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23593881 | She continued her education at the Orthopedic and Medico-Mechanical Institute (Christiania Orthopediske and Medico Mekaniske Senter), which had been founded by her father, Victor Bülow-Hansen (1861–1938).
She was employed by Sophie's Mind Clinic (now a subsidiary of Oslo University Hospital) from 1927 until 1945. During World War II, she worked together with the neurologist Henrik Seyffarth to find treatments for work-related stress. She came to understand that there might be a connection between muscle tension, respiration, and mental trauma. | 549 |
71324956 | By 1984, some of the glass blocks were being replaced by solid panels and stucco, even though block was reportedly just coming back into fashion. A local architect attested at the time that the building was "tremendously sound", as much as when it was built.
In the 1970s, the state leased space in the building for its printing operations, though it moved to a larger space in the Heer Building later on to consolidate offices, and to allow the county more space. | 464 |
5209964 | There were 1,552 Swiss women (47.0%) and 15 (0.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 501 or about 17.9% were born in Port and lived there in 2000. There were 1,332 or 47.6% who were born in the same canton, while 586 or 20.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 299 or 10.7% were born outside of Switzerland. | 341 |
53679582 | Yevgenyev left Dynamo as his contract expired in June 2022.
On 15 July 2022, Yevgenyev signed a two-year contract with Krylia Sovetov Samara. On 27 January 2023, he extended his contract with Krylia Sovetov until the end of the 2025–26 season.
In November 2020, he was called up to the Russia national football team for the first time for the games against Moldova, Turkey and Serbia. | 384 |
35591383 | Meanwhile, they become angry at civil worker Dae-hee who introduced them to the con man. They go visit Dae-hee at his office.
To avoid a scene in front of his boss, Dae-hee quickly offers the band his basement for their practice sessions. Dae-hee seems to have little interest in music or the kids. Yet, days later when 2 members quit the band, Dae-hee is recruited to join the band as their bassist. | 400 |
6611870 | (1958), Gypsy (as the original "Tessie Tura"; 1959), Bravo Giovanni (1962), Gigi (1973), God's Favorite (1974), Bring Back Birdie (1981), and the 1981 revival of Fiddler. Her film credits include The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) and Married to the Mob (1988).
She was married to actor George S. Irving from 1948 until her death from undisclosed causes in Manhattan at the age of 80 in 2001. | 392 |
11587644 | Fithian criticized the reapportionment and brought up that according to the apportionment formula Indiana was entitled to 10.574 congressional districts and New Mexico was entitled to 2.505 congressional districts yet despite the Indianan figure being higher Indiana was losing a district and New Mexico was gaining a district.
On July 13, 1981 Fithian announced that he would retire from the House and would not seek reelection in either the 3rd, 5th, or 7th congressional districts or challenge Senator Richard Lugar and would instead run for Secretary of State. | 564 |
21416022 | Prior to 2016, from 2007 the appointment was held by a Vice Admiral (three-star naval officer) and from 1972 to 2007 CNS's rank was Rear Admiral.
List of all Chief of Naval Staff of Bangladesh Navy:
List of serving admirals of the Bangladesh Navy | 247 |
66335603 | Podolsky called the second world a "souped-up" variation of Halfbrick Studios' Monster Dash, stating that he "loved" the second world's set of levels, and noted it as his favorite of the four worlds. The third world was described as a "futuristic running game" and Podolsky called the upside-down swinging was "mind-blowing". For the fourth world, Podolsky felt that it had a "cool art style", but was lacking in gameplay. | 422 |
10695353 | Wine historian, Hugh Johnson, speculates that this was an arranged affair between the Bordeaux chateaux, the privateers and the London auction houses to get around the war time politics of the period.
In 1725, the spread of vineyards throughout Bordeaux was so vast that it was divided into specific areas so that the consumer could tell exactly where each wine was from. The collection of districts was known as the Vignoble de Bordeaux, and bottles were labeled with both the region and the area from which they originated. | 525 |
58541245 | Jack Hoxie as Jack William Pepper
J. Gordon Russell as Jasper Murchison
William J. Dyer as Sheriff Tom Plump
Films directed by Robert N. Bradbury | 149 |
70360481 | He also thought that the parks would become obstacles to prevent ribbon development, and offered ten sums of £100 for the establishment of ten parks and hoped that one would be in West and another in East Sussex.
Jeffreys died on 18 August 1954 in his Sussex home at Wivelsfield Hall in Wivelsfield Green, and is buried in Wivelsfield's churchyard. | 348 |
30797349 | Jasna Šamić, "Sjećanje na život", (theater), Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana, 1995 ;
Jasna Šamić, "Grad ljubav smrt", (theater), Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana, 1995 ;
Jasna Šamić, "Mraz i pepeo", (novel), Bosanska knjiga, Sarajevo, 1997 ; | 236 |
57548797 | Mermitelocerus schmidtii is a univoltine species, overwintering as an egg. Adults can be found from mid-May to early July. These bugs are zoophytophagous, mainly feeding on ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and various other deciduous trees such as hawthorn (Crataegus sp.), maple (Acer sp.) and buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula, Rhamnus cathartica), elm (Ulmus ssp.) | 354 |
56565384 | Golgotha is an oratorio for five soloists, orchestra, organ, piano and mixed choir composed by Frank Martin from 1945 to 1948, premiered in Geneva on 29 April 1949 under the direction of Samuel Baud-Bovy.
Introduction choir: Père! Père! Père! Jusqu'à quel point nous as-Tu donc aimés!. | 286 |
4632789 | In Māori tradition, Aotea is one of the canoes () in which Māori migrated to New Zealand; it is particularly associated with the tribes of Taranaki and Whanganui, including Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine, Ngā Rauru and other tribal groups.
Aotea was a double canoe built by Toto from half of a great tree from Hawaiki, the other half being used for the canoe Matahourua. Toto gave Aotea to his daughter Rongorongo, who was married to Turi. | 434 |
14994892 | "Satellites" is the first single by Petra Marklund (performing as September) from her second album In Orbit, and is the first single released under her contract with Catchy Tunes. The single was a success in Sweden and Finland and was later released in variety of countries worldwide, such as Poland, Romania, Spain, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States, being September's first international release. "Satellites" is considered September's second biggest hit to date (after "Cry for You"), becoming a hit in almost all countries it was released in. | 562 |
12831997 | "(Kom så ska vi) Leva livet"
"Om hon visste vad hon ville" * | 60 |
20974602 | The line was planned during the 1930s by the Fascist government in search of a rapid connection between the main train station, Termini, and a new district to the south-east of the city, E42, the planned location of the Universal Exposition (or Expo), which was to be held in Rome in 1942. The exposition never took place due to Italy's entrance into World War II in 1940. | 372 |
30319527 | To start the month of October, Hilton broke out with three receptions for 145 yards and two touchdowns against North Texas. Later that year, he recorded a 90-yard kickoff return for a touchdown against Louisiana–Lafayette. In the following game against Arkansas State, he had six receptions for 199 receiving yards and threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to Junior Mertile late in the game after he fumbled the hand off in a reverse play. This play became known in FIU as "The Hilton Heave". | 487 |
68552695 | Two Francis-type turbines each rated at 42.15 megawatts and one 3.7 megawatts turbine will be installed here for a total of 88 megawatts in new capacity.
At Yiben, the dam there will measure in height and will be wide. It will be a "roller compacted concrete (RCC) gravity dam", creating a lake
with a surface area measuring . The powerhouse at Yiben will have two Francis turbines each rated at 27.7 megawatts installed for a total of 55.4 megawatts in new capacity. | 469 |
28473192 | The squadron flew its last combat mission on 25 April 1945 when it attacked the airfield at Plzeň, Czechoslovakia. After the German surrender it transported liberated prisoners of war from Germany to France. It left Europe in May and returned to the United States aboard the , arriving at the New York Port of Embarkation on 29 June. Squadron members were given thirty days leave, and a cadre assembled at Drew Field, Florida, where the squadron was inactivated in August 1945. | 478 |
6754695 | "Pilot, Part 1" and "Mutiny" (1995), first and fourth episodes of Space: Above and Beyond, a television series created by Glen Morgan and James Wong. Groombridge 34 is the location of the largest extrasolar USMC fleet base, mistakenly believed to be the target of a massive attack by the alien Chigs, and seen under sniper fire in "Mutiny".
Halo (2001–), video game franchise created by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The Groombridge 34 system is the location of a decommissioned construction platform. | 520 |
16855236 | Comparative negligence – A partial defense that reduces the amount of damages a plaintiff can claim based upon the degree to which the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to the damages. Most jurisdictions have adopted this doctrine; those not adopting it are Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, And Washington D.C.
Contributory negligence – A defense based on negligence of the plaintiff wherein the plaintiff's actions caused the event which drew the suit. An example of this is a pedestrian crossing a road carelessly and was hit by a driver driving carelessly. | 580 |
9854860 | However, in June 1965 the decision to commit ground troops was made, and the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment—originally commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Ivan 'Lou' Brumfield—was dispatched. | 197 |
1468416 | Walker's charming demeanor and boyish good looks proved popular with audiences, and he was promoted to stardom with the title part of the romantic soldier in See Here, Private Hargrove (1944).
He also appeared in Selznick's Since You Went Away (1944), in which he and his wife portrayed doomed young lovers during World War II. By that time, Jones' affair with Selznick was a matter of common knowledge, and Jones and Walker separated in November 1943 during production of the film. | 482 |
1690046 | Rosie M. Vivas ( Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) was a Cuban-American fraudster who (among other schemes) was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course. She is believed to have jumped onto the course about a half-mile before the finish. | 399 |
63771761 | While the consul Paullus continued from there to Phila in Pieria, Octavius departed to meet with his fleet at Oreus, on the western tip of Euboea. The Roman fleet during the war counted about 40 ships, but could rely on the navies of Pergamon and Rhodes, which was enough to keep Perseus' fleet in its harbours. Perseus was even forced to disperse some of his forces (perhaps up to 10,000 men) in several coastal cities to protect them from Roman raids. | 453 |
62398164 | Liang is known as China's first female cartoonist, although Yu Feng was her contemporary and possible predecessor. Her known works are few but are praised for their high quality. Her short-lived comic strip, Miss Bee, is described by a critic as "very lovely; the lines were soft and beautiful, and the themes were very interesting. It drew much attention from other cartoonists and was welcomed by readers from the beginning." In Ye Qianyu's memoir, he recalled his three years spent with Liang fondly, and described her as a "talented painter". | 546 |
4167640 | Lullaby for a Motherless Child II (M9 · M10)
Monster Fish Akuru (M13 · M14)
Ice Mirror (M17 · M18 · M19)
Tsukuyomi and Susanoo (M21 · M21A · M21B)
Land of Fire (M22 · M23 | 174 |
12988131 | In 2012, he tied for 1st–3rd with Ivan Sokolov and Jonny Hector in the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark, winning the event on tie-break.
Cheparinov came first in the strong Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014, after winning the tie-break play-off.
Cheparinov has been a part of the Killer Chess Training team since November 2020. What I learned with Topalov was his first course, and he continued with Pawn Sacrifice in the Middlegame. | 434 |
5006165 | Ephialtes, however, would not live to see the further development of this new form of government; In 461 BC, he was assassinated. The details of his assassination are unknown. However, there are several different theories to explain this event. The first source we have on Ephialtes himself and his death is Antiphon (5.68) written in 420 BC, which states that the identity of the murderer was unknown. | 402 |
25465980 | Grant Wahl (December 2, 1973 – December 10, 2022) was an American sports journalist and soccer analyst for CBS Sports, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a correspondent for Fox Sports, based in New York City. He was also the author of the book The Beckham Experiment (2009).
His Sports Illustrated career mainly focused on college basketball and soccer in the United States. Wahl ran for the FIFA presidency in 2011, but withdrew his campaign after failing to receive an endorsement from a football association. | 520 |
23521191 | The W3C Geolocation API is an effort by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to standardize an interface to retrieve the geographical location information for a client-side device. It defines a set of objects, ECMAScript standard compliant, that executing in the client application give the client's device location through the consulting of Location Information Servers, which are transparent for the application programming interface (API). | 441 |
66640 | On the other hand, Toynbee argues that by failing to accept their fate as a diaspora community and trying instead to replace the "traditional Jewish hope of an eventual Restoration of Israel to Palestine on God's initiative through the agency of a divinely inspired Messiah," Zionist Jews have the same "impious" relationship to their religion as Communists do to Christianity. | 377 |
11586266 | Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois | 84 |
310757 | A1AD is one of the most common genetic diseases worldwide and the second most common metabolic disease affecting the liver.
A1AD was discovered in 1963 by Carl-Bertil Laurell (1919–2001), at the University of Lund in Sweden.
Laurell, along with a medical resident, Sten Eriksson, made the discovery after noting the absence of the α1 band on protein electrophoresis in five of 1500 samples; three of the five patients were found to have developed emphysema at a young age. | 472 |
51336 | This unique pottery, characterize its white-on-red designs, were decorated with zoned-incised crosshatching. The pottery has been found at Indian Town Trail, close to Two Foot Bay, as well as Sufferers in the Spanish Point region.
The Kalinago people spent time in Barbuda as well. By the time the Europeans arrived, they had probably displaced the Arawaks. The Kalinago preferred the mountainous and well-watered islands of Saint Kitts and Dominica, and visited Barbuda only sometimes to harvest seafood and whatever crops and land animals they could find. | 558 |
3672182 | While Shavlakadze and Brumel beating Thomas had been a major upset in 1960, Brumel had been the best jumper in the intervening four years—improving the world record six times—and was now the favorite. Brumel and Thomas had faced off nine times since 1960, with Brumel winning eight and Thomas one.
Bulgaria, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Peru, Spain, and Thailand each made their debut in the event. | 402 |
585896 | He drew Naruto's forehead-protector wider to make his eyebrows easier to draw, something that had bothered him with his previous design. He also noted that Naruto's pants made the character look too childish. To remedy this, Kishimoto designed them to roll up, giving him a more mature appearance. He gave Naruto this look in order to make him stand out during action scenes.
For the events of the film The Last: Naruto the Movie (2014) as well as the final episodes of Naruto: Shippuden, Naruto was given a young adult appearance. | 531 |
69910802 | Hans Frederik Paulsen, a kandidat, resided on the first floor with his wife Anna Magrete Paulsenm their fice children (aged two to 12) and one maid. Marcus Melchior, a clerk, resided on the second floor with his wife Sara Melchior, their two children (aged one and two), rqi nauds and the 63-year-old widow Betty Lazarus. Three students resided on the first floor of one of the side wings.
In October 1852, Søren Kierkegaard rented a room from Mrs. | 448 |
52126484 | The institute was renamed in 1908 as the Women's Missionary College as the Free Church became part of the United Free Church of Scotland.
In 1910 she was very involved with the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh. In the same year Small had her mother living with her at the institute. Her mother assisted until she became too ill and Small took an extended leave to care for her. Her mother died and Small retired in 1913.
Small died in a nursing home in Edinburgh in 1945. | 479 |
18098356 | Competing in Ladies Figure Skating, Ginny Holley Durand won the Great Lakes Five-State Regional Roller Skating Championship in consecutive years, 1979 and 1980. Her victories qualified her for a place in Classic Ladies Figure Skating at the United States National Roller Skating Championship. She made the finals of the competition both years; her highest finish was sixth in 1980. When Ginny was not giving dazzling performances in the rink she was showing her toughness. She earned a First Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo on 12 August 1983 in Akron, Ohio. | 556 |
47515561 | The series received an overall score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and 88 on Metacritic.
The first season has a Metacritic score of 80 out of 100 based 31 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". | 201 |
66727298 | Rahmanniyeh Castle () is a historical castle located in Bardaskan County in Razavi Khorasan Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the 8th to 12th centuries AH. | 176 |
73287261 | The table is initially sorted by goals against average, with the criterion for inclusion in bold. | 97 |
113519 | Since covering their positions involves buying shares, the short squeeze causes an ever further rise in the stock's price, which in turn may trigger additional covering. Because of this, most short sellers restrict their activities to heavily traded stocks, and they keep an eye on the "short interest" levels of their short investments. Short interest is defined as the total number of shares that have been legally sold short, but not covered. A short squeeze can be deliberately induced. | 491 |
29149182 | Like most of their records, it's laidback — even when the group works a swinging tempo, there's a sense of ease that keeps the mood friendly, relaxed and mellow".
All compositions by Gene Harris, except as indicated
"Robbins Nest" - 6:15 (Illinois Jacquet, Charles Thompson)
"Don't Blame Me" (Fields, McHugh) - 5:16 | 317 |
18344742 | FC Knjazha-2 Schaslyve after 20 games had a record of 4 wins, 2 draws and 14 losses scoring 15 goals and having 35 goals scored against them and were in 17th place in the standings.
Nafkom withdrew after the season completed failing to receive a professional license. Most of its players joined Nyva Vinnytsia. | 310 |
34516680 | A spinal tap should be done in all neonates with suspected meningitis, with suspected or proven sepsis (whole body inflammation) and should be considered in all neonates in whom sepsis is a possibility. The role of the spinal tap in neonates who are healthy appearing but have maternal risk factors for sepsis is more controversial; its diagnostic yield in these patients may be low.
Early-onset is deemed when infection is within one week of birth. Late-onset is deemed after the first week. | 492 |
68016804 | In Themis, Ano VI, n° 10, pp. 67–90
Justiça Constitucional e Trinta Anos de Constituição. In Themis, 30 Anos da Constituição Portuguesa, 2006, pp. 145–153
Queixas constitucionais e recursos de constitucionalidade. In Estudos Commemorativos dos 10 Anos da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Almedina, Lisboa, 2008, pp. | 337 |
6813214 | After the swordsman Gurianos defeated the evil warrior Gildus, peace returned to Eurasia and the people forgot about the darkness sealed by the evil spirit. Five years later, living in the interior of Eurasia, Guarianos learns that Gildus has been resurrected, and returns to the to investigate.
Blandia drops the side-scrolling feature of its predecessor, but retains its versus segments with the addition of elements of other 2D versus fighting games released at the time. | 475 |
120198 | 21.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 34.3% were from 25 to 44; 23.4% were from 45 to 64; and 12.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.6% male and 52.4% female. | 241 |
44726936 | The NFL stated that it did not want to schedule a primetime game that could potentially lose its playoff implications due to the events of the afternoon games, as well as conflicting with New Year's Eve programming.
The 2017 playoffs began on January 6–7, 2018 with the Wild Card playoff round. The four winners of these playoff games visited the top two seeded teams in each conference in the Divisional round games played on January 13–14. The winners of those games advanced the Conference championship games was held on January 21. | 535 |
5440236 | "System Addict" is a 1985 single by the British pop group Five Star. It was the group's first Top 10 hit, reaching #3 in 1986. It is also their second biggest-selling single, being certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 250,000 copies. It was the seventh and final UK single from their debut album Luxury of Life. | 351 |
70561271 | galapagensis (Setchell & Gardner) Chihara & J.Tanaka, 1982 | 58 |
278148 | With the low speeds of the FSAE competition rarely exceeding , designs must be thoroughly justified in the design judging event through wind tunnel testing, computational fluid dynamics, and on track testing. Aerodynamic devices are regulated through maximum size and powered aerodynamic devices are outlawed.
There is no weight restriction. The weight of the average competitive Formula SAE car is usually less than in race trim. However, the lack of weight regulation combined with the somewhat fixed power ceiling encourages teams to adopt innovative weight-saving strategies, such as the use of composite materials, elaborate and expensive machining projects, and rapid prototyping. | 687 |
95073 | Moorehouse and Stuart previously worked as editors for a combined 45 years at the Daily Press and Argus.
The Marketeer is a free monthly magazine that is mailed to more than 42,000 in Livingston County. Its content is primarily advertising from local businesses plus articles and information about people and community events. The Marketeer has been published by George Moses Company since 1974. | 395 |
1017695 | I did a couple speeches for them. I did speeches for other people—they were paid speeches. It is absolutely absurd to say I had any kind of relation with them. Do I take the product? Yes. I think it is a good product." Politifact rated Carson's denial of any involvement as "false", pointing to his paid speeches for Mannatech and his appearances in promotional videos in which he favorably reviewed its products, despite not being "an official spokesman or sales associate". | 475 |
1666521 | Nonetheless he asks Helen to marry him, first half-jokingly, then more or less in earnest.
In the next scene, Jo is walking home in the company of her black boyfriend. During a light-hearted, semi-serious dialogue, he asks her to marry him, and she agrees, but he is in the navy and will be away on his ship for six months before they can marry. He gives Jo a ring that she hangs around her neck under her clothes to hide it from Helen. Jo tells him that she is really leaving school and that she is going to start a part-time job in a pub. | 540 |
71419628 | Sweden will compete at the 2022 European Championships in Munich from August 11 to August 22, 2022.
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Championships:
Sweden has qualified 1 male pair.
Sweden has entered 5 men and 4 women.
Nations at the 2022 European Championships | 287 |
10411172 | 1 & 2; Boris Giltburg, piano (2017)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 ; Boris Giltburg, piano (2019)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 'Emperor'; Boris Giltburg, piano (2022)
Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Truls Mørk, cello (2016) | 249 |
23741517 | Thereafter the Archbishop concluded the ceremonies of the anointing by reciting the prayer Deus, qui es iustorum gloria.
After this the royal gloves are blessed with two prayers (adapted from those used to bless those of a bishop) and are placed upon the king's hands. Then the ring is blessed with the prayer "Bless, O Lord, and sanctify this ring, etc." and placed upon the king's hand with the original French formula, "Receive the ring, etc." and the prayer "God to whom belongs all power, etc." | 500 |
18246876 | Her body was taken to mainland Portugal and interred in the Pantheon of the House of Braganza; almost 130 years later, her remains were taken to Brazil. In honor of her daughter, Maria Amélia's mother financed the construction of the "Princesa D. Maria Amélia" hospital in Funchal. Maria Amélia's fiancé, Maximilian, made a pilgrimage to Brazil and Madeira, a journey that influenced his acceptance of the throne of Mexico in 1864. | 431 |
35087888 | Thus, as a form of verbal violence, it is often considered taboo in polite company and subject to censoring (either by speakers themselves, or by some authority).
While profane terms and insults tend to be derived from tabooed objects, such as bodily organs and excrement, not all references to tabooed objects are necessarily considered to be profanity. For example, in English, erudite terms for bodily functions do not tend to function well as insulting epithets, although this constraint may not apply to other categories of taboos, such as sexual practices. | 562 |
1405985 | The 1st Battalion, which was a Regular Army unit stationed in Dublin at the outbreak of war in August 1914, was one of the first units to be moved to France where it became part of the 13th Brigade in the 5th Division. Among its first major engagements were the Battle of Mons on 23 August and the Battle of Le Cateau three days later. In October, the battalion made a heroic stand at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle; being the only unit not to fall back. | 452 |
3508489 | In Opposition, he became well known for his use of freedom of information legislation and Government Scrutiny. He was a member of the Liberal Party Investigatory Committee on Casino Policy in 1990 and became a critic of the introduction of gaming machines and casinos into Victoria. He was a Member of the Coalition Tricontinental Taskforce and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer with special responsibility for manufacturing industry and economic development.
During the Kennett government, Perton was active in regulatory scrutiny, regulatory reform, technology policy and e-democracy. | 610 |
24304179 | Harry's friends locate the courting couple, and they and Anne confront the couple in the park. The woman is ready to co-operate, but the man panics and in trying to get away crashes into a tree, killing himself and severely injuring his girlfriend, who then makes a useless statement. On the eve of Harry's execution, Dirty Neck informs Anne that something odd is happening at Taplow's warehouse. Anne goes there to investigate and is imprisoned by Terence in the cold store, but Taplow helps her escape, convincing the trigger-happy Terence not to shoot her. | 559 |
20613099 | 1962 - 4th place (66 pts)
1963 - 4th place (55 pts)
1964 - 5th place (48 pts)
1965 - 4th place (66 pts)
1967 - 5th place (58 pts) | 133 |
1233585 | The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) is a United States based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that promotes high school quiz bowl and runs the National Scholastic Championship (NSC), an end-of-year national tournament for high school quiz bowl teams. PACE was founded in 1996 by a group of quiz bowl players and coaches who were dissatisfied with the quality of high school quiz bowl at the time. The NSC has been run in the June of every year since 1998. | 479 |
13153449 | Hospitals did not comply with the anti-epidemic regimen and did not conduct explanatory work among the population satisfactorily. Research institutes of the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR paid little attention to virus research. The work of scientists was not coordinated, there was no republican program of scientific research, no clear system of surveillance and preventive measures.
Researchers call 1996 the beginning of a new phase in the spread of HIV in Russia. It was preceded by an outbreak in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, where the HIV strain was introduced from Central Africa in 1993. | 602 |
47323596 | However, a couple of years before her death, Pulinbihari Sen did persuade her to write a set of memoirs that were later published as Smritikatha O Puratani.
Jnanadanandini Devi, Puratoni (Memoirs), Ananda Publishers (2012)
Indira Devi Chaudhurani & Anathnath Das (ed.), Smritisamput, Viswabharati (1997) | 306 |
30207947 | It was the start of many karate presentations.
Launching the Oriental World of Self-Defense in 1966.
The venue was the Town Hall in New York City. It presented different martial artist of jujitsu, aikido, kung fu, taekwondo, aikido etc. Many Americans learned of the various arts besides karate and judo.
Organizing the East Coast vs. West Coast Team Competition in 1967.
Hosted in Manhattan Center, the West Coast Team consisted of Steve Sanders, Jerry Taylor, Joe Lewis, and Chuck Norris. | 491 |
2621804 | Later in life, she was directly responsible for what became the largest class action lawsuit in Canadian history, compensation for an estimated 79,000 former students of the Canadian Indian residential school system.
Native American activist Anna Mae Aquash was born in nearby Indian Brook.
Daniel N. Paul - Mi'kmaq elder, author, activist
Jean-Baptiste Cope - Leader of Mi'kmaq militia
Jean-Louis Le Loutre - Missionary Priest
Shubenacadie Sam, a groundhog at the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park, gives predictions on Groundhog Day. | 533 |
33084005 | Bāb Ḥuṭṭa ( or , ) is a neighborhood in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem to the north of Al-Aqsa Compound. The name literally means "Forgiveness (or Remission or Pardon) Gate", referring to the Remission Gate of the Haram compound, connected by Bāb Ḥuṭṭa Street. | 279 |
38599255 | Georgina M. Goode of Goolwa unpaid teacher monitor in 1897 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/87763729-->
Goss, J. H. A brief memoir of Lance-Corporal Alan Stanley Goode (youngest son of Mr. Thos. Goode, J.P., of Goolwa) who was killed in action in France on 11 January 1917 published by J. H. Goss, Goolwa 1917. Copy held at State Library of South Australia. | 364 |
408529 | Raul Grijalva: New Deployment of National Guard to US–Mexico Border Is Election-Year "Political Symbolism", May 28, 2010 | 120 |
12911880 | Quiina colonensis is a species of plant in the family Ochnaceae. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. It is threatened by habitat loss. | 136 |
601867 | With the assistance of his brother, Lewis, a graduate engineer, Crosley also designed assembly plants for his manufacturing operations at Richmond and Marion, Indiana.
On April 28, 1939, the first Crosley production car debuted at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to mixed reviews. It was a two-door convertible that weighed under . Initially offered at US$325 for a two-passenger coupe or $350 for a four-passenger sedan, the Crosley cars were cheaper than the nearest competition, the American Austin Car Company's American Bantam, which sold for $449 to $565. | 561 |
1043124 | White's interests were diverse, and he took classes in several other disciplines, including philosophy at UCLA, and clinical psychiatry, before discovering anthropology via Alexander Goldenweiser courses at the New School for Social Research. White also spent a few weeks with the Menominee and Winnebago in Wisconsin during his Ph.D. His thesis proposal was a library thesis, which foreshadowed his later theoretical work. He conducted fieldwork at Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico.
In 1927 White began teaching at the University at Buffalo. | 534 |
14180486 | The "wild" emperor of the title is thus Franz Joseph I of Austria, though it is also a play on the "Wilder Kaiser", a ridge in the Austrian Kaiser Mountains.
The film had more than 2 million viewers at cinemas in Germany alone, and more than 3 million in Europe overall. | 270 |
30999052 | The British Ministry of Defense claimed that their planes hit and destroyed two loyalist tanks and two armored vehicles near the city.
On 29 March, loyalist forces, including the Khamis Brigade, swept through the city, securing the western and northwestern parts. Witnesses reported that government troops were forcing people from their homes en masse. A member of the rebel command in the city claimed that loyalist forces were killing and wounding civilians indiscriminately. During the night, heavy street fighting occurred in the city's Az-Zawaabi district, in which nine rebels were killed and five wounded. | 612 |
29728176 | Margaret Webb Dreyer (29 September 1911 – December 17, 1976) was an American painter, muralist, mosaic artist, educator, gallery owner, and political activist who spent most of her career in Houston, Texas. Though she worked in a number of styles and media over the years, she was best known as an abstract expressionist painter. Her work won numerous awards in major juried shows and was exhibited widely in museums and galleries.
Dreyer is listed in the University of Texas at Austin's compilation of "women who have helped shape the history of Texas." | 554 |
35532570 | Dick Barton: Special Agent (released in the USA as Dick Barton, Detective) is a 1948 British spy film about special agent Dick Barton adapted from the hugely popular radio drama of the same name produced and directed by Raymond Raikes. It was the first of three films that Hammer Film Productions made about the British agent, followed by Dick Barton at Bay and Dick Barton Strikes Back.
Dick Barton (Don Stannard) and his colleagues Snowy and Jock are investigating smuggling when attempts are made on his life. It turns out there is a neo-Nazi plot to contaminate Great Britain's water supply. | 595 |
44188848 | Van den Heuvel's style is in its linear compositions and bright lighting more Classicist in nature and closer to the work of Agostino Carracci, Annibale Carracci and Lodovico Carracci and their followers. He must have seen their work during his residence in Rome.
Van den Heuvel also borrowed motifs and compositions of contemporary Flemish painters such as Rubens and Caspar de Crayer.
His later work between 1640 and 1650 is less colourful and therefore appears less expressive.
Van den Heuvel also made designs for engravings. | 530 |
37590393 | The Soviet Union would eventually be dissolved by the resigning Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev (25 December 1991) and would formally split itself into Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine by signing declarations in Białowieża Forest by its respective presidents (Lukashenko, Yeltsin, Kravchuk) on 26 December 1991.
On 30 January 1992, Ukraine and Czechoslovakia established official diplomatic relations.
After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Ukraine recognized and re-established diplomatic relations with both the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993. | 577 |
105697 | Fidalgo continued along the Alaskan coast, until he reached Point Gravina on June 10, where he celebrated another act of reaffirmation of Spanish sovereignty. On June 15, they discovered a port, which they named Puerto Valdés, in honor of Antonio Valdés y Fernández Bazán, then "Secretary of State of the Universal Office of the Navy and the Indies" (a position equivalent to Minister for the affairs of the Spanish Navy and the four Spanish Viceroyalties of the Americas, including the Captaincy General of the Philippines). | 525 |
16866999 | An initial advertising campaign was rolled out to attract investors and foreign customers, along with conferences, trade shows and commissions.
The World Cup-winning former footballer Zinedine Zidane of Algerian descent was also used for a new commercial carried out under the aegis of the telephony operator, Ooredoo Algeria, intended for an international audience.
A Quality Tourism Plan Algeria was adopted by the government but by the end of 2010, only 10% of tourist structures in Algeria have joined this program. | 519 |
14710971 | Soldiers left with the unit were attached to Task Force Sustainer which was a joint operation with the 21st Theater Support Command in the shutting down of Kaserne's and Units, and the retrograding of vehicles and equipment.
In January 2007, the lineage and honors were designated to be transferred to the 16th Sustainment Brigade. On 16 July 2007 the group was reorganized as part of an effort to reform support groups into larger, more versatile sustainment brigades. | 469 |
16244200 | William James Eames Binnie (10 October 1867 – 4 October 1949) was a British civil engineer. William was the son of Alexander Binnie, the famed civil engineer and William would enter the same career (as, in due course, would his own eldest son). He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge before completing an apprenticeship with his father's firm. His primary area of work was in hydraulic engineering and he completed works in Britain, Egypt, Nigeria, Singapore, Hong Kong and Burma on reservoirs, dams and hydroelectric power generation. | 542 |
9628779 | His mature production is characterised by a repertoire of portraits and funerary monuments, and includes a naturalistic relief dedicated to the 199 workers killed during the construction of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel (1882–83).
His first piece winning an award at a contest at the Brera was a bas-relief depicting the Return of Ulysses to Ithaca. He then won in a Venetian competition (gold medal and 60 zecchini) from among submissions from Northern Italy with a model for a sculpture depicting Christ resurrects that daughter of Jair. | 534 |
11534582 | One of the best and earliest U-20 World Cup campaigns was when Chile hosted the tournament in 1987, finishing in fourth place. In the most recent 2007 U-20 World Cup the team earned a third-place position, making it Chile's most successful U-20 campaign to date.
The Chile national U-20 football team also participates in the South American Youth Championship which act as qualifier for the U-20 World Cup. | 406 |
36509488 | After defeating Kenny Neyens in the preliminary round, and compatriot Jonny Clayton in the first round, he defeated world number two Peter Wright in the second round, before knocking out James Richardson to qualify for the quarter final.
In the quarter-final, Lewis whitewashed Darren Webster. In defeating Richardson and Webster, he became the first player to qualify for a quarter-final, and subsequently a semi-final, after starting in the preliminary round. In the semi-finals, Jamie went out 1–6 to Phil Taylor. | 516 |
72808751 | The Arab Orthodox Movement () is a political and social movement aiming for the Arabization of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the church overseeing Orthodox communities in Palestine, Israel and Jordan.
Within the context of rising Arab nationalism, the movement was inspired by the successful precedent of the Arabization of Syria and Lebanon's Antioch Patriarchate in 1899. The movement seeks the appointment of an Arab patriarch, Arab laity control over Jerusalem patriarchate's properties for social and educational purposes, and the use of Arabic as a liturgical language. | 591 |
5883734 | (Trade to and from Afghanistan uses ports in other countries, such as Chabahar Port in Iran.)
The book was described by one reviewer as having "far too many duff sentences", such: "Your goal is to blend philosophy and war, wisdom and battle, into an unbeatable blend."
It has sold more than 200,000 copies.
33 Strategies of War interview featuring Robert Greene
Books by Robert Greene (American author) | 402 |
8074146 | Academic staff of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts
Academic staff of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences | 134 |
29343358 | Short Head (French: Courte tête) is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux, written by Michel Audiard and starring Fernand Gravey, Micheline Dax and Jean Richard. The film is known under the alternative title Photo Finish.
It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
Two swindlers try to cheat a provincial poultry magnate by getting him to bet on a sure loser in a major horse race. | 475 |
2242248 | After the University Education Act of 1964, all professional colleges and institutes of the university such as the Institute of Medicine 1, Rangoon Institute of Technology and Yangon Institute of Economics became independent universities, leaving the Yangon University with liberal arts, sciences and law. In Myanmar, responsibility for higher education depends on various ministries. The University of Yangon depends from the Ministry of education.
Yangon University has been at the centre of civil discontent throughout its history. All three nationwide strikes against the British administration (1920, 1936 and 1938) began at Rangoon University. | 649 |
37792653 | Pseudaonidiina is a subtribe of armored scale insects. | 54 |
377443 | Their arid country was their best safeguard, for the bottle-shaped cisterns for rain-water which they excavated in the rocky or clay-rich soil were carefully concealed from invaders.
Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Kitab al-Tabikh, the earliest known Arabic cookbook, contains a recipe for fermented Nabatean water bread (). The yeast-leavened bread is made with a high quality wheat flour called samidh that is finely milled and free of bran and is baked in a tandoor. | 460 |
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