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pilot during the Korean War. He flew 66 combat missions and shot down two MiG-15 aircraft. After earning a Doctor of Science degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aldrin was selected as a member of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a doctoral degree. His doct... | which the spacecraft door was opened and he stood up, but did not leave the spacecraft. The standup EVA mimicked some of the actions he would do during his free-flight EVA, so he could compare the effort expended between the two. It set an EVA record of two hours and twenty minutes. The next day Aldrin performed his fr... |
specified by the Chief Designer of Russia's space program, Sergei Korolev. "If the criteria had been different," the cosmonaut trainer Mark Gallai noted in an interview, "Certainly Komarov, who was very intelligent, would have been in the group. He had Air Force Academy flight experience. He had a great influence on th... | school. Here he showed a natural aptitude for mathematics. In 1941, Komarov left school because of World War II and the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and he became a laborer on a collective farm. He showed an interest in aeronautics from an early age, and he collected magazines and pictures about aviation, in ad... |
about 2000–1000 BCE. As was the case for the Dorset (or Paleo-Eskimo) hunters and the pioneering Neoeskimos, the post-Ruin Island and Late Thule culture Inuit used the Bache Peninsula region extensively both summer and winter until environmental, ecological, and possibly social circumstances caused the area to be aband... | west by Eureka Sound and Nansen Sound from Axel Heiberg Island, and to the south by Jones Sound and Cardigan Strait from Devon Island. Ellesmere Island contains Canada's northernmost point, Cape Columbia, at 83°6′41″N. Protected areas More than one-fifth of the island is protected as Quttinirpaaq National Park (formerl... |
of the most important Greek warriors. It has been suggested that the teichoscopy, as well as the duel between Paris and Menelaus, would have more likely occurred at the beginning of the war rather than during its tenth year. However, although Homer is not at the beginning of the Trojan War, he is at the beginning of th... | of the Trojan War, he is at the beginning of the poem and therefore uses the teichoscopia as a poetic structure that provides information and suspense important for the remainder of the play and the duel to come. Although teichoscopy can be viewed as simply a vignette that surveys the major Greek warriors, it has been ... |
12 seasons, the league produced 10 different champions; Alexandria and Edinburg were the only teams to win a title twice. After the 2005 season, the eight-team Central Baseball League disbanded. Five teams joined the American Association: Pensacola, Shreveport, Fort Worth, Coastal Bend and El Paso; and one joined the U... | Prairie Dogs Alexandria Aces Amarillo Dillas Beaumont Bullfrogs (also Bayou Bullfrogs, Lafayette Bullfrogs) Coastal Bend Aviators Corpus Christi Barracudas Edinburg Roadrunners El Paso Diablos Fort Worth Cats Greenville Bluesmen Jackson Senators (also Jackson DiamondKats) Lafayette Bullfrogs (also Beaumont Bullfrogs an... |
built in 1933 for the original Alexandria Aces. History That team started in 1934 as a member of the old Evangeline League and ceased operations with the league in 1942 due to World War II. This early era was highlighted by the presence of Hal Newhouser and Virgil Trucks, future Detroit Tigers' stars who headed the pit... | was built in 1933 for the original Alexandria Aces. History That team started in 1934 as a member of the old Evangeline League and ceased operations with the league in 1942 due to World War II. This early era was highlighted by the presence of Hal Newhouser and Virgil Trucks, future Detroit Tigers' stars who headed the... |
rapid reiteration: of a single note, particularly used on bowed string instruments, by rapidly moving the bow back and forth; plucked strings such as on a harp, where it is called bisbigliando () or "whispering"; and tremolo picking, in which a single note is repeated extremely rapidly with a plectrum (or "pick") on tr... | which pulsations are taken in the same bow direction a vocal technique involving a wide or slow vibrato, not to be confused with the trillo or "Monteverdi trill" Some electric guitars use a (misnamed) lever called a "tremolo arm" or "whammy bar" that allows a performer to lower or (usually, to some extent) raise the pi... |
stones at Arabs, destroying Arab property, with some chanting "death to Arabs". Some Israeli-Arab soccer players face chants from the crowd when they play such as "no Arabs, no terrorism". In the most radical event, Abbas Zakour, an Arab member of the Knesset, was stabbed and wounded by unidentified men, who shouted an... | in their army-issued rifles. Goldstone's grave has become a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists. In a number of occasions, Israeli Jewish demonstrators and rioters used racist anti-Arab slogans. For example, during the Arab riots in October 2000 events, Israelis counter-rioted in Nazareth and Tel Aviv, throwing stone... |
Meursii Gloss. Græco-Barbarum, edit. 1610. p. 29. Fr. admiral and amiral. Dan. the same. Germ. ammiral. Dutch, admirael or ammirael. Ital. ammiraglio. Sp. almirante. Minsheu, in his Spanish Dictionary, says ‘almiralle is a king in the Arabian language.’ Amrayl is used by Robert of Gloucester, in the sense of a prince, ... | Dictionary, has been confirmed as being accurate. Additionally, the definition of Amīr (أمير), as given in Edward William Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon, concurs, in part, with Minsheu's definition, stating that the term means “One having, holding, or possessing, command; a commander; a governor; a lord; a prince, or ki... |
only hatch between the orbital and reentry modules is a part of the reentry module, and orbital module is depressurized after separation. For future missions, the orbital module(s) could also be left behind on the planned Chinese project 921/2 space station as additional station modules. In the uncrewed test flights la... | satellite in 1970, its crewed spacecraft program was cancelled in 1980 due to a lack of funds. The Chinese crewed spacecraft program was relaunched in 1992 with Project 921. The Phase One spacecraft followed the general layout of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with three modules that could separate for reentry. China si... |
claiming the regular season champion title in 1995, 1998, and 2000. They would win the first half championship in 1997 and were the 1999 Texas–Louisiana League champions. The Texas–Louisiana League was renamed the Central Baseball League in 2002, and several new teams were added. The Dillas struggled with attendance af... | record and another championship, defeating San Angelo for the title. The Dillas would win the title again in 2010, becoming the first United League three-peat champions. In October 2010, the Dillas were evicted from Potter County Memorial Stadium, as Reunion Sports Group, the parent company of the Dillas, could not pay... |
Team The second Jackson Senators team was a member of the independent Central Baseball League from 2002 to 2005, a league that was not affiliated with Major League Baseball. The Senators won the CBL title in 2003. After the CBL disbanded, Jackson was left without a league for the 2006 season. On January 24, 2006, offic... | disbanded, Jackson was left without a league for the 2006 season. On January 24, 2006, officials with the team's ownership group, Mississippi Baseball Club LLC, announced that they would not be operating a professional independent team in Jackson for the 2006 season. Instead, the Greenville (South Carolina) Braves relo... |
of Wang tiles that tiles the plane, but only aperiodically. This is similar to a Penrose tiling, or the arrangement of atoms in a quasicrystal. Although Berger's original set contained 20,426 tiles, he conjectured that smaller sets would work, including subsets of his set, and in his unpublished Ph.D. thesis, he reduce... | tiles that tiles the plane if and only if the Turing machine does not halt. The undecidability of the halting problem (the problem of testing whether a Turing machine eventually halts) then implies the undecidability of Wang's tiling problem. Aperiodic sets of tiles Combining Berger's undecidability result with Wang's ... |
at Foster Field. The team experienced declining attendance in later years and announced on July 2, 2014 that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Although it was stated at the time that operations would not be affected, the team announced on August 11, 2014 that the final 8 games of the 2014 season would ... | OF Gilbert Landestoy P 2006 John Anderson, IF Brian Baker, OF Kevin Bass, DH Jason Crosland, IF Adam Hanson, RHP Brantley Jordan, LHP Tony Sanguinetti, C 2007 Josh Allan, C Stephen Artz, RHP Jason Crosland, 1B Ronnie Gaines, OF Andres Rodriguez, 3B Chace Vacek, RHP Madison Edwards, OF 2008 Bryan Frichter, OF Luke Masse... |
came to town. The Mountain Ducks folded after the 2004 season, with the rights to the club's spot in the CBL being sold to the Pensacola Pelicans of the discontinued Southeastern League. Defunct minor league baseball teams Sports clubs disestablished in 2004 Defunct independent baseball league teams Defunct baseball te... | to town. The Mountain Ducks folded after the 2004 season, with the rights to the club's spot in the CBL being sold to the Pensacola Pelicans of the discontinued Southeastern League. Defunct minor league baseball teams Sports clubs disestablished in 2004 Defunct independent baseball league teams Defunct baseball teams i... |
Alexander the Great in 335 BC, and was the most dominant city-state at the time of the Macedonian conquest of Greece. During the Byzantine period, the city was famous for its silks. The modern city contains an archaeological museum, the remains of the Cadmea (Bronze Age and forward citadel), and scattered ancient remai... | ally, prevented the formation of a Theban empire. With the death of Epaminondas at the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC), the city sank again to the position of a secondary power. In the Third Sacred War (356–346 BC) with its neighbor Phocis, Thebes lost its predominance in central Greece. By asking Philip II of Macedon to c... |
Smith's Rock. The Aarhus was a 640-tonne sailing barque built in 1875 in Hamburg, Germany. The vessel measured in length. While carrying a general cargo including kerosene from New York to Brisbane, Australia, they hit Smith's Rock, which lies about two nautical miles (4 km) north-east of Cape Moreton, and sank on 24 F... | The Aarhus was a 640-tonne sailing barque built in 1875 in Hamburg, Germany. The vessel measured in length. While carrying a general cargo including kerosene from New York to Brisbane, Australia, they hit Smith's Rock, which lies about two nautical miles (4 km) north-east of Cape Moreton, and sank on 24 February 1894. ... |
in 2000 BC (compared to 60,000 in Memphis, the largest city in the world at the time). By 1800 BC, the population of Memphis was down to about 30,000, making Thebes the largest city in Egypt at the time. Historian Ian Morris has estimated that by 1500 BC, Thebes may have grown to be the largest city in the world, with ... | between the death of Mentuhotep II and that of Mentuhotep IV, in mysterious circumstances. During the 12th Dynasty, Amenemhat I moved the seat of power North to Itjtawy. Thebes continued to thrive as a religious center as the local god Amun was becoming increasingly prominent throughout Egypt. The oldest remains of a t... |
piece of music. A similar earlier example is "Happiness is a Warm Gun" by the Beatles. One can find musical "pastiches" throughout the work of the American composer Frank Zappa. Comedian/parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic has also recorded several songs that are pastiches of other popular recording artists, such as Devo ("Da... | Kyrie from one composer, and a Gloria from another; or choose a Kyrie from one setting of an individual composer, and a Gloria from another. Musical theatre In musical theatre, pastiche is often an indispensable tool for evoking the sounds of a particular era for which a show is set. For the 1971 musical Follies, a sho... |
compliant. This extends the uses of silicone sheeting to industries that demand hygiene, for example, food and beverage, and pharmaceuticals. Applications Silicones are used in many products. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry lists the following major categories of application: Electrical (e.g. insulation)... | in silicone to increase stability against mechanical and electrical shock, radiation and vibration, a process called "potting". Silicones are used where durability and high performance are demanded of components under extreme environmental conditions, such as in space (satellite technology). They are selected over poly... |
elsewhere in Washington, D.C., with two more in New York City and one in Chantilly, Virginia. The Smithsonian has close ties with 168 other museums in 39 states, Panama, and Puerto Rico. These museums are known as Smithsonian Affiliated museums. Collections of artifacts are given to these museums in the form of long-te... | Initiative (SPRI) Smithsonian Science Education Center Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panamá) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Also of note is the Smithsonian Museum Support Center (MSC), located in Silver Hill, Maryland (Suitland), which is the principal off-site conservation and collections ... |
features when used. Though officially named, within the Soviet Navy the boat was commonly referred to as the "Golden Fish", in reference to its cost of development and construction. On 30 September 1980, one of K-222s nuclear reactors was damaged during maintenance in the shipyard. By 1988, it was placed in reserve at ... | the boat was commonly referred to as the "Golden Fish", in reference to its cost of development and construction. On 30 September 1980, one of K-222s nuclear reactors was damaged during maintenance in the shipyard. By 1988, it was placed in reserve at the Belomorsk Naval Base in Severodvinsk. Beginning on 5 March 2010 ... |
out that normally, the woman of the house lights the Sabbath candles. In the film, it is men who perform this ritual, demonstrating not only the subservient role of women, but also the subservient position of Jewish men in relation to Aryan men, especially Göth and Schindler. Other symbolism To Spielberg, the black and... | Nielsen rating for any film since NBC's broadcast of Jurassic Park in May 1995. The film aired on public television in Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day in 1998. The DVD was released on March 9, 2004 in widescreen and full screen editions, on a double-sided disc with the feature film beginning on side A and continuing o... |
Produced by George Martin, it was released on EMI's Parlophone label on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom, following the success of the band's first two singles "Love Me Do", which reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, and "Please Please Me" which reached number 1 on the NME and Melody Maker charts. The album to... | Me in one long recording session at EMI Studios on 11 February 1963. On 20 February, Martin added overdubs to "Misery" and "Baby It's You". Of the album's 14 songs, eight were written by Lennon–McCartney (originally credited "McCartney–Lennon"). Rolling Stone magazine later cited these original compositions as early ev... |
the Commonwealth of Australia, the occupant elected by a two-thirds vote of the Australian parliament for a fixed term. The second question, generally deemed to be far less important politically, asked whether Australia should alter the constitution to insert a preamble. Neither of the amendments passed, with 55% of al... | the monarchy were being removed from various institutions. For example, in 1993, the Oath of Citizenship, which included an assertion of allegiance to the Australian monarch, was replaced by a pledge to be loyal to "Australia and its people". Earlier in 1990, the formula of enactment for the Parliament of Australia was... |
military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun", also spelled Sunni), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to a different set of skills (or "art") related to warfare and ho... | been an actual person who was a genuine authority on military matters, and may have been the inspiration for the creation of the historical figure "Sun Tzu" through a form of euhemerism. In 1972, the Yinqueshan Han slips were discovered in two Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) tombs near the city of Linyi in Shandong Provi... |
regime forced airlines to attempt to differentiate themselves through the quality of their passenger experience. IATA responded by imposing strict limits on the quality of airline service. In 1958, IATA issued a formal ruling barring airlines from serving economy passengers sandwiches with "luxurious" ingredients. The ... | from serving economy passengers sandwiches with "luxurious" ingredients. The economist Walter Adams observed that the limited service competition permitted by IATA tended to merely to divert traffic from one air carrier to another without at the same time enlarging the overall air transport market. From 1956 to 1975, I... |
in major psychiatric disorders including bipolar disorder; clinical research has shown there is a high rate of thyroid dysfunction in mood disorders and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, concluding that there is a case for screening for the latter among people with thyroid illness. Causes Hypothyroidism is caused by in... | dysfunction in mood disorders and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, concluding that there is a case for screening for the latter among people with thyroid illness. Causes Hypothyroidism is caused by inadequate function of the gland itself (primary hypothyroidism), inadequate stimulation by thyroid-stimulating hormone f... |
noticeable in people with dark skin. Vitiligo may result in psychological stress and those affected are sometimes stigmatized. The exact cause of vitiligo is unknown. It is believed to be due to genetic susceptibility that is triggered by an environmental factor such that an autoimmune disease occurs. This results in t... | or phototherapy to darken the light patches. Alternatively, efforts to lighten the unaffected skin, such as with hydroquinone, may be tried. Several surgical options are available for those who do not improve with other measures. A combination of treatments generally has better outcomes. Counselling to provide emotiona... |
in which the glucose level in the blood (blood glucose) is abnormally low due to an undeterminable cause. This is considered an incomplete and unsatisfactory diagnosis by physicians and is rarely used by endocrinologists, as it implies an unfinished diagnostic evaluation. In general, the more severe the hypoglycemia an... | it implies an unfinished diagnostic evaluation. In general, the more severe the hypoglycemia and the more clearly it is proven, the less likely it is to remain "idiopathic".Idiopathic hypoglycemia |
carrier Admiral Kuznetsov See also Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers, named after the Admiral Kuznetsov Admiral Kuznetsov | of the Soviet Navy Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov |
sketches out Good's argument in detail, while citing writing by Yudkowsky on the risk that anthropomorphizing advanced AI systems will cause people to misunderstand the nature of an intelligence explosion. "AI might make an apparently sharp jump in intelligence purely as the result of anthropomorphism, the human tenden... | as the result of anthropomorphism, the human tendency to think of 'village idiot' and 'Einstein' as the extreme ends of the intelligence scale, instead of nearly indistinguishable points on the scale of minds-in-general." In Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, authors Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig raise the o... |
acclaimed by the Chinese government after 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, and Mao Zedong himself was a lifelong admirer of Lu Xun's writing. Though sympathetic to socialist ideals, Lu Xun never joined the Communist Party of China. Biography Early life Lu Xun was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. As was... | until several years later), and most of his autobiography, published as Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk. He also published a collection of prose poetry, Wild Grass. In January 1927, he and Xu moved to Guangzhou, where he was hired as the head of the Zhongshan University Chinese literature department. His first act in his... |
can be caused by stenosis, spasm, or acute occlusion (by an embolus) of the heart's arteries. resistance of the blood vessels. This can be caused by narrowing of the blood vessels; a decrease in radius. Blood flow is proportional to the radius of the artery to the fourth power. reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of the b... | visceral sensation from the heart simultaneously receives cutaneous sensation from parts of the skin specified by that spinal nerve's dermatome, without an ability to discriminate the two. Typical locations for referred pain are arms (often inner left arm), shoulders, and neck into the jaw. Angina is typically precipit... |
households, and 765 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 1,135 housing units at an average density of . The village's racial makeup was 98.5% White, 0.2% African American, 0.4% Asian, and 0.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.1% of the population. There we... | and education Poland is served by the Poland Local School District. The current schools serving the village are: McKinley Elementary School – grades K-3 Poland Middle School – grades 4-6 Poland Seminary High School – grades 7-12 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown operates the private Holy Family School, which ser... |
was in people's homes if it were deemed "suspicious." The initial start of the program was to be August 2002 and would have included one million workers in ten US cities and then to be expanded. Operation TIPS was accused of doing an "end run" around the United States Constitution, and the original wording of the websi... | people's homes if it were deemed "suspicious." The initial start of the program was to be August 2002 and would have included one million workers in ten US cities and then to be expanded. Operation TIPS was accused of doing an "end run" around the United States Constitution, and the original wording of the website was ... |
not acknowledge a connection to Tolstoy and his War and Peace. United States In 1955, Chang moved to America and sought a job as an English writer, but was unsuccessful. Her work was rejected by publishers many times. Chang's move from Hong Kong to the U.S. in the 1950s marked an important turning point in Chang's lite... | which led to fights between her parents. During this time, Chang's mother decided to travel with her aunt to study in France. In 1927, after Chang's father promised to end his drug usage and extramarital affairs, Chang and her mother came back and settled in Shanghai. However, Chang's parents eventually divorced in 193... |
period of time. A collection of short essays, Written in the Margins of Life (Traditional: , Simplified: ) was published in 1941. Human, Beast, Ghost (T: , S: ), a collection of short stories, mostly satiric, was published in 1946. His most celebrated work Fortress Besieged (T: , S: ) appeared in 1947, but not until 19... | a successful playwright and translator. In 1933, Qian became engaged to Yang Jiang, and they married in 1935. For the biographical facts of Qian's following years, the two memoirs by his wife can be consulted. Yang Jiang wrote, "Zhongshu's 'foolishness' could not be contained in books, but just had to gush forth'". Two... |
Party and Christian Democrats and aims to form a National coalition with M and KD after the 2022 election. The Sweden Democrats are a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament. History Early years (1988–1995) The Sweden Democrats party was founded in 1988 as a direct successor... | place on 6 February. According to Expo, it is generally agreed that the Sweden Democrats has never been a Nazi party, although some of the SD's early members had previously been connected with Swedish fascist and white nationalist groups. The party's first auditor, Gustaf Ekström, was a Waffen-SS veteran and had been a... |
1 7/8 ips or 4.76 cm/s). A narrower gap would give a higher frequency limit but also weaker magnetization. However, such limitations can be corrected through equalization in the recording and playback amplification sections, and narrower gaps were quite common, particularly in more expensive cassette machines. For exam... | I voice grade tape inside. These toys used the Type IV notches to detect that a specially coded tape had been inserted, where the audio of the story is stored on the left channel and various cue tones to tell the doll's servos how and when to move along with the story on the right channel. Most pre-recorded chrome cass... |
recounted bursting into tears upon learning the news of his termination. In interviews, he supposed that the dubbing of his voice, unlike the other actors, was an indication of dissatisfaction over his performance. Thompson later appeared in the 2000 Ben Elton film Maybe Baby as Dave the Comedian/Mrs. Furblob. He also ... | of dissatisfaction over his performance. Thompson later appeared in the 2000 Ben Elton film Maybe Baby as Dave the Comedian/Mrs. Furblob. He also appeared in Harry Hill's live tour Hooves as the minor characters of the Horse, the ballboy and the Greek man who grabs Harry's neck. Thompson also made appearances in each n... |
other classes of dynamic microphone, ribbon microphones don't require phantom power; in fact, this voltage can damage some older ribbon microphones. Some new modern ribbon microphone designs incorporate a preamplifier and, therefore, do require phantom power, and circuits of modern passive ribbon microphones, i.e., tho... | to get the best results. Ribbon Ribbon microphones use a thin, usually corrugated metal ribbon suspended in a magnetic field. The ribbon is electrically connected to the microphone's output, and its vibration within the magnetic field generates the electrical signal. Ribbon microphones are similar to moving coil microp... |
many devices and systems, including: Electrical generator The EMF generated by Faraday's law of induction due to relative movement of a circuit and a magnetic field is the phenomenon underlying electrical generators. When a permanent magnet is moved relative to a conductor, or vice versa, an electromotive force is crea... | common approach is to exploit flux linkage by creating a tightly wound coil of wire, composed of N identical turns, each with the same magnetic flux going through them. The resulting EMF is then N times that of one single wire. Generating an EMF through a variation of the magnetic flux through the surface of a wire loo... |
paramilitary organisation established in 1965–6, not linked to the 1913 UVF Hewanorra International Airport in St. Lucia (IATA Airport | Ulster Volunteers, started in 1912 and organised as the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1913 The Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary organisation |
that evaluates the change of voltage in the measuring coils to calculate the measurement of magnetic flux. Description The magnetic interaction is described in terms of a vector field, where each point in space is associated with a vector that determines what force a moving charge would experience at that point (see Lo... | surface is irrelevant and the integral over any surface sharing the same boundary will be equal. This is a direct consequence of the closed surface flux being zero. Changing magnetic flux For example, a change in the magnetic flux passing through a loop of conductive wire will cause an electromotive force, and therefor... |
published it in 1662. Mariotte did, however, discover that air volume changes with temperature. Thus this law is sometimes referred to as Mariotte's law or the Boyle–Mariotte law. Later, in 1687 in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Newton showed mathematically that in an elastic fluid consisting of parti... | the main precepts of kinetic theory; this was rejected by the Royal Society of England. Later works of James Prescott Joule, Rudolf Clausius and in particular Ludwig Boltzmann firmly established the kinetic theory of gases and brought attention to both the theories of Bernoulli and Waterston. The debate between propone... |
Company Anna Weber (1814–1888), Canadian Mennonite Fraktur artist Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), German composer Carlo Weber (born 1934), German architect Chris Weber (born 1966), American musician Eberhard Weber (born 1940), German musician Henrik Weber (1818–1866), Hungarian portrait painter Joan Weber (1935–1981)... | author Mathematics Eduard Ritter von Weber (1870–1934) German mathematician Politics Becky Weber (born 1954), American politician Carmen Weber (1945–2007), first wife of former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Ed Weber (born 1931), U.S. Representative from Ohio Gabi Weber (born 1955), German politician Gérard Weber (194... |
the value of this 'open circuit' voltage. When the battery is charging or discharging, the emf itself cannot be measured directly using the external voltage because some voltage is lost inside the source. It can, however, be inferred from a measurement of the current I and potential difference V, provided that the inte... | emf by converting other forms of energy into electrical energy, such as batteries (which convert chemical energy) or generators (which convert mechanical energy). Sometimes an analogy to water pressure is used to describe electromotive force. (The word "force" in this case is not used to mean forces of interaction betw... |
forward or backward with equal ease without any need to be turned around Bidirectional text, text containing text in both text directionalities Duplex (telecommunications), communication in both directions Bidirectionalization, a process in computer science Bidirectional railway signalling; see | other vehicle that can be controlled from either end and can move forward or backward with equal ease without any need to be turned around Bidirectional text, text containing |
it can place twisted pairs, and twisted magnetically shielded quads, permitting the assembly of complex radar and high speed digital circuits. Automated wire wrapping Automated wire-wrap machines, as manufactured by the Gardner Denver Company in the 1960s and 1970s, were capable of automatically routing, cutting, strip... | hour, while the vertical machines could reach rates as high as 1200 per hour, depending on board quality and wiring configurations. Design automation In wire-wrapping, electronic design automation can design the board, and optimize the order in which wires are placed. Some systems have been able to accept high-level lo... |
was improved through several prototypes and when it was developed to 50 kHz sampling rate at 16 bits, it was deemed good enough for professional classical recording by the company's first client, Telarc Records of Cleveland, Ohio. Telarc's April, 1978 recording of the Holst Suites for Band by Frederick Fennell and the ... | at 16 bits, it was deemed good enough for professional classical recording by the company's first client, Telarc Records of Cleveland, Ohio. Telarc's April, 1978 recording of the Holst Suites for Band by Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Wind Ensemble was a landmark release, and ushered in digital recording for Ameri... |
it from the Allies. See Great Phenol Plot. At the time, phenol was obtained from coal as a co-product of coke ovens and the manufacture of gas for gas lighting. Laclede Gas reports being asked to expand production of phenol (and toluene) to assist the war effort. Both Monsanto and Dow Chemical began manufacturing synth... | metals, ores, and minerals. Picric acid was the first strongly explosive nitrated organic compound widely considered suitable to withstand the shock of firing in conventional artillery. Nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose (guncotton) were available earlier but shock sensitivity sometimes caused detonation in an artillery... |
gas The classical thermodynamic properties of an ideal gas can be described by two equations of state: Ideal gas law The ideal gas law is the equation of state for an ideal gas, given by: where is the pressure is the volume is the amount of substance of the gas (in moles) is the gas constant (0.08206 L·atm·K−1·mol−1) i... | the Saha ionization equation for a weakly ionized plasma. Classical thermodynamic ideal gas The classical thermodynamic properties of an ideal gas can be described by two equations of state: Ideal gas law The ideal gas law is the equation of state for an ideal gas, given by: where is the pressure is the volume is the a... |
of the top equation by each side of the bottom equation, and using , gives: . That is, the relative velocity of one particle with respect to the other is reversed by the collision. Now the above formulas follow from solving a system of linear equations for , regarding as constants: Once is determined, can be found by s... | a non-trivial solution, we solve and substitute into the dependent equation, we obtain and then , we have: It is a solution to the problem, but expressed by the parameters of velocity. Return substitution to get the solution for velocities is: Substitute the previous solutions and replace: and , after long transformati... |
most of the incident electrons interact very little and pass straight through, with only a small number bouncing back. This indicates that the charge in the proton is concentrated in small lumps, reminiscent of Rutherford's discovery that the positive charge in an atom is concentrated at the nucleus. However, in the ca... | it is 1 we have an elastic collision; if it is 0 we have a perfectly inelastic collision, see below. In a center of momentum frame the formulas reduce to: For two- and three-dimensional collisions the velocities in these formulas are the components perpendicular to the tangent line/plane at the point of contact. The no... |
the medium, then growth is restored. Such compounds will be present in excess in the blood or urine of patients with PKU. If a suitably-prepared sample of blood or urine is applied to the seeded agar plate, the growth of the bacteria in the test will be a positive indicator for PKU in the patient. To prepare the sample... | by newer techniques such as tandem mass spectrometry that can detect a wider variety of congenital diseases. Detected diseases The blood samples can be used for a variety of metabolic tests to detect genetic conditions, including: Immunoreactive trypsinogen to detect cystic fibrosis. Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD or ... |
g/m). These work out to thicknesses of 17.05 μm (0.67 thou), 34.1 μm (1.34 thou), 68.2 μm (2.68 thou), and 102.3 μm (4.02 thou), respectively. 1/2 oz/ft2 foil is not widely used as a finished copper weight, but is used for outer layers when plating for through holes will increase the finished copper weight Some PCB man... | in order to avoid bending. The assemblers often mount components on panels rather than single PCBs because this is efficient. Panelization may also be necessary for boards with components placed near an edge of the board because otherwise the board could not be mounted during assembly. Most assembly shops require a fre... |
a number of particles (see many body problem), the equation of motion for one particle influenced by other particles is where is the momentum of particle , is the force on particle by particle , and is the resultant external force due to any agent not part of system. Particle does not exert a force on itself. Euler's l... | pendulum. Thus we arrive at René Descartes, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, et al.; and the evolved forms of the equations of motion that begin to be recognized as the modern ones. Later the equations of motion also appeared in electrodynamics, when describing the motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic f... |
defined by its coordinate vector r measured in a fixed reference frame F. As the particle moves, its coordinate vector r(t) traces its trajectory, which is a curve in space, given by: where i, j, and k are the unit vectors along the X, Y and Z axes of the reference frame F, respectively. Consider a particle P that move... | of points in a plane are two-dimensional vectors in R2 (two dimensional space). Rigid transformations are those that preserve the distance between any two points. The set of rigid transformations in an n-dimensional space is called the special Euclidean group on Rn, and denoted SE(n). Displacements and motion The posit... |
originator of the strip is listed. Otherwise, all creators who worked on a strip are listed. Many of characters appeared in both strip and comic book format as well as in other media. The word Reuben after a name identifies winners of the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Yea... | comic book format as well as in other media. The word Reuben after a name identifies winners of the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, but many of leading strip artists worked in the years before the first Reuben and Billy DeBeck Awards in 1946. Webcomics are comic strip... |
minimise stray capacitance and inductance; the capacitance between a circuit-board trace and some other conductor, and the inductance of a short track, become significant or dominant at high frequencies. In some cases careful PCB layout on a substrate with good high-frequency properties (e.g., ceramic) is sufficient. A... | apply soldering to electrical assembly. In soldering, an alloy of tin and lead (and/or other metals), known as solder, is melted and adheres to other, nonmolten metals, such as copper or tinned steel. Solder makes a strong electrical and mechanical connection. Point-to-point wiring is not suitable for automated assembl... |
the bay of Liaotung (Dalian). Li Hongzhang refused on the grounds that Taiwan had never been a battlefield during the first Sino-Japanese War between 1894 and 1895. By the final stage of the conference, while Li Hongzhang agreed to the transfer of full sovereignty of the Penghu islands and the eastern portion of the ba... | wholly cease for the future. Articles 2 & 3: China cedes to Japan in perpetuity and full sovereignty of the Pescadores group, Formosa (Taiwan) and the eastern portion of the bay of Liaodong Peninsula (Dalian) together with all fortifications, arsenals, and public property. Article 4: China agrees to pay to Japan as a w... |
Larry Ashmead read the proposal and championed the book did Winchester pursue the necessary research in earnest. Of the project Ashmead said "we can make lexicography cool". It was Ashmead who persuaded Winchester to call the North American edition The Professor and the Madman (over Winchester's objection that Murray w... | Larry Ashmead read the proposal and championed the book did Winchester pursue the necessary research in earnest. Of the project Ashmead said "we can make lexicography cool". It was Ashmead who persuaded Winchester to call the North American edition The Professor and the Madman (over Winchester's objection that Murray w... |
made in a similar fashion utilizing photomasks with sub-micrometer feature sizes; photomasks are traditionally made by photoreducing photoplotter output. Other application of photoplotters include chemical milling and specialized graphic arts. History The first photoplotter was introduced by Gerber Scientific, Inc. in ... | possible. Integrated circuits are made in a similar fashion utilizing photomasks with sub-micrometer feature sizes; photomasks are traditionally made by photoreducing photoplotter output. Other application of photoplotters include chemical milling and specialized graphic arts. History The first photoplotter was introdu... |
same. (In rectangular coordinates (x, y) both x and y vary with time). As the particle moves along the circle, it travels an arc length s, which becomes related to the angular position through the relationship:- Measurements Angular displacement may be measured in radians or degrees. Using radians provides a very simpl... | the identity. In the limit, we will have an infinitesimal rotation matrix. Infinitesimal rotation matrices An infinitesimal angular displacement is an infinitesimal rotation matrix: As any rotation matrix has a single real eigenvalue, which is +1, this eigenvalue shows the rotation axis. Its module can be deduced from ... |
its center of rotation in a coordinate frame which itself rotates with a spin angular velocity with respect to an external frame , we can define to be the composite orbital angular velocity vector of the point about its center of rotation with respect to . This operation coincides with usual addition of vectors, and it... | conventionally taken to be positive if the radius vector turns counter-clockwise, and negative if clockwise. Angular velocity then may be termed a pseudoscalar, a numerical quantity which changes sign under a parity inversion, such as inverting one axis or switching the two axes. Particle in three dimensions In three-d... |
larger reserves, Flinders and Zeehan, extend mostly outside of the Bass Strait area. Apollo Beagle Boags East Gippsland Flinders Franklin Zeehan State The smaller islands of Bass Strait typically have some form of protection status. Most notably the Kent Group National Park covers the Kent Group islands of Tasmania, as... | it is instead listed as part of the Indian Ocean. The Australian Hydrographic Service does not consider it to be part of the Southern Ocean, using the expanded Australian definition, and states that it lies with the Tasman Sea. The strait between the Furneaux Islands and Tasmania is Banks Strait, a subdivision of Bass ... |
be termed a pseudoscalar, a numerical quantity which changes sign under a parity inversion, such as inverting one axis or switching the two axes. Particle in three dimensions In three dimensions, the orbital angular acceleration is the rate at which three-dimensional orbital angular velocity vector changes with time. T... | the origin stays constant), so the above equation simplifies to In two dimensions, angular acceleration is a number with plus or minus sign indicating orientation, but not pointing in a direction. The sign is conventionally taken to be positive if the angular speed increases in the counter-clockwise direction or decrea... |
RGB foreground color ESC[ 48;2;;; m Select RGB background color The syntax is likely based on the ITU's T.416 Open Document Architecture (ODA) and interchange format: Character content architectures, which was adopted as ISO/IEC 8613-6 but ended up as a commercial failure. The ODA version is more elaborate and thus inc... | that is not part of any valid sequence, is encountered before the end is undefined. Fe Escape sequences If the is followed by a byte in the range 0x40 to 0x5F it is of this type. Delegated to the applicable C1 control code standard. Accordingly, all escape sequences corresponding to C1 control codes from ANSI X3.64 / E... |
Christian Andersen books is now in the Library of Congress. He translated over 160 of Andersen's fairy tales into the English language. These were published in 1949 in six volumes as The Complete Andersen, this work is "... rated as the standard translation, being one of the best" in English. Hersholt was appointed a k... | (1916) as Bartender (uncredited) The Aryan (1916) (uncredited) Kinkaid, Gambler (1916) The Desert (1916) Black Orchids (1917) Fighting for Love (1917) as Ferdinand Love Aflame (1917) as Reginald The Terror (1917) as Jimm, the Dope The Saintly Sinner (1917) Perils of the Secret Service (1917 serial) as Prince Feodor (ep... |
among the various colonial powers and the government of the Qing dynasty. The Haikwan tael was on average 5% to 10% larger than the various local tael units that had existed in China, this was done as it deliberately excluded any form of extra surcharges which were embedded in the other units of the silver tael that ex... | the government of the Republic of China abolished the tael and completely replaced it with the yuan in a process known as the fei liang gai yuan (廢兩改元). During this time the Republican government cleared all banknotes denominated in the ancient tael currency, making all bills which used this currency unit obsolete. Pur... |
strips, in the UK referred to as a comic In the United States, more | parent company of Quality Comics Franco-Belgian comics magazines Japanese manga magazines A periodical containing comic |
of the city's entire population at that time) flocked to their performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia. Their TV special The Seekers Down Under scored the biggest TV audience ever (with a 67 rating), and early in 1968 they were all awarded the nation's top honour as "Australians of the Year 19... | Durham performed a one-hour a cappella concert in Melbourne as a launch for her album Up Close and Personal. In October 2011, Durham signed an exclusive international deal with Decca Records. George Ash, President of Universal Music Australasia said "It is an honour to have Judith Durham join Decca's wonderful roster o... |
types and could be shortened to and . Examples: Indexes could be not only constants. Variables could be used as indexes for other variables, and that is marked with a line, which shows in which component index would value of variable be used: Assignment operation Zuse introduced in his calculus an assignment operator, ... | for a formal system—as in Hilbert-Kalkül, the original name for the Hilbert-style deduction system—so Plankalkül refers to a formal system for planning. History of programming In the domain of creating computing machines, Zuse was self-taught, and developed them without knowledge about other mechanical computing machin... |
kitchenware or toys in, for example, the next three-month period. The surveys provide a percentage of those who will purchase more, less or the same amount of food and clothing in the next three months than in the corresponding period the year before. If you ask people about their purchasing behavior within the coming ... | reduce overhead or delay investing in new projects and facilities. Likewise, banks can anticipate a decrease in lending activity, mortgage applications and credit card use. When faced with a down-trending index, the government has a variety of options, such as issuing a tax rebate or taking other fiscal or monetary act... |
the effective local concentration of protein residues, and lowers the effective local concentration of water molecules. Since water molecules attack amide-amide hydrogen bonds and break up secondary structure, a disulfide bond stabilizes secondary structure in its vicinity. For example, researchers have identified seve... | odorless compared to β-ME and DTT, because it is selective, working at both alkaline and acidic conditions (unlike DTT), is more hydrophilic and more resistant to oxidation in air. Furthermore, it is often not needed to remove TCEP before modification of protein thiols. In organic synthesis, hydride agents are typicall... |
a stumping, bowl him behind his legs, or induce a catch on the leg side, the field may stack 4–5 towards the leg side. It is unusual to see more than 5 fielders on the leg side, because of the restriction that there must be no more than two fielders placed behind square leg. Sometimes a spinner will bowl leg theory and... | less worn ball. Fielding teams generally use their best bowlers when the ball is new. Batting is consequently more difficult and more attacking fields can be used. … when returning from a break in play Batters must settle into a batting rhythm again when resuming play after a break (due to a scheduled interval betweens... |
Hölderlin's translation of the play as a traditional opera libretto, but rather as the basis for a "musical transformation" of the tragic language of the drama of Ancient Greece. Sophocles's play was written in 442 BC, and Hölderlin's 1804 translation copies faithfully the mood and movement of Greek tragedy. Roles Syno... | faithfully the mood and movement of Greek tragedy. Roles Synopsis The opera begins in the early morning following a battle in Thebes between the armies of the two sons of Oedipus: Eteocles and Polynices. King Kreon (Creon), who ascended the throne of Thebes after both brothers are killed in battle, decrees that Polynic... |
performed the ritual again, an act that seems to be completely unmotivated by anything other than a plot necessity so that she could be caught in the act of disobedience, leaving no doubt of her guilt. More than one commentator has suggested that it was the gods, not Antigone, who performed the first burial, citing bot... | save the impetuous Antigone. The Chorus, a group of elderly Theban men, is at first deferential to the king. Their purpose is to comment on the action in the play and add to the suspense and emotions, as well as connecting the story to myths. As the play progresses they counsel Creon to be more moderate. Their pleading... |
1985, broke an arm. During this time, Cage pursued a macrobiotic diet. Nevertheless, ever since arthritis started plaguing him, the composer was aware of his age, and, as biographer David Revill observed, "the fire which he began to incorporate in his visual work in 1985 is not only the fire he has set aside for so lon... | and, most importantly, Majorca, where he started composing. His first compositions were created using dense mathematical formulas, but Cage was displeased with the results and left the finished pieces behind when he left. Cage's association with theater also started in Europe: during a walk in Seville he witnessed, in ... |
These were a one-piece garment, with long legs and sleeves, buttoned from throat to crotch, in an olive drab denim fabric. Creating denim All denim is created through generally the same process: Cotton fiber is spun into yarn warp yarn is dyed, weft is left white (usually) The yarns are woven on a shuttle loom or proje... | capacity of about 15%. Dyeing Denim was originally dyed with indigo dye extracted from plants, often from the genus Indigofera. In South Asia, indigo dye was extracted from the dried and fermented leaves of Indigofera tinctoria; this is the plant that is now known as "true indigo" or "natural indigo". In Europe, use of... |
out of the mansion. However, both Ribaldi and Hans are astonished at her choice. Hans takes Bonnie to the competition at the state capital and prepares to sing a song written by Ribaldi. Georgie walks into the mansion and finds Ribaldi by himself. She asks for singing lessons, but Ribaldi says it is not a good day. He ... | young girl who had walked with a limp. A riot occurs over the missing child, who reappears unharmed (and with no limp.) Trouble still plagues the citizens who place the blame on Ribaldi and his apparently antisocial behavior. They manage to disqualify Bonnie from the competition unless she stops visiting him. She refus... |
After a time, Gilda enters, and Rigoletto orders the courtiers to leave him alone with her. The courtiers leave the room, believing Rigoletto has gone mad. Gilda describes to her father what has happened to her in the palace: "Tutte le feste al tempio" ("On all the holy days") and he attempts to console her. Monterone ... | at Busseto. He brought it with him when he arrived in Venice for the rehearsals on 19 February, and would continue refining the orchestration throughout the rehearsal period. For the première, La Fenice had cast Felice Varesi as Rigoletto, the young tenor Raffaele Mirate as the Duke, and Teresa Brambilla as Gilda (alth... |
though this has brought them into conflict with the local settler population of the region. In 1998, a Xukuru leader, Chicão (Francisco Lacerda), was assassinated, apparently because of his opposition to the encroachment | The Xukuru (Xucuru) are an indigenous people of Brazil, with a population of approximately 8,500, living in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. They have recently gained governmental recognition of their rights to their |
all-round game, and strong competitive instinct. Sampras's best surface was undoubtedly the fast-playing grass courts, Sampras won seven Wimbledon Gentleman's Singles titles (1993–95, 1997–2000), broken only by a loss in the 1996 quarterfinals to eventual winner Richard Krajicek. Sampras's seven Wimbledon Gentleman's S... | Slam final was at Wimbledon in 1999, where Sampras won in straight sets. For both, it was considered a career rejuvenation, as Sampras had suffered a string of disappointments in the last year while Agassi was regaining his status as a top-ranked player after winning the French Open. Sampras forfeited the No. 1 ranking... |
great-grandfather – was a butcher in Church Street. Everest was educated at the Royal Military College (Cadet Branch) in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, before joining the East India Company as a cadet in 1806. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery, and sailed for India the same year. Everest was ... | He was seconded to Java in 1814, where Lieutenant-Governor Stamford Raffles appointed him to survey the island. He returned to Bengal in 1816, where he improved British knowledge of the Ganges and the Hooghly. He later surveyed a semaphore line from Calcutta to Benares, covering approximately . Everest's work came to t... |
of The World Games from 1985 onward. The 2022 World Games in the United States will include women’s pétanque, the first time that only women's events will be held as part of the boules sports programme at The World Games. Playing the game Based on the rules of the Fédération Internationale de Pétanque & Jeu Provençal E... | park, where the boundaries of the terrain are not marked, or more formally on a "marked terrain" where the terrain boundaries are marked (traditionally, by strings tightly strung between nails driven into the ground). In pétanque, players throw while standing in a circle. Traditionally, the circle was simply scratched ... |
pallino), with the restriction that the ball may first strike the ground within 50 cm of the target. Balls There is a wide variation in the size and materials of the balls used in boules-type games. Originally, in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the balls were probably made of stone. Gallic tribes, which were introduc... | the balls were probably made of stone. Gallic tribes, which were introduced to boules by the Romans, used wooden boules. In the 1800s in France, boules were typically made of a very hard wood, boxwood root. In the mid-1800s techniques were developed for the mass production of iron nails. Following this technological im... |
get more information so that they would learn to get it in the first place. Another watchword: "If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out with two independent sources" or "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." The City News Bureau had special operations for covering elections in Chicago and Cook ... | as a training ground for new reporters, described variously as "journalism's school of hard knocks" or "the reporter's boot camp." Hundreds of reporters "graduated" from the City News Bureau into newspaper dailies—both local and national—or other avenues of writing. Operations The City News Bureau had reporters in all ... |
person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.91. The age distribution was 23.5% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 26.1% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 19.6% 65 or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.6 males. For every... | the population were below the poverty line, including 13.2% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those age 65 or over. Education Public schools: Salem Community High School Salem Elementary School Selmaville Elementary School Notable people William Jennings Bryan, 41st US Secretary of State; US congressman representing Ne... |
Forwarding equivalence class Fluorouracil-epirubicin-cyclophosphamide; see Chemotherapy regimen Transport Feira de Santana Airport, in Brazil Florida East Coast Railway, an American railroad Other uses Ecuadorian Cycling Federation (Spanish: ) Family entertainment center Family Equality Council, an American civil right... | center Family Equality Council, an American civil rights advocacy group FEC, a nickname of Michael Atherton (born 1968), English cricketer Far East Council Fec Publishing, a German publisher Federation of Egalitarian Communities in the United States Federation of Employees and Managers, French trade union Fellow of Eng... |
and when they decided to tell them. If only a few days have passed, the story could be related very differently than if the character was reflecting on events of the distant past. The character's motivation is also relevant. Are they just trying to clear up events for their own peace of mind? Make a confession about a ... | the author. Examples include The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Another example is a fictional "Autobiography of James T. Kirk" which was "Edited" by David A. Goodman who was the actual writer of that book and playing the part of James Kirk (Gene R... |
to report on the state of the camps and the condition of the prisoners. The book states that many of the U.S. camps consisted of open fields surrounded by barbed wire, with no shelter or toilet facilities. In these camps prisoners were forced to sleep on the ground in the open, though it claims the U.S. Army had plenty... | him that my memory has deteriorated badly during the 40 odd years since 1945. Mr Bacque read to me the USFET POW figures for discharge and transfers to other national zones. It seemed to me that, after accounting for transfers and discharges, there was nothing left to make up the grand total except deaths and escapes. ... |
science fiction authors List of Canadian historians List of Canadian women writers in French List of Quebec writers List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec List of famous Canadians Lists of authors Further reading External links Introduction - Canadian Writers - Library and Archives Canada | of Canadian short story writers List of Canadian science fiction authors List of Canadian historians List of Canadian women writers in French List of Quebec writers List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec List of famous Canadians Lists of authors Further reading External links |
been conjugated by the liver is water-soluble and excreted into the gallbladder. Posthepatic metabolism Bilirubin enters the intestinal tract via bile. In the intestinal tract, bilirubin is converted into urobilinogen by symbiotic intestinal bacteria. Most urobilinogen is converted into stercobilinogen and further oxid... | Other primary lab tests for liver function include gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) and prothrombin time (PT). No single test can differentiate between various classifications of jaundice. A combination of liver function tests and other physical examination findings is essential to arrive at a diagnosis. Laboratory ... |
Nixon, the biography was considered fair and just regarding Nixon's presidency. A visit to a reunion of Easy Company veterans in 1988 prompted Ambrose to collect their stories, turning them into Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (1992). D-Day (1994), bui... | World War II. Also, he served on the board of directors for American Rivers and was a member of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council. National World War II Museum Ambrose's work for the Eisenhower Center, specifically his work with D-Day veterans, inspired him to co-found the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans wi... |
the Alhucemas Islands. They are located off the Moroccan town of Al Hoceima, or Alhucemas (former Villa Sanjurjo), east of Ceuta and west of Melilla. The aggregate land area of the group of three islands is 4.6 ha or . Peñón de Alhucemas (, "Lavender Rock", ) is a tiny rock island, measuring east-west and up to north-s... | 29 August 2012, 19 sub-Saharan immigrants traversed the short expanse of water between Morocco and the Isla de Tierra. These individuals camped on the island, hoping to somehow gain access into the Spanish mainland. They were shortly joined by an additional 68 immigrants on 2 September 2012. Refugees and illegal immigr... |
in its own right. It was initially called the South African Native College and attached to the University of South Africa. It then became the University College of Fort Hare and associated with Rhodes University. With the introduction of apartheid, higher educational institutions in South Africa were strictly segregate... | Leading opponents of the apartheid regime who attended included Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki and Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress, Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Robert Sobukwe of the Pan Africanist Congress, and Desmond Tutu. Mandela, who studied Latin and physics there for almost two y... |
is the diminutive form of the name Ukko. believes that Ilmari, another Finnic sky god, is the origin of Ukko, but that as Ukko Ilmari experienced very significant, although far from total, influence from the Indo-European sky god especially in the form of Thor. Others believe that Ukko's original name was Baltic Perkūn... | Yeliseyev in modern English and interpreted in modern Finnish: God's arrow, ten [is] your name. This arrow is God's own. The Doom-God leads. The name Ukon vaaja was also used of Neolithic stone tools such as battle axes, which were employed as thunderstones to be buried at the corners of dwellings Thunderstorms were so... |
Astrid Salome Freeman (born 16 February 1973) is an Australian former sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres event. Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the ninth-fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-José Pérec's number-four time at the 1996 Olympics. She became the O... | her career; he provided a strict training regime for the young athlete. In 1988, she was awarded a scholarship to an exclusive girls' school, Fairholme College in Toowoomba. In a competition in 1989, Freeman ran 11.67 s in the 100 metres and Danila began to think about entering her in the Commonwealth Games Trials in S... |
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