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28090312 | The Tri-Rivers Conference is a high school conference in eastern Iowa sponsoring athletic competition, as well as speech and music activities. Formed in 1967, the conference has enjoyed long-term stability while enduring periods of significant change over its 50-plus year history. With the return of Edgewood–Colesburg in 2017 (after a brief 4-year hiatus), all but one of the founding members were still conference members. (Center Point, following its merger with Urbana, simply out-grew its former competitors). | 516 |
62770108 | For another 16 men, a special register, the Stone Book, contained the information that they were buried in the Theodorskirche. According to this, these 16 came from the upper social class, as only they could afford a better burial place. 118 names remained. Since Theo had belonged to the younger burial phase and the archaeologists connected this to the great typhoid epidemic of 1814, all men who died before 1814 were struck off the list. 25 men remained. However, the connection with the typhoid epidemic has not yet been proven. | 533 |
18055183 | The most important finds include a tomb with many seal impressions belonging to king Narmer and Tarkhan dress, one of the oldest dresses found in Egypt. The cemeteries of the later periods are called Kafr Ammar, although lying side by side with the earlier tombs. From a Roman period tomb came a Fayum mummy portrait.
Tomb 1060 is the oldest and largest mastaba at Tarkhan. It was divided into several rooms, most likely used for storing burial goods, although little survived. | 477 |
32637293 | The IMF, in turn, urged most developed countries to boost exports, and for some emerging markets to enhance domestic consumption and to let their currencies appreciate. Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the IMF would highlight the linkages between economies as part of a "systemic stability initiative". Its steering committee added that it should work on capital flows, exchange rate movements and the accumulation of capital reserves. | 430 |
16284906 | Models.com has said that Kloss "represents the gold standard of modeling—a girl with the look, the poise, and the drive to take things to the next level", and she ranks on their "New Supers" and "Money Girl" lists. By 2019, she had appeared on 40 international Vogue covers.
Outside of modeling, Kloss has an interest in technology and has founded the "Kode with Klossy" camp, which aims to get young girls interested in STEM fields. In 2019, Kloss became the host of the reality competition television series Project Runway. | 525 |
225558 | By the time Dennis' run was complete, she was acting opposite Don Murray, who joined the play on March 8, 1977, and lasted until January 1, 1978. Following Dennis was Hope Lange, whose run spanned May 31 to October 22, 1977. After Lange came Betsy Palmer, who played Doris from October 24, 1977 until the September 3, 1978 closing date. | 336 |
37306974 | After more short voyages from Kirkenes to Skjomenfjord (south of Narvik), then Narvik itself and Bergen in May 1942, she carried out a relatively uneventful patrol which culminated in her arrival at Skjomenfjord on 12 August.
The boat set out for her sixth sortie on 23 August 1942. She travelled as far east as Nova Zemlya and returned to Narvik on 1 September. | 362 |
23269310 | Bushkiller may be confused with Virginia creeper in that they both have leaves with 5 toothed leaflets, but Virginia creeper lacks a petiolule (stem connection a leaflet to the main leaf stem) on any of the leaflets.
C. japonica has been introduced in tropical areas of the United States including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and North Carolina. Bushkiller can out compete native plants and stress native trees by blocking sunlight and weighing down trees. Controlling bushkiller is difficult as it can regenerate from any rhizomes that remain in the soil. | 568 |
26592262 | George Schneider (1823–1905) was a German American journalist and banker who served as editor-in-chief of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as the United States Consul in Elsinore, Denmark, at the outbreak of the American Civil War and later served as Collector of Internal Revenue for the 1st District of Illinois. He was a German refugee, one of the Forty-Eighters. | 409 |
1959565 | Riley himself would resign from his coaching duties two years later, following a 15–67 season from the Heat.
In May 2007, Van Gundy received an offer to replace the fired Rick Carlisle as head coach of the Indiana Pacers. Van Gundy turned down the offer, but began interviewing for other head coaching jobs. He was considered a lead candidate to become head coach of the Orlando Magic and also the Sacramento Kings. However, the Magic hired Billy Donovan. Shortly thereafter, Donovan decided he wanted to back out of the deal and return to the University of Florida. | 566 |
50630470 | She is also the president of Design Connect Create, a non-profit group aimed at increasing young women's participation in STEM fields.
Wanda Gass, an oral history (1998) by Frederik Nebeker, IEEE History Center, Hoboken, NJ, USA.
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) | 319 |
62371788 | Viscount Morpeth, although a Whig, commended Manners-Sutton's conduct as Speaker, and proposed him. Sir Francis Burdett (Radical) seconded.
A debate ensued. Littleton spoke against his own nomination, stating his support for Manners-Sutton and asking that Manners-Sutton be elected without a division. | 301 |
3067690 | | 100052 || || — || November 7, 1991 || Palomar || C. S. Shoemaker || — || align=right | 6.5 km ||
| 100053 Danstinebring || || || January 2, 1992 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || MAS || align=right | 1. | 204 |
20321653 | Mayne has two children and six grandchildren. She is a lifelong resident of the West side of Salt Lake Valley. She is a member of the Methodist Church.
In January 2022, Mayne was hospitalized after falling at her home and suffered from a head and shoulder injury. She was later diagnosed with cancer while receiving treatment for her injuries.
In 2014 Mayne was unopposed in the primary. During the general election she had a challenger who dropped out before the election and won unopposed. | 491 |
22946922 | Matthew Mullineux, was 31 years of age, and played for Blackheath, and Moseley. and represented Kent. He was the only player who toured South Africa in 1896. He was the instigator, planner, and manager of the British team. He served as captain on a number of the tour matches.
George Cookson, was 25 years of age, and played for Manchester, and Lancashire. In 1898 for the North of England team. | 396 |
35453491 | After taking time to complete university degrees at the University of Queensland, he joined the Timișoara Saracens prior to the 2015 SuperLiga season. | 150 |
56869004 | Limonia thaleitrichia Alexander, 1979 c g
Limonia thanatos Alexander, 1949 c g
Limonia tigriventris Alexander, 1968 c g
Limonia triocellata (Osten Sacken, 1859) i b | 167 |
41603161 | Alfonso Valencia is a Spanish biologist, ICREA Professor, current director of the Life Sciences department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. and of Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB-ISCIII). From 2015-2018, he was President of the International Society for Computational Biology. His research is focused on the study of biomedical systems with computational biology and bioinformatics approaches.
Valencia studied biology at the Complutense University of Madrid, training in population genetics and biophysics. In 1987 he was a visiting scientist at the American Red Cross Laboratory. | 599 |
45092272 | In 1996, Miami acquired the AFL team the Sacramento Attack, which was renamed as the Miami Hooters (due to its association with the Florida-based Hooters restaurant chain), and it played from 1993 to 1995. In 1996, the association with the chain was completed, and the team moved to West Palm Beach and renamed as the Florida Bobcats.
Miami will be one of eleven US host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup with matches set to be played at Hard Rock Stadium. | 457 |
36294352 | Stemorrhages sericea, the large emerald pearl, is a moth of the subfamily of Spilomelinae within the family Crambidae. It lives throughout Africa south of the Sahara, and the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Comoros.
Adults are pale turquoise with a brown stripe at the front edge of the wings. They have a brush of brown scent disseminating scales, called androconia, on the tail that can be everted for mate attraction. | 451 |
16362365 | A batch of milt and eggs is released followed by a vigorous swish of the female's tail to distribute the eggs over a wide area. The pair usually rests after mating (from seconds up to several minutes) and then resumes mating.
Parental care for ensuring the survival of the catfish offspring is absent except by the careful choice of a suitable site. Development of eggs and larvae is rapid, and the larvae are capable of swimming within 48–72 hours after fertilization. | 469 |
73575355 | | {{|Taxation Act 1754|public|2|20-12-1753|archived=n|An Act for continuing, and granting to His Majesty, certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, for the Service of the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-four.}} | 227 |
142429 | Michael Psellos or Psellus (, ) was a Byzantine Greek monk, savant, writer, philosopher, imperial courtier, historian and music theorist. He was born in 1017 or 1018, and is believed to have died in 1078, although it has also been maintained that he remained alive until 1096. He served as a high ranking advisor to several Byzantine emperors and was instrumental in the re-positioning of power of those emperors. | 413 |
206928 | The family occurs mostly in southern to western Eurasia and surroundings, but it also ranges far into the Pacific, with some species in Africa.
Locustellidae are a family of small insectivorous songbirds found mainly in Eurasia, Africa, and the Australian region. They are smallish birds with tails that are usually long and pointed, and tend to be drab brownish or buffy all over. | 381 |
68369686 | Her research has been funded by grants from BBSRC, Marie Curie Fellowships, and the Leverhulme Trust, amongst others. She recently won a European grant for £0.25m for NEURONest: Nest building in birds: cognitive, neural and molecular basis of an overlooked behaviour.
In 2021, Healy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Academics of the University of St Andrews
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Year of birth missing (living people) | 457 |
3195622 | On July 1, 1958, the AFCP was connected to NORAD's Alert Network Number 1, as 1 of 29 transmit/receive stations (a differing "worldwide telephone system" was complete "from national authorities to unified commanders" by December 1958.) Starting in August 1959 "with USAF assistance [the] JCS set up its own Joint War Room (JWR)" at the Pentagon. | 346 |
7114160 | In 1765, Melchior Grimm published , an influential article for the Encyclopédie on lyric and opera librettos. Under the patronage of his former music pupil, Marie Antoinette, who had married the future French king Louis XVI in 1770, Gluck signed a contract for six stage works with the management of the Paris Opéra. He began with (19 April 1774). The premiere sparked a huge controversy, almost a war, such as had not been seen in the city since the Querelle des Bouffons. | 474 |
64833417 | Philotheca papillata is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a small, erect, multistemmed shrub with glandular-warty, narrow elliptic leaves, and white to pale pink flowers arranged singly on the end of the stems.
Philotheca papillata is an erect, multistemmed shrub that grows to a height of about with its stems covered by long, soft hairs. | 420 |
1079708 | The cubical building is made of solid rusticated stonework, with two rows of two-lighted Gothic windows, each with a trefoil arch. In the 15th century, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi added decorative bas-reliefs of the cross and the Florentine lily in the spandrels between the trefoils. The building is crowned with projecting crenellated battlements, supported by small arches and corbels. Under the arches are a repeated series of nine painted coats of arms of the Florentine republic. | 493 |
56769340 | During the succeeding epoch of rebellion against Ottoman hegemony in Acre under Jezzar Pasha and Abdullah Pasha, Beirut declined to a small town with a population of about 10,000 and was an object of contention between the Ottomans, the local Druze, and the Mamluks. After Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt captured Acre in 1832, Beirut began its revival.
By the second half of the nineteenth century, Beirut was developing close commercial and political ties with European imperial powers, particularly France. | 500 |
22236364 | (These Sounds Fall into My Mind)", was the project's breakthrough single, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and becoming a commercial success throughout Europe, including in the United Kingdom where it reached number 5 on the UK Singles Chart. Upon release, All in the Mind reached number 74 on the UK Albums Chart, and received positive reviews from music critics. In 2000, it was named the 31st best dance album of all time in the final edition of the book All Time Top 1000 Albums. | 519 |
3199188 | However, agriculture is no longer the main source of employment, with many people working in Exeter and surrounding towns.
Devon Local Studies - Aylesbeare community page | 171 |
188887 | To compensate, one of the functions performed by the AGC each time it awoke in the standby mode was to update the real time clock by 1.28 seconds.
The standby mode was designed to reduce power by 5 to 10 W (from 70 W) during midcourse flight when the AGC was not needed. However, in practice, the AGC was left on during all phases of the mission and this feature was never used.
The AGC had a 16-bit read bus and a 16-bit write bus. | 432 |
24876434 | According to historians such as Maurizia Tazertes the fountain was built over a long period between 1581 and 1588, and the Palazzo Mattei di Giove, the main residence of the Mattei, was not completed until 1616.
Defenders of the legend point out that the Palazzo Giacomo Mattei, the earlier residence of the Mattei family, which stands directly in front of the fountain, was built in the early 16th century, before the fountain was built, and thus the legend could be true. | 475 |
23266947 | The Formosan lady's slipper or beautiful cypripedium, Cypripedium formosanum, is a species of orchid endemic to Taiwan.
This species is restricted to the central mountains of Taiwan, where it grows in several types of habitat in mountain forests and bogs. It is associated with species of ferns, Epimedium, Trillium, and Podophyllum, and Diphylleia grayi. It is also cultivated, being attractive and easy to grow and propagate. | 427 |
31539503 | On 6 May 1962, Kilkenny won the title after a 1–16 to 1–8 win over Cork in the final. It was their first league title since 1932-33 and their second league title overall. | 170 |
3982599 | Art and Artifice: Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Era: Selections from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. With essays by Sebastian Dobson, Anne Nishimura Morse, and Frederic A. Sharf. Boston: MFA Publications, 2004. (paper), (hardback).
Bachmann Eckenstein Art & Antiques. Accessed 6 December 2006. | 348 |
12485115 | Walker was activated from the disabled list on May 13 after spending some time with the Altoona Curve.
Walker was placed on the disabled list June 9 after undergoing an emergency Appendectomy thus allowing a roster spot for top prospect Gregory Polanco. On Opening Day March 31, Walker hit a walk off home run in a 1–0 victory in the 10th against the Chicago Cubs. | 364 |
2430273 | In March 2014, Alibaba agreed to acquire a controlling stake in ChinaVision Media Group for $804 million. The two firms announced they would establish a strategic committee for potential future opportunities in online entertainment and other media areas. The company was renamed Alibaba Pictures Group (SEHK: 1060). In March 2015, Alibaba Group launched AliMusic as its music division. Xiami Music and Tiantian Music are two of music steaming APP owned by AliMusic. AliMusic named Gao Xiaosong as the chairman and Song Ke as chief executive officer in July 2015. | 562 |
45610417 | She went on to Major in Theatre at Acadia University, from whence she graduated in 1989. While in University, Rankin performed as a singer and an actor in The Cape Breton Summertime Revue, which toured to Halifax, Pictou and Sydney.
In 1989 Rankin and four of her siblings, John Morris, Raylene, Jimmy and Cookie, had their music featured in a show called The Mabou Jig. | 370 |
4109042 | A membrane ligand (protein, oligosaccharide, lipid) and a membrane protein of two adjacent cells interact.
A communicating junction links the intracellular compartments of two adjacent cells, allowing transit of relatively small molecules.
An extracellular matrix glycoprotein and a membrane protein interact.
Additionally, in unicellular organisms such as bacteria, juxtacrine signaling means interactions by membrane contact. Juxtacrine signaling has been observed for some growth factors, cytokine and chemokine cellular signals, playing an important role in the immune response. | 584 |
45936 | Some Evangelical denominations believe that demonic possession is not possible if one has already professed their faith in Christ, because the Holy Spirit already occupies the body and a demon cannot enter.
Various types of creatures, such as jinn, shayatin, ʻafarit, found within Islamic culture, are often held to be responsible for spirit possession. Spirit possession appears in both Islamic theology and wider cultural tradition.
Although opposed by some Muslim scholars, sleeping near a graveyard or a tomb is believed to enable contact with the ghosts of the dead, who visit the sleeper in dreams and provide hidden knowledge. | 633 |
63025190 | Sir Laurence Barton Grafftey-Smith (16 April 1892 – 3 January 1989) was a member of the British Consular Service from 1916 to 1947.
His grandson was musician Toby Smith.
Born to parents Revd. Arthur Grafftey-Smith and Mabel Grafftey-Smith (née Barton), he was educated Clifton College, Repton School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
His posts included being the British High Commissioner in Karachi, Pakistan (1947–1949). | 421 |
578878 | Session, the principal focus of the CSD was to prepare for the Five-Year Review of the 1992 Earth Summit, which took the form of the 19th Special Session of the General Assembly, held at UN Headquarters in New York.
CSD 10/World Summit on Sustainable Development
For its Tenth Session the CSD served as the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in December 2002. | 431 |
28095561 | ABA ROLI has developed the following assessment tools: Judicial Reform Index; Legal Profession Reform Index; Prosecutorial Reform Index; Legal Education Reform Index; Human Trafficking Assessment Tool, based on the anti-human trafficking protocol to the United Nations (UN) Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; ICCPR Index, based on the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and the CEDAW Assessment Tool, based on the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. | 529 |
5195425 | An Entertainment Weekly reviewer praised Johnson's direction of the episode and credited him with drawing subtle performances out of Gerety and Reddick. Tim Goodman of The San Francisco Chronicle characterized the show as another success for the HBO network and a well-produced and complex subversion of the cops and robbers genre. He credited Simon's reporter's eye for detail for the series' verisimilitude. He also noted the series themes of institutional dysfunction, the ineffectiveness of the War on Drugs, and novelistic structure. | 538 |
73305705 | Daniel Kolocho Bameyi (born 4 January 2006) is a Nigerian international footballer who plays as a defender.
Bameyi is listed as playing for an Abuja-based club named Yum Yum FC, although it has been reported that no club by this name exists in Nigeria. Head coach of the Nigeria under-20 side, Ladan Bosso, stated in late May 2023 that Yum Yum FC were indeed a real club, actually named the Yum Yum Academy, and that Bameyi was on their books. | 443 |
51293616 | Andreas Löw (also spelled Loew; born 19 January 1982) is a German shooter. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in men's double trap. In the qualification round, he set a new Olympic record. During the semifinals, he finished in 6th place and did not advance to the finals. | 291 |
67647098 | At Mlambalasi rockshelter, in Tanzania, an individual, dated between 20,345 BP and 17,025 BP, carried undetermined haplogroups.
At Kisese II rockshelter, in Tanzania, an individual, dated between 7240 BP and 6985 BP, carried haplogroups B2b1a~ and L5b2.
At Luxmanda, Tanzania, an individual, estimated to date between 3141 BP and 2890 BP, carried haplogroup L2a1. | 363 |
33669878 | In her first match of the tour, Syuri teamed with Estrellita & Silueta in a Six-Woman Tag Team Match, where they were defeated by La Amapola, Dalys la Caribeña & Tiffany with La Amapola, the number one contender to the CMLL-Reina International Championship, pinning Syuri for the win. In the title match five days later, Syuri lost the CMLL-Reina International Championship to La Amapola. | 388 |
5417828 | After later review, the former species was declared a junior synonym of G. texanum and the latter two synonyms of G. cylindricum. From the 2000s to the 2020s, hundreds of additional fossils were referred to the genus from Central America and Brazil, including fossils formerly assigned to Glyptodon. In 2022, a host of fossils of Glyptotherium cylindricum including skulls, some preserving pathologies caused by humans, were described that had been collected from several sites in Falcon, northern Venezuela that dated to the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene. | 558 |
9491894 | Dixon's lyrics build on Waters' earlier use of braggadocio and themes of fortune and sex appeal. The stop-time riff was "soon absorbed into the lingua franca of blues, R&B, jazz, and rock and roll", according to musicologist Robert Palmer, and is used in several popular songs. When Bo Diddley adapted it for "I'm a Man", it became one of the most recognizable musical phrases in blues.
After the song's initial success in 1954, Waters recorded several live and new studio versions. | 484 |
72095612 | In August 1987, Cindy began working as a nurse at Richmond General Hospital. On August 28, her home alarm was triggered after a back window was broken, and three days later, on August 31, she reported to police that her front porch lightbulbs had been loosened. The following week, she reported that someone had used a glass cutter to create a hole in the basement door window. In February 1988, Cindy indicated that someone had shattered a window to her home after securing it with electrical tape. | 499 |
54239787 | Judith Teixeira (25 January 1880 - 17 May 1959) was a Portuguese writer. She published three books of poetry and a book of short stories, among other writings. In 1925, she founded the magazine Europa, of which three issues were published (April, May and June). | 261 |
65016472 | Among performers who have been invited to the ball, are the new wave band Mental As Anything, Jessica Mauboy, Marcia Hines, Shaun Micallef, Julian Morrow, David Campbell (singer), Christine Anu, Björn Again, Paulini, and Grace Knight.
Journalists known have attended the event include Latika Bourke, Laura Tingle, Annabel Crabb and David Speers.
The Midwinter Ball has been the venue for a number of reported controversies in Australian public life. | 449 |
59697511 | John McInnes (29 March 1923 – 8 February 1998) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an inside forward.
Born in Ayr, McInnes spent his early career with Partick Thistle and Raith Rovers.
McInnes joined Bradford City in May 1949. He made 21 league appearances for the club, scoring 6 goals He left the club in August 1951 after being released. | 357 |
3045916 | Auburn won the SEC men's basketball tournament in 1985. In 1987 and 1988, Morris was a first-team all-SEC pick.
Morris was drafted with the 4th overall pick in 1988 NBA draft. He appeared in the 1989 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, finishing 8th place out of 8 contestants. The following season, Morris started what would be a career-high 76 games while averaging a career-high 14.8 points per game.
Morris developed a reputation as a malcontent and "coach killer." | 456 |
520089 | Widespread clearance of forest began in the Bronze Age and continued up until the early 20th century. Afforestation programmes began in the 1920s and accelerated in the 1950s with the widespread planting of conifer forest, especially in upland moorland areas previously considered unsuitable for planting. The dominant tree is the sitka spruce, accounting for 58% of forest plantations, with lodgepole pine, Norway spruce, Scots pine, larch and Douglas fir also planted. Biodiversity is low in the conifer plantations because they are not native tree species. | 559 |
39530822 | The Camp, Gloucestershire, a village in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
The Camp, an area of St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
The Camp, California, a former name of Greenwater, California
The Camp (film), a 2013 documentary film
The Camp (play), a 1778 play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"The Camp" (The Outer Limits), season 3 episode 7 of The Outer Limits | 364 |
91136 | Jung believed that Christianity itself derived its significance from the archetypal relationship between Osiris and Horus versus God the Father and Jesus, his son. However, Jung also postulated that the rebirth applied to Osiris (the father), and not Horus, the son.
The general applicability of the death and resurrection of Osiris to the dying-and-rising-god analogy has been criticized, on the grounds that it derived from the harvesting rituals that related the rising and receding waters of the Nile river and the farming cycle. | 533 |
19732090 | The Belém-Brasília highway (1958) and the Cuiabá-Porto Velho highway (1968) were the only federal highways in the Legal Amazon region that were paved and accessible year-round before the late 1990s. These two highways are considered to be central to the "arc of deforestation," which is presently the primary area of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The Belém-Brasília highway attracted nearly two million settlers in its first twenty years. | 447 |
73970205 | Mostly Murder is the 1959 autobiography of forensic pathologist Sir Sydney Smith.
The book is a memoir about the most notorious crimes Smith solved in his career, which extended across the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt and Sri Lanka.
The book has run through many British and American editions and has been translated into several languages.
Hopetoun quarry murder (1913)Conviction of Patrick Higgins of Winchburgh for the double homicide of his two children and dumping their bodies in the quarry, which resulted in Scotland's first execution of the twentieth century. | 586 |
58072743 | Przhevalsky () is a 1951 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich.
The film tells about the outstanding Russian traveler Nikolai Przhevalsky, who headed the expedition to the Ussuri region and four scientific expeditions to Central Asia. He described its nature, discovered a huge number of ridges, lakes, and rivers, and organized a collection of various collections of plants and animals. | 396 |
1635424 | Asiatic Lion Protection Society (ALPS), Gujarat, India
Asiatic lions in online video (3 videos)
DB Video Special Report on Asiatic lion in Gujarati: What Is the connection Between Gir lions and Africans lions
Skin of a Persian lioness, belonging to an endangered subspecies of lions, | 286 |
27444170 | As a stockbroker he possessed ample capital with which to buy the work of artists with whom he was personally acquainted, including Eugène Delacroix and Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. Moreau-Nélaton's father, who was also named Adolphe Moreau (1827–1882), was a high government official and led the railroad company Chemins de fer de l'Est. In 1856 he married the ceramic artist Camille Nélaton (1840–1897), with whom he further expanded the family's collection. | 458 |
455092 | It is mathematically defined as the minimum input signal required to produce a specified signal-to-noise S/N ratio at the output port of the receiver and is defined as the mean noise power at the input port of the receiver times the minimum required signal-to-noise ratio at the output of the receiver:
= equivalent noise temperature in [K] of the source (e.g. | 362 |
53141282 | 3 & 5) and September 4, 1963 (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8 & 10) and unknown date (tracks 7 & 9)
Maynard Ferguson – trumpet, valve trombone, French horn
Dusan Goykovitch, Nat Pavone, Rick Kiefer – trumpet
Don Doane, Kenny Rupp – trombone | 226 |
7630466 | The 1987 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Hurricanes' 62nd season of football. The Hurricanes were led by fourth-year head coach Jimmy Johnson and played their home games at the Orange Bowl. They finished the season 12–0 overall. They were invited to the Orange Bowl where they defeated Oklahoma, 20-14, to win the school's second national championship. | 449 |
41889495 | Other reasons for partaking in Ulwaluko include fulfilling the desire to meet societal expectations as well as pressure from family to ‘convert’ to heterosexuality through the process of Ulwaluko. The Film ‘The Wound’ premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and is inspired by Thando Mgqolozana novel ‘A man who is not a man’ which focuses on the experiences of homosexual men during ‘Ulwaluko’. Xhosa traditional leaders criticized the film as being ‘disrespectful’, ‘undermining Xhosa culture’ as it showcased hidden traditions. | 535 |
34391690 | Urso made his debut for the team in the season opener, captaining the side in place of the suspended Nani as Orlando earned a 0–0 draw against Real Salt Lake. On 29 August 2020, Urso scored the opener in a 3–1 win over Atlanta United, Orlando's first ever win in the rivalry's history. On 10 November 2022, Orlando City and Urso mutually agreed to terminate his contract, allowing Urso to return to Brazil for personal reasons. In three seasons, he made a total of 100 appearances in all competitions and scored 14 goals. | 521 |
2694539 | stocks based on market capitalization. They were included in the 2004 'Fortune 1000', Forbes magazines ranking of the largest public companies, based on revenue, in the United States and a 2002 TeleGeography study found Primus was on aggregate the world's fifth largest carrier of international public switched telephone network (PSTN) voice traffic. Primus also used this period of growth to move their stock from the NASDAQ SmallCap Market to the NASDAQ National Market to gain more transparency. | 498 |
54919946 | Hochelaga, Land of Souls premiered in Montreal at the Place des Arts on 6 September 2017, before TIFF. The event marked Montreal's 375th anniversary and commemorations of the 150th anniversary of Canada. A second screening that night at the Imperial theatre was attended by prominent Quebecois cultural figures Denis Villeneuve, Gilles Vigneault and Luc Plamondon, along with a speech by Ghislain Picard, the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec leader. | 452 |
64614117 | Waiting for God is the self-titled debut studio album of Waiting for God, released in late 1994 by KMG. The album was re-issued as Quarter Inch Thick by Re-Constriction Records in 1996 with an expanded track listing featuring bonus remixes.
Aiding & Abetting gave Waiting for God a positive review, saying "there are plenty of diverse elements woven into this fabric" and "Daemon Cadman's lighter-than-air vocals mix well with the edgy guitars and sea of keyboards brought in by the rest of the band." | 501 |
16020003 | He earned his first cap for Ireland A on 23 February 2008, during the 67–7 defeat at the hands of Scotland A.
Hurley was also a member of the Ireland A Churchill Cup squad that won the plate final at the 2008 competition.
Hurley was forced to retire from rugby in May 2012, due to a lower back injury that he suffered in October 2011. | 334 |
32544143 | Arents came under the care of her uncle and wealthy tobacco investor, Major Lewis Ginter, after her father's death. Arents eventually inherited her uncle's fortune and used the money to create and support in perpetuity a number of social institutions. She focused many of her efforts in the working-class neighborhood of Oregon Hill. The construction of St. Andrew's Houses in 1904, "which constitute one of the earliest examples of subsidized housing in Virginia," demonstrate her forward thinking approach. | 508 |
36476456 | Tunisia falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 64.3% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available.
Tunisia has a public health system funded from taxation run by the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie that provides care for the majority of the population. It includes health centres providing primary care, district and regional hospitals, and university hospitals. | 497 |
183065 | In 1998 it was argued in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that Conan Doyle may well have been right, due to research (published in Proceedings of the Royal Society) by Dr Sylvain Gandon, then of the Laboratoire d’Écologie in Paris, on the longevity and potency of toxic spores, as well as comments by archaeologist Nicholas Reeves on "reports of a black fungus inside the tomb". Howard Carter dismissed such speculation as 'tommy-rot', commenting that "the sentiment of the Egyptologist ... is not one of fear, but of respect and awe ... entirely opposed to foolish superstitions". | 590 |
55585370 | AlphaGo versus Fan Hui was a five-game Go match between European champion Fan Hui, a 2-dan (out of 9 dan possible) professional, and AlphaGo, a computer Go program developed by DeepMind, held at DeepMind's headquarters in London in October 2015. AlphaGo won all five games. This was the first time a computer Go program had beaten a professional human player on a full-sized board without handicap. This match was not disclosed to the public until 27 January 2016 to coincide with the publication of a paper in the journal Nature describing the algorithms AlphaGo used. | 569 |
19644711 | preceded by the ballet Le Cigale, contemporary with the opera
Cendrillon and Le mage (October/November 2012)
Festival performances before 1995 were released on audio CD (on the label Koch-Schwann) and others have followed, such as Thérèse from 2012 (on Ediciones Singulares). | 275 |
34475298 | Finally, he orders Belle to leave his castle, claiming that his magic is more important to him than she is. Belle refuses to believe this and admonishes him for being too cowardly to believe that she can love him. She warns him that he will regret his actions, and all he'll have is an empty heart - and a chipped cup.
A month later, the Evil Queen pays a visit to the Dark Castle. Rumplestiltskin informs her that her deception with Belle failed, and that the Evil Queen will never be more powerful than him. | 509 |
56153758 | So-called "consumer fireworks" (consumentenvuurwerk or particulier vuurwerk) in the Netherlands consists of category F1 (on sale and usable throughout the year by every person aged 12 and older without a special licence or training), and category F2 and F3 (on sale the last three days of the year, Sundays excepted, which are to be lit from 6 pm on 31 December until 2 am on 1 January). Category F4 is reserved for professionals, and aside from New Year's Eve, categories F2 and F3 are also reserved for professionals. | 519 |
43148379 | Some of the more frequently encountered hazards include falls from great heights; electrical hazards; hazards associated with hoisting personnel and equipment with base-mounted drum hoists; inclement weather; and structural collapse of towers.
Working on cellphone towers is the deadliest job in the United States, according to a trade publication, and it has been claimed that the tower climbing industry experiences 10 times more death casualties than the construction workers. There were 50 - 100 deaths from falls from communication towers between 2003 and 2011. | 566 |
22725847 | Bryce married Quentin Strachan on 12 December 1964; the couple had two daughters and three sons.
Bryce died on 15 January 2021, aged 82, after a long illness.
In 2003, Bryce was conferred with the degree of doctor of the university honoris causa by the University of Canberra. He was honoured by Indesign Magazine as a luminary. In 2006, he was inducted into the Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame. | 406 |
1040913 | The cladding, once predominantly asbestos cement, has been replaced in the early 1990s works with fibre-cement. The centre of the east or Midway entrance elevation has a steep hipped roof between tall pinnacles, while the four "towers" of the end pavilions have steep pyramid roofs.
Located adjacent to Coney Island, the Wild mouse is a small roller coaster. The track is made of laminated timber with a steel rail constructed on a concrete platform elevated above the ground. The Wild Mouse cars hold two people seated one behind the other. | 541 |
25958547 | I like those paradoxes—flatness and its opposite, the way the photo reveals and the paint conceals. Shuffling and reshuffling, then adding another deck and reshuffling that."
In his autobiographical book of images, Pepfog Clufff, Clough has written of the period following his commitment to art that: "my examination of impulses, desires, and intentions finally began to coalesce in my journal-like Studio Notes with which I have developed the themes and procedures which articulate my meanings to this day. | 507 |
30042232 | Fifield is an unincorporated community located in the town of Fifield, Price County, Wisconsin, United States. Fifield is located at the junction of Wisconsin Highway 13 and Wisconsin Highway 70 south-southeast of Park Falls. Fifield has a post office with ZIP code 54524.
Unincorporated communities in Price County, Wisconsin | 327 |
7579503 | He declined requests by several other provincial governors that he formally undertake imperial powers, but then began to act in accordance therewith, including commissioning generals and governors and creating titles, particularly after his cousin Xiao Shao () the Marquess of Shangjia fled out of Jiankang and claimed to carry a secret edict from Emperor Wu authorizing Xiao Yi to exercise those authorities. When Emperor Wu died in summer 549 and was succeeded by Xiao Gang (as Emperor Jianwen), Xiao Yi learned the news of Emperor Wu's death but kept it secret from his people and army. | 590 |
64861697 | In Slovakia the company owns: bazar.sk, ViaReal, Real Soft, chaty.sk, byty.sk, novostavby.sk, reality.sk, Top Reality, nehnutelnosti.sk, Autobazar.sk, Autobazar.eu, noveauta.sk, noveauto.sk, autovia.sk, Autozor, ABmanager.sk. Ringier Axel Springer Slovakia also belongs to Ringier: Pokec, azet.sk, Bistro.sk. In Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia the companies belong to the CVmarket employment website portal. | 406 |
10789083 | Clea Notar of Cinema Canada called Goddess Remembered empowering and energizing, describing it as an "anthropological, sociological, political, and visual treatise which succeeds without being either pedantic or boring".
The films of the Women and Spirituality series have been showed many times on public television and in college classrooms. | 343 |
18860303 | European influence is evident in the local (waltz) and musical genres, which are typically performed on the accordion. (spirit possession) ceremonies feature strongly in Betsimisaraka culture.
Through the late 17th century, the various clans of the eastern coastal region were governed by chieftains who typically ruled over one or two villages. A pirate named Ratsimilaho emerged to unite these clans under his rule in 1710. His reign lasted 50 years and established a sense of common identity and stability throughout the kingdom. | 536 |
58393640 | The Merger is a 2018 Australian drama comedy film based on comedian Damian Callinan's critically acclaimed solo show of the same name. The film explores the decline of a cash-strapped Aussie Rules rural footy club and the recruitment of refugees to keep the club viable. The tagline for this film is "If they can play, they can stay." | 334 |
2864 | Since the 19th century, numerous scholars have sought to use archaeoastronomical calculations to demonstrate the antiquity of Ancient Indian Vedic culture, computing the dates of astronomical observations ambiguously described in ancient poetry to as early as 4000 BC. David Pingree, a historian of Indian astronomy, condemned "the scholars who perpetrate wild theories of prehistoric science and call themselves archaeoastronomers."
There are currently three academic organisations for scholars of archaeoastronomy. | 516 |
3401414 | At the age of 10, Thomas was enrolled by her mother at the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordshire which is now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. She was at Dartington Hall School in Devon for one year in 1958. After her father's death in 1953, she and her mother went to Rome, later moving to Sicily after her mother began a relationship with her long-term partner Giuseppe Fazio.
Thomas earned a bachelor's degree in English and comparative religion at Isleworth College, as well as a TEFL diploma at Woking Adult Education College. | 551 |
10999876 | Türnitz is a town in the district of Lilienfeld in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.
Mean annual temperature is 8.2 degree Celsius; annual precipitation is 1108.8 mm. Rainfall is at its highest in August at 136.6 mm, at its lowest in April at 59.4 mm. It is warmest in July, coolest in January.
Cities and towns in Lilienfeld District | 337 |
60473184 | As a result, they estimated the total time for this movie to be between fifty and seventy-five minutes. The Wid's Film and Film Folk film critic stated the full duration of the film was fifty-eight minutes.
The interiors were filmed in the studio complex at Universal Studios located at 100 Universal City Plaza in Universal City, California. Universal produced and distributed this film.
The United States Copyright Office registered the copyright for this film on December 6, 1916.
The official release date was December 11, 1916. | 534 |
340476 | Most SPI main controllers integrate support for up to four chip selects, although some require chip selects to be managed separately through GPIO lines.
Note that Queued SPI is different from Quad SPI, and some processors even confusingly allow a single "QSPI" interface to operate in either quad or queued mode!
Microwire, often spelled μWire, is essentially a predecessor of SPI and a trademark of National Semiconductor. It's a strict subset of SPI: half-duplex, and using SPI mode 0. | 487 |
31029495 | From July 1990 to 1994, he was the President of Network Equipment Technology Federal, Inc., a developer and marketer of wide-area networks and related products. In October 1994, he joined the Network Imaging Corporation as a Senior Vice President.
Since 2007, Hale has been a Vice President at Edgesource, Inc. | 310 |
56508329 | Madonna and Child is a painting by Giovanni Bellini, now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. It can be compared with the 1510 Madonna and Child (Brera), the 1505 Madonna del Prato (London) and the 1509 Madonna and Child (Detroit). | 229 |
497453 | The iron components were fabricated at the nearby Horseley Ironworks and assembled atop the masonry abutments. The design includes decorative lamp-posts and X-shaped bracing in the spandrels.
In the 1840s, a railway bridge was built from one of the abutments, with a parapet in keeping with the original. The Galton Bridge carried traffic for over 140 years until it was bypassed by a new road, named Telford Way, in the 1970s, and now carries only pedestrians and cyclists. | 474 |
602871 | This gave Horn more time to organize his defense.
Horn reported his situation to Major General Teuffel, who in turn forwarded the report to Gustavus Adolphus while he was busy with his own defense against Pappenheim's assaults. The King hastened to the centre where he received a direct report from Field Marshal Arnim that the Saxon army had retreated and the entire Imperial-League army had turned their attention towards Horn's isolated troops. The King immediately ordered Teuffel to send auxiliaries to Horn's aid. | 519 |
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