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4,037 | David V. Barrett in the Skeptical Inquirer wrote: |
4,038 | In 2015 they released their first full new album since 1997, a heavily metal influenced LP, "Metal Machine Music". |
4,039 | The first picture shows seven plans for forts and redans leading to Fort Blakely, while the second picture shows all four major defenses in the surrounding area. |
4,040 | Tanisha and her husband Clive Muir appeared on Marriage Boot Camp for its 3rd season which premiered May 30, 2014. |
4,041 | Andrew Whiteman, the band's frontman and lead guitarist of Broken Social Scene, admires world music, and influences upon this album have included Cuban-style guitars and Spanish lyrics. |
4,042 | Shiraz Solar Power Plant is a concentrating solar power type pilot power station situated near Shiraz, Iran. It became operational in 2008. The plant uses concentrating parabolic mirrors to focus a beam of light on a tower making steam for electricity generating turbines. It has a capacity of 250 kilowatt (kW). It is ... |
4,043 | In November 2003, TCL and Thomson SA of France announced the creation of a joint venture to produce televisions and DVD players worldwide. TCL took a 67 percent stake in the joint venture, with Thomson SA holding the rest of the shares, and it was agreed that televisions made by TCL-Thomson would be marketed under the ... |
4,044 | Redlands is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is a part of the Greater Los Angeles area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 68,747, up from 63,591 at the 2000 census. The population was estimated at 69,999 in 2013. The city is located approximately east of downtown San Be... |
4,045 | Until its dissolution in 2016, The City of Gosford covered an area of . Its administrative seat was located in Gosford, approximately north of Sydney and approximately south of Newcastle. The City was bounded to the east by the Tasman Sea, to the south by Broken Bay and the Hawkesbury River, to the west by the Great ... |
4,046 | Empire Bruce was a prototype cargo ship which was built in 1941 by Sir J Laing & Sons for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was torpedoed and sunk by on 18 April 1943. |
4,047 | Altogether, between 1944–1946, more than a million Poles from the Kresy moved to the Recovered Territories, including 150,000 from the area of Wilno, 226,300 from Polesie, 133,900 from Wołyń, 5,000 from Northern Bucovina, and 618,200 from Eastern Galicia. The so-called First Repatriation of Poles (1944–1946) was carrie... |
4,048 | Shortly after his release in April 1948 he joined the U.S. Air Force, where his character continued to show. After his basic training he was stationed as an aircraft mechanic first at the Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Salina, Kansas, then in Idaho. He spent time in the stockade for several assaults. He was also arrested... |
4,049 | Some dot matrix printers of the NEC Pinwriter series, namely the P3200/P3300 (P20/P30), P6200/P6300 (P60/P70), P9300 (P90), P7200/P7300 (P62/P72), P22Q/P32Q, P3800/P3900 (P42Q/P52Q), P1200/P1300 (P2Q/P3Q), P2000 (P2X) and P8000 (P72X), supported the installation of optional font EPROMs. Named "CWI" the optional ROM #7 ... |
4,050 | Another long running Burger King tie-in partnership has been with 20th Century Fox's property The Simpsons. Burger King's first promotion with Fox began in 1990, when the show was launched as a full-time series. Burger King sold a set of dolls featuring each member of the Simpsons family. Other Simpsons promotions inc... |
4,051 | Very shortly after trilobite fossils appeared in the lower Cambrian, they rapidly diversified into the major orders that typified the Cambrian—Redlichiida, Ptychopariida, Agnostida, and Corynexochida. The first major crisis in the trilobite fossil record occurred in the Middle Cambrian; surviving orders developed isopy... |
4,052 | From 1985 to the end of 2010, Fairfax Financial had a compound growth rate of approximately 25% in book value per share (per year), it's about 243 times what Fairfax began with in 1985. |
4,053 | The school was founded in 1909 at North Foreland, near Broadstairs in Kent, by Miss Mary Wolseley-Lewis, who at the time was the head of the Francis Holland School in Graham Street, Westminster, SW1. This event came as a shock to the Francis Holland School, especially when its departing head took several girls and memb... |
4,054 | One of the major contractors was John Dyson Jr., who was based at Newington near Bawtry in South Yorkshire at the time. He was awarded a contract for excavation of the canal in 1800, and another for gravel extraction from 1801 to 1805. A third contract, for excavation of the west lock was awarded in 1803. He was workin... |
4,055 | Egor is a Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Uselu. |
4,056 | The International Association of Harpists and Friends of the Harp was founded by Pierre Jamet French professor and virtuoso in 1962 and the Israeli government organized the first International Harp Competition in the same year. Würtzler became an active member of the American harp community and served as a member of th... |
4,057 | Oakland Park is a part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the twelfth largest radio market and the seventeenth largest television market in the United States. Its primary daily newspapers are the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Miami Herald, and their Spanish language counterparts El Senti... |
4,058 | By rule, Larson's spins went to Litras as she had the next highest money total. However, since she was the leader after the first round she had to wait to play until Long, who earned two spins in the second round of questions, completed his turn. On the first of his two spins, a bewildered Long hit a Whammy and lost th... |
4,059 | Here is a very beautiful & miraculous colossus of Bhagwan Parsvanath in padmasan posture 42 feet in height & 30 feet in breadth. It is said that in 1527, Mughal emperor Babar after occupying the fort ordered his soldiers to break the idols, when soldiers stroked on the thumb, a miracle was seen and invaders were compel... |
4,060 | Running out of fuel, astronauts Meyers, Webber, and Kirby land their spaceship on a remote asteroid in 2186. They find the place quite Earth-like although "655 million miles away from Earth". After looking around, they begin to wonder where everyone is. The first place they come to is a farm where they find a farmer ga... |
4,061 | Wayne Radford (born May 29, 1956) is a retired American basketball player. At 6'3" and 205 pounds, he played the guard position. |
4,062 | Events from the year 1877 in Denmark. |
4,063 | Addendum is an Assemblage 23 remix album, featuring numerous remixes from albums Contempt and Failure, as well as three original songs and an original 1996 version of song "The Drowning Season." |
4,064 | In March 1902 he was elected Commissioner of Police of the City of London, serving as such until 1925. |
4,065 | A number—in particular a real number, one with an infinite number of digits—was defined by Turing to be computable if a Turing machine will continue to spit out digits endlessly. In other words, there is no "last digit". But this sits uncomfortably with any proposal that the universe is the output of a virtual-reality ... |
4,066 | Part of the "success", of course, was that people were not at all wary of the potential problem, nor were virus scanners or cleaners available. The virus could be removed using Apple's MASTER CREATE utility or other utilities to re-write a fresh copy of DOS to the infected disk. Furthermore, once Elk Cloner was removed... |
4,067 | Até que a Sorte nos Separe 2 (English: Till Luck Do Us Part 2) is a 2013 Brazilian comedy film, directed by Roberto Santucci and written by Paulo Cursino and Chico Soares. It is a sequel of the 2012 film Até que a Sorte nos Separe. Leandro Hassum who had played the protagonist in the previous film, back to reprise his... |
4,068 | During 2005–06, the future of the club looked doubtful after the club and its traditional home of Stark's Park were both placed under threat by previous owners Colin McGowan and Alex Short. The Glasgow based property developers had repeatedly threatened to sell Stark's Park for housing in a bid to find a buyer for thei... |
4,069 | Her brother also introduced her to 1960s rock bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and the Alan Parsons Project, with Zeta paying mind to the bands' psychedelic album covers. In her early teens she became a user of software such as Corel Draw and Photoshop, explaining that "once I started going to school, my favouri... |
4,070 | Chapter 36, "Food and Drink" opens with "Ten Keys to Chinese Cuisine," starting with the Neolithic discovery of a mould ferment or yeast not found in Europe which was the basis of fermented pastes and sauces, including wines and vinegar. Chinese cuisine drew on a huge and expanding land area, benefited from technologic... |
4,071 | Severina is the title of a novella by Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, originally published in 2011. The work is written using the first person narrative mode, and is dedicated to Beatriz Zamora. |
4,072 | Apart from Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, La Maupin has been portrayed many times in print, stage and screen, including: |
4,073 | The Weekly Liquidity Review is a publication that offers the broadest overview of the supply and demand dynamics of the U.S. stock market. It focuses on in-depth investment flows (demand) and corporate liquidity flows (supply) as well as macroeconomic trends. The investment flows include weekly updates that give inve... |
4,074 | Having demonstrated associativity, the period can be discarded. |
4,075 | Portugal are above Norway by virtue of the fact that Portugal has an overall superior goal difference compared to Norway. |
4,076 | Fearless Lad (10 March 1979 – June 2006) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Trained throughout his racing career in Yorkshire he showed considerable promise as a juvenile in 1981, winning two of his four races including the Doncaster Stakes. In the following year he emerged as a top-class sprinter, recordin... |
4,077 | Hans Peder Steensby, while strongly emphasising that all modern humans are of mixed origins, proposed the interbreeding hypothesis in 1907, in the article Race studies in Denmark. He held that this would best fit current observations, and attacked the widespread idea that Neanderthals were ape-like or inferior. |
4,078 | Class sizes are small and typically might number 5 pupils in the Sixth Form. An average English or Maths class in GCSE years typically has about 16 pupils in it. |
4,079 | In the meantime, he was gaining a great reputation as a scholar, not only in the Netherlands, but also in France and England. But in spite of the moderation of his views and his abstention from controversy, he came under suspicion of heresy, and escaped expulsion from his office only by resignation (1619). The year bef... |
4,080 | Pinetree's student body also releases a monthly newspaper called The Pinetree Post that is completely student run. |
4,081 | CERN employee Katherine McAlpine's "Large Hadron Rap" surpassed 7 million YouTube views. The band Les Horribles Cernettes was founded by women from CERN. The name was chosen so to have the same initials as the LHC. |
4,082 | CBC North Radio carries daily aboriginal language programming in Dene Suline, Tlicho, North and South Slavey, Gwich'in, Inuvialuktun and Inuktitut. The shows include news, weather and entertainment, providing service to the many people in Northern Canada for whom English is not their first language. |
4,083 | The house was part of a larger farm, Pleasant View Farm which also contains an archeological site, a Mississippian culture village site. |
4,084 | For the CSN debut album in 1969, Graham Nash commented that "Stephen had a vision, and David and I let him run with it." Stills played every instrumental part on Crosby, Stills and Nash with exception of some guitar by Crosby and Nash, and drums by Dallas Taylor. |
4,085 | Warriors' Day (； ) is a day in Malaysia that commemorates the servicemen killed during the two World Wars and the Malayan Emergency. By extension, it honours all individuals who lost their lives in the line of duty throughout Malaysia's history. |
4,086 | On 8 May 1945, V-E Day, Germany finally surrendered. A week later the brigade lost the 1st Canadian APC Regiment. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry were detached on 6 June, and were replaced by the Royal Scots Greys. As part of the occupation forces of the British Army of the Rhine, 31st Brigade was then slowly disbanded, f... |
4,087 | This film is only 23 minutes long and is an extra on the recently released reissued DVD of Welles' Othello. It was also released as Orson Welles' Ghost Story. |
4,088 | In 2011, Burger Records released a series of cassette tapes by Thee Oh Sees that contained two full-length albums on each cassette. Carrion Crawler/The Dream was paired with the band's other main release from 2011, Castlemania. |
4,089 | Another important advocate of Seon/Gyo unity was Uicheon. Like most other early Goryeo monks, he began his studies in Buddhism with the Hwaeom school. He later traveled to China, and upon his return, actively promulgated the Cheontae (天台宗, or Tiantai in Chinese) teachings, which became recognized as another Seon school... |
4,090 | Fiction: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout Book 1 of 5 in the Lux Series |
4,091 | In 1962, HMV persuaded Barbirolli to return. With the Hallé he recorded a Sibelius symphony cycle, Elgar's Second Symphony, Falstaff and The Dream of Gerontius, Schubert's Ninth Symphony, Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony, and works by Grieg and Delius. With other orchestras, Barbirolli recorded a wide range of his ... |
4,092 | The Federation of Norwegian Construction Industries (BNL) is a business and employer policy organization for companies in the construction industry. BNL is an umbrella organization for 14 industries and have more than 4,000 member companies with 70,000 employees. BNL was established in 1997 and is currently the second ... |
4,093 | Arabic, Maltese, Hebrew and Aramaic have cognate expressions meaning 'peace be upon you' used as a greeting: |
4,094 | Parrossaz is a mountain of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France. It lies in the Aravis range. It has an elevation of 2,556 metres above sea level. |
4,095 | A companion book to the films, Alby Mangels' World Safari, was published in the 1980s. Lynn Santer authored Mangels's authorised biography Beyond World Safari in 2007. There are also reports that a feature-length Mangels biographical film is in production with multi-awarded Hollywood veteran producer Paul Mason and in ... |
4,096 | The Benedictine Confederation is a union of monastic congregations that nevertheless retain their own autonomy, established by Pope Leo XIII in his brief "Summum semper" (12 July 1893), subsequently approved by his successors. Pope Pius XII explicitly ordered this union to be regulated by a "Lex Propria", which was lat... |
4,097 | Steven Judge, twice World Champion in Paratriathlon, at the 2011 ITU World Championship Series in Beijing and the 2012 ITU World Triathlon Series in Auckland, competing in the TRI 3 category. |
4,098 | When ECW closed, Maritato wrestled for several independent promotions, mostly in the New York Tri-State area; he often teamed with former partner Tony Mamaluke. They had a notable run in Ring of Honor before Maritato was signed by World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002. |
4,099 | The story appeared in Halloween and was reprinted by ComicsOne as a chapter in the Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection, Volume 4: The Face Burglar published in 1998 (sometimes the series is described as Horror World of Junji Ito). All of Junji Ito's run on Halloween was reprinted by the publisher Asahi Sonorama as , of ... |
4,100 | In 2011, Yale alumnus Nathan Harden published Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad. The book was highly critical of Sex Week at Yale, and its title harkened to the criticism of Yale that William F. Buckley, Jr.made in 1951 with his book God and Man at Yale. |
4,101 | Flared Hoof Wall |
4,102 | TAN also operates "Navette Aéroport" (airport shuttle bus) between downtown Nantes and Nantes Atlantique Airport. |
4,103 | Boundaries changed for the 2007 Assembly election. Ceredigion remained one of five Dyfed constituencies and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales region. However, boundaries within Dyfed changed, to realign them with local government ward boundaries and to reduce disparities in the sizes of constituency... |
4,104 | It lives in groups and the colony may number up to 60 bats. It spends the day taking shelter and roosting in trees, caves, or buildings, and it is a nocturnal species. They tend to return to the same roosting spot every day. After feeding, they usually groom themselves before approaching others. Females leave their you... |
4,105 | The term, secular saint, which has no strict definition, generally refers to someone venerated and respected for contributions to a noble cause, but not recognized as a canonical saint by a religion. The ranks of secular saints, like those of religious ones, are often filled by martyrs. |
4,106 | The original Lithuanian name of this Grand Duke has puzzled many linguists and historians. Their reconstructions resulted in two credible variants Vaišvilkas, based on Woyszwiłk and Vaišelga, based on Vojšalk. The name Vaišvilkas was first reconstructed by Kazimieras Būga. In fact, the first part of the double-stemmed... |
4,107 | The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum is proud to be the home of The Fly Fishing Hall of Fame, The Demarest Rodmakers Gallery, The Poul Jorgensen Golden Hook Award, The Catskill Rodmakers Gathering, and The Hardy Cup. Projects currently underway include the Wulff Gallery and The Catskill Rodmakers Workshop and Art... |
4,108 | Live After Death is a live album and video by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, originally released in October 1985 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US (it was re-released by Sanctuary/Columbia Records in the US in 2002 on CD and by Universal Music Group/Sony BMG Music Entertainment ... |
4,109 | President Thompson was appointed Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System in 1994 and Russell C. Long became the new president. During Long's tenure, the school renovated buildings, maintained its student enrollment growth, and added its first Ph.D. in agriculture. |
4,110 | One day an unpleasant and backstabbing coworker, Bob, is found brutally murdered in Curtis' cubicle. Though Bob was generally disliked by the whole office, Curtis had expressed the joking desire to kill him and feels apathy towards Bob's death, which leads Curtis to fear he may have murdered Bob in a psychotic break. T... |
4,111 | In 1993, he returned to his home country. He created and managed an independent newspapers: “Le Temps”, in which there was a weekly column for democracy and human rights. Chad, has an authoritarian regime. So, many articles of the newspapers "Le Temps" are subject to regular government prosecution, and its director als... |
4,112 | Political Economy in anthropology is the application of the theories and methods of Historical Materialism to the traditional concerns of anthropology, including, but not limited to, non-capitalist societies. Political Economy introduced questions of history and colonialism to ahistorical anthropological theories of so... |
4,113 | In the fall of 1910, Diaghilev came to visit Stravinsky, who at that time was living in Lausanne, Switzerland, expecting to hear the beginning of The Rite of Spring, but instead was greeted with Petrushka. Diaghilev immediately recognized the possibilities of developing this orchestral work into a full length stage wor... |
4,114 | Ethel Whibley, née Birnie Philip (29 September 1861 – 21 May 1920), was the sister-in-law of James McNeill Whistler. Ethel was a secretary to Whistler who used Ethel as a model for a number of full-length portraits painted during the period 1888 to the mid-1890s. Her sister Beatrice (also called 'Beatrix' or 'Trixie') ... |
4,115 | The boundaries are Gourlay Road to the west and Taylors Road to the south, while the eastern limit aligns with Overton Lea Boulevard and the northern limit aligns Chervil Close and Hume Drive. |
4,116 | In February 2016, Dalton signed with Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the North American Soccer League. |
4,117 | The Sjahrir cabinet fell as a result of the conflict between the Struggle Front of opposition politician Tan Malaka and Sjahrir over the latter's readiness to compromise with the Dutch before their colonial army had left Indonesia. Tan Malaka demanded a cabinet of national unity which secured widespread public support,... |
4,118 | Vanderbilt University began testing its exoskeleton with paraplegics and medical experts at a rehabilitation center in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2010. In October 2012, Parker Hannifin signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Vanderbilt University for the right to develop and manufacture a commercial version of the exosk... |
4,119 | Lawrence "Larry" Dykstra (played by Bill Daily) is a shrink who appears in several episodes first appears in Season 1 when ALF and Willie Tanner have problems living together. In Season 2, Larry helps the Tanners when ALF is addicted to a ventriloquist dummy who starts controlling ALF. Larry helps the Tanners again for... |
4,120 | Røsjorde has both a civilian and a military education. In 1970 he graduated cand.real. from the University of Oslo having majored in marine biology. He then worked as a lector from 1970 through 1987. From 1970 to 1972 at Breidablikk School in Sandefjord, Vestfold, and from 1972 to 1987 at Stord Upper Secondary School i... |
4,121 | The Heckengäu has some valuable flora and fauna. On the juniper heaths there are colonies of stemless carline thistle and Michaelmas daisy. A few, native species of gentian also live here. In spring, the pasque flower blooms near Weil der Stadt. The wall brown occurs in the dry valleys, whilst the sand lizard finds sui... |
4,122 | A real-world example of the overgeneralization fallacy can be observed as an artifact of modern polling techniques, which prohibit calling cell phones for over-the-phone political polls. As young people are more likely than other demographic groups to lack a conventional "landline" phone, a telephone poll that exclusiv... |
4,123 | For the proceeding five centuries, Viduzia stayed isolated, as the local inhabitants slowly started drifting south-westwards, into the Peljesac Peninsula, and finally (during the Ottoman invasions) into the Island of Korcula and beyond. |
4,124 | Antarctic krill directly use the minute phytoplankton cells, which no other animal of krill size can do. This is accomplished through filter feeding, using the krill's highly developed front legs, providing for an efficient filtering apparatus: the six thoracopods (legs attached to the thorax) form a very effective "fe... |
4,125 | Although mostly note-for-note covers, some tracks add embellishments such as "cha-cha-chas". On the song "Autobahn" the radio transmission is from Latin Radio dial tuning. |
4,126 | Two years later the first of the three founding members left the group, as Norman “Buddy” Packer retired to Coconut Creek, Fla., where he still lives today at 85. Martin “Marty” Waters performed his final show with the Company in 1984, and a few years later moved south as well; today, at 86, he lives with his wife, Bi... |
4,127 | Kord-e Shul or Kord Shul (), also rendered as Kurd Shul, may refer to: |
4,128 | In developing this new car, Nash had originally planned to call it the Diplomat. This name would have rounded out the Nash family of cars; as for 1950, the 600 line was renamed the Statesman, and the Ambassador remained the flagship line. When it was learned that Dodge had already reserved the Diplomat name for a plann... |
4,129 | Carathéodory's theorem states that any point in the convex hull of some set of points is also within the convex hull of a subset of at most d + 1 of the points; that is, that the given point is part of a Radon partition in which it is a singleton. One proof of Carathéodory's theorem uses a technique of examining soluti... |
4,130 | One such pilot was a man named Jim Bolder. The Qax had come into possession of a Xeelee nightfighter, and had modified it to support human control. Bolder's mission was simple: go to the Great Attractor, the cause of most galactic drift, and find out why and how it exists. Bolder travelled to the bottom of the gravitat... |
4,131 | The city's West End is an eclectic mix of new suburban style homes, large acreages, and two First Nations reserves. Much of the residential growth over the past decade has occurred in the city's West End, where the Westporte neighbourhood has taken shape. |
4,132 | KVFG-FM 103.1 |
4,133 | On 4 March 2012, a group 1. FC Köln supporters attacked a bus with Borussia Mönchengladbach supporters in it. |
4,134 | They are about 200 km from north to south, from 15 to 50 km wide and average about 2000 meters in altitude (the Yellow River here is about 1,100 meters above sea level). Their highest peak is . |
4,135 | Attention then turned to the attack on the French armies to the south. On 29 May, Hitler came to Rundstedt's headquarters at Charleville-Mézières to discuss the new offensive. Bock's Army Group B on the right was to advance on Paris, while Rundstedt's Army Group A, now consisting only of List's 12th Army, Weichs's 2nd ... |
4,136 | Though rock bands have been dominating the mainstream since their commercialization in the nineties, pop acts were still regularly showcased in the live band scene. Pop bands Side A, True Faith, Neocolours, South Border, Quickie and Freestyle popularized songs that clearly reflect the sentimental character of OPM pop. ... |
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