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clockwise or anti-clockwise. Only the sections between turns 3, 4, and 5, then 5 and 6, differ significantly from the race track configuration. Turn 4 is replaced by a car park access road running directly from turns 3 to 5. Between turns 5 and 6, the road is blocked. It is possible to drive from turn 5 on to Albert Ro... | and relatively easy to drive, drivers having commented that the consistent placement of corners allows them to easily learn the circuit and achieve competitive times. However, the flat terrain around the lake, coupled with a track design that features few true straights, means that the track is not conducive to overtak... |
Grand Prix predates the current World Championship. The principality's first Grand Prix was organised in 1929 by Antony Noghès, under the auspices of Prince Louis II, through the Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM), of which he was president. The ACM organised the Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo, and in 1928 applied to the A... | race was the first Grand Prix in which grid positions were decided, as they are now, by practice time rather than the established method of balloting. The race saw Achille Varzi and Tazio Nuvolari exchange the lead many times before the race being settled in Varzi's favour on the final lap when Nuvolari's car caught fi... |
resembling the original Nuclear fission, when the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts Fission (band), a Swedish death metal band Fission (album), by Jens Johansson See also Fusion | fission, when the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts Fission (band), a Swedish death metal band Fission (album), by Jens Johansson See also Fusion (disambiguation) |
(Image Comics) Fusion (Marvel Comics), a name of two fictional supervillains Fusion (Marvel/Top Cow), a crossover between Marvel and Top Cow Productions Dance Fusion dance, a type of partner dance that combines two or more dance styles NW Fusion Dance Company, located in Tigard, Oregon Film and television "Fusion" (Sta... | more vertebrae Tooth fusion, a dental abnormality in which two teeth are joined Computing Computing techniques Image fusion, a process of combining relevant information from two or more images into a single image Loop fusion, a compiler program-optimization transformation that replaces multiple loops with a single one ... |
colored—four colors may be wanted but not more—the following is his case in which four colors are wanted. Query cannot a necessity for five or more be invented…" "F.G.", perhaps one of the two Guthries, published the question in The Athenaeum in 1854, and De Morgan posed the question again in the same magazine in 1860.... | but not both, since these two paths would necessarily intersect, and the vertex where they intersect cannot be colored. Suppose it is the red and blue neighbors that are not chained together. Explore all vertices attached to the red neighbor by red-blue alternating paths, and then reverse the colors red and blue on all... |
blacklisting of the so-called "Hollywood Ten", a group of influential screenwriters and directors. This governmental interference in the affairs of artists and creative types greatly angered Bradbury. Bradbury was bitter and concerned about the workings of his government, and a late 1949 nighttime encounter with an ove... | Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature. In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award i... |
new viceroy Martim Afonso de Sousa, on board the Santiago. As he departed, Francis was given a brief from the pope appointing him apostolic nuncio to the East. From August until March 1542 he remained in Portuguese Mozambique, and arrived in Goa, then capital of Portuguese India, on 6 May 1542, thirteen months after le... | the royal castle of Xavier, in the Kingdom of Navarre, on 7 April 1506 according to a family register. He was the youngest son of Juan de Jasso y Atondo, seneschal of Xavier castle, who belonged to a prosperous farming family and had acquired a doctorate in law at the University of Bologna. Basque was his mother tongue... |
be distinctive, be globally distributed and occupy a short time range to be useful. Misleading results are produced if the index fossils are incorrectly dated. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy can in general provide only relative dating (A was before B), which is often sufficient for studying evolution. However, this i... | a geological timescale and the relative ages of different fossils. The development of radiometric dating techniques in the early 20th century allowed scientists to quantitatively measure the absolute ages of rocks and the fossils they host. There are many processes that lead to fossilization, including permineralizatio... |
several exceptions, schools must have a student's consent prior to the disclosure of education records after that student is 18 years old. The law applies only to educational agencies and institutions that receive funds under a program administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Other regulations under this Act, ... | information unless the school has specific permission from the student to share that specific type of information. FERPA also permits a school to disclose personally identifiable information from education records of an "eligible student" (a student age 18 or older or enrolled in a postsecondary institution at any age)... |
to those older adults who were less active. A healthy diet can also contribute to a healthier brain and aging process which in turn results in less frequent forgetting. History One of the first to study the mechanisms of forgetting was the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885). Using himself as the sole subject... | duration. In the modal model, how quickly information is forgotten is related to the type of memory where that information is stored. Information in the first stage, sensory memory, is forgotten after only a few seconds. In the second stage, short-term memory, information is forgotten after about 20. While information ... |
horror film roles, in addition to many other types of roles, including in The Bowery (1933) and Viva Villa (1934), both of which starred Wallace Beery. For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Wray starred in the film she is most identified with, King Kong (1933). After the success of King Kong, she made numerous appearances in b... | deal with RKO Radio Pictures. Her first film with RKO was The Most Dangerous Game (1932), co-starring Joel McCrea. The production was filmed at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, and with Wray and Robert Armstrong starring in both movies. The Most Dangerous Game was followe... |
required 25% as long as the original learning session (to learn all items). 'Savings' is thus, analogous to retention rate. In 2015, an attempt to replicate the forgetting curve with one study subject has shown the experimental results similar to Ebbinghaus' original data. Ebbinghaus' experiment contributed a lot to ex... | stress and sleep. He further hypothesized that the basal forgetting rate differs little between individuals. He concluded that the difference in performance can be explained by mnemonic representation skills. He went on to hypothesize that basic training in mnemonic techniques can help overcome those differences in par... |
die and connecting other die/technologies to the FPGA using Intel's embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) technology. Programming To define the behavior of the FPGA, the user provides a design in a hardware description language (HDL) or as a schematic design. The HDL form is more suited to work with large struc... | the device configuration. Xilinx co-founders Ross Freeman and Bernard Vonderschmitt invented the first commercially viable field-programmable gate array in 1985 – the XC2064. The XC2064 had programmable gates and programmable interconnects between gates, the beginnings of a new technology and market. The XC2064 had 64 ... |
and/or sleep and activity/alertness. Alertness in humans can be determined by many kinds of verbal and non-verbal tests; activity in animals by observation, for example of wheel-running in rodents. When animals or people free-run, experiments can be done to see what sort of signals, known as zeitgebers, are effective i... | animals can be entrained to a 22-hour day, but they can not be entrained to a 20-hour day. In recent studies funded by the U.S. space industry, it has been shown that most humans can be entrained to a 23.5-hour day and to a 24.65-hour day. The effect of unintended time cues is called masking and can totally confound ex... |
the gods fastened the stone slab deep into the ground. After, the gods took a great rock called Thviti (Old Norse "hitter, batterer"), and thrust it even further into the ground as an anchoring peg. Fenrir reacted violently; he opened his jaws very wide, and tried to bite the gods. Then the gods thrust a sword into his... | break slender Gleipnir then Fenrir is nothing for the gods to fear, and as a result would be freed. Fenrir responded: "If you bind me so that I am unable to release myself, then you will be standing by in such a way that I should have to wait a long time before I got any help from you. I am reluctant to have this band ... |
in the same world as the game, although 200 years in the future. It was released as four 30-minute episodes, first in Japan in 1994 and later in the United States by Urban Vision in 1998. In 2001, Square Pictures released its first feature film, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The film is set on a future Earth invad... | Time Battle concept, which was used from Final Fantasy IV until Final Fantasy IX. In designing the Active Time Battle system, Ito drew inspiration from Formula One racing; he thought it would be interesting if character types had different speeds after watching race cars pass each other. Ito also co-directed Final Fant... |
means that the two hydrogen atoms adjacent to the double bond stick out on the same side of the chain. The rigidity of the double bond freezes its conformation and, in the case of the cis isomer, causes the chain to bend and restricts the conformational freedom of the fatty acid. The more double bonds the chain has in ... | (up to 70 wt%) in some species such as microalgae but in some other organisms are not found in their standalone form, but instead exist as three main classes of esters: triglycerides, phospholipids, and cholesteryl esters. In any of these forms, fatty acids are both important dietary sources of fuel for animals and imp... |
travel. The airline books him on the flight. They seat him next to Dr. Bill Perlman, the airline's psychiatrist. Dr. Perlman annoyingly tags behind Max back to his home, prodding him for information about the crash. Max is forced to snap back at the psychiatrist rudely, to be rid of him. Laura Klein, Max's wife, notice... | The film's screenwriter was inspired to write the script after he was in a car accident. Yglesias began writing the story after reading about United Airlines Flight 232, that crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1989. Plot Max Klein survives an airline crash. The plane plummets, but strangely Max is calm. His calm enables h... |
Navy. Roosevelt oversaw the Navy's civilian employees and earned the respect of union leaders for his fairness in resolving disputes. No strikes occurred during his seven-plus years in the office, as he gained valuable experience in labor issues, wartime management, naval issues, and logistics. In 1914, Roosevelt ran f... | In 1908, he took a job with the prestigious law firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn, working in the firm's admiralty law division. Marriage, family, and affairs During his second year of college, he met and proposed to Boston heiress, Alice Sohier, who turned him down. Franklin then began courting his child-acquaintance a... |
people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and much of Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, except for those in internment camps. By 1946, the United States had incarcerated 120,000 individuals of Japanese descent, of whom about 80,000 had been born in the United St... | us or for our neighbors. "Those, who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." The speech coincided with the introduction of the Lend-Lease Act, which promoted Roosevelt's plan to become the "arsenal of democracy" and support the Allies (mainly the Briti... |
for biconditional, for negation. Occasionally other logical connective symbols are included. Some authors use Cpq, instead of , and Epq, instead of , especially in contexts where → is used for other purposes. Moreover, the horseshoe may replace ; the triple-bar may replace ; a tilde (), Np, or Fp, may replace ; a doubl... | are completely formalized unlike natural-language mathematical proofs. A deductive system is sound if any formula that can be derived in the system is logically valid. Conversely, a deductive system is complete if every logically valid formula is derivable. All of the systems discussed in this article are both sound an... |
such that the following two conditions hold: for every object in C, for all morphisms and in C. Note that contravariant functors reverse the direction of composition. Ordinary functors are also called covariant functors in order to distinguish them from contravariant ones. Note that one can also define a contravariant ... | sets functor: The power set functor maps each set to its power set and each function to the map which sends to its image . One can also consider the contravariant power set functor which sends to the map which sends to its inverse image For example, if then . Suppose and . Then is the function which sends any subset of... |
orders, but more general than well-orderings. Hausdorff did just that in his first volume of 1901 with the publication of theoretical studies of "graded sets". We know from the results of Kurt Gödel and Paul Cohen, that this strategy to solve the continuum problem is just as ineffectual as Cantor's strategy, which was ... | reputation as a hotbed of humanistic education. He was an excellent student, class leader for many years and often recited self-written Latin or German poems at school celebrations. In his graduation in 1887 (with two Oberprimen), he was the only one who reached the highest grade. The choice of subject was not easy for... |
to the climate change that occurred in the Nordic countries at the end of the Nordic Bronze Age from about 650 BC. In Denmark, Norway, Sweden and other Nordic countries, the term fimbulvinter has been borrowed from Old Norse to refer to an unusually cold and harsh winter. However in Sweden, another common word is "varg... | harsh winter. However in Sweden, another common word is "vargavinter" ("wolf winter"). Etymology Fimbulvetr comes from Old Norse, meaning "awful, great winter." The prefix "fimbul" means "the great/big" so the correct interpretation of the word is "the great winter." See also Eschatology Fimbulwinter (band) Laki Nuclea... |
1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish soldier, footballer and manager (d. 1993) 1927 – Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano 1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004) 1929 – Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer 1929 – Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer 1930 – E. L. Konigsburg, American a... | American art critic (d. 1948) 1879 – Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (d. 1932) 1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (d. 1954) 1883 – Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959) 1883 – H.V. Hordern, Australian cricketer (d. 1938) 1889 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President ... |
In the Altstadt district, close to the historic sites of the city, offers a large variety of art galleries, second-hand bookshops and antique shops. Münchener Straße – In the Bahnhofsviertel district, located between the central station and Willy-Brandt-Platz, is the most multicultural shopping street with many shops s... | Straße – Frankfurt's longest shopping street. It starts in the city center, runs through Nordend and Bornheim and ends in Seckbach. The street is less crowded than the Zeil and offers a greater variety of smaller shops, restaurants and cafés. Leipziger Straße – Central shopping street in the Bockenheim district startin... |
Battle of Jičín. The Crown Prince, however, succeeded in effecting the retreat in good order, and in the decisive Battle of Königgrätz (3 July 1866), he held the extreme left of the Austrian position. The Saxons maintained their post with great tenacity but were involved in the disastrous defeat of their allies. During... | forced the line of the Jizera and in the Battle of Jičín. The Crown Prince, however, succeeded in effecting the retreat in good order, and in the decisive Battle of Königgrätz (3 July 1866), he held the extreme left of the Austrian position. The Saxons maintained their post with great tenacity but were involved in the ... |
while being charged with organizing the teaching of geometry and science which would be useful for geography, navigation, architecture and the military arts in Belgium. His superiors wanted him to synthesize the work of Euclid, Alhazen, Vitello, Roger Bacon and others. Although he died before completing the book, it st... | published optical theories years before him, Aguilon decided to share his insights on geometric optics. At the age of 20, the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens read Aguilon's and was enthralled by it. He later said that it was the best book he had ever read in geometrical optics, and he thought that Aguilon should be comp... |
interface to the Web of Trust plugin which provides spam resistance. Freenet has always been free software, but until 2011 it required users to install Java. This problem was solved by making Freenet compatible with OpenJDK, a free and open source implementation of the Java Platform. On 11 February 2015, Freenet receiv... | making it difficult for even the operator of a node to determine what is stored on that node. This provides plausible deniability; which, in combination with request relaying, means that safe harbor laws that protect service providers may also protect Freenet node operators. When asked about the topic, Freenet develope... |
beets or sugarcane. Regional appellation laws may dictate the types of spirit that are permitted for fortification. For example, in the U.S. only spirits made from the same fruit as the wine may be added. The source of the additional alcohol and the method of its distillation can affect the flavour of the fortified win... | flavors to the finished product. Although grape brandy is most commonly added to produce fortified wines, the additional alcohol may also be neutral spirit that has been made from grapes, grain, sugar beets or sugarcane. Regional appellation laws may dictate the types of spirit that are permitted for fortification. For... |
this war work were Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold, and the three had many and deep discussions on cosmology. The radar work paid for a couple of trips to North America, where he took the opportunity to visit astronomers. On one trip to the US, he learned about supernovae at Caltech and Mount Palomar and, in Canada, the ... | which developed a full theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, co-authored by Hoyle with some members of the Caltech group. After the war, in 1945, Hoyle returned to Cambridge University, as a lecturer at St John's College, Cambridge. Hoyle's Cambridge years, 1945–1973, saw him rise to the top of world astrophysics theory, ... |
quiche Lorraine. As region of historically Allemanic German culture Alsace has retained Elements of German cuisine, especially similar to those from the neighboring Palatinate and Baden region, but has implemented French influences since France first took control of the region in the 17th century. As such, beers made i... | shortcrust pie was developed. Meals often ended with an issue de table, which later changed into the modern dessert, and typically consisted of dragées (in the Middle Ages, meaning spiced lumps of hardened sugar or honey), aged cheese and spiced wine, such as hypocras. The ingredients of the time varied greatly accordi... |
five flavors of the spices (sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami (savoriness)) refers to the five traditional Chinese elements. Ingredients While there are many variants, a common mix is: Star anise (bājiǎo 八角) Cloves (dīngxiāng 丁香) Chinese cinnamon (ròuguì 肉桂) Sichuan pepper (huājiāo 花椒) Fennel seeds (xiǎohuíxiāng 小茴... | as well as beef stew. It is used as a marinade for Vietnamese broiled chicken. The five-spice powder mixture has followed the Chinese diaspora and has been incorporated into other national cuisines throughout Asia. In Hawaii, some restaurants place a shaker of the spice on each patron's table. A seasoned salt can be ea... |
group. In more detail, mapping the homotopy class of each loop to the homology class of the loop gives a group homomorphism from the fundamental group of a topological space X to its first singular homology group This homomorphism is not in general an isomorphism since the fundamental group may be non-abelian, but the ... | circle (also known as the unknot), since the latter has knot group . There are, however, knots that can not be deformed into each other, but have isomorphic knot groups. Oriented surfaces The fundamental group of a genus n orientable surface can be computed in terms of generators and relations as This includes the toru... |
designer, and author (d. 2003) 1920 – Jaan Kross, Estonian author and poet (d. 2007) 1920 – George Rose, English actor and singer (d. 1988) 1922 – Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015) 1924 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player and theoretician (d. 20... | – Beth Rigby, British political editor, Sky News 1977 – Ola Salo, Swedish singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1977 – Andrew Ross Sorkin, American journalist and author 1977 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer and manager 1978 – Ben Gummer, English scholar and politician 1978 – Immortal Technique, Peruvian-Americ... |
Schmidt, Australian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1968 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian and actor (d. 2005) 1969 – Kim Seung-woo, South Korean actor 1970 – Jeff Garcia, American football player and coach 1970 – Neil Sullivan, English born Scottish international footballer and coach 1970 – Jonathan... | of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate. 1875 – The hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries. 1876 – The stage première... |
– Harry Clarke, English international footballer (d. 2000) 1923 – Ioannis Grivas, Greek judge and politician, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016) 1923 – Dante Lavelli, American football player (d. 2009) 1923 – Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (d.1986) 1923 – Mary Francis Shura, American author (d... | will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages. 1981 – In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies. 1983 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri. 1... |
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013) 1928 – Paul Dooley, American actor 1928 – Bruce Forsyth, English singer and television host (d. 2017) 1929 – James Hong, American actor and director 1929 – Rebecca Schull, American stage, film, and television actress 1930 – Marni Nixon, American soprano and actress (d.... | of Tuvalu (d. 2020) 1953 – Nigel Planer, English actor and screenwriter 1955 – David Axelrod, American journalist and political adviser 1955 – Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player 1957 – Willie Smits, Dutch microbiologist and engineer 1958 – Dave Spitz, American bass player and songwriter 1959 – Jiří Čunek, Czech poli... |
– Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2014) 1924 – Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean educator and politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (d. 2019) 1924 – Dorothy Blum, American computer scientist and cryptanalyst (d. 1980) 1925 – Sam Peckinpah, American director and screenwriter (d. 1984) 1925 – Jack Ram... | identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". 1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 1958 – The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is desig... |
a game publisher based in the Arizona, US Furniture Brands International, a former Clayton, Missouri, US-based furniture company Full Blooded Italians, a professional wrestling stable Science The Fauna of British India, a series of scientific books published by the British government in India (1890–1947) FBI mnemonics,... | Radio, a community radio station based in Sydney, Australia Television Fully Booked Interactive, a 2000 British children's TV show – a reformat of the series Fully Booked The F.B.I. (TV series), a 1965–1974 television series based in part on actual FBI cases FBI (franchise) FBI (TV series), the television series produc... |
structures such as IF and WHILE. Almost all of Forth's control structures and almost all of its compiler are implemented as compile-time words. Apart from some rarely used control flow words only found in a few implementations, such as a conditional return, all of Forth's control flow words are executed during compilat... | word's name char-array: name \ name's runtime length isn't known at compile time address: previous \ link field, backward ptr to previous word address: codeword \ ptr to the code to execute this word any-array: parameterfield \ unknown length of data, words, or opcodes end-structure forthword The name field starts with... |
ill. In February 1753, after several years residing in Prussia, he returned to Italy, living most of the time in Bologna. In 1759 Algarotti was involved in a new opera-style in the city of Parma. He influenced Guillaume du Tillot and the Duke of Parma. Algarotti's Essay on the Opera (1755) was a major influence on the ... | fellow of the Royal Society. He became embroiled in a lively bisexual love-triangle with the politician John Hervey, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Algarotti left for Italy and finished his Neutonianismo per le dame ("Newtonism for Ladies") (1737 – dedicated to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle) – a work consisting of in... |
part of the Portuguese embassy to the nəgusä nägäst (Emperor of Ethiopia), accompanied by the Ethiopian ambassador Matheus. Their first attempt to reach the port of Massawa failed due to the actions of Lopo Soares de Albergaria, governor of Portuguese India, which got no closer than the Dahlak Archipelago and was abort... | Álvares wrote was included in an anthology of travel narratives, Navigationi et Viaggi assembled and published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, and published in 1550. Almagia also identified three manuscripts in the Vatican Library which contain versions of excerpts from the original manuscript. Francisco Álvares' work ha... |
son, Giambattista Andreini, were also distinguished in the arts. Accomplishments He published his dialogue as Captain Spavento as "La bravura del Capitano Spavento." This dialogue takes place between the captain and his servant, Trappola. Francesco Andreini wrote four to five page boasts in his publication of his dialo... | brought this type of theater elsewhere; it would not have made it further to the mainstream media and developed further into multilingualism and oral and textual transmissions. His role of Capitano made its way into modern media with adapted versions solely based on the original Capitano. Francesco had an impact on tod... |
Venner's Rising led to repressive legislation to suppress non-conformist sects. Although some physical events such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London continued to encourage belief in "the end of the world" ruled by carnal human beings, the doctrine of the sect either died out or became merged in... | events such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London continued to encourage belief in "the end of the world" ruled by carnal human beings, the doctrine of the sect either died out or became merged in a milder form of Millenarianism. See also 17th-century denominations in England Fifth Empire Mary Cary... |
and politician, 7th President of Argentina (d. 1888) 1812 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (d. 1902) 1820 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist and activist (d. 1906) 1825 – Carter Harrison, Sr., American lawyer and politician, 29th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1893) 1834 – V. A. Urechia, ... | of the complete human genome is published in Nature. 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million and 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history. 2010 – Two trains collide in the Halle train collision ... |
in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City). 1851 – The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria. 1862 – American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its... | – Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss actor, producer, and screenwriter 1952 – Ricardo La Volpe, Argentinian footballer, manager, and coach 1955 – Avram Grant, Israeli football manager 1955 – Michael Pollan, American journalist, author, and academic 1955 – Bruno Stolorz, French rugby player and coach 1956 – Jerry Marotta, American ... |
had five children. He was the father of Joseph Hopkinson, who was a member of the United States House of Representatives and also became a federal judge. Hopkinson's sister Mary (1742-1785) was the wife of Dr. John Morgan, surgeon general of the Continental Army. On May 9, 1791, Hopkinson died in Philadelphia of a sudd... | hand-copied arias, songs, and instrumental pieces by many European composers. He is credited as being the first American-born composer to commit a composition to paper with his 1759 composition "My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free." By the 1760s, was playing with professional musicians in concerts. Some of his more nota... |
30,000 lbs of silver after a short siege with Rome on the verge of famine. A palace revolution in Honorius' court led meanwhile to a change of ministers, and those hostile to the Goths were replaced by officers favorable to Alaric, who began peace negotiations. While the embassy was absent, a new change occurred at Rav... | revolts of Marcus (406–407), Gratian (407), and Constantine III. Constantine invaded Gaul in 407, occupying Arles, and while Constantine was in Gaul, his son Constans ruled over Britain. By 410, Britain may have been told to look after its own affairs and expect no aid from Rome, although it has been argued that the or... |
Indeed, when the length of the vocal tract changes, all the acoustic resonators formed by mouth cavities are scaled, and so are their resonance frequencies. Therefore, it was unclear how vowels could depend on frequencies when talkers with different vocal tract lengths, for instance bass and soprano singers, can produc... | differs slightly from the associated resonance frequency, except when, by luck, harmonics are aligned with the resonance frequency. A room can be said to have formants characteristic of that particular room, due to its resonances, i.e., to the way sound reflects from its walls and objects. Room formants of this nature ... |
Guyana (d. 1985) 1923 – Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress (d. 2004) 1924 – Gloria Vanderbilt, American actress, fashion designer, and socialite (d. 2019) 1925 – Robert Altman, American director and screenwriter (d. 2006) 1925 – Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (d. 1990) 1926 – Matthew Buck... | author (d. 1982) 1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect, designed the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum and the Bangladesh Parliament Building (d. 1974) 1901 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (d. 1984) 1901 – Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili, Indian lawyer and politician, 6t... |
Performance File System (HPFS) Jochen Liedtke – microkernel operating systems Eumel, L3, L4 Charles H. Lindsey – IFIP WG 2.1 member, Revised Report on ALGOL 68 Håkon Wium Lie – co-authored Cascading Style Sheets Yanhong Annie Liu – programming languages, algorithms, program design, program optimization, software system... | operating systems Eumel, L3, L4 Charles H. Lindsey – IFIP WG 2.1 member, Revised Report on ALGOL 68 Håkon Wium Lie – co-authored Cascading Style Sheets Yanhong Annie Liu – programming languages, algorithms, program design, program optimization, software systems, optimizing, analysis, and transformations, intelligent sy... |
when Kodak introduced Kodachrome for 16 mm in 1935 and 8 mm in 1936. Commercially successful colour processes used special cameras loaded with black-and-white separation stocks rather than colour negative. Kinemacolor (1908–1914), Technicolor processes 1 through 4 (1917–1954), and Cinecolor used one, two or three strip... | base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals. The sizes and other characteristics of the crystals determine the sensitivity, contrast and resolution of the film. The emulsion will gradually darken if left exposed to light, but the process is too... |
is submitted electronically, individuals must use either a Self-Select PIN or Practitioner PIN. Substitute return If an individual decides not to file a return, the IRS may (after it has sent several reminders) file a substitute return. Variants For filing the regular tax return, in addition to the standard Form 1040, ... | claims of withholding, so only forms that involve withholding need to be attached. Estimated payments and withholding For most individuals, withholding is the main way through which taxes are paid. However, income that is not subject to withholding must be estimated using Form 1040-ES. (It may be possible to avoid fili... |
an example as to how mankind ought to treat each other." Women's rights In 1848, Douglass was the only black person to attend the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, in upstate New York.Stanton, 1997, p. 85. Elizabeth Cady Stanton asked the assembly to pass a resolution asking for women's suff... | ... we were watching ... by the dim light of the stars for the dawn of a new day ... we were longing for the answer to the agonizing prayers of centuries." During the U.S. Presidential Election of 1864, Douglass supported John C. Frémont, who was the candidate of the abolitionist Radical Democracy Party. Douglass was d... |
known as First Law of Thermodynamics). These are based on classical mechanics and are modified in quantum mechanics and general relativity. They are expressed using the Reynolds transport theorem. In addition to the above, fluids are assumed to obey the continuum assumption. Fluids are composed of molecules that collid... | momentum, or energy within the control volume. Differential formulations of the conservation laws apply Stokes' theorem to yield an expression that may be interpreted as the integral form of the law applied to an infinitesimally small volume (at a point) within the flow. Classifications Compressible versus incompressib... |
increase surface areas for heat transfer purposes, or simply as ornamentation. Fins first evolved on fish as a means of locomotion. Fish fins are used to generate thrust and control the subsequent motion. Fish, and other aquatic animals such as cetaceans, actively propel and steer themselves with pectoral and tail fins... | theory, proposed by anatomist Karl Gegenbaur, which has been often disregarded in science textbooks, "that fins and (later) limbs evolved from the gills of an extinct vertebrate". Gaps in the fossil record had not allowed a definitive conclusion. In 2009, researchers from the University of Chicago found evidence that t... |
In the Gylfaginning section of his Prose Edda, Snorri introduces Freyr as one of the major gods. This description has similarities to the older account by Adam of Bremen but the differences are interesting. Adam assigns control of the weather and produce of the fields to Thor but Snorri says that Freyr rules over those... | the obscure Álfar. Grímnismál also mentions that the sons of Ívaldi made Skíðblaðnir for Freyr and that it is the best of ships. Lokasenna In the poem Lokasenna, Loki accuses the gods of various misdeeds. He criticizes the Vanir for incest, saying that Njörðr had Freyr with his sister. He also states that the gods disc... |
do so until I join Freyja. I know no better course of action than my father's. I do not want to live after my father and brother are dead." Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka In the first chapter of the 14th century legendary saga Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka, King Alrek has two wives, Geirhild and Signy, and cannot keep them both. ... | door was shut no one could enter without Freyja's permission. Chapter 1 records that one day Freyja passed by an open stone where dwarfs lived. Four dwarfs were smithying a golden necklace, and it was nearly done. Looking at the necklace, the dwarfs thought Freyja to be most fair, and she the necklace. Freyja offered t... |
was authorised to determine the status of matches played in Great Britain. To all intents and purposes, the 1947 ICC definition confirmed the 1894 MCC definition, and gave it international recognition and usage. Hence, official judgment of status is the responsibility of the governing body in each country that is a ful... | each side playing the match has eleven players each side may have two innings the match is played on natural, and not artificial, turf the match is played at a venue which meets certain standard criteria regarding venues the match conforms to the Laws of Cricket, except for only minor amendments the sport's governing b... |
Lithuanian researcher Friedrich Kurschat, with whom Saussure traveled through Lithuania in August 1880 for two weeks and whose (German-language) books Saussure had read. Saussure, who had studied some basic grammar of Lithuanian in Leipzig for one semester but was unable to speak the language, was thus dependent on Kur... | also diverges from Saussure on this point, emphasizing the importance of similarity in defining categories in the mind as well as opposition. Based on markedness theory, the Prague Linguistic Circle made great advances in the study of phonetics reforming it as the systemic study of phonology. Although the terms opposit... |
flavor and aroma ingredients and vitamins that are not water-soluble. Biological importance In humans and many animals, fats serve both as energy sources and as stores for energy in excess of what the body needs immediately. Each gram of fat when burned or metabolized releases about 9 food calories (37 kJ = 8.8 kcal). ... | and other fats. Saturated vs. unsaturated fats Different foods contain different amounts of fat with different proportions of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Some animal products, like beef and dairy products made with whole or reduced fat milk like yogurt, ice cream, cheese and butter have mostly saturated fatt... |
or due to a collapse in battle formation. While a calculated risk, fighting on the front has in instances reduced communication and heightened morale. All branches of the United States Armed Forces use the related technical terms, Forward Line of Own Troops (FLOT) and Forward Edge of Battle Area (FEBA). These terms are... | line, FEBA, FLOT and FLET may be of little relevance. The term "front line" has come to refer more to any place where bullets and bombs are flying or are likely to fly. Military leaders who fought on the front line On September 10, 1941, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov personally led an attack on German tanks while armed wi... |
the 20th century with the increasing popularity of international fixtures. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in the rear of the headquarters of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA) at the Rue Saint Honoré 229 in Paris on 21 May 1904. The French name and ... | FIFA's worldwide organizational structure also consists of several other bodies, under the authority of the FIFA Council or created by Congress as standing committees. Among those bodies are the FIFA Emergency Committee, the FIFA Ethics Committee, the Finance Committee, the Disciplinary Committee, and the Referees Comm... |
after the impeachment of Sepp Blatter on 8 October 2015, which was followed by a six-year ban from all football-related activities on 21 December 2015. Presidents of FIFA Notes Timeline See also List of association football competitions List of presidents of | December 2015. Presidents of FIFA Notes Timeline See also List of association football competitions List of presidents of AFC List of presidents of CAF List of presidents of CONCACAF List of presidents of CONMEBOL List |
battles on multiple fronts and requiring German assistance. During World War II, the Axis Powers in Europe led by Nazi Germany participated in the extermination of millions of Poles, Jews, Gypsies and others in the genocide known as the Holocaust. After 1942, Axis forces began to falter. In 1943, after Italy faced mult... | World War II. Mussolini called for irredentist Italian claims to be reclaimed, establishing Italian domination of the Mediterranean Sea and securing Italian access to the Atlantic Ocean and the creation of Italian ("vital space") in the Mediterranean and Red Sea regions. Hitler called for irredentist German claims to b... |
increases the air flowing into the fire as well as feeding and deepening the coke heart. The smith can also adjust the length and width of the fire in such a forge to accommodate different shapes of work. The major variation from the forge and fire just described is a 'backdraft' where there is no fire pot, and the tuy... | many smiths shape chisels as to have a simple twisted handle as to resemble a hammer, they can be used at a greater distance away from the hot metals. They are very useful and found throughout the world. Tongs Tongs are used by the blacksmith for holding hot metals securely. The mouths are custom made by the smith in v... |
a circle. They then pray together in official ceremonies, and then they go out to perform the “standing ceremony” to remember the Farewell Sermon of Muhammad on the Arafat. On the return trip, pilgrims stop in Mina, where they throw 7 stones at stone pillars that represent Satan as to express their hatred for Shaitan (... | the preferable place for prayers because the mosque allows for fellowship. These prayers may also be observed individually if one is not able to go. The prayers are not required for women during their periods, prepubescent children and those with intellectual and physical disabilities inhibiting prayer. Those who are s... |
known as Amonton's three laws of dry friction. Amontons presented the nature of friction in terms of surface irregularities and the force required to raise the weight pressing the surfaces together. This view was further elaborated by Bernard Forest de Bélidor and Leonhard Euler (1750), who derived the angle of repose ... | geometric properties of the interface between the materials, namely surface structure. For example, a copper pin sliding against a thick copper plate can have a COF that varies from 0.6 at low speeds (metal sliding against metal) to below 0.2 at high speeds when the copper surface begins to melt due to frictional heati... |
and screenwriter 1965 – Chris Rock, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1966 – Kristin Otto, German swimmer 1968 – Peter Bondra, Ukrainian-Slovak ice hockey player and manager 1968 – Mark Tewksbury, Canadian swimmer and sportscaster 1969 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician 1971 – Anita Tsoy... | Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. 1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein. 2001 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-98, carrying the Destiny laboratory module ... |
two together are necessary for entry into Paradise. In the Hadith of Gabriel, Iman in addition to Islam and Ihsan form the three dimensions of the Islamic religion. Muhammad referred to the six axioms of faith in the Hadith of Gabriel: "Iman is that you believe in God and His Angels and His Books and His Messengers and... | this stage. Based on needs, experiences and paradoxes (early adulthood). Conjunctive faith: in this stage people realize the limits of logic and, facing the paradoxes or transcendence of life, accept the "mystery of life" and often return to the sacred stories and symbols of the pre-acquired or re-adopted faith system.... |
under Valerian Flavian of Ricina (fl. c. 3rd century), bishop in Italy Bishops or patriarchs in Asia: Flavian I of Antioch (c. 320–404) Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople (died 449) Patriarch Fravitta of Constantinople (died 489) Flavian II of Antioch (died 518) Ships , an Italian cruise ship See also Constantinian | Religious leaders Flavian, one of the Martyrs of Carthage under Valerian Flavian of Ricina (fl. c. 3rd century), bishop in Italy Bishops or patriarchs in Asia: Flavian I of Antioch (c. 320–404) Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople (died 449) Patriarch Fravitta of Constantinople (died 489) Flavian II of Antioch (died 51... |
covered , or approximately 31 percent of the world's land area in 2020. Forests are the predominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth, and are distributed around the globe. More than half of the world's forests are found in only five countries (Brazil, Canada, China, the Russian Federation, and the United States of Americ... | Areas with dense human populations and intense agricultural land use, such as Europe, parts of Bangladesh, China, India, and North America, are less intact in terms of their biodiversity. Northern Africa, southern Australia, coastal Brazil, Madagascar, and South Africa are also identified as areas with striking losses ... |
chain of six small lakes called the Tully Lakes at the south end that could collectively be a "Finger Lake" that never formed because of a terminal moraine. The moraine caused the Tioughnioga River to flow south instead of north, the opposite of the Finger Lakes' waters. The next two valleys to the east contain Buttern... | Lakes Trail, but was built as a feeder reservoir for the Erie Canal. It is maintained by the New York State Canal Corporation. Oneida Lake, to the northeast of Syracuse, is sometimes included as the "thumb", although it is shallow and somewhat different in character from the rest. As with Onondaga and Cazenovia Lakes, ... |
as it was recorded that in that year a paper kite was used as a message for a rescue mission. Ancient and medieval Chinese sources describe kites being used for measuring distances, testing the wind, lifting men, signaling, and communication for military operations. The earliest known Chinese kites were flat (not bowed... | Gudi-Bazi or Patang-bazi. Although kite flying is a popular ritual for the celebration of spring festival known as Jashn-e-Baharaan (lit. Spring Festival) or Basant, kites are flown throughout the year. Kite fighting is a very popular pastime all around Pakistan, but mostly in urban centers across the country (especial... |
fiction fanzines, without (usually) realizing the antecedent. Since 1937, science fiction fans have formed amateur press associations (APAs); the members contribute to a collective assemblage or bundle that contains contributions from all of them, called apazines and often containing mailing comments. Some APAs are sti... | copies produced, the easiest aniline dye to make being purple (technically indigo). The next small but significant technological step after hecto is the spirit duplicator, essentially the hectography process using a drum instead of the gelatin. Introduced by Ditto Corporation in 1923, these machines were known for the ... |
worldbook were briefly available in print from Heliograph Inc. Forgotten Futures III: George E. Challenger's Mysterious World Adventures with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's scientific hero, including the full text of The Lost World, "The Poison Belt", "When the World Screamed", The Land of Mist, "The Horror of the Heights", ... | are used by opposing them to a target (such as a difficulty number, an opponent's skill or characteristics, etc.) using a 2D6 dice roll. Subsequent revisions to the rules add options including a Magic characteristic, melodramatic character traits, and other complications, but the core system remains unchanged. Rowland ... |
Many of the dances of Fabritio Caroso's manuals are meant for two dancers with a few for four or more dancers. These manuals offer a great deal of information to dance historians and musicologists alike in that each description of a dance is accompanied by music examples with lute tablature and directions | Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music. His dance manual Il Ballarino was published in 1581, with a subsequent edition, significantly different, Nobiltà di Dame, printed in 1600 and again after his death in 1630. The work has been published in English as Courtly Dance of the Renaissance... |
twenty-eight Israeli soldiers. Despite the higher Arab death toll, Fatah considered themselves victorious because of the Israeli army's rapid withdrawal. Black September In the late 1960s, tensions between Palestinians and the Jordanian government increased greatly; heavily armed Arab resistance elements had created a ... | carried out civilian-aircraft hijackings and terrorist attacks, attributing them to Black September, Abu Nidal's Fatah-Revolutionary Council, Abu Musa's group, the PFLP, and the PFLP-GC. Fatah received weapons, explosives and training from the Soviet Union and some of the communist states of East Europe. China and Alge... |
Agricultural Development (IFAD), – and Bioversity International. AAHM connects top-down and bottom-up anti-hunger development initiatives, linking governments, UN organizations, and NGOs together in order to increase effectiveness through unity. Integrated pest management During the 1990s, FAO took a leading role in th... | and analyses are available online in different formats, including the FAO synthesis report Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: How are forests changing?, the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 Desk Reference containing summary tables, 234 country reports and the FRA 2015 Infographics. Moreover, in 2015, the j... |
an agency of the United Nations. FAO may also refer to: Places Fao, Iraq Fao Peninsula Fão, Portugal Faro Airport, in Portugal, airport code FAO Military and insurgents | Oviedo, a Spanish light machine gun Professions Flight Activities Officer, a NASA flight controller Foreign area officer of the United States Armed Forces Other uses Fao (god), a god of Niue Fao festival, in Ghana FAO Schwarz, an American toy retailer Faroese language, language code Fao Football |
to grasp the heterogeneity of components involved in the production of subjectivity, as Guattari understands it, which include both signifying semiotic components as well as "a-signifying semiological dimensions" (which work "in parallel or independently of" any signifying function that they may have). Later years On 2... | 1980s to 1990s In his last book, Chaosmosis (1992), Guattari returned to the question of subjectivity: "How to produce it, collect it, enrich it, reinvent it permanently in order to make it compatible with mutant Universes of value?" This concern runs through all of his works, from Psychoanalysis and Transversality (a ... |
of that recension ("who is from the Father and the Son") does not contain any mention of the term "procession" or any of the other particular terms that would describe relations between Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, the previously mentioned claim for the "earliest use" of Filioque clause is not universally accepted ... | to the faith of the First Council of Nicaea, allegedly because he had not professed the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father "and the Son", but only "through the Son". Pope Adrian I rejected those accusations and tried to explain to the Frankish king that pneumatology of Tarasios was in accordance with the tea... |
Interactive Partition Splitter, a disk partitioner Federal Information Processing Standards, United States government standards People | refer to: Computing FIPS (computer program), First nondestructive Interactive Partition Splitter, a disk partitioner Federal Information Processing |
cities, towns, and villages, or other centers of population in the United States. The codes were assigned alphabetically to places within each state, and as a result changed frequently in order to maintain the alphabetical sorting. NIST replaced these codes with the more permanent GNIS Feature ID, maintained by the U.S... | Data Encryption Standard (FIPS 46-3) and the Advanced Encryption Standard (FIPS 197) Data security standards Some FIPS standards are related to the security of data processing systems. Some of these include the use of key escrow systems. Withdrawal of geographic codes Some examples of FIPS Codes for geographical areas ... |
then moved in. After a lengthy campaign, in his last hour Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr asked his mother Asma' bint Abu Bakr the daughter of Abu Bakr the first caliph for advice. Asma' bint Abu Bakr replied to her son, she said: "You know better in your own self, that if you are upon the truth and you are calling towards the... | taught by Muhammad's companions, many of whom settled in Madina. Muwatta by Malik ibn Anas was written as a consensus of the opinion, of these scholars. The Muwatta by Malik ibn Anas quotes 13 hadiths from Imam Jafar al-Sadiq. Aisha also taught her nephew Urwah ibn Zubayr. He then taught his son Hisham ibn Urwah, who w... |
chess opening A term in Australian rules football The side of a military unit, as in a flanking maneuver Flanking, a sound path in architectural acoustics Flanking region, a region of DNA in | part of the abdomen Flank steak, a cut of beef Part of the external anatomy of a horse Flank speed, a nautical term Flank opening, a chess opening A term in Australian rules football The |
Arius emphasized the supremacy and uniqueness of God the Father, meaning that the Father alone is almighty and infinite, and that therefore the Father's divinity must be greater than the Son's. Arius taught that the Son had a beginning, and that he possessed neither the eternity nor the true divinity of the Father, but... | Italia, Cecilian of Carthage from Africa, Hosius of Córdoba from Hispania, Nicasius of Die from Gaul, and Domnus of Sirmium from the province of the Danube. Athanasius of Alexandria, a young deacon and companion of Bishop Alexander of Alexandria, was among the assistants. Athanasius eventually spent most of his life ba... |
iron mines and Andrew Carnegie's entire steel business. 1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties. 1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis a... | Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (d. 1880) 1827 – Peter Lalor, Irish-Australian activist and politician (d. 1889) 1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Church, Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers (d. 1899) 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop ... |
read: "Fox News Poll: 43% Support Trump's Impeachment and Removal, 48% Oppose." Later that day, Trump tweeted: "@FoxNews Polls are always bad for me...Something weird going on at Fox." In April 2017, it became known that former Obama administration national security advisor Susan Rice sought the unmasking of Trump asso... | saw a large ratings jump during the early stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. At the height of the conflict, according to some reports, Fox News had as much as a 300% increase in viewership (averaging 3.3 million viewers daily). In 2004, Fox News' ratings for its broadcast of the Republican National Convention exceede... |
at freecivweb.org Players take the role of tribal leaders in 4000 B.C. who must guide their peoples through the centuries. Over time, new technologies are discovered, which allow the construction of new city buildings and the deployment of new units. Players can wage war on one another or form diplomatic relationships.... | i.e. sprawling the map with many small cities as fast as possible; whoever could develop fastest would win the game, and growing and developing individual cities was not worthwhile. In practice, from around 2002, experienced players would form teams at the start of the game; a fork of Freeciv included specific features... |
two stars 3.5 degrees apart as Gamma, three stars Eta, two stars Iota, two Lambda and three Chi. Phi Fornacis was added by Gould, and Theta and Omicron were dropped by Gould and Baily respectively. Upsilon, too, was later found to be two stars and designated as such. Overall, there are 59 stars within the constellation... | set by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte in 1930, are defined by a polygon of 8 segments (illustrated in infobox). In the equatorial coordinate system, the right ascension coordinates of these borders lie between and , while the declination coordinates are between −23.76° and −39.58°. The whole constellation is visibl... |
site, like many in cramped Rome, is challenged for external perspectives. It was built at the end of Giacomo della Porta's long courtyard. The dome and cochlear steeple are peculiar, and reflect the idiosyncratic architectural motifs that distinguish Borromini from contemporaries. Inside, the nave has an unusual centra... | Guarini and, as a fusion with the architectural modes of Bernini and Cortona, in the late Baroque architecture of Northern Europe. Later critics of the Baroque, such as Francesco Milizia and the English architect Sir John Soane, were particularly critical of Borromini's work. From the late nineteenth century onwards, i... |
died in prison after serving almost 30 years, and two others were released after serving 32 and 36 years. In July 2007, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner in Boston found that the Bureau had helped convict the four men using false witness accounts given by mobster Joseph Barboza. The U.S. Government was ordered to pay $... | Resource Planning Office Rank structure The following is a listing of the rank structure found within the FBI (in ascending order): Field agents New agent trainee Special agent Senior special agent Supervisory special agent Assistant special agent-in-charge (ASAC) Special agent-in-charge (SAC) FBI management Deputy ass... |
century, and are now commonly used when no Bayer designation exists. Where a Bayer designation with a Greek letter does exist for a star, it is usually used in preference to the Flamsteed designation. (Flamsteed numbers are generally preferred to Bayer designations with Roman letters.) Examples of well-known stars that... | a Greek letter does exist for a star, it is usually used in preference to the Flamsteed designation. (Flamsteed numbers are generally preferred to Bayer designations with Roman letters.) Examples of well-known stars that are usually referred to by their Flamsteed numbers include 51 Pegasi, and 61 Cygni. Flamsteed desig... |
mystic (d. 1689) 1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English philosopher and politician (d. 1713) 1672 – Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (d. 1757) 1677 – Nicola Fago, Italian composer and teacher (d. 1745) 1718 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop, botanist and zoologist (d. 1... | politician, Minister of State for Immigration 1970 – Scott Mahon, Australian rugby league player 1971 – Erykah Badu, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress 1971 – Max Martin, Swedish-American record producer and songwriter 1971 – Hélène Segara, French singer-songwriter and actress 1973 – Marshall Faulk, Amer... |
multi-mode radar (the Italian FIAR Grifo-F, with Beyond-visual-range missile and Look-down/shoot-down capabilities), a revamped cockpit with new MIL-STD-1553R databuses, GEC/Ferranti 4510 Head-up display/weapons delivery system, two BAE Systems MED-2067 Multi-function displays, Litton LN-93 inertial navigation system (... | the purchase of the Gripens. For the foreseeable future, the Swiss Air Force will continue to fly its present F-5s. There are still plans by the Swiss Air Force and in the Swiss parliament to fly 18 F-5E and four F-5F models. This would also include the continued operation of the Patrouille Suisse, in F-5Es until 2018.... |
FDR (video game), a 1996 computer game Fan Death Records, an American record label Franklin Delano Romanowski, a character from the television show Seinfeld Freedomain Radio, a podcast Politics Foundation for Democratic Reforms, an Indian think tank (Revolutionary Democratic Front), a political organization in El Salva... | Democratic Reforms, an Indian think tank (Revolutionary Democratic Front), a political organization in El Salvador (People's Democratic Front (Indonesia)), a defunct political party in Indonesia Front pour la démocratie et la république (Front for Democracy and the Republic), a political coalition in Mali Technology Fa... |
to make changes, and sometimes to add small details, but also because not all colours can be achieved in true fresco, because only some pigments work chemically in the very alkaline environment of fresh lime-based plaster. Blue was a particular problem, and skies and blue robes were often added a secco, because neither... | narrative episodes are depicted one after another although not in a linear order. Their identification has been a core area of research on the subject since the time of the site's rediscovery in 1819. Other locations with valuable preserved ancient and early medieval frescoes include Bagh Caves, Ellora Caves, Sittanava... |
people stay warm in cold weather, enabling them to live in cooler climates. Fire also kept nocturnal predators at bay. Evidence of cooked food is found from , although fire was probably not used in a controlled fashion until 400,000 years ago. There is some evidence that fire may have been used in a controlled fashion ... | light, the frequency spectrum of which depends on the chemical composition of the burning material and intermediate reaction products. In many cases, such as the burning of organic matter, for example wood, or the incomplete combustion of gas, incandescent solid particles called soot produce the familiar red-orange glo... |
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