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165 , amounting to 2 @,@ 064 riders on an average weekday ; this made 34th Street – Hudson Yards the 392nd busiest station in the city out of 422 total stations .
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The warehouse district west of Eighth Avenue and north of 34th Street was rezoned in 2005 into a commercial and residential area , and th... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
multi @-@ sports are popular in the Western Isles . The Hebridean Challenge is an adventure race run in five daily stages , which takes place along the length of the islands and includes hill and road running , road and mountain biking , short sea swims and demanding sea kayaking sections . There are four main sports ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Away ( Mariah 's Theme ) and " Crybaby " featuring Snoop Dogg , were released as a double A @-@ side . The songs were at the center of a public feud in between Carey and Sony due to Sony 's alleged weak promotion of the singles . Carey 's cover of Phil Collins " Against All Odds ( Take a Look at Me Now ) " with Westli... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
cho released her fifth full @-@ length studio album , Awakening , on September 23 , 2014 on Sony Masterworks ' Portrait Records label . Evancho promoted the album with a concert tour that began in November 2014 and continued into 2016 , and a third PBS special based on the album that debuted the same month . The album ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
ing the slaves . After realizing the letter was a hoax , Bradburn arrested Travis for questioning . He intended to send Travis to Matamoros for a military trial on charges of attempted insurrection . Conviction on this charge would have led to Travis 's execution . The settlers were outraged that the arrest did not req... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Search and Rescue Task Force of 28 people to the state for possible rescue duty . Days before the storm made landfall , the Salvation Army prepared food and aid for potentially affected citizens . In anticipation for the effects of Isabel , Governor Jim McGreevey declared a state of emergency , which allowed the Feder... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
its descent . After its 44th use in 1999 , the third ball was retired and placed on display at the Atlanta headquarters of Jamestown Group , owners of One Times Square .
= = = Into the new millennium ( 1999 – 2007 ) = = =
On December 28 , 1998 , during a press conference attended by New York City mayor Rudy Giulia... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Caen University was particularly hard hit , starting chemical fires that soon spread . At 22 : 50 , six squadrons of de Havilland Mosquito bombers attacked individual targets and ten minutes later the 636 guns of the assaulting divisions opened fire , with the battleship Rodney and other ships adding their support . T... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
& Distribution at Sony Pictures Entertainment , the release was motivated by " renewed interest in Q * bert , in part due to the cameo in the recent Wreck It Ralph animated feature film " .
Q * bert Rebooted contains a port of the classic arcade game alongside a new playing mode that uses hexagonal shapes , increasi... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
purchased in 1914 that had just begun construction at the Blyth Shipbuilding Company so it could be easily modified to suit its new role .
Ark Royal was laid down on 7 November 1913 by the Blyth Shipbuilding Company in Blyth , Northumberland , as a freighter , probably intended for the coal @-@ for @-@ grain trade i... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Portuguese railway system . It is expected the station will be replaced by a new facility located at the border with Portugal with high @-@ speed services run by the Southwest – Portuguese corridor and the Madrid – Lisbon line .
Badajoz Airport , ( Spanish : Aeropuerto de Badajoz ) ( IATA : BJZ , ICAO : LEBZ ) , is ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Muslim saint , Sheikh el @-@ Amud ( " Saint of the Pillar " ) , but further claims that the association is ' only a modern invention of the Mohammedans ' . A book published in 1894 , also questions the existence of a tomb to Rabbi Joseph of Nablus , calling it ' a Mohammedan legend , imposed upon inquisitive traveller... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
for support . By nine months , it weighs over 1 kg ( 2 @.@ 2 lb ) and develops its adult fur colour . Having permanently left the pouch , it rides on its mother 's back for transportation , learning to climb by grasping branches . Gradually , it spends more time away from its mother , and at 12 months it is fully wean... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
in Germany for the first time directing Edward Bond 's Lear , set in an " industrial landscape strewn with piles of slag , with Lear as a Baron Krupp in evening dress and top hat " . He commented on the " macabre " production : " Just as some people feed on hope , I feed on despair . For me it is a spur to action . " ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
he stole his TARDIS from his own people back in the day . Meanwhile , Christina accidentally awakens several stingrays that had caused the ship to crash in the first place , costing the life of the two Tritovores . Captain Magambo , who has also worked out that the earth is threatened , and that the wormhole is growin... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
amma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu would be a family drama ; its title focuses on the family system in India , a part of the Indian ideology of one world family . According to Addala , " Seethamma " stands for the goddess Sita , " Vakitlo " for India and " Sirimalle Chettu " for the Indian family . The mentality of a person... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
us in 2014 after molecular phylogenetics demonstrated that S. amygdalinus was in a lineage distinct from Boletus .
In Latin , amygdaline means relating to or resembling an almond .
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Suillellus amygdalinus is a large solid mushroom with a convex to somewhat flattened , irregular cap that can rea... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
73 ) . By the end of the decade however , prices dropped so quickly that an 8 @-@ transistor radio could be had for less than $ 10 .
Another gift in demand was the streamlined , oval @-@ shaped Princess telephone introduced in the early 1960s . The phone came in a variety of colors , including pink , turquoise , and ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Niagara Falls before crossing the Niagara River on the Queenston @-@ Lewiston Bridge into Ontario . On the Canadian side of the border , the freeway continues as Highway 405 , a short spur that connects with the Queen Elizabeth Way ( QEW ) , which in turn provides a freeway connection to Toronto , Canada 's largest ci... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
to 20 large red follicles each . Roughly oval and jutting out prominently from the spike , each follicle is 3 @.@ 5 – 5 cm ( 1 @.@ 4 – 2 @.@ 0 in ) long by 2 – 3 cm ( 0 @.@ 8 – 1 in ) wide and 2 – 3 cm ( 0 @.@ 8 – 1 in ) high and is covered in dense fur , red @-@ brown initially before aging to grey . It remains close... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Consulting Board headed by Thomas Edison to obtain the advice and expertise of leading scientists , engineers , and industrialists . It popularized technology , naval expansion , and military preparedness , and was well covered in the media . Daniels and Benson rejected proposals to send observers to Europe , leaving ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
@ 182 was continuity : each song develops lyrically like chapters in a book , and songs segue into one another to present a cohesive feel instead of a regular collection of tracks . In addition to the side @-@ projects , the music of the album was inspired by the September 11 attacks and the onset of the Iraq War . The... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
's Seat and the Salisbury Crags . Inside the buildings , the connection to the land is reinforced by the use of Scottish rock such as gneiss and granite in the flooring and walls , and the use of oak and sycamore in the construction of the furniture .
The Parliament is actually a campus of several buildings , reflec... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
1970 Soviet film about Napoleon , Waterloo , received . In 2011 , Taschen published the book , Stanley Kubrick 's Napoleon : The Greatest Movie Never Made , a large volume compilation of literature and source documents from Kubrick , such as scene photo ideas and copies of letters Kubrick wrote and received . In March... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the battle and Hancock assumed command of II Corps , which he would lead until shortly before the war 's end .
= = = Gettysburg = = =
Hancock 's most famous service was as a new corps commander at the Battle of Gettysburg , July 1 to 3 , 1863 . After his friend , Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds , was killed early on Ju... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
while Terminal B is used for international services . Both terminals have their own check @-@ in facilities , but the check @-@ in for scheduled international services is done from Terminal A. It is possible to walk between the two terminals both within and outside the secure area . The terminal contains an array of s... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
@-@ call vote of the two houses in joint convention the following day . Nevertheless , if Hanna held all 73 votes cast for him , he would be elected .
According to Alfred Henry Lewis of Hearst 's Journal , writing on January 12 , " The opposition to Hanna was utterly disorganized by the history of yesterday , and pr... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
date passed without incident , Lieder said that it was merely a " white lie ... to fool the establishment . " She refused to disclose the true date , saying that to do so would give those in power enough time to declare martial law and trap people in cities during the shift , leading to their deaths . Though Lieder he... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
dikarib , better known by his nickname " al @-@ Ash 'ath " ( " He with the dishevelled hair " ) , was an important chieftain who submitted to Muhammad , but rebelled during the Ridda wars . Defeated , he was pardoned and married Caliph Abu Bakr 's sister . He went on to participate in the crucial battles of the early M... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
He watched the clip many times as a child , saying it was the most violent thing he had ever seen and juxtaposing Christ and Kennedy :
Christ was the blueprint for celebrity . He was the first celebrity , or rock star if you want to look at it that way , and [ dying on the cross ] he became this image of sexuality a... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
1964 , at the height of the band 's fame . The meeting was arranged by New York journalist Al Aronowitz , who later remarked on the significance of this introduction : " Hasn 't the whole world benefited ? ... The Beatles ' magic was in their sound . Bob 's magic was in his words . After they met , the Beatles ' words... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
time , the Hall of Fame has honored other tag teams , but The Fabulous Kangaroos were given the honor of being the first . In the tradition of The Kangaroos , they were " billed as champions on arrival " one last time . In 2013 , Costello and Heffernan was inducted into the NWA Hall of Fame .
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as Chopin 's " Raindrop " prelude . It received mixed reviews from video game media outlets , scoring 72 out of 100 on review aggregate website Metacritic , and was included in Mike Rose 's book 250 Indie Games You Must Play .
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Flotilla is a three @-@ dimensional simultaneous turn @-@ based strateg... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
' attack . England 's bowling was largely reliant on Alec Bedser and against a powerful Australian batting line @-@ up he managed only 18 wickets at 38 @.@ 22 . Alec Coxon , Dick Pollard , Edrich , Barnett and Yardley provided his seam support . Jim Laker , Jack Young , Eric Hollies and Doug Wright were the spinners i... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
300 million years to culminate .
The present era is classified as part of a mass extinction event , the Holocene extinction event , the fastest ever to have occurred . Some , such as E. O. Wilson of Harvard University , predict that human destruction of the biosphere could cause the extinction of one @-@ half of all... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
decades of his life .
Hollywood executive Sherry Lansing , a close friend of Aubrey 's for two decades , told the Los Angeles Times in 1986 :
Jim is different . He does his own dirty work . Jim is one of those people who are willing to say , " I didn 't like your movie . " Directness is disarming to people who are... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Fox that week , after two games of the 1998 World Series , a World Series pre @-@ game show , and Ally McBeal .
The authors of the book I Can 't Believe It 's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide , Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood , wrote , " Another collection of horrors , of varying degrees of wit . ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
of Spanish courtiers until 1813 , when it was brought to England to hang in Rokeby Park , Yorkshire . In 1906 , the painting was purchased by National Art Collections Fund for the National Gallery , London . Although it was attacked and badly damaged in 1914 by the suffragette Mary Richardson , it soon was fully resto... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
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Tchaikovsky struggled with sonata form . Its principle of organic growth through the interplay of musical themes was alien to Russian practice . According to Brown and musicologists Hans Keller and Daniel Zhitomirsky , Tchaikovsky found his solution to large @-@ scale structure while composing the Fourth Sym... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the sole proprietor from 1804 , having bought out his sleeping partner . Throughout its life , the navigation had almost been a monopoly , but Hollis planned to end this , and obtained an Act of Parliament in 1802 , to make it an open navigation , where anyone could use it on payment of the appropriate tolls . These w... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
was triggered by a massive comet or asteroid impact 66 million years ago and its catastrophic effects on the global environment , including a lingering impact winter that made it impossible for plants and plankton to carry out photosynthesis . The impact hypothesis , also known as the Alvarez hypothesis , was bolstere... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
remained in solidarity that they were all good friends , " cared for each other a lot " and supported each other through difficult times in the group .
= = = 2000 – 01 : 7 = = =
In February 2000 , the group won the ' British Breakthrough Act ' award at the 2000 BRIT Awards . In April 2000 , S Club 's second TV ser... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
, Dan Collison interviewed Port Chicago sailors for WBEZ radio 's PRI @-@ distributed program , This American Life . The men described how they were initially trained for action on ships and were disappointed when they were not assigned to ocean @-@ going ships . Collison interspersed interviews with contemporary news... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
( 461 N · m ) was made available in October 2009 after several delays . The kit can be installed by the owner of the car , but final alteration of the vehicle 's engine control unit must take place at a GM dealer .
= = = SS Naturally aspirated = = =
Chevrolet introduced a naturally aspirated Cobalt SS in the fall ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
ie was an afternoon loss to the Miami Marlins on June 30 . After the game ( which coincided with Howard 's return from the disabled list ) , the team announced that Thome had been traded to Baltimore to serve as their designated hitter .
= = = Baltimore Orioles ( 2012 ) = = =
The Orioles cited Thome 's veteran expe... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
classic funk . " The Ultimate Collection received particular acclaim from Allmusic writer Jason Birchmeier , who asserted that it was " a gem " that " you can 't go wrong with . "
= = Discography = =
= = = Studio albums = = =
Each Man Makes His Own Destiny ( 1972 , as Ice )
Soul Makossa ( 1973 )
Voodounon EP... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
, three at a time , and resold as Amazing Stories Quarterly . A total of 27 of these issues appeared ; they should not be confused with the magazine of the same name which ran from 1928 to 1934 as a companion to Amazing Stories .
Several anthologies of stories from Amazing have been published , including :
= = = M... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Dannatt ( later General Lord Dannatt ) . In 1997 , he was appointed honorary Colonel , The Royal Anglian Regiment , in succession to Major General Patrick Stone , and was himself succeeded as Deputy Colonel by Brigadier John Sutherell . Sutherell , then a major general , went on to succeed Walker as Honorary Colonel i... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
and then , on 24 April , his friend Lützow was posted missing . On 21 April , Galland was credited with his 100th aerial victory . He was the 103rd and last Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark . On 26 April , Galland claimed his 103rd and 104th aerial victories against B @-@ 26s , escorted by the 27th Fighter ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
its infancy . That year the U.S. Conference of Mayors penned an influential report which concluded , in part , that Americans suffered from a sense of " rootlessness . " They recommended historic preservation to help provide Americans with a sense of orientation . The creation of the National Register of Historic Plac... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
ex @-@ husband ; a 30 @-@ year @-@ old former tourist @-@ bus driver for the Ocean Club ; and the former driver 's 24 @-@ year @-@ old and 53 @-@ year @-@ old associates . The latter three men had telephoned or texted each other near the Ocean Club around the time of the disappearance . They admitted having broken int... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
local district court , which typically valued the land at a lesser amount ; this methodology was not without criticism . During the construction period , the state highway department suffered a " brain drain " as many staffers resigned to take up KTA jobs , which paid better salaries ( Chairman Moss 's KTA salary was ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Hungarian forces being hard @-@ pressed by the Russian Brusilov Offensive . In July , Mikl 's regiment was used as a " fire brigade " within the Army Group , and helped prevent the penetration of the Russian offensive through the Jablonika Pass . Their task completed , Mikl 's regiment was promptly transferred back to... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the US Hot R & B / Hip @-@ Hop Songs chart based on digital sales .
= = Background and development = =
" Love a Woman " was written by Mary J. Blige , Beyoncé , Sean Garrett and Menardini Timothee while production was handled by Garrett . Team S. Dot served as the co @-@ producer of the song while BridgeTown serve... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
, which may help prevent similar disappearances in the future . It concludes by noting that Ocean Shield had spent two months searching 850 square kilometres ( 330 sq mi ) of ocean , but that it had searched far to the north of the Inmarsat " hotspot " on the final arc , at approximately 28 degrees south , where the a... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
However , After the " Rage Factor " celebratory show in Finsbury Park on June 6 , 2010 , after the campaign to get Killing in the Name to Christmas Number 1 , Zack de la Rocha stated that it was a " genuine possibility " . Stating that they may use the momentum from the campaign to get back into the studio and write a... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
@-@ scale macroeconometric models that combined individual equations for factors such as consumption , investment , and money demand with empirically observed data . This line of research reached its height with the MIT @-@ Penn @-@ Social Science Research Council ( MPS ) model developed by Modigliani and his collabor... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
seas of north @-@ west Europe . The commercial route to Italy and the Mediterranean Sea normally lay through Antwerp and over the Alps ; any ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar to or from England were likely to be Italian or Ragusan . Upon the re @-@ opening of the Netherlands to English shipping in January ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done . It was just thoughtless .
Some critics responded that her apology came at a time when a group of New England Veterans had launched a campaign to disrupt a film project she was working on , leading to the charge that her apology was motivated at least part... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
Corps commander . Horne was overruled , and the command was temporarily given to Herbert Watts . Under Watts , the division successfully took its objective , Mametz Wood , though with severe losses ; within a week , Watts was back in command of 7th Division and Blackader had taken permanent command .
The division ha... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
24 @-@ hour period on April 29 to 30 , 1975 , immediately preceding the fall of Saigon . During the operation , so many South Vietnamese helicopters landed on the vessels taking the evacuees that some were pushed overboard to make room for more people . Other helicopters , having nowhere to land , were deliberately cr... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
both The Sunday Night Project and The Paul O 'Grady Show . Similarly , Carey performed the song live on the popular German talent show , Deutschland sucht den Superstar ( Germany searches for the superstar ) , in April 2008 .
On August 8 , 2008 , Carey performed a mash @-@ up of the song at the 2008 Teen Choice Awar... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
it was rumored that Christina Aguilera would feature on the remix version after Rihanna posted a message on Twitter saying that she wanted someone " Dirrrty " on the re @-@ recording , a supposed reference to Aguilera 's 2002 song " Dirrty " . However , the singer later tweeted that she wanted a male vocalist , not a ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
deep along the rift zone . Proto @-@ Lake Superior filled the basin .
= = = = Puckwunge Formation = = = =
The Puckwunge Formation has buff to grey sandstone which comes from sediments deposited during the early stages of the Midcontinent rift ; zircon dating shows a time period of 1200 to 1100 million years ago . ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the relationship between the band members was strained , with them either not speaking to each other or , when they did , arguing . Drummond was aware of the tensions within the band and so arranged a tour in Scotland for April 1982 . This was done in an effort to make the band work harder , write some songs , and to ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the Jordan – Israel peace treaty in October 1994 , large numbers of Jordanians , particularly fundamentalists , those of Palestinian origin , and members of the professional unions continue to oppose normalization with Israel and resist the expansion of commercial relations . With the establishment of 13 QIZs in Jorda... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
of Brendan Filone and the mock execution of Chris Moltisanti , Tony 's uncle Corrado " Junior " Soprano is installed as boss of the family ( following the death of previous boss Jackie Aprile , Sr. from cancer ) , even though Tony actually controls most things from behind the scenes . Furious at Corrado 's plan to hav... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
found in the Nile valley from Wadi Halfa south to Renk in northern South Sudan , and in eastern Sudan , northern Ethiopia to the Red Sea coast in Eritrea . It has also been introduced to Mohéli in the Comoros .
= = Distribution and habitat = =
The house sparrow originated in the Middle East and spread , along with... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
by the Miss Universe Organization and pageant co @-@ owner Donald Trump .
As Miss USA Finnessey went on to represent the United States at the international Miss Universe competition held in Quito , Ecuador in May 2004 , culminating on June 1 , 2004 . She placed first runner @-@ up in the internationally broadcast co... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
75 national winners . In addition , another Huckleberry Bey son , Bravado Bey V ( × Bachista V ) was USEF 's 10th @-@ ranked leading Arabian sire in 2008 .
In 2010 , of the top 25 leading sires of winning Arabian dressage horses since 1960 , Desperado V was ranked number 2 ( following Khemosabi ) , Bey Shah was numbe... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
advanced up Gue Hill and attacked the Italian force , while a small force of sappers would mine the road at the rear of the hill to ensure the Italian tanks could not retreat .
The battalion arrived at the hill without incident and began to prepare for the attack ; however , just prior to the beginning of the attack... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
, and Reynardine was imprisoned in Gunnerkrigg Court until the events surrounding his first meeting with Antimony .
In addition to this plotline , the story includes several additional plot arcs interspersed with the main story . One concerns two girls from the Court , Zimmy and Gamma , who communicate with one anot... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
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Pedro de Portocarrero , a young nobleman , led the next expedition into Chiapas after Alvarado , again from Guatemala . His campaign is largely undocumented but in January 1528 he successfully established the settlement of San Cristóbal de los Llanos in the Comitán valley , in the territory of the Tojol... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
hours after being named , Waka attained sustained winds of 120 km / h ( 75 mph ) . During December 30 , the center of the storm brushed Wallis Island before turning towards the southeast and accelerating due to an approaching trough from the northwest . Continuing to intensify , Waka passed directly over Niuafo 'ou on... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
6 – 25 mi ) per day , and they could potentially reach a top speed of 20 – 30 km ( 12 – 19 mi ) per hour . The slow locomotion of sauropods may be due to their minimal muscling , or to recoil after strides . A trackway of a juvenile has led some to believe that they were capable of bipedalism , though this is disputed ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
a budget of about $ 68 @,@ 000 . Both Roger and Gene Corman were present for most of the film 's production and involved creatively as well as financially . Gene was more involved with running the day @-@ to @-@ day operations while the more experienced Roger Corman supervised and provided guidance to both Gene and Ko... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
incomplete . On the contrary , in her home country fans and press remained always loyal and favorable to Doro , who received in her career five nominations for the German Echo music award , which she won in 1994 as Best National Female Artist .
Her frequent European tours in the 1990s maintained her visibility in th... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the principal physical quantities and maintenance of the international prototype standards .
In 1881 first International Electrical Congress adopted the BAAS recommendations on electrical units , followed by a series of congresses in which further units of measure were defined and the International Electrotechnical ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
regeneration of the town hall area was awarded by Bath and North East Somerset Council to Aedas in 2010 , with the works cost stated in 2011 to be £ 33 million ( £ 34 million in 2012 ) . Realisation of the plans is hoped to " attract new business and jobs " , in the aftermath of the announcement of the Cadbury Somerda... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
one of which would later be rebuilt and used by the Atomic Energy Commission in the late 1960s . At its peak , the occupancy of Amchitka reached 15 @,@ 000 troops .
The Aleutian Islands campaign was successfully completed on August 24 , 1943 . In that month , a strategic intercept station was established on the isla... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
interpreted as describing an acid trip , Hendrix explained : " [ It ] was all about a dream I had that I was walking under the sea . " He speculated that the dream may have been inspired by a science fiction story about a purple death ray . Redding stated that Hendrix had not yet taken LSD at the time of the song 's wr... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
[ ing ] the West 's mainstream acquaintance with Hindu religion " through his leadership in this aspect of the Beatles ' career , author Ian MacDonald describes " Blue Jay Way " as a " farewell to psychedelia " , just as " It 's All Too Much " , which the Beatles recorded in May 1967 , became Harrison 's " farewell to... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
focuses on the synergy of dreams and reality .
After Paprika , Kon teamed up with Mamoru Oshii and Makoto Shinkai to create the 2007 NHK television production Ani * Kuri15 , for which Kon created the short Ohayō . That same year , Kon helped establish and served as a member of the Japan Animation Creators Associatio... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
seen as the Grand Staircase glass dome implodes and water surges in .
Bernard Fox as Colonel Archibald Gracie IV : The film depicts Gracie making a comment to Cal that " women and machinery don 't mix " , and congratulating Jack for saving Rose from falling off the ship , though he is unaware that it was a suicide a... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
were rated at 29 @,@ 000 shaft horsepower ( 22 @,@ 000 kW ) and provided a top speed of 20 knots ( 37 km / h ; 23 mph ) . Coal storage amounted to 2 @,@ 680 t ( 2 @,@ 640 long tons ; 2 @,@ 950 short tons ) .
Provence 's main battery consisted of ten Canon de 340 mm Modéle 1912 guns mounted in five twin gun turrets ,... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
a 1948 film from what is now Indonesia written and directed by Andjar Asmara for the South Pacific Film Corporation ( SPFC ) . Starring Ratna Asmara and Ali Joego , it follows a woman who goes to Jakarta to find work after her husband is blinded in an accident . SPFC 's first production , Djaoeh Dimata took two to thr... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
to his love for Dungeons & Dragons .
= = Appearances = =
= = = In Persona 3 = = =
Makoto Yuki is the Protagonist ( 主人公 , Shujinkō , lit . " protagonist " or " hero " ) of Persona 3 . He moves into the Iwatodai dorm , learning of his ability to summon the Personas Orpheus ( オルフェウス , Orufeusu ) and Thanatos ( タナトス... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
claimed " the multi @-@ talented artist 's intent to join the rarefied ranks of ultimate entertainer " . Nick Hasted of The Independent wrote that the tour followed the stadium trends containing " big @-@ budget movie clips and Broadway musical dance moves , with platoons of backing singers and dancers acting as extra... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
disinformation by the Persians in the run up to the war . The topic has been hotly debated but the modern consensus revolves around the figure of 300 @,@ 000 – 500 @,@ 000 . Nevertheless , whatever the real numbers were , it is clear that Xerxes was anxious to ensure a successful expedition by mustering overwhelming n... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
58 @.@ 35 in his first 18 Tests .
= = Wisden Cricketer of the Year = =
O 'Neill was selected for the tour of England in 1961 , and he warmed up by scoring centuries in consecutive matches against Tasmania for the Australian squad . During the English summer , O 'Neill scored 1981 runs at 60 @.@ 03 , narrowly missin... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
discharged on health grounds after nine months . That year he appeared in the D W Griffith film Hearts of the World in an uncredited role . He sold short stories to several magazines to help his family financially . He also began writing plays , collaborating on the first two ( Ida Collaborates ( 1917 ) and Women and ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
and he was the only cartoonist named on Nixon 's Enemies List . From 1977 – 1978 , Conrad held the Richard M. Nixon Chair at Whittier College , Nixon 's alma mater .
Conrad 's editorial cartoons later appeared in exhibitions at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism . He authored several books abo... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
between three and five years of age . The youngest reported age for giving birth is a pygmy hippo in the Zoo Basel , Switzerland which bore a calf at three years and three months . The oestrus cycle of a female pygmy hippo lasts an average of 35 @.@ 5 days , with the oestrus itself lasting between 24 – 48 hours .
Py... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
to avoid public attention , Superman Returns carried the fake working title of Red Sun during filming . Starting in late March 2005 , principal photography lasted until November . Filming of Superman Returns in New South Wales constituted hiring thousands of local workers , generating over $ 100 million into the local... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
works . The eponymous club in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club , more commonly known as The Pickwick Papers , is set in the street , as is Tellson 's Bank In A Tale of Two Cities . The poet John Davidson wrote two works in the late 19th century titled the Fleet Street Eclogues . Arthur Ransome has a chapter ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the first child born to Suddhodana and Queen Maya in twenty years of marriage and much interest surrounded the infant from royal society and the public alike . All the other scholars raised two fingers and offered a twofold prediction : That Siddhartha would either become a Chakravarti ( supreme king ) or would renoun... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
the lift hill – rather than in the station – and returned to an upright position prior to re @-@ entering the station . However , this was changed to occur in the station due to problems that arose during the ride 's first season . The trains feature the Firehawk logo on the front colored yellow and red . Previously a... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
his Athenian designs , features a tableaux at the top with the Spencer coat of arms and the pulling of chariots by cherubs , representing the love between John and Georgiana . The Great Room contains an extensive collection of miniature portraits , including a very rare Lucas de Heere portrait of Lady Jane Grey as a t... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
On May 16 of that year , Nancy Reagan accepted the Congressional Gold Medal , the highest civilian honor bestowed by Congress , on behalf of the president and herself .
After Reagan 's death , the United States Postal Service issued a President Ronald Reagan commemorative postage stamp in 2005 . Later in the year , ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
trying to think of a subject for you again . No one in the history of thrillers has had such a totally brilliant artistic collaborator ! "
= = = Reviews = = =
Francis Iles , writing in The Guardian , noting the short @-@ story format , " thought it better than the novels " and wrote that " the first story is full ... | Very Long | wikitext-103-excerpt |
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