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562838 | Bolívar took the forces he brought from Haiti to the Orinoco region, which was mostly controlled by Piar. Piar was making headway against the royalists of Angostura, and was preparing to lay siege to the city. The siege proved difficult and long, since Angostura had a lifeline in the river itself. Bolívar's reinforcements were useful and the city fell in August 1817. Angostura proved to be an immensely valuable base. | 420 |
2233580 | Christian August Gottlob Eberhard (12 January 176913 May 1845) was a German miscellaneous writer.
He was born at Belzig, in the Electorate of Saxony. He studied theology at Leipzig; but, having had a story successfully published in a periodical, he began a career in literature. With the exception of Hannchen und die Küchlein (1822), a narrative poem in ten parts, and an epic on the creation, Der erste Mensch und die Erde (1828), Eberhard's work was ephemeral in character and is now forgotten. | 497 |
20854317 | Continentale Eisenbahn- Bau- und Betriebs- Gesellschaft | 55 |
28257071 | Due to religious nationalism since the partition of British India and consequent continued communal tensions, native speakers of both Hindi and Urdu increasingly assert them to be completely distinct languages.
Urdu's vocabulary remains heavily influenced by the Persian language. Since the 1800s, English started to replace Persian as the official language in India and it also contributed to influence the Urdu language. As of today, Urdu's vocabulary is strongly influenced by the English language.
Studies including the Sachar Report have claimed that the Muslim community in Uttar Pradesh lags behind in terms of economics, educational attainment and political representation. | 681 |
12940960 | David Freides, reviewing the Stanford–Binet Third Revision in 1970 for the Buros Seventh Mental Measurements Yearbook (published in 1972), commented that the test was obsolete by that year.
The first edition of the Woodcock–Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities was published by Riverside in 1977. The classifications used by the WJ-R Cog were "modern in that they describe levels of performance as opposed to offering a diagnosis."
The revised version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (the WAIS-R) was developed by David Wechsler and published by Psychological Corporation in 1981. | 589 |
1921822 | Formed from Town 4, Range 7 of the Connecticut Western Reserve, Freedom Township covers an area of . The Ravenna Training and Logistics Site covers the southeast corner of the township.
Freedom Township was settled in 1818 and organized in 1825, one of the last townships in Portage County to be organized. The first settler was Charles Paine, son of General Edward Paine, whom Painesville, Ohio, is named after. It was said to have been named by Charles Paine's wife after the idea of freedom. | 494 |
27669545 | In March 2006, the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) - now the Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) - announced the beginning of a $12 million national campaign to preserve the historic Slaughter Pen Farm, a key part of the Fredericksburg battlefield. The farm, known locally as the Pierson Tract, was the scene of bloody struggle on December 13, 1862. Over this ground Federal troops under Maj. Gen. George Meade and Brig. Gen. John Gibbon launched their assault against Lt. Gen. | 509 |
58553103 | Thompson accused Cermak of being in cahoots with bootleggers and gamblers, and accused Cermak of having profited from misconduct alleging that he had, "saved six million out of a $10,000 salary."
The election took place amid the Great Depression. The Depression, taking place under the administration of Republican president Herbert Hoover, may have ultimately contributed to Thompson's defeat.
Cermak received strong support from the city's teachers organizations. He was personally endorsed by Margaret Haley, president of the Chicago Teachers Federation. | 557 |
73223975 | From 1994 to 2008 he served as the president of the Swiss disability sports group Plusport Behindertensport Schweiz and since 1999 he served on the board of Pro Infirmis.
In 1999 he was elected to the local council of his hometown of Kreuzlingen. From 2000 to 2014 he was in the legislature of Thurgau and became its president in 2008 and 2009. | 344 |
90118 | The word "house" is colored blue (gray for non-color editions of the book and light gray for red editions). In many places throughout the book, it is offset from the rest of the text in different directions at different times. Foreign-language equivalents of house, such as the German and the French , are also blue. These colorizations even extend to the Random House publishing information on the book's copyright page and back cover.
In all colored editions, the word minotaur and all struckthrough passages are colored red. | 529 |
3538873 | Green is occasionally found in historical coats of arms (as opposed to the fictional "green knights" of Arthurian romance) from as early as the 13th century, but it remained rare, and indeed actively avoided, well into the 15th century, but becomes more common in the classical heraldry of the 16th and 17th centuries. | 318 |
255049 | A television series adaptation of the novel was released in October 2021, with Neal H. Moritz and James Wan producing and Shay Hatten writing the pilot. Amazon ordered a straight-to-series order in October 2020.
I Know What You Did Last Summer has been referenced in various films and television series, and its central plot was parodied at length in the spoof films Scary Movie (2000) and Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th (2000). | 448 |
7157428 | Lycoris is a Greek word and it means "twilight". Other uses include:
Lycoris (plant), a genus of family Amaryllidaceae
Lycoris, a character of .hack the multimedia franchise
Lycoris (company), a software company, acquired by Mandriva in 2005
Lycoris Black, a character from the Harry Potter novels
Lycoris Recoil, an anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures | 365 |
74370040 | Some of the remains of houses demolished by the Cromwell Company bear testament to this dark period of Bendigo's history, reminiscent of the Irish Land Wars and Scottish Highland Clearances.
Like Logantown and Bendigo before it, the remains of Welshtown have been reduced to the stone walls of several miners cottages and the Pengelly Hotel.
Although the first gold to be discovered in Bendigo was alluvial in origin, the greatest rewards would come from the quartz reefs in the nearby hills. | 492 |
23981009 | Huaishang () is a district of the city of Bengbu, Anhui Province, China.
In the present, Huaishang District has 1 subdistrict, 3 towns and 1 township. | 150 |
39565935 | A new club, Zeravani SC, was founded in 2011 from the remnants of Peris SC. | 75 |
17385745 | Jagannath or Jagannatha is a deity worshipped in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Jagannath or Jagannatha may also refer to:
Jagannatha Samrat (1652–1744), Indian astronomer and mathematician
Jagannatha Panditaraja, 17th-century poet and literary critic
Jagan Nath Kaul (1924–2008), Indian humanitarian | 298 |
67934016 | As of March 2022, the escrow account has dispensed over $7.7 million to Minnesota law enforcement agencies, including $2.2 million to Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources. The Cass County Sheriff's Office alone drew over $327,000 of funding for policing costs by April 2021. Center for Protest Law and Litigation lawyer Mara Verheyden-Hilliard criticized the account, saying it incentivizes law enforcement "to take action against peaceful opponents of the pipeline". Protesters have reported aerial surveillance by drones and being tailed by law enforcement in vehicles. | 578 |
106203 | Special pleading is an informal fallacy wherein one cites something as an exception to a general or universal principle, without justifying the special exception. It is the application of a double standard.
In the classic distinction among material fallacies, cognitive fallacies, and formal fallacies, special pleading most likely falls within the category of a cognitive fallacy, because it would seem to relate to "lip service", rationalization, and diversion (abandonment of discussion). Special pleading also often resembles the "appeal to" logical fallacies. | 564 |
70023870 | Robert L. Sanders (December 20, 1961) is an American politician serving as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 29th district. He assumed office on November 3, 2021.
Sanders was born in Shaw, Mississippi in 1961. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from Mississippi Valley State University.
Sanders served as chief of police of the Mississippi Valley State University Police Department and was an officer in the Shaw Police Department. He was also an internal affairs investigator with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. | 578 |
65011773 | He served as a general counsel on the Texas Joint Legislative Committee on Prison Reform and as a delegate to the Texas Democratic Party convention. He was unsuccessful in a bid for a seat in Congress in 1978 and 1982.
Tillman was interviewed for the book Black Cinema Treasures.
He died of cancer on June 18, 1998 in Houston, at the age of 73. | 344 |
55726413 | After meeting with the country's Human Rights and Civil Society Council, Putin stated on October 30, 2017 during the opening ceremony that the tragedy must not be forgotten or justified, as "an unequivocal and clear assessment of the repression will help to prevent it being repeated". The ceremony was witnessed by around 100 attendees, many of whom were senior citizens, human rights activists and government officials of Moscow.
The monument is not the first of its kind, but it is the first built by presidential decree. | 524 |
50596182 | white-eared parakeet or maroon-faced parakeet (Pyrrhura leucotis), ochre-marked parakeet (Pyrrhura cruentata), | 110 |
56012636 | Higo competed in the Bantamweight division on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 4. He defeated Maycon Silvan in the elimination round via first round arm-triangle choke, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Bruno Rodrigues Mesquita via first round rear-naked choke. After Giovanni Santos was forced to leave the season due to an infection, Higo reluctantly accepted to replace Santos to face Matheus Mattos in another quarterfinal bout. However, his rib injury sustained in the previous week's bout with Mesquita worsened and he was forced to withdraw. | 553 |
1442575 | When it opened in 1806 it was one of England's first purpose built asylums. The Palladian fronted building was originally seven separate blocks into which patients were allocated depending on their class. The buildings, estate and therapeutic regime designed by Edward Long Fox was based on the principles of moral treatment which was fashionable at the time. Brislington House later influenced the design and construction of other asylums and influenced Act of parliament. The house and ancillary structures are listed buildings which have now been converted into private residences. | 584 |
16643581 | These programs are exclusively fed to select stations by the network, fed by a Radyo Natin affiliate to fellow Radyo Natin stations in their area, or fed by a blocktimer to select stations.
Kasangga ng Bayan with Larry Karangalan (Southern Luzon – Padre Garcia) | 262 |
52446859 | Lagos State University Teaching Hospital popularly known as LASUTH is a state-owned teaching hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, attached to the Lagos State University. It is in Ikeja – the state's capital.
LASUTH also shares structures with the College of Medicine, Lagos State University. The hospital was established in 1955 from a small cottage health centre by the Old western region. It was converted to a teaching hospital in July 2001.
On 12 November 2015 the first successful kidney transplant was performed in the hospital. | 525 |
286517 | Results of a systematic review exploring the comparative effectiveness of treatments of early rheumatoid arthritis show that treatment efficacy can be improved with combination therapy with anti-TNF or other biologic medications, compared with methotrexate monotherapy.
Likewise, a 2016 study found the use of methotrexate, in combination with anti-TNF agents, has been shown to be effective for the treatment of ulcerative colitis.
Methotrexate has also been used for multiple sclerosis and is used occasionally in systemic lupus erythematosus, with tentative evidence to support such use. | 590 |
50774328 | Founded in 1929, Children's Hospital at Erlanger serves the medical needs of infants, children and adolescents in a 31,400 square-mile region of Southeast Tennessee, North Georgia, North Alabama, and Western North Carolina. The hospital is a Comprehensive Regional Pediatric Center (CRPC), designated by the state of Tennessee to function at the highest level of pediatric medical and trauma care. It is one of four CRPCs in Tennessee.
In addition to providing general pediatric care, Children's Hospital has a board-certified medical staff representing 14 pediatric subspecialties (children's medical specialties). | 615 |
54578497 | To this it adds the large nepheline syenite bodies of the Lovozero Massif and the Khibiny Mountains. An estimate puts the total volume of the rocks of the Kola Alkaline Province at 15,000 ±2,700 km3.
The more mafic silicate rocks of the province originated from small degrees of partial melting in a source region in Earth's mantle made up of garnet-bearing peridotite. The lithosphere had thicknesses similar to present-day (200 km) conditions when magmas originated in the Devonian. | 485 |
2365188 | A Los Angeles Times article in 1987 called "The Essence of Cocooning: It's a Desire for a Cozy, Perfect Environment Far From the Influences of a Madding World" tied the concept to fear of environmental destruction. In the article, Popcorn cited the increased use of gourmet frozen foods, soft furniture such as Barcaloungers, investment services, and "mom foods" that remind consumers of adolescence, as examples of cocooning behavior. She cited less involvement in social and political issues as a downside of cocooning, though she predicted a counter-trend to emerge. | 570 |
6334108 | BW Water’s experienced team, working with a range of technologies, help improve the environment by protecting the world’s most essential natural resource – water.
BW Water has a strong pedigree and experience in the design and implementation of water and wastewater treatment systems.
BW Ideol is a leader in floating foundations for offshore wind, enabling access to deeper water and the additional space and wind power associated with that.
In February 2021, BW Offshore became a strategic owner of Ideol S.A., creating a renewable energy company (named BW Ideol) with market-leading capabilities based on proven technology developed in-house. | 645 |
72803707 | social justice movements, and the ways in which the idea of childhood operates within and against them, including Black Lives Matter, transfeminism, queer youth activism, and anti-deportation movements.
His PhD thesis analyses the category of childhood as a power structure, an idea which is further developed in his book Ambivalent Childhoods. This book has been described as "a landmark achievement" that "braids together scholarly approaches to childhood that center Blackness, transgender, queer sexuality, and migration in order to show how each twists through ambivalent, fraught, and necessary claims to the protections of childhood innocence." | 651 |
483246 | This season was also the first time in league history any MLS team won the regular season (Supporters' Shield) and postseason title in the same season.
D.C. United's run ended the third year, when they made a third run to the MLS Cup finals, only to lose to the expansion side Chicago Fire by 2–0. However the following year, United repeated their "double" of winning both the Supporters Shield and MLS Cup the same season. This time, it was a 2–0 win over the Galaxy in the 1999 MLS Cup final. | 494 |
37086943 | At 6'5" tall, Peled started life as a basketball player and was called "larger than life" when he enveloped his Guarneri cello and "Jacqueline du Pré in a farmer's body." Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences through explanations, jokes, and even with a basketball game challenge. | 406 |
59612859 | Sam Evian - Need You EP (mixing, performer, composer)
Sam Evian - Time To Melt (producer, performer, composer)
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (engineer, mixing, additional production)
Year of birth missing (living people) | 246 |
40179995 | He went to Founders High School, followed by studying to become a lawyer at the University of Zimbabwe.
Fortune is a lawyer and Senior Partner at Chasi & Maguwudze Law Firm, which is based in Harare. He is also a musician.
Fortune became an elected Member of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, representing Mazowe South Constituency in Mashonaland Central Province on the 3rd. of August 2013. Hon. | 392 |
41620527 | Koloman Sović (22 July 1899 – 23 January 1971) was a Croatian cyclist who competed in two events at the 1924 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia.
Cyclists at the 1924 Summer Olympics | 177 |
19035979 | Rybne () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Solina, within Lesko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 7 km southwest of Solina, south of Lesko, and south of the regional capital Rzeszów. | 251 |
1288235 | Matthews and Derix co-wrote eight songs for Matthews's solo album The Art of Obscurity (2013).
In 2018 Iain Matthews released an autobiographical book Thro’ My Eyes: A Memoir. The book was co-written with Featherstone-based author and broadcaster, Ian Clayton. | 260 |
249749 | Microfinance services including Easy Paisa by Telenor and Temeer Microfinance Bank, Jazz Cash by Jazz Telecom, and Zindigi have all been introduced by various telecom companies in Pakistan. These services provide lending services, retailer services, and online money transfer capabilities.
The Partnership for Responsible Financial, previously known as the Microfinance CEO Working Group, is a collaborative effort of leading international organizations and their CEOs active in the microfinance and inclusive finance space, including direct microfinance practitioners, and microfinance funders. | 595 |
32626959 | Coffee House has published more than 300 books, with over 250 still in print, and releases 15-20 new titles each year. It has earned a reputation for long-term commitment to the authors it chooses to publish.
The press is currently located in the historic Grain Belt Bottling House in Northeast Minneapolis. | 307 |
65496248 | Family Home Overhaul is a Canadian home renovation reality series, which premiered September 27, 2020 on HGTV Canada. Described by some critics as a Canadian version of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the series features various HGTV designers working with deserving families who have been nominated by their communities to renovate their homes. | 345 |
52121539 | (Articulated substantive -subject of the finite verb- and predicate adjective both in nominative case)
And here is an example where no indirect speech is involved:
pro3rd pl wanted-they [seemINF himACC [unwillingACC and not willingACC informINF], so-that more-credible the revealing-of-information should-appear. | 314 |
54291582 | | 495164 || || — || November 25, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 2.2 km ||
| 495165 || || — || April 15, 2012 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right | 2. | 196 |
73167406 | In 2019, The Guardian ranked My Brilliant Friend the 11th best book since 2000. The overall series was also listed in Vulture as one of the 12 "New Classics" since 2000.
In 2017, it was announced that HBO, RAI and TIMvision were adapting the series for a mini series. The show is named My Brilliant Friend, after the first novel (Italian: L'amica geniale) and adapts each book into an eight-episode season. | 406 |
18932348 | After the school opened in 1901, she served as its bursar. She was an active participant in the women's suffrage and temperance movements and published several works, mostly popular writings for women and children.
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has named a women's scholarship in Marie Heim-Vögtlin's honour. In 1995, a lane near the Zürich women's hospital was named after her. In 2010, Marie Heim-Vögtlin's work was honoured by the Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster. | 477 |
53284110 | the then ministers of foreign affairs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia Lubomír Zaorálek and Miroslav Lajčák, Governor of the Czech National Bank Jiří Rusnok, and also experts from leading European universities, research centres and non-profit organizations, as well as journalists who report on European affairs, and businesspeople.
The Summit of 2017 was enriched by guests called new voices – representatives of civil society, activists and future leaders, who usually do not attend the traditional type of conferences. | 523 |
1070160 | After settling in Australia with his wife and child, as well as his brother John, he became active in the Australian labour movement, founding the Australian Labour Federation and becoming a prolific journalist for the movement. He authored works covering topics such as labour rights and white nationalism.
After becoming disillusioned with the state of Australian politics following an ideological split in the labour movement, he and a group of utopian acolytes (among them influential writer and poet Mary Gilmore) moved to Paraguay in 1892 to found New Australia, with the intention of building a new society on the foundations of his utopian ideals. | 655 |
2886421 | In 2009, he joined the Spanish club CB Girona.
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1824001 | Unfortunately, there is no existing copy left of this classic film. The line "Ding, ang bato!" ("Ding, [give me] the stone!") from the film Lipad, Darna, Lipad, became a favorite catchphrase, though it was not in the original komiks. The film had three episodes: (1) "Impakta" directed by Maning Borlaza. It starred Gloria Romero as Miss Luna, a school teacher with a dark secret. | 380 |
40987867 | Gordon, Elizabeth Putnam. Women Torch-Bearers: The Story of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing (2005). | 139 |
31935631 | The crash was the deadliest incident involving an ATR 42 aircraft at that point in time.
Accidents and incidents involving the ATR 42 family
List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
Trigana Air Service Flight 267, current deadliest aviation accident involving an ATR 42
A photo of the accident aircraft
Airliner accidents and incidents involving deliberate | 380 |
3733488 | During the 1820s, Robert Hare developed the Deflagrator, a form of voltaic battery having large plates used for producing rapid and powerful combustion. A modified form of this apparatus was employed in 1823 in volatilising and fusing carbon. It was with these batteries that the first use of voltaic electricity for blasting under water was made in 1831.
In 1821, the Estonian-German physicist, Thomas Johann Seebeck, demonstrated the electrical potential in the juncture points of two dissimilar metals when there is a temperature difference between the joints. | 563 |
8908620 | During the rebellion in Northumberland in the 1310s, Mitford Castle was seized from the Valence family by Sir Gilbert de Middleton and Sir John de Lilburn. In 1315, Mitford Castle was used by Sir Gilbert for kidnappings and as a gaol for high-profile prisoners such as Lewis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham, his brother Harry de Beaumont and two Italian cardinals who had been travelling with him from Darlington to Durham. However, Ralph de Greystoke seized de Middleton for treason, and he was taken to the Tower of London and executed. | 536 |
4006640 | Provide an independent and consolidated voice for state and major urban area fusion centers;
Maintain the focus of state, tribal, local, and federal governments on the needs of the fusion centers;
Represent fusion center concerns to the federal government through an education process;
Provide support for the development of effective fusion center policy for the nation's state and local government elected officials and tribal leaders;
Serve as a catalyst for the careful consideration and promotion of effective and efficient fusion center policies and practices;
Advocate for the commitment of adequate resources to support a national, integrated network of state and major urban area fusion centers; | 709 |
20312747 | "Volt Face" (with Colin Wilson, 2000 AD #1167, October 1999)Judge Dredd: Doomsday for Dredd (Hamlyn, 2001, ) collects:
"Return of the Assassin" (with Cam Kennedy, in 2000 AD #1141–1147, April–June 1999)
"The Trial" (art by Simon Davis, in 2000 AD #1148–1150, | 260 |
6835467 | Cameron Ross recorded a solo album, played with the band Bellwoods, and wrote songs for Ryan Cabrera, Bobby Bazini, Sarah Slean, Hawksley Workman, and Ron Sexsmith. Ben Standage joined the band Down I Go. | 204 |
983047 | and later by the Anglo-Saxon migration and settlement and spreading of their language in most of old Britannia, Great Britain)
Common Brittonic / Old Brittonic (extinct)
Eastern Brittonic (extinct after Anglo-Saxonic conquest and settlement in Britannia, today's England) | 271 |
14505625 | After working with the Queensland Independent Education Union as an organiser he was given a role as a senior policy adviser to the Premier of Queensland, Peter Beattie, in 2005, and later for the Minister for Health, Stephen Robertson.
Perrett ran unsuccessfully for the federal seat of Moreton in 2004. He was elected to Moreton at the 2007 election where he ended Gary Hardgrave's 11-year term in office with a 7.6-point swing. | 430 |
10105039 | Christmas with the Poor (1947) - Marta
Mirad los lirios del campo (1947)
Cinco gallinas y el cielo (1957)
Mi marido y mi padrino (1957, TV Series)
Show Standard Electric (1965, TV Mini-Series)
Las Locas del conventillo (1966) - Tía Soledad | 239 |
1444294 | Construction started in 1897 with the levelling of the site, and the first of 2,047 dovetailed blocks of Cornish granite was laid in June 1899. As well as these blocks, weighing in total and with a volume of , a further of granite was used to fill the inside of the tower up to the level of the entrance floor, above high-water mark. A small steamship, the Ierne, was specially constructed for carrying the blocks out to the island, and Kavanagh personally set every stone, which weighed between . | 500 |
336056 | The DSM-5's diagnostic criteria for pedophilia specifies it as a disorder of sexual interest in prepubescent children generally age 13 years or younger. | 152 |
18857237 | Carr died in 1854 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was interred at the family cemetery at Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, in Charlottesville.
Narrative Of The United States Expedition To The River Jordan And The Dead Sea, by Lieutenant William Francis Lynch, U.S.N., 1849, Chapter I on WikiSource. | 302 |
38635730 | He joined the Medical School of Liverpool University the same year. His ability and dedication became evident during his undergraduate years, and he achieved his MB ChB with Honours in 1976. He was awarded the Lyon Jones Senior Scholarship, the Bromley Undergraduate Scholarship, the Robert Grieve Memorial Prize in Anatomy, the Augusta Lipkin Prize in Biochemistry, the George Holt Bronze Medal in Physiology, the J Hill Abram Prize in Medicine, the Henry Briggs Memorial Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the William James Eastwood Prize in Orthopaedic Surgery. | 569 |
62151543 | The interior receives a major overhaul, replacing the traditional analog instrument panel with an entirely digital 10.25" driver's display and either an 8.25" or 10" centre touchscreen for multimedia. Instead of physical buttons, a touch-sensitive panel houses controls for various functions, including the headlights and air conditioning/ventilation. The vehicle can also be upgraded with new functions after purchasing it, such as adaptive cruise control, WiFi hotspot, online-based voice control, Light Assist, navigation and Wireless App-Connect. | 550 |
28260338 | Pakasuchus, as well as many other notosuchians, would have filled ecological niches in these areas that were otherwise occupied by mammals in the northern continents. Mammals were relatively uncommon in Gondwana at the time, making it possible for notosuchians to occupy a similar niche.
The Rukwa Rift Basin is known for a rich vertebrate fauna that existed during the Cretaceous. During the Early Cretaceous, the basin was part of a large river system with braided channels and low-lying vegetated floodplains. | 512 |
39295994 | Slaves were unskilled laborers who could work the fields for cheaper while indentured servants could perform skilled crafts and even manage the slaves. Over time production grew and Indentured servants became too expensive which led to Irish skilled laborers to be replaced by trained African skilled laborers. By the 19th century, indentured servitude (though still present) was done at a much smaller scale and was very limited.
Today, Irish influence can be seen through Caribbean islands, mainly Montserrat. A small island with inhabitants that celebrates St-Patrick's day every year. | 588 |
6667805 | Song, Qi, Liang and Chen of the Southern dynasty. Emperor Wendi of the Sui dynasty opened the Emperor for nine years (AD 589). In the twelve years since the founding of the Emperor, the prefecture was changed to Kuozhou, and Lecheng County of the province entered Yongjia County, which belonged to Kuozhou Yongjia County. In the three years of Emperor Yangdi (AD 607), the state was changed to a county, and Kuozhou was changed to Yongjia County. | 446 |
3476845 | Each major development in religious life, particularly in the Latin West, can be seen as a response of the very devout to a particular crisis in the Church of their day.
When Constantine the Great was legalizing Christianity in the Roman Empire in the early 4th century, and the Christian faith became the favoured religion, it lost the self-sacrificing character that had profoundly marked it in the age of Roman persecution. | 426 |
38194252 | She positioned herself away from the train and made sure she did not board the tram. This resulted in the loss of $10,000.
Beat the Mole: Erin cost the team $12,000 because she already knew information about the contestants.
Domino Effect: Erin elected to keep her exemption following this assignment by paying $15,000 from the pot.
Mole Network: Erin jumped towards the net but only touched the base of it and avoided catching any money bags attached higher up the net. | 470 |
34081337 | The quiet years came to an end just before the middle of the 20th century, after World War II. Skiing enthusiasts had begun developing trails on the nearby mountains in the late 1930s, and returned to continue their work a decade later. The new Aspen Skiing Company received a boost from investments by Walter Paepcke, a Chicago executive who, along with his wife Elizabeth, saw in Aspen the perfect place to establish a classical music festival in the U.S. to rival Salzburg. | 476 |
1519410 | Tall bike (often called an upside down bike, constructed so that the pedals, seat and handlebars are all higher than normal)
Some clown bikes are also fixed gear, with no freewheeling, so that they may be pedaled either forward or backwards. Some are built very small but are otherwise relatively normal. Pedaling an extremely small bicycle is very difficult and usually much slower than walking, so there is little practical advantage to having a bicycle that will fit in one's purse or pocket. | 496 |
4944074 | Same-sex adoption was legalized alongside same-sex marriage in 2001, which includes joint and stepchild adoption. The Dutch Parliament also began allowing same-sex couples to adopt children overseas in 2009. Lesbian couples can get access to IVF treatment, as well as parentage rights for their children. Assisted insemination in case of infertility is covered by health insurance, whether concering single women, opposite-sex couples or lesbian couples.
Altruistic surrogacy is legal in the Netherlands. Commercial surrogacy is illegal, regardless of sexual orientation. | 571 |
59569115 | Jayuya Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Jayuya, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,367.
Jayuya Abajo was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. | 331 |
50796261 | Hajj Ali (also: Haj Ali, Hajj 'Ali) is a village at Tigris River in northern Iraq, approximately 60km south of Mosul, in the Nineveh Governorate at the boundaries of Makhmur District. Hajj Ali lies on the north eastern banks of River Tigris, opposite of the oil town of Qayyarah.
Hajj Ali was considered a strategic village for the Mosul offensive in 2016 and was reportedly recaptured by the Iraqi army from ISIL on 13 June 2016. | 430 |
64644089 | Presenting as both an alumnus and a former NHS board member, he shared his experience with adapting to significant change during his senior year of high school, reminding them to remain flexible with their plans as they are likely to change with the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In December 2020, Faulkner was recorded for two videos for the Brainwaves Video Anthology channel on YouTube. In the videos, Faulkner shared his story, and how he hopes to have an impact on the lives of others, just as so many others helped him. | 533 |
35177977 | Some of her other translations include Em Ani Hoomrao (Jerry Pinto's novel, Em And The Big Hoom translated into Marathi), Begum Barve (Satish Alekar's Marathi play of the same name, translated into English), I, Durga Khote (Durga Khote's autobiography in Marathi, translated into English) and Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts (her ex-husband Arun Khopkar's Marathi book on Guru Dutt, titled Guru Dutt: Teen Anki Shokantika, translated into English). | 451 |
14611016 | clinical services – includes the practice of medicine, bedside research, including outcomes and cost-effectiveness studies, and public health policy
information science – deals with the acquisition, retrieval, cataloging, and archiving of information
medical physics / biomedical engineering – entails the use of equipment and technology for a medical purpose
cognitive science – studying human computer interactions, usability, | 428 |
31829588 | These were Agustín Carstens, governor of the Mexican central bank, and Christine Lagarde, French finance minister. On 28 June, the IMF announced they had selected Lagarde.
His sudden resignation led the IMF to search for a replacement and created new political worries. According to The Washington Post, "Without Strauss-Kahn at the helm, Europe is at risk of losing a key source of financial support in its efforts to contain the debt crisis buffeting the continent", including potential financial bailouts for nations such as Greece and Portugal. U.S. | 553 |
43876021 | Information technology organisations based in the Netherlands
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Media listed in Russia as foreign agents | 167 |
50076147 | Finding Altamira (released as Altamira in Spain) is a 2016 Spanish biographical drama film starring Antonio Banderas, and directed by Hugh Hudson. It is Hudson's first fiction film since I Dreamed of Africa in 2000, and his final film before his death in 2023.
The film chronicles the groundbreaking discovery of stone age cave paintings in the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, and the subsequent controversy by leading religious and scientific figures of the day. | 469 |
28789994 | "Dirty Harry"), host of Dirty Harry's Karaoke Cantina
Charles and Veronica Bramlett, a.k.a. the puppeteer troupe Felt Nerdy
Nick Edelstein, an award-winning multi-instrumentalist and performing and recording artist
Hannah Hoyt (a.k.a. "Konora the Klingon"), a classically trained opera singer who performs "Klingon opera"
Missy Ben-Yehoshua, Tamara Comstock, Abby Hermes, Betty Liao, Carly Strickland, Sarah Wade, | 417 |
51410594 | Kagga was cast in a number of films including Cowboys and Indians, A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy (Segment 'Reprise'), He's Just Not That into You, Star Trek, CSI: NY – Boo, Life, Runway Stars. In US Theatre, Kagga was cast as Mercy in the play, Butterflies of Uganda by Darren Dahms which was nominated for an NAACP award.
Kagga appeared in several music videos by P!nk, Amy Winehouse, Sting, Lenny Kravitz. | 409 |
53284110 | The discussions focused on he impact of disinformation on the European elections, long-term goals of the EU, Brexit, migration, Eurozone and coalition building after Brexit.
Tomáš Petříček also handed The Vision for Europe award. The ceremony took place in the gardens of the Czernin Palace and the 2019 award went to the former Prime Minister of Slovakia and current President of the Wilfried Martens Centre Brussels Mikuláš Dzurinda. | 435 |
41589 | In a hardened carrier PDS, the data cables are installed in a carrier constructed of electrical metallic tubing (EMT), ferrous conduit or pipe, or rigid sheet steel ducting. All of the connections in a Hardened Carrier System are permanently sealed completely around all surfaces with welds, epoxy or other such sealants. If the hardened carrier is buried under ground, to secure cables running between buildings for example, the carrier containing the cables is encased in concrete.
With a hardened carrier system, detection is accomplished via human inspections that are required to be performed periodically. | 611 |
53707054 | It is unclear which was the elder; typically an elder son would be named after his father, but the cognomen Secundus suggests that he was the younger brother.
Secundus was appointed consul suffectus ex Kalendis Juliis together with Marcus Papius Mutilus, succeeding Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus and Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus. They held the consulship for six months, departing at the end of the year. During their term of office, Papius and Poppaeus authored the law that bore their names. | 487 |
55444115 | His uncle Karl Joachim, the last male survivor of the Swabian line, died in 1804, leaving that too extinct. This meant that in 1804 Charles Egon inherited almost all the Fürstenberg possessions except those of the Moravian line, which still had surviving issue.
Charles was only seven years old when he succeeded, so his mother and Landgraf Joachim Egon von Fürstenberg, a distant uncle from the Moravian line, became his guardians and regents, though most of the actual governing was done by Joseph von Laßberg. | 512 |
1275446 | Lanternfish are well known for their diel vertical migrations: during daylight hours, most species remain within the gloomy bathypelagic zone, between deep, but towards sundown, the fish begin to rise into the epipelagic zone, between deep. The lanternfish are thought to do this to avoid predation, and because they are following the diel vertical migrations of zooplankton, upon which they feed. | 399 |
35038085 | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum stated that the Emirates Mars Mission sends three important messages to the world: "The first is for the world: that Arab civilization once played a great role in contributing to human knowledge and will play that role again. The second is to our Arab brethren: that nothing is impossible and that we can compete with the greatest of nations in the race for knowledge. The third is for those who strive to reach the highest of peaks: set no limits to your ambitions and you can even reach space". | 527 |
144123 | There are unsubstantiated claims that he was born in Berdichev (a city near Zhitomir in Volhynian Governorate), but his birth certificate unequivocally states that Kiev was his birthplace.
He was the youngest of four children of Samuil Horowitz and Sophia Bodik, who were assimilated Jews. His father was a well-to-do electrical engineer and a distributor of electric motors for German manufacturers. His grandfather Joachim was a merchant (and an arts-supporter), belonging to the 1st Guild, which exempted him from having to reside in the Pale of Settlement. | 560 |
592269 | BBC's Nick Reynolds found the record inconsistent, praising the first four tracks but saying the following songs did not maintain the same quality, and concluding that although One By One is a good record, it may frustrate a listener. Eric Carr of Pitchfork was very critical of the album, saying it was overproduced and the songs are "weightless, antiseptic cuts" with "skillful composition" but "lacking strength and character". | 430 |
4298464 | Seven Kingdoms () is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Trevor Chan of Enlight Software. The game enables players to compete against up to six other kingdoms allowing players to conquer opponents by defeating them in war (with troops or machines), capturing their buildings with spies, or offering opponents money for their kingdom. The Seven Kingdoms series went on to include a sequel, Seven Kingdoms II: The Fryhtan Wars. In 2007, Enlight released a further title in the Seven Kingdoms series, . | 514 |
24058792 | Sudan will compete at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August. A team of 9 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition. Selected athletes have achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards. The squad includes 800 metres olympic silver medalist Ismail Ahmed Ismail, and 800 metres World Junior champion Abubaker Kaki. | 359 |
75019505 | The anticipated completion date for the new reactor was set around 2010. In 1986, EDF initiated the REP 2000 project, a new evolutionary phase of reactor models that were expected to be operational between 2000 and 2015. Initially, the REP 2000 project was conceived for France with the aim of improving safety measures and reducing production costs while also optimizing uranium utilization. However, due to the recession in the early 1990s and the subsequent improvement in plant availability, it was determined that additional N4 reactors were unnecessary. | 559 |
1834972 | She had her first major success during the following spring at the Teatro Grande in Trieste singing the title role in Rossini's Matilde di Shabran.
This success quickly led to numerous engagements at major opera houses throughout Italy and Giuseppina soon became her family's major bread winner. In the summer of 1835, she went to Austria to sing Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma and Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna where she was praised highly by audiences and critics. | 506 |
61897116 | He made his debut in the Bundesliga in August 2019, when he was in the starting eleven on the third matchday of the season against LASK.
In June 2020, Lukačević was signed on a permanent deal to the Admira first team and received a contract running until June 2023.
On 5 September 2019, Lukačević gained his first cap for the Austria under-21 team in a 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Andorra. | 420 |
1520531 | This makes Embrun the largest community in the Township of Russell.
Embrun has grown rapidly in recent years. The population of Embrun surged nearly 25 per cent to 8,680 between 2016 and 2021, while nearby Russell expanded by 22 per cent to 6,135. On the list of Eastern Ontario cities with at least 1,000 people, in 2021, they ranked first and third in growth. | 361 |
37300034 | Loureiro has written two sequel novels in the Apocalypse Z series: Apocalypse Z #2: Dark Days (2010: in Spanish, Los días oscuros), and Apocalypse Z #3: The Wrath of the Just (2011: in Spanish, La ira de los justos). Books two and three have been translated into English, Italian, and Portuguese, and book two was translated into Galician in 2014.
Loureiro's next book, The Last Passenger (2013: in Spanish, El último pasajero), is about a Nazi ghost ship. | 457 |
5473725 | During the Pleistocene period dating back over two million years ago, glaciation advancing and retreating repeatedly scoured the landscape leaving deposits of rock debris. The "U"-shaped cross section of the river valleys are a result of recent glaciation. Uplift and faulting in combination with glaciation have been the dominant processes which have created the tall peaks and deep valleys of the North Cascades area. | 419 |
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