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the Imperial Japanese Navy. Four Japanese fleet aircraft carriers, , , and , were sunk, along with the loss of hundreds of Japanese aircraft, losses that the Japanese Empire would never be able to replace. The U.S. lost the aircraft carrier , along with a number of its carrier- and land-based aircraft that were either ... | Japanese force was successfully repulsed in the first American victory of the war. A Japanese submarine bombarded Midway on February10, 1942. Four months later, on June 4, 1942, a major naval battle near Midway resulted in the U.S. Navy inflicting a devastating defeat on the Imperial Japanese Navy. Four Japanese fleet ... |
In 1995 the country was admitted to the Council of Europe. In addition to its participation in NATO's Partnership for Peace programme, Moldova is also a member state of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the World Trade Organizati... | placed his own choice of rulers in Wallachia. His reign was one of the most successful in Moldavia's history. Increasing Ottoman influence For all of his success, it was under the reign of Alexander I that the first confrontation with the Ottoman Turks took place at Cetatea Albă in 1420. A deep crisis was to follow Ale... |
Monaco Grand Prix, one of the original Grands Prix of Formula One. The principality has a club football team, AS Monaco, which competes in the French Ligue 1 and have become French champions on multiple occasions. A centre of research into marine conservation, Monaco is home to one of the world's first protected marine... | by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Monaco remained in this position until 1860 when, by the Treaty of Turin, the Sardinian forces pulled out of the principality; the surrounding County of Nice (as well as Savoy) was ceded to France. Monaco became a French protectorate once again. Before this time there was unrest in Me... |
and labors of Hercules. Greek colonization and Herculean legend During the 6th-century BC, Phocaeans from Massalia (modern day Marseille) founded the colony of Monoikos. The name of the colony derives from the local veneration of the Greek demigod Hercules, also later adopted by the Romans, who was said to have constru... | Rise of the Grimaldis The Grimaldis, descended from Otto Canella and taking their name from his son Grimaldo, were an ancient and prominent Guelphic Genoese family. Members of this family, in the course of the civil strife in Genoa between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, took refuge in Monaco, accompanied by various other... |
ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. In 1995, Monaco's population was estimated at 30,744, with an estimated average growth rate of 0.59%. Monaco-Ville has a population of 1,151. French is the official language; Italian, English... | spoken. The literacy rate is 99%. Roman Catholicism is the official religion, with freedom of other religions guaranteed by the constitution. Demographic statistics The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated. Age structure: 0-14 years: 12.3% (male 1,930/ female 1,84... |
to contest the 2018 elections. Political parties and elections Judicial branch The supreme courts are the Judicial revision court (Cour de révision judiciaire), which hears civil and criminal cases (as well as some administrative cases), and the Supreme tribunal (tribunal suprême), which performs judicial review. Both ... | Monégasque, (center) holds 1 seat. Renaissance which represented the principality's largest employer SBM, and previously held 1 seat in caucus with New Majority chose not to contest the 2018 elections. Political parties and elections Judicial branch The supreme courts are the Judicial revision court (Cour de révision j... |
19.6% value-added tax on all goods and services. Monaco is noted for its activity in the field of marine sciences. Its Oceanographic Museum, formerly directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, is one of the most renowned institutions of its kind in the world. Monaco imports and exports products and services from all over the w... | the Eurozone, but not the EU, Monaco mints its own euro coins. All residents pay tax in the form of 19.6% value-added tax on all goods and services. Monaco is noted for its activity in the field of marine sciences. Its Oceanographic Museum, formerly directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, is one of the most renowned institu... |
telecommunications provider in the Principality of Monaco. The following are some data about telecommunications in Monaco. Telephones - main lines in use: 20 831 (2015) Telephones - mobile cellular: 35 506 (2015) Telephone system: automatic telephone system domestic : NA International No satellite | Principality of Monaco. The following are some data about telecommunications in Monaco. Telephones - main lines in use: 20 831 (2015) Telephones - mobile cellular: 35 506 (2015) Telephone system: automatic telephone system domestic : NA International No satellite earth stations; connected by cable into the French commu... |
seeing passenger service and the total length of the line inside the Principality is . Monaco has five bus routes operated by Compagnie des Autobus de Monaco. There are also two other bus routes which connect Monaco with neighboring regions such as Nice and Menton. Rail transport The railway is totally underground with... | land is available. Urban transport Elevators / travelators There are seven main inclined lifts (including Elevators and/or travelators) which provide public transport: between the Place des Moulins and the beaches between the Princess Grace Hospital Centre and the Exotic Garden between the Port Hercules harbor and the ... |
full-time militarised armed corps exist under the operational direction of the chief commander, and the political control of the Department of the Interior. One is the Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Monaco, and the other is the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince. Both units are part of both military and civil defence p... | Monaco. Its branches are the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince and the Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Monaco. Command The Public Services are under the joint command of the Supreme Commander of the Public Services (), currently Colonel Tony Varo. Under the chief commander, each of the two principal military corps is h... |
Himalayas were formed by the collision of the Indo-Australian plate with the Eurasian plate 10 million years ago, Mongolia was a flourishing habitat for major fauna but still somewhat arid and cold due to distance from sources of evaporation. Sea turtle and mollusk fossils have been found in the Gobi, apart from well-k... | Soviet Union agreed to lift its veto on the admission of Mauritania (and any other newly independent African state), in return for the admission of Mongolia. Faced with pressure from nearly all the other African countries, the ROC relented under protest. Mongolia and Mauritania were both admitted to the UN on 27 Octobe... |
country are below freezing from November through March and are above freezing in April and October. Winter nights can drop to in most years. Summer extremes reach as high as in the southern Gobi region and in Ulaanbaatar. Most of Mongolia is covered by discontinuous permafrost (grading to continuous at high altitudes),... | landlocked country in Central Asia and East Asia, located between China and Russia. The terrain is one of mountains and rolling plateaus, with a high degree of relief. The total land area of Mongolia is 1,564,116 square kilometres. Overall, the land slopes from the high Altai Mountains of the west and the north to plai... |
population. Segments Youth Vital statistics UN estimates Registered births and deaths Current vital statistics Life expectancy Source: UN World Population Prospects Structure of the population Structure of the population (11.11.2010) (Census) : Structure of the population (01.07.2013) (Estimates) : Ethnicity and langua... | Middle jüz Kazakhs who sought refuge from Qing Empire massacre in Xinjiang came to Mongolia and were allowed to settle down in Bayan-Ölgii Province. There are smaller numbers of Russian, Chinese, Korean and American people working in Mongolia since 1990. 3,000 Westerners live in Mongolia, accounting for 0.1% of its tot... |
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan, election manager of Democratic Union Coalition worked as the Prime Minister from 7 July 1996 to 23 April 1998. In 1998, a clause in the constitution was removed that prohibited members of parliament to take cabinet responsibility. Thus on 23 April 1998, the parliament elected (61–6) Elbegdorj,... | prime minister, the deputy minister, the cabinet secretary and 14 ministers. The government consists of six key ministries, eight specialised ministries, four agencies for policy arrangement, 25 agencies for policy implementation, four agencies under direct control of the prime minister and five agencies under direct c... |
the 1980s, Mongolia's industrial sector became increasingly important. By 1989, it accounted for an estimated 34% of material products, compared to 18% from agriculture. However, minerals, animals, and animal-derived products still constitute a large proportion of the country's exports. Principal imports included machi... | crisis hit hard, severely stunting the growth of its economy. With the sharp decrease in metal prices, especially copper (down 65% from July 2008-February 2009), exports of its raw materials withered and by 2009 the stock market MSE Top-20 registered an all-time low since its dramatic spike in mid-2007. Just as the eco... |
services. 7 satellite earth station: Intersputnik (Indian Ocean Region), Intelsat, Asiasat-1. International overland: Europe-Russia-Mongolia-China (ERMC) cable system. Telephones 385,000 fixed lines in use, 102nd in the world (2019 estimate). 4.3 million mobile-cellular lines in use, 127th in the world (2019 estimate).... | +976. There are two landline telephone companies in Mongolia: Mongolia Telecom Company (MTC) and the Mongolian Railway Authority. MTC is a joint venture with Korea Telecom and partially publicly owned. MTC leases fiber-optic lines from the Mongolian Railway Authority and connects to all aimags and soums. The number of ... |
especially if the client is a foreign national. However, many unofficial taxis use the mobile app platforms to take orders. Official taxis with proper markings are allowed to drive without plate number restrictions on the first lane of Ulaanbaatar's central road usually reserved for large public transports such as buse... | are publicly owned), Tenuun Ogoo LLC, Erdem trans LLC and Sutain buyant LLC are major bus operators. Taxi There are about 10 licensed taxi companies such as Ulaanbaatar taxi (1991), Noyon taxi (1950), Telecom taxi (1109), 1616 taxi (1616) and iTaxi with about 600 cars operating in Ulaanbaatar. There are a few local tax... |
Ungern's White Russian forces. The modern precursor to the Mongolian Armed Forces was placed, with men's conscription and a permanent military structure starting in 1912. Mongolian People's Republic With Independence lost again to foreign forces, the newly created Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party created a native... | campaigns against Japan due to storms and rough battles. Around the Eastern Mediterranean, their campaigns were almost exclusively land-based, with the seas being controlled by the Crusader and Mamluk forces. With the disintegration of the Mongol Empire in the late 13th century, the Mongol Army as a unified unit also c... |
rather than slaves. Numerous members of the Sturge family bought additional land. In 1869, the family established the Montserrat Company Limited and planted Key lime trees, started the commercial production of lime juice, set up a school, and sold parcels of land to the inhabitants of the island. Much of Montserrat cam... | Montserrat came to be owned by smallholders. From 1871 to 1958, Montserrat was administered as part of the federal crown colony of the British Leeward Islands, becoming a province of the short-lived West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962. The first Chief Minister of Montserrat was William Henry Bramble of the Montser... |
the Caribbean Sea, in the Leeward Islands. Its nearest neighbours in the island chain include Guadeloupe to the southeast, Antigua to the north-east and Nevis to the northwest. The island is 16 km (9.9 mi) long and 11 km (6.8 mi) wide, with a coastline of about 40 km. The island is volcanic and largely mountainous. The... | Hills volcano became active in 1995, causing widespread devastation, including the destruction of the capital and formerly largest settlement on the island, Plymouth. The southern part of the island is now uninhabitable and human settlement is constrained to the north. Montserrat has two islets, Little Redonda and Virg... |
the population (12 May 2011) (Census) : Ethnic groups The vast majority of the population of Montserrat are of African descent (92.4% at the 2001 census) or mixed (2.9%). There is also a European origin minority (3.0%; mostly descendants of Irish indentured servants or British colonists), East Indians (1.0%) groups. Ou... | statistics Structure of the population Structure of the population (12 May 2011) (Census) : Ethnic groups The vast majority of the population of Montserrat are of African descent (92.4% at the 2001 census) or mixed (2.9%). There is also a European origin minority (3.0%; mostly descendants of Irish indentured servants o... |
replacing the outgoing Premier, Donaldson Romeo of the People's Democratic Movement, who was the second Premier of Montserrat. Legislative branch Montserrat elects on territorial level a legislature. The Legislative Assembly has 9 members, elected for a five-year term in one constituency. Political parties and election... | Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Legislative Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Military defence is the responsibility of the United Kingdom. Executive branch |Queen |Elizabeth II | |6 February 1952 |- |Governor |Andrew Pearce | |1 February 2018 |- |Pr... |
financial sector is very small and has seen a reduction in offshore finance in recent years with only 11 offshore banks remaining. Real GDP declined from EC$122 million in 1995 to about EC$60 million in 1999, with the rate of decline peaking at -21.5 percent for 1996. The decline in economic activity reflected in large... | remain uninhabitable for another decade. Today, Montserrat's main economic activity is in construction and government services which together accounted for about 50 percent of GDP in 2000 when it was EC$76 million. In contrast, banking and insurance together accounted for less than 10 percent of GDP. The unemployment r... |
The country code for Montserrat in the Domain Name System of the Internet is ".ms". Telephony uses the area code 664. According to a July 2016 estimate by the CIA, Montserrat's fully digitalized telephone service had 3,000 subscribers while an estimated 5,000 mobile handsets were in use. An estimated 2,860 users have i... | subscribers while an estimated 5,000 mobile handsets were in use. An estimated 2,860 users have internet access. There are 17 internet service providers. Montserrat possesses an AM radio station, and 2 FM stations. These serve 7,000 radios (by 1997 figures). There is one television broadcast station, which in 1997 was ... |
Bay Merchant marine: none (2002 est.) Airports: One, Gerald's Airport, opened on 11 July 2005 replacing W.H. Bramble Airport which was destroyed by volcanic eruption in 1997. See | Airports: One, Gerald's Airport, opened on 11 July 2005 replacing W.H. Bramble Airport which was destroyed by volcanic eruption in 1997. See also : Montserrat Sources CIA World Factbook Transport in |
an-Nuwwâb/Assemblée des Répresentants) has 325 members elected for a five-year term, 295 elected in multi-seat constituencies and 30 in national lists consisting only of women. The Assembly of Councillors (Majlis al-Mustasharin) has 270 members, elected for a nine-year term, elected by local councils (162 seats), profe... | in both Africa and the world. Government repression of political dissent was widespread during Hassan II's leadership, until it dropped sharply in the mid-1990s. The decades during which abuses were committed are referred to as the Years of Lead (Les Années de Plomb), and included forced disappearances, assassinations ... |
examples of Homo Sapiens discovered anywhere in the world. In 2007, small perforated seashell beads were discovered in Taforalt that are 82,000 years old, making them the earliest known evidence of personal adornment found anywhere in the world. In Mesolithic times, between 20,000 and 5000 years ago, the geography of M... | marabouts and Sharifian families, which had previously been useful instruments in controlling different tribes. The political support of these marabouts and Sharifians halted, and it splintered into different entities. In 1399 Tetouan was taken and its population was massacred and in 1415 the Portuguese captured Ceuta.... |
mountainous, continental and alpine influence is evident, as well as the oceanic influence along the Atlantic coastline. And finally, the semi-arid lands, that cover few regions in the northeast, the central-south, and the southwest. Along the Mediterranean coast, the climate is typically Mediterranean and supports all... | Mediterranean vegetation. The summers are moderately hot and the winters are mild. Further away from the coast, into the Rif Mountain range, the climate starts to become more continental in character, with colder winters and hotter summers. At elevations above , the climate is alpine with warm summers and cold winters.... |
is that a small majority of Moroccans are essentially Arabised Berbers, while some may be of European , Arab or sub-Saharan ancestry as a result of migrations, as well as a history of slavery perpetuated against various sub-Saharan groups. A recent study by the National Geographic showed the majority of North Africa ( ... | population of Morocco, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. The population of Morocco in 2021 is 37.271 million No genetic differences are found between those who identify as Arabs or Arab-Berbers a... |
king extensive powers; he is both the secular political leader and the "Commander of the Faithful" as a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed. He presides over the Council of Ministers; appoints the prime minister following legislative elections, and on recommendations from the latter, appoints the members of the g... | government drawn primarily from opposition parties in decades, and also represents the first opportunity for a coalition of socialist, left-of-center, and nationalist parties to be included in the government until October 2002. It was also the first time in the modern political history of the Arab world that the opposi... |
scaled back sharply to just 8.2% in the Eighties and 8.9% in the Nineties. Real GDP growth is expected to average 5.5% in the 2009–13 period, seen the prospects in the tourism and the non-agricultural industry, as demand growth in the Eurozone — Morocco's key export market and source of tourists is projected to be more... | by 7.6% in 1995, by 2.3% in 1997, and by 1.5% in 1999. During the years between drought, good rains brought bumper crops to market. Good rainfall in 2001 led to a 5% GDP growth rate. The danger of drought is ever present and still dramatically affects the Moroccan economy, even though Moroccan decisionmakers have recen... |
While the Moroccan telecoms market remains under-saturated, its three mobile operators –– both at home and abroad –– have experienced robust growth in recent years. Meditel, which received a mobile licence in 2000, is the kingdom's first private operator, holding 36.69% of the market. While the company performed strong... | deal with Maroc Telecom to improve telecom infrastructure in the country. Telephone system main lines in use: 3.28 million (2007) : estimation mobile cellular: 47.25 million [135% of the total population] (2015) : estimation source: Domestic telephone system Morocco has a constantly failing system composed of open-wire... |
regional and provincial) in Morocco. In addition to of highways (August 2016). The Tangier–Casablanca high-speed rail link marks the first stage of the ONCF's high-speed rail master plan, pursuant to which over of new railway lines will be built by 2035. The high speed train - TGV - will have a capacity of 500 passenge... | High Speed Rail project was started in September 2011. Construction of infrastructure and delivery of railway equipment will end in 2014 and the HSR will be operational by December 2015. Government policy With billions of dollars committed to improving the country's infrastructure, Morocco aims to become a world player... |
Royal Moroccan Armed Forces fought on the Golan front during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 (mostly in the battle for Quneitra) and intervened decisively in the 1977 conflict known as Shaba I to save Zaire's regime. After Shaba II, Morocco was part of the Inter-African Force deployed on the Zaire border, contributing about... | The enclosure contained most of the economically useful parts of Western Sahara, including Bou Craa, El-Aaiun, and Smara. The Moroccan army destroyed all the posts created by the Polisario and won decisively the majority of battles, but artillery strikes and sniping attacks by the guerrillas continued, and Morocco was ... |
relations between these countries. Role of immigration Another factor determining relations is how much immigration the country receives from Morocco. The beginning of major migration to Europe began during the colonial era (1912 to 1956). During World War I and II, France had an urgent need for manpower, which led to ... | years. This was in response to the discovery of a plot on the king's life, of which a political party, UNFP, was accused of orchestrating. Foreign relations with Western countries became strained as a result of this. Portraying Morocco as a democratic state became important if Morocco wished to receive loans and invest... |
An estimated one million Mozambicans perished during the civil war, 1.7 million took refuge in neighbouring states, and several million more were internally displaced. The FRELIMO regime also gave shelter and support to South African (African National Congress) and Zimbabwean (Zimbabwe African National Union) rebel mov... | of the region around the Portuguese East African territories. By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of Mozambique to large private companies, like the Mozambique Company, the Zambezia Company and the Niassa Company, controlled and financed mostly by British financiers such as S... |
Armando Guebuza of the FRELIMO party ordering the Portuguese to leave the country in 24 hours with only 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of luggage. Unable to salvage any of their assets, most of them returned to Portugal penniless. Civil War (1977–1992) Formed in 1975, Mozambican National Resistance, an anti-communist group s... | peoples. Between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, waves of Bantu-speaking peoples migrated from the north through the Zambezi River valley and then gradually into the plateau and coastal areas. The Bantu were farmers and ironworkers. Intercultural contact When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mo... |
and highway links to the interior. The bay has an area of . The continental shelf is up to wide at Beira, and is Mozambique's most important marine fishery. Several large rivers, including the Save, Pungwe, and Zambezi, create coastal estuaries and river deltas, of which the Zambezi delta is the largest. North of the Z... | as the Bight of Sofala or Sofala Bay. It is also known as the Swamp Coast, and is characterized by extensive mangrove swamps and coastal wetlands. As in the south, the coastline is generally low, and harbours are few and poor. Beira is the principal seaport on the central coast, with rail and highway links to the inter... |
indicate a population of 28 861 863 inhabitants. Vital statistics Registration of vital events is in Mozambique not complete. The Population Department of the United Nations prepared the following estimates. Also, according to a 2011 survey, the total fertility rate was 5.9 children per woman, with 6.6 in rural areas a... | most highly developed art forms have been wood sculpture, for which the Makonde in northern Mozambique are particularly renowned, and dance. The middle and upper classes continue to be heavily influenced by the Portuguese colonial and linguistic heritage. Education and health Under Portugal, educational opportunities f... |
and a 250-member National Assembly was voted in with 129 FRELIMO deputies, 112 RENAMO deputies, and 9 representatives of three smaller parties that formed the Democratic Union (UD). Executive branch |President |Filipe Nyusi |FRELIMO |15 January 2015 |- |Prime Minister |Carlos Agostinho do Rosário |FRELIMO |17 January 2... | members, elected for a five-year term by proportional representation. Political parties and elections In 1994 the country held its first democratic elections. Joaquim Chissano was elected President with 53% of the vote, and a 250-member National Assembly was voted in with 129 FRELIMO deputies, 112 RENAMO deputies, and ... |
whole. Telecommunication de Mozambique (TDM), Mozambique's national fixed-line operator, offers ADSL Internet access for home and business customers. In early 2014 packages ranged from 512 kbit/s with a 6 GByte cap for MTN750 (~US$21) to 4 Mbit/s with a 43 GByte cap for MTN4300 (~US$118). The three mobile operators, Mo... | +258; landing point for the EASSy and SEACOM fiber-optic submarine cable systems; Satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean) (2011). Internet Top-level domain: .mz Internet exchange: Mozambique Internet Exchange (Moz-Ix). Internet users: 1.1 million users, 114th in the world; 4.8% of th... |
In 2008 the total length of Mozambique's road network was 32,500 km. The primary and secondary road networks were less than 5000 km each. The tertiary network was 12,700 km. Unclassified or local roads (estradas vicinais) were estimated at 6,700 km, and urban roads at 3,300 km. The national highway network includes 14 ... | Maxixe – Inchope (N6 junction) – Gorongosa – Caia – N10 junction – Mocuba (N11 junction) – Nampula (N13 junction) – Mocuba (N11 junction) – Namialo (N12 junction) – Pemba N2 (EN2). Maputo – Matola – N3 junction – Namaacha border post (to eSwatini) N3 (EN3). N2 junction – Goba border post (to eSwatini) N4 (EN4). Maputo ... |
in mid August 1994, by the integration of the Forças Armadas de Moçambique/FPLM with the military wing of RENAMO, following the end of the civil war. History Coelho et al write: "Independence in June 1975 was preceded by a nine-month transition period in which Frelimo took control of a transitional cabinet where ..it h... | killed more than 100 people and destroyed 14,000 homes. A government-appointed investigative commission concluded that negligence played a role in the disaster, and Dai "was blamed by many for failing to act on time to prevent the loss of life". Although no official reason was given for Dai's removal, it may have been ... |
South Africa's elimination of apartheid, which culminated in the establishment of full diplomatic relations in October 1993. While relations with neighboring Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania show occasional strains, Mozambique's ties to these countries remain strong. In the years immediately following its indepen... | support to RENAMO, opened initial diplomatic contacts between the Mozambican and South African governments. This process gained momentum with South Africa's elimination of apartheid, which culminated in the establishment of full diplomatic relations in October 1993. While relations with neighboring Zimbabwe, Malawi, Za... |
that the fundamental biological units of culture must correspond to neuronal networks that function as nodes of semantic memory. Lumsden and Wilson coined their own word, culturgen, which did not catch on. Coauthor Wilson later acknowledged the term meme as the best label for the fundamental unit of cultural inheritanc... | memes (analogous to the DNA of genes), and to the excessive instability of the meme mutation mechanism (that of an idea going from one brain to another), which would lead to a low replication accuracy and a high mutation rate, rendering the evolutionary process chaotic. In his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea Daniel C. Den... |
the fifth president of the United States Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), an American actress, model, and singer Fictional characters Monroe (fictional character), the name of several fictional characters Places Antarctica Monroe Island, in the Larsen Islands, an island group within the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica Ca... | Indiana, an unincorporated community Monroe, Iowa, a city in Jasper County Monroe, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Hart County Monroe, Louisiana, a city of about 50,000 Monroe, Maine, a town in Waldo County Monroe, Massachusetts, a town in Franklin County Monroe, Michigan, a city in Monroe County Monroe Island... |
Malham, Malgham, and Malghum. Families with the name originate from the area surrounding Malham and Kirkby Malham. Well-known persons with this surname include: Robert Ormond Maugham, English barrister and father of Somerset Maugham Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham, English | Ormond Maugham, English barrister and father of Somerset Maugham Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham, English statesman, the eldest son of the previous Robin Maugham, English writer, the only son of the previous W. Somerset Maugham, English writer, best known of the Maughams Syrie Maugham, wife Daphne |
instead of following a script. To alleviate her anxiety and chronic insomnia, she began to use barbiturates, amphetamines, and alcohol, which also exacerbated her problems, although she did not become severely addicted until 1956. According to Sarah Churchwell, some of Monroe's behavior, especially later in her career,... | model who teams up with her friends to find rich husbands, repeating the successful formula of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It was the second film ever released in CinemaScope, a widescreen format that Fox hoped would draw audiences back to theaters as television was beginning to cause losses to film studios. Despite mixe... |
into mature oligodendrocytes, which form myelin. In humans, myelination begins early in the 3rd trimester, although only little myelin is present in either the CNS or the PNS at the time of birth. During infancy, myelination progresses rapidly, with increasing numbers of axons acquiring myelin sheaths. This corresponds... | potential is then rapidly restored due to positively charged potassium ions leaving the axon through potassium channels. The sodium ions inside the axon then diffuse rapidly through the axoplasm (axonal cytoplasm), to the adjacent myelinated internode and ultimately to the next (distal) node of Ranvier, triggering the ... |
members, rising to 1,000 by early 1968. In April 1967, Colin Murley was elected for MK onto Cornwall County Council for the seat of St Day and Lanner; he had stood on an anti-overspill platform. MK members also sat as independent councillors on the district council. The party grew to become the leading champion for Cor... | when the fourth objective was replaced with: "To further the acceptance of the Celtic character of Cornwall and its right to self-government in domestic affairs in a Federated United Kingdom." In its early years, MK engaged in cultural activities, such as producing Cornish calendars and sending a birthday prayer in Cor... |
it has been estimated that up to 90-96% of marine species became extinct although those approximations have been brought into question with some paleontologists estimating the actual numbers as low as 81%. It is also known as the "Great Dying" because it is considered the largest mass extinction in the Earth's history.... | years ago. The Late Cretaceous featured a cooling trend that would continue in the Cenozoic Era. Eventually, tropics were restricted to the equator and areas beyond the tropic lines experienced extreme seasonal changes in weather. Dinosaurs still thrived, as new taxa such as Tyrannosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Triceratops and... |
RSS feed aggregators. Often e-mail programs and web browsers have the ability to display RSS feeds. They are listed here, too. Many BitTorrent clients support RSS feeds for broadcasting (see Comparison | are listed here as well. Release history Netscape Messenger 9 is a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird and has the same features. Operating system support Web feed and protocol support Interface and notes Web browsers and Internet suites have for browser plugin a N/A, because they don't need it. Capabilities See also Compariso... |
Western European usage. The designation, Mashriq, also from the Arabic root for East, also denotes a variously defined region around the Levant, the eastern part of the Arabic-speaking world (as opposed to the Maghreb, the western part). Even though the term originated in the West, apart from Arabic, other languages of... | the Middle East has been a major center of world affairs; a strategically, economically, politically, culturally, and religiously sensitive area. The region is one of the regions were agriculture was independently discovered, and from the Middle East it was spread, during the Neolithic, to different regions of the worl... |
band with Ersen Dinleten between 1974–1975 and 1979–1980 and Dervişan (Dervishes), a band with Cem Karaca between 1974 and 1978. He also briefly joined Dostlar, a band with Edip Akbayram in 1975. Danga initially joined Kardaşlar between 1974 and 1975. He participated in Erkin Koray's 'Elektronik Türküler' (Electronic S... | the band to replace him. Moğollar recorded one single with Selda Bağcan during the first half of 1972. Ersen then re-joined the band in July 1972 and they recorded another single. Murat Ses left the band in August 1972. In September 1972, Moğollar replaced their soloists with Cem Karaca, who was then the soloist of Kar... |
common among Hindus today. This monism, according to Flood, is at the foundation of earlier Upanishads, to theosophy in the later Vedanta tradition and in modern Neo-Hinduism. Buddhism According to the Pāli Canon, both pluralism (nānatta) and monism (ekatta) are speculative views. A Theravada commentary notes that the ... | or Narayana, but see a plurality of souls and substances within Brahman. Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well. Tantra Tantra sees the Divine as both immanen... |
shifted to include radical angles that conveyed more subjectivity and intimacy within the scenes. Today, the master shot is still a key element of film production, but scenes are not built around the master shot in the same way that they were when professional filmmaking was in its infancy. References Footnotes Bibliog... | a camera angle that keeps all the players in view. It is often a long shot and can sometimes perform a double function as an establishing shot. Usually, the master shot is the first shot checked off during the shooting of a scene. It is the foundation of what is called camera coverage, other shots that reveal different... |
some standard texts and professional references, a full-length view of a human subject is called a medium shot; in this terminology, a shot of the person from the knees up or the waist up is a close-up shot. In other texts, these partial views are called medium shots. In principal, the medium shot is what can be seen w... | a partial view of the background, such as when the shot is 'cutting the person in half' and also show the subjects' facial expressions in the context of their body language. Medium shots are also used when the subject in the shot is delivering information, such as news presenters. It is also used in interviews. It is t... |
Anaxagoras reasoned that the Sun and Moon were both giant spherical rocks, and that the latter reflected the light of the former. Elsewhere in the to , Babylonian astronomers had recorded the 18-year Saros cycle of lunar eclipses, and Indian astronomers had described the Moon's monthly elongation. The Chinese astronome... | hemisphere). The orientation of the Moon's crescent depends on the latitude of the viewing location; an observer in the tropics can see a smile-shaped crescent Moon. The Moon is visible for two weeks every draconic month (27.2 days) at the North and South Poles. Zooplankton in the Arctic use moonlight when the Sun is b... |
(Marco's father). Some old Venetian historical sources considered Polo's ancestors to be of far Dalmatian origin. Nickname Marco Polo is most often mentioned in the archives of the Republic of Venice as , which means Marco Polo of the of St John Chrysostom Church. However, he was also nicknamed during his lifetime (whi... | expeditions, but likely never left Venetian provinces, nor returned to the Silk Road and Asia. Sometime before 1300, his father Niccolò died. In 1300, he married Donata Badoèr, the daughter of Vitale Badoèr, a merchant. They had three daughters, Fantina (married Marco Bragadin), Bellela (married Bertuccio Querini), and... |
ocean patrol vessel P04 M4 Sherman, American World War II medium tank M4 Tractor, a U.S. Army artillery tractor from 1943 Myasishchev M-4, a 1950s Soviet strategic bomber aircraft Other uses in military M4 flame fuel thickening compound, a substance used in fire bombs and incendiary weapons M4 (German Navy 4-rotor Enig... | used in fire bombs and incendiary weapons M4 (German Navy 4-rotor Enigma), a variant of the Enigma cryptography machine M04, desert variant of M05, a camouflage pattern used by the Finnish Defence Forces Science and technology Biology, medicine and organic chemistry ATC code M04, Antigout preparations, a subgroup of th... |
shot - Candles per square foot - Character animation - Choker shot - Chroma key - Chromatic aberration - CinemaDNG - Clapboard - Clock wipe - Close shot - Close up shot - Cold open - Color conversion filter - Color corrected fluorescent light - Color correction - Color gel - Color grading - Color rendering index - Colo... | Cross cutting - Cutaway - Cut in - cut out - Cutting on action D Daily rushes - Day for night - Deadspot (lighting) - Deep focus - Depth of field - Depth of focus - Dichroic lens - Diegetic sound - Diffraction - Diffuser (lighting) - Digital audio - Digital audio tape recorder - Digital cinema - Digital compositing - D... |
resulting in a variety of rock types. Major ranges Most geologically young mountain ranges on the Earth's land surface are associated with either the Pacific Ring of Fire or the Alpide Belt. The Pacific Ring of Fire includes the Andes of South America, extends through the North American Cordillera along the Pacific Coa... | rain or snow. When air masses move up and over mountains, the air cools producing orographic precipitation (rain or snow). As the air descends on the leeward side, it warms again (following the adiabatic lapse rate) and is drier, having been stripped of much of its moisture. Often, a rain shadow will affect the leeward... |
Guinea and eastern Australia) Himantandraceae (two species of trees and shrubs, found in tropical areas in Southeast Asia and Australia) Magnoliaceae (about 225 species including magnolias and tulip trees) Myristicaceae (several hundred species including nutmeg) APG system The APG system (1998), APG II system (2003), a... | hundred species including nutmeg) APG system The APG system (1998), APG II system (2003), and APG III system (2009) place this order in the clade magnoliids, circumscribed as follows: In these systems, published by the APG, the Magnoliales are a basal group, excluded from the eudicots. Earlier systems The Cronquist sys... |
Death (Iraqi Kurdistan) Heroes' Day (Paraguay) Independence Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Mărțișor (Romania and Moldavia) National Peanut Butter Day (United States) National Pig Day (United States) Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands) Saint David's Day (Wales) Samiljeol (South Korea) Self-injury Awareness Day (Internation... | continued to use March 25 until 1752, when they finally adopted the Gregorian calendar (the fiscal year in the UK continues to begin on 6 April, initially identical to 25 March in the former Julian calendar). Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the New Year in March. March is the first mo... |
29 Armed Forces Day (Spain) Last Weekend: May 29–30 Kyiv Day (Kyiv) Last Sunday: May 30 Arbor Day (Venezuela) Children's Day (Hungary) Mother's Day (Algeria, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mauritius, Morocco, Sweden, Tunisia) Turkmen Carpet Day (Turkmenistan) Last Monday: May 31 Heroes' Day (Turks and Caicos Islands) Memor... | Appreciation Month National Moving Month National Osteoporosis Month National Stroke Awareness Month National Water Safety Month Older Americans Month Non-Gregorian observances, 2020 (All Baha'i, Islamic, and Jewish observances begin at the sundown prior to the date listed, and end at sundown of the date in question un... |
the Bolsheviks. 1932 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12. 1939 – An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94. 1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripart... | 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico. 1845 – United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. 1867 – Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state. 1870 – Marshal F. S. López dies during the Ba... |
no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election. 1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. 1994 – In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters... | the Battle of Gia Cuc. 1901–present 1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. 1918 – General John J. Pershing, during World War I, cancels 42nd 'Rainbow' Division's orders to Rolampont for further training and diverte... |
Norwegian painter (d. 1919) 1850 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (d. 1942) 1851 – Laza Lazarević, Serbian psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1891) 1852 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and professional scout (d. 1903) 1852 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist, Nobel P... | 1905 – Henry Koster, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1988) 1906 – Horst Schumann, German SS officer and physician (d. 1983) 1907 – Hayes Alvis, American bassist (d. 1972) 1907 – Kate Smith, American singer and actress (d. 1986) 1908 – Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and author (d. 1968... |
– Ludwig August Lebrun, German oboe player and composer (d. 1790) 1754 – Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806) 1772 – Novalis, German author and poet (d. 1801) 1773 – Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher and poet (d. 1845) 1797 – Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864) 1802 – Hei... | Gaskell, English chemist and academic 1950 – Duncan Gay, Australian businessman and politician 1950 – Lou Gramm, American singer-songwriter 1950 – Richard Ground, English lawyer and judge (d. 2014) 1950 – Fausto Silva, Brazilian television presenter 1951 – John Glascock, English singer and bass player (d. 1979) 1952 – ... |
Commonwealth. 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government. 1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. 1808 – Peninsular War: The M... | Canadian curler and engineer 1928 – Dave Dudley, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003) 1928 – Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001) 1929 – Denise Lor, American singer and actress (d. 2015) 1930 – Juan Gelman, Argentinian poet and author (d. 2014) 1930 – David Harrison, English chemist and academic 1931 – V... |
injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash. 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. 1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held. 1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South. 1961 – Malcolm Ross... | of the House of Commons 1947 – Ronald Sørensen, Dutch historian and politician 1947 – Trivimi Velliste, Estonian politician, 17th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1948 – Alison Britton, English sculptor and educator 1948 – Hurley Haywood, American race car driver 1948 – King George Tupou V of Tonga, (d. 2012) 1949 ... |
educator, and politician (d. 1978) 1927 – Pat Carroll, American actress 1929 – Ilene Woods, American actress (d. 2010) 1930 – Hans Abramson, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012) 1931 – Greg, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1999) 1932 – Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (d. 2014) 1932 – Bob Said, ... | (d. 1941) 1882 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (d. 1960) 1883 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (d. 1950) 1883 – Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (d. 1966) 1884 – Chief Bender, American... |
entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church. 1360 – Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good). 1373 – Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her Revelations of Divine Love. 1429 – Joan of Arc lif... | Ole Morten Vågan, Norwegian bassist 1980 – Keyon Dooling, American basketball player 1980 – Panagiotis Kafkis, Greek basketball player 1980 – Evgeny Lebedev, Russian-English publisher and philanthropist 1980 – Michelle McManus, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress 1980 – Benny Yau, Hong Kong-Canadian actor and singer... |
for environments suitable for water and microbial life. 2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community. 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show. 20... | Flight 191: A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground. 1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. 1982 – Falklands War: H... |
1938 – Fay Vincent, American lawyer and businessman 1939 – Pete Smith, Australian radio and television announcer 1939 – Al Unser, American race car driver 1940 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (d. 2013) 1940 – Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan (d. 2010) 1941 – Doug S... | 1944) 1894 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer (d. 1989) 1894 – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1969) 1897 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1957) 1899 – Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician... |
example, happiness, autonomy, or social relationships for pleasure. Likewise, the fact that a behavior pattern is valued, accepted, encouraged, or even statistically normative in a culture does not necessarily mean that it is conducive to optimal psychological functioning. People in all cultures find some behaviors biz... | "slapped with a psychiatric label." Caplan says because psychiatric diagnosis is unregulated, doctors are not required to spend much time interviewing patients or to seek a second opinion. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders can lead a psychiatrist to focus on narrow checklists of symptoms, with l... |
Cudi song), 2010 Marijuana (word), history and usage of the term Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck, an American educator See also Cannabis (disambiguation) List of names for cannabis | film Marihuana (1950 film), or The Marihuana Story, an Argentine film Marijuana (film), a 1968 anti-drug documentary Other uses Marihuana (novel), by Cornell Woolrich, 1941 Marijuana (EP), by Brujeria, 2000 "Marijuana" (Kid Cudi song), 2010 Marijuana |
1969 novel, The Ice Schooner. Elric of Melnibone and Moonglum appear in Karl Edward Wagner's story "The Gothic Touch", where they meet with Kane, who borrows Elric for his ability to deal with demons. He is a friend and fan of comic book writer Alan Moore and allowed Moore the use of his own character, Michael Kane of ... | the President (PS. 2018), The Fracking Factory (on FB, 2018) are two recent novellas and further stories are forthcoming. Views on fiction writing Moorcock is a fervent supporter of Mervyn Peake's works. He cites Fritz Leiber, an important sword and sorcery pioneer, as an author who writes fantasy that is not escapist ... |
usage by the Chinese government in order to erase these regional differences. From an official point of view, the mainland Chinese and the Taiwanese governments maintain their own forms of the standard under different names. Technically, both Pǔtōnghuà and Guóyǔ base their phonology on the Beijing accent, though Pǔtōng... | establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 and its promotion of this standard variant. Starting in the Cultural Revolution and intensifying afterwards, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adopted a language policy that pushes for the usage of Standard Mandarin at the expense of other Chinese varieties, including ... |
Indian ethnic tribe of Rajputs Other uses Short Mayo Composite, a piggy-back long-range seaplane/flying boat combination built by Short Brothers in the late 1930s , World War II US Navy destroyer Earl of Mayo, a title in the Peerage of Ireland Viscount Mayo, a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland... | United States Mayo, Florida, a town Mayo, Kentucky, an unincorporated community Mayo, Maryland, a census-designated place Mayo, South Carolina, a census-designated place Mayo Lake, North Carolina, a reservoir Multiple places Mayo River (disambiguation), various rivers Schools Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (formerly Ma... |
on his music, using a 4-track recorder, synthesizer, and drum machine. Moby's formative musical influences include Nick Drake, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Suicide, Silver Apples, Eric B. & Rakim, and Public Enemy. Career 1989–1993: Signing with Instinct, "Go", and breakthrough In 1989, Moby relocated to Ne... | Play chart and No. 21 in the UK. In 1993, Moby toured as the headlining act with Orbital and Aphex Twin. A rift developed between Aphex Twin and himself, partly due to Moby's refusal to tolerate their cigarette smoke, so he travelled to each gig by plane, leaving the rest on the tour bus. In 1994, Moby put out Demons/H... |
its Canadian Warner Music Group release using the original Leathür mixes—to coincide with the tour. During the "Crüesing Through Canada Tour '82", there were several widely publicized incidents. First, the band was arrested and then released at Edmonton International Airport for wearing their spiked stage wardrobe (con... | vacant frontman position was Kik Tracee vocalist Stephen Shareaux. Ultimately Neil was replaced by John Corabi (formerly of Angora and the Scream). Although Mötley's self-titled March 1994 release made the Billboard top ten (#7), the album was a commercial failure. It also prompted negative reactions from many fans due... |
biome known as macchia in Italian Aristotelia chilensis, a bush in southern Chile, locally known as maqui Maquis (pigeon), a pigeon that received the Dickin Medal for service during the Second World War See also Maki (disambiguation) Maqui | universe "The Maquis" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), television episode that introduced the group Maquis shrubland, a Mediterranean shrubland biome known as macchia in Italian Aristotelia chilensis, a bush in southern Chile, locally known as maqui Maquis (pigeon), |
MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate. Hearst contended that MandrakeSoft infringed upon King Features' trademarked character Mandrake the Magician. As a precaution, MandrakeSoft renamed its products by removing the space between the brand name and the product name... | character Mandrake the Magician. As a precaution, MandrakeSoft renamed its products by removing the space between the brand name and the product name and changing the first letter of the product name to lower case, thus creating one word. Starting from version 10.0, Mandrake Linux became known as mandrakelinux, and its... |
published with Schott in Mainz, in 1836. It is still valuable, relevant and interesting. His most famous works are collected in his 25 Études, Op. 60. In these, he managed to blend technical skills and brilliant Romantic music. This is the reason his music is still played by so many classical guitarists today. Referenc... | piano, but learned guitar when still a child. He quickly gained a reputation as a virtuoso concert guitarist. He moved to Germany in 1810, gaining almost immediate success. By 1815, he was living in Paris, earning his living as a teacher of both the piano and the guitar. On a concert tour in Germany in 1819, he met his... |
based in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan. In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly 1 million) were produced in the company's Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2015, Mazda was the fifteenth largest automaker by production w... | place and the other breaking an axle after 81 hours. The next year, Mazda raced Mazda Familia R100 M10A coupes. After winning the Singapore Grand Prix in April 1969 and coming in fifth and sixth in the Spa 24 Hours (beaten only by Porsche 911s), on October 19, 1969, Mazda again entered the 84 hour Nürburgring race with... |
minute is a unit of time usually equal to (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never ha... | happened in more than 40 years under this system). Although not an SI unit, the minute is accepted for use with SI units. The SI symbol for minute or minutes is min (without a dot). The prime symbol is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes of time. History Al-Biruni first subdivided the hour sexagesimally in... |
of Painting". Finally, it sometimes is reduced to simply designating a categorization of an artistic school or movement. (However, this account of Malraux's notion of style—a key element in his thinking—is open to serious question.) For Merleau-Ponty, it is these uses of the notion of style that lead Malraux to postula... | on Hegel and Aron Gurwitsch's lectures on Gestalt psychology. In the spring of 1939, he was the first foreign visitor to the newly established Husserl Archives, where he consulted Husserl's unpublished manuscripts and met Eugen Fink and Father Hermann Van Breda. In the summer of 1939, as France entered war against Germ... |
back to ancient Greece, with Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and Erasistratus (304–258 BCE) among the first to perform experiments on living animals. Discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries included Antoine Lavoisier's use of a guinea pig in a calorimeter to prove that respiration was a form of combustion, and Louis Pasteur... | examples include: The use of metrazol (pentylenetetrazol) as an animal model of epilepsy Induction of mechanical brain injury as an animal model of post-traumatic epilepsy Injection of the neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine to dopaminergic parts of the basal ganglia as an animal model of Parkinson's disease. Immunisation wit... |
elusive and poorly defined. During the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels extended the concept of materialism to elaborate a materialist conception of history centered on the roughly empirical world of human activity (practice, including labor) and the institutions created, reproduced or destroyed by that act... | dual-aspect monism. Its materiality can, in some ways, be linked to the concept of determinism, as espoused by Enlightenment thinkers. Despite the large number of philosophical schools and subtle nuances between many, all philosophies are said to fall into one of two primary categories, defined in contrast to each othe... |
and (naturally) insulators and conductors can all be found in microelectronic devices. Unique wiring techniques such as wire bonding are also often used in microelectronics because of the unusually small size of the components, leads and pads. This technique requires specialized equipment and is expensive. Digital inte... | diodes and (naturally) insulators and conductors can all be found in microelectronic devices. Unique wiring techniques such as wire bonding are also often used in microelectronics because of the unusually small size of the components, leads and pads. This technique requires specialized equipment and is expensive. Digit... |
desire, for example, is a mental state to which the subject lacks the forms of privileged epistemic access mentioned. One way to respond to this worry is to ascribe a privileged status to conscious mental states. On such a consciousness-based approach, conscious mental states are non-derivative constituents of the mind... | and qualitative states are often contrasted with propositional states, which are sometimes said to be non-sensory and non-qualitative. Propositional states involve attitudes, like belief or desire, which a subject has towards a proposition. One problem with this contrast is that some propositional attitudes may have a ... |
wrote: A motion to remove Allinson was raised, and was debated and voted on by the committee. Gandhi's shyness was an obstacle to his defence of Allinson at the committee meeting. He wrote his views down on paper but shyness prevented him from reading out his arguments, so Hills, the President, asked another committee ... | thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg after refusing to leave the first-class. He sat in the train station, shivering all night and pondering if he should return to India or protest for his rights. He chose to protest and was allowed to board the train the next day. In another incident, the magistrate of a Durban cour... |
Tsukahara Bokuden (b. 1489, d. 1571). The main source of the duel is the Hyoho senshi denki ("Anecdotes about the Deceased Master"). Summarized, its account goes as follows: Travels and duels In 1599, Musashi left his village, apparently at the age of 15 (according to the Tosakushi, "The Registry of the Sakushu Region"... | were the Niten Ichi Ryu's secret techniques. Musashi spent many years studying Buddhism and swordsmanship. He was an accomplished artist, sculptor, and calligrapher. Records also show that he had architectural skills. Also, he seems to have had a rather straightforward approach to combat, with no additional frills or a... |
Mondino (born 1949), French photographer Mahaut Mondino, French singer Mondino de Luzzi, Italian physician, anatomist and | Eduardo Mondino (born 1958), Argentine politician Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born 1949), French photographer Mahaut Mondino, French singer |
the distributions of observed data; how they can be used as part of statistical inference, particularly where several different quantities are of interest to the same analysis. Certain types of problems involving multivariate data, for example simple linear regression and multiple regression, are not usually considered... | PCA). Discriminant analysis, or canonical variate analysis, attempts to establish whether a set of variables can be used to distinguish between two or more groups of cases. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) computes a linear predictor from two sets of normally distributed data to allow for classification of new observ... |
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched. 1973 – Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board. 1974 – Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapo... | manager, and journalist (d. 1968) 1883 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil (d. 1974) 1883 – Walter Gropius, German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building (d. 1969) 1886 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946) 1889 – Thomas... |
odds games. One way to minimize risk with this method is to bet on every possible outcome of some event that has many possible outcomes, so no outcome(s) have short odds, and the bettor will lose only the vigorish and will have one or more winning bets that can be shown as the source of money. The losing bets will rema... | the Patriot Act in the U.S. and similar legislation worldwide, led to a new emphasis on money laundering laws to combat terrorism financing. The Group of Seven (G7) nations used the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering to put pressure on governments around the world to increase surveillance and monitoring of... |
the women as freed, it can be proposed that midwives were generally valued enough, and earned enough income, to be able to gain their freedom. It is not known from these epitaphs how certain slave women were selected for training as midwives. Slave girls may have been apprenticed, and it is most likely that mothers tau... | care providers. This is different from "medical-led care" where an obstetrician or family physician is primarily responsible. In "shared-care" models, responsibility may be shared between a midwife, an obstetrician and/or a family physician. The midwife is part of very intimate situations with the mother. For this reas... |
name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or last name Automobile-related Mercedes (marque), the pre-1926 brand name of German automobile models and engines built by Daimler Motors company Mercedes-Benz, the post-1926 German brand of automobiles, engines, and trucks now owned by the ... | and later salvaged by the United States Navy MV Mercedes I, a freighter shipwrecked off Florida in 1984 USS Mercedes (YT-108), scuttled on 2 January 1942, see List of shipwrecks in January 1942 BAP Mercedes, a Peruvian Navy frigate in service from the 1840s to the 1850s RFA Mercedes, a collier which served with the Roy... |
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