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182521 | There is a multi-storey car park opposite Selfridges on Park Street which is connected to the Selfridges store via a 37-metre long, curved, polycarbonate-covered footbridge, known as the Parametric Bridge, suspended over the street. On the ground floor of the car park there is retail space which was previously a furniture showroom.
In 2005, a small Costa Coffee café, designed by Marks Barfield Architects and dubbed the Spiral Café, was constructed alongside the steps leading towards to New Street from St Martin's Square. | 526 |
70117042 | Cyndi Howerton is an American politician serving as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives from the 98th district. She was appointed on August 25, 2021.
Outside of politics, Howerton works as a tax service manager. She was the Republican nominee for the 86th district of the Kansas House of Representatives in 2020, losing to Stephanie Byers. In August 2021, Howerton was appointed to the Kansas House by members of the Sedgwick County Republican Party to fill the seat left vacant after Ron Howard's death. | 516 |
33995954 | 2146 Stones – Monument against Racism / The Invisible Monument by Jochen Gerz
Jochen Gerz's work 2146 Stones (1993), is considered to be one of the first examples of anti-monumentalism. Referred to as the 'Invisible Monument', this anti-monument exists to highlight the crimes against Jewish people committed by the Nazis and is situated in the eponymous Platz des Unsichtbaren Mahnmals (English: Place of the Invisible Memorial) in Saarbrücken, Germany. | 455 |
26759887 | Featherweight ladies: 1979, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988
Lightweight 52 kg ladies: 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979
Halfmiddleweight 56 kg ladies: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1978, 1980, | 202 |
21676245 | Although Pakistan gained independence in 1947 and Pakistanis no longer hold British nationality, they continue to have favoured status when residing in the United Kingdom; as Commonwealth citizens, Pakistanis are eligible to vote in UK elections and serve in public office there.
British India was partitioned into two independent nations on 15 August 1947, the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. Pakistan transitionally retained the British sovereign as its head of state in the post-partition period, using its Dominion status as a deterrent against possible Indian incursion. | 584 |
2559589 | Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire operate two regular bus services through Lostock Hall, providing commuter links to nearby towns and villages, including Preston city centre.
Service 111 runs from Preston to Leyland via Penwortham, Lostock Hall and Farington. One journey each hour Monday to Saturday daytimes extends to Wigan, serving Eccleston and Standish en route.
Service 109 from Preston to Chorley operates through the village, connecting it with Walton Park, Leyland, Buckshaw Village and Euxton. | 511 |
25767818 | Women in Chains is a 1972 American television film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski for ABC's Movie of the Week. The leading players are Ida Lupino, Belinda Montgomery, Lois Nettleton and Jessica Walter.
Parole officer Sandra Parker (Lois Nettleton) becomes aware of the death of one of her cases, Ginger Stratton, at the hands of brutal prison guard Claire Tyson (Ida Lupino). | 376 |
43684156 | In a four-star review of her sold-out engagement at Ronnie Scott's Club in London in June 2015, John Fordham wrote in The Guardian: "She brings ideas from unexpected angles to the familiar art of standards-singing, and she applies a mischievous intelligence to well-worn lyrics in ways that transform them."
Salvant began studying voice at the age of eight with an interest in classical music. She began her transition into jazz while studying at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory in 2007, and also studied composition and music theory at The New School. | 552 |
625812 | The first programme in Corsican was in 1966 and was a weekly poetry reading from a Corsican-language school.
Soir 3 Édition Corse – nightly news opt-out.
Since the creation of its predecessor RTF Télé-Strasbourg, there have been sporadic programmes in the Alsatian language. By 1974 there was a weekly show of 45 minutes, in 1989 Rund Um, a magazine programme aired its first episode. | 385 |
63085933 | In October 2019, a sequel was announced to be in development as a Disney+ exclusive film, with a screenplay written by Jen D'Angelo. In March 2020, Adam Shankman signed on to direct Hocus Pocus 2 concurrently to his work on the Enchanted sequel Disenchanted.
On November 1, 2019, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy expressed interest in reprising their roles as the Sanderson sisters in the sequel. | 416 |
63195582 | At 11:00 a unit of the 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division supported by helicopter gunships engaged an enemy force south of Đức Hòa killing five and capturing one and one AK-47. At 12:30 an armored unit of the 25th Infantry Division engaged an enemy force 2 miles west of Phú Cường supported by airstrikes, the enemy withdrew after an hour leaving 11 dead and seven AK-47s. | 374 |
9566605 | September 1996 – Robert Chaegun Kim, a civilian at the Office of Naval Intelligence was charged with passing classified information to South Korea, his country of birth. In 1997, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
November 1996 – Harold James Nicholson was arrested while attempting to take Top Secret documents out of the country. He began spying for Russia in 1994. He was a senior-ranking Central Intelligence Agency officer. In 1997, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison. | 566 |
15367054 | In early December 1847, Santa Anna and a party of chiefs from several tribes in Texas visited Washington, DC. The first of his tribe to make such a journey, Santa Anna was recorded to be overwhelmed by what he saw, especially the sheer numbers of the Whites. From that moment on, convinced that continued armed resistance against the United States was tantamount to suicide for his people, he began advocating accommodation and attempted to use his prestige as a noted war chief to secure a lasting peace, but among the still-warlike Comanche, Santa Anna's conversion reduced his prestige. | 589 |
1231956 | The gun was depressed to drain the water.
The gun traversed and depressed to align the muzzle with the casemate's loading port, with the barrel pushing aside port's iron plate cover. The ramming mechanism pushed the shell and propellant charges from the loading chamber into the barrel, and tamped them.
The gun traversed and elevated back into firing position. An electrical firing mechanism was attached, making the gun ready to fire.
Even with two loading casemates feeding the gun, the intended rate of fire was once every six minutes.
It was impractical to manhandle such a heavy gun. | 591 |
6104740 | In 2008, its assets were purchased by the German company Enligna, which formed Enligna Canada from the old MacTara. Enligna Canada entered receivership in 2011. | Its assets were bought by Vancouver-based Viridis Energy in 2012, which formed Scotia Atlantic Biomass Company on the site. Scotia Atlantic Biomass Company then went bankrupt in 2017. | 346 |
17859051 | The monks hurried to the kitchen and found that the kitchen master was dead. Not knowing that Brother Rus had any responsibility, the abbot appointed him as the new master of the kitchen. The monks were so pleased at his good food that they suggested he become one of them, which he did.
Brother Rus hit upon other ways to ingratiate himself with the monks. He persuaded a local woman to enter the monastery to tempt the brothers into carnal sin, but the abbot discovered the woman and ordered her out of the abbey. | 516 |
56082978 | The third competition was held in Papua New Guinea in 2011. Fiji again were the winners over Cook Islands. Samoa took third with hosts Papua New Guinea fourth.
Recurring sporting events established in 2009 | 205 |
24736618 | Her books about Israel for example, were written after she moved there in the early 1950s, where she lived in Ein Hod, a writers' colony. She traveled throughout the Middle East as an amateur archaeologist and produced an account of the early English explorer, Sir Austen Henry Layard.
As an artist, she illustrated many of her juvenile books. She lived in Westport, Connecticut in her later years and was a member of the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She died of acute leukemia at the age of 89.
The novelist Lincoln Child is a grandson. | 557 |
68170871 | Rahman Myratberdiýew (born 31 October 2001) is a Turkmenistani footballer who plays as a striker for Altyn Asyr FK of the Ýokary Liga, and the Turkmenistan national team.
Myratberdiýew competed in the 2021 AFC Cup with Altyn Asyr FK, making appearances against FC Alay of Kyrgyzstan and FC Nasaf of Uzbekistan.
Myratberdiýew represented Turkmenistan in 2020 AFC U-19 Championship qualification. | 394 |
1080591 | The 10th Canto, 22nd Chapter of Bhagavata Purana mentions the young marriageable daughters (gopis) of the cowherd men of Gokula worshiping the goddess Katyayani and taking a vrata, or vow, during the entire month of Margashirsha, the first month of the winter season (Śiśira), to get the god Krishna as their husband.
Bhairava Ashtami falls on Krishna paksha Ashtami of this month of Margashirsha. | 397 |
17899563 | There was also a widespread distribution network, with dealers in all 48 states. After William Paterson died in 1921, his son, W. C. Paterson, and associate W. R. Hubbard had trouble running the company during the postwar depression. In July 1923, the two sold the company to Dallas Winslow, who was the Dodge dealer in Flint. | 327 |
16780424 | In the spring, Hector is brought to trial. Rosie pleads with Echo to save Hector, promising to stay with him if he does. After Echo leaves for the city, Tweedledee overhears Hercules asking Rosie to run away with him and the loot. Tweedledee releases the ape from his cage. Hercules strangles Tweedledee to death just before the ape kills him.
At the trial, Echo agonizes over what to do, but finally rushes forward and confesses all. Both he and Hector are set free. | 467 |
1397862 | Total casualties of 20th, 30th, 31st Army and 2nd Guard Cavalry Corps from 21 to 30 November 1942 (first phase of Operation Mars): 7,893 KIA, 1,288 MIA, 28,989 WIA. (data of Ministry of Defence, code name TsAMO RF, shelf 208, drawer 2579, folder 16, volume ll, pp. 190–200). | 274 |
3278380 | Persons proven to be of unsound mind when they commit capital crimes, once found guilty, are not to be given the death penalty. These offenders can be sentenced to another form of indefinite detention under TPP, being detained at medical facilities, prisons or at some other safe places in custody, and subject to psychiatric review of their mental conditions until suitable for release.
Before they were abolished in 1970, jury trials were conducted to hear capital cases in Singapore since the British colonial era. | 517 |
209063 | With Elsinore located within walking distance of Bono's and the Edge's homes, the sessions there were more relaxed and productive. The band struggled with one particular song—later released as the B-side "Lady With the Spinning Head"—but three separate tracks, "The Fly", "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" and "Zoo Station", were derived from it. During the writing of "The Fly", Bono created a persona based on an oversized pair of black sunglasses that he wore to lighten the mood in the studio. | 492 |
25837198 | The 1975 King's Cup finals were held from December 20, 1975, until January 4, 1976, once again in Bangkok. This was the 8th edition of the international football competition. South Korea were set to defend the title they won in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1974
The tournaments schedule was changed from previous editions and only featured one group with 6 teams. The winners and runners up entered a final. | 405 |
34905426 | Wang Shu (, born 4 November 1963) is a Chinese architect based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the dean of the School of Architecture of the China Academy of Art. With his practice partner and wife Lu Wenyu, he founded the firm Amateur Architecture Studio. In 2012, Wang became the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Prize, the world's top prize in architecture. | 375 |
1712068 | In order to save paper, payers can give payees one single Combined Form 1099 that lists all of their 1099 transactions for the entire year. Taxpayers are usually not required to attach Form 1099s to their own Federal income tax returns unless the Form 1099 includes a report for Federal income tax withheld by the payer from the related payments.
The issuance or non-issuance of a Form 1099 in a particular case is not determinative of the tax treatment required of the payee. | 476 |
16572227 | By the time the navy sent Rimsky-Korsakov on a three-year world cruise in 1862, he had completed the first movement, scherzo and finale of the symphony. He wrote the slow movement during a stop in England, then mailed the score to Balakirev before going back to sea. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in 1865, Balakirev suggested that Rimsky-Korsakov renew work on the symphony. He did, writing a trio for the Scherzo and reorchestrating the whole work. | 453 |
14431268 | Last US military tenant unit and closure
After an extended 15-month tour, 1-501st IN (ABN) transferred the FOB to the authority of 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. Their tenure during Operation Iraqi Freedom VI was marked by a continued decrease in insurgent violence as seen throughout the 2008 campaign year and constituted a factor in the eventual determination to return control of security efforts and government authority to Babil governorate authorities. | 521 |
3776603 | Interpreting his sudden change as a betrayal to his voters, the Nationalist congressional caucus was reduced from 47 seats to 26, as most members rejected the government's inaction in fulfilling Humala's campaign initiatives. In addition, First Lady Nadine Heredia sought to be a controversial figure for the administration by indirectly taking a more active role in her husband's work, ultimately being seen as a dual presidency. Pundits agree on qualifying Humala's Nationalist presidency as mediocre, as no substantial changes were made in both economic and social aspects of Peru. | 584 |
6942577 | Malaysia–Philippines border – the border between the two countries.
Mindoro Strait – another strait connecting the South China Sea with the Sulu Sea.
Straits of the South China Sea
Bodies of water of the Sulu Sea | 213 |
12920393 | Syngonanthus yacuambensis is a species of plant in the Eriocaulaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. | 226 |
4292680 | Afghan leaders have since resumed negotiations with the Taliban in Pakistan, attesting to Fraser’s analysis. According to Fraser, Canada made a similar mistake in Libya, which has since suffered two civil wars. He urged in 2018 that the whole-of-government, multicultural approach used by Canada during Operation Medusa be applied in the upcoming peacekeeping efforts in Mali.
In 2017, Harjit Sajjan, the Minister of National Defence, who had served as the primary liaison between Canadian commanders and local Afghan leaders during the conflict, claimed that he had been the architect of the operation. | 603 |
2874790 | Brown Mountain is a low-lying ridge, approximately long, in the Pisgah National Forest near Morganton, in western North Carolina, on the border of Burke and Caldwell Counties.
Since at least the early 20th century, mysterious illuminations known as the Brown Mountain lights have been seen there.
List of mountains in North Carolina
Mountains of Burke County, North Carolina
Protected areas of Caldwell County, North Carolina
Mountains of Caldwell County, North Carolina | 471 |
1262528 | Snyder advocates the thesis that much of campus conflict and students' personal anxiety is caused by a mass of unstated academic and social norms, which thwart the students' abilities to develop independently and think creatively.
The hidden curriculum has been further explored by a number of educators. Starting with Pedagogy of the Oppressed, published in 1972, through the late 1990s, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire explored various effects of presumptive teaching on students, schools, and society as a whole. | 515 |
983047 | an Indo-Aryan language spoken as administrative language in the Shanshan kingdom) (its main centre was Kroraina, today's Loulan, part of the Shanshan, | 150 |
22444086 | 30,455 tickets were sold in 1923 but by 1929 this had fallen to 9,951. Parcels and goods traffic increased slightly over the same period. Jenkins, Brown and Parkhouse attribute the fall in passenger traffic to the transfer of railway road transport services to the local bus company.
In 1948 Chipping Norton became a railhead for the Zonal Delivery Scheme. The goods shed was modified with a series of loading bays constructed enabling goods to be unloaded from wagons straight into lorries for local delivery. | 510 |
363725 | Their appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 19 May 1992 was the television debut of They Might Be Giants' new backing band.
The band became associated with the International Space Year (ISY), designated as 1992 by the United Nations to promote peaceful and collaborative space exploration, when Linnell and Flansburgh were searching the NASA Archive Center for appropriate photographs and visual materials for the album artwork. Staff members at the NASA facility took notice of the duo and inquired about their research. | 531 |
46392257 | At the age of 9 she was separated from her brothers and placed in a convent, where she remained until she was 20.:176 Bader has explained that it was difficult to find employment 'because of her father's origins: "My casting out from the convent walls was delayed. I was half West Indian, and nobody, not even the priests, dare risk ridicule by employing me."':79
In 1939, at the onset of the Second World War, Bader enlisted in the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire. | 506 |
48605 | Korea's culture was based on the philosophy of Neo-Confucianism, which emphasizes morality, righteousness, and practical ethics. Wide interest in scholarly study resulted in the establishment of private academies and educational institutions. Many documents were written about history, geography, medicine, and Confucian principles. The arts flourished in painting, calligraphy, music, dance, and ceramics.
The most notable cultural event of this era is the creation and promulgation of the Korean alphabet Hunmin jeongeom (later called Hangul) by Sejong the Great in 1446. | 573 |
18812209 | † Andersson's entrant RUFA Sport failed to compete in the required number of events, meaning all of Andersson's points scored with the team have been annulled. His win in Sweden remains as he competed as a wildcard entrant and not with RUFA.
‡ Tuohino has not completed the season due to a lack of budget, which resulted in the FIA excluding him from the championship.
WRC Cup for Super 2000 Teams championship
† Miguel Baldoni has been removed from the Classification. | 469 |
15376748 | Tests were continuing in an attempt to replicate the damage seen in the fuel pumps and to match this to the data recorded on the flight. A comprehensive examination and analysis was to be conducted on the entire aircraft and engine fuel system, including modelling fuel flows, taking account of environmental and aerodynamic effects.
The AAIB issued a further bulletin on 12 May 2008, which confirmed that the investigation continued to focus on fuel delivery. It stated, "The reduction in thrust on both engines was the result of a reduced fuel flow and all engine parameters after the thrust reduction were consistent with this." | 631 |
6704416 | The news spread rapidly and huge crowds soon flooded the town from all over Europe. The last reported visitation had a reported 200,000 people in attendance. Although Ms. Roncalli was forced to retract her statements, as an adult she claimed she had been coerced and bullied by the priests and maintained that she actually had seen something. The "Madonna of Ghiaie" is now being investigated by the Roman Catholic Church. | 422 |
31646244 | The timber has many uses; in bridge building, house construction, boat building and joinery, as utility poles and tool handles, making hardboard and as firewood. The tree is grown commercially in plantations.
The bark of H. fomes is rich in procyanidins. The ethanol extract has been shown to have antioxidant properties. It also shows antimicrobial activities against Kocuria rhizophila, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and is non-toxic in brine shrimp toxicity tests. | 505 |
3901533 | When Elly Brown and wife Viola bought the boat, they renamed her after their two children: "Do" for Douglas and "Stay" for Stacy. Today, the Do Stay fishes out of the Seasport Marina on the Jupiter Inlet. In 1984, Capt. Brown signed up a young New Yorker, Jeff Bicel, as a first mate. He remains aboard the Do Stay today.
Windsong (USCG #280634, Hull #5) was built in 1959 for Tore Hembe. | 391 |
256431 | In Bela Kempf, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky & Christopher P. Atwood (eds.), Philology of the Grasslands: Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies, 112–137. Leiden: Brill.
Aralova, Natalia. 2015. Vowel harmony in two Even dialects: Production and perception. Utrecht: LOT.
Baek, Sangyub. 2014. Verbal suffix -du in Udihe. Altai Hakpo 24. 1–22. | 345 |
1227422 | On November 30, 2004, the soundtrack was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over 500,000 copies.
Ives re-recorded "A Holly Jolly Christmas", with different arrangements, for the song's 1964 single release. This version, along with a similarly newly recorded version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", was released the following year on his 1965 album Have a Holly Jolly Christmas.
Books and other items related to the show have in some cases misspelled "Hermey" as "Herbie". | 517 |
64986278 | Ali Shutler from NME said "Nyaaringu [is] a fearless debut album that weaves a story about the Indigenous experience", calling it "A soulful R&B record whose tales of discrimination, empowerment and freedom bear relevance well beyond Australia's borders." The Music AU called the album "thematically and communally, powerful." | 326 |
34671600 | The result was that all of the machines in the extensive establishment of Furness, Withy and Co., Limited were worked by electricity, and as an indication of the progressive character of the firm and Henry in particular, that Furness, Withy and Co. was, at the time, the only shipyard in the United Kingdom to be driven throughout by electric power. Other areas of innovation, where Furness, Withy and Co. took the lead, include building of the first triple steamship in the port, and with the first use of telephone communication. Furness, Withy and Co. | 554 |
6417749 | The 2001 Doping Scandal in Lahti (fi) saw six Finnish cross-country skiers testing positive for doping, referred to as the "Lahti Six". | 135 |
50801 | A new "Ultimate Collector's" model with 1,559 pieces was released in 2013. In 2019, the Lego Group's annual Christmas gift to employees was a 1,038-piece Christmas X-wing, which also included Yoda's igloo and a sleigh. In addition to the original T-65 X-wing, Lego has released several models of the newer T-70 X-wing. | 318 |
9947486 | The family owned several estates in Slavonia, including the Eltz castle in Vukovar. When Eltz was seven months old, his father died in a car crash, and his mother then decided to move to Vukovar, where Eltz spent his childhood and attended private schools.
He decided to study agronomics and went to the study at Zagreb and then Děčín. Following the end of the Second World War, when the communists seized power, the Eltz Croatian estates were seized by the state. | 464 |
18622733 | Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment
Waksman Scholars – 20+ high schools
New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
New Jersey Commission on Higher Education
New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology
Governor's Life Science Workforce Advisory Council | 295 |
33214430 | Pio Joris (8 June 1843 – 6 March 1921) was an Italian painter, engraver and watercolorist.
Pio Joris was born in Rome and attended the Istituto di Belle Arti as a child. In 1861, he enrolled at the Accademia di San Luca, where he remained for just a year. On a visit to the 1st Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti of Florence in 1861, he was attracted by the naturalistic works from the Naples school. | 401 |
54037125 | In an August 2017 piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer entitled “Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture,” Alexander wrote with Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School that the decline of “bourgeois values” since the 1950s has contributed to social ills as male labor-force-participation rates are down to Depression-era levels, opioid abuse is epidemic, half of all children are born to single mothers, and many college students lack basic skills, asserting that "all cultures are not equal". | 568 |
6053554 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who appears as a troublemaking young man attending the Chicago World's Fair
Sloat Fresno, one of the murderers of Webb Traverse, along with Deuce Kindred
Rao V. Ganeshi, academic from India
Stilton Gaspereaux, "a scholarly adventurer in the Inner Asian tradition of Sven Hedin." | 307 |
39337938 | In Mokoena and Others v Administrator, Transvaal, an important case in South African law, the first and second applicants sought an order in the Witwatersrand Local Division against the respondents. Such order was to declare inter alia, that their purported dismissal on 10 December 1987 from the employ of the Transvaal Provincial Administration was wrongful and unlawful. The matter came before Goldstone J.
The relevant events preceding those of 10 December 1987 were common cause. | 484 |
15233039 | Mylou Matrix is a proprietary music algorithm and dataset based on human evaluation of music tracks. It has two products PlaylistKING® Consumer - high quality personalised playlist creator software for music lovers, radio, brands and digital music services and PlaylistKING® Pro - a more in-depth playlist creator software ideal for radio programmers, music curators, music supervisors, brands and playlist services. | 417 |
60472453 | He invested also in the Magelaanse Compagnie (one of the would-be competitors of the VOC)
Adriaan died on 13 August 1620 in The Hague. He was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk (Delft), where a Memorial Tablet for him was hung that appears on a 1661 painting of the church interior by Hendrick Cornelisz. | 295 |
331245 | In November 1963, BEA's independent rival British Eagle became the first independent airline to compete with it on a main UK domestic trunk route, when the independent launched daily scheduled services between London Heathrow and Glasgow with 103-seater, two-class Bristol Britannias. This was followed by daily two-class Britannia services from Heathrow to Edinburgh and Belfast the next day. This was also the first time a scheduled airline had offered a separate first class cabin on a domestic route in the UK. | 514 |
40338649 | Led by design director Richard Francis-Jones and managing director Jeff Morehen, fjmt offers services in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and urban design.
On 3 April 2023 FJMT was renamed as Francis-Jones Carpenter, with two Studio Principals; Design Director, Richard Francis-Jones and Managing Principal, Elizabeth Carpenter.
FJMT originated in the Canberra-based practice of Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp (MGT). In 2002, partners Richard Francis-Jones, Jeff Morehen and Richard Thorp established fjmt following a restructure of MGT Sydney. | 560 |
5702511 | Japanese chestnut is also comparatively resistant to blight, with European chestnut somewhat less so. In the 1890s, Chinese and Japanese chestnuts were imported to the United States with the intention of utilizing them as orchard trees due to their small, compact size compared to the towering American chestnut. The results unfortunately were disastrous as the imported Asian species introduced blight to which C. dentata lacked any resistance. The disease was first noticed on a tree in the Bronx Zoo in 1904 and quickly spread out of control, ravaging American chestnut trees. | 579 |
2556976 | In 2005, he played the role of Ned Smanks in Chris Morris' and Charlie Brooker's sitcom Nathan Barley. Ayoade's Dean Learner character was resurrected in 2006 to host a comedy chat show, Man to Man with Dean Learner, on Channel 4. The different guests were played each week by Holness. Ayoade appeared in the satirical comedy series Time Trumpet in 2006, which is set in the year 2031 and saw Ayoade and other celebrities reminiscing about the year 2007 onwards. | 462 |
6096824 | He was responsible for a delay of 12 months in support being given to Tito's Partisans, and when Fitzroy MacLean was ordered to go to Cairo with a view to establishing contact with Tito, he did everything he could to frustrate the mission.
He was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour after the war and in 1948 was Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, then chairman of the National Provincial Bank from 1951 to 1953 and deputy chairman of Boots from 1951 to 1964. | 489 |
57772519 | These prints were donated to the Art Institute, becoming the "Margaret Day Blake Collection". The Institute held an exhibit of the collection in 1970.
Blake was also the first president of the Institute's Woman's Board, and the first woman Trustee of the Art Institute.
Blake died on September 29, 1971. | 303 |
17909463 | The club has qualified for the first round of the German Cup a number of times. Since 2008 however, reserve teams are not eligible to compete in the German Cup anymore:
1. FCN II on the official team site
1. FC Nürnberg II profile at Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables | 318 |
21061424 | Canadian Vaaldiam Resources Ltd.’s plans to explore for diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes in the country continued to be put on hold during the year as the company focused on other priority exploration areas elsewhere in the world.
Other companies exploring for diamond included Pangea Diamondfields Plc (Isle of Man), which planned to invest $3.2 million in a bulk sampling plant for its Dimbi (Basse-Kotto) project concession area, and Gem Diamonds Ltd. (UK), which held exploration and mining permits for the Mambéré river project near the city of Berberati. | 560 |
64246366 | The controversial protest movement at George Floyd Square persisted after the city's streetway re-opening process into 2023.
Racial injustice and other police killings
After the initial wave of unrest, protestors continued to seek justice for Floyd and made broader calls to address structural racism in Minnesota, with many protest events part of the larger Black Lives Matter movement. National Public Radio described the protest period in the months after Floyd's murder as the "summer of racial reckoning". A columnist for The European Conservative referred to it as "the long hot summer of 2020", a nod to the long, hot summer of 1967. | 641 |
2022058 | The revival in 1886, however, two years after the composer's death, was a success. In the 1890s, the opera received productions in Zagreb, Munich, and Hamburg. Gustav Mahler conducted an 1892 production in Vienna.
Dalibor, a Czech Knight is on trial before the king for having murdered the burgrave of Ploskovice in revenge for execution of his friend, the musician Zdeněk. | 373 |
4102452 | For the former, which features in the film following the character's study in London, Jani and Khosla bought vintage suits, including cravat, handkerchief, and shoes, from old-clothing stores in the same city. For the latter, they dressed him in beige, white, and off-white, although Khan wanted the character to wear black clothes. They also gave Khan an angvastra, chikan, dhoti, and kurta, and a short-hair cut to show his nonchalant nature. | 444 |
34077844 | He made his Major League debut with the Giants, in left field, on July 9, 2013, against the New York Mets despite playing almost exclusively second base with the Nippon Ham Fighters and the Giants' Triple-AAA affiliate, the Fresno Grizzlies. He was designated for assignment on September 3, 2013, and released the next day.
He signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers on December 20, 2013, and was released on July 20, 2014. | 438 |
40468666 | The finished cloth was sent to be dyed to the dyers who made up a caste group called Chhipa (now Ranjit or Ranjitkar). The practice of home weaving continued till the 1960s. Women warping the yarn on the streets were a common sight till those times.
A description of the clothes worn by ordinary Newars in the early 18th century can be found in the travelogue left by Italian Jesuit Ippolito Desideri. In 1721, Desideri visited Kathmandu on his way from Tibet to India. | 469 |
51622647 | Dong Yifan (; born 8 March 1992), former name Yi Fan (), is a Chinese football player who currently plays for China League One side Guangxi Pingguo Haliao.
In 2010, Yi Fan started his professional footballer career with Changchun Yatai in the Chinese Super League. On 7 February 2013, Yi was loaned to China League Two side Lijiang Jiayunhao until 31 December 2014. | 366 |
6836903 | USAAF Station Units assigned to RAF East Wretham were:
394th and 395th Service Squadrons; HHS 85th Service Group
1833rd Ordnance Supply & Maintenance Company
The first American tenants at East Wretham were the 359th Fighter Group, | 233 |
2212439 | There is no official runner-up for two of the contests – 1956 and 1969. In 1956 only the winner, Switzerland, was announced, whilst there were speculative reports that Germany ended up in second place with "Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück" by Walter Andreas Schwarz, given that Germany was chosen to host the 1957 contest. In 1969, four songs shared first place by achieving the same number of points; fifth place was achieved by Switzerland, which is not considered an official runner-up, because of the draw for first place. | 524 |
23733653 | Finally, it prompted Max Appedole, Rafael Guillén's childhood friend and fellow student at the Instituto Cultural Tampico, to approach Edén Pastora, the legendary Nicaraguan "Commander Zero", to help in preparing a report for Under-Secretary of the Interior Luis Maldonado Venegas, Secretary Moctezuma, and President Zedillo, emphasizing Marcos's pacifist disposition and the unintended, detrimental consequences of a military solution to the Zapatista crisis. | 460 |
2750608 | He was made lieutenant colonel on 25 November 1949 and given the command of 1st Karenni Rifle Battalion. He was then transferred to 1st Kachin Rifle Battalion on 22 December 1950. Throughout 1950 and 1951, he served under Brigadier General Ne Win's Northern Regional Military Command in various capacities. He was then transferred to Military Appointment General's office within the Ministry of Defense on 17 September 1952. | 427 |
313007 | against Muzio Attendolo and others for the Bolognese-Florentine league
Battle of Sant'Egidio (1416) – Braccio da Montone, for himself, against Carlo I Malatesta, for Perugia
Battle of Maclodio (1427) – Count of Carmagnola, for Venice, against Carlo I Malatesta, for Milan
Battle of San Romano (1432) – Niccolò da Tolentino, for Florence, against Francesco Piccinino, | 366 |
11472319 | Leão was used regularly during that season, but only won one of the matches in which he appeared and his club was relegated.
Leão then moved to Romania with CFR Cluj, joining a host of compatriots and winning the Liga I championship in his debut campaign, appearing in 15 games. However, he would be rarely used during his two-and-a-half-year spell, and returned to his country in the late hours of the January 2010 transfer window, joining F.C. Paços de Ferreira. | 464 |
5011526 | According to Anger's view of courtship: that men prey on women, "If we clothe ourselves in sackcloth, and truss up our hair in dishclouts, Venerians will nevertheless pursue their pastime. If we hide our breasts, it must be with leather, for no cloth can keep their long nails out off our bosoms." Anger's way of caricaturing the Surfeiter allowed her to produce an imaginative and unique piece of writing. | 406 |
5719818 | Lugo finished in 12th position with 54 points, just 4 points from being relegated to Segunda División B.
The 2014–15 season was the sixth and the last for coach Quique Setién. With 49 points Lugo reached 15th position and achieved their goal to retain its place in Segunda División. Luis Milla was chosen as a new coach for the 2015–16 season. Unfortunately, he left the club in February 2016. He explained that it was due to personal reasons and the club accepted his resignation. | 481 |
183490 | Vladimir Mayakovsky – A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (Пощёчина общественному вкусу)
Aleister Crowley – Magick (Book 4)
Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger – Du "Cubisme"
Henry H. Goddard – The Kallikak Family
Carl Jung – Psychology of the Unconscious (Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido)
Frigyes Karinthy – Így írtok ti (That's How You Write, | 343 |
59255788 | The American Music Show at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library | 89 |
1862295 | Colón made his video game debut in ‘’WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010‘’ and has appeared in ‘’WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011‘’, ‘’WWE '13‘’, ‘’WWE 2K18‘’ and ‘’WWE 2K19‘’ as Primo and in ‘’WWE 2K16‘’ (as DLC) and ‘’WWE 2K17‘’ as Diego.
Colón acted as a role for Diego in Scooby-Doo! | 272 |
1085560 | Furthermore, when the temperature is lowered and the molecules described above pass through the column, the chimeric protein undergoes self-splicing and only the target protein is eluted. This novel technique eliminates the need for a proteolysis step, and modified Sce VMA stays in column attached to chitin through CBD.
Recently inteins have been used to purify proteins based on self aggregating peptides. Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are a useful tool in biotechnology. Fused with target protein, they tend to form aggregates inside the cells. | 551 |
1183521 | The Record traces its history back to the founding of the Daily News, first published on February 9, 1878, by former Methodist preacher Peter Moyer at a printing press located at King and Ontario streets in Berlin (now Kitchener). This would be the city's first daily newspaper, and Canada's first bilingual daily as it was supplemented with a full page of German news for the first eight months of its life. | 408 |
23018542 | The Exception Magazine is an online news magazine that covers Maine. It is headquartered in Portland, Maine. The Exception Magazine (), which is updated daily during the week, covers Maine news, business, politics and culture. It is ad-supported and has been available to read free of charge since December 2008.
The Exception introduced a mobile micropayment system on July 15, 2010, which, according to the organization, made it the first online news organization to use such a payment program. | 497 |
67833466 | Arts in Greece | Dimitris Kountouras on early music in Greece
Info about the latest album, Lethe, including its booklet with lyrics and photos | 143 |
64782851 | Most members expressed general concern about the slippery slope nature of the proposal and the need to maintain stability in naming conventions.
In 2020, following weeks of widespread "Black Lives Matter" protests following the murder of George Floyd and calls for racial justice in the United States, Confederate monuments and memorials were toppled by protesters or removed by city officials across the country. The Central Park birdwatching incident on May 25, 2020, led to the founding of Black Birders Week (May 31-June 5, 2020). | 534 |
12690429 | The 1936 Combined Scottish Universities by-election was a by-election held from 27 to 31 January 1936 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.
The seat had become vacant when the Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) Noel Skelton had died at the age of 55 on 22 November 1935, 3 days before being returned posthumously at the 1935 general election. A lawyer, journalist and Conservative intellectual, he had held the seat since being elected unopposed at the 1931 general election. | 536 |
5012809 | But poor form saw him fall out of favour, making only 12 appearances from the start of 2002 until his eventual delisting at the end of the following season. Having not been picked up by another AFL club and facing the prospect of an end to his time playing at the highest level of the sport, Motlop rejoined the Roosters for 2004.
He was given a second chance at the start of the following year, when Melbourne recruited him as a replacement for Troy Broadbridge, who had died during the Boxing Day tsunami. | 507 |
52713144 | Scot also argues that a physiognomist should take into account a person's "age, long residence in one place, long social usage, excessive prevalence of the humours of his complexion beyond what is customary, accidental sickness, violence, accidents contrary to nature, and a defect of one of the five natural senses."
According to the physiognomy scholar Martin Porter, the Liber physiognomiae is a "distinctly Aristotelian" compendium of "the more Arabic influenced 'medical' aspects of natural philosophy." | 508 |
1033826 | The wrestler takes a short charge into an opponent in the corner of the ring without leaving the feet as they open both arms just before reaching the opponent, resulting in hitting with the chest and abdominal area while throwing both arms inwards as in a bearhug, crushing the opponent into the turnbuckle. This is normally used by bigger, heavier wrestlers.
A variation innovated by, popularized by, and named after Sting. It involves the wrestler trapping the opponent in a corner. | 484 |
32464963 | Eidophasia messingiella (Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1840) | 55 |
44220590 | Rebekah Gibbs, 41, British actress (Casualty), breast cancer.
Philip G. Hodge, 94, American materials scientist.
John Kotz, 84, British politician, Mayor of Hackney.
Erik Sture Larre, 100, Norwegian Resistance member during World War II.
Caetano Lima dos Santos, 98, Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
Jan Lindhardt, 76, Danish theologian and writer, Bishop of Roskilde (1997–2008), Alzheimer's disease. | 415 |
203452 | Less than a year after the Sputnik launch, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act (NDEA). It was a four-year program that poured billions of dollars into the US education system. In 1953, the government spent $153 million, and colleges took $10 million of that funding, but by 1960, the combined funding grew almost six-fold because of the NDEA. After the initial public shock, the Space Race began, which led to the first human launched into space, Project Apollo, and the first humans to land on the Moon in 1969. | 527 |
27364387 | The title of the publication seems to have been derived from an English-language motto of uncertain origin: "Here is Matthew, who will not have a sad day..." Subsequent publications in the same vein from Työmies included Lapatossu (The Shoe Pack), Punikki (The Red), and Kansan Huumori (People's Humor), the latter two published under Communist Party auspices. | 360 |
3049395 | This organization is registered with manosalaobra.org, a registry of more than 450 non-profit social organizations. Fundación Azteca has awarded 12,900 scholarships for low-income secondary and high school students through its educational project Plantel Azteca.
More than 13 million toys have also be given to children through the annual Juguetón ("Toy marathon"). | 365 |
62953409 | After graduation, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Berkeley. He was a senior R & D engineer at Novellus Systems and Intel before returning to China. In 1993 he was offered a position at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined a company in Alabama in 1995. In 1995 he was hired as a chief engineer at Intel. He returned to China in 2001 and became chief technology officer of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. | 519 |
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