text
stringlengths
400
1.36k
companies on the Philippines stock exchange are Chinese-owned. Of the top 1000 firms, Chinese Filipinos owned 36 percent. Among the top 100 companies, 43 percent were owned by Chinese-Filipinos. Between 1978 and 1988, Chinese controlled 146 of the country's 494 top companies. Ethnic Chinese are estimated to control ove...
Dad (film) Dad is a 1989 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Gary David Goldberg and starring Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey and Ethan Hawke. It is based on William Wharton's novel of the same name. The original music score was composed by James Horner. The film was p...
CBS Records, and a 100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics. The winner of the competition was 21-year-old British model Sophie Sumner from Oxford, England. The cycle featured seven contestants from previous cycles of ""Britain's Next Top Model"" for a second chance to win the title. Cycles 1 and 7 were unrepresented,...
2001, Arsenal rejected a bid from Fulham of around £7m for Kanu. However, Kanu's appearances for Arsenal gradually became less frequent, particularly after the emergence of Thierry Henry as Arsenal's first choice striker with Kanu being mainly used as a substitute. Kanu then won the 2003 FA Cup with Arsenal. Along with...
Kirsten Vangsness Kirsten Simone Vangsness (born July 7, 1972) is an American actress and writer. She currently stars as FBI Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia on the CBS drama series ""Criminal Minds"". She portrayed the same character on the spin-off series """". Vangsness was born in Pasadena, California, the daughte...
enlarged. The bladder is situated below the peritoneal cavity near the pelvic floor and behind the pubic symphysis. In men, it lies in front of the rectum, separated by the recto-vesical pouch, and is supported by fibres of the levator ani and of the prostate gland. In women, it lies in front of the uterus, separated b...
Near East for a discussion regarding the accuracy and resolution of dates for events of the 2nd millennium BC in the Near East (Babylon, etc.). Spending much of their energies in trying to recuperate from the chaotic situation that existed at the turn of the millennium, the most powerful civilizations of the time, Egyp...
jazz musician and play the piano. The narrator does not understand this dream and does not think it is good enough for Sonny. They also try to figure out his living arrangement for the remainder of his high school career. Both of these subjects lead to an argument. Sonny calls his brother ignorant for not knowing who C...
Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, Epistles of Paul, or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament, composed of letters which are largely attributed to Paul the Apostle, although authorship of some is in dispute. Among these letters are some of the earliest extant Christian documents. They provide...
the State Capitol in Albany on January 4, 1984; and recessed indefinitely shortly before 2 a.m. on July 1. An hour after midnight, on May 30, the State Assembly rejected after a stormy debate of many hours the proposal to raise the legal drinking age from 19 to 21 years; the vote stood 80 to 69. The Legislature met for...
doesn't believe in love and finds writing about romance difficult. But when he meets Her (Monaghan), he falls in love with her, only to discover that she is already engaged to Stuffy (Gruffudd). The script for the film was originally titled ""A Many Splintered Thing"" and was first on The Black List and was a 2011 fina...
target food products. In addition, blending interesterified oils with liquid oils allows the reduction in saturated fatty acids in many trans fatty acid free food products. The interesterified fats can be separated through controlled crystallization, also called fractionation. In vegetable polyunsaturated oils, the PUF...
Smart money index Smart money index (SMI) or smart money flow index is a technical analysis indicator demonstrating investors' sentiment. The index was invented and popularized by money manager Don Hays. The indicator is based on intra-day price patterns. The main idea is that the majority of traders (emotional, news-d...
at the high-end user, most also include environmental or weather sealing and a constant maximum aperture. All L lenses are supplied complete with a hood and a pouch or case, which are not generally included with non-L lenses. Distinctive visual cues include a red ring around the lens and an off-white colour on longer-f...
since. Marc Gagnon, who won 3 gold and 2 bronze medals between 1994 and 2002 and François-Louis Tremblay, who has collected 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals from 2002 to 2010, are among only 5 Canadian Olympians to win a total of 5 medals. Gaetan Boucher (1000 m and 1500 m in 1984), Catriona Le May Doan (500 m in 1...
the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and high school basketball. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the NBA record for field goals made in a career with 15,837. Wilt Chamberlain, one of the most prolific scorers of all time, holds the top four spots for most field goals made in a season and has the two top field ...
to film, but this never came to fruition. In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged stating that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley (according to ""Goldmine Magazi...
shooter is Humbert Humbert, a 40-something British professor of French literature. The film then flashes back to events four years earlier. Humbert arrives in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, intending to spend the summer before his professorship begins at Beardsley College, Ohio. He searches for a room to rent, and Charlotte ...
including the founder, James Patrick March (Evan Peters); heroin addict Sally (Sarah Paulson); and the strap-on-wielding ""Addiction Demon."" Staff and residents of the hotel include the 111-year-old ""vampire"", Elizabeth/The Countess (Lady Gaga), and her longtime paramour, the former drug-addict Donovan (Matt Bomer),...
refuse to serve in the U.S. Army and publicly considered himself a conscientious objector. Ali stated that ""War is against the teachings of the Holy Qur'an. I'm not trying to dodge the draft. We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by Allah or The Messenger. We don't take part in Christian wars or ...
Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman"", ""Bring Back Birdie"", and ""A Broadway Musical"", and the book and lyrics for ""Ain't Broadway Grand"". Additionally, Charles Strouse and Adams co-wrote ""Those Were the Days"", the opening theme to the TV situation comedy ""All in the Family"". Adams was inducted into the Songwr...
the Orissa Jana Congress. In 1971 Assembly poll, the government was formed by a coalition of Utkal Congress, Swatantra Party and All India Jharkhand Party, with Biswanath Das as the Chief Minister. On 14 June 1972, Nandini Satpathy became the Chief Minister of Odisha, heading a Congress ministry. On 1 March 1973, Chief...
sustain Jamestown. For the next five years, Governors Gates and Sir Thomas Dale continued to keep strict discipline, with Sir Thomas Smith in London attempting to find skilled craftsmen and other settlers to send to Jamestown. In 1614, Smith returned to the Americas in a voyage to the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts ...
cuisines, the renovation would retain only the Verandah and Raintree restaurants, refurbishing all the rooms, lobby and banquet halls to look more like the hotels early years. The renovation would be made by the Mumbai-based engineering consultancy Structwel Designers and Consultants Private Limited. The hotel reopened...
than 200 artists have recorded cover versions of ""Imagine"". Joan Baez included it on 1972's ""Come from the Shadows"" and Diana Ross recorded a version for her 1973 album, ""Touch Me in the Morning"". In 1995, Blues Traveler recorded the song for the """" album and Dave Matthews has performed the song live with them....
""Beyond the Sea"" and contributed to the film's soundtrack. He also had a small role as the Piano Player in the Hayden Planetarium in ""Spider-Man 2"". His song ""December Boys"" is featured in the 2007 film ""December Boys"", starring Daniel Radcliffe. He appeared as himself in the third season of the Netflix series ...
in areas such as Caatinga, where their main food source consists of diurnal lizards, they are more likely to be active during the day. Young oncillas have been observed to purr, while adults are known to make short, gurgling calls when close to one another. Estrus lasts from 3 to 9 days, with older cats having shorter ...
health insurance under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; a GSA legal opinion ruled Jimmy Carter ineligible. Former presidents were entitled from 1965 to 1996 to lifetime Secret Service protection, for themselves, spouses, and children under 16. A 1994 statute, (), limited post-presidential protection to te...
prompted other recording ventures. When the Instrumental hit ""Duelling Banjos"" from the film ""Deliverance"" was popular, Smiley, on Flat-Top Guitar, was teamed with Eddie Poirier on 5-String Banjo. Though he had not seen the film, it only took a couple of tries to arrive at an arrangement, which, while not represent...
the ""Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"". That was the country's last entry until 2004, as it was banned from the contest, following the sanctions on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 757, following the Bosnian War and Croatian War of Independence. After scoring second place consecutively (1988, 1989) and sc...
the Asia-Pacific region generating 32 percent of global hydropower in 2010. China is the largest hydroelectricity producer, with 721 terawatt-hours of production in 2010, representing around 17 percent of domestic electricity use. There are now three hydroelectricity plants larger than 10 GW: the Three Gorges Dam in Ch...
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"" as inspiration. The scenes taking place on the ""Queen Anne"" were filmed aboard the retired British ocean liner RMS ""Queen Mary"", which is moored at Long Beach, California and currently serves as a hotel. Filming on board the ship took place over eleven days. To block out the lights ...
columnist Virginia Heffernan said the character was ""painful and surprising and exciting to watch — a marvelous high-wire act."" According to Michael Ausiello, fans were reluctant to let Luke and Lorelai go. In 2005, in honor of Mother's Day, Inside TV, a newly published weekly magazine for television fans, chose its ...
of ""Flashdance"". She went on to play the title role of Louise/Gypsy in Paul Kerryson's production of ""Gypsy"" at Leicester Curve in 2012 alongside Caroline O'Connor. In 2013 Hamilton-Barritt appeared in ""A Chorus Line"" at the London Palladium as ‘Diana Morales’. She played the role of ‘Daniela’ in Lin Manuel Miran...
McDonald's McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger stand, and later turned the company into a franchise, with the Golden Arches logo being introduc...
Chris Griffin Christopher Cross ""Chris"" Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series ""Family Guy"". He is the middle child of Peter and Lois Griffin and brother of Stewie and Meg Griffin. He is voiced by Seth Green and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the Griffin family, i...
listening while W. F. reads ""The Only Living Boy in New York"". Thomas watches them and smiles, as his mother has finally found her happiness. On August 15, 2012, it was announced Marc Webb would direct the film. On November 4, 2014, Miles Teller joined the cast of the film. On September 8, 2016, Callum Turner joined ...
selfless Air Nomad teachings. All of the central characters generally remained the same: Zach Tyler Eisen voices Aang, Mae Whitman voices Katara, Jack DeSena voices Sokka, Jessie Flower voices Toph, Dante Basco voices Zuko, Dee Bradley Baker voices Appa and , and Grey DeLisle voices Azula. Additionally, Mark Hamill joi...
Promised Land and of taking possession of it. Joshua also was the leader in renewing the Mosaic covenant with their God. Caleb was from the tribe of Judah. He was also chosen to explore the land of Canaan, and he was (along with Joshua) the other man who said that the God of Israel could help the Israelite people to vi...
2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification The 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, the 17th edition of the international men's football championship of Asia. For the first time, the Asia...
an example of good practice by the European governing body UEFA, the world governing body FIFA, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, European parliamentarians and the British Council. Kick It Out has come under criticism from ethnic minorities in the football industry for not having a big enough impact on th...
Won't Back Down"" by Napier, Phillips and Smith; instead Petty and Lynne would be given certificates to honor their contribution to the work, as is usual for writers of sampled or interpolated work. ""Stay with Me"" was written by Smith, James Napier, William Phillips, with additional credits to Tom Petty and Jeff Lynn...
Suits (season 3) The third season of the American legal comedy-drama Suits was ordered on October 12, 2012. The third season originally aired on USA Network in the United States between July 16, 2013 and April 10, 2014. The season was produced by Hypnotic Films & Television and Universal Cable Productions, and the exec...
trackage rights include ""direction running"" agreements between two railroads with parallel lines through an area, usually done to facilitate greater traffic volume. For instance, CSX and NS have a directional-running agreement between downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and nearby Hamilton, where northbound trains generally us...
and co-founder of the Tiger Frances Foundation, an animal rescue organization based in Los Angeles, California. She dated her ""Psych"" co-star, James Roday for the duration of filming the show from 2006-2014. Lawson got engaged to ""Back in the Game"" co-star Ben Koldyke on November 14, 2014, and married him on August...
as a regular, but Aaron Spelling felt differently and gave Perry a bigger role during the first two years until the network was won over. In the first season, when Donna tries out for school D.J., she is referred to as Donna Morgan. Throughout the rest of the show, her name is Donna Martin. In addition, in the first se...
the younger lithosphere below the Atlantic, one explanation is that the source is in the asthenosphere rather than in metasomatized lithosphere. A different view is that the similarities are caused by shallow contamination of the oceanic section, which could be caused by sediments from the continent or by rafted crusta...
of weights in which his ""[decimal] pound"" would have been and the ""[decimal] stone"" would have been . Before the advent of metrication, units called ""stone"" (German: Stein; Dutch: steen; Polish: kamień) were used in many North-Western European countries. Its value, usually between 3 and 10 kg, varied from city to...
of the Thirteen Colonies assembled as the Stamp Act Congress in response to the Stamp Act 1765, to call into question the right of a distant power to tax them without proper representation. The British Parliament was then faced with colonies who refused to comply with their Act. This, combined with protests that had oc...
appeared in an FA Cup Final for the tenth time since the club was founded in 1880. The club had won the cup five times (in 1904, 1934, 1956, 1969 and 2011) and were runners-up four times (1926, 1933, 1955 and 1981). Wigan Athletic made their first appearance in an FA Cup Final since the club was founded in 1932. Wigan ...
the dogs who have played the role of Toto from the iconic story about The Wizard of Oz. In February 2016, the a cappella group Voctave released the video ""Disney Love Medley"" which featured Maldonado and her fiance Jeremy Michael Lewis. In the video, Maldonado and Lewis perform the songs ""I See the Light"" from ""Ta...
received a score of 68% based on reviews from 6 critics. At Rotten Tomatoes, it received a score of 83% based on 12 reviews, 10 positive, 2 negative. Sons of Anarchy (season 7) The seventh and final season of the American television drama series ""Sons of Anarchy"" premiered on September 9, 2014, and concluded on Decem...
That's So Raven That's So Raven is an American supernatural sitcom that originally ran on Disney Channel from January 17, 2003 to November 10, 2007. Set in San Francisco, the series starred Raven-Symoné as Raven Baxter, a teenager with psychic abilities who draws on her ingenuity, talent as a fashion designer, and a va...
Feather duster A feather duster is an implement used for cleaning. It consists typically of a wooden-dowel handle and feathers from either the male or female ostrich bird that are wound onto the handle by a wrapped wire. Dusters vary in size but are most often between in total length. Some dusters have a retractable ca...
Stories We Could Tell (novel) Stories We Could Tell by Tony Parsons, published in 2005, is set on a single night in August 1977, the night Elvis Presley died. It focuses on the adventures of three men, Terry, Ray, and Leon, all writers for the fictional musical magazine ""The Paper"" in pre-Thatcherite punk-ridden Lond...
Francis Hopkinson Smith Francis Hopkinson Smith (October 23, 1838 – April 7, 1915) was a United States author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards for his paintings. Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson...
October Revolution The October Revolution (), officially known in Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution (, '), and commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising, the Bolshevik Revolution, or the Bolshevik Coup, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolsheviks and Vladimir Lenin that wa...
Dana Hong at Chungmu Arts Hall in Seoul. Another production ran from November 3, 2011 to late December 2011, starring Heo Young-saeng and Oh Won-bin alternating as D'Artagnan. The Three Musketeers (musical) The Three Musketeers is a musical with a book by William Anthony McGuire, lyrics by Clifford Grey and P. G. Wodeh...
Richards, and Charlize Theron, but they all turned it down before Elizabeth Berkley, following the cancellation of ""Saved by the Bell"", signed on to play the role. Madonna, Sharon Stone, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, and Finola Hughes (who allegedly turned down the script because she thought it was sexist) were considere...
reactors both Cs-137 and strontium-90 are found in locations remote from the fuel. This is because these isotopes are formed by the beta decay of noble gases (xenon-137 {halflife of 3.8 minutes} and krypton-90 {halflife 32 seconds}) which enable these isotopes to be deposited in locations remote from the fuel (e.g. on ...
2018–19 Egyptian Premier League The 2018–19 Egyptian Premier League, also known as The WE League for sponsorship purposes, is the 60th season of the Egyptian Premier League, the top Egyptian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948. The season started on 31 July 2018 and is sc...
but sometimes it would show a peculiar zero counts per second. The University of Iowa (under Van Allen) noted that all of the zero counts per second reports were from an altitude of 2,000+ km (1,250+ miles) over South America, while passes at would show the expected level of cosmic rays. Later, after Explorer 3, it was...
Zootopia Zootopia is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated buddy cop comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 55th Disney animated feature film. It was directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, co-directed by Jared Bush, and stars the voices of Ginnifer Goodwin...
occurred in Theater 9 at the Century 16 multiplex (operated by Cinemark), located at the Town Center at Aurora shopping mall at 14300 E. Alameda Avenue. Police said Holmes bought a ticket, entered the theater, and sat in the front row. About 20 minutes into the film, he left theater 9 through an emergency exit door bes...
New York Heart Association Functional Classification The New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification provides a simple way of classifying the extent of heart failure. It places patients in one of four categories based on how much they are limited during physical activity; the limitations/symptoms are in...
is the charge density (SI unit: coulombs per cubic metre), in which ""n""(r, ""t"") is the number of particles per unit volume (""number density"") (SI unit: m), ""q"" is the charge of the individual particles with density ""n"" (SI unit: coulombs). A common approximation to the current density assumes the current simp...
the desk. The cable management needs at either end are different. Buildings and office furniture are often designed with cable management in mind; for instance, desks sometimes have holes to pass cables, and dropped ceilings, raised floors, and In Floor Cellular Raceway Systems provide easy access. Some cables have req...
and optional equipment, which is identical to those trim levels). The differences included unique interior trim, unique polished aluminum-alloy wheels, an unique leather-wrapped steering wheel with an ""SS"" center emblem, ""SS"" emblems on the polished wheel center caps, ""SS"" embroidery for both front bucket seats, ...
(1985); ""The Special Character of Hong Kong's Polity and its Democratic Prospects"" (1987); ""One Country, Two Systems: An Idea on Trial"" (1995); and ""Hong Kong: A City with the Most Traits of Modernity in Chinese Societies"" (2000). He held that to understand Hong Kong, one cannot overlook two important threads, na...
2018 film """". Smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford) has jettisoned cargo belonging to crime lord Jabba the Hutt to avoid capture by an Imperial search party. As a result, Jabba has offered a bounty on Solo. In the Mos Eisley cantina, bounty hounter Greedo (Paul Blake) corners Solo and forces him at gunpoint to sit. Solo ...
Ritch Brinkley Ritch Brinkley (March 18, 1944 – November 5, 2015) was an American character actor best known for playing William in ""Beauty and the Beast"" who appeared in over 50 films and television programs from 1972 to 2002 in a film and television career that spanned three decades. He is best known for roles in f...
the longest season with 21 episodes and ended on December 1. The ninth and tenth seasons aired in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The latter season included a television special entitled ""About Bruce"" which aired on May 17 and 18, 2015. The eleventh season premiered on November 15, one month after the previous season fi...
Urb (Leon S. Kennedy) were not invited to return for the last movie. On August 3, 2015, it was confirmed that Ali Larter would be back for the sequel in the role of Claire Redfield, and filming would begin in late August or early September. Larter confirmed the sixth film would be the last in the franchise. On Septembe...
English versions of the Jonah story, the Hebrew text actually uses the phrase ""dag gadol"", which means ""giant fish"". In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the species of the fish that swallowed Jonah was the subject of speculation for naturalists, who interpreted the story as an account of a historical...
of the states. The Rajya Sabha can have a maximum of 250 members. It currently has a sanctioned strength of 245 members, of which 233 are elected from States and Union Territories and 12 are nominated by the President. The number of members from a state depends on its population. The minimum age for a person to become ...
British rule), and became an official law of segregation when South Africa became a republic (it was an extension of segregationist legislation enacted in 1960). On 27 April 1994, after decades of armed struggle and international opposition to apartheid, during which military and political support was provided primaril...
Keeping Committees Standing/Portfolio Committees Sessional Committees House Keeping Committees Standing Committees Departmental Committees Other Committees 11th Parliament of Kenya The 11th Parliament of Kenya was the meeting of the legislative branch of the national government of Kenya, which began on 28 March 2013. I...
This adaptation has been shown in documentaries on both the English language and Anglo-Saxon England and was also used for historian Michael Wood's documentary on the poem broadcast during the BBC Poetry Season in 2009. In 2009, Glover played the role of Mr. Brownlow in the West End revival of the musical ""Oliver!"" a...
A Boy Like That ""A Boy Like That"" is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical ""West Side Story"", with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. In the musical, the song is paired with ""I Have a Love"" and is sung by the characters Anita and Maria. For the original Broadway cast recording, the song wa...
Shore and Buffalo Railway was completed in 1884, as a route running closely parallel to both the canal and the New York Central Railroad. However, it went bankrupt and was acquired the next year by the New York Central. The Erie Canal greatly lowered the cost of shipping between the Midwest and the Northeast, bringing ...
""Game of Thrones"" was the most-pirated TV series in 2016. Game of Thrones (season 6) The sixth season of the fantasy drama television series ""Game of Thrones"" premiered on HBO on April 24, 2016, and concluded on June 26, 2016. It consists of ten episodes, each of approximately 50–60 minutes long, largely of origina...
operators, whether military, civilian, or amateur. It was finally adopted by the IMO in 1965. During 1947 the ITU adopted the compound number words (""Nadazero"", ""Unaone"", etc.), later adopted by the IMO during 1965. In the official version of the alphabet, the non-English spellings Alfa and Juliett are used. ""Alfa...
Virender Sehwag scored a double century (293), but missed out on becoming the first person to score three triple centuries in Test cricket. India made their highest Test score of 726 for 9 and won the match by an innings. As a result of this win, India topped the ICC Test Championship for the first time. On the first d...
the beat, he thought that the rhythm would be nice to fool around with, and wrote the song shortly afterwards. ""Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel song)"" was inspired by Joel's love for his wife at the time, Elizabeth Weber. He stated on a SiriusXM broadcast in 2016 that the melody came to him in a dream while he was w...
2007, the questions for the test were based on chapters 2 to 4 of the book ""Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship"". The handbook was revised in March 2007 and the test was changed to be based on chapters 2 to 6 of it. The additional chapters covered knowledge and understanding of employment matters and...
layers, cholesterol and phospholipids, both electrical insulators, can facilitate speed of transmission of electrical impulses along nerve tissue. For many neuron fibers, a myelin sheath, rich in cholesterol since it is derived from compacted layers of Schwann cell membrane, provides insulation for more efficient condu...
Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark is an original novel written by Andrew Hunt and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. The TARDIS's link with the Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of r...
somewhat barbaric kingdom. The story, told by a balladeer, is about love and jealousy (""I'll Tell You a Truth""). He introduces King Arik and his daughter Princess Barbára entering a great banquet that is being held (""Make Way""). They show a traditional trial: the prisoner is put into a large arena with two doors. B...
source of the country's energy came from petroleum (35%), followed by natural gas (28%), coal (18%), renewable sources (10%) and nuclear power (8%). Amory Lovins says that the sharp and steady cost reductions in solar power has been a ""stunning market success"". He says that solar, wind and cheap natural gas have sign...
Milon K. Banerji Milon Kumar Banerji (c. 1928 – 20 July 2010) was an Indian jurist who was Attorney General of India from 1992 to 1996 and again from 2004 to 2009. He was also Solicitor General from 1986 to 1989. He died on 20 July 2010 after a long illness, having suffered a stroke in December 2009. He was 82. In 2005...
Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope ( , , ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa. This misconception was based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and...
of Independence, the intelligentsia of Yucatán watched the events to the north. Following 1820 they organized their own resistance to Spain, forming the Patriotic Confederation, which declared independence from Spain in 1821. The confederation subsequently joined the Mexican Empire that same year; in 1823 it became a p...
with 133,500 copies sold. Unchained Melody: The Early Years Unchained Melody: The Early Years or simply The Early Years is a compilation album by American country singer LeAnn Rimes, released in the United States on February 11, 1997 (see 1997 in music) by Curb Records. Due to high sales of her debut album, ""Blue"", t...
first live-action film was released in March 2015. The following month, Toho released the second trailer for the first film, and announced the second installment would be called ""Attack on Titan: End of the World"". In June 2015, a third trailer for the first film was released, revealing the Three-Dimensional Maneuver...
payment, and the loud, iconoclastic improvised music sometimes climaxed with Who-style destruction of equipment. The club played an important role in the development of a style of music that would later be called krautrock. Whether due to the Schaubühne's management calling for things to be toned down, or the restlessn...
QLD Team of the Year, and won the 2018 Queensland NPL Golden Boot with 24 goals in 14 games. While playing for Western Pride, Wenzel-Halls broke the record for the most goals scored in a single National Premier Leagues match, scoring seven goals in a 15–0 win over Sunshine Coast FC. Following his goal-scoring exploits ...
of the tormented and mercurial Nathan opposite Meryl Streep. Streep won an Academy Award for her performance in the film. Kline was nominated for a 1983 Golden Globe award (New Star of the Year) and BAFTA Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer To Film. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Kline made several films with direct...
Cisterna magna The cisterna magna (or cerebellomedullaris cistern) is one of three principal openings in the subarachnoid space between the arachnoid and pia mater layers of the meninges surrounding the brain. The openings are collectively referred to as the subarachnoid cisterns. The cisterna magna is located between ...
helped change the perception of Jamestown history; it is known from primary English sources that the Poles were hired as skilled artisans, but in Stefanski's memoir, the six men were to have been presented as merchants (or at least trading officials) in Poland. According to several sources, two of the craftsmen helped ...
the station. The Viluppuram Old Bus Stand (Town bus stand) is situated at 2 km and New bus stand (Central bus stand) is situated at 4 km from the Viluppuram Junction railway station. The nearest airport is the Puducherry Airport located at a distance of over 40 km and Chennai Airport is 143 km away from Viluppuram. Fiv...