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3688059 | It was later, in Kabbalistic literature like the Zohar, that she became an inhuman spirit.
According to the Zohar, after Cain kills Abel, Adam separates from Eve for 130 years. During this time, Lilith and Naamah seduce him and bear his demonic children, who became the Plagues of Mankind. She and Lilith cause epilepsy in children.
In another story from the Zohar, Naamah and Lilith are said to have corrupted the angels Ouza and Azazel. | 438 |
27711133 | The decision, on 29 October 1999, was followed four months later by an announcement that the home would close: all staff would be made redundant and all residents would have move to other institutions by 31 May 2000. In the meantime, English Heritage granted Grade II listed status to the building, and instead of being demolished it was converted into fourteen luxury flats under the name "The French Apartments". Listed status was granted on 26 January 2000; the Grade II designation is given to "nationally important buildings of special interest". | 552 |
62720349 | Mohd Khalil Yaakob (until 4 June)
Mohd Ali Rustam (from 4 June)
Sulaiman Md Ali (from 9 March)
Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak: Abdul Taib Mahmud
Chief Minister of Sarawak: Abang Johari Openg
Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah: Juhar Mahiruddin | 245 |
13651229 | "Looking Back to Me" – 5:21
hidden track – 4:19 (begins approx. 2:14 after "Looking Back to Me") | 97 |
65577571 | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow is a novel by Jessica Townsend and published by Little, Brown and Company. It was released October 10, 2017 in Australia and October 31, 2017 in the United States. The plot follows the titular character Morrigan Crow, who is cursed to die because she was born on an unlucky day. The book is followed by two sequels so far. Since the release of the first book in The Nevermoor series, the stories have also been released as audiobooks, in both CD and online audio formats. | 510 |
119225 | In the township the population was spread out, with 28.5% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 29.2% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.7 males. | 325 |
355594 | In the male, under the influence of testosterone, the mesonephric duct proliferates, forming the epididymis, ductus deferens and, via a small outpouching near the developing prostate, the seminal vesicles. Sertoli cells secrete anti-mullerian hormone, which causes the paramesonephric duct to regress.
The development and maintenance of the seminal vesicles, as well as their secretion and size/weight, are highly dependent on androgens. | 437 |
7024150 | Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Shipwrecks of the American Civil War | 102 |
73419726 | Many geographical locations were featured including Petra, an archaeological city in Jordan, in the December 1998 article "Petra: Ancient City of Stone", written by Don Belt with photographs by Annie Griffiths.
In the August 1991 issue, Thomas Y. Canby wrote the cover story titled "The Persian Gulf: After the Storm", writing about the Kuwaiti oil fires after the Persian Gulf War. The photo on the cover of the magazine featured a picture of oil fields on fire, photographed by Steve McCurry. | 494 |
3304034 | Usually the offering was of wine, but in one instance also of "strong drink" (Numbers 28:7). This "strong drink" (Hebrew shekhar שֵׁכָר, Septuagint sikera σίκερα as Luke 1:15, but also methusma in Judges 13:4 and Micah 2:11) is not identified. | 243 |
2399016 | Sims advocated VAR models as providing a theory-free method to estimate economic relationships, thus being an alternative to the "incredible identification restrictions" in structural models. VAR models are also increasingly used in health research for automatic analyses of diary data or sensor data.
R: The package vars includes functions for VAR models. Other R packages are listed in the CRAN Task View: Time Series Analysis.
Python: The statsmodels package's tsa (time series analysis) module supports VARs. PyFlux has support for VARs and Bayesian VARs. | 559 |
35867629 | Charles J. Bell of the American Security and Trust Company was the treasurer. Members of the foreign diplomatic corps and several high government officials had already donated several thousand dollars to the memorial fund by mid-May. Taft himself had made the first contribution. At this point in time, The Ellipse (the southern part of President's Park) was chosen for the site of the memorial. However, the memorial committee was thinking only of erecting a bronze tablet.
An attempt to pass the resolution on June 8 failed after Senator Porter J. McCumber objected to its passage. | 583 |
41647102 | Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Medal – Awarded to a member for 10 years service, a clasp is awarded for another 5-year (equating to 15 years service). The clasp is replaced every 5 years there after to read the total number of years service represented by the medal.
The Queensland State Emergency Service (SES) Life Member Award (LMA) recognise SES volunteer members who have given a strong, outstanding individual commitment and special contribution to the service. | 476 |
12066867 | He claimed to have uncovered, through his retranslations of Sumerian texts, evidence that the human race was visited/created by a group of extraterrestrials from a distant planet in the Solar System. Part of his theory lay in an astronomical interpretation of the Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma Elish, in which he replaced the names of gods with hypothetical planets. However, since the principal evidence for Sitchin's claims lay in his own personally derived etymologies and not on any scholarly agreed interpretations, academics consider it pseudoscience and pseudohistory, if they know it at all. | 605 |
61689606 | Eilish still continues to aimlessly stumble down the road and towards the camera. She frowns at the camera and turns around; her wings are now burnt and begin to twitch. The fire continues to spread throughout the area. Silhouettes of women dance in the fires around Eilish, representing people who don't care about global warming, as she walks alone into the night.
Uproxx's Derrick Rossignol wrote that the visual is "full of fire and darkness". | 447 |
16813927 | The Rioulan is a small river that flows through the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France. It is long. It flows into the Estéron in Sigale. | 152 |
3963043 | The superior ramus of the ischium (descending ramus) projects downward and backward from the body and presents for examination three surfaces: external, internal, and posterior.
The external surface is quadrilateral in shape. It is bounded above by a groove that lodges the tendon of the external obturator; below, it is continuous with the inferior ramus; in front it is limited by the posterior margin of the obturator foramen; behind, a prominent margin separates it from the posterior surface. | 497 |
40146901 | He made his debut for Bengaluru in the club's first ever I-League match on 22 September 2013 against Mohun Bagan at the Bangalore Football Stadium, in which he came on as a substitute for Keegan Pereira in the 71st minute as Bengaluru drew the match 1–1. In his debut season with the club, he won the I-League, as the club was declared winner after defeating Dempo.
The 2015 season started well for Anto, as Bengaluru FC reached the finals of Federation Cup by defeating Sporting Clube de Goa three goals to nil in the semifinal. | 529 |
56472490 | And they did, it's amazing what happens when you drop the unneeded bullshit and let the talents do their thing."
The Wrestling Revolution staff considered it a "Wrestling heavy show", with "Easy show to watch and the wrestling was good." The Global Championship match received the highest rating being rated 7.5 and the Grand Championship match was rated 7 out of 10. Moose/Lashley was rated 6.5 out of 10 and the Knockouts Championship match was rated 6 out of 10. | 465 |
225204 | Almon H. Read (D), from March 18, 1842
. Charles Ogle (W), until May 10, 1841
Henry Black (W), from June 28, 1841, until November 28, 1841
James M. Russell (W), from December 21, 1841 | 186 |
1540333 | Now, we use the positive right eigenvector w for A for the Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue r, then ξ wT x = wT ξx ≤ wT (Ax) = (wT A)x = r wT x . Hence f(x) = ξ ≤ r, which implies
Perron projection as a limit: Ak/rk
Let A be a positive (or more generally, primitive) matrix, and let r be its Perron–Frobenius eigenvalue. | 317 |
389746 | Notable examples include George Darlington (30 seasons), Milt Tenopir (29 seasons), and Charles McBride (23 seasons) all of whom had opportunities to become head coaches. Darlington was the first assistant coach in Division I-A history to be involved in 300 wins at one school. However, several assistant coaches and players under Osborne did go on to become NCAA head coaches:
Craig Bohl: North Dakota State (2003–13), Wyoming (2014–present) | 443 |
47103110 | When their hammock goes missing, Lincoln and Clyde become Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack to find out who stole it. While Lincoln suspects that it's one of his sisters, they soon discover that the culprit is someone they'd least suspect.
Lynn Loud Jr. – Lynn Jr. leads the listeners in her own at-home workout, arguing that gym memberships are expensive and mentioning how some gyms tend to ban people from bringing spicy submarine sandwiches into the sauna. During every single part of the workout, Lynn causes fitness-type chaos in the house which annoys her family. | 565 |
65872687 | Southern Drakensberg Highland Grassland (Gd 4)
Southern KwaZulu-Natal Moist Grassland (Gs 11) | 95 |
71712 | Palestinians were recruited mainly to do unskilled or semi-skilled labor jobs Israelis did not want. By the time of the Intifada, over 40 percent of the Palestinian work force worked in Israel daily. Additionally, Israeli expropriation of Palestinian land, high birth rates in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the limited allocation of land for new building and agriculture created conditions marked by growing population density and rising unemployment, even for those with university degrees. At the time of the Intifada, only one in eight college-educated Palestinians could find degree-related work. | 603 |
18639487 | Gregorowce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Orla, within Bielsk County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Orla, south of Bielsk Podlaski, and south of the regional capital Białystok.
According to the 1921 census, the village was inhabited by 175 people, among whom 170 Orthodox, and 5 Mosaic. At the same time, 23 inhabitants declared Polish nationality, 152 Belarusian. | 444 |
12601890 | Upon arrival there, she began her new career with the Venezuelan Navy as Contralmirante Miguel Rodriguez (R-23 and later RA-33). Based in Puerto Cabello, she served that navy for another 25 years as a patrol gunboat, salvage vessel, and hydrographic research vessel before finally being retired in 2003. As of early 2007, the ship sat out of commission moored at Puerto Cabello, her condition deteriorating. | 407 |
50408308 | There are a number of paramilitary organisations in the United Kingdom, | 71 |
2704015 | In 1876, the village was promoted to a market town. In 2005, Suchdol nad Lužnicí became a town.
Suchdol nad Lužnicí lies on the railway line of local importance heading from Veselí nad Lužnicí to České Velenice.
The main landmark of the town is the Church of Saint Nicholas. It was built in the Gothic style in 1363. The second monument is the Chapel of Saint John of Nepomuk from 1728. | 386 |
19410388 | On 26 November 1983 he was appointed bishop of the Edmundston Diocese (installed on 29 January 1984) where he remained until his resignation on 20 October 1993.
In November 2009 a Canadian judge determined that Dionne thwarted a 1983 police investigation into child abuse allegations surrounding Father Bernard Cloutier. He turned 100 in June 2019. | 348 |
28068219 | Lenz und Klinger (1878) – Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.
Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1879) – Heinrich Leopold Wagner.
Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Klopstockschen Jugendlyrik (1880).
Komödien vom Studentenleben aus dem sechzehnten und siebzehnten Jahrhundert. Vortrag gehalten auf der Trier Philologenversammlung. Leipzig 1880. | 351 |
53188365 | In this field, Can Batlló joined other textile businesses like Vapor Vell, Vapor Nou and Serra i Balet factories. A new sense of identity emerged in the La Bordeta neighbourhood.
The factory had a surface of 19,000 m2 on a land sized 26,000 m2. It was a one-floor plant and had 24,000 spindles and 722 looms. A steam engine developed by the Maquinista Terrestre i Marítima factory provided 600 horsepower. | 405 |
55549023 | The Lavangi scale contains four swarams:
The ragam Lavangi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Lavang' meaning clove. Through the notion of a clove having four sectors, M. Balamuralikrishna built the raga to have 4 swaras, excluding the low sadharna as it is generic. | 266 |
28234185 | South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging
Conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention
Baptist denominations established in the 19th century | 161 |
36584218 | The Timpanogos Cave Historic District is an historic district in the Timpanogos Cave National Monument in American Fork Canyon in northeastern Utah County, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
The district consists of support and administration buildings built in the monument in the 1920s and 1930s. These structures are notable examples of the National Park Service Rustic style, designed to fit with their environment. The earliest trails and structures were built by Errol M. Halliday while the location was still under the administration of the U.S. | 606 |
19861483 | Napravnik and Sharp sometimes competed against each other when a horse Sharp trained was running against one Napravnik was riding, but the two were a trainer-rider team for Ramsey's three-year-old colt, Vicar's In Trouble, who won the Louisiana Derby and contested the 2014 Kentucky Derby. In August 2014, Sharp left Maker's barn to begin an independent horse training stable, with the full support of both Maker and Napravnik. | 428 |
67814117 | during World War II. His mother was the daughter of Army Major General Ira T. Wyche. Flory has three sisters and two nieces.
Flory married Kathleen Marie McGovern on 26 November 1983 in Moore County, North Carolina. They have three sons and three daughters. | 257 |
68893447 | The Iowa Ford Tractor Company Repair and Warehouse Building is a historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The single-story, building was built in 1949. It was used by the Iowa Ford Tractor Company as a tractor repair and storage facility. In 1977 the building was acquired by the H.B. Leiserowitz Company. They were mostly a photography supply company but they were also a general store and they sold wholesale candy, soda, chips, and cigarettes to small grocery stories and gas stations. It closed in 2017 after its owner died. | 550 |
565142 | Erik Thorvaldsson (ca.950–ca.1000) better known as Erik the Red
Arne Garborg (1851–1924) Author and Poet
Norwegian County Road 44, national tourist road for the region. | 170 |
6634641 | The conference members felt that the stricter standards for ozone and fine particles would have hampered the economies of many municipalities, especially those that are steel-, automobile- and fossil fuel-intensive.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors also houses the Mayors Climate Protection Center, created in 2007 to support mayors in their efforts to reduce the effects of climate change on American cities. In June 2007, the Center awarded its first annual "Mayors' Climate Protection Awards" to leading mayors. The "U.S. | 521 |
26064940 | Meteorological studies were carried out in 2019 to assess the potential for wind power generation capacity and renewable energy investment in the region, which is located next to a large body of water, resulting in estimates of a potential for 600 MW of production capacity. As of 2020 construction of a wind farm is planned in the area.
The M-7 (Volga) “Moscow - Kazan - Ufa” highway passes through the north of the district. | 426 |
8889835 | Ricky Rennard Nattiel ( ; born January 25, 1966), nicknamed "Ricky the Rocket", is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for six seasons with the Denver Broncos in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1980s and 1990s. Nattiel played college football for the Florida Gators befoe playing professionally for the Broncos.
Nattiel was born in Gainesville, Florida in 1966. | 412 |
17225515 | He has competed in the K-1, It's Showtime, SUPERKOMBAT and GLORY promotions and is currently signed to ONE Championship. Zimmerman has also competed in one Openweight mixed martial arts fight at K-1 Dynamite!! 2008 against the Japanese MMA icon Ikuhisa Minowa. Zimmerman lost the fight by a toe hold, a move that is rarely seen in MMA, to the submission specialist.
Zimmerman began training aged 12 and competing in kickboxing in 2001 at the age of 15. | 452 |
41047432 | In 1755, Ramírez married Michelle Heras Diego and with whom he had three children who reached adulthood. He became the Royal Academician of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1758. He died in Zaragoza in 1770.
Ramirez Family in the Great Aragon Encyclopedia (Spanish) | 286 |
6161139 | Kyprinos () is a town and a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Orestiada, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 135.976 km2. In 2011 its population was 806 for the village and 2,226 for the municipal unit. | 352 |
183635 | He despised money; he lived and died poor; and though he encouraged the fever of money-getting in the French nation, his own habits retained their primitive simplicity. But he did not disdain to use in others the baser passions from which he was himself free. Some of his instruments were mean; he employed them to deal with meanness after its kind.
In 1846, the opposition accused the government of buying the votes of the electorate. Guizot acknowledged that corruption happened but the government could not really prevent it. | 528 |
3972882 | built in 1988, the modern Polish Navy ship ORP Kontradmirał Xawery Czernicki is a development on the same hull type)
311 "Anton Ivanov", later "Mitsar" and "Anlain" ("Антон Иванов", "Мицар", "Анлайн", Auxiliary transport (replenishment) ship Bulgarian project 102, built in Ruse in 1979, main task was to provide en route replenishment for the Bulgarian ships, | 361 |
18519350 | Saraswati Puja has been a keen event to be organised by GCETTB every year and its significance has been well acknowledged by the people of Berhampore. The event would mainly focus on two days of Saraswati Puja celebration and concluding it with idol immersion on the third day. The two days celebration will include, puja celebration, cultural programs by various institutions, college performance, college band with a lot of enthusiasm and fun. | 445 |
80397 | From the fifth century BC historian Herodotus, we learn of a creature who, though Herodotus does not name as Echidna, is called an echidna ("she-viper") and resembles the Hesiodic Echidna in several respects. She was half woman half snake, lived in a cave, and was known as a mother figure, in this case, as the progenitor of the Scythians (rather than of monsters). | 366 |
31478541 | Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as she completed over 90% of the race distance. | 237 |
50796942 | There are many factor that determine a successful influenza host switch from avian to a mammalian host:
Stability in the mildly acidic mammalian respiratory tract
Recognition of mammalian sialic acid by HA receptors
PB2 E627K mutation in the viral polymerase to allow for interaction with mammalian ANP32A for optimal viral replication
Each factor has a role to play and so the virus must acquire them all in order to undergo the host switch. This is a complex process and requires time for the virus to sufficiently adapt and mutate. | 537 |
40895786 | The business cases must be developed to a level of detail that will enable DfT to produce a draft National Policy Statement by December 2015;
the commission will continue to engage with the leaders of the main political parties;
the commission will hold a public consultation about the five options between October and December 2014 and will encourage scheme promoters to do likewise in the local area for their proposed scheme;
the commission may also hold further evidence sessions;
the commission will go into purdah between December 2014 and June 2015 to avoid becoming involved in the General Election. | 613 |
31697907 | At the recent Asian championships she claimed the gold medal at 800m with 2:01.41, winning the silver in the 1500m (4:18.40).
Sportspeople from Ho Chi Minh City
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Vietnam
Asian Games silver medalists for Vietnam | 407 |
51039257 | Penoyre House, Battle, Powys, Wales is a nineteenth century country house. Designed by Anthony Salvin for Colonel John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, it was built between 1846-8. In an Italianate style, it is described by Mark Girouard as "Salvin's most ambitious classical house". The enormous cost of the house almost bankrupted the family and it was sold only 3 years after Colonel Watkins's death. From 1947, the house was in institutional use, and was converted to apartments in the early twenty-first century. | 511 |
70051934 | Cardfight!! Vanguard Gaiden if as Masked Magician Harri
Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress as TV Announcer
I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level as Rosalie
Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure as Izumi Komori | 222 |
14630266 | Union, a screw steamer built at Mystic, Connecticut, was chartered by the U.S. Navy on 24 April 1861 at Philadelphia, and was commissioned there on 16 May 1861 with Commander John R. Goldsborough in command.
The next day, Union was assigned to the Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and she steamed south to cruise off Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, on 28 May 1861. | 381 |
4595273 | Fernkorn's own cemetery monument, created by the sculptor Josef Beyer, is located in the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) in Vienna. It consists of a relief of the artist, dressed for work and holding the tools of his trade, surrounded by shallow reliefs of some of his better known works, including his equestrian monuments to the Archduke Charles and Prince Eugene and the Lion of Aspern.
Among his students was Theodor Friedl.
Janson, H.W. 19th-Century Sculpture, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. | 491 |
157700 | The angular momentum vector for the planar movement of a rigid system of particles is given by
Use the center of mass as the reference point so
and define the moment of inertia relative to the center of mass as
then the equation for angular momentum simplifies to
The moment of inertia about an axis perpendicular to the movement of the rigid system and through the center of mass is known as the polar moment of inertia. Specifically, it is the second moment of mass with respect to the orthogonal distance from an axis (or pole). | 534 |
1167865 | Plamenac disbanded most of his troops in the evening of 3 January, and proceeded to his native village of Boljevići with around 60 men, who planned to march on Cetinje the following day. On 4 January, Andrija Radović stopped in Virpazar while returning from Shkodër, where he held a speech in front of the Crmnica locals. He threatened Plamenac, and pointed out that he was now decorated with more foreign honors than the late Ilija Plamenac. | 442 |
64174224 | During the first two decades of the 20th century new opportunities arose for women to go to university and earn degrees and there were increasing numbers of women studying maths and physics at universities across the UK. The job opportunities for women opened up by World War I meant many women were trained in various forms of engineering. In 1919, the Women's Engineering Society (WES) was founded to protect these jobs for women, which, once the war ended, were handed back to the men returning from the front, as decreed by the Restoration of Pre-War Practices Act (1919). | 576 |
1145992 | The Florida Cracker cattle, also known as the "native" or "scrub" cow, averaged about and had large horns and large feet.
Among some Floridians, the term is used as a proud or jocular self-description. Since the huge influx of new residents into Florida in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, from the northern parts of the United States and from Latin America, the term Florida cracker is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their families have lived in the state for many generations. | 507 |
2361708 | They are both "quantitative strategists who founded firms that build algorithms for trading."
Shaw has donated US$2.25 million to Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supporting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and $1 million to Organizing for Action.
Through the Shaw Family Endowment Fund, by 2014 he and his wife have donated $400,000 to the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, $400,000 to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and $800,000 to the Horace Mann School. | 480 |
22804686 | In memorial to Abu al-Hazm ben Jahwar of Cordova
Special thanks to Nizar Kabbani in “Jeque de Aljama” track | 108 |
31732686 | Coleophora asteris is a moth of the family Coleophoridae found in North Africa and Europe.
The wingspan is 10–15 mm. Adults have brownish buff forewing with white along the veins, and a scatter of blackish scales on both the white and buff areas. They are on wing from June to September.
The larvae feed on the seeds of European Michaelmas-daisy (Aster amellus) and sea aster (Tripolium vulgare). They create a brown silken cigar-shaped case with slight wrinkling about 6 mm in length. | 485 |
91444 | George H. McEntire received title to 23,000 acres and operated the "U" Ranch under a partnership with his father, McEntire & Son. In 1962, George H. McEntire gave his two children, George H. McEntire, Jr. and Virginia McEntire, 16,233 acres each. George H. McEntire, Jr. continued his operations under the "U" Ranch name, while Virginia McEntire operated the acreage as the VJ Ranch. | 383 |
3586590 | The 3-digit standard scores of COMLEX-USA Level 1, Level 2- Cognitive Evaluation (CE), and Level 3 have a range of 9-999 and a mean of 500. Most candidates score between 250 and 800. 400 is the minimum passing score for COMLEX-USA Levels 1 and 2; 350 for COMLEX-USA Level 3. | 274 |
19818758 | Therefore, privateers were a credible threat to the national security of the United States, whereas if the Confederate States could tie up the Union Navy in the protection of Northern shipping, any blockade, which was expected but not yet declared, would be at least mitigated and the Southern Confederacy would be seen as a new world power to be respected.
Prior to the hostilities between the North and South, the majority of European maritime powers had declared the practice of privateering to be illegal by the Declaration of Paris (1856). | 544 |
1843369 | There, Fire kills Colonel Computron for Waller to protect her father, who, in the mid-1970s, under a right wing military dictatorship, ordered thousands of innocent deaths in Operation Condor, a US-supported South American anti-communist program that involved assassinations, torture and forced disappearances. He was never caught and Beatriz had always kept his secret.
When the murder of Computron is exposed by fellow Knight Thomas Jagger, Fire is jailed. After a visit from her superior, the Black King, Col. | 513 |
20167640 | For a time, it became a tradition that the cars of the Bryant Heating & Cooling Team, and later Dick Simon Racing, were usually the first cars on the track. In recent years, Opening Day might include separate sessions for Rookie Orientation and Refresher tests, proceeding or following a full-field, veteran driver practice session. One of the long-standing traditions of Opening Day is the ceremonial handing over of the keys to the pace car from the manufacturer to the track officials.
Rookie Orientation Program: Starting in 1936 all rookies were required to take a rookie test prior to being allowed to compete. | 616 |
5985873 | Preludes and Fugue for 13 solo strings (1970–1972) 34’
Les espaces du sommeil (Spaces of Sleep) for baritone and orchestra (1975) 15’
Sacher Variation for cello solo (1975) 5’ | 179 |
53619604 | Thyestilla coerulea is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1943. | 120 |
35298730 | Although the third episode of the season, it was actually the first episode produced for season, prior to the two-part season premiere, "A Little Kiss".
Weiner said that the episode is "about the children. It's about who is going to take care of the children. Youth is a big part of our lives in general. Now and then. But when you think of the sixties and the youth culture and the way it sort of takes over. What you're looking at is Don's fear of the children being cut loose. | 479 |
58147825 | After Boer fire was directed on his camp, Clements began a retreat with the remaining half of his force to Yeomanry Hill in the valley, out of range of the Boers on the ridge. Due to Boer exhaustion and looting of his camp, Clements managed an orderly retreat towards Pretoria that afternoon. Clements subsequently commanded the districts of Pretoria and Standerton-Heidelberg. | 377 |
49669340 | Trigger Fingers is a 1939 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Tim McCoy.
"Lightning" Bill Carson and his sidekick Magpie go into town with friend Margaret, pose as gypsies and discover a crime ring masterminded by Bert Lee. | 247 |
62699318 | He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Construction in 1976. He started his career in the Krasnoyarsk division of Stalkonstruktsiya, part of the Soviet Ministry of Installation and Special Construction Works. In 1982, he moved to a similar department in Angarsk.
In 1987, he began working for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on a district committee in Angarsk and, by 1991, rose to the First Secretary of the local party administration. | 477 |
59749389 | Sepia bandensis, commonly known as the stumpy-spined cuttlefish or dwarf cuttlefish, is a species of cuttlefish. Sepia baxteri and Sepia bartletti are possible synonyms. It reaches 7 centimeters in mantle length; males weigh about 40 grams, females 45 grams. The body is coloured light brown, or greenish yellow, with white spots on the head and short white bars on the dorsal mantle. The fins, of pale colour, have rows of small fluorescent blue spots. | 453 |
2134761 | A week later, the relevant edition of the Sporting Times included a mock obituary which has assumed iconic status:
WHICH DIED AT THE OVAL, 29 August 1882,
DEEPLY LAMENTED BY A LARGE CIRCLE OF
N.B.-THE BODY WILL BE CREMATED AND THE | 230 |
51278 | As Albuquerque spread outward, the downtown area fell into a decline. Many historic buildings were razed in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for new plazas, high-rises, and parking lots as part of the city's urban renewal phase. , only recently has Downtown Albuquerque come to regain much of its urban character, mainly through the construction of many new loft apartment buildings and the renovation of historic structures such as the KiMo Theater, in the gentrification phase.
During the 21st century, Albuquerque's population has continued to grow rapidly. | 559 |
44361 | Overland he reached Nyangwe, the center of a lawless area containing cannibal tribes at which Tippu Tip based his trade in slaves. Stanley managed to hire a force from Tippu Tip to guard him for the next or so, for 90 days.
The party left Nyangwe overland through the dense Matimba forest. On November 19 they reached the Lualaba again. | 338 |
65780058 | Since passage of the recreational law, the commission has had a backlog of applications from medical cannabis companies. In April 2022, at the urging of the legislature, the commission held a special meeting to expedite approval of applications, although enough licenses still were not granted. The commission admitted that there is going to be a large gap between supply and demand (roughly 116,000-208,000 pounds of medical cannabis short of expected demand). Over a dozen cannabis companies applying for licenses sued the commission. | 536 |
63664960 | Following are the manifestos included in his declaration:
Building the new airport (replacing the incumbent Gimhae International Airport) in Gadeok Island
Developing West Busan as a rich riverside city with future high-tech industries and cultural infrastructures
Creating 200,000 of new jobs, including 50,000 of stable jobs | 328 |
27553231 | Receiving her lowest scores in the competition this week, Esther Anderson was eliminated.
Each couple performed two routines. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 8: The first perfect score of the season was awarded to Tamara and Carmelo for their salsa, topping the leader board with 56/60 at the end of the night. David and Liza once again were at the bottom with 36/60 for their two dances. | 409 |
8201720 | Individual units are led by a volunteer leadership team, as with other younger sections, and are supported by a volunteer manager at district level, the District Explorer Scout Commissioner. Explorer Scout Units in general may form links with a particular group through the forming of a partnership agreement and indeed many Sea Explorer Scout Units are partnered to groups that have Sea Scout troops or are Sea Scout groups as a whole. | 436 |
71062278 | Within the framework of the artistic game, the reader is led to the hero's position, as the latter deludes him that he is interviewing him from a peer position, and that he is not governed by the position of the "hidden writer" or the "implicit narrator.”
There is a lot of anxiety in this novel, and the accountability of parents and society. The narration opens towards a living, cultural expression, so that each of the two characters appears to be the same. | 462 |
12430963 | A similar character archetype, a volus adept, was later added into Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode as a result of the character's popularity.
Communications Specialist Samantha Traynor appears in Mass Effect 3, serving in a similar role to that of her predecessor, Yeoman Kelly Chambers as Commander Shepard's personal assistant. She also serves as an information manager as well as a telecommunications expert on the SSV Normandy SR-2. Traynor is a lesbian and as such is available romantically for a female Shepard only. | 523 |
70519157 | He was promoted to head coach in 2020, a position he served in until the end of the 2021 season.
Fuller was named offensive coordinator for the Carolina Cobras for the 2022 season. On September 13, 2022, Fuller was promoted to head coach by the Cobras.
On September 14, 2023, Fuller was named the offensive coordinator for the San Antonio Gunslingers of the National Arena League (NAL) for the 2024 season. | 406 |
7958945 | Hugo Peretti and George David Weiss)
"Mike Post Theme" (not on 7 June; and 8 July.) | 83 |
41272201 | Monsignor Anton Agreiter, MHM (18 March 1934 − 15 October 2003) was a Catholic priest who served as the Apostolic Prefect of the Falkland Islands and Ecclesiastic Superior of St. Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha since 1986 to 2002.
Agreiter was born in St. Leonhard near Brixen in Italian's autonomous province of South Tyrol in a German-speaking peasants family as the youngest, fifteenth son. | 407 |
10279219 | This type of scorecard is also used as an alternate credit score for internal purposes of the institute along with the credit score obtained from the credit bureau. This type of scorecard is also used for identifying the bank's most valuable customers.
Collection Scorecard - This is used to predict customers' responses to different strategies for collecting owed money. The data involved here is similar to the Behavioural scorecard. When a bank decides to lend credit to its customers or if they decide to extend credit to its existing customers, they would need to assess the probability of those customers being able to comfortably repay the loan amount. | 659 |
36245360 | Then he served as deputy minister of economic development and trade for two years from 2006 to 2008.
From 2008 to 2012, he was director of the finances and economic department in the Russian Prime Minister's office.
On 21 May 2012, he was appointed minister of economic development to the cabinet led by prime minister Dimitri Medvedev. Belousov succeeded Elvira Nabiullina as minister of economic development.
On 24 June 2013, he was appointed as Presidential Assistant in Economic Affairs. | 491 |
3807294 | The company used the proceeds to establish its own airline, Air Transat, and to embark into a series of acquisitions in order to solidify its position as an outgoing tour operator in Canada and France, as well as to develop new destination markets.
In 1988, Transat expanded its presence in retail distribution considerably with the acquisition of an interest in the franchisor Consultour.
The company had broken into the French market very early on with Vacances Transat (France), the largest tour operator offering travel to Canada, and soon expanded within France, the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. | 610 |
34463932 | A 2014 paper in Evolutionary Applications by Maciak and Michalak emphasized what they termed "a largely underappreciated relation of cell size to both metabolism and cell-division rates across species" as key factors underlying the paradox, and concluded that "larger organisms have bigger and slowly dividing cells with lower energy turnover, all significantly reducing the risk of cancer initiation."
Maciak and Michalak argue that cell size is not uniform across mammalian species, making body size an imperfect proxy for the number of cells in an organism. | 560 |
51549848 | Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up)
Singles: 11 (2 titles, 9 runners-up)
Doubles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runners-up)
Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups) | 144 |
8872083 | As People's Commissar for Nationalities, Stalin was the cabinet member responsible for minority affairs. In 1922, Stalin was elected the first-ever General Secretary of the party—a post not yet regarded as the highest in the Soviet government. Lenin began to criticize Stalin shortly thereafter.
In his December 1922 letters, the ailing Lenin (whose health left him incapacitated in 1923–1924) criticized Stalin and Dzerzhinsky for their chauvinistic attitude toward the Georgian nation during the Georgian Affair. | 514 |
254108 | In response to escalating textbook prices, limited competition, and to provide a more efficient system to connect buyers and sellers together, online textbook exchanges were developed. Most of today's sites handle buyer and seller payments, and usually deduct a small commission only after the sale is completed.
According to textbook author Henry L. Roediger (and Wadsworth Publishing Company senior editor Vicki Knight), the used textbook market is illegitimate, and entirely to blame for the rising costs of textbooks. | 521 |
4193413 | Spalding Grammar School - a school for boys, but accepts girls into the sixth form. | 84 |
1174295 | Thoreau said he was willing to pay the highway tax, which went to pay for something of benefit to his neighbors, but that he was opposed to taxes that went to support the government itself—even if he could not tell if his particular contribution would eventually be spent on an unjust project or a beneficial one. "I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually."
Because government is man-made, not an element of nature or an act of God, Thoreau hoped that its makers could be reasoned with. As governments go, he felt, the U.S. | 579 |
2012100 | In 1996, Vivian Little and Kathleen Mills adapted Anderson's story into a full-length ballet for the Dance Fremont studio in Seattle. The ballet is still produced every winter, as an alternative to the popular Christmas ballet The Nutcracker, which many American studios produce in December. Dance Fremont centers the story around a young deaf boy who receives the toys for Christmas, and uses Signed Exact English for all dialogue.
In the 2000 Disney animated film Fantasia 2000, an adaptation of the tale is set to the first movement of the Piano Concerto No. | 561 |
1320356 | Their influence on the later religious poetry of Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and John Milton has been critically recognized since Louis Martz placed it at the start of a developing tradition of 17th-century devotional lyricism.
Sidney was instrumental in bringing her brother's An Apology for Poetry or Defence of Poesy into print. She circulated the Sidney–Pembroke Psalter in manuscript at about the same time. This suggests a common purpose in their design. Both argued, in formally different ways, for the ethical recuperation of poetry as an instrument for moral instruction — particularly religious instruction. | 627 |
1824495 | Romanesque building of the 11th century
Burgos became a bishopric in 1075 by the king Alfonso VI of León and Castile "the Brave" on authority of Pope Gregory VII, giving it a canonical continuation with the episcopal tradition of the diocese of Oca, whose prelate was in 589 already recorded as a signatory to the Third Council of Toledo during the reign of the Visigoths.
The monarch dedicated the construction of a cathedral to the Virgin Mary . | 448 |
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