'s appearance on Saturday Night Live Tardy wore an Obituary shirt). Allen West focused on his two projects, Lowbrow and Six Feet Under. Trevor Peres formed Catastrophic in 2001, which released one a... | Savatage and bands in the burgeoning Florida death metal scene: Nasty Savage, Death, and Morbid Angel. The band released demos in 1985, 1986, and 1987, (the 1985 demo as Executioner and the 1986 and 1987 demos as Xecutioner). They made their vinyl debut in 1987 with two tracks ("Find the Arise" and "Like the Dead") on ... |
locked in a worldwide conflict. There were zones of operations in the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean, where Iberians circumnavigated Africa to reach India and, on their way, wage war upon the Ottomans and their local Muslim allies. Likewise, the Iberians passed through newly-Christianized Latin America and had sent... | "sick man of Europe". Three suzerain states – the Principality of Serbia, Wallachia and Moldavia – moved towards de jure independence during the 1860s and 1870s. Decline and modernisation (1828–1908) During the Tanzimat period (1839–1876), the government's series of constitutional reforms led to a fairly modern conscri... |
the flying thing in the ring, giving way to the basic design which is used since then with variations. Through all its variations, this logo is simple and unique, and both easily recognisable and reproducible with just two strokes of a pen. In the 1964 version, the lightning with a ring was used in a yellow rectangle, ... | for some time. The first Opel production Patent Motor Car was built in Rüsselsheim early 1899, although these cars were not very successful (A total of 65 motor cars were delivered: [15] 11 in 1899, 24 copies in 1900 and 30 in 1901) and the partnership was dissolved after two years, following which Opel signed a licens... |
elevation by the late Oligocene. The Andes first became a major mountain chain in the Oligocene, as subduction became more direct into the coastline. Climate Climate during the Oligocene reflected a general cooling trend following the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. This transformed the Earth's climate from a greenhouse... | mammals ever to walk the Earth. However, the indricotheres were an exception to a general tendency for Oligocene mammals to be much smaller than their Eocene counterparts. The earliest deer, giraffes, pigs, and cattle appeared in the mid-Oligocene in Eurasia. The first felid, Proailurus, originated in Asia during the l... |
(r. 1279–1213 BC), derived from a part of his throne name, Usermaatre. In 1817, Shelley began writing the poem Ozymandias, after the British Museum acquired the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II, which dated from the 13th century BC. Earlier, in 1816, the Italian archeologist Giovanni... | in 1826. Shelley wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith (1779–1849), who also wrote a sonnet on the same topic with the same title. The poem explores the fate of history and the ravages of time: even the greatest men and the empires they forge are impermanent, their legacies... |
software is mostly available free of charge, though this does not necessarily have to be the case. Licenses which only permit non-commercial redistribution or modification of the source code for personal use only are generally not considered as open-source licenses. However, open-source licenses may have some restricti... | regarding the expression of respect to the origin of software, such as a requirement to preserve the name of the authors and a copyright statement within the code, or a requirement to redistribute the licensed software only under the same license (as in a copyleft license). There has previously been debates about wheth... |
descended from people living in the region since prehistoric times. Negligible Celtic influence Ancient and long-term Roman influence: Julius Caesar once said that the people of Aquitaine could teach the Romans to speak better Latin. According to Müller, "France's linguistic separation began with Roman influence" A sep... | Northern Catalonia also have (). Other Romance languages derive their word for "yes" from the Latin , "thus [it is], [it was done], etc.", such as Spanish , Eastern Lombard , Italian , or Portuguese . In Modern Catalan, as in modern Spanish, is usually used as a response, although the language retains the word , akin t... |
variant is known from 9th-century Yenisei Kirghiz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian alphabet of the 10th century. Words were usually written from right to left. Origins According to some sources, Orkhon script is derived from variants of the Aramaic alphabet,... | Turkic being a synharmonic language, a number of consonant signs are divided into two "synharmonic sets", one for front vowels and the other for back vowels. Such vowels can be taken as intrinsic to the consonant sign, giving the Old Turkic alphabet an aspect of an abugida script. In these cases, it is customary to use... |
a business, or from being used for genetic research. Distribution of license: The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties. License must not be specific to a product: The rights attached to the program ... | a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. Source code: The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product i... |
business-case grounds." As early as 1999, OSI co-founder Perens objected to the "schism" that was developing between supporters of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the OSI because of their disparate approaches. Perens had hoped the OSI would merely serve as an "introduction" to FSF principles for "non-hackers." R... | direction of Deborah Nicholson, the interim manager, the voting and election was held with results and then halted and set for re-election due to vulnerabilities in the election process. "This week we found a vulnerability in our voting processes that was exploited and had an impact on the outcome of the recent Board E... |
pharmaceutical company OSI Restaurant Partners, the restaurant and entertainment group that includes Outback Steakhouse OSI Systems, a company that manufactures security scanners and medical equipment based in California OSIsoft, a privately held company that develops device connectivity software Objective Systems Inte... | Companies OSI Group, an American holding company of meat processors that service the retail and food service industries OSI Pharmaceuticals, an American pharmaceutical company OSI Restaurant Partners, the restaurant and entertainment group that includes Outback Steakhouse OSI Systems, a company that manufactures securi... |
demonstrations, a bridge of liquid oxygen may be supported against its own weight between the poles of a powerful magnet. Singlet oxygen is a name given to several higher-energy species of molecular in which all the electron spins are paired. It is much more reactive with common organic molecules than is normal (triple... | bond length of 121 pm and a bond energy of 498 kJ/mol, which is smaller than the energy of other double bonds or pairs of single bonds in the biosphere and responsible for the exothermic reaction of O2 with any organic molecule. Due to its energy content, O2 is used by complex forms of life, such as animals, in cellula... |
insoluble residue. Joseph Louis Proust thought that the residue was graphite. Victor Collet-Descotils, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin also observed iridium in the black platinum residue in 1803, but did not obtain enough material for further experiments. Later the two French chemists A... | in the continental crust. Osmium is found in nature as an uncombined element or in natural alloys; especially the iridium–osmium alloys, osmiridium (iridium rich), and iridosmium (osmium rich). In nickel and copper deposits, the platinum group metals occur as sulfides (i.e., ), tellurides (e.g., ), antimonides (e.g., )... |
Metals that are lower in the reactivity series can be reduced by heating alone. For example, silver oxide decomposes at 200 °C: 2 Ag2O → 4 Ag + O2 Reduction by displacement Metals that are more reactive displace the oxide of the metals that are less reactive. For example, zinc is more reactive than copper, so it displa... | with oxygen that it is used as a getter in vacuum tubes, and solutions of potassium and sodium, so-called NaK are used to deoxygenate and dehydrate some organic solvents. The surface of most metals consists of oxides and hydroxides in the presence of air. A well-known example is aluminium foil, which is coated with a t... |
needs to be fed early in the fall. In contrast, most areas of the world do not experience the same climatic regime as the continental United States and hay feeding is rarely conducted. Overgrazing is also indicated in livestock performance and condition. Cows having inadequate pasture immediately following their calf's... | pasture, with grass heights typically over 1 meter and dominated by unpalatable species such as Aristida or Imperata. In all cases, palatable tall grasses such as orchard grass are sparse or non-existent. In such cases of overgrazing, soil may be visible between plants in the stand, allowing erosion to occur, though in... |
afield. Buses Bus services in Oxford and its suburbs are run by the Oxford Bus Company and Stagecoach Oxfordshire as well as other operators including Arriva Shires & Essex and Thames Travel. Oxford has one of the largest urban park and ride networks in the United Kingdom. Its five sites, at Pear Tree, Redbridge, Seaco... | but is now producing the successful Mini for BMW on a smaller site. Much of the original car factory at Cowley was demolished in the 1990s, and is now the site of the Oxford Business Park. The influx of migrant labour to the car plants and hospitals, recent immigration from South Asia, and a large student population, h... |
north-eastwards, and southwards along both sides of the fjord—which gives the urbanized area a shape reminiscent of an upside-down reclining "Y" (on maps, satellite pictures, or from high above the city). To the north and east, wide forested hills (Marka) rise above the city giving the location the shape of a giant amp... | month. The driest season is winter and spring, and the wettest is summer and autumn. Because of the city's northern latitude, daylight varies greatly, from more than 18 hours in midsummer, when it never gets completely dark at night (no darker than nautical twilight), to around 6 hours in midwinter. The warmest month o... |
of homosexuality engaged in outing in this period as well, with the goal of embarrassing or discrediting their ideological foes. Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, for example, published the letters of gay fellow students at Dartmouth College in the campus newspaper he edited (The Dartmouth Review) in 1981; a few... | a court of law. For example, in 1957 American pianist Liberace, successfully sued the Daily Mirror for merely insinuating that he was gay. The newspaper responded that columnist William Connor words (written under his byline 'Cassandra') did not imply that Liberace was gay. Their defence contended that there was no lib... |
would not be renewed, ending his tenure with the organization. Many Raider players, such as punter Shane Lechler, were upset with the decision. Hue Jackson and death of Al Davis On January 17, 2011, it was announced that offensive coordinator Hue Jackson was going to be the next Raiders head coach. A press conference w... | Dolphins in Berkeley due to a scheduling conflict with the Athletics. The team defeated the Dolphins 12–7, ending Miami's winning streak. During the Los Angeles years, the Raiders played in the 93,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. From the assumption of the team by Mark Davis in 2011, the Raiders had been subject... |
or a base runner Out (cricket), the loss of a wicket by a batsman; also known as "dismissal" Out (poker), an unseen card which is expected to win a hand, if drawn Out (route), a pattern run by a receiver in American football Sexuality Coming out, publicly revealing one's own LGBT status Outing, publicly revealing someo... | recreation Out (baseball), a play which retires the batter or a base runner Out (cricket), the loss of a wicket by a batsman; also known as "dismissal" Out (poker), an unseen card which is expected to win a hand, if drawn Out (route), a pattern run by a receiver in American football Sexuality Coming out, publicly revea... |
Semitic tend to have similar forms to represent this sound; for example, the creators of the Afaka and Ol Chiki scripts, each invented in different parts of the world in the last century, both attributed their vowels for 'O' to the shape of the mouth when making this sound. Use in writing systems English The letter is ... | the sound , as in 'son' or 'love'. It can also represent the semivowel as in choir or quinoa. In English, the letter in isolation before a noun, usually capitalized, marks the vocative case, as in the titles to O Canada or O Captain! My Captain! or certain verses of the Bible. Other languages is commonly associated wit... |
a ruling class mostly concerned with protecting their own power. Minority rule The exclusive consolidation of power by a dominant religious or ethnic minority has also been described as a form of oligarchy. Examples of this system include South Africa under apartheid, Liberia under Americo-Liberians, the Sultanate of Z... | "have more wealth than half of all Americans combined." In 1998, Bob Herbert of The New York Times referred to modern American plutocrats as "The Donor Class" (list of top donors) and defined the class, for the first time, as "a tiny group—just one-quarter of 1 percent of the population—and it is not representative of ... |
ibn al-As, who was sent by the prophet Muhammad during the Expedition of Zaid ibn Haritha (Hisma). Amer was dispatched to meet with Jaifer and Abd, the sons of Julanda who ruled Oman. They appear to have readily embraced Islam. Imamate of Oman Omani Azd used to travel to Basra for trade, which was a centre of Islam dur... | as-Sultani is dedicated to former Sultan Qaboos. Foreign policy Since 1970, Oman has pursued a moderate foreign policy, and has expanded its diplomatic relations dramatically. Oman is among the very few Arab countries that have maintained friendly ties with Iran. WikiLeaks disclosed US diplomatic cables which state tha... |
involved them crossing the Straits of Bab el Mandab in the southern Purple Sea and moving along the green coastlines around Arabia and thence to the rest of Eurasia. Such crossing became possible when sea level had fallen by more than 80 meters to expose much of the shelf between southern Eritrea and Yemen; a level tha... | between the two factions, led by major tribes, the Hinawi and the Ghafiri, with the Ghafiri supporting Saif ibn Sultan II. In 1743, Persian ruler Nader Shah occupied Muscat and Sohar with Saif's assistance. Saif died, and was succeeded by Bal'arab bin Himyar of the Yaruba. Persia had occupied the coast previously. Yet ... |
is re-entered to the town of As-Sib, about to the southeast. Across the plains, a number of wadis, heavily populated in their upper courses, descend from the Western Hajar Mountains to the south. A ribbon of oases, watered by wells and underground channels (aflaj), extends the length of the plain, about inland. Muscat-... | coastal areas lies the tableland of central Oman. The Wadi Samail (the largest wadi in the mountain zone), a valley that forms the traditional route between Muscat and the interior divides the Hajar range into two subranges: Al-Ḥajar Al-Gharbī (The Western Hajar) and Al-Ḥajar Ash-Sharqī (The Eastern Hajar). At the same... |
existence of social inequality between these three groups. Gwadar, a region of Balochistan in Pakistan, was a Colony of Oman for more than a century. In the 1960s, Pakistan took over the land and hence many Omanis have Pakistani descent. Migration Because of the combination of a relatively small local Omani population ... | third identity is generally seen to be more open and tolerant towards others. Thus, tension between socio-cultural groups in Omani society exists. More important is the existence of social inequality between these three groups. Gwadar, a region of Balochistan in Pakistan, was a Colony of Oman for more than a century. I... |
to the Sultan, who made the final selection. The Consultative Assembly serves as a conduit of information between the people and the government ministries. It is empowered to review drafts of economic and social legislation prepared by service ministries, such as communications and housing, and provide recommendations.... | of Oman is both head of state and head of government. The Sultan is hereditary, who appoints a cabinet to assist him. The sultan also serves as the supreme commander of the armed forces and prime minister. Monarchy The Sultan is a direct descendant of Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, who first opened relations with the United ... |
and comply with the eligibility criteria for labour relations. The names of these companies are published in the local press and they receive preferential treatment in their dealings with the Ministry. Academics working on various aspects of Omanisation include Ingo Forstenlechner from United Arab Emirates University a... | Bank growth is expected to increase over 2020–21, driven in part by a large increase in gas production from the new Khazzan gas project, and infrastructure spending plans in both oil and non-oil sectors. Notably, with Khazzan phase-I becoming operational, the natural gas under the petroleum sector is also emerging as a... |
also slashed the royalty fee paid on revenue from 12% to 7%. Telephone Country Code: 00968 Market Summary (May 2020) Landlines : 585,018 Mobile cellular: 6,111,896 [Prepaid (5,293,257) – Postpaid (818,639) ] Fixed Broadband : 487,733 International Gateway : Omantel, Ooredoo, Telecom Oman (TeO), Connect Arabia Domestic:... | revenue from 12% to 7%. Telephone Country Code: 00968 Market Summary (May 2020) Landlines : 585,018 Mobile cellular: 6,111,896 [Prepaid (5,293,257) – Postpaid (818,639) ] Fixed Broadband : 487,733 International Gateway : Omantel, Ooredoo, Telecom Oman (TeO), Connect Arabia Domestic: open wire, microwave, radiotelephone... |
Sohar. The cost of this stage was estimated at $2.6 billion, out of the estimated total cost of $14 billion. The first phase was supposed to include a 242-km line from Al Misfah in Muscat to Sohar Port, with a 20-km link to Muscat Central Station and an 8-km spur to a railway yard at Sohar. There is also a 486-km line ... | Atlas Map UN Map Links to neighboring countries United Arab Emirates: Oman has several good road connections at Buraimi (Al Ain), Waddi Hatta (Wajaja), Khamat Mulahah (Fujairah) and Bukha. Yemen: Route 47: Raysut to Sarfait in Oman - Yemen border. The road then goes to Hawf, Al Faydami, Al Ghaydah. Another road is from... |
of the UAE. Oman also has maritime borders with Iran and Pakistan. The Arabian Sea lies to Oman's southeast and the Gulf of Oman to the northeast. Although partially under Portuguese occupation during the 16th to mid-17th century, Oman had its own empire in East Africa from the early 18th to the mid-19th century. Oman ... | 1970, Oman has pursued a moderate foreign policy and expanded its diplomatic relations dramatically. It supported the 1979 Camp David accords and was one of three Arab League states, along with Somalia and Sudan, which did not break relations with Egypt after the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in 1979. Du... |
four sections: the first five books or Pentateuch (corresponds to the Jewish Torah); the history books telling the history of the Israelites, from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon; the poetic and "Wisdom books" dealing, in various forms, with questions of good and evil in the world; and the... | in the appendix to the Latin Vulgate, formerly the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. Historicity Early scholarship Some of the stories of the Pentateuch may derive from older sources. American science writer Homer W. Smith points out similarities between the Genesis creation narrative and that of the Sumeria... |
Nixie tubes, seven-segment displays, and calculators to be used for the operator consoles, where binary displays were too complex to use, decimal displays needed complex hardware to convert radices, and hexadecimal displays needed to display more numerals. All modern computing platforms, however, use 16-, 32-, or 64-bi... | octal, e.g. the ModRM byte, which is divided into fields of 2, 3, and 3 bits, so octal can be useful in describing these encodings. Before the availability of assemblers, some programmers would handcode programs in octal; for instance, Dick Whipple and John Arnold wrote Tiny BASIC Extended directly in machine code, usi... |
study's author noted that the expression is "jaunty and self-assertive" as well as "intensely cockney". A poll of non-English speakers by the British Council in 2004 found that "oi" was considered the 61st most beautiful word in the English language. A spokesman commented that "Oi is not a word that I would've thought ... | someone is surprised. In Russian, "oy" ("ой") is often used as an expression of various degrees of surprise. In the Scandinavian languages, "Oi!" or the Swedish variant, "Oj!", is commonly used as an exclamation of surprise, like "Oh" or "Whoops". In Indonesian "oi" or alternative "woi" from Cantonese 喂 (wai2) and Hokk... |
Independence Day (Nigeria) Independence Day (Palau) Independence Day (Tuvalu) International Coffee Day International Day of Older Persons International Music Day Lincolnshire Day (United Kingdom) National Day of the People's Republic of China (People's Republic of China) Pancasila Sanctity Day (Indonesia) Teacher's Day... | Sunday: October 31 European Summer Time ends Grandparents Day (New South Wales, Australia) Székely Autonomy Day (Romania) Week of Fourth Wednesday: October 24–30 Children's Week (Australia) Fourth Monday: October 25 Labour Day (New Zealand) Last Monday: October 25 October Holiday (Ireland) Fourth Wednesday: October 27 ... |
and convicted serial killer 1936 – Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and singer 1937 – Vendramino Bariviera, Italian cyclist (d. 2001) 1937 – Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, Spanish prelate 1937 – Roberto Menescal, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1938 – Bob Webster, American diver 1939 – Zelmo Beaty, Amer... | and singer 1971 – Elif Şafak, French-Turkish journalist, author, and academic 1972 – Cristian Dulca, Romanian footballer 1972 – Rodolfo Falcón, Cuban swimmer 1972 – Maxi Mounds, American nude big-bust model and pornographic actress 1972 – Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter 1972 – Persia White,... |
another theater of operations. Although both OKW and OKH were headquartered in the Maybach complex during the Third Reich, the functional and operational independence of both establishments were not lost on the respective staff during their tenure. Personnel at the compound remarked that even if Maybach 2 (the OKW comp... | (). After the Battle of Moscow, the OKH commander Field marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was removed from office, and Hitler appointed himself as Commander-in-Chief of the Army. From 1938, OKH was, together with () and () formally subordinated to the Armed Forces High Command. OKH vs OKW Hitler had been the head of OKW ... |
and another five were ordered on 30 September. Type AF The Luftwaffe had formed its own special command (Sonderkommando) under Major Fritz Siebel to investigate the production of landing craft for Sea Lion. Major Siebel proposed giving the unpowered Type A barges their own motive power by installing a pair of surplus B... | gathered together on the Channel coast, but with Luftwaffe aircraft losses increasing in the Battle of Britain and no sign that the Royal Air Force had been defeated, Hitler postponed Sea Lion indefinitely on 17 September 1940 and it was never put into action. Background Adolf Hitler hoped for a negotiated peace with t... |
Thomas Beckford, English author and politician (d. 1844) 1762 – Anton Bernolák, Slovak priest and linguist (d. 1813) 1771 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (d. 1842) 1791 – Sergey Aksakov, Russian soldier and author (d. 1859) 1808 – Mary Anna Custis Lee, American wife of Robert E. Lee (d. 1873) 1832 – Car... | Catholic priest and religious reformer (d. 1547) 1507 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect who designed the Church of the Gesù (d. 1573) 1526 – Dorothy Stafford, English noble (d. 1604) 1540 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss pastor and theologian (d. 1617) 1542 – Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Spanish explorer (d.... |
Lieutenant of Durham (d. 1964) 1889 – Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1975) 1892 – Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player (d. 1954) 1893 – Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist (d. 1970) 1896 – Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1981) 1897 – Edith H... | – Noriyoshi Omichi, Japanese baseball player and coach 1970 – Greg Eagles, American voice actor and producer 1970 – Alan Peter Cayetano, Filipino politician and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines 1971 – Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano and actress (d. 2010) 1971 – Caroline Dinenage, English businesswoman an... |
player and television host 1962 – Debbie Googe, English bass player and songwriter 1962 – Andrea Horwath, Canadian politician 1962 – Gibby Mbasela, Zambian footballer (d. 2000) 1963 – Mark Grant, American baseball player and sportscaster 1963 – John Hendrie, Scottish footballer and manager 1964 – Rosana Arbelo, Spanish... | the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. 1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. 1929 – "Black Thursday" on the New York Stock Exchange. 1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ends the First Republic, replacing it with the Vargas Era. 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to p... |
is learning how to use standard instruments and protocols so as to minimize systematic error. Random error (or random variation) is due to factors that cannot or will not be controlled. One possible reason to forgo controlling for these random errors is that it may be too expensive to control them each time the experim... | of an experiment in a predictable direction. Incorrect zeroing of an instrument leading to a zero error is an example of systematic error in instrumentation. The Performance Test Standard PTC 19.1-2005 “Test Uncertainty”, published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), discusses systematic and random ... |
– Wade Boteler, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1943) 1889 – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938) 1890 – Emilio Portes Gil, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (d. 1978) 1894 – Elmer Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1982) 189... | player and sportscaster 1967 – Rob Liefeld, American author and illustrator 1967 – Chris Collingwood, English-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1968 – Paul Crichton, English footballer and manager 1968 – Greg Foster, American basketball player and coach 1968 – Marko Rajamäki, Finnish footballer and ma... |
music and plots. Schoenberg's theories have influenced (either directly or indirectly) significant numbers of opera composers ever since, even if they themselves did not compose using his techniques. Composers thus influenced include the Englishman Benjamin Britten, the German Hans Werner Henze, and the Russian Dmitri ... | survived. Italian opera held a great sway over German-speaking countries until the late 18th century. Nevertheless, native forms would develop in spite of this influence. In 1644, Sigmund Staden produced the first Singspiel, Seelewig, a popular form of German-language opera in which singing alternates with spoken dialo... |
Telegony. The Telegony aside, the last 548 lines of the Odyssey, corresponding to Book 24, are believed by many scholars to have been added by a slightly later poet. Geography The events in the main sequence of the Odyssey (excluding Odysseus' embedded narrative of his wanderings) have been said to take place in the Pe... | the ships back the way they had come. Aeolus, recognizing that Odysseus had drawn the ire of the gods, refused to further assist him. After the cannibalistic Laestrygonians destroyed all of his ships except his own, Odysseus sailed on and reached the island of Aeaea, home of witch-goddess Circe. She turned half of his ... |
Chondrichthyes, which have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage. The vast majority of fish are members of Osteichthyes, which is an extremely diverse and abundant group consisting of 45 orders, and over 435 families and 28,000 species. It is the largest class of vertebrates in existence today. The group Osteichthy... | fish are about 420 million years old, which are also transitional fossils, showing a tooth pattern that is in between the tooth rows of sharks and bony fishes. Osteichthyes can be compared to Euteleostomi. In paleontology the terms are synonymous. In ichthyology the difference is that Euteleostomi presents a cladistic ... |
shaped by the object." Among his most famous paintings are Sailor and Girl (1925), used as the cover of Philip Roth's 1995 novel Sabbath's Theater, the triptych Metropolis (1928), a scornful portrayal of depraved actions of Germany's Weimar Republic, where nonstop revelry was a way to deal with the wartime defeat and f... | three children together. She was a frequent subject of his portraits. In 1924, he joined the Berlin Secession; by this time he was developing an increasingly realistic style of painting that used thin glazes of oil paint over a tempera underpainting, in the manner of the old masters. His 1923 painting The Trench, which... |
were found on the island of Crete in Greece. These are the footprints from fossilized beach sediments discovered near the west Cretan village of Trachilos. They have been dated to the similar time period, 6.05 million years before present. Classification If Orrorin proves to be a direct human ancestor, then according t... | upper canines. The canines are ape-like but reduced, like those found in Miocene apes and female chimpanzees. Orrorin had small post-canines and was microdont, like modern humans, whereas robust australopithecines were megadont. In the femur, the head is spherical and rotated anteriorly; the neck is elongated and oval ... |
the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 1904: 1912: 1920: 110 metres hurdles 400 metres hurdles 3000 metres steeplechase 4 × 100 metres relay 4... | At the St. Louis Games in 1904, the decathlon contest was entitled the All-Around competition, and consisted of: 100 yards dash, shot put, high jump, 800 yard walk, hammer throw, pole vault, 120 yards hurdles, 56 pounds weight throw, long jump, and a mile run. Mixed Events 4 × 400 metres relay Discontinued events 60 me... |
100 metres hurdles 400 metres hurdles 3000 metres steeplechase 4 × 100 metres relay 4 × 400 metres relay 20 kilometres race walk High jump Pole vault Long jump Triple jump Shot put Discus throw Hammer throw Javelin throw Heptathlon Discontinued events 3000 metres The 3000 metres run was replaced by the 5000 metres run | was replaced by the 5000 metres run in 1996 and henceforth. 80 metres hurdles The 80 metres hurdles was replaced by the 100 metres hurdles in 1972. Pentathlon In 1984 and thenceforth, the pentathlon (five events over two days) was replaced by the heptathlon (seven events over two days), so "discontinued" is not precise... |
(one gold, two silver, one bronze) and Sergei Belov (one gold, three bronze), and Australians Kristi Harrower and Lauren Jackson (both with three silvers and one bronze). Leslie, Bird, Catchings, and Taurasi are the all-time leaders for the most consecutive gold medal wins in basketball. Six other individuals, all Amer... | they participated, including seven consecutive titles from 1936 through 1968. United States women's teams have won 8 titles out of the 10 tournaments in which they competed, including six in a row from 1996 to 2016. Besides the United States, Argentina is the only nation still in existence who has won either the men's ... |
medals were awarded. Discontinued summer sports Medalist with most medals by Olympiad Summer Olympic Games D. The IOC site for the 1900 Olympic Games gives erroneous figure of 85 events, while the IOC database for the 1900 Olympic Games lists 95 ones. E. The IOC site for the 1904 Olympic Games gives erroneous figure of... | A. Including military patrol event at 1924 Games, which IOC now refers to biathlon. B. Figure skating was held at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympic games prior to the establishment of the Winter Olympics. 21 medals (seven of each color) were awarded in seven events. C. A men's ice hockey tournament was held at the 1920 ... |
other uses. The left and right projection of a pair p is usually denoted by 1(p) and 2(p), or by ℓ(p) and r(p), respectively. In contexts where arbitrary n-tuples are considered, (t) is a common notation for the i-th component of an n-tuple t. Informal and formal definitions In some introductory mathematics textbooks a... | in this manner. A more satisfactory approach is to observe that the characteristic property of ordered pairs given above is all that is required to understand the role of ordered pairs in mathematics. Hence the ordered pair can be taken as a primitive notion, whose associated axiom is the characteristic property. This ... |
– Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (d. 1850) 1781 – Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist (d. 1833) 1784 – Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay (d. 1854) 1785 – Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist (d. 1816) 1792 – John Bowring, English polyglot and gover... | Nam Đế, first emperor of Vietnam (d. 548) 1253 – Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303) 1493 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560) 1500 – Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591) 1538 – Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (d. 1559) 1577 – Cristofa... |
Bart Brentjens, Dutch cyclist 1968 – Feridun Düzağaç, Turkish singer-songwriter 1968 – Chris Ofili, British painter 1968 – Marinos Ouzounidis, Greek footballer and manager 1969 – Manu Bennett, New Zealand-Australian actor 1969 – Francis Escudero, Filipino lawyer and politician 1969 – Brett Favre, American football play... | – Li Siyuan, Chinese emperor (d. 933) 1332 – King Charles II of Navarre (d. 1387) 1344 – Mary of Waltham, duchess of Brittany (d. 1361) 1355 – Zhu Biao, Chinese prince (d. 1392) 1421 – John Paston, English politician (d. 1466) 1486 – Charles III, Duke of Savoy (d. 1553) 1554 – Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Te... |
10 and 15 percent of all the Dutch clergy in the 1600–1650 period. Conflicts arose between these, and the apostolic vicars and secular clergy. In 1629, the priests were 321, 250 secular and 71 religious, with Jesuits at 34 forming almost half of the religious. By the middle of the 17th century the secular priests were ... | dogma of papal infallibility as defined by the First Vatican Council (1870) were thereafter without a bishop and joined with the See of Utrecht to form the Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches (UU). Today, Old Catholic Union of Utrecht churches are found chiefly in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austri... |
Lieb during the 1990s; these included 23 different aliases as a solo artist, including Paragliders and Superspy, and twenty-two aliases for different groups and collaborations, including Force Legato (with Torsten Fenslau) and Azid Force (with Pascal Dardoufas, a.k.a. Pascal F.E.O.S.). In 1997, using the alias LSG, Lie... | fourteen, as a bassist, playing in funk and soul bands. However, he often left the bands he played in before they found any real success. Eventually he started exploring electronic music. His first record, under the alias 'Force Legato', was released by ZYX Music. In 1992, Lieb met Matthias Schindehutte, A&R man for th... |
is the product of a compiler. In a general sense object code is a sequence of statements or instructions in a computer language, usually a machine code language (i.e., binary) or an intermediate language such as register transfer language (RTL). The term indicates that the code is the goal or result of the compiling pr... | an executable file, a library file, or an object file. Object code is a portion of machine code that has not yet been linked into a complete program. It is the machine code for one particular library or module that will make up the completed product. It may also contain placeholders or offsets, not found in the machine... |
Prince, a 16th-century masque by Ben Jonson Oberon (comics), a character in DC Comics Oberon, a character in The Chronicles of Amber Oberon, a Gargoyles character Oberon, a fictional spacecraft in Planet of the Apes Oberon, a playable character in the game Warframe Oberon, a character in the manga The Ancient Magus' Br... | Oberon (Seyler), a 1789 Singspiel by Friederike Sophie Seyler Oberon (Weber), an 1826 opera by Carl Maria von Weber Oberon (poem), a 1796 epic poem by Christoph Martin Wieland Oberon, the Faery Prince, a 16th-century masque by Ben Jonson Oberon (comics), a character in DC Comics Oberon, a character in The Chronicles of... |
Solar System and the extent of the Sun's Hill sphere. The outer Oort cloud is only loosely bound to the Solar System, and thus is easily affected by the gravitational pull both of passing stars and of the Milky Way itself. These forces occasionally dislodge comets from their orbits within the cloud and send them toward... | roughly 20,000 au, which suggested a reservoir at that distance with a spherical, isotropic distribution. Those relatively rare comets with orbits of about 10,000 au have probably gone through one or more orbits through the Solar System and have had their orbits drawn inward by the gravity of the planets. Structure and... |
to West Virginia, although it is closer to the Ohio shore than to the West Virginia shore. Kentucky sued the state of Indiana in the early 1980s because of their construction of the never-completed Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant in Indiana, which would have discharged its waste water into the river. This would have ad... | ports in the Americas and Europe. This provided a much-needed export route for goods from the west since the trek east over the Appalachian Mountains was long and arduous. The need for access to the port of New Orleans by settlers in the Ohio Valley is one of the factors that led to the United States' Louisiana Purchas... |
16 people. Germany's smallest lighthouse is located here, being also the only one with a thatched roof. References External links Halligen Former municipalities in | to be 16 people. Germany's smallest lighthouse is located here, being also the only one with a thatched roof. References External links Halligen Former municipalities |
specific function. The name organelle comes from the idea that these structures are parts of cells, as organs are to the body, hence organelle, the suffix -elle being a diminutive. Organelles are either separately enclosed within their own lipid bilayers (also called membrane-bound organelles) or are spatially distinct... | and Golgi apparatus), and other structures such as mitochondria and plastids. While prokaryotes do not possess eukaryotic organelles, some do contain protein-shelled bacterial microcompartments, which are thought to act as primitive prokaryotic organelles; and there is also evidence of other membrane-bounded structures... |
she chiefly wrote for the leading magazines essays on social questions or literary criticisms, which were not remunerative. As before, she used her locations as inspiration for the setting and characters in her novels. The British and American colony in Florence was satirised in her novel, Friendship (1878). Ouida cons... | greatly prized by Ouida, and was very successful in terms of sales. Thenceforth she chiefly wrote for the leading magazines essays on social questions or literary criticisms, which were not remunerative. As before, she used her locations as inspiration for the setting and characters in her novels. The British and Ameri... |
suspended in an oil Oil painting, the process of using paints based on oils Music Oil (band), a group of Californian heavy metal musicians OiL, a band from Pennsylvania now called CKY Oil: Chicago Punk Refined, a compilation CD released by Thick Records Midnight Oil, also known as "The Oils", an Australian rock band Te... | entertainment, and media Art Oil paint, paint with pigments suspended in an oil Oil painting, the process of using paints based on oils Music Oil (band), a group of Californian heavy metal musicians OiL, a band from Pennsylvania now called CKY Oil: Chicago Punk Refined, a compilation CD released by Thick Records Midnig... |
Process optimization, in business and engineering, methodologies for improving the efficiency of a production process Product optimization, in business and marketing, methodologies for improving the quality and desirability of a product or product concept Program optimization, in computing, methodologies for improving ... | process Product optimization, in business and marketing, methodologies for improving the quality and desirability of a product or product concept Program optimization, in computing, methodologies for improving the efficiency of software Search engine optimization, in internet marketing See also Optimum (disambiguation)... |
with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire. 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally begins with the proclamation of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor. 1377 – Tvrtko I is crowned the first king of Bosnia. 1520 – Charles V is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor. 1597 – Imjin War: Korean Admiral Yi S... | breeder of racehorses (d. 1988) 1899 – Judy Johnson, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989) 1900 – Ibrahim Abboud, Sudanese politician and general, 1st President of Sudan (d. 1983) 1900 – Karin Boye, Swedish poet and novelist (d. 1941) 1901–present 1902 – Beryl Markham, Kenyan horse trainer and author (d. 1986) 1... |
IBM claimed that it had used Star Trek terms as internal names for prior OS/2 releases, and that this one seemed appropriate for external use as well. At the launch of OS/2 Warp in 1994, Patrick Stewart was to be the Master of Ceremonies; however Kate Mulgrew of the then-upcoming series Star Trek: Voyager substituted h... | Warp and disparaging Windows, as IBM aimed to drive sales of its own software as well as hardware. By 1995, Windows 95 negotiations between IBM and Microsoft, which were already difficult, stalled when IBM purchased Lotus SmartSuite, which would have directly competed with Microsoft Office. As a result of the dispute, ... |
Organization) member states in the Asia-Pacific region. It was previously known as the Organization of Asian News Agencies. It was formed in 1961 on UNESCO's initiative. It provides a news wire service containing articles donated by its | Organization of Asian News Agencies. It was formed in 1961 on UNESCO's initiative. It provides a news wire service containing articles donated by its members. Members The following agencies are members of OANA. See |
minority in England and Scotland but the vast majority in Ireland), and a substantial amount of their land was confiscated. Cromwell also led a campaign against the Scottish army between 1650 and 1651. On 20 April 1653, he dismissed the Rump Parliament by force, setting up a short-lived nominated assembly known as Bare... | Oxford in June. Cromwell's military style Cromwell, in contrast to Fairfax, had no formal training in military tactics, and followed the common practice of ranging his cavalry in three ranks and pressing forward, relying on impact rather than firepower. His strengths were an instinctive ability to lead and train his me... |
to Paris to serve as ambassador to France, and also visited England that summer. These visits enabled him to meet and take the measure of several adversaries: Napoleon III in France, and in Britain, Prime Minister Palmerston, Foreign Secretary Earl Russell, and Conservative politician Benjamin Disraeli. Minister Presid... | Prince Wilhelm, had fled to England; Bismarck tried to get Wilhelm's wife Augusta to place their teenage son Frederick William on the Prussian throne in Frederick William IV's place. Augusta would have none of it, and detested Bismarck thereafter, despite the fact that he later helped restore a working relationship bet... |
Congo) Orange Tunisia Orange UK People with the name Orange (name), a surname and given name James O'Meara (1919–1974), Royal Air Force Second World War flying ace, nicknamed Orange Places Historic Orange Free State, a 19th-century Boer republic; later a province of South Africa Principality of Orange (1163–1713), a fe... | a 1972 folk album Orange (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album), a 1994 alternative rock album Orange (Watanabe Misato album), a 2003 J-pop album Orange (Mario Pavone album), a 2003 jazz album Orange (2010 soundtrack), from the Telugu romantic film of the same name Orange (Dark Suns album), a 2011 studio album Songs "L'Or... |
Hymns Newton says: "They should be Hymns, not Odes, if designed for public worship, and for the use of plain people". Newton also explains his two primary motives for publishing: his desire to promote "the faith and comfort of sincere Christians", and as a permanent record of his friendship with Cowper. Newton is attri... | Walker in The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion in 1835. Background of the town The Buckinghamshire town from which the hymns get their name, Olney, was, at the time of first publication, a market town of about 2,000 people. Around 1,200 of these were employed in its lace-making industry. This was generally poorly... |
tumida, commonly known as summer featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an open shrub with very small leaves and clusters of deep pink flowers from late spring to early winter. Description Verticordia tumida is an open shrub with ... | featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an open shrub with very small leaves and clusters of deep pink flowers from late spring to early winter. Description Verticordia tumida is an open shrub with many side-branches and which usua... |
it had been relegated to "biological mythology" by the mid-20th century. Analogies to recapitulation theory have been formulated in other fields, including cognitive development and music criticism. Embryology Meckel, Serres, Geoffroy The idea of recapitulation was first formulated in biology from the 1790s onwards by ... | that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny has been applied to some other areas. Cognitive development English philosopher Herbert Spencer was one of the most energetic proponents of evolutionary ideas to explain many phenomena. In 1861, five years before Haeckel first published on the subject, Spencer proposed a possible b... |
regions north of the Lower Danube and Black Sea. They competed for influence and Roman subsidies with peoples who had lived longer in the area, such as the Carpi, and various Sarmatians, and they contributed men to the Roman military. Based on their Germanic language and material culture, it is believed that their Goth... | people as will be discussed below. Peter Heather, in contrast, has written that: Ostrogoths in the sense of the group led by Theodoric to Italy stand at the end of complex processes of fragmentation and unification involving a variety of groups—mostly but not solely Gothic it seems—and the better, more contemporary, ev... |
historically and is a first-order axiomatization of the ordering as a binary predicate. Artin and Schreier gave the definition in terms of positive cone in 1926, which axiomatizes the subcollection of nonnegative elements. Although the latter is higher-order, viewing positive cones as prepositive cones provides a large... | > 0, then 1/b < 1/a. An ordered field has characteristic 0. (Since 1 > 0, then 1 + 1 > 0, and 1 + 1 + 1 > 0, etc. If the field had characteristic p > 0, then −1 would be the sum of p − 1 ones, but −1 is not positive.) In particular, finite fields cannot be ordered. Squares are non-negative: 0 ≤ a2 for all a in F. Every... |
under all of these definitions if it is oracle-computable under any of them. The definitions are not equivalent, however, from the point of view of computational complexity. A definition such as the one by van Melkebeek, using an oracle tape which may have its own alphabet, is required in general. Complexity classes of... | be computable; the oracle is not assumed to be a Turing machine or computer program. The oracle is simply a "black box" that is able to produce a solution for any instance of a given computational problem: A decision problem is represented as a set A of natural numbers (or strings). An instance of the problem is an arb... |
Christian Emmanuel Hopp and given the name Pongo by Lacépède in 1799. The populations on the two islands were suggested to be separate species when P. abelii was described by French naturalist René Lesson in 1827. In 2001, P. abelii was confirmed as a full species based on molecular evidence published in 1996, and thre... | naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède used the term Pongo for the genus in 1799. Battel's "Pongo", in turn, is from the Kongo word mpongi or other cognates from the region: Lumbu pungu, Vili mpungu, or Yombi yimpungu. Taxonomy and phylogeny The orangutan was first described scientifically in 1758 in the Systema Natura... |
and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916) 1854 – William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914) 1858 – Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1935) 1858 – Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936) 1858 ... | academic (d. 1819) 1760 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831) 1765 – Nancy Storace, English soprano (d. 1817) 1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840) 1806 – Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician, 101st Mayor of San Antonio (d. 1890) 1811 – Stevens T.... |
1980 – Ben Foster, American actor 1980 – Nadejda Ostrovskaya, Belarusian tennis player 1980 – Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-Italian rugby player 1981 – Amanda Beard, American swimmer 1981 – Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer 1981 – Angelika dela Cruz, Filipino actress and singer 1981 – Georgios Fotakis, Greek footbal... | its first performance in Prague. 1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River. 1863 – Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross. 1863 – American Civil War: Battle... |
Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios. 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers. 1817 – Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic o... | The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated. 1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker. 1973 – The ... |
Gordon Steege, Australian soldier and pilot (d. 2013) 1918 – Ian Stevenson, American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2007) 1919 – Daphne Oxenford, English actress (d. 2012) 1919 – Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author (d. 2017) 1920 – Dick Francis, Welsh-Caymanian jockey and author (d. 2010) 1920 – Joseph G... | from the Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as the Lenin Tomb. 1963 – 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion: A gas explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis kills 81 people and injures another 400 during an ice show. 1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Pari... |
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