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20281726 | List of Mexican boxing world champions
Romeo Anaya - The Cyber Boxing Zone Encyclopedia | 87 |
30272060 | His mother was Marie Celeste McVoy Kohler (1900-1974), a Chicago socialite who had been married and divorced and had one child. Terry's sister is Charlotte Nicolette Kohler (1936-2012). The Kohlers divorced in 1946 and Terry was raised by his father at Windway, his parents' estate not far from the Kohler factory in the village of Kohler.
In 1952, Kohler graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy. | 400 |
56152 | For the remainder of his reign, Boris would rule as a de facto absolute monarch, with his prime ministers largely submitting to his will.
Following the outbreak of World War II, Bulgaria initially remained neutral. In 1940, Bogdan Filov replaced Kyoseivanov as prime minister, becoming the last prime minister to serve under Boris. In September 1940, with the support of Nazi Germany, Bulgaria received the region of Southern Dobrudja from Romania as part of the Treaty of Craiova. | 481 |
3845920 | That same year, four more were built at Hutt Workshops (No's 25 and 26) and Hillside Workshops (No's 27 and 28); they were stationed at main workshops around the country.
New batteries were required in 1937, and although conversion into diesel-electric locomotives was proposed, rebuilding was not undertaken until the early 1950s. In their new guise, the locomotives survived well into the 1970s. | 397 |
1639065 | An early competitive eater was Nicholas Wood, the Great Eater of Kent, whose skill was featured in Iohn Taylor's 1630 pamphlet The great eater, of Kent, or Part of the admirable teeth and stomacks exploits of Nicholas Wood. The pamphlet, which Taylor asserts is factually true, reports a series of Wood's stunts including eating a whole sheep raw in one sitting (including the wool, horns, and bones), 7 dozen rabbits in one meal, and 400 pigeons in another meal. | 463 |
1286331 | patent for U-matic videotape cassette, filed 1971.
Sony U.S. patent for design of U-matic deck, filed 1971.
U-matic Pal site Type 2 U-matic
Origination Formats and Machines - 3/4" U-matic transfers in the Experimental Television Center
R-VCR, History of Videotape U-matic page
Rewind Museum Sony VO-1600. The worlds first VCR. | 331 |
7051941 | Skillman is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Montgomery Township, in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 242.
The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08558. However, the Skillman postal address covers an area significantly larger than the Skillman CDP. The Skillman postal address services approximately half of the and approximately 23,000 residents comprising Montgomery Township. | 525 |
298882 | The little stint (Calidris minuta or Erolia minuta) is a very small wader. It breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to Africa and south Asia. It occasionally is a vagrant to North America and to Australia. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific minuta is Latin for "small. | 415 |
33296639 | The criminal investigation and first-degree murder trial drew substantial media attention due to its connections to Dexter Morgan, a fictional serial killer and bloodstain pattern analyst featured in the Dexter television program and series of books.
The Mark Twitchell case and trial became the focus of The Devil's Cinema, Lillebuen's first book, after he left the newspaper.
The book won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction. It was also shortlisted in Australia for the Ned Kelly Award.
A film adaptation of the book was acquired by David Permut with Sam Hobkinson set to direct in April 2022. | 606 |
53587321 | Taking part was not compulsory and 16 pupils out of the school's 747 asked not to appear in the series, with another 30–40 parents requesting that their children feature only in the background.
Before filming began Twofour advised Mitchell to get into contact with Vic Goddard, headmaster of Passmores Academy, the school in which Educating Essex was set. He gave Mitchell advice on handling the attention and stayed in contact throughout the filming process. Mitchell had several concerns about the project such as putting the pupils in a situation where they were going to be laughed at, ridiculed or mocked. | 610 |
5925022 | In 1867, he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Nashville, but that year he accepted a position as professor of belles lettres at Washington University.
During his career at Washington University, he was professor of belles lettres until 1870, when he became professor of history. He was registrar from 1870 to 1877, when he became dean of the college faculty. He was acting chancellor from 1887 to 1891 and in 1907/8. | 444 |
74793179 | A Wagon train near Crooked Creek was attacked by the same warriors.
The Oregon Trail was a long trail used by Wagon trains traveling east to west, starting in 1836. The Oregon Trail was one of a few Westward Expansion Trails bring pioneers and gold seekers from the Missouri River, at Independence, Missouri to valleys in Oregon. Starting in 1843 the Oregon Trail was heavily used in what is called the The Great Migration of 1843 and the Wagon Train of 1843. With more travelers at the start of the California Gold Rush starting in 1849. | 542 |
12560936 | Pieter Jacobsz Codde (December 11, 1599 – October 12, 1678) was a Dutch painter of genre works, guardroom scenes and portraits.
Codde was a technically skilled painter. He is said to have studied with Frans Hals, but it is more likely that his training was with the portrait painter, inn-keeper, actor and art-dealer Barent van Someren (1572–1632) or possibly with Cornelis van der Voort (1576–1624). | 400 |
21040957 | found in west Florida in the Lower Florida Keys)
Pleurotomaria (Perotrochus) atlantica (Atlantic Slit Shell; found in Brazil)
Pleurotomaria (Perotrochus) diluculum (Dawn Slit Shell; found in central Japan)
Pleurotomaria (Perotrochus) gemma (Jewel Slit Shell; found in Barbados, | 277 |
2839263 | The Republican Police were charged with the responsibility of issuing Permit application forms, forwarding them with the specified fee of five shillings to the Minister for Home Affairs, and transmitting to the applicant the permit or, more generally a letter of refusal. The irony of the IRP on the one hand enforcing deportation orders as a punishment, while on the other preventing voluntary emigration of people personally known to them, was not lost on local IRP members. There is considerable correspondence from local officials seeking a more lenient interpretation of the Emigration ban by the Department. | 613 |
11468541 | Gordon announced that the project was on hold in early November 2009, later stating that he would be willing to work on it again if he receives help from an interested party.
Around this time he also started to port the game Aquaria to Linux for Bit Blot. On May 11, 2010 he and Wolfire Games released the source code of his code branch of Lugaru under the GNU General Public License. He was also involved with the source code release of Aquaria, both of which were sold as part of the first Humble Indie Bundle, which was also hosted by Wolfire. | 547 |
21008535 | As a result of the event, initial mockups were created, and Red Hat agreed to contribute development to the effort.
GNOME 3 pre-releases used a 2.91.x versioning scheme. The first beta version of GNOME 3 was debuted on February 23, 2011.
Having shipped GNOME as its default graphical environment on Ubuntu since its debut, Canonical initially collaborated on development, but eventually became disillusioned, and halted their efforts. This became the catalyst for development of their Unity shell to be used in place of the standard GNOME Shell. | 545 |
10079376 | An example of their skill is the Khufu ship, a vessel in length entombed at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2,500 BC and found intact in 1954.
At about the same time, the Scandinavians were also building innovative boats. People living near Kongens Lyngby in Denmark, came up with the idea of segregated hull compartments, which allowed the size of boats to gradually be increased. A crew of some two dozen paddled the wooden Hjortspring boat across the Baltic Sea long before the rise of the Roman Empire. | 520 |
1799462 | Rev. Jonathan Boucher FRSE, FSA (12 March 1738 – 27 April 1804) was an English clergyman, teacher, preacher and philologist.
Jonathan Boucher was born in Blencogo, near Wigton, Cumberland, and educated at the Wigton Grammar School. After training in Workington, Jonathan became a teacher, at St. Bees School and in 1759 went to Virginia, where he became a private tutor in the families of Virginia planters. | 407 |
54832145 | After one year at Carson–Newman University, Smith transferred to Radford University and tried out for the Highlanders baseball team as a walk-on but was cut. He stayed at the school and graduated in 1998. He met his wife, Lainie, while at Radford.
Smith started his career with ESPN in 2006 as a NASCAR reporter. In addition to coverage for SportsCenter, he also appeared on NASCAR Countdown and NASCAR Now. | 407 |
33073768 | Lüßbach is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It flows into Lake Starnberg, which is drained by the Würm, near Starnberg. | 115 |
9913471 | It also comprises different types of systems, including SEE-II, Pidgin Signed English (PSE) and gestures. Today, SgSL consists of the following language and sign systems:
Pidgin Signed English (PSE) is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between natural sign language (in this case being SgSL) and the surrounding spoken language, or between different sign languages. | 387 |
5677565 | David Katz (1 October 1884, Kassel – 2 February 1953, Stockholm) was a German-born Swedish psychologist and educator who specialized in Gestalt psychology and phenomenology. He was a professor Emeritus at the University of Stockholm. Prior to the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany, he served as the chair of psychology and education at the State University of Mecklenburg in Rostock.
Katz obtained his doctoral degree from the university of Göttingen in 1906. | 469 |
33596709 | In 1994 Ruth K. Chao, argued that "parenting styles developed on North American samples cannot be simply translated to other cultures, but instead must reflect their sociocultural contexts". Many cultures have different styles of parenting and the dynamics those families are also different.
People from individualistic cultures usually look out for themselves and their immediate family only. While people from collectivistic cultures look out for their community or group, as well as their family. | 499 |
967142 | Allen is one of three Atlantic hurricanes to reach Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale on three occasions, the others being Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Isabel. Allen also produced the fifth-lowest minimum pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic basin at 899 mbar (hPa) and was the strongest known hurricane in the basin, in terms of pressure, since 1935. Until then, it was the second strongest hurricane by pressure in the Atlantic Basin, but was since pushed down to fifth, and no hurricane has achieved winds in this basin since then. | 551 |
2840278 | Argentine Primera División (3): 1923, 1924, 1927
Serie A (4): 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, | 89 |
4011225 | Adam Carter in Spooks Agent 13 from the 1960s spy satire/parody sitcom, Get Smart Agent 44 from the 1960s spy satire/parody sitcom, Get Smart Agent 99 from the 1960s Spy satire/parody sitcom, Get Smart Agent Double 0-0 from Phineas and Ferb Agent Flemming from Beavis and Butthead Do America Agent J from the movies Men in Black (film), Men in Black II Agent K from the movies Men in Black (film), | 397 |
5068303 | Newey signed for fellow Football League Two side Rotherham United in the summer of 2010. He was released by Rotherham in May 2012.
In July 2012 he joined Scunthorpe United on trial. Newey and Scunthorpe were relegated to League Two in May 2013; despite his initially being offered a new deal, the club signed Andy Dawson and released Newey.
On 4 July 2013, Newey joined Oxford United on a free transfer. | 403 |
2078 | After Acorn's change of focus away from the Electron, and with a shortage of Plus 1 units available to purchase, Advanced Computer Products secured the rights to manufacture the unit under licence from Acorn, obtaining the injection moulds and tooling, thus restarting production in 1987 after Acorn's own production of the unit had ceased in November 1985. | 357 |
16968266 | jak niszczymy system (Five songs about us destroying the system)
1995 Dwa w jednym (Two in one) | 96 |
34400150 | Tempskya judithae Clifford and Dettmann, 2005 Winton Formation, Australia, Early Cretaceous (Albian)
Tempskya stichkae Tidwell and Hebbert,1992 Cedar Mountain Formation, Burro Canyon Formation, Utah, United States, Early Cretaceous (Albian)
Tempskya wyomingensis Arnold, 1945 Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, United States, Lower Cretaceous? | 337 |
1822055 | He then organized a new brigade at Camp Kenton, three miles below Maysville, and marched them to Olympian Springs, Bath County, Kentucky. Near the end of October, those troops from Ohio and Kentucky routed the Confederates at Hazel Green and West Liberty. On November 8, Confederate troops, under Captain Andrew Jackson May, fought a delaying action against Nelson at the Battle of Ivy Mountain. That night and the following day, Confederates, under Colonel John Stuart Williams, abandoned Piketon (Pikeville, Kentucky). | 520 |
12249265 | On 9 August, Bianco made his debut for Modena in a 4–2 defeat at penalties after a 2–2 home draw against Novara, he was replaced by Mattia Spezzani in the 78th minute. On 29 August, Bianco made his Serie B debut for Modena in a 2–1 home defeat against Ascoli, he played the entire match. Bianco ended his season-long loan to Modena with 33 appearances, including 26 as a starter. | 380 |
3994277 | Ugbrooke retains close ties with Buckfast Abbey in Devon, founded in part through the generosity of the 9th Baron.
The house and gardens are open to the public for a limited number of days each summer for guided tours. Refreshments are available at the Orangery Tearoom, including a Devon cream tea.
As part of Holy Spirit Parish in Bovey Tracey, Mass continues to this day, every Sunday morning at 8.45am. | 406 |
2974023 | Part of the reason for this was that it had a domeless boiler and was roughly in the condition as built. It was therefore painted in its original LMS lined black livery. However, there had been changes over its lifetime and as a result there are numerous detail differences between 5000 as built and 5000 as preserved.
5000 was steamed on the Severn Valley Railway and on the mainline in preservation. | 401 |
12992222 | 2018: Community celebrates 45 years since May 1973 founding. | 60 |
41099486 | His primary focus in discussing proof was "conviction" produced by generation of chains of logical truths – not the much more widely applicable and more familiar general process of demonstration as found in pre-Aristotelian geometry and discussed by Aristotle. He did discuss deductions in the above sense but not by that name: he called them awkwardly “proofs from premises” – an expression he coined for the purpose.
The absence of argument–deduction–proof distinctions is entirely consonant with Church's avowed Platonistic logicism. | 536 |
11588910 | In 1920 he established the Centrale Jewish Welfare Organisation which became the Royal Society of Jewish Welfare (Koninklijke Vereniging Centraal Beheer Joodse Weldadigheid en Maatschappellijk Hulpbetoon vzw) known as "The Centrale". | 233 |
13071869 | In November of the same year that he inherited his brother's viscounties, Raymond made a treaty with Raymond Berengar IV, Count of Barcelona whereby he swore fealty to the count of Barcelona and agreed to hold Carcassonne, Razès, and Lautrec from the count as a vassal. | 269 |
237500 | In 1876 King Nicholas I of Montenegro ordered that the practice should end. He knew that European diplomats considered it to be barbaric. The Tablja was demolished in 1937.
Many Chinese soldiers and civilians were beheaded by some Japanese soldiers, who even made contests to see who would kill more people (see Hundred man killing contest), and took photos with the piles of heads as souvenirs. | 395 |
26516933 | After the war, between 1919 and 1922, he studied law in Leipzig, receiving his doctorate in 1923. In 1926, he went to work at the district court in Chemnitz and two years later became a judge there.
In 1933, Kreyssig was pressured to join the Nazi party, but refused, citing his need for judicial independence. However, in 1934, he joined the Confessing Church and in 1935, was elected Praeses at the synod of the Confessing Church in Saxony. | 442 |
73125958 | Saka was voted as Arsenal's Player of the Month for September, and Rice's strike against Manchester United was voted as the club's Goal of the Month.
Arsenal suffered their first defeat of the season with a 2–1 loss to Ligue 1 side Lens at Stade Bollaert-Delelis in the Champions League on Tuesday, 3 October, after being late arriving to northern France on Monday night with their flight delayed by around five hours due to bad weather. | 437 |
3933288 | The earliest Hittite records seem to refer to Kizzuwatna and Arzawa (Western Anatolia) collectively as Luwia.
In the power struggle that arose between the Hittites and the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, Kizzuwatna became a strategic partner because of its location. Isputahsu made a treaty with Hittite King Telepinu. Later, Kizzuwatna shifted its allegiance, perhaps because of a new ruling dynasty. | 397 |
35189779 | The farms in the area were known for many items, mostly dairy cows, horses, potatoes, and peaches. In 1929, John Koster was noted to have a large greenhouse and sold flowers.
The area is known for the historic one-room Montrose Schoolhouse, built before 1786, which is located in the Colts Neck portion of the community. It was used for many years as a meeting place, religious meeting house, and school house. It last held school classes in 1922, and the last known school bus driver was James Danser. | 502 |
39573585 | The following is the list of episodes for Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang (The Folktales of Grandma Basyang), a Filipino live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular Severino Reyes' classic tales. It headlines Manilyn Reynes as Herbie, Lola Basyang's compassionately strong-willed and high-spirited granddaughter who has made it her personal advocacy to disseminate Lola Basyang's stories; and Paul Salas as Herbie's eight-year-old son Efren. | 462 |
273817 | Lingayats consider their scripture to be Basava Purana, which was completed in 1369 during the reign of Vijayanagara ruler Bukka Raya I. Lingayat (Veerashaiva) thinkers rejected the custodial hold of Brahmins over the Vedas and the shastras, but they did not outright reject the Vedic knowledge. The 13th-century Telugu Virashaiva poet Palkuriki Somanatha, the author of the scripture of Lingayatism, for example asserted, "Virashaivism fully conformed to the Vedas and the shastras." | 484 |
34474694 | Giardia lamblia cysts) for a given disinfectant under constant temperature and pH conditions. A portion of such a table is reproduced below.
CT Values for the Inactivation of Giardia Cysts by Free Chlorine at 5 °C and pH ≈ 7.0:
Full tables are much larger than this example and should be obtained from the regulatory agency for a particular jurisdiction. | 354 |
65846712 | Eight years after the abdication of King Thibaw, Yindaw Ma Lay went blind one eye. She remained poorly at her sixties. Although getting her age, she had participated in some local dance troupes. Whenever she sung about the fall of her time of glory to becoming lower status, all the audience felt sad for her.
No one in her generation inherited Yindaw Ma Lay's knowledge of Burmese royal dance, except Ma Htwe Lay, her pupil, who later became a popular dancer. | 460 |
5249344 | Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes gulls, kittiwakes, terns and skimmers. They are typically gray or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have longish bills and webbed feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with gray or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. | 355 |
46379460 | The Widow Douglas adopts Huck, but he finds the restrictions of a civilized home life painful, attempting to escape back to his vagrant life. He reluctantly returns to the widow, persuaded by Tom's offer to form a high-class robber gang.
The novel has elements of humor, satire and social criticism – features that later made Mark Twain one of the most important authors of American literature. Mark Twain describes some autobiographical events in the book. The novel's setting of St. Petersburg is based on Twain's actual boyhood home of Hannibal, near St. | 557 |
339826 | He has a mixed view of racial affirmative action, supporting it in college and graduate schools, but not in hiring for the bureaucracy. Henry supports expanding public healthcare and holding HMOs accountable for poor care; however, he also is in favor of upholding the death penalty and is against gun control. The governor supports tax cuts for the lower and middle classes and believes in keeping the income tax; he also supports using the "War on Drugs" strategy to combat methamphetamine use within his state. | 513 |
55380217 | Writing in 1975, critic Alfred F. Rosa was unimpressed with the novel, citing problems with structure and pacing and describing the ending as "contrived." In 1999, Helen Barolini wrote that although the reviews were positive, the early reviewers, who had described the book as quaint and even pastoral, seemed to have missed the point. The story, Barolini argues, "is tougher than that."
Tomasi received another fellowship in 1948 that allowed her to finish her second novel. | 475 |
31420278 | Air Defense Command, however, sent a flight of F-104 Starfighter interceptor aircraft to the Miami Airport in 1961 as a defensive measure to monitor any Soviet Aircraft which might intrude on United States airspace from Cuba during the 1961 Berlin Crisis. With their return to Seymour Johnson AFB at the end of December 1961, the military use of Miami International Airport came to a close.
21st Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy), 9 September 1939 – 22 April 1941 (B-18, | 471 |
55682435 | In 1991 Russkiy Put Publishing House was founded by YMCA-Press in Moscow, first as a Russian subsidiary, then as an independent company to take over the work of publishing and promoting Russian literary heritage, as if to symbolize the end of the Soviet parenthesis of exile and censorship.
In 1995 the House of Russian Abroad was founded by YMCA-Press and Russkiy Put director Nikita Struve, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Viktor Moskvin to preserve and promote archives from Russian diasporas and emigrations history. It is located in the Tagansky district in Moscow. | 565 |
34911800 | Dinosterol was only observed above the permanent ice pack, suggesting that dinoflagellates are restricted to open waters, which in the Arctic occur near the shallow shelves. Consequently, dinosterol may be a potential indicator of the history of open water conditions.
Hydrogen isotope analysis is used to help reconstruct environmental change. Dinosterol is a particularly good target for such analysis because it is commonly found in high concentrations in a variety of aquatic environments and is well preserved in the sediment record. | 538 |
10676657 | The Codling windfarm, planned for the south Irish Sea, will have a capacity of 1100 MW with 330 turbines, giving a huge boost to wind generated power in Ireland.
The Lithuanian government is planning on mimicking Baltic neighbour Denmark, which generates 20 per cent of its energy with wind turbines. Lithuanian government have plans to build 200 megawatts of renewable energy by 2010 in wind turbines. | 402 |
19559635 | Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
Martin Helwig (1516–1574) a German cartographer, created the first map of Silesia
Sir George Henschel (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer. | 254 |
4349355 | Besides, he also sent his deputies to Kabul, Balkh, Bukhara, and Samarkand.
However, when he and his followers started spreading their movement amongst the Yousafzais, Bayazid came into direct confrontation with the orthodox followers of Pir Baba in Buner. He established a base in the Tirah valley where he rallied other tribes. In Oxford History of India, Vincent Smith describes this as the first "Pashtun renaissance" against Mughal rule. When Mughal Emperor Akbar proclaimed Din-i Ilahi, Bayazid raised the flag of open rebellion. | 535 |
2352997 | After successful experimentation with the sheathing Muntz also took out a patent for bolts of the same composition. These too proved a success as they not only were cheaper but also very strong and lasted longer. A notable use of Muntz metal was in the hull of the Cutty Sark.
Muntz's new metal contained more copper, less zinc, and a bit of iron not present in a similar 56:44 alloy patented by William Collins in 1800. Production began on Water Street, Birmingham, but moved to Swansea in 1837. | 499 |
5875550 | Sir Thomas Foley rose to be full admiral and GCB. He died while serving as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in 1833.
He was married on 31 July 1802 to Lady Lucy Anne FitzGerald. She was the youngest surviving daughter of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster and Lady Emily Lennox. Her mother was the great-granddaughter of Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his mistress Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth. | 434 |
31347075 | He showed Homer Smay, the manager, a list of a possibly obscene magazine titles and asked if he distributed any of them; Smay confirmed that the wholesaler distributed all but one.
Coughlin visited five of the newsstands the wholesaler sold to and bought a copy of one of the listed magazines. He then filed affidavits for the newsstands and the main office of Kansas City News Distributors with a Jackson County circuit court judge, who issued search warrants that merely repeated the definition of obscenity in the Missouri statutes and did not list any specific titles nor specify in detail the types of materials to be seized. | 630 |
67492114 | The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Spring Lane with the end bays slightly projected forwards as towers; the central bay, which also slightly projected forward, featured a curved iron balcony and a tall nine-light window on the first floor, flanked by full-height Doric order columns supporting a modillioned segmental pediment containing a keystone and garlands in the tympanum. The left hand tower featured a segmental pediment containing a clock with a dome above, while the right hand tower featured a segmental pediment containing an oculus with a dome above. | 604 |
299138 | Almost immediately, De regimine was translated into Old French by Henri de Gauchy. It was also translated into seven other European vernaculars, including Italian and Middle English (by John Trevisa, plus Hebrew. It was the most copied "mirror for princes" alongside the Secreta secretorum.
His pedagogical writings have been published in German by Kaufmann (Freiburg, 1904).
His attitude in the difficulties between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV was long believed to have been favourable to the king. | 509 |
41816509 | He subsequently became a leader of the new Wisconsin Progressive Party, which had split from the Republican Party of Wisconsin after decades of factional fighting between Republican progressives and conservatives. He made another bid for a sixth term in 1934, running on the Progressive Party ticket, but lost to Democrat Donald P. Ryan.
Eber remained involved in public affairs after his election losses, and encouraged the public to become more educated about the business of the Legislature. He was also hired to handle legal work for the state branch of the Works Progress Administration. Eber subsequently settled into a law practice in Milwaukee. | 655 |
2176532 | In 1848–49, Beočin was part of Serbian Vojvodina, while from 1849 to 1860 it was part of the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar. After the abolishment of the voivodeship in 1860, Beočin was again incorporated into Syrmia County of the Kingdom of Slavonia. In 1868, Kingdom of Slavonia was joined with the Kingdom of Croatia into the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, which was part of the Kingdom of Hungary and Austria-Hungary. | 434 |
8541070 | Rugby union players from Occitania (administrative region) | 58 |
1826783 | List of parliamentary constituencies in London
Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
Politics of the London Borough of Bexley
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997 | 274 |
1034980 | The was designed for fisheries protection and oilfield patrol duties in the United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone (EEZ). They were a follow-on to the interim which had been ordered in 1975 when the EEZ was extended to 200 miles, and as a result of initial experience with the Islands, was considerably longer in order to improve seakeeping in heavy seas, with the extra length giving greater speed from the same power as the Islands and allowing a large helicopter deck to be fitted. | 488 |
6295303 | The quiet ambiance and the serenity was rarely broken when a train slowly whistled its way to its destination. Sri Nundy, after visiting the school burst into exhilaration and named it The School of Divinity." In 1918 Yogananda moved the fast-growing school to Ranchi, through the generosity of Sir Nundy. | 306 |
36099628 | Savar-e Pain (, also Romanized as Savār-e Pā’īn) is a village in Zavkuh Rural District, Pishkamar District, Kalaleh County, Golestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 493, with 106 families. | 211 |
14910315 | Nargor'ri the Ravager – An inter-dimensional demon whose sole purpose is to end all life for mortals and gods. It has already killed all the Norse gods in Asgard and is moving on to Olympus and Earth.
During the Green Event, Astonishman uses his super-hearing to determine which city needs his help the most. While doing so he overhears survivors of the Green Event gaining and using their powers for the first time. Most of these survivors become selfish and corrupt, looking only for ways to exploit their new-found abilities for any type of monetary gain. | 558 |
19448002 | Team Rafanelli followed this by winning the next ALMS round at Road Atlanta. The rest of the ALMS season was dominated by the BMW and Panoz entries, but consistent finishes for Dyson Racing allowed Elliot Forbes-Robinson to win his second Drivers Championship of 1999.
Outside North America, the Mk III did not have as successful of a season. Target 24, Solution F, and RWS Motorsport all contested the ISRS, now renamed the Sports Racing World Cup, but none of the three were able to win races. | 497 |
59384653 | The C229 route (Myalla Road) runs south from the Bass Highway through the locality and provides access to many other localities. | 128 |
13539678 | He has also worked as an actor, cultural promoter and producer.
He was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1959, but he grew up in the province of Alajuela. Many Costa Rican customs and traditions that can be found throughout his work derive from the experiences acquired during this stage. He was an outstanding student in Escuela República de Guatemala, a public primary school. He received High School education in a private school ran by Spanish priests. | 454 |
208375 | According to research done in 2010 for the PBS series Faces of America by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., of Harvard University, her great-grandfather, Elias Halaby, came to New York circa 1891, one of the earliest Syrian-Lebanese immigrants to the United States. He was a Christian as well as having been a provincial treasurer (magistrate) as stated before by Najeeb Halaby in his autobiography Crosswinds: an Airman's Memoir. He left Ottoman Syria with his two eldest sons. | 477 |
5935150 | Repetition is indicated by placing a set of numbers inside parentheses beneath the repeating set.
Typically there are two numbers listed in the parentheses, representing the fewest and the most number of times the set will repeat. By convention the first letter of the repeating set is the letter chosen to represent the maximum.
While the minimum bound and maximum bound can technically be anything, they are most often either "(1,n)" as in the example, or "(0,n)." | 466 |
10563757 | Mullah, a title for an Islamic cleric
Mulla (surname), including a list of people with the name
Mulla (film), a 2008 Malayalam film
Camp Mulla, a Kenyan hip hop group | 169 |
15858851 | His writings draw upon the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur.
Silverman published more than 25 books and over 100 articles and book chapters, and delivered over 400 invited lectures in North and South America, Europe, Scandinavia, Singapore, Estonia, Australia, Korea, and Taiwan. | 354 |
38866496 | The second version of the song, titled "I Am Missing You (Reprise)", features an arrangement closer to a folk ballad, combining Indian instrumentation such as bansuri and tabla, played by Hariprasad Chaurasia and Alla Rakha, respectively, with acoustic guitars and violins. In Raga Mala, Shankar says of this version: "we attempted to convey the sounds and atmosphere of Vrindavan, the ancient holy place where Krishna grew up." | 428 |
1724671 | Regarding Gilby's dialogue, the full title reads: A pleasaunt Dialogue, betweene a Souldior of Barwicke and an English Chaplaine; wherein are largely handled and laide open, such reasons as are brought in for maintenaunce of Popishe Traditions in our English Church, &c. Togither with a letter of the same Author, placed before this booke in way of a Preface. 1581. (This is the only extant version of this tract, barring a later 1642 edition, but it was probably printed earlier as well.) | 489 |
25768901 | Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander, responded to what he described as an "uproar" from critics, criticized his paper's "glaring lack of transparency" on the partnership and wrote that the piece "was not sufficiently balanced," but nonetheless defended The Fiscal Times partnership, writing that Peterson had told him that his funding of The Fiscal Times had "no strings attached." FAIR also criticized the Post for publishing another Fiscal Times article that FAIR criticized as a "soft profile" of two members of the White House deficit reduction commission. | 567 |
2403135 | The Oud (عود), from which the English word "lute" comes, is shaped like half a pear with a short non-fretted neck. It has six courses of two strings and played with a plectrum, usually a trimmed eagle's feather. This instrument creates a deep and mellow sound.
The mijwiz (مجوز) which means “double” in Arabic is very popular in Levantine music. | 346 |
60187288 | ‘New Zealand has a similar climate, they speak English and they are on the Pacific Rim,' she said.”
Senator Paul Sarbanes criticized President Bush for his unusually high percentage of political appointees to ambassadorships. According to the Los Angeles Times: Bush has announced 42 ambassadorial appointments, of which only 14--one-third of the total--have gone to career diplomats. | 385 |
69995572 | She competed in the promotion's signature events such as the Catch the Wave tournament, making her first appearance at the 2019 edition, placing herself in the "Technical Block" and scoring a total of two points after only going against Sakura Hirota before suffering a legitimate injury which made her ineligible to furtherly compete against Takumi Iroha and Rin Kadokura. | 373 |
39842935 | William Luther Andrews (February 9, 1865 – July 19, 1936) was an American Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate, representing the state's 4th district. | 181 |
57805035 | Community halls were a popular form of memorial and communities would often rally to build a school of arts building as a memorial while some with existing halls frequently added commemorative plaques bearing a roll of honour.
The foundation stone for the memorial hall was laid by Mr. Otway Falkiner, who was presented with an address of welcome and a silver trowel. There was a large assemblage at Urana to witness the laying of the foundation stone of the Urana Soldiers' Memorial Hall. | 489 |
20910437 | Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Coast Mountains where they are forced upward by the range (Orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall. As a result, the Coast Mountains experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. | 423 |
33702495 | Contrary to tradition, the Barbarians side did not feature any uncapped players.
The Welsh Rugby Union announced that this would be a fully capped match. As a result, Martyn Williams became the third Welsh player with 100 caps when he came off the bench. It was also announced that this match would be the last international appearance of Martyn Williams and Wales top try-scorer Shane Williams.
Four players made their full international debuts for Wales: Rhodri Jones, Harry Robinson, Liam Williams and Adam Warren. | 519 |
50106556 | He also stated that he had known Andrew Leon for 25 years and was certain that he would not introduce any person other than William. A week later Atlee Hunt, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Australia, Department of External Affairs, replied that re-admittance was conditional on the dictation test. No evidence can be found that William ever returned to his family in Cairns.
Although many Chinese immigrants returned to China to retire, Leon remained in Cairns. On 27 June 1920 he died at his home in McLeod Street, Cairns, from cancer at age 80. | 548 |
2234527 | Carrera went back to the Quetzaltenango area, while Zavala remained in Suchitepéquez as a tactical maneuver. Carrera received a visit from a Cabinet member of Paredes and told him that he had control of the native population and that he assured Paredes that he will keep them appeased. When the emissary returned to Guatemala City, he told the president everything Carrera said, and added that the native forces were formidable. | 428 |
1200252 | Quotations from such publications contrasted the recent violence in Chicago and Washington, D.C., with "Soviet Russia, a country in which dozens of racial and lingual types have settled their many differences and found a common meeting ground, a country which no longer oppresses colonies, a country from which the lynch rope is banished and in which racial tolerance and peace now exist." The New York Times cited one publication's call for unionization: "Negroes must form cotton workers' unions. Southern white capitalists know that the negroes can bring the white bourbon South to its knees. | 595 |
54135280 | Numerous political figures and religious institutions also condemned the attack and offered their sincere condolences to the victims of the attack. The Vice Secretary of the United Development Party (PPP) Ahmad Baidowi condemned the attack, stating that "there are no religions that teach us to kill each other, especially Islam." The Indonesian Ulema Council followed the condemnation, stating that "violence in the name of any religion is a crime on humanity and can not be accepted or tolerated. No religions teach us to kill anyone." | 537 |
57452088 | He believes that it is the nation's greatest interest to fund research and development for alternative energy and provide adequate funding to the Army Corps of Engineers, who help build and maintain our energy infrastructure. A component of Delaney's economic plan is to develop a national energy policy that encourages domestic energy production with a goal towards becoming an alternative energy leader.
As a congressman Delaney had been a cosponsor of multiple pieces of legislation which encourage further development of alternative energy sectors in the United States.
Delaney has supported instituting a revenue-neutral national carbon tax. | 646 |
3771969 | Depending on the author it may also be applied to:
Areas where the Greek language was the common scholarly and religious language during classical Roman times and the early Middle Ages, including Syria, Egypt, Palestine, etc.
Areas that have historically been in communion with the (formerly Byzantine) Eastern Orthodox Church, which includes Russia and much of Eastern Europe, but largely excludes Egypt, Syria, Armenia, etc. which largely opposed the influence of Constantinople having formed what are now called the Church of the East and Oriental Orthodoxy. The Romanians spoke a Romance language but followed the Byzantine Church. | 637 |
73580862 | the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) "filling the soundtrack with aching violins and sad piano that makes sure there’s absolutely no way you can miss out on the intended emotion of a scene" which was both "grating and obnoxious". He cited several examples, including Giacchino's own score for the film's opening sequence in Up (2009), and said "With no dialogue, the music almost replaces verbal expression as we watch the early life and romance of our aging hero. | 456 |
12770915 | During the 2005–2008 term, the Senate Secretary confronted the particular challenges created by the split within the majority party caucus over whether former governor Pedro Rosselló should topple McClintock and replace him as Senate President, a split which ended in March 2008 after party primaries, and by the fact that there was a partisan split between the governor and the Legislative Assembly. | 400 |
7168680 | In 2007, the Massachusetts Bar Association named Costello its Legislator of the Year.
Within his district, Costello has helped sustain many of the organizations that provide social services in the region, including the Newburyport YWCA, the Pettengill House, the Boys and Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley, the Newburyport Learning Enrichment Center and the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center. He has also worked to preserve the natural environment and historic resources of the 1st Essex District. | 498 |
28335879 | His skill did not go unnoticed, and was soon called up to participate in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin. He earned a total of 22 caps, scoring 4 goals.
After retiring from playing, he became Alianza Lima's coach in two periods (1946–52 and 1954–56), and in-between those periods he went to manage in Colombia. He is the coach with which Alianza Lima has won the most titles (four: 1948, 1952, 1954, and 1955). | 418 |
15013918 | After being reported on by The New York Times, Stovall was featured on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and earned a regular spot on Discovery Channel's The New Tech Times. In 1985, he helped introduce the Nintendo Entertainment System at its North American launch.
In 1990, Stovall retired from video game journalism to attend Southern Methodist University. He later worked as a game designer and producer for Sony, Activision, Electronic Arts, MGM Interactive, and most recently Concrete Software. At Electronic Arts, he produced video games in The Sims franchise. | 573 |
71040590 | Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies alumni | 54 |
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