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harsh contract of fealty. Chance writes that Tolkien further sets both Theoden and Denethor against the "Christian lord" Aragorn. In her opinion, Denethor "fails as a father, a master, a steward, and a rational man," giving in to despair, whereas Aragorn is brave in battle and gentle with his people, and has the Christ... | a man of far greater lineage and power [than Théoden of Rohan], though he is not called a king." Gandalf further commented: Unlike Saruman, Denethor was too strong to be corrupted directly by Sauron. He began secretly using a palantír to probe Sauron's strength, incorrectly insisting he could control it. The effort age... |
an unincorporated community United States Genesee, California Genesee, Colorado Genesee County, Michigan Genesee County, New York Genesee Falls, New York, a town Genesee, Idaho Genesee Theatre, Waukegan, Illinois Genesee, Lansing, Michigan, a neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan Genesee, Wisconsin, a town Genesee Depot, W... | Genesee Cream Ale, one of the brewery's brands The Genesee Farmer, an agriculture and horticulture periodical established in 1831 Genesee Country Village and Museum, a 19th-century living history museum located in New York Genesee and Wyoming Railroad, a railroad in western New York that operated from the 1890s to 2003... |
The hobbits in a frenzy scattered to look for Frodo. Aragorn, suspecting Boromir's part in Frodo's flight, ordered him to follow and protect Merry and Pippin. The Fellowship was then attacked by a band of orcs. The Two Towers Fighting to defend Merry and Pippin, Boromir was mortally wounded by orc-arrows. In Pippin's w... | Beowulf. Boromir appears in animated and live-action films of Lord of the Rings, and in radio and television versions. Appearances Boromir is the son of Denethor II and Lady Finduilas of Dol Amroth. He had a younger brother Faramir. A year after Faramir was born their father became the ruling Steward of Gondor, and Bor... |
It was only later on that the Romans adapted the Etruscan alphabet to write Latin and, in the process, switched from using points to divide words to the Greek practice of scriptio continua. Before (and after) the advent of the codex (book), Latin and Greek script was written on scrolls by slave scribes. The role of the... | invalid and their use would not be. As another example, so-called camel case—in which the first letter of each word is capitalized—has become part of the culture of many computer programming languages. In this context, names of variables and subroutines as well as other identifiers are rendered easier to read, as in Ma... |
Harrison Plaza, a shopping mall in the City of Manila In the United States: Harrison, Arkansas Harrison, Georgia Harrison, Idaho Harrison, Illinois (disambiguation) Harrison, Vigo County, Indiana Harrison, Maine Harrison, Michigan Harrison, Minneapolis, Minnesota Harrison, Montana Harrison, Nebraska Harrison, New Jerse... | the Fraser River and which is the outlet of Harrison Lake Harrison Bay (British Columbia), a side water of the river Harrison Mills, British Columbia, a locality and former mill town at the mouth of the Harrison River Harrison Knob, a prominent hill and important archaeological site adjacent to the mouth of the Harriso... |
less affected Minas Anor and evil creatures returned to the mountains bordering Mordor. There was war with the Wainriders, a confederation of Easterling tribes, and Gondor lost its line of kings. The Ringwraiths captured and occupied Minas Ithil which became Minas Morgul, "the Tower of Black Sorcery". At this time Mina... | westward into the Bay of Belfalas, on Gondor's southern shore. It is also the name of the port city, one of the five great cities of Gondor, and the seat of the principality of the same name, founded by prince Galador. The whimsical poem "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon" in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil tells h... |
stem. "Spiderwort" refers to the sap which dries into web-like threads when a stem is cut. The name "dayflower", shared with other members of the Commelinaceae family, refers to the flowers which open and close within a single day. The controversial name "wandering Jew" originates from the Christian myth of the Wanderi... | evening. Etymology The scientific name of the genus chosen by Carl Linnaeus honours the English naturalists and explorers John Tradescant the Elder (c. 1570s – 1638) and John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662), who introduced many new plants to English gardens. Tradescant the Younger mounted three expeditions to the ne... |
Georgia Highland Park, Louisville, Kentucky (once an independent city) Highland Park (Boston), Massachusetts, a neighborhood and historic district also known as Fort Hill Highland Park, Holyoke, Massachusetts, a neighborhood northeast of downtown Holyoke, Massachusetts Highland Park, Saint Paul, Minnesota Highland Park... | may refer to: Places Australia Highland Park, Queensland, a suburb of Gold Coast City Canada Highland Park, Ottawa, Ontario Highland Park, Calgary, Alberta Hong Kong Highland Park (Hong Kong), a housing estate in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong New Zealand Highland Park, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland United States Cities and... |
Henderson, Georgia Henderson, Houston County, Georgia Henderson, Illinois Henderson, Indiana Henderson, Iowa Henderson, Kentucky Henderson, Louisiana Henderson, Maryland Henderson, Michigan Henderson, Minnesota Henderson, Missouri Henderson, Nebraska Henderson, Nevada Henderson, New York Henderson, North Carolina Hende... | North Carolina Henderson, Tennessee Henderson, Texas Henderson, West Virginia Henderson County (disambiguation) Henderson Township (disambiguation) Geographic features Henderson (crater), on the far side of the moon Henderson Inlet, a small estuary in Olympia, Washington, United States Henderson Island (Pitcairn Island... |
Florida Lake Placid (Highlands County, Florida), a lake on the south edge of the town of Lake Placid, Florida Lake Placid, a lake in Pinellas County, Florida Lake Placid, Queensland, a suburb of Cairns, in far northern Queensland, Australia Lake Placid (Texas), a lake in Texas Lake Placid (film), a 1999 film directed b... | to: Lake Placid, New York, site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics Lake Placid (New York), a lake near the New York village Lake Placid, Florida, a town in |
or in support of the allegation; see Valmonte v. Bane, 18 F.3d 992 (2nd Cir. 1994). In some Federal Appellate Circuit Courts, such as the Second Circuit, the "some credible evidence" standard has been found constitutionally insufficient to protect liberty interests of the parties in controversy at CPS hearings. Prepond... | officer to briefly detain, attempt to question, and pat down outer clothing of a person of interest to police. probable cause of 51% truth or higher required that a crime was committed by a specific person : arrest and/or grand jury indictment of that person. Some credible evidence Some credible evidence is one of the ... |
common name for the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden (literally, "Under the Linden Trees"), a famous boulevard in Berlin Guyana Linden, Guyana Soesdyke-Linden Highway Netherlands Linden, North Brabant New Zealand Linden, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington Linden railway station, Wellington South Africa Linden, Gaut... | a hill-square in Rapperswil in the canton of St. Gallen Lindenhof hill, a hill-square in Zürich in the canton of Zürich United States Linden, Alabama, originally known as Hohenlinden, the county seat of Marengo County, Alabama Linden, Arizona Linden, California Linden, Idaho Linden (CTA), rapid transit station in Wilme... |
1956), English actress Manville S. Hodgson (born 1843), politician Mikey Manville (born 1980), musician and lyricist Tommy Manville (1894–1967), Manhattan socialite Places in the United States Manville, Illinois Manville, Indiana Manville, New | 1843), politician Mikey Manville (born 1980), musician and lyricist Tommy Manville (1894–1967), Manhattan socialite Places in the United States Manville, Illinois Manville, Indiana Manville, New Jersey |
1964), American actress Marietta Farrell (born 1951), Irish politician Marietta Gazzaniga (1824–1884), Italian operatic soprano Marietta Giannakou (born 1951), Greek politician Marietta Gillman (born 1955), American canoer Marietta Holley (1836–1926), American humorist Marietta Johnson (1864–1938), American educational... | (1864–1938), American educational reformer Marietta Judah (1812-1883), American stage actress Marietta Karamanli (born 1964), French politician Marietta LeBreton (1936–2009), American historian Marietta Marcolini (c. 1780–1855), Italian operatic contralto Marietta Marich (1930–2017), American actress Marietta Martin (1... |
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has a population of 144,307, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census. The ethnic makeup was as follows: Romanians: 97.93% Roma: 0.92% Hungarians: 0.09% Jews: 0.03% Other: 0.34% The Bacău metropolitan area, a project for the creation of an administrative unit to integrate Bacău with the nearby communes, w... | name. Men bearing the name Bakó or Bako are documented in medieval Transylvania and in 15th-century Bulgaria, but according to Victor Spinei the name itself is of Turkicmost probably of Cuman or Pechenegorigin. Nicolae Iorga believes that the city's name is of Hungarian origin (as Adjud and Sascut). Another theory sugg... |
penny of its $6,500 market price". It was, however, not a significant commercial success, failing to reach the level of high-volume sales like the Apple II, Commodore 64, Macintosh, or Microsoft Windows PCs. The workstations were sold to universities, financial institutions, and government agencies. Legacy A NeXT Compu... | at the San Francisco Hilton. It gave those interested in developing NeXT software an insight into the system's software architecture and object-oriented programming. Steve Jobs was the luncheon's speaker. Reception In 1989, BYTE magazine listed the NeXT Computer among the "Excellence" winners of the BYTE Awards, statin... |
He also addressed the issue of his ecumenical title and it not being accepted by the Turkish government: "We've had this title since the 6th century... The word ecumenical has no political content. [...] This title is the only thing that I insist on. I will never renounce this title." Ecumenical dialogue During his tri... | establishing jurisdiction over the Ukrainian Church, and to lift the excommunications which affected clergy and faithful of two then unrecognized Orthodox churches in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP). In response, the Russian Orth... |
Project, and released under the GNU General Public License in 1986. Later, Deutsch formed Aladdin Enterprises to dual-license Ghostscript also under a proprietary license with an own development fork: "Aladdin Ghostscript" under the Aladdin Free Public License (which, despite the name, is not a free software license, a... | forbids commercial distribution) and "GNU Ghostscript" distributed with the GNU General Public License. With version 8.54 in 2006, both development branches were merged again, and dual-licensed releases were still provided. Ghostscript is currently owned by Artifex Software and maintained by Artifex Software employees ... |
by vendors, and some have been turned into playgrounds and, more recently, community gardens. Lower Manhattan's SoHo district takes its name from an acronym for "South of Houston", as the street serves as SoHo's northern boundary; another, narrower neighborhood north of Houston Street is correspondingly called NoHo. In... | width of the island of Manhattan, from FDR Drive along the East River in the east to the West Side Highway along the Hudson River in the west. The street is divided into west and east sections by Broadway. Houston Street generally serves as the boundary between neighborhoods on the East Side of Manhattan—Alphabet City,... |
Australia, South Africa, and Canada, and influenced Europe and the United States. Architecturally, they were revivalists who modified old styles to suit new purposes. Revivalism Resort architecture (Germany) Victorian 1837–1901 (UK) See also San Francisco architecture Edwardian 1901–1910 (UK) Revivals started before th... | Indo-Islamic Mughal 1540–? (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) Akbari Mughal Garden Style Sharqi aka Janpur Style Neoclassicism 1720–1837 and onward. A time often depicted as a rural idyll by the great painters, but in fact was a hive of early industrial activity, with small kilns and workshops springing up wherever material... |
Navy guided missile cruisers ARM California, a list of Mexican Navy ships People Randy California (1951–1997), American musician, band member of Spirit California Molefe (born 1980), Botswana runner Places Regions and historical territories California Republic, a short-lived state declared during the Mexican–American W... | Hit Parade 1 "California", by Wild Strawberries from Bet You Think I'm Lonely "California", by Wilson Phillips from California "California", by Winds of Plague from Against the World "California", by Withered Hand from New Gods "California", by Lorde from Solar Power "California Sober", by Demi Lovato from Dancing with... |
to operate on continuous-tone images. For example, image compression algorithms are more efficient for those images. Another reason is the visual aspect since halftoning degrades the quality of an image. Sudden tone changes of the original image are removed due to the limited tone variations in halftoned images. It can... | limited the screen ruling to about 65 lpi. This was improved as higher resolutions of 600 dpi and above, and dithering techniques, were introduced. All halftoning uses a high-frequency/low-frequency dichotomy. In photographic halftoning, the low-frequency attribute is a local area of the output image designated a halft... |
including sums of consecutive integers, squares, and cubes, binomial coefficients, and simple combinatorial identities. The work is notable for its early use of proof by mathematical induction, and pioneering work in combinatorics. The title Maaseh Hoshev literally means the Work of the thinker, but it is also a pun on... | Rabbi Yeshayahu Horowitz explained the apparent paradox of his position by citing the old question, "Can God create a rock so heavy that He cannot pick it up?" He said that we cannot accept free choice as a creation of God's, and simultaneously question its logical compatibility with omnipotence. See further discussion... |
the tournament. Uruguay were the other team to qualify from that group at the expense of both Mexico and France. All the group's matches were played at Wembley Stadium apart from the match between Uruguay and France which took place at White City Stadium. In Group 2, West Germany and Argentina qualified with ease as th... | Portugal a 5–3 win. Meanwhile, in the other two games, Ferenc Bene's late goal for Hungary against the Soviet Union, who were led by Lev Yashin's stellar goalkeeping, proved little more than a consolation as they crashed out 2–1, and the only goal between Argentina and England came courtesy of England's Geoff Hurst. Du... |
on his theory, Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces, inspired the growth of a huge and rich research area that continues to mature to this day. In 1961 Milnor disproved the Hauptvermutung by illustrating two simplicial complexes that are homeomorphic but combinatorially distinct, using the concept of Reidmeister to... | systematic study of exotic spheres, showing in particular that the 7-sphere has 15 distinct differentiable structures (28 if one considers orientation). Egbert Brieskorn found simple algebraic equations for 28 complex hypersurfaces in complex 5-space such that their intersection with a small sphere of dimension 9 aroun... |
of stratified sets and stratified maps, proving a basic stratified isotopy theorem describing the local conical structure of Whitney stratified sets, now known as the Thom–Mather isotopy theorem. Much of his work on stratified sets was developed so as to understand the notion of topologically stable maps, and to eventu... | of Paris. His thesis, titled Espaces fibrés en sphères et carrés de Steenrod (Sphere bundles and Steenrod squares), was written under the direction of Henri Cartan. The foundations of cobordism theory, for which he received the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh in 1958, were alre... |
Kit Carson and other tales of Western adventure involving American Indians, such as those in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. In his recollections of childhood, he noted that he could always be found with paintbrush in hand. He was one of the first to enroll when George McKinstry opened an art studio in H... | at the Académie Julian. While at the Académie he became friends with Ernest Blumenschein and Joseph Henry Sharp. Artistic career Phillips returned to New York in 1896, where together with Ernest Blumenschein he leased a studio. In the Spring of 1898, Phillips accompanied Blumenschein on a journey to the American West. ... |
1928 having studied under Ernst Lindelöf and Rolf Nevanlinna. He assisted Nevanlinna in 1929 with his work on Denjoy's conjecture on the number of asymptotic values of an entire function. In 1929 Ahlfors published the first proof of this conjecture, now known as the Denjoy–Carleman–Ahlfors theorem. It states that the n... | and finally managed to travel there in March 1945. He did not enjoy his time in Switzerland, so in 1946 he jumped at a chance to leave, returning to work at Harvard where he remained until he retired in 1977; he was William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics from 1964. Ahlfors was a visiting scholar at the Insti... |
Art Museum. Elk-foot, whose anglicized name was Jerry Mirabal, began posing for Couse in 1907 and was one of the painters favorite subjects because of his "physical beauty and ideal features." Early works Couse's The Captive was shown in 1891 at his first solo exhibition, held at the Portland Art Association in Oregon,... | Native American subject by Couse, who later achieved fame in the United States for his paintings of the indigenous peoples of New Mexico. In 1991, The Captive was included in the National Museum of American Art exhibition entitled The West as America, which created controversy by its curatorial interpretation of the ar... |
Dunton (August 28, 1878 – March 18, 1936) was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He is noted for paintings of cowboys, New Mexico, and the American Southwest. Early life and education Dunton worked as a ranch hand as a youth and studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston, Massachus... | noted for paintings of cowboys, New Mexico, and the American Southwest. Early life and education Dunton worked as a ranch hand as a youth and studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to New York City around 1903, where he worked as an illustrator for publishing companies. In 1912 he briefly s... |
to become a drama student at RADA in 1925, where actor Claude Rains was one of his teachers. Laughton made his first professional appearance on 28 April 1926 at the Barnes Theatre, as Osip in the comedy The Government Inspector, which he also appeared in at London's Gaiety Theatre in May. He impressed audiences with hi... | he went to Paris and on 9 May appeared at the Comédie-Française as Sganarelle in the second act of Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui, the first English actor to appear at that theatre, where he acted the part in French and received an ovation. Laughton commenced his film career in Great Britain while still acting on the ... |
Artists, and the Salmagundi Club, and held a one-man exhibition of fifty Western paintings at the Noonan-Kocian Gallery. In 1914, a year after his wife died of diabetes, the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company release a promotional booklet titled Epoch Marking Events of American History that was composed of billboard illust... | for his painting The Sage Brush Trail. This painting went on to be exhibited at The Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1917), National Academy of Design, Winter Exhibition (1917), Art World Winter Show, Academy of Design (1918), and numerous other national exhibitions. Arguably his first Taos work to... |
support a rival claimant to the Syrian throne, Alexander Balas, who claims to be the son of the former Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes and, therefore, a first cousin of Demetrius. He has been "discovered" by Heracleides, a former minister of Antiochus IV and brother of Timarchus, who has been executed by Demetrius... | the Year of the Consulship of Nobilior and Luscus (or, less frequently, year 601 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 153 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Republic The uprisings i... |
Roman emperor for most of his life, proclaimed Augustus as an infant in 402 and ruling as the eastern Empire's sole emperor after the death of his father Arcadius in 408. His reign was marked by the promulgation of the Theodosian law code and the construction of the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople. He also presided ... | their collection was published as the Codex Theodosianus in 438. The law code of Theodosius II, summarizing edicts promulgated since Constantine, formed a basis for the law code of Emperor Justinian I, the Corpus Juris Civilis, in the following century. Famous "apple incident" Eudocia reached the height of her influenc... |
two younger children in 1970, weeks after filing for divorce. Ireland had recently exempted resident artists from income taxes, an opportunity that fellow science-fiction author Harry Harrison had promptly taken and helped to promote. McCaffrey's mother soon joined the family in Dublin. The following spring, McCaffrey ... | convention (Eastercon 22, 1971). There she met British reproductive biologist Jack Cohen, who would be a consultant on the science of Pern. Writer McCaffrey had had two short stories published during the 1950s. The first ("Freedom of the Race", about women impregnated by aliens) was written in 1952 when she was pregnan... |
natural abundance (NA) refers to the abundance of isotopes of a chemical element as naturally found on a planet. The relative atomic mass (a weighted average, weighted by mole-fraction abundance figures) of these isotopes is the atomic weight listed for the element in the periodic table. The abundance of an isotope var... | the different uranium isotopes have different half-lives, when the Earth was younger, the isotopic composition of uranium was different. As an example, 1.7×109 years ago the NA of 235U was 3.1% compared with today's 0.7%, and for that reason a natural nuclear fission reactor was able to form, something that cannot happ... |
son Nicomedes to Rome to ask the Romans' help in reducing the amount of these reparations. Egypt The Egyptian king Ptolemy VI Philometor defeats his brother, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, after he attempts to seize Cyprus by force. Nevertheless Philometor restores his brother to Cyrenaica, marries one of his daughters to him... | By place Hispania The Lusitanians harry the inhabitants of the Roman provinces in Hispania. At the same time, the Celtiberians of Numantia on the Douro revolt against their Roman occupation. Asia Minor After a two-year struggle, Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamum is finally able to defeat Prusias II, the aggressive ki... |
victory, Corculum is granted a triumph in Rome. Bactria Menander I (known as Milinda in Sanskrit and Pali) begins his reign as king of the Indo-Greek Kingdom. His territories cover the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria (Panjshir and Kapisa) and extend to the modern Pakistani province of Punjab, m... | Dalmatian war. In recognition of his victory, Corculum is granted a triumph in Rome. Bactria Menander I (known as Milinda in Sanskrit and Pali) begins his reign as king of the Indo-Greek Kingdom. His territories cover the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria (Panjshir and Kapisa) and extend to the m... |
the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lupus and Figulus (or, less frequently, year 598 Ab urbe condita) and the Eighth Year of Houyuan. The denomination 156 BC for this year has been used since the | the Year of the Consulship of Lupus and Figulus (or, less frequently, year 598 Ab urbe condita) and the Eighth Year of Houyuan. The denomination 156 BC for this year has been used since the |
to his throne by the Romans. However, Rome allows Orophernes to reign jointly with him. The joint government, however, does not last long, as Ariarathes V becomes sole king of Cappadocia shortly afterwards. Seleucid Empire Jonathan Maccabeus is recognised by the Seleucids as a minor king within their dominions. Births ... | Ab urbe condita) and the Seventh Year of Houyuan. The denomination 157 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Republic The Carthaginians, prevented by their treaty with Rome from enga... |
second son of Attalus I Soter of Pergamum, ascends the throne following the death of his elder brother, Eumenes II. Births Publius Rutilius Rufus, Roman consul, statesman, orator and historian (d. c. 78 BC) Deaths Eumenes II, King of Pergamum who has ruled since 197 BC and a member of the Attalid dynasty; a brilliant s... | and remove Ariarathes V from the Cappadocian throne. Demetrius I then replaces him with Orophernes Nicephorus, a supposed son of the late king, Ariarathes IV. With Ariarathes V deprived of his kingdom, he flees to Rome. Attalus II Philadelphus, the second son of Attalus I Soter of Pergamum, ascends the throne following... |
not enjoy his triumph for long, as he dies soon after from a paralytic stroke. Bactria While Eucratides I is in north west India to claim possession of the previous Bactrian King Demetrius I's territory there, the Parthians, under Mithradates I, annex two Bactrian provinces. Returning from India to reconquer them, Eucr... | on Roman law (d. 88 BC) (approximate date) Deaths Alcimus, high priest of Judea. Eucratides I, king of Bactria, who has reigned since around 170 BC. Eumenes II, king of Pergamon. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence), Roman comic dramatist, the author of six verse comedies that are long regarded as models of pure Latin (b. ... |
makes for Jerusalem, besieging the city and trapping Judas Maccabeus, the spiritual and military leader of the Maccabees, inside. However, Judas and many of his supporters manage to escape the siege. Judas Maccabeus and many of his supporters regroup to face the Seleucid forces in the Battle of Elasa (near modern day R... | Indo-Greek king who rules the western and southern parts of the Indo-Greek kingdom, when he invades the western territories of that kingdom. China A Painted banner, from the tomb of the wife of the Marquis of Dai (of the Han Dynasty in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan, is made (approximate date). It is nowadays preserved at ... |
High Priest Menelaus, who is supported by the Hellenist party, is removed from office and is executed. His successor is a moderate member of the Hellenic party, Alcimus. However, when Alcimus executes sixty Jews who are opposed to him, he finds himself in open conflict with the Maccabees. Alcimus flees from Jerusalem a... | Demetrius I, for help. The Maccabees, led by Judas Maccabeus, and a Seleucid army, led by the Seleucid general Nicanor, fight the Battle of Adasa, near Beth-horon. Maccabeus wins the battle and Nicanor is killed. Egypt Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, now king of Cyrenaica, convinces the Roman Senate to back his claim for contr... |
to Jerusalem. Lysias then lays siege to the city. Just when capitulation by the Maccabees seems imminent, Lysias has to withdraw when the commander-in-chief under the late Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Philip, rebels against him. As a result, Lysias decides to propose a peaceful settlement which is accepted by ... | the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Corculum/Lentulus and Figulus/Ahenobarbus (or, less frequently, year 592 Ab urbe condita) and the Second Year of Houyuan. The denomination 162 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent met... |
the Hasideans consent, but Judas Maccabeus argues for full political as well as religious freedom. Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC: The Maccabees attack nearby regions to Judea, fighting in a civil conflict between Gentiles and Jews. Roman Republic The Roman playwright Terence's play Heauton Timorumenos ("The Self-Torment... | urbe condita) and the First Year of Houyuan (後元). The denomination 163 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Egypt The Ptolemaic king Ptolemy VI Philometor is restored to his throne throug... |
Crisis of the Tumu Fortress (), also known as the Tumu Crisis (; ), or the Jisi Incident (), was a frontier conflict between the Mongol Northern Yuan and the Chinese Ming dynasty. The Mongol Oirat ruler, Esen Taishi, captured the Chinese Emperor Yingzong on September 1, 1449. Beginning of the conflict In July 1449, Ese... | come. The army reached Xuanfu on August 27. On August 30, the Northern Yuan forces attacked the rearguard east of Xuanfu and wiped it out. Soon afterwards they also annihilated a powerful new rearguard of cavalry, led by the elderly General Zhu Yong, at Yaoerling. On August 31, the imperial army camped at the post stat... |
withstood a Mongol assault in 1257.<ref>C. P. Atwood Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire'', p.592</ref> The Mongolian cavalry were lured in Xiangyang where they were slaughtered by the Song defenders due to the fortress' double layered wall design. When a Mongol contingent entered the entrance of the fortres... | Wende commanded the Song dynasty's Yangtze and his son-in-law Fan Wenhu and son Lu Wenhuan commanded Xiangyang. However the twin cities had expected an assault by bombardment and prepared for it. The city moat was expanded to a width of 150 meters, forcing Yuan siege weapons to set up at a distance. In addition to rein... |
a warm and witty transgender sex worker. She also meets and becomes deeply involved with several new friends: Rosa, a young nun who works in a shelter for sex workers who have experienced violence, but is pregnant by Lola and is HIV positive; Huma Rojo, the actress her son had admired; and the drug-addicted Nina Cruz, ... | of soap opera, but it is completely sincere and by no means camp". Wesley Morris of the San Francisco Examiner called the film "a romantically labyrinthine tribute that piles layers of inter-textual shout-outs to All About Eve, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Federico García Lorca and Alfred Hitchcock, and beautiful... |
Amorphophallus chlorospathus Amorphophallus cicatricifer Amorphophallus cirrifer Amorphophallus coaetaneus Amorphophallus commutatus Amorphophallus consimilis Amorphophallus corrugatus Amorphophallus costatus Amorphophallus coudercii Amorphophallus cruddasianus Amorphophallus curvistylis Amorphophallus dactylifer Amorp... | spathe and can pollinate female flowers in another spathe. Amorphophallus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species including Palpifer sexnotatus and Palpifer sordida. Pollinated flowers usually each develop into a globose berry, a fruit. The berries are red, orange-... |
events in the Seleucid kingdom. The Battle of Beth Zur is fought between Jewish rebel forces led by Judas Maccabeus and a Seleucid army led by the regent Lysias. Judas Maccabeus wins the battle and is able to recapture Jerusalem soon after. Judas purifies the defiled Temple in Jerusalem, destroys the idols erected ther... | now Isfahan) in Persia. He is succeeded by his son Antiochus V Eupator who is only nine years old. The regent for the boy is the late king's chancellor, Lysias, who was left in charge of Syria when Antiochus IV departed for his campaign in Persia. Lysias is, however, seriously challenged by other Syrian generals and fi... |
Seleucid Empire Artaxias I, king of Armenia, is taken captive by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes when he attacks Armenia. Artaxias is forced to recognize Antiochus IV's suzerainty over Armenia before he is released. Roman Republic The Roman playwright Terence's play Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law) is | early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Seleucid Empire Artaxias I, king of Armenia, is taken captive by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes when he attacks Armenia. Artaxias is forced to recognize Antiochus IV's suzerainty ov... |
Antiochus IV mounts a campaign against the Parthians who are threatening his empire in the east. He leaves his chancellor, Lysias, with responsibility for the government of southern Syria and the guardianship of his son. The leader of the Jewish revolt against Syria rule, Mattathias, dies and his third son, Judas, assu... | At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marcellus and Galus (or, less frequently, year 588 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 166 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Se... |
brutal revenge on Epirus for being an ally of Macedonia. Seventy towns in Epirus are destroyed and at least 100,000 citizens are sold into slavery. These actions take place despite the fact that Epirus has not aided Perseus in his war with Rome. Roman Republic Lucius Aemilius Paulus returns to Italy with the King of Ma... | defies the order that Jews should sacrifice to Zeus. Mattathias slays a Syrian official and escapes into the Judean hills with his five sons, beginning the Maccabean Revolt, a Jewish rebellion against Seleucid control of Judea. Greece Private documents collected by the Romans when they capture Perseus of Macedon incrim... |
Events By place Greece The king of Illyria, Gentius, is defeated at Scodra by a Roman force under Lucius Anicius Gallus and then brought to Rome as a captive to be interned in Iguvium. This loss removes Illyria as an important ally for Macedonia and effectively weakens Perseus of Macedon in his battle with Rome. The Ro... | became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Greece The king of Illyria, Gentius, is defeated at Scodra by a Roman force under Lucius Anicius Gallus and then brought to Rome as a captive to be interned in Iguvium. This loss removes Illyria as an important ally for Macedonia and effectively we... |
of Macedon trap a Roman army led by Consul Quintus Marcius Phillipus near Tempe, but the Macedonians fail to take advantage of their resulting superior tactical position. King Perseus asks the Seleucid King Antiochus IV to join forces with him against the danger that Rome presents to all of the Hellenic monarchs. Antio... | Consul Quintus Marcius Phillipus near Tempe, but the Macedonians fail to take advantage of their resulting superior tactical position. King Perseus asks the Seleucid King Antiochus IV to join forces with him against the danger that Rome presents to all of the Hellenic monarchs. Antiochus IV does not respond. Roman Repu... |
early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Greece In Thessaly, King Perseus of Macedon repulses a Roman army which is commanded by Aulus Hostilius Mancinus. Meanwhile, the Thracian city of Abdera is sacked by Roman and Pergamese troop... | place Greece In Thessaly, King Perseus of Macedon repulses a Roman army which is commanded by Aulus Hostilius Mancinus. Meanwhile, the Thracian city of Abdera is sacked by Roman and Pergamese troops. Egypt With the guardians of the young king Ptolemy VI Philometor demanding the return of Coele-Syria to Egyptian control... |
fight against Rome. However, the leagues of southern Greece remain neutral. Thanks to the efforts of Eumenes II of Pergamum while in Rome, the Romans declare war on Macedonia and send troops to Thessaly, thus beginning the Third Macedonian War. In the resulting Battle of Callicinus the Macedonians, led by their king, P... | against Rome. However, the leagues of southern Greece remain neutral. Thanks to the efforts of Eumenes II of Pergamum while in Rome, the Romans declare war on Macedonia and send troops to Thessaly, thus beginning the Third Macedonian War. In the resulting Battle of Callicinus the Macedonians, led by their king, Perseus... |
supports the reform party because of the financial support they provide him with. In return for a considerable payment, he has permitted the high priest, Jason, to build a gymnasium in Jerusalem and to introduce the Greek mode of educating young people. Jason's time as high priest is brought to an abrupt end when he se... | and Ligus (or, less frequently, year 582 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 172 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Greece Eumenes II of Pergamum travels to Rome to warn the Roman Senate... |
known as the Year of the Consulship of Albinus and Laenas (or, less frequently, year 581 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 173 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Egypt Ptolemy VI Philo... | year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Albinus and Laenas (or, less frequently, year 581 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 173 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval |
BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Mongolia The Xiongnu attack the Yuezhi, and force them away from Gansu. Deaths Mete Khan, emperor and founder of the Xiongnu Empire, who has united va... | Ab urbe condita). The denomination 174 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Mongolia The Xiongnu attack the Yuezhi, and force them away |
the Seleucid king Antiochus III has previously conquered. Both the Syrian and Egyptian parties appeal to Rome for help, but the Roman Senate refuses to take sides. Timarchus is appointed governor of Media in western Persia by Antiochus IV to deal with the growing threat from the Parthians while Timarchus' brother, Hera... | captivity in Rome to seize the throne for himself under the name Antiochus IV Epiphanes. During this period of uncertainty in Syria, the Egyptian ruler, Ptolemy VI, lays claim to Coele Syria, Palestine, and Phoenicia, which the Seleucid king Antiochus III has previously conquered. Both the Syrian and Egyptian parties a... |
Egypt Cleopatra I Syra dies leaving her son, Ptolemy VI, to rule Egypt alone. Parthia King Phriapatius of Parthia dies and is succeeded by his son Phraates I. Births Deaths Cleopatra I Syra, queen of Egypt from 193 BC, wife of Ptolemy V Epiphanes and regent for her young son, Ptolemy VI Philometor (b. c. 204 | Sardinia, enslaving some of the population. Egypt Cleopatra I Syra dies leaving her son, Ptolemy VI, to rule Egypt alone. Parthia King Phriapatius of Parthia dies and is succeeded by his son Phraates I. Births Deaths Cleopatra I Syra, queen of Egypt from 193 BC, wife of Ptolemy V Epiphanes and regent |
Illyrian tribe of the Histri. Luni in northern Italy is founded by the Romans with the name Luna at the mouth of the Magra River. Deaths Liu Xingju, Chinese prince of the Han Dynasty and a key player during the Lü Clan Disturbance (180 BC), grandson of Emperor Gao of Han and son of Prince Liu Fei of Qi Liu Zhang, Chine... | Perseus of Macedonia marries Laodice, the daughter of the Seleucid king Seleucus IV. Roman Republic After two military campaigns, the Romans finally subdue the Illyrian tribe of the Histri. Luni in northern Italy is founded by the Romans with the name Luna at the mouth of the Magra River. |
Roman Republic In Rome, the praetor Lucius Postumius Albinus celebrates a triumph after conquering the Vaccaei and Lusitani during his time as Roman commander in the province of Hispania Ulterior. Greece One of Perseus' first acts on becoming king of Macedonia is to renew the treaty between Macedonia and Rome. In the m... | Lusitani during his time as Roman commander in the province of Hispania Ulterior. Greece One of Perseus' first acts on becoming king of Macedonia is to renew the treaty between Macedonia and Rome. In the meantime, Perseus builds up the Macedonian army and puts out feelers for creating an alliance with the Greek leagues... |
Demetrius to death, at the instigation of his older son Perseus. Nevertheless, he is succeeded by his son Perseus. Asia Minor Eumenes II of Pergamum defeats Pharnaces I of Pontus in a major battle. Finding himself unable to cope with the combined forces of Eumenes and Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia, Pharnaces is compelled... | the exception of Sinope. Births Dong Zhongshu, Chinese scholar who is traditionally associated with the promotion of Confucianism as the official ideology of the Chinese imperial state (d. 104 BC) Liu An, Chinese prince, geographer, and cartographer (d. 122 BC) Sima Xiangru, Chinese statesman, poet, and musician (d. 11... |
in Europe for naming years. Events By place Greece After three years of intriguing against his younger brother Demetrius, including accusing him of coveting the succession to the Macedonian throne and being allied to Rome, Perseus persuades his father King Philip V of Macedon to have Demetrius executed. Roman Republic ... | frequently, year 574 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 180 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Greece After three years of intriguing against his younger brother Demetrius, including ac... |
which the Egyptian kingdom has declined in power and influence and has lost most of its empire outside Egypt other than Cyprus and Cyrenaica. The elder of his two sons, Ptolemy VI Philometor succeeds him, but since he is an infant, he rules under the regency of his mother Cleopatra the Syrian. Roman Republic Rome found... | decides to attack both Eumenes II of Pergamum and Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia and therefore invades Galatia with a large force. Eumenes leads an army to oppose him, however, hostilities are soon suspended following the arrival of Roman deputies, who have been appointed by the Roman Senate to inquire into the matters in... |
it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tamphilus and Macedonicus (or, less frequently, year 572 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 182 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the | since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Asia Minor The king of Bithynia, Prusias I Chlorus dies and is succeeded by his son, |
32 bit includes DMA or bus mastering, 16-bit does not Types I–III: Type I: 16-bit. Configuration thickness 3.3 mm Type II: 16-bit or 32-bit. Configuration thickness 5.0 mm Type III: 16-bit or 32-bit. Configuration thickness 10.5 mm PC Card was superseded by ExpressCard in 2003. Name PCMCIA stands for Personal Computer ... | introduction of release 2.0 of the PCMCIA standard and JEIDA 4.1 in September 1991, which saw corrections and expansion with Card Services (CS) in the PCMCIA 2.1 standard in November 1992. Many notebooks in the 1990s had two adjacent type-II slots, which allowed installation of two type-II cards or one, double-thicknes... |
and imprisoned. He is then given poison to take so that he can die honourably. Births Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul in 138 BC, who will have a prominent part in the murder of Tiberius Gracchus by leading a group of conservative senators and other knights in opposition to Gracchus and his supporters (d... | denomination 183 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Republic Roman colonies are established at Mutina (later Modena), Pisa and Parma in northern and central Italy. The Roman gener... |
off or have the end(s) of the twine sewn through the rope. According to The Ashley Book of Knots, "The purpose of a whipping is to prevent the end of a rope from fraying ... A whipping should be, in width, about equal to the diameter of the rope on which it is put ... [Two sailmaker's whippings], a short distance apart... | is put ... [Two sailmaker's whippings], a short distance apart, are put in the ends of every reef point, where the constant "whipping" against the sail makes the wear excessive; this is said to be the source of the name whipping." The other type of stopping knot is a seizing knot. Whipping is suitable for synthetic and... |
hollow chambers. Studies have suggested that the acoustic properties associated with the foraging cavity have no effect on excavation behavior. Once a chamber is found, they chew a hole into the wood and get grubs out of that hole with their highly adapted narrow and bony middle fingers. The aye-aye begins foraging bet... | such as lesser galago, bat-eared fox, mouse lemur, and others. Females have two nipples located in the region of the groin. Behaviour and lifestyle The aye-aye is a nocturnal and arboreal animal meaning that it spends most of its life high in the trees. Although they are known to come down to the ground on occasion, ay... |
color, using color frame buffers or X Window System (X11) servers with color support. The activities (applications) use the whole screen with several panes, though windows can also be smaller. The layout of these activity windows adapts to different screen sizes. Activities can also switch between different pane layout... | on computers based on a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Alpha processor using Tru64 UNIX, on x86_64 and Arm64 GNU/Linux and on Apple M1 MacOS. It is released and licensed as proprietary software. Genera is an example of an object-oriented operating system based on the programming language Lisp. Genera supports incr... |
rows of large mammal fossils, seemingly forming a box. Because the "grave" is orientated in a northeast–southwest direction towards Mecca, and all sides of the skull were exposed to the wind and were eroded (meaning the skull had somehow turned), they argued that Toumaï was first buried by nomads who identified the sku... | his predecessor, Hissène Habré. Toumaï also became a source of national pride, and Brunet announced the discovery before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a television audience in the capital of N'Djamena, "l'ancêtre de l'humanité est Tchadien...Le berceau de l'humanité se trouve au Tchad. Toumaï est votre ancêtre" (... |
Euler diagrams are typically less visually complex than the equivalent Venn diagram, particularly if the number of non-empty intersections is small. The difference between Euler and Venn diagrams can be seen in the following example. Take the three sets: The Euler and the Venn diagram of those sets are: Extensions to h... | products. Assuming that in the context cheese means some type of dairy product, the Euler diagram has the cheese zone entirely contained within the dairy-product zone—there is no zone for (non-existent) non-dairy cheese. This means that as the number of contours increases, Euler diagrams are typically less visually com... |
nominated for Best Picture and 93 winners. History Category name changes At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: Outstanding Picture and Unique and Artistic Picture, the former being won by the war epic Wings, and ... | in black-and-white since 1960's The Apartment. (Schindler's List, the 1993 winner, was predominantly black-and-white but it did contain some color sequences). Version availability No Best Picture winner has been lost, though a few such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Lawrence of Arabia exist only in a form altere... |
European languages, where lines always begin on the same side, usually the left. The original term comes from , , a composite of , , "ox"; , , "turn"; and the adverbial suffix -, "like, in the manner of" – that is, "like the ox turns [while plowing]". It is mostly seen in ancient manuscripts and other inscriptions. It ... | period. Many ancient scripts, such as Etruscan, Safaitic, and Sabaean, were frequently or even typically written boustrophedon. Reverse boustrophedon The wooden boards and other incised artefacts of Rapa Nui also bear a boustrophedonic script called Rongorongo, which remains undeciphered. In Rongorongo, the text in alt... |
plants, though some smaller conifers such as mountain pine and common juniper are also shrubby in structure. Species that grow into a shrubby habit may be either deciduous or evergreen. Botanical structure In botany and ecology, a shrub is more specifically used to describe the particular physical structural or plant l... | physical structural or plant life-form of woody plants which are less than high and usually have many stems arising at or near the base. For example, a descriptive system widely adopted in Australia is based on structural characteristics based on life-form, plus the height and amount of foliage cover of the tallest lay... |
collection of the CD, however, the track is credited to Mustaine, Ellefson, Friedman, Menza, but Mustaine credited the Rust in Peace-era line-up with the entire Youthanasia album as a tribute to the band's success at the time of the record's initial release). Post-Megadeth career and return (2002–2010) Ellefson formed ... | Conley on lead guitar, John Davis on rhythm guitar, and former Megadeth bandmate Jimmy DeGrasso on drums. Their first album, A Drug for all Seasons, was released in 2005. F5 appeared in support for Disturbed in February 2006 and toured the American Mid-West in the summer of 2006. Ellefson also appeared on the new Killi... |
puns, adventurous rhyme, and heavy alliteration. Typically, light verse in English is formal verse, although a few free verse poets have excelled at light verse outside the formal verse tradition. While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel or thought of as poetry composed casually, humor often makes a seriou... | Many of the most renowned "serious" poets, such as Horace, Swift, Pope, and Auden, also excelled at light verse. Notable poets English German Dutch Publications The following periodicals regularly publish light verse: Able Muse Light (formerly Light Quarterly), a journal of light verse The Spectator runs regular light ... |
and his brother Alexander as governors of the eastern provinces of Media and Persis. Roman Republic Gaius Flaminius is elected consul for the first time and, with Publius Furius Philus, he forces the Cisalpine Gauls to submit to Rome, creating the province of Cisalpine Gaul. Greece The Spartan king Cleomenes III destro... | year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaminus and Philus (or, less frequently, year 531 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 223 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Euro... |
of Egypt in the Nile Valley, Cyrene, Judea and the coast of southern Syria, Cyprus and a number of cities on the shores and islands of the Aegean Sea. The Macedonian Ptolemies maintain their authority over their territories with a small mercenary army made up of Macedonians and other Greeks. India The Ashokan pillar in... | victories are marred by the loss of the Cyclades to Antigonus II Gonatas in the Battle of Andros. Seleucus II Callinicus' mother, Laodice attempts to take control over the Seleucid Empire by insisting that Seleucus II make his younger brother, Antiochus Hierax, co-regent and give him all the Seleucid territory in Anato... |
530 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 224 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Greece After the Spartan King Cleomenes III takes Pellene, Phlius and Argos, Aratus of Sicyon is forced to ... | Chu. Initially, the Qin generals Li Xin and Meng Tian capture several cities and defeat the Chu army. The Qin Prime Minister Lord Changping, who was born in Chu, incites a Chu rebellion against the Qin invaders. He and the Chu general Xiang Yan then surprise and defeat the Qin army led by Li Xin and Meng Tian in the Ba... |
the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Republic The Battle of Drepana involves the Romans, under the command of the Roman consuls, Publius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Junius Pullus, attacking the Carthaginian fleet, unde... | the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Republic The Battle of Drepana involves the Romans, under the command of the Roman consuls, Publius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Junius Pullus, attacking the Carthaginian fleet, under the command of Adherbal, in the harbour of Drepanum (modern Trapan... |
Meiji era, with more opening during the Taishō and Shōwa eras. Nagoya University was set up in 1871 as a medical school and has produced six Nobel Prize laureates in science. Nanzan University was established by the Roman Catholic Society of the Divine Word in 1932 as a high school and expanded to include Nanzan Junior... | is relatively close to standard Japanese and to the Kansai dialect, differing in pronunciation and vocabulary. Handicrafts The industry of Japanese handicrafts in the city is centuries old. Arimatsu and Narumi dye: during the construction of Nagoya Castle in the 17th century, the lords of Owari called in skilled crafts... |
ranks 23rd, having fewer inhabitants than Sicily or Singapore, but more than Puerto Rico or Negros. Mountains running east and west divide Shikoku into a narrow northern subregion, fronting on the Seto Inland Sea, and a southern part facing the Pacific Ocean. The Hydrangea hirta species can be found in these mountain r... | Japan, Shikoku has no active volcanoes, and is the largest of Japan's islands to completely lack them. But Shikoku did experience volcanic activity in the distant prehistoric past; a major volcanic caldera in the area of Mount Ishizuchi was active during the Miocene around 14 million years ago. Population Shikoku has a... |
Agency, the Chūbu Regional Police Bureau (中部管区警察局, Chūbu kanku keisatsu-kyoku; (ja)) is responsible for six prefectural police forces: Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Gifu, Aichi and Mie. In local government, the Chūbu area governors' association (中部圏知事会, Chūbuken chijikai) unites the governors of Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Nag... | There is also another subregion occasionally referred to in business circles called Chūkyō. Tōkai The Tōkai region, mostly bordering the Pacific Ocean, is a narrow corridor interrupted in places by mountains that descend into the sea. Since the Tokugawa period (1600–1867), this corridor has been critical in linking Tok... |
feature of the western edge, while the Ōu Mountains mark the eastern border and the higher Dewa Mountains run parallel through the center. Like much of northern Japan, the prefecture has cold winters, particularly in areas farther from the sea. As of 31 March 2019, 11% of the total land area of the prefecture is design... | cities. Akita Prefecture has seen some of the most severe population decline in Japan: it is one of four prefectures in Japan registering declines in population since 1955. Its population also has the lowest percentage of children, at 11.2%. As of October 1, 2019, it has a population of approximately 966,000 people. Th... |
a hill which existed near the town. This forest was often used by fishermen as a landmark. A different theory suggests the name might have been derived from the Ainu language. The area has been settled extensively since prehistoric times, and numerous Jōmon period sites have been found by archaeologists, the most famou... | in the Kamakura period, the territory was part of the domain assigned to the Nambu clan, and into the Sengoku period, it came under the control of the rival Tsugaru clan, whose main castle was located in Namioka. After the start of the Edo period, what would become the core of present-day Aomori was a minor port settle... |
years ago. By 7,000 BCE fishing cultures had developed along the shores of the prefecture which were three meters higher than the present day shoreline. Around 3,900 BCE settlement at the Sannai-Maruyama Site in the present-day city of Aomori began. The settlement shows evidence of the wide interaction between the site... | March 13, railroad service was inaugurated on the Tsugaru Kaikyo Line. The tunnel's opening to rail traffic saw the end of the Seikan Ferry rail service. During their 80 years of service, the Seikan rail ferries sailed between Aomori and Hakodate some 720,000 times, carrying 160 million passengers. It continues to oper... |
Health Science Private St. Catherine University Matsuyama University Matsuyama Shinonome College (women's college) Senior high schools Prefectural Ehime Prefectural Matsuyama Central Senior High School Ehime Prefectural Matsuyama Higashi High School Ehime Prefectural Mishima High School Ehime Prefectural Uwajima Fisher... | Prize in Literature), Shuji Nakamura (2014 Nobel Prize in Physics), and Syukuro Manabe (2021 Nobel Prize in Physics). History Until the Meiji Restoration, Ehime Prefecture was known as Iyo Province. Since before the Heian period, the area was dominated by fishermen and sailors who played an important role in defending ... |
business-opening rate in Japan. Large companies headquartered in the city include Iwataya and Kyushu Electric Power. Fukuoka is also the home of many small firms playing a supportive role in the logistics, IT, and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Most of the region's heavy manufacturing takes place in the nearby city o... | Kyushu with a fleet of 900 ships and 33,000 troops, including troops from Goryeo on the Korean Peninsula. This initial invasion was compromised by a combination of incompetence and severe storms. After the invasion attempt of 1274, Japanese samurai built a stone barrier in length bordering the coast of Hakata Bay in wh... |
to Fukushima Bank in February 1989, and on September 27 Route 115's was opened. On July 1, 1992, the Yamagata Shinkansen opened, connecting Fukushima to Yamagata. In 1995, the 50th National Sports Festival of Japan was held, primarily at Azuma Sports Park in the west of the city. The dam completion ceremony for the Sur... | Station was established on the route. Minekoshi Station was located south of the Surikami River and north of the Matsukawa River, which at the time flowed to the south of Mt. Minekoshi. The area south of the Matsukawa River was then, as it still is now, known as . Thus it is believed that the station was located north ... |
in Mazandaran Province, Iran Param, Chuuk, Micronesia, a municipality Param, Rampur, India, a village an abbreviation for parameter See also Para (disambiguation) | Param, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran Param, Mazandaran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran Param, Chuuk, |
a soft, non-cancerous growth resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis (and yaws). It is a form of granuloma. Gummas are most commonly found in the liver (gumma hepatis), but can also be found in brain, heart, skin, bone, testis, and other tissues, leading to a variety of potential problems including neurological d... | which forms an amorphous proteinaceous mass. The center may become partly hyalinized. These central regions begin to die through coagulative necrosis, though they also retain some of the structural characteristics of previously normal tissues, enabling a distinction from the granulomas of tuberculosis where caseous nec... |
Paralympic swimmer Kurumi Nara (born 1991), Japanese tennis player Rao Nara (1420–1487), crown Prince of Nadol, India , Japanese basketball player Takeji Nara (1868–1962), general in the Imperial Japanese Army Tatsuki Nara (born 1993), Japanese footballer Tatunca Nara (born 1941), German-Brazilian jungle guide who inve... | (Oka), a river in Russia Nara River (India), a river in Gujarat, India Nara Burnu, a cape in Turkey People and society Nara people, a Nilotic ethnic minority inhabiting Eritrea Nara language, the mother tongue of the Nara people Nara clan, a Manchu clan in China National Radical Camp or Nara Party, several Polish natio... |
Kanagawa Treaty House, the site of the negotiation and signing of the Convention of Kanagawa (or The Treaty of Amity and Friendship) 17683 Kanagawa, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1997 Battle of Kanagawa, a battle during the Sengoku period of Japanese history or , concluded between Commodore Matthew Perry of | of Amity and Friendship) 17683 Kanagawa, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1997 Battle of Kanagawa, a battle during the Sengoku period of Japanese history or , concluded between Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States Navy and Japan , a famous woodblock print by Hokusai TV Kanagawa, an independent UHF television ... |
landed in Kanagawa in 1853 and 1854 and signed the Convention of Kanagawa to force open Japanese ports to the United States. Yokohama, the largest deep-water port in Tokyo Bay, was opened to foreign traders in 1859 after several more years of foreign pressure, and eventually developed into the largest trading port in J... | eastern Pacific coast on Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay, separated by the Miura Peninsula, across from Chiba Prefecture on the Bōsō Peninsula. Kanagawa Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with Yokohama and many of its cities being major commercial hubs and southern ... |
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