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6,854 | As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.<br>They kill us for their sport.<br>King Lear (IV, i) |
6,855 | Huitzilopochco existed as an independent lordship within Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Its first ruler was Huitzilatzin, a grandson of Huitzilihuitl, the second Tlatoani ("emperor"). Its population numbered some 15,000 dedicated to the cultivation of fruit and flowers and the extraction of salt from the neighboring Lake Texcoco... |
6,856 | In 2000, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau obtained her first CDD at the editing department of France 3 Quercy-Rouergue, then two years later at France 3 Midi-Pyrénées. She there presented her first regional news TV show during the Christmas holidays of 2005. Then she took alternate presentations of the news shows 12/13 and 19/20... |
6,857 | Johnston attended Chetham's School of Music, Manchester from 1996 to 1999 and studied under acclaimed cellist Steven Doane at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, USA. |
6,858 | As the fur trade expanded across Rupert's Land, the HBC's financial dominance allowed them to take the advantage. The HBC had rejected the Nor’Westers’ request for the right to bring in goods via Hudson Bay, so at a great cost of £45,000 McTavish sent two expeditions to establish footholds for the NWC. These actions di... |
6,859 | Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a positive review, calling it "deadpan hilarious, a shameless satire of every teen gang, future-shock dystopian nightmare moviecombined with a brutal send-up of 8 Mile". Tom Keogh of The Seattle Times gave the film 2½ stars out of 4; he praised its novelty and c... |
6,860 | My World is the debut extended play (EP) by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. It was released on 17 November 2009, by Island Records. The album is considered the first half of a two-piece project, later being supplemented by his debut studio album My World 2.0 (2010). After signing a recording contract in light ... |
6,861 | Max Steel is a cartoon turned into a line of action figures produced and owned by the toy company Mattel. The figures are similar to the original 12-inch G.I. Joe toys, consisting almost entirely of different versions of Max Steel, the main character, and one or two of his enemies, a couple of vehicles and 2 or 3 speci... |
6,862 | Trujillo Alto's hydrographic system consists mainly of the Río Grande de Loíza, which crosses the municipality. There are also several creeks in the city: Colorada, Infierno, Limones, Naranjo, Grande, Pastrana, Haya Fría, and Maracuto. |
6,863 | Bowling Green is an unincorporated community in Nether Providence Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Bowling Green is located in the northwestern corner of the township east of Media. |
6,864 | The husband sought legal advice concerning the matter but Bourn Hall was not found to be liable. The law has since changed to require photographic identification as well as a signature to ensure that the man authorising the use of frozen embryos is indeed the father. |
6,865 | Ill-favoured, and of ill repute, he is ultimately responsible for solving the mystery of the Moonstone's theft, and so for reuniting the hero with the heroine, Rachel Verinder. |
6,866 | Alvarez was born on January 10, 1958. In 1978, he obtained a bachelor of arts degree from Far Eastern University, majoring in political science. He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila Law School in 1983. |
6,867 | On 13 March 2000 Aramits was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 4.2. |
6,868 | Alexander Magleby is a professional rugby union coach and former United States national team player and captain. |
6,869 | In 2002, the Estonian Press Council settled the case when the newspaper Eesti Päevaleht printed an advertisement: "Don’t you read the Päevaleht? Youmust be a tibla then. Be a true Estonian and become the reader." |
6,870 | The philosopher Paul Edwards, editor-in-chief of MacMillan's Encyclopedia of Philosophy, became Stevenson's chief critic. From 1986 onwards, he devoted several articles to Stevenson's work, and discussed Stevenson in his Reincarnation: A Critical Examination (1996).<ref>Paul Edwards (1986), "The Case Against Reincarnat... |
6,871 | It comprises a church or chapel on each dependent island : |
6,872 | He was born in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, the son of Tom MacDonald, and was educated in Moose Jaw and Brownlee. MacDonald received a DVM degree in Guelph, Ontario and moved back to Moose Jaw in 1961, where he operated the Moose Jaw Animal Clinic. He served on Moose Jaw City Council and on the board of the Moose Jaw Union... |
6,873 | The Navy League of Canada created the Navy League Cadet Corps (or Corps de cadets de la Ligue navale) for young boys in 1948, and the Navy League Wrennettes for girls in 1950. The Wrenette program no longer exists as Navy League Cadet Corps are now open for boys and girls between the ages of 9 to 13. |
6,874 | Fusinus indicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies. |
6,875 | The school hall, which consists of 5 badminton courts and could accommodate 2000 people is located here. Other facilities are the school administration office, the main teacher's office, a canteen and a book store. Co-curriculum societies' rooms and closets are also found in this block. |
6,876 | Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Downtown St. Louis, Missouri within the municipality of Grantwood Village. The site, also known as White Haven, commemorates the life, military career, and Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Five histor... |
6,877 | Although the trademarks for material related to the Bond films are held by Danjaq, the copyrights to the first 20 film properties are co-owned by Danjaq LLC and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (the technical successor to subsidiary United Artists). The copyrights to Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, are share... |
6,878 | The area was highly dependent on agriculture but limestone was also quarried. Lime kilns are still present and can be seen along the road through the village. |
6,879 | The monumental memorial was constructed between 1959 and 1967, and is crowned by a huge allegorical statue of the Motherland on the top of the hill. The monument, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich, has the full name The Motherland Calls! ( Rodina Mat Zovyot!). It consists of a concrete sculpture, 52 metres tall, and 82 met... |
6,880 | Jonas Grønner (born 11 April 1994) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays for Brann, as a defender. He represented Norway U17 in the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship qualifying round. |
6,881 | Goldingen had an area, , of . Of this area, 50.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 45.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.5%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). |
6,882 | The draw was held on March 12. |
6,883 | Most of the tax cuts were scheduled to expire December 31, 2010. Debate over what to do regarding the expiration became a regular issue in the 2004 and 2008 U.S. presidential elections, with Republican candidates generally wanting the cut rates made permanent and Democratic candidates generally advocating for a retent... |
6,884 | In 1994, Clarke appeared in a science fiction film; he portrayed himself in the telefilm Without Warning, an American production about an apocalyptic alien first-contact scenario presented in the form of a faux newscast. |
6,885 | In 1983, J. Roderick MacArthur created the Hammacher Schlemmer Institute as an independent but affiliated branch of the company, whose purpose is to comparatively test top-of-the-line products. On December 15, 1984, MacArthur died and left the company to his heirs. By 2014, his heirs sold Hammacher Schlemmer to the emp... |
6,886 | Born in Comunanza, in the Marche (then part of the Papal States), he was the son of the painter Sebastiano Ghezzi, a painter and architect for the papacy of Pope Urban VIII. Sebastiano died when Giuseppe was only 11 years old, and he was sent to Fermo to study philosophy an letters, but took also painting instruction ... |
6,887 | In 2010, Howard authored the book Paradoxy: Creating Christian Community Beyond Us and Them, the premise of which is to help congregations "transcend dead-end divisions and transform conflict into healthy diversity united by the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit". Notable critical reviews of the book incl... |
6,888 | The Controlled Behavioural Unit, known as the CBU or the Block, is used for unruly prisoners or those on punishment and is located in the 'C' Base, underneath the C wing. This includes 24-hour lock-up, with the exception of one hour of open air exercise, and no integration with other inmates. |
6,889 | According to a 2010 report in the journal Science, mountaintop mining has caused numerous environmental problems which mitigation practices have not successfully addressed. For example, valley fills frequently bury headwater streams causing permanent loss of ecosystems. In addition, the destruction of large tracts of d... |
6,890 | The alleged crimes, which he stated had been committed without his knowledge or consent, included the attempted murder of his personal physician, poisonings of public officials, wiretapping and bugging within the commune and within his own home, and a bioterror attack on the citizens of The Dalles, Oregon, using salmon... |
6,891 | The language is formal when spoken by educated characters, but seldom old-fashioned, while the peasant characters speak in colloquial modern English. Putnam worked on the translation for twelve years before he published it. He also published a companion volume, The Portable Cervantes, which included an abridged version... |
6,892 | Eugène Paul Louis Schueller (20 March 1881 – 23 August 1957) was a French pharmacist and entrepreneur who was the founder of L'Oréal, the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty. He was one of the founders of modern advertising. |
6,893 | With the disappearance of Edvard Beneš from the political scene, the Czechoslovak government issued decree No. 76/1948 on April 13, 1948, allowing those Hungarians still living in Czechoslovakia, to reinstate Czechoslovak citizenship. A year later, Hungarians were allowed to send their children to Hungarian schools, wh... |
6,894 | Heston's professional career got off to a rocky start with a 1–5 record and 4.11 ERA in the rookie Arizona League in 2009. In 2010, he finished 5–13 with a 3.75 ERA with the Single-A Augusta GreenJackets. With the Class A-Advanced San Jose Giants in 2011, he improved to 12–4 with a 3.16 ERA and 131 strikeouts. With ... |
6,895 | The title comes from the Old French trotter (modern English to trot). A distinction is made in the text between the quicker, more uncomfortable trot experienced by the unhappy maidens, and the gentle ambling (ambler) of the horses belonging to the happy maidens. |
6,896 | Hamid, also known as Tarek Abdelhamid, has a medical degree in internal medicine from the Cairo University, and a master's degree in Literature from the University of Auckland. |
6,897 | Russell Froelich was born in 1890 in Ohio and moved to St. Louis in his late teens. In his early twenties, he worked with local pilots to design and build aircraft. He began to photograph these planes, and soon became the official photographer for the Benoist Aircraft Company. In 1911, he was featured in “The American ... |
6,898 | Holt High School is a public high school serving grades 9–11 in Holt, Michigan, United States. It is one of two high schools in the Holt-Dimondale Public Schools district. |
6,899 | Eindhoven consists of 7 districts, which are subdivided into a total of 19 quarters. The quarters are divided into a total of 109 neighborhoods. |
6,900 | Spencer is located in central Worcester County, twenty minutes west of Worcester via Route 9, and about forty-five east of Springfield via Routes 49, 20, and the Massachusetts Turnpike. It was officially incorporated on April 12, 1753, splitting from the town of Leicester. Spencer was named after the then-acting gover... |
6,901 | He coached Grenchen. |
6,902 | Parvovirinae is a subfamily of viruses, in the family Parvoviridae. There are currently eight genera and 41 species assigned to this subfamily. |
6,903 | In February 2006, Magee underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his left kidney at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. The operation was deemed successful and he was back playing on the Tour in April. |
6,904 | The Tigers were the 1939 state basketball champions. They again made the championship game in 1974 but lost to Brother Martin. |
6,905 | Jupally Krishna Rao (born 10 August 1955) is an Indian politician and Minister of Telangana. He was elected as MLA in the Telangana legislative Assembly from Kollapur from TRS. |
6,906 | In September 1941 Rundstedt issued an order that soldiers were not to participate in or take photos of "Jewish operations", indicating awareness of their existence. The killings took place with the knowledge and support of the German Army in the east. |
6,907 | Springfield is an unincorporated community in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada on Route 124. It is near the head of Bellisle Bay. |
6,908 | On 9 January 1945, the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf began. Howorth arrived with the first reinforcement group four days later on the 13th, which came under kamikaze attacks while en route. Howorth provided fire support to the invasion forces, provided anti-aircraft support for the invasion fleet, and patrolled the flanks ... |
6,909 | Flora only stayed in Nova Scotia for one year at Fort Edward, Windsor. In 1779 Flora returned home to Dunvegan Castle in Isle of Skye, Scotland. After the war, in 1784, Allan followed her. |
6,910 | The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Schuurhoek' was originally an old, nameless clone found in the vicinity of Goes, Netherlands, which was taken back into cultivation as 'Schuurhoek' by the van't Westeinde nursery (now 'Kwekerij Westhof') at 's-Heer Abtskerke, Zeeland, in the 1950s. |
6,911 | On 27 June 1997, at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute, guided by rector Vladimir Litvinenko, Putin defended his Candidate of Science dissertation in economics, titled "The Strategic Planning of Regional Resources Under the Formation of Market Relations". This exemplified the custom in Russia for a rising young offi... |
6,912 | Some claim that C2C certification may not be entirely sufficient in all eco-design approaches. Quantitative methodologies (LCAs) and more adapted tools (regarding the product type which is considered) could be used in tandem. The C2C concept ignores the use phase of a product. According to the Variants of Life Cycle As... |
6,913 | There were 249 households of which 32.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.8% were married couples living together, 16.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.1% were non-families. 29.3% of all households were made up of individua... |
6,914 | In Yucatán and other parts of rural Mexico, the league is still commonly used in the original sense of the distance that can be covered on foot in an hour, so that a league along a good road on level ground is a greater distance than a league on a difficult path over rough terrain. |
6,915 | “They left home on Saturday, held and all-night vigil at the Blessed Well and arrived home on Sunday. The strange thing about it was that those people didn’t mind missing Mass on that Sunday as if the ‘round’ was more important. This provides an interesting insight into the native and Roman forms of Catholicism. Candle... |
6,916 | A metric designed to calculate waste and highlight opportunities for improvement, MCT gives an estimate of the time it takes to fulfill an order, quantifying the longest critical-path duration of order-fulfillment activities. |
6,917 | Several medieval Indian astronomers and mathematicians are known to have flourished in Golagrama. They were all members of one large extended family. The astronomical and mathematical knowledge of the members of this family was passed from generation to generation through teacher-pupil relationships. In nearly all the ... |
6,918 | Following the war, Baetjer continued her work at the School of Hygiene and Public Health, becoming an assistant professor in 1945, an associate professor in 1952, a professor in 1962, and a professor emerita in 1972. She was elected president of the American Industrial Hygiene Association in 1954. |
6,919 | The second movement, Duelo, is written in a style close to the Andalusian martinetes sung by miners and prisoners awaiting sentence. In imitation of the characteristic hammer-and-anvil accompaniment, Revueltas wrote a major-second ostinato for xylophone and pizzicato double bass, over which the trumpet plays a mournful... |
6,920 | Born in Rome, Geronima was the daughter of Pietro Mazzarini and Ortensia Bufalini. Her father struggled to provide for his six children until joining the staff of the great Constable of Naples and prince of Paliano, Filippo I Colonna. Thanks to his skill, he won over Colonna, and benefited from the prince's protection ... |
6,921 | The church's current building structure was built in 1947. |
6,922 | Charles Elbert Scoggins writing as C.E. Scoggins (born 1888-died 1955) was an American author who specialized in adventure stories set in Central America. |
6,923 | Joseph McCarthy's involvement with the ongoing cultural phenomenon that would bear his name began with a speech he made on Lincoln Day, February 9, 1950, to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia. He produced a piece of paper which he claimed contained a list of known Communists working for the State De... |
6,924 | He died on October 1, 1884, at his home at 422 West Seventy-First Street, in New York City, of Bright's disease, and was buried at the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Newburgh. |
6,925 | Cao Que himself passed the imperial examinations in the Jinshi class in 837, during the reign of Emperor Dezong's great-great-grandson Emperor Wenzong, and subsequently served on the staffs of several regional governors. He was later recalled to the capital Chang'an to serve as an imperial censor with the title Shi Yu... |
6,926 | The idea of an orchestral ritornello played an important role in the structure of opera in the eighteenth century. The most common form for an aria during the Baroque period was da capo form, which essentially consisted of an A section followed by a contrasting B section, which was in turn followed by a return of the A... |
6,927 | Hyposmocoma divisa is a species of moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is endemic to Kauai. |
6,928 | Landmannalaugar () is a place in the Fjallabak Nature Reserve in the Highlands of Iceland. It is at the edge of Laugahraun lava field, which was formed in an eruption around the year 1477. It is known for its natural geothermal hot springs and surrounding landscape. |
6,929 | The Fleet arrived in New South Wales in January 1788, with the Marines disembarking first at Botany Bay. Six days later they reboarded the ships for the voyage to Port Jackson, where they were reorganised into four companies under the commands of Captains James Campbell and John Shea, and Captain-Lieutenants Watkin Ten... |
6,930 | A famous dispute arose in France when Emmanuel Levinas criticized Kierkegaard and Jacques Derrida defended him. The argument centered upon the text of Fear and Trembling, and whether or not a practitioner of faith could be considered ethical. |
6,931 | It was revealed in 2013 that the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) planted listening devices to listen to East Timor during negotiations over the Greater Sunrise oil and gasfields. This is known as the Australia–East Timor spying scandal. |
6,932 | She also has co-written with Erica Spindler and Alex Kava on two anthology collaborations: Slices of Night and Storm Season. |
6,933 | The remains visible today consist mainly of numerous prehistoric burial chambers cut into the limestone rock, sometimes provided with a porch or short entrance corridor in front of the burial chamber, originally sealed with stones or a slab. There are also some larger rock-cut houses of uncertain date, often said to be... |
6,934 | For the first two series, the house was located in Bow, London, near the 3 Mills Studios. After planning permission expired in 2002, Newham London Borough Council ordered the complex to be returned to a natural habitat. The house has been located at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire since Big Brother 3 in 200... |
6,935 | A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds features or services to an existing product, then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. This practice occurs commonly in the electronics, or IT industry, where, for example, a VAR might bundle a software applicatio... |
6,936 | Albinyana (official name in Catalan) or Albiñana is a village in the province of Tarragona and the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. It belongs to Tarragona in the Baix Penedès region. According to data from 2009, its population was 2,275. |
6,937 | Miltefosine is available in the United States through the CDC for emergency use under an expanded access IND protocol for treatment of free-living amoeba (FLA) infections: primary amoebic meningoencephalitis caused by Naegleria fowleri and granulomatous amoebic encephalitis caused by Balamuthia mandrillaris, and Acanth... |
6,938 | Thomas James Everuss (18 October 1903 – 18 May 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played with in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
6,939 | In 1944, she wrote her memoirs, The Gay Illiterate, published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, which became a bestseller. That was followed by another volume in 1961, Tell It to Louella, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. |
6,940 | Soviet FROG-7s and their associated artillery units were permanently attached to at least three Warsaw Pact member states: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary; the weapons remained under Soviet control, however, and were not operated by either of these nations. |
6,941 | In 1868, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands traded some forts in order to create more geographically contiguous areas of influence. The Netherlands ceded Fort Nassau, Fort Crêvecoeur, Fort Amsterdam, Fort Goede Hoop, and Fort Lijdzaamheid, and in return received Apollonia (renamed Fort Willem III), Fort Dixcove (re... |
6,942 | Iran do Espirito Santo (born 1963) is a Brazilian artist, based in São Paulo. |
6,943 | Saint-Léger-sous-Margerie is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. |
6,944 | Around z = ∞, if a − b is not an integer, one has two independent solutions |
6,945 | Zürich itself has adapted the bear theme in the "Teddy-Summer" in 2005. |
6,946 | On 22 November 2009, The Independent on Sunday, published an article by Miles in which he partly questioned the appointment of two British Jewish historians, Sir Lawrence Freedman and Sir Martin Gilbert, to the Iraq inquiry panel because of their background and support for Israel. |
6,947 | The film premiered in Camden two days before going into general release in the US on December 13, 1957. |
6,948 | It was announced that Uaisele was released from the Bulls towards the end of the season. |
6,949 | Edson Isaías Freitas da Silva (born 25 March 1982) is a Brazilian canoeist who won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal in different events at the Pan American Games in 2007 and 2015. He competed in the K-1 200 metres and K-2 200 metres events at the 2016 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals. |
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6,951 | Drafted in 1976 by both the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League and the Cincinnati Stingers of the World Hockey Association, Carroll chose to play with the Stingers. He would also play for the New England Whalers. After playing two seasons in the WHA, he signed with the Capitals. He also played for the De... |
6,952 | Doctor Vonner was the doctor hired by Marcus Van Sciver to help engineer the Aurora Virus. Dr. Vonner was an obstetrician that took selected young women and implanted their wombs with a virus incubator instead of a baby. Dr. Vonner also ran an early test lab for Marcus where Armayan vampires were tortured and experim... |
6,953 | Fraley started in all 16 regular season games along with two postseason games during the 2002 season. He was part of an offensive line that helped the Eagles offense to 25.9 points per game, the fourth highest in the NFL. |
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