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35811740 | In September 1970, she was sent to prison for nine months for the offence of keeping and maintaining a child out of England against his mother's will, after sending a 14-year-old boy to live in Canada without his mother's consent.
In 1977, Pinney went to New York and treated a four-year-old boy who had autism. This resulted in her publication Bobby, Breakthrough of an Autistic Child (1983).
She was briefly married to Luigi Cocuzzi with whom she had one daughter and two sons. | 479 |
3660376 | Knowledge of the relationship between a protein's structure and its dynamic behavior is essential for understanding protein function. The description of a protein three dimensional structure as a network of hydrogen bonding interactions (HB plot) was introduced as a tool for exploring protein structure and function. By analyzing the network of tertiary interactions, the possible spread of information within a protein can be investigated.
HB plot offers a simple way of analyzing protein secondary structure and tertiary structure. | 535 |
331245 | Following retirement of BEA's Dragon Rapides, BEA Helicopters took over the scheduled service between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly on 2 May 1964. On 1 September of that year, the service transferred from Land's End St Just airfield to a new, purpose-built heliport at Penzance. | 283 |
125320 | [48] Six Italian Americans received the Medal of Honor during the war, among whom was Colonel Luigi Palma di Cesnola, who later became the first Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York (1879-1904).
From 1880 to 1914, 13 million Italians migrated out of Italy, making Italy the scene of one of the largest voluntary emigrations in recorded world history. | 369 |
7814042 | as both a mixed martial artist and luchador in mostly Mexico and Japan, achieving success in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) by winning the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship once. Rodríguez signed with WWE in 2009 and made his debut on their main roster the following year as Alberto Del Rio. In WWE, he became the first Mexico-born world champion in WWE history after he won the WWE Championship and the World Heavyweight Championship twice each. | 455 |
7373530 | For logistical reasons in 2008, the Evangelical Lutheran Church - Synod of France and Belgium divided into two separate synods: the Evangelical Lutheran Church - Synod of France, (, or EEL-SF) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Belgium, or Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk in België (ELKB).
The EEL-SFB is associated with the media outreach "L'Heure Luthérienne" (site: www.mediachrist.com), a spinoff from Lutheran Hour Ministries. | 429 |
46696627 | He has been described as "Crorepati MLA with no PAN"
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra | 104 |
53577121 | The company was proposed with securing the funds for the stadium. The lenders would acquire a 200-year head-lease of the land from Peel, the landowners, and leasing the stadium to the SPV, which would in turn sub-lease to Everton for 40 years. | 243 |
351581 | Around this time, Neil Pappalardo, Curtis Marble, and Robert Greenes developed MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System) in Octo Barnett's Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, another center of biomedical computing that received significant support from the NIH. In the 1970s and 1980s it was the most commonly used programming language for clinical applications. The MUMPS operating system was used to support MUMPS language specifications. , a descendant of this system is being used in the United States Veterans Affairs hospital system. | 609 |
4042584 | Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, a former captain in the Prussian Army, was appointed Inspector General of the Continental Army and played the major role in training American soldiers to the best European standards. Von Steuben is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the United States Army.
Another German that served during the American Revolution was Major General Johann de Kalb, who served under Horatio Gates at the Battle of Camden and died as a result of several wounds he sustained during the fighting. | 520 |
173634 | It concludes that individuals in society need to be alert to report suspicious behavior, because the psychological and physical abuse occurs which can often leave a victim unable to escape on their own.
In 2000 Congress created the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act with tougher punishments for sex traffickers. It provides for the possibility for former sex slaves to obtain a T-1 visa. To obtain the visa women must, "prove they were enslaved by 'force, fraud or coercion'." The visa allows former victims of sex trafficking to stay in the United States for 3 years and then apply for a green card. | 617 |
34155386 | Contributions à l'histoire naturelle des turbellariés, 1879 Full text
Embryogénie des Dendrocles d'eau douce, 1887 Full text
Morphogénie générale et affinités des Turbellariés (Introduction à une Embryologie comparée de ces animaux), 1892
Catalogue des rhabdoclides, triclades & polyclades du nord de la France, 1894. | 322 |
71109404 | Further applications include electron acceleration and generation of light orbital angular momentum using a spatial phase plate design. | 135 |
25431640 | Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA) was a United Kingdom state benefit intended for those below the state pension age who cannot work because of illness or disability. It was replaced by Incapacity Benefit in April 2001, which itself was replaced by Employment and Support Allowance. However, although it is no longer possible to make a claim for SDA, individuals who are already receiving the benefit have continued to do so. The benefit is administered by Jobcentre Plus (an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions). | 534 |
4923100 | Private universities and colleges in California
For-profit universities and colleges in the United States | 105 |
33435123 | Michael Moldaver's final sitting day on the Supreme Court was May 19, 2022. His retirement was effective September 1, 2022.
Moldaver has maintained an active role within the legal community. During his career as a trial lawyer, he was a one-time co-chair of the Canadian Bar Association, a director of the Criminal Lawyers' Association and the Advocates' Society, and a co-chair of the University of Toronto Academic Tribunal, Discipline Subsection. | 449 |
21017543 | Ireland's Kevin O'Brien has the most number of ducks in T20Is with 12 such knocks followed by Tillakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka, Soumya Sarkar of Bangladesh and Pakistan's Umar Akmal with 10 such knocks. Aaron Finch with 7 ducks has the highest number of such knocks for Australia.
A bowler takes the wicket of a batsman when the form of dismissal is bowled, caught, leg before wicket, stumped or hit wicket. | 408 |
56433825 | Wayne Fella Morrison, Aboriginal man who died in custody
Wayne Fensham (born 1958), South African cricketer and field hockey player
Wayne Fereday (born 1963), English former professional footballer
Wayne Fernandes (born 1978), Canadian field hockey player
Wayne Ferreira (born 1971), South African former professional tennis player and current coach
Wayne Firestone, American-born Israeli playwright and veteran non-profit leader | 434 |
39847507 | With its head office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, DHB Bank has a main branch in Düsseldorf, a main branch in Brussels (and 3 sub-branches in Liege, Antwerp and Charleroi) and a representative office in Istanbul.
On 1 August 2003 the bank acquired Disbank's Dutch subsidiary Dısbank Nederland. In the second half of 2008, DHB Bank acquired a 66.65% stake in Export & Credit Bank Inc, Skopje (EC Bank), which was sold to Turkey Halkbank in the second quarter of 2011. | 467 |
3933610 | AllMusic reviewer Steve Huey wrote that the album "shed some light on the burgeoning turntablist revival via the scratching fireworks of DJ Q-Bert" and its "futuristic, horror-soundtrack production seemed to bridge the gap between hip-hop and the more electronic-oriented trip-hop". Steve "Flash" Juon of RapReviews also praised its sound, writing that "Cuts are provided with infinite skill and precision by DJ Q-Bert" and that the DJ Shadow/Automator remix of "Waiting List" is "so good that you could hardly miss the original, if indeed there was one." | 555 |
25050387 | According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Werlé's lawyers also challenged an Internet service provider in Austria which published the names of the convicted killers.
The Wikimedia Foundation is based in the United States, where the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press, under which the articles on Wikipedia would fall. In Germany, the law seeks to protect the name and likenesses of private persons from unwanted publicity. On 18 January 2008 a court in Hamburg supported the personality rights of Werlé, which under German law includes removing his name from archive coverage of the case. | 662 |
53177925 | The song is performed in the key of D minor with a tempo of 112 beats per minute.
David Turner from Pitchfork thought the track "hues closer to those moments of ecstasy than the adult contemporary rap of Jay-Z's post-Watch the Throne career… Jay-Z raps with an endearing mix of self-deprecation and premature paternal pride. Beyoncé, on the other hand, operates with full-on swagger, singing triumphantly about "winning" for the last "20 years," and flashing a smile to even the most dogged haters. | 498 |
1904936 | The decision to report the story drew criticism from other newspapers, with Peter Popham writing in The Independent, "One has to ask why Jerry Hayes's gay fling/platonic friendship should be thought to have any bearing on anything besides the emotions of those two people and, arguably, those close to them".
He is a member of the Savile Club. | 343 |
10381668 | This split had to do with the CIO unionizing industrial trades, and the AFL organizing craft trades. The expelled unions included the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, now called the United Steelworkers (USW); United Auto Workers of America, now Unifor; and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). They negotiated with the All-Canadian Congress of Labour and founded the Canadian Congress of Labour in 1940 to rival the TLC. At its founding, it had 100,000 members, and grew to 250,000 by 1943. | 500 |
13289708 | The Red Man's View on YouTube
Films directed by D. W. Griffith
Films with screenplays by Frank E. Woods | 103 |
38007179 | She was representative until 2009. Karin Maag served until 2021. She was succeeded by fellow CDU member Maximilian Mörseburg. | 125 |
10653688 | 2011 covering the Libyan civil war)
What appeared at first to be a routine freight car derailment in western New York state began at about 3:30 in the morning when 25 railroad cars came off the track near Le Roy, New York and spilled more than of the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) that seeped into the groundwater serving the wells of Genesee County community. | 375 |
70474036 | Lot McNamara – 17 March 1828 – Hanged at Sydney for the murder of Janet Mackellar, wife of Duncan Mackellar, Junior, at Minto.
William Johnson – 24 March 1828 – Hanged at Sydney Gaol for the murder of Morris Morgan at Moreton Bay.
George Kilroy (Kildray, Gilroy, Kilray) – 24 March 1828 – An associate of Jack Donahue. Hanged at Sydney for highway robbery of George Plomer on the Richmond Road. | 396 |
2624583 | In Palermo, Goethe searched for what he called "Urpflanze," a plant that would be the archetype of all plants.
In his journal, Goethe shows a marked interest in the geology of Europe's southern regions. He demonstrates a depth and breadth of knowledge in each subject. Most frequently, he pens descriptions of mineral and rock samples that he retrieves from the mountains, crags, and riverbeds of Italy. He also undertakes several dangerous hikes to the summit of Mount Vesuvius, where he catalogues the nature and qualities of various lava flows and tephra. | 559 |
315742 | During his tenure as president of the Pugwash conferences, Rotblat nominated Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu for the Nobel Peace Prize every year from 1988 to 2004. Vanunu had disclosed the extent of Israel's nuclear weapons programme and consequently spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 years in solitary confinement.
Rotblat campaigned ceaselessly against nuclear weapons. | 399 |
351811 | Its congregation steadily reduced during the 1960s and 70's, becoming unsustainable and eventually selling the building to Coalville Evangelical Church (see above).
The neighbouring parish of Whitwick was a focal point in the Roman Catholic revival early in the nineteenth century due to the zealous missionary work instigated by Ambrose de Lisle of Gracedieu Manor, a mission which eventually spread to encompass the new town of Coalville.
Until 1887, the small community of Catholics residing in Coalville had to travel to Whitwick to celebrate Mass. | 552 |
63379148 | She decided early that she wanted a Christian life and in 2005 she was studying the bible with choir of a new church when she came across a life changing verse about how people would not be given in marriage, but be like the angels after the resurrection. She decided this was her vocation and in 2006 she went to Togo to spend some weeks with the nuns there. She became a nun on the 7 September 2013 in Yaoundé in Cameroon where she had been a novice for two years.
She became the President of the Songmanegre Association for Women’s Development (). | 550 |
3050951 | Three wings (3, 4 and 5) and the pedestrian bridge, from the initial nine wings, remain. Wing 3 was previously occupied by the government agency responsible for superannuation administration, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation. Wings 4 and 5 have been converted from government offices into student accommodation for the nearby University of Canberra.
The Cameron Offices were the first major buildings to be built in Belconnen. | 433 |
66469078 | Shooting Arcade is a fixed shooter written by Mark Riley for the Atari 8-bit family and published in 1982 by Datasoft. It was later released under Datasoft's Gentry Software budget label as Target Practice. It was ported to the TRS-80 Color Computer by James Garon and released as Shooting Gallery. The game is similar to the 1980 Sega arcade game Carnival.
Shooting Arcade is based on an amusement park shooting gallery. The player controls a pistol which moves along the bottom of the screen. | 494 |
10977057 | As a result, he was then placed on injured reserve and missed the entire 2011 season
With another three years on his contract, the Raiders released Eugene on March 9, 2012.
Players of American football from Lafayette, Louisiana | 227 |
4161349 | The Shaping of Black America (1975)
Wade in the Water: Great Moments in Black History (1979)
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (2000), Chicago: Johnson Pub. Co. (review by Eric Foner)
Barr, John M. "Holding Up a Flawed Mirror to the American Soul: Abraham Lincoln in the Writings of Lerone Bennett Jr." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 35.1 (2014): 43–65. | 383 |
27098007 | Colmar (Groupe A winners and champions)
On 15 June 2010, following a review of each club's administrative and financial accounts in the Championnat National, the DNCG ruled that both Bastia and Gueugnon would be relegated to the Championnat de France amateur, while Amiens, | 273 |
17761574 | British forces were initially only in control of Oslo, Stavanger and Kristiansand with the resistance and, less commonly, local Norwegian authorities taking control of the rest of the country from the Germans. The resistance also helped the division discover the fate of 1st Airborne Division troops assigned to Operation Freshman, a failed attempt in November 1942 to sabotage the Norsk Hydro chemical plant at Vemork, which produced heavy water for Nazi Germany's atomic weapons programme. Two gliders had been assigned to the operation, and both had crash-landed after being released by the aircraft towing them. | 615 |
66771836 | Filtronic was awarded a 2021 Queen's Award for Enterprise, International Trade, in recognition of its "Outstanding Short Term Growth in overseas sales over the last three years", which had grown by 208% over the period 2018 to 2021.
In November 2021 former McLaren F1 executive Jonathan Neale was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of Filtronic, to replace Reg Gott.
Filtronic was founded in 1977 by Professor John David Rhodes, who was a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Leeds. | 535 |
18751794 | Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2006 Asian Games
Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games
Shooters at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games silver medalists for China
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games | 314 |
69697922 | The new 546-bed hospital specialized in the care of veterans from Utah and other nearby states including Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado, and specialized in treating psychiatric disorders. During the fall of 1961, the hospital began training nurses in psychiatry, general medicine, and surgery – in collaboration with the College of Nursing at the University of Utah.
In 2004, legislation was finalized by U.S. president George W. Bush to officially rename the VA facility to the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Typically, U.S. | 556 |
41952747 | Involved 3 matches (with one bye) and 7 clubs
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
1 * This was the first Lancashire Cup match played by new/newly renamed club Huyton (who were "homeless" for this their first season)
2 * Central Park was the home ground of | 336 |
13720081 | Hamdi al-Pachachi (Arabic: حمدي الباجه جي; 1886 – March 28, 1948), Iraqi politician born to a prominent family in Baghdad. He studied law at the Royal School in Istanbul, graduating in 1909. He taught at the Baghdad Law School from 1913 to 1916. While in Istanbul, he joined the Covenant Society and became active in the Arab nationalist movement. Upon his return to Baghdad, he joined with the nationalists, who were demanding the decentralization of the Ottoman Empire. | 472 |
24044294 | After completing his degree, Bach-y-Rita worked for a short time as a physician in the village of Tilzapotla in Morelos, Mexico, before working for ten years at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco, becoming a professor at the age of 37. He joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1983 and became a professor at UW Medical school, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Medicine and the UW–Madison Engineering School, Department of Biomedical Engineering, while working at other organisations around the world. | 547 |
5815934 | Tourism also plays a role in city's economy, as many tourists come to Livramento to visit the duty-free shops in its neighboring city Rivera.
Rural tourism is also an attractive option in Santana do Livramento. The city hosts an international kite fair and a festival of lamb and wine. On 20 September the gaúchos commemorate the Ragamuffin War.
Santana do Livramento has seven higher education institutions, three of which are private: University of the Campanha Region, Paulista/Cultural University and Castelo Branco/Exattus University (the last two, distance learning). | 573 |
5109955 | In June 1995 he signed for Rotherham United for £100,000, scoring five goals from twenty appearances before he was subject to a bid from newly-promoted Eredivise side Fortuna Sittard in December. He joined Fortuna for £225,000 only six months into his time at Rotherham. He scored 25 goals in 123 appearances over the next few seasons as Fortuna fended off relegation from the Dutch top flight. | 394 |
2621062 | Hugi is one of the longest lasting, frequently released demoscene and underground disk magazines (diskmag) for IBM-PC.
The first issues were in German language and were released in 1996. From issue 11 on the magazine issued in German and English. With issue 18 the German part became a separate magazine called Hugi.GER. Moreover, in the years 1998 to 2000 there was a weekly newsletter which continued the tradition of similar publications such as Demonews. | 458 |
39635834 | Though he also found fault with parts of Halo 5s campaign, Albert praised Cortana's threat as "less black and white" in motives than previous antagonists, and the background chatter contributing to learning more about each character.
The game's mainstream marketing received some criticism for being different from the game's plot. Phil Hornshaw of Digital Trends wrote that Halo 5s marketing "suggests an emotional conflict between the questionably-loyal Chief and the 'traitor-hunting' Osiris leader, Locke, but those moments are barely in the game". | 552 |
70294595 | After field trips were cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, the Ranch began a series of Zoom hangouts with various celebrities, including Ariana Berlin Valorie Kondos Field, Ebola survivor Preston Gorman, Olympian Simidele Adeagbo, computational biologist Laura Boykin and the members of the Dixie Chicks. | 323 |
9030912 | These railroads provided an inexpensive means for moving passengers as well as logs and lumber, and opened Mississippi's Pine Belt to both industrial growth and community development. Notable railway construction during this era included the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad; New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad; and the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad. The Pine Belt's booming timber industry ended around 1930, when the virgin pine forests were depleted.
As World War I raged in Europe, military training sites were being created throughout the United States. | 570 |
3062320 | Manchester City Council is the local authority for Manchester, a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. Manchester is the sixth largest city in England by population. Its city council is composed of 96 councillors, three for each of the 32 electoral wards of Manchester. The council is controlled by the Labour Party and led by Bev Craig. The official opposition is the Green Party with four councillors. Joanne Roney is the chief executive. Many of the council's staff are based at Manchester Town Hall. | 528 |
1075911 | Williamson was a member of Parliament for the National Party, a centre-right political Party in New Zealand, as MP for Pakuranga since the 1987 general election. He held a number of ministerial posts, including Minister of Communications, Minister of Broadcasting, Minister of Transport, and Minister of Research, Science and Technology, and associate Minister of Health (1990–96). He was a strong supporter of reform of prostitution law.
His 2005 election campaign saw one of the strongest results for National across New Zealand. | 531 |
592763 | The December 27, 2022 episode of Pittsburgh Dad covering the aforementioned Steelers-Raiders game (a 13-10 Steelers win) featured a tribute to Harris from the titular character.
Despite only playing briefly with the Seahawks, the team also acknowledged Harris's passing; other tributes from the NFL came from the Raiders, Baltimore Ravens, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin, Shannon Sharpe, Eric Dickerson, O. J. Simpson, Barry Sanders, Larry Csonka, Jack Youngblood, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Longtime ESPN personality Chris Berman paid tribute to Harris. | 560 |
60621630 | Natural habitats are altered by human activity resulting in habitat fragmentation, decrease in forest densities and wild fires. Other human disturbances include restrictions on hunting, agricultural land modification and predator removal or control within a region or area. The consequent change in land use and the presence or withdrawal of human influence can trigger a rapid increase in both native and non-native species populations.
Invasive species can be better adapted to specific environments
Invasive species are often overabundant as they outcompete native species for resources such as food and shelter which allows their population to thrive. | 656 |
1744279 | Accompanying both messages was the music that had been used to introduce the 'Worst Video' on the end of year specials.
This was the message that appeared on 6 December 1997 Indie Chart:
"Okay everybody... No change from last week. The band and their manager Jazz are still refusing to let us show their video unless we redesign the show for them. In the words of Vanilla... 'No way, no way, Ma Numma Nah." | 406 |
43188608 | The film had musical score and soundtrack composed by G. K. Venkatesh to the lyrics of R. N. Jayagopal. | 103 |
2212439 | Azerbaijani winners Ell and Nikki hold the lowest average score for a winning song under that system, receiving 5.14 points per country.
Around two-thirds of the winning songs were performed in the second half of the final. According to the official statistics, until 2019, only 34.3% of the winning songs were performed in the first half, including 3 of the 4 winners in 1969. | 377 |
12080401 | The 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" was a German Waffen-SS cavalry division during World War II. It was formed in 1942 from a cadre of the SS Cavalry Brigade which was involved in the Bandenbekämpfung ("bandit-fighting") operations behind the front line and was responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of the civilian population. It continued "pacification" operations in the occupied Soviet Union, leading to further atrocities.
The training and replacement battalion of the division was involved in suppressing the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. | 562 |
40923838 | Most of the bears were apparently acquired by two firms—Nisbet & Co., Private Bankers, and Crow & McCreery, Wholesale Dry Goods—which used them for business correspondence and made them available to their employees and their families for private letters.
The first known listing of St. Louis Bears in philatelic literature occurred in 1873, but few examples of these stamps were known until 1895, when a porter in the Louisville Kentucky courthouse found a trove of 137 St. Louis Bears while burning waste papers in the furnace. | 528 |
7222811 | He bred several champions including Nearco, Ribot, Braque and Cavaliere d’Arpino, whom he considered the best horse that he ever bred Cavaliere d'Arpino sired Bellini the sire of Tenerani which in turn was the sire of Ribot, who won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe twice. Nearco sired Nearctic, sire of Northern Dancer. Donatello II won the Prix du Jockey Club but in his only defeat for Tesio, the jockey was instructed to take the lead, and lost. | 447 |
1187028 | New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas
81st Readiness Division, at Fort Jackson, SC - providing support in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Puerto Rico
88th Readiness Division, at Fort McCoy, WI - providing support in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Ohio
99th Readiness Division, at Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst, | 549 |
20557936 | According to Sir William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire Edward was the last de Birmingham to hold the lordship of Birmingham. He was cheated out of it by John Dudley, who would later try to place Lady Jane Grey, his own daughter-in-law, on the throne, an offence for which he was later found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.
Dudley had asked to buy Birmingham from Edward. However, proud of his inheritance, Edward declined. | 440 |
42026880 | Yongzheng Emperor permitted outside trade again in 1723, which allowed the creation of the trade triangle Canton – Timor – Batavia (today known as Jakarta), but which made trade via Macau unprofitable.
In 1775 there existed a Chinese quarter in Kupang, from where food production and supply was controlled. In addition the Chinese continued to control the sandalwood trade via Macassar to China and also the trade in beeswax to Java, where it was required in the production of batik. Wax was also used to produce candles for trade. | 533 |
8104017 | Many of the Shared Variable Processors available for IBM products were also written for Sharp APL, notably TSIO (called PJAM), AP124, AP126, and AP127. Further, as I. P. Sharp also offered IPSANET which allowed in-house clients of SHARP APL to be connected to the network, a Network Shared Variable Processor (NSVP) allowed programs from one mainframe site to access another. NSVP predates the widespread use of the Internet by five years. | 439 |
18472931 | Huszcza Druga is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łomazy, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Łomazy, south-east of Biała Podlaska, and north-east of the regional capital Lublin. | 268 |
68324584 | In late September 1951, Stephenville residents formed the Terra Nova Garden Club of Stephenville, a gardening club named in honor of the development company that founded the community. Tufaro was named an honorary member of the club. The club was formed as a local chapter of the already-established Cherrydell Garden Club of South Plainfield Borough, and named Mrs. Morris L. Puglisi as President. The club is still active in the 2020s. | 437 |
31153072 | Kolaka Regency (Kabupaten Kolaka) is a regency of Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It covers an area of and had a population of 208,817 at the 2010 Census, rising to 237,587 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 246,137 (comprising 125,462 males and 120,675 females). The principal town lies at Kolaka.
The Kolaka Regency was until 2013 divided into twenty districts (kecamatan). | 410 |
13852290 | Believed by the colonial administration to have been the response to "a sudden transition to a comparatively liberal institution [being] let loose in the minds of people who have a tendency towards wickedness, and that taking advantage of the liberty [led them to] engage openly in crime", a direct link was perceived between the breakdown of traditional hierarchies and the breakdown of social order.
Following the establishment of a Legislative Council to deal with legal issues specific to Cyprus, it was decided that the Ottoman legal system that was in place when the British came in was regarded by the new administration as being too centralized. | 653 |
13387935 | – by the Treaty of Madrid (Godolphin treaty), Spain recognises Jamaica and the Cayman Islands as English possessions.
11 July – the Treaty of Copenhagen is signed between Charles II and King Christian V of Denmark to promote alliance and commerce.
14 August – Quakers William Penn and William Mead preach in Gracechurch Street in the City of London, in defiance of the recently-passed Conventicles Act 1670, and are arrested and tried but on 5 September the jury refuses to convict. | 484 |
274110 | He typed up a sample column, and to his surprise Keck offered him the job.
Since 2002, he has written the column at Eppie Lederer's desk, which he, a "lifelong fan" of her Ann Landers column, bought at auction after the noted advice columnist died.
Savage stated in a February 2006 interview in The Onions A.V. Club (which publishes his column) that he began the column with the express purpose of providing mocking advice to heterosexuals, since most straight advice columnists were "clueless" when responding to letters from gay people. | 538 |
162617 | The "facts" are normally absurd hyperbolic claims about Norris's toughness, attitude, virility, sophistication, and masculinity. Norris has written his own response to the parody on his website, stating that he does not feel offended by them and finds some of them funny, claiming that his personal favorite is that they wanted to add his face to Mount Rushmore, but the granite is not hard enough for his beard. At first it was mostly college students exchanging them, but they later became extremely widespread. | 513 |
34733624 | Derrick is also a tennis player and is currently women's tennis assistant coach at the University of Hawaii.
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine athletes
College men's tennis players in the United States | 210 |
141920 | Nicolas Liebault (1723–1795), collaborator of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D'Alembert
Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934), Marshal of France
Louis Maimbourg (1610–1686), Jesuit and historian.
François René Mallarmé (1755–1835), statesman of the French Revolution. | 260 |
24431371 | Jean-Philippe Roy (born February 18, 1979 in Sainte-Flavie, Quebec) is a Canadian alpine skier.
Roy's best finish on the World Cup circuit is a 5th place in a giant slalom in Alta Badia. Roy also has two top-ten finishes at the World Alpine Ski Championships, finishing 8th in the 2001 combined and 7th in the 2007 giant slalom.
Roy has competed in two Olympic games: 2002 in Salt Lake and 2006 in Turin. | 404 |
30952395 | Most species are associated with ants who feed on the honeydew they produce. | 76 |
237667 | Under government control the railway system would provide the bulk of the funding needed for this and other projects Blanc saw in the future.
When the workshop program was ratified in the National Assembly, Blanc's chief rival was put in control of the project.
The National Assembly was not ready for this type of social program and treated the workshops as a method of buying time until the assembly could gather enough support to stabilize themselves against another worker rebellion. Thomas's deliberate failure in organizing the workshops into a success only seemed to anger the public more. | 598 |
32998996 | However it is in 2013, nearly after half a century, that Dr Abayneh and colleagues at Norwegian School of Veterinary science unravelled the wide genetic divergence between strains from fish and that of humans using contemporary genetic characterization methods. These two groups were also known to show phenotypic differences in pathogenicity to fish and in their biochemical profiles in substrates that were not used in routine tests. This led to the description of two novel species from fish viz Edwardsiella piscicida (Abayneh et al., 2013) and Edwardsiella anguillarum (Shao et al. | 586 |
16675002 | The glacis ended just below the top of the vehicle, where it met a sharply sloped deck angled back towards the top of the vehicle. The two operators, driver and commander/gunner, were housed under hemispherical cupolas with a ring of vision blocks offering relatively good all-round vision except to the rear, where the infantry area was raised and blocked the view. The front half of the cupola could be flipped up and back, opening to allow the seats to be raised for heads-out operation when not "buttoned up". | 513 |
1823667 | In the 18th and 19th centuries, Morocco saw a great number of poets who, whether from Fez, Meknes or Marrakech, spread popular poetry using the melhun. Examples are Kaddour El Alamy and Thami Midaghri.
In modern days, prominent figures include Haj Houcine Toulali (1924-1998), Fatima Hadad,, and Zohra Al Fassiya. Fatima Hadad started an association in 2004 named Jawg Huwwat fann al-malhun for enthusiasts of Malhun. | 419 |
45224038 | Nevertheless, the painting is an example of a finished combination between Rubens and Brueghel.
Brueghel is known for his beautiful paintings of landscapes, animals and flowers. For the figures he collaborated with other painters, as is the case here. Brueghel often collaborated with Rubens before the latter left for Italy in 1610.
Palais des Beux-Arts de Lille(2004) RUBENS.
Mythological paintings by Peter Paul Rubens | 421 |
1458544 | Metro Salto del Agua also transfers to trolleybus line "A", which runs the full length of Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas and more, from Metro Autobuses del Norte and Metro Tasqueña – the city's main north and south intercity bus stations.
Inside the station is a mural entitled The Three Workers by artist Jason Schell.
North: Avenida Arcos de Belén, Centro | 355 |
64176337 | Nazism in the Americas has existed since the 1930s and continues to exist today. The membership of the earliest groups reflected the sympathies of some German-Americans and German Latin-Americans toward Nazi Germany, embracing the spirit of Nazism in Europe and establishing it within the Americas. Throughout the inter-war period and the outbreak of World War II, American Nazi parties engaged in activities such as sporting Nazi propaganda, storming newspapers, spreading Nazi-sympathetic materials, and infiltrating other non-political organizations. | 553 |
1665223 | In August 2011 Datatel and SunGard's Higher Education group announced a definitive agreement to combine businesses and operate as one company, with Datatel’s current chief executive officer, John Speer, the chief executive officer. Affiliates of private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC acquired the SunGard Higher Education businesses from SunGard Data Systems Inc. for an aggregate cash purchase price of US$1.775 billion and combined the acquired businesses. The combined company was to operate under a new name, Ellucian, as announced at the 2012 annual users' conference. | 578 |
19441278 | Due to attacks on civilians in the area by fighters with Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), a local sheikh allied with US forces in October 2006, and the US provided assistance establishing a local militia. That militia provided valuable assistance regarding enemy tactics and activities in the area.
Operation Murfreesboro began 20 February 2007, by setting up a full cordon around the Ma'Laab district, supported by armored vehicles, Apache helicopters, and long-range rockets (GMLRS). | 476 |
12048116 | Among his early works are frescoes depicting Episodes of life of St George (1611), in the church of Casaletto Vaprio, and frescoes depicting Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary, (1611-1618) in the oratory of San Rocco in Montodine.
Barbelli painted an altarpiece depicting Saints Roch and Sebastian (1631) for the parish church of Madignano, near Crema. | 349 |
46720243 | His first serious music project [P!stol P!stol], was a great success with appearances on The Drop on Sí TV and music featured on ESPN. During their time together, P!stol P!stol released an album titled The Cause. However, due to differences between members, the band broke up in 2009. Since the break-up of his band, he decided to spend countless hours in the studio perfecting his style and sound, producing bass music. | 420 |
60004344 | A by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of Newport West in south Wales on 4 April 2019, following the death of Labour Party MP (Member of Parliament) Paul Flynn. Labour nominated the trade unionist Ruth Jones, who held the seat for the party with 40% of the vote and a reduced majority. The Conservative candidate Matthew Evans came second with 31% of the vote, followed by Neil Hamilton, the UKIP candidate, on 8%. This was the third parliamentary by-election held during the 57th UK Parliament, which was elected at the 2017 general election. | 561 |
30736954 | Michael Daley [sometimes Michael Daly] (1865–1910) was a boxer from Bangor, Maine who held the lightweight title for New England in the late nineteenth century, and was a claimant for the lightweight title of America in 1893. In 1903, however, Daley was convicted, along with world middle-weight champion George La Blanche of robbing a drunken man in a Bangor hotel and sentenced to two years imprisonment. According to the New York Times Daley was from a 'highly respectable' family. | 486 |
17463035 | Dennis: A lean fighter that relies heavily on kicks. He can pressure his foes with homing energy balls (a barrage of small energy balls or a large tracking energy ball) or a flurry of powerful kicks. Reliant on combos to deal heavy damage.Woody: A veteran who excels in duels and dances around the battlefield. The reward for mastering his slow combo startup is unmatched versatility & style. Woody also has the ability to teleport at will and deploy energy blasts.Davis: The main protagonist. He excels at boxing and shooting rapid fire energy blasts akin to Dennis. | 567 |
1407122 | His migraines got so strong that the painter had to take phenacetin in large quantities (according to his sister in law – up to 25 grains and more). Mikhail started to experience intense anxiety, especially if somebody did not agree with his opinion on a piece of art.
In the last years of the XIX century, Vrubel referred to fairy-mythology plots, particularly Bogatyr, Pan, Tsarevna-Lebed.
In the painting ‘Pan’ of 1899, Vrubel has used a mythological figure to show the organic unity of man and nature. | 505 |
5489241 | Pone Kingpetch (, , ), born Mana Seedokbuab (, , ; February 12, 1935 – March 31, 1982), was a Thai professional boxer and three time world flyweight champion.
He became Thailand's first world boxing champion on April 16, 1960, when he defeated Pascual Pérez of Argentina at Lumphini Boxing Stadium in Bangkok for the world flyweight championship. In his second title defense he lost the title to Fighting Harada of Japan on October 10, 1962, via 11th-round knockout. | 466 |
1865769 | Ports for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PlayStation Portable were made later.
is the tenth title in the series, released June 2002 for Windows 98. This game returned to castle-taking battles. It also became possible to play as a castle lord as well as a daimyō. Ports for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable were made later.
is the eleventh title in the series, released September 2003 for Windows 98. This game introduced castle towns and unified castle sieges. The administration screens transitioned to full 3D. | 515 |
55739399 | The hiring caused some surprise on her first day at the hotel, as the kitchen staff presumed that since she was female, that she was in fact the pastry chef. However, she found them respectful once they saw her work. The hotel's owners' finances were curtailed as a result of the savings and loan crisis in 1989.
They left in 1989 to open Acquarello in the Nob Hill area of the city, with Gresham again as head chef, and Paterlini running the front of house. | 458 |
3076261 | After the release of the Hated in the Nation compilation cassette by ROIR, as well as a series of letters written by Allin to such magazines as Maximum RockNRoll and Flipside, and advertising campaigns in many music magazines and fanzines like Option, Flipside, RIP, Ben is Dead and many others by Black & Blue Records, Allin's stature in the punk rock underground had grown considerably. | 388 |
57581363 | 1 men's doubles Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty. He then joined the Japanese national team as men's doubles coach, guiding world No. 4 Takuro Hoki-Yugo Kobayashi to the world title in 2021.
Asian Games bronze medalists for Malaysia
Badminton players at the 1994 Asian | 273 |
6918728 | Britain or European powers concluded that however if there would be more interference these would end with religious fanaticism, and a civil war (massacres) would occur.
Armenians mainly lived in the intersection of three empires, Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire and Persian Empire. The Armenian diaspora, which lived in Europe mainly, was composed of the elite whom were being educated in European Universities or performing the trade. It was expected that revolutionary thinking would cover the three empires, not only inside (local forms such as "Protectors of the Fatherland") but also in Europe, such as Geneva. | 615 |
2076456 | East Central Community College - Decatur
East Mississippi Community College - Scooba
Holmes Community College - Goodman, Grenada, and Ridgeland
Itawamba Community College - Fulton, Belden, and Tupelo
Jones County Junior College - Ellisville
Mississippi Delta Community College - Moorhead
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - Perkinston | 347 |
7050463 | The Toronto Star wrote that "songs such as 'Push' and 'Wet Blanket' derive most of their power from the clever spins that [Martin] Phillips puts on typical romantic dilemmas." Author Dave Thompson, in his book Alternative Rock (2000), wrote that after "so many killer singles and EPs ... the first full blast of the Chills was disappointing", adding that "Wet Blanket" and "16 Heart Throbs" could "dignify any best-of the band."
All songs written by Martin Phillips, except for where noted. | 490 |
51706104 | The 1st Jussi Awards ceremony, presented by Elokuvajournalistit ry, honored the best Finnish films released between October 1, 1942 and September 30, 1944 and took place on November 16, 1944 at Restaurant Adlon in Helsinki. The Jussi Awards were presented in seven different categories, including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. | 434 |
13665715 | The film was well received following its Belgrade premiere in October 1911. Although it was financially successful at home, Pathé opted not to distribute it abroad. The decision steered Botorić into precarious financial straits, as the film's domestic box office revenues were barely enough to cover the cost of production. After several further unsuccessful attempts at getting international distribution for his films, Botorić left the film industry altogether.
In 1928, Karađorđe was last screened to a group of Serbian émigrés living in the United States. | 559 |
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