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an English actress and a native of Colchester, England. Weaver's father, Pat Weaver, was an American television executive born in Los Angeles, who served as president of NBC between 1953 and 1955 and created NBC's Today Show in 1952. Pat's brother, Doodles Weaver, was a comedian and contributor to Mad. Her father's Ame... | Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and in the same year, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance in Working Girl. Weaver was the first actor to have two acting wins at the Golden Globes in the same year; she also received an Academy Award nomination for both fil... |
you take the trouble to really listen with your Soul and with your Ears—and I say 'Soul' and 'Ears' because the Mind must work, but not much also—you will find every gesture there. The artist Callas's most distinguishing quality was her ability to breathe life into the characters she portrayed, or in the words of Matth... | woman can sing anything written for the female voice". Michael Scott argues that Callas's voice was a natural high soprano, and going by evidence of Callas's early recordings, Rosa Ponselle likewise felt that "At that stage of its development, her voice was a pure but sizable dramatic coloratura—that is to say, a sizab... |
Debbie Moorehead, he hand-stitched dolls called "The Little People". Roberts very cleverly modified the look of Nelson’s dolls, birth certificate and adoption papers sufficiently to get a copyright and told potential customers his Little People weren’t for sale, but could be "adopted" for prices ranging from sixty to a... | 1982. They were inspired by the Little People soft sculptured dolls sold by Xavier Roberts as collectibles and registered in the United States copyright office in 1978 as 'The Little People'. The brand was renamed 'Cabbage Patch Kids' by Roger L. Schlaifer when he acquired the exclusive worldwide licensing rights in 19... |
recognise Philip as president of the League. Philip establishes a council of representatives from all the Greek states, which is empowered to deliberate and decide on the actions to be taken. However, the real power lies with Philip who is declared commander of the League's army. Olympias is put aside by her husband Ph... | a council of representatives from all the Greek states, which is empowered to deliberate and decide on the actions to be taken. However, the real power lies with Philip who is declared commander of the League's army. Olympias is put aside by her husband Philip II, following Philip's marriage to a girl named Cleopatra (... |
is allowed to place two or more stones on the board to compensate for White's greater strength. There are different rule-sets (Korean, Japanese, Chinese, AGA, etc.), which are almost entirely equivalent, except for certain special-case positions. Rules Aside from the order of play (alternating moves, Black moves first ... | avoid capture, called dead stones, are removed. Area scoring (including Chinese): A player's score is the number of stones that the player has on the board, plus the number of empty intersections surrounded by that player's stones. Territory scoring (including Japanese and Korean): In the course of the game, each playe... |
end products secreted by rapidly dividing cancer cells. In either case, angiogenesis is a necessary and required step for transition from a small harmless cluster of cells, often said to be about the size of the metal ball at the end of a ball-point pen, to a large tumor. Angiogenesis is also required for the spread of... | alterations to the basic structure. Intussusception is important because it is a reorganization of existing cells. It allows a vast increase in the number of capillaries without a corresponding increase in the number of endothelial cells. This is especially important in embryonic development as there are not enough res... |
in March 1992. It is the final Amiga model based on the Motorola 68000 and the 1990 Amiga Enhanced Chip Set. A redesign of the Amiga 500 Plus, it adds the option of an internal hard disk drive and a PCMCIA port. Lacking a numeric keypad, the A600 is only slightly larger than an IBM PC keyboard and weighing approximatel... | lower end of the market. Commodore intended it to revitalize sales of the A500-related line before the introduction of the 32-bit Amiga 1200. According to Dave Haynie, the A600 "was supposed to be cheaper than the A500, but it came in at about that much more expensive." The A600 was originally to have been numbered the... |
poor impulse control, and forgetfulness are present in both populations with ADHD and populations with PTSD. Given that these symptoms have such overlap, there is an attempt in the existing literature to distinguish if there is a relationship between the two, and if so, what the nature of that relationship is. Hypothes... | asthma and sleep disorders, and tentative evidence for association with celiac disease and migraine, while another 2016 systematic review did not support a clear link between celiac disease and ADHD, and stated that routine screening for celiac disease in people with ADHD is discouraged. A 2021 review reported that sev... |
alba guttata, T. alba hypermetra, T. alba javanica, T. alba schmitzi, and T. alba stertens. Of the American barn owl, there are 5 subspecies: T. furcata attempta, T. furcata furcata, T. furcata hellmayri, T. furcata pratincola, and T. furcata tuidara. Of the Australian barn owl, there are 4 subspecies: T. delicatula de... | one of the two families of owls, the other being the true owls or typical owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long, strong legs with powerful talons. They also differ from the Strigidae in structural details relating in particular to the stern... |
relatively human-like in form, though usually uncouth, very ugly and often with bestial attributes. T. Sternberg's 1851 book Dialect and Folk-lore of Northhamptonshire describes a certain boggart as "a squat hairy man, strong as a six year old horse, and with arms almost as long as tacklepoles". Other accounts describe... | seen outside the house. The couple claimed that the boggart had unhitched their own horse and overturned their cart on occasion. "Never name it [the boggart]" the old man repeated, and stated that he would never dig near its grave. The Farmer and the Boggart In one old tale, said to originate from the village of Mumby ... |
of the prophet Muhammad, who settled in Halab (present-day Aleppo). After the fight against second Umayyad Caliph Yazid I at Karbala (in which Ameer Hamza's descendants supported and fought alongside Husayn ibn Ali) in 680, descendants of Ameer Hamza migrated to east or southeast of the central Caspian region, speciall... | Afghanistan. Etymology The exact origin of the word 'Baloch' is unclear. Rawlinson (1873) believed that it is derived from the name of the Babylonian king and god Belus. Dames (1904) believed that it is derived from the Persian term for cockscomb, said to have been used as a crest on the helmets of Baloch troops in 6th... |
Five formed a vital directory for connecting like-minded people. It was the literary equivalent to such phenomena as International Sound Communication in the period of cassette culture. History The magazine was originally published in 1982 by Mike Gunderloy on a spirit duplicator in his bedroom in a slanshack in Alhamb... | purchased the rights to Factsheet Five and published a single issue, Issue #45, with the help of BBS enthusiast Bill Paulouskas, cartoonist Ben Gordon, writer Jim Knipfel, and artist Mark Bloch, who had authored a mail art-related column called "Net Works" during the Gunderloy years. R. Seth Friedman then published the... |
a London-based independent poetry-on-cassette label founded in 1972 by artist E.E. Vonna-Michell. It published work by experimental UK poets associated with the London-based Writers Forum and the so-called British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and '70s, writers such as: Allen Fisher, Bob Cobbing, Peter Finch, Lawrence Up... | increasingly feasible to construct home-recording studios, giving rise to the phenomenon of the "home tapers". The recording and production qualities of much cassette-culture music means that it can often be described as lo-fi. Particularly in North America, college radio played an important role, with stations broadca... |
his former colleague in the cabinet, minister of Defence Hans Hillen, was a strong proponent of a conservative CDA. The state deficit should be repaid in one generation to cope with the effects of the aging population. The toleration of soft drugs should come to an end and the practices of prostitution, abortion and eu... | the formation of the Den Uyl cabinet, established by the leader of the social-democratic PvdA and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Joop den Uyl. Den Uyl refused to allow members of the CHU in the cabinet that he would lead. This led to a situation where the CHU, ARP and KVP sat as a single faction in both houses of pa... |
risk of developing skin cancer can be reduced through a number of measures including decreasing indoor tanning and mid day sun exposure, increasing the use of sunscreen, and avoiding the use of tobacco products. The reason it is important to limit sun exposure and to avoid tanning beds is because they both involve UV l... | neck, torso or shoulders. Sometimes small blood vessels (called telangiectasia) can be seen within the tumor. Crusting and bleeding in the center of the tumor frequently develops. It is often mistaken for a sore that does not heal. This form of skin cancer is the least deadly, and with proper treatment can be eliminate... |
water to the countryside, turning arid areas into one of the region's important agricultural areas. From the 14th century Lodi was ruled by the Visconti family, who built a castle there. In 1413, the antipope John XXIII launched the bull by which he convened the Council of Constance from the Duomo of Lodi. The council ... | first Italian town with a regular domestic gas service. In Lodi there is the headquarters of Zucchetti, in Lodi Tower. Zucchetti is a company specialized in Information Technology. In the city is situated the headquarters of 'Erbolario'. The Officine Meccaniche Lodigiane were also located in the city. See :it:Lodi. Cul... |
to make a new movie based on them and created Godzilla. Tanaka aimed to combine Hollywood giant monster movies with the re-emerged Japanese fears of atomic weapons that arose from the Daigo Fukuryū Maru fishing boat incident; and so he put a team together and created the concept of a giant radioactive creature emerging... | Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends (2009) Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial (2010) Ultraman Saga (2012) Ultraman Ginga Theater Special (2013) Ultraman Ginga Theater Special: Ultra Monster Hero Battle Royal! (2014) Ultraman Ginga S The Movie (2015) Ultraman X The Movie (2016) Ultraman Orb The Movie (2017) Ultraman Geed The... |
same name), owned by rival studio Toho. Gamera has been described as being a rip-off of Godzilla. The name derives from the Japanese kame ("turtle"), and the suffix -ra, a suffix shared by such other kaiju characters as Godzilla (Gojira) and Mothra. Gamera's name was spelled Gammera in the title of Gammera the Invincib... | the Earth, to fire a plasma beam from his chest, and to regenerate lost limbs. The original 1965 film, Gamera, the Giant Monster, depicts Gamera's origins as being a result of United States military fighters launching an attack on enemy bombers (presumably belonging to the Soviet Union), which causes the detonation of ... |
US. The character of President Septimius Severus Krupp shares a number of similarities with then–BU President John Silber, although his name—like those of his predecessors as president of the big U—is taken from the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus. The neon Big Wheel sign plays a part reminiscent of the Boston Citgo si... | the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus. The neon Big Wheel sign plays a part reminiscent of the Boston Citgo sign just east of the BU campus in Kenmore Square. Literary significance and criticism Stephenson has said he is not proud of this book. When Stephenson's Snow Crash was published in 1992, the book that became a be... |
can also refer to: Sasquatch (band), an American metal band Sasquatch (comics), two related superhero characters in Marvel Comics Sasquatch (TV series), docuseries on marijuana and bigfoot | (TV series), docuseries on marijuana and bigfoot in Mendocino County, California Sasquatch (novel), a 1998 novel by Roland Smith Sasquatch (ride), a drop ride at Great Escape amusement park Sasquatch! Music Festival, an annual music festival in George, Washington, United States Sasquatch, a character in |
literary figure was carried out by other Mythos authors, including August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and Ramsey Campbell. Lovecraft explicitly defined Shub-Niggurath as a mother goddess in The Mound, where he calls her "Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother". He describes her as a kind of Astarte in the same story. In Out of the ... | that "the gods friendly to man could be arrayed against the hostile gods, and ... that Shub-Niggurath, Nug, and Yeb, as well as Yig the Serpent-god, were ready to take sides with man" against the more malevolent Ghatanothoa. Shub-Niggurath is called "the Mother Goddess", and reference is made to "her sons", presumably ... |
at the last moult climbing out of the water to undergo metamorphosis. The skin splits down the back, they emerge and inflate their wings and abdomen to gain their adult form. Their presence on a body of water indicates that it is relatively unpolluted, but their dependence on freshwater makes them vulnerable to damage ... | tenth segment in both sexes bears cerci and in males, its underside bears a pair of paraprocts. Damselflies (except spreadwings, Lestidae) rest their wings together, above their bodies, whereas dragonflies rest with their wings spread diametrically apart; the spreadwings rest with their wings slightly apart. Damselflie... |
of The Wizard of Oz OZ - Over Zenith, a game for the PlayStation 2Oz: Into the Wild, a novel featuring the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Oz Businesses and organizations OZ Group, an Italian wheel manufacturer OZ Minerals, an Australian mining company Circus Oz, an Australian circus group The Oz Film Manufacturing ... | The Wizard of Oz Oz (Judge Dredd story), a mini-series Oz (Buffy comic) Oz (2000 AD), a future city in Australia Oz, a manga by Natsumi Itsuki Music Oz (Finnish band), a heavy metal band Oz (Missy Higgins album), a 2014 album FZ:OZ, an album by Frank Zappa Oz (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the HBO television series O... |
the heroic stories and pessimism over the reactionary political movements of the time. A second collected edition was recently reprinted and sold in English, Spanish, and Italian; and distributed throughout Europe, the U.S., and Canada. References External links 1991 comics debuts Dark Horse Comics | Sale's earliest published work. The tag line for Billi 99, as seen in comic ads in Fall 1991, reads, "It's 1999... Do You Know Where Your Civil Rights Are? Billi 99 A Prayer in Four Parts". The story was inspired by Byam's experiences in Detroit in the 1980s, a love of the heroic stories and pessimism over the reaction... |
mystical reincarnations of the Biblical Cain and Abel caught in an endless cycle of murder and resurrection. The Saga of the Swamp Thing was the first mainstream comic book series to completely abandon the Comics Code Authority's approval. With issue #65, regular penciler Rick Veitch took over from Moore and began scri... | rival elemental forces. Millar brought the series to a close with issue #171 in a finale where the Swamp Thing becomes the master of all elemental forces, including the planet. Volume 3 Written by Brian K. Vaughan and drawn by Roger Petersen and Giuseppe Camuncoli in 2001, the third Swamp Thing series focused on the da... |
sea, actually hated and feared the waters with an intensity that was the passion of his life." Also in 1909, Hodgson published another novel, The Ghost Pirates. In the foreword, he wrote that it "... completes what, perhaps, may be termed a trilogy; for, though very different in scope, each of the three books deals wit... | as he is concerned, on a particular phase of constructive thought." The Bookman magazine in its review of the novel in 1909 concluded with the comment: "We can only hope that Mr. Hodgson may be induced to reconsider his decision, for we know of nothing like the author's previous work in the whole of present-day literat... |
interfaces implementing or inheriting both the interface that is expected and the interface that is pre-existing. It is typical for the expected interface to be created as a pure interface class, especially in languages such as Java (before JDK 1.8) that do not support multiple inheritance of classes. A further form of... | started Recharge finished Recharging iPhone with Lightning Lightning connected Recharge started Recharge finished Recharging iPhone with MicroUsb MicroUsb connected Lightning connected Recharge started Recharge finished Python """ Adapter pattern example. """ from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod NOT_IMPLEMENTED = "Y... |
scrapped in 1864. was a S-class submarine launched in 1944. She sank in Portland harbour in 1955 as a result of an accidental torpedo explosion, was subsequently raised | after the naval bombardment of Sidon a city in Lebanon in 1840. was a first-class paddle frigate launched in 1846 and scrapped in 1864. was a S-class submarine |
Dells Airport (FAA ID), an airport near Baraboo, Wisconsin, U.S. Data link layer, a layer in the OSI network architecture model Davis–Putnam–Logemann–Loveland algorithm, an algorithm for deciding the satisfiability of propositional | Distal-less (Dll) gene that controls development of limbs or other appendages in many animals DLL Group, a global financial solutions company Doubly linked list, a data structure in computer programming Dynamic-link library, or a DLL |
masking more complex underlying or structural code. A facade can: improve the readability and usability of a software library by masking interaction with more complex components behind a single (and often simplified) API provide a context-specific interface to more generic functionality (complete with context-specific ... | client and hide the implementation details. Overview The Facade design pattern is one of the twenty-three well-known GoF design patterns that describe how to solve recurring design problems to design flexible and reusable object-oriented software, that is, objects that are easier to implement, change, test, and reuse. ... |
between them. It is functionally similar to the trucker's hitch, however, unlike the trucker's hitch, the versatackle is self-locking under tension. The pressure, friction, | tension. The pressure, friction, and heat that may be generated by the running end moving through the loops can accelerate wear at the loops. Step-by-step images See |
McFarland contradicted the tale, saying that the name was given by a Los Angeles newspaper reporter. The term "a spanky child" was late-19th- to early-20th-century slang for an intelligent, gifted toddler. Spanky was an example of such a child in his earliest movies—a toddler who could act—so the name had meaning to th... | hosted an afternoon children's show, The Spanky Show, on KOTV television in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The show included a studio audience and appearances by other celebrities such as James Arness, and it ran Little Rascals shorts. Station executives prevented McFarland from developing and expanding the show's format, and by 196... |
(Abstraction) from its implementation (Implementor) by putting them in separate class hierarchies. Implement the Abstraction in terms of (by delegating to) an Implementor object. This enables to configure an Abstraction with an Implementor object at run-time. See also the Unified Modeling Language class and sequence di... | on Implementor1), which performs the operation and returns to Abstraction1. Class diagram Abstraction (abstract class) defines the abstract interface maintains the Implementor reference. RefinedAbstraction (normal class) extends the interface defined by Abstraction Implementor (interface) defines the interface for impl... |
or magnesium. There are two aspects to how pneumatic tires support the rim of the wheel on which they are mounted. First, tension in the cords pull on the bead uniformly around the wheel, except where it is reduced above the contact patch. Second, the bead transfers that net force to the rim. Tires are mounted on the w... | designed to maximize cornering and acceleration friction at the expense of longevity. Racing slicks have no tread to maximize contact with the pavement and rain tires have channels to eject water to avoid hydroplaning. Heavy duty Heavy duty tires for large trucks and buses come in a variety of profiles and carry loads ... |
fairly intact sphagnum moss, to sedge peat, to highly decomposed humus. Pieces of wood can make up five to fifteen percent of the peat soil. Muskeg tends to have a water table near the surface. The sphagnum moss forming it can hold fifteen to thirty times its own weight in water, allowing the spongy wet muskeg to form ... | covered with short grasses, a closer look reveals a bizarre and almost unearthly landscape. Small stands of stunted and often dead trees, which vaguely resemble bonsai, grow where land protrudes above the water table, with small pools of water stained dark red scattered about. Its grassland appearance invites the unwar... |
November 2014, she wore a colander on her head for her Utah driver's license photograph. State law normally prohibits the wearing of hats in driver license photos, but there is an exception for religious headwear and Carerra's colander was worn in honor of the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. She is one of abo... | ID photos. In September 1995, Carrera married adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003, but remain good friends. She married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19, 2003. The couple moved to St. George, Utah, where she gave birth to a daughter on March 4, 2005. On June 10, 2006, Lemmon was killed i... |
usually stored as a private static variable; the instance is created when the variable is initialized, at some point before the static method is first called. Java Singleton implementation in Java: public class Coin { private static final int ADD_MORE_COIN = 10; private int coin; private static Coin instance = new Coin... | of Four" design patterns that describe how to solve recurring design problems to design flexible and reusable object-oriented software with the aim of making it easier to implement, change, test, and reuse objects. The singleton design pattern solves problems by allowing it to: Ensure that a class only has one instance... |
& Jim series Jane Louise Curry (born 1932) – Abaloc series, Poor Tom's Ghost, The Egyptian Box, The Black Canary D Debbie Dadey (born 1959) – The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids Roald Dahl (1916–1990) – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox Al... | Now, Markus, The Blue Boy Steve Augarde (born 1950) – The Various, Celandine Jonathan Auxier (born 1981) – The Night Gardener, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster Esther Averill (1902–1992) – The Cat Club, The Fire Cat Gillian Avery (1926–2016) – The Warden's Niece, The Elephant War, A Likely Lad Harold Avery (1... |
executable format in EFI environments. On Windows NT operating systems, PE currently supports the x86-32, x86-64 (AMD64/Intel 64), IA-64, ARM and ARM64 instruction set architectures (ISAs). Prior to Windows 2000, Windows NT (and thus PE) supported the MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC ISAs. Because PE is used on Windows CE, it ... | thus PE) supported the MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC ISAs. Because PE is used on Windows CE, it continues to support several variants of the MIPS, ARM (including Thumb), and SuperH ISAs. Analogous formats to PE are ELF (used in Linux and most other versions of Unix) and Mach-O (used in macOS and iOS). History Microsoft migr... |
conspiracy could have resulted in the election of 20 or 30 opposition politicians to Parliament, which in his words could lead to "horrendous" effects, possibly even the paralysis and fall of the Singapore government. In the aftermath of Hendrickson's expulsion, the U.S. State Department praised Hendrickson's performan... | ASEAN lost a strong leadership after President Suharto and Lee Kuan Yew". United States Lee fully supported the USA in the Vietnam War. Even as the war began to lose its popularity in the United States, Lee made his first official visit to the United States in October 1967, and declared to President Lyndon B. Johnson t... |
R S Sa–Se Sg–Sr St–Sz T U Nicholas Udall (1504–1556, England) Alfred Uhry (born 1936, United States) Rodolfo Usigli (1905–1979, Mexico) V W Y Z See also List of Bosnian playwrights List of British playwrights since 1950 List of Canadian playwrights | L M N O P Q R S Sa–Se Sg–Sr St–Sz T U Nicholas Udall (1504–1556, England) Alfred Uhry (born 1936, United States) Rodolfo Usigli (1905–1979, Mexico) V W Y Z See also List of Bosnian playwrights List of British playwrights since 1950 List of Canadian playwrights List of French playwrights List of German playwrights List ... |
Meet Frankenstein (1948). Post–World War II monster films In the post–World War II era, however, giant monsters returned to the screen with a vigor that has been causally linked to the development of nuclear weapons. One early example occurred in the American film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, which was about a dinosa... | depicted as fearsome monsters as well. As for giant creatures, the cliffhanger of the first episode of the 1936 Flash Gordon serial did not use a costumed actor, instead using real-life lizards to depict a pair of battling dragons via use of camera perspective. However, the cliffhanger of the ninth episode of the same ... |
beetle is an insect belonging to the order Coleoptera. Beetle or The Beetle may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Beetle (comics), the alias of a number of characters in Marvel Comics Beetle (game), a British party game Beetle (solitaire), a card game the title character of Beetle Bailey, an American newspaper comi... | Volkswagen Beetle (made 1938–2003), or two Volkswagen models with derivative styling: Volkswagen New Beetle (made 1997–2010) Volkswagen Beetle (A5) (made from 2011) Beetle (JR Kyushu), a Japanese ferry service Beetle Cat, a boat built by Beetle, Inc. Other uses GE Beetle a mobile manipulator for nuclear material Beetle... |
to 'tag' and thus track such translocations. A weak colchicine solution has been employed to increase the probability of recombination in the proximal chromosome regions, and thus the introduction of the translocation to that region. The resultant translocation of smaller blocks that indeed carry the R-gene(s) of inter... | and slight degree of sporulation commonly allowed by most Srs. Instead there are necrotic or chlorotic flecks. Deployment in triticale in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia however rapidly showed virulence between 1982 and 1984 - the first virulence on this gene in the world. (This was especially associated with... |
Labyrinth. Together they produced The Goblins of Labyrinth (1986), a companion book containing Froud's concept art for the film, and subsequently a number of non-Labyrinth-related books about fairies and goblins. Their Lady Cottington series parodied the Cottingley Fairies phenomenon. For his artwork in the first book ... | 1986, as well as for the pilot episode of Henson's television series The Storyteller, first aired in 1987. Following his collaborations with Henson, Froud's filmography continued; as a designer for the 1989 Japanese animated film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland; as a visual consultant on the 2000 American animat... |
Rhodes, late Miocene to Pliocene) †Ochotona azerica (Transcaucasia: Azerbaijan, middle Pliocene) †Ochotona lingtaica (Asia, Pliocene) †Ochotona dodogolica (Asia: western Transbaikalia, Pleistocene) †Ochotona nihewanica (China: Hebei, early Pleistocene) †Ochotona plicodenta (Asia, Pliocene) †Ochotona polonica (Europe: P... | Asia and North America. Most species live on rocky mountainsides, where numerous crevices are available for their shelter, although some pikas also construct crude burrows. A few burrowing species are native to open steppe land. In the mountains of Eurasia pikas often share their burrows with snowfinches, which build t... |
moderator-general of his church between 1912 and 1914. When World War I broke out, he became chaplain-general of the First Australian Imperial Force. She was educated at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne. After she married Arthur Grenbry Outhwaite on 8 December 1909, she was generally known as Ida Rentoul Outhwai... | an Irish-born Presbyterian minister and academic, and his wife Annie Isobel (née Rattray). At the time of her birth, her father was a professor at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, and later moderator-general of his church between 1912 and 1914. When World War I broke out, he became chaplain-general of the First... |
Dadd was born at Chatham, Kent, England, on 1 August 1817, the son of chemist Robert Dadd (1788/9–1843) and Mary Ann (1790–1824), daughter of shipwright Richard Martin. He was educated at King's School, Rochester where his aptitude for drawing was evident at an early age, leading to his admission to the Royal Academy o... | through Europe to Greece, Turkey, Southern Syria and finally Egypt. In November of that year they spent a gruelling two weeks in Southern Syria, passing from Jerusalem to Jordan and returning across the Engaddi wilderness. Toward the end of December, while travelling up the Nile by boat, Dadd underwent a dramatic perso... |
riverbank, were critically well-received. Set about 1800, Groundsel and Necklaces (1943) tells of a girl named Jenny who rescues her family from poverty through the agency of the fairies. The story features an old Scrooge-like man called Mr. Petercoo and tonally suggests a Dickensian social consciousness. Simon the Swa... | for models. For many years I had an atmosphere of children about me – I never forgot it." She also painted the children of relatives as well as Gladys Tidy, the Barkers' young housekeeper, who posed for the Primrose Fairy in 1923. The plants were painted from life, and if a specimen was not readily at hand, Kew Gardens... |
is often cited as the author of the English Sir Tristrem, a version of the Tristram legend, and some lines in Robert Mannyng's Chronicle may be the source of this association. It is not clear if the name Rhymer was his actual surname or merely a sobriquet. In literature, he appears as the protagonist in the tale about ... | which he thought was a blithe tale like that of Ogier the Dane and Morgan le fay. If he chooses to go with her, Thomas is warned he will be unable to return for seven years (A, B, D, E). In the romance the queen's warning is "only for a twelvemonth", but he overstays by more than three (or seven) years. Then she wheels... |
(disambiguation) SS Germanic (1874), a White Star Line steamship See also Germania (disambiguation) Germanus (disambiguation) German (disambiguation) Germanicia Caesarea Language and | identified by their use of the Germanic languages List of ancient Germanic peoples and tribes Germanic languages Proto-Germanic language, |
or rough bush track. It was envisaged that the road would connect isolated settlements on the coast, and become a vital transport link for the timber industry and tourism. Surveying for the road, tentatively titled the South Coast Road, started in 1918—with the road suggested to travel from Barwon Heads, follow the coa... | cliffs on the other side of it. Road signs put up along the road warn motorists of possible rockfalls, which have occurred before. Events Great Ocean Road Marathon A 45 kilometre section of the Great Ocean Road, between Lorne and Apollo Bay, is the location of the annual "Great Ocean Road Marathon". First run in 2005, ... |
to overseas Chinese. In addition, until the 1990s when the Chinese taxation system was reformed, the province benefited from the relatively low rate of taxation placed on it by the central government due to its post-Liberation status of being economically backward. Guangdong's economic boom began with the early 1990s a... | islands. The province is geographically separated from the north by a few mountain ranges collectively called the Nan Mountains (Nan Ling). The highest peak in the province is Shikengkong with an elevation of 6,240 feet (1,902 meters) above sea level. Guangdong borders Fujian to the northeast, Jiangxi and Hunan to the ... |
reunification. Throughout the 1970s, Li received much international attention for his imprisonment. He was highlighted by Amnesty International as one of the three most important political prisoners in Taiwan in 1974. After his release, Li continued to publish articles in magazines and newspapers, criticizing the Kuomi... | independence legal scholar, Peng Ming-min, escape to Japan in 1970; even though Li himself had a long history of being an advocate of reunification. Throughout the 1970s, Li received much international attention for his imprisonment. He was highlighted by Amnesty International as one of the three most important politic... |
not work on Windows Poplog. The Windows version of Clementine depended on a commercial package that supported X functionality on Windows. There is also an open source project which aimed to produce a more platform neutral version of Poplog, including Windows. The most recent development by this project includes a web s... | compiled software development environment for the programming languages POP-11, Common Lisp, Prolog, and Standard ML, originally created in the UK for teaching and research in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex, and later marketed as a commercial package for software development as well as for teaching... |
which Lao Tzu was addressed by Confucius when they possibly met. According to the Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, "the 'founder' of philosophical Daoism is the quasi-legendary Laodan, more commonly known as Laozi (Old Master)". The honorific title Lao Tzu has been romanized numerous ways, sometimes leading ... | is listed in the heavens and calls down a heavenly procession to clothe Yinxi in the garb of immortals. The story continues that Laozi bestowed a number of titles upon Yinxi and took him on a journey throughout the universe, even into the nine heavens. After this fantastic journey, the two sages set out to western land... |
Party (disambiguation) People's Alternative Party, a political party in Malaysia People's Armed Police, a paramilitary police force in China Polish Press Agency (Polska Agencja Prasowa), a news agency in Poland Power to the People (Italy), a coalition of political parties in Italy Technology Password Authentication Pro... | a town and the administrative center of Pap District Pap District, Uzbekistan People Pap (surname) Pap (given name) Pap (nickname) Biology and medicine Nipple or teat Pap test or Pap smear, a method for detecting abnormalities in the cells of a woman's cervix Phosphatidic acid phosphatase, a key regulatory enzyme in li... |
(PRI) which led for 71 years from 1929 to 2000. Positioned on the centre-right of Singaporean politics, the PAP is ideologically socially conservative and economically liberal. The party generally favours free-market economics, having turned Singapore's economy into one of the world's freest and most open, but has at t... | 1961, where he won 73.3% of the vote. This was despite the fact that Lee Kuan Yew had made a secret alliance with Fong Chong Pik, the leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), to get the CPM cadres to support the PAP in the by-election. Barisan Sosialis The breakaway group of members formed the Barisan Sosialis wi... |
had bequeathed a great part of his fortune for the building and endowment of a museum in Copenhagen, and left instructions to fill it with all his collection of works of art and the models for all his sculptures, a very large collection, exhibited to the greatest possible advantage. Thorvaldsen is buried in the courtya... | Nicolaus Copernicus and Józef Poniatowski in Warsaw; the statue of Maximilian I in Munich; and the tomb monument of Pope Pius VII, the only work by a non-Catholic in St. Peter's Basilica. Early life and education Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen in 1770 (according to some accounts, in 1768), the son of Gottskálk Þorv... |
that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as Almogavars; Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks. For a lapse of time (1308-1315) he was governor of the island of Djerba, after being conquered by the Crown Of Aragon. Ramon Muntaner's Crònica is one of the four Cat... | was born at Peralada. Biography The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under the leadership of Roger de Flor that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as Almogavars; Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks. For a lapse of time (1308-1315) he was governo... |
as one of the peaks of the literature in Catalan language and it played a major role in influencing later writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, who, in the book burning scene of Don Quixote, says "I swear to you, my friend, this (Tirant lo Blanch) is the best book of its kind in the world". The novel deals with the adve... | was a Valencian knight and writer, best-known for authoring the novel Tirant lo Blanch, written in Valencian and published at Valencia in 1490. This novel is often regarded as one of the peaks of the literature in Catalan language and it played a major role in influencing later writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, who,... |
1930, in Barcelona) was a Catalan writer, most noted for the novels La papallona (The Butterfly) which appeared with a foreword by Émile Zola in the French translation; his most well-known work L'Escanyapobres (The Usurer); and | – 26 July 1930, in Barcelona) was a Catalan writer, most noted for the novels La papallona (The Butterfly) which appeared with a foreword by Émile Zola in the French translation; his most well-known work L'Escanyapobres (The Usurer); |
for his novel The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures. The novel has been translated into about 60 languages, making it the most translated novel in Czech literature. Life J... | but eventually graduated from the Czech-Slavonic Business Academy in Resslova Street. At the academy he made friends with Ladislav Hájek, and together they wrote and released a parody of the lyrical love poetry of May Shouts, in which Hašek first laughed at pathos and entered the field of humorous literature. After gra... |
soldier injured at the Battle of Austerlitz, in Brno, while his mother worked in Polná as an assistant book-keeper in the town's brewery. She worked there with her future husband, František Hrabal (1889– 1966); one František Hrabal was listed as Bohumil's godfather when he was baptised on 4 February 1914, but František... | considered for a place at university on a technical course. He took private classes in Latin for a year, passing the state exam in the town of Český Brod with an "adequate" grade on 3 October 1935. On 7 October, he registered at Charles University in Prague to study for a law degree. He graduated only in March 1946, as... |
island by the Theban poet Pindar, describing it as having shady parks, with residents indulging in athletic and musical pastimes. The ruler of Elysium varies from author to author: Pindar and Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the Odyssey describes fair-haired Rhadamanthus dwelling there. "The Isl... | actual Elysian Fields appears several times as a happy afterlife, with the families of the title characters dwelling there; Heaven appears as a separate location in the same universe. The name Elysium was used in a Star Trek novel, Before Dishonor, as the name of the fourth moon of Pluto. In Masami Kurumada's mythologi... |
portion of the repeated sequences in the genome are found among the noncoding DNA. Inverted repeats have a number of important biological functions. They define the boundaries in transposons and indicate regions capable of self-complementary base pairing (regions within a single sequence which can base pair with each o... | 1 and 2 are the stem of stem-loop A and are part of the loop for stem-loop B. Similarly, sets 3 and 4 are the stem for stem-loop B and are part of the loop for stem-loop A. Pseudoknots play a number of different roles in biology. The telomerase pseudoknot in the illustration is critical to that enzyme's activity. The r... |
was born in the manor house of Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen. Her father, Wilhelm Dinesen (1845–1895), was a writer and army officer, including in the 1864 war by Denmark against Prussia and who also joined the French army against Prussia and wrote about La Commune in Paris. He was from a wealthy family of Jutland ... | its management in 1921. On his return to Kenya after the Armistice, Hatton developed a close friendship with Karen and Bror. He left Africa again in 1920. Against her wishes, Bror and Karen separated in 1921. Hatton often travelled back and forth between Africa and England, and visited Karen occasionally. He returned i... |
Prize in Literature in 1944 "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style". One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist. E... | into English as The Fall of the King in 1933), a modern historical novel centred on King Christian II. Literary critic Martin Seymour-Smith said it is an "indictment of Danish indecision and lack of vitality, which Jensen saw as a national disease. Apart from this aspect of it, it is a penetrating study of sixteenth-ce... |
literary movement. Their projects included The Shame of the Morning and the Booster, a country club house organ that the Villa Seurat group appropriated "for their own artistic . . . ends." They also started the Villa Seurat Series in order to publish Durrell's Black Book, Miller's Max and the White Phagocytes, and Nin... | Critics praised the Quartet for its richness of style, the variety and vividness of its characters, its movement between the personal and the political, and its locations in and around the ancient Egyptian city which Durrell portrays as the chief protagonist: "The city which used us as its flora—precipitated in us conf... |
co-originator with Robert Louis Stevenson of the Age of the Story Tellers. On race Rider Haggard's works have been criticised for their depictions of non-Europeans. In his non-fiction book Decolonising the Mind, Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o refers to Haggard, who he says was one of the canonical authors in primary a... | the director Piers Haggard (great-great-nephew), and the actress Daisy Haggard (great-great-great niece). Legacy Influence Psychoanalyst Carl Jung considered Ayesha, the female protagonist of She, to be a manifestation of the anima. Her epithet "She Who Must Be Obeyed" is used by British author John Mortimer in his Rum... |
he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and joined the admired writers of his day. Leading acquaintances included Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding, the physician and Behmenist George Cheyne, and the theologian and writer William Law, whose books he printed. At Law's request, Richardson printed some poems by John Byr... | to read. In particular, Richardson asked Hill if he could help shorten the chapters because Richardson was worried about the length of the novel. Hill refused, saying, In July, Richardson sent Hill a complete "design" of the story, and asked Hill to try again, but Hill responded, "It is impossible, after the wonders yo... |
power, the Royal Villa was destined for demolition. However, the protests of citizens stopped the process, although the abandonment caused the complex to decay. Two-thirds of the gold and silver treasures of the Monza Cathedral were delivered to the mint of Milan, which turned them into coins used for military expenses... | Roman bridge. In 1841 the first railway connecting Milan and Monza was inaugurated. Monza took part to the Five Days of Milan (22–23 March 1848) Monza, expelling the Austrian garrison. The Austrians returned in 1849. In 1859, at the end of the Second Italian War of Independence, Lombardy became part of the Kingdom of S... |
a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20. Coelho later remarked that "It wasn't that they wanted to hurt me, but they didn't know what to do... They did not do that to destroy me, they did that to save me." At his parents' wishes, Coelho enrolled in law school and ab... | than 150 million copies worldwide and is the all-time best-selling book by a Brazilian writer. He influenced Brazilian rock music through his partnership with the musician Raul Seixas. Biography Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and attended a Jesuit school. At 17, Coelho's parents committed him to a men... |
failure of a first military excursion against the Locrians, the summer session of the Amphictyonic Council gives command of the league's forces to Philip and asks him to lead a second excursion. Philip acts at once, and his forces pass through Thermopylae, enter Amfissa and defeat the Locrians who are led by Chares, th... | statue of Heracles at the Danube estuary. The two armies clash on the plains of modern-day Dobruja. The ninety-year-old King of the Scythians, Ateas, is killed during the battle and his army is routed. During a meeting of the Amphictyonic Council, Philip accuses the citizens of the town of Amfissa, in Locris, of intrud... |
Crimissus in the west of Sicily and achieves a brilliant victory against superior odds. Despite this victory, the Carthaginians continue to occupy the western half of Sicily, with a treaty being concluded that confines the Carthaginians to the area west of the Halycus (Platani) River. Roman Republic An embassy is sent ... | meets this large Carthaginian army in the Battle of the Crimissus in the west of Sicily and achieves a brilliant victory against superior odds. Despite this victory, the Carthaginians continue to occupy the western half of Sicily, with a treaty being concluded that confines the Carthaginians to the area west of the Hal... |
he then defeats and shatters a coalition of Illyrians who are invading Macedonia. A rumour that Alexander has been killed by the Illyrians leads the Thebans and Athenians to take up arms again. Alexander defeats the Greeks and razes Thebes. In Thebes, 6,000 people are killed and all survivors are sold into slavery. Aft... | the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Greece Returning to Macedonia by way of Delphi (where the Pythian priestess acclaims him "invincible"), King Alexander III of Macedonia advances into Thrace in order to secure the Danube ... |
of the Greek cities in a revolt. With Persian money and 8,000 Greek mercenaries, he holds Crete against Macedonian forces. In the Peloponnesus he routs a force under the Macedonian general Coragus and, although Athens stays neutral, he is joined by Elis, Achaea (except Pellene) and Arcadia, with the exception of Megalo... | the staunchly anti-Spartan capital of Arcadia, which Agis III's forces besiege. Alexander's regent Antipater leads the Macedonians to victory over King Agis III in the Battle of Megalopolis. Italy Alexander of Epirus takes Heraclea from the Lucanians, and Terina and Sipontum from the Bruttii. Tarentum turn against Alex... |
unincorporated community in southwestern Cole County Henley, Ohio, an unincorporated community Henley, Oregon, unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States Henley Cay, tropical islet in the United States Virgin Islands Elsewhere Henley, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia Henley, New Zea... | a location in Shropshire Henley, Suffolk, a village in Suffolk, England Henley, Somerset, a hamlet south of Crewkerne, England Henley Fort, Victorian fort near Guildford, Surrey Henley-in-Arden, a small town in Warwickshire, England Henley, West Sussex, a location Henley, Box, Wiltshire Henley, Buttermere, Wiltshire Un... |
as Tahiti Nui ("big Tahiti"), while the much smaller southeastern portion is known as Tahiti Iti ("small Tahiti") or Tai'arapū. Tahiti Nui is heavily populated along the coast, especially around the capital, Papeete. The interior of Tahiti Nui is almost entirely uninhabited. Tahiti Iti has remained isolated, as its sou... | 26 January 1775 in Tahiti and was buried near the mission he established at Tautira Bay. Lt. Tomas Gayangos took over command and set sail for Peru on 27 Jan, leaving the Fathers Geronimo Clota and Narciso Gonzalez and the sailors Maximo Rodriguez and Francisco Perez in charge of the mission. On the third Aguila expedi... |
king of Ur. The city, which had only 4,000 citizens at the time, would become a large capital during the 40 years of Mesannepada's reign. Its opulence was brought about by its commercial activity: Ur's southern river port concentrated Mesopotamian trade with clients along the Persian Gulf shores. 2550 BC: Reign of Mesi... | its commercial activity: Ur's southern river port concentrated Mesopotamian trade with clients along the Persian Gulf shores. 2550 BC: Reign of Mesilim, king of Kish. He was an apparent suzerain over the Lagash king Luga-shag-engur and the Adab king Nin-kisalsi. A conflict between Lagash and the neighboring Umma begins... |
"would seem to fulfill at least the formal requirements of the tragic hero." These criticisms are only a few examples of how the critical views of Egypt's "femininity" and Rome's "masculinity" have changed over time and how the development of feminist theory has helped in widening the discussion. Themes and motifs Ambi... | "to see on stage not a noble Sovereign, but a dark, dangerous, evil, sensual and lewd creature who has harnessed the 'captain's heart". This dangerously beautiful woman is difficult for Shakespeare to create because all characters, male or female, were played by men. Phyllis Rackin points out that one of the most descr... |
as Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and Tablighi Jamaat, the Deobandi movement began to spread. Graduates of Darul Uloom Deoband in India from countries such as South Africa, China, and Malaysia opened thousands of madaaris throughout the world. India The Deobandi Movement in India is controlled by the Darul Uloom Deoband and the J... | working for the sake of Muhammad, nifaaz Hakomat-e-illahiyya and Khidmat-e-Khalq. In Pakistan, Ahrar secretariat is in Lahore and in India it is based in Ludhiana. Tablighi Jamaat Tablighi Jamaat, a non-political Deobandi missionary organisation, began as an offshoot of the Deobandi movement. Its inception is believed ... |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), was appointed by the court in his capacity as a brainwashing expert and worked without a fee. After the trial, he wrote a newspaper article asking President Carter to release Hearst from prison. Hearst wrote in her memoir, Every Secret Thing (1982), "I spent fifteen hours g... | dispute. There was talk about her dying, and she wanted to survive." Conviction and sentencing On March 20, 1976, Hearst was convicted of bank robbery and using a firearm during the commission of a felony. She was given the maximum sentence possible of 35 years' imprisonment, pending a reduction at final sentence heari... |
love becomes a bride") closely follows the text of a Wunderhorn poem. The melodies for the second and fourth songs of the cycle were incorporated into the First Symphony, which Mahler finished in 1888, at the height of his relationship with Marion von Weber. The intensity of Mahler's feelings is reflected in the music,... | to New York in late October 1910, where Mahler threw himself into a busy Philharmonic season of concerts and tours. Around Christmas 1910 he began suffering from a sore throat, which persisted. On 21 February 1911, with a temperature of 40 °C (104 °F), Mahler insisted on fulfilling an engagement at Carnegie Hall, with ... |
name. For supermarkets that are only in one country, see the breakdown by continent at the bottom of this page. Numbers are provided as the largest reported, and are largely inaccurate. Multinational Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South | parent corporation's name or another name. For supermarkets that are only in one country, see the breakdown by continent at the bottom of this page. Numbers are provided as the largest reported, and |
and His History, by Kenneth Allsop. . Hobo, by Eddy Joe Cotton, 2002. The Hobo - The Sociology of the Homeless Man, by Nels Anderson, 1923. The Hobo Handbook - A Field Guide to Living by Your Own Rules, by Josh Mack, 2011. (Book on the Hobo lifestyle, written by one who has ridden the rails in recent years.) Ironweed b... | longish holidays, but soon or late he returns to work. A tramp never works if it can be avoided; he simply travels. Lower than either is the bum, who neither works nor travels, save when impelled to motion by the police. History It is unclear exactly when hoboes first appeared on the American railroading scene. With th... |
in "Nyarlathotep" (1920), he is described as a "tall, swarthy man" who resembles an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. In this story he wanders the Earth, seemingly gathering legions of followers, the narrator of the story among them, through his demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments. These followers lose ... | he only appears at the very end, though it is clear that he was up to the trickery and manipulation of his past portrayals. In the Manga series ‘GHOST REAPER GIRL’ the head of the Eastern Branch is a woman called “Nyarlathotep” who uses the title “The Chaos”. She is a dark skinned woman, with the lower half of the eye ... |
recent years QNX has been used in automated drive or ADAS systems for automotive projects that require a functional safety certification. QNX provides this with its QNX OS for Safety product. The QNX operating system also contained a web browser known as 'Voyager'. History Gordon Bell and Dan Dodge, both students at th... | Eclipse (integrated development environment) consortium. The company released a suite of Eclipse plug-ins packaged with the Eclipse workbench in 2002, and named QNX Momentics Tool Suite. In 2004, the company announced it had been sold to Harman International Industries. Before this acquisition, QNX software was already... |
and Hubei down the Jialing River as far as its confluence with the Yangtze at Chongqing. Shu occupied the valley of the Min, including Chengdu and other areas of western Sichuan. The existence of the early state of Shu was poorly recorded in the main historical records of China. It was, however, referred to in the Book... | developed eastern regions. Sichuan is one of the major industrial centers of China. In addition to heavy industries such as coal, energy, iron and steel, the province has also established a light industrial sector comprising building materials, wood processing, food and silk processing. Chengdu and Mianyang are the pro... |
rainwater leakage problems and its protection underwent a renovation project completed in 2005. The renovation works included the building of a canopy to cover the tomb. 3D Laser Scanning Technology in digital recording of structures was applied to capture 3D images of the structure. The museum The tomb and gallery cam... | in digital recording of structures was applied to capture 3D images of the structure. The museum The tomb and gallery came under the management of the former Urban Council in 1969. The museum later became a branch of the Hong Kong Museum of History in 1975. As such, it is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services De... |
to the National Development and Reform Commission, 366 grams of coal would produce 1 kWh of electricity during 2006. From 2003 to 2007, power production equaled that of 84 million tonnes of standard coal. Erosion and sedimentation Two hazards are uniquely identified with the dam. One is that sedimentation projections a... | the dam had generated of electricity, yielding 250 billion yuan. Full cost recovery was thus expected to occur ten years after the dam started full operation, but the full cost of the Three Gorges Dam was recovered by December 20, 2013. Funding sources include the Three Gorges Dam Construction Fund, profits from the Ge... |
the tidal part of the stream, now represented by the Stone Bridge Drain (), which carried the water from the East and West Fens. The line of the road through Wide Bargate, to A52 and A16, is likely to have developed on its marine silt levees. It led, as it does now, to the relatively high ground at Sibsey (), and thenc... | out in the interwar period. At the beginning of the First World War, a number of the town's trawlermen, together with some from Grimsby, were taken prisoner after their ships were sunk by German raiders in the North Sea. Their families did not know what had happened to them until late September 1914. The men were taken... |
primarily in Japan and named after Arika Kimura, who collected it in 1920. It belongs to the sub-order Mesothelae (primitive burrowing spiders) and can reach up to 3 cm in length. Its burrows are covered by a camouflaged "pill box" flap. Like other species of mesothele spiders, the ancestral traits of the Kimura spider... | shed light on the evolution of all spiders. Although Kimura spiders lack venom glands, they still have strong chelicerae and can produce quite painful bites. The word kumo in Japanese means spider. ("Gumo" is a variation in pronunciation due to a phenomenon known as rendaku.) The sub-order this spider is a member of, M... |
States gold medal basketball team at the 1967 Pan American Games. He also was co-captain of the U.S. gold medal team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Born near Pittsburgh, he graduated from David B. Oliver High School in Pittsburgh in June 1957 and Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, in 1962. Calvin Fowler a... | gold medal basketball team at the 1967 Pan American Games. He also was co-captain of the U.S. gold medal team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Born near Pittsburgh, he graduated from David B. Oliver High School in Pittsburgh in June 1957 and Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, in 1962. Calvin Fowler at David... |
opposite side that they would with a kick flip resulting in a rotation of the board opposite to the kick flip. Variations Once a skateboarder masters the kickflip, many variations are possible: Using a faster "flick" motion, the rider can spin the board multiple revolutions before landing. These tricks are named with r... | later modified and popularized by Rodney Mullen. In March 2011, the first kickflip in surfing was landed by Zoltan "The Magician" Torkos. Origin In the 1970s freestyle skateboarders learned to flip the board over beneath them by lifting an edge of the board with the top of one toe. While the board flipped completely ov... |
Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), American comic actor best known as half of the Laurel and Hardy duo Ollie Hoskins (rugby union) (born 1993), Australian rugby union player Ollie Johnson (basketball, born 1942), American college basketball player Ollie Johnston (1912–2008), American film animator, one of Disney's famed "Nine O... | Ollie Phillips (rugby union) (born 1983), English rugby union player Ollie le Roux (born 1973), South African rugby union footballer Ollie Imogene Shepard (1933–2016), pioneering American honky-tonk singer-songwriter Ollie Voigt (1899–1970), American baseball player Olie Olie Cordill (1916–1988), American football play... |
Jersey Old Fort of Nassau, established 1697, in The Bahamas, which, as a British fort, was attacked by U.S. Marines in 1776 Fort Nassau (Ghana), established near Mori Fort Nassau (Guyana), on the Berbice River Fort Nassau, Banda Islands, on | in the 17th century for several fortifications, mostly trading stations, named for the House of Orange-Nassau. It was also the name of a British fort, which was formerly a Dutch fort. Forts of this name included: Fort Nassau (North River), established 1614 in Albany, New York Fort Nassau (South River), established 1627 |
Kingdom of the Netherlands, like Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. On 28 November 2006, the change was delayed when the island council rejected a clarification memorandum on the process. A new island council ratified this agreement on 9 July 2007. On 15 December 2008, Curaçao was again scheduled to become a separate ... | Royal Netherlands Navy air base which operated for 55 years with a wide variety of aircraft, including Fireflies, Avengers, Trackers, Neptunes, Fokker F-27s, P-3C Orions, Fokker F-60s and several helicopter types. After the political decision to sell off all Orions, the air base wasn't needed anymore. The west end of t... |
grievances against Demosthenes' activities. In response to these complaints, Demosthenes delivers the Second Philippic, which is a vehement attack against Philip II. Sicily The aristocracy of Syracuse appeal to their mother city of Corinth against their tyrant Dionysius II. The Corinthian general Timoleon is chosen to ... | this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Persian Empire The king of Caria, Idrieus, dies, leaving the Persian satrapy, by his will, to his sister Ada, to whom he was married. Greece The Athenian sta... |
laws still extant was issued under both their names. In 685, Eadric went into exile and led the South Saxons against Hlothhere, who was defeated and died of his wounds. The above information is derived from Bede, but Hlothhere is the earliest Kentish king for whom genuine charters survive. One charter known from a 15th... | succeeded his brother Ecgberht I in 673. He must have come into conflict with Mercia, since in 676 the Mercian king Æthelred invaded Kent and caused great destruction; according to Bede, even churches and monasteries were not spared, and Rochester was laid waste. Hlothhere's rule survived this onslaught, however. He ap... |
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