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5796612 | There were two runway presentations: one for guest judge Catherine Malandrino with Parisian models, and the New York panel. The winner does not have immunity for this challenge.
Judges: Heidi Klum; Nina Garcia; Michael Kors; fashion designers Catherine Malandrino and Richard Tyler.
The designers are asked to create a cocktail dress using only black and white fabrics with only one day and US$100. | 399 |
30271390 | He later performed with the group Wild Common.
Gilmore has been an outspoken critic of Dominion Energy. He current serves as a senior director of Clean Virginia, an organization established to limit the influence of monopoly energy utility Dominion Energy in Virginia politics. As Gilmore stated about legislation Dominion sponsored, "these are convenient ways to open the door to deregulation and overcharging the customer." He has also opposed two natural gas pipelines proposed for Virginia, performing with his group Wild Common at a protest event to block them, stating:
In his role at Wize Solutions, he promotes rural workforce development in the southwest region of Virginia. | 683 |
31576870 | Connecticut's 1925 financial responsibility law required any vehicle owner involved in a collision with damages over $100 to prove "financial responsibility to satisfy any claim for damages, by reason of personal injury, to, or death of, any person, of at least $10,000." This early financial responsibility requirement only required vehicle owners to prove financial responsibility after their first collision. Massachusetts also introduced a law to address the problem of collisions, but theirs was a compulsory insurance, not financial responsibility law. It required automotive liability insurance as a prerequisite to vehicle registration. | 644 |
44120383 | president Jeff Robinov explained that Man of Steel would be "setting the tone for what the movies are going to be like going forward. In that, it's definitely a first step." The film included references to the existence of other superheroes in the DC Universe, and set the tone for a shared fictional universe of DC Comics characters on film. Goyer stated that should Green Lantern appear in a future installment, it would be a rebooted version of the character, unconnected to the 2011 film. | 492 |
37478313 | Oprah: Where Are They Now? is an American reality television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The series debuted on October 2, 2012, and takes a look back at what happened to some of the biggest headline makers on The Oprah Winfrey Show plus updates on their current life.
On January 5, 2013, The Oprah Winfrey Network released its 2013 programming and announced that the series has been renewed for a second season. | 420 |
68778878 | Cruz's research focused on databases, big data, geographic information systems, Semantic Web, and knowledge representation.
She died on September 19, 2021.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected "for her distinguished contributions to visual query languages, information integration and visualization, geospatial computing and for professional leadership in the data management community". | 425 |
71496448 | Khvichia supports the abolition of the State Security Service, Georgia's domestic intelligence agency.
Iago Khvichia has called himself a pro-Western politician and has backed closer relations with the United States. In January 2020, he organized a rally of Girchi activists in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi to welcome the newly appointed ambassador Kelly C. Degnan. When South Ossetia hinted at the idea of being annexed by Russia in 2022, he stated that Georgia's response should be a more pro-Western foreign policy course. | 533 |
31664190 | was published, but the book was nonetheless released unedited. The book's publisher responded to the birth certificate release by saying that Corsi was "deeply suspicious of the authenticity of this document".
Despite the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, publisher Joseph Farah told The Washington Post that Where's the Birth Certificate? would not be renamed and would still be released on May 17. He said the imminent publication of the book had pressured Obama into releasing the certificate. | 528 |
60258380 | Representatives of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities in Jamaica have described Jamaican society as being tolerant of religious diversity, and identified the high level of interfaith dialogue as evidence to support this claim.
The Constitution of Mexico and other laws establish and protect the freedom of religion in Mexico.
A precedent of limiting the rights of the church – especially the Roman Catholic Church– was set by President Valentín Gómez Farías in 1833. | 477 |
43867914 | Dypsis carlsmithii is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is endemic to the eastern lowland rainforests of Madagascar. It is a rare palm, with fewer than 15 mature individuals identified from two locations in the northeast: Tampolo on the western coast of Masoala Peninsula, and Mahavelona, north of Toamasina, where it grows between 20 and 100 meters elevation. | 384 |
144173 | One early UNIVAC line of vacuum tube computers was based on the ERA 1101 and those models built at ERA were rebadged as UNIVAC 110x; despite the 1100 model numbers, they were not related to the latter 1100/2200 series. The 1103A is credited in the literature as the first computer to have interrupts.
The original model range was the UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I), the second commercial computer made in the United States. | 434 |
11671984 | "Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery" is a paper regarding antiseptics written by Joseph Lister in 1867.
Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
1909 reprint in a compilation on Google Books, in public domain in the US
1967 British Medical Journal reprint PDF hosted by NIH | 296 |
51278291 | He wants to keep out of prison so he can be with her. Wood described the relationship as a first for Trevor because he deeply cares and loves Grace unlike his previous romances.
Wall hoped that Grace and Trevor would become the show's "new power couple". She wanted them to have a similar relationship to Den (Leslie Grantham) and Angie Watts (Anita Dobson), a well known married couple from the rival soap opera EastEnders. | 424 |
29547747 | Epicephala acrobaphes is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Queensland, Australia. | 101 |
45016443 | Mark Hoppus - vocals on "Tidal Waves"
Joel Madden - vocals on "Bail Me Out"
Future Hearts at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed) | 131 |
44730195 | Vince is a given name and a surname. It may also refer to:
Vince Bayou, a river in Texas
Vince Camuto, a footwear designer and fashion brand
Vince, Kumanovo, a village in Kumanovo Municipality, Republic of Macedonia
Hurricane Vince, a 2005 Atlantic Ocean hurricane
VINCE. or Vince, a contemporary clothing brand
Vince Lombardi Trophy: awarded to the winning team of the Super Bowl | 387 |
67441121 | If they meet with anyone during that time, they are required to restart from the beginning. There were some shrines where even when one finally became tounin, they had to go through further strict training which required them to remain in a room with all impurities removed, and they were restricted from not only meeting women, but from meeting anyone, at all. This was how they gained respect from the villagers, and gained the authority to become tounin. As a general rule, those that were part of the miyaza were the males of the household, but there were female positions, as well. | 586 |
1070016 | This new argument further challenges the norms of the British-centric model of development: studies of national development in Britain and other "normal" states (e.g., France or the United States) have suggested that even in these cases, the modern nation-state did not develop evenly. Nor did it develop particularly early, being rather a largely mid-to-late-19th-century phenomenon. Since the end of the 1990s, this view has become widely accepted, although some historians still find the Sonderweg analysis helpful in understanding the period of National Socialism. | 568 |
497717 | Freeserve (acquired by France Télécom, now Orange)
Friends Provident (acquired by Friends Life Group)
Gallaher Group (acquired by Japan Tobacco)
Gateway Corporation (renamed Somerfield, subsequently acquired by The Co-operative Group)
GEC, formerly General Electric Company (renamed Marconi, broken up, remnant renamed Telent)
General Accident (merged with Commercial Union to form CGU, itself now part of Aviva)
George Wimpey (merged with Taylor Woodrow to form Taylor | 475 |
52452726 | In 1967 and 1968, Durrance served his military service as a combat photographer in the United States Department of the Army Special Photographic Office. His job was to document military activities in southeast Asia, including Vietnam. He was placed in three awards in the 1968 Military Pictures of the Year competition, winning first place for News, second place for Features, and third place for Portrait, all with pictures from Vietnam. A book based on his Vietnam images, Where War Lives, was published in 1988. | 514 |
61979808 | The party breakdown for the council is as follows:
Sophus Lie (1842 in Nordfjordeid – 1899), a Norwegian mathematician
Olav L. Os (1882 in Nordfjordeid – 1953), a politician and silver fox breeder
Oliver H. Langeland (1887 in Eid – 1958), a military officer, | 261 |
2601285 | "STAR Chinese Movies" – is a 24-hour Chinese movie channel based in the Republic of China (Taiwan) were still copyrighted from Hong Kong with studio by STAR TV Filmed Entertainment, produced by Fortune STAR Entertainment & distributed by Media Asia Entertainment Group based in Kowloon Peninsula in 1993.
The BBC's international operations initially consisted of a single channel – BBC World Service Television. | 411 |
56492433 | Decker is an American comedy web series & television series created by Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington. The show is a web spinoff/tie-in to the series On Cinema at the Cinema on July 17, 2014. Recurring jokes and the personas and mutual antipathies expressed by Decker and Turkington carry over from the relationship of the "real" actors in On Cinema. Season 4 and onwards is aired on TV via Adult Swim. | 406 |
43334174 | Willem Johannes Witteveen (; 5 May 195217 July 2014) was a Dutch legal scholar, politician, and author. He was a law professor at Tilburg University (1990–2014) and a Member of the Senate for the Labour Party (1999–2007; 2013–2014). He was also the author of several books about law and politics. Witteveen was killed on 17 July 2014 when the flight he was travelling on, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was shot down over eastern Ukraine by pro Russian rebels. | 458 |
1270867 | Her work at Channel 4 has been described by Farrukh Dhondy as "revolutionary": "She ditched the mission to complain and ran on the channel, among a diversity of offerings, one West Indian and one Asian magazine show, a black arts showcase programme and then a situation comedy called No Problem, co-written by veteran Trinidadian playwright Mustafa Matura and myself. The brief to the writers was clear – a situation comedy makes people laugh.... Under Sue Woodford the mission to complain was subverted. There were two clear strategic objectives which emerged from Channel 4. | 576 |
60444669 | After travelling and admiring buildings around the subcontinent, in particular Calcutta, a local businessman named Yasin Mirza decided to build a mosque in his local village of Raypur. Groundbreaking took place in 1924 and construction in 1931. It took 10 years to complete. Yasin Mirza hired architects and builders from cities of the British Raj such as Calcutta and Delhi. The main architect was Mumin Astagar, a descendant of one of the architects of the Taj Mahal. During this period, Mumin was living in Dacca. | 516 |
8441720 | The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, which figures prominently in the plot of A Severed Wasp, is also the setting for the 1968 L'Engle novel The Young Unicorns. The author herself was librarian and writer-in-residence at the same cathedral for several decades.
This story takes place last in the L'Engle canon of "Kairos" and "Chronos" stories, as it features the adult Suzy Austin and the adult Josiah Davidson. No novel published after A Severed Wasp took place during or after the events of this one. | 506 |
43129634 | The graphic design for the restaurant was designed by Tibor Kalman and Douglas Riccardi from M&Co, in exchange for free meals; examples are now in the MoMA design collection.
Florent Morellet, the eponymous owner of the restaurant, is the youngest son of French conceptual artist, Francois Morellet.
Erica De Mane, the food journalist and cookbook writer, began her cooking career at Florent in 1985.
Florent closed on June 29, 2008, after the landlord raised the rent considerably. | 482 |
7757963 | He rapidly fell in love with and vowed to protect her, therefore, when Margaret interrupted the stand-off between her father and Monday, Carrossea-Poupee has to cover her with his own body from a stray bullet and died on the spot. However, his rather weak Gift, the power of the Sanctuary and his will to protect Margaret sufficed to partly resurrect him at expense of his memories. Friday Monday has found his amnesiac persona, named him "Carrossea" and made his personal assistant, whereas his memories remained confined to the Sanctuary with the entity named "Poupee". | 571 |
26002209 | The Double Eagle Mark II uses two 5 kilowatt brushless electric motors for main propulsion, and six 0.4 kilowatt brushless electric motors for fine manoeuvering. Mark III ROVs have four 7 kilowatt brushless electric motors as main thrusters. Double Eagles can operate in any orientation. | 287 |
39418910 | hoped to distinguish companies who actively owned, managed and programmed original channels on YouTube from those that aggregated channels and creators but did not focus on channel programming and content. The Multi Channel Network name was chosen for those who actively managed AND programmed channels to emulate cable TV programming companies such as Turner, Discovery, Disney, Comcast and MTV Networks that owned and operated multiple channels ("multi-channel"). The MCN name was born within YouTube and its ecosystem. | 522 |
31710608 | According to the investigatory commission charged with investigating the events that took place in Imbaba, the attacks were initiated by Salafi Muslims with collaboration from some Muslim thugs who live in the neighborhood. According to the commission, the aggressors organized themselves into two groups; the first firing gunshots to prevent the Christians from protecting the church, while the second group broke into the church and completely torched it. Egypt's human rights council also blamed the Salafi Muslims for the attack. | 533 |
9584077 | The Bet Din read their determination to the litigants, to the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County, and to Lanner's two employers, the Orthodox Union and a synagogue in New Milford, New Jersey.
On February 19, 2003, Rabbi Willig publicly apologized for reaching what he eventually realized to be incorrect conclusions and for other "mistakes" made during the 1989 Bet Din proceedings. He noted that since the Bet Din did not have experience adjudicating matters of abuse, they should not have agreed to take the case. | 516 |
26372028 | |style="background: bgcolor="#F5DEB3" | National census|style="background: bgcolor="#C2B280" | 1991
|style="background: bgcolor="#C2B280" | 1981|style="background: bgcolor="#C2B280" | 1971 | 189 |
51072749 | Fabio Castillo (born February 19, 1989) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He has played in the KBO League for the Hanwha Eagles, in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Saitama Seibu Lions.
Castillo began his professional career as a starting pitcher in 2006, playing for the Dominican Summer Rangers and AZL Rangers, going a combined 1–4 with a 3.10 ERA in eight games (seven starts). | 473 |
17984788 | Paulos Faraj Rahho, 2008, Chaldean Archeparch of Mosul | 54 |
3905615 | Saint Geminian of Modena, Deacon and later successor of the Bishop of Modena (348)
Saint Madoes (Madianus), a saint who has left his name to a place in the Carse of Gowrie in Scotland.
Saint Áedan (Maedoc), first Bishop of Ferns in Co. | 237 |
65773427 | Steam locomotives used to exist at Itarsi until the late 1970s. After Central Railway (former, now under West Central Railways) set a deadline to eliminate all steam locomotive operations by 1990, a push was given towards establishing electric locomotion as the primary motive power, and the steam locomotive sheds were decommissioned. To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Central Madhya Pradesh to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Itarsi was selected by Indian Railways for a new electric locomotive shed. | 599 |
29891649 | Based on a study of the mitochondrial DNA, they rejected the glacial development theory and argued that the southern painted turtle should be elevated to a separate species, C. dorsalis, while the other subspecies should be collapsed into one and not differentiated. However, this proposition was largely unrecognized because successful breeding between all subspecies was documented wherever they overlapped. Nevertheless, in 2010, the IUCN recognized both C. dorsalis and C. p. dorsalis as valid names for the southern painted turtle. | 536 |
134391 | The Schützenfest commemorates the town's rich German heritage and their German founder, Conrad Ehrhardt, an immigrant from Weiterode, Kurhessen, Germany. The festival is held annually.
Information on the Town of Ehrhardt from the Bamberg County Chamber of Commerce
Towns in Bamberg County, South Carolina | 304 |
31652121 | On April 4, 2019, a 7–3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers gave Binnington his 23rd win of the season, a record for a Blues rookie goaltender.
On April 10, Binnington played his first NHL playoff game, stopping 25 of 26 shots against the Winnipeg Jets in a 2–1 victory. On April 27, Binnington was announced as a finalist for the Calder Memorial Trophy. After knocking out Winnipeg in six games, the Blues defeated the Dallas Stars in a seven-game conference semi-final series. | 479 |
39208945 | Additionally, the replacement of coal-based energy with renewables can lower the number of premature deaths caused by air pollution and reduce health costs.
Governments ambition to attract international support for green growth initiatives and public demand for a clean environment have been found to be drivers of the energy transition in developing countries, such as Vietnam.
The emissions reductions necessary to keep global warming below 2°C will require a system-wide transformation of the way energy is produced, distributed, stored, and consumed. For a society to replace one form of energy with another, multiple technologies and behaviours in the energy system must change. | 683 |
3611210 | Valdez moved the theater a final time in 1971, to San Juan Bautista, south of San Francisco. Combined now with the cultural center, it was called El Centro Campesino Cultural, and it became a fully professional production company.
In 1973, he published his poem Pensamiento Serpentino, which drew on Mayan and Aztec philosophical concepts and argued that Indigenous ways of knowing were essential to the spiritual and material liberation of Chicana/os. The poem was later used in the highly successful Mexican American Studies Department Programs at Tucson Unified School District. | 581 |
71400429 | 21 July 2016: Michael Thomas Brace,
21 July 2016: Dr. David Haylett Easton | 75 |
5938459 | 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 3.8 km ||
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2782586 | According to another version, in 1790 the population was 200,000 people and in 1830 30,000 people. As a percentage of the total population of the North Caucasus, the number of the remaining Circassians was 40% (1795), 30% (1835) and 25% (1858). | 244 |
27760859 | Club Deportivo Achuapa, is a Guatemalan football club based in El Progreso, Jutiapa Department. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football. They now play their home games in the Estadio Winston Pineda after moving there from the Estadio Municipal Manuel Ariza.
The club was founded in 1932 as Oriental Progresista. | 342 |
66422052 | But while he is an incredible trickster, he's a terrible rider.
(voiced by Shechniah Mpulwana) runs the Dino Airport with her dad, Zachary, and pterodactyl pal, Wilbur. Bold, adventurous, and a bit of a daredevil, Tara's the best pterodactyl-flyer around for when the Dino Ranchers need a helping hand from the air.
is Tara's high-flying pterodactyl pal and the head of the Dino Airport's fleet of rescue pteros. | 416 |
2192576 | Those would be the qualifier for the upcoming national division and not the participation in the final round of the current championship, so their significance was significantly reduced.
On Saturday, 10 October 1959 at the General Assembly of the HFF, ie with the participation of all the members of the Association of Football Associations and in the presence of the General Secretariat of Sports (GGA) and representatives of the Karamanlis government, became the first national division of Greek football. The 1st game was set for 15 days. | 541 |
56387986 | Leifer was arrested in Israel in August 2014, and placed under house arrest in Bnei Brak, where she was required to wear an electronic tag.
At her various extradition hearings, Leifer claimed that she suffered extreme anxiety and panic attacks in the lead-up to the hearing; she received a delay. She subsequently deferred the hearings numerous times, claiming mental health issues, with one judge suggesting that the case could potentially be delayed up to a decade. | 467 |
7951666 | Grown by her grandfather in a farm, thus she was an animal lover. Kana was a member of the basketball team and friends with Ayane Yagi, but for some reason, she regrets being in Shikanotoride. She was killed during the landing mission, when a random Wild Seven Sniper blows up her boat.
Killed by: Boat explosion (caused by random Wild Seven-Member (Saki?))
Eri Yoshiyama (善山 絵里 Yoshiyama Eri) Girl #23; teamed with Kana. | 422 |
2758862 | Two of the executions by the Squad were the killing on 21 January 1920 of RIC Inspector William Redmond of the G Division and on 2 March 1920 of a British double agent John Charles Byrnes.
One of the Apostles' particular targets was the Cairo Gang, a deep-cover British intelligence group, so called since it had either been largely assembled from intelligence officers serving in Cairo or from the Dublin restaurant called the Cairo, which the gang frequented. Sir Henry Wilson brought in the Cairo Gang in the middle of 1920 explicitly to deal with Michael Collins and his organisation. | 588 |
58786646 | (writers) Chris Stapleton, Garnet Bowman, Morgane Hayes, Ronnie Bowman
"Little White Church House" – Gaither Vocal Band
(writers) Jonathan Smith, Mia Fieldes, Zach Williams
(writers) Gerald Crabb, Joseph Habedank"Dinner on the Ground (feat. the Oak Ridge Boys)" – Little Roy & Lizzy Show(writers) Jeff Bumgardner, Joel Lindsey, Wayne Haun"Daddy And Son" – The Nelons | 366 |
1765938 | Production began in 1977 when the CB radio/trucking craze was at its peak, made during the same period as such films as Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Handle with Care (1977), Breaker! Breaker! (1977) and High-Ballin' (1978), as well as the television series Movin' On (1974–1976) and B. J. and the Bear (1979–1981).
During this period of Sam Peckinpah's life, it was reported he suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction. | 423 |
219288 | The pavilion featured a monumental hammered copper relief sculpture on its facade titled The Scholar, The Laborer, and the Tiller of the Soil by Art Deco sculptor Maurice Ascalon.
Over 2 million visitors flocked to the Jewish Palestine Pavilion, making it one of the most successful exhibits in the fair. The pavilion sought to showcase the achievements of Jews and their advancement of the land. Several major Israeli artists presented their work, including Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Shimshon Holzman and more. | 507 |
9231668 | The Große Olympiaschanze () is a ski jumping hill located on the Gudiberg, south of the district of Partenkirchen of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany, and is traditionally the venue of the Four Hills Tournament's New Year's jumping.
At the 1936 Winter Olympics, the venue hosted the ski jumping event and the ski jumping part of the Nordic combined event. The outrun of the ski jump formed the ski stadium which held the opening and closing ceremonies and the start / finish area of the cross-country skiing competitions. | 529 |
60636430 | The release of the album and its single was then announced on 2 May, with pre-orders available that day.
The release was composed by two disc and saw singles included from various parts of her discography, however some singles were omitted from the release.
Some of the songs which were omitted from the first edition of the album were later added on the expanded version of the album.
The expanded edition also features a 18-song megamix produced by Freemasons, who were responsible for the single mix of "The One". | 516 |
43939036 | Russian translation by Vladimir Soloukhin in 1967
English translation in 1970 by Julius Katzer and Dorian Rottenberg
Hindi translation by Madan Lal Madhu
Pashto translation by Fazlur Rehman Zahid and Aziz Khan Malizai
Punjabi translation by Gurbax Singh Frank
Vietnamese translation by Phan Hong Giang and Bang Viet | 321 |
34598427 | Jalgaon Airport is a domestic airport located off National Highway 753F southeast of the city of Jalgaon in Maharashtra, India. It had flights to Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Nanded, and Kolhapur operated by TruJet. Jalgaon Airport is 47 km away from the Ajanta Caves for which it is its closest airport. Jalgaon Airport has a Flight Training Institute run by Skynex Aviation. Also very soon Jalgaon Airport is going to have Helicopter Pilot Training Institute. | 452 |
206299 | These rainforests seem to have retreated considerably since the arrival of the aboriginals' ancestors 50,000 years ago, and are presently limited to isolated pockets comprising less than 2% of the continent's area.
Animal biodiversity is high, also. 672 species of terrestrial vertebrates have been recorded in the ecoregion, 370 species of birds, 70 species of reptile, and 78 species of freshwater fish (of Australia's total of 180 fish species). 11% of the vertebrates are endemic to the region, and 22% of the reptiles. | 525 |
613843 | Christopher's PS) and a secondary school (Niddrie Campus, Essendon Keilor College). There is also the Bravissimi Italian Language School.
Airport West Football Club, an Australian Rules football team, competes in the Essendon District Football League.
North West Wolves play rugby league in NRL Victoria.
Mark Thompson, VFL/AFL player and coach
City of Keilor – Airport West was previously within this former local government area. | 433 |
1547111 | The three major census metropolitan areas (CMAs) in the Corridor are (populations as of 2021):
The remaining census metropolitan areas along the corridor are: | 158 |
1627510 | They were often established in remote places deep in the Urals and Siberia, out of reach of enemy bombers. They were built close to rivers and lakes that were used to provide the large amounts of water needed for heavy industry and nuclear technology. Existing civilian settlements in the vicinity were often used as sources of construction labour. Although the closure of cities originated as a strictly temporary measure that was to be normalized under more favorable conditions, in practice the closed cities took on a life of their own and became a notable institutional feature of the Soviet system.
Any movement to and from closed areas was tightly controlled. | 666 |
6620602 | After 36 games for Lyon, in which he scored four goals, he was sold to Toulouse in 2005 for €3.5 million, on a four-year deal.
In August 2009, after his Toulouse contract had expired, he signed a three-year contract with Lecce of the Italian Serie B.
On 26 January 2012, he officially became a player of the Cyprus club AC Omonia, with that club having the rights to transfer him to Nicosia from June. | 402 |
10071869 | Most of the MPs who were born elsewhere had moved to the region ten years or more before the conflict erupted.
The victory of Obnovlenie enabled the party to change the long-term speaker of the Supreme Council, Grigore Mărăcuţă. On 28 December 2005, the leader of Renewal, Yevgeny Shevchuk was elected new speaker. | 314 |
15894030 | In addition, because of financial disputes between the Ottoman authorities and DHP, and DHP's delaying of transporting construction materials for the Haifa line through their own railways, the Ottomans wanted to have their own railway line to the Mediterranean. In 1902, the Ottoman authorities revoked S.O.R.'s permit for a compensation of 155,000 Turkish lira. | 362 |
5372922 | (Munin Verlag[de] was owned by HIAG.) "Many surving soldiers of this Division, of all ranks, have collaborated in producing this book." The book used both German, British, Canadian and United States Army war diaries. Meyer tried to be objective, but was nevertheless selective in the way he presented his division. The book is rich in terms of historical material. The book was described as "very good and clearly recommended", and praised for the "very thorough research in the records of casualties suffered by the division". | 528 |
24797776 | Sloan has pastored churches throughout Texas and beyond. He has also held membership in the Society of Biblical Literature, the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
Perspectives on John: methods and interpretation in the Fourth Gospel, with Mikeal C. Parsons (1993),
Foundations for Biblical Interpretation: A Complete Library of Tools and Resources, with David S. Dockery and Kenneth A. Mathews (1994),
Romans: Good News for a Troubled World, | 552 |
3762057 | Following this, commercial broadcasters would be required to provide minimum levels of high-definition content, would be required to pay fees if they chose to provide datacast services and would be prohibited from using their spectrum for multichanneling of subscription services. In addition, the prohibition on new free-to-air broadcasters would be extended until December 2008.
Amendments were subsequently made to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 and the Radiocommunications Act 1992, which set out ownership and programming conditions for broadcasting licences (administered by the ABA) and regulated the usage of spectrum, respectively. | 644 |
21469439 | Incidentally this did not stop his promotion to Lieutenant on 10 March 1782 or his appointment on the same date as aide-de-camp to Major-General William Medows, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army - a position he retained for at least ten years.
He also played a key role in the Fourth Mysore War and at its successful conclusion; the Siege of Seringapatam (1799). This success established Britain's position in southern India. | 429 |
28249969 | Cruzeiro started using its main squad on round 6 of the Serie A and reached 1st place right then, never to let it go again. It marked the start of a record shattering 32 round lead, capped with the title two rounds before the end of the league. The percentage of points achieved by the team that year was only rivaled by Cruzeiro's own 2003 season record. It was the team's 4th national title and 2nd consecutive league win. | 424 |
474562 | Schama on Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Late Years – BBC (2014)
The Face of Britain by Simon Schama – BBC (2015), in five parts | 129 |
27326225 | Tenzin Zopa was born in 1975 in the Tsum Valley in Nepal, near where his future teacher Geshe Lama Konchog lived in an isolated mountain cave. His parents and family were simple, nomadic farmers. Geshe Lama Konchog attended Zopa's birth, and turned him to prevent a breech birth. | 279 |
20775068 | Louis Post Dispatch and then, for 44 years, the Chicago Daily Times (later as the Chicago Sun-Times). Burck was awarded the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Jacob Burck was born Yankel Boczkowsky on January 10, 1907, in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland (then Russia), the son of ethnic Jewish parents, Abraham Burke, a bricklayer, and Rebecca Lew Burke.
Burck emigrated to the United States at age six and lived in Cleveland until 1924. | 444 |
52897501 | The system emerged into the Gulf of Mexico near Havana and briefly weakened to a tropical storm. Thereafter, the storm slowly re-intensified and gradually turned westward. On September 16, the hurricane peaked as a Category 3 hurricane with winds of . Later that day, the hurricane made landfall near Indianola, Texas. The storm quickly weakened and turned northeastward, before dissipating over Mississippi on September 18.
The hurricane brought heavy rainfall to several islands of the Lesser Antilles, especially on Barbados and Saint Vincent. | 546 |
28244758 | Since the mid-1970s, however, analysts of Finnish alcohol use have seen consumption rates level off and drinking habits become more moderate. Although the number of abstainers had dropped sharply in the postwar period, causing some sociologists to refer to Finns who became adults in the 1950s and the 1960s as "the wet generation," alcohol was gradually coming to take a more ordinary place in everyday life. | 409 |
3993568 | Then, government boarding schools severely punished American Indian students who were overheard speaking their own language. To avoid beatings and other punishments, Yuchi and other Indian children abandoned their native languages in favor of English.
In 2005, only five elderly members of the Yuchi tribe were fluent in the language. These remaining speakers spoke Yuchi fluently before they went to school and have maintained the language despite strong pressure to abandon it.
The situation was not limited to Oklahoma. In the Northwest Pacific plateau, there are no speakers left of the indigenous tribal languages from that area all the way to British Columbia. | 666 |
69916052 | Ostrov Dekabristov Municipal Okrug () is a municipal okrug in Vasileostrovsky District, one of the eighty-one low-level municipal divisions of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 60,842, up from 53,882 recorded during the 2002 Census. | 285 |
73690111 | In the afternoon of the same day, Tsai Ing-wen, President of the Republic of China held an impromptu press conference, saying that she "rejects the 1992 Consensus" and "resolutely opposes one country, two systems". Since March 2019, the People's Liberation Army has continuously conducted drills in the Taiwan Strait. On April 30, 2021, R.O.C. | 343 |
59185600 | Events in the year 1749 in Portugal.
29 September – Catarina de Lencastre, Viscountess of Balsemão, noblewoman, poet and playwright (d. 1824).
29 May – Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval, nobleman and statesman (b. 1684).
Years of the 18th century in Portugal | 275 |
2194173 | Collingham, E. M. The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food (2011)
Davies, Norman (2004). Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw. Viking. .
Dear, I.C.B. and M. R. D. Foot, eds. The Oxford Companion to World War II (1995) | 231 |
43457330 | On July 27, 2021, Nyika won a Round of 16 match against Moroccan Youness Baalla in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. In what was described by commentators as a "disgraceful act", during the third round, Baalla attempted to bite Nyika. The biting incident overshadowed the competition as New Zealand media reported that it "marred" Nyika's Olympic debut. The incident drew comparisons to Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield's 1997 fight in which Tyson repeatedly bit Holyfield's ear. | 478 |
26640164 | He worked as a Community Assistant at Elder Hall and was elected president of InNUvation, Northwestern's entrepreneurship club, as an undergraduate.
Before his graduation in 2008, Parr joined his mentors Troy Henikoff and Mark Achler to launch Free Lunch, a Facebook application development company. After Facebook changed its app developer policies, Parr moved on with Achler to work at Veritas Health. | 403 |
40838767 | Next day, Michal sees the man who he earlier saw through the window in the roundup, now free. The free man then lies down next to the woman with a baby, crying, as she wakes up and sees him. They are shortly afterwards shot through a window by someone. Michal enters the hospital's labs and through his microscope he picks apart lice that have fed on his blood during the lice-feeding typhus experiments. | 404 |
13802478 | Arctic explorers seeing nothing but featureless landscape of white snow for a long time also reported hallucinations and an altered state of mind. | 146 |
28352945 | Levine was a board member and a featured speaker at Duke University's Coach K Leadership Conference. In September 2010, CNBC aired "Meeting of the Minds: The Future of Leadership," which featured Levine alongside other leaders including General Wesley K. Clark, Henry Paulson, and Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III. In January 2011, Levine spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. | 407 |
44051511 | In 2013 Korula recorded Solo Sessions, collaborating with members of the NK Band and two members of the Dave Matthew Band, Jeff Coffin (saxophone) and Butch Taylor (keyboards). All songs on the EP are original. Officially released on July 9, 2013, that day the band also held a release party while headlining the House of Blues Sunset Strip. Stephen K. Peeples of House Blend commented that the EP's "music is soulful and adventurous, drawing from multicultural roots, and translates easily from solo to the full band arrangements fans will [see live]." | 553 |
24398100 | A complicated fixture formula was introduced in the Second Division and continued until the 1991–92 season. 2nd Division Champions were Hunslet, and Swinton were also promoted.
Wigan’s 10-8 defeat to Oldham in Round One this season, would be their last Challenge Cup defeat until February 1996.
Halifax and St Helens reached the final with 'Fax coming out victorious with a 19-18 win at Wembley before a crowd of 91,267. | 420 |
534152 | For both weak and strong verbs, the past negative is formed through a deverbal participial or converbal form (see above) followed by the present negative of the irregular verb "to be".
Wedekind, Wedekind, and Musa describe the past continuous as being used for "habitual, repeated actions of the (more distant) past." It is the verb conjugation used for counterfactual conditionals, which leads to Roper's identifying this tense as the "conditional". It is also frequently used in narratives. | 493 |
3428181 | From 23 February 1854 to 8 May 1854 Gorgon was commanded by Commander (and Captain) Arthur Cumming. On 15 February 1855, she assisted in the refloating of , which had run aground at Gibraltar on 23 January. On 23 July, she collided with the Prussian barque Mentor in the English Channel off Beachy Head, Sussex. Mentor was severely damaged; she was towed in to The Downs in a waterlogged condition. | 399 |
19739261 | Patricia Adair Gowaty is an American evolutionary biologist. She received her B.A. in biology at Tulane University and her PhD in zoology at Clemson University in 1980. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Gowaty is known for her many articles about human and animal behavior and evolution. She is author and editor of a book that seeks to combine feminist theory and Darwinian evolutionary biology. She has also written about the effects of and importance of rape in understanding human evolution. | 550 |
61699583 | Mika Bajinksi – additional backing vocals
Marie-Claire Schlameus – additional backing vocals
Ingo Krauss – engineer on basic tracks at Candy Bomber Studio, Berlin; mixing
Jason LaFarge – engineer at Seizure's Palace, Brooklyn, NY
Francesco Fabris – assistant engineer at Ben Frost studio, Reykjavik
Sander Stuer – assistant engineer at Ben Frost studio, Reykjavik | 368 |
69458918 | In 1897, Marius Gabriel Cazemajou led another expedition securing a protectorate with the Kebbi Emirate, which was signed on 19 January 1898, granting the French the lands of the Kebbi, as well as its tributary chiefdoms of the Dendi, Maouri, and Zarma (or Djerma) peoples. Later that year, the Central African Mission (Mission Afrique Centrale) led by and set out to secure treaties over Southern Niger. | 406 |
18228014 | South American Club Championship MVP: (2004)
3× Argentine Cup Winner: (2004, 2005, 2006)
2× Argentine League All-Star Game MVP: (2005, 2012)
4× Argentine League Best Quintet: (2005, 2006, 2013, | 193 |
25613675 | Frog: The frog signifies continuing matrilineal worship and the worship of Nüwa. Because the Chinese symbol for frog has similar pronunciation as the Chinese symbol for baby, frogs also appear in sachets that are blessings for a newborn.
Golden fish: This image originates in Buddhist culture, typically appearing as a pair of golden fishes. It is one of the eight auspicious symbols or Ashtamangala. It represents happiness, impulsiveness, fertility, profusion, freedom, conjugal harmony, and loyalty. Buddhist culture. | 520 |
341369 | "The little man is healthy, happy, and as loud as his daddy," Aiken wrote. "Mama Jaymes is doing quite well also." In his book, Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life, Aiken said, "It's a Southern tradition to be given your first name from your grandmama's maiden name." Aiken's middle name came from his paternal grandmother's maiden name; he and Foster used the married surnames of their mothers to name their son.
After several years of public speculation, Aiken came out as gay in a September 2008 interview with People magazine. | 543 |
46807227 | The main rock formations in the watershed include interbedded sedimentary rock and sandstone. Culm and silt are deposited in the creek's vicinity and it flows through a large silt basin known as the Bushwick silt basin. A major underground coal fire is burning on a hill near the creek.
The watershed of Powderly Creek is mainly forested, but open fields, abandoned mine land, and residential development occur as well. The creek is a first-order stream, but has a small reservoir. | 481 |
32004950 | The area covered by the IBA is 32,642 ha. The bay is especially significant for the migratory waders, or shorebirds, that breed in northern Asia and Alaska during the northern summer and spend the non-breeding season in Australia. Up to about 20,000 wades have been recorded on the bay's mud and saline flats. Species for which count data indicate the site's global significance include black-tailed godwit (6000), eastern curlew (700), and great knot (5000). | 462 |
26267738 | (C) Make the capital markets work more effectively by connecting investors and those who need funding more efficiently, both within Member States and cross-border.
(D) Make the capital markets more shock resilient by pooling cross-border private risk-sharing through a deepening integration of bond and equity markets, hereby also protecting it better against the risk for systemic shocks in the national financial sector. | 423 |
6788266 | Santo Stefano in Aspromonte is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,382 and an area of .
The municipality of Santo Stefano in Aspromonte contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Gambarie and Mannoli. | 406 |
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