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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Jones%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201899%29
Tom Jones (footballer, born 1899)
Thomas Jones (6 December 1899 – 20 February 1978) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a fullback for various clubs, as well as making four appearances for Wales between 1926 and 1930. He played for Acrefair, Druids and Oswestry Town before moving to Manchester United where he made more than 150 appearanc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Slamet
Mount Slamet
Mount Slamet (, "Salvation Mountain" or "Mountain of Health") is an active stratovolcano that summits in the Pemalang Regency of Central Java, Indonesia. It has a cluster of around three dozen cinder cones on the lower southeast and northeast flanks and a single cinder cone on the western flank. The volcano is composed...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichilo%20River
Ichilo River
Ichilo River is a Bolivian river at the foot of the Eastern Andes-Cordillera in South America. It lends its name to the Ichilo Province, one of the 15 provinces of the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia. Location Ichilo River has its source in Manuel Maria Caballero Province in Santa Cruz Department at an elevation of 2...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Horace%20Thorndike
Ashley Horace Thorndike
Ashley Horace Thorndike (December 26, 1871 – April 17, 1933) was an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare. Early life Thorndike was born in Houlton, Maine on December 26, 1871. He was the son of a clergyman Edward R Thorndike, and the brother of Lynn Thorndike, an American historian of medieval science a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tome%27s%20spiny%20rat
Tome's spiny rat
Tome's spiny rat (Proechimys semispinosus), also known as Tomes' spiny rat or the Central American spiny rat, is a species of spiny rat distributed from Honduras to Ecuador. The IUCN has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern". Description Tome's spiny rat is a large rat with a head-and-body len...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
The turquoise parrot (Neophema pulchella) is a species of parrot in the genus Neophema native to Eastern Australia, from southeastern Queensland, through New South Wales and into North-Eastern Victoria. It was described by George Shaw in 1792. A small lightly built parrot at around long and in weight, it exhibits sex...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
Well known around the Sydney district at the time of European settlement in 1788, the turquoise parrot was described by George Shaw as Psittacus pulchellus in 1792. He called it the Turquoisine after its turquoise face patch. The holotype likely ended up in the Leverian collection in England, and was lost when the coll...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
The English common name of the turquoise parrot has varied between chestnut-shouldered parakeet, chestnut-shouldered grass-parakeet, chestnut-shouldered grass-parrot, chestnut-winged grass-parakeet, chestnut-winged grass-parrot, and turquoisine grass parrot, this last name commonly used in aviculture. The name red-shou...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
Juvenile birds of both sexes have less extensive blue on their faces, the coloration not extending past the eye. The upperparts resemble those of the adult female. Both sexes have the white wing-stripe, which disappears with maturity in males. The immature male has a red patch on the wing and may also have an orange wa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
The turquoise parrot is considered sedentary and does not migrate, though its movements are not well known. Birds are present in some areas all year, though in northern Victoria they are thought to move into more open areas outside the breeding season. Some populations may be locally nomadic, following availability of ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
The turquoise parrot is monogamous. The male perches upright on a tree stump and extends its wings to show off its red and blue markings when courting a female. Once paired, both sexes look for a nesting site, which is ultimately chosen by the female. Breeding has been reported from Girraween National Park on the New S...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
Breeding takes place over the warmer months with eggs laid from August to January. The clutch is laid on a bed of wood dust or leaves and consists of two to five (or rarely up to eight) round or oval glossy white eggs, each of which is generally 21 to 22 mm long by 18 mm (0.8 by 0.7 in) wide. Clutches tend to have more...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
Feeding The turquoise parrot is a predominantly ground-based seed eater, foraging in clearings in open woodland, forest margins, and near trees in more open areas such as pastures. It occasionally feeds along road verges and rarely ventures onto lawns. Birds forage in pairs or small troops of up to thirty or even fifty...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
Pathogens In 1966, a paramyxovirus with some antigenic similarity to Newcastle disease was isolated from the brain of a turquoise parrot in the Netherlands. That year, many aviary species including several species of Australian parrot and members of the genus Neophema had exhibited neurological symptoms reminiscent of ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20parrot
Turquoise parrot
New South Wales The turquoise parrot was once common across the Sydney region, and particularly abundant between the localities of Parramatta and Penrith. It dramatically declined in numbers between 1875 and 1895, although rare sightings in western Sydney and the Blue Mountains were recorded in the mid-twentieth centur...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%20Ferry
Anderson Ferry
The Anderson Ferry is a ferry across the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Constance, Kentucky. It has been in continuous operation since 1817. It was originated by George W Anderson the founder of the business, sold to the Kottmyer family then known as the Kotmeyer ferry and was later sold back to the Anderson f...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zababdeh
Zababdeh
Zababdeh or Zababida () is a town in the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located southeast of Jenin and from the Arab American University. History Sherds from the Middle Bronze Age II, Iron Age I & II, through to the Byzantine era have been found at the site. Remains of a Frankish bovaria (=farm) has...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary%20constable
Auxiliary constable
Unlike front line officers, auxiliary members wear caps with a red and black Battenburg markings, instead of solid red. Auxiliary constables are unarmed. Ontario Provincial Police Auxiliary program The Ontario Provincial Police Auxiliary program follows a mission statement: "To provide fully trained volunteer Auxilia...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary%20constable
Auxiliary constable
The Ontario Police Services Act does, however, provide for instances when the Auxiliary Member may have the authority of a Police Officer. This can occur in an emergency situation where the O.P.P. requires additional strength to cope with a special occasion or event. To insure proficiency, O.P.P. auxiliary constables ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Public%20Affairs%2C%20Poland
Institute of Public Affairs, Poland
Institute of Public Affairs (IPA, Instytut Spraw Publicznych) is an independent, non-partisan public policy think tank in Poland. The IPA was established in 1995 to support modernization reforms and to provide a forum for informed debate on social and political issues. It is a Public Benefit Organization as defined by ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus%20%C3%97%20hollandica%20%27Klemmer%27
Ulmus × hollandica 'Klemmer'
Ulmus × hollandica 'Klemmer', or Flanders Elm, is probably one of a number of hybrids arising from the crossing of Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) with a variety of Field Elm (Ulmus minor), making it a variety of Ulmus × hollandica. Originating in the Bruges area, it was described by Gillekens in 1891 as l'orme champêtre des F...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e%20Lakanal
Lycée Lakanal
Lycée Lakanal is a public secondary school in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It was named after Joseph Lakanal, a French politician, and an original member of the Institut de France. The school also offers a middle school and highly ranked "classes préparatoires" undergraduate training....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Design%20of%20Everyday%20Things
The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman. Originally published in 1988 with the title The Psychology of Everyday Things, it is often referred to by the initialisms POET and DOET. A new preface was added in 2002 and a revised and expanded edition wa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Design%20of%20Everyday%20Things
The Design of Everyday Things
Building up the Stages The history behind the action cycle starts from a conference in Italy attended by Donald Norman. This excerpt has been taken from the book The Design of Everyday Things: I am in Italy at a conference. I watch the next speaker attempt to thread a film onto a projector that he never used before. H...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Design%20of%20Everyday%20Things
The Design of Everyday Things
Stages of Execution Execution formally means to perform or do something. Norman explains that a person sitting on an armchair while reading a book at dusk, might need more light when it becomes dimmer and dimmer. To do that, he needs to switch on the button of a lamp i.e. get more light (the goal). To do this, one mus...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Design%20of%20Everyday%20Things
The Design of Everyday Things
In the gulf of execution is the gap between a user's goal for action and the means to execute that goal. Usability has as one of its primary goals to reduce this gap by removing roadblocks and steps that cause extra thinking and actions that distract the user's attention from the task intended, thereby preventing the f...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Design%20of%20Everyday%20Things
The Design of Everyday Things
"In the movie projector example there was also a problem with the Gulf of Evaluation. Even when the film was in the projector, it was difficult to tell if it had been threaded correctly." The gulf of evaluation applies to the gap between an external stimulus and the time a person understands what it means. The gulf o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon%20Day
Melon Day
Melon Day is an annual national holiday in Turkmenistan devoted to festivities to celebrate the country's melon, in particular a recent crossbreed product named "Turkmenbashy melon" (after Turkmenistan's first president), which is praised for its aroma, taste and massive size. It takes place on the second Sunday in Au...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Israel
Cinema of Israel
Author Julie Gray notes, "Israeli film is certainly not new in Israel, but it is fast gaining attention in the U.S., which is a double-edged sword. American distributors feel that the small American audience interested in Israeli film, are squarely focused on the turbulent and troubled conflict that besets us daily." ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia%20stipitata
Eugenia stipitata
Eugenia stipitata (Araza, Portuguese common names araçá, araçá-boi , Spanish common name arazá, from Guarani arasa; also known as membrillo in Ecuador) is a fruit tree native to the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. Description Arazá originated in the western part of Amazonia. This plant is a lesser-...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha%20Kolpakov
Sasha Kolpakov
Aleksandr Alexandrovich Kolpakov (; (born 15 February 1943 in Buzuluk, Orenburg Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian guitarist, singer and composer. Biography Coming from a Servo family, a group of Romani people found mostly in Russia and Ukraine, he started playing a seven string guitar at an early ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Anne%27s%20Guild
Saint Anne's Guild
Saint Anne's Guild (also spelt gild) was a medieval religious guild in Dublin, Ireland. It is noteworthy among such guilds for the considerable documentary evidence extant and for having survived as a Roman Catholic lay association until the eighteenth century. Origin Father Myles Ronan, in his essay 'Dublin Medieval ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Anne%27s%20Guild
Saint Anne's Guild
The guild acquired extensive property in the city and county of Dublin and elsewhere. Although the guild was not founded until 1430, some of the title deeds of its subsequently acquired property extend as far back as 1285, and continue until 1740. The fate of the rest of the records is unknown. After the Reformation it...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Anne%27s%20Guild
Saint Anne's Guild
The guild was to support six chantry priests, one to celebrate in a chapel that was to be built and dedicated to St. Anne, one in the Lady Chapel, and one at each of the four altars above named, for the souls of the king, founders, and brethren, etc., and it was allowed to receive income up to 100 marks (£66 13s. 4d. e...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Anne%27s%20Guild
Saint Anne's Guild
Commerce The guild accumulated property between 1430 and 1558, through bequests and donations. Houses, rents and lands were deeded to it, many of which remain in the guild collection. The guild sometimes carried on a kind of co-operation in commerce. One deed (No. 1 in Calendar) Robert Dovedall, a knight, gave 100 mar...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Anne%27s%20Guild
Saint Anne's Guild
Investigations Guilds became numerous and collectively important in England. They were so much feared as wealthy agencies supporting 'superstitious uses' that in the last year of Henry VIII and the first year of Edward VI two Acts were passed which suppressed them all, and appropriated their property to the Crown. The ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Anne%27s%20Guild
Saint Anne's Guild
In 1634 Thomas Lowe attempted to compel the guild to devote its income to the Church. The now-reformed religion ended the need for a chantry, with priests to celebrate for the souls of the founders and brethren. Love affirmed that the fraternity was bound to support a chanting minister (himself) and six vicars. He evad...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Anne%27s%20Guild
Saint Anne's Guild
From 1558 onwards, the status of the guild's property is unknown. The Bull of St. Pius V was a natural warning to preserve Roman Catholic property during the troubled times. It seems extraordinary that the guild retained its property The master and wardens could not appoint priests to the chantry, which had reformed it...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Norway
Cinema of Norway
Cinema in Norway has a long history, dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, and has an important stance in European cinema, contributing at least 30 feature-length films a year. There have been over 1,050 films made in Norway ever since cinema's first introduction to the country in 1907. Some of these film...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ellison%20Vassar
John Ellison Vassar
John Ellison Vassar (1813–1878) was an American lay preacher and missionary. Early life John Ellison Vassar was born January 13, 1813, and named for his maternal uncle. He was the son of Thomas Vassar of Norfolk, England. Originally named "Vasseur", the family was descended from French Huguenots who arrived in England...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar%20Berne
Dagmar Berne
Berne became the first woman to study medicine in Australia, against the protests of the Dean of Medicine, Professor Anderson Stuart, one of several senior staff at the university who questioned the admission of female students, despite outwardly accepting it. She had a successful first year of medicine, gaining honour...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar%20Berne
Dagmar Berne
Final year of study During Berne's final year of study, the economic downturn in Australia of the early 1890s caused the family to lose all of their savings. This included the loss of the inheritances of Berne and Florence; the sisters' other siblings had been forced to work to support the family, their brother Frederi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegaso%20Z-207
Pegaso Z-207
The Pegaso Z-207 was a truck model produced in Spain by Enasa from 1955 to 1959. It featured a V6 engine and a distinctive cab design. It was nicknamed Barajas, for the location, close to Madrid, where a new Pegaso plant was built to produce the Z-207. The Z-207 was advanced for its time; its 7.5 L V6 engine had an al...
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8561977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Peder%20Bianco%20Boeck
Christian Peder Bianco Boeck
Christian Peder Bianco Boeck (September 5, 1798 – July 11, 1877) was a Norwegian medical doctor, zoologist, botanist and mountaineer. He is most associated with his catalog of approved drugs, Pharmacopoea Norvegica (1854) and with his studies of trilobites. Biography Boeck grew up at Kongsberg in Buskerud where his fa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Peder%20Bianco%20Boeck
Christian Peder Bianco Boeck
He worked as a lecturer in Veterinary science at the faculty of medicine in the University of Oslo (1828–1840). He later became a professor in physiology. In 1836, Boeck and Keilhau went together along the Norwegian coast from Oslo to Trondheim to study a possible upheaval of the land. On these occasions Boeck obtain...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroluminescent%20wire
Electroluminescent wire
Electroluminescent wire (often abbreviated as EL wire) is a thin copper wire coated in a phosphor that produces light through electroluminescence when an alternating current is applied to it. It can be used in a wide variety of applications—vehicle and structure decoration, safety and emergency lighting, toys, clothin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroluminescent%20wire
Electroluminescent wire
A resonant oscillator is typically used to generate the high voltage drive signal. Because of the capacitance load of the EL wire, using an inductive (coiled) transformer makes the driver a very efficient tuned LC oscillator. The efficiency of EL wire is very high, and thus up to a hundred meters of EL wire can be dri...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kora%20%28pilgrimage%29
Kora (pilgrimage)
Kora (, THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription: kor ra) is a transliteration of a Tibetan word that means "circumambulation" or "revolution". Kora is both a type of pilgrimage and a type of meditative practice in the Tibetan Buddhist or Bon traditions. A Kora is performed by the practitioner making a circumambulation ar...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Hungary
Cinema of Hungary
Hungary has had a notable cinema industry since the beginning of the 20th century, including Hungarians who affected the world of motion pictures both within and beyond the country's borders. The former could be characterized by directors István Szabó, Béla Tarr, or Miklós Jancsó; the latter by William Fox and Adolph Z...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Hungary
Cinema of Hungary
1901–1920 The infrastructure of the Hungarian cinema scene was built up during the first decade of the 20th century. By 1910, 270 permanent theatres operated in the country, including large capacity film palaces like the Royal Apollo. Film distribution was organized by the end of the decade. The first company to lend t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Hungary
Cinema of Hungary
1931–1945 Because of its reputedly alien American storyline and setting Kék Bálvány was only a mild success, unlike Hyppolit, a lakáj, which premiered only two months later, and became the first box office hit, as well as one of the most successful and well-known motion pictures of the country. Directed by István Széke...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Hungary
Cinema of Hungary
1948–1950 After the communist nationalization, the only company allowed to produce feature films was the Hungarian National Filmmaking Company, while newsreels and documentary production was managed by the News and Documentary Film Company, and distribution through MOKÉP. Control over film production was centralized an...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Hungary
Cinema of Hungary
1956–1960 The reprisal following the civil war of 1956 affected the movie's world severely, several films were banned, while many industry experts and actors left the country. Decentralization of the country's film production was halted, the planned reorganization became superficial, with the Hungarian National Filmmak...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Hungary
Cinema of Hungary
1960–1970 The sixties were the years of rejuvenation for the Hungarian movie industry. After the harsher years following the events of 1956, the newly elected socialist government, headed by János Kádár wanted to appear more liberal, resulting in softening rules and regulations in every area. The two former film studio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay%20Tribunal
Lindsay Tribunal
The Lindsay Tribunal was set up in Ireland in 1999 to investigate the infection of haemophiliacs with HIV and Hepatitis C from contaminated blood products supplied by the Blood Transfusion Service Board. There are about 400 haemophiliacs in Ireland. According to the tribunal a 'minimal figure' of 250 haemophiliacs wer...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20riots
Bristol riots
Local magistrate Sir Charles Wetherell, a strong opponent of the Bill, visited Bristol to open the new Assize Courts, on 29 October. He threatened to imprison participants in a disturbance going on outside, and an angry mob chased him to the Mansion House in Queen Square. The magistrate escaped in disguise, although a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus%20%C3%97%20hollandica%20%27Superba%27
Ulmus × hollandica 'Superba'
U. × hollandica 'Superba' was confirmed by Krüssmann in 1962 as a cultivar synonymous with U. praestans, though he incorrectly equated it with Osborne and Morren's 'Superba'. Description Descriptions of 'Superba' vary. Loudon described Ulmus montana glabra major, 'Canterbury Seedling', as a hybrid similar to Huntingdo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazione%20Zoologica%20Anton%20Dohrn
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn is a research institute in Naples, Italy, devoted to basic research in biology. Research is largely interdisciplinary involving the fields of evolution, biochemistry, molecular biology, neurobiology, cell biology, biological oceanography, marine botany, molecular plant biology, benthi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazione%20Zoologica%20Anton%20Dohrn
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
The first assistants were zoologists Nicolaus Kleinenberg and Hugo Eisig and one of the Preparators was Salvatore Lobianco (Lo Bianco) (1860–1910), who wrote The Methods Employed at the Naples Zoological Station for the Preservation of Marine Animals. Others were Dr. Brandt (librarian); Dr. Lang; Dr. Giesbrecht; Peters...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware%20Fusion
VMware Fusion
VMware Fusion is a software hypervisor developed by VMware for macOS systems. It allows Macs with Intel or the Apple M series of chips to run virtual machines with guest operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, or macOS, within the host macOS operating system. Overview VMware Fusion can virtualize a multit...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdallah%20Laroui
Abdallah Laroui
Abdallah Laroui (; born 7 November 1933) is a Moroccan philosopher, historian, and novelist. Besides some works in French, his philosophical project has been written mostly in Arabic. He is among the most read and discussed Arab and Moroccan philosophers. Biography Laroui was born in 1933 in Azemmour. His mother died...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia%20Servilia
Marcia Servilia
Marcia Servilia or commonly known as Servilia (40s-66 CE) was the daughter of Roman Senator Barea Soranus. Her father was part of the Stoic Opposition who opposed Nero's tyrannical rule. When he was sentenced to death by Nero in 65 or 66, Servilia was similarly accused and sentenced to death on a charge of consulting ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard-Joseph%20Chaussegros%20de%20L%C3%A9ry%20%281721%E2%80%931797%29
Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (1721–1797)
Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (July 20, 1721 – December 11, 1797), his first name was also sometimes written Joseph-Gaspard. He was a military engineer and a political figure in Lower Canada. During the Seven Years' War he proved himself to be an outstanding officer and was one of only a few colonial officers held...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard-Joseph%20Chaussegros%20de%20L%C3%A9ry%20%281721%E2%80%931797%29
Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (1721–1797)
At some point, Chaussegros de Léry produced a finished copy of a map of the west. The original work had been made by Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye, a nephew of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye. Civil life in the Province of Quebec Chaussegros de Léry was not given any opportunities by the French. He...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Yugoslavia
Cinema of Yugoslavia
The Cinema of Yugoslavia refers to the film industry and cinematic output of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which existed from 1945 until it disintegrated into several independent nations in the early 1990s. Yugoslavia was a multi-ethnic, socialist state, and its cinema reflected the diversity of ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole%20and%20Hungarian%20brothers%20be
Pole and Hungarian brothers be
The saying – a 16th- or 18th-century coinage by Polish szlachta (nobility) – reflects a long special relationship between Poland and Hungary. Poles and Hungarians considered themselves brothers in war and peace. They recognized that the two countries shared a similar political structure: a nobles' republic (the Polish ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole%20and%20Hungarian%20brothers%20be
Pole and Hungarian brothers be
Polish-Hungarian relations became particularly close during the rule of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Hungary. The Polish historian , who analyzed Polish-Hungarian correspondence and personal encounters in the late 15th and the first half of the 16th century, concluded that with no other neighbour did the Pole...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole%20and%20Hungarian%20brothers%20be
Pole and Hungarian brothers be
In September 1939, Hitler asked Hungary to allow German forces to transit Hungarian territory in order to speed the German attack on eastern Poland; Hungary's Admiral Miklós Horthy declined permission, on the ground that it would be incompatible with Hungarian honor. On 17 September 1939, pursuant to the Molotov–Ribbe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Austria
Cinema of Austria
Cinema of Austria refers to the film industry based in Austria. Austria has had an active cinema industry since the early 20th century when it was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and that has continued to the present day. Producer Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky, producer-director-writer Luise Kolm and the Austro-Hungarian dire...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Austria
Cinema of Austria
Although Austria was not annexed by Germany until 1938, Jews were forbidden to work in the Austrian film industry from 1936 onwards due to pressure from Nazi Germany where Jews had been banned from film work within months of the Nazis taking power. Germany was the most important export market for Austrian films and Ge...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Austria
Cinema of Austria
In the 1990s, the Austrian film industry underwent a number of structural changes. Some directors, both established and upcoming have created their own film-companies to share resources and learn from each other. The other film companies, the biggest of which are Dor-Film and Allegro-Film, both producing at least two t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Jumna%20%281866%29
HMS Jumna (1866)
HMS Jumna was a Euphrates-class troopship launched at Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company at Hebburn on 24 September 1866. She was the third vessel of the Royal Navy to carry the name. Design Jumna was one of five iron-hulled vessels of the Euphrates class. All five were built to a design of 360 ft overall length by...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulby%20Reservoir
Sulby Reservoir
The Sulby Reservoir is the largest reservoir or lake in the Isle of Man, with an area of . The reservoir Sulby is an impounding reservoir. The dam was completed in 1982 and has a rock-fill embankment high. The reservoir's capacity is and the maximum depth . The water flows to Sulby Water Treatment Works, from where ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20voucher
Labour voucher
Labour vouchers (also known as labour cheques, labour notes, labour certificates and personal credit) are a device proposed to govern demand for goods in some models of socialism and to replace some of the tasks performed by currency under capitalism. Outline Unlike money, vouchers cannot circulate and are not trans...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20voucher
Labour voucher
History Labour vouchers were first proposed in the 1820s by Josiah Warren and Robert Owen. Two early attempts at implementing labour vouchers (called labour notes at the time by their proponents) were made by both following their experiences attempting to establish a utopian community in New Harmony, Indiana in which ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20voucher
Labour voucher
Marx initially refused the idea in the Poverty of Philosophy, especially within the capitalism (I. chapter, 2. §). Marx stated that the time in itself separated from other people's time is not suitable to measure the value of work. The value "is constituted, not by the time needed to produce it by itself, but in relati...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20voucher
Labour voucher
However, they were later advocated by Karl Marx, despite disagreeing with the manner in which they were implemented by Owen, as a way of dealing with immediate and temporary shortages upon the establishment of socialism. Marx explained that this would be necessary since socialism emerges from capitalism and would be "s...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Nicaea%20%281328%E2%80%931331%29
Siege of Nicaea (1328–1331)
The siege of Nicaea by the forces of Orhan I from 1328 to 1331, resulted in the conquest of a key Byzantine Greek city by the Ottoman Turks. It played an important role in the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. Background Following the reconquest of Constantinople from the Latins, the Byzantines concentrated their effo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Nicaea%20%281328%E2%80%931331%29
Siege of Nicaea (1328–1331)
Patriarch John XIV of Constantinople wrote a message to the people of Nicea shortly after the city was seized. His letter says that "The invaders endeavored to impose their impure religion on the populace, at all costs, intending to make the inhabitants followers of Muhammad". The Patriarch advised the Christians to "b...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Cantigny
Battle of Cantigny
The Battle of Cantigny, fought May 28, 1918, was the first major American battle and offensive of World War I. The U.S. 1st Division, the most experienced of the five American divisions then in France and in reserve for the French Army near the village of Cantigny, was selected for the attack. The objective of the atta...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian%20collaboration%20with%20Nazi%20Germany
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. By September 1941, the German-occupied territory of Ukraine was divided between two new German administrative units, the District of Galicia of the Nazi General...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian%20collaboration%20with%20Nazi%20Germany
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany
Less than two years later, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. The German Operation Barbarossa began on June 22, 1941. Operation Barbarossa brought together native Ukrainians of the USSR and the prewar territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union. By September the occupied territory was divided between two new...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian%20collaboration%20with%20Nazi%20Germany
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany
In November 1943, during negotiations with the Germans, Borovets was arrested by the Gestapo in Warsaw and incarcerated in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In the autumn of 1944, the Nazis, looking for Ukrainian support in a war they were by then losing, freed Borovets. He was forced to change his nom de guerre to Kon...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin%20Pond
Dublin Pond
Dublin Pond or Dublin Lake is a water body located in Cheshire County in southwestern New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Dublin. The pond lies at an elevation of above sea level, near the height of land between the Connecticut River/Long Island Sound watershed to the west and the Merrimack River/Gulf of Mai...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20Loriod
Jeanne Loriod
Jeanne Blanche Armande Loriod (13 July 1928 – 3 August 2001) was a French musician, regarded as the world's leading exponent of the ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument. Born in Houilles, Yvelines, she was the younger sister of Yvonne Loriod, the pianist and second wife of Olivier Messiaen. She performed all...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rippling
Rippling
In computer science, more particularly in automated theorem proving, rippling refers to a group of meta-level heuristics, developed primarily in the Mathematical Reasoning Group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and most commonly used to guide inductive proofs in automated theorem proving sys...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Bend%20Plantation
North Bend Plantation
North Bend Plantation is an estate located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. It is located along State Route 5, a scenic byway which runs between the independent cities of Richmond and Williamsburg. History The North Bend Plantation site was first inhabited by the Weanoc Indians. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Osakabe
Prince Osakabe
Prince Osakabe (刑部(忍壁)親王, Osakabe Shinnō) (died June 2, 705) was a Japanese imperial prince who helped write the Taihō Code (681 A.D.), alongside Fujiwara no Fuhito. The Code was essentially an administrative reorganization, which would serve as the basis for Japan's governmental structure for centuries afterwards. Ba...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Outsider%20and%20Others
The Outsider and Others
The Outsider and Others contains the following tales: "Howard Philips Lovecraft: Outsider", by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei "Dagon" "Polaris" "Celephais" "Hypnos" "The Cats of Ulthar" "The Strange High House in the Mist" "The Statement of Randolph Carter" "The Silver Key" "Through the Gates of the Silver ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Bijns
Anna Bijns
Anna Bijns or Anna Byns (1493 in Antwerp – 1575 in Antwerp) was a Flemish poet who wrote in the Dutch language. She was an educator and the administrator of a primary school in Antwerp until the age of 80. Even while as a woman she was denied membership of a local chamber of rhetoric, she was able to publish her work...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Bijns
Anna Bijns
After Anna's birth her parents had two more children: a daughter Margriete born in 1495 and a son Maarten born in 1497. Her father died in 1516. A year later her sister got married. She and her brother claimed their father's inheritance. Widow Bijns then had to sell the family home and the shop's inventory. Afterwards,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Bijns
Anna Bijns
Bijns developed strong ties with the Franciscan friars in Antwerp. She dedicated a number of refrains to one of those friars known by his first name Bonaventura. He has since been identified with Bonaventura Vorsel, who was also Bijns' confessor. Some authors have surmised, without evidence, that the unrequited love...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Bijns
Anna Bijns
As a poetry form, the "refrain" was derived from the French ballad. The most important characteristics of a refrain are that the poem has at least four verses and that the last line of each verse always returns as a refrain. This returning line is usually used as the title for the poem. The last verse is dedicated to...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Bijns
Anna Bijns
In addition to the three printed books of refrains, the poetry of Anna Bijns has been handed down through 18 manuscripts. Of these, 17 are collective manuscripts in which Bijns' work is featured alongside that of other authors. The only exception to this is manuscript B in the Ghent University Library (signature: Ghent...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Bijns
Anna Bijns
The fourth thematic group is that of the refrains with theological advice in which Bijns advises her readers on what they should do in view of the sorry state of the world. The prevalent trust of this group is the need to protect potential victims by preparing them for possible attacks and by recommending a certain cou...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court%20of%20Appeals%20of%20the%20Philippines
Court of Appeals of the Philippines
The Court of Appeals (; previously Hukuman ng Paghahabol) is an appellate collegiate court in the Philippines. The Court of Appeals consists of one presiding justice and sixty-eight associate justices. Pursuant to the Constitution, the Court of Appeals "reviews not only the decisions and orders of the Regional Trial Co...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court%20of%20Appeals%20of%20the%20Philippines
Court of Appeals of the Philippines
History Organized on February 1, 1936, the Court of Appeals was initially composed of Justice Pedro Concepcion, as the first presiding judge, and ten appellate judges appointed by the president of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the National Assembly. It had exclusive appellate jur...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court%20of%20Appeals%20of%20the%20Philippines
Court of Appeals of the Philippines
On August 23, 1956, the membership of the court was expanded to eighteen justices per Republic Act No. 1605. The number was hiked to twenty-four justices as decreed by Republic Act No. 5204 approved on June 15, 1968. Ten years later, the unabated swelling of the court's dockets called for a much bigger court of forty-f...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Jacobi
Frederick Jacobi
Frederick Jacobi (May 4, 1891 – October 24, 1952) was a Jewish-American composer and teacher. His works include symphonies, concerti, chamber music, works for solo piano and for solo organ, lieder, and one opera. He taught at Juilliard School of Music from 1936 to 1950, where his pupils included Mark Bucci, Alexei Hai...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Jacobi
Frederick Jacobi
From 1913 to 1917 he worked as a vocal coach and assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. It was during that time, on April 19, 1917, that he married Irene Schwarcz, a friend of many years, who, at the time, was studying piano at the New York Institute of Musical Art (which later became Juilliard). Irene would go...
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