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eventually reused for the first song on the soundtrack. The English dub contains minor additional voice overs to explain nuances of Japanese culture to western audiences. Themes A central theme of Princess Mononoke is the environment. The film centers on the adventure of Ashitaka as he journeys to the west to undo a fa... | her society leverages the social stigma attached to marginalized groups, pointing out that the hierarchical structures within Irontown still support the stigmatization of lepers and sex workers. An additional theme is the morally ambiguous conflict between humankind's growth and development and Nature's need for preser... |
less exclusively from 1901, to avoid confusion with the federal prime minister of Australia. The current premier is Dominic Perrottet, the leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, who assumed office on 5 October 2021. Perrottet replaced Gladys Berejiklian on 5 October 2021, after Berejiklian resigned as premier. Li... | Liberal Party, who assumed office on 5 October 2021. Perrottet replaced Gladys Berejiklian on 5 October 2021, after Berejiklian resigned as premier. List of premiers of New South Wales Living former premiers Nine former premiers are alive, the oldest being Barrie Unsworth (1986–1988, born 1934). The most recent premier... |
the prime minister, but neither title had any legal basis. The head of government always held another portfolio, usually Chief Secretary or Treasurer, for which they were paid a salary. The first head of government to hold the title of premier without holding another portfolio was William Shiels in 1892. Premiers of Vi... | without holding another portfolio was William Shiels in 1892. Premiers of Victoria who have served for more than 3000 days have a statue installed at Treasury Place. Four Victorian premiers have been afforded this honour: Albert Dunstan, Henry Bolte, Rupert Hamer and John Cain Junior. The incumbent premier of Victoria ... |
rather than colloquial regional dialects; text during the Han dynasty also referred to tōngyǔ (). Rime books, which were written since the Northern and Southern dynasties, may also have reflected one or more systems of standard pronunciation during those times. However, all of these standard dialects were probably unkn... | Chinese Singaporeans, Mandarin was a "stepmother tongue" rather than a true mother language. Nevertheless, he saw the need for a unified language among the Chinese community not biased in favor of any existing group. Mandarin is now spreading overseas beyond East Asia and Southeast Asia as well. In New York City, the u... |
was not generally applied prior to 1920, with premiers often appointed from the Legislative Council. Graphical timeline Living former premiers As of 20 January 2020, nine former premiers are alive, the oldest being Tony Rundle (1996–98, born 1939). The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune (1969–72), on 22 A... | List of premiers of Tasmania Before the 1890s, there was no formal party system in Tasmania. Party labels before that time indicate a general tendency only. The current convention of appointing the premier from the House of Assembly was not generally applied prior to 1920, with premiers often appointed from the Legisla... |
privatization has produced mixed results. Although typically there are many costs associated with these efficiency gains, many economists argue that these can be dealt with by appropriate government support through redistribution and perhaps retraining. Yet, some empirical literature suggests that privatization could a... | a one-off increase in GDP, but through improved incentives to innovate and reduce costs also tend to raise the rate of economic growth. More recent research and literature review performed by Professor Saul Estrin and Adeline Pelletier concluded that "the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation o... |
passage grave is covered in stone, it is a type of cairn. Construction and design The building of passage graves was normally carried out with megaliths along with smaller stones. The earliest passage tombs seem to take the form of small dolmens, although not all dolmens are passage graves. The passage itself, in a num... | The passage itself, in a number of notable instances, is aligned in such a way that the sun shines through the passage, into the chamber, at a significant point in the year, often at sunrise on the winter solstice or at sunset on the equinox. Many later passage tombs were constructed at the tops of hills or mountains, ... |
the vector space generated by { ei, ei+1, ..., en } for 1 ≤ i ≤ n, and define Vi = 0 when i > n. For each 1 ≤ m ≤ n, the set of invertible linear transformations of V which take each Vi to Vi+m form a subgroup of Aut(V) denoted Um. If V is a vector space over Z/pZ, then U1 is a Sylow p-subgroup of Aut(V) = GL(n, p), an... | pn contains normal subgroups of order pi with 0 ≤ i ≤ n, and any normal subgroup of order pi is contained in the ith center Zi. If a normal subgroup is not contained in Zi, then its intersection with Zi+1 has size at least pi+1. Automorphisms The automorphism groups of p-groups are well studied. Just as every finite p-... |
compelled French bishops to retract the four propositions relating to the Gallican Liberties which had been formulated by the assembly of 1682. In 1699, he decided in favour of Jacques-Benigne Bossuet in that prelate's controversy with Fénelon about the Explication des Maximes des Saints sur la Vie Intérieure of the la... | and later in Austria from 1668 to 1671. He was transferred to Lecce in 1671. Pope Innocent XI appointed him as the Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio in 1681 and then moved him to the see of Faenza in 1682. He was moved to his final post before the papacy, as Archbishop of Naples in 1686. Papacy Papal election Pope Alexa... |
site. There is currently some confusion of the identity of these metal ions, as successive attempts to identify them yield different answers. There is currently evidence that these metals could be Magnesium, Manganese, Iron, Zinc, or any combination thereof. It is thought that a hydroxyl ion bridging the two metal ions... | PP2C of the PPM family, account for the majority of Ser/Thr PP activity in vivo (Barford et al., 1998). In the brain, they are present in different subcellular compartments in neuronal and glial cells, and contribute to different neuronal functions. PPM The PPM family, which includes PP2C and pyruvate dehydrogenase pho... |
branch prediction. The preliminary design was first successfully simulated in 1990, followed by the laying-out of the design. By this time, the team had several dozen engineers. The design was taped out, or transferred to silicon, in April 1992, at which point beta-testing began. By mid-1992, the P5 team had 200 engine... | FMUL, with up to 15 times higher throughput than in the 80486 FPU. The Pentium is also able to execute a FXCH ST(x) instruction in parallel with an ordinary (arithmetical or load/store) FPU instruction. Four-input address adders enables the Pentium to further reduce the address calculation latency compared to the 80486... |
n, the principal quantum number; , the azimuthal quantum number; m, the magnetic quantum number; and ms, the spin quantum number. For example, if two electrons reside in the same orbital, then their n, , and m values are the same; therefore their ms must be different, and thus the electrons must have opposite half-inte... | (particles with "integer spin") are subject to other principles. Fermions include elementary particles such as quarks, electrons and neutrinos. Additionally, baryons such as protons and neutrons (subatomic particles composed from three quarks) and some atoms (such as helium-3) are fermions, and are therefore described ... |
scorpions in there, and then sent him to Pasiphaë. The couple was thus able to conceive eight children. Records indicate, this became the first modern documentation of a sheath or condom. Daedalus and Icarus In one version of the story, Pasiphaë supplied Daedalus and his son Icarus with a ship in order to escape Minos ... | hidden within a hollow cow that the Athenian inventor Daedalus built for her. The curse was sent after her husband Minos failed to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon as he had promised, and forced her to fall in love with the beast. Family Parentage Pasiphaë was the daughter of god of the Sun, Helios, and the Oceanid nymph... |
presiding at meetings of the bishops of a nation or region, are now exercised by the president of the conference of bishops: "The president of the Conference or, when he is lawfully impeded, the vice-president, presides not only over the general meetings of the Conference but also over the permanent committee." The pre... | the privilege of wearing cardinal's crimson attire, except for the skullcap and biretta, even if they have not been made cardinals. Where the title of primate exists, it may be vested in one of the oldest archdioceses in a country, often based in a city other than the present capital, but which was the capital when the... |
Krahulik and Holkins' cartoon alter egos, John "Gabe" Gabriel and Tycho Brahe, respectively. While often borrowing from the authors' experiences, Holkins and Krahulik do not treat them as literal avatars or caricatures of themselves. The two characters spend much of their time playing and commenting on computer and vid... | a hoax "fan-wiki". ELotH:TES first appeared in the webcomic of February 7, 2005, and has subsequently been featured in the comics of November 7, 2005 and November 30, 2005. Several elements of the ELotH:TES universe are featured on the cover of their second comics collection, Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings. ESRB... |
Keynes, Sheffield & Doncaster, Thames Valley, York Membership Grades Student/Apprentice Member (holders can use the post-nominal letters MPWI) Fellow (holders can use the post-nominal letters FPWI) The Permanent Way Institution has been a licensed member of the Engineering Council since 2019, and can assess and registe... | Carlisle, Milton Keynes, Sheffield & Doncaster, Thames Valley, York Membership Grades Student/Apprentice Member (holders can use the post-nominal letters MPWI) Fellow (holders can use the post-nominal letters FPWI) The Permanent Way Institution has been a licensed member of the Engineering Council since 2019, and can a... |
a premature vacancy in the presidency, a successor must be elected within sixty days. In a vacancy or where the president is unavailable, the duties and functions of the office are carried out by a presidential commission, consisting of the chief justice, the ceann comhairle (speaker) of the Dáil, and the cathaoirleach... | carriage at the Royal Dublin Society Horse show led to the abolition of the carriage and its replacement by a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith in 1947. The distinctive 1947 Rolls-Royce is still used to bring the president to and from the inauguration today. The Presidential State Car is a 1947 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith landau... |
Parliament is sitting. At other times the premier's ministerial office is in 1 William Street, which is across the road from the Executive Annexe. List of premiers of Queensland Before the 1890s, there was no developed party system in Queensland. Political affiliation labels before that time indicate a general tendency... | Under section 42 of the Constitution of Queensland the premier and other members of Cabinet are appointed by the Governor and are collectively responsible to Parliament. The text of the Constitution assigns to the premier certain powers, such as the power to assign roles (s. 25) to Assistant Ministers (formerly known a... |
in the same year. Before the 1890s when there was no formal party system in South Australia, MPs tended to have historical liberal or conservative beliefs. The liberals dominated government from the 1893 election to 1905 election with the support of the South Australian United Labor Party, with the conservatives mostly... | election with the support of the South Australian United Labor Party, with the conservatives mostly in opposition. Labor took government with the support of eight dissident liberals in 1905 when Labor won the most seats for the first time. The rise of Labor saw non-Labor politics start to merge into various party incar... |
2013, aged 86. Graphical timeline See also List of premiers of Western Australia by time in office Leader of the Opposition (Western Australia) Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly Notes The only premier to serve in the upper house while premier was Sir Hal Colebatch, who was elected by the Nationalis... | at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions. The incumbent premier of Western Australia is Mark McGowan who won the 2017 state election and was sworn in on 17 March 2017 by Governor Kerry Sanderson as the 30th premier of Western Australia. Function The premier must be a member of one of the two Houses... |
for each key in the range of the keys in the original array. Going over the original array, put each value into the pigeonhole corresponding to its key, such that each pigeonhole eventually contains a list of all values with that key. Iterate over the pigeonhole array in increasing order of keys, and for each pigeonhol... | these value pairs by their first element: (5, "hello") (3, "pie") (8, "apple") (5, "king") For each value between 3 and 8 we set up a pigeonhole, then move each element to its pigeonhole: 3: (3, "pie") 4: 5: (5, "hello"), (5, "king") 6: 7: 8: (8, "apple") The pigeonhole array is then iterated over in order, and the ele... |
Pope Alexander IV (1254–1261), he was a member of the land-owning family of the Conti, who held the titles of counts and dukes of Segni. He included the family crest in his pontifical coats of arms. Conti commenced his studies in Ancona and then with the Jesuits in Rome at the Collegio Romano and then later at La Sapie... | he was witness to Father Bartolomeu de Gusmão's early aerostat experiments. He was also transferred to Osimo as its archbishop in 1709 and was later translated one last time to Viterbo e Toscanella in 1712. He also served as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1716 to 1717 and resigned his position in hi... |
official birthdate of Jesus. Pontificate Julius was a native of Rome and was chosen as successor of Pope Mark after the Roman seat had been vacant for four months. Arianism Julius is chiefly known by the part he took in the Arian controversy. After the followers of Eusebius of Nicomedia, who had become the patriarch of... | bishop by the synod presided over by Julius in 342. Julius sent a letter to the Eastern bishops that is an early instance of the claims of primacy for the bishop of Rome. Even if Athanasius and his companions were somewhat to blame, the letter runs, the Alexandrian Church should first have written to the pope. "Can you... |
hostages given by Pope Clement VII to the Emperor's forces, and barely escaped execution. Pope Paul III made him Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina in 1536 and employed him in several important legations, notably as papal legate and first president of the Council of Trent (1545/47) and then at Bologna (1547/48). Papacy Elec... | would give rise". Poet Joachim du Bellay, who lived in Rome through this period in the retinue of his relative, Cardinal Jean du Bellay, expressed his scandalized opinion of Julius in two sonnets in his series Les regrets (1558), hating to see, he wrote, "a Ganymede with the red hat on his head". The courtier and poet ... |
of the new pope was to send legates to Constantinople with letters to Emperor Constans II informing him of his election and professing his faith. The legates were deceived, or bribed, and brought back a synodical letter from Patriarch Peter of Constantinople (656–666), while the emperor's envoy, who accompanied them, b... | emperor's wishes and made no public stand against the Monothelitism of the patriarchs of Constantinople. One of the first acts of the new pope was to send legates to Constantinople with letters to Emperor Constans II informing him of his election and professing his faith. The legates were deceived, or bribed, and broug... |
number of his bishops to assemble and make a selection of passages from the Fathers to elucidate the question that the Greeks had put before them. The leave was granted, but the bishops who met at Paris in 825 were incompetent for the task. Their collection of extracts from the Fathers was a mass of confused and ill-di... | power of the Roman nobility, who had turned for support to the Franks to strengthen their positions against him. When Paschal died, these nobles made strenuous efforts to replace him with a candidate of their own. The clergy put forward Zinzinnus, a candidate likely to continue the policy of Paschal. Even though the Ro... |
day as the death of his predecessor Lucius II. Lucius had unwisely decided to take the offensive against the Roman Senate and was killed by a "heavy stone" thrown at him during an attack on the Capitol. He took the pontifical name Eugene III. He was "a simple character, gentle and retiring - not at all, men thought, th... | to Italy as leader of the Cistercian community in Scandriglia. In Autumn 1140, Innocent II named him abbot of the monastery of S. Anastasio alle Tre Fontane outside Rome. Some chronicles indicate that he was also elevated to the College of Cardinals, but these testimonies probably resulted from a confusion because Bern... |
it is modified Persistent world, in virtual reality and computer games Science Multidrug tolerance, a dormant, persistent state of a bacterial population Persistence (discontinuity), a concept in geotechnical engineering Persistence (linguistics), a principle of grammaticalization Persistence (psychology), a personalit... | virtual reality and computer games Science Multidrug tolerance, a dormant, persistent state of a bacterial population Persistence (discontinuity), a concept in geotechnical engineering Persistence (linguistics), a principle of grammaticalization Persistence (psychology), a personality trait Persistence of vision, a the... |
a plaintiff has, since the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules in 1999, been known as a "claimant" and Scotland, where the party has always been known as the "pursuer". In criminal cases, the prosecutor brings the case against the defendant, but the key complaining party is often called the "complainant". In some... | Terminology In most English-speaking jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, Nigeria, Australia, Canada and the United States, as well as in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the legal term "plaintiff" is used as a general term for the party taking action in a civil case. The word plaintiff can be traced t... |
Rawls, Joseph Raz, and John Finnis. Legal realism, which asserts that law is the product of decisions made by courts, law enforcement, and attorneys, which are often decided on contradictory or arbitrary grounds. According to legal realism, law is not a rational system of rules and norms. Legal realism is critical of t... | field presume that law has a unique set of features that separate it from other phenomena, though not all share the presumption. While the field has traditionally focused on giving an account of law's nature, some scholars have begun to examine the nature of domains within law, e.g. tort law, contract law, or criminal ... |
property refers to any type of property that can generally be moved (i.e., it is not attached to real property or land), touched or felt. These generally include items such as furniture, clothing, jewelry, art, writings, or household goods. In some cases, there can be formal title documents that show the ownership and ... | In the common law a lien also remains on the property and it is not extinguished by alienation of the property; liens may be real or equitable. Many jurisdictions levy a personal property tax, an annual tax on the privilege of owning or possessing personal property within the boundaries of the jurisdiction. Automobile ... |
the plaintiff's house. The plaintiff was away and had left the house in the control of the defendant. Res ipsa loquitur." In Canadian tort law, this doctrine has been subsumed by general negligence law. Use in academic philosophy The phrase is also used in academic philosophy. Among its most notable uses is in the theo... | element of the crime charged against the defendant. In a murder case, this would include evidence that the victim was in fact dead, that the defendant's act caused the death, and that the defendant acted with malice aforethought. If no party introduces new evidence, the case stands or falls just by the prima facie evid... |
the public cannot. Those who suffer injury from defective products are unprepared to meet its consequences. The cost of an injury and the loss of time or health may be an overwhelming misfortune to the person injured, and a needless one, for the risk of injury can be insured by the manufacturer and distributed among th... | decision which led to the emergence of product liability as a distinct field of private law. In 1993, it was reported that "[n]o other country can match the United States for the number and diversity of its product liability cases, nor for the prominence of the subject in the eyes of the general public and legal practi... |
into the open manhole. Both the construction worker and the careless driver are equally liable for the injury to the pedestrian. This example obeys the but for test. The injury could have been avoided by the elimination of either act of negligence, thus each is a but for cause of the injury. Sufficient combined causes.... | if the injured person was a member of a class of people who could be expected to be put at risk of injury by the action. For example, a pedestrian, as an expected user of sidewalks, is among the class of people put at risk by driving on a sidewalk, whereas a driver who is distracted by another driver driving on the sid... |
it is an incomplete one, because 'shalom,' which is also cognate with the Arabic salaam, has multiple other meanings in addition to peace, including justice, good health, safety, well-being, prosperity, equity, security, good fortune, and friendliness, as well as simply the greetings, "hello" and "goodbye". On a person... | Islam Islam derived from the root word salam which literally means peace. Muslims are called followers of Islam. Quran clearly stated "Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah, hearts are assured" and stated "O you who have believed, w... |
only four. All the pieces and people fit in this theory and it explains most mysteries (apart from who actually made it). It would have been a fabulously expensive piece to commission, so that few men of the period could have afforded it. Several attempts at creating the vase must have been made, as modern reproduction... | vase may have been a wedding gift. Many scholars (including Charles Towneley) have concluded that the figures do not fit into a single iconographic set. Scene 1 Interpretations include: The marriage of the sea-gods Peleus and Thetis, "the most enduring mythological interpretation". Dionysos greeting Ariadne with her sa... |
to a real person or a juristic person Patrimony, or inheritance, a right or estate inherited from one's father, or other ancestor though the male line Patrimony of affectation, defined as property, assets, or a legal estate that can be divided for a fiduciary purpose; distinct from a person's general assets Family patr... | Politics National patrimony, the store of wealth or accumulated reserves of a national economy Patrimonialism, a form of governance in which all power, both public and private, flows directly from the leader Neopatrimonialism, a social system in which patrons use state resources to secure the loyalty of |
farms in September or October. During the summer period, the families would live in basic stone cabins in the high mountains. Nowadays, industrialisation and changing agriculture practices have diminished the custom. However, the importance of transhumance continues to be recognised through its celebration in popular f... | confined to the northern slopes of the central Pyrenees, and do not descend, like those of the Alps, far down into the valleys but rather have their greatest lengths along the direction of the mountain chain. They form, in fact, in a narrow zone near the crest of the highest mountains. Here, as in the other great mount... |
be kept to a minimum. Features should be named only when they have special scientific interest, and when the naming of such features is useful to the scientific and cartographic communities at large. Duplication of the same surface feature name on two or more bodies, and of the same name for satellites and minor planet... | the surface features they have discerned, especially on the Moon and Mars. To found an authority on planetary nomenclature, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) was organized in 1919 to designate and standardize names for features on Solar System bodies. How names are approved by the IAU When images are first obt... |
more dangerous to the Luftwaffe than to the Allies and was never a serious threat. The Me 262A was a serious threat, but attacks on their airfields neutralized them. The pioneering Junkers Jumo 004 axial-flow jet engines of the Me 262As needed careful nursing by their pilots, and these aircraft were particularly vulner... | Cheyenne armed helicopter project. This aircraft was so successful that the Army ordered two F-51Ds from Cavalier in 1968 for use at Fort Rucker as chase planes. They were assigned the serials 68-15795 and 68-15796. These F-51s had wingtip fuel tanks and were unarmed. Following the end of the Cheyenne program, these tw... |
opposite forces produce a torque which causes the top to precess. The device depicted on the right (or above on mobile devices) is gimbal mounted. From inside to outside there are three axes of rotation: the hub of the wheel, the gimbal axis, and the vertical pivot. To distinguish between the two horizontal axes, rotat... | tend to increase the rotational kinetic energy: this unphysical tendency can be counteracted by repeatedly applying a small rotation vector perpendicular to both and , noting that Torque-induced Torque-induced precession (gyroscopic precession) is the phenomenon in which the axis of a spinning object (e.g., a gyroscope... |
power and dominion over the Punjab region and Kashmir Valley. Abdali's Indian invasion weakened Maratha influence. After the death of Ahmad Shah, Punjab was freed from Afghan rule by Sikhs for a brief period between 1773 and 1818. At the time of the formation of the Dal Khalsa in 1748 at Amritsar, Punjab had been divid... | Pakistan Punjab. 1966: Indian Punjab divided into three parts: Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh 1973–1995: Punjab insurgency Political geography 16th century In the 16th century, during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar, the term Punjab was synonymous with the Lahore province. It covered a relatively smaller a... |
system consists mostly of dust. Saturn Saturn's rings are the most extensive ring system of any planet in the Solar System, and thus have been known to exist for quite some time. Galileo Galilei first observed them in 1610, but they were not accurately described as a disk around Saturn until Christiaan Huygens did so i... | System, and thus have been known to exist for quite some time. Galileo Galilei first observed them in 1610, but they were not accurately described as a disk around Saturn until Christiaan Huygens did so in 1655. The rings are not a series of tiny ringlets as many think, but are more of a disk with varying density. They... |
(beetle), a genus of longhorn beetles Phoebe (bird), the common name for birds of genus Sayornis Phoebe (plant), a genus of flowering plants Ships Phoebe, a sailing ship chartered by the New Zealand Company in 1842 , various ships , two minesweepers Other uses Phoebe (moon), a small outer moon of Saturn Phoebe (compute... | by the New Zealand Company in 1842 , various ships , two minesweepers Other uses Phoebe (moon), a small outer moon of Saturn Phoebe (computer), Acorn Computers' never-released successor to the Risc PC Phoebe (George Mason University journal), a literary journal published by George Mason University Phoebe (State Univers... |
football player Taz Bentley, American rock drummer Taz (singer), a British Indian singer TaZ (born 1986), nickname of Wiktor Wojtas, Polish Counter-Strike player Taz (wrestler) (born 1967), ring name of pro wrestler Peter Senerchia Taz, Rabbi David HaLevi Segal, author of Turei Zahav Companies Tata Ace Zip, a micro-tru... | form of Northeastern Mandarin spoken by the Taz people Taz Anderson (1938–2016), American football player Taz Bentley, American rock drummer Taz (singer), a British Indian singer TaZ (born 1986), nickname of Wiktor Wojtas, Polish Counter-Strike player Taz (wrestler) (born 1967), ring name of pro wrestler Peter Senerchi... |
circa 1966—as O-code for the Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL) and P code for the language Euler—the term p-code first appeared in the early 1970s. Two early compilers generating p-code were the Pascal-P compiler in 1973, by Kesav V. Nori, Urs Ammann, Kathleen Jensen, Hans-Heinrich Nägeli, and Christian Jacobi... | same program translated to machine code. When the p-code is interpreted, the interpreter can apply additional run-time checks that are difficult to implement with native code. One of the significant disadvantages of p-code is execution speed, which can sometimes be remedied via JIT compiling. P-code is often also easie... |
a warning about this adverse effect on the label of PPI medications. Concerns have also been raised about spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) in older people taking PPIs and in people with irritable bowel syndrome taking PPIs; both types of infections arise in these populations due to underlying conditions and it i... | the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised that over-the-counter PPIs, such as Prilosec OTC, should be used no more than three 14-day treatment courses over one year. Despite their extensive use, the quality of the evidence supporting their use in some of these conditions is variable. The effectiveness of PPIs ... |
was one of the most powerful nations in the world. He often symbolized Slavs as being a tree, with "minor" Slavic nations being branches while the trunk of the tree was Russian. His Pan-Slavic views were unleashed in this book, where he stated that the land of Slovaks should be annexed by the Tsar's empire and that eve... | for its aggressive moves in the Balkan Peninsula of Europe against the Ottoman Empire, which conquered and held the land of Slavs for centuries. This eventually led to the Balkan campaign of the Russian Empire, which resulted in the entire Balkan being liberated from the Ottoman Empire, with the help and the initiative... |
of both Austria and Germany. The most radical Austrian pan-German Georg Schönerer (1842–1921) and Karl Hermann Wolf (1862–1941) articulated Pan-Germanist sentiments in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There was also a rejection of Roman Catholicism with the Away from Rome! movement (ca 1900 onwards) calling for German-spea... | Society demanded the annexation of all German-speaking territories of the Danube Monarchy to the German Empire, and fervently rejected Austrian patriotism and a pan-Austrian identity. Schönerer's völkisch and racist German nationalism was an inspiration to Hitler's Nazi ideology. In 1933, Austrian Nazis and the nationa... |
attended the university of Paris, France. A Discourse of Wit (1685), sometimes assigned to him, belongs to Dr David Abercromby. Return to Scotland On his return to Scotland, Patrick Abercromby is found practising as a physician in Edinburgh, where, besides his professional duties, he gave himself with characteristic ze... | at Forfar in 1656 apparently of a Roman Catholic family. Intending to become a doctor of medicine he entered the University of St Andrews, where he took his degree of M.D. in 1685, but apparently he spent most of his youthful years abroad. It has been stated that he attended the university of Paris, France. A Discourse... |
two or more photons. Positrons can be created by positron emission radioactive decay (through weak interactions), or by pair production from a sufficiently energetic photon which is interacting with an atom in a material. History Theory In 1928, Paul Dirac published a paper proposing that electrons can have both a posi... | photons, in a process similar (but much lower intensity) to that which happens during a PET scan nuclear medicine procedure. Recent observations indicate black holes and neutron stars produce vast amounts of positron-electron plasma in astrophysical jets. Large clouds of positron-electron plasma have also been associat... |
If an antipsychotic is given, intramuscular haloperidol has been recommended. Forced acid diuresis (with ammonium chloride or, more safely, ascorbic acid) may increase clearance of PCP from the body, and was somewhat controversially recommended in the past as a decontamination measure. However, it is now known that onl... | Recreational doses of the drug also occasionally appear to induce a psychotic state, with emotional and cognitive impairment that resembles a schizophrenic episode. Users generally report feeling detached from reality. Symptoms are summarized by the mnemonic device RED DANES: rage, erythema (redness of skin), dilated p... |
distinct subgroups of order 2 in the symmetric group on 3 symbols). This product is sometimes called the Frobenius product. In general, the product of two subgroups S and T is a subgroup if and only if ST = TS, and the two subgroups are said to permute. (Walter Ledermann has called this fact the Product Theorem, but th... | quotient NK/N. Although one might be tempted to just "cancel out" N and say the answer is K, that is not correct because a homomorphism with kernel N will also "collapse" (map to 1) all elements of K that happen to be in N. Thus the correct answer is that NK/N is isomorphic with K/(N∩K). This fact is sometimes called t... |
sweat, and saliva of PCP users. See also 4-Phenyl-4-(1-piperidinyl)cyclohexanol, | can be detected in the hair, urine, stool, sweat, and saliva of PCP users. See also 4-Phenyl-4-(1-piperidinyl)cyclohexanol, |
also PCHP, another PCP metabolite References Arylcyclohexylamines Secondary alcohols Piperidines Recreational drug metabolites | cause increases in locomotor activity in lab mice. See also PCHP, another PCP metabolite References Arylcyclohexylamines Secondary alcohols Piperidines Recreational drug metabolites |
a metabolite of phencyclidine (PCP). It can be detected in the urine of PCP users by | the urine of PCP users by mass spectrometry as means of drug screening. References Amines Carboxylic |
interconvert rapidly through nitrogen inversion; the free energy activation barrier for this process, estimated at 6.1 kcal/mol, is substantially lower than the 10.4 kcal/mol for ring inversion. In the case of N-methylpiperidine, the equatorial conformation is preferred by 3.16 kcal/mol, which is much larger than the p... | piperidine structural motif is present in numerous natural alkaloids. These include piperine, which gives black pepper its spicy taste. This gave the compound its name. Other examples are the fire ant toxin solenopsin, the nicotine analog anabasine of tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca), lobeline of Indian tobacco, and the... |
held that an unequal apportionment of a state legislature may have denied equal protection and presented a justiciable issue. In the Baker opinion, the Court outlined six characteristics "[p]rominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question," which include: "a textually demonstrable constitutiona... | Supreme Court held that an unequal apportionment of a state legislature may have denied equal protection and presented a justiciable issue. In the Baker opinion, the Court outlined six characteristics "[p]rominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question," which include: "a textually demonstrable... |
that applies to systems consisting of many identical spin 1/2 particles (i.e. that obey the Pauli exclusion principle), e.g. electrons in solids and liquids, and importantly to the field of conduction in semi-conductors. Dirac was famously not bothered by issues of interpretation in quantum theory. In fact, in a paper ... | given formal recognition by an award of the Nobel Prize for physics. Weisskopf and French (FW) were the first to obtain the correct result for the Lamb shift and the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron. At first FW results did not agree with the incorrect but independent results of Feynman and Schwinger. The 1963... |
it is rather an abandonment of the futile pursuit of happiness. He uses the example of Christopher Columbus who went on a dangerous and uncertain voyage and because of this grew to appreciate life more fully. Leopardi also sees the capacity of humans to laugh at their condition as a laudable quality that can help us de... | out of rebellion: "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Other forms Epistemological There are several theories of epistemology which could arguably be said to be pessimistic in the sense that they consider it difficult or even impossible to obtain knowledge about the world. These ideas are generally related to nihilism, p... |
from turning in on itself. Sublimation is the refocusing of energy away from negative outlets, toward positive ones. The individuals distance themselves and look at their existence from an aesthetic point of view (e.g., writers, poets, painters). Zapffe himself pointed out that his produced works were the product of su... | expedition. Later in the DS «Isbjørn» Peter served as German interpreter, his father was also on board: the expedition was then to search for the missing Amundsen, but was unsuccessful. Peter left Tromsø on June 5, 1929. He found a room on Erling Skjalgssøns street in Kristiania, living quite frugally and in a mentally... |
market price today). The Franc Poincaré has been replaced for most purposes by special drawing rights. Conventions which used the Franc Poincaré included the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damag... | the international regulation of liability. It is defined as 65.5 milligrams of gold of millesimal fineness .900. Formerly it was identical to the French franc, although it has not been so since the 1920s. Practice on its conversion to national currencies varies from state to state; in most states the conversion factor ... |
This requirement is not met by all values of 192 (binary 11000000) and above. Compared to the maximum run length of 128, possible with TGA RLE compression, the PCX run-length encoding offers a larger single-pixel value range, while the maximum run length is restricted to 63. Due to the use of the two most-significant b... | of the file, the 54 bytes between are not used. The header is composed of 18 fields: All PCX files use the same compression scheme and the compression value is always 1. No other values have been defined and there are no uncompressed PCX files. One source claims that 0 (uncompressed) is allowed, but not much software s... |
began to displace therapsids in the mid-Triassic. In the mid to late Triassic, the dinosaurs evolved from one group of archosaurs, and went on to dominate terrestrial ecosystems during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. This "Triassic Takeover" may have contributed to the evolution of mammals by forcing the surviving theraps... | braided river patterns, indicating an abrupt drying of the climate. The climate change may have taken as little as 100,000 years, prompting the extinction of the unique Glossopteris flora and its herbivores, followed by the carnivorous guild. End-Permian extinctions did not occur at an instantaneous time horizon; parti... |
and Crafts Movement. Career Blanchard learned the trade of the silversmith from his father, George Porter Blanchard in Gardner, Massachusetts. In 1923, Blanchard moved to Burbank, California, where he established a studio for silversmithing. Between the 1930s and 1950, he operated a shop in Hollywood. He then worked fr... | Porter George Blanchard (1886–1973) was an American silversmith living and working in Pacoima, California. He is considered to be part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Career Blanchard learned the trade of the silversmith from his father, George Porter Blanchard in Gardner, Massachusetts. In 1923, Blanchard moved to Bu... |
sanction or recognition of the Punjabi language amounts to a process of "Urdu-isation" that is detrimental to the health of the Punjabi language In August 2015, the Pakistan Academy of Letters, International Writer's Council (IWC) and World Punjabi Congress (WPC) organised the Khawaja Farid Conference and demanded that... | achieved across South Asia and with its peak during the Mughal Empire. Mughal Empire The Punjab region rose to significance in the Mughal Empire when Lahore became the capital for the royal family in 1585, the legacy of which is seen today in its rich display of Mughal architecture all over modern day Punjab, Pakistan.... |
is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states. Names The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian Politbyuro (), itself a contraction of Politicheskoye Byuro (, "Political Bureau"). The Spanish term Politburó is directly loaned from Russian, as is... | in turn, elects the Politburo and General Secretary in a process termed democratic centralism. The Politburo was theoretically answerable to the Central Committee. Trotskyist parties In Trotskyist parties, the Politburo is a bureau of the Central Committee tasked with making day-to-day political decisions, which must l... |
was recognized as a papal fief. The Venetians regained their territories lost to France, and the Papal States annexed Parma and Modena. The conciliarist movement promoted by foreign monarchs was crushed, and Julius II affirmed ultramontanism at the Fifth Lateran Council. This is often presented in traditional historiog... | were working on establishing new alliances, which would upset Ferrante's security arrangements. Ferrante, therefore, decided to use Della Rovere as the center of an anti-Sforza party at the papal court, a prospect made easier since Ferrante had prudently repaired his relations with Cardinal Giuliano after the War of th... |
of Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 novel Player Piano is an engineer named Paul Proteus. Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Isaac Asimov's novelization. John Barth's novelette "Menelaiad" in Lost in the Funho... | The children of Proteus by his sister-wife Torone of Phlegra were Polygonus (Tmolus) and Telegonus. They both challenged Heracles at the behest of Hera and were killed by the hero. Another son of Proteus, Eioneus, became the father of Dymas, king of Phrygia. By the Nereid Psamathe, Proteus fathered Theoclymenos and The... |
readmitted after doing proper penance. This view was opposed by a faction of Christians in Rome under the leadership of Heraclius. Johann Peter Kirsch believes it likely that Heraclius was the chief of a party made up of apostates and their followers, who demanded immediate restoration to the Roman Church. Emperor Maxe... | death on 17 August 310. Difficulty arose, as in the case of his predecessor, Marcellus I, out of Eusebius's attitude toward the lapsi. Eusebius maintained the attitude of the Roman Church, adopted after the Decian persecutions (250–51), that the apostates should not be forever debarred from ecclesiastical communion, bu... |
the endangerment of the kalbaensis subspecies of the collared kingfishers were raised by conservationists over real estate development by the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Estimates from 2006 showed that only three viable nesting sites were available for this ancient bird, one located from Dubai, and two smaller sites... | an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. It is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz. The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline. The Persian Gulf has many fishing grounds, extensive reefs (mostly rocky, but also coral), and abundant p... |
cells being functional and being cancerous. Other Apart from the cellular and molecular effects above, p53 has a tissue-level anticancer effect that works by inhibiting angiogenesis. As tumors grow they need to recruit new blood vessels to supply them, and p53 inhibits that by (i) interfering with regulators of tumor h... | exportation via MAPK: residues 64–92. central DNA-binding core domain (DBD). Contains one zinc atom and several arginine amino acids: residues 102–292. This region is responsible for binding the p53 co-repressor LMO3. Nuclear Localization Signaling (NLS) domain, residues 316–325. homo-oligomerisation domain (OD): resid... |
set of points together with a topology, a system of subsets called open sets that with the operations of intersection and union forms a lattice with certain properties. Point-free topology is based on the concept of a "realistic spot" instead of a point without extent. Spots can be joined (forming a complete lattice) a... | respect all joins (in particular, the least element of the lattice) and finite meets (in particular, the greatest element of the lattice). Frames, together with frame homomorphisms, form a category. Relation to point-set topology In classical topology, represented on a set by the system of open sets, (partially ordered... |
Comics Phobos (Marvel Comics) Phobos (W.I.T.C.H.), a character from W.I.T.C.H. Computer programming Project Phobos, a Java-based web application environment A runtime and standard library of D programming language Other uses Phobos (album), a 1997 album by Voivod Phobos (audio drama), a 2007 audio drama based on Doctor... | the Greek god of horror Phobos may also refer to: Comics Phobos (Marvel Comics) Phobos (W.I.T.C.H.), a character from W.I.T.C.H. Computer programming Project Phobos, a Java-based web application environment A runtime and standard library of D programming language Other uses Phobos (album), a 1997 album by Voivod Phobos... |
common fast food item in Europe, North America and Australasia; available at pizzerias (restaurants specializing in pizza), restaurants offering Mediterranean cuisine, via pizza delivery, and as street food. Various food companies sell ready-baked pizzas, which may be frozen, in grocery stores, to be reheated in a home... | be traced to either Ancient Greek πικτή (pikte), "fermented pastry", which in Latin became "picta", or Ancient Greek πίσσα (pissa, Attic πίττα, pitta), "pitch", or πήτεα (pḗtea), "bran" (πητίτης pētítēs, "bran bread"). The Etymological Dictionary of the Italian Language explains it as coming from dialectal pinza "clamp... |
and the frequency of the carrier signal are maintained constant, but as the amplitude of the message signal changes, the phase of the carrier changes correspondingly. Phase modulation is widely used for transmitting radio waves and is an integral part of many digital transmission coding schemes that underlie a wide ran... | complex envelope in proportion to the message signal. If m(t) is the message signal to be transmitted and the carrier onto which the signal is modulated is , then the modulated signal is This shows how modulates the phase - the greater m(t) is at a point in time, the greater the phase shift of the modulated signal at t... |
non-specific inhibitors have a wide range of actions, the actions in the heart, and lungs being some of the first to find a therapeutic use. History The different forms or subtypes of phosphodiesterase were initially isolated from rat brains in the early 1970s and were soon afterward shown to be selectively inhibited i... | a drug that blocks one or more of the five subtypes of the enzyme phosphodiesterase (PDE), thereby preventing the inactivation of the intracellular second messengers, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) by the respective PDE subtype(s). The ubiquitous presence of this enzyme ... |
in the connecting rod. A few designs use a 'fully floating' design that is loose in both components. All pins must be prevented from moving sideways and the ends of the pin digging into the cylinder wall, usually by circlips. Gas sealing is achieved by the use of piston rings. These are a number of narrow iron rings, f... | weight slipper piston. A characteristic of most trunk pistons, particularly for diesel engines, is that they have a groove for an oil ring below the gudgeon pin, in addition to the rings between the gudgeon pin and crown. The name 'trunk piston' derives from the 'trunk engine', an early design of marine steam engine. T... |
and political correspondent Places PK, or Busan–Gyeongnam Area, a metropolitan area in South Korea Pakistan (ISO country code) Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, US Pickering, Ontario, Canada Peking，old name of Beijing Science and technology Chemistry and pharmacology pK, negative logarithm of the dissociation constant K (-lo... | by Rajkumar Hirani and starring Aamir Khan Paperinik, a cartoon character Peacekeepers (Farscape), in the Farscape television show Organisations Pakistan International Airlines (IATA airline code) Polyteknikkojen Kuoro, a Finnish academic male choir Promise Keepers, a Christian men's organization Swedish Publicists' As... |
alphabet, adopted from Greek Arts and entertainment "Psi" as an abbreviation for psionics Comics Psi (comics), DC Comics character Psi Division, division in the Judge Dredd and 2000 AD series of comics Psi-Force, comic series Psi-Hawk, comic character Psi Lords, comic series Music PSI (album), album by Pitchshifter (20... | and later social-democratic political party in Italy Italian Socialist Party (2007), social-democratic political party in Italy Indonesian Solidarity Party (Partai Solidaritas Indonesia) Indonesian Socialist Party (Partai Sosialis Indonesia) Proliferation Security Initiative, against weapons technology transfer Public ... |
that accompany this precept are respect for dignity of life, kindness and compassion, the latter expressed as "trembling for the welfare of others". A positive behavior that goes together with this precept is protecting living beings. Positive virtues like sympathy and respect for other living beings in this regard are... | home and at the local temple. However, the extent to which people keep them differs per region and time. People keep them with an intention to develop themselves, but also out of fear of a bad rebirth. The first precept consists of a prohibition of killing, both humans and all animals. Scholars have interpreted Buddhis... |
of Pente player Don Banks. Swap2, borrowed from professional Gomoku, is a modification of the Swap rule. It seeks to limit the tentative first player's ability to offer known (to them) Swap openings that may be unclear to the tentative second player seeing it for the first time. The first player places three stones on ... | of going through buyers in different parts of the country and competing with Monopoly and Risk on the shelves. They targeted local and regional gift and department stores instead. To save money, Gabrel Packaged Pente in roll up vinyl tubes instead of boxes. This was a mixed blessing, it made it more difficult for store... |
words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved", Green explained. He coined the term puppetutes "to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure who would be my everything and bear my children". In 2019, Miller appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and explained that the word "pompatu... | example, as the title of a 1996 film starring Jon Cryer. Lyrics The lyrics of "The Joker" include the quatrain: Some people call me the space cowboy. Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love. Some people call me Maurice, 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love. Each line references a track on a previous Miller album: "Sp... |
be phased out after 2030). Solid fuels, on the other hand, make logistics and storage simpler and are safer. Not only was the Jupiter a liquid fuel design, it was also very large; even after it was designed for solid fuel, it was still a whopping 160,000 pounds. A smaller, new design would weigh much less, estimated at... | Transit system (later called NAVSAT), was developed because the submarines needed to know their position at launch in order for the missiles to hit their targets. Two American physicists, William Guier and George Weiffenbach, at Johns Hopkins's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), began this work in 1958. A computer small... |
had already shown that Polaris missiles could be operated without problems in launch tubes that had their fiberglass liners and locating rings removed. The project was given the title Polaris B3 in November, but the missile was eventually named Poseidon C3 to emphasize the technical advances over its predecessor. The C... | missile produced, and it was also given the designation UGM-73A. Slightly longer and considerably wider and heavier than Polaris A3, Poseidon had the same range, greater payload capacity, improved accuracy, and multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) capability. MIRV capacity has been given as up to ei... |
Portuguese language, a Romance language Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship Portuguese people, an ethnic | a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also Sonnets from the Portuguese "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal Lusofonia Lusitania Language and nationality disambiguation |
to pottery, the ceramic ware made by potters POTS or Pots may also refer to: Plain old telephone service, basic wireline telecommunication connection POTS codec, a digital audio device DSL filter, also known as a POTS filter Packet-Optical Transport System, | Pots may also refer to: Plain old telephone service, basic wireline telecommunication connection POTS codec, a digital audio device DSL filter, also known as a POTS filter Packet-Optical Transport System, a means of optical transport for 100 Gigabit |
"Pte" in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth of Nations countries, and in the Irish Army; and to "Pvt" in the United States. Etymology The term derives from the medieval term "private soldiers" (a term still used in the British Army), denoting individuals who were either hired, conscripted, or mustered into servi... | to have been in the process of being superseded by the Defence Administrative Orders and Directives (DAODs) going on three decades now but have not yet made any new policy on rank structural organization, which make the CFAOs the current de facto ratified policy on promotion). The QR&Os mention a former type of rank la... |
1490s, Ficino had the following Greek manuscripts of Proclus' Neoplatonic doctrines available to him: Commentary on Timaeus, Commentary on Republic (a more than 400 leaf codex dated from the 9th or 10th century), Commentary on First Alcibiades, a commentary by Nicholas of Methone on Proclus’ Elements of Theology, Procl... | purpose of the effect, which is to perfect the cause.EpistropheIn Proclus' Neoplatonic theology, the cause by which principles produce things has a two-fold effect, the first effect produces something, and the second effect is the return, i.e. the purpose, of the effect, which is to return to the cause, thus perfecting... |
or film. Generally the term refers to all individuals responsible for the technical aspects of creating of a particular product, regardless of where in the process their expertise is required, or how long they are involved in the project. For example, in a theatrical performance, | designers and theatre direction. A production company in filmmaking is composed of a film crew and a television crew in video production. In music, the term production team typically refers to a group of individuals filling the role |
Cheddar and Colby in dishes such as macaroni and soufflés." In 2020, production was . It was developed and first produced by Daniel Horn in 1915 on a farm at the northeast corner of Mount Forest and Mackinaw Roads. The product is still based on the original family traditional recipe and made and | Michigan. It is available as cheese curds and in mild or aged many years, to sharpness levels of medium mild, medium sharp, sharp, extra sharp, and super sharp (10 plus years old). Its hardness and texture change, and sharpness increases with aging. Pinconning cheese's flavor and texture are rich, creamy, and open. It ... |
that delivered to the apostles and recorded in Sacred Scripture. One Old Testament text in Deuteronomy contains a warning against those who prophesy events which do not come to pass and says they should be put to death. Elsewhere a false prophet may be someone who is purposely trying to deceive, is delusional, under th... | Deganawida or Dekanawida) co-founded the Haudenosaunee league in pre-Columbian times. In retrospect, his prophecy of the boy seer could appear to refer to the conflict between natives and Europeans (white serpent). From 1805 until the Battle of Tippecanoe that falsified his predictions in 1811, the "Shawnee prophet" Te... |
"at issue" and could proceed to trial. A case would begin with a complaint in which the plaintiff alleged the facts entitling him to relief, then the defendant would file any one of a variety of pleas as an answer, followed by a replication from the plaintiff, a rejoinder from the defendant, a surrejoinder from the pla... | the defendant's most recent answer to that complaint, and any court orders on demurrers to either pleading. Code pleading was criticized because many lawyers felt that it was too difficult to fully research all the facts needed to bring a complaint before one had even initiated the action, and thus meritorious plaintif... |
the service description characteristics described in the standard. In Canada, Mexico, and the United States, PCS are provided in the '1900 MHz' band (specifically 1850–1995 MHz). This frequency band was designated by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Industry Canada to be used for new wirele... | several types of wireless voice or wireless data communications systems, typically incorporating digital technology, providing services similar to advanced cellular mobile or paging services. In addition, PCS can also be used to provide other wireless communications services, including services that allow people to pla... |
Photon correlation spectroscopy, a spectroscopic technique in chemistry and physics used to determine particle sizes in suspensions Physical coding sublayer, an Ethernet Layer 1 (PHY) sub-layer Picture communication symbols, drawings used to communicate with autistic people and in other alternative communication system... | high-assurance communications security technology Periphere Computer Systeme, a German manufacturer of UNIX-based computers in the 1980s and 1990s Personal Communications Service, a set of wireless communications capabilities Photon correlation spectroscopy, a spectroscopic technique in chemistry and physics used to de... |
rpm single so that it could be played on the thinner type of spindle. Characters Puck (folklore), a trickster character of folk tales Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck, from the Faeries CBS TV special Puck, from the Gargoyles animated series Puck, the eponym... | A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck, from the Faeries CBS TV special Puck, from the Gargoyles animated series Puck, the eponymous character from Rudyard Kipling's book Puck of Pook's Hill and its sequel Puck, from The Sandman series of comic books Puck, from The Sisters Grimm series of novels Puck (Marvel Comics), the coden... |
The Cabinet Defence Committee therefore approved the acquisition of Skybolt in February 1960. The Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, met with the President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in March 1960, and secured permission to buy Skybolt. In return, the Americans could base the US Navy's Polaris ballistic missile submarines i... | the Tendrac nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in the United States would require a redesigned Re-Entry System (RES) in order to be fitted to a Polaris missile, at an estimated cost of between £30 million and £40 million. The alternative was to make a British copy of the W58. While the AWRE was familiar with the W47 ... |
people in the sense of a linguistic community. We should probably think of them as a loose network of clans and tribes, inhabiting a coherent territory of limited size." While 'Proto-Indo-Europeans' is used in scholarship to designate the group of speakers associated with the reconstructed proto-language and culture, t... | Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Ancient Greek Ζεύς (πατήρ) / Zeus (dyeus)), vocative *dyeu ph2ter (> Latin Iūpiter, Illyrian Deipaturos) oral heroic poetry or song lyrics that used stock phrases such as imperishable fame (*ḱléwos ń̥dʰgʷʰitom) and the wheel of the sun (*sh₂uens kʷekʷlos). a patrilineal kinship-system based on relationship... |
death of Lady Romilly. In 1823 Roget and Peter Mere Latham were brought in to investigate disease at Millbank Penitentiary. In 1828 Roget, with William Thomas Brande and Thomas Telford, submitted a report on London's water supply. In 1834 he became the first Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution. O... | Roget into Whig social circles. Roget then attended lectures at London medical schools. Living in Clifton, Bristol, from 1798 to 1799, he knew Thomas Beddoes and Humphry Davy and frequented the Pneumatic Institute. Not making a quick start to a medical career, in 1802 Roget took a position as a tutor to the sons of Joh... |
clade Pterodactyloidea. Discovery and history The type specimen of the animal now known as Pterodactylus antiquus was the first pterosaur fossil ever to be identified. The first Pterodactylus specimen was described by the Italian scientist in 1784, based on a fossil skeleton that had been unearthed from the Solnhofen l... | but was informed it could not be found. In 1809 Cuvier published a somewhat longer description, in which he named the animal Petro-Dactyle, this was a typographical error however, and was later corrected by him to Ptéro-Dactyle. He also refuted a hypothesis by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that it would have been a shore... |
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