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Shirley, Erie County, New York, a hamlet Shirley Plantation, an estate in Virginia Shirley, West Virginia Shirley, Wisconsin Elsewhere Shirley, New Zealand, a suburb of Christchurch Shirley Island, Antarctica Shirleys Bay, in the Ottawa River, Ontario, Canada Transportation Shirley railway station (England), in Shirley... | (novel), an 1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë Shirley (1922 film), a British silent film Shirley (2020 film), an American film Shirley (album), a 1961 album by Shirley Bassey Shirley (TV series), a 1979 TV series People Shirley (name), a given name and a surname Shirley (Danish singer) (born 1976) Shirley (Dutch singer) (... |
after which he recognised aviation as holding significant business potential. Unlike the majority of aviation companies of the era, which were typically started by enthusiasts with little financial backing or business ability, British and Colonial was from its outset well funded and run by experienced businessmen. Sir ... | military forces possessed just over a hundred aircraft and the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) consisted of only seven squadrons equipped with a miscellany of aircraft types, none of them armed. Official War Office policy was to purchase only aircraft designed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), and Bristol had already... |
Mother Rally's, another brand of the American fast-food restaurant chain Checkers Windows Rally, a network simplification technology produced by Microsoft Rally Software, a web-based project management tool, owned by Broadcom Corporation Rally (stock market), a sudden, significant rise in the price of an individual sec... | aircraft Rotec Rally, an American ultralight aircraft Automobiles Rally, a defunct French sports cars manufacturer Other uses Rally (How I Met Your Mother), a 2014 episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother Rally's, another brand of the American fast-food restaurant chain Checkers Windows Rally, a network simplific... |
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Welch, West Virginia, a city Welch Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota Welch Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Welch Mountains, Palmer Land, Antarctica Welch Peak, British Columbia, Canada Welch Peaks, Washington, US Welch Island (disambiguation) Welch Rocks, north of Welch Island, Antarctica 2405 Welch, an ast... | a town Welches, Oregon, an unincorporated community Welch, Texas, an unincorporated community Welchs, Virginia, an unincorporated community Welch, West Virginia, a city Welch Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota Welch Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Welch Mountains, Palmer Land, Antarctica Welch Peak, British ... |
American television series starring Terrence Howard and James Avery Sparks (Matrix character), a character in Enter the Matrix and The Matrix Revolutions Sparks (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe Sparks, a fictional football team in Footballers' Wives Music Sparks (band), a rock band led by brot... | Avery Sparks (Matrix character), a character in Enter the Matrix and The Matrix Revolutions Sparks (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe Sparks, a fictional football team in Footballers' Wives Music Sparks (band), a rock band led by brothers Ron and Russell Mael Halfnelson (album) or Sparks, their ... |
in Hell would require him to rescind publication rights for his life's work, Groening decided to go in another direction, and hurriedly sketched out his version of a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family. The baby of the family was named Maggie after Groening's youngest sister. M... | sister to Bart and Lisa. She is often seen sucking on her red pacifier and, when she walks, she trips over her clothing and falls on her face (this running gag is used much more in earlier seasons). Being an infant, she has not yet learned how to talk. However, she did appear to talk in the first Tracey Ullman Show sho... |
even think about girls' hairstyles". At the time, Groening was primarily drawing in black and white; when designing Lisa and Maggie, he "just gave them this kind of spiky starfish hair style, not thinking that they would eventually be drawn in color". To draw Lisa's head and hair, most of the show's animators use what ... | was born as a character in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening created and designed her while waiting to meet James L. Brooks. Groening had been invited to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic Life in Hell, but instead decided to create a new set of characters. H... |
Searchlight, newspaper serving Redding, California Redding Municipal Airport, city-owned public-use airport in Redding, California Redding School District, one of many school districts in Redding, California Redding Rage, professional women's football team based out of Redding, California Redding Rancheria, American In... | for the Jimi Hendrix Experience Otis Redding, American soul singer The Reddings, American band formed by Otis Redding's two sons The Redding Brothers, American rock and roll band from Nashville, Tennessee Other Redding Record Searchlight, newspaper serving Redding, California Redding Municipal Airport, city-owned publi... |
competition integrity, were not to be ignored. The National League operated with only six clubs during 1877 and 1878. Over the next several years, various teams joined and left the struggling league. By 1880, six of the eight charter members had folded. The two remaining original NL franchises, Boston and Chicago, rema... | The NL suffered many defections of star players to the Players' League, but the P.L. collapsed after one season. The Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York franchises of the NL absorbed their Players' League counterparts. Expansion (1887–1899) The labor strike of 1890 hastened the downfall of the American Associat... |
trouble for flouting obscenity laws, Lenny develops a near-messianic complex which fuels both his comedy genius and his talent for self-destruction. Worn out by a lifetime of tilting at establishment windmills, Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose in 1966. Cast Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce Valerie Perrine as Honey ... | the less enthusiastic reviews came from Roger Ebert stating "Unless we go in convinced that Lenny Bruce was an important performer, the movie doesn't convince us." In 2012, British film critic Mark Kermode put Hoffman's performance as Lenny Bruce at number eight in a top-ten video of Hoffman's best performances. Accola... |
Tyrone, Fester, Bill, and Hortense. Grampa was briefly married to Amber, the same woman Homer married on a drinking binge in Las Vegas. Grampa has also been briefly married to Marge's sister, Selma Bouvier, and was once romantically linked to Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier (his son's mother-in-law). Grampa Simpson ... | in Las Vegas. Grampa has also been briefly married to Marge's sister, Selma Bouvier, and was once romantically linked to Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier (his son's mother-in-law). Grampa Simpson is also married to Rita LaFleur. Almost all of Grampa's biographical information is supplied by himself and seems to be ma... |
in The Simpsons Cletus Hogg, a deputy in the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard Cletus Kasady, a Marvel Comics supervillain, also known as Carnage Cletus Klump, a character on The Nutty Professor and its sequel Cleatus, a minor character on Good Times Cletus, a fictional character in the Deponia video game series People Reli... | Religion Pope Anacletus (died c. 92), third Bishop of Rome Antipope Anacletus II (died 1138), ruled in opposition to Pope Innocent II Cletus Bél (died 1245), Hungarian prelate Sports Cletus Andersson (1893–1971), Swedish water polo player Clete Blakeman (born 1964), American football official Cletus Clark (born 1962), ... |
become known as the "chalkboard gag". Chalkboard messages may involve political humor such as "The First Amendment does not cover burping", pop culture references such as "I can't see dead people", and meta-references such as "I am not a 32-year-old woman" and "Nobody reads these anymore". The animators are able to pro... | "a much milder, troubled youth given to existential angst who talks to himself", but the character was changed based on Cartwright's voice acting. Groening has credited several different figures with providing inspiration for Bart: Matt Groening's older brother Mark provided much of the motivation for Bart's attitude. ... |
also achieve a state of "constant prayer" where they are always conscious of God's presence in their lives. Practice The practice of the Jesus Prayer is integrated into the mental, physical and spiritual ascesis undertaken by the Orthodox monastic in the practice of hesychasm. Yet the Jesus Prayer is not limited only t... | knot. It may be accompanied by prostrations and the sign of the cross, signaled by beads strung along the prayer rope at intervals. The prayer rope is "a tool of prayer" and an aid to beginners or those who face difficulties practicing the Prayer. However even the most advanced practitioners still use prayer ropes. The... |
their descent "put the lie to the claim that diversification allowed them to ride out a downturn." A major selloff of conglomerate shares ensued. To keep going, many conglomerates were forced to shed the new businesses they had recently purchased, and by the mid-1970s most conglomerates had been reduced to shells. The ... | with a focus in Asia.) Swire Group (AD1816) (or Swire Pacific) Started by Liverpool natives the Swire family, which controls a wide range of businesses, including property (Swire Properties), aviation (i.e. Cathay Pacific), beverages (bottler of Coca-Cola), shipping and trading. Jardine Matheson (AD1824) operates busin... |
his or her seat falls vacant. It is also possible for the House of Commons to expel a member, but this power is only exercised when the member has engaged in serious misconduct or criminal activity. Formerly, MPs appointed to the cabinet were expected to resign their seats, though this practice ceased in 1931. In each ... | is most often the case, the deputy presiding). The speaker is responsible for ensuring that members of all parties have an opportunity to be heard. The speaker also determines who is to speak if two or more members rise simultaneously, but his or her decision may be altered by the House. Motions must be moved by one me... |
the question of the first-person narrator. She was concerned with the accountability and authority, the authenticity and reliability of a person of narrating a work. She distinguished between the unproblematic "I" in letters and diaries which conceal the person from the author, and the unproblematic "I" in memoirs. She... | in the modern novel the "I" had shifted and the narrator no longer lives the story, instead the story is in the narrator. In the fourth lecture Der Umgang mit Namen (The Close association with Names) Bachmann explored how names could have a life of their own. She discussed the use of names in contemporary literature. S... |
used from the BeOS version. As of November 2008, the project appears to be halted. PlayStation 2 Sony also packaged a version of Yabasic for the PlayStation 2 on the demo disc shipped with PS2 consoles in PAL territories so it could be considered a home computer, not just a games machine, thus bypassing European import... | November 2008, the project appears to be halted. PlayStation 2 Sony also packaged a version of Yabasic for the PlayStation 2 on the demo disc shipped with PS2 consoles in PAL territories so it could be considered a home computer, not just a games machine, thus bypassing European import taxes. Yabasic 3.0 (Unofficial) A... |
LOOP WHILE q$ = "y" PRINT "Goodbye "; n$ (s$ is a string and s is a single-precision floating-point (number). They are separate variables.) Like the other Borland products of this era, the code executes within the integrated development environment. PowerBASIC for DOS (PBDos) PBDOS includes an integrated development en... | and subroutine definitions needed by structured programming. INPUT "What is your name?: ", n$ PRINT "Hello "; n$ DO s$ = "" INPUT "How many stars do you want to print"; s FOR i = 1 TO s s$ = s$ + "*" NEXT i PRINT s$ DO INPUT "Do you want to print more stars"; q$ LOOP WHILE LEN(q$) = 0 q$ = LCASE$(LEFT$(q$, 1)) LOOP WHI... |
value of a GFN increases exponentially, in proportion to 2n. I call that Reed's Law. And its implications are profound." Business implications Reed's Law is often mentioned when explaining competitive dynamics of internet platforms. As the law states that a network becomes more valuable when people can easily form subg... | empty set, and N singletons, which are not properly subgroups. So 2N − N − 1 subsets remain, which is exponential, like 2N. Quote From David P. Reed's, "The Law of the Pack" (Harvard Business Review, February 2001, pp 23–4): "[E]ven Metcalfe's law understates the value created by a group-forming network [GFN] as it gro... |
1996 HMS Dunedin, a Royal Navy light cruiser in the Second World War Dunedin (ship), the first commercial ship with refrigeration equipment See also Edinburgh (disambiguation) Dúnedain, a race of men in n J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium Duneedon a.k.a. Don Edon, a character in the children's educational television serie... | a former electorate, 1853–1905 Edinburgh, whose Scottish Gaelic name is Dùn Èideann Dunedin, Florida, United States Other Dunedin River, a river in British Columbia, Canada Dunedin Consort, an Edinburgh-based choral ensemble founded in 1996 HMS Dunedin, |
of , the distance increment per intensity cycle (the wavelength) obtains when , or . Consider now two such patterns, where one has a slightly different periodic variation from the other: such that . The average of these two functions, representing the superimposed printed image, evaluates as follows (see reverse identi... | instructed to avoid clothing which could cause the effect. Photographs of a TV screen taken with a digital camera often exhibit moiré patterns. Since both the TV screen and the digital camera use a scanning technique to produce or to capture pictures with horizontal scan lines, the conflicting sets of lines cause the m... |
Estates, California, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County Oak Park, San Diego, California, a neighborhood Oak Park, Sacramento, California, a neighborhood Oak Park, Tampa, Florida, a neighborhood Oak Park, Georgia Oak Park, Illinois Oak Park Township, Cook County, Illinois Oak Park, Indiana Oak Park, Michiga... | Oak Park, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne Ireland Oak Park, County Carlow, a country estate turned park United States Oak Park, California (Ventura County) an unincorporated community in Ventura County Oak Park Estates, California, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County Oak Park, San Diego, |
Transit Center Oceanside, New York Oceanside station (LIRR) Oceanside, Oregon Other places Oceanside, New | States Oceanside, California Oceanside Transit Center Oceanside, New York Oceanside station (LIRR) Oceanside, Oregon Other places Oceanside, |
Pekin (born 1965), former Australian rules footballer Vladimir Pekin (born 1986), Bulgarian footballer Other uses HMS Mohawk, a 1856 British gunvessel renamed Pekin in 1863 Salix babylonica, or Pekin willow See also Pekin duck (disambiguation) Peking (disambiguation) Pekingese Peqin, a town in | American breed of duck German Pekin, a European breed of duck Pekin (chicken), a breed of chicken People Tim Pekin (born 1965), former Australian rules footballer Vladimir Pekin (born 1986), Bulgarian footballer Other uses HMS Mohawk, a 1856 British gunvessel renamed Pekin in 1863 Salix babylonica, or Pekin willow See ... |
fame, is from Plainfield. In October 2010, former Plainfield music teacher and American Idol alum Anwar Robinson and performer Yolanda Adams joined with community residents to try to be recognized by Guinness World Records for assembling the world's largest gospel chorus. The duCret School of Art was founded in 1926, m... | incorporated as a city in 1869. Formerly a bedroom suburb in the New York metropolitan area, it has become the urban center of 10 closely allied municipalities, with diversified industries, including printing and the manufacture of chemicals, clothing, electronic equipment, and vehicular parts. Among the several 18th-c... |
general after whom the Sheridan tank is named Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish playwright (The Rivals), poet and politician Taylor Sheridan, an American screenwriter and director Given name Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), Irish writer Sheridan Morley (1941–2007), British broadcaster and writer Sheridan Smith ... | York Sheridan County, North Dakota Sheridan, Oregon Sheridan, South Dakota Sheridan, Texas Sheridan, Washington Sheridan, West Virginia Sheridan, Wisconsin, Dunn County Sheridan, Waupaca County, Wisconsin Sheridan, Wyoming Sheridan County, Wyoming Sheridan station (CTA), Chicago, Illinois Sheridan Circle, a traffic cir... |
National Gallery in Prague). As his style never evolved from the manner of his early career it is difficult to date his work. In several cases, it is not clear whether a composition is an original composition by Pieter Brueghel the Younger or a copy after a lost work by his father. Copyist Apart from these paintings of... | was rediscovered in the first half of the 20th century. Original works Pieter Brueghel the Younger created original works largely in the idiom of his father which are energetic, bold and bright and adapted to the 17th-century style. One of the artist's most successful original designs was the painting of The Village La... |
to the Senate that same year, and the couple married on September 12, 1953, in Newport, Rhode Island. They had four children, two of whom died in infancy. Following her husband's election to the presidency in 1960, Kennedy was known for her highly publicized restoration of the White House and emphasis on arts and cultu... | which had been publicly announced ten days earlier. She was in Hyannis Port when she watched the September 26, 1960 debate—which was the nation's first televised presidential debate—between her husband and Republican candidate Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president. Marian Cannon, the wife of Arthur Schles... |
Mander records that before he died he told his wife to burn some drawings, perhaps designs for prints, carrying inscriptions "which were too sharp or sarcastic ... either out of remorse or for fear that she might come to harm or in some way be held responsible for them", which has led to much speculation that they were... | the Courtauld Flight into Egypt, but we do not know if he bought them directly from the artist. Granvelle's nephew and heir was strong-armed out of his Bruegels by Rudolf II, the very acquisitive Austrian Habsburg Emperor. The series of the Months entered the Habsburg collections in 1594, given to Rudolf's brother and ... |
after Jan's birth in 1569. It is believed that after the death of his mother in 1578, Jan, together with his brother Pieter Brueghel the Younger and sister Marie, went to live with their grandmother Mayken Verhulst, who was by then widowed. Mayken Verhulst was an artist in her own right. The early Flemish biographer Ka... | surviving wife and his children from both marriages. Rubens, Hendrick van Balen the Elder, Cornelis Schut and Paulus van Halmaele were the executors of his last will. Rubens was the guardian of the surviving Brueghel children. His students included his son Jan as well as Daniel Seghers. Brueghel's daughter Paschasia ma... |
had met in Rome about 30 years earlier. In what was likely an act of rebellion against his father, he went to Genoa where he stayed with his cousins, the Antwerp painters and art dealers Lucas de Wael and Cornelis de Wael. Their mother was a sister of Jan's mother. At the time his friend and fellow Antwerp artist Antho... | produced paintings for the Austrian court in 1651. He is recorded again in Antwerp in 1657 where he remained until his death. His pupils included his older sons Abraham, Philips and Jan Peeter, his nephew Jan van Kessel, and his younger brother Ambrosius. Work General Taking over his father's workshop at an early age, ... |
an estimated 100 companies were attempting to leverage the CES into a foothold in the market. AtariAge documented 158 different vendors that had developed for the Atari VCS. In June 1982, the Atari games on the market numbered just 100. By December, that number grew to over 400. Experts predicted a glut in 1983, with o... | more focused on business opportunities rather than innovation. Many of its executives were MBAs, and looked for any business opportunity that would give them an edge over other third-party game publishers. Coleco's deal with Nintendo for Donkey Kong was a major threat to Atari. Atari had had past success with its own l... |
unbroken shot in order to symbolize that Henry's entire life was ahead of him, commenting, "It's his seduction of her [Karen] and it's also the lifestyle seducing him." This sequence was shot eight times. Henry's last day as a wiseguy was the hardest part of the film for Scorsese to shoot, because he wanted to properly... | becomes a paranoid wreck. He sets up another drug deal with his Pittsburgh associates but is arrested by narcotics agents and jailed. After bailing him out, Karen explains that she flushed $60,000 worth of cocaine down the toilet to prevent FBI agents from finding it during their raid, leaving them penniless. Feeling b... |
wife "was whacked by 'natural causes'." Fat Tony and his associates meet in what is known as the "Legitimate Businessman's Social Club". Fat Tony played the violin in "Insane Clown Poppy". Fat Tony dies in the twenty-second season episode "Donnie Fatso" from a heart attack with his final words to Homer being "I loved y... | Second Fat Tony When the original Fat Tony died of a heart attack in "Donnie Fatso", he was replaced by his slimmer cousin Anthony Paul "Fit Tony" D'Amico. By the end of that episode, Fit Tony has taken to eating as a way of dealing with the stress of assassination attempts. His weight gain causes a change of nickname ... |
collaborated on the song cycle Our Hunting Fathers (1936), radical both in politics and musical treatment, and subsequently other works including Cabaret Songs, On This Island, Paul Bunyan and Hymn to St Cecilia. Auden was a considerable influence on Britten, encouraging him to widen his aesthetic, intellectual and pol... | sexually repressed. In the three years from 1935 to 1937 Britten wrote nearly 40 scores for the theatre, cinema and radio. Among the film music of the late 1930s Matthews singles out Night Mail and Love from a Stranger (1937); from the theatre music he selects for mention The Ascent of F6 (1936), On the Frontier (1938)... |
the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and the sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated Schindler's Ark to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar Schindler was that "it ... | program at UCI. In 2006, Peter Pierce, Professor of Australian Literature, James Cook University, wrote: The Tom Keneally Centre opened in August 2011 at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, housing Keneally's books and memorabilia. The site is used for book launches, readings and writing classes. Keneally is an ambas... |
the Sydney suburb of Rockdale. They lived in Rockdale at Lydham Hall. She later moved with her family to the suburb of Watsons Bay in 1911. She was the only child of her father's first marriage, and had five half-siblings from his second marriage. He also married a third time, to Thistle Yolette Harris, the Australian ... | prize on the grounds that she had "ceased to be an Australian." Stead wrote 12 novels and several volumes of short stories in her lifetime. She taught "Workshop in the Novel" at New York University in 1943 and 1944, and also worked as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s, contributing to the Madame Curie biopic and th... |
the San Andreas Fault and are commonly called the Transverse Range. In Palmdale, a portion of the fault is easily examined at a roadcut for the Antelope Valley Freeway. The fault continues northwest alongside the Elizabeth Lake Road to the town of Elizabeth Lake. As it passes the towns of Gorman, Tejon Pass and Frazier... | for large earthquake research. In 2004, work began just north of Parkfield on the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD). The goal of SAFOD is to drill a hole nearly into the Earth's crust and into the San Andreas Fault. An array of sensors will be installed to record earthquakes that happen near this area. The... |
spent in the country, did not sell as well as its predecessor. His Là-bas (1891) attracted considerable attention for its portrayal of Satanism in France in the late 1880s. He introduced the character Durtal, a thinly disguised self-portrait. The later Durtal novels, En route (1895), La cathédrale (1898) and L'oblat (1... | sur l’art (1867-1905), edited and introduced by Patrice Locmant, Paris, Éditions Bartillat, 2006. À Paris, edited and introduced by Patrice Locmant, Paris, Éditions Bartillat, 2005. Les Églises de Paris, edited and introduced by Patrice Locmant, Paris, Éditions de Paris, 2005. Le Drageoir aux épices, edited and introdu... |
feature. Implementation In programming, string concatenation generally occurs at run time, as string values are typically not known until run time. However, in the case of string literals, the values are known at compile time, and thus string concatenation can be done at compile time, either via string literal concaten... | a grammatically correct sentence that is announced throughout the facility. Database theory One of the principles of relational database design is that the fields of data tables should reflect a single characteristic of the table's subject, which means that they should not contain concatenated strings. When concatenati... |
in Swabia, at the last moment Ulrich and Bishop Hartbert of Chur were able to mediate between Otto and Liudolf. Ulrich succeeded in persuading Liudolf and Conrad, Duke of Lorraine, Otto's son-in-law, to ask the king's pardon on 17 December 954. Against the Magyars Magyars repeatedly attacked in the territories of Bavar... | was customary, his parents presented him as an oblate to the church while he was still a child. A sickly child, at the age of seven he was sent to the monastery of St. Gall, where he proved to be an excellent scholar. While there, he became friends with St. Wiborada, a recluse who lived near the monastery and foretold ... |
two inches or more. Older forms of this guard retained the quillons or a single quillon, but later forms eliminated the quillons, altogether being referred to as a cup-hilt. This latter form is the basis of the guards of modern foils and épées. Ricasso The ricasso is a blunt section of blade just below the guard. On de... | A–Z, with subtypes indicated by numerals. Grip The grip is the handle of the sword. It is usually made of wood or metal and often covered with shagreen (untanned tough leather or shark skin). Shark skin proved to be the most durable in temperate climates but deteriorates in hot climates. Consequently, rubber became pop... |
family that he would designate. After the refusal of the Spanish monarchy to recognize the independence of Mexico, the (Army of the Three Guarantees), led by Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero, cut all political and economic ties with Spain and crowned Iturbide as emperor Agustín of Mexico. Central America was or... | and several Pacific Ocean archipelagos. After the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire, conqueror Hernán Cortés named the territory New Spain, and established the new capital of Mexico City on the site of the Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica (Aztec) Empire. Central Mexico became the base of expeditions of e... |
or exclamation point may also refer to: Mathematics and computers Factorial, a mathematical function Derangement, a related mathematical function Negation, in logic and some programming languages Uniqueness quantification, in mathematics and logic ! (CONFIG.SYS directive), usage for unconditional execution of directive... | Exclamation Point LP, by DA! ! (Trippie Redd album), 2019, or the title track ! (Cláudia Pascoal album), 2020 Other ǃ, the IPA symbol for postalveolar click in speech An indicator of a good chess move in punctuation A dereference operator in BCPL See also !! (disambiguation) !!! (disambiguation) Interrobang, the |
the city. The view covers a radius of ; aircraft can be seen taking off from Orly Airport. The guard rail, to which various antennae are attached, can be pneumatically lowered. History The project In 1934, the old Montparnasse station located on the edges of the similarly named boulevard, opposite the Rue de Rennes, ap... | only his bare hands and feet and with no safety devices of any kind, scaled the building's exterior glass and steel wall to the top twice, in 1995 and in 2015. His achievement was repeated by Polish climber Marcin Banot in 2020. From the middle of the way he was followed by a lifeguard on a rope but Marcin refused to c... |
fraud. An economist, Salinas de Gortari was the first Mexican president since 1946 who was not a law graduate. His presidency was characterized by the entrenchment of the neoliberal, free trade economic policies initiated by his predecessor Miguel de la Madrid in observance of the Washington Consensus, mass privatizati... | uncertainty. Facing pressures to devalue the peso, Salinas stood firm, opting for a strategy he believed would help his candidacy to be the inaugural president of the WTO. As a consequence, less than a month after Salinas left office, Mexico entered into one of the worst economic crises of its history. Shortly after, h... |
dollars in New York and the same goods cost 10,800 HK dollars in Hong Kong, the PPP exchange rate would be 6 HK dollars for every 1 US dollar. The name purchasing power parity comes from the idea that, with the right exchange rate, consumers in every location will have the same purchasing power. The value of the PPP ex... | implied by the law of one price. As transport costs increase, the larger the range of exchange rate fluctuations. The same is true for official trade restrictions because the customs fees affect importers' profits in the same way as shipping fees. According to Krugman and Obstfeld, "Either type of trade impediment weak... |
born November 10, 1935) is a Russian (and former Soviet) theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist. Novikov put forward the idea of white holes in 1964. He also formulated the Novikov self-consistency principle in the mid-1980s, a contribution to the theory of time travel. Novikov moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, where h... | been a professor at Moscow State University. Since 1994 he has been director of the Theoretical Astrophysics Center (TAC) of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently also a professor of astrophysics at the Observatory of the University of Copenhagen, where he has been since 1991. Since 1998 he has been a ... |
of , the final amount, $209, is 4.5% more than the initial amount of $200. As shown above, percent changes can be applied in any order and have the same effect. In the case of interest rates, a very common but ambiguous way to say that an interest rate rose from 10% per annum to 15% per annum, for example, is to say th... | to. When speaking of a "10% rise" or a "10% fall" in a quantity, the usual interpretation is that this is relative to the initial value of that quantity. For example, if an item is initially priced at $200 and the price rises 10% (an increase of $20), the new price will be $220. Note that this final price is 110% of th... |
potatoes, bell peppers, tomatoes, and onions; olives, spearmint sprigs, and chile , a very small, egg-shaped chile found in Nicaragua. On occasion, prunes, raisins, or capers can be added. The masa and filling are then wrapped in plantain leaves, tied with a string, and made into pillow-shaped bundles – . They are then... | a slightly sweet flavor and wrapped in corn husks. It is generally eaten accompanied by quesillo or cheese, and sour cream. . A variety of the above stuffed with a mixture of rapadura and grated or ground cheese. . A Northern Nicaraguan tamal make with chicken or hen meat, wrapped in a banana leaf and tied Is a Western... |
also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music Comma (music), a type of interval in music theory Comma (rhetoric), a short clause in Ancient Greek rhetoric "Commas" (song), the censored version of the Future song "Fuck Up Some Commas" Comma, an atmospheric metal album by April Weeps Other arts, entertainment, and ... | Comma operator, an operator in C and other related programming languages Johannine Comma, 1 John 5:7-8 Oxford comma (also known as Harvard comma, serial comma, or series comma), a disputed usage of the punctuation mark See also Caesura Coma (disambiguation) Commer |
The official translation into English is "district". Belgium Belgium is a federalized country which geographically consists of three regions, of which only Flanders (Flemish Region) and Wallonia (Walloon Region) are subdivided into five provinces each; the Brussels-Capital Region is neither a province nor is it part of... | or be coequal with communes (towns). In Mali the arrondissement is a subunit of a Cercle, while in some places arrondissements are essentially subdistricts of large cities. Each of Senegal's departments is subdivided into arrondissements. Dakar is further subdivided into arrondissements; see Arrondissements of Senegal.... |
comedy One, Two, Three and Away!, a set of children's stories by Sheila K. McCullagh Music 1,2,3, a band from Pittsburgh later reformed as Animal Scream 1-2-3, a band from Edinburgh later known as Clouds One, Two, Three, a 1980s electronic disco group produced by Bobby Orlando Albums 1-2-3 (APO Hiking Society album) 1-... | 1965 "1, 2, 3" (Sofía Reyes song), 2018 "1-2-3" (The Chimes song), 1990 "1-2-3" (Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine song), 1988 "1, 2, 3!" (Seungri song), 2018 "1. 2. 3. ...", a 2006 song by Bela B. and Charlotte Roche from the album Bingo "123" (Nikki Laoye song), 2012 "1 2 3" (Moneybagg Yo song), 2020 "One, Two, ... |
standardization. 100BASE-T2 In 100BASE-T2, standardized in IEEE 802.3y, the data is transmitted over two copper pairs, but these pairs are only required to be category 3 rather than the category 5 required by 100BASE-TX. Data is transmitted and received on both pairs simultaneously thus allowing full-duplex operation. ... | common. Fast Ethernet was introduced in 1995 as the IEEE 802.3u standard and remained the fastest version of Ethernet for three years before the introduction of Gigabit Ethernet. The acronym GE/FE is sometimes used for devices supporting both standards. Nomenclature The "100" in the media type designation refers to the... |
the digit looked like a dotless closing question mark. Restoring the bottom line to its original horizontal position, but keeping the top line as a curve that connects to the bottom line leads to our modern digit. In fonts with text figures, digit 2 usually is of x-height, for example, . Etymology of two The word two i... | notion of hyperoperations, here denoted by "hyper(a,b,c)" with a and c being the first and second operand, and b being the level in the above sketched sequence of operations, the following holds in general: hyper(x,n,x) = hyper(x,(n + 1),2). Two has therefore the unique property that , disregarding the level of the hyp... |
The I.430 protocol defines 48-bit packets comprising 16 bits from the B1 channel, 16 bits from B2 channel, 4 bits from the D channel, and 12 bits used for synchronization purposes. These packets are sent at a rate of , resulting in a gross bit rate of 192 kbit/s and - giving the data rates listed above - a maximum poss... | protocol defines 48-bit packets comprising 16 bits from the B1 channel, 16 bits from B2 channel, 4 bits from the D channel, and 12 bits used for synchronization purposes. These packets are sent at a rate of , resulting in a gross bit rate of 192 kbit/s and - giving the data rates listed above - a maximum possible throu... |
have been buried. The name of that place in Late Latin was L.L. fem. nom. pl. n. catacumbas (sing. catacumba) a word of obscure origin, possibly deriving from a proper name, or else a derivation of the Latin phrase catatumbas, "among the tombs". The word referred originally only to the Roman catacombs, but was extended... | – Catacombs of Znojmo Bosnia and Herzegovina – Catacombs of Jajce Egypt – Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa (or Kom al Sukkfa, Shuqafa, etc.) in Alexandria England – Catacombs of London and others Finland – Catacombs of the Helsinki Orthodox cemetery at Hietaniemi cemetery France – Catacombs of Paris. Mine workings were used... |
digital subscriber line (HDSL). 2B1Q is a four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM-4) scheme without redundancy, mapping two bits (2B) into one quaternary symbol (1Q). A competing encoding technique in the ISDN basic rate U interface, mainly used in Europe, is 4B3T. To minimize error propagation, bit pairs (dibits) a... | Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Rate Interface (BRI) and the high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (HDSL). 2B1Q is a four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM-4) scheme without redundancy, mapping two bits (2B) into one quaternary symbol (1Q). A competing encoding technique in the ISDN basic rate U interface, mainly used... |
Founding The idea behind AIESEC started after World War II, when representatives from schools across Europe exchanged information about various programs and schools that specialized in business and economics. Students had been carrying out internships in other countries, mostly on their own initiative, but this came to... | to address both of these concerns. In 1948, a renewing development of the association was initiated, with implementation of international meetings (congresses), replacing the practice of governance from the headquarter. The first broad meeting was held by students from 9 universities of 7 countries in April 1948 in Liè... |
their attempts to stop the Icelanders from trading with the Germans indirectly, the British imposed costly and time-consuming constraints on Icelandic exports going to the Nordic countries. There is no evidence of any German plans to invade Iceland during the war. 1,245 Icelanders, Icelandic Americans, and Icelandic Ca... | 989 fought for Canada, whereas 256 fought for the United States. 391 of the combatants were born in Iceland, the rest were of Icelandic descent. 10 women of Icelandic descent and 4 women born in Iceland served as nurses for the Allies during World War I. At least 144 of the combatants died during World War I (96 in com... |
at 914 metres (2,999 ft), is the highest mountain in the vicinity of Reykjavík. Several natural harbours exist and provide good fishing grounds. West Located in the western portion of the island and north of the Capital Region. In Hvalfjörður fjord rests the second-tallest waterfall in Iceland, Glymur. West is also hom... | Iceland contains some of its most notable volcanoes such as Hekla, Eldgjá, and Katla. Alongside the volcanoes exist numerous glaciers such as Vatnajökull, Mýrdalsjökull, and Eyjafjallajökull. Basalt columns and black sand beaches are examples of the volcanic activity of the area. The area also contains mountain ranges ... |
at below world market prices. Although the trade monopoly ended in 1787, Icelanders could not trade freely with other countries until 1855. Following trade liberalisation, there was a substantial increase in fish exports to Britain, which led to an increase in the number of sailing ships used in fishing, introduced for... | raised the price of agricultural products. Instead, Denmark bought the fish caught from Iceland at below world market prices. Although the trade monopoly ended in 1787, Icelanders could not trade freely with other countries until 1855. Following trade liberalisation, there was a substantial increase in fish exports to ... |
give the president some important powers but other provisions and traditions suggest differently. The president is elected every four years (last 2020), the cabinet is elected every four years (last 2017) and town council elections are held every four years (last 2018). Legislative branch The modern parliament, called ... | king. It was widely seen as a reestablishment of the assembly founded in 930 in the Commonwealth period and suspended in 1799. The Althing is composed of 63 members, elected every 4 years unless it is dissolved sooner. Suffrage for presidential and parliamentary elections is 18 years of age and is universal. Members of... |
illiquid in comparison with larger markets. A variety of firms across all sectors of the Icelandic economy are listed on the ICEX. The most important stock market index was the ICEX 15; however, this index was discontinued in the wake of the financial crisis following a decade in which it had been the worst-performing ... | installed electric power capacity from under 1,600 MW to around 2,300 MW. According to Alcoa, construction of Fjardaál entailed no human displacement, no impact on endangered species, and no danger to commercial fisheries; there will also be no significant effect on reindeer, bird and seal populations. However, the pro... |
2003 DANICE, 4 fiber pairs, with lit 36.4 Tbit/s to Denmark, laid in 2009. Greenland Connect, 2 fiber pairs, with lit 12.8 Tbit/s to Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and Greenland, laid in 2009. Former CANTAT-3, 3 fiber pairs, with capacity of 7.5 Gbit/s to Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands and Canada (1994-2009) SCOTIC... | landlines in use in Iceland of which 73,361 are PSTN. ISDN 2B and 30B subscriptions make up 1,971 and 384 respectively. The number of landlines in Iceland has been slowly decreasing since their peak in 2001 at 196,528. Meanwhile, the number of VoIP subscriptions have been rising, from 58,311 in 2016 to 76,122 in 2018. ... |
population. Rail Iceland has no public railways, although proposals to build a passenger line between Keflavík and Reykjavík have been made as well as proposals to build a light rail system in Reykjavík. In the past, locomotive-powered and hand-operated rails have been temporarily set up during certain construction pro... | car. Sea The major harbours in Iceland are: Akureyri Hornafjördur Ísafjörður Keflavík Raufarhöfn Reykjavík Seyðisfjörður Straumsvík Vestmannaeyjar Merchant marine: total: 3 ships (with a tonnage of 1,000gt or over) totaling 13,085gt/ ships by type: chemical tanker 1, container ship 1, petroleum tanker 1 (1999 est.) Tra... |
War II, the city's economy declined due to the collapse of industry. The Knox Mine disaster accelerated this trend after large portions of the area's coal mines were flooded and could not be reopened. Today, the city has around half of its peak population of the 1930s, making it the largest city in Luzerne County and t... | East End, Heights, and Mayflower are fairly new areas compared to the rest of the city, having only been developed in the 20th Century. Old pictures of the Stegmaier Building indicate that everything east of Downtown was undeveloped until the 1900s. Heights: This section of the city is located southeast of Downtown. It... |
of this period, the number of chieftains had diminished and their power had grown, to the detriment of their followers. This resulted in a long and bloody civil war known as Age of the Sturlungs. A typical battle involved fewer than 1000 men. Amphibious operations were an important part of warfare in Iceland in this pe... | a long and bloody civil war known as Age of the Sturlungs. A typical battle involved fewer than 1000 men. Amphibious operations were an important part of warfare in Iceland in this period, especially in the Westfjords, but large naval engagements were rare. The largest such engagement, known as Flóabardagi, involved a ... |
union with Serbia. Iceland was also the first country to recognize Croatia, having done so on 19 December 1991. Significantly, Iceland was also the first Western state to recognise Palestine when it did so in 2011. Iceland also is the greatest Nordic contributor per capita to NATO-led troops in Bosnia and Kosovo, to th... | Iceland was the first country to recognize the regained independence of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan from the USSR in 1990–1991. Similarly, it was the first country to recognize Montenegro's independence from its former union with Serbia. Iceland was also the first country to recognize Cr... |
Transportation Corridor (Via Rail), a rail network running from Quebec City to Windsor, Ontario, Canada Air corridor, a designated travel path for aircraft Transport corridor, a (generally linear) tract of land in which at least one main line for some mode of transport has been built Corridor, a highway that is part of... | in 1999 The Corridor (opera), a 2009 chamber opera composed by Harrison Birtwistle Corridor Digital, an American production studio based in Los Angeles Passageways A narrow hallway, or corridor, a passageway to provide access between rooms inside a building A passageway along a corridor coach Wildlife corridor Transpor... |
recorded architect to replace multiple connected rooms with rooms along a corridor each accessed by a separate door. Hallways are generally long and narrow. Hallways must be sufficiently wide to ensure buildings can be evacuated during a fire, and to allow people in wheelchairs to navigate them. | rooms with rooms along a corridor each accessed by a separate door. Hallways are generally long and narrow. Hallways must be sufficiently wide to ensure buildings |
a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play premiered on Broadway in 1936, and played for 838 performances. The play won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and was adapted for the screen as You Can't Take It with You in 1938, which won the Academy Award for Best ... | Martin Vanderhof Jr., and that the Martin Vanderhof the government was looking for was his father. This is corroborated because the family had buried the deceased milkman (who had lived with them prior to De Pinna) using Grandpa's name, since they never knew the milkman's real name. Grandpa's trick works, as the govern... |
1954 French novel by Jean Reverzy Passage (Willis novel), a 2001 science fiction novel by Connie Willis Passage (Morley novel), a 2007 novel by John David Morley Passage (Bujold novel), a 2008 novel by Lois McMaster Bujold Le Passage, a 2009 novel by former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing The Passage (novel s... | Jenifer Bartoli The Passage (DGM album) or the title song, 2016 The Passage, by Boy Hits Car, 2005 Songs "Passage", a song by Vienna Teng on her 2004 album Warm Strangers "The Passage", a song by Bradley Joseph from the 1997 album Rapture Television "The Passage" (Battlestar Galactica), a 2006 episode of the science fi... |
and other fields. Bertalanffy proposed that the classical laws of thermodynamics might be applied to closed systems, but not necessarily to "open systems" such as living things. His mathematical model of an organism's growth over time, published in 1934, is still in use today. Bertalanffy grew up in Austria and subsequ... | being open system having steady state. We may well suspect that many characteristics of living systems which are paradoxical in view of the laws of physics are a consequence of this fact." However, while closed physical systems were questioned, questions equally remained over whether or not open physical systems could ... |
now-defunct LLCU, and founding the William Morris Music Society. In April 1940 he conducted a Queen's Hall concert of music by Soviet composers which included the British premieres of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, and Khatchaturian's Piano Concerto. William Glock in The Observer was disdainful, dismissing the Khatachu... | on the March", written for a British-Soviet Unity Demonstration at the Albert Hall on 27 June 1943. Bush's relatively calm war was marred by the death, in 1944, of his seven-year-old daughter Alice in a road accident. As the war in Europe drew to its end, Bush was posted to the Far East despite being well over the norm... |
is used in two meanings: 1) a soil with a pH greater than 8.2, 2) a soil with an exchangeable sodium content in excess of 15% of exchange capacity. The term "alkali soil" is often, but not always, used for soils that meet both of these characteristics. Dry land salinity Salinity in drylands can occur when the water tab... | is true in many areas), and is favored by land use practices allowing more rainwater to enter the aquifer than it could accommodate. For example, the clearing of trees for agriculture is a major reason for dryland salinity in some areas, since deep rooting of trees has been replaced by shallow rooting of annual crops. ... |
of Pharisaic Traditions). Costa's second work spans more than 200 pages. In the first part it develops his earlier Propositons, taking into account Modena's responses and corrections. In the second part he adds his newer views that the Hebrew Bible, especially the Torah, does not support the idea of immortality of the ... | prove from reason and scripture that this system of law is sufficient. In 1616 the text was dispatched to the leaders of the prominent Jewish community in Venice. The Venetians ruled against it and prompted the Hamburg community to sanction Costa with a herem, or excommunication. The Objections are extant only as quote... |
become part of nation-states only during the modern era, such as happened in Germany (once a federal empire) and Italy (previously a unified kingdom). In contrast, others were subordinate districts of those kingdoms that had unified either partially or completely during the medieval era, such as France, Spain, Sicily, ... | Luxemburg (a Grand Duchy since 1815; see above) Duchy of Magdeburg Duchy of Mecklenburg Duchy of Oldenburg Duchy of Pomerania Duchy of Salzburg Duchy of Savoy Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Styria Duchy of Swabia Duchy of Thuringia Duchy of Westph... |
by the King to highest military commanders, usually reserved for most influential and most capable among highest Bosnian nobility. To interpret it as an office post rather than a court rank could be even more accurate. Unlike usage in Western Europe, Central Europe, or in various Slavic lands from Central to North-East... | and Northeastern Europe, such as the Grand Duchy of Finland or the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by the self-styled monarchs of several micronations Western and Central European The term "grand duke" as a monarch reigning over an independent state was a later invention (in Western Europe at first in 1569 for the ruler of Tu... |
he played in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy. The band included Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Miller worked as a freelance trombonist in several bands. On a March 21, 1928, Victor Records session, he played alongside Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodm... | Senter's band in Denver. After failing three out of five classes, he dropped out of school to pursue a career in music. He studied the Schillinger system with Joseph Schillinger, under whose tutelage he composed what became his signature theme, "Moonlight Serenade". In 1926, Miller toured with several groups, landing a... |
City. She and her family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when she was nine years old. She won a 1925 Charleston dance contest which launched a successful vaudeville career. After that, she gained recognition as a Broadway actress for her stage debut in Girl Crazy. This led to a contract with Paramount Pictures, which ended... | an effort to get an essay she had written made into a film. Lela succeeded and continued to write scripts for Fox Studios. One of Rogers's young cousins, Helen, had a hard time pronouncing "Virginia", shortening it to "Badinda"; the nickname soon became "Ginga". When Rogers was nine years old, her mother married John L... |
Claude Esteban (1935–2006), French poet Maggie Estep (born 1963), US slam poet and musician Jerry Estrin (1947–1993), US poet and editor Euripides (480–406 BCE), Athenian tragedian Margiad Evans (1909–1958), English poet and novelist Mari Evans (1923–2017), African-US poet William Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994... | 1954), Puerto Rican poet and fiction and literature writer Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972), US poet and novelist Ravji Patel (1939–1968), Indian poet Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) (1864–1941), Australian bush poet, journalist and author Don Paterson (born 1963), Scottish poet, writer and musician Coventry Patmore... |
Operation over Electrical Backplanes. This standard defines one to four lanes of backplane links, one RX and one TX differential pair per lane, at link bandwidth ranging from 100Mbit to 10Gbit per second (from 100BASE-KX to 10GBASE-KX4). The 1000BASE-KX variant uses 1.25 GBd electrical (not optical) signalling speed. F... | Ethernet was the next iteration, increasing the speed to 1000 Mbit/s. The initial standard for Gigabit Ethernet was produced by the IEEE in June 1998 as IEEE 802.3z, and required optical fiber. 802.3z is commonly referred to as 1000BASE-X, where -X refers to either -CX, -SX, -LX, or (non-standard) -ZX. (For the history... |
Billerbeck to replace Jim Thorburn as president and CEO. The last year Zilog introduced any new 8-bit microcontroller products was 2007. With no new product road map, FY2008 sales fell 20% to $67.2 million. Sales fell 46% in FY2009 to $36.2 million. In January 2008, Zilog declined an unsolicited proposal made by Univer... | made by Universal Electronics Inc. to acquire the company. On February 19, 2009, Zilog announced that it had sold off its 8-bit Crimzon Universal Remote Control infrared microcontroller product line, as well as its ARM9 32-bit microcontrollers, including the Zatara security microcontrollers and 15 patents, to Maxim Int... |
fifth most-cited social science scholar, and the foremost-cited communication scholar. In 2012, Castells was awarded the Holberg Prize, for having "shaped our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society." In 2013, he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Sociology for "his wi... | of our time." In January 2020, he was appointed Minister of Universities in the Sánchez II Government of Spain, position he held until his resignation in December 2021. Biography Early life Manuel Castells was born on February 9, 1942 in a small town in the La Mancha region of Spain. His parents, Fernando Castells Adri... |
is the 13th century Codex Regius, with the exception of two short parts. The part dealing with ethical conduct (the Gestaþáttr) was traditionally identified as the oldest portion of the poem by scholarship in the 19th and early 20th century. Bellows (1936) identifies as the core of the poem a "collection of proverbs an... | 111–138), a collection of gnomic verses similar to the Gestaþáttr, addressed to a certain Loddfáfnir the Rúnatal (stanzas 139–146), an account of how Odin won the runes, introductory to the Ljóðatal the Ljóðatal (stanzas 147–165), a collection of charms Stanzas 6 and 27 are expanded beyond the standard four lines by an... |
East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York. In the decades after World War II, refugees from war-torn Europe and Chinese job-seekers arrived, as well as construction labourers, particularly from Italy and Portugal. Toronto's population grew to more than one million in 1951 when large-scale suburbanization ... | In addition to public parks managed by the municipal government, parts of Rouge National Urban Park, the largest urban park in North America, is in the eastern portion of Toronto. Managed by Parks Canada, the national park is centred around the Rouge River and encompasses several municipalities in the Greater Toronto A... |
and this title has been used legally for some (not all) Muslim women monarchs and sultan's mothers and chief consorts. However, Turkish and Ottoman Turkish also uses sultan for imperial lady, as Turkish grammar—which is influenced by Persian grammar—uses the same words for both women and men. However, this styling misc... | of Gunung Tabur Sultanate of Kubu Kutai Kartanegara Sultanate Sultanate of Mempawah Sultanate of Paser Sultanate of Pontianak Sultanate of Sambaliung Sultanate of Sambas On Sulawesi Sultanate of Buton Sultanate of Bone Sultanate of Gowa Sultanate of Luwu Sultanate of Soppeng Sultanate of Wajoq On Java Sultanate of Bant... |
bahadur (see above) were by birth-right styled "Shahzada [personal title] Mirza [personal name] Bahadur", though this style could also be extended to individual grandsons and even further relatives. Other male descendants of the sovereign in the male line were merely styled "Mirza [personal name]" or "[personal name] M... | Turkish as padishah. In the twentieth century, the Shah of Persia, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, officially adopted the title Šâhanšâh and, in western languages, the rendering Emperor. He also styled his wife Shahbânū ("Empress"). Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah, as the Iranian monarchy was abolished after the 1979 Ir... |
the association with the Girondist political party of the French Revolution. Geography Gironde is part of the current region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and is surrounded by the departments of Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne and Charente-Maritime and the Atlantic Ocean on the west. With an area of 10,000 km2, Gironde is the... | largest department in metropolitan France. If overseas departments are included, however, Gironde's land area is dwarfed by the 83,846 km2 of French Guiana. Gironde is well known for the Côte d'Argent beach which is Europe's longest, attracting many surfers to Lacanau each year. It is also the birthplace of Jacques-Yve... |
hue is a pure pigment—one without tint or shade (added white or black pigment, respectively). The human brain first processes hues in areas in the extended V4 called globs. Deriving a hue The concept of a color system with a hue was explored as early as 1830 with Philipp Otto Runge's color sphere. The Munsell color sys... | was explored as early as 1830 with Philipp Otto Runge's color sphere. The Munsell color system from the 1930s was a great step forward, as it was realized that perceptual uniformity means the color space can no longer be a sphere. As a convention, the hue for red is set to 0° for most color spaces with a hue. Opponent ... |
— in real life, Mayol lived from 1927 to 2001 and Maiorca retired from diving to politics in the 1980s. Both set no-limits category deep diving records below 100 metres, and Mayol was indeed involved in scientific research into human aquatic potential, but neither reached 400 feet (122 metres) as portrayed in the film,... | film, and they were not direct competitors. Mayol himself was a screenwriter for the film, and Mayol's search for love, family, "wholeness" and the meaning of life and death, and the conflict and tension between his yearning for the deep and his relationship with his girlfriend also form part of the backdrop for the la... |
of the character (called radical) hints at the meaning. For example, 'rest' is composed of the characters for 'person' () and 'tree' (), with the intended idea of someone leaning against a tree, i.e. resting. Radical-phonetic compounds, in which one component (the radical) indicates the general meaning of the character... | characters were created. Also ignored were differences in aspiration (between aspirated vs. unaspirated obstruents, and voiced vs. unvoiced sonorants); the Old Chinese difference between type-A and type-B syllables (often described as presence vs. absence of palatalization or pharyngealization); and sometimes, voicing ... |
firm, and the name was changed to Utzschneider-und-Fraunhofer. During 1818, Fraunhofer became the director of the Optical Institute. Due to the fine optical instruments developed by Fraunhofer, Bavaria overtook England as the center of the optics industry. Even the likes of Michael Faraday were unable to produce glass ... | and prisms. Discovery of dark absorption lines By 1814, Fraunhofer had invented the modern spectroscope. In the course of his experiments, he discovered a bright fixed line which appears in the orange color of the spectrum when it is produced by the light of fire. This line enabled him afterward to determine the absolu... |
it among themselves, the hero Perseus forced them to tell the whereabouts of the three objects needed to kill Medusa (in other versions the whereabouts of Medusa) by ransoming their shared eye for the information. Genealogy Notes References Bibliography Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation... | Phorcydes derived) and sisters to the Gorgons. The Graeae took the form of old, grey-haired women. Their age was so great that a human childhood for them was hardly conceivable. In Theogony, however, Hesiod describes the Graeae as being "fair-cheeked". In Prometheus Bound, the Graeae are described as being swan-shaped ... |
near the Place de la République and created the park of Buttes-Chaumont. In 1891, he was appointed as Engineer-in-Chief for Bridges and Roads, the most prestigious engineering job in France. Paris city officials selected Bienvenüe to become chief engineer for the Paris Métro in 1896. He designed a special way of buildi... | 1872 Bienvenüe graduated from the École Polytechnique as a civil engineer and the same year he began working for the Department of Bridges and Roads at Alençon. His first assignment was the construction of new railway lines in the Mayenne area, in the course of which his left arm had to be amputated after being crushed... |
lost play about the Graeae by the 5th century BC Greek playwright | Graeae in Greek mythology The Phorcides, a lost play about the Graeae by the 5th century BC |
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