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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenna%20Henderson
Zenna Henderson
Henderson was one of the first 203 female science fiction authors to publish in American science fiction magazines between 1926 and 1960. She never used a male pseudonym. In an essay on the increase in women authors of science fiction in 1950, Sam Merwin mentioned her as an up-and-coming woman SF writer. Her first stor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenna%20Henderson
Zenna Henderson
Works Most of Henderson's stories emphasize the theme of being different and the dangers therein. They often feature children or young people. Most are part of her series concerning the history of "The People", human beings from a faraway planet who are forced to emigrate to Earth when their home world is destroyed by...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenna%20Henderson
Zenna Henderson
A common conflict in Henderson's stories is when a child has unusual powers that a school teacher discovers through observation. In "The Last Step," a children's teacher in a future Martian colony takes various petty measures to interrupt a children's game on the grounds that they take it too seriously, unaware that th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa ( ) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. At , it is an over-life-size painting th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
According to critic Jonathan Miles, the raft carried the survivors "to the frontiers of human experience. Crazed, parched and starved, they slaughtered mutineers, ate their dead companions and killed the weakest."Miles, Jonathan. "Death and the masterpiece". The Times, 24 March 2007. Retrieved on 20 November 2008. Afte...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
Among the scenes he considered were the mutiny against the officers from the second day on the raft, the cannibalism that occurred after only a few days, and the rescue. Géricault ultimately settled on the moment, recounted by one of the survivors, when they first saw, on the horizon, the approaching rescue ship Argus—...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
Influences The Raft of the Medusa fuses many influences from the Old Masters, from the Last Judgment and Sistine Chapel ceiling of Michelangelo (1475–1564) and Raphael's Transfiguration, to the monumental approach of Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) and Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), to contemporary events. By the 18th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
Exhibition and reception The Raft of the Medusa was first shown at the 1819 Paris Salon, under the title Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene), although its real subject would have been unmistakable for contemporary viewers. The exhibition was sponsored by Louis XVIII and featured nearly 1,300 paintings, 208 sculptures ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
Géricault arranged for the painting to be exhibited in London in 1820, where it was shown at William Bullock's Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London, from 10 June until the end of the year, and viewed by about 40,000 visitors. The reception in London was more positive than that in Paris, and the painting was hailed as re...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
At some time between 1826 and 1830 American artist George Cooke (1793–1849) made a copy of the painting in a smaller size, (130.5 x 196.2 cm; approximately 4 ft × 6 ft), which was shown in Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Washington, D.C. to crowds who knew about the controversy surrounding the shipwreck. Reviews fav...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
Interpretation and legacy In its insistence on portraying an unpleasant truth, The Raft of the Medusa was a landmark in the emerging Romantic movement in French painting, and "laid the foundations of an aesthetic revolution" against the prevailing Neoclassical style. Géricault's compositional structure and depiction o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
The artist's abolitionist views are said to have been expressed in his decision to prominently feature at least two Black individuals, particularly the dominant figure seen waving a dark red handkerchief. According to scholars Klaus Berger and Diane Chalmers Johnson, Géricault made "him the focal point of the drama, th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raft%20of%20the%20Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
The art historian Albert Elsen believed that The Raft of the Medusa and Delacroix's Massacre at Chios provided the inspiration for the grandiose sweep of Auguste Rodin's monumental sculpture The Gates of Hell. He wrote that "Delacroix's Massacre at Chios and Géricault's Raft of the Medusa confronted Rodin on a heroic s...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auberon%20Waugh
Auberon Waugh
Family In 1961, Auberon Waugh married Lady Teresa Onslow, daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow. They had four children: Margaret Sophia Laura Waugh (b. 1962) Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh (30 December 1963 – 22 July 2024) Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh (b. 1967) Nathaniel Thomas Biafra Waugh (b. 1968) They lived at t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20DeChancie
John DeChancie
John DeChancie (born August 3, 1946) is an American author. A Pittsburgh native, he is most famous for his comic fantasy Castle series, and his science fiction Skyway series. He is currently engaged in writing screenplays, teleplays, and prose fiction. The Castle Perilous Series The Castle Perilous series revolves...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20in%20Action
World in Action
World in Action was a British investigative current affairs programme made by Granada Television for ITV from 7 January 1963 until 18 December 2000. Its campaigning journalism frequently had a major impact on events of the day. Its production teams often took audacious risks, and the programme gained a solid reputation...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20in%20Action
World in Action
In 1984, World in Action caused a sensation by challenging a rising young Conservative Member of Parliament, Matthew Parris, to live for a week on a £26 unemployment benefit payment to test the reality of his own critical views on unemployed people – Parris subsequently abandoned Parliament for a career as a broadcaste...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20in%20Action
World in Action
More recent current-affairs series on other channels, such as the MacIntyre series on BBC and Five, and Channel 4's Dispatches, commissioned by Dorothy Byrne, a former World in Action producer, may be seen as having inherited certain aspects of World in Actions hard-hitting journalistic style. World in Action and popu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20in%20Action
World in Action
The long-running intermittent Seven Up! series of TV films, which in due course spanned decades, was first broadcast from 1964 as part of World in Action. By its intimate technique of filming the everyday lives of children and interviewing them, a different picture of life in Britain was formed. In 1967, a young resea...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20in%20Action
World in Action
The late Gavin MacFadyen, who worked on early series of World in Action as a producer-director, best known for his undercover human-rights films, became a visiting professor at City University in 2005. He was also director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. David Leigh, who made Jonathan of Arabia, the film w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Bessler
Johann Bessler
Mechanism of Orffyreus's Wheel Bessler's devices were all hollow wheels, with canvas covering the internal mechanism, that turned on a horizontal axis supported by vertical wooden beams on either side of the wheel. Christian Wolff, who viewed the wheel in 1715, wrote that Bessler freely revealed that the device utiliz...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20Martin%20X-35
Lockheed Martin X-35
The Lockheed Martin X-35 is a concept demonstrator aircraft (CDA) developed by Lockheed Martin for the Joint Strike Fighter program. The X-35 was declared the winner over the competing Boeing X-32 and a developed, armed version went on to enter production in the early 21st century as the F-35 Lightning II. Development...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20Martin%20X-35
Lockheed Martin X-35
It will have a larger, folding wing and larger control surfaces for improved low-speed control, and stronger landing gear for the stresses of carrier landings. The larger wing area provides increased range and payload, achieving much the same goal as the much heavier Super Hornet. The U.S. Navy initially planned to pur...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditorium%20Building
Auditorium Building
The Auditorium Building in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. Completed in 1889, the building is located at the northwest corner of South Michigan Avenue and Ida B. Wells Drive. The building was designed to be a multi-use complex, including offices, a theater, and a hotel. A...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditorium%20Building
Auditorium Building
The resulting raft distributed the weight of the massive outer walls over a large area. However, the weight of the masonry outer walls in relation to the relatively lightweight interior deformed the raft during the course of a century, and today portions of the building have settled as much as 29 inches. This deflectio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditorium%20Building
Auditorium Building
Later uses On October 5, 1887, President Grover Cleveland laid the cornerstone for the Auditorium Building. The 1888 Republican National Convention was held in a partially finished building where Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a presidential candidate. On December 9, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison dedicated the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss%20paper
Joss paper
Depending on the type and status of the deity being worshiped, paper with metal foil or with ink seals of various sizes may be burned. Different regions of the world have different preferences for the type of Joss paper that is used. For instance, Hell Bank Notes are commonly found in regions where Cantonese population...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss%20paper
Joss paper
The word "hell" may have been derived from: The preaching of Christian missionaries, who told the Chinese that non-Christians and their ancestors would go to hell when they died as non-believer. Purgatory as taught by certain Christian denomininations is a parallel. A translation of the word "hell" that matches the pr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20the%20Golden%20Fleece
Order of the Golden Fleece
The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece (, ) is a Catholic order of chivalry founded in 1430 in Bruges by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to celebrate his marriage to Isabella of Portugal. Today, two branches of the order exist, namely the Spanish Fleece and the Austrian Fleece; the current grand masters are Ki...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20the%20Golden%20Fleece
Order of the Golden Fleece
The Order of the Golden Fleece was established on 10 January 1430, by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (on the occasion of his wedding to Isabella of Portugal), in celebration of the prosperous and wealthy domains united in his person that ran from Flanders to Switzerland. The jester and dwarf Madame d'Or performed at...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20the%20Golden%20Fleece
Order of the Golden Fleece
During this time, the Burgundian court was culturally leading in Europe and so the new order, with its festivals, ceremonies, rituals and constitution, was seen by many as a role model in the sense of a princely order based on the ideals of Christian chivalry. Aid to the Byzantine Empire or the pushing back of the Otto...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20the%20Golden%20Fleece
Order of the Golden Fleece
The Austrian order did not suffer from the political difficulties of the Spanish, remaining (with the exception of the British prince regent, later George IV) an honour solely for Catholic royalty and nobility. The problem of female inheritance was avoided on the accession of Maria Theresa in 1740, as sovereignty of th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20the%20Golden%20Fleece
Order of the Golden Fleece
Heraldry Jean-Baptiste Christyn (1630 – 1690) records and codifies the heraldic privilege of golden helmets during his time as Chancellor of Brabant (1687 – 1690). He was considered a leading authority on heraldic law in the Habsburg Netherlands by contemporaries. In his work Jurisprudentia heroica (part 2, page 19) ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Mylroie
Laurie Mylroie
Laurie Mylroie (born July 22, 1953) is an American author and analyst who has written extensively on Iraq and the War on Terror. The National Interest first published this work in an article entitled, "The World Trade Center Bombing: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why it Matters." In her book Study of Revenge (2000), M...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronym
Necronym
A necronym (from the Greek words νεκρός, nekros, "dead," and ὄνομα, ónoma, "name") is the name of or a reference to a person who has died. Many cultures have taboos and traditions associated with referring to the deceased, ranging from at one extreme never again speaking the person's real name, bypassing it often by w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronym
Necronym
During the Cold War, necronyms were commonly used as a means of protecting an intelligence officer's true identity. For example, the Soviet KGB agent Konon Molody was only known as Gordon Lonsdale (the true Lonsdale was a Canadian born two years after Molody who died in 1943 when he was 19) in the United States. Molody...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20gearing
Negative gearing
The tax treatment of negative gearing (also termed "rental loss offset against other income") varies. For example: the United States restricts the practice to lower/middle income taxpayers who are active in managing their rental investment and also allows interest costs against the family home to be fully tax deductib...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Railways%20Board
British Railways Board
The British Railways Board (BRB) was a nationalised industry in the United Kingdom that operated from 1963 to 2001. Until 1997, it was responsible for most railway services in Great Britain, trading under the brand name British Railways and, from 1965, British Rail. It did not operate railways in Northern Ireland, wher...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Transport%20Commission
British Transport Commission
The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority). Its general duty under the Transport Act 1...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Transport%20Commission
British Transport Commission
The Commission was permitted to "secure the provision" of road passenger services, although it did not have the general powers of compulsory purchase of bus operators. To obtain specific powers of acquisition it had first to draw up, and get approval for, a 'Road Scheme', area by area. Only one was published, the North...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railways%20Act%201993
Railways Act 1993
Subsequent events The legislation enabled the Secretary of State for Transport John MacGregor to transfer separated parts of the railway to the private sector. Passenger rail services were franchised to private companies including Virgin Rail Group, Connex and the coach companies Stagecoach and National Express, and th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbani
Gurbani
Gurbani (, pronunciation: , lit. the Guru's words) is a Sikh term, very commonly used by Sikhs to refer to various compositions by the Sikh Gurus and other writers of Guru Granth Sahib. In general, hymns in the central text of the Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib, are called Gurbani. Among Amritdhari Sikhs, a few texts fro...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20University%20of%20New%20York%20at%20Canton
State University of New York at Canton
SUNY Canton competes in 17 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse and soccer; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball and volleyball; and co-ed sports include cheerleading and espor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCCB
WCCB
The station went dark on March 15, 1955, in what was intended to be a temporary hiatus while it underwent technical improvements, including the construction of a more powerful transmitter at a new location. However, Deadwyler was unable to get the station back on track. In March 1956, Inter-City Advertising sued to pla...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20Doves%20Cry
When Doves Cry
Background and composition Prince wrote and composed "When Doves Cry" after all the other tracks were complete on Purple Rain. In addition to providing vocals, he played all instruments on the track. The song's texture is remarkably stark. There is no bass line, which is very unusual for an '80s dance song; Prince sai...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianopolis%20College
Marianopolis College
During the World War II era, the English sector of the college was reorganized to be in line with anglophone universities, including programs in general science and honours chemistry. It changed its name to Marianopolis College (from Greek City of Maria) (since the teaching congregation has another much older nearby se...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianopolis%20College
Marianopolis College
Although the college remains under the authority of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, students of all faiths are admitted and the curriculum and school experience are entirely secular. Campus life and environment Congress and clubs The student life at Marianopolis is supported by MSU (Marianopolis Student Union) Congre...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasam%20Granth
Dasam Granth
The Dasam Granth (Gurmukhi: ਦਸਮ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ dasama gratha) is a collection of various poetic compositions attributed to Guru Gobind Singh. The text enjoyed an equal status with the Adi Granth, or Guru Granth Sahib, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were installed side by side on the same platform. The Dasam Gran...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasam%20Granth
Dasam Granth
Authorship Although the compositions of the Dasam Granth are traditionally accepted to be written by Guru Gobind Singh, there have been questions of the authenticity of the entirety of Dasam Granth from time of compilation. There are three major views on the authorship of the Dasam Granth: The traditional view is tha...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasam%20Granth
Dasam Granth
Nihang and Namdhari Sikhs believe it to be written by Guru Gobind Singh and is part of their daily liturgy. It was and is read to inspire warriors to stand up for truth and righteousness in the face of tyranny and oppression. The Composition is divided into six verses called Chhands in which the syllables and the rhyth...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasam%20Granth
Dasam Granth
The oldest manuscript of Dasam Granth is likely the Anandpuri Hazuri Bir (Not to be confused with the Anandpuri Marco Adi Granth). It is dated to 1698 CE. A few folio pages were definitely added later (Zafarnama and Hikayats), because they were composed after 1700 (circa 1705 CE), and are in a different style and forma...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Costa%20Canyon%20High%20School
La Costa Canyon High School
La Costa Canyon High School (LCC) is a public high school in Carlsbad, California. It is an International Baccalaureate World School and is part of the San Dieguito Union High School District, serving northwestern San Diego County. Established in 1996, La Costa Canyon serves the San Diego County communities of Encinit...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Costa%20Canyon%20High%20School
La Costa Canyon High School
Academics La Costa Canyon operates 10 academic departments, including English, Math, Science, Social Sciences, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages, AVID, Career and Technical Education, Computer Science, and Special Education. Within the school district, high school graduation requirements include 4 English co...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris%20Humphrey
Doris Humphrey
The Humphrey-Weidman Company was successful even in the Great Depression, touring America and developing new styles and new works based not on old tales but on current events and concerns. In the mid-1930s Humphrey created the "New Dance Trilogy", a triptych comprising With My Red Fires, New Dance, and the now-lost The...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris%20Humphrey
Doris Humphrey
Humphrey's most prominent works include Color Harmony (1928), Water Study (1928), Drama of Motion (1930), and The Shakers (1931). Color Harmony (1928) was her first independent concert after leaving Denishawn in 1928. She and Charles Weidman presented the work with "Weidman as a slivery figure representing the artistic...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh%20off%20the%20boat
Fresh off the boat
The phrase fresh off the boat (FOB), off the boat (OTB), are sometimes-derogatory terms used to describe immigrants who have arrived from a foreign nation and have yet to assimilate into the host nation's culture, language, and behavior, but still continue with their ethnic ideas and practices. Within Asian American ci...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEA%20League
IDEA League
The IDEA League is an alliance among five leading European universities of technology: Chalmers University of Technology Delft University of Technology ETH Zürich Polytechnic University of Milan RWTH Aachen University On October 6, 1999, the IDEA league was formed by the signing of a memorandum of und...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet
Tuplet
In music, a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from that usually permitted by...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet
Tuplet
Some authorities treat both groupings as equally valid forms, while others dispute this, holding the first type to be the "true" (or "real") sextuplet, and the second type to be properly a "double triplet", which should always be written and named as such. Some go so far as to call the latter, when written with a numer...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisei%20Uritsky
Moisei Uritsky
Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky (; ; – 30 August 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was the chief of the Cheka secret police of the Petrograd Soviet. Uritsky was assassinated by Leonid Kannegisser, a military cadet, who was executed shortly afterwards. Family Uritsky w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain%20prinia
Plain prinia
The plain prinia (Prinia inornata), also known as the plain wren-warbler or white-browed wren-warbler, is a small cisticolid warbler found in southeast Asia. It is a resident breeder from Pakistan and India to south China and southeast Asia. It was formerly included in the tawny-flanked prinia (Prinia subflava), reside...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Court%20of%20Justice
Federal Court of Justice
In the British occupation zone, the Supreme Court for the British Zone () came into operation in 1948. The court was tasked with ensuring the uniform jurisprudence within the zone; to that end, its scope of jurisdiction and its procedural rules largely followed the example of the . The foundation of the Bizonal Economi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Court%20of%20Justice
Federal Court of Justice
The Federal Court of Justice was established effective 1 October 1950 and began operating a day later. The Supreme Court for the British Zone ceased operations a day earlier and all cases pending before the court were transferred to the Federal Court of Justice. Of the 54 judgeships initially authorised for the court, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Court%20of%20Justice
Federal Court of Justice
In a typical civil case in Germany, the losing party in the court of first instance can appeal to a court of second instance if the subject matter of the appeal is greater than 600 euros or the court of first instance expressly allowed the appeal. Such an appeal () can be both on points of fact and on points of law, an...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Court%20of%20Justice
Federal Court of Justice
Investigating judges Two judges of the Federal Court of Justice (plus four judges acting as their deputies) serve as the investigating judges () of the court. In the German criminal law system, investigating judges are responsible for deciding on arrests, provisional placements, seizures, searches, and other measures ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Court%20of%20Justice
Federal Court of Justice
Grand Panels and Joint Panel All divisions of the court are at liberty to deviate from their own prior jurisprudence at any time. However, when a panel wishes to deviate from the jurisprudence of one or more other divisions, it must submit a request to those divisions (), asking them whether they stand by their prior ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Lawrence%20University
St. Lawrence University
Early in the 20th century, the university's graduate program in education came into being; it has since served hundreds of North Country school teachers and administrators. Following a difficult period during the Great Depression and World War II that included the decision to shut down the Brooklyn Law School, the stud...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Lawrence%20University
St. Lawrence University
The university art collection contains nearly 7,000 objects that are frequently displayed in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery or used for tours and classroom discussions. While the collection dates to the university's founding, its most vital growth has taken place in recent years. Twentieth-century works on paper, suc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Lawrence%20University
St. Lawrence University
Theme Cottages are a popular housing option at St. Lawrence. The Women's Resource Center was founded to raise awareness of gender issues on and off campus. WRC members, or "Dub Girls", are trained as sexual assault victim advocates and create education programs to promote safe sexual practices. The Black Student Union...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Lawrence%20University
St. Lawrence University
Intramurals are also a popular option for students, with broomball being one of the more popular. The university also has a rafting/canoeing shack located at the edge of campus. Ice hockey The Saints hockey program dates to 1925. The Saints hockey team compete at the NCAA Division-I Level in the ECAC league for both ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Lawrence%20University
St. Lawrence University
Valentine Hall – In addition to science classrooms and mathematics department offices, Valentine houses a state-of-the-art computer classroom designed for group work and guided study. Flint Hall - Home to the laboratories, classrooms and offices of the psychology department. Brown Hall – Home to the geology department,...
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St. Lawrence University
Herring Cole Reading Room – St. Lawrence's first stand-alone library, Herring Hall was built in 1870; later, in 1903, the Cole Reading Room. One of two campus buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Herring-Cole is the site of seminars, archival exhibitions about university history, guest lecture...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid%20on%20Bungeling%20Bay
Raid on Bungeling Bay
Raid on Bungeling Bay (バンゲリングベイ lit.: Bungeling Bay) is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Will Wright and published by Broderbund for the Commodore 64 in 1984. It was the first video game designed by Will Wright. The Commodore 64 version was published in the UK by Ariolasoft. The game inspired Wright to develop Si...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle%20prinia
Jungle prinia
The jungle prinia (Prinia sylvatica) is a small passerine bird, a warbler in the family Cisticolidae. Distribution and habitat This prinia is a resident breeder in Bangladesh and India, far south-western Nepal, and Sri Lanka, typically found in dry open grassland, open woodland, scrub and sometimes gardens. Descripti...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong%20Whitworth%20Whitley
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley was a British heavy bomber aircraft of the 1930s. It was one of three twin-engined, front line medium bomber types that were in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) at the outbreak of the Second World War. Alongside the Vickers Wellington and the Handley Page Hampden, the Whitle...
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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
Lloyd selected the Armstrong Siddeley Tiger IX radial engine to power the Whitley, which was capable of generating . One of the novel features of the Whitley's design was the adoption of a three-bladed two-position variable-pitch propeller built by de Havilland; the Whitley was the first aircraft to fly with such an ar...
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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
The decision was made to introduce a series of other minor improvements to produce the Whitley Mk V. These included the modification of the tail fins and rudders, the fitting of leading edge de-icers, further fuel capacity increases, a smaller D/F loop in a streamlined fairing being adopted, and the extension of the re...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong%20Whitworth%20Whitley
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
The Armstrong Whitworth Whitley was a twin-engined heavy bomber, initially being powered by a pair of . Armstrong Siddeley Tiger IX radial engines. More advanced models of the Tiger engine equipped some of the later variants of the Whitley; starting with the Whitley Mk IV variant, the Tigers were replaced by a pair of ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong%20Whitworth%20Whitley
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
The early examples had a nose turret and rear turret, both being manually operated with one Vickers 0.303 machine gun apiece. On the Whitley Mk III this arrangement was substantially revised: a new retractable ventral 'dustbin' position was installed mounting twin .303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine-guns and the nose tur...
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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
At the start of the war, 4 Group, equipped with the Whitley, was the only trained night bomber force in the world. Alongside the Handley Page Hampden and the Vickers Wellington, the Whitley bore the brunt of the early fighting and saw action during the first night of the war, when they dropped propaganda leaflets over ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong%20Whitworth%20Whitley
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
On the night of 10/11 February 1941, six Whitley Vs of 51 Squadron led by Tait took part in Operation Colossus, the first airborne operation undertaken by the British military, delivering paratroops to attack the Tragino Aqueduct in southern Italy. The Whitley was not always popular with paratroopers as they exited via...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga%20Choo%20Choo
Chattanooga Choo Choo
The lyrics reference other popular songs of the 1920s and 1940s, such as "Nothing could be finer than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina", "When you hear the whistle blowin'", "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", and "Satin and lace, I used to call 'funny face'". The 78-rpm was recorded on May 7, 1941, for RCA Victo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93China%20Joint%20Communiqu%C3%A9
Japan–China Joint Communiqué
The Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China was signed on September 29, 1972, in Beijing. The communique established and normalized diplomatic relations between Japan and the People's Republic of China (PRC), resulted in the severing of official relations between...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93China%20Joint%20Communiqu%C3%A9
Japan–China Joint Communiqué
From 1950 to 1972, trade between Japan and China existed but was relatively limited. At first, trade was restricted due to events such as the Korean War, a Chinese embargo on Japan in 1958, and tensions regarding the recognition of Taiwan. Later, the 1960 "Japan-China Trade Principle" led to the growth in selective tra...
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Japan–China Joint Communiqué
The state of war between Japan and the People's Republic of China ends on the date of the declaration. The Government of Japan fully recognizes the Three Principles for the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and China that was presented by the Government of the People's Republic of China, and also f...
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Japan–China Joint Communiqué
On the date of the announcement of the joint declaration, the state of war between the People's Republic of China and Japan will end. (The Government of Japan recognizes the Government of the People's Republic of China as the solely lawful government of representing China) The Government of the People's Republic of Ch...
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Japan–China Joint Communiqué
Japan and China are neighboring countries, separated only by a strip of water with a long history of traditional friendship. The people of the two countries earnestly desire to put an end to the abnormal state of affairs that has hitherto existed between the two countries. The realization of the aspiration of the two p...
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Japan–China Joint Communiqué
The abnormal state of affairs that has hitherto existed between Japan and the People's Republic of China is terminated on the date on which this Joint Communique is issued. The Government of Japan recognizes that Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China. The Government of the...
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Japan–China Joint Communiqué
ROC Before the announcement of the communique, there were signs of public anxiety toward expanded US–Sino relations. PM Tanaka's trip to Peking (September 25–30) was greeted with anger. Taipei delayed the mission of Tanaka's special envoy, Etsusaburo Shiina, so that it coincided with the 41st anniversary of the Sept...
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Japan–China Joint Communiqué
From 1979 onwards, Japan started offering Official Development Assistance (ODA) to China. This was done with numerous projects, such as energy development, infrastructure development, and environmental protection, using low-interest yen loans, grants, and the transfer of technological materials. This ODA helped grow an...
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Japan–China Joint Communiqué
Japan–ROC relations Had Chiang Kai-shek managed to keep the UN "China seat" by abandoning his "One China policy" more clearly and timely in 1971, PM Tanaka would not have been so keen on normalizing relations with Beijing in 1972 and Taipei would have avoided severing relations with Tokyo. After Tokyo and Peking norm...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury
Dimethylmercury
Dimethylmercury is an extremely toxic organomercury compound with the formula (CH3)2Hg. A volatile, flammable, dense and colorless liquid, dimethylmercury is one of the strongest known neurotoxins. Less than 0.1 mL is capable of inducing severe mercury poisoning resulting in death. Synthesis, structure, and reactions...
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Dimethylmercury
In toxicology, it still finds limited use as a reference toxin. It is also used to calibrate NMR instruments for detection of mercury (δ 0 ppm for 199Hg NMR), although diethylmercury and less toxic mercury salts are now preferred. Around 1960, Phil Pomerantz, a man working at the Bureau of Naval Weapons, suggested tha...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%20Cabin%20Republicans
Log Cabin Republicans
Transgender rights Nationally, LCR argues that transgender people, alongside gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, should have the right to adopt and to be free of workplace and housing discrimination. They support decriminalization of being transgender worldwide. In 2017, the LCR asked Donald Trump to reinstate Obama-era...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names%20of%20God
Names of God
There are various names of God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being. The English word god (and its equivalent in other languages) is used by multiple religions as a noun to refer to different deities, or specifically to the Supreme Being, as denoted in English by the capitalized and uncapit...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names%20of%20God
Names of God
Exchange of names held sacred between different religious traditions is typically limited. Other elements of religious practice may be shared, especially when communities of different faiths are living in close proximity (for example, the use of Khuda or Prabhu within the Indian Christian community) but usage of the na...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names%20of%20God
Names of God
El comes from a root word meaning "god" or "deity", reconstructed in the Proto-Semitic language as ʾil. Sometimes referring to God and sometimes the mighty when used to refer to the God of Israel, El is almost always qualified by additional words that further define the meaning that distinguishes him from false gods. A...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names%20of%20God
Names of God
Instead of pronouncing YHWH during prayer, Jews say "Adonai" ('Lord'). Halakha requires that secondary rules be placed around the primary law, to reduce the chance that the main law will be broken. As such, it is common religious practice to restrict the use of the word "Adonai" to prayer only. In conversation, many Je...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuyten%20Duyvil%20station
Spuyten Duyvil station
Spuyten Duyvil station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, serving the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. , daily commuter ridership was 913 and there were 100 parking spots. More than half of the commuters travel to the station using the Hudson Rail Link bus. Hist...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuyten%20Duyvil%20station
Spuyten Duyvil station
In 1882, a local train of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad collided with a stopped express a mile south of the station, killing eight, including New York State Senator Webster Wagner, found crushed between two luxury sleeper cars built by his company. In July 2013, two trains derailed near the station. A...
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