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chemistry to describe chemical "aversions" of a molecule, or part of a molecule, to water Art, entertainment, and media Hydrophobia (video game), a 2010 game developed by Dark Energy Digital Hydrophobia, a Hungarian disk magazine (1996–1997) "Hydrophobia", the 13th | in chemistry to describe chemical "aversions" of a molecule, or part of a molecule, to water Art, entertainment, and media Hydrophobia (video game), a 2010 game developed by Dark Energy Digital Hydrophobia, a Hungarian disk magazine |
the Midland region of the U.S., bell peppers, either fresh or when stuffed and pickled, are sometimes called mangoes. In some languages, the term paprika, which has its roots in the word for pepper, is used for both the spice and the fruit – sometimes referred to by their color (for example groene paprika, gele paprika... | as a "pepper", or additionally by color ("green pepper" or red, yellow, orange, purple, brown, black). In the Midland region of the U.S., bell peppers, either fresh or when stuffed and pickled, are sometimes called mangoes. In some languages, the term paprika, which has its roots in the word for pepper, is used for bot... |
(子思) Mencius (孟子 Pinyin: Meng zi) Xun Zi (荀子) Japanese Confucianism Fujiwara Seika Hayashi Razan Ogyū Sorai Toju Nakae Korean Confucianism Yi Hwang Yi I Vietnamese Confucianism Chu Văn An Nguyễn Trãi Neo-Confucians Wang Yangming – important Idealist Neo-Confucian. Zhang Zai – pioneering Neo-Confucian. Zhou Dunyi – Song... | philosopher. Zhu Xi – one of the leading Neo-Confucians of the Song Dynasty. New Confucians Tu Wei-Ming – advocate of "New Confucianism" Xiong Shili – founding figure in "New Confucianism" Ma Yifu – founding figure in "New Confucianism" Western Confucians or scholars of Confucianism Philip J. Ivanhoe Robert Cummings Ne... |
DV), and phosphorus (20% DV), with moderate amounts (10–19% DV) of thiamin, copper, magnesium, and zinc (11–14% DV). Dishes Red kidney beans are commonly used in chili con carne and are used in the cuisine of India, where the beans are known as rajma. Red kidney beans are used in southern Louisiana for the classic Mond... | (red) lobia in Pakistan). Light speckled kidney bean (and long shape light speckled kidney bean). Red speckled kidney bean (and long shape light speckled kidney bean). White kidney bean (also known as cannellini in Italy, lobia in India, or safaid (white) lobia in Pakistan). Nutrition Kidney beans cooked by boiling are... |
languages of Papua New Guinea. It is frequently the language of debate in the national parliament. Most government documents are produced in English, but public information campaigns are often partially or entirely in Tok Pisin. While English is the main language in the education system, some schools use Tok Pisin in t... | outside of New Guinea. For example, Pidgin speakers from Finschhafen speak rather quickly and often have difficulty making themselves understood elsewhere. The variant spoken on Bougainville and Buka is moderately distinct from that of New Ireland and East New Britain but is much closer to that than it is to the Pijin ... |
effort: they committed sabotage, diverted regular forces and committed numerous atrocities against civilian population.Browning, Christopher R. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942, 2007 p. 33 After Germany occupied western Poland, it established a central re... | attempts aiming at Germanisation of conquered Polish areas. Also in other areas with an ethnic German minority people of other than German descent assimilated with the ethnic German culture and formed then a part of the minority. Examples are people of Baltic and Scandinavian descent, who assimilated into the minority ... |
an avid boxer and fan, wrote an article for The Outlook in which he supported banning not just moving pictures of boxing matches, but a complete ban on all prize fights in the US. He cited the "crookedness" and gambling that surrounded such contests and that moving pictures have "introduced a new method of money gettin... | bouts after the age of 40—which was a very venerable age for boxing in those days—not be counted on his actual record, since he was performing in order to make a living. He also indulged in what was known as "cellar" fighting, where the bouts, unadvertised, were fought for private audiences, usually in cellars, or othe... |
group's first performances in nearly four years. Music and lyrics Nine Inch Nails has been described as incorporating alternative rock, industrial rock, industrial dance, industrial, electro-industrial, industrial metal, electronic rock, and alternative metal. AllMusic's Steve Huey states that "Nine Inch Nails were the... | (1994) and The Fragile (1999), were released to critical acclaim and commercial success. Following a hiatus, Nine Inch Nails resumed touring in 2005 and released their fourth album, With Teeth (2005). Following the release of Year Zero (2007), Reznor left Interscope after a feud. Nine Inch Nails continued touring and i... |
secondary school national system. As such, for Swiss students, EPFL is not selective in its undergraduate admission procedures.The real selection process happens during the first year of study. This period is called the propaedeutic cycle and the students must pass a block examination of all the courses taken during th... | 2nd in the world in 2018 and 2019. Times Higher Education also ranked EPFL as the most international university in the world two years in a row 2014 and 2015. Campus The École d'ingénieurs de l'Université de Lausanne, from which EPFL in its modern-day form originates, was located in the center of Lausanne. In 1974, fiv... |
from The Chairman, 2014 "Brother", by Murder by Death from In Bocca al Lupo, 2006 "Brother", by Orphaned Land from All Is One, 2013 "Brother", by Ronnie Radke, 2014 "Brother", by Stereophonics from Language. Sex. Violence. Other?, 2005 "Brother", by Steve Vai from Fire Garden, 1996 "Brother", by Toad the Wet Sprocket f... | The Chairman, 2014 "Brother", by Murder by Death from In Bocca al Lupo, 2006 "Brother", by Orphaned Land from All Is One, 2013 "Brother", by Ronnie Radke, 2014 "Brother", by Stereophonics from Language. Sex. Violence. Other?, 2005 "Brother", by Steve Vai from Fire Garden, 1996 "Brother", by Toad the Wet Sprocket from I... |
Z80-based portable computer released in 1987 by Cambridge Computer, the company formed for such purpose by Clive Sinclair. It was approximately A4 paper sized and lightweight at , running on four AA batteries for 20 hours of use. It was packaged with a built-in combined word processing/spreadsheet/database application ... | to indicate keystrokes. The Z88 is powered by four AA batteries, giving up to 20 hours of use. It has three memory card slots, which accommodate proprietary RAM, EPROM or flash cards, the third slot being equipped with a built-in EPROM programmer. Card capacities range from 32 kB to 1 MB. The Z88 has a built-in eight-l... |
Indian Territory (as was the stated U.S. policy), to the five tribes described above, to the route of the land march specifically, or to specific marches in which the remaining holdouts from each area were rounded up. Legal background The territorial boundaries claimed as sovereign and controlled by the Indian nations ... | their traditional way of life towards a white American way of life as proposed by George Washington and Henry Knox was gaining momentum, especially among the Cherokee and Choctaw. American settlers had been pressuring the federal government to remove Indians from the Southeast; many settlers were encroaching on Indian ... |
so naked. The nude murder scene was shot but, ultimately, replaced with a semi-clothed version. Close-ups of Kirsty sticking her hand into Frank's stomach, exposing his guts. Longer version of the scene where Frank is being torn into pieces by the Cenobites' hooks. Final shot where his head explodes and his brain messi... | the box, summoning the Cenobites and a monster called the Engineer, which Kirsty narrowly escapes from. The Cenobites' leader explains that although they have been perceived as both angels and demons, they are simply "explorers" from another dimension seeking carnal experiences, and they can no longer differentiate bet... |
Acorn was awarded the Canadian Poets Award in 1970 and the Governor General's Award in 1976 for his collection of poems, The Island Means Minago. In 1977, Acorn introduced the Jackpine sonnet, a form designed to be as irregular and spikey (and Canadian) as a jack pine tree, but with internal structure and integrity. Wi... | Wake for Milton. It was produced in 1988. Bibliography 1956:In Love and Anger 1960:Against a League of Liars 1960:The Brain's the Target 1963:Jawbreakers () 1969:I've Tasted My Blood 1971:I Shout Love and On Shaving Off His Beard 1972:More Poems for People 1975:The Island 1977:The Road to Charlottetown (with Cedric Smi... |
nine wide bays with a central pediment supported by four columns and pilasters to the other bays. Due to the slope of the site, this front is taller than the south front. It is also large, with many other nine-bay three-storey façades little more than half as wide and tall. The west front is very lively with much carve... | were sequestered. Chatsworth was occupied by both sides during the Civil War, and the 3rd Earl did not return to the house until The Restoration of the monarchy. He reconstructed the principal rooms in an attempt to make them more comfortable, but the Elizabethan house was outdated and unsafe. The famed political philo... |
toward present-day New Mexico. When de Niza returned, he told of a city of vast wealth, a golden city called Cíbola, whose Zuni residents were assumed to have murdered Estevan. Though he did not claim to have entered the city of Cíbola, he mentioned that it stood on a high hill and that it appeared wealthy and as large... | Vázquez de Coronado expedition. They had given up and decided to return to their departure point because worms were eating holes in their boats. Díaz named the river the "Firebrand (Tizón) River" because the indigenous people of the area used firebrands to keep their bodies warm in the winter. Díaz died on the trip bac... |
Coronado National Forest, in Arizona and New Mexico Mexico Coronado Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico Coronado Islands, Tijuana municipality, Baja California, Mexico Isla Coronado, an island and volcano in Ensenada municipality, Baja California, Mexico Isla Coronados, Loreto Municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico Else... | Mexico Mexico Coronado Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico Coronado Islands, Tijuana municipality, Baja California, Mexico Isla Coronado, an island and volcano in Ensenada municipality, Baja California, Mexico Isla Coronados, Loreto Municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico Elsewhere Coronado, Alberta, Canada, a locality V... |
two later special episodes both called Further Up Pompeii, one in 1975 and the other, written by Brian Leveson and Paul Minett, in 1991. The latter sparked speculation that there could be a new series, but Howerd's death in 1992 put an end to any such prospect. Apart from the change to the actor playing Ludicrus Sextus... | a location somewhere between the clouds and Mount Olympus. Guest stars included several actresses from the Carry On film series, including Barbara Windsor, Wendy Richard and Valerie Leon. The format was an exotic backdrop for an endless series of double entendres and risqué gags from Howerd, constantly breaking the fou... |
(or electrochromism) either to reveal information about the physiochemical or physical properties of a sample using a well-characterized electric field or to reveal information about an electric field using a reference sample with a well-characterized Stark effect. The use of the term "Stark effect" differs between the... | electroabsorption/emission spectroscopy) is a form of spectroscopy based on the Stark effect. In brief, this technique makes use of the Stark effect (or electrochromism) either to reveal information about the physiochemical or physical properties of a sample using a well-characterized electric field or to reveal inform... |
of violence to oppose the violence of slavery and the breaking of proslavery laws morally defensible? Which of Stowe's characters should be emulated, the passive Uncle Tom or the defiant George Harris? Stowe's solution was similar to Ralph Waldo Emerson's: God's will would be followed if each person sincerely examined ... | character Eliza was inspired by an account given at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati by John Rankin to Stowe's husband Calvin, a professor at the school. According to Rankin, in February 1838, a young slave woman, Eliza Harris, had escaped across the frozen Ohio River to the town of Ripley with her child in her ... |
Nova Scotia United States of America Fairmount, Delaware Fairmount, Georgia Fairmount, Illinois Fairmount, Indiana Fairmount, Iowa Fairmount, Kansas Fairmount, Maryland Fairmount, New Jersey Fairmount Historic District (Califon, New Jersey), listed on the NRHP in Hunterdon County and Morris County, New Jersey Lower Fai... | Georgia Fairmount, Illinois Fairmount, Indiana Fairmount, Iowa Fairmount, Kansas Fairmount, Maryland Fairmount, New Jersey Fairmount Historic District (Califon, New Jersey), listed on the NRHP in Hunterdon County and Morris County, New Jersey Lower Fairmount, New Jersey Fairmount |
Sea" in various languages Dead Sea, a salt lake east of Israel, as used in the Bible (Joel 2:20; Ezek. 47:18) Mare Orientale, Latin for "Eastern Sea", on the Moon Atlantic Ocean, also referred to as the East Sea or Eastern Sea in poetry and other uses in North America Pacific Ocean, called the East Sea in poetry and ot... | Sea or Eastern Sea may refer to: East China Sea, a marginal sea east of China, where it is called Dōnghǎi (/) in Chinese, meaning "East Sea" East Sea (Chinese literature), one of the Four Seas, a literary name for the boundaries of China South China Sea, a marginal sea south of China and east and south of Indochina, ca... |
stakeholders, which include employees, customers and suppliers in addition to shareholders, said the sources, who did not want to be identified as the discussions were confidential. On November 13, 2013, Chen released an open message: "We are committed to reclaiming our success." In early July 2014, the TechCrunch onli... | 2005, the matter returned to the courts. In early November 2005 the US Department of Justice filed a brief requesting that RIM's service be allowed to continue because of the large number of BlackBerry users in the US Federal Government. In January 2006 the US Supreme Court refused to hear RIM's appeal of the holding o... |
of intermittent fighting, Colonel Newnan's force withdrew. King Payne was wounded in the fight and died two months later. The Alachua Seminole left Payne's Town and moved further west and south, but other bands of Seminole moved in. A second American expedition in 1813 of U. S. Army troops and militia from Tennessee, l... | Spring Grove, from 1836 to 1839. In 1834 Hillsborough County was created, which included the area around Tampa Bay down to Charlotte Harbor. In 1839 that part of Columbia County south of the Santa Fe River was returned to Alachua County, and Newnansville was restored as the county seat. Hernando County was created in 1... |
a female householder with no husband present, and 20.50% were non-families. 17.10% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.86 and the average family size was 3.20. In the county, the population was spread out, w... | was $40,035, and the median income for a family was $43,503. Males had a median income of $30,240 versus $21,279 for females. The per capita income for the county was $15,164. About 11.40% of families and 14.70% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.20% of those under age 18 and 8.60% of those age... |
School Tommy Smith Elementary School Tyndall Elementary School Waller Elementary School West Bay Elementary School Public transportation Airports The Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport opened for commercial flights in 2010. It connects the region to several major airports in the South and Midwest. Public s... | New Horizons Learning Center (Lynn Haven) Rosenwald High School (Panama City) Middle schools Everitt Middle School Jinks Middle School Merritt Brown Middle School Mowat Middle School Surfside Middle School (Panama City Beach) Elementary schools Callaway Elementary School Cedar Grove Elementary School Hiland Park Elemen... |
Rhineland-Palatinate Malberg (422 m), near Ötzingen, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate Hummelsberg (389 m), near Linz am Rhein, Neuwied district, Rhineland-Palatinate Beulskopf (388 m), near Altenkirchen, Altenkirchen district, Rhineland-Palatinate Waterways Flowing waters The following are the Westerwald's rivers ... | Massif, and likewise represents a heavily eroded remnant of a great Variscan mountain system which in the Mesozoic characterized a great deal of Europe. The Devonian bedrock is covered by volcanic masses from the Tertiary, particularly basalt and tuffs. Economically important, besides slate, limestone and clay quarryin... |
total area of , of which is land and (2.2%) is water. It is the third-smallest county in Florida by land area and second-smallest by total area. Adjacent counties Baker County, Florida - north Clay County, Florida - east Putnam County, Florida - southeast Alachua County, Florida - south Union County, Florida - west Duv... | had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.40% were married couples living together, 13.30% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.10% were non-families. 22.90% of households were one person and 9.70% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average fami... |
Brevard County Housing Authority acquires and leases housing projects, investigates housing conditions, determines where slums and unsafe housing exist and investigates conditions dangerous to the public. It is managed by a board appointed by the county commission. Several organization provide social services for juven... | employed at the NASA/Kennedy Space Center. The Center directly spent $1.82 billion in the county. A concern has been the probable reassignment of thousands of Space Coast workers when the Space Shuttle is discontinued in 2010. In 2010, 9,000 jobs were expected to be lost from the shuttle and other programs. Each launch... |
(2016) (kooseluleping) (2016) (unione civile) (2018) (unione civile) (2020) (contrat de vie commune or contràtto de vìtta comûne) (2020) (животно партнерство/životno partnertsvo) Oceania : (2004) (significant relationships and caring relationships) (domestic partnership since 2007, registered partnerships since 2017) (... | rights, benefits, tax breaks, and responsibilities similar or identical to those of legally married couples. In 1989, Denmark was the first country to legalise civil unions, for same-sex couples; however most other developed democracies did not begin establishing civil unions until the 1990s or early 2000s, often devel... |
and caused over $25 billion in damage. Hurricane Andrew caused a massive exodus from South Dade to Broward County, filling Pembroke Pines and other Broward communities with tens of thousands of transplanted families. In the year 2000, the US census reported a total population of 1,623,018. The town of South West Ranche... | families and 11.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.3% of those under age 18 and 10.0% of those age 65 or over. As of 2005, Broward County led the nation's metropolitan areas in new AIDS diagnoses, with a reported rate 58.4 new AIDS diagnoses per 100,000 people. County officials think the num... |
Florida - northeast (EST) Liberty County, Florida - east (EST) Gulf County, Florida - south (southern part of the county is in the EST) Bay County, Florida - west Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 13,017 people, 4,468 households, and 3,132 families residing in the county. The population density was 23 p... | a household in the county was $26,575, and the median income for a family was $32,848. Males had a median income of $26,681 versus $21,176 for females. The per capita income for the county was $12,379. About 14.80% of families and 20.00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23.60% of those under age... |
55.9 years, second only to Sumter County in Florida. Government and politics The county is governed by a five-person Commission, all of them elected to represent districts within the county for a four-year term. The elections are partisan according to political party affiliation and primaries are held months earlier in... | the highest median age of any U.S. county with a population of more than 100,000 people at 54.3. The median age in 2010 for Charlotte County was 55.9 years, second only to Sumter County in Florida. Government and politics The county is governed by a five-person Commission, all of them elected to represent districts wit... |
islands are state lands thus available for public use for recreational opportunities, many other Citrus County islands are private property and are either wholly or partially owned by private parties. Adjacent counties Levy County - northwest Marion County - northeast Sumter County - east Hernando County - south Nation... | to the Crystal River Energy Complex in northern Citrus County. Other lines that used to run through Citrus were either converted into rail trails such as the Cross Town Trail in Crystal River and Withlacoochee State Trail in eastern Citrus County or abandoned. Major roads U.S. Route 19 is the main local road through we... |
acts to eliminate genetic variation over time. Rate of allele frequency change due to drift Assuming genetic drift is the only evolutionary force acting on an allele, after t generations in many replicated populations, starting with allele frequencies of p and q, the variance in allele frequency across those population... | time for the neutral allele to be lost through genetic drift can be calculated as When a mutation appears only once in a population large enough for the initial frequency to be negligible, the formulas can be simplified to for average number of generations expected before fixation of a neutral mutation, and for the ave... |
the entire county. All locations offer public internet stations, printing, photocopying, free Wi-Fi, and 24/7 dropboxes for book and video returns. Politics Voter registration According to the Secretary of State's office, Republicans compose a majority of registered voters in Collier County. It is also one of the handf... | library The Collier County Public Library system consists of ten locations servicing the entire county. All locations offer public internet stations, printing, photocopying, free Wi-Fi, and 24/7 dropboxes for book and video returns. Politics Voter registration According to the Secretary of State's office, Republicans c... |
they decide to spike the food for the Tet celebration and escape on the raft that the doomed backpackers used. Night falls, and the party begins. People are in a celebratory mood, drinking fermented coconut milk. Prior to dinner, Keaty and Richard spike the stew that Unhygienix cooked with a huge quantity of cannabis t... | some cannabis from the Thai farmers' side of the island. One day, Unhygienix informs everyone that their rice supply has been infected by a fungus, and Sal announces an emergency rice run — an occasional discreet trip to the mainland by boat to bulk-buy rice and other essentials. Due to the laborious nature of the task... |
who had inspired Jonas Fränkel, the president of his congregation, to found this institution, opposed the appointment vigorously, and when the examination questions given by Frankel to the first graduating class appeared, Geiger published them in a German translation with the evident intention of ridiculing his methods... | both parties; the liberals were dissatisfied because, instead of declaring that their prayer-book was in accord with Jewish tradition, he pointed out inconsistencies from the historical and dogmatic points of view; and the Orthodox were dissatisfied because he declared changes in the traditional ritual permissible (l.c... |
period were of the lands and people encountered on the voyage. In 1585, White accompanied the expedition led by Sir Ralph Lane to attempt to found the first English colony in North America. White was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sir Richard Grenville's artist-illustrator on his first voyage to the New World; working c... | White may have accompanied Martin Frobisher to search for precious metals and a northwest passage to Asia on his Baffin Island and Greenland expeditions. Despite this, White was not mentioned by name. His drawings from this period were of the lands and people encountered on the voyage. In 1585, White accompanied the ex... |
required since most CP/M software expects an 80-column screen. The C128 emulates an ADM-3A terminal in CP/M mode, so software will have to be set up for that. Aside from the standard ADM-3A terminal commands, a number of extra ones are available to use the VIC-II and VDC's features, including setting the text and backg... | of these lines is implemented directly in hardware, the C128's Z80 firmware startup code polls these lines on power-up and then switches modes as necessary. C128 native-mode cartridges are recognized and started by the kernal polling defined locations in the memory map. C64 mode almost exactly duplicates the features o... |
localized. They can also be found in South East Asia, in the countryside and outlying islands of Hong Kong. They are a beneficial saprophagous species (detritivores). Life cycle The larvae are C–shaped and have a firm, wrinkled, hairy body, a small head, and tiny legs. The larvae overwinter wherever they have been feed... | on warm sunny days from May until June or July, and occasionally as late as September. Rose chafers are found in southern and central Europe and in the southern part of the United Kingdom, where they sometimes seem to be very localized. They can also be found in South East Asia, in the countryside and outlying islands ... |
at the Asian Baseball Championship. Popularity of the sport rose to a high in the 2000s: the South Korean team was awarded bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and won gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. In 2009, South Korea won silver at the World Baseball Classic. Several South Kore... | Israel Association of Baseball (IAB) was formed as a non-profit organization for the development and promotion of baseball throughout Israel and in all sections of the population. The IAB is recognized by all the official Israeli sports bodies and by official international sports bodies such as the Confederation of Eur... |
scope which triggers the destruction of all its members. Temporary variables are created as the result of expression evaluation and are destroyed when the statement containing the expression has been fully evaluated (usually at the ; at the end of a statement). Dynamic storage duration objects These objects have a dyna... | considered good practice to make all data private or protected, and to make public only those functions that are part of a minimal interface for users of the class. This can hide the details of data implementation, allowing the designer to later fundamentally change the implementation without changing the interface in ... |
polymers. Wavelength dispersive spectrometry In wavelength dispersive spectrometers (WDX or WDS), the photons are separated by diffraction on a single crystal before being detected. Although wavelength dispersive spectrometers are occasionally used to scan a wide range of wavelengths, producing a spectrum plot as in ED... | in the range 20–60 kV are used, which allow excitation of a broad range of atoms. The continuous spectrum consists of "bremsstrahlung" radiation: radiation produced when high-energy electrons passing through the tube are progressively decelerated by the material of the tube anode (the "target"). A typical tube output s... |
have been labeled as a distortion of actual events or dismissed as complete fabrication. Additional genres Eckert and other post-Farmerian authors—admirers of Farmer's Wold Newton biographies and fiction who write in Eckert’s vein—have published numerous further fictional characters in many literary styles and media, i... | 1997 on his website, An Expansion of Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe. Eckert and others use Farmer's concept of the Wold Newton Family as a unifying device and to expand the universe that the Wold Newton Family inhabits by including essays in the vein of the Sherlockian "Game," in which theories are proposed ... |
(album), a 2010 album by the band Tokyo Police Club Champ (cartoon character), an animated dog introduced by Walter Lantz Studios in 1960 Champ, the name of the costumed bulldog mascot for Louisiana Tech University Champion "Champ" Kind, a character from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Anchorman 2: The Legend... | Audrain County, Missouri Champ Island, European Russian arctic island Science Champ., botanical abbreviation for John George Champion CHAMP (satellite), CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload, a German satellite launched July 15, 2000 CHAMP, Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project, a directed energ... |
the Edmonton Trappers of the Pacific Coast League. The Lynx's working agreement with the Orioles ended when the latter signed a Player Development Contract with the Norfolk Tides on September 25, 2006. In 2006, the ball club was sold to Joe Finley and Craig Stein, while Pecor maintained a minority stake. Finley and Ste... | people, losing to the Syracuse Chiefs, 8–5. The Ottawa Lynx ultimately won exactly 1,000 games before leaving Ottawa. Titles The Lynx won the Governors' Cup, the championship of the International League, once by defeating the Norfolk Tides in 1995. Season-by-season records Alumni Matt Stairs (1993) – Outfielder/designa... |
was warm and smoking; several people reported sounds of explosions as it fell. The owner of the land was Major Edward Topham, a well-known public figure, an ex-soldier, playwright and newspaper proprietor; he publicised the find and exhibited the meteorite publicly at Piccadilly in London. The stone initially weighed .... | matter existed or not, and towards the early scientific study of meteorites. The monument A monument was erected on the location of the stone's impact, by Major Topham, on whose property the stone had fallen. The structure was built of brick square and high, with a plaque on one face. In fiction The event was used by t... |
have been one of several atheistic, materialist schools that existed in ancient India during the 6th century BCE. Though there is evidence of its development in Vedic era, The Charvaka school of philosophy predated the Āstika schools as well as being a philosophical predecessor to subsequent or contemporaneous philosop... | by this school as that of inner sense, the mind. Inference is described as deriving a new conclusion and truth from one or more observations and previous truths. To Charvakas, inference is useful but prone to error, as inferred truths can never be without doubt. Inference is good and helpful, it is the validity of infe... |
his window, suggests Tallboy leave, on foot, without looking behind him. Both know that the gang's killers are waiting, and Tallboy is knocked down and killed as he walks home. Principal characters Lord Peter Wimsey, 42, aristocratic amateur detective Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Wimsey's friend, married to his sist... | ability to set a group of people going. The advertising agency is inimitable, and hence better than the De Momerie crowd that goes with it. The murder is ingenious and Wimsey is just right". Writing in 1993, the biographer Dorothy Reynolds noted that "Sayers herself disliked the novel, which she wrote quickly in order ... |
of Odin's kennings are given here. For a scholarly list of kennings see Meissner's Die Kenningar der Skalden (1921) or some editions of Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál. Source language abbreviations List | of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. Kennings for a particular character are listed in that character's article. For example, the Odin article links to |
preparations were made and considerable expense incurred for the assaying of the great quantity of "ore" (about 200 tons) brought home. This took much time and led to disputes among the various interested parties. Third voyage Meanwhile, the Queen and others in her retinue maintained a strong faith in the potential pro... | neck. The expedition consisted of fifteen vessels: the flagship Ayde, Michael, and Gabriel, as well as Judith, Dennis or Dionyse, Anne Francis, Francis of Foy and Moon of Foy, Bear of Leycester, Thomas of Ipswich, Thomas Allen, Armenall, Soloman of Weymouth, Hopewell, and Emanuel of Bridgwater. There were over 400 men ... |
a unicameral (originally bicameral) Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the National Assembly (previously called the Legislative Assembly). The premier is Quebec's head of government, while the Queen of Canada is its head of state a... | by the defeat of a supply bill or tabling of a confidence motion. This article only covers the time since the Canadian Confederation was created in 1867. For the premiers of the Canada East from 1840 to 1867, see List of joint premiers of the Province of Canada. The governments of Lower Canada from 1792 to 1840 were mo... |
a child he lived both inside and outside France, including the United States. Bové speaks English fluently, as his parents moved with him to Berkeley, California when he was three. They were invited to be researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. After they returned to France, they lived in Paris. Bové att... | army, he refused as a conscientious objector. While waiting for his court appeal, he went into hiding and worked in a farm. Anti-military activist In 1976, Bové joined the Fight for the Larzac, a movement protesting the proposed expansion of a military camp on the Larzac plateau. It would have displaced regional sheep ... |
of the city are linked to the city centre by a park and ride scheme (see details in the bus section below). The A36 forms an almost complete ring road around the city centre. The A3094 comprises the southwestern quadrant of the ring road, passing through the city's outer suburbs. The lack of adequate roads is a cause o... | 42.76% were over 45, and 13.3% were between 18–29. Economy Salisbury holds a Charter market on Tuesdays and Saturdays and has held markets regularly since 1227. In the 15th century the Market Place had four crosses: the Poultry Cross, whose name describes its market; the 'cheese and milk cross', which indicated that ma... |
editor Bored by his work, Lean spent every evening in the cinema, and in 1927, after an aunt had advised him to find a job he enjoyed, he visited Gaumont Studios where his obvious enthusiasm earned him a month's trial without pay. He was taken on as a teaboy, promoted to clapperboy, and soon rose to the position of thi... | weeks away from filming at the time of Lean's death from throat cancer and interment at Putney Vale Cemetery. It was rumoured that fellow film director John Boorman would take over direction, but the production collapsed. Nostromo was finally adapted for the small screen with an unrelated BBC television mini-series in ... |
James Boswell (ca. 1672–1749), 7th Laird of Auchinleck. He attended the University of Edinburgh, read Civil Law at the University of Leyden and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1727. He was appointed Sheriff of Wigtown in 1748 but resigned the position in 1750 after inheriting the Auchinleck estate in Ayrshi... | (1706–1782) was a judge of the supreme courts of Scotland. He was the father of the author and biographer James Boswell, and grandfather of songwriter Sir Alexander Boswell. Alexander Boswell was the eldest son of James Boswell (ca. 1672–1749), 7th Laird of Auchinleck. He attended the University of Edinburgh, read Civi... |
Music Trial (album), a 2012 album by the Pillows Trial (band), an American political straight-edge hardcore band from Seattle, Washington Trials (band), an American heavy metal band from Chicago, Illinois Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media Trial (film), a 1955 American film "Trial" (Batman: The Animated Serie... | a certain type of tenor voice ('trial') Arts, entertainment, and media Games Mock Trial (card game), a 1910 card game invented by Lizzie Magie Trials (series), a platform racing video game series Trials (video game), a 2000 video game and the first in the above series Music Trial (album), a 2012 album by the Pillows Tr... |
While counseling and psychotherapy are common activities for psychologists, these health service psychology fields are just two branches in the larger domain of psychology. There are other classifications such as industrial and organizational and community psychologists, whose professionals mainly apply psychological r... | during a three-year transitional period from 17 October 2010 to 17 October 2013). Membership with Australian Psychological Society (APS) differs from registration as a psychologist. The standard route to full membership (MAPS) of the APS usually requires four years of APAC-accredited undergraduate study, plus a master'... |
the World Expo in 1970, was extremely popular there and subsequently screened in New Zealand cinemas, garnering considerable acclaim. It used three separate projectors to create a wide-screen image. The film was restored in 2006 and shown at the 2007 New Zealand International Film Festivals. Establishment of the New Ze... | surviving New Zealand film, while the first feature film made in New Zealand premiered in 1914. A small-scale industry developed between the 1920s and the 1960s, but it was not until the 1970s that locally made films began to attract significant audiences. From the 1990s onward, New Zealand-made films have increasingly... |
his hammer to knock Loki's head off if he continues. Loki replies that for Thor alone he will leave the hall, because his threats are the only ones he fears. He then leaves. Finally there is a short piece of prose summarizing the tale of Loki's binding, which is told in fuller form in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri... | angry; a brave man sits not considering." Idunn stepped in to protect her husband. Idunn: "I pray thee, Bragi! let avail the bond of children, and of all adopted sons, and to Loki speak not in reproachful words, in Ægir's hall." Loki: "Be silent, Idunn! of all women I declare thee most fond of men, since thou thy arms,... |
while most VIC-20s made during 1981 had a slightly different keyboard also shared with early C64s. The rainbow logo VIC-20 was introduced in early 1983 and has the newer C64 keyboard with gray function keys and the Revision B motherboard. It has a similar power supply to the C64 PSU, although the amperage is slightly l... | of them were required to reach 5 KB of system RAM. The Revision B system board, found in rainbow logo VIC-20s (see below) switched to larger 2048-byte SRAMs which reduced the memory count to five chips: 2× 2048-byte chips + 3× 2114 (the 1024 × 4 bits) chips. While newer PETs had the upgraded BASIC 4.0, which had disk c... |
associated with overpopulation and poverty reduction. For example, when criticized for advocating mosquito nets he argued that child survival was, "by far one of the most powerful ways", to achieve fertility reduction, as this would assure poor families that the smaller number of children they had would survive. Opposi... | of the demographic changes that took place at the time. It was only in the first decade of the 19th century that the world's population reached one billion. The second billion was added in the 1930s, and the next billion in the 1960s. 90 percent of this net increase occurred in developing countries. Eager also argues t... |
examines how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular trajectories of economic and political development. It explores how geographic and ecological forces influence state-building, economic development, and institutions. It also addresses fears surrounding the effects of modern clima... | supremacy of the Nordic race. Defects of character supposedly generated by tropical climates were believed to be inheritable under the Lamarckian theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, a discredited precursor to the Darwinian theory of natural selection. The theory begins with the observation that an organi... |
to meet expenses, were forced to sell the contract of Erving to the Philadelphia 76ers. (By comparison, as part of the 1970 merger between the NFL and AFL that absorbed all 10 former AFL teams into the NFL, the NFL agreed to shift three of its existing teams to the new AFC where the former AFL teams were assigned, leav... | forced to pay $4.3M to the Knicks organization. The Nets offered league superstar Julius Erving instead but the Knicks declined. The Nets had to settle for an arena in Piscataway, New Jersey and, to meet expenses, were forced to sell the contract of Erving to the Philadelphia 76ers. (By comparison, as part of the 1970 ... |
was the subject of a failed assassination attempt. He was later protected by a 1904 New Zealand law. At times when New Zealand feared invasion, various coastal fortifications were constructed to defend Cook Strait. During the Second World War, two gun installations were constructed on Wrights Hill behind Wellington. Th... | a Māori migration to, and the conquest and settlement of, the Cook Strait region. From 1840 more permanent settlements sprang up, first at Wellington, then at Nelson and at Whanganui (Petre). At this period the settlers saw Cook Strait in a broader sense than today's ferry-oriented New Zealanders: for them the strait s... |
career In 1503 Boleyn helped to escort Margaret Tudor north for her marriage to King James IV of Scotland. He was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Henry VIII in 1509. His appointment as ambassador to the Low Countries brought him into contact with the regent Archduchess Margaret of Austria. Like Thomas... | peerage as Viscount Rochford in 1525 and in 1529 was further ennobled as Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond. Origins He was born in about 1477 at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, the son of Sir William Boleyn (1451–1505) of Blickling (purchased by Sir William's father Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, a wealthy mercer who served as Lor... |
non-employees be works made for hire. On the other hand, a work for hire agreement is less desirable for creators than a Copyright transfer agreement. Under work for hire, the commissioning party owns all rights from the very start even if the contract is breached, whereas under a transfer of rights, the creator can ho... | the US Copyright Office, Circular 9 "the termination provisions of the law do not apply to works made for hire." These restrictions, in both the work for hire doctrine and the right of termination, exist out of recognition that artists frequently face unequal bargaining power in their business dealings. Nonetheless, fa... |
the player's time is often composed entirely of byo-yomi periods (for example, in an eight-hour game, the player may have 480 periods of one minute each), rather than having a main block of thinking time. In this case, the actual counting of time (verbally) begins once the player falls below a certain threshold of time... | a specified time (such as one minute or ten minutes). While one player is deciding a move, their clock time decreases and their opponent's clock time increases. This is analogous to an hourglass: sand empties from one container and fills the other. The sum of both clocks always remains the same, and slow moves give ext... |
the years following he continued in Henry's service; he was, however, imprisoned in the Tower of London for a month in 1536, perhaps because Henry hoped he would incriminate the queen. He was knighted in 1535 and appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1536. At this time he was sent to Spain as ambassador to Charles V, who ... | In his verse, Wyatt calls his mistress Anna and might allude to events in her life: And now I follow the coals that be quent, From Dover to Calais against my mind Gilfillan argues that these lines could refer to Anne's trip to France in 1532 prior to her marriage to Henry VIII and could imply that Wyatt was present, al... |
Sur Panama San Juan, Chiriquí San Juan, Colón San Juan de Dios San Juan, Veraguas Peru San Juan (mountain) San Juan District (disambiguation), several districts in Peru Philippines San Juan, Abra San Juan, Batangas San Juan, Ilocos Sur San Juan, La Union San Juan, Metro Manila San Juan, San Jose, Camarines Sur San Juan... | Río, Oaxaca San Juan Diuxi San Juan Guelavia San Juan Guichicovi San Juan Ihualtepec San Juan Juquila Mixes San Juan Juquila Vijanos San Juan Lachao San Juan Lachigalla San Juan Lajarcia San Juan Lalana San Juan Mazatlán San Juan Mixtepec, Mixteca San Juan Mixtepec, Miahuatlán San Juan Ñumí San Juan Ozolotepec San Juan... |
ground), militia becomes militiae (in military service, in the field), and focus becomes focī (at the hearth; at the center of the community). The first declension locative is by far the most common, because so many Roman place names were first declension, such as Roma, Rome, and therefore use the same form as the geni... | In Classical Latin, changes to the Old Latin diphthongs caused the originally-distinctive ending of the locative singular to become indistinguishable from the endings of some other cases. Because the locative was already identical to the ablative (which had a "location" meaning as well) in the plural, the loss of disti... |
two other snuffboxes, an agate and silver example bears Turner's name, and another, made of wood, was collected along with his spectacles, magnifying glass and card case by an associate housekeeper. Turner formed a short but intense friendship with the artist Edward Thomas Daniell. The painter David Roberts wrote of hi... | who knew Turner to tell them at the time of his death that, "I must inform you, we have lost him." Other executors were his cousin and chief mourner at the funeral, Henry Harpur IV (benefactor of Westminster – now Chelsea & Westminster – Hospital), Revd. Henry Scott Trimmer, George Jones RA and Charles Turner ARA. Art ... |
to marry Francis II in 1557. Seymour also attempted to bring uniformity to forms of worship, and in 1549 the first Act of Uniformity introduced a Book of Common Prayer that attempted to compromise between different forms of learning; it was replaced by a more severe form in 1552 after his fall. During the Protectorate ... | A complex aspect of the social unrest was that the protestors believed they were acting legitimately against enclosing landlords with the Protector's support, convinced that the landlords were the lawbreakers. The same justification for outbreaks of unrest was voiced throughout the country, not only in Norfolk and the ... |
used interchangeably. Attestations Poetic Edda In both Skírnismál (The Lay of Skírnir) and Gylfaginning (The Beguiling of Gylfi), Gymir is portrayed as the spouse of Aurboða; and from their union was born Gerðr. Prose Edda A verse from the 9th-century skald Ref Gestsson is quoted in the later Skáldskaparmál (The Langua... | the 9th-century skald Ref Gestsson is quoted in the later Skáldskaparmál (The Language of Poetry). According to John Lindow, "the verse in question seems to say that the cold seeress of Gymir often transports the bear of twisted lines into the jaw of Ægir; that is, that the wave (Ægir’s daughters are the nine waves) of... |
sat in the high seat there, he looked out over the whole world and saw every man's acts, and knew all things which he saw." However, later he explicitly refers to it as the high seat itself: "Another great abode is there, which is named Valaskjálf. Odin possesses that dwelling. The gods made it and thatched it with she... | Allfather sat in the high seat there, he looked out over the whole world and saw every man's acts, and knew all things which he saw." However, later he explicitly refers to it as the high seat itself: "Another great abode is there, which is named Valaskjálf. Odin possesses that dwelling. The gods made it and thatched i... |
fragments, the four main manuscripts are Codex Regius, Codex Wormianus, Codex Trajectinus, and the Codex Upsaliensis: The other three manuscripts are AM 748; AM 757 a 4to; and AM 738 II 4to, AM le ß fol. Although some scholars have doubted whether a sound stemma of the manuscripts can be created, due to the possibility... | paragraph from a portion of Codex Upsaliensis, an early 14th-century manuscript containing the Edda: Scholars have noted that this attribution, along with that of other primary manuscripts, is not clear whether or not Snorri is more than the compiler of the work and the author of Háttatal or if he is the author of the ... |
other hand, returned to a Parmenides-like argument of denying the existence of space. For Descartes, there was matter, and there was extension of matter leaving no room for the existence of "nothing". The idea that space can actually be empty was generally still not accepted by philosophers who invoked arguments simila... | This remained so until Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer in 1643 and showed that an empty space appeared if the mercury tube was turned upside down. This phenomenon being known as the Torricelli vacuum and the unit of vacuum pressure, the torr, being named after him. Even Torricelli's teacher, the famous Ga... |
his training as an EAAA pilot at Norwich Airport. On 13 July 2015, William started his new job, which he felt was a natural progression from his previous role as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot. The Duke described working irregular shifts and dealing mostly with critical care cases. He also publicly discussed the conseq... | of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. In December 2014, the Duke founded the United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce, which aims to reduce worldwide illegal wildlife trade. The Duke has spoken out for LGBT rights as part of his work against cyberbullying, stating the importance of being "proud of the person you are" an... |
Musicians' Union restrictive practices which forbade working with jazz musicians from the United States. In 1956, he had his only pop chart hit, with the Joe Meek-produced recording of "Bad Penny Blues", which was in the UK Singles Chart for six weeks. Over time, Lyttelton gradually shifted to a more mainstream approac... | Society for Italic Handwriting. Early life and career Lyttelton was born at Eton College (then in Buckinghamshire), where his father, George William Lyttelton (second son of the 8th Viscount Cobham), was a house master. (As a male-line descendant of Charles Lyttelton, Lyttelton was in remainder to both the Viscountcy C... |
plant with a thick underground rhizome. Like all trilliums, it has a whorl of three bracts (leaves) and a single trimerous flower with 3 sepals, 3 petals, two whorls of 3 stamens each, and 3 carpels fused into a single ovary with 3 stigmas. Since its flower has no stalk, T. chloropetalum belongs to subgenus Sessilium, ... | of California, being especially frequent in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. Description Trillium chloropetalum is a perennial, clump-forming herbaceous plant with a thick underground rhizome. Like all trilliums, it has a whorl of three bracts (leaves) and a single trimerous flower with 3 sepals, 3 petals, two wh... |
Emperor of the West by Marcian, the Eastern Emperor. Ricimer and Majorian convinced the Roman Senate to authorize a military expedition against Avitus, who had established himself at the imperial capital of Ravenna. The two led an army against an imperial force commanded by the magister militum Remistus which they defe... | gained influence over the Germanic peoples occupying Gaul, Hispania, and Northern Africa. He was left with the options of dissolving the Western Empire and ruling as an official viceroy of Leo in Constantinople or exerting his power over the West through a puppet emperor. Though he had hoped to take the first option, t... |
alternative history and speculative fiction. Development An early book of counterfactual histories is If It Had Happened Otherwise (1931) which features “If Lee Had Not Won the Battle at Gettysburg”, by Winston Churchill, about a fictional Confederate victory at the Battle of Gettysburg (1863). As a text of counterfact... | claims that each actor in succession played an unusually critical role in creating a structure of leadership that became increasingly global in scope across time. Differences from alternate history Counterfactual history is neither historical revisionism nor alternate history. Counterfactual history distinguishes itsel... |
age 17. Male teenagers are allowed to join the Territorial Troops Militia prior to their compulsory service. Haiti In Haiti an unknown number of children participate in various loosely organised armed groups that are engaged in political violence. United States In the United States 17-year-olds may join the armed force... | began with the Cape Town Principles and Best Practices, developed in 1997. The Principles proposed that African governments commit to OPAC, which was being negotiated at the time, and raise the minimum age for military recruitment from 15 to 18. The Principles also defined a child soldier to include any person under th... |
as a clue-by-four, cluestick, or cluebat), meaning turning off the user's access to computer resources and the like. History The Jargon File states that the word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when a user first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out... | the command "luser", which attempted to summon assistance from a list of designated helpers. Although ITS ceased to be used in the mid-1990s, use of the term continued to spread, partly because in Unix-style computer operating systems, "user" designates all unprivileged accounts, while the superuser, or root, is the sp... |
species of bird in the family Thraupidae Shrikethrush, any of the birds in the family Colluricinclidae Spotted thrush-babbler (Ptyrticus turdinus), a species of bird in the family Timaliidae Thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), a species of bird in the family Muscapidae Thrush-like antpitta (Myrmothera campanisona),... | any of the birds in the family Colluricinclidae Spotted thrush-babbler (Ptyrticus turdinus), a species of bird in the family Timaliidae Thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), a species of bird in the family Muscapidae Thrush-like antpitta (Myrmothera campanisona), a species of bird in the Formicariidae Thrush-like sch... |
45 degrees (0, 45, 90, 135, and 180 degrees), giving strength in multiple axes. The word ply derives from the French verb , "to fold", from the Latin verb , from the ancient Greek verb . History The ancient Egyptians and Greeks cut wood thinly and glued it together in layers with the grain in perpendicular directions, ... | or from European Birch veneers throughout. Basswood is another type of aviation-grade plywood that is lighter and more flexible than mahogany and birch plywood but has slightly less structural strength. Aviation-grade plywood is manufactured to a number of specifications including those outlined since 1931 in the Germa... |
a day; by 1937 it was 2,329,000 a day, making it the most successful of all British newspapers and generating huge profits for Beaverbrook whose wealth was already such that he never took a salary. After the Second World War, the Daily Express became the largest-selling newspaper in the world, with a circulation of 3,7... | it was 2,329,000 a day, making it the most successful of all British newspapers and generating huge profits for Beaverbrook whose wealth was already such that he never took a salary. After the Second World War, the Daily Express became the largest-selling newspaper in the world, with a circulation of 3,706,000. Beaverb... |
promoted his low-budget building design (a simple hole in the ground with walls of wooden planks backed by plastic sheeting) by claiming it needed no foundation, used less building material and labour, had less maintenance, was aesthetically pleasing, had a lower taxation rate in the US at the time, cost less to regula... | the load (see also: Roof). Another important cost factor that tends to be unique to earth shelters is site excavation and backfilling. The amount of waterproofing is also more costly. On the other hand, earth shelters should have lower maintenance costs since they are mostly covered with little exposed exterior. Many f... |
inhabited. Culture There are a number of local holidays celebrated annually in Krasnoyarsk. The most significant holiday is the Day of the City celebrated in June, usually with a carnival. Other holidays and cultural events are the Mana Festival (. The celebrations take place on the outside of town, on the bank of rive... | replaces other wood in the mountains westward of the Karaulnaya River, in about to the west from the city, the forests to the south are mostly pine, fir and aspen. History The city was founded on August 19, 1628 as a Russian border fort when a group of service class people from Yeniseysk led by Andrey Dubenskoy arrived... |
hang glider manufacturer Avian (given name), or in Russian, Авиа́н, Russian male first name Avian, Friulian name of Aviano, a city in Italy See also Avian influenza Evian, a brand of mineral water Évian-les-Bains, a commune in | an adjective Avian (band), an American metal band Avian, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran Avian Island, an island in Antarctica Avro Avian, a series of British light aircraft designed and built by Avro in the 1920s and 1930s Avian Limited, |
Smart card management system(SCMS) and Card management system(CMS) Cryptographic Message Syntax, a cryptographic standard Medicine Chronic mountain sickness, or Monge's disease, a disease caused by high altitude Congenital mitral stenosis Congenital myasthenic syndrome, an inherited neuromuscular disorder Organizations... | private school in Calexico, California, USA Cardigan Mountain School, a junior boarding school in Canaan, New Hampshire, USA Carpentersville Middle School, a public school in Carpentersville, Illinois, USA Caruso Middle School, a public school in Deerfield, Illinois, USA Cedar Middle School, a public school in Cedar Ci... |
Prix, the developers chose to base the game on the 1967 Formula 1 Grand Prix season because during that period tracks were narrow and lined with trees, houses, and other elements that in a video game can serve as backgrounds to enhance the sensation of speed. In addition, the more primitive suspension of cars of the ti... | enables players to do something they simply never could in the real world. Many, if not most[,] games do that, but few do it as convincingly or compellingly." Sales The game was a commercial failure; Andy Mahood of PC Gamer US described its sales as "abysmally poor". In 2003, writer Mark H. Walker reported that "the ga... |
of EU's regulation, 17% of the new roof construction are green roofs. In Washington DC, green roofs are utilized as an alternative storm-water retention technique. Benefits Reducing building energy consumption by increasing the roof insulation: In total energy consumption reduction, green roof would have the best perfo... | using the rock or strong soil as wall and ground as the floor, construction cost is greatly reduced, because the structure will need less load bearing material and there is no need for excavation and foundation construction; the wall and the floor made of natural material likely will have better insulation than artific... |
searched when she was arrested, is likely to be a fabrication. Margaret Pole was held in the Tower of London for two and a half years under severe conditions; she, her grandson (Montagu's son), and Exeter's son were held together and supported by the King. In 1540, Cromwell himself fell from favour and was himself exec... | Pope Leo XIII. Aside from the aforementioned oppositional treatise, King Henry's harshness towards the Pole family might have derived from the fact that Pole's mother, Margaret, was one of the last surviving members of the House of Plantagenet. Under some circumstances, that descent could have made Reginald – until he ... |
Bailey, Bailhache, Baker, Brewer, Butcher, Carpenter, Carter, Chandler, Clark or Clarke, Collier, Cooper, Cook or Cooke, Dempster, Dyer, Farmer, Faulkner, Ferrari, Ferrero, Fisher, Fisichella, Fletcher, Fowler, Fuller, Gardener, Glover, Hayward, Hawkins, Head, Hunt or Hunter, Judge, Knight, Mason, Miller, Mower, Page, ... | prefix "su-" (of Sanskrit origin), was supposed to be a rendering of "Swie Liong". During the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade many Africans lost their native names and were forced by their owners to take the owners' surnames and any given name the "owner" or slave master desired. In the Americas, the family names... |
her husband died in 1505, Margaret became a widow with five children. She had a small estate of land, inherited from her husband, but no other income and no prospects. Henry VII paid for Richard's funeral. To ease the situation, Margaret devoted her third son Reginald Pole to the Church, in which he was to have an even... | Beaufort great-grandfather—and were now in the possession of the Crown. In 1520, Margaret was appointed governess to Henry's daughter Mary; the next year, when her sons were mixed up with Buckingham, she was removed, but she was restored by 1525. When Mary was declared a bastard in 1533, Margaret refused to give Mary's... |
at the 1943 Tehran Conference. Hitler supposedly gave the command of the operation to Ernst Kaltenbrunner, chief of the RSHA, who, in turn, ceded the mission to Skorzeny. Knowledge of the whole scheme was presented to the Western Allies by Stalin's NKVD at the Tehran conference. The Soviets said they had learned about ... | on a Bavarian farm as well as in Salzburg and Paris before eventually settling in Francoist Spain. In 1953, he was offered a job as a military advisor to Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, which he did not take up. He was an advisor to Argentinian president Juan Perón. In 1963, Skorzeny was allegedly recruited by t... |
better, and died of childbirth complications, just before Elizabeth's 15th birthday. Upon her death, Catherine bequeathed all of her possessions to Thomas, making him one of the wealthiest men in England. He said he was "amazed" at her death; yet it opened up new opportunities to him, as his eye returned to Elizabeth. ... | his household, in flirtatious and possibly sexual behaviour. Family Thomas Seymour was the son of Sir John Seymour and Margaret Wentworth. He was the younger brother of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1500–1552). He grew up at Wulfhall, the Seymour family home, in Wiltshire, a county in southwest England. The Sey... |
king. According to J. M. W. Bean, it is clear that the Percys were in collusion with Glyndŵr. On his return to England shortly after the victory at Homildon Hill, Henry Percy issued proclamations in Cheshire accusing the king of 'tyrannical government'. Joined by his uncle, Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, Percy marche... | an English knight who fought in several campaigns against the Scots in the northern border and against the French during the Hundred Years' War. The nickname "Hotspur" was given to him by the Scots as a tribute to his speed in advance and readiness to attack. The heir to a leading noble family in northern England, Hots... |
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