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68570705 | Thurayyā 'Abd al-Fattāḥ Malḥas (1925 – February 23, 2013; ) was a Palestinian poet and academic. She is considered a pioneer of free verse poetry among Palestinian women writers.
Thurayyā Malḥas was born 1925 in Amman, in what was then the Emirate of Transjordan. She attended primary school in Amman, then moved to Jerusalem at age 15 and completed secondary school there. | 373 |
41989835 | Roberto 'Bobby' Jesse Gonzales (born 1951 in Taos, New Mexico) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing District 42 since January 1995.
Gonzales earned his BS from the University of New Mexico and his MA from New Mexico Highlands University.
Prior to serving in the New Mexico House of Representatives, Gonzales was an educator. | 393 |
47105368 | In 2014, IAC began hosting annual national conferences, featuring American and Israeli politicians and business leaders. The conference has grown to become one of the largest Israel-related annual events.
The first national conference was held in November in Washington, D.C., and drew over 750 participants and speakers. During an on-stage discussion about the Palestinian issue between IAC's two megadonors, Saban and Adelson, the former insisted on the two-state solution to keep Israel both Democratic and Jewish. | 517 |
31026376 | He played as a middle-order batsman and wicketkeeper in eight matches in 1928 and 1929, and against Essex at Leyton in 1928, scored 57 and 75, the second innings being the highest of his first-class career. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in its review of Glamorgan's 1928 season expressed the view that "Jones may become the regular stumper". But early in the 1929 season Jones lost his place in the side to Trevor Every and he never regained it. | 443 |
52980523 | Moca niphostoma is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Brazil.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous, posteriorly bronzy tinged, irregularly irrorated (sprinkled) with pale greenish, leaving the costa dark, with two dark spots anteriorly and larger blotches at the middle and three-fourths, the costal edge towards two-thirds white. | 416 |
43125502 | Diederik van Bloys van Treslong, 1612–1619.
Hendrik Casimir I van Nassau-Dietz, 1620–1640. | 90 |
10394962 | Daughters of Destiny (UK title: Love, Soldiers and Women, French title: Destinées and Italian title: Destini di donne) is a 1954 Franco-Italian co-production motion picture comedy drama directed by Marcello Pagliero, Jean Delannoy and Christian-Jaque. The film stars Claudette Colbert (segment "Elisabeth"), Michèle Morgan (segment "Jeanne") and Martine Carol (segment "Lysistrata"). It tells three stories, which are unrelated, but each deal with a woman and war. | 464 |
45054083 | Shortly before this victory, McMullen sold the team to Puck Holdings, an affiliate of YankeeNets, for $175 million. The owners wanted to use the Devils and the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets (also a tenant at Continental Airlines Arena) for programming on what eventually became the YES Network and move both teams to a new arena in Newark. Neither of these proposals became reality under Puck Holdings' ownership. The new owners largely left the Devils' operations in Lamoriello's hands. For the start of the next season, Lamoriello was appointed CEO of both the Devils and Nets. | 599 |
40472747 | The curriculum is broad and balanced, with a focus on subjects that contribute to the English Baccalaureate. It is under constant review. The proportion of students achieving the English Baccalaureate at the end of Year 11 is well above the national average. Extra-curricular activities enhance the curriculum. These include sport, music and museum trips. | 355 |
24983642 | The wing tips were akin to that of the Bf 109E. The prototype was first flown by Flugkapitän Fritz Wendel on 2 September 1940, and the test flights continued despite troubles with the BMW 801A powerplant. Development was stopped in early 1942.
This experimental aircraft was essentially two Bf 109F airframes joined by means of a new wing centre section and new tailplane, both of constant chord, in a manner paralleled by the F-82 Twin Mustang. | 445 |
68051698 | The camera team left the sleeping area around 10 pm. At around 1.30 am, Willi Weitzel woke up with a bleeding wound on his head that had to be sewn with five stitches. The perpetrators, who attacked him with a baseball bat while he was asleep, were initially able to escape undetected, but were later caught by the police. | 322 |
36866238 | Clare had defeated Cork in the semi-final by 2–13 to 3–09 to reach the final, while Limerick had defeated Tipperary by 0–16 to 0–15 in their semi-final.
The match was screened live by RTÉ as part of The Sunday Game programme with commentary by Ger Canning and analysis by Éamonn Cregan. | 286 |
50883738 | Born on November 2, 1899, in Culpeper County, Virginia, to John Young Button (farmer and traveling hardware salesman), and his wife the former Margaret Agnes Duncan, Button attended the local public schools and graduated from Culpeper High School in 1917. He then attended the University of Virginia for five years and received an undergraduate and law (LL.B.) degree in 1922. He was a member of the prestigious Raven Society and Order of the Coif. | 448 |
64099210 | The Irish hero Cúchulainn becomes a terrorizing figure among the inhabitants of the capital-city, Emain Macha, after he beheaded three rivals from his own people (the Ulaid). Aiming to appease his fury, they decide to capture him and plunge his body into basins of water in order to 'cool him down'. Irish sources also describe some of the warrior-bands as savages (díberg), living like wolves by pillaging and massacring. | 422 |
57086028 | In 2012 was nominated by various groups in London, ran with The Olympic Torch.
After a hiatus of eight years, Metto assumed the role of CEO at TCCA and has worked on several major projects including the establishment of the Turkish Cypriot Cultural and Arts Festival, The Turkish Cypriot Awards and launch of the Turkish Cypriot Trust UK. Metto spearheaded TCCA to receive a Cache beacon status and a bronze award from the Charity Awards Scheme in 2015. | 453 |
86777 | Within North America, northern pike populations are found in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, northern Texas, northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Québec (pike are rare in British Columbia and east coast provinces). | 571 |
10671633 | At the conclusion of his senior year with the Wildcats in 1990–91, Winnes joined the Maine Mariners of the American Hockey League before making his NHL debut with the Bruins during the 1991 playoffs. He spent most of the 1991–92 season with the Mariners, but would go on to play 24 games with the Bruins that season and later competed at the 1992 World Championships as a member of the U.S. National team. | 405 |
21261313 | For the final season, a "$5K Giveaway" was instituted as the third grand prize in the "Flash Round". Presented in association with KGW's AM radio sister-station 62 KGW, the "$5K Giveaway" gave winning contestants a chance to play for $5,000.
A small wedge marked "62 KGW" was added in one of the spaces between the two grand prizes on the outer wheel. | 351 |
37202699 | "Sleep in the Park" – 3:00
"Sleep in the Park" (Twin Shadow Remodel) featuring D'Angelo Lacy – 4:59
Credits adapted from the liner notes of True.
Songwriting – Solange Knowles, Dev Hynes | 186 |
2009361 | With Marcus, Eddie Durham and Eddie Seiler (1911–1952), he wrote "I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire", which was first recorded in 1941 by Harlan Leonard and his Kansas City Rockers, and then more successfully by The Ink Spots, whose version reached number 4 on the pop chart, and Horace Heidt, whose recording rose to number 1. The song won Billboard'''s "Top Songwriter's Award" for 1941. | 394 |
24412865 | It is believed that television advertisements often encourage people further into consumerism by promoting expensive objects which are often unnecessary and ultimately unsatisfying (a satisfied customer may not need to make further purchases). The presentation of these to people who are tired or not concentrating is a further risk to their behavioural development.
However, it is recognised that television is a convenient baby-sitter, and that some programs are enjoyable (The Idle Parent contains a list of the author's favourites). Choices might include watching only ten-year-old pre-recorded video tapes, or watching broadcast television with children and giving a real-time commentary on the content and its message. | 724 |
31440250 | He married Della Brooks circa 1901. They had three children: son Brooks Walker (1902–1984), and daughters Harriet E. Walker Henderson (1904–2007) and Alma Virginia Walker Hearst McKeever (1908–1971). He worked for his father and RRLC at various times throughout his life. He also invented automotive parts and accessories and invested in filmmaking.
While on a business trip in New York with her husband, Harriet died in 1917. | 426 |
3722219 | 8 in Iceland, and No. 13 in Australia.
The band dedicated the song to a high-school friend, Barbara Lewis, who was killed by a drunk driver in 1993. Lead singer Ed Kowalczyk said, "I wrote 'Lightning Crashes' on an acoustic guitar in my brother's bedroom shortly before I had moved out of my parents' house and gotten my first place of my own." Kowalczyk says that the video for "Lightning Crashes" has caused misinterpretations of the song's intent. | 450 |
70144590 | She returned to Home Waters to pay off on 15 September 1857 at Woolwich. She was refitted at Woolwich at a cost of 14,520 form 1858 to 1859.
Her last commission started on 19 October 1859 under Commander Sidmouth Stowell Skipwith, RN for service on the west coast of Africa. on 13 November 1860, Commander Norman Bernard Bedingfeld, RN took command. On 27 May 1861 she took the slaver Jacinta. | 393 |
47798929 | After a fire, the building got its present appearance in 1717, as well as probably the adjoint garden's walls which separate it from the Endingerstrasse lane respectively lake shore, and the neighbouring vineyard Schlossberg. In 1972 the building was restored by the city of Rapperswil. Einsiedlerhaus is a protected building but located in the zone plan for public buildings and facilities. In 2011/12 its interior was rebuilt for CHF 850,000 to house the Haus der Musik, literally "house of music", for 25 years. | 514 |
21000088 | Hope has been living a 'normal life' for four weeks now. She speaks to a psychiatrist named Doctor Townley due to The Avengers making the sessions mandatory. She now has foster parents that watch twenty-seven hours of television a week, and their excessive smiling makes her uncomfortable. She feels that her foster parents can't compare to Cable. Domino is speaking to Boom Boom via communication link about how she made a sucker out of a client to pay her three times the amount for a job to rescue a professor from M.I.T. she considers "easy money". | 552 |
51662260 | Toots & The Maytals - One Family (7", Single) (Righteous)
Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop (7”) (Island Records)
Toots & The Maytals - Have A Talk (7") (Black Noiz Music)
Toots & The Maytals / The Dynamic Sisters - We Are No Strangers (7") (Thunder Bolt)
Toots & The Maytals - Fool For You / Version (7", | 311 |
11802229 | Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan – Turkey)
Communist Party of Turkey (Workers Voice)
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre) | 149 |
53258237 | Café Heritage Day special on SABC 2
2016: Released their debut self-titled album, | 82 |
29826376 | Because the brain is also highly heat sensitive, the power and the device itself must not generate too much heat to avoid disrupting brain function.
A prosthetic neuronal memory silicon chip is a device that imitates the brain's process of creating long-term memories. A prototype for this device was designed by Theodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neurologist at University of Southern California. Berger started to work on the design in the early 1990s. He partnered with research colleagues that have been able to implant electrodes into rats and monkeys to test restoration of memory function. | 604 |
50637403 | It appears the role of women in Nazi Germany changed according to circumstances. Theoretically the Nazis believed that women must be subservient to men, avoid careers, devote themselves to childbearing and child-rearing, and be a helpmate of the traditional dominant father in the traditional family.
However, before 1933, women played important roles in the Nazi organization and were allowed some autonomy to mobilize other women. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the activist women were replaced by bureaucratic women who emphasized feminine virtues, marriage, and childbirth. | 582 |
21562424 | Suchy Dąb () is a village in Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Suchy Dąb.
It lies approximately south-east of Pruszcz Gdański and south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk. | 267 |
35304964 | Both movements open the chest, notably the pectoral muscles, and above the clavicles, and top area of the lungs.
These are two different positions: One with the hands interlaced palms down behind the body, and the other with the hands at the elbows behind the body. They can both be practiced with minor back bends. | 315 |
145754 | Village Sermons: Doctrinal and Pastoral/Bernard Whitman. Leonard C. Bowles: Boston, MA 1832.
A Visit to the South Seas, v.2/C.S.Stewart, A.M. John P. Haven: New York, NY. 1833.
The Waverley Novels, with the Author's Last Corrections and Additions. v.1, v.4 of Five Volumes/ Walter Scott. Carey & Hart: Philadelphia, PA 1845. | 324 |
47233256 | She falls into a depression. With only a short time left until her landlord's deadline, Alfie and Vernon finish the garden for her. Billy visits and explains that he missed their date because he was in the hospital after an accident, and the person she saw was his triplet brother. Soon after, Alfie passes away. He was actually the owner of Bella's house, and has left it to her, and his own house to Vernon. Bella, now in a relationship with Billy, publishes her picture book, titled This Beautiful Fantastic. | 511 |
63054142 | He joined Hugh Stowell and Henry Walter McGrath in the Manchester area anti-Catholic campaigns of the 1850s.
In 1857, Bardsley was appointed rector of St Ann's Church, Manchester. In 1861, he spoke to the Church Pastoral Aid Society and said "The Voluntary system is the life's blood of the Church of England." That year, an address of William McKerrow of the Presbyterian Church of England, on behalf of the Liberation Society, drew from him a rebuttal for the Manchester Church Defence Association. | 500 |
10442726 | The Carr River is a river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows approximately 6 km (4 mi). There are three dams along the river's length.
The river rises from Carr Pond in West Greenwich. It flows roughly due west past Tarbox and Capwell Mill Ponds to its confluence with the Big River.
Below is a list of all crossings over the Carr River. The list starts at the headwaters and goes downstream. | 401 |
1412217 | Sears Radio Theater was a radio drama anthology series which ran weeknights on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each evening's broadcast.
In January 1980, the program moved from CBS to the Mutual Broadcasting System and was renamed Mutual Radio Theater. The Mutual series broadcast repeats from the CBS run until September 1980, when a short season of new dramas was presented. Sears continued as a sponsor during the Mutual run. | 569 |
10218515 | (some under "Zhitkov, Boris Stepanovich", some "from old catalog")
Children's writers from the Russian Empire | 109 |
20223910 | Gardaí subsequently raided the Today FM studios and producer Will Hanafin was asked to hand over the emails claiming that the placing of the paintings constituted indecency, incitement and criminal damage. Hanafin declined to provide the emails without a warrant.
An interview conducted with British chef Gordon Ramsay by Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show in late 2009 led to comment in the Irish media when Ramsay engaged in personal criticism of Tubridy over his appearance. | 477 |
59561809 | The 2019 Dalian Yifang F.C. season was the 10th season in club history.
Yifang started the winter training on 24 December 2018 in Dalian until 1 January 2019. The team moved to Kunming on 2 January for a 10-day training, before flying to Marbella, Spain for another 3-week training.
The club decided to end the contract with Bernd Schuster on 3 January. The team was close to Leonardo Jardim and he eventually refused the contract due to multiple concerns. | 456 |
30156331 | Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2019 Pan American Games
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics | 280 |
965323 | In medicine, they are used as a treatment for infections such as athlete's foot, ringworm and thrush and work by exploiting differences between mammalian and fungal cells. Unlike bacteria, both fungi and humans are eukaryotes. Thus, fungal and human cells are similar at the molecular level, making it more difficult to find a target for an antifungal drug to attack that does not also exist in the host organism. Consequently, there are often side effects to some of these drugs. Some of these side effects can be life-threatening if the drug is not used properly. | 566 |
3519950 | And as soon as the Israelites saw God, they recognized God, and they all sang, "This is my God, and I will glorify Him."
A Baraita taught that the words of Exodus 15:2, "This is my God, and I will adorn him," teach that one should adorn oneself before God in the fulfillment of the commandments. | 295 |
33318524 | Eventually the city purchased a lot a Main Street and South Munn Avenue where the building was constructed and opened on January 3, 1903. This original section was the work Ackerman and Ross, who also designed the library that is now houses the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. In 1914, the Carnegie Library Fund granted another $40,000 to an expansion of much needed wings, designed by Hobart A. Walker and opened the following year.
Circa 1974, the building was altered and converted to the East Orange Municipal Court and later renovated again in 2009. | 561 |
385142 | Trevor Hill was one of the key producers on Children's Hour and was based in Manchester but later moved across to BBC Television where he introduced Children's Television Club, the original Northern-based presenters being Geoffrey Wheeler and Judith Chalmers, before it moved to London. A full account of Hill's wide-ranging career can be found in his autobiography Over the Airwaves (2005), which includes much detail about Children's Hour. | 441 |
11167545 | The line opened for goods trains on 19 May 1879 and for passenger traffic on 1 July 1879.
The Midland Railway considered Wolverhampton to be an important commercial centre, and wanted to construct ample terminal facilities there. It planned to open its own passenger station alongside the GWR station, but the LNWR announced its intention to enlarge its own facilities there in a way that conflicted. It also informed the Midland of its intention to discontinue the running powers into its Wolverhampton station, from June 1879. | 528 |
375732 | Until 2009, when it was abolished, West Wiltshire District Council acted as the second tier of local government.
Warminster is in south-west Wiltshire, near to the Somerset border. The town is surrounded by six hills, providing shelter and security for early settlers. Warminster is also close to the former Selwood Forest.
A minor river known as The Were flows through the town to join the River Wylye on the south-east outskirts. | 431 |
36090985 | In 1995, Harvard Shakespeare professor Marjorie Garber made the academic case for bisexuality with her book Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, in which she argued that most people would be bisexual if not for "repression, religion, repugnance, denial, laziness, shyness, lack of opportunity, premature specialization, a failure of imagination, or a life already full to the brim with erotic experiences, albeit with only one person, or only one gender". In 1997, bisexual activist Dr. | 509 |
33038630 | When the attempt fails, the assassin and Midun are arrested and sent to prison. While in prison, Midun is tortured until he earns a reputation for being a good fighter. He also meets Halimah, who lives with her stepfather, after returning her diamond necklace. After he is released from prison, Midun takes Halimah to find her father in Bogor.
After living with them for two months, Midun attempts to go to Batavia to find work, and leaves Halimah with her father in Bogor. | 473 |
24953439 | “Power of Performance”, or "POP", was founded with LAB's inception, providing free tickets to disadvantaged children, seniors, veterans, and their families. LAB also sponsors ‘A Chance to Dance Community Day’, launched in October 2012. An all-ages event, the public is encouraged to participate in free ballet, hip-hop, Yoga, Pilates and various other dance/fitness classes. The program serves approximately 200 participants every year.
Located on the Westside of Los Angeles, the LA Ballet Center spans 12,000 square feet, incorporating three studios and multiple offices. | 573 |
23897464 | He attended Matthew Fontaine Maury High School where he played basketball and football as a quarterback and safety for the Commodores athletic teams. As a senior in 2005, he recorded more than 2,000 passing yards and 500 rushing yards and led his team to a 10–2 record and an appearance in the Group AAA Division 5 playoffs. Chancellor was named the team's most valuable player, and he was also placed on the All-Eastern District first-team as well as The Virginian-Pilot All-Tidewater second-team. | 498 |
11557872 | However, being the former location of the nation's capital, Eti-Osa is home to many large domestic and international businesses. Eti-Osa is a commercial area that has several public and private institutions with Banks, hotels, clubs and modern markets where the exchange of good and services take place. In 2009, Eti-Osa was placed under study for commercial horticultural practices in Nigeria, where it was discovered that it had 75 gardens that were concentrated in Ikoyi and Victoria Island. | 494 |
56491973 | Diana Peñalver (born 1965) is a Spanish actress known for starring in Braindead (1992), Year of Enlightment (1986) and El Lute: Run for Your Life (1987). She also starred in the Spanish television series Las chicas de hoy en día. | 229 |
5150308 | The team bounced back the following game, a rematch against Saigon, where this time he had nine points, three rebounds, an assist and they got the win. He then fractured his nose, causing him to be out for a month. They won the championship that season.
In the 2013–14 PBA season, at age 39, Menk signed with the GlobalPort Batang Pier. He got his first double-double with Globalport in an overtime win over Alaska in which he had 10 points and 11 rebounds. | 458 |
44786483 | Following the cancellation of Zenit launches from Plesetsk, Russia had originally planned to use parts constructed for Site 35 to repair one of the Zenit pads at Baikonur that had been heavily damaged when a rocket lost thrust and fell back into the flame trench seconds after launch. Instead, the parts were eventually used on Sea Launch's Odyssey launch platform.
When Russia began development of the Angara rocket, launch pads at both Plesetsk and Baikonur were planned. | 473 |
8030248 | 46), Kamoltsev (Carlos Alberto, 69), Gashkin, Koshelyuk, Samaroni.
Russia national football team came second in their qualification group for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. They lost to Italy in the playoffs for the second-placed teams and did not qualify for the World Cup. Boris Ignatyev was the head coach, with Yuri Syomin assisting throughout and Leonid Pakhomov assisting from the third game on. | 395 |
44962135 | U-850 served with the 4th U-boat Flotilla until the end of October when she transferred to the 12th U-boat Flotilla for front-line service. U-850 left Kiel on 18 November 1943 destined for the Indian Ocean in order to join Monsoon Group, she was, however, spotted and successfully attacked by US aircraft from west of Madeira on 20 December.
On 20 December 1943, while en route to the Indian Ocean, U-850 was spotted by aircraft of Squadron VC-19. | 448 |
64408982 | | 0 || || MBA-I || 17.6 || 2.5 km || multiple || 2002–2021 || 05 Jan 2021 || 245 || align=left | Disc. | 103 |
19969091 | A seventh Dooley book was published in 1910, but given disappointing sales, the publishers abandoned plans for another in 1911. Although Dunne was a strong supporter of Roosevelt in the contentious 1912 presidential election, Mr. Dooley retained his customary above-the-fray attitude, mocking Roosevelt's excited oratory with Dooley feeling there was a large fire somewhere, a mystery solved when he opens the newspaper and learns "much to my relief, that it was not my pants but the Republic that was on fire". | 511 |
24289520 | Sound urban water management within the metropolitan area of the Aburrá Valley is carried out by a set of technically strong institutions with financial independence—and lack of political interference such as Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM).
The metropolitan area of the Aburrá Valley is located near the equator but with a high elevation, the average climate is quite mild without great variation in temperature and rainfall. | 431 |
19879877 | Alexander Rae born 2 February 1986 in Coventry, England is a rugby union head coach for Coventry. He previously played for the Northampton Saints, Saracens, London Wasps and Bedford Blues.
Rae was educated at Coundon Court in Coventry.
Rae started his rugby career playing at Northampton Saints after coming up through their academy. He made his debut in 2005. He signed a full-time contract with them in 2007, however he only made 12 appearances with 2 starts while at Northampton Saints. | 489 |
2900719 | At roughly the same time, energy products began trading on derivatives exchange with crude oil, heating oil, and gasoline futures on NYMEX and gas oil and Brent Crude on the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE).
There are three principal applications for the energy derivative markets:
This describes the process used by corporations, governments, and financial institutions to reduce their risk exposures to the movement of oil prices. | 438 |
35938708 | Today, the former military kaserne has been redeveloped as a business/industrial park, chiefly occupied by a transport company named "Bork". All post buildings have been demolished except for the former chapel.
The kaserne was named Ayers Kaserne in honor of SSG Lovall E. Ayers, B Company, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, killed in action in World War II.
List of United States Army installations in Germany
Military installations closed in the 1990s | 466 |
46721 | Ultimately, he did not do so but Edward was called as a witness in the case in early 1870. It was shown that Edward had visited the Mordaunts' house while Sir Charles was away sitting in the House of Commons. Although nothing further was proven and Edward denied he had committed adultery, the suggestion of impropriety was damaging. | 333 |
11015252 | He ignored facts that did not suit his argument, abhorred compromise, and very rarely admitted his own errors. He refused to change his opinions, until he rejected them completely, after which he would treat the new view as if it was just as unchangeable. Lenin showed no sign of sadism or of personally desiring to commit violent acts, but he endorsed the violent actions of others and exhibited no remorse for those killed for the revolutionary cause. | 453 |
4151090 | Miller co-produced and wrote the documentary On the Lake: Life and Love in a Distant Place, released in 2009 and subsequently broadcast on PBS. He also wrote and co-produced Behind the Hedgerow : Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport Society, which premiered in 2010. In 2011, Miller wrote and co-produced The Providence Journals Coming Home, about veterans of the wars in Iraq, which won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award and was nominated for a New England Emmy. | 467 |
5698673 | Qin Lang (199 – 238), courtesy name Yuanming, was a military general of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
Qin Lang was born in the late Eastern Han dynasty and his ancestral home was in Xinxing Commandery (新興郡; around present-day Xinzhou, Shanxi). His father was Qin Yilu, a former subordinate of Lü Bu, a warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty. | 386 |
8717819 | Early in 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all Dryandra taxa to Banksia. The current name for this species is therefore Banksia xylothemelia (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele. As an interim measure, Mast and Thiele placed all but one Dryandra taxon in Banksia ser. Dryandra.
It occurs in sand over laterite or in gravelly loam, amongst heath or sometimes mallee woodlands and shrublands. | 401 |
51729861 | In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A small village, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated in a valley, with olives, figs, and arable land. There is a spring and cisterns at the village." They further noted that south of the village was a perennial spring, built up with masonry. | 318 |
38565266 | A large portion of the German Duala garrison had withdrawn to this position following the Allied naval bombardment of the city. Following the Allied assaults on the Yapoma Bridge and Edea at the First Battle of Edea, the German force withdrew to the city of Jaunde further to the east along the southern railway line. This allowed Allied forces to occupy Edea unopposed on 26 October 1914. After the fall of Edea, the only remaining German force that could threaten General Dobell's hold on Duala was at the fort in Dschang to the north. | 537 |
41872807 | Brian E. Shiozawa is an American politician and a Republican member of the Utah State Senate representing District 8 from January 1, 2013 to December 11, 2017.
Shiozawa earned his BS from Stanford University, his MD from the University of Washington, and his residency at the University of Utah. He is married to Joye, and together they have four children who are mostly grown up. He is a long time residents of Cottonwood Heights. He has been working full-time, for over twenty years, at St. | 492 |
57255077 | He was chairman of The Left Group in the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure, member of the Digital Agenda Committee and member of the Audit Committee. Behrens was also a member of the Committee for Low German Language and a member of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference.
On 7 February 2015, he was elected to the Lower Saxony State Board of The Left. From February 2015 to March 2017, he was State Chairman of the party.
Behrens was a member for The Left in the committee of inquiry to the Volkswagen emissions scandal. | 538 |
52886844 | Spilasma is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. it contains only three species. | 115 |
54329547 | On June 29, President Trump sent out a diplomatic cable to embassies and consulates seeking to define what qualifies as a "bona fide relationship", excluding connections with refugee resettlement agencies, and clarifying that step-siblings and half-siblings are close family while grandparents and nephews are not.
On July 14 in Honolulu, Judge Watson found that the President's limitations on refugee resettlement agencies and family definitions violated the Supreme Court's order, writing "grandparents are the epitome of close family members". | 546 |
54653182 | The company was formally incorporated in 2013, with funding from the Natan Fund, Jonathan and Tamar Koschitzky, and the Jim Joseph Foundation. By 2015, twelve apps used Sefaria's API and database. Also in 2015, Sefaria reached a deal to use Urim Publications' translations of the Tanakh and commentaries.
Sefaria's website received a major redesign in 2016, alongside the release of new apps for smartphones running iOS and Android, and a complete English translation of Rashi's commentary on the Torah. | 503 |
73078975 | The key players on the team were Laurent Sciarra, Laurent Foirest, Olivier Saint-Jean, and Cyril Julian. In 1993, he was appointed General Manager of the French national team and coach of the France A' team. In September 1995, he succeeded Michel Gomez as head coach of the French national team. Under his leadership, the team came in the fourth-place at the 1999 European Championships, held in France, securing their qualification for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. | 472 |
519525 | Calverton, like most settlements on Bankes' map, was found to be surrounded by a number of large communally farmed arable fields. These must have been in existence for many centuries, but by 1609 each of the large open fields had had some of its land changed into non-communable closes, some of which may have been used for pasture. In Calverton the map shows about twenty small closes converted out of a portion of a field, The Moores, to the north east of the village, between the present Carrington Lane and the Doverbeck. | 525 |
5427408 | Important performances of her works include the premiere of her "Two Songs for Voice and Orchestra" by one of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestras in 1994 and the premiere of her Concerto for Violinon a 16 c. Storioni violin by Leonid Iogansen and the Boston University Orchestra in 2001.
Fol teaches composition for the She was a finalist for the 2006 Gaudeamus International Composers Award and a 2007 Tanglewood Music Center composition fellow, and is recipient of grants by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture among others. | 555 |
3872014 | Although at the 2006 Skyworks the Western Australia Police Force successfully mounted an operation to minimise such behaviour, prior to the 2010 Skyworks major sponsor Lotterywest removed its name from the show after 15 years of being naming rights holder and threatened to revoke funding for future Skyworks due to the continued levels of violence at the event. Alcohol was ultimately completely banned at the 2010 event to prevent unruly behaviour, though it led to a reduced crowd of 250,000 people at the foreshore. | 519 |
69729547 | Pramod Shetty as IG Prathap Narayan
The film received positive reviews from critics, | 84 |
11143048 | Films directed by S. P. Muthuraman
Films with screenplays by K. S. Gopalakrishnan
Films with screenplays by V. C. Guhanathan
Tamil films remade in other languages | 162 |
39409985 | The device is seen as a competitor to both e-cigarettes and nicotine-replacement therapies, such as gum and patches.
Voke was launched in the UK on Nov 5th 2019. It can be prescribed as an aid to smoking cessation or reduction, or can be purchased directly from Kind Consumer at a comparable cost to a pack of cigarettes.
Kind Consumer attracted investment from an investment trust and a number of angel investors:
Woodford Patient Capital Trust a large British investment trust dedicated to long term investments predominantly in the United Kingdom
Sir Terry Leahy, former Chief Executive of Tesco plc | 602 |
6439041 | Straža (Loznica), a village in Mačva District
Straža (Vršac), a village in South Banat District
Municipality of Straža, in southeastern Slovenia
Straža, Cerkno, a settlement in the Municipality of Cerkno | 206 |
46725261 | Voting was held in El Salvador for the 56 seats of the national assembly, as well as for mayors of the Central American nation's 261 municipalities.
In Israel, members of the Knesset approved a motion of confidence in the new coalition cabinet that had been formed by Prime Minister Golda Meir, with a margin of 62 to 46 in favor, and nine abstentions.
Britain's 280,000 coal mine workers began their return to work after ratification of a new pay package, starting with the night shift at 11:00. | 496 |
994727 | Cricketers at the 1979 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 1983 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 1987 Cricket World Cup
Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports | 161 |
47483489 | Therevox : Custom Musical Instruments official website
Therevox - Wood & Wires documentary film
Musical instrument manufacturing companies of Canada | 148 |
2639694 | It should be possible to describe the reaction by a balanced chemical reaction.
A method must exist for detecting the equilibrium point. | 137 |
32059688 | Despite having been a teacher for two decades she was dismissed due to an 1880s era rule of the Boston School Committee that banned teachers from marrying. Lorch appealed but the committee upheld the rule in 1944 and the publicity around Lorch's case led to a campaign to end the prohibition which was successful nine years later when, in 1953, the legislature voted to end the ban on married female teachers.
The Lorches were activists in the civil rights struggle in the 1940s and 1950s. | 490 |
59639322 | In Super Tuesday II, Gabbard received 868 votes (1%) in Idaho, 9,461 votes (1%) in Michigan, 989 votes (0%) in Mississippi, 4,879 votes (1%) in Missouri, and 89 votes (1%) in North Dakota. She received 12,391 votes, or 0.85%, in the Washington State Democratic Primary. Gabbard had a similar performance in the Super Tuesday III primaries, in each of which she received less than 1% of the vote. | 395 |
9366660 | Temporary callose walls are also thought to be a barrier between a cell and its environment, while the cell is undergoing a genetic programming that allows it to differentiate. This is because, callose walls can be found around nucellar embryos during Nucellar embryony. | 270 |
8623440 | The Patriots' Path Council is a not-for-profit organization that establishes ideals in youth to help them make ethical choices by instilling values of good character, citizenship, personal fitness, and guidance. It serves members in the counties of Morris, Sussex, Somerset, Union, Hunterdon, and parts of Middlesex in New Jersey. It was established in 1999 with the merger of the Morris-Sussex Area Council (1936–1999) and the Watchung Area Council (1926–1999). | 463 |
11122191 | 1764, and did not survive infancy)
General Frederick St John (20 December 1765 — 19 November 1844), MP for Oxford, married Lady Mary Kerr (died 1791), the Hon. Arabella Craven (died 1819) and Caroline Parsons (died 1869).
Finding herself in a desperately unhappy marriage to the notoriously unfaithful Viscount Bolingbroke, Lady Di overturned convention. She left her husband and maintained a secret relationship with her lover, Topham Beauclerk. | 447 |
135338 | According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (0.63%) is water.
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 5,444 people, 2,129 households, and 1,175 families residing in the city.
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,774 people, 2,478 households, and 1,558 families residing in the city. The population density was . | 377 |
72915246 | Lottery prizes included assets such as land, a farm, steamboats and five slaves: a 45-year-old man named Charles, a 43-year-old woman named Nancy and three girls named Matilda (12), Rebecca (11) and Maria (6)." Hiring out of slave laborers was extremely common and provided significant household income for their enslavers.
As of 1914, the Supreme Court of Tennessee held that "ex-slaves had no inheritable blood" and thus could not transfer property by will to their siblings. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Jones vs. | 535 |
5166139 | Two songs were re-recorded from their debut EP Lifeless: "Slipping Through the Hands of God" and "Life's Blood". Five songs were re-recorded from their first full-length album Yesterday Is Time Killed: "The Psychotic Thought", "An Old Wyoming Song", "Raping, Laughing, Tasting, Temptation", "Five 'O Six A.M. Three/Fifteen" and "Dead Rose". | 341 |
13503920 | Riders of the Purple Sage (1925)
King of the Wild Horses (1933) | 64 |
22501311 | Antiquitin shares 60% homology with the 26g pea turgor protein, also referred to as ALDH7B1, in the green garden pea.
As a member of subfamily 7 of the aldehyde dehydrogenase gene family, antiquitin performs NAD(P)+-dependent oxidation of aldehydes generated by alcohol metabolism, lipid peroxidation, and other cases of oxidative stress, to their corresponding carboxylic acids . | 380 |
46598337 | A library was constructed on Penn State's flagship University Park campus from 1937 to 1940, known as Pattee Library, that now forms the west wing of the Pattee and Paterno Libraries, the center of Penn State's library system. | 226 |
57179812 | Friedman and Stover fought for the same pool of undecided voters, and Cook Political Report remarked, if Wexton is "able to run up the score in her own Loudoun County-based state senate district, it'll probably be enough to win a low turnout race." | 248 |
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