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travelled to Spain, in 1937, as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War. The Adventures of Robin Hood Flynn followed this with his most famous movie, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), playing the title role, opposite de Havilland's Marian. This movie was a global success. It was the 6th-top movie grosser of... | and an on-screen partnership that would encompass eight films over six years. The budget for Captain Blood was $1.242 million, and it made $1.357 million in the U.S. and $1.733 million overseas, meaning a huge profit for Warner Bros. Flynn had been selected to support Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936), but public... |
activity are much more severe. Also, SOX increased the oversight role of boards of directors and the independence of the outside auditors who review the accuracy of corporate financial statements. The bill was enacted as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals, including those affecting Enron,... | would cost small companies an average of $78,000 the first year, or less than the $91,000 initially predicted by the SEC. Benefits to firms and investors Arping/Sautner (2010): This research paper analyzes whether SOX enhanced corporate transparency. Looking at foreign firms that are cross-listed in the US, the paper i... |
a 7,500-ton tanker to the bottom during a coordinated attack on a small convoy (consisting of submarine chasers CH-7 and CH-8 escorting oilers Shimotsu Maru and Nichinan Maru No. 2) carried out in cooperation with Redfin. Redfin received credit for sinking the other tanker in the convoy. Following a three-day stop at M... | 68 days away from Fremantle, Barbero returned having sunk four ships totalling 21,700 tons and claiming damage to a fifth of 5,000 tons. Post-war cargo and Regulus missile conversions In September 1945, she was ordered to Mare Island Naval Shipyard – where she underwent pre-inactivation overhaul – and was placed in com... |
to: A half of a sphere As half of the Earth A hemisphere of Earth Northern Hemisphere Southern Hemisphere Eastern Hemisphere Western Hemisphere Land and water hemispheres A half of the (geocentric) celestial sphere Northern celestial hemisphere Southern celestial hemisphere A cultural hemisphere As half of the brain A ... | hemisphere A cultural hemisphere As half of the brain A cerebral hemisphere, a division of the cerebrum A half of the cerebellum, a smaller part of the brain Other Hémisphère (Paradis), a 12-inch album by French artists Paradis Hemispheres (magazine), an inflight publication Hemispheres (TV series), Canadian and Austra... |
condition on an existing building. Installing insulation in walls, floors, and ceilings, around ducts and pipes, around water heaters, and near the foundation and sill. Installing storm doors and storm windows. Replacing old drafty doors with tightly sealing, foam-core doors. Retrofitting older windows with a stop or p... | of the pollution that causes urban air quality problems and pollutants that contribute to climate change. Building energy usage accounts for 49 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions, 25 percent of nitrous oxide emissions, and 10 percent of particulate emissions. Procedures Typical weatherization procedures include: Seali... |
measured in watts-per-meter per kelvin (W·m−1·K−1 or W/m/K). This is because heat transfer, measured as power, has been found to be (approximately) proportional to difference of temperature the surface area of thermal contact the inverse of the thickness of the material From this, it follows that the power of heat loss... | piping insulation such as (glass wool), cellulose, rock wool, polystyrene foam (styrofoam), urethane foam, vermiculite, perlite, and cork. Trapping air is also the principle in all highly insulating clothing materials such as wool, down feathers and fleece. The air-trapping property is also the insulation principle emp... |
measure of the amount of material such as mass or number of moles, which must be multiplied by similar units to give the heat capacity of the entire body of material. Thus the heat capacity can be equivalently calculated as the product of the mass m of the body and the specific heat capacity c for the material, or the ... | the product of the mass m of the body and the specific heat capacity c for the material, or the product of the number of moles of molecules present n and the molar specific heat capacity . For discussion of why the thermal energy storage abilities of pure substances vary, see factors that affect specific heat capacity.... |
of his father's bicycles to see a demonstration of an airplane made by pilot Art Smith, which cemented his love for machinery and invention. At 15, without any formal education, Honda left home and headed to Tokyo to look for work. He obtained an apprenticeship at a garage in 1922. After some hesitation over his employ... | bicycles to see a demonstration of an airplane made by pilot Art Smith, which cemented his love for machinery and invention. At 15, without any formal education, Honda left home and headed to Tokyo to look for work. He obtained an apprenticeship at a garage in 1922. After some hesitation over his employment, he stayed ... |
more than two protosteles. Each stele is made up of diarch (having two strands of xylem) and exarch (growing outward in) xylems. The steles are connected with the cortex by means of many tube-like structures called trabeculae, which are modified endodermal cells with casparian strips on their lateral walls. The stems c... | Lycopodiopsida (often misconstructed as "Lycopsida"). Some modern authors recognize three generic divisions of Selaginella: Selaginella, Bryodesma Sojak 1992, and Lycopodioides Boehm 1760. Lycopodioides would include the North American species S. apoda and S. eclipes, while Bryodesma would include S. rupestris (as Bryo... |
than ten cows (a sign of wealth) or with the physical features of a longer thin nose, high cheekbones, and being over six feet tall, all of which are common descriptions associated with the Tutsi. Tutsis are said to have arrived in the Great Lakes region from the Horn of Africa. Tutsis were considered to be of Cushitic... | Tutsis, some ethnographers and historians are of the view that Hutu and Tutsis cannot be called distinct ethnic groups. Many analysts as well as inhabitants of the Great Lakes Region, carrying on the tradition, distinguish the Tutsi – as "Cushitics" – from Bantu people like the Hutu and several ethnic groups in Eastern... |
Valley; specifically, the Upper Nile and its tributaries, where most Sudanese Nilo-Saharan-speaking people live. Ethnic and linguistic divisions Languages Linguistically, Nilotic people are divided into three subgroups: Eastern Nilotic – Spoken by Nilotic populations in southwestern Ethiopia, eastern South Sudan, north... | Sudan. From the Arabs, the South Sudanese may have obtained new breeds of humpless cattle. Archaeologist Roland Oliver notes that the period also shows an Iron Age beginning among the Nilotic. These factors may explain how the Nilotic speakers expanded to dominate the region. Shilluk By the 16th century, the most power... |
a thin, semi-rigid membrane that vibrates to produce or transmit sound waves Diaphragm (contraceptive), a small rubber dome placed in the vagina to wall off the cervix, thus preventing sperm from entering Diaphragm (mechanical device), a sheet of a semi-flexible material anchored at its periphery Diaphragm (structural ... | an aperture that regulates the amount of light that passes Diaphragm (acoustics), a thin, semi-rigid membrane that vibrates to produce or transmit sound waves Diaphragm (contraceptive), a small rubber dome placed in the vagina to wall off the cervix, thus preventing sperm from entering Diaphragm (mechanical device), a |
still required the chestplate for some time to support the replacement organ. 1970s and early 1980s Stark expands on his armor designs and begins to build his arsenal of specialized armors for particular situations such as for space travel and stealth. Stark also develops a serious dependency on alcohol in the "Demon i... | and The Incredible Hulk respectively focused on American domestic and government responses to the Communist threat, Iron Man explored industry's role in the struggle. Tony Stark's real-life model, Howard Hughes, was a significant defense contractor who developed new weapons technologies. Hughes was an icon both of Amer... |
aperture known as the thoracic inlet and a lower inferior thoracic aperture known as the thoracic outlet. The thoracic cavity includes the tendons as well as the cardiovascular system which could be damaged from injury to the back, spine or the neck. Structure Structures within the thoracic cavity include: structures o... | structures of the cardiovascular system, including the heart and great vessels, which include the thoracic aorta, the pulmonary artery and all its branches, the superior and inferior vena cava, the pulmonary veins, and the azygos vein structures of the respiratory system, including the diaphragm, trachea, bronchi and l... |
to the abdominal organs. The peritoneum divides the cavity into numerous compartments. One of these the lesser sac is located behind the stomach and joins into the greater sac via the foramen of Winslow. Some of the organs are attached to the walls of the abdomen via folds of peritoneum and ligaments, such as the liver... | or sometimes by their shape as the round ligament or triangular ligament. Mesentery Mesenteries are folds of peritoneum that are attached to the walls of the abdomen and enclose viscera completely. They are supplied with plentiful amounts of blood. The three most important mesenteries are mesentery for the small intest... |
of organisms immediately around the vent is dominated by filamentous thermophilic bacteria, such as Aquifex and other Aquificales, that oxidize sulfide and hydrogen to obtain energy for their life processes. Further from the vent, where water temperatures have dropped below , the surface is covered with microbial mats ... | crust. Hot spring water often contains large amounts of dissolved minerals. The chemistry of hot springs ranges from acid sulfate springs with a pH as low as 0.8, to alkaline chloride springs saturated with silica, to bicarbonate springs saturated with carbon dioxide and carbonate minerals. Some springs also contain ab... |
and profiterole. Its name originates from the French choux, meaning cabbage, owing to its rough cabbage-like shape after cooking. Choux begins as a mixture of milk or water and butter which are heated together until the butter melts, to which flour is added to form a dough. Eggs are then beaten into the dough to furthe... | cooked due to the number of layers. It bakes into a crisp, buttery pastry. The "puff" is obtained by the shard-like layers of fat, most often butter or shortening, creating layers which expand in the heat of the oven when baked. Puff pastry Puff pastry has many layers that cause it to expand or "puff" when baked. Puff ... |
water is sometimes added to lemonade. It is often added to water to mask unpleasant odours and flavours. In South Asian cuisine, rose water is a common ingredient in sweets such as laddu, gulab jamun, and peda. It is also used to flavour milk, lassi, rice pudding, and other dairy dishes. In Malaysia and Singapore, swee... | cookies, and other sweets. Rosewater is also used in some savoury dishes, such as Khoresh Gheymé, Shirin Polow (cherry rice), Tahchin or during steaming of Persian rice. In Middle Eastern cuisines, rosewater is used in various dishes, especially in sweets such as Turkish delight, nougat, and baklava. Marzipan has long ... |
have been applied with some success. More complex graph-based approaches have been shown to perform almost as well as supervised methods or even outperforming them on specific domains. Recently, it has been reported that simple graph connectivity measures, such as degree, perform state-of-the-art WSD in the presence of... | supervised learning. Graph-based approaches have also gained much attention from the research community, and currently achieve performance close to the state of the art. Dictionary- and knowledge-based methods The Lesk algorithm is the seminal dictionary-based method. It is based on the hypothesis that words used toget... |
CEO, remaining as chairman until November 2003, with Sirius issuing a statement thanking him "for his great vision, leadership and dedication in creating both Sirius and the satellite radio industry." XM’s first satellite was launched on March 18, 2001 and its second on May 8, 2001. Its first broadcast occurred on Sept... | for licenses. Sky Highway Radio Corporation had also expressed interest in creating a satellite radio network, before being bought out by CD Radio in 1993 for $2 million. In November 1999, Margolese changed the name of CD Radio to Sirius Satellite Radio. In November 2001, Margolese stepped down as CEO, remaining as cha... |
of the Great Depression and World War II, many railroads were driven out of business by competition from the Interstate highways and airlines. The rise of the automobile led to the end of passenger train service on most railroads. Trucking businesses had become major competitors by the 1930s with the advent of improved... | many railroads were driven out of business by competition from the Interstate highways and airlines. The rise of the automobile led to the end of passenger train service on most railroads. Trucking businesses had become major competitors by the 1930s with the advent of improved paved roads. After the war, they expanded... |
States. It was followed by the Airline Deregulation Act (1978), Staggers Rail Act (1980), and the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. Background Following the massive bankruptcy of the Penn Central in 1970, Congress created Amtrak to take over the failed company's intercity passenger train service, under the Rail Passenger Serv... | The law approved the "Final System Plan" for the newly created Conrail and authorized acquisition of Northeast Corridor tracks and facilities by Amtrak. The Act was the first in a series of laws which collectively are described as the deregulation of transportation in the United States. It was followed by the Airline D... |
children, a fact which he discloses to his first officer, Commander William Riker, in the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint". In early episodes of the series, Picard does not allow Wesley on the bridge of the ship. However, during the first season, Picard comes to realize that he understands many things beyond his a... | seasons. He is the son of Beverly Crusher and Jack Crusher and is portrayed by actor Wil Wheaton. Overview Television series and films In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher first arrives on the Enterprise-D with his mother, soon after Captain Jean-Luc Picard assumes command. Crusher's ... |
Crosby asked to be released from her contract as she was unhappy that her character was not being developed. She later said "I was miserable. I couldn't wait to get off that show. I was dying". Roddenberry agreed to her request and she left on good terms. The final episode she filmed was "Symbiosis", which was complete... | rift, confides in Yar that she believes that Yar died senselessly in that timeline. Based on that advice, Yar transfers to the Enterprise-C and returns with it to two decades into the past, and its expected destruction at the hands of the Romulans while defending the Klingon outpost Narendra III. The alternative univer... |
and Cardassians taken directly from the episode. The character was included in the original series description, stationed on the Bajor-based Starfleet station and the producers had planned for her to be promoted to Lieutenant in an episode of The Next Generation prior to the start of Deep Space Nine. Taylor had expecte... | need to separate the saucer section to save those on-board it as they have no way knowing if anyone is still alive on the engineering part of the vessel. When the crew undergo group amnesia in "Conundrum", Ro and Riker act on a mutual attraction until their memories are restored. In "The Next Phase", Ro and La Forge ap... |
cells. Fertilization takes place when the motile sperm from a microgametophyte locates the archegonia of a megagametophyte and swims inside to fertilize the egg. Outside of heterospory, a distinguishing feature of Isoetes (and Selaginella) from other pteridophytes, is that their gametophytes grow inside the spores. Thi... | also evidence that the whole genome had been duplicated in the ancient past. Taxonomy Compared to other genera, Isoetes is poorly known. The first critical monograph on their taxonomy was published in 1922 and remained a standard reference for decades. Even after studies with cytology, scanning electron microscopy, and... |
E. bogotense appears to be sister to the remaining species in the genus. Subgenus Equisetum – field horsetail, common horsetail or mare's tail; circumboreal down through temperate zones – Himalayan horsetail; Himalayan India and China and adjacent nations above about 1500 feet (450 m) – water horsetail; circumboreal do... | longitudinally. Equisetum cell walls The crude cell extracts of all Equisetum species tested contain mixed-linkage glucan : Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase (MXE) activity. This is a novel enzyme and is not known to occur in any other plants. In addition, the cell walls of all Equisetum species tested contain mixed-link... |
recipe was also for a different biscuit from what we know as the modern Anzac biscuit. The same publication, the War Chest Cookery Book (Sydney, 1917), also included the first two recipes for biscuits resembling modern Anzac biscuits, under the names of "Rolled Oats Biscuits" and just "Biscuits". The first recorded ins... | Book (Sydney, 1917), but this recipe was also for a different biscuit from what we know as the modern Anzac biscuit. The same publication, the War Chest Cookery Book (Sydney, 1917), also included the first two recipes for biscuits resembling modern Anzac biscuits, under the names of "Rolled Oats Biscuits" and just "Bis... |
"pavlova cake" was published in The Advocate in 1935, and a 1937 issue of The Australian Women's Weekly contains a "pavlova sweet cake" recipe. A 1935 advertisement for a chromium ring used to prevent the dessert collapsing also indicates that the term "pavlova cake" had some currency in Auckland at that time. Other re... | after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. It has a crisp crust and soft, light inside, usually topped with fruit and whipped cream. The name is pronounced , or like the name of the dancer, which was . The dessert is believed to have been created in honour of the dancer either during or after one of her tours to Austral... |
as National Lamington Day in Australia. Lamingtons are often sold at fundraisers for schools or charity groups, known as "lamington drives". Some Australians shorten the name to "Lammo" (singular) or "Lammos" (plural). Variants In Hungary, a similar item is known as kókuszkocka, or coconut squares. A similar but smalle... | or his wife, Lady Lamington. Most sources incline to the former. The earliest known reference to the naming of the lamington, from June 1927, links the cake to Lord Lamington. The identity of the recipe's inventor has also been debated. Most stories attribute its creation to Lord Lamington's chef, the French-born Arman... |
norms that enforce the gender binary and gender essentialism, resulting in the oppression of gender variant, non-binary, and transgender identities. Cisgenderism refers to the assumption that, due to human sexual differentiation, one's gender is determined solely by a biological sex of male or female (based on the assu... | their life when compared to cisgender (non-transgender) individuals. Even more so when it comes to sexual violence. Aggression and violence against transgender people is perpetrated intentionally through physical violence or bodily harm, sexual violence or assault, and verbal or emotional abuse. Aggression and violence... |
calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cossus and Medullinus (or, less frequently, year 345 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 409 BC for 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. Event... | Ionian countryside, but is defeated outside Ephesus by a combined Ephesian, Persian, and Syracusan force. Pausanias succeeds his father Pleistoanax as Agiad king of Sparta. The city of Rhodes is founded. Sicily Taking advantage of the quarrels between the Greek cities in Sicily and of the mutual exhaustion of Athens an... |
equal to the initial potential energy. Earlier workers, including Newton and Voltaire, had all believed that "energy" (so far as they understood the concept at all) was not distinct from momentum and therefore proportional to velocity. According to this understanding, the deformation of the clay should have been propor... | be described (in modern language) as conservatively converting potential energy to kinetic energy and back again. Essentially, he pointed out that the height a moving body rises is equal to the height from which it falls, and used this observation to infer the idea of inertia. The remarkable aspect of this observation ... |
List of individual dogs Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters Spot, a character in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated film The Good Dinosaur Spot (chicken), in 101 Dalmatians: The Series Spot (comics), a Spider-Man villain Spot (franchise), the titula... | bill of currency, e.g., a "Ten spot" is $10 Spot, old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars Spot date, a financial term Spot market, a financial market in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery Spot price, a financial term for price of trade done today Technology... |
more inclusive or less inclusive depending upon the classification system being discussed. Cronquist and Takhtajan systems In the Takhtajan system and the Cronquist system the name assd for the group known as dicotyledons. Magnoliopsida in the Takhtajan system The Takhtajan system used this internal taxonomy: class Mag... | APG and APG II systems botanical names are used only at the rank of order and below. Above the rank of order, these systems use their own names, such as angiosperms, eudicots, monocots, rosids, etc. These names refer to clades (unranked). This class Magnoliopsida is not defined. The idea that dicotyledons could be a ta... |
and fitness. Pfaff invited Bailey to train with him and Gilbert at LSU, and with just 3 months of training together, Bailey shaved 3 tenths of a second off of his 100m personal best; his time of 10.03 seconds was the third fastest in Canadian history. 1995: Breakthrough On April 22, 1995, Bailey made history by breakin... | 9.84 seconds to win the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games. He was the first Canadian to legally break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m. Particularly noted for his top speed, Bailey ran in his 1996 Olympic title run, the fastest ever recorded by a human at the time. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame... |
Germany. A routine unannounced drug test found the banned substance nandrolone. After a six-month delay, a disciplinary hearing was convened by the British Athletic Federation which found Christie to be not guilty. But the IAAF overruled and confirmed a two-year suspension. He was found to have more than 100 times norm... | take drugs ... Only by testing all athletes will the sport be kept clean of drugs." Fallout following positive drugs test Following his positive drugs test and ban from athletics, Christie was banned for life from the British Olympic Association, who announced that Christie would not be accredited for any future Olympi... |
of being "neither right nor left – French!" Increasingly, the party's program became an amalgam of free market and welfarist policies, which some political commentators have claimed are left-wing economic policies, even putting her to the left of President François Hollande. Under her leadership, Marine Le Pen has been... | Movement (MNR), effectively splitting the FN in half at most levels. Many of those who joined the new MNR had joined the FN in the mid-1980s, in part from the Nouvelle Droite, with a vision of building bridges to the parliamentary right. Many had also been particularly influential in intellectualising the FN's policies... |
and Thorne systems (more recent than the Takhtajan and Cronquist systems) refer to this group by the name Liliidae (a name in the rank of subclass). Modern systems, such as the APG and APG II systems refer to this group by the name monocots (a name for a clade). Therefore, in practice the name Liliopsida will almost su... | in the Cronquist system. In summary the monocotyledons were named: Monocotyledoneae in the de Candolle system and the Engler system. Monocotyledones in the Bentham & Hooker system and the Wettstein system class Liliatae and later Liliopsida in the Takhtajan class Liliopsida in the Cronquist system (also in the Reveal s... |
without pain, and he went on to win the 1980 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) title with a wind-assisted jump of . Though his focus was on the long jump, he was now starting to emerge as a talent in the sprints. Comparisons were beginning to be made with Jesse Owens, who dominated sprint and long jump ev... | the 100 m and long jump, and ranked number six in the 200 m. Additionally, he was named Athlete of the Year by Track and Field News. From 1981 until 1992, Lewis topped the 100 m ranking six times (seven if Ben Johnson's 1987 top ranking is ignored), and ranked no lower than third. His dominance in the long jump was eve... |
account." According to Jay Fikes's research in Mexico, Castaneda spent some time with Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol mara'akame (shaman) and artist who may have inspired the don Juan character. Silva was murdered during a brawl in 1971. Tensegrity In the 1990s, Castaneda once again began appearing in public to promote T... | character. Silva was murdered during a brawl in 1971. Tensegrity In the 1990s, Castaneda once again began appearing in public to promote Tensegrity, described in promotional materials as "the modernized version of some movements called magical passes developed by Indian shamans who lived in Mexico in times prior to the... |
In September 2010, Eid al-Fitr as well May 21, the day the Volga Bulgars embraced Islam, were made public holidays. The Russian Orthodox Church is the second largest active religion in Tatarstan, and has been so for more than 150 years, with an estimated 1.6 million followers made up of ethnic Russians, Mordvins, Armen... | that "some men signal ideological devotion to the Tatar cause by refusing to accommodate to Russian-dominant public space or Russian speakers", whilst women, in promoting "the Tatar state and Tatar national culture, index their pro-Tatar ideological stances more diplomatically, and with linguistic practices situated on... |
292 BC. Ancient accounts, which differ to some degree, describe the structure as being built with iron tie bars to which brass plates were fixed to form the skin. The interior of the structure, which stood on a white marble pedestal near the Rhodes harbor entrance, was then filled with stone blocks as construction prog... | While scholars do not know what the statue looked like, they do have a good idea of what the head and face looked like, as it was of a standard rendering at the time. The head would have had curly hair with evenly spaced spikes of bronze or silver flame radiating, similar to the images found on contemporary Rhodian coi... |
to induce "trance" and to deliver indirect therapeutic suggestion. Psychologist Jean Mercer writes that Chomsky's theories "appear to be irrelevant" to NLP. Linguist Karen Stollznow describes Bandler's and Grinder's reference to such experts as namedropping. Other than Satir, the people they cite as influences did not ... | non-verbal behavior (e.g., matching and mirroring non-verbal behavior, or responding to eye movements) of the client. Once rapport is established, the practitioner may gather information (e.g., using the Meta-Model questions) about the client's present state as well as help the client define a desired state or goal for... |
and international support. The old medieval quarter of the town attracted six million euros of funding and now brands itself as a book town. Bibliography Novels and short stories O m'a dit ("O Told Me"), conversations with the author of Story of O (1975) Blanche et Lucie ("Blanche and Lucie"), short story about her two... | local and international support. The old medieval quarter of the town attracted six million euros of funding and now brands itself as a book town. Bibliography Novels and short stories O m'a dit ("O Told Me"), conversations with the author of Story of O (1975) Blanche et Lucie ("Blanche and Lucie"), short story about h... |
are opera (singular) and opere (pl.). Opus or OPUS may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Opus number, (abbr. Op.) specifying order of (usually) publication, and hence applied to collections as well as individual compositions OPUS Records, a Slovak record label Opus 111, a French classical record label bought by Na... | Opus, a 2007 compilation album by Mr. Sam Opus 1 (album), 1975 album by the Yugoslav band Opus Opus (Marc Anthony album), 2019 album by Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony Publications Opus (comic strip), by Berkeley Breathed Opus the Penguin, the title character of the strip, originally from Bloom County Opus (manga), a ... |
found that the nature and development of interpersonal relationships (both professional and personal) are far from random. Instead, they are based on how well suited each individual's psychological profiles are to one another, allowing Augustinaviciute to develop 16 'socionic types' predicting and describing the interp... | se, but much more a theory of type relations providing an analysis of the relationships that arise as a consequence of the interaction of people with different personalities." Philosopher L. Monastyrsky treats socionics as pre-science. At the same time, L. Monastyrsky himself proposes to pay attention to "the concept o... |
of Kahekili II, saying, "I have something to tell you: Ka-hekili was your father, you were not Keoua's son. Here are the tokens that you are the son of Ka-hekili." King Kalakaua wrote that these rumors are scandals and should be dismissed as the offspring of hatred and jealousies of later years. Regardless of the rumor... | tried to escape, but were treated as chiefs, given wives and settled in Hawaii. Invasion of Maui In 1790 Kamehameha's army invaded Maui with the assistance of John Young and Isaac Davis. Using cannons from the Fair American, they defeated Maui's army at the bloody Battle of Kepaniwai while the alii Kahekili II was on O... |
deep bowl together with garlic and different combinations of fresh vegetables and herbs. The amount of water used depends on how thick the cook wants the cacık to be—sometimes the dish is served as a cold soup, but it can also be made thicker according to taste. Labneh may be substituted for some of the yogurt. Garlic ... | sauce based on tahini, while in Turkey and the Balkans it came to mean a combination of yogurt and cucumbers, sometimes with walnuts. It has become a traditional part of meze. Etymology The word tzatziki appeared in English around the mid-20th century as a loanword from Modern Greek (), which in turn comes from the Tur... |
genome. Vertebrate red blood cells consist mainly of hemoglobin, a complex metalloprotein containing heme groups whose iron atoms temporarily bind to oxygen molecules (O2) in the lungs or gills and release them throughout the body. Oxygen can easily diffuse through the red blood cell's cell membrane. Hemoglobin in the ... | equal proportions by weight. The lipid composition is important as it defines many physical properties such as membrane permeability and fluidity. Additionally, the activity of many membrane proteins is regulated by interactions with lipids in the bilayer. Unlike cholesterol, which is evenly distributed between the inn... |
production of white blood cells. Platelets Platelets, or thrombocytes, are very small, irregularly shaped clear cell fragments, 2–3 µm in diameter, which derive from fragmentation of megakaryocytes. The average lifespan of a platelet is normally just 5 to 9 days. Platelets are a natural source of growth factors. They c... | a lifespan of approximately 100-120 days. After they have completed their lifespan, they are removed from the bloodstream by the spleen. Mature red blood cells are unique among cells in the human body in that they lack a nucleus (although erythroblasts do have a nucleus). The condition of having too few red blood cells... |
cameo roles as the valet in The Third Twin and later as a merchant in The Pillars of the Earth. In 2016, A Dangerous Fortune was also adapted.1 Public life Follett is a member of various organisations that promote literacy and writing, and is actively involved in various organisations in his home town of Stevenage. Cha... | (1995) were more historical than thriller, but he returned to the thriller genre with The Third Twin (1996) which in the Publishing Trends annual survey of international fiction best-sellers for 1997 was ranked no. 2 worldwide, after John Grisham's The Partner. His next work, The Hammer of Eden (1998), was another cont... |
by the sophist Philostratus at the request of empress Julia Domna. She died in 217 AD., and he completed it after her death, probably in the 220s or 230s AD. Philostratus's account shaped the image of Apollonius for posterity. To some extent it is a valuable source because it contains data from older writings that were... | accused of conspiring against the emperor, performing human sacrifice, and predicting a plague by means of magic. Philostratus implies that upon his death, Apollonius of Tyana underwent heavenly assumption. How much of this can be accepted as historical truth depends largely on the extent to which modern scholars trust... |
evolved about 150 million to 200 million years ago. The protein syncytin, found in the outer barrier of the placenta (the syncytiotrophoblast) between mother and fetus, has a certain RNA signature in its genome that has led to the hypothesis that it originated from an ancient retrovirus: essentially a "good" virus that... | fetus, has a certain RNA signature in its genome that has led to the hypothesis that it originated from an ancient retrovirus: essentially a "good" virus that helped pave the transition from egg-laying to live-birth. The word placenta comes from the Latin word for a type of cake, from Greek πλακόεντα/πλακοῦντα plakóent... |
cleaved at the peptide bond between amino acid residues 105 and 106, phenylalanine and methionine. The resultant product is calcium phosphocaseinate. When the specific linkage between the hydrophobic (para-casein) and hydrophilic (acidic glycopeptide) groups of casein is broken, the hydrophobic groups unite and form a ... | The chymosin is found in a wide range of tetrapods, although it is best known to be produced by ruminant animals in the lining of the abomasum. Chymosin is produced by gastric chief cells in newborn mammals to curdle the milk they ingest, allowing a longer residence in the bowels and better absorption. Non-ruminant spe... |
22-31 help to stabilize a four-helix bundle which forms the major part of that interface, and residue 13 and 15 also contributing to the activating interface. These structural features provide a rationale for the phenomenon of α-complementation, where the deletion of the amino-terminal segment results in the formation ... | also be cleaved to form monosaccharides. It can also hydrolyze lactose into galactose and glucose which will proceed into glycolysis. The active site of β-galactosidase catalyzes the hydrolysis of its disaccharide substrate via "shallow" (nonproductive site) and "deep" (productive site) binding. Galactosides such as PE... |
divergence times among these three placental groups range from 105 to 120 million years ago (MYA), depending on the type of DNA (e.g. nuclear or mitochondrial) and varying interpretations of paleogeographic data. Cladogram based on Amrine-Madsen, H. et al. (2003) and Asher, R. J. et al. (2009) Genomics , the genome has... | on Amrine-Madsen, H. et al. (2003) and Asher, R. J. et al. (2009) Genomics , the genome has been sequenced for at least one species in each extant placental order and in 83% of families (105 of 127 extant placental families). See list of sequenced animal genomes. Evolutionary history True placental mammals (the crown g... |
even though Ground Zero "is still a hole in the ground". During an interview for the episode, Larry Silverstein said: "I am the most frustrated person in the world...I'm seventy-eight years of age; I want to see this thing done in my lifetime". However, it was noted that in early 2011, all five office towers of the Wor... | 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, both which were en route from Boston to Los Angeles, and intentionally crashed them into the two main towers of the World Trade Center. The towers collapsed within less than two hours of the collisions. 2,606 people, including 2,192 civilians, 343 firefighters, and 71 law enforcement ... |
Phillip Walter Katz (November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000) was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the Zip file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS. A copyright lawsuit between System Enhancement Associates (SEA) and Katz's company, PK... | Microsoft Windows in the early 1990s. This led to PKWARE missing out on the opportunity to be the first to bring PKZIP to the platform, with WinZip becoming the standard tool on the platform instead. Lawsuits In the late 1980s, a dispute arose between System Enhancement Associates (SEA), maker of the ARC program, and P... |
and culture The testicles of calves, lambs, roosters, turkeys, and other animals are eaten in many parts of the world, often under euphemistic culinary names. Testicles are a by-product of the castration of young animals raised for meat, so they were probably a late-spring seasonal specialty, though nowadays they are g... | of a seminiferous tubule due to the presence of tight junctions between adjacent Sertoli cells. The spermatogonia are in the basal compartment (deep to the level of the tight junctions) and the more mature forms such as primary and secondary spermatocytes and spermatids are in the adluminal compartment. The function of... |
of housing segregation and racial discrimination has had a long history in the United States. Until the American civil rights movement in the 1960s, segregated neighborhoods were enforceable by law. The Fair Housing Act ended discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, color, religion, an... | 1968". Some critics of school desegregation have argued that court-enforced desegregation efforts were either unnecessary or self-defeating. Numerous middle class and wealthy White people continued moving from cities to suburbs during the 1970s and later, in part to escape certain integrated school systems, but also as... |
austroasiaticum – possibly a synonym of O. reticulatum Ophioglossum azoricum Ophioglossum californicum Ophioglossum caroticaule Ophioglossum convexum Ophioglossum coriaceum Ophioglossum costatum Ophioglossum crotalophoroides Ophioglossum eliminatum – status uncertain Ophioglossum engelmannii Ophioglossum fernandezianum... | known organisms, falling short to the protist Sterkiella histriomuscorum. Description Adders-tongues are so-called because the spore-bearing stalk is thought to resemble a snake's tongue. Each plant typically sends up a small, undivided leaf blade with netted venation, and the spore stalk forks from the leaf stalk, ter... |
atom, and was able to reproduce Stoner's shell structure, but with the correct structure of subshells, by his inclusion of a fourth quantum number and his exclusion principle (1925): {{Blockquote| It should be forbidden for more than one electron with the same value of the main quantum number n to have the same value f... | only paradoxical if it is assumed that the energy order of atomic orbitals is fixed and unaffected by the nuclear charge or by the presence of electrons in other orbitals. If that were the case, the 3d-orbital would have the same energy as the 3p-orbital, as it does in hydrogen, yet it clearly does not. There is no spe... |
the Curly died during a hunt, leaving the young Henry as the sole heir of Lower Silesia. Around 1218 his father arranged his marriage to Anne, daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia. This union with the royal Přemyslid dynasty allowed Henry the Pious to participate actively in international politics. Henry the Bearded q... | launched a month later, by an army of 10,000 men under the leadership of Orda. In Lesser Poland the Mongols met weaker resistance, defeating and killing almost all the Kraków and Sandomierz nobility in the Battle of Tursko (13 February), and the Battles of Tarczek and Chmielnik (18 March), including the voivode of Krak... |
his entire life. At the age of three he became blind because of smallpox. Murenu's father was imprisoned when Melchiorre was ten years old, and is thought to have died during his imprisonment. This unfortunate circumstance drove Murenu's family in poverty (Murenu spoke of the difficult times of his childhood in the poe... | family in poverty (Murenu spoke of the difficult times of his childhood in the poem Supplica a Monsignore Bua). In these difficult circumstances Murenu could not afford to be formally educated, and he enjoyed spending time at the local church. There he acquainted himself to the biblical texts and, thanks to a prodigiou... |
and inconsistent with the Earth. The names derive from the location of where the first meteorite of their type was discovered. Shergottites Roughly three-quarters of all Martian meteorites can be classified as shergottites. They are named after the Shergotty meteorite, which fell at Sherghati, India in 1865. Shergottit... | crater count chronology of different regions on Mars, suggest the nakhlites formed on the large volcanic construct of either Tharsis, Elysium, or Syrtis Major Planum. It has been shown that the nakhlites were suffused with liquid water around 620 million years ago and that they were ejected from Mars around 10.75 milli... |
devices During restoration via tissue expansion, the remaining penile skin is pulled forward over the glans, and tension is maintained either manually or through the aid of a foreskin restoration device. Manual methods are often used by men first starting restoration, but can be used at any stage of the restoration pro... | used method. Tissue expansion has long been known to stimulate mitosis, and research shows that regenerated human tissues have the attributes of the original tissue. Unlike conventional skin expansion techniques, however, the process of nonsurgical foreskin restoration may take several years to complete. Methods and de... |
and his later experience of motor neurone disease. The book also includes an interview with Professor Hawking. References 1993 non-fiction books Books by Stephen Hawking he:סטיבן | mainly about the makeup of black holes, and why they might be nodes from which other universes grow. Hawking discusses black hole thermodynamics, special relativity, general relativity, and quantum |
cones, a spacetime graphical representation that restricts what events are allowed and what are not based on the past and the future light cones. A 4-dimensional spacetime is also described, in which 'space' and 'time' are intrinsically linked. The motion of an object through space inevitably impacts the way in which i... | nothing which enters a black hole can come out. However, in 1974, Hawking published a new theory which argued that black holes can "leak" radiation. He imagined what might happen if a pair of virtual particles appeared near the edge of a black hole. Virtual particles briefly 'borrow' energy from spacetime itself, then ... |
general relativity rather than newcomers. Background In the mid-1970s, advances in the technologies of astronomical observations – radio, infrared, and X-ray astronomy – opened up the Universe of exploration. New tools became necessary. In this book, Hawking and Ellis attempt to establish the axiomatic foundation for t... | General Relativity 4. The Physical Significance of Curvature 5. Exact Solutions 6. Causal Structure 7. The Cauchy Problem in General Relativity 8. Space–time Singularities 9. Gravitational Collapse and Black Holes 10. The Initial Singularity of the Universe Appendix A: Translation of An Essay by P. S. Laplace Appendix ... |
in the Rhodian tradition by whom he had seven sons, the Heliadae (Ochimus, Cercaphus, Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, Candalus, and the girl Electryone), or even Clymene the mother of Phaethon and the Heliades, though their relationship is usually a liaison in other sources. The god Helios is the head of a large family... | masculine noun, so the god embodying it is also by necessity male. The Greek ( , , , ) (from earlier /hāwelios/) is the inherited word for the Sun from Proto-Indo-European * which is cognate with Latin sol, Sanskrit surya, Old English swegl, Old Norse sól, Welsh haul, Avestan hvar, etc. The Doric and Aeolic form of the... |
time of one second. The SI unit symbols are m/s, m·s−1, m s−1, or , sometimes (unofficially) abbreviated as . Conversions is equivalent to: = 3.6 km/h (exactly) ≈ 3.2808 feet per second (approximately) ≈ 2.2369 miles per hour (approximately) ≈ 1.9438 knots (approximately) 1 foot per second = (exactly) 1 mile per hour =... | 3.6 km/h (exactly) ≈ 3.2808 feet per second (approximately) ≈ 2.2369 miles per hour (approximately) ≈ 1.9438 knots (approximately) 1 foot per second = (exactly) 1 mile per hour = (exactly) 1 km/h = (exactly) Relation to other measures The benz, named in honour of Karl Benz, has been proposed as a name for one metre per... |
performance around in 1994, Hasbro merged the Hasbro Toy, Playskool, Playskool Baby, Kenner, and Kid Dimension units into the Hasbro Toy Group. Meanwhile, Mattel purchased Fisher-Price and retook the top spot in the toy industry. Hasbro Interactive was started in 1995 and released the Monopoly game on CD-ROM. Mattel al... | Family Assistance Plan which subsidized day care for working mothers. By 1975, the company had ended the nursery chain. Hasbro also entered the cookware field with the Galloping Gourmet line based on a television cooking show. Two new 1970s toys were public relations disasters. One of the toys was named Javelin Darts w... |
The 1967 riots resulted in a significant population loss of the city's middle class, many of them Jewish, which continued from the 1970s through to the 1990s. The city lost about 130,000 residents between 1960 and 1990. At the 2018 estimates there were 114,061 housing units and 101,689 households. Approximately 61,667 ... | falling on 8 to 12 days per month. Extreme temperatures have ranged from on February 9, 1934 to on July 22, 2011. The January freezing isotherm that separates Newark into Dfa and Cfa zones approximates the NJ Turnpike. Demographics Newark had a U.S. Census Bureau-tabulated population of 311,549 in 2020, making it the 6... |
of eastern Queens. S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program The university's building in Jerusalem, in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood, contains a branch of the rabbinical seminary and an office coordinating the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program, a formal arrangement between Yeshiva University and 42 men's yeshivot and women's mid... | the university are of the Jewish faith, many students, especially at the Cardozo School of Law, the School of Business, and the Graduate School of Psychology, are not Jewish. Yeshiva University is an independent institution chartered by New York State. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Educatio... |
of the founder, developed a process to create the desired lens shape directly by casting molten glass. Previously, the glass parts for the lenses had to be separated, ground and polished in a complicated process, and this brought significant savings in time and materials. The company produced the first optical-quality ... | both German immigrants, established a small but ambitious workshop producing monocles in Rochester, New York. By 1861, their operation had expanded to manufacturing vulcanite rubber eyeglass frames and other precision vision products. Early growth of the company During the American Civil War, the Union blockade caused ... |
och samma gång)" ("Here comes all the emotions (at the same time)"), is Gessle's most successful song in his home country, spending two months at No. 1 and was certified platinum. Following the success of the album, Gessle won numerous awards; four Grammis awards: Best Artist, Best Male Pop Performer, Best Composer and... | Gessle, released in 1997, produced three singles, "Do You Wanna Be My Baby?", "Kix" and "I Want You to Know". The videos to all three songs were directed by Jonas Åkerlund. The album was re-released in 2008, with extra bonus material and demos. In 1997 Hjärtats trakt – en samling was released as a best-of album. After ... |
non-native habitats by humans often results in biological pollution by the exotic or invasive species. The mathematical representation of a species' fundamental niche in ecological space, and its subsequent projection back into geographic space, is the domain of niche modelling. Contemporary niche theory Contemporary n... | it lives in—it breeds and feeds in the underbrush and escapes from its predators by shuffling from underbrush to underbrush. Its 'niche' is defined by the felicitous complementing of the thrasher's behavior and physical traits (camouflaging color, short wings, strong legs) with this habitat. Grinnellian niches can be d... |
a German handball club in Hamburg Hannover 96, or Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, a German football club Other uses HSV (TV station) broadcasting in Melbourne, Australia High-speed vessel Hennessey Special Vehicles, a recently established American automobile division | skin and herpes wounds on the skin; transmitted by kissing Places Huntsville, Alabama, United States Huntsville International Airport Sport Hamburger SV, a German football club HSV Handball, a German handball club in Hamburg Hannover 96, or Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, a German football club |
Douglas was born in Scone, Perthshire, the second son of John Douglas, a stonemason, and Jean Drummond. He attended Kinnoull School and upon leaving found work as an apprentice to William Beattie, head gardener at Scone Palace, the seat of the Earl of Mansfield. He spent seven years in this position, completing his app... | River region. A year later, in October 1833, he returned to Hawaii, arriving on 2 January 1834. The second expedition starting in 1824 was his most successful. The Royal Horticultural Society sent him back on a plant-hunting expedition in the Pacific Northwest that ranks among the great botanical explorations. In the s... |
secondary successional sequences following a disturbance or fire. Birches are early tree species to become established in primary successions, and can become a threat to heathland if the seedlings and saplings are not suppressed by grazing or periodic burning. Birches are generally lowland species, but some species, su... | Ground birch bark, fermented in sea water, is used for seasoning the woolen, hemp or linen sails and hemp rope of traditional Norwegian boats. Birch twigs bound in a bundle, also called birch, were used for birching, a form of corporal punishment. Many Native Americans in the United States and Indigenous peoples in Can... |
the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt Phaethontis quadrangle, a region on Mars Biology Phaethon, genus name of the three tropicbird species Greek Mythology Phaethon, son of Helios, personification of the Sun Phaethon, guardian of the temples of Aphrodi... | Euripides Astronomy 3200 Phaethon, small asteroid or comet responsible for the Geminids meteor shower Phaeton (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical fifth planet believed to have once existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt Phaethontis qua... |
born to Gilbert R. Gould, the son of a minister, and Alice Maud (née Miller). All four of his grandparents were pioneer settlers of Oklahoma. He was a Christian. Growing up, Gould and his family were members of the United Brethren Church. His cousin Henry W. Gould is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at West Virginia U... | Gould was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, by Michael Vance. The Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection, created by Vance, is located in the Toy and Action Figure Museum. A graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Gould was honored with the naming of the Chester ... |
in 1865. Its Victorian era prosperity left behind much fine architecture, including buildings by Ammi B. Young, H.H. Richardson, and McKim, Mead & White. In 1870, the waterfront was extended by construction of the Pine Street Barge Canal. This became polluted over the years and was a focus for cleanup in 2009 under the... | comedy talk show, Amber Live!. The Emily Post Institute, an etiquette organization, is headquartered here. Local music The city has, over the years, supported several local bands as various "scenes" waxed and waned, and has even launched a handful of national acts. The most famous of these is Phish, which originated at... |
Gab (1934), in which both had cameos. Karloff reprised the role of Frankenstein's monster in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) for James Whale. Then he and Lugosi were reunited for The Raven (1935). Billed only by his last name during this period, Karloff had top billing above Lugosi in all their films together despite Lugo... | working with the Maud Amber Players in Vallejo, California, but because of the Spanish flu outbreak in the San Francisco area and the fear of infection, the troupe was disbanded. He was able to find work with the Haggerty Repertory for a while (according to the 1973 obituary of Joseph Paul Haggerty, he and Boris Karlof... |
in Hlybokaye, Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire, to ethnic Belarusian parents of peasant background. He had five sisters and no brothers. In 1900, Sukhoi's family moved to Gomel when his father, Osip Andreevich Sukhoi, got a job as a teacher at a school for the children of railway workers. From 1905 to 1914, Sukh... | should relocate to an aerodrome in Moscow Oblast, and by the first half of 1940 the relocation was completed. By the winter of 1942, Sukhoi encountered another problem: since he had no production line of his own, he had nothing to do. Sukhoi had developed a new ground-attack aircraft, the Su-6, but Soviet leader Joseph... |
was 12.0 seconds. In the preliminary heat, he had an even better time – 11.8 seconds. At the same Olympics, Burke also won the 400 meters, his top event. His times for that event were 58.4 seconds in the preliminary heats and 54.2 seconds in the final, in both of which Burke finished first. Later in his career, Burke s... | At the same Olympics, Burke also won the 400 meters, his top event. His times for that event were 58.4 seconds in the preliminary heats and 54.2 seconds in the final, in both of which Burke finished first. Later in his career, Burke specialized in the longer distances, winning IC4A titles in the 440 and 880 yards event... |
the event since Percy Williams of Canada took the gold medal in 1928, the first man to run 100 meters in 10.0 seconds and the last white man to establish world record in 100 meters dash. Running career After playing football in his youth, Hary switched to sprinting at age 16. Only a few years later, in 1958, he won his... | greatest moment of fame. After a nerve-wracking number of near-starts, Hary sprinted to the gold medal in the 100 m dash with a time of 10.2 seconds. In the final of the 4 × 100 m relay, Hary and his teammates appeared to have finished second behind the American team, but 15 minutes later the Americans had been disqual... |
the 1970s as a member of the Communist Youth League of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1980–1986 he was one of the secretaries of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1991 to 1998, Borzov served as the president of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee. He has been a member of the International Olympic Comm... | as the race was about to start. Borzov won the 100 m sprint with relative ease in a time of 10.14 seconds. Borzov then won the 200 m in great style. The picture, featuring Borzov winning the 200 m heats at the 1972 Summer Olympics was selected for the Voyager Golden Record and later launched into space aboard two Voyag... |
gave me the psychological edge over everyone else, which was key because the Olympics is all about your mental aptitude. You're at your fastest when you're relaxed and flowing (Wells' 10.11secs to qualify for the 100m final remains the Scottish record) rather than having to be aggressive." Following the Moscow Olympics... | the stagger on Mennea to his outside after only 50 metres. Coming out of the turn he had a two-metre lead over Leonard, with Quarrie close behind in third while Mennea looking fully eclipsed. But Mennea shifted gears in the straight and caught Wells with 10 metres to go. Wells attempted a final dip which had brought hi... |
of his/her ranking on the list (a "preference vote"); Vote for one or more of the "alternates" (substitutes); Vote for one or more candidates, and one or more alternates; Vote invalid or blank so no one receives the vote. While there are some options to vote on more than one person, voters cannot vote for candidates of... | labour union members. Not simply a "bread and butter" movement in the American sense, Belgian labour unions take positions on education, public finance, defence spending, environmental protection, women's rights, abortion, and other issues. They also provide a range of services, including the administration of unemploy... |
Belgium is actually used as an unusual unit of measurement in comparing country sizes. In November 2016, Belgium and the Netherlands agreed to cede small, uninhabited parcels of land to reflect a change in course of the river Meuse (or Maas, in Dutch). The land swap is to take effect as of 2018. Physical geography Belg... | area of Belgium, the surface of the Brussels-Capital Region should be added to the list, since Brussels is not in any Belgian province anymore since the province of Brabant has been split. Belgium has also 3,462 square kilometres of sea territories in the North Sea. On 29 May 2000, 2,000 square meters were granted by t... |
the first time actually only in 1185, almost 70 years after the presumed construction of the tower which is attributed to them. Asinelli Tower It is believed that the Asinelli Tower initially had a height of ca. and was raised only later to the current , with an overhanging battlement of 2.2 m (6.6 ft). In the 14th cen... | Guglielmini (in the following century) for experiments to study the motion of heavy bodies and the earth rotation. In World War II, between 1943 and 1945, it was used as a sight post: During bombing attacks, four volunteers took post at the top to direct rescue operations to places hit by Allied bombs. Later, a RAI tel... |
Flanders, Brussels, and Wallonia are now courting potential foreign investors and offer a host of incentives and benefits. Foreign companies in Belgium account for approximately 11% of the total work force, with the U.S. Attracted by the EU 1992 single-market program, many foreign firms and lawyers have settled in Brus... | the Brussels-Capital Region live in Flanders or Wallonia. Their output is counted in Brussels and not where they live, artificially raising the per capita GDP of Brussels and slightly lowering that of Flanders and Wallonia. Unemployment has remained consistently more than twice as high in Wallonia than in Flanders, and... |
medal, a silver. He did not compete in the long jump. Life after running In May 1925, Abrahams broke his leg while long-jumping, ending his athletic career. He returned to his legal career. In 1928, he was team captain of the British Olympic team at Amsterdam and editor of the Official British Olympic Report for the sa... | stood for the next 32 years. The same day he ran the 100-yard dash in 9.6 seconds, but the time was not submitted as a record because the track was on a slight downhill. At the 1924 Summer Games, Abrahams won the 100 m in a time of 10.6 seconds, beating all the American favourites, including the 1920 gold-medal winner ... |
25-54 years: 1.02 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2020 est.) Literacy Definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2003 est.) Total population: 99% Male: 99% Female: 99% Education expenditures 6.4% of total GDP (2017) Count... | Population Review in 2019. One birth every 4 minutes One death every 5 minutes One net migrant every 12 minutes Net gain of one person every 9 minutes The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated. Population 11,778,842 (July 2020 est.) 11,491,346 (July 2017 est.) Age ... |
by the following characters: the spots of the leaves are less elongated, the bracts of the inflorescence are longer and the lower transcend the inflorescence itself; it tends to be less cylindrical (a little more 'globular'), the stem is hollow (not solid) and the leaves are slightly larger. Other similar orchids are D... | is distinguished by the following characters: the spots of the leaves are less elongated, the bracts of the inflorescence are longer and the lower transcend the inflorescence itself; it tends to be less cylindrical (a little more 'globular'), the stem is hollow (not solid) and the leaves are slightly larger. Other simi... |
onto the disk-facing surface of the slider. The role of the air bearing is to maintain the flying height constant as the head moves over the surface of the disk. The air bearings are carefully designed to maintain the same height across the entire platter, despite differing speeds relative to the distance from the cent... | the coil is energized, a strong magnetic field forms in the gap of the C, and the recording surface adjacent to the gap is magnetized. When reading, the magnetized material rotates past the heads, the ferrite core concentrates the field, and a current is generated in the coil. In the gap the field is very strong and qu... |
Cherusci who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD Hermann Abert (1871–1927), German historian of music Hermann Balk (died 1239), Teutonic knight Hermann Baranowski (1884–1940), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant Hermann Baumgarten (1825–1893), a German historian and political pu... | Hermann Weyl (1885–1955), German mathematician Hermann A. Widemann (1822–1899), German businessman and Kingdom of Hawaii cabinet member Hermann Wilken (1522–1603), German humanist and mathematician Hermann Winterhalter (1808–1891), German painter Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), German typeface designer Surname Albert Herrman... |
and infiltrates Efrafa in the guise of a member of the Owsla, while Hazel and the rest wait by a nearby river. With help from Kehaar, Bigwig manages to free Hyzenthlay and nine other does, as well as a condemned prisoner named Blackavar. Woundwort and his officers pursue, but the Watership rabbits and the escapees use ... | in 1973. Macmillan USA, then a media giant, published the first U.S. edition in 1974 and a Dutch edition was also published that year by Het Spectrum. According to WorldCat, participating libraries hold copies in 18 languages of translation. Plot summary Part 1 In the Sandleford warren, Fiver, a runty buck rabbit who i... |
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