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35944745 | After the war he again went to work for Y Cymro where John Roberts Williams was now editor. Charles continued to document life through photography and one of his best-known images is used as the cover for Ioan Roberts's book about Charles —that of the poet and farmer Carneddog who had to move from his mountain farm near Beddgelert to live with his son in Hinckley. This image was published in Y Cymro in 1945. Charles took many photographs of Welsh life including the many eisteddfodau (cultural festivals). | 510 |
6550970 | Leverock announced his retirement from international cricket in April 2009 after Bermuda finished in a disappointing ninth place in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier which resulted in the team losing its One Day International status and failing to qualify for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
As Bermuda have played no One Day Internationals since, Leverock remains its highest aggregate wicket-taker in the format, and his 5/53 the best bowling figures recorded by a Bermudan bowler in the format. | 492 |
7649503 | After an unstable post-war period which culminated in a relegation battle in the 2010–11 season, Al-Shorta returned to the top of Iraqi football in the 2012–13 season, securing their third Iraqi Premier League title with a final-day 3–0 victory over rivals Al-Talaba at Al-Shaab Stadium. Al-Shorta finished in first place in the Premier League in 2013–14 under Brazilian coach Lorival Santos but the season was ended prematurely due to the worsening war situation in the country. | 479 |
447504 | SLPS was the rolling laboratory for All-Electrics and what was learned here was applied to the post-WW2 All-Electric demonstrator in the fall of 1945.
From 1936 to 1945, PCC cars were "Air-Electrics" with friction brakes, doors, and windshield wipers operated by air pressure. | 276 |
27868522 | If anything, you can’t shut the Gaga up, and she has both the chops and the pride to deliver it all live." In 2017, Gaga performed the song in her setlist for the 2017 Coachella Festival.
In 2011, Discovery Channel used "Teeth" to promote its Shark Week programming. Target Corporation was selling a "singing" toothbrush that plays two-minute excerpts of "Born This Way" and "Teeth".
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Fame Monster. | 441 |
11928711 | Grafhorst is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany. | 83 |
31861515 | Groups such as Catholic Action of the Philippines, the Congregation of the Mission, the Knights of Columbus, and the Catholic Teachers Guild organized opposition to the bill; they were countered by Veteranos de la Revolucion (Spirit of 1896), Alagad ni Rizal, the Freemasons, and the Knights of Rizal. The Senate Committee on Education sponsored a bill co-written by both José P. Laurel and Recto, with the only opposition coming from Francisco Soc Rodrigo, Mariano Jesús Cuenco, and Decoroso Rosales. | 501 |
40952667 | The ownership group during this inaugural season include Adam C. Mellor and Shannon T. Clark. The team's head coach is Michael Nsien II. Assistant coaches under Nsien are John Michael Waite and Christian Porto. The team doctor is Dr. Breck Kasbaum, DC and the team legal counsel is Marvin G. Lizama, Esq. Special events are coordinated by Dirk Johnson and Jeff Brucculeri is in charge of media relations. | 404 |
2252745 | The differences between the 1957 boundaries and the modern ones are:
The southwestern part of the country was previously divided into Reykjavík on one hand and Reykjanes on the other which encompassed all other municipalities in the vicinity of Reykjavík and on the Reykjanes peninsula. The same area is currently divided into the Capital region on one hand and the Southern Peninsula on the other
The municipality of Hornafjörður decided in 2008 to leave the association for municipalities in the Eastern region and join the Southern region. | 544 |
3682103 | Over the following weeks, the army was marched under guard to camps in Virginia and Maryland. Cornwallis and other officers were returned to New York and allowed to return to England on parole. The ship on which Cornwallis sailed in December 1781 also carried Benedict Arnold and his family.
The local militia that supported the siege were dismissed from service. Some of the American Continental forces were returned to the New York City region, where Washington continued to stand against the British presence until the end of the war; others were sent south to assist in General Greene's efforts in the Carolinas. | 619 |
41467212 | The new part was mainly translated in a rather free style into Finnish by Hemminki from Swedish, German, Latin, and Danish hymns. Hemminki himself probably wrote 26 of them. In addition, there are 5 hymns by Petrus Melartopaeus, a dean of the cathedral. | 253 |
28214938 | To the south, the Covent Garden Estate north of the Strand was also part of the Bedford Estate.
Garden squares in the main Bedford Estate include:
In the northern separate part of the Bedford Estate is Harrington Square. The neighbouring Ampthill Square Estate is built on what was previously another garden square, Ampthill Square. | 333 |
66298477 | | 547874 || || — || November 27, 2010 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 2.4 km ||
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9194848 | Facas e Anjos (2000) (TV) composer
As Terças da Bailarina Gorda (2000) composer
Maria do Mar (1930) (2000) composer | 117 |
47323392 | This version was incorrectly named Uragan-M in a RIA Novosti news message issued days before the launch. When contacted by Novosti Kosmonavtiki magazine Roscosmos spokesman said all three launched satellites were first generation versions but one of them featured new upgraded flight control and power systems. The official design life was declared to be 5 years. Novosti Kosmonavtiki also pointed out the fact that GLONASS-M project had been approved on August 20, 2001, just three months before Kosmos 2382 launch. | 516 |
300794 | North Carolina, now Southport, North Carolina
Smithville (album), by jazz musician Louis Smith | 94 |
64853665 | After the 1933 seizure of power by the Nazis, he could no longer work in Germany for racist reasons, emigrated to France and from there in 1934 to Turkey, where he was able to teach at the conservatory in Ankara for twenty years from 1935. In 1957 he received an engagement by the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
Amar died in Freiburg im Breisgau at the age of 68.
Lemma in MGG 1, p. 571f (Giselher Schubert) | 408 |
8441311 | He painted in oil and watercolor. He was self-taught. He was attracted to Surrealism in 1930 and as a member of the Birmingham Group, joined the Surrealist Group in 1938. He was a contributor to the London Bulletin in 1939, and to Arson in 1942.
John exhibited his work first in London at the Wertheim Gallery in 1932. He continued to exhibit in other venues in London and throughout the UK. His work is represented in a number of private and public collections. | 462 |
39164657 | The season focuses on the former glee club member, Rachel Berry, who returns to McKinley after her TV pilot bombs to rebuild the disbanded glee club. The central characters are the former glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), school principal Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), and Glee club graduates Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer), Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss), Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale), and Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet). | 461 |
43101586 | “An Overview of Rare Earth Elements”
FAQs on The Mines & Minerals Development & Regulation Bill, 2011.
Status and strategy for exploration and development of Nickel and Platinum Group Elements resources in India
Strategy paper on “Rare Earths and Energy Critical Elements: A Roadmap and Strategy for India” brought out in July 2012 by C-TEMPO and C-STEP.
Revision of Aluminum Mission Plan 2010–2020. | 403 |
26300311 | System: River name (No., L/R, district)
District: districts passed (only OWL districts)
All tributaries are listed in downstream order in relation to their parent river. | 170 |
24407557 | Katz was born in Galicia, Poland in 1932 and studied under Dr. Hans Fokler of the Munich Academy at age 13. During the Holocaust, he endured Nazi concentration camps and lost most of his family. After World War II, he lived in a displaced persons camp where he earned a diploma in carpentry, and later said that toilet paper was his "diploma in art".
In 1949, Morris moved to the United States and worked as a carpenter while pursuing his art. | 444 |
1784313 | In February 2016, the Advanced LIGO team announced that they had directly detected gravitational waves from a black hole merger. This discovery, along with additional detections announced in June 2016 and June 2017, tested general relativity in the very strong field limit, observing to date no deviations from theory. | 318 |
73038462 | From west to east on the south side, these include the Kasaba-Korkuteli Basin (on the western edge of the Isparta Angle), the Aksu Basin and Köprüçay Basin (both in the angle's "southern core"), and the Manavgat Basin (located on the eastern edge). Of these, the Aksu, Köprüçay, and Manavgat Basins together make up the Antalya Basin. | 334 |
125320 | Italian American Material Culture: A Directory of Collections, Sites, and Festivals in the United States and Canada (1992).
Krase, Jerome, ed. The Status of Interpretation in Italian American Studies (Forum Italicum, (2011) online.
Luconi, Stefano, "Is Italian-American History an Account of the Immigrant Experience with the Politics Left Out? Some Thoughts on the Political Historiography about Italian Americans", in Italian Americans in the Third Millennium: Social Histories and Cultural Representations, ed. | 515 |
252131 | He, like many other known physicists, lost a large hypothetical bet for wagering against the eventual outcome. He later wrote about his feelings on the discovery to Princeton colleague John M. Blatt: "I don't know whether anyone has written you as yet about the sudden death of parity. Miss Wu has done an experiment with beta-decay of oriented Co nuclei which shows that parity is not conserved in β decay. ... We are all rather shaken by the death of our well-beloved friend, parity." | 486 |
26810397 | I desire a speedy answer, and rest. My Lord, your humble servant, Heebeet Moeley".
To which the Marquess returned this reply : "Sir, — It is a crooked demand, and shall receive its answer suitable. I keep the House in the right of my Sovereign, and will do it in despight of your forces. Your letter I will preserve as a testimony of your rebellion. Winchestee". | 362 |
17621140 | Studies may include echocardiography, thoracic and abdominal CT or MRI, peripheral arterial run off imaging studies, hypercoagulopathy labs, and interrogation of syndromes that lead to peripheral vascular pathology.
Pictures are available on this link. 'Blue toe syndrome' | 273 |
32344729 | She was very fond of him, and he was very devoted to her. He once said that those who differentiated between her and the Master would never make any spiritual progress; she and the Master were like the two sides of the same coin. In the course of a discussion at Belur Math, he said to the devotees: "We have seen that she had a much greater capacity than the Master. She was the embodiment of power, and how well she controlled it! Ramakrishna could not do so, though he tried." | 479 |
30331357 | He got filled with 'spirit,' but not the kind that helped his university's reputation. Scenes were enacted that caused the loyal and serious minded student to hang his head in shame. The visitors were not slow in spreading their impressions of the school.
Reimann was also a member of the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity. He later served as the fourth national president of the fraternity, serving in that role from 1925 to 1927. | 428 |
179848 | 1200 - Trondheim, 1276), father of Pål Audenson Sure (Trondheim, 1235 - Trondheim, 1289), who had three daughters married with issue, and Ingeborg Audunsdatter Sure (Trondheim, 1238 - Tingvoll, 1296), married to Ivar Toraldeson Aspen (Kvinnherad, 1237 - Kvinnherad, 1304), and had issue. | 287 |
11823469 | David Möller (also spelled Moeller, born 13 January 1982) is a German former luger who competed from 2001 to 2014. | 114 |
548255 | Females do not appear to favour specific males. The males display in courtship by raising the upper-tail coverts into an arched fan. The wings are held half open and drooped and it periodically vibrates the long feathers, producing a ruffling sound. The cock faces the hen initially and struts and prances around and sometimes turns around to display the tail. Males may also freeze over food to invite a female in a form of courtship feeding. Males may display even in the absence of females. | 493 |
217346 | Roderic Hodge then testified that while he was in police custody in 1987, Fuhrman had said to him, "I told you we would get you, nigger."
Ultimately, the jury was allowed to hear only two excerpts from the Fuhrman tapes, which did not include the inflammatory violent content or material related to potential misconduct. Jurors heard Fuhrman say, "We have no niggers where I grew up," and "That's where niggers live." | 417 |
23597747 | In July 1983, four UDR soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck an IRA landmine near Ballygawley, County Tyrone. In December 1985, the Tyrone IRA launched an assault on the police barracks in Ballygawley, shooting dead two officers and destroying the barracks with a bomb.
In June 1988, six off-duty British soldiers were killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath their van in Lisburn. It had been attached to the van as they were taking part in a charity marathon. | 473 |
39600555 | Held: Because the undisputed facts showed that the State did not have to employ reasonable force to obtain the DNA sample from the prisoner, its decision to collect the sample by the drawing of blood was permitted under the law. Thus, the district court's conclusion limiting collection to use of a buccal swab was reversed.
In Re: Ark-La-Tex Antique and Classic Vehicles, Inc., 2005-1931 (La. App. 1st Cir. 9/15/06), writ denied, 2006-2509 (La. | 445 |
108671 | List of statistical areas in Colorado
CDOT map of the Town of Gilcrest | 70 |
58434991 | 2018 budget session of the Indian parliament
In February 2018, in response to demands for details of the agreement to be made public, Nirmala Sitharaman said that the details were classified under a security agreement signed by Indian and French governments in 2008. She said that no state-owned or privately owned companies were included in the IGA. Rahul Gandhi alleged that the secrecy over pricing was evidence of a scam. Randeep Surjewala alleged that Eurofighter GmbH had reduced the price of its Typhoon jet by 20% and questioned why it was not considered. | 563 |
11790094 | Botticelli's scene is set within a landscape that includes classical ruins from the Greco-Roman world, such as the classical arcade in the middle ground at the left. The Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, and the Christ Child are sitting upon one of these classical ruins that served as a makeshift manger where the birth (nativity) of Christ occurred. Greenery is growing out of the cracks in the ruin, and a peacock is perched at the right. The star of Bethlehem radiates gold rays at the top of the painting, highlighting the Virgin and Child. | 538 |
4132949 | The cornice on the main block is dentillated; that on the ell is plain. The main entrance is centered on the front facade, with sidelight windows on either side and a fanlight window above. The entry is sheltered by a portico supported by clustered square columns; this portico is a replacement to the original, made when the house was moved. There is a secondary entrance in the ell, which is sheltered by a closed-in porch dating to c. 1920. | 446 |
2178933 | They say the housing project, which has a large concrete footprint, will lead to flooding in an urban area already prone to seasonal floods. | 140 |
39119955 | seeking to achieve an advance in science or technology
subject to scientific or technological uncertainty
conducted in a systematic and thorough fashion
Eligible costs include staffing costs, consumables, software, subcontractors, prototype costs, clinical trial costs and research contributions. Critically these costs must be mapped to the eligible activities. | 362 |
62405140 | Hup Pa Tat (, ) is a valley located in Uthai Thani Province in Thailand. There is an abundance of exotic plants, such as Arenga Pinnata. The plants expand wildly in the cordon of stalagmites and stalactites. During the visits, rare animals like elongated tortoises and pink dragon millipede might be found. The valley is located in Kao Huai Sok, one of the mountains in a limestone mountain range, comprising an area of about 48,000 square meters. | 447 |
47716799 | Northern Railway Stadium is a multi purpose stadium in Bikaner, Rajasthan. The ground is mainly used for organizing matches of football, cricket and other sports. The stadium has hosted five first-class matches in 1976 when Rajasthan cricket team played against Vidarbha cricket team. The ground hosted four more first-class matches from 1978 to 1995. The stadium also hosted two List A matches when Willis XI played against Madhya Pradesh cricket team and against Central Zone cricket team played against West Zone cricket team but since then the stadium has hosted non-first-class matches. | 593 |
9000034 | When they arrived, the trains were stored in the CFF storage of Lausanne. Once the métro's depot had been completed, the vehicles were moved to the Vennes facility by the Autumn of 2006.
With the line having been over its design capacity for at least 2 years, the state granted funds for 3 additional metro trainsets in February 2015. The vehicles are being built in Valenciennes by Alstom, who also built the original fleet, and are designed to be identical to the existing rolling stock. | 489 |
28460125 | Mošćenica is a village in Croatia, administratively located in the Town of Petrinja. It is connected by the D37 state road. | 123 |
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144453 | Photographs of Ottoline Morrell at the National Portrait Gallery
Ottoline Morrell's Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin
Journal of Lady Ottoline Morrell, June 1926, with photographs of Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot via Discovering Literature at the British Library
Journal of Lady Ottoline Morrell, June 1923, with photographs and accounts of Virginia Woolf via Discovering Literature at the British Library
Journal of Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1917, | 488 |
2594258 | During the present interglacial, the Holocene, the climatic optimum occurred during the Subboreal (5 to 2.5 ka BP, which corresponds to 3000 BC–500 BC) and Atlanticum (9 to 5 ka, which corresponds to roughly 7000 BC–3000 BC). The current climatic phase following this climatic optimum is still within the same interglacial (the Holocene). That warm period was followed by a gradual decline until about 2000 years ago, with another warm period until the Little Ice Age (1250–1850). | 480 |
74517548 | Tim Hofmann from Freie Presse attests the EP a "fabulous number of hits" and "a poignant atmosphere" which is "amazingly close to Sempiternal by Bring Me the Horizon."
2016: Blossom 2017: Empty Throne 2017: Phoenix 2017: Ghosts 2019: Dead End EP's
2015: Values & Virtues (EP, Redfield Records)
2017: Phoenix'' (Arising Empire, SharpTone Records) | 349 |
2671117 | The People's Party (, PP) was a small political party in Burundi led by Shadracik Niyonkuru.
The party was registered on 30 June 1992, and supported winning candidate Melchior Ndadaye of the Front for Democracy in Burundi in the 1993 presidential elections. In the parliamentary elections later in the year the PP received 1.2% of the vote, failing to win a seat. However, it was given a ministerial post in governments formed in 1995, 2001 and 2003. | 451 |
53245289 | Because the 2016 WTT season schedule conflicted with the 2016 Olympics, teams were permitted to protect players who were eligible for protection in the 2016 draft based on playing for the team in 2015 (or 2014 and missing the 2015 season due to injury), went undrafted in the 2016 draft and did not participate in the league in 2016.
The Aviators did not make any selections and left James Blake and Madison Keys unprotected at the 2017 WTT Marquee Draft. | 455 |
40815219 | Priced at two pennies, it was four pages long, with 7 columns across each page. Dominating the front page was an array of product and service advertisements; however, the Post Office timetable flanked the left side. Local news began on the second page and was followed by wider national and international news. This encompassed events occurring in Sydney and Queensland, to correspondence from London about the Transvaal War or the Second Boer War.
In February 1914, the publication became the Tenterfield Courier and District Advocate when Gordon Cumming Stevenson took over ownership. | 586 |
49796616 | Generally, the town is already built-up and consists of mainly middle and upper-class neighborhoods. In the Lubowa neighborhood, Roofings Limited maintains two of its three component companies and factories. The old Kampala–Entebbe Road passes through the eastern portion of the town in a general north-to-south direction. The Munyonyo spur of the new Entebbe–Kampala Expressway passes through the southern portion of the new town in a general west-to-east direction. | 467 |
5960131 | He also kept one or two prizes to assist in the search for targets. patrolled the eastern coast of South America, as far south as La Plata, Argentina; in the course of these operations, she sank or captured at least sixteen merchant ships. These merchantmen, fifteen British ships and one Dutch vessel, totaled . Köhler then decided to move to another area, as remaining in one area would increase his chances of being tracked down by the British. He turned his ship toward the West Indies to attack Barbados and Fort-de-France and the shipping lanes between Barbados and Trinidad. | 582 |
23442786 | The Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. It was founded in 1927 by Russian sculptor A.A Karelin and in 1939 it attained the status of the Museum of Fine Arts.
The museum has more than 6,000 works in its collection, including paintings, sculptures, and graphic works by Turkmen, Russian and foreign artists. | 333 |
3933626 | He is sent by the devas to Shukra's ashrama (spiritual hermitage) to learn about the Mṛtasañjīvanī vidyā mantra, the knowledge that allows one to restore life after death. Shukra accepts him as his student, and the latter accepts the task of offering him a thousand years of service. Devayani is infatuated by the youth, and the two become an inseparable couple. | 362 |
33252519 | In 2022, Peterman guest starred in an episode of the BBC drama series Call The Midwife.
The episode focuses on a Jewish couple suffering the effects of post traumatic stress after surviving the holocaust. | 204 |
49597827 | Nowhere Else is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Kentish in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about west of the town of Sheffield. The 2016 census recorded a population of 40 for the state suburb of Nowhere Else.
It is a bounded rural locality on the island of Tasmania. It is located at latitude -41.366 and longitude 146.276. Located on Lake Barrington (Tasmania), Nowhere Else is 190km from Hobart, and 72km west of Launceston. | 483 |
6988548 | The Durham University Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located in Durham, England. The site is set in of mature woodlands in the southern outskirts of the city. The botanic gardens have been located on their present site since 1970 before being officially opened in 1988 by the then Chancellor Dame Margot Fonteyn and now attract some 80,000 visitors annually.
The garden has an array of exotic plants with collections ranging from Chile in South America, China and Japan in the Far East, as well as from Southern Africa and New Zealand. | 542 |
564103 | The general pattern of the mark was used by Dutch and English papermakers in the late 17th and 18th centuries, and as early as 1674 the term "foolscap" was being used to designate a specific size of paper regardless of its watermark.
Apocryphally, the Rump Parliament of 1648–1653 substituted a fool's cap for the royal arms as a watermark on the paper used for the journals of Parliament. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins, there is no basis in fact for this statement. | 487 |
27109887 | In the two decades of its existence, the brandy trade had increased significantly and the missionaries found it necessary to relocate their neophytes and catechumens farther from the drunkenness and seduction of the cities. In 1696, the inhabitants were moved to the other side of the island, to Fort Lorette at Sault-au-Recollet. The mission at de la Montagne was definitely closed in 1705: the grounds were rented to the local peasants, and some would live in the fortifications. | 481 |
9491894 | "Hoochie Coochie Man" (originally titled "I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man") is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The song makes reference to hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a stop-time musical arrangement. It became one of Waters' most popular and identifiable songs and helped secure Dixon's role as Chess Records' chief songwriter.
The song is a classic of Chicago blues and one of Waters' first recordings with a full backing band. | 501 |
54362356 | The plan was to try Gazelle on the deep-sea fisheries off the course, with the first work being done on the halibut banks about 40 miles west of Yaquina Bay. Capt. Richard Obie would take charge of the vessel for this work. After that the intention was for Gazelle to work its way back to Astoria.
In April 1909, Gazelle, under Captain Boeth, was brought to the Coos Bay area to fish on the off shore banks between Coos Bay and Coquille. | 439 |
46315794 | The Conspirators is a 1924 British silent crime film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Betty Faire, David Hawthorne and Moore Marriott.
Moore Marriott as Morris / Sydney Barnes
Winifred Izard as Queen of Rexonia
The film was made by Britain's leading film company of the era Stoll Pictures at their Cricklewood Studios in London. | 339 |
37822320 | The racial expulsion, or ethnic cleansing, of Forsyth County was among the events explored in Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings, aired on PBS in 2015 in its Independent Lens series.
The 2016 non-fiction book by author Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing In America, examines the 1912 events in Forsyth County along with later events including the 1987 Forsyth County protests. Phillips said in an interview with Terry Gross that he first heard of the racial cleansing when he moved to the county with his parents at age seven. | 549 |
4623583 | It is reported that more than 6,500 of them were planted in Hawaii between 1921 and 1953, and that it has established wild populations there.
The Bermuda cedar forests that covered much of the Bermuda landscape, pre-deforestation, fed and housed many species of bird that had evolved and adapted to live amongst them. With the loss of so many trees, the populations of these bird species have declined to near extinction including the Bermuda white-eyed vireo, and a possible subspecies of eastern bluebird. | 507 |
409057 | In World War II, Étaples suffered again from German bombing and the tramway was irreparably damaged. The town was then occupied by the Germans and during the Allied invasion was again bombarded, causing seventy civilian casualties and destroying or damaging a third of its houses. In 1949, the Minister of Defence came and added a palme (bar) to the Croix de guerre.
In 1807 the population was recorded as 1,507 and had grown to 4,692 by 1901. | 443 |
50920743 | Mexico finished the tournament in last place after losing all five of their games and was relegated to Division III Group B for 2017. Turkey's Ferhat Bakal finished as the top scorer of the tournament with 14 points and Tolga Bozaci led the tournament in goaltending with a save percentage of 91.95. Bakal was also named the best forward by the IIHF directorate. Raz Werner of Israel was named the best goaltender of the tournament and Bulgaria's Atanas Genkov was named best defenceman. | 487 |
13852283 | Plans proceeded and the reef was dubbed Pratte's Reef in honor of Surfrider co-founder Thomas Pratte, who had been influential in fighting the Chevron jetty approval and died in 1994. In the fall of 2000, 110 geotextile bags were dropped into the water to create the artificial reef. It did not have as much of an effect as hoped and an additional $200,000 grant from the California Coastal Conservancy was secured to fund adding another 90 bags at the site in spring 2001. | 473 |
67621483 | On August 28, 1913, Goldblatt was born in Montreal. She was the daughter of a schoolteacher. In 1918, Goldblatt commenced piano studies under Boris Dunev and Arthur Letondal at Montreal's Canadian Academy of Music. At age six, she gave her first public recital at the Windsor Hotel, before continuing her studies under Stanley Gardner in 1922. Five years later, Goldblatt made her professional debut in Montreal. | 412 |
64659061 | His first teaching post was at Coopers' Company Grammar School, Bow, London, before moving to Chippenham, where he was a senior assistant teacher at the Chippenham County School.
In October 1901, Dent's father left Chippenham to become head teacher of the then recently established Warminster County School, that adjoined the Athenaeum Theatre in Warminster. The family moved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century. | 455 |
46750186 | 2013: DePaul University, The Theatre School, Chicago
2015: Cameron and Edward Lanphier Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut
2015: Sevilla Tower, office building, Seville, Spain
2015: Torre Sofia, San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
2015: Maral Explanada, Mar del Plata, Argentina | 296 |
47347972 | The ships had a complement of six officers and seventy-four crew members in 1945; this decreased to two warrants, four officers, and forty-seven men in 1966. They were fitted with a SL1 radar system and QBE-3A sonar system in 1945. Their armament consisted of one 3"/50 caliber gun, two 20 mm/80-caliber guns, two Mousetraps, two depth charge tracks, and four Y-guns in 1945; these were removed in 1966. | 403 |
6065293 | That evening, the Stork Club was filled with moneyed guests. Someone else who read Winchell's column in 1930 was singer-actress Helen Morgan, who had just finished filming a movie on Long Island. Morgan decided to hold a cast party at the Stork Club, paying the tab with two $1,000 bills. Winchell became a regular at the Stork Club; what he saw and heard there at his private Table 50 was the basis of his newspaper columns and radio broadcasts. | 447 |
52672991 | : United States Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States could not "stand in the way of a resolution at the United Nations that makes clear that both sides must act now to preserve the possibility of peace" and said the resolution "rightly condemns violence and incitement and settlement activity." In a later speech he said that the Israeli Netanyahu government's agenda is driven by "extreme elements," that its policies are leading "towards one state" and that "if the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic – it cannot be both. | 567 |
37425479 | In March 2012, CMLL repackaged Metro, giving him a new blue and white mask and outfit, and changing his name to "Diamante Azul", which led to some confusion since CMLL already had a wrestler using the ring name "Diamante" on their roster. | 238 |
2444158 | She was broken up in 1867.
was a launched in 1856 and sold in 1859.
was a cutter, formerly named YC 1 and acquired and renamed in 1870. She had previously been . She was broken up in 1875.
HMS Drake (1888) was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1875 as . She was renamed HMS Drake when she became a training ship in 1888. She was renamed WV 29 in 1893, and was renamed HMS Drake in 1906 before being sold later that year. | 428 |
22815645 | On 1 January 1879 the Glückstadt-Elmshorn Railway Company became the Holstein Marsh Railway Company (Holsteinische Marschbahn-Gesellschaft). In 1888, this company was acquired by the Schleswig-Holstein Marsh Railway Company (Schleswig-Holsteinische Marschbahn-Gesellschaft). On 1 July 1890, the company was acquired by the Prussian government and it became part of the Prussian State Railways. | 393 |
3837867 | Special Herbs: The Box Set Vol. 0–9 is a box set by Metal Fingers, released on January 24, 2006. As the last release under the Special Herbs project, the box set was limited to 7,500 copies during its initial release. It was reissued in August 2012, this time with minor artwork changes and all the beats in their original form.
The limited edition box set consists of 3 CDs. Discs 1 and 2 are mixed extracts from the initial ten volumes of the Special Herbs series. | 466 |
4423467 | His regiment was at the Battle of Lake Khasan, refusing to budge from its positions even after sustaining over 50% casualties, and then ousted the Soviet forces from a disputed hill in a night assault which the Japanese considered to be a model of its tactical type. Satō later boasted that since he was not in favor with Tōjō, his unit had been given the worst position on the front lines, and he looked forward to being given the worst position again at the next battle. | 473 |
336530 | A few days later, police on Long Island stopped the same truck and discovered Bresciani's slain body in the back. The driver was Joel Rifkin, later convicted as a serial killer responsible for the murder of several sex workers. Despondent over his continuing drug addiction and the loss of his girlfriend and mother, Rubinstein committed suicide shortly thereafter.
This same year, New Red Archives issued A Collection of Pop Classics, which collected both Volume 1 and Volume 2 on a single CD. | 494 |
31838504 | He wrote to E. Leitz in New York City and proposed trading two Leica cameras and other necessary equipment in exchange for articles that would feature photographs made by the Leica, highlighting the possibilities of its small size.
In 1928, Barbara and Willard Morgan set out to capture the Southwest landscape on film. Morgan used these images to illustrate his articles, becoming the first American photographer to use the 35mm Leica as a professional camera. Morgan was offered a position at E. Leitz, Inc. | 509 |
620116 | Oskar Lafontaine, soon to be the SPD's chancellor candidate, emphasised the incalculable financial risks and the curtailment of the number of those leaving.
The sudden announcement of Kohl's plan irritated European heads of states and Soviet chief Gorbachev. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saw international stability becoming endangered and raised doubts about the peacefulness of a united and restrengthened Germany. French President François Mitterrand was concerned that the German government could give up its commitment to the European integration process and instead focus on its national interests and ambitions for power. | 640 |
2105734 | The Nevadan orogeny occurred along the western margin of North America during the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous time which is approximately from 155 Ma to 145 Ma. Throughout the duration of this orogeny there were at least two different kinds of orogenic processes occurring. During the early stages of orogenesis an "Andean type" continental magmatic arc developed due to subduction of the Farallon oceanic plate beneath the North American Plate. | 454 |
17710220 | By 1863, with the help of a grant from the Provincial Government, the Mechanics' Institute opened a building on a half-acre of freehold land on the corner of Cambridge Terrace and Hereford Street, purchased the year before at a cost of £262.10.0. This site was to remain the home of the library until 1982.
Debt, dwindling subscribers and other problems forced the institute to hand over the building to the Provincial Government in 1873. | 438 |
1585389 | The discovery of an additional hadrosaurid, Gryposaurus latidens, in the same range as Maiasaura has shown that the border between hypothesized distinct faunas in the upper and middle is less distinct than once thought. There seems to be a major diversification in ornithischian taxa after the appearance of Maiasaura within the Two Medicine Formation. The thorough examination of strata found along the Two Medicine River (which exposes the entire upper half of the Two Medicine Formation) indicates that the apparent diversification was a real event rather than a result of preservational biases. | 598 |
28849162 | She is quoted as saying, "I told her that the forest department paid compensation if a cow or a hen was killed by a wild animal, so why not a human being? She immediately ordered compensation."
After being informed of the plight of orphaned and abandoned Adivasi children, Sapkal took care of the children in return for meager amounts of food. Shortly thereafter, it become the mission of her life.
Sapkal devoted herself to orphans. As a result, she was fondly called "Mai", which means "mother". | 497 |
43894464 | His military decorations and awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal (Air Force), Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster, Presidential Unit Citation emblem, Vietnam Service Medal with two service stars and Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with palm.
Pustay is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has written several publications. | 507 |
12660827 | Notice préliminaire sur la famille des Diplommatinacées. Journal de Conchyliologie. 13: 289-294
Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1897). Neue Landschnecken von Java. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 29(7-8): 57–72, 89–97
Pease, W. H. (1865). Descriptions of new species of Phaneropneumona, inhabiting Polynesia. | 334 |
528200 | cultural Rūta Society, founder of the first bookstore ("Marijos ir Jurgio Šlapelių lietuvių knygynas"), dedicated to Lithuanian language and literature in Vilnius (1906–1949)
Arūnas Tarabilda (1934–1969), Lithuanian graphic artist
Juozas Tysliava (1902–1961), Lithuanian poet, translator, journalist, | 302 |
63139724 | Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) worsened the spread of the pandemic by deporting sick people to their countries of origin, including Haiti.
July 17 – Venezuela protests against the incursion of the American destroyer USS Pinckney only 16.1 nautical miles (30 km) from its coast. The United States recognizes jurisdiction of only 12 nautical miles and insists the ship was in international waters.
July 20 – The Bahamas announces that commercial flights and sea cruises from most countries, including the United States, will be banned starting on July 22. | 566 |
18627940 | Randall Gregory Holcombe (born June 4, 1950) is an American economist, and the DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. He is a Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, a Senior Fellow and member of the Research Advisory Council at The James Madison Institute, and past president of the Public Choice Society. From 2000 to 2006 he served on Governor Jeb Bush's Council of Economic Advisors.
Holcombe is the author of several books on economics and American politics. | 492 |
44596545 | An acoustic version of "Every Breaking Wave" was played from the e-stage, with just the Edge on piano and Bono's vocals. During the European leg, Bono and the Edge played "October" after "Every Breaking Wave". For "Bullet the Blue Sky", the singer thematically re-interpreted the song, modifying the mid-song spoken passage to be a criticism of the modern-day Bono and his excesses by his younger self. | 402 |
9049642 | Buildings and structures in Whatcom County, Washington | 54 |
50927963 | 2016, R. Manikandan announced that he would make a film revolving around a lucky fish starring Sibi Sathyaraj and that Aishwarya Rajesh and Chandini Tamilarasan would portray the leading female roles. The project developed under the title Thanni Raja, with Kaali Venkat, Mime Gopi and Livingston announced as cast members in March 2016. Film director Nalan Kumarasamy also later joined the cast to portray a veterinary doctor, who attends to a fish. | 449 |
1994668 | "“This Is Who I Am”: Jero, Young, Gifted, Polycultural" (Fellezs 2012).
Japanese people by ethnic or national origin | 116 |
4692831 | One, an Arab sheikh, who claims he is the Black's rightful owner; while the other attempts to murder the beautiful steed. The sheikh proves he legally owns the Black and takes him back to Arabia, but Alec is determined to see his horse again. Following the pair to Arabia, Alec, along with Henry, encounters great evil and intrigue, as only a horse as spectacular as the Black could inspire.
Son of the Black Stallion (1947) - When Alec receives the Black Stallion's first offspring as a gift, he believes that his dreams have come true. | 538 |
33032468 | Casual Peeps at Sophia is a collection of essays and addresses by Allama I I Kazi. It was published by the Sindhi Adabi Board in 1967. The subjects dealt within these essays and addresses cover a wide range of topics such as philosophy, religion, history, poetry, art and literary criticism. | 291 |
3664252 | The area today supports mainly birch, aspen, and fir forests.
Some of the fish, fauna, and spore fossils found at Miguasha are rare and ancient species. For example, Spermasporites is thought to be one of the oldest flowering plant genera on Earth.
List of fossil sites (with link directory)
Parcs Québec: Parc National de Miguasha (english)
World Heritage List: Miguasha National Park | 388 |
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