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22207662 | The construction campaign was divided into 4 parts, and was done by well-known builders of that era: Jean de Chelles, Pierre de Montreuil, Pierre de Chelles, Jean Ravy, Jean le Bouteiller. It took over 100 years for the Notre-Dame to be built completely. It was built in honour of Virgin Mary, making it a bishop’s church, a canon church and a baptistery. It is one of the main symbols of Paris. It is located at Île de la Cité, a small island in the heart of the city. | 469 |
44673100 | Other studies in AI published by Sayre are Consciousness: A Philosophic study of Minds and Machines and The Modeling of Mind. He also contributed the article "Artificial Intelligence" to the Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade.
The descriptive title of Norbert Wiener's seminal book, Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, indicates that cybernetics is concerned both with the control of functioning systems and the communication processes involved in that control. | 514 |
28129447 | The prototype rover is called Asimov Jr. R3, while the two flight rovers are named Audi Lunar Quattro (ALQ). The rovers feature four-wheel drive tranmision where each wheel is able to pivot 360° for special maneuvers, and their solar panel is able to tilt in the direction of the Sun for best power generation.
The rovers' projected maximum speed is , and they will carry two stereo cameras to acquire 3D images, mounted to a moving head at the front of the vehicle. | 466 |
21626066 | The submarine was powered by two Körting six-cylinder, four-stroke diesel engines producing a total of , two Siemens-Schuckert electric motors producing , and one propeller shaft. She was capable of operating at depths of up to .
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, she could operate for at ; when surfaced, she could travel at . UB-21 was fitted with two torpedo tubes, four torpedoes, and one SK L/40 deck gun. | 477 |
69471988 | After a lull, the conflict in the north intensified again in the spring of 1921. On 1 April, the IRA attacked an RIC barracks and a British Army post in Derry city with gunfire and grenades, killing two RIC officers. On 10 April, the IRA ambushed a group of Special Constables outside a church in Creggan, County Armagh, killing one and wounding others. In reprisal, the USC attacked nationalists and burned their houses in Killylea (where the dead Special Constables came from). | 479 |
63564767 | Arthur Briggs, 92, American jazz trumpeter and orchestra leader.
Keith Brown, 78, American athlete, politician and businessman.
Bert Convy, 57, American game show host (Tattletales, Super Password, Win, Lose or Draw), brain cancer.
Roger Revelle, 82, American geophysicist, cardiac arrest.
Johnny Vergez, 85, American baseball player.
Meindert DeJong, 85, Dutch-American children's author. | 389 |
27511177 | The bridge was designated as an Alaska Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2022.
Captain William Moore Bridge, the only cantilever cable-stayed bridge in Alaska
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Alaska
Buildings and structures in Sitka, Alaska
Steel bridges in the United States
Girder bridges in the United States
Historic American Engineering Record in Alaska
Cable-stayed bridges in the United States | 489 |
57424164 | The masks are made “according to his or her facial measurements by their trusted craftsmen, who work in close collaboration with the troupes”, Mukherjee adds. In this way, the mask-maker imparts his own understanding of the character which eventually also shapes the dances. There isn’t much scope for experimentation for the masks are stylised but artisans being in their own flavour particularly while painting the eyes of the characters.
Performers use only the full-face masks, but smaller masks are also produced and sold to the art collectors. | 549 |
67413765 | Sorana Cîrstea defeated Elise Mertens in the final, 6–1, 7–6(7–3) to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2021 İstanbul Cup. This was Cîrstea's first title since 2008. Cîrstea did not drop a set throughout the tournament.
Patricia Maria Țig was the defending champion, but she chose not to participate this year. | 319 |
309724 | Non-standard: Over-protective practices in this factory mitigate against increased efficiency.
novice and novitiate. A novice is a prospective or trainee member, as of a religious order. The novitiate is the state of being a novice, or the time for which one is a novice. However, a novice monk or nun is often incorrectly described as "a novitiate" (perhaps confused with "initiate").
of and have. In some dialects of spoken English, of and the contracted form of have, 've, sound alike. | 491 |
31622159 | It is also visible in several places in the Giuliano-Dalmata area of Rome (including the church of San Marco Evangelista in Agro Laurentino), which was settled by refugees from the Julian March (formerly Venetian territory) after the Second World War.
The name of the Lion of Saint Mark in the Venetian language is .
The Venetian lion appears in two distinct forms. One is as a winged animal resting on water, to symbolise dominance over the seas, holding St. Mark's Gospel under a paw. | 486 |
84449 | Bloom contends that the failure of contemporary liberal education leads to the sterile social and sexual habits of modern students, and to their inability to fashion a life for themselves beyond the mundane offerings touted as success. Bloom argues that commercial pursuits had become more highly valued than love, the philosophic quest for truth, or the civilized pursuits of honor and glory. In "The University", he discusses how the environment in elite institutions has cultivated mere ambition over the search for truth. | 525 |
5580848 | She was announced as a winner for both shows during the Tony Awards telecast on June 11, 2023.
While LaChanze was eight months pregnant with her second child, Zaya, her husband, securities trader Calvin Gooding, was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was working at Cantor Fitzgerald in Tower One of the World Trade Center.
On September 6, 2002, she sang the National Anthem at a joint meeting of Congress in Federal Hall National Memorial, the first meeting of Congress in New York since 1790. | 504 |
9905022 | A servant can also invest in the same investment as his master and also shares in the profit.
If the agent has to hire help for a job, the wage for this person can be paid from the principal, except if the wage should result in loss for the investor, the agent himself is responsible for whatever is not covered by the principal.
The agent can use the principal for food and clothes if he should travel for his business, and the principal is large enough to allow it. If he stays at home this is not allowed. | 508 |
140758 | On chain timpani, the tension rods are connected by a roller chain much like the one found on a bicycle, though some manufacturers have used other materials, including steel cable. In these systems, all the tension screws can then be tightened or loosened by one handle. Though far less common than pedal timpani, chain and cable drums still have practical uses. Occasionally, a timpanist is forced to place a drum behind other items, so he cannot reach it with his foot. | 471 |
3510457 | In In 1826–27, Sabzavari returned to Mashhad. There he began to teach in the Hājj Hasan madrasa although the scholars in Mashhad did not have the same interest in philosophy as Isfahan. The atmosphere of Mashhad was not as open as Isfahan for the pursuit of intellectual sciences. However, he continued to teach both the transmitted science as well as the intellectual sciences. He thought the intellectual sciences based on his work al-Manzuma, which he must have composed in Isfahan. | 485 |
17579286 | NKF works for women's political rights, legal equality and representation of women in politics, equal education, working life and economic justice, strengthening women's perspectives in foreign policy and international development, sexual and reproductive rights, ending violence against women, and LGBT+ rights. NKF supports legal protections against discrimination and hate speech on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. | 457 |
2972816 | Probable candidates included Princess Maria Beatrice Ricciarda of Modena, daughter of Ercole III d'Este and (like Ferdinand) an in law of Marie Antoinette. She was, through her mother, heiress to the Duchy of Massa and Carrara, but despite being the last descendant of the Este, she was not also the heiress to the Duchy of Modena and Reggio due to the Salic law that was in force there. | 387 |
60845299 | In 2018, she lead-authored two manuscripts published in Nature Genetics. One study focused on refining the accuracy of validated target identification through fine-mapping of coding variants in type 2 diabetes. The other publication focused on using high-density imputation and pancreatic islet-specific epigenome maps to fine-map type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci to a single genetic variant-resolution.
Anubha Mahajan's webpage at Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics
Year of birth missing (living people) | 507 |
67481403 | The aircraft landed and some passengers were released, but more hostages were not released until the next afternoon on October 26. By that evening all passengers were released, leaving the hijacker and some of the crew on board. Shortly after midnight on October 27, they too were released. Just before sunrise, as the aircraft was about to be stormed by security forces, the hijacker blew himself up with a homemade bomb. The blast damaged the plane, and it was written off. | 475 |
10367823 | Histoire des Comtes Unis de Prescott et de Russell, L. Brault (1963)
The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891 JA Gemmill
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario | 177 |
36580327 | The IOC say to have a minute's silence to commemorate these victims of terrorism would be a 'political gesture' but surely not having a minute's silence is, in itself, the political gesture. This is not about the nationality of the victims – they were Olympians." Roger Evans AM seconded the motion and said, "The IOC needs to show some political courage and allow the commemoration of a tragedy that affected their guests during their event in their venue forty years ago. This important decision should not be dictated by a small number of their members." | 559 |
6987580 | The later is a vernacular Scots comedy of errors, probably designed for court performance for Mary, Queen of Scots or James VI. The same system of professional companies of players and theatres that developed in England in this period was absent in Scotland, but James VI signalled his interest in drama by arranging for a company of English players to erect a playhouse and perform in 1599.
The Kirk also discouraged poetry that was not devotional in nature. | 459 |
1223245 | Some more pragmatic applications of this information includes the planning of retrospective bibliographies, "giving some indication both of the age of material used in a discipline, and of the extent to which more recent publications supersede the older ones"; indicating through high frequency of citation which documents should be archived; comparing the coverage of secondary services which can help publishers gauge their achievements and competition, and can aid librarians in evaluating "the effectiveness of their stock." There are also some limitations to the value of citation data. | 591 |
25660631 | First, the court agreed (in a split decision) with an injunction in the "Marshall Constitution" case (Ellingham vs. Dye) that the state legislature (working with Democratic Governor Thomas R. Marshall) did not have the power to propose both a state constitution and the method to adopt it. Cox wrote the majority opinion in this case, and it was over 100 pages long. The decision was split, with Cox siding with the two Republican members of the Indiana Supreme Court while the other two Democrats dissented. | 510 |
21481216 | Bourchier's next move, resulting in humiliation, was a visit to South Molton where he intended to read his commission to a public gathering. He had attempted to soften up the mayor and corporation beforehand with a meal of venison which he had sent his cook from Tawstock to prepare, and which is shown as an expense of 19 shillings 10 d. in his surviving household accounts. | 375 |
31485643 | Hindenburg tolerated the use of his negative words on posters by the expropriation opponents, which laid him open to the accusation that he was not aloof from party politics but was openly supporting the conservatives.
The expropriation opponents increased their efforts. Their core message was the claim that the proponents of the referendum were not just interested in the expropriation of the princes' property but intended the abolition of private property as such. The opponents called for a boycott of the referendum. This made sense from their perspective because each abstention (and each invalid vote) had the same effect as a "no" vote. | 646 |
41599826 | a county agency responsible for major bus terminals in Akershus county | 70 |
4761539 | The University of Magdeburg, the University of Helsinki, the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and the University of Economics in Prague have all awarded him honorary doctorates. Since 1988 he has been honorary professor of the University of Vienna, where he has given many lectures and since 2017 he has been "permanent guest professor" at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. In 2008 he was knighted with the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, and in 2013 he was awarded the Ludwig Erhard Prize by the Ludwig-Erhard Foundation. | 552 |
36292518 | The Prep School was founded in 1895 by Frances Browne, at her house in Blackwater Road, Eastbourne, as Eastbourne College Prep School. It opened with four boys and D Burdett was appointed headmaster.
In 1900 the school was acquired by G Gowring who purchased a site in Dukes Drive and, at a cost of £7,000 built what is still the school's home today.
At the time of the Second World War, St Bede's was owned by and Kenneth Harding and his wife. | 444 |
68271691 | In 2010, the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of Russia indicted the surviving passengers of this helicopter for illegal hunting. Two of them - the former deputy chairman of the government of the Altai Republic, Anatoly Bannykh and the deputy director of the Institute of Economics and Legislation of the city of Moscow, Nikolay Kapranov - were put on the federal wanted list.
He was the Acting State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class.
He was married, and had a son and a daughter. | 515 |
10027204 | Kāmid el-Lōz. Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte und Vorderasiatische Archäologie Informationen zu den Grabungen 1963–1981.
inclut des liens vers les rapports annuels d'excavation de Kamid el-Loz (allemand)
Populated places in Western Beqaa District | 251 |
96250 | Due to its second place showing over the then-dormant Democratic Party in that election, the Libertarians received the minority party's seat on the Board of Review and one of the five seats on the Sheriff's Merit Commission. This status was lost by 2002 after the Libertarian Party failed to field any candidates in the 2002 general election.
President Gerald Ford visited Ford County on October 24, 1974, to mark the retirement of Congressman Leslie C. Arends of Melvin who served in Congress for 40 years, including over 30 years as Republican Minority Whip. | 560 |
21669944 | The Southern Terminal, Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal is a national historic district at Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland, United States. Located along the western bank of the Susquehanna River near its mouth at the Chesapeake Bay, it includes the Lock Master's House, the canal's outlet lock, and the foundations of a bulkhead wharf along the river side of the lock. | 376 |
4566360 | The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, when he was 16 and Sundra starred in sandlot ball there. He was signed by the Cleveland Indians and made his pro debut in 1932, moving up to Toledo in 1934. Cleveland optioned Sundra to Minneapolis and Newark in 1935, and the Yankees obtained him in a three-pitcher deal in December, along with Monte Pearson, in exchange for Johnny Allen. | 376 |
7338496 | During the 2013/2014 Montenegrin Cup, Lovćen eliminated Zora (1:0), Crvena stijena (8:0, 1:2), Zeta (1:0, 1:2) and Petrovac (3:0, 0:0). In the finals, Lovćen won the game against Titograd, so the club from Cetinje won their first national trophy.
With that success, for the first time in the club's history, Lovćen qualified for the European Cups. | 347 |
44380776 | However, the 7 field goals by Santos were not enough to beat the Bengals, as the Chiefs fell to 1–3.
The Chiefs would build a 17–3 lead at one point, but Chicago would pull off a miraculous comeback to win 18–17. The Chiefs tried a 66-yard field goal, but Santos kick went wide right and missed everything near the goalposts. During this game, the Bears fans at times outnumbered the Chiefs fans, as Chicago fans are best known for good travel. | 444 |
18050573 | On 2 January 1943, Australia opened the Australian Legation in Kuybyshev, the temporary seat of the Russian government due to the ongoing invasion of the Soviet Union by the Axis powers. The legation then moved to Moscow on 12 August 1943. The legation was upgraded to the status of embassy on 16 February 1948. | 311 |
66301957 | Despite some failed bids, the T-50 has been exported to the Philippines, Iraq, Indonesia and Thailand; as well as a number of countries expressing interest in procuring the aircraft, such as Argentina. On 26 May 2019, KAI was contracted by the Royal Thai Air Force to upgrade the T-50TH for $50.6 million.
The KAI KUH-1 helicopter is being exported with assistance from Airbus. Armed variants have been showcased to attract customers from Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa who are in need of both utility and attack helicopters. | 536 |
10171369 | The Ontario government has phased out the labour-sponsored funds tax credit. As of January 1, 2012, the credit is no longer available from the Ontario government.
When an investor buys an LSVCC in their RRSP, they obtain the LSVCC tax credits as well as the usual tax deduction they receive each time they contribute to their RRSP.
Gains made in the value of LSVCCs occur in one of three ways:
Selling the investment in a company to a larger company (often in the same industry) by way of mergers and acquisitions. | 515 |
973700 | Little is known of the early history of the site, although archaeologists have discovered traces of two circular wooden houses, one dating from before AD 43 and the other from around the 2nd century AD. Some Roman stones have been found there, but there is no definite evidence that it was occupied by the Romans.
The Priory was founded early in the 7th century, perhaps by Edwin of Northumbria. | 395 |
998777 | Although the shroud image is currently associated with Catholic devotions to the Holy Face of Jesus, the devotions themselves predate Secondo Pia's 1898 photograph. Such devotions had been established in 1844 by the Carmelite nun Marie of St Peter (based on "pre-crucifixion" images associated with the Veil of Veronica) and promoted by Leo Dupont, also called the Apostle of the Holy Face. | 390 |
27904054 | On 6 February 2013, the European Parliament approved a draft law to tighten noise limits for cars to protect public health, and also to add alerting sounds to ensure the audibility of hybrid and electric vehicles to improve the safety of vulnerable road users in urban areas, such as blind, visually and auditorily challenged pedestrians, cyclists and children. The draft legislation states a number of tests, standards and measures that must first be developed for acoustic vehicle alerting systems (AVAS) to be compulsory in the future. Now an agreement has to be negotiated with European Union countries. | 607 |
50130755 | The timber-framed market hall was built between 1612 and 1622, but some of the timbers date back to the mid-16th century.
Originally it was called the Booth Hall, a reference to the stalls or "booths" under and around the hall.
Until the 19th century the hall was a busy centre of the Welsh woollen trade, where wool and flannel was brought to be taken to Welshpool.
The wool market was in the upper room, which was also used as a court of law and a preachers hall. | 465 |
12453108 | A settlement for travelers existed in this location since at least the Eiroku era (1558–1570) of the Sengoku period, as it was located approximately at the midpoint of the route between Kyoto and Edo, and midpoint on the Kisoji. During the Edo period, the post station was greatly enlarged as it became the seat of a daikan administrator appointed by the Tokugawa shogunate to oversee one of the four major checkpoints for regulation of travelers on the Nakasendō. | 464 |
20596557 | Prior to 2015, the wild species closest to Citrullus lanatus was assumed to be the tendril-less melon Citrullus ecirrhosus Cogn. from South African arid regions based on an erroneously identified 18th century specimen. However, after phylogenetic analysis, the closest relative to Citrullus lanatus is now thought to be Citrullus mucosospermus (Fursa) from West Africa (from Senegal to Nigeria), which is also sometimes considered a subspecies within C. lanatus. | 463 |
3439585 | The prime minister carries out the function of the head of government. The current prime minister, as of June 2023, is Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão.
Elections are held every five years using a party-list proportional representation voting system to elect 65 members to the National Assembly. Voting is voluntary for all East Timorese citizens over the age of 17. There have been five elections for the parliament in East Timor: 2001, 2007, 2012, 2017, and 2018. | 455 |
37903335 | Vaccaro received an overall grade of 82.6 from Pro Football Focus and had the 13th highest grade among all qualifying safeties in 2013.
Vaccaro entered training camp slated as the starting strong safety after Roman Harper departed for the Carolina Panthers during free agency. Defensive coordinator Rob Ryan named Vaccaro the starting strong safety to begin the regular season, along with free safety Jairus Byrd.
On October 19, 2014, Vaccaro made two combined tackles, a pass deflection, and an interception during a 24–23 loss against the Detroit Lions. | 555 |
9960587 | On 29 June 1961, it was elevated to "Villa" (town) by the Act of Ley Nº 12.887, and on 11 December 1981, it was further elevated to "Ciudad" (city) by the Act of Ley Nº 15.227.
The town lies on National Route 9, 340 kilometres northeast of the capital, Montevideo, and only a few feet from Brazil's Route BR 471. | 312 |
1520255 | Starting in New York City, racers traveled through New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Panama, Costa Rica, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and Canada before finishing in Lewiston, New York. A new twist introduced in this season includes select Roadblocks performed by two team members. The season premiered on CBS on Tuesday, September 27, 2005, and concluded on Tuesday, December 13, 2005. | 476 |
8165070 | Ahrens and Flaherty completed writing the song in one day, during what the lyricist described as "a burst of energy". Originally, American actress and singer Liz Callaway, who was known for her work on Broadway at the time, had only been hired to record demo tapes for the film until she impressed studio executives and was ultimately cast as Anya's singing voice, in lieu of actress Meg Ryan who provides the character's speaking voice. After Flaherty played the new song for her and the producers, the songwriters had Callaway record a demo of it shortly following a lengthy recording session. | 595 |
47675366 | However, in light of Sullivan's "fairness" in his reporting, Steele personally met with Sullivan and promised that Sullivan would always have access to Steele's camp.
When the New York State Executive Mansion was set ablaze, Roosevelt is burned alive in the fire since he could not escape in time due to him being rendered immobile by polio. His wife Eleanor and several members of the mansion staff are also killed in the fire. The Roosevelts are then buried in Hyde Park, New York following their deaths. | 506 |
60673993 | New Zealand poet Michael Harlow praised Howard for writing "poems that are very much animated by a thoughtful music: those moments of quick surprise that so often are stunning in their overall effect." David Eggleton called the volume "a revisionist take on Howard's earlier big book, Shebang: Collected Poems 1980–2000.... Dates of composition for each poem have now been added, revealing that some of the poems in Shebang were written before 1980." | 450 |
407358 | She joined a professional theatre company before turning to comedy. In 1987, she won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, then known as the New London Comic Award, and performed on the Edinburgh Fringe before breaking into radio comedy.
Many of her early stand-up appearances were benefit concerts staged in solidarity with the British miners during the Miners' Strike in the 1980s. She was a lifelong socialist.
Her first appearances on national radio were on Radio 5's The Treatment in 1997. | 496 |
65287300 | Police initially planned to interview and video-record all passengers as they disembarked, but soon realised this was not possible due to the sheer numbers involved, with passengers on board that day, and decided to exclude families with children and the elderly. They had also detained certain persons of interest, including Schmid. The young British man they had associated with was also detained, as he was found in the morning with his clothes stained in blood, though he claimed this was the result of a nose-bleed. | 521 |
22513523 | 23 September – Wales This Week (1982–present)
23 October – Star Fleet (1982-1983)
27 October – A Country Practice (1981–1994)
30 October – The Saturday Show (1982–1984)
31 October – Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
3 November – The Cut Price Comedy Show (1982–1983) | 291 |
2313324 | The Icarus Agenda is a 1988 thriller novel by bestselling author Robert Ludlum. It is the sequel to The Chancellor Manuscript.
Evan Kendrick is a U.S. Congressman from a remote Western Colorado district. As a former building contractor in the Middle East, he is close friends with the Sultan of Oman. He returns to Oman under deep cover when the U.S. Embassy in Masqat is taken by terrorists. During his time undercover he unmasks a far-reaching terror network aimed at controlling the economies and governments of the Middle East. | 532 |
38042908 | A young Madeleine Swann witnesses the murder of her mother by Lyutsifer Safin, whose family was assassinated by Swann's father Mr. White under orders from Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Swann shoots Safin and flees, falling into a frozen lake, but Safin rescues her.
In the present, after Blofeld's arrest, Swann travels to Matera with James Bond. | 338 |
57608280 | | rowspan=3| Santa Úrsula Xitla, Tlalpan
<li> Routes: 2-A, 17-E, 17-F, 69, 111-A, 131, 132, 134, 134-A, 134-B, 134-C, | 117 |
7768610 | Al Salama College of Optometry - Perinthalmanna, Calicut and Kannur, Kerala
All India Institute of Optometrical Sciences (Academic Wing of Indian Optical Institute and Refraction Hospital Trust), Kolkata, West Bengal
Al Salama College of Optometry & Health Science- Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Advanced College of Optometry & Health Sciences, Sanpada,Navi Mumbai
Bareilly Institute of ParaMedical Sciences & S.S. | 411 |
29869135 | Medium Gear - This is a time trial event where the competitors gear size is restricted. The course used for this is the same as the 25 Mile TT
Hilly TT - This is a time trial event which takes competitors from the lay-by just after Arden Roundabout at Loch Lomond, over the old M.O.D Road towards Garelochhead, to turn at the roundabout and retrace their route to finish at the top of the hill. | 394 |
2230985 | Charles Brandle Crate (1916–1992) was a Canadian fascist who was the leader of the Canadian Union of Fascists. He later served in the Royal Canadian Navy and eventually became a teacher.
Crate was born and grew up in northern Ontario, moving into a working-class district of Toronto in 1927. The poverty and unemployment brought by the Great Depression turned the young Crate into a radical, in his youth sympathizing with the then populist fascist movement of Europe. | 468 |
95274 | Furthermore, critics such as Linda Siegel have argued that Piaget's experiments did not adequately control for social context and the child's understanding (or lack of understanding) of the language used in the test task, leading to mistaken conclusions about children's lack of reasoning skills.
These methodological issues mean that when scientists have tried to replicate Piaget's experiments, they have found that small changes to Piaget's procedures lead to different results. | 481 |
8663955 | Movieland advertised that the service had "no spyware", and that no personal information would need to be filled out to begin the free trial.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against Movieland and eleven other defendants in August 2006, charging them with having "engaged in a nationwide scheme to use deception and coercion to extract payments from consumers." The Attorney General of the state of Washington also filed a complaint, charging Movieland and several other defendants with violating that state's Computer Spyware Act and its Consumer Protection Act. | 583 |
50037673 | The field was the best on which the locals ever played." | 56 |
2809975 | It was built in connection with the regulation of the river in 1910. The movement of the hatches suspended on the frames under the bridge automatically regulated the water level and the speed of the current with its pressure. It is now used as a footbridge.
Hugo Salus (1866–1929), doctor, writer and poet
Leopold Moll (1877–1933), Austro-Hungarian paediatrician and court counsellor | 383 |
33332910 | In their quest to learn about the girl and impress her, they end up accidentally injuring Maya's grandfather and terrorizing her grandmother. They discover that the girl, whose name is Maya is visiting the city to get to the bottom of a mystery surrounding her dead brother, Raghuveer. In town, Maya is able to track down the mother of his brother's friend, Androze. | 367 |
57873 | After being assigned to the Inspectorate of Submarines by the Naval Staff on 24 October 1916, he took up training for duty as a U-boat commander and graduated from Submarine School on 11 September 1917.
He ended the war as a U-boat commander from late 1917 in the Mediterranean and was credited with a number of sinkings and even came to the attention of the Kaiser. As a result of his exploits in Spain, he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class.
Canaris was fluent in six languages, including English. | 504 |
17287205 | They were predominantly employed in the agricultural role, but were sometimes used for aerial surveillance of pipe lines and power lines.
At least five IAR-822 Bs were used by the Romanian Air Force for a brief period in 1974-75, probably to complement the tired IAR-813 in the primary training role until the IAR-823 entered service in sufficient numbers. The sole survivor is serial number 05, which can be seen (without tail unit and outer wings) at the Muzeul Aviatiei, Bucharest. | 484 |
9918032 | Buckie High School also enriches the curriculum with a wide range of enterprise and citizenship activities including young enterprise companies, fair trade and Africa weeks, and enterprise challenges. As an Ecoschool, Buckie High has been endeavouring to tackle litter and waste, is landscaping the grounds and, with the support of the Co-op, installed solar roof panels in 2008.
To meet young people's learning needs the school provides a distinctive range of courses at different levels for all year groups.
Buckie High School has an active Parent Council which also includes pupils. | 585 |
40895786 | The government's terms of reference for the commission state that the commission's final report will be produced in Summer 2015 after the next general election. Many people have questioned this date because, without the commission's Final Report, the political parties contesting the election will be unable to state their policies to the electorate about the proposed expansion of airports in the South East of England. | 420 |
2225581 | The sword exercise became quite celebrated, and the elderly king, George III, became familiar with it, and country lanes abounded with small boys practising the cuts with sticks. Le Marchant toured Britain teaching cadres, drawn from both regular and yeomanry cavalry units, his system of swordsmanship; his methods were practical and painstaking and he was himself a superb mounted swordsman. Le Marchant was also to have gone to Ireland to teach his sword exercise there but was prevented from doing so, so his brother-in-law, Lt. | 532 |
3847925 | Wilder managed to connect with record promoter Joe Isgro, who had a history of doing legally questionable things to promote and chart certain songs. Isgro released "Break My Stride" off his new record label, Private-I, and created the illusion that it was a massive hit, prompting other radio stations to start playing the song, and propelling Wilder's single into the top 5 of the US Billboard charts.
Matthew Wilder – lead and backing vocals, Prophet-5 | 454 |
15466187 | Carlat () is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France.
The "Rocher de Carlat" or rock of Carlat situated above the picturesque commune was once the site of one of the most powerful and impenetrable chateaux in all of France. It was the seat of Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours and often the center of intrigue, resistance and rebellion against the kings of France. Completely razed by order of the king in 1604 to alleviate the inconvenience of rebellious and ambitious southern relatives, hardly a trace of the chateau remains. | 549 |
512809 | This massive hiring of mercenaries and slaves meant that, according to Christian chroniclers, "ordinarily the Saracen armies amount to 30, 40, 50, or 60,000 men, even when in serious occasions they reach 100, 160, 300 and even 600,000 fighters." In fact, it has been argued that, in Almanzor's time, the Cordovan armies could muster six hundred thousand laborers and two hundred thousand horses "drawn from all provinces of the empire." | 437 |
149422 | Following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, concerns have been raised over hunger resulting from rising food prices. This is forecast to risk civil unrest even in many middle income countries, where government capability to protect their populations was largely exhausted by the Covid pandemic, and has not yet recovered.
Many thousands of hunger relief organisations exist across the world. Some but not all are entirely dedicated to fighting hunger. They range from independent soup kitchens that serve only one locality, to global organisations. | 545 |
31681040 | By 1962 the city had purchased a 6.2-acre plot of land between northeast 24th and 25th streets at Parkwood to use in part for a water reservoir. In December 1962, the roof collapsed on the water tower while workers were attempting to complete the dome, killing five people. The Hillsboro Utilities Commission gave the land where the tower was located to the parks department to build a park at the site in 1975. | 411 |
35251890 | The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 1 of, and Part III of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969.
Acts of the Parliament of England (1485–1603) | 181 |
5177417 | Bio at The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
Thelma Yellin High School of Arts alumni | 102 |
1985199 | Canistel (Pouteria campechiana): Also called eggfruit due to its bright yellow flesh, which has a texture similar to a hard-boiled egg yolk. It has a sweet flavor and is often used in desserts and shakes. Native to Central America.
Green Sapote (Pouteria viridis): his sapote has green flesh and a taste reminiscent of a blend of banana and pear. It is native to Central and South America and is often eaten fresh.
Abiu (Pouteria caimito): Abiu has translucent, jelly-like flesh with a sweet, mild flavor. | 505 |
72372226 | From 1997 to 1998, he served as accounting in the Zhvyrka village council, before working in accounting in the Sokal Raion telecommunications unit of Lviv ODPEZ Ukrtelekom. In 1999, he worked in the Sokal Raion section of the Lviv chapter of the company Gas Ukraine.
From 1997 to 2006, Bondar studied at University of Lviv, graduating with a specialisation in Finance, Economics, and Entrepreneurship. | 401 |
9642731 | He worked as a doctor at Wentworth, NSW from 1857 until the floods in 1870. In 1870 he returned to Adelaide where he was appointed medical officer to the Overland Telegraph construction parties.
In the early 1980s, Jose Petrick, a well-known historian in the Alice Springs area, was awarded a government grant to transcribe the diaries of Dr. Renner. The diaries were published in 1983 as The Renner Diaries. | 408 |
42510 | January 9 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese poet and politician (b. 1236)
February/March – Yaghmurasen ibn Zyan, Zayyanid ruler of Tlemcen (b. 1206)
March 23 – Joseph I of Constantinople (Galesiotes), Byzantine abbot and patriarch
April 9 – Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway, the Maid of Scotland, queen consort of Norway (b. | 323 |
51179037 | Theatre Gargantua's productions blend live music, acrobatics and imagery. Their performance style has been compared to Montreal's avant-garde. The company's theatre works are diverse in terms of subject, writing and performance styles, but are connected in how each work melds daring physicality with striking designs, underpinned by original live music and the innovative use of technology. The company's production of e-DENTITY, could be categorized as a form of mediatized theatre, and was described as "a world where live and mediatized bodies perform together." | 566 |
31259770 | She persuades her to hold off on her relationship with Adam, going as far as to bring three of her previous spouses to her at the dinner table in order to prove that her visions for future happiness with Adam will only make her depressed once more. Finally convinced, Carol now rejects Adam's marriage proposal and runs off crying, leaving Adam upset as well. Because of his relationship with Carol that will no longer happen, Adam chooses to move to Alaska and become an eskimo there. | 485 |
5738832 | Head writer Maria Arena Bell dedicated the 4th of July episode to Sharon, stating that the episode would "shed more light on Sharon and all the factors that caused her to be in this situation, why she's acted the way she has and why she's gone into the pit of [low] self-esteem." Case noted that she wanted to show viewers why Sharon is in the place she's in, as well as examine her life over the years during the episode. Jae' Jones of Yahoo! | 443 |
73075680 | Willers, Åberg, Bernhagen, Björkman and Lindgren have previously worked on the , 2013 and/or 2016 contests, in various capacities. Björkman has also produced the American Song Contest (an adaptation of the Eurovision format for the United States) and has been largely involved in , the Swedish national final for Eurovision, at which Blankens, Sinding-Larsen and Willers have also worked.
Malmö Municipality will contribute (approximately ) to the budget of the contest. | 471 |
62735179 | Werner Wehrli (8 January 1892 – 27 June 1944) was a Swiss composer. He was one of the most renowned Swiss composers in the period between the world wars.
Born in Aarau, Wehrli had a solid musical education, which he acquired in Zurich, Berlin, Frankfurt and Basel. In Basel he completed his composition studies in 1918 with Hans Huber and Hermann Suter. | 353 |
62109687 | Presentation and history at the European Congress of Ethnic Religions
Modern pagan organizations established in 1988 | 116 |
35917520 | In his memoir, Ussher reflected on responsibility for the genocide:
After the war, Ussher made plans to have the deported Armenian refugees return to their homes. In 1919 he traveled to Constantinople to gain support for his plans from the Ottoman government; he also insisted that the crimes perpetrated by the previous government be accounted for. Ussher then returned to the United States, where he tried to gain support from the Near East Foundation. However, his efforts failed with the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. | 540 |
66732643 | Stereocaulon paschale is a species of lichen belonging to the family Stereocaulaceae.
In Iceland, it has the conservation status of a vulnerable species (VU).
Stereocaulon paschale is host to some lichenicolous fungi which infect various parts of the thallus. Most of these fungi have a Holarctic distribution. These fungi include:
Arthonia stereocaulina, Infects the phyllocladia but rarely causes disease. | 408 |
63195582 | The enemy withdrew at 11:00 leaving 24 dead and a large munitions cache including 75 107mm rockets and 25 antitank mines. At 16:00 a unit of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division was ambushed southwest of Phước Vĩnh killing two. | 230 |
63179629 | It was considered "appalling and squalid" by staff and "atrocious" by a psychologist. A judge later called it "a home from hell".
The Beechwood site, in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, is known to have been a children's home in 1966 and there were reports of Beechwood operating as one in the 1950s. It has also at various times been a remand home and an "observation and assessment centre". It was jointly run by Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council. | 469 |
34425763 | Iohannis' slogan in the presidential campaign was "less talk, more things done", alluding to frequent television appearances of his rival, Victor Ponta. In his presidential program are mentioned, among others: deepening of the strategic partnership with the United States, allocation of 2% of GDP for defense, 6% for health and 6% for education, restructuring of the management system of EU funds, development of the capital market, keeping the flat tax, return of VAT to 19%, etc. | 481 |
2793517 | The straighter the knees, the more the hamstrings are stretched and stressed by the movement and this stretch involves them more as the hip extensors. Bent knees can shift the weight forward, which allows the pelvis to drift back further as the body hinges in hip flexion.
The good-morning is an essential exercise in the Westside Barbell method and is often trained to near limit maxima. Developing strength in the lift aids in the recovery of a "bad" squat, reducing the risk of injury. | 489 |
129110 | Sometime between 1880 and 1890, the name of Royalton was changed to North Royalton because of another town in Ohio bearing the same name. On April 4, 1927, the township officially became the Village of North Royalton, and the first mayor, E. C. McCombs, was elected.
North Royalton is located at .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. | 407 |
1632628 | Heinrici was awarded the Swords to the Oak Leaves of his Knight's Cross on 3 March 1945.
On 20 March 1945, Adolf Hitler replaced Heinrich Himmler with Heinrici as Commander-in-Chief of Army Group Vistula on the Eastern Front. Indicating that he was ill, Himmler had abandoned his post on 13 March and retired to a sanatorium at Lychen. At this time, Army Group Vistula's front was less than 50 miles from Berlin. | 412 |
23536210 | The Yambou River is a river of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is located in the valley of Yambou and is one of the main rivers of the island.
List of rivers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Environmental Investigation and Cataloguing, St. Vincent Cross Country Road Project Final Report
Rivers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 338 |
10905770 | This resulting carbocation is then ring-opened by a hydride delivered by NADPH, giving squalene, which is then released by SQS into the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum.
While cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclopropylcarbinyl rearrangements can proceed through discrete cyclobutyl cation intermediates, the supposed cyclobutyl cation could not be trapped in model studies. | 367 |
12034835 | Séguret (; ) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. | 117 |
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