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states. It was centered in the former Shewa province in central Ethiopia. The polity was succeeded by the Sultanate of Ifat around 1285. Ifat was governed from its capital at Zeila in Somaliland and was the easternmost district of the former Shewa Sultanate. The Adal Sultanate was a medieval multi-ethnic Muslim state c... | the land known to the ancient Egyptians as Punt (or "Ta Netjeru," meaning god's land), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC. Dʿmt was a kingdom located in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, which existed during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. With its capital probably at Yeha, the kingdom developed irrigation sch... |
runs out in the saline lacustrine district along the border with Djibouti; by the Shebelle River and the Jubba, which flow southeast through Somalia, though the Shebelle most often fails to reach the Indian Ocean. The Tekezé River, which is the true upper course of the Atbarah River, has its headwaters in the central t... | southeast from 6° N to 3° N. It overlooks the depression in which is Lake Turkana and – east of that lake – the southern Debub Omo Zone (part of the larger Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region). The western wall of the plateau from 6° N to 11° N is well marked and precipitous. North of 11° N the hills tu... |
as shown on numerous models and drawings. From the beginning of the boat's career until 1932, the boat was painted the same grey colour as surface warships, but thereafter in Prussian dark blue, a colour which was retained until the end of 1940 when it was repainted with two tones of grey, serving as camouflage on the ... | anchored, and delivered an ultimatum: rejoin the fight against Germany, be put out of reach of the Germans, or scuttle. Few accepted willingly; the North African fleet at Mers-el-Kebir and the ships based at Dakar (West Africa) refused. The French battleships in North Africa were eventually attacked and all but one sun... |
as part of the European Union's Naval Operation in the area. A British Lynx HMA.8 helicopter of 815 Squadron was on board for the whole four-month deployment, along with 12 personnel including 2 Royal Marine snipers. This was the first extended deployment of a Royal Navy helicopter on a French warship and was the resul... | who had to abandon his ship after her starboard hull was seriously damaged. The catamaran's crew of five were airlifted to safety by helicopter. On 14 October 2004, Surcouf assisted Sara 2, a Panamanian cargo ship which ran aground near Yemen. The 16-man crew was successfully airlifted by the Panther helicopter, and la... |
curdling. Generally, a fully cooked custard should not exceed 80 °C (~175 °F); it begins setting at 70 °C (~160 °F). A water bath slows heat transfer and makes it easier to remove the custard from the oven before it curdles. Adding a small amount of cornflour to the egg-sugar mixture stabilises the resulting custard, a... | it begins setting at 70 °C (~160 °F). A water bath slows heat transfer and makes it easier to remove the custard from the oven before it curdles. Adding a small amount of cornflour to the egg-sugar mixture stabilises the resulting custard, allowing it to be cooked in a single pan as well as in a double-boiler. A sous-v... |
primary fermentation of lactic-acid-fermenting halophiles lowers the pH of the moromi, and this directly results in the acidic pH range (4.4–5.4) of soy sauce products. The secondary fermentation conducted by heterofermentative microbes provides soy sauce with a wide range of flavor and odorant compounds by breaking do... | bakar (grilled fish/seafood). Since soy sauce is of Chinese origin, kecap asin is also an important seasoning in Chinese Indonesian cuisine. Kecap manis sedang: Medium sweet soy sauce, which has a less thick consistency, is less sweet and has a saltier taste than kecap manis. Kecap asin: Regular soy sauce derived from ... |
e-mail. It first appeared in October 2001. A number of variants of the worm exist. Klez infects Microsoft Windows systems, exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer's Trident layout engine, used by both Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express to render HTML mail. The e-mail through which the worm spreads always inc... | portion consists of either an HTML internal frame tag which causes buggy e-mail clients to automatically execute the worm, or a few lines of text that attempt to induce the recipient to execute the worm by opening the attachment (sometimes by claiming that the attachment is a patch from Microsoft; sometimes by claiming... |
or mayonnaise. Some condiments are used during cooking to add flavor or texture: barbecue sauce, compound butter, teriyaki sauce, soy sauce, Marmite and sour cream are examples. Many condiments, such as mustard or ketchup, are available in single-serving packets, commonly when supplied with take-out or fast-food meals.... | after cooking, to impart a specific flavor, to enhance the flavor, or to complement the dish. A table condiment or table sauce is more specifically a condiment that is served separately from the food and is added to taste by the diner. Condiments are sometimes added prior to serving, for example, in a sandwich made wit... |
the presence of a fungus, identified by DNA sequencing of 18s and ITS ribosomal DNA and phylogenetic analysis to be closely related to fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae, was always associated with the presence of ergoline alkaloids in the plant. The identified fungus appears to be a seed-transmitted, obligate biotrop... | tubers. Description Convolvulaceae can be recognized by their funnel-shaped, radially symmetrical corolla; the floral formula for the family has five sepals, five fused petals, five epipetalous stamens (stamens fused to the petals), and a two-part syncarpous and superior gynoecium. The stems of these plants are usually... |
Side Main Line Division station (CTA Blue Line), a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line Division Mountain, on the Continental Divide along the Alberta - British Columbia border of Canada Division Range, Humboldt County, Nevada Music Division (10 Years album), 2008 Division (The G... | of a question, to split a question into two or more questions Partition (politics), the process of changing national borders or separating political entities Police division, a large territorial unit of the British police Places Division station (CTA North Side Main Line), a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's N... |
small population led the colonials to encourage peoples from further inland, such as the Bamileke, to move to the coast. In addition, constant shipping traffic along the coast allowed individuals to move from one plantation or town to another in search of work. British administrations In 1918, Germany lost World War I,... | region. The Bakweri were impressed to work them, but their recalcitrance and small population led the colonials to encourage peoples from further inland, such as the Bamileke, to move to the coast. In addition, constant shipping traffic along the coast allowed individuals to move from one plantation or town to another ... |
sensitive to touch, and there are also a pair of tiny sensory pits lined by cilia in the head region. Biology The coronal cilia pull the animal, when unattached, through the water. Like many other microscopic animals, adult rotifers frequently exhibit eutely—they have a fixed number of cells within a species, usually o... | two glands either side of a medial sac. The sac drains into a duct that divides into two before opening through pores on the uppermost part of the head. The function of the retrocerebral organ is unclear. The nervous system comprises about 25% of the roughly 1,000 cells in a rotifer. Rotifers typically possess one or t... |
first recorded as part of the recipe in later editions of Hannah Glasse's eighteenth century book The Art of Cookery. In her recipe she instructed using hartshorn or bones of calves' feet as the base ingredient (to supply gelatin) for the jelly. The poet Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of trifles containing jelly in 1861. ... | cookery The Good Huswifes Jewell. Trifle evolved from a similar dessert known as a fool, and originally the two names were used interchangeably. Jelly is first recorded as part of the recipe in later editions of Hannah Glasse's eighteenth century book The Art of Cookery. In her recipe she instructed using hartshorn or ... |
(1533-1592), Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), and George Meredith (1828–1909). More recent literary influences included Marcel Proust (1871–1922), Henry James (1843–1916), and Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966). The cultural critic Harold Bloom has written that Gore Vidal believed that his sexuality had denied him full recogniti... | Vidal read aloud to him, and was his Senate page, and his seeing-eye guide. In 1939, during his summer holiday, Vidal went with some colleagues and professor from St. Albans School on his first European trip, to visit Italy and France. He visited for the first time Rome, the city which came to be "at the center of Gore... |
a genus of African grasshoppers in the subfamily Acridinae and tribe Pargaini. Species The Orthoptera | Pargaini. Species The Orthoptera Species File lists: Machaeridia bilineata Stål, 1873 - type species Machaeridia |
number of nerves to the stalk. Reproduction and life cycle Crinoids are not capable of clonal reproduction as are some starfish and brittle stars, but are capable of regenerating lost body parts. Arms torn off by predators or damaged by adverse environmental conditions can regrow, and even the visceral mass can regener... | are called feather stars or comatulids, being members of the largest crinoid order, Comatulida. Morphology The basic body form of a crinoid is a stem (not present in adult feather stars) and a crown consisting of a cup-like central body known as the theca, and a set of five rays or arms, usually branched and feathery. ... |
the most diverse, including 5 suborders, where the most assorted is Axonophora (biserial graptolites, etc.). This group includes Diplograptids and Neograptids, groups that had a great development during the Ordovician. Old taxonomic classifications consider the orders Dendroidea, Tuboidea, Camaroidea, Crustoidea, Stolo... | Lundgreni in the Silurian, where graptolite populations were dramatically reduced (see also Lilliput effect). Morphology Each graptolite colony originates from an initial individual, called the sicular zooid, from which the subsequent zooids will develop; they are all interconnected by stolons. These zooids are housed ... |
and Alice Through the Looking-Glass (1871). It also drew heavily from Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus's then-recent stage adaptation. When Paramount previewed the film in 1933, the original running time was 90 minutes. By the time it was shown to the press, it was truncated to 77 minutes. Many reviews, including t... | as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle, Gary Cooper as The White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, Baby LeRoy as The Joker, and Charlotte Henry in her first leading role as Alice. This adaptation was directed by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Manki... |
parisien, before changing its name four days later to L'Ami du peuple ("The People's friend"). From this position, he often attacked the most influential and powerful groups in Paris as conspirators against the Revolution, including the Commune, the Constituent Assembly, the ministers, and the Châtelet. In January 1790... | Surveillance, with power to add to its numbers. Into this committee Marat was co-opted. They quickly decided to round up those they believed were "suspect"; the Committee voted to do so and four thousand were sent into the prisons by late August 1792. The Committee also planned what to do with these mostly ordinary peo... |
with this bilaterally symmetric body plan have a head (anterior) end and a tail (posterior) end as well as a back (dorsal) and a belly (ventral); therefore they also have a left side and a right side. Having a front end means that this part of the body encounters stimuli, such as food, favouring cephalisation, the deve... | three germ layers: endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm. Except for a few phyla (i.e. flatworms and gnathostomulids), bilaterians have complete digestive tracts with a separate mouth and anus. Some bilaterians lack body cavities (acoelomates, i.e. Platyhelminthes, Gastrotricha and Gnathostomulida), while others display pri... |
or Wan may also refer to: Language Wan language of the Ivory Coast 万/萬 (Pinyin: Wàn), 10,000 in Chinese People Wan (surname) ( and ), a Chinese surname Wan Wan (彎彎; born 1991) Taiwanese artist and actress Places Asia Anhui, abbreviated Wǎn (皖), province of | 10,000 in Chinese People Wan (surname) ( and ), a Chinese surname Wan Wan (彎彎; born 1991) Taiwanese artist and actress Places Asia Anhui, abbreviated Wǎn (皖), province of China Wan, now Nanyang, Henan, a city in China Van, Turkey () Wan, a village in Sialkot District, Punjab, Pakistan |
organised by President de Gaulle. By acts of bombings and targeted assassinations in both metropolitan France and French Algerian territories, which are estimated to have resulted in 2,000 deaths between April 1961 and April 1962, the OAS attempted to prevent Algerian independence. This campaign culminated in a wave of... | officers, Pierre Lagaillarde (who led the 1960 Siege of Algiers), General Raoul Salan (who took part in the 1961 Algiers putsch or "Generals' Uprising") and Jean-Jacques Susini, along with other members of the French Army, including Yves Guérin-Sérac, and former members of the French Foreign Legion from the First Indoc... |
Moscow Metro railway station Zil, Iran, a village in Kerman Province Zil, Kurds, a Kurdish tribal federation Zills, also zils or finger cymbals, tiny cymbals used in belly dancing and similar performance Zork Implementation Language, used by the Z-machine ZFS Intent Log, where ZFS transactions are | ZIL or Zil may refer to: ZiL (Zavod imeni Likhachova), a former car and truck factory in Moscow, Russia ZiL lanes, dedicated traffic lanes for Soviet officials ZIL (Moscow Central Circle), a Moscow Metro railway station Zil, Iran, a village in Kerman Province Zil, Kurds, |
United States Germantown, California, the former name of Artois, a census-designated place in Glenn County Germantown, Connecticut, a neighborhood of Danbury, Connecticut Germantown, Illinois, a village in Clinton County Germantown, Decatur County, Indiana, an unincorporated town Germantown, Iowa, an unincorporated com... | Orange County, New York, a neighborhood of the city of Port Jervis Germantown, Nebraska, the former name of the village of Garland Germantown, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in Hyde County, North Carolina Germantown, Ohio, a city located in Montgomery County, Ohio Germantown, Washington County, Ohio, an un... |
115 instead. The name livermorium and the symbol Lv were adopted on May 23, 2012. The name recognises the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, within the city of Livermore, California, USA, which collaborated with JINR on the discovery. The city in turn is named after the American rancher Robert Livermore, a natural... | to an isotope of flerovium. The results were published in December 2000. + → * → + 3 → + α The daughter flerovium isotope had properties matching those of a flerovium isotope first synthesized in June 1999, which was originally assigned to 288Fl, implying an assignment of the parent livermorium isotope to 292Lv. Later ... |
concluded: "The three events reported for the Z = 118 isotope have very good internal redundancy but with no anchor to known nuclei do not satisfy the criteria for discovery". Because of the very small fusion reaction probability (the fusion cross section is or ) the experiment took four months and involved a beam dose... | concluded: "The three events reported for the Z = 118 isotope have very good internal redundancy but with no anchor to known nuclei do not satisfy the criteria for discovery". Because of the very small fusion reaction probability (the fusion cross section is or ) the experiment took four months and involved a beam dose... |
Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet (1925–2018), Chief Scout of the United Kingdom (1972–1982) Steve Gladstone, American rowing coach Wayne Gladstone, American humorist and author Lily Gladstone, American actress Given name Gladstone (footballer) (born 1985), Brazilian footballer Gladstone Small (born 1961), Warwickshir... | Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet (1925–2018), Chief Scout of the United Kingdom (1972–1982) Steve Gladstone, American rowing coach Wayne Gladstone, American humorist and author Lily Gladstone, American actress Given name Gladstone (footballer) (born 1985), Brazilian footballer Gladstone Small (born 1961), Warwickshir... |
Warren County, New York, hamlet in town of Stony Creek, New York Harrisburg, North Carolina Harrisburg, Ohio Harrisburg, Gallia County, Ohio Harrisburg, Stark County, Ohio Harrisburg, Oregon Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg, South Dakota Harrisburg, Houston, former city in Texas Harrisburg, Utah, a ghost town Harris... | States, which is the capital of the state of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg may also refer to: Harrisburg, Arkansas Harrisburg, Inyo County, California Harrisburg, Illinois Harrisburg, Indiana Harrisburg, Missouri Harrisburg, Nebraska Harrisburg, New York, town in Lewis County Harrisburg, Cattaraugus County, New York, hamlet... |
an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen, who claimed to be a witness to the event, sent a book full of hand written annotations referring to the experiment to a U.S. Navy research organization and, a little later, a series of letters making further claims to a UFO book writer. Allen's account of the event is widely ... | sometimes contradictory versions of the alleged experiment have circulated over the years. The following synopsis recounts key story points common to most accounts. The experiment was allegedly based on an aspect of some unified field theory, a term coined by Albert Einstein to describe a class of potential theories; s... |
United Kingdom Huntington, Cheshire, England Huntington, East Lothian, Scotland Huntington, Herefordshire, England Huntington, North Yorkshire, England Huntington, Shropshire, England Huntington, Staffordshire, England United States Huntington, Arkansas Huntington, Connecticut Huntington, Marion County, Florida Hunting... | Scotland Huntington, Herefordshire, England Huntington, North Yorkshire, England Huntington, Shropshire, England Huntington, Staffordshire, England United States Huntington, Arkansas Huntington, Connecticut Huntington, Marion County, Florida Huntington, Putnam County, Florida Huntington, Georgia (disambiguation), four ... |
power and Echaverría proposed a continuation of the Balaguer regime until the elections. The American consul mediated between the two sides and in January 1962 final agreement led to the creation of a seven-member Council of State, led by Balaguer but including members of the UCN, to replace both the Dominican Congress... | years old and almost completely blind (he had suffered from glaucoma for many years). Third presidency Balaguer's third presidency was considerably more liberal than the "Twelve Years" had been. He was more tolerant of opposition parties and human rights. He undertook massive infrastructure projects, such as the constr... |
Gilbert Haven on August 24, 1874. As a coincidental footnote in history, Bishop Haven's gingerbread cottage was located in Oak Bluffs at 10 Clinton Avenue. The avenue was named in 1851 and was designated as the main promenade of the Martha's Vineyard Campmeeting Association campgrounds. On August 23, 2009, Barack Obama... | There is ample evidence to show that people were bought, sold, and probated as property on Martha's Vineyard. In 1770, Reverend Samuel Sewall, a seasonal resident of Martha's Vineyard, was the first to publicly oppose slavery in the New England Colonies. In addition to that, "at no time during its history did people of... |
taking pride in never having voted a straight party ticket". In another instance, Horowitz said a Pennsylvania State University biology professor showed his students the film Fahrenheit 9/11 just before the 2004 election in an attempt to influence their votes. Pressed by Inside Higher Ed, Horowitz said that the claim w... | disputed. For example, Horowitz alleged that a University of Northern Colorado student received a failing grade on a final exam for refusing to write an essay arguing that George W. Bush is a war criminal. A spokeswoman for the university said that the test question was not as described by Horowitz and that there were ... |
July 2001, by the University of Western Macedonia, Greece in December 2008, and by the University of the Aegean, Greece in December 2009. Death Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, several hours after being involved in an accident while shooting his latest film, The Other Sea in Athens. On that evening, ... | He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes (The Travelling Players, for example, consists of only 80 shots in about four hours of film). These takes often include meticulously choreographed and complicated scenes involving many actors... |
shortened form came into common usage, LBL. Its formal name was amended to Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1995, when "National" was added to the names of all DOE labs. "Ernest Orlando" was later dropped to shorten the name. Today, the lab is commonly referred to as Berkeley Lab. The Alvarez Phy... | The laboratory was founded on August 26, 1931, by Ernest Lawrence, as the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, associated with the Physics Department. It centered physics research around his new instrument, the cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize... |
(the lower jaw) are some 40,000 years old. Anina represents one of the most important localities in the South Carpathians for Jurassic fossils, both plants and animals, as the geological heritage here is particularly diverse and well preserved (Popa, 2001, 2005). Anina is a fossile-Lagerstatte for Early Jurassic biota,... | activities began in 1792, after the first coal outcrop was discovered by Matthew Hammer. The Anina-Oravita railway built in 1863, it is still in use today for touristic purposes. It is one of the most beautiful railways in Europe due to very picturesque landscapes, viaducts and long tunnels. The railway preserves many ... |
the year 2000, destroying several bridges across the river Bistra. History The first signs of human habitation date from the Paleolithic, in form of primitive tools. Sporadic remnants from the Neolithic age have been found in the neighbouring areas. During the wars between Romans and Dacians, the Bistra Valley was the ... | please the Communist government, who changed it to Oțelu Roșu ("[The] Red Steel") in order to underline the importance of the town's metalworking industry. Population The population was 9,260 in 2011, down from 13,128 in 2002. Causes of this demographic regress are among others the problems of the metalworking industry... |
'colonel' and dici meaning 'daughter'. Therefore, Agadici means "daughter of the colonel". The town was supposedly named after a colonel's daughter when the Ottoman Empire occupied the land that is now the Banat (see the Temeşvar Eyalet). Ciclova Montană The second-oldest beer in what is now Romania was produced in Cic... | Montană (Csiklóbánya; Montan-Tschiklowa), Marila (Marillavölgy; Marillathal) and Răchitova (Rakitova). Etymology The name of the town is derived from the Slavic word orah(ov), meaning "(of) walnut" with suffix -ița. Villages Agadici The history of Agadici can be traced back to at least the 17th century, when records no... |
the Bronze Age has been found. Additionally, there exist traces of an unfortified Dacian settlement, similar to several others in the area. In Roman Dacia, a castrum located in the village supervised mining and navigation on the Danube. Vestiges from the Dark Ages and the Early Middle Ages have been found; during the 1... | Ottoman rule, Moldova Veche became the capital of a sanjak within the Temeşvar Eyalet. In 1566, at the end of Suleiman the Magnificent's reign, coins of gold (altâni) and silver (aspri) were minted there. A document of 1588 records the place under the name Mudava; this is the earliest written mention. The Dacian-origin... |
elected to the Parliament of Hungary the Hungarian Lajos Mocsáry, who was a progressive democratic politician fighting for the cultural and administrative rights of all nationalities (including the Romanians) living in the Hungarian Kingdom of that time. In late October 1918, near the close of World War I, a Romanian N... | Jupa (), is administered by the city. Climate Caransebeș has a humid continental climate (Cfb in the Köppen climate classification). It is rather mild. Sub-Mediterranean climatic influences are present to some extent. Temperatures do not drop too low in winter (with an average of 0,-15 °C), but summers can be warm (30-... |
in 2011. The town is located in the northwestern part of the county, from the county seat, Reșița. It is traversed by the national road , which connects Reșița to Voiteg, in Timiș County. Bocșa lies on | the Banat region of Romania, with a population of 15,842 in 2011. The town is located in the northwestern part of the county, from the county seat, Reșița. It is traversed by the national |
Ottomans won the skirmish, took the town on 7 September 1788 and advanced to Caransebeș. It was retaken by the Austrians at the end of September 1789. Climate Băile Herculane has a humid continental climate (Cfb in the Köppen climate classification). The modern spa In modern times, the spa town has been visited for its... | end of September 1789. Climate Băile Herculane has a humid continental climate (Cfb in the Köppen climate classification). The modern spa In modern times, the spa town has been visited for its supposedly natural healing properties: hot springs with sulfur, chlorine, sodium, calcium, magnesium and other minerals, as wel... |
benefit of members Billion Dollar Gift and Mutual Aid: Canada's gift of $4 billion to Britain in the Second World War See also Mutualism (biology), a concept of biological interaction Mutualism (economic | humans by anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin Mutual aid (emergency services), an agreement between emergency responders Mutual aid, an element of social work with groups Mutual aid society, an organization formed for the benefit of members Billion Dollar Gift and Mutual Aid: Canada's gift |
as kings of the Lombards in Italy from 774. In 800, the Frankish king Charlemagne was crowned emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III in an effort to transfer the Roman Empire from east to west. The Carolingian Empire is considered the first phase in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. After a civil ... | associated with the chaplain and the royal chapel was the office of the chancellor, head of the chancery, a non-permanent writing office. The charters produced were rudimentary and mostly to do with land deeds. There are 262 surviving from Charles’ reign as opposed to 40 from Pepin’s and 350 from Louis the Pious. Offic... |
of the transepts, and continued work on the nave, which was nearing completion at the time of his own death in 1208. By this time, the western façade was already largely built, though it was not completed until around the mid-1240s. Between 1225 and 1250 the upper gallery of the nave was constructed, along with the two... | white nationalist, placed a letter on the church altar and shot himself, dying instantly. Around 1,500 visitors were evacuated from the cathedral. French police arrested two people on 8 September 2016 after a car containing seven gas canisters was found near Notre-Dame. On 10 February 2017, French police arrested four ... |
young goats and various other things of that nature. ... If such evil is not attacked, the horrible corruption will spread among these poor [Indian] neophytes who are in our charge." According to modern Franciscan historians, this report by Serra to the Inquisition is the only letter of his that has survived from eight... | in our launch, while the gentlemen on land sang in their hearts." After the raising and planting of a large cross, which Serra blessed, "the standards of our Catholic monarch were also set up, the one ceremony ... accompanied by shouts of 'Long live the Faith!' and the other by 'Long live the King!' Added to this was t... |
ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-‘Abbās al-Ṣūlī (Arabic: ) , (born c. 870 Gorgan – died between 941 and 948 Basra) was a Turkic scholar and a court companion of three Abbāsid caliphs: al-Muktafī, his successor al-Muqtadir, and later, al-Rāḍī, whom he also tutored. He was a bibliophile, wrote letters, editor-poet, chronicler, and a sha... | () wrote: Kitāb al-Shiṭranj () ‘Chess’, the first book on chess, and; Al-Nard, wa Isbābha wa-al-La’ab bīha (). 'Al-Nard Its Elements and Play'. Al-Rāzī () was a chess rival of al-‘Adlī and the caliph Al-Mutawakkil attended their matches. He wrote: Kitāb latīf fī al- Shiṭranj () ‘A Delightful Book about Chess.’ Abū al-F... |
of Troyes would be a denial of the legitimacy of the Valois. While England was accustomed to change her kings, the French largely adhered to theirs. The treaty was recognized only in English-controlled territories in northern France, and by the allied dukes of Burgundy and Brittany. Henry V died before his sickly fathe... | VIII decided to press his claim to the Kingdom of Naples. It was the beginning of the Italian Wars. In September 1494 Charles invaded Italy with 25,000 men, and attained his object by 22 February 1495, virtually unopposed. But the speed and power of the French advance frightened the powers of Italy. The League of Venic... |
Public Safety, and was given a monumental task: "To deal with the radical movements of the Enragés, food shortages and riots, the revolt in the Vendée and in Brittany, recent defeats of its armies, and the desertion of its commanding general." Most notably, the Committee of Public Safety instated a policy of terror, an... | January, he was executed. Throughout the winter of 1792 and spring of 1793, Paris was plagued by food riots and mass hunger. The new Convention did little to remedy the problem until late spring of 1793, occupied instead with matters of war. Finally, on 6 April 1793, the Convention created the Committee of Public Safet... |
were made open to competition, and mutual schools were set up that encroached on the Catholic monopoly of public primary education. Decazes purged a number of ultra-royalist prefects and sub-prefects, and in by-elections, an unusually high proportion of Bonapartists and republicans were elected, some of whom were backe... | chagrin. Decazes, perhaps the most moderate minister, moved to stop the politicisation of the National Guard (many Verdets had been drafted in) by banning political demonstrations by the militia in July 1816. Owing to tension between the King's government and the ultra-royalist Chamber of Deputies, the latter began to ... |
editor of the Communications of the ACM. What we do know is that BNF was first used as a metalanguage to talk about the ALGOL language in the ALGOL 60 report. That is how it is explained in ALGOL programming course material developed by Peter Naur in 1962. Early ALGOL manuals by IBM, Honeywell, Burroughs and Digital Eq... | sets and communication protocols. They are applied wherever exact descriptions of languages are needed: for instance, in official language specifications, in manuals, and in textbooks on programming language theory. Many extensions and variants of the original Backus–Naur notation are used; some are exactly defined, in... |
(at the opposite end from the mouth). Its main component is a statocyst, a balance sensor consisting of a statolith, a tiny grain of calcium carbonate, supported on four bundles of cilia, called "balancers", that sense its orientation. The statocyst is protected by a transparent dome made of long, immobile cilia. A cte... | that form large chain-like floating colonies, and juveniles of Lampea attach themselves like parasites to salps that are too large for them to swallow. Members of the cydippid genus Pleurobrachia and the lobate Bolinopsis often reach high population densities at the same place and time because they specialize in differ... |
remain neutral during the American Revolutionary War, favoring neither the British nor the Patriots. Herman Melville commented on Nantucket's whaling dominance in Moby-Dick, Chapter 14: "Two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires". The Moby-Dick c... | county in Massachusetts by land area and second-smallest by total area. The area of Nantucket Island proper is . The triangular region of ocean between Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape Cod is Nantucket Sound. Altar Rock at , Saul's Hill at , and Sankaty Head at are some of the highest points on the island. Nantuc... |
than opening into the rectum as in the only other confirmed class of tardigrades, the Eutardigrada. The third class, Mesotardigrada, is represented by a single species known from a single specimen that is now lost, and the location from which that specimen was collected has since been destroyed by an earthquake, so | Heterotardigrada includes tardigrades (water bears) that have cephalic appendages and legs with four separate but similar digits or claws on each. 444 species have been described. Anatomy The anatomy of the reproductive system is an important defining feature in distinguishing the different groups of tardigrades. Heter... |
documentary war footage, recalling Milestone's work in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Joris Ivens The Spanish Earth (1937). Beyond this point, the necessities of Hollywood war propaganda asserts itself, shifting the focus to German atrocities. Hellman's screenplay provides for a complex treatment only for th... | Spiegel to capitalize on the popularity of recent film biographies of Enrico Caruso and Gilbert and Sullivan. Metropolitan Opera star Patrice Munsel made her screen debut playing the Australian opera diva. Aside from Munsel's serviceable performance, Milestone was burdened by a "worthless script" and an "insipid cast" ... |
extinct, with only two reliable records of sightings in the 20th century. The greatest problems threatening the macaw population are the rapid rate of deforestation and illegal trapping for the bird trade. Prehistoric Native Americans in the American Southwest farmed macaws in establishments known as "feather factories... | most commonly hybridised macaw, and why the hybridising trend took hold among macaws. Common macaw hybrids include the harlequin (Ara ararauna × Ara chloroptera), miligold macaw (Ara ararauna × Ara militaris) and the Catalina (known as the rainbow in Australia, Ara ararauna × Ara macao). In addition, unusual but appare... |
in 1788. Development of modern Australian cuisine Following the pre-colonial period, European colonisers began arriving with the First Fleet at Sydney harbour in 1788. The diet consisted of "bread, salted meat and tea with lashings of rum (initially from the West Indies but later made from the waste cane of the sugar i... | largest exporter of wine around the world, with 760 million litres a year to a large international export market and contributes $5.5 billion per annum to the nation's economy. Australians consume over 530 million litres annually with a per capita consumption of about 30 litres – 50% white table wine, 35% red table win... |
in 1929 he directed Hell's Heroes, Universal's first sound production filmed entirely on location. In 1936, he earned his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for Dodsworth, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor, "sparking a 20-year run of almost unbroken greatness." He helped prope... | should salute England. And even if we lose $100,000, that'll be okay." Mrs. Miniver went on to win six Academy Awards, becoming the top box office hit of 1942. It was Wyler's first Academy Award for Best Director. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill both loved the film, said historian Emily... |
the world are represented here, such as the blue-and-gold macaw among the New World parrots and the grey parrot among the Old World parrots. Distribution All of the parrot species in this family are found in tropical and subtropical zones and inhabit Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean islands, sub-Saharan... | Africa and South America, before the divergence of African and New World lineages around 30–35 Mya. The New World parrots, and by implication Old World parrots, last shared a common ancestor with the Australian parrots of the Cacatuidae an estimated 59 Mya. The data place most of the diversification of psittaciforms ar... |
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one of three classes of tardigrades, consisting of a single species, Thermozodium esakii. The animal reportedly has six claws of equal length at each foot. This species was described in 1937 by German zoologist Gilbert Rahm from a hot spring near Nagasaki, Japan. The inability of taxonomists to replicate Rahm's finding... | Rahm's finding has cast doubt on the accuracy of the description, making T. esakii, and by extension the entire class Mesotardigrada, a taxon inquirendum. Taxonomic ambiguity The type specimen Rahm used as the basis of his description has either been lost or it was never preserved in the first place, which Grothman et ... |
relating to jubilees, and advises the King in the fields for which he is responsible. For the personal protection of the King and the royal family, as well as for the surveillance of the royal estates, the Belgian Federal Police at all times provides a security detail to the Royal Palace, commanded by a chief police co... | science at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden wrote: "Did such simultaneous developments not result in a possible failure to lay down the limits of the royal prerogatives with some precision—which implied that the view of the King as the Keeper of the Nation, with rights and duties of its own, retained legitimacy?" For Raymo... |
works enhanced his reputation in the literary scene as a reporter, columnist, short story writer, and novelist. After leaving the News in 1923, he started his own newspaper, The Chicago Literary Times. According to biographer Eddy Applegate, "Hecht read voraciously the works of Gautier, Adelaide, Mallarmé, and Verlaine... | disseminating Irgun propaganda. Hecht wrote the script for the Bergson Group's production of A Flag is Born, which opened on September 5, 1946 at the Alvin Playhouse in New York City. The play, which compared the Zionist underground's campaign in Palestine to the American Revolution, was intended to increase public sup... |
Climate Naxos experiences a Mediterranean climate, with relatively mild winters and warm summers. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Csa". (Mediterranean Climate). Inland areas of the island are much wetter and cooler in winter. Mythic Naxos According to Greek mythology, the young Zeus was r... | Cycladic civilisation Zas Cave, inhabited during the Neolithic era, contained objects of stone from Melos and copper objects including a dagger and gold sheet. The presence of gold and other objects within the cave indicated to researchers the status of the inhabitant. Emery was exported during that time, to other isla... |
other than "I send you this file in order to have your advice." This subsequently became an in-joke among those who were using the Internet at the time, and were spammed with e-mails containing this string sent by the worm. Sircam was notable during its outbreak for the way it distributed itself. Document files (usuall... | following lines of text and had an attachment consisting of the worm's executable with some file from the infected computer appended: I send you this file in order to have your advice I hope you like the file that I sendo you I hope you can help me with this file that I send This is the file with the information you as... |
have been described. The order Apochela consists of only one family, Milnesiidae, with two genera: Milnesium and Limmenius. Milnesium tardigradum can be found worldwide and is one of the biggest species among tardigrades (up to 1.4 mm); | to live temporarily in very dry environments. More than 700 species have been described. The order Apochela consists of only one family, Milnesiidae, with two genera: Milnesium and Limmenius. Milnesium tardigradum can be found worldwide and is one of the biggest species among tardigrades |
a cartouche displaying the name of a king and placed in tombs. Archaeologists often find such items important for dating a tomb and its contents. Cartouches were formerly only worn by pharaohs. The oval surrounding their name was meant to protect them from evil spirits in life and after death. The cartouche has become ... | evil spirits in life and after death. The cartouche has become a symbol representing good luck and protection from evil. The term 'cartouche' was first applied by French soldiers who fancied that the symbol they saw so frequently repeated on the pharaonic ruins they encountered resembled a muzzle-loading firearm's pape... |
Garden (1890), the second arena of the name Madison Square Garden (1925), the third arena of the name Arts, entertainment, and media Music Manchester Sports Guild or MSG, a bygone (1961–1973) jazz and folk venue in Manchester, England McAuley Schenker Group, a rock band led by Michael Schenker M.S.G. (McAuley Schenker ... | Garden (1879), the first arena of the name Madison Square Garden (1890), the second arena of the name Madison Square Garden (1925), the third arena of the name Arts, entertainment, and media Music Manchester Sports Guild or MSG, a bygone (1961–1973) jazz and folk venue in Manchester, England McAuley Schenker Group, a r... |
have largely failed to demonstrate a causal association with MSG. Symptoms resembling those of CRS may be provoked in a clinical setting in small numbers of individuals by the administration of large doses of MSG without food. However, such effects are neither persistent nor serious and are likely to be attenuated when... | of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)concluded, "there may be a small number of unstable asthmatics who respond to doses of 1.5–2.5 g of MSG in the absence of food". The FASEB evaluation concluded, "sufficient evidence exists to indicate some individuals may experience manifestations of CRS when expose... |
and accumulating in filter feeders such as shellfish, which in turn may be passed on to people who eat them. This phenomenon is called a red tide, from the color the bloom imparts to the water. Some colorless dinoflagellates may also form toxic blooms, such as Pfiesteria. Some dinoflagellate blooms are not dangerous. B... | complex life cycles occur, more particularly with parasitic dinoflagellates. Sexual reproduction also occurs, though this mode of reproduction is only known in a small percentage of dinoflagellates. This takes place by fusion of two individuals to form a zygote, which may remain mobile in typical dinoflagellate fashion... |
ciliated protists Ciliata (fish), a genus of | of fishes in the family |
term Myzozoa, meaning "to siphon the contents from prey", may be applied informally to the common ancestor of the subset of alveolates that are neither ciliates nor colponemids. Predation upon algae is an important driver in alveolate evolution, as it can provide sources for endosymbiosis of novel plastids. The term My... | s.l. – mostly marine flagellates many of which have chloroplasts Perkinsozoa Chromerida – a marine phylum of photosynthetic protozoa Colpodellida Voromonadida Apicomplexa – parasitic and secondary non-photosynthetic protozoa that lack axonemal locomotive structures except in gametes The Acavomonidia and Colponemidia we... |
is around 10–50 μm in size and flattened in shape, with an anterior groove or pocket. At the edge of the pocket there are typically two slightly unequal flagella. Some may exhibit mixotrophy. Characteristics Cryptomonads are distinguished by the presence of characteristic extrusomes called ejectosomes, which consist of... | flagella and cell body. The mitochondria have flat cristae, and mitosis is open; sexual reproduction has also been reported. Classification The first mention of cryptomonads appears to have been made by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1831, while studying Infusoria. Later, botanists treated them as a separate algae gr... |
towns. The Illyrian tribe of the Ardiaei is subdued by the Romans. The King of Macedonia, Demetrius II, dies. His nephew, Antigonus III comes to the Macedonian throne as regent for his half-cousin and the future king Philip V, who is only ten years old. Concerned at Rome's expansion, Antigonus III pursues a policy of b... | involvement of Rome in Illyria leads to the establishment of friendly relations between Rome and the enemies of Macedonia: the Aetolian League and Achaean League, which approve the suppression of Illyrian piracy. Aratus of Sicyon brings Argos into the Achaean League and then helps liberate Athens. This brings Aratus in... |
expansion In 2001, Henry McKinnell became chief executive officer of the company, replacing William C. Steere, Jr. In 2004, the company received approval for Lyrica (pregabalin), an anticonvulsant and anxiolytic medication used to treat epilepsy, neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome, and generalized an... | first product to reach $1billion in revenue. In 1965, John Powers, Jr. became chief executive officer of the company, succeeding John McKeen. As the area surrounding its Brooklyn plant fell into decline in the 1970s and 1980s, the company formed a public-private partnership with New York City that encompassed the const... |
and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001 which provides: A person guilty of forgery is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or to a fine, or to both. Any offence at common law of forgery is abolished. The abolition of a common law offence of forgery does not affect proceedings f... | 2001 and except where the context otherwise requires, without prejudice to section 65(4)(a) of that Act, references to forgery must be construed in accordance with the provisions of that Act. Canada Forgery is an offence under sections 366, 367 and 368 of the Canadian Criminal Code. The offence is a hybrid offence, sub... |
offering a line of recombinant DNA specialty research chemicals. Sold to private interests in the 1990s, Pharmacia was first merged with "Kabi Vitrum" to form Kabi Pharmacia with headquarters in Uppsala. In 1993, Kabi Pharmacia bought Farmitalia, an Italian company that had developed doxorubicin, a chemotherapeutic. In... | in Sweden that merged with the American pharmaceutical company Upjohn in 1995. History Pharmacia company was founded in 1911 in Stockholm, Sweden by pharmacist Gustav Felix Grönfeldt at the Elgen Pharmacy. The company is named after the Greek word φαρμακεία, transliterated pharmakeia, which means 'sorcery'. In the comp... |
can still be identified, at least in a controlled setting with a small dictionary of phrases, by analysing the pattern of variation of the bit rate. Average bit-rate (ABR) Average bit-rate solves one of the problems of VBR, as it dynamically adjusts VBR quality in order to meet a specific target bit-rate. Because the q... | quality/bit-rate is adjusted in real-time (open-loop), the global quality will be slightly lower than that obtained by encoding in VBR with exactly the right quality setting to meet the target average bitrate. Voice Activity Detection (VAD) When enabled, voice activity detection detects whether the audio being encoded ... |
"private" variables, which persist over several invocations of the function. The scope of the variable encompasses only the closed-over function, so it cannot be accessed from other program code. These are analogous to private variables in object-oriented programming, and in fact closures are analogous to a type of obj... | to return a value from the invocation of foo that created the closure. Since that call has already returned and the Smalltalk method invocation model does not follow the spaghetti stack discipline to facilitate multiple returns, this operation results in an error. Some languages, such as Ruby, enable the programmer to ... |
the Fellowship of the Ring. In the elvish land of Lothlórien, Galadriel gives Sam a small box of earth from her garden. When the Fellowship split up at the Falls of Rauros, Sam insisted on accompanying Frodo. Sam protected and cared for Frodo, who was growing weaker under the Ring's influence, as they moved through the... | Westmarch for Sam to continue, hinting that Sam might also be allowed to travel into the West eventually. Sam returned to meet his family at Bag End, ending the story with the words "Well, I'm back." Relationship with Frodo During the journey to destroy the Ring, Sam's relationship with Frodo exemplifies that of a mili... |
of debate before final voting on the bill being closured. Notice of closure is an oral statement announcing intention to call for closure given by any Minister at a prior sitting of the Committee of the Whole. The notice need not be the day immediately prior to the sitting at which the bill will be closured, but cannot... | This was successfully invoked for the first time on 15 November 1919, during the 66th Congress, to end a filibuster on the Treaty of Versailles. The Senate's cloture rule originally required a supermajority of two-thirds of all senators "present and voting" to be considered filibuster-proof. For example, if all 100 sen... |
Nag Hammadi Library refers to the Adamantine Land, an incorruptible place 'above' from whence the spirit came to dwell within man so that he became Adam, he who moves upon the ground with a living soul. In fiction In The Divine Comedy by Dante, completed 1320, the angel at purgatory's gate sits on adamant. In the Medie... | frequently used in modern media to refer to a variety of fictional substances. In mythology In the Christian Bible, God told the prophet Ezekiel to speak His word to the Israelites. But God warned him that they would not listen because they are impudent and hardhearted. However, God said to Ezekiel "As an adamant harde... |
king of both Gondor and Arnor. Sauron's enemies including Elrond formed the White Council, which met in Rivendell, as when the Council decided to eject the Necromancer from his fortress in Dol Guldur. The protagonists of The Hobbit take advice from Elrond in Rivendell. The protagonists of The Lord of the Rings meet in ... | woods ... is based on my adventures in Switzerland in 1911". The medievalist Marjorie Burns writes that Bilbo's approach to Rivendell parallels the early fantasy writer and translator of Norse legend William Morris's approach through the wilds of Iceland to a place he called "Water-dale" (Vatnsdale); both ride across u... |
effects model and the authors conclude that researchers should henceforth abandon use of the random effects model in meta-analysis. While their data is compelling, the ramifications (in terms of the magnitude of spuriously positive results within the Cochrane database) are huge and thus accepting this conclusion requir... | 'tailored meta-analysis'., This has been used in test accuracy meta-analyses, where empirical knowledge of the test positive rate and the prevalence have been used to derive a region in Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) space known as an 'applicable region'. Studies are then selected for the target setting based ... |
the long demolished 26A Albany Street, on the top of a multi-storey car park, which he had bought, at 17 Upper Thames Street in central London. It is accessed by a lift hidden on the other side of a sliding wall, activated from the outside by pressing a cleverly hidden call button. He also purchased a Mini Cooper S wit... | the other side of a sliding wall, activated from the outside by pressing a cleverly hidden call button. He also purchased a Mini Cooper S with the personalised numberplate AA 1000. The car is dark green and tan (or perhaps dark brown and gold), it has a sun-roof, electric windows, and a very posh interior. It was a spe... |
epipelagic zone, conditions change rapidly. Between 200 metres and about 1000 metres, light continues to fade until there is almost none. Temperatures fall through a thermocline to temperatures between 3.9 °C (39 °F) and 7.8 °C (46 °F). This is the twilight or mesopelagic zone. Pressure continues to increase, at the ra... | suggesting a long evolution in deep sea environments. In contrast, deep water benthic species, are in orders that include many related shallow water fishes. Mesopelagic fish Below the epipelagic zone, conditions change rapidly. Between 200 metres and about 1000 metres, light continues to fade until there is almost none... |
Jessup, Pennsylvania judge and notable Republican Party member Henry Harris Jessup, Presbyterian missionary and son of William Jessup Philip Jessup, American jurist and International Court of Justice judge between 1961 and 1970 Ted Jessup, American television writer, producer, and performer Fictional Nathan Jessup, fic... | Hamilton Dibble Jessup, brother of Edward Jessup III American Elizabeth Jessup, American computer scientist Harley Jessup (born 1954), American special effects artist Joseph Jessup, American professional baseball player Marion Jessup, American professional tennis player Morris K. Jessup, American writer on the subject ... |
the French Revolution James Lafayette, pseudonym of James Stack Lauder (1853–1923), Irish portrait photographer Places United States LaFayette, Alabama, a city Lafayette, California, a city Lafayette, Colorado, a home rule municipality LaFayette, Georgia, a city La Fayette, Illinois, a village Lafayette, Indiana metrop... | a Basset Hound in the animated films Aristocats and Aristocats 2 Lafayette Reynolds, one of the principal characters in True Blood, an American TV series Lafayette O'Leary, the protagonist in four Keith Laumer science fiction novels Buildings Lafayette Building (disambiguation) Lafayette Hotel (disambiguation) Lafayett... |
the original RSX-11M code were doing a better job, and patched RSX was more stable than ОСРВ. Other benefits included a faster update cycle for drivers and a larger choice of patches, made possible by a wider user community. A clone of the RSX-11M operating system ran on the Romanian-made CORAL family of computers (suc... | RSX-11M-Plus – a much extended version of RSX-11M, originally designed to support the multi-processor PDP-11/74, a computer that was never released, but RSX-11M-Plus was then used widely as a standard operating system on the PDP-11/70. Hardware-specific variants RSX-20F – Customized version of RSX-11M, to be run on PDP... |
former governor of Florida and candidate for US president Vannevar Bush (1890-1974), an American engineer, inventor and science administrator. Places United States Bush, Illinois Bush, Louisiana Bush, Washington Bush, former name of the Ralph Waldo Emerson House in Concord, Massachusetts The Bush (Alaska) "The Bush," a... | Washington Bush, former name of the Ralph Waldo Emerson House in Concord, Massachusetts The Bush (Alaska) "The Bush," a small neighborhood within Chicago's community area of South Chicago Elsewhere Bush, Cornwall, a hamlet in England Bush Island (Nunavut), Canada Bush, a part of the Manawatū-Whanganui region, North Isl... |
ferment during drying. Use of the term "prune" for fresh plums is obsolete except when applied to varieties of plum grown for drying. Most prunes are freestone cultivars (the pit is easy to remove), whereas most plums grown for fresh consumption are clingstone (the pit is more difficult to remove). Prunes are 64% carbo... | name, boiled plums or prunes are not used to make sugar plums. Production More than 1,000 plum cultivars are grown for drying. The main cultivar grown in the United States is the 'Improved French' prune. Other varieties include 'Sutter', 'Tulare Giant', 'Moyer', 'Imperial', 'Italian', and greengages. Fresh prunes reach... |
released the State Songs EP, which he expanded to a full-length album in 1999. The concept of the State Songs project is intentionally misleading: U.S. states feature prominently in the title and chorus of each song, but have very little to do with their actual narratives. "Montana", for instance, is about the insane r... | on the school newspaper, the Promethean, and met John Flansburgh. The two occasionally collaborated on home-recording projects. Linnell studied English for a semester at the University of Massachusetts Amherst before dropping out to pursue a career in music.<ref name="design matters">Flansburgh, John (March 3, 2012). D... |
Queensland (Rockhampton Region), Queensland Mount Archer, Queensland (Somerset Region), Queensland United States Archer, Florida, a city Archer, Idaho, an unincorporated community Archer, Illinois, an unincorporated community Archer, Iowa, a city Archer, Nebraska, an unincorporated community Archer, Nevada, a former mi... | Archer (see Sports section) The Archer (1982 film), a Finnish drama film The Archer, a 2005 film directed by John Palmer The Archer, a 2017 drama film directed by Valerie Weiss Fictional characters Archer (character class), an archetype found in many fantasy fiction and role-playing games Archer (DC Comics), a fictiona... |
trips to Germany. As part of his recuperation, Brooke toured the United States and Canada to write travel diaries for the Westminster Gazette. He took the long way home, sailing across the Pacific and staying some months in the South Seas. Much later it was revealed that he may have fathered a daughter with a Tahitian ... | of the Apostles, was elected as president of the university Fabian Society, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted, including in the Cambridge Greek Play. The friendships he made at school and university set the course for his adult life, and many of the people he met—including George Mallory—fell under ... |
of Napoleon. His court incurred expenses comparable to Napoleon's court (which oversaw a vastly larger and more important realm), and Napoleon refused to support Jérôme financially. In 1812, Jérôme was given command of a corps in the Grande Armée, marching towards Minsk. Insisting on travelling "in state", Napoleon rep... | Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War a hundred and sixty years earlier in 1648. Thanks to these efforts by King Jerome, Kassel celebrated an enormous cultural upturn. However, Jérôme's expensive habits earned him the contempt of Napoleon. His court incurred expenses comparable to Napoleon's court (which oversa... |
district) in the House of Commons of Canada from 1889 to 1904. Born in Landsdowne Township, Upper Canada, the son of William Earle, he was educated there and became a merchant in Brockville. Earle moved to the Cariboo district of British Columbia in 1863, establishing a grocery business in Victoria in 1873. He was also... | Thomas Earle (September 27, 1837 – July 13, 1911) was a Canadian businessman and Conservative politician who represented Victoria (electoral district) in the House of Commons of Canada from 1889 to 1904. Born in Landsdowne Township, Upper Canada, the son of William Earle, he was educated there and became a merchant in ... |
him again, except for a brief eye-to-eye contact in 1817. After remaining in limbo, unable to disembark in either France or the Netherlands, she gave birth to a son, Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte (1805–1870), on July 5, 1805 at 95 Camberwell Grove in Camberwell, London. Jérôme gave in to his brother, returned to the French... | by special Act of the Legislature of Maryland, she secured a divorce. Her last years were spent in Baltimore in the management of her estate, the value of which she increased to $1.5 million. In 1861, she filed an inheritance claim in the Tribunal of First Instance at Paris after her former husband, Prince Jérôme, died... |
June 1870) was a French-American farmer, chairman of the Maryland Agricultural Society, first president of the Maryland Club, and the son of Elizabeth Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I. Biography Bonaparte was born in 95 Camberwell Grove, Camberwell, London, but lived in the United States with his w... | Napoleon I. The annulment caused the rescission of his right to carry the Bonaparte name, although the ruling was later reversed by his cousin, Napoleon III. It is speculated that Jérôme's prospective title is a reason the 11th Congress of the United States in 1810 proposed the Titles of Nobility Amendment to the U.S. ... |
against the contrary influence of the Emperor's wife, the Empress Eugenie, a devout Catholic and a conservative, and the patroness of those who wanted French troops to protect the Pope's sovereignty in Rome. The Emperor was to navigate between the two influences throughout his reign. When his cousin became President in... | a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy on behalf of Camillo di Cavour and the Italian nationalists. An anti-clerical liberal, he led that faction at court and tried to influence the Emperor to anti-clerical policies, against the contrary influence of the Emperor's wife, the Empress Eugenie, a devout Catholi... |
After the 1991 Perfect Storm, the commercial fishing vessel Andrea Gails emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) was discovered on the shore of Sable Island on November 6, 1991, nine days after the last transmission from the crew. Other items found were fuel drums, a fuel tank, an empty life raft, and some o... | to the National Parks Act. Harbour and grey seals breed on the island's shores. Seal counts from the 1960s for the grey seal population estimated 200–300 pups born at that time on the island, but surveys from as recent as 2003–2004 estimated the number of pups born in that season at 50,000. The seals are occasionally p... |
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