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permits students to work with teachers and their courses over the internet. This can be used in cooperation with, or in place of traditional classroom instruction. The online learning can be also paid for by accessing ESA’s and vouchers. Customized Learning This form of tutelage is a student-tailored form of education.... | California public school district to enroll students outside district lines. To participate in the program, district governing boards only need to declare themselves a District of Choice and set a quota for how many transfer students to accept to participate in the program. School districts cannot discriminate among st... |
of the Frontier sector in the basic rulebook were unexplored and undetailed, allowing the Gamemaster (called the "referee" in the game) to put whatever they wished there. Players could take on any number of possible roles in the setting but the default was to act as hired agents of the Pan Galactic corporation in explo... | A previously undiscovered quirk of the laws of physics allows starships to jump to "The Void", a hyperspatial realm that greatly shortens the travel times between inhabited worlds, once they reach 1% of the speed of light (3,000 km/s). The basic game setting was an area known as "The Frontier Sector" where four sentien... |
of view and demonstrated how apparently different social organizations were different permutations of a few basic kinship structures. In the late 1950s, he published Structural Anthropology, a collection of essays outlining his program for structuralism. Lacan and Piaget Blending Freud and Saussure, French (post)struct... | /p/ and /b/ represent distinct phonemes because there are cases (minimal pairs) where the contrast between the two is the only difference between two distinct words (e.g. 'pat' and 'bat'). Analyzing sounds in terms of contrastive features also opens up comparative scope—for instance, it makes clear the difficulty Japan... |
of the development effort, systems engineering helps mold all the technical contributors into a unified team effort, forming a structured development process that proceeds from concept to production to operation and, in some cases, to termination and disposal. In an acquisition, the holistic integrative discipline comb... | Engineering Management Process. Within Oliver's model, the goal of the Management Process is to organize the technical effort in the lifecycle, while the Technical Process includes assessing available information, defining effectiveness measures, to create a behavior model, create a structure model, perform trade-off a... |
television host 1959 – Kevin Harrington, Australian actor 1959 – Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper 1960 – Kim Thayil, American guitarist and songwriter 1960 – Shailesh Vara, Ugandan-English lawyer and politician 1960 – Damon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1961 – Nick Blinko, English singer... | – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. 2010 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand causing widespread damage and several power outages. 2020 – ... |
Comics and Epic Comics. "Fair Wind to Java" was originally published in 1988 as a Munden's Bar story in the pages of First Comics' Grimjack, featuring the Freelance Police fighting pyramid-building aliens in Ancient Egypt, and was followed in 1989 by "On the Road", a three chapter story showing what Sam and Max do on v... | seeing the world as little more than a vessel for his "pinball-like stream of consciousness". This creates a seeming disregard for self-preservation; Max will revel in dangerous situations with little impression that he understands the risks he faces. As a result, Max is usually enthusiastic to engage in any activity, ... |
considered to be either high or enhanced definition. "Standard" refers to it being the prevailing specification for broadcast (and later, cable) television in the mid- to late-20th century, and compatible with legacy analog broadcast systems. The two common SDTV signal types are 576i, with 576 interlaced lines of resol... | European-developed PAL and SECAM systems, and 480i based on the American NTSC system. Common SDTV refresh rates are 25, 29.97 and 30 frames per second. Both systems use a 4:3 aspect ratio. Standards that support digital SDTV broadcast include DVB, ATSC, and ISDB. The last two were originally developed for HDTV, but are... |
make up just a small percentage of the grains in a sandstone. Common accessory minerals include micas (muscovite and biotite), olivine, pyroxene, and corundum. Many of these accessory grains are more dense than the silicates that make up the bulk of the rock. These heavy minerals are commonly resistant to weathering an... | continental margins are also common environments for deposition of sand. As sediments continue to accumulate in the depositional environment, older sand is buried by younger sediments, and it undergoes diagenesis. This mostly consists of compaction and lithification of the sand. Early stages of diagenesis, described as... |
A year after their meeting, the Parliament of England passed the Act of Settlement 1701 declaring that, in the event of no legitimate issue from Anne or William III, the crowns of England and Ireland were to settle upon "the most excellent princess Sophia, electress and duchess-dowager of Hanover" and "the heirs of her... | seven children who reached adulthood. They were: George I of Great Britain (1660–1727) Frederick Augustus (1661–90), Imperial General Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1666–1726), field marshal in the Imperial Army Sophia Charlotte (1668–1705), Queen in Prussia Charles Philip of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1669–90), co... |
adjusts the height of the tip. Principle of operation Quantum tunneling of electrons is a functioning concept of STM that arises from quantum mechanics. Classically, a particle hitting an impenetrable barrier will not pass through. If the barrier is described by a potential acting along z-direction in which an electron... | separation is increased by 1 Å (0.1 nm). Because of this, even when tunneling occurs from a non-ideally sharp tip, the dominant contribution to the current is from its most protruding atom or orbital. Tunneling between two conductors As a result of the restriction that the tunneling from an occupied energy level on one... |
technique to create random mutants STMicroelectronics, an Italian-French manufacturer of electronics and semiconductors STM (Turkish company) (), a military technology company in Turkey STM-1, Synchronous Transport Module, the basic rate of transmission of the SDH ITU-T fiber optic network STM32, a family of 32-bit mic... | Software transactional memory, a method of handling concurrency in multithreaded systems Stepper motor, a type of electric motor Canon autofocus lenses that use stepper motor technology which makes them especially quiet .stm, a filename extension used by: Web administration panel, of Belkin routers Streaming Media File... |
of 2021, when the latest volume appeared, work has progressed to the letter Å inclusively. The dictionary has approximately 450,000 main entries. The searchable web version has been available since 1997. See also Svenska Akademiens ordlista External links Svenska Akademiens ordbok The Swedish Academy – Official site (i... | the letter Å inclusively. The dictionary has approximately 450,000 main entries. The searchable web version has been available since 1997. See also Svenska Akademiens ordlista External links Svenska Akademiens ordbok The Swedish Academy – Official site (in English) Swedish non-fiction literature |
Riley, known collectively as Mark and Lard. As part of their BBC Radio 1 shows, the pair produced pastiches of chart songs, such as "You're Gormless", a parody of Babybird's "You're Gorgeous", "Lardy Boy", a parody of Placebo's "Nancy Boy", and "Why Is It Always Dairylea", spoofing Travis's "Why Does It Always Rain on ... | Other parodies include "I Want a Roll with It" (spoofing "Roll with It" by Oasis), "Feel Like Shite" ("Alright" by Supergrass), and "Country Spouse" ("Country House" by Blur). The band toured extensively, playing many small, university gigs to exploit their popularity with students. However, they also performed at larg... |
Ink family. Furthermore, reprogramming efficiency is correlated with the number of cell divisions happened during the stochastic phase, which is suggested by the growing inefficiency of reprogramming of older or slow diving cells. Lineage Lineage is an important procedure to analyze developing embryos. Since cell linea... | accident. The workers all survived. In 1981, embryonic stem (ES) cells were first isolated and successfully cultured using mouse blastocysts by British biologists Martin Evans and Matthew Kaufman. This allowed the formation of murine genetic models, a system in which the genes of mice are deleted or altered in order to... |
each of the first three books contained poems in a single specific metre. Ancient editions of Sappho, possibly starting with the Alexandrian edition, seem to have ordered the poems in at least the first book of Sappho's poetry – which contained works composed in Sapphic stanzas – alphabetically. Even after the publicat... | is some of the earliest Greek poetry to adopt the "lyric 'I'" – to write poetry adopting the viewpoint of a specific person, in contrast to the earlier epic poets Homer and Hesiod, who present themselves more as "conduits of divine inspiration". Her poetry explores individual identity and personal emotions – desire, je... |
the time of the codification of the Talmud, where the name is always rendered "Simon bar Koziba" () or Bar Kozevah. Revolt Background Despite the devastation wrought by the Romans during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), which left the population and countryside in ruins, a series of laws passed by Roman Emperors ... | Bar Koseva that is implied by this change of name was carried on by later rabbinic scholarship at least to the time of the codification of the Talmud, where the name is always rendered "Simon bar Koziba" () or Bar Kozevah. Revolt Background Despite the devastation wrought by the Romans during the First Jewish–Roman War... |
mental disorders, such as panic disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder, or substance use disorder. These are separate disorders that require treatment. When comorbid with schizophrenia, substance use disorder and antisocial personality disorder both increase the risk for violence. Comorbid substance use disorder also ... | distinction be made between a current condition of schizophrenia and its historical progress, to achieve a clearer overall characterization. A dimensional assessment has been included in DSM-5 covering eight dimensions of symptoms to be rated (using the Scale to Assess the Severity of Symptom Dimensions) – these includ... |
the only entrant to the competition. In 1809 Germain began work. Legendre assisted by giving her equations, references, and current research. She submitted her paper early in the fall of 1811 and did not win the prize. The judging commission felt that "the true equations of the movement were not established", even thou... | with Joseph Fourier, a secretary of the Academy, who obtained tickets to the sessions for her. Later work in elasticity Germain published her prize-winning essay at her own expense in 1821, mostly because she wanted to present her work in opposition to that of Poisson. In the essay she pointed out some of the errors in... |
documentary film about the Holocaust Amata shoa, a moth of the family Erebidae SHOA, Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy | The Holocaust, also known as "the Shoah" or Ha-Shoah in Hebrew Shewa, a region of Ethiopia, sometimes spelled Shoa Shoah (film), 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust Amata |
The male counterpart to the succubus is the incubus. Etymology The term derives from Late Latin succuba "paramour" from succubare "to lie beneath" (sub- "under" and cubare "to lie"), used to describe this female supernatural being's implied sexual position relative to the male sleeper's position. The English word succu... | rank in the Catholic Church. Before his death, he confessed of his sins and died repentant. Ability to reproduce According to the Kabbalah and the school of Rashba, the original three queens of the demons, Agrat Bat Mahlat, Naamah, Eisheth Zenunim, and all their cohorts give birth to children, except Lilith. According ... |
album, "Woman on the Tier", was featured on the soundtrack of the movie Dead Man Walking. In 1997 she took a singing part on the concept album Heaven and Hell, a musical interpretation of the seven deadly sins by her colleague Joe Jackson, with whom she had already collaborated in 1986 on "Left of Center" from the Pret... | death threats from an obsessed fan ahead of the festival. The acappella "Tom's Diner" from Solitude Standing became a hit in 1990, having been remixed by two British dance producers under the name DNA. The track was originally a bootleg, until Vega allowed DNA to release it through her record company, and it became her... |
formed by adjoining an element to and defining for all . The notation denotes a monoid obtained from by adjoining an identity if necessary ( for a monoid). Similarly, every magma has at most one absorbing element, which in semigroup theory is called a zero. Analogous to the above construction, for every semigroup , one... | classes and factor monoids are the objects of study in string rewriting systems. A nuclear congruence on S is one which is the kernel of an endomorphism of S. A semigroup S satisfies the maximal condition on congruences if any family of congruences on S, ordered by inclusion, has a maximal element. By Zorn's lemma, thi... |
on their top 100 games of all time in 2001 praising how the games mode 7 revolutionized racing games. In 2018, Complex listed Super Mario Kart 7th on its "The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time." LegacySuper Mario Kart has been credited with inventing the "kart racing" subgenre of video gaming and soon after its rel... | positions in a race; first to fourth place receive nine, six, three and one points. If a player finished in the same position three times in a row, then an extra life is awarded. The finishing order for that race will then become the starting grid for the next race; for example, if a player finished in first place, the... |
ideas as well as Papert". Papert has rethought how schools should work, based on these theories of learning. Logo Papert used Piaget's work in his development of the Logo programming language while at MIT. He created Logo as a tool to improve the way children think and solve problems. A small mobile robot called the "L... | in 1963. He held this position until 1967, when he became professor of applied math and was made co-director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by its founding director Professor Marvin Minsky, until 1981; he also served as Cecil and Ida Green professor of education at MIT from 1974 to 1981. Research Papert ... |
acquisition in the course of second-language learning. A number of spaced repetition software programs have been developed to aid the learning process. It is also possible to perform spaced repetition with flashcards using the Leitner system. Alternative names for spaced repetition include spaced rehearsal, expanding r... | target level of achievement (e.g. 90% of all material correctly recalled at any given time point), the software adjusts the repetition spacing interval. Material that is hard appears more often and material that is easy less often, with difficulty defined according to the ease with which the user is able to produce a c... |
Piotr Woźniak in Poland from 1985 to the present. It is based on research into long-term memory, and is a practical application of the spaced repetition learning method that has been proposed for efficient instruction by a number of psychologists as early as in the 1930s. The method is available as a computer program f... | algorithms have been used; SM–0 refers to the original (non-computer-based) algorithm, while SM-2 refers to the original computer-based algorithm released in the 1987 (used in SuperMemo versions 1.0 through 3.0, referred to as SM-2 because SuperMemo version 2 was the most popular of these). Subsequent versions of the s... |
mortality was high and he was soon the oldest survivor. He was baptised at St Bride's Church on 3 March 1633. Pepys did not spend all of his infancy in London; for a while, he was sent to live with nurse Goody Lawrence at Kingsland, just north of the city. In about 1644, Pepys attended Huntingdon Grammar School before ... | about the Second Anglo-Dutch War: "In all things, in wisdom, courage, force and success, the Dutch have the best of us and do end the war with victory on their side". And King Charles II said: "Don't fight the Dutch, imitate them". In 1667, with the war lost, Pepys helped to discharge the navy. The Dutch had defeated E... |
to thermally-induced oscillations of both it and the receptor, making it available to be broken down metabolically outside the neuron or to be reabsorbed. Enzymes within the subsynaptic membrane may inactivate/metabolize the neurotransmitter. Reuptake pumps may actively pump the neurotransmitter back into the presynapt... | reaches the synapse. The electrical depolarization of the membrane at the synapse causes channels to open that are permeable to calcium ions. Calcium ions flow through the presynaptic membrane, rapidly increasing the calcium concentration in the interior. The high calcium concentration activates a set of calcium-sensit... |
also learned interference pairs right before being retested to try to disrupt the previously learned word pairs. The results showed that sleep was of some help in retaining the word pair associations, while against the interference pair, sleep helped significantly. After sleep, there is increased insight. This is becau... | This study gives evidence that REM sleep is a significant factor in consolidating motor skill procedural memories, therefore sleep deprivation can impair performance on a motor learning task. This memory decrement results specifically from the loss of stage 2, REM sleep. Declarative memory has also been shown to benefi... |
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wrote of "systematic botany" rather than using the term "systematics". In 1970 Michener et al. defined "systematic biology" and "taxonomy" (terms that are often confused and used interchangeably) in relationship to one another as follows: Systematic biology (hereafter called simply systematics) is the field that (a) pr... | in systematics, must, therefore, be able to use existing classification systems, or at least know them well enough to skilfully justify not using them. Phenetics was an attempt to determine the relationships of organisms through a measure of overall similarity, making no distinction between plesiomorphies (shared ances... |
wave, a mathematical function Sine and cosine transforms Sine quadrant Sine-Gordon equation Places Sinë, village in Albania Sine, Washington, a community in the United States Kingdom of Sine, a former kingdom in modern Senegal See also SINE (disambiguation) Port of Sines, a deep-water port in | refer to: Maurice Sinet or Siné (1928–2016), a French cartoonist Sine FM, a community radio station based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire Short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs), a short DNA sequences in eukaryote genomes Sine bar Sine (album), a 2008 album by C418 Mathematics Abbe sine |
conscious. Their eyes may be closed and all of their body is taking a break, where the body is starting to slow down. Beta waves take over alpha waves when a person is at attention, as they might be completing a task or concentrating on something. Beta waves although consist of the highest of frequencies and the lowest... | to concerns that electronic media use before bed may interfere with sleep. Modern humans often find themselves desynchronized from their internal circadian clock, due to the requirements of work (especially night shifts), long-distance travel, and the influence of universal indoor lighting. Even if they have sleep debt... |
the plant makes them counteract stress very effectively. There are three well-known and -studied classes of SOD metallic coenzymes that exist in plants. First, Fe SODs consist of two species, one homodimer (containing 1–2 g Fe) and one tetramer (containing 2–4 g Fe). They are thought to be the most ancient SOD metalloe... | monomeric intermediate. Physiology Superoxide is one of the main reactive oxygen species in the cell. As a consequence, SOD serves a key antioxidant role. The physiological importance of SODs is illustrated by the severe pathologies evident in mice genetically engineered to lack these enzymes. Mice lacking SOD2 die sev... |
For example, the first four odd numbers form the sequence (1, 3, 5, 7). This notation is used for infinite sequences as well. For instance, the infinite sequence of positive odd integers is written as (1, 3, 5, 7, ...). Because notating sequences with ellipsis leads to ambiguity, listing is most useful for customary in... | but it is not the same as the sequence denoted by the expression. Defining a sequence by recursion Sequences whose elements are related to the previous elements in a straightforward way are often defined using recursion. This is in contrast to the definition of sequences of elements as functions of their positions. To ... |
more serious. Unlike haiku, do not include a (cutting word), and do not generally include a , or season word. Form and content is named after Edo period poet , whose collection launched the genre into the public consciousness. A typical example from the collection: This , which can also be translated "Catching him / I ... | Award for best unpublished . Since about 1990, the Haiku Poets of Northern California has been running a contest, as part of its San Francisco International Haiku and Senryu Contest. See also References Bibliography and further reading J C Brown, Senryu: Poems of the People, Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1991, R. H. Blyth, tra... |
Moore, English organist and composer 1943 – Ian Ogilvy, English-American actor, playwright, and author 1944 – Diane Dufresne, Canadian singer and painter 1944 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006) 1944 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (d. 2009) 1945 – Richard Edwin Hills, English astronomer and acad... | baggage train. 1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed king of England. 1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire. 1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance. 1551 – A coup by the military establ... |
doing this, he tries to break the boundary between "us" (the people watching on TV) and "them" (those before the camera) by becoming one of them (albeit for just a month). Living with Corruption, his latest documentary to be shown on CNN, describes the shocking reality of how corruption is spread across society both in... | Award and a Peabody. Exodus from Africa shows the harrowing effort by the best of young African male blood to break through to Europe via death- and danger-ridden paths from Sierra Leone and Nigeria, via Mali, the Sahara desert, Algeria, and Morocco through the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain. In his recent two projects L... |
pilot inexperience as probable causes of the crash. Wozniak did not immediately return to Apple after recovering from the airplane crash, seeing it as a good reason to leave. Infinite Loop characterized this time: "Coming out of the semi-coma had been like flipping a reset switch in Woz's brain. It was as if in his thi... | the Hip Top. In 2006, Wheels of Zeus was closed, and Wozniak founded Acquicor Technology, a holding company for acquiring technology companies and developing them, with Apple alumni Hancock and Amelio. From 2009 through 2014 he was chief scientist at Fusion-io. In 2014 he became chief scientist at Primary Data, which w... |
Italian Saxons were allowed to settle with their families in Austrasia. Gathering their families and belongings in Italy, they returned to Provence in two groups in 573. One group proceeded by way of Nice and another via Embrun, joining up at Avignon. They plundered the territory and were as a consequence stopped from ... | cemeteries in a context of the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries AD. The oldest and most spectacular Saxon site found in France to date is Vron, in Picardy. There, archaeologists excavated a large cemetery with tombs dating from the Roman Empire until the sixth century. Furniture and other grave goods, as well as the ... |
at the beginning of the measurement. In the former case, the nanoparticle will appear to be in the superparamagnetic state whereas in the latter case it will appear to be “blocked” in its initial state. The state of the nanoparticle (superparamagnetic or blocked) depends on the measurement time. A transition between su... | longer than the Néel relaxation time, their magnetization appears to be in average zero; they are said to be in the superparamagnetic state. In this state, an external magnetic field is able to magnetize the nanoparticles, similarly to a paramagnet. However, their magnetic susceptibility is much larger than that of par... |
permutation Separable polynomial, a polynomial whose number of distinct roots is equal to its degree Separable sigma algebra, a separable space in measure theory Separable space, a topological space that contains a countable, dense subset Linear separability, a geometric property of a pair of sets of points in Euclidea... | generalization to associative algebras of the notion of a separable field extension Separable differential equation, in which separation of variables is achieved by various means Separable extension, in field theory, an algebraic field extension Separable filter, a product of two or more simple filters in image process... |
, where is the cardinality of the continuum. For this closure is characterized in terms of limits of filter bases: if and , then if and only if there exists a filter base consisting of subsets of that converges to . The cardinality of the set of such filter bases is at most . Moreover, in a Hausdorff space, there is at... | proofs can be turned into algorithms for use in numerical analysis, and they are the only sorts of proofs acceptable in constructive analysis. A famous example of a theorem of this sort is the Hahn–Banach theorem. Further examples Separable spaces Every compact metric space (or metrizable space) is separable. Any topol... |
the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The scenario is often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics, particularly in situations involving the measurement problem. Origin and motivation Schrödinger intended his thought experiment as a discussion of the EPR article—na... | observer looking at a box with a live cat. But since the dead and alive states are decoherent, there is no effective communication or interaction between them. When opening the box, the observer becomes entangled with the cat, so "observer states" corresponding to the cat's being alive and dead are formed; each observe... |
the sphere with equation and the cylinder with equation is not just one or two circles. It is the solution of the non-linear system of equations (see implicit curve and the diagram) Eleven properties of the sphere In their book Geometry and the Imagination, David Hilbert and Stephan Cohn-Vossen describe eleven properti... | geometry is a form of elliptic geometry, which together with hyperbolic geometry makes up non-Euclidean geometry. Differential geometry The sphere is a smooth surface with constant Gaussian curvature at each point equal to . As per Gauss's Theorema Egregium, this curvature is independent of the sphere's embedding in 3-... |
province (oblast'), but parts of this area lie outside Sápmi. About 758,600 of Murmansk's population claim to be exclusively Russian. Ethnic Russians also live elsewhere in Sápmi. The Russian side of Sápmi is ethnically diverse, with particularly big Ukrainian and Belarusian minorities. The Sami are one of the minor mi... | now Troms og Finnmark. Sápmi refers to the areas where the Sámi people have traditionally lived but overlaps with other regions and definitions. In practice most of the Sámi population is largely concentrated in a few traditional areas in the northernmost part of Sápmi, such as Kautokeino and Karasjok, with the excepti... |
the natives Eora people. "Eora" is the term the indigenous population used to explain their origins upon first contact with the British. Its literal meaning is "from this place". Around 29 clan groups of the Eora Nation inhabited the region at the time of European contact. Sydney Cove from Port Jackson to Petersham was... | one of the largest shopping complexes in Sydney. The southwest also features Bankstown Reservoir, the oldest elevated reservoir constructed in reinforced concrete that is still in use and is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register. The southwest is home to one of Sydney's oldest trees, the Bland Oak, whic... |
quality steel. This gave the blade a very hard cutting edge and beautiful patterns. For these reasons it became a very popular trading material. The Firangi (, derived from the Arabic term for a Western European a "Frank") was a sword type which used blades manufactured in Western Europe and imported by the Portuguese,... | armies used a sword that was originally of Scythian design called the akinaka (acinaces). However, the great conquests of the Persians made the sword more famous as a Persian weapon, to the extent that the true nature of the weapon has been lost somewhat as the name Akinaka has been used to refer to whichever form of s... |
these boundary components are circles. The Euler characteristic of is the sum of the Euler characteristics of the summands, minus two: The sphere S is an identity element for the connected sum, meaning that . This is because deleting a disk from the sphere leaves a disk, which simply replaces the disk deleted from M up... | topological space is not considered a subspace of another space. In this sense, the definition given above, which is the definition that mathematicians use at present, is intrinsic. A surface defined as intrinsic is not required to satisfy the added constraint of being a subspace of Euclidean space. It may seem possibl... |
(Kartli, eastern Georgia) from 779/780 to 788 Stephen III of Naples (died 832), duke of Naples Stephen III of Hungary (1147–1172), King of Hungary and Croatia Stefan Dragutin of Serbia, Stephen III of Serbia (died in 1316) | Serbia, Stephen III of Serbia (died in 1316) Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria (1337–1413) Stephen III Báthory (died 1444), Hungarian nobleman and commander, Palatine of Hungary Stephen III of Moldavia (c. 1433 – 1504), aka |
refer to: Stephen II of Iberia (died c. 650), prince of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) Pope-elect Stephen (died 752), considered (from the 16th century to 1960) a valid pope under the name Stephen II Pope Stephen II (died 757), his successor, called Stephen III until 1961 Stephen II of Troyes | of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) Pope-elect Stephen (died 752), considered (from the 16th century to 1960) a valid pope under the name Stephen II Pope Stephen II (died 757), his |
such that x2 = −1. However, the function defined by (with the restricted codomain) is surjective, since for every y in the nonnegative real codomain Y, there is at least one x in the real domain X such that x2 = y. The natural logarithm function is a surjective and even bijective (mapping from the set of positive real ... | induces a surjection by restricting its codomain to the image of its domain. Every surjective function has a right inverse, and every function with a right inverse is necessarily a surjection. The composition of surjective functions is always surjective. Any function can be decomposed into a surjection and an injection... |
the concluding paragraph of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species) from January 1974 to January 2001, amounting to a continuous publication of 300 essays. Many of his essays were reprinted in collected volumes that became bestselling books such as Ever Since Darwin and The Panda's Thumb, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, and ... | biology. Inexpensive but increasingly powerful personal computers made it possible to process large quantities of data about organisms and their characteristics. Around the same time the development of effective polymerase chain reaction techniques made it possible to apply cladistic methods of analysis to biochemical ... |
the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. All sources note that the ship is the finest of ships, and the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda attest that it is owned by the god Freyr, while the euhemerized account in Heimskringla attributes it to the magic of Odin. Both Heimskringla a... | of the ship occurs in Skáldskaparmál where, in chapter 6, poetic ways of referring to Freyr are provided. Among other names, Freyr is referred to as "possessor of Skidbladnir and of the boar known as Gullinbursti". The first of the two Grímnismál stanzas mentioned above is then provided as reference. In chapter 35, a m... |
Mjöllnir. However, Loki had "such dealings" with Svaðilfari that "somewhat later" Loki gave birth to a grey foal with eight legs; the horse Sleipnir, "the best horse among gods and men." In chapter 49, High describes the death of the god Baldr. Hermóðr agrees to ride to Hel to offer a ransom for Baldr's return, and so ... | traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Sleipnir is Odin's steed, is the child of Loki and Svaðilfari, is described as the best of all horses, and is sometimes ridden to the location of Hel. The Prose Edda contains extended information regarding the cir... |
1314. Both works had generally favourable receptions and sold well, but without rivalling the huge success of The Lady of the Lake. Scott also produced four minor narrative or semi-narrative poems between 1811 and 1817: The Vision of Don Roderick (1811, celebrating Wellington's successes in the Peninsular Campaign, wit... | to Kenilworth); Novels and Romances (1824 [1823]: The Pirate to Quentin Durward); and two series of Tales and Romances (1827: St Ronan's Well to Woodstock; 1833: Chronicles of the Canongate to Castle Dangerous). In his last years Scott marked up interleaved copies of these collected editions to produce a final version ... |
443, after the Burgundian defeat by Flavius Aetius. Early and High Middle Ages By the 8th century, the territory that would later become known as Savoy was part of Francia, and at the division of Francia at the Treaty of Verdun in 843, it became part of the short-lived kingdom of Middle Francia. After only 12 years, at... | was divided administratively into two separate departments, Savoie and Haute-Savoie. The traditional capital remains Chambéry (Ciamberì), on the rivers Leysse and Albane, hosting the castle of the House of Savoy and the Savoyard senate. The state included six districts: Savoie Propre, sometimes known as Ducal Savoy (ca... |
2014, archaeologists for Anglian Water discovered nine skeletons and four cremation pits, at Bardwell, Barnham, Pakenham and Rougham, all near Bury St Edmunds. Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and medieval items were also unearthed, along with the 9 skeletons believed to be of the late or post-Roman era (AD 300–5... | container, and that the discoveries had shed new light on their understanding of the development of small rural communities. A number of 6th century Anglo-Saxon "grub huts" were also found nearby, which are believed to be cellars beneath Saxon buildings. In 2019, an excavation of an 4th-century Roman cemetery in Great ... |
and a scholiast on Plato, all name Crataeis as the mother of Scylla. Neither Homer nor Ovid mentions a father, but Apollodorus says that the father was either Trienus (probably a textual corruption of Triton) or Phorcus (a variant of Phorkys). Similarly, the Plato scholiast, perhaps following Apollodorus, gives the fat... | Charybdis would pass dangerously close to Scylla and vice versa. Scylla is first attested in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus and his crew encounter her and Charybdis on their travels. Later myth provides an origin story as a beautiful nymph who gets turned into a monster. Book Three of Virgil's Aeneid associates the st... |
1408 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370) 1457 – Peter II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1418) 1482 – Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1465) 1520 – Selim I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1465) 1531 – Louise of Savoy, French regent (b. 1476) 1539 – Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (b. 1469) 1554 – Francisco V... | Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time. 1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed. 1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. 1995 – An E-3B... |
is Klondike Solitaire, which is the most played solitaire game. Although it was originally played with a physical deck of cards, it was especially popularized by Microsoft Solitaire, a digital implementation that was included with the Windows operating system from 1990 onwards. Forks of PySol are platform-independent, ... | Yukon, and FreeCell. Mahjong solitaire is a single-player matching game that uses a set of mahjong tiles rather than playing cards. It is more commonly played on a computer, than as a physical tabletop game. Peg solitaire is a board game where the goal is to empty the board of pegs through movement and capturing. It is... |
A pile of cards that is packed on a depot within the tableau in readiness for being built in the reverse order on the foundations when the time is right. B base, base card See foundation card. below A card is below another if it is nearer to the bottom of the playing board or to the player. See also beneath. beneath A ... | to get rid of all the cards in this manner. It will be obvious that the endeavour to arrange, pair, or combine the cards of a whole pack is a difficult task, varying in degree according to the rules of the particular game. The player must therefore be prepared for a good many failures, sometimes when he or she has all ... |
collection Gabháil Syrinx. Samuel R. Delany features an instrument called a syrynx in his science-fiction novel Nova. Syrinx is the name of one of the main characters in the Night's Dawn Trilogy of space opera novels by British author Peter F. Hamilton. In the trilogy, Syrinx is a member of the transhumanist future soc... | the celebrated nymph, desiring to become not just a "reed" but a "thinking reed" (in contrast to a "thinking stone", as critic Helen Vendler has observed, noting the influence of a Wallace Stevens lyric, "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"). The poet aspires to return to his "scarred case" with minimal suffering inflicted by "th... |
commune in Tchicala Tcholohanga, Huambo Province, Angola Sambo Creek, a village in Honduras Other uses Sambo, botanist author abbreviation for Maria Cengia Sambo (1888–1939), Italian lichenologist Sambo (martial art), developed in the Soviet Union Sambo (mountain), in the Andes of Peru Sambo (racial term), a derogatory... | refer to: Places Sambo, Angola, a commune in Tchicala Tcholohanga, Huambo Province, Angola Sambo Creek, a village in Honduras Other uses Sambo, botanist author abbreviation for Maria Cengia Sambo (1888–1939), Italian lichenologist Sambo (martial art), developed in the Soviet Union Sambo (mountain), in the Andes of Peru... |
professeur must have a French state certificate of specialized teaching (CQP AS, BEES 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree, 1st de CCB BPJEPS, DEJEPS, DESJEPS). These diplomas are university level education in sports with specialisation in savate (supervised by the French Federation of BF Savate and associated disciplines ( Canne, ... | These two federations have followed a set of national traditions. Nowadays, savate is just a term meaning Savate-Boxe Française. In the 1970s the term "savate" was rarely used in France to refer to the formalised sport: people mostly used the term Savate boxe française, Boxe-Française Savate, B.F, B.F.S., S.B.F. or sim... |
modern March 25 1 BC). (Note that this dating implies that the birth of Jesus was in December, nine months later.) This method of reckoning led to several Creation eras being used in the Greek Eastern Mediterranean, which all placed Creation within one decade of 5500 BC. The history, which had an apologetic aim, is no ... | several Creation eras being used in the Greek Eastern Mediterranean, which all placed Creation within one decade of 5500 BC. The history, which had an apologetic aim, is no longer extant. But copious extracts from it are to be found in the Chronicon of Eusebius, who used it extensively in compiling the early episcopal ... |
is preserved in a separate chapel in the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone in Rome's Piazza Navona. Agnes is remembered in the Anglican Communion with a Lesser Festival on 21 January. Patronage Because of the legend around her martyrdom, Saint Agnes is patron saint of those seeking chastity and purity. She is also the pat... | Navona. Agnes is remembered in the Anglican Communion with a Lesser Festival on 21 January. Patronage Because of the legend around her martyrdom, Saint Agnes is patron saint of those seeking chastity and purity. She is also the patron saint of young girls and girl scouts. Folk custom called for them to practise rituals... |
content Snooper and Blabber, one of the sequences from The Quick Draw McGraw Show Republic SD-3 Snooper, a U.S. Army reconnaissance drone Packet sniffer Snooper, a strip | on that content Snooper and Blabber, one of the sequences from The Quick Draw McGraw Show Republic SD-3 Snooper, a U.S. Army reconnaissance |
the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chili peppers, as well as the unique flavour of Sichuan pepper. There are many local variations within Sichuan Province and the neighbouring Chongqing Municipality, which was part of Sichuan Province until 1997. Four sub-styles of Sichuan cuisine inclu... | to recognise the sophistication of its cooking. History Sichuan in the Middle Ages welcomed Middle Eastern crops, such as broad beans, sesame and walnuts. Since the 16th century, the list of major crops in Sichuan has even been lengthened by New World newcomers. The characteristic chili pepper came from Mexico, but pro... |
elements, like other Chinese regional cuisines, and emphasises in particular the use of seasonings, the quality of raw ingredients and original flavours. Shanghai was formerly a part of Jiangsu province; as such Shanghai cuisine is most similar to Jiangsu cuisine and may still be classified as a part of Jiangsu cuisine... | although it has come into more contact with Zhejiang cuisine and foreign influences as an international city. The adoption of Western influence in Shanghai cuisine developed a unique cooking style known as Haipai cuisine（海派菜）. Characteristic features Shanghai dishes usually appear red and shiny because they are often p... |
region. Common game included opossums, rabbits, and squirrels. Livestock, adopted from Europeans, in the form of cattle and hogs, were kept. When game or livestock was killed, the entire animal was used. Aside from the meat, it was common for them to eat organ meats such as brains, livers, and intestines. This traditio... | Africa. This influence can be seen through the heat level of many soul food dishes, as well as many ingredients found within them. Peppers used to add spice to food included malagueta pepper, as well as peppers native to the western hemisphere such as red (cayenne) peppers. Several foods that are essential in southern ... |
a canned pork meat product Spamming, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages Email spam, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages Messaging spam, spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS or private messages within websites Art and entertainment Spam (gaming), the repetition of an in-ga... | sketch "Spam", a song on the album It Means Everything (1997), by Save Ferris "Spam", a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic on the album UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff Spam Museum, a museum in Austin, Minnesota, US dedicated to the canned pork |
thus beginning the period of Spanish rule in Milan. Sforza rulers of the Duchy of Milan Francesco I, 1450–1466 Galeazzo Maria, 1466–1476 Gian Galeazzo, 1476–1494 Ludovico, 1494–1499 Massimiliano, 1513–1515 Francesco II, 1521–1535 Sforza rulers of Pesaro and Gradara Alessandro, 1445–1473 Costanzo I, 1473–1483 Giovanni, ... | I, 1473–1483 Giovanni, 1483–1500 and 1503–1510 Costanzo II, 1510–1512 , 1512 Sforza family tree Muzio Sforza with mistress Lucia da Torsano had 7 illegitimate sons son Gabriele Sforza archbishop of Milan son Francesco I Sforza married Bianca Maria Visconti son Galeazzo Maria Sforza mistress Lucrezia Landriani daughter ... |
to the translation of Brenton: "and speak not to us in the Jewish tongue: and wherefore speakest thou in the ears of the men on the wall." The MT reads "people" where the Septuagint reads "men". This difference is very minor and does not affect the meaning of the verse. Scholars had used discrepancies such as this to c... | are estimated to have been written between 200 BCE and 50 CE. Among them are the first two books of Maccabees; Tobit; Judith; the Wisdom of Solomon; Sirach; Baruch (including the Letter of Jeremiah), and additions to Esther and Daniel. The Septuagint version of some books, such as Daniel and Esther, are longer than tho... |
Sinaiticus Petropolitanus. 2. Veteris Testamenti pars prior. G. Olms, Hildesheim 1869 (Repr.). Konstantin von Tischendorf, G. Olms (Hrsg.): Bibliorum codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus. 3. Veteris Testamenti pars posterior. G. Olms, Hildesheim 1869 (Repr.). Konstantin von Tischendorf, G. Olms (Hrsg.): Bibliorum codex Sina... | codices: Bodmer II, Regius (L), Ephraemi (C), and Sangallensis (Δ). They were discovered by Edward Ardron Hutton. History Early history Provenance Little is known of the manuscript's early history. According to Hort, it was written in the West, probably in Rome, as suggested by the fact that the chapter division in the... |
coeducational in 1971. Today, Fisher is an independent, liberal arts institution in the Catholic tradition of American higher education. It was listed as a census-designated place in 2020. Academics Fisher is made up of five schools. It offers 35 undergraduate majors, as well as a variety of master's and doctoral progr... | in New York State and is the first pharmacy school in the Greater Rochester community. It opened in fall 2006 and became fully accredited in May 2010. It awards a Doctor of Pharmacy degree to candidates who successfully complete four years of professional study. The school was made possible by a $5 million gift from th... |
and, in 1910, he formed The Boy Scouts Association, and later The Girl Guides. By the time of The Boy Scouts Association's first census in 1910, it had over 100,000 Scouts. Scouting for Boys was published in England later in 1908 in book form. The book is now the fourth-bestselling title of all time, and was the basis ... | him to adopt Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book as a major influence for the Cub Scouts; for example, the name used for the Cub Scout leader, Akela (whose name was also appropriated for the Webelos), is that of the leader of the wolf pack in the book. The name "Scouting" seems to have been inspired by the important and ... |
human behavior, and Wilson later wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning book, On Human Nature, that addressed human behavior specifically. Edward H. Hagen writes in The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology that sociobiology is, despite the public controversy regarding the applications to humans, "one of the scientific triumphs ... | that addressed human behavior specifically. Edward H. Hagen writes in The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology that sociobiology is, despite the public controversy regarding the applications to humans, "one of the scientific triumphs of the twentieth century." "Sociobiology is now part of the core research and curriculu... |
more information on this, see #P-complete. The closest decision problem class to #P is PP, which asks whether a majority (more than half) of the computation paths accept. This finds the most significant bit in the #P problem answer. The decision problem class ⊕P (pronounced "Parity-P") instead asks for the least signif... | and see whether the count is greater than zero. Some of these problems, such as root finding, are easy enough to be in FP, while others are #P-complete. One consequence of Toda's theorem is that a polynomial-time machine with a #P oracle (P#P) can solve all problems in PH, the entire polynomial hierarchy. In fact, the ... |
to inputs of the given problem and from outputs of the given problem to outputs of the other problem, allowing the other problem to be solved using any subroutine for the given problem. A Turing reduction is an algorithm for the other problem that makes a polynomial number of calls to a subroutine for the given problem... | be defined as counting the number of accepting paths of a polynomial-time non-deterministic Turing machine. The problem is #P-hard, meaning that every other problem in #P has a Turing reduction or polynomial-time counting reduction to it. A counting reduction is a pair of polynomial-time transformations from inputs of ... |
Flag, a white cross on a black background, traditionally the emblem of the Cornish tinners, is the Cornish national flag. Saint Piran's Day falls on 5 March. Suggested Irish origins Piran is the most famous of all the saints said to have come to Cornwall from Ireland. By at least the 13th century, since Brittonic langu... | century, with the arms being De sable à la croix pattée d'argent. (a black shield with a white cross pattée). Mount St. Piran is a mountain in Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, named after the saint. St Piran's crab, Clibanarius erythropus, was also named in his honour, in 2016. St Piran's Day St P... |
and Righter, one of the manufacturers who, like Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley Company, had previously rejected the game. Harriet T. Righter licensed the game from entrepreneur James Brunot in 1952. "It's a nice little game. It will sell well in bookstores", she remembered saying about Scrabble when she first saw i... | (S.C.) at the National Scrabble Championship, 2008. The highest possible legal score on a first turn is MUZJIKS 128, using an actual U rather than a blank. (Note: The odds of drawing MUZJIKS without blanks is 9 in 432,325,411, or 1 in ) Highest opening move score (SOWPODS) – BEZIQUE 124 by Sam Kantimathi (1993), Joan R... |
traditionalist Catholicism which holds that the present occupier of the Holy See is not a valid pope due to the pope's espousal of one or more heresies and that therefore, for lack of a valid pope, the See of Rome is vacant. The term sedevacantism is derived from the Latin phrase sede vacante, which means "with the cha... | by mainstream Catholics as Pope' is said in the Roman Canon, specifically in the "Te igitur" prayer, where the priest says "una cum famulo tuo Papa nostro N." ["together with Thy Servant N., our Pope"]). Such "una cum" masses are offered by the priests of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. Some argue that it is, o... |
different languages. In November 2020, Kodansha Comics announced plans to re-release the Sailor Moon manga again as part of their "Naoko Takeuchi Collection". The company described the new edition as a "more affordable, portable" version of the Eternal Edition. The first volume will be published on April 5, 2022. Sailo... | also addresses Mamoru's relevance as protector of the Earth and owner of the Golden Crystal, the sacred stone of the Golden Kingdom. Mamoru and all ten of the reunited Guardians combine their powers, enabling Usagi to transform into Eternal Sailor Moon and defeat Dead Moon's leader, Queen Nehelenia. In the final arc th... |
laid the groundwork for the SchoolForge project. The SEUL/Sci project (now dormant) focused on the use of Linux and Free Software in research. Other project of note connected to SEUL is Tor (network). See also Comparison of open source software hosting facilities External links | was one of the groups which laid the groundwork for the SchoolForge project. The SEUL/Sci project (now dormant) focused on the use of Linux and Free Software in research. Other project of note connected to SEUL is Tor (network). See also Comparison of open source software hosting facilities External links |
a comic book Sabrina, a character in John Milton's masque Comus Music Sabrina (Filipino singer) (born 1989) Sabrina (Greek singer) (born 1969) Sabrina Salerno (born 1968), Italian singer, Aka just "Sabrina" Sabrina (album), an album by Sabrina Sabrina (Portuguese singer) (born 1982) "Sabrina", a song by Einstürzende Ne... | Sabrina (Portuguese singer) (born 1982) "Sabrina", a song by Einstürzende Neubauten "Sabrina", a song by Inkubus Sukkubus from Heartbeat of the Earth Places Sabrina Coast, a part of the coast of Antarctica Sabrina Ridge, Antarctica Sabrina Island, off Antarctica Sabrina Island (Azores), a temporary island between June ... |
Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces. 1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II. 1949 – Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China. 1956 – USAF Capt... | Duke of Aosta (d. 2021) 1943 – Randy Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1944 – Ian Garnett, English admiral 1944 – Angélica María, American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress 1944 – Gary Sutherland, American baseball player and scout 1945 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (d. 2003) 1946... |
along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored. 1800 – The Maltese National Congress Battalions are disbanded by British Civil Commissioner Alexander Ball. 1802 – France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont. 1803 – Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between Br... | 1709 – Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands, and Austria fight against France. 1714 – Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession. 1758 – Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Y... |
was "beset by woes, money problems, and the question of existence. In short, he is one of us." Following Ditko's departure after issue #38 (July 1966), John Romita Sr. replaced him as penciller and would draw the series for the next several years. In 1968, Romita would also draw the character's extra-length stories in ... | stopped her so suddenly was, in fact, what killed her." The following issue, the Goblin appears to kill himself accidentally in the ensuing battle with Spider-Man. Working through his grief, Parker eventually develops tentative feelings toward Watson, and the two "become confidants rather than lovers". A romantic relat... |
city to determine its own faith – the most important export item being bar iron and the most important destination Lübeck. During the reign of Vasa's sons, trade led many Swedes to settle in the city, but the trade and the capital needed to control it was largely in the hands of the king and German merchants from Lübec... | leading nobles and burghers of Stockholm beheaded in the so-called Stockholm Bloodbath. When King Gustav Vasa finally besieged and conquered the city three years later, an event which ended the Kalmar Union and the Swedish Middle Ages, he noted every second building in the city was abandoned. By the end of the 15th cen... |
stan (Old Town), located on the original small islands of the city's earliest settlements and still featuring the medieval street layout. Some notable buildings of Gamla Stan are the large German Church (Tyska kyrkan) and several mansions and palaces: the Riddarhuset (the House of Nobles), the Bonde Palace, the Tessin ... | in 1697 when the original medieval castle was destroyed, Stockholm Palace was erected in a baroque style. Storkyrkan Cathedral, the episcopal seat of the Bishop of Stockholm, stands next to the castle. It was founded in the 13th century but is clad in a baroque exterior dating to the 18th century. As early as the 15th ... |
playing lead guitar in a college rock band named Mother Rush. Lawhead met Alice Slaikeu in 1971, and married her in 1972. He graduated from Kearney State College in 1973 with BA in Art and then went on to enroll in Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. During this time Lawhead also enrolled in a number of writing cour... | books set between the Celtic Otherworld and present-day Britain. In the 1990s, he published Byzantium, a work of pure historical fiction, followed by "The Celtic Crusades" trilogy, set at the time of the Crusades, and then Avalon: The Return of King Arthur, a stand-alone related to the Pendragon Cycle. In 2003, Lawhead... |
the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic. 1989 – The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide. 1992 – The Constituti... | Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (d. 1986) 1909 – Peter Scott, English ornithologist, painter, and sailor (d. 1989) 1910 – Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (d. 1982) 1910 – Jack Hawkins, English actor and producer (d. 1973) 1910 – Yiannis Latsis, Greek businessman (d. 2003) 1910 – Rolf Lieberma... |
casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire. 1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany. 1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania. 1943 – The Monterrey Institute ... | 1892 – Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) 1893 – Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (d. 1958) 1899 – Billy Rose, American composer and manager (d. 1966) 1900 – W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columb... |
– The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences. 1936 – The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. 1940 – Romania returns Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova. 1940 – World War II: The German Luftwaff... | The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. 1977 – The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed. 1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridg... |
the palace to be shut, and publicly announced from a palace window that Tarquinius had appointed Servius as regent; meanwhile, Tarquinius died of his wounds. When his death became public knowledge, the senate elected Servius as king, and the sons of Ancus fled to exile in Suessa Pometia. Livy describes this as the firs... | military obligations of all Roman citizens. As a whole, the so-called Servian reforms probably represent a long-drawn, complex and piecemeal process of populist policy and reform, extending from Servius' predecessors, Ancus Marcius and Tarquinius Priscus, to his successor Tarquinius Superbus, and into the Middle and La... |
where her trial was to be held and from where the jurors for her trial would be chosen. Her speech was entitled "Is it a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?" She said, "We no longer petition Legislature or Congress to give us the right to vote. We appeal to women everywhere to exercise their too long neglected 'citizen's... | that voice is stilled which I have loved to hear for fifty years. Always I have felt I must have Mrs. Stanton's opinion of things before I knew where I stood myself. I am all at sea..." Later life Having lived for years in hotels and with friends and relatives, Anthony agreed to settle into her sister Mary Stafford Ant... |
July 14, 1521, they explored the land around Winyah Bay. On October 8, 1526, they founded San Miguel de Gualdape, near present-day Georgetown, South Carolina. It was the first European settlement in what is now the contiguous United States. Established with five hundred settlers, it was abandoned eight months later by ... | of Siouan background. Along the Savannah River were the Apalachee, Yuchi, and the Yamasee. Further west were the Cherokee, and along the Catawba River, the Catawba. These tribes were village-dwellers, relying on agriculture as their primary food source. The Cherokee lived in wattle and daub houses made with wood and cl... |
of Sound Sessions (Descendents EP), a 1997 EP by the punk rock band the Descendents Sessions (This Condition EP) The Sessions (album), a 1995 compilation album by English punk/rock music group the Stranglers Sessions@AOL, a special avenue of | (clothing company), an American apparel company Sessions Clock Company, an American clock manufacturer in the early 20th century Arts, entertainment, and media The Sessions (film), a 2012 American independent drama film based on the true story of Mark O'Brien Sessions, a short-lived 1991 HBO series produced by Billy Cr... |
of process groups in POSIX-conformant operating systems CD sessions, how data is laid out on an optical disc Login session Session (software), a decentralized messaging platform Music Contexts Jam session, where musicians gather and play Pub session, playing music in a public house Recording session, where musicians re... | from their 2003 album Meteora "Session", a song by The Offspring from their 1992 album Ignition "Session", a song by Tyler the Creator from the album Bastard Other uses in music CD sessions, the layout of data on a compact disc or DVD Session musician, musicians available for hire Other uses Academic term, sometimes ca... |
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