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Gang Gang Dance See also Kamacuras, a fictional gigantic praying mantis in the Godzilla film series Izuru Kamukura, the mastermind behind "The Tragedy" in | Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Named after the city are: Kamakura period (c.1192–1333), a period in the history of Japan Kamakura shogunate (1192–1333), the shōgun government of the period Kamakura (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe Kamakura Corporation, a U.S. financial |
fallen into the hands of the Hōjō clan. Yoriie plotted to take back his power, but failed and was assassinated on July 17, 1204. His six-year-old first son Ichiman had already been killed during political turmoil in Kamakura, while his second son Yoshinari at age six was forced to become a Buddhist priest under the nam... | which ruled Japan for 150 years. Among Kita-Kamakura's most illustrious citizens were artist Isamu Noguchi and movie director Yasujirō Ozu. Ozu is buried at Engaku-ji. Wakamiya Ōji and the shogunate's six avenues Kamakura's defining feature is Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, a Shinto shrine in the center of the city. A runs fr... |
Film, even though they were both nominated for (and, in the case of Letters from Iwo Jima, won) the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which does not have similar nationality restrictions. The nationality restrictions also differ from the practice of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFT... | 1947 to foreign language films, fifty-seven have gone to European films, seven to Asian films, five to films from the Americas and three to African films. Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini directed four Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award–winning motion pictures during his lifetime, a record that remains unmatche... |
of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 757,914 (1 December 2011) and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2 (2,742 sq mi). Kōchi Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the northwest and Tokushima Prefecture to the northeast. Kōchi is the capital and largest city of Kōchi Prefecture,... | namely the Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park; Ishizuchi, Muroto-Anan Kaigan, and Tsurugisan Quasi-National Parks; and eighteen Prefectural Natural Parks. Cities Eleven cities are located in Kōchi Prefecture: Towns and villages These are the towns and villages in each district: Mergers Tourism Kōchi Castle, one of only 12 o... |
different taxonomists taking different positions. There are no objective rules for describing a class, but for well-known animals there is likely to be consensus. In the first edition of his Systema Naturae (1735), Carl Linnaeus divided all three of his kingdoms of Nature (minerals, plants, and animals) into classes. O... | Eléments de botanique, 1694. Insofar as a general definition of a class is available, it has historically been conceived as embracing taxa that combine a distinct grade of organization—i.e. a 'level of complexity', measured in terms of how differentiated their organ systems are into distinct regions or sub-organs—with ... |
these are officially recognized. In their 1997 classification of mammals, McKenna and Bell used two extra levels between superorder and order: grandorder and mirorder. Michael Novacek (1986) inserted them at the same position. Michael Benton (2005) inserted them between superorder and magnorder instead. This position w... | order. Any number of further ranks can be used as long as they are clearly defined. The superorder rank is commonly used, with the ending that was initiated by Armen Takhtajan's publications from 1966 onwards. History The order as a distinct rank of biological classification having its own distinctive name (and not jus... |
Memorial Park (Toronto), Canada Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California U.S. Mount Sinai Jewish Center, New York City, New York, U.S. Mount Sinai School, Alabama, U.S. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, now Icahn School of Medicine at Mount | gave Moses the Ten Commandments Places Mount Sinai, Indiana, U.S. Mount Sinai, New York, U.S. Other uses Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute, Miami, Florida, U.S. Mount Sinai Memorial Park (Toronto), Canada Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, |
it is a part. For example, it lies next to Mount Catherine which, at , is the highest peak in Egypt. Geology Mount Sinai's rocks were formed during the late stage of the evolution of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Mount Sinai displays a ring complex that consists of alkaline granites intruded into diverse rock types, inclu... | was said to have waited to receive the Ten Commandments. Islam The Jabal Musa is associated with the Islamic prophet Musa. In particular, numerous references to Jabal Musa exist in the Quran, where it is called Ṭūr Sīnāʾ, Ṭūr Sīnīn, and aṭ-Ṭūr and al-Jabal (both meaning "the Mount"). As for the adjacent Wād Ṭuwā (Valle... |
camel riding and camping in the deserts are still popular leisure activities for urban Bedouins who live in close proximity to deserts or other wilderness areas. Society A widely quoted Bedouin apothegm is "I am against my brother, my brother and I are against my cousin, my cousin and I are against the stranger" someti... | treated aggressively, and that the ghazzu wasn't a war, but a game in which camels and goats were the prizes. In the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Bedouin throughout Midwest Asia started to leave the traditional, nomadic life to settle in the cities of Midwest Asia, especially as hot ranges shrank and populations g... |
type 2 Neurofibromatosis type 3 Neurofibromatosis type 6 Neurofibromatosis, familial intestinal Neurofibromatosis, Type IV, of Riccardi Neurofibromatosis-Noonan syndrome Neurofibrosarcoma Neurogenic hypertension Neurol–Neurot Neuroleptic malignant syndrome Neuroma biliary tract Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis Neuronal h... | melanosis Neurocysticercosis Neuroectodermal endocrine syndrome Neuroectodermal tumors primitive Neuroendocrine cancer Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix Neuroendocrine tumor Neuroepithelioma Neurofaciodigitorenal syndrome Neurofibrillary tangles Neurofibroma Neurofibromatosis Neurofibromatosis type 2 Neurofibromat... |
is a list of diseases starting with the letter "O". O–Ob O Doherty syndrome O Donnell Pappas syndrome Obesophobia Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder Obstructive asymmetric septal hypertrophy Obstructive sleep apnea Oc Occ–Och Occipital horn syndrome Occlusive Infantile ateriop... | Oculomotor nerve palsy Oculopalatoskeletal syndrome Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy Oculorenocerebellar syndrome Od–Ok Odonto onycho dysplasia with alopecia Odontoma Odontomicronychial dysplasia Odontoonychodermal dysplasia Odontophobia Odontotrichomelic hypohidrotic dysplasia OFD syndrome type 8 OFD syndrome type F... |
rheumatica Polymyositis Polyneuritis Polyneuropathy hand defect Polyneuropathy mental retardation acromicria prema Polyomavirus Infections Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia Polyp–Polys Polyposis, hamartomatous intestinal Polyposis skin pigmentation alopecia fingernail changes Polysyndactyly cardiac malformation Polysyndact... | agenesis with neonatal diabetes mellitus Pancreatic cancer Pancreatic carcinoma, familial Pancreatic diseases Pancreatic islet cell neoplasm Pancreatic islet cell tumors Pancreatic lipomatosis duodenal stenosis Pancreatitis, hereditary Pancreatoblastoma Panhypopituitarism Panic disorder Panmyelophthisis aplastic anemia... |
list of diseases starting with the letter "Q". Q Q fever Qazi–Markouizos syndrome Quadrantanopia Quadriceps | Quadrantanopia Quadriceps sparing myopathy Quadriceps tendon rupture Quadriparesis Quadriplegia Quebec platelet disorder Queensland tick typhus Quincke's edema Quinism |
Reticuloendotheliosis Retina disorder Retinal degeneration Retinal dysplasia X linked Retinal telangiectasia hypogammaglobulinemia Retinitis pigmentosa Retinitis pigmentosa-deafness Retinis pigmentosa deafness hypogenitalism Retinitis pigmentosa mental retardation deafness Retinoblastoma Retinohepatoendocrinologic synd... | Radiculomegaly of canine teeth congenital cataract Radio digito facial dysplasia Radio renal syndrome Radiophobia Radioulnar synostosis mental retardation hypotonia Radioulnar synostosis retinal pigment abnormalities Radio-ulnar synostosis type 1 Radio-ulnar synostosis type 2 Radius absent anogenital anomalies Raine sy... |
dysplasia Sequeiros–Sack syndrome Ser–Sez Seres–Santamaria–Arimany–Muniz syndrome Serum sickness Serious digitalis intoxication Setleis syndrome Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) Severe infantile axonal neuropathy Sex chromosome disorders Sexual aversion disorder Sexually ... | Schimke syndrome Schindler disease Schinzel–Giedion syndrome Schinzel syndrome Schinzel–Giedion midface retraction syndrome Schisis association Schistosomiasis Schizencephaly Schizoaffective disorder Schizoid personality disorder Schizophrenia Schizophrenia, genetic types Schizophrenia intellectual disability deafness ... |
Thakker–Donnai syndrome Thalamic degeneration symmetrical infantile Thalamic degenerescence infantile Thalamic syndrome Thalassemia major Thalassemia minor Thalassemia Thanatophobia Thanatophoric dysplasia cloverleaf skull Thanatophoric dysplasia Glasgow variant Thanos–Stewart–Zonana syndrome Theodor–Hertz–Goodman synd... | Thrombocytopenia multiple congenital anomaly Thrombocytopenia purpura Thrombocytopenia Robin sequence Thrombocytopenia Thrombocytopenic purpura, autoimmune Thrombocytosis Thrombomodulin anomalies, familial Thrombotic microangiopathy, familial Thrush Thumb absence hypoplastic halluces Thumb absent short stature immune d... |
Unverricht–Lundborg disease Upington disease Upper limb defect eye and ear abnormalities Upton–Young syndrome Ur Urachal cancer Urachal cyst Urbach–Wiethe disease Urban–Rogers–Meyer syndrome Urban–Schosser–Spohn syndrome Urea cycle enzymopathies Uremia Urethral obstruction sequence Uridine monophosphate synthetase defi... | Uniparental disomy of 11 Uniparental disomy of 13 Uniparental disomy of 14 Uniparental disomy of 2 Uniparental disomy of 6 Uniparental disomy Unna–Politzer nevus Unna's seborrhoeic eczema Unverricht–Lundborg disease Upington disease Upper limb defect eye and ear abnormalities Upton–Young syndrome Ur Urachal cancer Urac... |
syndrome Viljoen–Winship syndrome Vipoma Viral hemorrhagic fever Virilism Virilizing ovarian tumor Virus associated hemophagocytic syndrome Visceral myopathy familial external ophthalmoplegia Visceral steatosis Viscero-atrial heterotaxia Visna Maedi complex Vit Vitamin A embryopathy Vitamin B6 deficiency Vitamin B12 de... | Valproic acid antenatal infection Valvular dysplasia of the child Van Allen–Myhre syndrome Van Bogaert–Hozay syndrome Van De Berghe–Dequeker syndrome Van Den Bosch syndrome Van Den Ende–Brunner syndrome Van der Woude syndrome Van der Woude syndrome 2 Van Goethem syndrome Van Maldergem–Wetzburger–Verloes syndrome Van Re... |
syndrome Warburg–Thomsen syndrome Warburton–Anyane–Yeboa syndrome Warfarin antenatal infection Warfarin necrosis Warkany syndrome Warman–Mulliken–Hayward syndrome Warm-reacting-antibody hemolytic anemia Warts Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome Watermelon stomach Watson syndrome We Wea–Wer Weaver–Johnson syndrome Weaver-l... | known as granulomatosis with polyangiitis) Wegmann–Jones–Smith syndrome Weil syndrome Weinstein–Kliman–Scully syndrome Weismann–Netter–Stuhl syndrome Weissenbacher–Zweymuller syndrome Welander distal myopathy, Swedish type Weleber–Hecht–Bigley syndrome Wellesley–Carmen–French syndrome Wells–Jankovic syndrome Wells synd... |
of diseases starting with the letter "X". X X, disease X chromosome, duplication Xq13 1 q21 1 X chromosome, monosomy Xp22 pter X chromosome, monosomy Xq28 X chromosome, trisomy Xp3 X chromosome, trisomy Xpter Xq13 X chromosome, trisomy Xq X chromosome, trisomy Xq25 X fragile site folic acid type Xa–Xk Xanthic urolithia... | X chromosome, duplication Xq13 1 q21 1 X chromosome, monosomy Xp22 pter X chromosome, monosomy Xq28 X chromosome, trisomy Xp3 X chromosome, trisomy Xpter Xq13 X chromosome, trisomy Xq X chromosome, trisomy Xq25 X fragile site folic acid type Xa–Xk Xanthic urolithiasis Xanthine oxydase deficiency Xanthinuria Xanthomatos... |
infection Yersiniosis Yersinia entercolitica infection Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection Yim–Ebbin syndrome Yolk sac tumor Yorifuji–Okuno syndrome Yoshimura–Takeshita syndrome Young–Hugues syndrome Young–Madders syndrome Young | Yeast infection Yellow fever Yellow nail syndrome Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome Yersinia pestis infection Yersiniosis Yersinia entercolitica infection Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection |
Zinc deficiency Zinc toxicity Zlotogora syndrome Zollinger–Ellison syndrome Zonular cataract and nystagmus | with the letter "Z". Z Zadik–Barak–Levin syndrome ZAP70 deficiency Zamzam–Sheriff–Phillips syndrome Zechi-Ceide syndrome Zellweger syndrome Zenker's |
marriage broke up, reportedly owing to his 1980 announcement that he would continue in the role of the King for another long tour and Broadway run, as well as his affairs with female fans and his neglect of his wife and children. On April 4, 1983, aged 62, Brynner married his fourth and final wife, Kathy Lee (born 1957... | whom he had met in a production of The King and I. They remained married for the last two years of his life. His longtime close friends Meredith A. Disney and her sons Charles Elias Disney and Daniel H. Disney attended Brynner and Lee's final performances of The King and I. Although Brynner had become a naturalized U.S... |
Grafton Township, Fillmore County, Nebraska Grafton Township, Walsh County, North Dakota Grafton Township, Lorain County, Ohio Companies Grafton (publisher), a British paperback book imprint, active 1981–1993 Grafton Architects, comprising architects Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell Grafton Cinema, 1911–1973 Grafton... | city of Auckland Sierra Leone Grafton, Sierra Leone United States Localities Knights Landing, California, formerly Grafton Grafton, Illinois Grafton, Indiana Grafton, Iowa Grafton, Kansas Grafton, Massachusetts Grafton (MBTA station) Grafton, Nebraska Grafton, New Hampshire Grafton, New York Grafton, North Dakota Graft... |
originally known as the Garden City Association Places Africa and the Middle East Garden City (Cairo), Egypt, a district Garden City (Nigeria), nickname of Port Harcourt Asia Bangalore, known as the "Garden City of India" Putrajaya, Malaysia, nicknamed "Garden City" Singapore, nicknamed the "Garden City" due to its par... | Ontario, Canada St. Catharines, Ontario, also known as "The Garden City" Victoria, British Columbia, also known as "The Garden City" United States Garden City, Alabama Garden City, Colorado Garden City, Florida Garden City, Georgia Garden City, Idaho Garden City, Indiana Garden City, Iowa Garden City, Kansas Garden Cit... |
in Wood County Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, a town in Wood County The city of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, also in Wood County, formerly named Grand Rapids Railroads Grand Rapids, | the U.S. state of Michigan. Grand Rapids may also refer to: Places In Canada: Grand Rapids, Manitoba Grand Rapids (Athabasca River) Grand Rapids, British Columbia In the United States: Grand Rapids metropolitan area Grand Rapids, Minnesota Grand Rapids, North Dakota Grand Rapids, Ohio, a village in Wood County Grand Ra... |
Nova Scotia Greenfield, Edmonton, Alberta, a neighbourhood United Kingdom Greenfield, Bedfordshire, England Greenfield, Glasgow, Scotland Greenfield, Greater Manchester, England Greenfield, Flintshire, Wales United States Greenfield, Arkansas Greenfield, California, in Monterey County Greenfield, Kern County, Californi... | historic plantation house Greenfield (Fincastle, Virginia), a historic plantation site Greenfield, Wisconsin, a city Greenfield, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, a town Greenfield, Monroe County, Wisconsin, a town Greenfield, Sauk County, Wisconsin, a town Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, a neighborhood of Fairfield Avenue M ... |
United States Hendersonville, Mississippi, an early settlement (extinct town) in Yalobusha County, Mississippi Hendersonville, North Carolina, a town south-east of Asheville Hendersonville, | States Hendersonville, Mississippi, an early settlement (extinct town) in Yalobusha County, Mississippi Hendersonville, North |
York North Carolina Hopewell, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Hopewell, Rutherford County, North Carolina Hopewell, Wayne County, North Carolina Ohio Hopewell, Jefferson County, Ohio Hopewell, Muskingum County, Ohio Hopewell, Seneca County, Ohio Hopewell Heights, Ohio, also known as Hopewell Oklahoma Hopewell, Oklah... | North Carolina Ohio Hopewell, Jefferson County, Ohio Hopewell, Muskingum County, Ohio Hopewell, Seneca County, Ohio Hopewell Heights, Ohio, also known as Hopewell Oklahoma Hopewell, Oklahoma Oregon Hopewell, Oregon Pennsylvania Hopewell, Bedford County, Pennsylvania Hopewell, Chester County, Pennsylvania Hopewell (on H... |
Howard Donald (born 1968), English singer Howard Devoto (born Howard Trafford, 1952), English singer-songwriter Howard Duff (1913–1990), American actor Howard Goodall (born 1958), British musician, musicologist and TV presenter Howard Grant (boxer) (born 1966), Jamaican-Canadian boxer Howard Hawks (1896–1977), American... | Cosell (1918–1995), sports broadcaster Howard Ward Cunningham (born 1949), American founder of WikiWikiWeb Howard Dean (born 1948), American politician Howard Donald (born 1968), English singer Howard Devoto (born Howard Trafford, 1952), English singer-songwriter Howard Duff (1913–1990), American actor Howard Goodall (... |
the Late Roman Empire was divided Illyrian Provinces, an autonomous province of France during the First French Empire 1809-1814 Illyricum sacrum, a classic eight volume historical work, published from 1751 to 1819 Species and subspecies Pancratium illyricum, a flowering plant species Polystichum illyricum, a fern hybri... | province of France during the First French Empire 1809-1814 Illyricum sacrum, a classic eight volume historical work, published from 1751 to 1819 Species and subspecies Pancratium illyricum, a flowering plant species Polystichum illyricum, a fern hybrid species Onopordum illyricum See also Illyricus (disambiguation) Il... |
ruled the country during three periods of Bulgaria's history as an independent country: from the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 681 to the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria in 1018; from the Uprising of Asen and Peter that established the Second Bulgarian Empire in 1185 to the annexation of the rump Bulgar... | The title tsar (emperor), the Bulgarian form of the Latin Caesar, was first adopted and used in Bulgaria by Simeon I the Great (son of Knyaz Boris I), following a decisive victory over the Byzantine Empire in 913. It was also used by all of Simeon I's successors until the fall of Bulgaria under Ottoman rule in 1396. Af... |
Hudson Valley Hudson Strait, connecting Hudson Bay to the Atlantic Ocean in Canada Mount Hudson, a volcano in Chile Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters Hudson (gargoyle), a character in Disney's Gargoyles series Angus Hudson, the butler in the 1970s British period drama Upstairs, Downstairs Doc Hudson, ... | the urban part of the town Hudson, New York, a city in Columbia County Hudson, North Carolina, a town in Caldwell County Hudson, Ohio, a city in Summit County Hudson, Pennsylvania, part of Plains Township Hudson, South Dakota, a town in Lincoln County Hudson, Texas, a town in Angelina County Hudson (town), Wisconsin, i... |
told a CBC Radio interviewer that as a student, he liked to read and write adding, "I was the kind of person who won the English prize in grade twelve."<ref name="Rogers">Shelagh Rogers. "An interview with Alistair MacLeod," in Alistair MacLeod Essays on His Works Irene Guilford ed. (2001) Toronto: Guernica Editions In... | inspiration to young, local writers." It quoted Marty Gervais, one of his university colleagues, as saying that the door to MacLeod's cluttered office was always open to students, faculty and even members of the public. "It didn't matter whether you were a good writer or a bad writer; he was open to talking with you, h... |
organization gave its annual Freedom of Expression Courage award to Charlie Hebdo. The award came in the wake of the shooting attack on the magazine's Paris offices in January 2015. Ondaatje and several other hosts condemned the attack on the office of Charlie Hebdo, but claimed that due to the magazine's history of an... | the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the 2001 Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Canada's Governor General's Award. The English Patient (1992) won the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Governor General's Award. It was adapted as a motion picture, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and... |
seven films were shortlisted. The full membership of the Makeup & Hairstylists Branch is invited to view excerpts and is provided with supporting information at a "bake-off" where balloting determines the five nominees. These are the additional films that presented at the bake-off. Multiple awards and nominations Multi... | Award of Merit. 1960s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Shortlisted finalists Finalists for Best Makeup & Hairstyling are selected by the Makeup & Hairstylists Branch. Ten films are shortlisted. Prior to the 92nd Academy Awards, up to seven films were shortlisted. The full membership of the Makeup & Hairstylists Branch is ... |
branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from all eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has been given to 83 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each. Despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nom... | six occasions, more than any other actress. At age 10, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest actress to win this award for Paper Moon (1973), and at age 78, Peggy Ashcroft became the oldest winner in this category for A Passage to India (1985). As of the 2021 ceremony, Youn Yuh-jung is the most recent winner in this categor... |
Dodona or Delphi, both in Greece, are widely known. In Greece, pilgrimages could either be personal or state-sponsored. In the early period of Hebrew history, pilgrims traveled to Shiloh, Dan, Bethel, and eventually Jerusalem (see also Three Pilgrimage Festivals, a practice followed by other Abrahamic religions). While... | of pilgrimage was an ascetic religious practice, as the pilgrim left the security of home and the clan for an unknown destination, trusting completely in Divine Providence. These travels often resulted in the founding of new abbeys and the spread of Christianity among the pagan population in Britain and in continental ... |
office would encourage the increased production of animated features. In 2009, when the nominee slots for Best Picture were doubled to ten, Up was nominated for both Animated Feature and Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards, the first to do so since the inception of the Animated Feature category. This feat was repeated t... | the only Japanese hand-drawn and non-English-language animated film to win the category, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is the only stop motion animated film to win. Pete Docter has the most wins and nominations of any individual, winning three awards for Up, Inside Out, and Soul. His only nominatio... |
NFB has the most wins in this category, with 6 Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category is Nick Park, with three wins: 1 for Creature Comforts and 2 for the Wallace and Gromit series. The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits." Ten films are shortlisted before ... | Leon Schlesinger |- | Imagination | Dave Fleischer |- | Reason and Emotion | Walt Disney |- | rowspan=8 style="text-align:center"| 1944(17th) |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Mouse Trouble| Fred Quimby|- | And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street | George Pal |- | Dog, Cat and Canary | Screen Gems |- | Fish Fry | W... |
various names, since 1957. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Best Short Subject, One-reel" and "Best Short Subject, Two-reel", referring to the running time of the short: a standard reel of film is 1000 feet, or about 11 minutes of run time. A third category "Best Short Subject, color" was used only... | "Best Short Subject, novelty". These categories were merged starting with the 1957 awards, under the name "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects", which was used until 1970. For the next three years after that, it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films". The current name for the Academy Award for Live Action Sh... |
it had been the last gender-neutral Academy Award category to never nominate a woman. In 2019, Alfonso Cuarón became the first winner of this category to have also served as director on the film, for his film Roma. This followed a public dispute between Cuarón and the Academy over the Academy's plan to shorten the Osca... | also separate awards for color and for black-and-white cinematography. After Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), the only black-and-white films to win since then are Schindler's List (1993), Roma (2018) and Mank (2020). Floyd Crosby won the award for Tabu in 1931, which was the last silent film to win in this categ... |
for transport genes. The recent sequencing of the genomes of several spirochetes permits a thorough analysis of the similarities and differences within this bacterial phylum and within the species. T. p. pallidum has one of the smallest bacterial genomes at 1.14 million base pairs, and has limited metabolic capabilitie... | amongst humans. It is a helically coiled microorganism usually 6–15 μm long and 0.1–0.2 μm wide. T. pallidum's lack of either a tricarboxylic acid cycle or oxidative phosphorylation results in minimal metabolic activity. The treponemes have a cytoplasmic and an outer membrane. Using light microscopy, treponemes are vis... |
with 3-7% carbon dioxide. Thayer–Martin agar is a chocolate agar plate (heated blood agar) containing nutrients and antimicrobials (vancomycin, colistin, nystatin, and trimethoprim). This agar preparation facilitates the growth of Neisseria species while inhibiting the growth of contaminating bacteria and fungi. Martin... | "lipo-") in the outer membrane coating the cell wall of the bacteria. The root "oligo" refers to the fact that it is a few sugars shorter than the typical lipopolysaccharide. As an endotoxin, LOS provokes inflammation. The shedding of LOS by the bacteria is responsible for local injury in, for example, pelvic inflammat... |
Tales from Firozsha Baag. It was later published in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. The book consists of 11 stories set within an apartment complex in modern-day Bombay. This volume contains the oft-anthologized story, "Swimming Lessons". His second book, the novel Such a Lon... | returning to academia at the University of Toronto where he obtained a BA in English and Philosophy. Career While attending the University of Toronto (Woodsworth College) he became the first to win two Hart House literary prizes for stories published in the Hart House Review, and Canadian Fiction Magazines annual Contr... |
This is a consequence of the first isomorphism theorem, because is precisely the set of those elements of that give the identity mapping as corresponding inner automorphism (conjugation changes nothing). Non-inner automorphisms of finite -groups A result of Wolfgang Gaschütz says that if is a finite non-abelian -group,... | of the following conditions: is nilpotent of class 2 is a regular -group is a powerful -group The centralizer in , , of the center, , of the Frattini subgroup, , of , , is not equal to Types of groups The inner automorphism group of a group , , is trivial (i.e., consists only of the identity element) if and only if is ... |
But the highways show our indifference to death, so long as it is someone else's. It is an attitude of the human mind I do not grasp. I have no point of connection with it. People drive in such a way that you think they do not believe in death. Their own lives are their business, but my life is not their business. I ca... | actively, and he eventually left acting in the 1960s. Findley's first two novels, The Last of the Crazy People (1967) and The Butterfly Plague (1969), were originally published in Britain and the United States after having been rejected by Canadian publishers. Findley's third novel, The Wars, was published to great acc... |
Award (The Stone Diaries) the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Stone Diaries) the Pulitzer Prize (The Stone Diaries) the Orange Prize (Larry's Party) the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (Jane Austen) nominations for the Giller Prize (Larry's Party and Unless) the Golden Plate Award of the American ... | Giller Prize, the Governor General of Canada Literary Award, the Booker Prize and the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction. It was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. On retirement in 2000, Shields became Professor Emerita at the University of Manitoba. That year, after Don's retirement, the couple moved to Victoria, Brit... |
Engineering Effects" to the first Best Picture Oscar winner, the World War I flying drama Wings. Producer David O. Selznick, then production head at RKO Studios, petitioned the Academy Board of Governors to recognize the work of animator Willis O'Brien for his groundbreaking work on 1933's King Kong. It was not until 1... | for their achievements in visual effects; i.e., five films produced by George Pal, five by director/producer George Lucas, five by director James Cameron (who began his career in Hollywood as an effects technician), four by directors Richard Fleischer, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, three by directors Robert Zemec... |
the credited source of the adaptation. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) are the only married couple to win. Geoffrey S. Fletcher (Precious) and John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) are the only African-Americans to win solo in this category; Fletcher is also the first African-Ameri... | the original film). Prior to its current name, this award had been known as the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium. See also the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the corresponding award for scripts with original stories. Superlatives The first person to win twice in this ... |
remained under the control of the Lord of the Manor throughout the Middle Ages. Reforms during the Tudor period reduced the importance of manorial courts and the day-to-day administration of towns such as Dorking became the responsibility of the vestry of the parish church. There was little change in local government s... | to the works by horse-drawn vehicle. The company was merged with that of Redhill in 1928 and became part of the East Surrey Gas Company when the industry was nationalised in 1948. After gas production ceased in 1956, the site of the works became part of the Dorking Business Park on Station Road. An electricity generati... |
Egypt. In response to this, the Spartans decided to send out their navy, but made the mistake of entrusting it to Peisander, who had no experience. The battle took place at Cnidus in 394 BC, and was an easy and overwhelming Persian success. The Aegean cities expelled the Spartan garrisons and accepted Persian rule. Aft... | Persian king Artaxerxes to prosecute the war by sea, and raised a fleet of 300 Phoenician and Cypriot ships. In sheer numbers they would be overwhelming, but they needed an experienced commander, and so they found Conon at Cyprus, who was only too happy for a chance to take revenge upon the Peloponnesians. First Conon ... |
also featured in Shandling's other show, The Larry Sanders Show, as one of the Story within a story final guests. In the episode, Petty gets bumped from the show and nearly comes to blows with Greg Kinnear. Petty appeared in the 1997 film The Postman, directed by and starring Kevin Costner, as the Bridge City Mayor (fr... | musicians participated: Mike Campbell co-produced the album with Petty and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra, and backing musicians included Campbell, Lynne, and fellow Wilburys Roy Orbison and George Harrison (Ringo Starr appears on drums in the video for "I Won't Back Down", but they were actually performed by P... |
drums, and Otis Spann on piano. The band recorded a series of blues classics during the early 1950s, some with the help of the bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon, including "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", and "I'm Ready" Muddy Waters's band became a proving ground for some of the city's best ... | a proving ground for some of the city's best blues talent, with members of the ensemble going on to successful careers of their own. In 1952, Little Walter left when his single "Juke" became a hit, although he continued a collaborative relationship long after he left, appearing on most of the band's classic recordings ... |
from 886 to 893. Born at Constantinople, Stephen was the son of Eudokia Ingerina and, officially, Emperor Basil I. However, at the time when he was conceived, Eudokia was the mistress of Emperor Michael III. Consequently, it is most probable that like his older brother Leo VI the Wise, Stephen was Michael's son. Castra... | his older brother Leo VI the Wise, Stephen was Michael's son. Castrated by Basil I, Stephen became a monk and was designated for a career in the church since his childhood. In 886 his brother, the new Emperor Leo VI, dismissed the Patriarch Photios and appointed the 19-year-old Stephen as patriarch in his stead. |
(Nicholas Mystikos), Ecumenical Patriarch in 901–907 and 912–925 Patriarch Nicholas I of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria | Patriarch Nicholas I may refer to: Patriarch Nicholas I of Antioch, ruled in 826–834 Patriarch Nicholas I |
and made him mystikos, a dignity designating either the imperial secretary or a judicial official. On 1 March 901, Nicholas was appointed patriarch. However, he fell out with Leo VI over the latter's fourth marriage to his mistress Zoe Karbonopsina. Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the f... | However, he fell out with Leo VI over the latter's fourth marriage to his mistress Zoe Karbonopsina. Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the future Constantine VII, Nicholas forbade the emperor from entering the church and may have become involved in the revolt of Andronikos Doukas. He was ... |
became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Republic A coalition of Cisalpine Gallic tribes (Taurini, Taurisces, Insubres, Lingones, Salasses, Agones, and Boii), reinforced by large numbers of Transalpine adventurers called Gaesatae (Gaesati), invade Italy. Avoiding the Romans at Arimi... | adventurers called Gaesatae (Gaesati), invade Italy. Avoiding the Romans at Ariminum, the Gauls cross the Apennines into Etruria and plunder the country. To meet this invasion, the Romans call on the Insubres' enemies, the Adriatic Veneti, the Patavini, and the Cenomani, who rapidly mobilise defensive forces. These arm... |
the patriarchate. Apart from the bastard eunuch Basil Lekapenos, who was appointed parakoimomenos, Theophylact was the only son of Romanos I to retain his high office after the family's fall from power in 945. Theophylact supported his father's policies and pursued ecclesiastical ecumenicism, keeping in close contact w... | have become patriarch during the reign of his father. His patriarchate of just over twenty-three years was unusually long, and his father had secured the support of Pope John XI for his elevation to the patriarchate. Apart from the bastard eunuch Basil Lekapenos, who was appointed parakoimomenos, Theophylact was the on... |
Stairs Expedition set out on the long return journey to Zanzibar. Stairs was frequently sick but by May 1892 had recovered. On a steamer down the lower Zambezi he had another attack of malaria which killed him on 9 June 1892. He is buried in the European Cemetery in Chinde, Mozambique at the mouth of the Zambezi River.... | impenetrable rainforest and swamps, Stairs and colleagues suffered frequently from malaria and dysentery. Stairs had endurance, toughness and perseverance. He discovered one source of the Nile, the Semliki River, and became the first non-African to ever climb in the Ruwenzoris, reaching 10,677 ft before having to turn ... |
had won the prize. A month later, he passed his oral examination and was awarded his PhD in mathematics magna cum laude. On graduation, Born was obliged to perform his military service, which he had deferred while a student. He found himself drafted into the German army, and posted to the 2nd Guards Dragoons "Empress A... | under Jakob Rosanes at Breslau University. Up until this time, matrices were seldom used by physicists; they were considered to belong to the realm of pure mathematics. Gustav Mie had used them in a paper on electrodynamics in 1912, and Born had used them in his work on the lattices theory of crystals in 1921. While ma... |
while sizing the thermal mass. - The optimum thickness of a masonry wall increases as the thermal conductivity of the wall material increases. For instance, to compensate a rapid heat transfer through a highly conductive material, the wall needs to be thicker. Accordingly, since the thicker wall absorbs and stores more... | natural means such as radiation, conduction, and natural convection. As a consequence, the wall works by absorbing sunlight on its outer face and then transferring this heat through the wall by conduction. Heat conducted through the wall is then distributed to the living space by radiation, and to some degree by convec... |
capable of using nitrate as the terminal electron acceptor in the electron transport chain. The organism will oxidize hydrogen sulfide (H2S) into elemental sulfur (S). This is deposited as granules in its periplasm and is highly refractile and opalescent, making the organism look like a pearl. While the sulfide is avai... | that works only over tiny distances. This implies that the cytoplasm has to be close to the cell wall, greatly limiting their size. But Thiomargarita are an exception to this size constraint, as their cytoplasm forms along the periphery of the cell, while the nitrate-storing vacuoles occupy the center of the cell. As t... |
its capital at Antioch on the Orontes, stretches from the Aegean Sea to the borders of India and includes southern Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and northern Syria. Dynastic power is upheld by a mercenary army and by the loyalty of many Greek cities founded by Alexander the Great and his successors. The strength of th... | At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Fullo (or, less frequently, year 528 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 226 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 Gre... |
A further break came as a novelty act on the BBC's consumer affairs programme That's Life! in 1976. She had met long-term collaborator Julie Walters in 1971, when Wood applied to the Manchester School of Theatre, then part of Manchester Polytechnic. Coincidentally the pair met again when they appeared in the same theat... | was the youngest child of Stanley Wood, an insurance salesman, who also wrote songs for his company's Christmas parties, was the author of the musical play "Clogs" based in a Lancashire village in 1887 and also wrote part time for Coronation Street, Northern Drift and others; and Ellen "Nellie" Wood (née Mape). She had... |
Ocna de Fier, the Constantin Gruiescu Mineralogical Collection. The county hosts the regional daffodil and lilac festivals in the Spring. Sites worth visiting: Cheile Nerei – Beușinta National Park; Semenic – Cheile Carașului National Park; Domogled – Valea Cernei National Park; Danube Iron Gate National Park; Semenic ... | county in Romania, after Timiș and Suceava counties. It is also the county through which the river Danube enters Romania. The mountains make up 67% of the county's surface, including the Southern Carpathians range, with Banat Mountains, Țarcu-Godeanu Mountains and Cernei Mountains and elevations between 600 and 2100 me... |
relays on 6 bus lines and was operated by the actually defunct Prescom company. It is now operated by TUR. Buses Reșița's bus fleet consists of about 25 buses running on 6 lines:1M/2: Marginea – Minda – Mol/Mopar/Molizilor4: Moroasa II – Lend/Baraj (dam of Secu Lake) – CET – Molizilor – Moroasa II8: Intim – Moniom – In... | has been partially renovated in 2006. An important point of attraction located in the City Centre is the impressive kinetic fountain designed by Constantin Lucaci, built in the communist era. There are also important cultural points in Reșița that have been renewed in 2006, including the Concrete School Școala de Beton... |
Pennsylvania Southampton, Houston, Texas, a neighborhood in the southwest portion of the city Southampton County, Virginia Naval forces HMS Southampton (1693), a 48-gun fourth rate HMS Southampton (1757), a 32-gun fifth rate HMS Southampton (1820), a 60-gun fourth rate Southampton-class frigate launched in 1820 HMS Sou... | of Southampton Baron Southampton Southampton Parish, Bermuda, British overseas territory United States Southampton, Massachusetts Southampton, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood in the southwest portion of the city Southampton Township, New Jersey Southampton, New York Southampton (village), New York Southampton, Penn... |
as cacti Among laypeople, Euphorbia species are among the plant taxa most commonly confused with cacti, especially the stem succulents. Euphorbias secrete a sticky, milky-white fluid with latex, but cacti do not. Individual flowers of euphorbias are usually tiny and nondescript (although structures around the individua... | above and supported by bract-like modified leaf structures (usually in pairs) called cyathophylls', or cyathial leaves. The cyathophyll often has a superficial appearance of being petals of a flower. Euphorbia flowers are tiny, and the variation attracting different pollinators, with different forms and colors occurs, ... |
named after his father and his mother's favourite sister Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples and Sicily, who was known as Charlotte in the family, Charles being the masculine version of her name. His younger sister, Sophie, was born a little over a year later. He became the Dauphin on the death of his elder brother, Louis-... | this time seen by a great number of people. On 6 October, Pache, Chaumette, Jacques Hébert and others visited the boy and secured his signature to charges of sexual molestation against his mother and his aunt. The next day he met his elder sister Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte for the last time. 1794: Illness On 19 January 17... |
Armour (1845–1891) Margaret Atwood (born 1939) Mary Balogh (born 1944) Pierre Berton (1920–2004) Marie-Claire Blais (1939–2021) Morley Callaghan (1903–1990) Deborah Joy Corey (born 1958) Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Ranj Dhaliwal (born 1976) Réjean Ducharme (born 1941) Louis Emond (born 1969) Musharraf Ali Farooqi (bor... | Blue Mountain, Esau Michal Govrin (born 1960), The Name, Snapshots Chaim Walder (born 1969), Kids Speak Avraham B. Yehoshua (born 1936), A Late Divorce, Mr. Mani Italy Giulio Angioni (1939–2017) Riccardo Bacchelli (1891–1985) Alessandro Baricco (born 1958) Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) Stefano Benni, journalist, poet, no... |
Sanda. In 1989, Godrèche starred in Jacques Doillon's La fille de 15 ans with Melvil Poupaud, which brought her fame. The following year, she turned to a full-time career in film. In 1990 she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Jacquot's La désenchantée. In 1991, she was ... | has appeared in more than 30 films. Early life Godrèche was born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Her father is a psychoanalyst, and her mother a child therapist. Her parents separated when she was eight years old. Her father is Jewish; his parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland and Russia who changed their s... |
In botany and mycology, division refers to a rank equivalent to phylum. The use of either term is allowed under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, and both are commonly used in scientific literature. The main Divisions of land plants, in the order in which they probably evolved, are the Marchantiophyta (... | used differently in zoology and in botany. In botany and mycology, division refers to a rank equivalent to phylum. The use of either term is allowed under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, and both are commonly used in scientific literature. The main Divisions of land plants, in the order in which they ... |
2g for closed surfaces, where g is the genus. For surfaces with b boundary components, the equation reads χ = 2 − 2g − b. In layman's terms, it's the number of "holes" an object has ("holes" interpreted in the sense of doughnut holes; a hollow sphere would be considered as having zero holes in this sense). A doughnut, ... | For instance: The sphere S2 and a disc both have genus zero. A torus has genus one, as does the surface of a coffee mug with a handle. This is the source of the joke "topologists are people who can't tell their donut from their coffee mug." An explicit construction of surfaces of genus g is given in the article on the ... |
Phloem (, ) is the living tissue in vascular plants that transports the soluble organic compounds made during photosynthesis and known as photosynthates, in particular the sugar sucrose, to parts of the plant where needed. This transport process is called translocation. In trees, the phloem is the innermost layer of th... | or no plasmodesmatal connections to cells other than the sieve tube. Transfer cells, which have much-folded walls that are adjacent to non-sieve cells, allowing for larger areas of transfer. They are specialized in scavenging solutes from those in the cell walls that are actively pumped requiring energy. Intermediary c... |
project. Two songs were released on a 78 rpm record, "Country Blues" and "I Be's Troubled". After moving to Chicago, he recorded for Leonard Chess and Aristocrat issued Waters's first single in 1947. In 1950, Chess bought out his label partners and formed Chess Records. From 1950 to 1958, Chess issued 15 singles that r... | and the live At Newport 1960. After Chess went out of business in 1975, Waters recorded several successful albums for Blue Sky. Produced by blues rock singer and guitarist Johnny Winter, Hard Again (1975), I'm Ready (1977), and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live (1978) won Grammy Awards for "Best Ethnic or Traditional R... |
board the trolley for home. Soon they are drifting back across the lake under the moonlight. A sudden storm causes their boat to begin sinking. The Man remembers the two bundles of reeds he placed in the boat earlier and ties the bundles around the Wife. The boat capsizes, and the Man awakes on a rocky shore. He gather... | Maid J. Farrell MacDonald as The Photographer Ralph Sipperly as The Barber Jane Winton as The Manicure Girl Arthur Housman as The Obtrusive Gentleman Eddie Boland as The Obliging Gentleman Sally Eilers as Woman in Dance Hall with failing straps (uncredited) Gino Corrado as Manager of Hair Salon (uncredited) Thomas Jeff... |
one central rib. The anther cap can be found at the top, dorsal side of the column, while the stigma is hidden below on the ventral side. Two pollinia hang from the column over the labellum. Distribution Ophrys apifera is widespread across central and southern Europe, as well as North Africa and the Middle East. Its ra... | verges and airfields. O. apifera is one of the most likely European orchid species to establish itself within towns and cities. In order to extract sufficient nutrients from the substrata it grows in, Ophrys apifera relies upon a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi in the genus Tulasnella, and possibly other ... |
conversations with Clinton, and requests by Starr to compel Secret Service agents to testify about what they might have seen while guarding Clinton. With the investigation of Clinton's possible adultery, critics of Starr believed that he had crossed a line and was acting more as a political hit man than as a prosecutor... | viewed as promoting illegal drug use." Blackwater Security Consulting v. Nordan (No. 06-857) Starr continues to represent Blackwater in a case involving the deaths of four unarmed civilians killed by Blackwater contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, in March 2004. California Proposition 8 post-election lawsuits On December 19,... |
or changed insect pest incidence. In Africa and Latin America many rainfed crops are near their maximum temperature tolerance, so that yields are likely to fall sharply for even small climate changes; falls in agricultural productivity of up to 30% over the 21st century are projected. Marine life and the fishing indust... | relation of frequency and intensity of soil drainage (leading to nitrogen leaching), soil erosion, reduction of crop diversity rural space, through the loss and gain of cultivated lands, land speculation, land renunciation, and hydraulic amenities. adaptation, organisms may become more or less competitive, as well as h... |
have to change their names by law. Join both names (hyphenation) It is less common for women, especially in the US and Canada, to add their spouse's name and their own birth name. Name blending Although less common than name joining, a growing trend is the blending of two surnames upon marriage. This means adding parts... | or proper name. Often there are interesting variations of name adoption, including family name adoption. In Massachusetts, for instance, a Harvard study in 2004 found that about 87% of college-educated women take their husbands' name on marriage, down from a peak before 1975 of over 90%, but up from about 80% in 1990. ... |
outstanding example, the Château de Versailles, also called in French le palais de Versailles, is so-called because it was located in the countryside when it was built, but it does not bear any resemblance to a castle, so it is usually known in English as the Palace of Versailles. When clarification is needed in French... | However, some fine châteaux, such as Vaux-le-Vicomte, were built by the essentially high-bourgeois—people but recently ennobled: tax-farmers and ministers of Louis XIII and his royal successors. The quality of the residences could vary considerably, from grand châteaux owned by royalty and the wealthy elite near larger... |
Vancouver Province newspaper. The couple lived and wrote in a squatter's shack on the beach near the community of Maplewood in British Columbia, north of Vancouver. In 1944, the beach shack was destroyed by a fire, and Lowry was injured in his efforts to save manuscripts. Margerie was an entirely positive influence, ed... | mother, and was closest to his brother. He began drinking alcohol at the age of 14. In his teens Lowry was a boarder at The Leys School in Cambridge, the school made famous by the novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips. At age 15, he won the junior golf championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake. His father expected him ... |
of songs inspired by Richards' novels, called Symphony of Ghosts. The title was taken from a line in Mercy Among the Children. Novels The Coming of Winter (1974) Blood Ties (1976) Lives of Short Duration (1981) Road to the Stilt House (1985) Nights Below Station Street (1988, winner of the 1988 Governor General's Award... | MacCormack released an album of songs inspired by Richards' novels, called Symphony of Ghosts. The title was taken from a line in Mercy Among the Children. Novels The Coming of Winter (1974) Blood Ties (1976) Lives of Short Duration (1981) Road to the Stilt House (1985) Nights Below Station Street (1988, winner of the ... |
Republic of China (Taiwan). History The New Party was formed on 22 August 1993 out of a split from the then-ruling Kuomintang (KMT) by members of the New Kuomintang Alliance. Members of the Alliance had accused KMT Chairman Lee Teng-hui of autocratic tendencies and moving the party away from Chinese reunification. Co-f... | being expelled from the KMT, and in fact both Li Ao and the New Party leader Lee Ching-hua encouraged people to support him. In the 2001 Legislative Yuan election, the party won a single seat, Wu Cherng-dean's, in Kinmen. In the 2006 municipal elections, the New Party made significant gains, seating over a dozen member... |
Craving CanLit feature (previously called Crazy for CanLit), which highlights the initial list of all titles that are under consideration for the award's longlist and shortlist nominations, seeks to publicize Canadian literature by engaging readers and writers through social media tools. Another online initiative start... | wrote, "Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada. Like the three musketeers, this trio is in fact a quartet: Bertelsmann also owns 25 percent of McClelland & St... |
missing copies for the governor general's study and, when she left the viceregal office in 2005, the complete collection of winning books to date had been amassed. It reached 552 books by late 2006 and was moved to Rideau Hall's library. Today it forms the only complete collection of Governor General's Literary Award w... | Governor General's Literary Award with two award categories. Successive governors general have followed suit, establishing an award for whichever endeavour they personally found important. Only Adrienne Clarkson created three Governor General's Awards: the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Governor... |
Commonwealth Foundation’s cultural programme, Commonwealth Writers works in partnership with international literary organisations, the wider cultural industries and civil society to help writers develop their craft. Partners include the BBC World Service, the British Council, English PEN, Granta, Hay Festival, the Prin... | Fund, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Brunel University African Poetry Prize, and others. Short Story Prize The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £5,000. The prize is open ... |
Battle of Kosovo in 1389. The result was indecisive, but it resulted in the subsequent fall of Serbia. The administration was divided in the following: Moravian Serbia: Lazar, a nobleman and close friend of the Nemanjić, would govern modern Central Serbia. He married Milica, a descendant of Stefan Nemanja's eldest son ... | Byzantines. After Desa's revolt, in 1165 the Byzantium divided the Serb lands between the four sons of Zavida: Tihomir in Raška, Stracimir in Duklja, Miroslav in Zahumlje and Travunia, and Stefan Nemanja in Toplica (in today's central Serbia). Stefan Nemanja rebelled against his eldest brother Tihomir in 1166, who fled... |
II defeat Arabs at Messina 1005 – Pisans defeat Arabs at Messina 1024 – Lemnos – Byzantines defeat Rus' fleet in the Lemnos Island 1026 The Helgeå – Danes under Ulf Jarl defeat Swedes and Norwegians under Anund Jacob and Olaf II Haraldsson (Olaf the Stout) in southern Sweden 1032 – A joint Byzantine-Ragusan squadron de... | de Beaufort defeat Algerines near La Goulette, Tunisia (details) August – French under the Duc de Beaufort defeat Algerines at Cherchell, Algeria 27 November – French under d'Escrainville defeat Turks 1667 February 25 and 26 – Venetians under Molin defeat Turks and Tunisians north of Crete (details) 1668 March 8 and 9 ... |
century. In 1815, Louis Eustache Ude wrote: No 58.—Mayonnaise. Take three spoonfuls of Allemande, six ditto of aspic, and two of oil. Add a little tarragon vinegar, that has not boiled, some pepper and salt, and minced ravigotte, or merely some parsley. Then put in the members of fowl, or fillets of soles, &c. Your may... | vinegar, that has not boiled, some pepper and salt, and minced ravigotte, or merely some parsley. Then put in the members of fowl, or fillets of soles, &c. Your mayonnaise must be put to ice; neither are you to put the members into your sauce till it begins to freeze. Next dish your meat or fish, mask with the sauce be... |
without her patron’s permission (her patron likely being Henry II of England). She wants people to read what she has produced, along with her ideas, and as such urges readers to search between the lines, for her writing will be subtle. In this Prologue alone, Marie de France has deviated from common poets of her time b... | detailed poems with imagery so that her audience would easily remember them. Her lais range in length from 118 (Chevrefoil) to 1,184 lines (Eliduc), frequently describe courtly love entangled in love triangles involving loss and adventure, and "often take up aspects of the merveilleux, and at times intrusions from the ... |
chutneys. There are substantial regional variations in Indian cuisine, but many sauces use a seasoned mix of onion, ginger and garlic paste as the base of various gravies and sauces. Various cooking oils, ghee and/or cream are also regular ingredients in Indian sauces. Indonesian Indonesian cuisine uses typical sauces ... | Cuisine in the 19th century" (The French Title: "L'art de la cuisine française au XIXe siècle"). Carême considered the four grandes sauces to be Espagnole, Velouté, Allemande, and Béchamel, from which a large variety of petites sauces could be composed. In the early 20th century, the chef Auguste Escoffier refined Carê... |
style of Latin American music Salsa (dance), a Latin dance associated with Salsa music Salsa or SALSA may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Salsa (film), a 1988 American romance film Salsa, a TV series program on Georgia Public Broadcasting Salsa, a 2000 album by Celia Cruz Salsa (EP), by Residual Kid, 2016 Salsa, ... | Salsa (EP), by Residual Kid, 2016 Salsa, a character in the video game Mother 3 Salsa, a character in the video game Eternal Sonata Transportation Salsa d'Haïti, a Haitian regional airline SEAT Salsa, a concept car Salsa, a satellite in the Cluster II mission Salsa Cycles, an American bicycle brand Other uses La Salsa,... |
cinders out of the chimney, vastly increasing the fuel consumption. Cylinders closer to the horizontal Like the Lancashire Witch, Rocket had two cylinders set at angle from the horizontal, with the pistons driving a pair of diameter wheels. Most previous designs had the cylinders positioned vertically, which gave the e... | able to achieve anything like the level of performance reliably, with partners Booth and Stephensons sharing the £500 winnings, and perhaps more importantly the need for stationary engines being demonstrated as unnecessary with sceptics such as Rastrick on the way to conversion. Operation and subsequent history Opening... |
officially declared a reserve by the Government of Mozambique on June 10, 2011, while in Malawi a portion of the lake is included in Lake Malawi National Park. Lake Malawi is a meromictic lake, meaning that its water layers do not mix. The permanent stratification of Lake Malawi's water and the oxic-anoxic boundary (re... | be driven by water extraction by the increasing human population, climate change and deforestation. The chambo and kampango have been particularly overfished (the kampango declined by about 90% from 2006 to 2016, O. karongae and O. squamipinnis by about 94%, and O. lidole might already be extinct) and they are now seri... |
have variations of (beefsteak with onions). It can be found across Latin America and the Philippines in Southeast Asia. Philippines In the Philippines, bistek Tagalog, a specialty of the Tagalog provinces, is typically made with strips of sirloin beef and onions slowly cooked in soy sauce and calamansi juice. Unlike us... | is flavorful, but is a bit tougher because it is not cross-grain. Hanger steak or (French) onglet A steak from near the center of the diaphragm. Flavorful, and very tender towards the edges, but sinewy in the middle. Often called the butcher's tenderloin or hanging tender. Plate steak (also known as the short plate) is... |
that specializes in steaks and chops, found mainly in North America. Modern steakhouses may also carry other cuts of meat including poultry, roast prime rib, and veal, as well as fish and other seafood. History Chophouses started in London in the 1690s and served individual portions of meat, known as chops. The traditi... | portions of meat, known as chops. The traditional nature of the food served was zealously maintained through the later 19th century despite the new cooking styles from the Continent, which were becoming fashionable. The houses were normally only open for men. The steakhouse started in the United States in the mid-19th ... |
provided for customers to assemble their own salad plates. Most salad bars provide lettuce, chopped tomatoes, assorted raw, sliced vegetables (such as cucumbers, carrots, celery, olives and green or red bell peppers), dried bread croutons, bacon bits, shredded cheese, and various types of salad dressing. Some salad bar... | The Cliffs. Types Salad bars may be "all-you-can-eat", where the customer may make unlimited plates or bowls of salad during the meal, or be limited to a single serving. Paying by weight of the materials in the salad is also possible; this option is particularly common for carry-out sales. Many supermarkets also includ... |
recorded over a hundred videos and audiotapes for her daughter. Jo Ann Compton's daughter Laurie Ann was stabbed to death in 1988—and a decade later, the mom was tangled in her grief. "I hope they're in the same hell I'm in." she said of her daughter's murderers on a 1998 show. Oprah brought in Dr. Phil to help Jo Ann.... | videotapes filled with motherly advice on everything from makeup tips to finding a husband. She also wrote letters and bought gifts for Peyton to open every Christmas and birthday she was gone. Kramp lost her battle with cancer on October 31, 1998. She had recorded over a hundred videos and audiotapes for her daughter.... |
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