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memory of THOMAS WILLIAMS, 1926–1990: poet, novelist, and great American storyteller. Adaptations "The Night Flier" and "Dolan's Cadillac" were both adapted to films of the same respective names. "Chattery Teeth" was adapted into a segment of the film Quicksilver Highway. "Sorry, Right Number" was telecast as an episod... | novelist, and great American storyteller. Adaptations "The Night Flier" and "Dolan's Cadillac" were both adapted to films of the same respective names. "Chattery Teeth" was adapted into a segment of the film Quicksilver Highway. "Sorry, Right Number" was telecast as an episode of Tales from the Darkside before it was p... |
then. The town of Lillehammer was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. The rural municipality of Fåberg was merged into the municipality of Lillehammer on 1 January 1964. In 1973, Mossad killed a Moroccan waiter, having mistaken him for Palestinian terrorist Ali Hassan Salameh, which became known as the Lil... | situated just north of the town itself. Lillehammer is also the home of the Nansen Academy - the Norwegian Humanistic Academy. The Nansen Academy is an educational institution for adult students with varied political, religious, and cultural backgrounds. The Academy was founded on the core principles of humanism and ai... |
television "The Raft" was adapted as a segment of the 1987 New World Pictures anthology film Creepshow 2, with a script by George A. Romero, and directed by Michael Gornic. "Word Processor of the Gods" (1984 Laurel TV, directed by Michael Gornic) was a 22-minute episode of Tales from the Darkside. "Gramma" was adapted ... | and depth than his previous short works. The collection also features some more personal works, including "For Owen", the poem he wrote for his son, and "Gramma" a horrific tale from an eleven-year-old boy's perspective that seems to recall King's own horrors living with his invalid grandmother. Of one of the stories i... |
"Quitters, Inc.", "The Last Rung on the Ladder", and "The Woman in the Room" appeared for the first time in this collection. Foreword and introduction Night Shift is the first book for which King wrote a foreword. The introduction was written by one of King's favorite authors, John D. MacDonald. Film, television or the... | book was published on the heels of The Shining (1977 Doubleday) and is King's fifth published book (including Rage, which was published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman). Nine of the twenty stories had first appeared in issues of Cavalier Magazine from 1970 to 1975; others were originally published in Penthouse, ... |
part 3 (1995) The Ideal Genuine Man 1997, a novel written by Don Robertson Six Stories (1997), a short story collection written by Stephen King, 1100 copies, Signed/Limited "The New Lieutenant's Rap" (1999), a short story written by Stephen King, 500 copies (approx.), Signed/Limited "Guns" (2013), an essay | the following have been published: The Plant part 1 (1982), unfinished, serialized, epistolary novel written by Stephen King The Plant part 2 (1983) The Eyes of the Dragon (1984), novel written by Stephen King, 1000 copies, Signed/Limited The Plant, part 3 (1995) The |
student at the University of Maine who is trying to find himself. He gets a call from a neighbor in his hometown of Lewiston, telling him that his mother has been taken to the hospital after having a stroke. Lacking a functioning car, Parker decides to hitchhike the 120 miles (200 km) south to visit his mother. His fir... | away from the wreck and continues hitching. His second ride is an old man who continually tugs at his crotch in a car that stinks of urine. Eventually frightened and glad to escape the vehicle, Alan starts walking, thumbing his next ride. Coming upon a graveyard, he begins to explore it and notices a headstone for a st... |
above are MIMD machines. As the term "multiprocessor" normally refers to tightly coupled systems in which all processors share memory, multiprocessors are not the entire class of MIMD machines, which also contains message passing multicomputer systems. Pre-history Possibly the first expression of the idea of multiproce... | more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. There are many variations on this basic theme, and the definition of multiprocessing can vary with context, mostly as a ... |
develop this breed. The American Shorthair has now been discontinued as an outcross, except in The International Cat Association (TICA). The breed was accepted by The International Cat Association in 1992, the American Cat Fanciers Association in 1998, and the Cat Fanciers' Association in 2000. In Cat Fanciers' Associa... | muzzle creases that can result in dermatitis on the face. Like other Rex breeds, irritation of the inside of the ear by curly fur can occur, increasing the production of ear wax. Homozygous cats (with two copies of the dominant Selkirk Rex gene) may have a tendency towards excessive greasiness of the coat, requiring in... |
All three stories in Blood and Smoke involve smoking in one way or another. The audiobook packaging resembles a pack of cigarettes, including the flip top. Short stories Lunch at the Gotham Café 1408 In the Deathroom See also Short fiction by Stephen King External links Audiobooks For Soul 1999 | which Stephen King reads three of his own short stories. At the time, King said that the two short stories which had not been published wouldn't be, but all three appeared in the Everything's Eventual collection. All three stories in Blood and Smoke involve smoking |
Little Wanderers. The final article implies Dolores and Selena have reconciled and that Selena will be coming home for the first time in 20 years. Style Unlike many other works by King, little focus is given to the supernatural. Although several supernatural occurrences are implied, the only such events that clearly oc... | employer, which began when Vera and her millionaire husband purchased a summer home on Little Tall Island in 1949 and hired Dolores as a maid. Able to cope with Vera's brutally exacting standards, Dolores rises from maid to housekeeper at the Donovan home. After Vera's husband dies in a car crash in the late '50s, Vera... |
to suspect she gave up her independent and courageous spirit for the security of being Gerald's trophy wife. Waking from an imaginary confrontation with all these characters to a dark bedroom, Jessie sees a tall, gaunt apparition, whom she initially mistakes for the spirit of her long-dead father and whom she nicknames... | version of herself that undermines her escape attempts by insisting things will be fine and that she should wait to be rescued; "Punkin," a representation of Jessie as a 10-year-old girl; Ruth Neary, a college roommate whom Jessie abandoned after a conversation that strayed dangerously close to uncovering Jessie's chil... |
The girl decides to follow a creek because of what she read in Little House on the Prairie (though it soon turns into a swamp-like river), rationalizing that all bodies of water lead eventually to civilization. As the cops stop searching for the night, she huddles up underneath a tree to rest. Eventually, a combination... | to maintain sanity in the face of seemingly certain death. Racked with pneumonia and near death, she comes upon a road, but just as she discovers signs of civilization, she's confronted by a bear, which she interprets as the God of the Lost in disguise. Facing down her fear, she realizes it's the bottom of the ninth, a... |
from her headless body. McCarron is able to tell her that her baby is a boy and to see that she has registered this before she dies. McCarron and his office nurse pay for the woman's burial, for she has no one else. The child is adopted, but despite the confidential nature of adoption records, McCarron is able to keep ... | invitation of a senior partner, he joins a strange men's club where the members, in addition to reading, chatting and playing pool and chess, like to tell stories, some of which range into the bizarre and macabre. The club and its butler are also featured in King's short story "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands". One T... |
hierarchical. Equidistant locality is usually supported by a processor's diverse nontrivial increment instructions. For branch locality, the contemporary processors have sophisticated branch predictors, and on the basis of this prediction the memory manager of the processor tries to collect and preprocess the data of p... | that calls the specialized instructions in question. The branch locality is a more elaborate possibility, hence more developing effort is needed, but there is much larger reserve for future exploration in this kind of locality than in all the remaining ones. Spatial and temporal locality usage Hierarchical memory Hiera... |
about twenty-five years after Coffey's execution. John Coffey He is an African American with a massive built (6 ft 8 in tall), having been convicted of the rape and murder of two young girls and sentenced to death. He is very quiet and prefers to keep to himself, weeps almost constantly, and is afraid of the dark. Even... | Wharton. He eventually lives through a hospital fire and dies in 1965. William "Wild Bill" Wharton The antagonist of the story. He is on death row for various crimes, including an armed robbery in which he killed a pregnant woman and two other innocent bystanders. He does not like the nickname "Wild Bill" but prefers t... |
plagiarism. A woman claimed that King stole several of her story ideas and based characters from his books on her. All of her cases have been dismissed. In another incident, a deranged man broke into King's home, and when discovered by King's wife, claimed that King stole the plot of Misery from the intruder's aunt and... | flight to Boston as a passenger. A flight attendant speaks of an unusual phenomenon over the Mojave Desert that resembles an aurora. Brian falls asleep during takeoff, having been awake throughout his previous flight. Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with psychic abilities, also falls asleep, and awakes to find that h... |
The last boy left walking receives a large sum of money and a "Prize" of their choice. Ray Garraty from Androscoggin County, Maine arrives at the start of the Walk on the Canada-Maine border, where he meets several other Walkers such as the sardonic McVries, the friendly Baker, the cocky Olson and the enigmatic Stebbin... | keep going. Garraty decides that his motivation will be surviving until Freeport as this will allow him to see his girlfriend Jan in the crowd. The Walkers begin to resent the Major, and McVries stops walking in an attempt to fight the soldiers, but is saved by Garraty. In return, McVries saves Garraty's life after Gar... |
and decay, and warded off Sauron's gaze. As the War of the Ring loomed, the Fellowship of the Ring, emerging from the dark tunnels of Moria and seeing their leader Gandalf perish, was brought through Lothlórien to Caras Galadhon, and there met the Lord and Lady of the Galadhrim. The Fellowship spent roughly a month in ... | welcomes them, calling the area the Naith or "Gore", both unfamiliar words for the land between two converging rivers, the Hoarwell or Mitheithel, and the Loudwater or Bruinen, and then giving a third word with a special resonance: the "Angle". Shippey states that the name "England" comes from the Angle (Anglia) betwee... |
does not address this specifically for Balrogs, though in his later conception, as at the Bridge of Khazad-dûm, the Balrog appears "like a great shadow, in the middle of which was a dark form, of man-shape maybe, yet greater". Though previously the Balrog had entered the "large square chamber" of Mazarbul, at the Bridg... | fictional history in The Silmarillion, the evil Vala Melkor corrupted lesser Maiar (angelic beings) to his service, as Balrogs, in the days of his splendour before the making of Arda. Upon the awakening of the Elves, the Valar captured Melkor and destroyed his fortresses Utumno and Angband. But they overlooked the deep... |
have been pushed by his then wife, the socialist journalist Penny Perrick, who disliked Heseltine both personally (as best man at their wedding he had, she said, welcomed various business figures in his speech as if he were at a board meeting) and politically and whom he had refused to include on the Haymarket board. L... | by Plymouth MP Dame Joan Vickers to create a Tamarside Metropolitan county, and was rebuked by Sir Henry Studholme, his predecessor as MP for Tavistock, for declining to support (on the grounds that as minister he might have to adjudicate any dispute) Plymouth Council's attempt to buy more land near Sparkwell to develo... |
propagating genetic diversity. Thus, this evidence suggests that it is a question of whether cross over is linked to DNA repair or bacterial transformation, as the two do not appear to be mutually exclusive. It is likely that crossing over may have evolved from bacterial transformation, which in turn developed from DNA... | MLH1 and MLH3, which defines the class I crossovers. The remaining are the result of the class II pathway, which is regulated by MUS81 endonuclease. There are interconnections between these two pathways—class I crossovers can compensate for the loss of class II pathway. In MUS81 knockout mice, class I crossovers are el... |
decades, acting as editor during Strachey's recurrent bouts of illness. But the relationship did not work: as Atkins lamented to his long-standing friend, Winston Churchill, Wrench 'continually wants to interfere and he is very ignorant'. Wrench duly took over the editorship in 1926, successfully channeling the enthusi... | position, arguing that his unwillingness to act decisively had been a weakness and a contributor to the problems apparent in the US. He soon went into partnership with Richard Holt Hutton, the editor of The Economist, whose primary interests were literature and theology. Hutton's close friend William Gladstone later ca... |
oldest-dated building in the town. To celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 60 oak trees were planted in the shape of a Victoria Cross near Fairmile, the long straight road to the northwest of the town. Two notable buildings just outside Henley, in Buckinghamshire, are: Fawley Court, a red-brick building designed... | Century as part of the Romano-British period. The first record of Henley as a substantial settlement is from 1179, when it is recorded that King Henry II "had bought land for the making of buildings". King John granted the manor of Benson and the town and manor of Henley to Robert Harcourt in 1199. A church at Henley i... |
infiltrator, given the level of bloodshed. 1967–1973 1974–1980s: Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon 1980s 1987–1991: First Intifada The First Intifada began with violence, riots, general strikes, and civil disobedience campaigns by Palestinians spread across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli forces responded w... | Israeli forces necessarily treated anyone attempting unauthorized entry as a potential infiltrator, given the level of bloodshed. 1967–1973 1974–1980s: Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon 1980s 1987–1991: First Intifada The First Intifada began with violence, riots, general strikes, and civil disobedience campaigns... |
Barossa Valley Nain, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia, United States Nain, Principality of Hutt River, capital and only town in the self-proclaimed state Nain, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India Other uses Nain rug, name of a traditional pattern and design of Persian carpet | province in Labrador, Canada, part of the North Atlantic Craton Nain, Punjab, a village and Union Council of Pakistan Nain, South Australia, in the northern Barossa Valley Nain, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia, United States Nain, Principality of Hutt River, capital and only town in ... |
the property has yielded or may be likely to yield information important to prehistory or history. The criteria are applied differently for different types of properties; for instance, maritime properties have application guidelines different from those of buildings. Exclusions There are specific instances where proper... | the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from th... |
lists of writers: Alphabetical indices A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z Lists by genre | genre Top of page Lists by language (non-English) Top of page Lists by ethnicity or nationality Top of page Lists of women writers and works Main list Women writers By country Other lists of women writers Top of page |
father was a manager at a local utility company. Kilby grew up and attended school in Great Bend, Kansas, graduating from the Great Bend High School. (Road signs at the entrances to the town commemorate his time there, and the Commons Area at Great Bend High School has been named The Jack Kilby Commons Area.) Kilby rec... | delivered his personal view of the industry and its history in his acceptance speech. Kilby was awarded nine honorary doctorate degrees from universities including Southern Methodist University, the University of Miami, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Texas A&M University, Yale and Rochester In... |
and first in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest television characters of all time. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly placed Homer ninth on their list of the "50 Greatest TV icons" and first on their 2010 list of the "Top 100 Characters of the Past Twenty Years". Homer was also the runaway winner in British polls that determi... | impulses, then he can easily switch impulses. So, even though he impulsively wants to strangle Bart, he also gives up fairly easily." Another of the original ideas entertained by Groening was that Homer would "always get his comeuppance or Bart had to strangle him back", but this was dropped. Homer shows no compunction... |
is characterized by obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and shortened life span. Causes New World Syndrome is linked to a change from a traditional diet and exercise to a Western diet and a sedentary lifestyle. Traditional occupations of indigenous people—such as fishing, farming, and hunting—tended to invo... | such as automobiles also decreased physical exertion. Meanwhile, Western foods which are rich in fat, salt, sugar, and refined starches are also imported into countries. The amount of carbohydrates in diets increases. Diagnosis The diagnosis does not require specific criteria. Obesity is often followed by its complicat... |
a device consisting of two wedges of metal connected loosely. When a line of type was being justified, all the space band wedges would be pushed up in two passes to spread the line out to the full measure being cast. The space bands were stored for reuse in a different location from the matrices. History The invention ... | special keying system on one end of the matrix, unique for each character, would allow the matrix to drop back only into the correct storage slot, ready for the next use. Another benefit of this overall process was that each edition of the paper was created from a fresh casting of metal, thus avoiding problems of type ... |
Splurging" (Huffington Post); and "It's National Junk Food Day: Got snacks?" (Kansas City). As for the source of junk food's appeal, there is no definitive scientific answer, both physiological and psychological factors are cited. Food manufacturers spend billions of dollars on research and development to create flavor... | culture and, above all, in our hearts. Often criticized for its lack of any nutritional value whatsoever, the Twinkie has managed to persevere as a cultural and gastronomical icon." America also celebrates an annual National Junk Food Day on July 21. Origins are unclear; it is one of around 175 US food and drink days, ... |
1990s, the Parisian pastry chef Pierre Hermé introduced his salted butter and caramel macaroons and, by 2000, high-end chefs started adding a bit of salt to caramel and chocolate dishes. In 2008 it entered the mass market, when Häagen-Dazs and Starbucks started selling it. Originally used in desserts, the confection ha... | mixing caramelized sugar with cream. Depending on the intended application, additional ingredients such as butter, fruit purees, liquors, or vanilla can be used. Caramel sauce is used in a range of desserts, especially as a topping for ice cream. When it is used for crème caramel or flan, it is known as clear caramel a... |
each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are described below. A typeface differs from other modes of graphic production such as handwriting and drawing in that it is a fixed set of alphanumeric characters with specific characteristics to be used repetitively. Historically, these... | typeface differs from other modes of graphic production such as handwriting and drawing in that it is a fixed set of alphanumeric characters with specific characteristics to be used repetitively. Historically, these were physical elements, called sorts, placed in a wooden frame; modern typefaces are stored and used ele... |
starch of corn (called maize in many countries) and contains varying amounts of sugars glucose, maltose and higher oligosaccharides, depending on the grade. Corn syrup, also known as glucose syrup to confectioners, is used in foods to soften texture, add volume, prevent crystallization of sugar, and enhance flavor. Cor... | the fungus Aspergillus; the enzyme is isolated from the liquid in which the fungus is grown. The glucose can then be transformed into fructose by passing the glucose through a column that is loaded with the enzyme D-xylose isomerase, an enzyme that is isolated from the growth medium of any of several bacteria. Corn syr... |
best overall font choice and it was also perceived as being among the most legible fonts. However, Microsoft's font manager Bill Hill wrote that "with its large x-height and very generous spacing, it never felt comfortable as an eBook font". He noted that Microsoft had commissioned an alternative version of the pre-exi... | are: Lower case there is a square dot over the letter i the lowercase j has a serif on top that protrudes left the a is double-story Upper case the capital Q's tail is centered under the figure the uppercase J has a serif on the top that protrudes left the uppercase I has two serifs on the top and bottom As an example ... |
clarity and legibility at distance in advertising and display use, when printed very large or small. Because sans-serif type was often used for headings and commercial printing, many early sans-serif designs did not feature lower-case letters. Simple sans-serif capitals, without use of lower-case, became very common in... | from its appearances in the firm's specimen books, no uses of it from the period have been found; Mosley speculates that it may have been commissioned by a specific client. A second hiatus in interest in sans-serif appears to have lasted for about twelve years, until Vincent Figgins' foundry of London issued a new sans... |
The oldest citations in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) are 1830 for 'serif' and 1841 for 'sans serif'. The OED speculates that 'serif' was a back-formation from 'sanserif'. Webster's Third New International Dictionary traces 'serif' to the Dutch noun , meaning "line, stroke of the pen", related to the verb , "to d... | is documented by Van Veen and Van der Sijs. In her book , Van der Sijs lists words by first known publication in the language area that is the Netherlands today: , 1100; , 1350; , 1406 (i.e. is from (to write), not from (to scratch, eliminate by strike-through)). The OEDs earliest citation for "grotesque" in this sense... |
considered easier to read in long passages than those without. Studies on the matter are ambiguous, suggesting that most of this effect is due to the greater familiarity of serif typefaces. As a general rule, printed works such as newspapers and books almost always use serif typefaces, at least for the text body. Web s... | different designs given the same family name for what would seem to be purely marketing, rather than design, considerations: Caslon Antique, Futura Black and Futura Display are structurally unrelated to the Caslon and Futura families, respectively, and are generally not considered part of those families by typographers... |
From 1905 to 1907 it was commanded by U.S. Army General George W. McIver. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, civilian prisoners were transferred to Alcatraz for safe confinement. On March 21, 1907, Alcatraz was officially designated as the Western U.S. Military Prison, later Pacific Branch, U.S. Disciplinary Barr... | James A. Johnston and associate warden J. E. Shuttleworth, both considered to be "iron men". The staff were highly trained in security, but not rehabilitation. During the 29 years it was in use, the prison held some of the most notorious criminals in American history, including gangsters such as Al Capone, Robert Frank... |
to the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist. The first abbot, in 1123, was Hugh of Amiens who became archbishop of Rouen and was buried in Rouen Cathedral. According to the twelfth-century chronicler William of Malmesbury, the abbey was built on a gravel spur "between the rivers Kennet and Thames, on a spot calculate... | land at Appledram in Sussex. Following its royal foundation, the abbey was established by a party of monks from Cluny Abbey in Burgundy, together with monks from the Cluniac priory of St Pancras at Lewes in Sussex. The abbey was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist. The first abbot, in 1123, was Hugh... |
of ice hockey and ringette but are occasionally used for recreational ice skating alone. Each individual skate consists of a boot, laces, blade, and a blade holder. The boot is generally made of molded plastic, leather (often synthetic), ballistic nylon, or a thermoformed composite material. Each skate blade has two ed... | but are occasionally used for recreational ice skating alone. Each individual skate consists of a boot, laces, blade, and a blade holder. The boot is generally made of molded plastic, leather (often synthetic), ballistic nylon, or a thermoformed composite material. Each skate blade has two edges. Skates used in competi... |
were uncharted, and when depleted, often abandoned and forgotten. Paris had annexed its suburbs many times over the centuries, and by the 18th century many of its arrondissements (administrative districts) were or included previously mined territories. The undermined state of the Left Bank was known to architects as ea... | been directly involved in the creation of a mine inspection service. Lenoir endorsed the idea of moving Parisian dead to the subterranean passageways that were renovated during 1782. After deciding to further renovate the "Tombe-Issoire" passageways for their future role as an underground sepulchre, the idea became law... |
assistant professor at Oregon State University coincided with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement and later the counterculture. The former, along with the protests against the Vietnam War, he regarded as being led by Jews. In 1965 to finance his political ambitions, Pierce left his tenure at Oregon State University a... | from Rice in 1955 with a bachelor's degree in physics. He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory before attending graduate school, initially at Caltech during 1955–56. At the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, he earned a master's degree and a doctorate in 1962. He taught physics as an assistant profess... |
Hannah returned in 2001 with Yonder Stands Your Orphan (the title is taken from Bob Dylan's song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"), his longest novel since Geronimo Rex. In this novel, Hannah returned to a small community north of Vicksburg and to some of the characters featured in stories from Airships and Bats Out of H... | of Hell (1993), which featured 23 stories over close to 400 pages, making it Hannah's longest book, and then with High Lonesome (1996), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. After a near-fatal bout with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hannah returned in 2001 with Yonder Stands Your Orphan (the title is taken from Bob Dylan... |
in solitary confinement as a result of the Dahmer killing. A district court judge dismissed the suit against several of the defendants and ruled that the actions of the remaining officials could not be considered unlawful. Scarver unsuccessfully appealed the decision in 2006. Later, federal district court judge Barbara... | more, both post-mortem, before Feyen gave a $3,000 check to Scarver and ran away. Scarver was convicted and sentenced to life in prison and sent to the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1992. Murders in prison On the morning of November 28, 1994, Scarver was assigned to a work detail with two ... |
mainly as a byproduct of acrylonitrile manufacture. It is used as a polar aprotic solvent in organic synthesis and in the purification of butadiene. The N≡C−C skeleton is linear with a short C≡N distance of 1.16 Å. Acetonitrile was first prepared in 1847 by the French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas. Applications Acetonitr... | no commercial importance as of 2002. Illustrative routes are by dehydration of acetamide or by hydrogenation of mixtures of carbon monoxide and ammonia. In , of acetonitrile were produced in the US. Catalytic ammoxidation of ethylene was also researched. Acetonitrile shortage in 2008–2009 Starting in October 2008, the ... |
words, the solar wind consists of both negative electrons and positive ions. The first complete map of the statistical location of Birkeland currents in the Earth's polar region was developed in 1974 by A.J. Zmuda and J.C. Armstrong and refined in 1976 by T. Iijima and T.A. Potemra As a scholar with wide interests, Bir... | in the lower right corner, and his terrella experiment is shown on the front at the left with a portrait of Birkeland on the right. The book on the 1902–1903 expedition contains chapters on magnetic storms on the Earth and their relationship to the Sun, the origin of the Sun itself, Halley's comet, and the rings of Sat... |
in Togo Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal), a canal in northern Germany Nok Kundi, a town in Western Pakistan Other uses Nok (bird), a genus of birds Nok culture, an ancient civilization in Nigeria Nok Hockey, the game Next of kin, a person's closest living blood relative(s) NOK, ISO 4217 currency code for the Norwegian kr... | and entertainer from Thailand Andrew Jonathan Nok, Nigerian scientist Places Nok, a village and archeological site in Nigeria Nok (Togo), a cave and archeological site in Togo Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal), a canal in northern Germany Nok Kundi, a town in Western Pakistan Other uses Nok (bird), a genus of birds Nok cu... |
coin 51.5 times more valuable than the 10-pound coin. While not easy to find in Norway, the Syrian coins are still used in automated machines there with such frequency that , the Norwegian postal service, decided to close many of their coins-to-cash machines on 18 February 2006, with plans to develop a system able to d... | its dissolution, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all decided to keep the names of their respective and since then separate currencies. Within the Scandinavian Monetary Union, the krone was on a gold standard of 2,480 kroner = 1 kilogram of pure gold (1 krone = 403.226 milligrams gold). This gold standard was restored betwe... |
coated cats, making them both warm to the touch and prone to seeking out warm places. Breed standards The breed standards are defined by The International Cat Association (TICA): Wedge-shaped heads with prominent cheekbones Large, lemon-shaped eyes Very large ears with hair on inside, but soft down on outside base Well... | fur, Sphynx cats lose body heat more readily than coated cats, making them both warm to the touch and prone to seeking out warm places. Breed standards The breed standards are defined by The International Cat Association (TICA): Wedge-shaped heads with prominent cheekbones Large, lemon-shaped eyes Very large ears with ... |
the march of Ancona by Angelo da Clareno (1337). Like several other smaller congregations, it was obliged in 1568 under Pope Pius V to unite with the general body of Observantists. Minorites of Narbonne As a separate congregation, this originated through the union of a number of houses which followed Olivi after 1308. ... | Observantists or , was at least equal in numbers and activity to the followers of Elias. Custody of the Holy Land After an intense apostolic activity in Italy, in 1219 Francis went to Egypt with the Fifth Crusade to announce the Gospel to the Saracens. He met with the Sultan Malik al-Kamil, initiating a spirit of dialo... |
Department of Applied Research in Information Technology (DART) works with project-oriented applied research within multimedia, information security, information privacy and risks, universal design, and e-inclusion. In addition to research, DART's work covers concept studies, analysis, consultancy, prototyping, trainin... | addition to research, DART's work covers concept studies, analysis, consultancy, prototyping, training, development, and evaluation. Department of Statistical Analysis, Image Analysis, and Pattern Recognition (SAMBA) works with project-oriented applied research in all areas of mathematical statistics. The main applicat... |
box-office hit, grossing $475 million worldwide. Neeson also starred in Atom Egoyan's erotic thriller Chloe, theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics on 26 March 2010. Chloe had enjoyed commercial success and became the Canadian director's biggest money maker ever. Later the same year, he played John "Hannibal" ... | he was regarded as a kind of a buffoon by them... if the Nazis were New Yorkers, he was from Arkansas. They don't quite take him seriously, and he used that to full effect." His critically acclaimed performance earned him a nomination for a Best Actor Oscar, and helped the film earn Best Picture of 1993. (The best acto... |
until 1713 when its separate constitutional systems (Catalan Constitutions, Aragon Fueros, and Furs of Valencia) were swept away in the Nueva Planta decrees at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. Jiménez dynasty, 1035–1164 With the death of Sancho III of Navarre, Aragon was inherited by his son Ramiro as an a... | Camposon of John I of Castile and Eleanor of Aragon||Eleanor of Alburquerque13948 children||2 April 1416Igualadaaged 36 |- |Alfonso V the Magnanimous2 April 1416 – 27 June 1458||||1396Medina del Camposon of Ferdinand I and Eleanor of Alburquerque||Maria of Castile1415No children||27 June 1458Naplesaged 52 |- |John II t... |
Limburg) Marco (R. Nierat) Backgammon Video Gammon (R. Hoogerhyde) Prospero (R. Mills) Bridge Bridge Baron (T. Throop and T. Guilfoyle) Oxford Bridge (A. Bracher) Checkers Colossus (M. Bryant) Chinook (J. Schaeffer) Checkermate (D. Oldbury and A. Millett) Chess Mephisto (R. Lang) Rebel (E. Schroeder) Zugzwang (P. Mysli... | adopted the Computer Olympiad and tries to organise the event on an annual basis. Games contested The games which have been contested at each olympiad are: 1st Computer Olympiad Medals awarded Awari Marco (R. Nierat) Wali (E. van der Schilden) Conchus (S. Thomas) Backgammon Neurogammon (Gerald Tesauro) Video Gammon (R.... |
of Finn Dahl (1898–1962) and Ingrid Othilie Kathinka Pedersen (1905–80). When he was seven, his family moved to Drammen. When he was thirteen, the whole family fled to Sweden during the German occupation of Norway in World War II. After the war's end, Dahl studied numerical mathematics at the University of Oslo. Dahl b... | Ole-Johan Dahl (12 October 1931 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist. Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard. Career Dahl was born in Mandal, Norway. He was the son o... |
almost every ailment, and was practiced prophylactically as well as therapeutically. A number of different methods were employed. The most common was phlebotomy, or venesection (often called "breathing a vein"), in which blood was drawn from one or more of the larger external veins, such as those in the forearm or neck... | single combat; within minutes, he fainted from loss of blood. Arriving at the local hospital he was immediately bled twenty ounces (570 ml) "to prevent inflammation". During the night he was bled another 24 ounces (680 ml). Early the next morning, the chief surgeon bled the patient another 10 ounces (285 ml); during th... |
Polish-to-English translation as an audiobook download narrated by Alessandro Juliani. The original Polish text was translated into English by Bill Johnston, with the approval of Lem's estate. An e-book edition () of the Johnston translation followed. 2011: English-language version translated by Bill Johnston, narrated... | Moreover, the second Harey becomes aware of her transient nature and is haunted by being Solaris' means-to-an-end, affecting Kelvin in unknown ways. After listening to a tape recording by Gibarian, and so learning her true nature, she attempts suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. This fails because her body is made of ne... |
to be fully implemented by the fourth quarter of 2019. The designs are by The Metric System and Snøhetta and use an abstract geometric design influenced by the Beaufort scale. Series VIII (2017 – present) Series VIII banknotes are printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire in France. Banknote order quantities Historical banknotes ... | 200, 100, 50, 10 and 5 kroner have been put into circulation. The first 200 kroner banknote was first published in 1994. The others have been in use since 1877. Banknotes of 5 and 10 kroner were in use until 1963 and 1983 when they were replaced by coins. From 1917-1925 and 1940-1950 there was a shortage of small chang... |
electronically from the baton, and read by Her Majesty to open the Games. The 2002 Baton itself was designed by a company called IDEO, and was constructed of machined aluminium with the handle plated for conductivity. It weighed 1.69 kg, reached over 710 mm, and was 42.5 mm to 85 mm in diameter. The Queen's message its... | city, an area which had remained derelict since the departure of heavy industry some decades before. The 2002 Commonwealth Games set a new benchmark for hosting the Commonwealth Games and for cities wishing to bid for them with a heavy emphasis on legacy. The venue and financial policy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games ha... |
Zaragoza is also located near the confluence of the Ebro with the Gállego, a more voluminous left-bank tributary born in the Pyrenees. Climate Zaragoza has a semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSk), as it lies in a wide basin entirely surrounded by mountains which block off moist air from the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The av... | taifa greatly prospered in a cultural and political sense in the late 11th century, and being later governed by Ahmad al-Muqtadir, Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud and Al-Musta'in II. It fell to the Almoravids in 1110. On 18 December 1118, Alfonso I of Aragon conquered the city from the Almoravids, and made it the capital of ... |
published 1818), John Herapath (1816) and John James Waterston (1843), which connected their research with the development of mechanical explanations of gravitation. In 1856 August Krönig created a simple gas-kinetic model, which only considered the translational motion of the particles. In 1857 Rudolf Clausius develop... | temperature, as well as transport properties such as viscosity, thermal conductivity and mass diffusivity. The model also accounts for related phenomena, such as Brownian motion. Historically, the kinetic theory of gases was the first explicit exercise of the ideas of statistical mechanics. History In about 50 BCE, the... |
flooding. Its mouth is a large estuary culminating at the major port, and Portuguese capital, Lisbon. The source is specifically: in political geography, at the Fuente de García in the Frías de Albarracín municipality; in physical geography, within the notably high range, the Sistema Ibérico (Iberian System), of the Si... | bridge in Europe, with a total length of – and the 25 de Abril Bridge. The Port of Lisbon, straddling its mouth, is one of Europe's busiest. The Portuguese Alentejo region and the former Ribatejo Province take their names from the river: Alentejo, from além Tejo ("beyond the Tejo") and Ribatejo probably from arriba Tej... |
As an artistic symbol, it is a metaphor of the life-cycle, from birth to death. As a technique of personal development, it is an encyclopedia of meditation positions (mudras). Eiko (栄光) Adapted from the art of swordsmanship, Eiko (glory) is a hymn to the glory of the human adventure, taking the practitioner between ear... | the techniques effective. There is no competition. Each participant is encouraged to express him or herself freely and to discover his or her potential in a spirit of cooperation with, respect for and confidence in one another. A kumite may begin with a formal movement but is transformed progressively into a kind of fr... |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral between Wyatt Earp and the Clantons and McLaurys. The program in the first year was devoted to retellings of tales from Tombstone, the second year to classic TV Western. It was reported that the 2005 iteration of the festival | western mining town (and later ghost town) in the USA celebrated in western films as the site of the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral between Wyatt Earp and the Clantons and McLaurys. The program in the first year was devoted to retellings of tales from Tombstone, the second year to classic TV Western. It |
1881 the town boasted fancy restaurants, a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, an opera house, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, along with 110 saloons, fourteen gambling halls, and numerous brothels, all situated among a number of dirty, hardscrabble mines. Horse rustlers and band... | five Cowboys, including Old Man Clanton, in Guadalupe Canyon. The Earps knew that the McLaurys and Clantons were reputed to be mixed up in the robbery and murder in Skeleton Canyon. Wyatt Earp said in his testimony after the shootout, "I naturally kept my eyes open and did not intend that any of the gang should get the... |
From 1903 until the World War I era, potassium nitrate for black powder and fertilizer was produced on an industrial scale from nitric acid produced using the Birkeland–Eyde process, which used an electric arc to oxidize nitrogen from the air. During World War I the newly industrialized Haber process (1913) was combine... | although its use for propulsion did not appear until medieval times. A purification process for potassium nitrate was outlined in 1270 by the chemist and engineer Hasan al-Rammah of Syria in his book al-Furusiyya wa al-Manasib al-Harbiyya (The Book of Military Horsemanship and Ingenious War Devices). In this book, al-R... |
Iranian vizier, Nizam al Mulk. These leaders established the observatory where Omar Khayyám did much of his experimentation for a new calendar, and they built religious schools in all the major towns. They brought Abu Hamid Ghazali, one of the greatest Islamic theologians, and other eminent scholars to the Seljuq capit... | is the most notable example. Except for Shah Abbas the Great, Shah Ismail I, Shah Tahmasp I, and Shah Abbas II, many of the Safavid rulers were ineffectual, often being more interested in their women, alcohol and other leisure activities. The end of Abbas II's reign in 1666, marked the beginning of the end of the Safav... |
remains in Catalonia are the Cave of Fontmajor (l'Espluga de Francolí), The Cave of Toll (Morà), the caves Gran and Freda (Montserrat), the shelters of Cogul and Ulldecona, or La Draga, an early Neolithic village which dates from the end of the 6th millennium BC. The Chalcolithic or Eneolithic period developed in Catal... | the economical and military measures of Olivares, many of which violated the Catalan constitutions. The failure of the Courts aggravated the tensions between Catalan institutions and Monarchy, favoring a scenario of rupture. When Spanish tercios (military corps) concentrated in Roussillon at the end of the 1630s, becau... |
motion can be written as by integrating with respect to where is a constant, sometimes referred to as the Bernoulli constant. It is not a universal constant, but rather a constant of a particular fluid system. The deduction is: where the speed is large, pressure is low and vice versa. In the above derivation, no extern... | energy entering through and leaving through , respectively. The energy entering through is the sum of the kinetic energy entering, the energy entering in the form of potential gravitational energy of the fluid, the fluid thermodynamic internal energy per unit of mass () entering, and the energy entering in the form of ... |
high or all low, except the obvious benefits or hindrances that these rare extremes are thought to have on your life. In addition to the three popular cycles, various other cycles have been proposed, based on linear combination of the three, or on longer or shorter rhythms. Calculation Theories published state the equa... | but according to a study by Terence Hines, all of those either supported the null hypothesis that there is no correlation of human experience and the supposed biorhythms beyond what can be explained by coincidence, or, in cases where authors claimed to have evidence for biorhythm theory, methodological and statistical ... |
urged the Croton assembly to protect the banished citizens of Sybaris. When the decision to do so was made, the dispute between the two cities was aggravated, each took up arms, and Milo led the charge against Sybaris. According to Diodorus (XII, 9):One hundred thousand men of Croton were stationed with three hundred t... | Sybarite troops ranged against them. Milo the athlete led them and through his tremendous physical strength first turned the troops lined up against him. Diodorus indicates Milo led the charge against the Sybarites wearing his Olympic crowns, draped in a lion skin and brandishing a club in a manner similar to the mythi... |
the racks, the spotters shall not physically assist the lifter with regards to actually getting into the proper set position. The spotters may assist the lifter to maintain control should the lifter stumble or demonstrate any evident instability. The lifter will be allowed only one commencement signal per attempt. The ... | different ways to suit lifters' preferences. A squat or deadlift suit may be constructed for a wide or a narrow stance; and a bench shirt may be constructed with 'straight' sleeves (perpendicular to the trunk of the lifter) or sleeves that are angled towards the abdomen. The back of the bench shirt may be closed or ope... |
(The Prisoner), a character from the British television series The Prisoner Number Two (Battlestar Galactica) or Leoben Conoy, a character from the 2004 TV series Numbuh Two, a character from the animated television series Codename: Kids Next Door Number 2, a character in the Austin Powers series of films Number two, a... | Numbuh Two, a character from the animated television series Codename: Kids Next Door Number 2, a character in the Austin Powers series of films Number two, a character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Music No. 2 (band), an American alternative rock band N° 2, a 1959 Serge Gainsbourg album #2,... |
word that means "The Little Brothers Who Are Not Wise." The Trailmen feature prominently in the novels, The Planet Savers and Star of Danger, and in Diana L. Paxson's short story, The Place Between, from Snows of Darkover. Ya-men The Ya-men are a mountain-dwelling bird-like race, of questionable intelligence, who are s... | delivered. Trailmen The Trailmen are described as social herbivores who dwell in arboreal communities and live in extended family clans. Unattached females form bands of ronin who wander the forests attacking travelers. These Trailmen-human cause the cross-species transmission of a 48-year cyclic illness known as Trail... |
The Llobregat () is the second longest river in Catalonia, Spain, after the Ter. It flows into the Mediterranean south of the city of Barcelona. Its name could have originated in an ancient Latin word meaning 'dark', 'sorrowful' or 'muddy', or from Rubricatus, "red." Course The Llobregat originates at an elevation of i... | The delta provided a large extension of fertile land close to the city of Barcelona, but is now largely paved, urbanized and covered by infrastructure such as the Barcelona–El Prat international Airport. The Llobregat is heavily managed in its lower course and water that was previously lost to the sea is now pumped ups... |
of Ripollès, Osona, Selva, Gironès, and Baix Empordà, discharging into the Mediterranean Sea at l'Estartit. The Ter follows a course of and drains an area of approximately ; its basin is described by a dendritic and exorheic drainage pattern. Annually, an average of of water | by a dendritic and exorheic drainage pattern. Annually, an average of of water is moved by the river, with an average flow rate of at its mouth. Although its headwaters are in the Pyrenees, the Ter receives significant inflow from rivers in the middle and lower plains. Thus it is susceptible to flooding in both the |
member, told Jordanian police: "There is no such organization as Black September. Fatah announces its own operations under this name so that Fatah will not appear as the direct executor of the operation." A March 1973 document released in 1981 by the U.S. State Department seemed to confirm that Fatah was Black Septembe... | one cell would not affect the others. The structure offered plausible deniability to the Fatah leadership, which was careful to distance itself from Black September operations. Fatah needed Black September, according to historian Benny Morris. He writes that there was a "problem of internal PLO or Fatah cohesion, with ... |
and nothing else, if we speak properly. To strain the matter farther is only to make way for Calvinism. There may be ten thousand wandering thoughts, and forgetful intervals, without any breach of love, though not without transgressing the Adamic law. But Calvinists would fain confound these together. Let love fill you... | human nature. Their descendants now live in sin, in the form of concupiscence, a term Augustine used in a metaphysical, not a psychological sense. Augustine insisted that concupiscence was not a being but a bad quality, the privation of good or a wound. He admitted that sexual concupiscence (libido) might have been pre... |
from being used in organised fights and in 1935 the American Kennel Club recognised Pit Bull Terriers as Staffordshire Terriers. The name "Staffordshire Bull Terrier" was first used in Britain in 1930 in advertisements for bull-and-terrier-type dogs. Organised dog fighting had been effectively eliminated in the United ... | to inflict a higher prevalence and severity of injuries compared with other breeds. A 2020 literature review in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery found that from 1971 to 2018 of all pure breed dogs in the United States, pit bull-type breeds were second, behind the German Shepherd, and ahead of Labradors, Chow Chows, a... |
an 11 bedroom hotel and restaurant on 20 August 2001, 23 years after Williams-Ellis's death, by the Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel. The village of Portmeirion has been a source of inspiration for writers and television producers. Noël Coward wrote Blithe Spirit while staying in the Fountain 2 (Upper Fountain) suite at ... | and most imposing single building on the Portmeirion Estate" and sought ways to incorporate it. Eventually, with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the European Regional Development Fund as well as the Wales Tourist Board, his original aims were achieved and Castell Deudraeth was opened as an 11 bedroom hotel a... |
guest of President François Mitterrand), and on 19 September for a flight from Paris to Gbadolite, and another nonstop flight from Gbadolite to Marseille with the youth choir of Zaire. Mobutu's rule earned a reputation as one of the world's foremost examples of kleptocracy and nepotism. Close relatives and fellow membe... | they supported Mobutu's candidacy, and a red paper if they opposed his candidacy. Casting a green ballot was deemed a vote for hope, while a red ballot was deemed a vote for chaos. Under the circumstances, the result was inevitable–according to official figures, Mobutu was confirmed in office with near-unanimous suppor... |
Park, Northern Territory Litchfield Station, Northern Territory Canada Litchfield, Nova Scotia Litchfield, Quebec United Kingdom Litchfield, Hampshire, England Litchfield Street, Westminster, London United States Litchfield, California Litchfield, Connecticut Litchfield (borough), Connecticut Litchfield County, Connect... | Litchfield, California Litchfield, Connecticut Litchfield (borough), Connecticut Litchfield County, Connecticut Litchfield Hills, Connecticut Litchfield, Illinois Litchfield, Kansas Litchfield, Maine Litchfield, Michigan Litchfield, Minnesota Litchfield, Nebraska Litchfield, New Hampshire Litchfield, New York Litchfiel... |
criticized for lacking evidence, while being based on sexist assumptions. Anatomy lecturer Bruce Charlton gave Morgan's book Scars of Evolution an enthusiastic review in the British Medical Journal in 1991, calling it "exceptionally well written" and "a good piece of science". In 1995, paleoanthropologist Phillip Tobia... | to a more aquatic habitat. The hypothesis was initially proposed by the English marine biologist Alister Hardy in 1960, who argued that a branch of apes was forced by competition over terrestrial habitats to hunt for food such as shellfish on the sea shore and sea bed, leading to adaptations that explained distinctive ... |
of Georgia Randolph-Macon Academy (R-MA), a coeducational college preparatory school for students in grades 6–12 and postgraduates in Front Royal, Virginia, USA Railways Covington and Macon Railroad began operations in 1887 between Macon and Hillsboro, Georgia, USA Macon and Northern Railway (169 km) of track between M... | Mississippi Macon, Missouri Macon, Nebraska Macon, North Carolina Macon, Tennessee Bayou Macon, a river in Arkansas and Louisiana Fort Macon State Park, North Carolina Battle of Fort Macon Macon County (disambiguation) Macon Township (disambiguation) U.S. Navy ships , an airship built in 1933 , a cruiser built in 1945 ... |
Martinsville, Texas Martinsville, Virginia Martinsville Speedway, a NASCAR race track near the namesake city in Virginia Martinsville, Wisconsin See also Martinsville High School (disambiguation) New Martinsville, West Virginia | race track near the namesake city in Virginia Martinsville, Wisconsin See also Martinsville High School (disambiguation) New Martinsville, West Virginia Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada Martinsburg (disambiguation) |
locations are close to the Pacific pole of inaccessibility (), the point in the ocean farthest from any land mass. Significance and criticism R'lyeh is characterized by bizarre architecture likened to non-Euclidean geometry that hampers exploration and escape. At one point, a crew member "climbed interminably along the... | of Lovecraft, placed R'lyeh at . The latter coordinates place the city approximately from the actual island of Pohnpei (Ponape), the location of the fictional "Ponape Scripture". Both locations are close to the Pacific pole of inaccessibility (), the point in the ocean farthest from any land mass. Significance and crit... |
London, Missouri New London, New Hampshire, a New England town New London (CDP), New Hampshire, the central village in the town New London, North Carolina New London, Ohio New London, Texas New London, Virginia New London, Caroline County, Virginia New London, Wisconsin Elsewhere New London, original name of St. George... | Canada Transportation New London Airport (Virginia), U.S. Groton–New London Airport, Connecticut, U.S. Other uses New London Orchestra, London, England New London Theatre, now Gillian Lynne Theatre, London, England USS New London (1859), a Union Navy steamer USS New London County, a U.S. Navy tank landing ship See also... |
cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first introduced in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published by the American pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. Considered a Great Old One within the pantheon of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, this creature has since been featured in numerous popular cultur... | by the narrator roaming the riverbank near Dominic Waldron's castle, and roaring. The god appears totally different from its depiction by other authors. The character's influence also extended into gaming literature; games company TSR included an entire chapter on the Cthulhu mythos (including character statistics) in ... |
Owney and Arra Newtown, County Westmeath, a townland in County Westmeath Newtown, County Westmeath (civil parish), a civil parish in the barony of Moycashel Newtown, Delvin, a townland in the civil parish of Delvin, County Westmeath Newtown, Ormond Lower County Tipperary, a townland in the barony of Ormond Lower Newtow... | Kilnamanagh Upper, two townlands in County Tipperary Newtown (Kinawley), a townland in Kinawley Civil parish, County Cavan Newtown, Ormond Upper, a townland in County Tipperary Newtown, Owney and Arra, two townlands in County Tipperary Newtown, Templeport, a townland in Templeport civil parish, County Cavan Isle of Man... |
Santa Clara County Oakridge station, a light rail station in San Jose, California Oak Ridge, Adams County, Pennsylvania, part of the Gettysburg Battlefield Oak Ridge Historic District, a historic district in Oak Ridge, Tennessee Oak Ridge (Danville, Virginia), a historic plantation estate in Pittsylvania County Oakridg... | Calgary, neighbourhood in Alberta Oakridge, Toronto, a neighbourhood in Ontario Oakridge, Vancouver, a neighbourhood in British Columbia Oakridge Acres, a neighbourhood in London, Ontario United Kingdom Oakridge, Gloucestershire, England Oakridge, Hampshire, England United States Communities Oak Ridge (California), in ... |
were practically identical to the 1903 Ford Model A. Many sources say the first car rolled out of the factory on 17 October; in the book Henry Leland—Master of Precision, the date is 20 October; another reliable source shows car number three to have been built on 16 October. Cadillac displayed the new vehicles at the N... | named after another French explorer and founder of Detroit, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. That marque remained in production until 1940. Cadillac introduced designer-styled bodywork (as opposed to auto-engineered) in 1927. It installed shatter-resistant glass in 1926. Cadillac also introduced the "turret top... |
Stalag Luft III (the "Great Escape") Places In Canada Rockland, Greater Victoria Rockland, Nova Scotia Rockland, Ontario In the United Kingdom Rockland All Saints, a village in Norfolk Rockland St Mary, a village in Norfolk Rockland St Peter, a village in Norfolk Rocklands, a civil parish in Norfolk | New York Rockland County, New York Palisades, New York, once known as Rockland Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, New York Rockland Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation) (multiple) Rockland (Leesburg, Virginia), a historic house Rockland, West Virginia (disambiguation) (multiple) Rockland (Shepherdstown, West... |
Township, a defunct township of Cuyahoga County, Ohio Rockport, Texas Rockport, Washington Rockport Colony, South Dakota Rockport Lake, a reservoir behind Wanship Dam in Utah Rockport, Utah, a ghost town now under Rockport Lake Rockport State Park (Washington) Others Rockport (company), a manufacturer of footwear Rockp... | Cuyahoga County, Ohio Rockport, Texas Rockport, Washington Rockport Colony, South Dakota Rockport Lake, a reservoir behind Wanship Dam in Utah Rockport, Utah, a ghost town now under Rockport Lake Rockport State Park |
progressing to open-wheel car racing in the Italian Formula Three Championship, which he raced in between 1989 and 1991. He moved to the higher-tier Toyota Atlantic Championship, participating in one race during the 1992 season and finishing third overall in the 1993 championship. He began competing in Championship Aut... | season-opening Grand Prix of Miami after starting eighth, but he only finished two of the next four races. His season highlight was the Indianapolis 500. Though Villeneuve was penalised two laps for overtaking the pace car, he re-took the lead after fellow Canadian Scott Goodyear failed to serve a ten-second stop-and-g... |
(1084–1127), Blessed Charles the Good, count of Flanders, 1119–1127 Charles, Duke of Brittany (1319–1364), Blessed Charles de Châtillon Saint Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), cardinal and archbishop of Milan, 1564–1584 Blessed Charles Spinola (1564–1622), Italian Jesuit missionary martyred in Japan King Charles the Martyr... | St. Charles, Iowa, city in Madison County St. Charles, Kentucky, city in Hopkins County St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, parish in New Orleans metropolitan area St. Charles, Maryland, planned community in Charles County St. Charles, Michigan, village in Saginaw County St. Charles, Minnesota, city in Winona County St. Cha... |
land was seized by the federal government in 1942, and construction soon began on the St. Albans Naval Hospital, which opened in 1943. After construction was completed in 1950, the hospital had 3000 beds and contained a network of 76 wards. The hospital was turned over to the Veterans Administration in 1974, reopening ... | are smokers, which is lower than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. In St. Albans and Jamaica, 30% of residents are obese, 16% are diabetic, and 37% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 22%, 8%, and 23% respectively. In addition, 23% of children are obese, compared to the cityw... |
County Sanford, Maine, a city in York County Sanford (CDP), Maine, a former census-designated place in downtown Sanford Sanford, Michigan, a village in Midland County Sanford, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Covington County Sanford, New York, a town in Broome County Sanford, North Carolina, a city in Lee C... | town in Covington County Sanford, Colorado, a statutory town in Conejos County Sanford, Georgia, an unincorporated community Sanford, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Pawnee County Sanford, Maine, a city in York County Sanford (CDP), Maine, a former census-designated place in downtown Sanford Sanford, Michigan, a... |
North Carolina, town in Wilson County Saratoga, Texas, unincorporated community in Hardin County Saratoga Springs, Utah, city in Utah County Saratoga, Clarke County, Virginia, small unincorporated community Saratoga (Boyce, Virginia), a home (the General Daniel Morgan House) Saratoga, Wisconsin, town Saratoga, Wyoming,... | bust town now inside of Omaha, Nebraska Saratoga, North Carolina, town in Wilson County Saratoga, Texas, unincorporated community in Hardin County Saratoga Springs, Utah, city in Utah County Saratoga, Clarke County, Virginia, small unincorporated community Saratoga (Boyce, Virginia), a home (the General Daniel Morgan H... |
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