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35895060 | By 22 June 2016, 95% of the territory once controlled by militants had been recaptured by the Lebanese Army and its allies, with only 50 km2 left under militant control. Daily clashes were ongoing mainly near the town of Arsal. On 22 September, ISIL emir Imad Yassin was arrested at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp. Clashes erupted between ISIL and Nusra Front in Arsal Barrens on 26 October after ISIL tried to infiltrate towards the Hamid valley. | 447 |
43869336 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Human Condition, Part 1: No Greater Love | 63 |
26711909 | After he was married, he went to sea and was captured by pirates and not heard from for many years. Thinking he was dead, his wife arranged to marry a Mr. Russell of Boston. Cranston managed to gain his freedom and made his way back to Newport, arriving the evening of his wife's wedding. He found his wife before the marriage ceremony, and the event was turned into a celebration for his return, with the groom-to-be surrendering his expected bride with good grace. | 467 |
37080744 | In the third, 90-second clip, Leslie's jealousy of Ben and discomfort in Washington is emphasized as she compares their relationship to the Clintons'.
There were also three "Extra Bits" placed on the website, all of which are connected, due to focusing on the character of Andy Dwyer. The first was a 2-minute clip of Andy presenting many Washington, D.C., "facts" (mostly incorrect) in his role as a tour guide. The second was a 90-second clip in which Andy attempts to find a secret city of gold beneath Washington, D.C., using clues found on U.S. | 549 |
27576720 | In the 1980s Hartigan returned to some of the figurative imagery that was a part of her work early on in her career. Paper dolls, saints, martyrs, opera singers, and queens were subjects in some of these paintings of the 1980s. Hartigan was struggling with alcoholism, and each day, trying to abstain, put much vigor into her arts practice.
In 1992 she was given a solo exhibition at ACA Galleries in New York City. | 415 |
18171857 | By the mid-1990s, the drives had virtually disappeared as the 3½-inch disk became the predominant floppy disk.
During the development of the Apple Lisa, Apple developed a disk format codenamed Twiggy, and officially known as FileWare. While basically similar to a standard -inch disk, the Twiggy disk had an additional set of write windows on the top of the disk with the label running down the side. | 400 |
51967982 | DRX is defined as a nucleation-and-growth process because
local grain boundary bulging (BLG)(mechanisms of nucleation)
grain boundary migration (GBM)(mechanisms of grain growth),
are all present in the deformation. This evidence is commonly found in quartz, a typical piezometer, from ductile shear zones. | 307 |
25201323 | Corky Nelson, football coach, University of North Texas
Tommy Nobis, All American football player, University of Texas; 5-time Pro Bowl selection for Atlanta Falcons
Gabriel Rivera, All American football player, Texas Tech University
Kyle Rote, All American football player, Southern Methodist University; 4-time Pro Bowl selection for New York Giants
"Blue" Gene Tyranny, avant-garde composer and pianist
Philip Krumm, composer and pioneer of modal, repetitive pattern music | 476 |
30126964 | | 10:30 || Tulsa || @ || Los Angeles || NBA TV || 77-75TUL || Milton-Jones (24) || Jackson (11) || Penicheiro (10) || Staples Center 8,997
| rowspan=1|Sat 27|| 7:00 || Atlanta || @ || Indiana || NBA TVSSOFS-I || 86-80ATL || Catchings (22) || Lyttle (9) || Douglas (5) || Conseco Fieldhouse 9, | 294 |
4200646 | Roth Open Swiss Teams (2) 2011, 2013
Open Team Trials (7) 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2013, | 95 |
52543690 | Hazel Shermet also appeared in more than 100 television commercials, including ads for Borox, Charmin, Head & Shoulders, and Hunt's Tomato Paste. At one point in her career, Shermet appeared in seven national television commercials airing simultaneously across the United States, which earned her a cover photo from The Commercial Actor Magazine as the publication's "actress of the month."
Shermet was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 1, 1920. Following her college graduation, she honed her acting skills at the Pasadena Playhouse. | 546 |
71015048 | He is also a shareholder and board member of FansMall Group, China's trading cards, collectibles, and sports memorabilia company. He previously served as the Chairman of Visual China Group and board member of the China Football Association Professional League Council. | 268 |
594003 | On 9 February 1940, Lord Harlech married Sylvia Lloyd Thomas (1920–1967) daughter of Hugh Lloyd Thomas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France between 1935 and 1938, and Guendaline Ada Bellew. Before Lady Harlech's death in an automobile accident on 30 May 1967, they had five children:
Julian Hugh Ormsby-Gore (1940–1974), who died of gunshot wounds, an apparent suicide. | 393 |
4404892 | In 2006, the school system had 16 schools, 78 classrooms, 146 teachers and 2,357 students. There were no institutions of higher learning and the adult literacy rate was 84.5% in 2000. | 184 |
59567148 | || Seattle Storm || @ || Las Vegas Aces || Twitter, MyLVTV || 56–60 || Tied (14) || Cambage (13) || Colson (4) || Mandalay Bay Events Center4,215
| rowspan=2| Wednesday, June 26 || 12:00 p.m. | 191 |
2317356 | JMnet has achieved vertical integration from content production to content distribution by operating newspapers (JoongAng Ilbo, JoongAng Sunday, IS Ilgan Sports, Korea JoongAng daily, The Korea Daily), broadcasting channels (JTBC, JTBC2, JTBC3 Fox Sports, JTBC Golf), publishing, magazine and entertainment sectors (MegaBox). JMnet became the only media group that runs such a diverse portfolio in Korea. With over 2,500 employees, its vision is to become a global media group that represents an Asian voice and an Asian perspective. | 533 |
18638970 | Their concern was not without justification, for as early as January 1919, Reuter mentioned the possibility of scuttling the fleet to his chief of staff. Having learned of the possible terms of the Treaty of Versailles in May 1919, he began to prepare detailed plans to scuttle his ships. Admiral Erich Raeder later wrote that Reuter was informed that the fleet was to be scuttled at all costs. A further reduction of crews with the departure of two transports to Germany on 18 June 1919 meant that Reuter was left with reliable men to carry out preparations. | 559 |
1175663 | He then went on to Wales, where he played for Swansea City and Cardiff City, latterly signing for Doncaster Rovers in 1998. He played as a midfielder.
In 2002 Penney retired to pursue a career in management and he remained at Doncaster, taking the managerial job on a full-time basis. After a well-placed finish in his first season, Penney guided Doncaster back into the Football League with victory in the 2003 play-off final. Their stay in Division Three wasn't long though as he managed Doncaster to the Division Three title. | 528 |
253074 | It mandated that, if the Senate was not in session and therefore did not have an elected Speaker, the secretary of state, or in the event of his inability to qualify, the attorney general, would become acting governor in the event of the death, resignation, or removal from office of the sitting governor and lieutenant governor. The secretary of state or attorney general would then be required to call the Senate into session to elect a Speaker, who would subsequently become governor. A 1992 amendment to the state constitution removed the provision under which the lieutenant governor became acting governor when the sitting governor was out of the state. | 659 |
8484637 | While with the IRA, Quinn adopted an Irish accent and was tagged with the nickname "Yankee Joe" because of his American origins. | 128 |
12613181 | Eclectochromis ornatus is a species of haplochromine cichlid which is endemic to Malawi. where it occurs in Lake Malawi and Lake Malombe. It is a predator of invertebrates and of smaller fishes which lives in shallow areas of the lake which have a soft or mixed substrate.
Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan | 305 |
25140047 | LGBT rights in the United States
LGBT political advocacy groups in the United States | 84 |
70918463 | On the second Latin American Leg, the concert in Guayaquil had an attendance of nearly 35,000 and more than 20,000 in Quito, it marked his first time performing in te country in 13 years. In Lima, 15,000 fans show up for the concert. The concert in Bolivia was sold out one week before the show with 20,000 tickets sold. On the second leg in the United States, both concerts were reported sold out. | 398 |
237028 | and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (with special guest John Fogerty and unannounced guest Neil Young).
The Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA used Xcel Energy Center during the 2016 WNBA Playoffs, and played a full season there in 2017, as their home arena, Minneapolis's Target Center, was undergoing renovation.
The concourse areas contain hockey jerseys from every Minnesota high school on the walls, reflecting the "State of Hockey." Surrounding the arena at all four corners are "crow's nests." One features an organ and is played during Wild games. | 553 |
345792 | The following night on Raw, Styles challenged Undertaker to a match at WrestleMania 36. Over the following weeks that led up to WrestleMania, a resentful Styles made unprecedented efforts to expose Undertaker, going so far as departing from bashing his Deadman gimmick, instead taking to a metafiction form of bashing Calaway himself. The feud saw Styles solely referring to Undertaker by his real name, Mark Calaway, referencing his age and his wife, Michelle McCool. | 468 |
2450805 | Major General Sir Simon Christie Cooper, (born 1936) is a retired British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District and later Master of the Household to the Sovereign.
Born the son of Major General Kenneth Cooper and educated at Winchester College and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Cooper was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1956.
He served in Aden, then in London, and in the British Army of the Rhine from 1957 to 1963 when he became Adjutant of the Household Cavalry Regiment. | 576 |
22029873 | The Spanish commander Luis Firmin de Carvajal, Conde de la Union died defending the Notre-Dame-Del-Roure redoubt on 20 November and his army took to its heels.
Pérignon quickly captured Figueres and invested the port of Rosas. From 28 November 1794 to 4 February 1795, Sauret commanded 13,000 troops at the successful Siege of Rosas in northeast Spain where he was wounded twice. | 379 |
58627372 | In their second season in the first division, the team finished in fourth place. In their third season, the team qualified for the Israeli Basketball State Cup finals, but the team was defeated by Hapoel Galil Elyon.
In the 1988–89 season, the team struggled against the relegation to the second division, but finally the team finished in tenth place and secured their place in the first division. However, the team could not open the next season and in fact did not appear at all due to heavy debts and the team relegated to the lower leagues. | 544 |
12440390 | The species is omnivorous but mainly feeds on fruit, such as figs and berries. It has been recorded eating soft, greyish-yellow berries and small orange figs covered with short, spiky hairs. It also eats insects and leaf buds. It generally forages in the lower levels of the forest. Hose's broadbills are mainly seen alone or in pairs, but small flocks of 6–8 birds are found at fruiting trees.
Breeding has been observed from April to October. | 444 |
57192425 | Mexalictus is a genus of sweat bees in the family Halictidae. There are more than 20 described species in Mexalictus.
These 22 species belong to the genus Mexalictus:
Mexalictus arizonensis Eickwort, 1978 (Arizona mexalictus) | 226 |
32922496 | | class="fn org" | Old Stratford
| class="fn org" | Old Struan
| class="adr" | Perth and Kinross
| class="fn org" | Old Swan | 124 |
41686803 | The plates on the rays are not in series, there is usually a single papula per space, the spines are fine, glassy but not needle-shaped and the superomarginal plates are irregular. The type species is Nepanthia maculata Gray, 1840.
Members of the genus are found at depths down to about in Australia, Lord Howe Island, Indonesia, the Timor Sea, New Guinea, West Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Burma and the Mergui Archipelago. | 433 |
71477393 | The series is the first Japanese literary work in any medium to depict HIV/AIDS, and is noted by critics for its influence on the (male-male romance) genre of manga.
Hisatsugu Tomoi defies his father's wishes to take over the family business to instead become a doctor, and in 1982 leaves his native Japan to complete his residency at a hospital in New York City. He realizes his homosexuality after immersing himself in the city's gay culture and begins a relationship with Richard Stein, a promiscuous German doctor. | 519 |
583877 | The patent rights were sold to a United States company for 100,000 Norwegian kroner. The Norwegian Postal Service, Posten Norge, celebrated the invention by issuing a stamp in 1998.
In 1939, American Julian S. Kahn received a patent for a disposable spray can, but the product remained largely undeveloped. Kahn's idea was to mix cream and a propellant from two sources to make whipped cream at home—not a true aerosol in that sense. Moreover, in 1949, he disclaimed his first four claims, which were the foundation of his following patent claims. | 547 |
49889607 | In many places, the Damascus Pentateuch follows the traditions of the masorete, Aaron ben Asher, in plene scriptum and defective scriptum, as well as in most large and small letters, being harmonious with the Masoretic variants prescribed by Ben-Asher up to 52% of the time. Like the Masoretic tradition of Ben Asher, the copyist of the Damascus Pentateuch also writes פצוע דכא in Deut. 23:2 with an aleph, and writes תעשה in Exo. | 430 |
7362920 | Public Analyst Laboratories in Cork, Dublin and Galway provide an analytical service to the Food Safety Authority.
There is one Public Analyst Laboratory in each of Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey serving the needs of these islands.
There is also one Public Analyst Laboratory in Australia.
The Public Analyst runs a laboratory which will:
for composition: many foods have legally defined, customary or expected compositions
for additives: which must be legally permitted and within prescribed concentrations | 512 |
11043914 | Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
North Melbourne Football Club premiership players | 100 |
8884976 | So, he supported the coalition Government of Hooda and became the first Muslim Deputy Speaker of Haryana Vidhan Sabha on 5 March 2010.
He then contested election in 2014 but he lost the elections due to Modi wave. But still he was a runner up securing 40,047 votes.
On 20 December 2018, he was expelled from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for going against party policy. | 369 |
21328348 | While the 'Gold Creek Golf Estate' didn't see the light of day, in a major touch of irony, the government put its considerable financial backing behind the Gold Creek Country Club, a golf course development that bears, some would argue, striking similarities to the plans submitted by John Warren.
In the early 1990s the ACT Government progressively withdrew rural leases in the Gungahlin district ahead of construction work on the suburbs of Ngunnawal, Nicholls and Harcourt Hill. | 481 |
75046555 | If found guilty, Pyle knew that he would be hanged, and his first trial collapsed after jurors were intimidated, two key witnesses – Johnny Simons and his girlfriend Barbara Ibbotson – had their faces slashed, both needing 27 stitches, and the woman who originally identified Pyle at the ID parade, Fay Sadler (an ex-prostitute known as "The Black Widow), disappeared. (Sadler was manager of the Pen Club and the girlfriend of Cooney, making him her third boyfriend who'd been murdered. She miraculously reappeared at the end of the second trial.) | 547 |
7335331 | in both Armenian (Պրոլետարներ բոլոր երկրների, միացե՜ք Proletarner bolor yerkrneri, miats’ek’!) and Russian (Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes′!). | 186 |
53127684 | On 9 April 1941 the attacked Voltaire about west of Cape Verde. Voltaire returned fire but was outgunned, caught fire and sank. One source states that 81 of her crew were lost; another puts the death toll at 100.
On 30 April 1941 torpedoed and sank the motor ship Lassell about southwest of Cape Verde, killing two of her crew. 25 of the survivors were rescued by the Ben Line cargo ship Benvrackie, but 15 of them were killed on 13 May when that ship was also sunk. | 470 |
70208966 | "Chapter Three: Make the Unsafe Choice" is the third episode of the first season of the American dark comedy crime television series Barry. The episode was written by Duffy Boudreau, and directed by series co-creator Bill Hader, who also serves as the main lead actor. It was first broadcast on HBO in the United States on April 8, 2018. | 337 |
8084968 | and in the second series of Megamaths); each episode would open with eight "money-spiders" (one for each coin - 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2) coming down into view from the top of a tree. | 195 |
3255650 | A lengthy trial with League runners-up Liverpool brought an offer in excess of £100,000 from manager Graeme Souness in September 1991, but Stafford Rangers turned it down. Amid interest from other top-flight clubs, Devlin had a trial with Leeds United before, in February 1992, a £60,000 bid from Notts County was accepted. He had scored 7 goals from 50 Conference matches over his 15-month spell.
The 19-year-old Devlin signed for the First Division club on 18 February 1992. | 476 |
4318968 | County Route 99 (Westchester County, New York)
Texas State Highway Spur 99 (1940–1966) (former)
Texas State Highway Spur 99 (1981–1984) (former) | 148 |
71452404 | The beginning of this cycle was marked by other movements that occurred at the same time: there was a strong growth in foreign demand, while the supply grew at an increasing yet irregular rhythm due to climatic conditions, the more or less appropriate treatment given to the plantantions and the fact that periods of great production were followed by a transitional period of plant exhaustion, which largely stimulated speculation. Due to the expansion of demand and the dynamics of supply, the international price of coffee doubled between 1885 and 1890, further stimulating the expansion of coffee plantations. | 612 |
3319860 | She is part owner of the family's New York City restaurant, Fresco by Scotto, where she often helps in the kitchen and greets diners.
Scotto is a cousin of NY1 news correspondent Michael Scotto. She is Catholic. | 211 |
18462750 | ! scope="col" | Country, territory or sea
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean | 98 |
65575909 | Bothriochloa ischaemum is the predominant grass, along with species of feather grass (Stipa) and the shrub Paliurus spina-christi.
Dry open woodlands are found in foothills and lower mountain slopes. The predominant trees are three species of juniper (Juniperus) and the deciduous wild pistachio Pistacia atlantica mutica. Understory shrubs include Paliurus spina-christi, Jasminum fruticans, Berberis iberica, Rhamnus pallasii, and Prunus subg. | 445 |
1127038 | Funding and research interest for DIS standards development decreased following the proposal and promulgation of its successor, the High Level Architecture (simulation) (HLA) in 1996. HLA was produced by the merger of the DIS protocol with the Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol (ALSP) designed by MITRE.
There was a NATO standardisation agreement (STANAG 4482, Standardised Information Technology Protocols for Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), adopted in 1995) on DIS for modelling and simulation interoperability. | 525 |
50395410 | Lawyers who are may be qualified and permitted to practice a specific area of law by through a separate regulator, such as the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (for non-solicitor/barrister immigration lawyers) or insolvency practitioners, who are regulated by The Insolvency Service.
The above lawyers may also practice law and provide legal services alone subject to their specific regulators requirements, rules and any authorisation processes. For example, CILEx publish guidance and rules that apply to qualified Legal Executives who provide legal services alone. | 583 |
69021683 | Koch had peviously been a youth coach in the club and had served as assistant coach between 1988 and 1990. FC Berlin finished the 1993-94 NOFV-Oberliga Nord in fourth place and qualified for the new Regionalliga Nordost.
The re-instated Regionalliga formed the new third tier in the German football league system. The Regionalliga Nordost meant new meetings with well-known opponents such as FC Carl Zeiss Jena and 1. FC Union Berlin. | 435 |
5888681 | Millions of French supporters celebrated their team's victory in Paris throughout the night, with an estimated 1.5 million on the Champs-Élysées alone as players' names and faces along with celebratory messages were projected onto the Arc de Triomphe. It was reported that such scenes had not been seen there since Paris' liberation from Nazi German occupation in late August 1944 during World War II, including Charles de Gaulle's parade down the same avenue on 26 August. | 473 |
3075633 | Secretary of State Catherine Durant in the Netflix series House of Cards
Jane Badler (B.S. 1976), actress (V)
Kate Baldwin, actress (1997, theater school)
Bonnie Bartlett (B.S. 1950), Emmy Award-winning actress (St. Elsewhere, Twins, Ghosts of Mississippi)
Warren Beatty (class of 1959, never graduated), Academy Award-winning actor/writer/director (Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, Reds) | 408 |
59547488 | On March 16, 2021, Kat Tenbarge at Business Insider reported that during the filming of a 2018 vlog about group sex, a woman was allegedly raped during filming by then-Vlog Squad member Dom Zeglaitis while drunk and unable to consent. On the same day, Dobrik released a short video titled "Let's talk", in which he addressed some of the recent controversies related to him, specifically in regards to former members of the Vlog Squad. He did not specifically address the allegations against Zeglaitis from earlier that day. | 523 |
1417544 | CBU (Copperbelt University) is a public university that was initially the Zambia Institute of Technology (ZIT), then part of UNZA (University of Zambia) (oddly, as University of Zambia, Ndola campus, "UNZANDO"). It was separated and established as an independent institution in 1987. It is one of the biggest universities in the country as it has 5,000 students and 600 members of staff. | 389 |
60568451 | Pallavi turns him down saying she treasures his friendship and does not want to ruin it by romanticizing it. On her next flight, Govind boards as a passenger and tries to talk to her. He asks her to withdraw her complaint, saying that it will ruin his future. An angry Pallavi throws a glass of cold water on his face. After landing, Govind files a complaint against her. Vishal asks her to apologize, but she refuses, saying that she will react the same way if such an incident happens again. | 493 |
52120211 | The concessive participle (denotes opposition, concession, or limitation) may be preceded by the particles , , , , (= although) or/and followed by (= nevertheless) in the main verb structure.
Agesilaus, although he was aware of those things, nevertheless he continued to be steadfast in the truce.
A participle may also express any other attendant circumstance'' under which an action takes place:
Having taken the Boeotians with them, they marched against Pharsalus. | 471 |
4751262 | Another source places the beginnings of raunch culture in the permissive society of the 1960s, which in postfeminist perspective was less about female sexual liberation than fulfilling the male fantasy of unlimited female availability. Levy also characterizes raunch culture as a backlash against the stereotypes of "prude" and "uptight" (women) applied to many second-wave feminists (e.g., anti-pornography feminists). Herbert Marcuse's intuition of the increased role of sexuality in advanced industrialism was increasingly confirmed by a pragmatic alliance between neo-liberalism and the commodification of sexuality. | 620 |
49691351 | Marco Antonio Trejo León (born 8 December 1958) is a Mexican football manager and former player. | 96 |
3428181 | When the cable link was completed to New York, the crew of the Gorgon and the other ships were feted by civic receptions and processions through the city.
Gorgon was despatched to Madagascar in 1863 to keep the peace on the death of King Radama II. She returned via the Cape of Good Hope, arriving at Spithead on 29 January 1864. She discharged her ammunition and guns at the Royal Arsenal, was paid out of commission on 11 February.
Despite being decommissioned, Gorgon had one last mission. | 492 |
40734110 | Permanent exhibit Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial National Park Service Visitors Center, South Bass Island, Ohio.
Perry Breaking the Line Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. 7' x 12' oil on canvas. Permanent exhibit Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial National Park Service Visitors Center, South Bass Island, Ohio.
Founders' Vision: 'A Fair Hope of Success''' 7' x 12' oil on canvas. Permanent exhibition at the Fairhope Museum of History, Fairhope, Alabama. | 519 |
56177869 | Rana received a special award from Calcutta Sports Journalists Club(CSJC) for his contributions for state team and the club in 2016-17 season at CSJC's annual awards. | 166 |
10967463 | The palace was damaged after Swedish attacks in 1523, and after the reformation in 1537 large parts of the palace were torn down. In 1554 the Protestant bishop moved to the current bishop's residence in Oslo, a former monastery. In 1579 the mayor of Oslo, Christen Mule, built a Renaissance building on the ruins of the previous bishop's palace, and in this building King James VI of Scotland married princess Anne of Denmark on November 23, 1589. | 447 |
67770327 | For the series, Kolenda praised the defense tactics of the opponent's head coach Oliver Vidin.
In April 2021, Łukasz Kolenda's contract with Trefl Sopot expired.
On July 9, 2021, he has signed with Śląsk Wrocław of the PLK.
Kolenda has been a member of the Polish national team. | 278 |
1588899 | A 2011 Orange County Register article reported that they had five daughters, 17 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren. Pearson also played golf; he participated in a 1962 golf tournament with several other major leaguers, including Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Ralph Kiner. While he was with the Angels, his roommates at various times included Bo Belinsky and Don Lee. Pearson was also an actor and singer. He was offered a part in The Petticoat Pirates, a movie, but he turned it down because the proposed scene involved him drinking. | 539 |
61793142 | Once an agreement exists, another occasion is set for this to be formalised during the nikah procession wherein instead a "male guardian" or imam enacts the giving away of the bride. This is often followed by a process called sooriyo wherein cash is placed within a keffiyeh and then split in half to be shared among the bride and grooms elders (or other family). | 363 |
623034 | Atrial fibrillation often occurs (30% within 5 years) after catheter ablation for atrial flutter. | 97 |
46596410 | Citi economist Kit Wei Zheng argued that as a result of the election among other things, due to discontent related to foreign workers (especially those white collar workers who compete with locals, such as the author, in industries such as financial services), the government could shrink this portion of the workforce which would affect both long term growth as well as property prices. He also believed it would shift the country towards more left-leaning policies. | 467 |
5589718 | From "as early as the third century devout Christians were sometimes encouraged to reveal the condition of their soul to a spiritual guide." This led to a private form of confession that bishops finally put a stop to by the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) that made confession to a priest obligatory within a year of the sinning, and has enshrined the practice of private confession ever since. In the 13th century the Dominican philosopher Thomas Aquinas tried to reunite the personal "matter" (contrition, confession, satisfaction) and ecclesial "form" (absolution). | 566 |
35861645 | The Criminal of the Century (1928)
Don Juan in a Girls' School (1928)
The Last Performance of the Circus Wolfson (1928)
Do You Know That Little House on Lake Michigan? | 170 |
24570313 | United Kingdom, also a Friendship City
Sutherland Shire, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
List of statistical areas in Colorado
CDOT map of the City of Lakewood | 165 |
7891100 | Steven Clark Ellsworth (born July 30, 1960) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox in . He is the son of former MLB pitcher, Dick Ellsworth.
Towering over most of his teammates at 6'8" tall (and 220 pounds), this right-hander attended Bullard High School in Fresno, California. He then went on to attend Cal State Northridge and Fresno City College. | 427 |
22431269 | Davis also did an earlier lavishly illustrated book for The Lake Illawarra Authority entitled "Lake Illawarra: an ongoing history (Davis, Joseph, 1956- vi, 175 p. : ill. maps, ports., facsims) in 2005. | 201 |
54568892 | A downpour broke out shortly after Martin's disappearance, dropping of rain in a matter of hours, which washed out trails and caused streams to flood. Temperatures on the night of June 14 dropped to nearly .
Search efforts, including a separate search by the National Guard and Green Berets found no trace. Heavy rains during the first day's search and heavy mist the next day's hampered efforts. Up to 1,400 people were involved in the search effort, potentially obscuring possible clues. | 490 |
62613597 | Robbie Gotts (born 9 November 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Barrow, as a midfielder or right-back.
He impressed for Carlos Corberán's Leeds United under 23's side over the course the 2018–19 season, winning the PDL Northern League 2018–19 season, then becoming the national Professional Development League champions by beating Birmingham City in the final. | 391 |
49992985 | Parallel process is a phenomenon noted in clinical supervision by therapist and supervisor, whereby the therapist recreates, or parallels, the client's problems by way of relating to the supervisor. The client's transference and the therapist's countertransference thus re-appear in the mirror of the therapist/supervisor relationship.
Attention to parallel process first emerged in the nineteen-fifties. | 404 |
37419576 | The VideoPhone 2500 was designed to provide low-frame rate compressed color video on ordinary Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) lines, circumventing the significantly higher cost ADSL telephone service lines used by several other videoconferencing manufacturers. It was limited by analog phone line connection speeds of about 19 Kilobits per second, the video portion being 11,200 bit/s, and with a maximum frame rate of 10 frames per second, but typically much slower, as low as a third of a video frame per second. | 517 |
53745171 | If this formula were of high academic value at that time, it would not have been presented without explanation in the footnotes. In the context of EFA, there are studies suggesting similar reliability formulas.
Second, McDonald (1970)'s differs from . The denominator of the formula given by McDonald (1970) is observed covariances, and the denominator of is fitted covariances.
Third, McDonald (1970) did not discuss how to actually obtain this coefficient. While it is easy to derive a reliability formula, the more important barrier at that time was how to obtain estimates of each parameter. | 597 |
156314 | However, the Christian references are dark and disturbing—Lena is obviously not a virgin, Christmas is an enraged murderer—and may be more appropriately viewed as pagan idols mistakenly worshipped as saints.
Faulkner is considered one of the foremost American writers on race in the United States, and his novels, including Light in August, often explore the persistent obsession with blood and race in the South that have carried over from the antebellum era to the 21st century. | 480 |
164614 | Still, the project to raise the white chief to the "Dictator of Finland" went nowhere. The attack on Petrograd, which Mannerheim fervently incubated, did not materialize either. Thus, Mannerheim disappeared from Finnish politics for almost a decade.
He kept busy heading the Finnish Red Cross (Chairman 1919–1951), was a member of the board of the International Red Cross, and founded the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare (Mannerheimin Lastensuojeluliitto). | 460 |
7090000 | 2020(24th) Intex Osaka 207,479 (date: 14 to 16, February, 2020)
2021/February 12, 13 and 14th at Intex Osaka
Avex makes a stage performance show every year. The famous vocalist Kumi Koda appeared on stage there in 2005. | 229 |
72110159 | The event took place at the International Ballroom of the The Beverly Hilton, where Golden Globes are awarded, and was hosted by pilot and aviation enthusiast John Travolta. He received his award from the hands of Living Legend Julie Clark. Other attendees included, amongst others, aviators and "Living Legends of Aviation" Buzz Aldrin, William Shatner, Shane Lundgren and Hamish Harding. | 389 |
46922642 | Song Xiaoying () is a Chinese film and television actress. | 58 |
6525845 | Ponthir has many amenities such as two nurseries, two children's playgrounds, two churches, a village hall, a cricket club, a football club (Ponthir AFC), 2 pubs - The Ponthir House and The Star, a fish and chip shop, a doctor and a dentist. There used to be a railway station but it closed in 1962. The railway is still in use. | 328 |
22596135 | The National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC, , Sherkat-e Meli-ye Naftkesh-e Iran) is a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, which was privatized in 2009. As of 2011, NITC was owned by funds managing pensions for 5 million Iranians. It is the biggest tanker company in the Middle East. | 293 |
31108256 | Wadi-al-Ahmar, also known as Wadi-al-Hamra, is a place in Libya's Sirte District. In English, its name translates to "the red valley". Wadi-al-Ahmar is located just over 100km east of Sirte, the hometown of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the capital of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya remnants.
The National Transitional Council claimed its forces took control of the area on 8 September 2011, nearly two weeks after the fall of Tripoli. | 442 |
26204323 | United States Army Infantry Branch personnel
United States Army personnel of the Korean War
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States)
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Army generals of World War II | 395 |
6610932 | Jordan was the Scientific Director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Professor of Oncology and Pharmacology, Vice Chair of the Department of Oncology, and the Vincent T. Lombardi Chair of Translational Cancer Research, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., prior to moving to Texas.
Jordan was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to women's health.
Jordan is the father of two daughters, Helen Turner and Alexandra Noel. | 507 |
429284 | Following the unsuccessful campaign, Nizam was assigned to the Syria-Lebanon Campaign for three weeks, then retasked to the Tobruk Ferry Service, a force of British and Australian warships making supply runs to the Allied forces under siege in Tobruk. Nizam made fourteen runs before receiving damage on 14 September; a near-miss from a bomb cracked oil pumps, and the destroyer was towed away from the area by the destroyer , then was able to make temporary repairs and reach Alexandria. | 488 |
18037732 | Three Fourteens were on Hillman's stand, a 2-door drop head coupé, a 4-door safety tourer and a 6-light Weymann saloon with a sunshine roof. Front seats could now slide for adjustment and a petrol gauge was provided on the instrument panel. The brakes receive servo assistance on the safety model. All the cars displayed had safety glass. | 338 |
57716913 | His full posthumous name was Prince Zhuang of Zhao (趙莊王)
Zhu Houyu (朱厚煜; 1498 - 1560) (6th), Zhu Youcai's eldest son, he succeeded the princedom from 1521 and committed suicide in 1560. | 185 |
5855836 | The town has modern harbour facilities constructed in 1997.
Councilors: Wallace Rowe, Fred Kenway and Jamie Grondin.
Janelle Slaney is the current Town Clerk. Kevin Paddle served as Town Clerk/Manager from 2003 to 2019.
The position was previously held by Trudy Bennett (1997–2003) and prior to Ms. Bennett by Walter Kenway who served as Town Clerk for many years. Mr. | 369 |
23278520 | After his death, Yeltsin took part in the Central Committee plenum which appointed Mikhail Gorbachev the new General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thus de facto Soviet leader, in March 1985.
1985: relocation to Moscow to become Head of Gorkom
Gorbachev was interested in reforming the Soviet Union and, at the urging of Yegor Ligachyov, the organisational secretary of the Central Committee, soon summoned Yeltsin to meet with him as a potential ally in his efforts. | 495 |
69968105 | Mons served as one of four members of the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla attached to the First and Fourth Battle Squadrons. As the German fleet approached during the night on 31 May, the destroyers were spotted by the light cruisers of the High Seas Fleet. Mons attacked the German warships with gunfire but recorded no hits. The flotilla was recalled before the rest of the German fleet was seen. The destroyer did not have the opportunity to attack the enemy for the rest of the battle and returned to port without damage. | 521 |
28789183 | With its minaret being torn down during the Communist dictatorship, the Iliaz Mirahor mosque was declared a religious Cultural Monument of Albania. After the end of Communist rule in the 1990s, the minaret was not rebuild until 2014 in a slightly different style compared to the original one. The Ottoman Clock Tower of Korçë in front of the mosque has also been rebuilt afterwards. | 382 |
2812493 | The band split up in 1997 after Raybon left. Seales and McGuire reformed the band in 2000 with lead singer Brent Lamb, who was in turn replaced by Curtis Wright and then by Jimmy Yeary. Ezell rejoined in the early 2000s, and after his 2007 death, he was replaced by Mike Folsom. Raybon returned to the band in 2014. That same year, Jamie Michael replaced the retiring Jim Seales on lead guitar. | 395 |
26773580 | ACG Strathallan is a private composite school (years 1–13), with a roll of . It was founded in 2001.
Both these schools are coeducational. Rolls are as of | 154 |
20588102 | After a two-year hiatus, she released her third album, Love Rain Down in October 2006. Shortly after the album's release, Doss began touring and performing at worldwide venues. In 2007, Doss performed the album's lead single "Tell Me Why" on BET J.
In May 2008, Doss released her lead single "What I'd Do". The song received airplay from local radio stations, charted on Billboard and also received airplay from BET J's Soul Sessions. | 434 |
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