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howling of the wolves sounded ugly to me after the song of the swans." Skaði responded: "Sleep I could not on the sea beds for the screeching of the bird. That gull wakes me when from the wide sea he comes each morning." The sources for these stanzas are not provided in the Prose Edda or elsewhere. High says that after... | of the wolves sounded ugly to me after the song of the swans." Skaði responded: "Sleep I could not on the sea beds for the screeching of the bird. That gull wakes me when from the wide sea he comes each morning." The sources for these stanzas are not provided in the Prose Edda or elsewhere. High says that afterward Ska... |
Selina Place to gain the stone from Cadellin. Nastrond – The great spirit of darkness who was defeated by the King in Fundindelve, but is ever waiting to return and conquer the mortal world. He is mentioned in the book but never appears firsthand. Svart alfar – goblins, described by Cadellin as "the maggot breed of Ymi... | sandstone escarpment of the Edge, the Wizard's Well, the open mine pits, and the Beacon." Literary critic Neil Philip would later relate that "this sense of a numinous, sacred potency in landscape" was something that imbued all of Garner's work. In a 1968 article Garner explained why he chose to set The Weirdstone of B... |
oath-breaking (which the Norsemen considered the worst possible crimes). Orthography In the standardized Old Norse orthography, the name was spelled Nástrǫnd, which in 11th century Old West Norse was pronounced . In Modern Icelandic the letter 'ǫ' is replaced by ö, and Náströnd is pronounced . Poetic Edda The Völuspá s... | murder, adultery, and oath-breaking (which the Norsemen considered the worst possible crimes). Orthography In the standardized Old Norse orthography, the name was spelled Nástrǫnd, which in 11th century Old West Norse was pronounced . In Modern Icelandic the letter 'ǫ' is replaced by ö, and Náströnd is pronounced . Poe... |
Commons; the permanent secretary to the Treasury is not a minister but the senior civil servant in the Treasury. The chancellor is obliged to be a member of the Privy Council, and thus is styled the Right Honourable (Rt. Hon.). Because the House of Lords is excluded from financial matters by tradition confirmed by the ... | interest rates, the chancellor also plays an important part in the monetary policy structure. He sets the inflation target which the Bank must set interest rates to meet. Under the Bank of England Act 1998 the chancellor has the power of appointment of four out of nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee – ... |
from the o-grade form of the Proto-Indo-European root *kel-, *kol-: 'to cover, conceal, save'. The term is etymologically related to Modern English hall and therefore also Valhalla, an afterlife 'hall of the slain' in Norse Mythology. Hall and its numerous Germanic cognates derive from Proto-Germanic *hallō 'covered pl... | party of five people who had just passed. This is a reference to Baldr, Nanna and those that were burnt in their funeral pyre passing over the bridge on death. Móðguð also says that the dead in Hel appear as a different color than the living and tells him that to get to Hel he must go "down and to the North" where he w... |
would approach near-disastrous decline. In Paris, Bournonville met his father's old friend, Louis Nivelon, who provided him with friendship, meals, and entree into society. Bournonville hoped the master Gardel would accept him but Gardel's studio was no longer in existence and he was directed to Auguste Vestris for tra... | year later, he received his first personal applause for dancing a Hungarian solo at the Court Theatre. In addition to dance, Bournonville was a voracious reader, learned French at home, played the violin, sang in a boy soprano voice, and studied declamation with the actors Michael Rosing, Lindgreen, and Frydensdahl. Hi... |
by two metal slits – the first of these slits doubled as the anode, the second was connected to the earth. The beam then passed between two parallel aluminium plates, which produced an electric field between them when they were connected to a battery. The end of the tube was a large sphere where the beam would impact o... | Paget, daughter of Sir George Edward Paget, a physician and then Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge at the church of St. Mary the Less, was interested in physics. She attended demonstrations and lectures, among them Thomson's. Their relationship developed from there. They had two children: George Paget Thomson, wh... |
is assigning a name to something. Naming may refer to: Naming (parliamentary procedure), a procedure in certain parliamentary bodies Naming ceremony, an | procedure), a procedure in certain parliamentary bodies Naming ceremony, an event at which an |
Montagu, to Sir Thomas Webster, MP and baronet. Sir Thomas had married the heiress Jane Cheek, granddaughter of a wealthy merchant, Henry Whistler, to whose vast inheritance she succeeded in 1719. Webster was succeeded by his son, Sir Whistler Webster, 2nd Baronet, who died childless in 1779, being succeeded in the bar... | English Heritage as 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and Battlefield, which includes the abbey buildings and ruins, a visitor centre with a film and exhibition about the battle, audio tours of the battlefield site, and the monks' gatehouse with recovered artefacts. The visitor centre includes a children's discovery room ... |
removal of left recursion does not always yield an LL(k) grammar. A predictive parser runs in linear time. Recursive descent with backtracking is a technique that determines which production to use by trying each production in turn. Recursive descent with backtracking is not limited to LL(k) grammars, but is not guaran... | a set of mutually recursive procedures (or a non-recursive equivalent) where each such procedure implements one of the nonterminals of the grammar. Thus the structure of the resulting program closely mirrors that of the grammar it recognizes. A predictive parser is a recursive descent parser that does not require backt... |
carries a deadly curse. Haku strikes the shikigami, which eliminates Zeniba's hologram. He falls into the boiler room with Sen, Boh, and the harpy on his back, where Sen feeds him part of the dumpling she had intended to give her parents, causing him to vomit both the seal and a black slug, which Sen crushes with her f... | gold town of Jiufen in Taiwan served as an inspirational model for the film, Miyazaki has denied this. The Dōgo Onsen is also often said to be a key inspiration for the Spirited Away onsen/bathhouse. Music The film score of Spirited Away was composed and conducted by Miyazaki's regular collaborator Joe Hisaishi, and pe... |
where a word is used and analyze them to determine patterns of regional or social usage as well as meaning. A word, for example the English word | be used worldwide by standard English speakers and have one or several evolving definitions. Word usage may also involve grammar. See also List of English words with |
five apparently ill-educated stepchildren, was apparently not easy. According to Halliwell, Nannerl depended on him in many ways: he did "shopping [and] the engagement of servants. ... He relayed news from Salzburg, Munich, and Vienna to divert her, did his best to organize the maintenance of her fortepiano, paid for W... | singer, and became a skilled violinist and organist. He also developed an interest, which he retained, in microscopes and telescopes. Although his parents had planned a career for Leopold as a Catholic priest, this apparently was not Leopold's own wish. An old school friend told Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1777, "Ah he ... |
he was joining hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, composed of former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. They released their debut, self-titled album on June 5, 2009. A second album, titled Chickenfoot III, followed on September 27, 2011. On December 4, 2008, ... | the soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything.... "The Forgotten Part II" was featured on a Molson Dry commercial in Canada in 1993. "Can't Slow Down" featured in a car chase sequence in the Don Johnson-starring show Nash Bridges. "The Bells of Lal (Part One)" was featured in an eerie scene in the 1996 Billy B... |
compile its own source code and other languages. Among the earliest programs of the original Unix versions being built at Bell Labs was the two-part lex and yacc system, which was normally used to output C programming language code, but had a flexible output system that could be used for everything from programming lan... | of parser generators in the yacc vein are ANTLR, Coco/R, CUP, GNU Bison, Eli, FSL, SableCC, SID (Syntax Improving Device), and JavaCC. While useful, pure parser generators only address the parsing part of the problem of building a compiler. Tools with broader scope, such as PQCC, Coco/R and DMS Software Reengineering T... |
Logarithm, in mathematics Log, LOG or LoG may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Log (magazine), an architectural magazine The Log, a boating and fishing newspaper published by the Duncan McIntosh Company Lamb of God (band) or LoG, an American metal band The Log, an electric guitar by Les Paul Log, a fictiona... | Log, LOG or LoG may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Log (magazine), an architectural magazine The Log, a boating and fishing newspaper published by the Duncan McIntosh Company Lamb of God (band) or LoG, an American metal band The Log, an electric guitar by Les Paul Log, a fictional product in The Ren & Sti... |
made endorsements even when it viewed both candidates positively. For example, in the 2006 Senate elections, the NRA endorsed Rick Santorum over Bob Casey Jr., even though they both had an "A" rating. Republicans joined forces with the NRA and used the recently passed gun control measures to motivate voters in the 1994... | America (NRA) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States. Founded in 1871 to advance rifle marksmanship, the modern NRA has become a prominent gun rights lobbying organization while continuing to teach firearm safety and competency. The organization also publishes several magazines and sponsors competiti... |
parse tables and a relatively simple parser generator algorithm. As with other types of LR(1) parser, an SLR parser is quite efficient at finding the single correct bottom-up parse in a single left-to-right scan over the input stream, without guesswork or backtracking. The parser is mechanically generated from a formal... | 100 times or more parser states than the SLR and LALR methods.. Lookahead sets To understand the differences between SLR and LALR, it is important to understand their many similarities and how they both make shift-reduce decisions. (See the article LR parser now for that background, up through the section on reductions... |
an interurban line opened between Athens and Nelsonville and operated for some years. The Athens Lunatic Asylum, later named the Athens State Hospital, opened in 1874. This was on high ground to the south of town and to the south of the Hocking River. In the late 19th century the hospital was the town's largest employe... | of 18 living with them, 20.5% were married couples living together, 4.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 73.3% were non-families. 33.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.... |
Green, a 1930 musical Evergreen (film), a 1934 British film based upon the 1930 musical Evergreen (journalism) (or "evergreen story"), an article that can be run at any time Evergreen (manga), a 2011 Japanese manga series Evergreen, the first novel by Belva Plain, later made into a miniseries Evergreen Game, an 1852 ch... | title track Evergreen, Volume 2, by the Stone Poneys Evergreen, by Audrey Assad Evergreen (After the Burial album), 2019 Songs "Evergreen" (Love Theme from A Star Is Born), movie theme of A Star is Born (1976) by Barbra Streisand "Evergreen", by Susan Jacks "Evergreen", by The Brian Jonestown Massacre from the album Me... |
Merrick County, Nebraska Clarksville, New Hampshire Clarksville, New Jersey (disambiguation) Clarksville, New York (disambiguation) Clarksville, Ohio, in Clinton County Clarksville, Defiance County, Ohio Clarksville, Perry County, Ohio Clarksville, Oklahoma Clarksville, Pennsylvania Clarksville, Tennessee, the largest ... | County Clarksville, Hamilton County, Indiana Clarksville, Iowa Clarksville, Maryland Clarksville, Michigan Clarksville, Mississippi Clarksville, Missouri Clarksville Township, Merrick County, Nebraska Clarksville, New Hampshire Clarksville, New Jersey (disambiguation) Clarksville, New York (disambiguation) Clarksville,... |
all the tree species in a land lab, or an advanced student may be doing an intensive survey of the microbial life forms found in a soil sample. Land labs are often marked out in plots or transects for studies. A plot may be any size, usually marked out in square meters. This allows for more intensive, delimited studies... | labs are often marked out in plots or transects for studies. A plot may be any size, usually marked out in square meters. This allows for more intensive, delimited studies of changes and |
(locomotive), the first locomotive to operate in Ohio Sandusky (automobile company), 1902–1904 automobile manufacturer in Ohio Sandusky District, a railroad line in Ohio Sandusky High School, a secondary school in Sandusky, Ohio Sandusky House (Lynchburg, Virginia), a historic home Sandusky station, a Sandusky, Ohio, A... | Michigan Sandusky, Ohio Upper Sandusky, Ohio Sandusky, West Virginia Sandusky, Wisconsin Townships Sandusky Township, Crawford County, Ohio Sandusky Township, Richland County, Ohio Sandusky Township, Sandusky County, Ohio County Sandusky County, Ohio River The Sandusky River in Ohio Other |
(CTA Pink Line station) Cicero (CTA Green Line station) Cicero station (Metra) Cicero, Indiana Cicero, Kansas Cicero, New York Cicero, Ohio Cicero, Wisconsin, a town Cicero (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Ships Cicero (1796 ship), a West Indiaman and whaler Cicero (1819 ship), a whaler HMS Cicero (F... | 9446 Cicero, a Main-Belt asteroid Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic, 2015 book by Raphael Woolf Cicero Stadium, a sports stadium in Asmara, Eritrea Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research, a research centre in Oslo, Norway Elyesa Bazna or Cicero, Albanian who spied for Germany in World War I... |
Illinois Other uses Beloit (corporation), a former American paper machine and other paper making equipment supplier Beloit College, located | Beloit (corporation), a former American paper machine and other paper making equipment supplier Beloit College, located in Beloit, Wisconsin USS Beloit (LCS-29), laid down in 2020 See |
populated place in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States Juneau, Wisconsin, a city in Wisconsin, United States Juneau County, Wisconsin, a county in Wisconsin, United States Juneau Icefield, or Juneau Icecap Mount Juneau, a mountain of Alaska, United States Juneau mining district, | also refer to: Places Juneau, Pennsylvania, a populated place in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States Juneau, Wisconsin, a city in Wisconsin, United States Juneau County, Wisconsin, a county in Wisconsin, United States Juneau Icefield, or Juneau Icecap Mount Juneau, |
(Oxford) Philip Ridley, Scribbleboy (Puffin) – J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury) — first of seven Harry Potter books Theresa Tomlinson, Meet me by the Steel Men (Walker) 1998 (5) * David Almond, Skellig (Hodder) Robert Cormier, Heroes (Hamish Hamilton) Peter Dickinson, The Kin (Macmil... | (Hamish Hamilton) Elizabeth Laird, Secret Friends (Hodder) – Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb (Doubleday) — third of a trilogy Philip Pullman, Clockwork (Doubleday), illus. Peter Bailey Chloe Rayban, Love in Cyberia (Bodley Head) Jacqueline Wilson, Bad Girls (Doubleday), illus. Nick Sharratt 1997 (7) Malorie Blackm... |
floodplain greatly exceed the river load of sediments. Thus, floodplains are an important storage site for sediments during their transport from where they are generated to their ultimate depositional environment. When the rate at which the river is cutting downwards becomes great enough that overbank flows become infr... | at which the river is cutting downwards becomes great enough that overbank flows become infrequent, the river is said to have abandoned its floodplain, and portions of the abandoned floodplain may be preserved as fluvial terraces. Ecology Floodplains support diverse and productive ecosystems. They are characterized by ... |
constituency) Bath, Barbados, a populated place Bath, New Brunswick, Canada Bath, Ontario, Canada Bath, Jamaica, a town and mineral spring in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica Bath, Netherlands Bath Island, a neighbourhood in Saddar Town, Pakistan United States Bath, California Bath, Georgia Bath, Illinois Bath, Indiana Bat... | the above city Bath, Michigan Bath, New Hampshire Bath, New York, a town Bath (village), New York, village within the town of Bath Bath, North Carolina Bath Historic District (Bath, North Carolina) Bath, Pennsylvania Bath, South Carolina Bath, South Dakota Bath County, Virginia Bath, West Virginia, more commonly known ... |
of fig, also called the sycamore fig or fig-mulberry, native to the Middle East and eastern Africa Platanus orientalis, chinar tree (Old World sycamore) Some North American members of the genus Platanus, including Platanus occidentalis, the American sycamore Platanus racemosa, the California sycamore or western sycamor... | East and eastern Africa Platanus orientalis, chinar tree (Old World sycamore) Some North American members of the genus Platanus, including Platanus occidentalis, the American sycamore Platanus racemosa, the California sycamore or western sycamore Platanus wrightii, the Arizona sycamore In Australia, there are numerous ... |
King is, however, head of state, and so a special paragraph is dedicated to the King in this quality. §1: King Article 24 stipulates that there is kingship and that this kingship is held by William I of the Netherlands and his lawful successors. Articles 25 and 26 regulate the line of succession to the Dutch throne; si... | can be limited by formal law; delegation is allowed. The right is limited to those of Dutch nationality, so in principle foreign nationals can be denied access to the labour market. The law in fact denies such access to illegal immigrants and asylum seekers. Welfare of the people (Article 20). Subarticle 1 imposes a du... |
execution, in computer systems is doing work, the result of which may not be needed. This performance optimization technique is used in pipelined processors and other systems Speculative multithreading, a dynamic parallelization technique that depends on out-of-order execution to achieve speedup on multiprocessor CPUs.... | Group, a Persian literature group whose website which is named Fantasy Academy Speculative poetry, a genre of poetry that focuses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes Speculative screenplay, or spec script, a non-commissioned, unsolicited screenplay The Speculative Society, a Scottish Enlightenment s... |
Software Ratings Board (ESRB) to create a voluntary standard rating system that was approved by Congress. The industry recognized that it needed some type of trade show for retailers. According to Eliot Minsker, chairman and CEO of Knowledge Industry Publications (which produced and promoted the show with Infotainment ... | the days, the event would be open only to industry attendees for three hours prior to admitting the public. The ESA unveiled the new logo for E3, replacing its previous one using three-dimensional block letters with a flatter, stylized graphic, in October 2017. While the ESA has the Convention Center space reserved thr... |
in the order Santalales); it is the only species native to the British Isles and much of Europe. A separate species, Viscum cruciatum, occurs in Southwest Spain and Southern Portugal, as well as in Morocco in North Africa and in southern Africa. The genus Viscum is not native to North America, but Viscum album was intr... | another extreme other species have vigorous green leaves. Not only do they photosynthesize actively, but a heavy infestation of mistletoe plants may take over whole host tree branches, sometimes killing practically the entire crown and replacing it with their own growth. In such a tree the host is relegated purely to t... |
integrity. The objective we seek through a national policy is the education of every citizen towards a greater temperance throughout the nation." The end of prohibition was thought to be responsible for the creation of a half million jobs. The various responses of the 48 states is as follows: The following states ratif... | methods for ratifying constitutional amendments, only one method had been used up until that time: ratification by the state legislatures of three-fourths of the states. However, the wisdom of the day was that the lawmakers of many states were either beholden to or simply fearful of the temperance lobby. Proposal and r... |
Since Washington made his historic announcement, numerous academics and public figures have looked at his decision to retire after two terms, and have, according to political scientist Bruce Peabody, "argued he had established a two-term tradition that served as a vital check against any one person, or the presidency a... | presidents. Introduced by Earl C. Michener, the measure passed 285–121, with support from 47 Democrats, on February 6, 1947. Meanwhile, the Senate developed its own proposed amendment, which initially differed from the House proposal by requiring that the amendment be submitted to state ratifying conventions for ratifi... |
to 54% in the 1960 census, but according to political scientist Clement E. Vose, "various factors—inexperience in voting, educational handicaps, residency requirements, welfare laws, and social ostracism before the Voting Rights Act of 1965—minimized black registration and voting". Proposal and ratification Adoption by... | each state receives presidential electors equal to the combined number of seats it has in the Senate and the House of Representatives. As the District of Columbia is not a state, it was not entitled to any electors prior to the adoption of the Twenty-third Amendment. As early as 1888, some journalists and members of Co... |
poll tax in federal elections was tied up by the Southern Block, lawmakers whose long tenure in office from a one-party region gave them seniority and command of numerous important committee chairmanships. A discharge petition was able to force the bill to be considered, and the House passed the bill 254–84. However, t... | in office from a one-party region gave them seniority and command of numerous important committee chairmanships. A discharge petition was able to force the bill to be considered, and the House passed the bill 254–84. However, the bill was unable to defeat a filibuster in the Senate by Southern senators and a few Northe... |
issue. Prior to 1967, the office of vice president had become vacant sixteen times when the vice president died, resigned, or succeeded to the presidency. The vacancy created when Andrew Johnson succeeded to the presidency upon Abraham Lincoln's assassination was one of several that encompassed nearly the entire four-y... | Section 1: Presidential succession Section 1 clarifies that in the enumerated situations the vice president becomes president, instead of merely assuming the powers and duties of the presidency as acting president. It operates automatically, without needing to be explicitly invoked. Section 2: Vice presidential vacancy... |
of the 1970 extension of the Voting Rights Act, Senator Ted Kennedy argued that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allowed Congress to pass national legislation lowering the voting age. In Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966), the Supreme Court had ruled that if Congress acts to enforce the 14th Amendment b... | voting age nationally. On June 22, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections. In his statement on signing the extension, Nixon said: Subsequently, Oregon and Texas challenged the law in court, and t... |
by requiring an election before a congressperson's salary increase takes effect. The public can thus remove members of Congress from office before their salaries increase. Text Historical background Several states raised the issue of Congressional salaries as they debated whether to ratify the Constitution. North Carol... | 50), at Watson's request, likewise unaware that the task had already been attended to 204 years earlier. In April 1983, Maine became the first state to ratify the amendment as a result of Watson's campaign, followed by Colorado in April 1984. Numerous state legislatures followed suit, with some reaffirming the amendmen... |
the sense that, had they not visited, no donation would have been given. In most cases, the donation generated by each user only amounts to a few cents, but the goal is to accumulate enough clicks to add up to a significant amount. Many charities launched this style of program in the late 1990s. However, the constricti... | (though many sites offer additional ways of support), visitors are making a difference in the sense that, had they not visited, no donation would have been given. In most cases, the donation generated by each user only amounts to a few cents, but the goal is to accumulate enough clicks to add up to a significant amount... |
million years ago, Platanocarpus). The examples from that time had very small pollen (8-10 μm) and a developed perianth and they lacked hairs at the base of the nucule. It is thought to have had entomophilous pollination. During the mid Cretaceous, the fossilized forms with platanoid leaves became mixed with pinnate le... | tetrasporangiate, elongated, connectivum apically widened, peltate, dehiscence along longitudinal valves; pistillidium sometimes present, female flowers with superior gynoecium carpels apocarpous in two or three whorls, imperfectly closed apically, surrounded by large petals, linear stylodious, stigmas internal, decurr... |
cyprinids are invariably anadromous, swimming upstream into rivers to spawn. Sometimes separated as family Psilorhynchidae, they seem to be specially adapted fishes of the Cyprinidae. The Balitoridae and Gyrinocheilidae are families of mountain-stream fishes feeding on algae and small invertebrates. They are found only... | divergence probably occurred only with the splitting-up of Pangaea in the Jurassic, maybe 160 million years ago (Mya). By 110 Mya, the plate tectonics evidence indicates that the Laurasian Cypriniformes must have been distinct from their Gondwanan relatives. The Cypriniformes are thought to have originated in South-eas... |
claims to have initiated the idea of this use in combination therapy, but had not documented his research and ideas as thoroughly, leaving him forced to rely on his recollections of the events that led to the patent filing some 17 years before Yeda mounted their challenge. The court ruled that Yeda are the sole owners ... | 2001, Bristol-Myers Squibb committed $2 billion (including a $1 billion up-front cash payment) for less than 20% of ImClone due to what was called at the time the drug's "blockbuster" potential. In January 2006, the company was put up for sale but failed to find any buyers, likely due to the fact that Erbitux by that t... |
effectively turning down ImClone's application due to concerns about the structure of the clinical trials. In 2004, Erbitux was approved by the FDA. In 2008, the drug generated over $1.5 billion in sales and was credited with aiding thousands of cancer patients. That same year, ImClone was sold to Eli Lilly and Company... | Refuse to File decision effectively turning down ImClone's application due to concerns about the structure of the clinical trials. In 2004, Erbitux was approved by the FDA. In 2008, the drug generated over $1.5 billion in sales and was credited with aiding thousands of cancer patients. That same year, ImClone was sold ... |
after the marriage, having had two daughters by Joan: Elizabeth Ferrers, 6th Baroness Boteler of Wem (1393–1474). She is buried at Black Friars Church, York. She married John de Greystoke, 4th Baron Greystoke (1389–1436), on 28 October 1407 in Greystoke Castle, Greystoke, Cumberland, and had issue. Mary or Margery (139... | throne as King Henry IV. Joan and Ralph were granted numerous offices, lands, wardships and pensions under Henry IV. Joan was named in royal grants as "the King's sister." Ralph and Joan used their relationship with Henry IV to seek out the best marriages for their children, often purchasing the wardships and marriages... |
dissidents from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The movement was founded in the early 1940s by painter Paul-Émile Borduas. Les Automatistes were so called because they were influenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism. Members included Marcel Barbeau, Roger Fauteux, Claude Gauvreau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvre... | time. Much like a nonfigurative Group of Seven, they were looking to create a distinctively Canadian artistic identity. Heavily influenced by Surrealist manifestos and poetry, their work was largely stream-of-consciousness inspired, believing this to be a truer means of communicating subconscious emotions and sensory e... |
is en route to New Jersey to have dinner with the Silk family. Background The Human Stain is set in 1998 in the United States, during the period of President Bill Clinton's impeachment hearings and scandal over Monica Lewinsky. It is the third of Roth's postwar novels that take on large social themes. Roth described in... | a well-known New York literary editor of the Times. Other writers in the academic and mainstream press made the same suggestion. After Broyard's death in 1990, it had been revealed that he racially passed during his many years employed as a critic at The New York Times. He was of Louisiana Creole ancestry. However, Rot... |
ASTM D7611—Standard Practice for Coding Plastic Manufactured Articles for Resin Identification. In 2013 this standard was revised to change the graphic marking symbol of the RIC from the "chasing arrows" of the Recycling Symbol to a solid triangle instead. Since its introduction, the RIC has often been used as a signif... | being recycled. In its original form, the symbols used as part of the RIC consisted of arrows that cycle clockwise to form a triangle that encloses a number. 1: polyethylene terephthalate (PET) (beverage bottles, cups, other packaging, etc.) 2: high-density polyethylene (HDPE) (bottles, cups, milk jugs, etc.) 3: polyvi... |
made their last Cup finals in 1967. Playing against Montreal, the heavy favourite for the year, the Leafs managed to win, with Bob Pulford scoring the double-overtime winner in game three; Jim Pappin scored the series winner in Game 6. Keon was named the playoff's most valuable player, and was awarded the Conn Smythe T... | by the Bruins. Immediately after, Stafford Smythe confronted Imlach and fired him. This act was not without controversy, with some older players, including Horton, declaring that, "if this team doesn't want Imlach, I guess it doesn't want me". The Maple Leafs completed the 1969–70 season out of the playoffs. With their... |
a target date. The city is responsible for working to meet this target. Container deposit legislation mandates refunds for the return of certain containers—typically glass, plastic and metal. When a product in such a container is purchased, a small surcharge is added that the consumer can reclaim when the container is ... | In Oregon, USA, Oregon DEQ surveyed multi-family property managers; about half of them reported problems, including contamination of recyclables due to trespassers such as transients gaining access to collection areas. Source separation used to be the preferred method due to the high cost of sorting commingled (mixed w... |
1415. In 1404, he was named Constable of England. Family John Beaufort and his wife Margaret Holland, the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Alice FitzAlan, had six children. His granddaughter Lady Margaret Beaufort married Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, the son of Dowager Queen Catherine of Valois b... | of Dorset, later only 1st Earl of Somerset, (c. 1371 – 16 March 1410) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the first of the four illegitimate children of John of Gaunt (1340–1399) (third surviving son of King Edward III) by his mistress Katherine Swynford, whom he later married in 1396. The Beaufort children ... |
the O'Kellys, and Castle Richmond, respectively). The Macdermots of Ballycloran was written while he was staying in the village of Drumsna, County Leitrim. The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848) is a humorous comparison of the romantic pursuits of the landed gentry (Francis O'Kelly, Lord Ballindine) and his Catholic tenant... | papers still "smouldered", referring yet again to these accusations, and refusing to fully praise or recognize his achievements. In the late 1870's, Trollope furthered his travel writing career by visiting southern Africa, including the Cape Colony and the Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Admi... |
ample water sources. Suttor learnt their language, and befriended Windradyne, nicknamed "Saturday", and attributed conflict to the harshness of his own people's behaviour, since the Wiradjuri were in his view, fond of white people, as they would call them. Clashes between the British settlers and the Wiradjuri however ... | distinguished by their word for "yes". In his book Aboriginal tribes of Australia (1974), Norman Tindale wrote that "Wiradjuri" was one of several terms coined later, after the 1890s had seen a "rash of such terms", following the publication of a work by ethnologist John Fraser. In 1892, Fraser had published a revised ... |
in 1397. He married the daughter of Sir Thomas Neville (died 1387) of Hornby, Margaret Neville (born c. 1384), who bore him one son, Henry Beaufort. However, the child died young. Under Henry IV After the accession of his half-brother Henry IV, Beaufort was made a Knight of the Garter. In the following years he held va... | of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress Katherine Swynford. To overcome their problematic parentage, his parents were married in 1396, and he and his siblings were legitimated in 1390 and again in 1397. He married the daughter of Sir Thomas Neville (died 1387) of Hornby, Margaret Neville (born c. 1384), who bore ... |
club Collected in Young Men in Spats (1936) "Archibald and the Masses" (1935) – Archibald Mulliner, told by Mr Mulliner "The Code of the Mulliners" (1935) – Archibald Mulliner, told by Mr Mulliner Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939) – Uncle Fred and Blandings novel, action started by Pongo, Horace, and Oofy at the club... | of the stories are told at the club or have some events happening at the club. Main canon The main canon consists of 21 short stories (nine Bingo Little, eight Freddie Widgeon, and four other Drones, including the one introducing Pongo Twistleton and his Uncle Fred), as eventually collected in the omnibus: Tales from t... |
stock characters is a means of conveying the moral of the story by eliminating complexity of personality and depicting the issues arising in the interplay between the characters, enabling the writer to generate a clear message. With more rounded characters, such as those typically found in Shakespeare's plays, the mora... | typically found in Shakespeare's plays, the moral may be more nuanced but no less present, and the writer may point it out in other ways (see, for example, the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet). Arts Throughout the history of recorded literature, the majority of fictional writing has served not only to entertain but also t... |
Germany, it is unlikely that he was influenced by the earlier theories of Arthur de Gobineau (author of An Essay on the Inequality of Human Races, 1853), who was only translated into German in 1898, a quarter of a century after Marr's pamphlet appeared. It is, however, highly probable that Marr was able to read Gobinea... | the secret society and began to lean towards anarchism and atheism, founded another secret society, the "Schweizerischer Arbeiterbund" (Swiss Worker's Union) and edited the "Blätter der Gegenwart für soziales Leben" (Present-Day Papers for Social Life, 1844/45). In 1845 he was expelled from Lausanne, too, and went to H... |
the Matador & Other Stories (London, Grant Richards, 1900) The Bomb (1908) The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story (London, Frank Palmer, 1909) The Yellow Ticket And Other Stories (Grant Richards Ltd., 1914) The Spectacle Maker (1913) basis for 1934 movie Contemporary Portraits... in four vols (1915–1923) Oscar W... | boot black, a porter, a general laborer, and a construction worker on the erection of the Brooklyn Bridge. Harris would later turn these early occupational experiences into art, incorporating tales from them into his book The Bomb. From New York Harris moved to the American Midwest, settling in the country's second lar... |
He joined the French Communist Party in 1923 and later traveled back to the Soviet Union. His later works, Manifeste aux Intellectuels (Elevations) (1930) and others, show a more revolutionary standpoint. Of these, the 1921 Le Couteau entre les dents (The Knife Between My Teeth) marks Barbusse's siding with Bolshevism ... | (Elevations) (1930) and others, show a more revolutionary standpoint. Of these, the 1921 Le Couteau entre les dents (The Knife Between My Teeth) marks Barbusse's siding with Bolshevism and the October Revolution. Barbusse characterized the birth of Soviet Russia as "the greatest and most beautiful phenomenon in world h... |
staff of social assistants and, unlike some previous First Ladies, Lucy had no adult daughters to help shoulder the workload. Lucy depended on nieces, cousins, and daughters of friends to help with social events, and these young ladies also helped enliven the Hayes White House. Lucy was fond of animals. A cat, a bird, ... | Ohio, traveling by train with other wounded troops. After Rutherford returned to his regiment, Lucy became a regular visitor in Rutherford's Army camp. She ministered to the wounded, cheered the homesick, and comforted the dying. She also secured supplies from Northern civilians to better equip the Union soldiers. Lucy... |
during the 1800s. Observing birds from afar was difficult because high quality binoculars were not readily available. Thus it was often more practical to shoot the birds or collect their eggs. While the collection of the eggs of wild birds by amateurs was considered a respectable scientific pursuit in the 19th century ... | of Gurkhas in camouflage skills and in surveillance, map and radio techniques, to better enable them to guard nests of rare birds. In the United Kingdom, to avoid the possibility of prosecution, owners of old egg collections must retain sufficient proof to show, on the balance of probabilities, that the eggs pre-date 1... |
reinforcements from the eastern side of the town over the Severn pontoon bridge to aid Fleetwood. Charles II, from his vantage point on top of Worcester cathedral's tower, realised that an opportunity existed to attack the now-exposed eastern flank of the Parliamentary army. As the defenders on the Western side of the ... | claim at the Restoration for compensation from the new king. Cromwell, the lord general, had during his march south thrown out successively two flying columns under Colonel Robert Lilburne to deal with the Lancashire Royalists under the Earl of Derby. Lilburne entirely routed a Lancashire detachment of the enemy on the... |
which secrete mucus and bicarbonate in order to neutralise stomach acids. These are distinct glands not found in the ileum or jejunum, the other parts of the small intestine. Variation Gene and protein expression About 20,000 protein coding genes are expressed in human cells and 70% of these genes are expressed in the ... | is a hollow jointed tube about 25–38 cm (10–15 inches) long connecting the stomach to the jejunum. It begins with the duodenal bulb and ends at the suspensory muscle of duodenum. It can be divided into four parts. Structure The duodenum is a 25–38 cm (10-15 inch) C-shaped structure lying adjacent to the stomach. It is ... |
George Wallis, First Keeper of the Fine Art Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum Mary Warner, actress and theatre manager Augusta Webster, poet, dramatist, essayist, translator and advocate of women's suffrage Henry White, lawyer and gifted landscape photographer Brodie McGhie Willcox, founder of the P&O Shipping... | on Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey Edwin Brett, publisher and pioneer of serialised sensational weekly fiction and 'penny dreadfuls' Jacob Bronowski, scientist, creator of the television series The Ascent of Man James Bunstone Bunning, City Architect to the City of London Robert William Buss, artist and illustr... |
the number of inhabitants: 1 city larger than 1,000,000: Warsaw 4 cities from 500,000 to 1,000,000: Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań 6 cities from 250,000 to 500,000: Gdańsk, Szczecin, Bydgoszcz, Lublin, Białystok, Katowice 26 cities and towns from 100,000 to 250,000: Gdynia, Częstochowa, Radom, Toruń, Rzeszów, Sosnowiec,... | from 100,000 to 250,000: Gdynia, Częstochowa, Radom, Toruń, Rzeszów, Sosnowiec, Kielce, Gliwice, Olsztyn, Zabrze, Bielsko-Biała, Bytom, Zielona Góra, Rybnik, Ruda Śląska, Opole, Tychy, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Elbląg, Płock, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Wałbrzych, Włocławek, Tarnów, Chorzów, Koszalin 907 cities and towns below 100,00... |
should Henry be forced to designate Edmund his heir; the king was then without child or legitimate siblings. Edmund was the eldest son of the king's mother, Catherine of Valois, by Owen Tudor. At nine years old Margaret was required to assent formally to the marriage. Later she claimed she was divinely guided to do so.... | Margaret never considered herself a member of the Stanley family. Their marriage was primarily one of convenience; marrying Stanley enabled Margaret to return to the court of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Indeed, Gristwood speculates Beaufort organized the marriage with the sole aim of rehabilitating her image and... |
of 2000, the largest groups in the United States by population were Navajo, Cherokee, Choctaw, Sioux, Chippewa, Apache, Blackfeet, Iroquois, and Pueblo. Other groups There were 22.1 million veterans in 2009, meaning that less than 10% of Americans served in the Armed Forces. In 2010, The Washington Post estimated that ... | or "Cuban" – as well as those who indicate that they are "another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin." People who identify their origin as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Population distribution by Hispanic origin 1970–2020 (in %) Source: U.S. Census Bureau, decennial census of population, 1970 (5-percent sampl... |
species were transferred to the genus Hyperacanthus. Genipa spruceana is considered doubtfully distinct from Genipa americana. Species currently recognized in Genipa are: Genipa americana L. Genipa infundibuliformis Zappi & J.Semir Genipa spruceana Steyerm. Distribution and habitat The genus is native to the tropical f... | Genipa is a genus of trees in the family Rubiaceae. This genus is native to the American tropical forests. Description Tall trees, without any spines, prickles or thorns; with large opposite leaves of almost leathery texture, smooth or hairy. Presence of interpetiolar stipules, triangle-shaped. The large flowers are ar... |
A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. At its core, the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means: "a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen... | a federal republic, a division of powers exists between the federal government and the government of the individual subdivisions. While each federal republic manages this division of powers differently, common matters relating to security and defense, and monetary policy are usually handled at the federal level, while ... |
is apparently a stranger to the girls, yet the narration suggests she is Miss McCraw. Miranda loosens the woman's corset to help revive her. Afterwards, the girls remove their own corsets and throw them off the cliff. The recovered woman points out that the corsets appear to hover in mid-air as if stuck in time, and th... | a group of female students at an Australian girls' boarding school who vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine's Day picnic, and the effects the disappearances have on the school and local community. The novel was first published in 1967 in Australia by Cheshire Publishing and was reprinted by Penguin in 1975. It i... |
Lord Darnley, his title as heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox, and it is by this appellation that he is known in history. Origins He was the second but eldest surviving son of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, by his wife Lady Margaret Douglas which supported her claim to the English succession. Darnley's matern... | of the Lennox family. He had been a clerk of the Signet and from 1549 was employed by William Cecil travelling in France. Yaxley was employed by the Countess of Lennox. He placed Mabel Fortescue and other ladies as servants in the Lennox household at Settrington in November 1560. His interrogation at the Tower of Londo... |
enter the Cannes Film Festival. In Britain, the Cinematograph Films Act 1927 established a quota of films that had to be shown in British cinemas. One could shoot compliant films in the British Empire as well as in Great Britain; this stimulated Australian film-production. However the Cinematograph Films Act 1938 molli... | in the early 1970s, and has gone on to write several other original scripts and screenplays made into successful Australian films, including: Don's Party (1976); Gallipoli (1981), Emerald City (1988), and Balibo (2009). Actor/comedian Paul Hogan wrote the screenplay and starred in the title role in his first film, Croc... |
also be expressed orally), and may stem from long traditions of social foundations, or from significant events, such as a civil war or a revolution. A motto may be in any language, but Latin has been widely used, especially in the Western world. Heraldry In heraldry, a motto is often found below the shield in a bandero... | from the Middle Ages, in which the vast majority of nobles possessed a coat of arms and a motto. In the case of Scottish heraldry it is mandated to appear above the crest. Spanish coats of arms may display a motto in the bordure of the shield. In heraldic literature, the terms "rallying cry" respectively "battle banner... |
Charles withdrew to Ugrin Csák's domains in the southern regions of the kingdom. Pope Boniface sent his legate, Niccolo Boccasini, to Hungary. Boccasini convinced the majority of the Hungarian prelates to accept Charles's reign. However, most Hungarian lords continued to oppose Charles because, according to the Illumin... | of Charles's partisans confirmed Charles's claim to the throne on 10 October, but three powerful lords—Matthew Csák, Ladislaus Kán, and Ivan Kőszegi—were absent from the meeting. In 1308, Ladislaus Kán released Otto, who then left Hungary. Otto never ceased styling himself King of Hungary, but he never returned to the ... |
of $223,700. The actual number of judges in service varies, both because of vacancies and because senior judges who continue to hear cases are not counted against the number of authorized judgeships. The 11 numbered circuits and the D.C. Circuit are geographically defined by the boundaries of their assigned U.S. distri... | appeals are prescribed in . Although the courts of appeals are frequently called "circuit courts", they should not be confused with the former United States circuit courts, which were active from 1789 to 1911, during the time when long-distance transportation was much less available, and which were primarily first-leve... |
and interpretive theories on the novel. Lindsay based Appleyard College, the setting for the novel, on the school that she had attended, Clyde Girls Grammar School (Clyde School), at East St Kilda, Melbourne—which in 1919 was transferred to Woodend, Victoria, in the immediate vicinity of Hanging Rock. In a 1974 intervi... | father to Emma Minnie Boyd and thus Lindsay was related to the Boyd family including writer Martin Boyd. Her mother, Ann Sophie Weigall (née Hamilton), was the daughter of the Scottish born Sir Robert Hamilton, a Governor of Tasmania; she was a musician born and raised in Dublin. Lindsay had two sisters, Mim and Nancy,... |
Court, which was established by Article III of the Constitution, the district courts were established by Congress under the Judiciary Act of 1789. There is no constitutional requirement that district courts exist at all. Indeed, after the ratification of the Constitution, some opponents of a strong federal judiciary ur... | president's party, the senator (or the more senior of them if both senators are of the president's party) has substantial input into the nominating process, and through a tradition known as senatorial courtesy can exercise an unofficial veto over a nominee unacceptable to the senator. With the exception of the territor... |
in state court. Each of the 94 federal judicial districts handles bankruptcy matters. Technically, the United States district courts have subject matter jurisdiction over bankruptcy matters (see ). However, each such district court may, by order, "refer" bankruptcy matters to the bankruptcy court (see ). As a practical... | (see ). As a practical matter, most district courts have a standing "reference" order to that effect, so that all bankruptcy cases in that district are handled, at least initially, by the bankruptcy court. In unusual circumstances, a district court may in a particular case "withdraw the reference" (i.e., take the case ... |
Society to form ‘The Society of Twenty Melbourne Painters’. Meldrum ran this society in its early stages from his studio in Hardware Chambers, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. They later changed their name to Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. Most of the early exhibitors in the Society were women. Albert Tucker, an Austra... | seven days a week and the cost is free entry. New exhibitions are held fortnightly within the five galleries. History The Victorian Society of Fine Arts, a forerunner to the Victorian Academy of Arts, was established in 1856. The Victorian Academy of Arts was formed in 1870 with "about twenty artists and amateurs" amon... |
G. Harding rewarded Hoover for his support, offering to appoint him as either Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Commerce. Secretary of Commerce was considered a minor Cabinet post, with limited and vaguely defined responsibilities, but Hoover, emphasizing his identity as a businessman, accepted the position. In... | and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang by conducting genetic analysis on them. Two of the firms sanctioned were subsidiaries of BGI Group, a Chinese genetic sequencing, and biomedical firm. In the same year October, the BGI Group firm was again named in the alleged exploitation of medical samples of patients testing f... |
necessary for the health of U.S. industry. Private sector collaboration BIS works with the private sectors of the aerospace manufacturers, microprocessor, defense and other high-tech industries, which today controls a greater share of critical U.S. resources than in the past. Because the health of U.S. industry is depe... | maintain its military superiority. BIS takes care to ensure that its regulations do not impose unreasonable restrictions on legitimate international commercial activity that are necessary for the health of U.S. industry. Private sector collaboration BIS works with the private sectors of the aerospace manufacturers, mic... |
obligation, especially to repay loans or credits. Music and film D.O.D. (album), by the rap group Do or Die D.O.D. (DJ) (Dan O'Donnell), a British DJ and record producer D.O.D. Festival, a heavy metal festival in Co. Laois, Ireland Do or Die (disambiguation) refers to many groups, songs, albums and films "D.O.D." (Drin... | States Department of Defense Science and technology Depth of discharge, a measure of how much energy has drained from a battery Direct Outward Dialing, in telephony DOD Electronics, an electronics company that makes effects pedals for musicians DrinkOrDie, a software-cracking and warez-trading network Definition of Don... |
on the album Stick Around for Joy by The Sugarcubes "Walkabout", a song on the album The Works by Nik Kershaw "Walkabout", a song on the album Pinnacles by Edgar Froese "Walkabout", a song on the album Augustines by Augustines, released 2014 Television "Walkabout" (Babylon 5), a 1996 episode of the Babylon 5 television... | Sugarcubes "Walkabout", a song on the album The Works by Nik Kershaw "Walkabout", a song on the album Pinnacles by Edgar Froese "Walkabout", a song on the album Augustines by Augustines, released 2014 Television "Walkabout" (Babylon 5), a 1996 episode of the Babylon 5 television series "Walkabout" (Lost), a 2004 episod... |
London. For a time, he worked as a camera operator on a number of film productions, including The Sundowners and The Trials of Oscar Wilde. He was a second-unit cinematographer on David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and this led to Lean's hiring Roeg as cinematographer on his next film, Doctor Zhivago (1965); howeve... | poor reception, has come to be held in high esteem by critics due to its cult following. He followed up with Walkabout, which tells the story of an English teenage girl and her younger brother who are abandoned in the Australian Outback by their father on his suicide and forced to fend for themselves, with the help of ... |
practical situation two growth accounting results of the same production process we do not know which one is better in terms of production performance. We have to know separately income effects of productivity change and production volume change or their combined income effect in order to understand which one result is... | 1.015, which depicts the average productivity change. As demonstrated above we cannot draw correct conclusions based on average productivity numbers. This is due to the fact that productivity is accounted as an independent variable separated from the entity it belongs to, i.e. real income formation. Hence, if we compar... |
who was crippled saving Hammer's life during shared World War II military service in the Pacific. Losing his arm rendered Jack unfit for police work, so he put his experience to use by investigating insurance fraud. Williams has been murdered in a particularly cruel way, deliberately shot in the stomach to make the dea... | Finally, he knows the identity of the killer: Dr. Manning. Confronting her, Hammer keeps his promise and kills her in the same excruciatingly painful way she had killed his friend Jack. When the dying murderer asks Hammer how he could act in such a cruel manner, Hammer replies "It was easy!". Reception By the time the ... |
Statute of Autonomy were elaborated. The Diario de León advocated for the formalization of this initiative and the constitution of an autonomous region with these words: The end of the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of Franco regime ended the aspirations of the autonomy for the region. The philosopher José Ortega ... | a sparsely populated and demographically decline, especially in rural areas and even in small traditional cities. The demographic characteristics of the territory show an aging population, with a low birth rate and mortality that approaches the state average. In the year 2000, the population of Castile and León totaled... |
physical, emotional, or moral boundary. Some safewords are used to stop the scene outright, while others can communicate a willingness to continue, but at a reduced level of intensity. Safewords are usually agreed upon before playing a scene by all participants, and many organized BDSM groups have standard safewords th... | approaching, or crossing, a physical, emotional, or moral boundary. Some safewords are used to stop the scene outright, while others can communicate a willingness to continue, but at a reduced level of intensity. Safewords are usually agreed upon before playing a scene by all participants, and many organized BDSM group... |
Archean Eon. Pillow lavas are used generally to confirm subaqueous volcanism in metamorphic belts. Pillow lavas are also found associated with some subglacial volcanoes at an early stage of an eruption. Formation They are created when magma reaches the surface but, as there is a large difference in temperature between ... | ophiolite sequence (when a segment of oceanic crust is thrust over the continental crust, thus exposing the oceanic segment above sea level). The presence of pillow lavas in the oldest preserved volcanic sequences on the planet, the Isua and Barberton greenstone belts, confirms the presence of large bodies of water on ... |
investment management company High harmonic generation, a non-linear process during which a target is illuminated by an intense laser pulse The Hitchhiker's Guide | a target is illuminated by an intense laser pulse The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Household goods, a cargo shipping category |
oesophagus, the tracheoesophageal septum. This separates the future trachea from the oesophagus and divides the foregut tube into the laryngotracheal tube. By the start of the fifth week, the left and right main bronchi have begin to form, initially as buds at the terminal end of the trachea. The trachea is no more tha... | result in a barking cough. Infection with bacteria usually affects the trachea only and can cause narrowing or even obstruction. As a major part of the respiratory tract, when obstructed the trachea prevents air entering the lungs and so a tracheostomy may be required if the trachea is obstructed. Additionally, during ... |
form". The Soviets also wanted to offer an alternative to Zionism, the establishment of Mandate of Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Socialist Zionists such as Ber Borochov were gaining followers at that time, and Zionism was the favored ideology in the world's political economy to the Yiddish interpretations which were ... | resettling all Jews in the USSR in a designated territory where they would be able to pursue a lifestyle that was "socialist in content and national in form". The Soviets also wanted to offer an alternative to Zionism, the establishment of Mandate of Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Socialist Zionists such as Ber Boroch... |
the world in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the majority of them were Ashkenazi Jews. Large numbers of them remained even after 2 million of them departed for other countries prior to the formation of the Soviet Union. While thousands of Jews migrated to Birobidzhan, the hardship and isolation caused most to lea... | of Jews was restricted to the Pale of Settlement. As Jews relocated to Birobidzhan, they had to compete with the approximately 27,000 Russians, Cossacks, Koreans, and Ukrainians already residing there for property and land to develop new homes. This complicated the transition for the Jewish population, as there was no ... |
League in 1896 and again as the Texas League from 1897 to 1899. It was revived as a Class D league in 1902, moved to Class C in 1904 where it played through 1910 (except for 1906 as Class D again), played at Class B until 1920, and finally moved up to Class A in 1921. The Texas League, like many others, shut down durin... | Poodles. At the same time, the Triple-A Colorado Springs Sky Sox of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) moved to San Antonio to continue on as the Missions at the Triple-A level. The start of the 2020 season was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being cancelled on June 30. The league ceased operations after the ... |
then another followed in 1891, and 1893, and finally in 1899–1902. After the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, an organization of minor leagues was formed in 1902, (following the "truce" and agreements between the older National League of 1876 and the newly "upstart" American League of 1901), the C... | adding teams in Visalia, San Jose, and Ventura by 1947. Further east, Reno, Nevada joined the league in 1955 with the movement of the old Channel Cities Oilers in Santa Barbara and continued as a member for 37 years. Though nicknames and affiliations shifted, the California League's postwar configuration was largely st... |
Royals (1969, folded) Kinston Blue Jays (1982–1985, became the Kinston Eagles) Kinston Eagles (1956–1957, merged with the Wilson Tobs) Kinston Eagles (1962–1973, became the Kinston Expos) Kinston Eagles (1978–1981, became the Kinston Blue Jays) Kinston Eagles (1986, became the Kinston Indians) Kinston Expos (1974, fold... | (1945–1947, moved to the Blue Ridge League) Lynchburg Hillcats (1995–2020, moved to Low-A East) Lynchburg Mets (1976–1987, became the Lynchburg Red Sox) Lynchburg Rangers (1975, became the Lynchburg Mets) Lynchburg Red Sox (1988–1994, became the Lynchburg Hillcats) Lynchburg Twins (1970–1974, became the Lynchburg Range... |
baseball team representing Tucson, Arizona in the Pacific Coast League (PCL). They were the Triple-A affiliate for the San Diego Padres. The team moved to Tucson from Portland, Oregon for the 2011 season. In April 2014, the team moved to El Paso, Texas and changed their name to the El Paso Chihuahuas. Franchise history... | Beavers were sold to Jeff Moorad, principal owner of the San Diego Padres. The Move to Tucson On October 19, 2010, it was announced that a site in Escondido, California had been selected for the new home of the Portland Beavers. The new ballpark was scheduled to open in April 2013. Until the move to Escondido could be ... |
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