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3517826 | RexBel Ami (2012) as Comte de VaudrecUnited Passions (2014) as Lord Kinnaird
TelevisionBlood of the Lamb (1969) (as Anthony Corlan) as AlecThe Roads to Freedom (1970) as BorisArmchair Theatre (1972) as AdolphThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1973) as William HazeldeneHadleigh (1976) as Gregory BakerWings (1977) as Lt. | 316 |
3561703 | Wausau Downtown Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located in Wausau, a city in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. The airport serves general aviation aircraft, charter flights and seaplane operations. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility.
The Wausau airport was founded in 1927 and carried commercial flights until 1969 when the Central Wisconsin Airport began operations. | 536 |
23520650 | Prior to the partition of India, other biradaris including the Khatris, Mohyal Brahmins, and Aroras were also present in large numbers throughout the region.
The anthropologist Pnina Werbner have confirmed the continuing strength of tribal feelings among emigrant Pothoharis in the United Kingdom. This region was and still is an important source of recruitment into the old colonial British Indian Army, and its successor, the Pakistan Army. Official recruitment policies have also encouraged the sense of tribal belonging among the Pothoharis. | 545 |
6368645 | He made a total of 19 Bundesliga appearances in his first season with Bochum, scoring two goals.
In January 2008, he was loaned to Greuther Fürth of the 2. Bundesliga, after making just six Bundesliga appearances (without scoring a goal) with Bochum in the first half of the 2007–08 league season. He went on to spend a season and a half with Greuther Fürth, scoring 4 goals in 38 league appearances. | 400 |
1255195 | To reduce the size of .pst files, the user needs to compact them.
Password protection can be used to protect the content of the .pst files. However, Microsoft admits that the password adds very little protection, due to the existence of commonly available tools which can remove or simply bypass the password protection. The password to access the table is stored without the first and last XOR CRC-32 integer representation of itself
in the .pst file. Outlook checks to make sure that
it matches the user-specified password and refuses to operate if there is | 559 |
44084810 | Alan Bolton (1 July 1939 – 1 January 2003) was an English cricketer active from 1956 to 1963 who played for Lancashire. He was born in Darwen and died in Keighley. He appeared in 40 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm off break. He scored 1,223 runs with a highest score of 96 and held 15 catches. He took two wickets with a best analysis of one for 13. | 383 |
32294136 | Special Award, Bombay Province, British India, 1944.
There were media reports about his name having been recommended for the highest civilian honor Padma Vibhushan for 2007-08, but he passed-away before the final list could be drawn-up in New Delhi.
A campaign for bestowal of India's highest civilian award upon him was initiated by Parliamentarian (later Chief Minister) Bhupinder Singh Hooda (04-01-1999), Parliamentarian Jayashree Banerjee (12-12-2001) and Vice Chancellor Justice Gulab Gupta (04-11-2003). | 510 |
466672 | In 2016, for the first time, Chinese crested terns were found breeding in South Korea. Setting up a new colony in such a faraway area would prove a boon for the species.
Bridge, E. S.; Jones, A. W. & Baker, A. J. (2005): A phylogenetic framework for the terns (Sternini) inferred from mtDNA sequences: implications for taxonomy and plumage evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35: 459–469. | 402 |
13446467 | the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for the alveolar lateral ejective fricative
Lʾ (L + right half ring)
Lʿ (L + left half ring) | 137 |
14007200 | Yosyf Slipyi (1893–1984) Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
51. Leonid Kravchuk (1934–) First President of Ukraine
52. Petro Mohyla (1596–1647) Metropolitan of Kyiv
53. Ivan Sirko (1605–1680) Ukrainian Cossack military leader | 243 |
17249184 | I entreat you, who bore the Logos, in a manner beyond comprehension,
to refresh me in your grace that I may cry out,
Bright Friday: The Life Giving Spring of the Mother of God Orthodox icon and synaxarion
«ЖИВОНОСНЫЙ ИСТОЧНИК». Православная Энциклопедия. Russian Orthodox Encyclopedia
Holy icon rescued from 9/11 World Trade Center rubble Formerly St. | 354 |
27147760 | He completed his master's and PhD degrees in physics at Harvard University in 1969.
Among other contributions, Rieke and his group discovered ultraluminous infrared galaxies, the starburst phenomenon, studies of the Galactic Center as a prototypical active galactic nucleus, the physical origin of the infrared emission of active galactic nuclei, planetary debris disks, as well as Solar System astronomy at infrared wavelengths.
Rieke helped develop the first infrared-optimized telescope and constructed a series of state-of-the-art focal plane instruments. | 559 |
2228518 | Team Colombia (Equipo Colombia) is a conservative political party in Colombia.
At the last legislative elections, 10 March 2002, the party won, as one of the many small parties, parliamentary representation. It joined forces with ALAS, another small party, for the 2006 legislative election. In the election of 2006, the party won 7 out of 166 deputies and 5 out of 100 senators. The two political movements joined to form ALAS-Team Colombia. | 443 |
2435723 | New Sources to the Difficulties with the "Immortal Beloved".) Bonner Beethoven-Studien, vol. 2, pp. 115–146.
La Mara (1909) : Beethovens Unsterbliche Geliebte. Das Geheimnis der Gräfin Brunsvik und ihre Memoiren. (Beethoven's Immortal Beloved. Countess Brunsvik's Secret and her Memoirs). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel.
La Mara (1920): Beethoven und die Brunsviks. | 362 |
41777152 | Surf sargassum Sargassum vestitum (R. Brown ex Turner) C. Agardh (Robe, South Australia, to Mallacoota Point, Victoria, and around Tasmania.)
Lacerated sargassum Sargassum lacerifolium (Turner) C. Agardh (Pearson Island, South Australia, to Jervis Bay, New South Wales, and around Tasmania.) | 291 |
38422859 | By March 1949, the school became an "autonomous post-graduate institution of the Faculty of Social Service of the University of Delhi" and the name was changed to Delhi School of Social Work. Dorothy Moses was appointed as the first principal of the school. DSSW was managed by Delhi School of Social Work Society with representatives of the Y.W.C.A, the Ministries of Education and Health and the University of Delhi in its board. In 1953, Miss Moses left the school to take up an assignment on behalf of the UNESCO in Ceylon. | 527 |
44120420 | Marcus Hinsman "Mark" Barnum (March 14, 1834 – July 31, 1904) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician.
Born in Syracuse, New York, Barnum moved to Rosendale, Wisconsin in 1855 and taught school. He then moved to Wausau, Wisconsin, in 1858, was admitted to the Wisconsin bar, and elected District Attorney of Marathon County, Wisconsin in 1857 and in 1872. During the American Civil War, he served in the Union Army. | 427 |
59992850 | From 1533 the lords of Sinzendorf owned the village, but in 1575, after years of disputes over traffic rights, the brothers Friedrich and Tiburtius Counts Sinzendorf sold the entire site to Vienna's Brückenamt (bridge authority). From 1587, the name Jedlesee, formed by a spoonerism, is heard for the first time. Between 1573 and 1642 Jedlesee was a sovereign fief, first mentioned by a local judge (Gerstl) in 1587. | 416 |
43791742 | Christian Coulson as Damien George (season 5; 9 episodes), a hotshot music video director who works with The Exes. Scarlett has feelings for him and he eventually ends up being the father of her deceased baby.
Katrina Norman as Polly (season 5; 3 episodes), a stunning-road manager who wants Avery to leave Juliette.
Linds Edwards as Carl Hockeny (season 5; 6 episodes), Rayna's stalker who indirectly causes her death.
Ben Taylor as Flynn Burnett (seasons 5–6; 9 episodes), a love interest for Daphne. | 503 |
50495673 | Writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, G. R. Rubin described Finlay as "competent but not outstanding" both at the bar and on the bench, although he praised Finlay for his courage and zeal in his drive to make governments pursue German war criminals in the face of official obstruction and disinterest. Finlay's judicial demeanour was described as dignified and courteous, if slightly pompous. In private he was said to be jovial and an engaging host. | 468 |
374004 | With shifts in societal and legal reforms, Federal agencies took the first step towards modern day diversity training, and by the end of 1971, the Social Security Administration had enrolled over 50,000 employees through racial bias training. Corporations followed suit and, over the next five years, began offering anti-bias training to their employees. By 1976, 60 percent of large companies offered equal-opportunity training.
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan tried to reverse affirmative action regulations put forward by JFK and appointed Clarence Thomas to run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. | 616 |
26926795 | In 1990-91, Bharathiar Day Inter-District Basketball Tournament, Carmel Garden school team won third place.
In the Republic Day tournaments in 1996-97, a student won the singles title in state level table tennis tournaments and the same student was runner up in the same in 1997-98. He also won the singles winner title in the Bharathiar Day Table-Tennis State Level Tournaments in 1998-99.
In 1984 a student set a district junior 100 metre sprint record of 11.8 seconds. | 473 |
256568 | French 289th Artillery Regiment (220 mm)
One battery, Fr 3d Cl Artillery Regiment (220 mm)
6th Battalion, Fr 289th Artillery Regiment (280 mm)
Two batteries Fr TM (58 mm)
One battery Fr TM (150 mm)
One battery Fr TM (240 mm)
Fr 5th Tank Battalion (12 tanks) | 263 |
1830096 | In a 2004 NFC wildcard playoff game, Harris was the cornerback in primary coverage of Vikings' star wide receiver Randy Moss, who, upon catching his second touchdown of the game while being covered by Harris, famously "mooned" the crowd at Lambeau Field, an act for which Moss was fined $10,000.
In 2005, Harris only allowed one touchdown in coverage, and Harris finished the season with three sacks, ten pass deflections, and three interceptions (one for touchdown in a 52-3 win over the New Orleans Saints). | 509 |
488005 | Alan Blake - How Octopush was created
Video of an underwater hockey game USA vs. South Africa at Archive.org
Sports originating in the United Kingdom | 150 |
5121209 | The scenario is based on three principles (sufficiency-efficiency-renewables) with the goal of reaching a factor 2 reduction on energy demand and factor 4 on greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, involving changes in lifestyles and societal organisation considered as reasonable by the modellers. Sufficiency appears to be able to provide more final energy savings than efficiency.
A German study found that sufficiency measures could lead to a theoretical reduction of 70 % of energy consumption at the level of households. | 520 |
70372545 | October 26 – Pac-12 Men's Basketball Media Day in San Francisco. Arizona was picked to finish 2nd by the Pac-12 Media Day.
Arizona was ranked 17th in the AP poll. | 162 |
50868898 | The Ontario Heritage Act designation notes that it was built for the Canadian Birkbeck Investment and Savings Company in 1908, designed by George W. Gouinlock. The City of Toronto designated the property in 1976 and the Ontario Heritage Trust holds an easement on the property since 1985. "This former financial building boasts an impressive marble lobby, manually operated elevator and beaux arts architecture. The Gallery, with a separate street-level entrance, has high ceilings, a second-storey mezzanine and an elegant staircase. | 534 |
1271221 | By this, the Potawatomi ceded the "last of their Illinois and Wisconsin lands and their last reservations in Michigan." Caldwell and his band migrated west in 1835, first settling in Missouri west of the Mississippi River. The treaty provided for a $10,000 payment each to Caldwell and Robinson, and a $400 lifetime annuity for Caldwell, with $300 annually for Robinson. Before the US Senate ratified the treaty in 1835, it reduced the lump-sum payments to the men to $5000 each, but left their annuities intact. | 512 |
66913363 | 2016. Graven van Limburg Hohenlimburg & Broich. Printing house: Pro-Book Utrecht 2016. Edition Bolcom (search term: bol.com 9789492185594) Counts of Limburg Hohenlimburg and their descendants along the patrilinear line, period 850-1800. 300 pages
Van Limburg, H. 2016. Graven van Limburg Hohenlimburg & Broich. Regesten Deel 01. & Regesten Deel 02. | 349 |
233425 | 1338–1353) (recognized by the Kartids 1338–1349; by the Jalayirids 1338–1339, 1340–1344; by the Sarbadars 1338–1341, 1344, 1353)
Luqman (1353–1388) (son of Togha Temür) | 169 |
1256462 | None of the players have a fixed/assigned shirt number by the club.
For a list of former FC Istres players, see below
The club has two major rivalries. First is with neighbours FC Martigues, with many encounters over the years. The second is the Provence derby against AC Arles-Avignon. | 286 |
8350597 | Gadsden was a member of seven livery companies, including the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers as well as the Worshipful Company of World Traders, and served as founder master of the Worshipful Company of Engineers from 1983 to 1985. Gadsden was elected to the Court of Common Council for the ward of Cripplegate in 1969, and was appointed Sheriff of the City of London in 1970. | 380 |
3618925 | ZBNY (NAY) – Beijing Nanyuan Airport – Beijing
ZBOW (BAV) – Baotou Erliban Airport – Baotou, Inner Mongolia
ZBSH – Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan Airport – Qinhuangdao, Hebei
ZBSJ (SJW) – Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport – Shijiazhuang, Hebei
ZBTJ (TSN) – Tianjin Binhai International Airport – Tianjin
ZBTL (TGO) – Tongliao Airport – Tongliao, | 354 |
38783274 | Raymond Twomey Duncan (October 23, 1930 – October 9, 2015) known as Ray Duncan was an American entrepreneur and vintner. Originally involved in oil entrepreneurship in Colorado and founder of Duncan Oil, he was the founder along with Justin Meyer of Silver Oak Cellars in 1972, a successful winery based in the Napa Valley and Alexander Valley. Today his sons David Duncan and Tim Duncan run Silver Oak Cellars, as well as Twomey Cellars. | 438 |
13031176 | A colonial surplus is a way of measuring the effects of the relationship between colony and metropolis.
A colony, in the sense of a region being ruled by a foreign overseas power, was in a different position from that of an independent country. As Maddison remarked some time ago of India, ‘The major burden of foreign rule arose from the fact that the British raj was a regime of expatriates.’ Such expatriates generate a flow of funds out of the colony. Something similar would have occurred in Latin America during the post-Spanish period of ‘informal rule’ by British and American finance. | 594 |
56014705 | The KC was located in an underground bunker and was the place from where the air traffic operations on the base were led and organized.
Bascentralen (BasC) - The Base Central
A new addition in Bas 90 was Bascentralen (BasC), The Base Central, where the base command would be stationed. The BasC was located in an underground bunker. Pilots would also be stationed at the BasC in between missions. The BasC was equipped with computers for mission planning and the data could then be transferred to the aircraft computers. | 521 |
1324767 | Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography.
Rife is known for his microscopes, which he claimed could observe live microorganisms with a magnification considered impossible for his time, and for an "oscillating beam ray" invention, which he thought could treat various ailments by "devitalizing disease organisms" using radio waves. | 434 |
28244758 | The Social Welfare Act of 1982 replaced some older laws; it charged local government with providing such social services as general and family counseling and with making housing available to those needing it, most notably the aged and the infirm, troubled youth, and alcoholics. The law detailed local responsibilities for assigning specialists to assist persons living at home but no longer fully able to take care of themselves and for maintaining institutions for persons, be they aged, mentally handicapped, or addicted, whose afflictions were so serious that they could no longer live at home. | 598 |
44560328 | Tabernaemontana flavicans is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is found in northwestern South America. | 117 |
55526870 | Rather than "literary and artistic property" he preferred "authors' and inventors' rights", which he saw as a grant of a temporary monopoly as a reward for the service the creator renders to society.
Thus he ensured that the Salvandy commission of 1839 on "literary property" led to the law on the "rights of authors in their production in letters and the arts".
Again, the act of 14 July 1866 on the rights of widows and children referred only to the "author's right". | 469 |
28343907 | 1986 in Dutch television for television related events in the Netherlands.
1986 in Estonian television for television related events in the Estonian SSR.
1986 in French television for television related events in the France.
1986 in German television for television related events in Germany.
1986 in Irish television for television related events in Ireland.
1986 in Italian television for television related events in Italy.
1986 in Japanese television for television related events in Japan.
1986 in Norwegian television for television related events in Norway.
1986 in Philippine television for television related events in the Philippines. | 652 |
27653365 | Other subfossil lemurs, such as Hadropithecus and Mesopropithecus, fed on CAM and C4 plants, which use more water-efficient forms of photosynthesis. Fruit and animal matter was more common in the diets of subfossil lemurs including Pachylemur, Archaeolemur, and the giant aye-aye. | 281 |
213462 | It is the number of a hotel room occupied by Lulu, and later by Bai Ling at the Oriental Hotel, while Mo-Wan's room number is 2047.
Chow writes science fiction stories, in which 2046 is a popular year and place to which people travel through time. The stories are titled 2046 and later 2047 (in collaboration with Wang Jing-wen).
The year 2046 has its own significance for Hong Kong, as it is 49 years after the handover of Hong Kong by the British on 1 July 1997. | 464 |
22276392 | Geir Petter "Dyret" Jenssen - Drums, vocals
Life... But How to Live It? albums
de:Life… But How To Live It?
no:Life… But How To Live It? | 136 |
44772 | In the late first century BC this name came to extend to the entirety of the Salento, when the Roman emperor Augustus divided Italy into regions. The whole region of Apulia received the name Regio II Apulia et Calabria. By this time modern Calabria was still known as Bruttium, after the Bruttians who inhabited the region. Later in the seventh century AD, the Byzantine Empire created the Duchy of Calabria from the Salento and the Ionian part of Bruttium. | 457 |
3823656 | He resigned from his position on 7 February 2005 without comment, though it was reported that he felt the government lacked commitment to ending corruption and that he had received death threats, a common occurrence in Kenyan public office holding. As a result of his resignation international aid to Kenya was cut. He remains a powerful advocate against corruption. | 366 |
57229369 | Arethaea gracilipes, the thin-footed thread-leg katydid, is a species of phaneropterine katydid in the family Tettigoniidae. It is found in North America. | 154 |
65006189 | Vladimir Turina (6 February 1913 – 22 October 1968) was a Croatian architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. | 173 |
70692408 | Better in the Shade is the seventh studio album released by Canadian group Patrick Watson. It was released on April 22, 2022.
Better in the Shade received generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 78 based on 4 reviews.
In the Sputnikmusic review, staff member Sunnyvale praised the album as "the sonic equivalent of living, breathing, human warmth". | 490 |
4261560 | As QC, Hooson represented Ian Brady, one of the "Moors Murderers" along with Myra Hindley, when Brady was tried and convicted of three murder charges at Chester Assizes in spring 1966. He described some of the evidence against Brady as "flimsy".
In 1970 he appeared for the Ministry of Defence at a public inquiry over plans to move its experimental range from Shoeburyness to Pembrey, near Carmarthen. | 402 |
74886654 | Ex-Cell-O Corporation (commonly known as Ex-Cell-O) was an American manufacturer of machinery and machine tools located in suburban Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company was in operation from 1919 to 2006.
The company was established in 1919 as Ex-Cell-O Tool and Manufacturing Co. by a group of tool and die makers, all of whom were former employees of Ford Motor Company. The site of the original shop was located in Highland Park, Michigan, only a few blocks from the world's first automobile assembly line. | 518 |
72496603 | In addition to its commercial importance, the shopping center is considered the largest leisure and entertainment facility in the Vale do Aço Metropolitan Area, its movie theater being the most relevant one in the region. According to SEBRAE, it is among the most recommended attractions to travelers by businessmen and professionals who receive business tourists in the Vale do Aço.
The Shopping Vale do Aço project began in 1994, through a partnership between Intermall Empreendimentos e Participações, Fundação São Francisco Xavier, and Cooperativa de Consumo dos Empregados da Usiminas (Consul). | 599 |
9431755 | Later she forms a true family with both her parents, including her father: Robert Theodore Davis, and starts a new company; Baker Man.
Barry Corbin plays Brian Durham, also known as Whitey, as a series regular in Season 1 through 4, as a guest star for one episode in Season 5 and as a special guest star for one episode in Season 6. | 333 |
4873434 | REVISTA MEXICANA DE PSIQUIATRÍA INFANTIL, 3,4, 1994 y 4,1:33-34. 1995.
¿Quién es doctor? REVISTA MEXICANA DE PSIQUIATRÍA INFANTIL, 4,2 y 3:36-37, 1995.
¿...Y qué hay de los diplomas? REVISTA MEXICANA DE PSIQUIATRÍA INFANTIL, 4,4:32-33, 1995. | 243 |
37679356 | Optimal nutrition can be achieved by the expectant mother making the decision to breastfeed or bottle-feed the infant before birth and preparing for chosen decision.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization currently recommend feeding infants only breast milk for the first six months of life. If the baby is being fed infant formula, it must be iron-enriched. An infant that receives exclusively breast milk for the first six months rarely needs additional vitamins or minerals. However, vitamins D and B12 may be needed if the breastfeeding mother does not have a proper intake of these vitamins. | 634 |
8719529 | Raymond Loreda Salvatore Patriarca (; March 17, 1908 – July 11, 1984) was an American mobster from Providence, Rhode Island, who became the long-time boss of the Patriarca crime family, whose control extended throughout New England for more than three decades. Patriarca died on July 11, 1984. | 293 |
16320493 | Scenes of Clerical Life is George Eliot's first published work of fiction, a collection of three short stories, published in book form; it was the first of her works to be released under her famous pseudonym. The stories were first published in Blackwood's Magazine over the course of the year 1857, initially anonymously, before being released as a two-volume set by Blackwood and Sons in January 1858. The three stories are set during the last twenty years of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century over a fifty-year period. | 555 |
396631 | His support for unorthodox causes has attracted criticism from fellow scientists since the 1970s, including from Philip Anderson. Josephson regards the criticism as prejudice, and believes that it has served to deprive him of an academic support network.
He has repeatedly criticized "science by consensus," arguing that the scientific community is too quick to reject certain kinds of ideas. "Anything goes among the physics community – cosmic wormholes, time travel," he argues, "just so long as it keeps its distance from anything mystical or New Age-ish." | 559 |
69383179 | Earthquakes of these types occur within the subducted slab rather than at the plate boundary, known as intraslab earthquakes.
Earlier in that day, Lima was struck by a magnitude 5.1 quake offshore at 64.5 km depth. That event occurred due to convergence along the Peru-Chile subduction zone at the plate boundary, hence are unrelated.
On February 3, 2022, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck the same region. This earthquake may have been an aftershock, as it occurred north of the mainshock. | 491 |
31286430 | Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey
Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games | 135 |
37340227 | | AACTA Award BASF Award for Best Original Music Score Anthony Marinelli, Billy Childs
Tulich, Katherine, "The Making and Re-Making of Flynn", Cinema Papers, May 1991 | 168 |
42271 | Relevant cost: The relevant cost is a cost which is relevant in various decisions of management.
Replacement cost: This cost is the cost at which existing items of material or fixed assets can be replaced at present or at a future date.
Shutdown cost: Costs incurred if operations are shut down, and which would not occur if operations are continued.
Capacity cost: The cost incurred by a company for providing production, administration and selling and distribution capabilities in order to perform various functions. These costs are normally fixed costs.
Sunk cost: A cost already incurred, which cannot be recovered. | 619 |
4206597 | Golden Ears Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is named after the prominent twin peaks, which are commonly referred to as Golden Ears (Mount Blanshard) (elevation: ). The park was originally part of Garibaldi Provincial Park (established 1927) but was split off as a separate park in 1967. The area was logged extensively in the 1920s by the Lougheed and Abernathy Logging Company. Many recreational attractions are found within the park. | 473 |
63549618 | The rest is written in either italics or bold and does not relate directly to the plotline of the book, but rather has a more poetic and abstract significance with regards to Haitian culture. Frequently these sections are related to the titular dézafi (cock fight) and they are often narrated in first person plural.
In the later 2002 edition of the book many more font sizes and typefaces were added beyond the original three, in addition to other changes relating to spelling and formatting. | 493 |
57874 | Pago Pago has been named one of the wettest places on Earth. Due to its warm winters, the plant hardiness zone is 13b. It receives of rain per year. The rainy season lasts from October through May, but the town experiences warm and humid temperatures year-round. Besides it being wetter and more humid from November–April, this is also the hurricane season. The frequency of hurricanes hitting Pago Pago has increased dramatically in recent years. The windy season lasts from May to October. | 492 |
17988074 | Included in its collections are more than 800 volumes of church and cemetery records for Lehigh and neighboring counties, early county records including tax rolls, wills and land deeds, indexed marriage records and announcements, 800 volumes of family genealogical histories, city directories from 1860 through the present, maps, census records, and published histories. The library also maintains microfiche versions of several of Allentown's early German and English-language newspapers. Access to the library is free for Society members; a small fee applies for non-members. | 579 |
10683847 | Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Oxford)
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom
Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society | 145 |
5031857 | FAES has published Spanish editions of books on global warming by Václav Klaus and Nigel Lawson, both politicians who deny climate science.
May 2013 marked the launch of a new book series called “Biografías Políticas,” which contains the biographies of important figures in the liberal-conservative tradition of contemporary Spain. | 331 |
41127754 | Zorn had denied that it depicted a Confederate flag to local television station WLNS, saying he believed the mask was meant to depict the state flag of either Tennessee or Kentucky although the mask had no resemblance to either flag.
Zorn also stated “... [E]ven if it was a Confederate flag, you know, we should be talking about teaching our national history in schools and that’s part of our national history and it’s something we can’t just throw away because it is part of our history." | 490 |
58418257 | Neal R. Brendel (September 12, 1954 – August 25, 2021) was an American rugby union player and lawyer. Brendel played at the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup. His test debut for the Eagles was against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground on July 9, 1983. He made his last appearance for USA against England at the 1987 World Cup at Concord Oval, Sydney, Australia. | 363 |
54571769 | Atherton, whilst correspondent for the Daily Mail and editor of the Balkan Herald was based at Dobrašina 12, Belgrade, and would write to editors of London papers with anecdotes of life in the Balkan city. On 25 November 1935, Atherton reported to the Editor of The Times of London of the donation of animals from Tierpark Hagenbeck to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Whereas the Mayor of Belgrade, Vlada Ilić appealed to the United Kingdom for gifts of specimens, preferably in pairs, for a much anticipated Belgrade Zoo. | 517 |
25517295 | The heavy rains caused flash flooding, which is to blame for 9 deaths.
July 8, 2021 – Hurricane Elsa impacted the central and eastern part of the state. It dropped 5 inches of rain in Raleigh, and spawns multiple tornadoes in eastern North Carolina.
August 16-17, 2021 – Tropical Storm Fred dumps up to 12 inches of rain in the mountain region in the state. 6 deaths were caused by the Cruso, North Carolina flood. Buncombe and Haywood counties were hotspots for flash flooding. | 481 |
29142810 | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
Knights of the Legion of Honour | 103 |
3261607 | The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA) issued a statement to UNCTAD strongly criticizing the UNCTAD report on the Sri Lankan pharmaceutical policies.
This policy was watered down by the multi-national-friendly United National Party Government of 1977. There was continued government control of the types of drugs imported, but permission was given to the private sector to import multiple brands. The SPC was never dissolved and continued to supply affordable drugs, continuing to be responsible for centralized procurement for the government health sector. | 600 |
3106890 | Charles Edward Lindblom (March 21, 1917 – January 30, 2018) was an American academic who studied economics at the University of Chicago and was Sterling Professor emeritus of political science and economics at Yale University. He served as president of the American Political Science Association and the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, as well as director of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
Lindblom was one of the early developers and advocates of the theory of incrementalism in policy and decision-making. | 540 |
59140159 | She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and to Professor in 2017, becoming the Percy Edward Hart Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Enright Jerger co-chairs the ACM Council on Diversity and Inclusion. In 2023, she was promoted as Director of the Division of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto.
2014: Young Engineer Medal from Professional Engineers Ontario.
2015: CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award (BECA). 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
2018: Named an ACM Distinguished Member.
2019: Canada Research Chair in Computer Architecture. | 582 |
2812493 | The production company refused, and Shenandoah was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early 1991 after paying more than 2 million dollars on court settlements and legal fees. Although the lawsuits allowed Shenandoah to keep its name, the bankruptcy filing terminated the contract with Columbia after a 1992 Greatest Hits'' package. The production company's officials then filed a lawsuit against the band, claiming that it had tried to void its agreement with them. | 474 |
21285603 | On the last day of the carnival, Mardi Gras, all of Paris came en masse to witness the "descente de la Courtille", one of the three major Mardi Gras processions named after the cheap restaurants that lined the rue de Belleville. Among them, "Le coq Hardi" (The Hardy Rooster) and "La carotte filandreuse" (The Coriaceous Carrot), were well known for the drinking binges of their patrons. | 387 |
41058142 | As a public speaker, Filip has been on TEDx, Cannes Lions, LeWeb, TheNextWeb, Strata and more.
Maertens was named Belgium's Top 50 Entrepreneur (2014) and Innovator (2015).
TEDx Leuven Filip Maertens profile at TEDxLeuven, 2012
TEDx UHasselt Salon Filip Maertens profile at TEDxUHasselt, 2013 | 296 |
27459630 | Sõmerpalu (, ) is a small borough () in Võru County, Estonia. Between 1991–2017, until the administrative reform of Estonian local governments, the small town was the administrative center of Sõmerpalu Parish. As of 2017, it belongs to Võru Parish.
The history of the local manor goes back to at least 1544, when there was a fortified manor, a so-called "vassal castle", at approximately the same site as the present-day manor house. | 433 |
18468984 | Aglio (Italian for "garlic") is a surname. People with this surname include:
Andrea-Salvatore Aglio (1736–1786), Italian painter and sculptor
Domenico Aglio (active 1710), Italian sculptor | 190 |
4393236 | Reports issued before the advent of effective anti-tuberculosis therapy showed that, when untreated, 30-50% of tuberculomas enter and remain in a stationary course.
Tuberculomas are most commonly seen in areas where tuberculosis is endemic. In these areas, tuberculomas can account for between 30%-50% of intracranial masses. India and parts of Asia are two areas where tuberculomas have been noted to be particularly prevalent. They occur most often as solitary, infratentorial lesions in young children. | 505 |
68562743 | The Egeland school had a $50,000 per year operating cost, was not in compliance with fire safety laws, and had 32 students in the 2002-2003 school year. The Towner County Historical Society took control of the Egeland School.
In the 2006-2007 school year, there were 56 students. In the 2007-2008 school year enrollment was under 50. By 2007 Bisbee-Egeland and the Cando School District began sharing a superintendent, athletics, and faculty. | 442 |
63606231 | The 1915–16 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas during the 1915–16 college men's basketball season. | 138 |
73725906 | In a later report on the rehabilitation, Palazuelo commented that "the first and main guideline of the project was to preserve the spirit of the convent and the lines of its architectural style both as a whole and in the smallest detail." He went on: "Without ever losing the original style or architectural characteristics from sight, and without losing the sense of harmony or conventual spirit and atmosphere, plans were drawn up to accomplish the reconversion of the convent into a new building for a new use, that of a National Parador." | 542 |
2398399 | 1909 in a co-ownership deal for 6 billion lire in 1999, until Roma acquired him for 2 billion lire in the same summer that Francesco Antonioli, Amedeo Mangone and Alessandro Rinaldi joined Roma for 10 billion lire, 13 billion lire and 6 billion lire respectively. In June 2000 Bologna acquired Womé outright for a fee of 1 million lire. During his time in England at Fulham, Womé scored once in the league, in a 3–0 win over West Brom in February 2003. | 452 |
9863204 | During his first few years in Leipzig, Knüpfer gave music lessons and sang as a bass in church choirs, displaying enough talent to take solo parts. He applied for the post of Thomaskantor when Tobias Michael died on 26 June 1657, and he was appointed on 17 July; the four other candidates to whom he was preferred included Adam Krieger. | 336 |
2809752 | A window screen (also known as insect screen, bug screen, fly screen, flywire, wire mesh, or window net) is designed to cover the opening of a window. It is usually a mesh made of metal, fibreglass, plastic wire, or other pieces of plastic and stretched in a frame of wood or metal. It serves to keep leaves, debris, bugs, birds, and other animals from entering a building or a screened structure such as a porch, without blocking fresh air-flow. | 446 |
10431484 | On March 17, 2008 he signed with the Straubing Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga and transferred November 28, 2008 to EC Graz 99ers of the Erste Bank Hockey League. After two weeks in Austria, he was released by the team. | 226 |
28830969 | Dahanu is part of the Palghar Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Vikramgad, Palghar, Boisar, Nalasopara and Vasai in Palghar district.
List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha | 227 |
997260 | Specific orbital energy, another conserved quantity in the two-body problem. | 76 |
43614175 | Neale Daniher (born 1961), Australian rules footballer.
Stephen Darby (born 1988), English footballer.
Daniel L. Doctoroff (born 1958), American businessman and government official.
Roberta Flack (born 1937), American singer.
Yasuhiko Funago (born 1957), Japanese politician.
Steve Gleason (born 1977), American football player.
Kerry Goode (born 1965), American football player.
Tim Green (born 1963), American football player, commentator and author. | 452 |
1011275 | La création artistique espagnole à l'épreuve de la modernité esthétique européenne, 1898-1931, Editions Publibook, 2009, | 120 |
3480327 | The French also began to introduce a subsidiary coinage in 'cents' into Cochinchina in the late 1870s. These cents were actually subsidiary coinage of the Spanish dollar unit, also known as Philippine peso or Mexican peso in the Spanish colonial empire, as opposed to being subsidiary coinage of the French franc.
In 1884, the French empire in Indo-China further expanded to incorporate Annam and Tonkin. The following year, in 1885, the French introduced a new silver piastre de commerce and associated subsidiary coinage throughout the entire Indo-Chinese colonies in order to increase monetary stability. | 607 |
1417877 | Robert de Grimston (also known as Robert Moor and The Teacher; born 10 August 1935) is a British occultist who was founder of The Process Church of The Final Judgment (popularly referred to as The Process) in the 1960s. He was born in Shanghai, China.
Created in partnership with Mary Ann MacLean (known as "The Oracle" in the Process Church), they met while they were members of the Church of Scientology in London. | 416 |
13144095 | Such schools existed, e.g., in Poland, in areas dominated by Ukrainians and Belarusians ("Kresy Wschodnie"), and in Austria-Hungary/Austria of 19th and early 20th centuries, in the areas of numerous ethnic minorities. In both cases, these types of schools were considered to be instrumented of ethnic assimilation (Polonization and Germanisation respectively.) In Poland, some other utraquist schools taught in Polish and Yiddish languages. | 441 |
3096587 | In order to demonstrate the irrationality of the fear, a psychologist would put a person in a situation where they would face their phobia. Under controlled conditions and using psychologically-proven relaxation techniques, the subject attempts to replace their fear with relaxation. The experience can often be traumatic for a person, but may be necessary if the phobia is causing them significant life disturbances. The advantage to flooding is that it is quick and usually effective. There is, however, a possibility that a fear may spontaneously recur. | 556 |
3006674 | Hemphill made himself known in 2002 and 2003 driving in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for multiple owners, including Rick Ware, Bobby Hamilton, and Billy Ballew. In nine races, he scored one top ten.
Hemphill broke out in the 2004 ARCA season, scoring 6 wins and 10 top tens in eleven races, under the Chip Ganassi Racing driver development program. In 2005, Hemphill was promoted to the NASCAR Busch Series in the Biagi Brothers Racing Ganassi-assisted program, driving the No. | 484 |
13148312 | Billboard and American Songwriter ranked "All My Friends Say" at number three and number nine, respectively, on their lists of the 10 greatest Luke Bryan songs.
"All My Friends Say" debuted at number 59 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of February 10, 2007. On the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of August 18, 2007, the song debuted at number 90. | 378 |
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