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63563784 | Fountain Plaza Apartments is a historic apartment building at 830-856 Hinman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. The three-story brick building was built in 1922. Swedish-born architect John A. Nyden, who also designed multiple other apartment buildings in Evanston, designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The building's design includes Palladian doors with fanlights, limestone quoins, and a hip roof with parapets and a cornice. The central courtyard is both raised and nearly surrounded by the building, providing privacy despite the building's proximity to a commercial district. | 592 |
12430963 | Jondum Bau is a salarian Spectre and colleague of Commander Shepard. András Neltz from Kotaku considers the brief interaction with the character in Mass Effect 3 to expose a traitor as unique, as the player gets to experience the Spectres as independent agents who sometimes meet up to assist each other, noting that previous Spectre characters either end up dying or were antagonists to the player character. The character is named after BioWare writer John Dombrow. | 468 |
4539079 | That is, a car cannot accelerate in a direction perpendicular to the direction the wheels are facing. A similar argument can be made for boats, planes and most other vehicles.
M. Saliba, and C.W. de Silva, "An Innovative Robotic Gripper for Grasping and Handling Research," IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, pp. 975–979, 1991. | 334 |
24364878 | Samuel Hinds (23 December 1793 – 7 February 1872), was a British clergyman. He was appointed Bishop of Norwich in 1849 and resigned in 1857. Hinds was of the Broad Church in his views. He had strong links with the Ngati Kuri (Wai262) and Te Patu tribes of New Zealand, noting a paramount Maori chief Rata Ngaromotu of Ngati Kahu and the colonisation of New Zealand and the town of Hinds, New Zealand is named after him. | 419 |
43181060 | Combat and completion of jobs or quests reward the player with experience points with which they can level up their characters and apply beneficial perks to become more suited to the dangerous post-apocalyptic world. General gameplay consists of traveling and interacting with local inhabitants and organizations to complete goals and aid or inhibit the NPCs. The player's actions dictate what future story or gameplay opportunities are available. Mature themes such as alcohol consumption, drug usage and sex are present.
Organized crime, prostitution and slavery are major elements of the setting. Character creation is based on the SPECIAL role-playing system. | 663 |
30062360 | Thomas Ladd at a cost of £18 at which time the font was mounted.
The original globe electric lights were installed in June 1900 (they were dismantled and are currently stored in the north west of the tower) and replaced in the 1990s by sodium industrial lighting which remains to this day, at the same time the heating system was replaced.
Originally it was headed by wood burner in the west tower drafting hot air down the centre of the nave where the cast iron grilling can still be seen. | 490 |
71239152 | The album won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize.
|+ Blue Rev on year-end lists
|The 100 Best Albums of 2022 | 203 |
53641947 | The result opened the way for Emory and other private schools to admit minorities without imperiling their tax-exempt status.
From 1966 to 1972 Emory Law School ran a program called Pre-Start. The program was an affirmative action program that focused on Johnson's integration initiative for the school.
Johnson was focused on educational opportunities for those who were not wealthy or whose family circumstances did not allow for a full-time college attendance. As someone who had worked his way through college during the Great Depression, he earned an early appreciation for flexible, part-time education. | 610 |
15704614 | Later Olson addressed his first “Maximus Poems” as letters to Vincent.
Ferrini's first marriage ended in the 1960s after the death of his daughter. He later married the artist Mary Shore. When his second marriage ended in divorce he moved back to his frame shop at 126 East Main Street. The little shop became a nexus for many artists and writers who came to Gloucester. | 370 |
352509 | Despite Adamski's actions the Upper Silesian Polish Catholic church was also subject of repression – 43 priests were murdered in concentration camps and prisons, 2 died in executions for their collaboration with Polish resistance, 13 were expelled to General Government (including 2 bishops), several were stripped of their function.
Many Catholic Polish priests were arrested and put into concentration camps or prisons or murdered in executions. Historic churches were destroyed, and in several cases Germans defiled icons or religious items symbolic for Polish people. | 571 |
34358104 | She made the final cuts and was assigned to the Rockford Peaches, playing for them two seasons.
In the first game of the new league on May 30, 1943, Peters pitched against the South Bend Blue Sox in what ended up being a 14-inning game won by South Bend 4–3. She finished her rookie season with a 12–19 record and a 3.10 earned run average in 39 games, ranking sixth in complete games (24) and innings pitched (270), seventh in wins, and eighth in ERA. | 452 |
454164 | Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power. According to this view, the upper class is generally distinguished by immense wealth which is passed on from generation to generation. Prior to the 20th century, the emphasis was on aristocracy, which emphasized generations of inherited noble status, not just recent wealth. | 474 |
2026389 | No non-avian dinosaur fossil has even been dated to an age contemporary with humans.
The Ica stones were popularized by Cabrera internationally and became publicized in magazines and newspapers throughout the world. Some pseudoscientific communities enthusiastically accepted the Ica stones as evidence for various ideas. As supposed "out-of-place artifacts", the stones have become staples of pseudoarchaeological literature. The popularization of the stones made Cabrera famous in pseudoscientific circles but also ruined his professional credibility and family life and brought him ridicule in the press and the contempt of scientists. | 640 |
10382824 | Stress is an album by the Jamaican musician Daddy Freddy, released in 1991. It made Billboards Top R&B Albums chart. Daddy Freddy incorporated samples from rock bands like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. "Nuff Respect" is a version of the Otis Redding song. "Ragga House (All Night Long)" samples Stephen Bishop's "On and On". | 331 |
36224411 | Das kulturelle Gedächtnis: Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen. Munich 1992. ASIN B001C84TR4
trans.: Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination. | 223 |
17839396 | Thus, in 1860 Møller founded a rivalling marine insurance company Det Norske Lloyd. His son Jacob was employed as treasurer, and took over as manager when Hans Eleonardus Møller died in 1867. When Jacob died in 1872 his other son Hans took over. In 1872 a ship H.E. Møller was built, named in commemoration of Hans Eleonardus Møller, but the ship disappeared in 1874 en route from Le Havre to Quebec. | 400 |
7455952 | In 1985 Argentino won its first fourth division title, promoting to Primera C. | 78 |
163036 | The critic David Benedictus wrote of Richardson's performance, "he is choleric and gouty certainly, the script demands that he shall be, but his most engaging quality, his love for his son in spite of himself, shines through every line." In 1967 he again played Shylock; this was the last time he acted in a Shakespeare play on stage. His performance won critical praise, but the rest of the cast were less well received.
Interspersed with his stage plays, Richardson made thirteen cinema films during the decade. | 513 |
23566599 | LAL is a Toronto-based collective of musicians representing Uganda, Bangladesh, Barbados, and India featuring vocalist Rosina Kazi, laptop musician Nicholas "Murr" Murray, and bassist Ian de Sousa. The group's sound fuses South-Asian roots, West Indian fruits, and melancholic vocals with jazz and hip hop influences, down tempo grooves, broken soul, and electro. Their song lyrics are socially conscious poetry. | 412 |
1545161 | Soon the opposition parties congregated into an underground movement known as the Committee for the Independence of Georgia or the "Damkom" (short for damoukideblobis komiteti, Committee for Independence). Sponsored by the government of Georgia-in-exile, the Damkom began preparations for a general uprising in Georgia. The organization set up a "Military Center" and appointed General Spiridon Chavchavadze the commander-in-chief of all rebel forces. | 451 |
25293332 | She is happy to be leaving the commotion and chaos created by the donations.
This short story describes two men who were recently released from prison in Cape Verde. Unlike the other short stories in this collection, this is the only story that is focused on men and does not mention the Cape Verdean emigration. Damata and his wife Bia talk about Candinho and Muntel, two men who were released from prison. Damata wants to see Candinho again, and on the way to his house, he sees another man Nhô Lelona driving an old car. | 523 |
19710085 | NPPL is the UK National Private Pilot Licence.
National Professional Paintball League, a former Speedball (paintball) league
NPPL Championship Paintball 2009, a video game | 173 |
51419326 | He tells the lovers that he fathered illegitimate children before and after marrying his first wife, Empress Augusta Victoria. Saying he will not be a hypocrite, the Kaiser tells them to be more discreet.
During a house search before Himmler's arrival, Brandt himself searches Mieke's room to protect her cover. Brandt learns that the tortured pastor will soon reveal Mieke's identity and he urges her to flee. She refuses.
Himmler extends to Wilhelm an invitation from Adolf Hitler to return to his former throne in Berlin. | 524 |
37072016 | The history of rail transport in the Central African Republic is limited to a now closed short railway line, and two proposed railway projects that were not implemented.
The only railway line ever to be built on the territory of the present-day Central African Republic ran from Zinga, Lobaye to Mongo. It was just long, and was in operation from 1930 until about 1960, when it was destroyed in the turmoil of the struggle for independence. | 442 |
74323007 | The 2023–24 season is FC Zenit Saint Petersburg's 99th season in existence and 28th consecutive in the Russian Premier League. They will also compete in the Russian Cup and the Russian Super Cup.
| William Artur de Oliveira Igor Simutenkov Anatoliy | 253 |
44287221 | Bugga med the Streaplers is a studio album by the Streaplers, released on 18 October 2006. | 90 |
59248249 | National Route 82 is a national highway in South Korea connects Pyeongtaek to Hwaseong. It established on 1 July 1996. | 118 |
72855768 | Miyawaki made his professional wrestling debut in Pro Wrestling Noah on the third night of the NOAH Winter Navigation from December 11, 2016, where he competed in a battle royal won by Quiet Storm and also involving Go Shiozaki, Hayata, Akitoshi Saito, Maybach Taniguchi, Mohammed Yone, Ricky Fuji and Rionne Fujiwara.
Miyawaki competed in various of the promotion's signature events. | 385 |
17928845 | WLCX (1490 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a progressive talk format. Licensed to La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, the station serves the La Crosse area. The station is currently owned by Civic Media, through licensee Civic Media, Inc. WLCX broadcasts from studios on Fourth Street in Downtown La Crosse.
On June 20, 1947, WLCX began broadcasting on 1490 kHz with 250 watts of power. On July 1, 1947, it became an ABC affiliate. | 441 |
263970 | This central core is surrounded by multiple generations of lava flows, many of which are brecciated, and a wide range of pyroclastic rocks and reworked volcanic debris. The typical stratocone is an andesitic to dacitic volcano that is associated with subduction zones. They are also known as either stratified volcano, composite cone, bedded volcano, cone of mixed type or Vesuvian-type volcano. | 395 |
23340267 | It was a role he found to be challenging, but one that gave him a chance to prove the range of his acting ability. When asked about the controversial scene, Sanders responded, "That's just one part of the film. Tragedies like that happen every day in real life, and I think that if this film opens a few more eyes, then it is definitely worth it. Movies can have that power."
In January 2007, he moved to Los Angeles where there would be more opportunities to pursue acting full-time. | 484 |
52389444 | Walter Mack (born 4 January 1953) is a German former swimmer. He competed in the men's 200 metre butterfly at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics | 172 |
22089460 | Evergestis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. A number of species are pests, including the cross-striped cabbageworm (E. rimosalis), a pest of cole crops such as cabbage.
Evergestis aenealis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) | 265 |
9824651 | Folk music in Bengal is often accompanied by the ektara, a one-stringed instrument. Other instruments include the dotara, dhol, bamboo flute, and tabla. Songs written by Rabindranath Tagore (Rabindra Sangeet) and Kazi Nazrul Islam (Nazrul geeti) are highly popular. Bangladesh is the center of Bangla rock, as well as indie, Sufi rock and fusion folk music.
Bengali theater traces its roots to Sanskrit drama under the Gupta Empire in the 4th century CE. | 454 |
3335637 | The bancor was a supranational currency that John Maynard Keynes and E. F. Schumacher conceptualised in the years 1940–1942 and which the United Kingdom proposed to introduce after World War II. The name was inspired by the French banque or ('bank gold'). This newly created supranational currency would then be used in international trade as a unit of account within a multilateral clearing system—the International Clearing Union—which would also need to be founded. | 468 |
40313234 | The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in the Tadic case, stated "there undisputedly emerged a general consensus in the international community on the principle that the use of [chemical] weapons is also prohibited in internal armed conflicts.
However, Ian Hurd, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University, stated:
But the problem is that, legally, the Gas Protocol regulates only wars between states, not civil wars. It does not govern how a government behaves inside its own territory.
In other words, under its current obligations Syria is forbidden from using gas against its neighbours but not against its own people. | 672 |
108419 | The Sonic Bloom Music Festival takes place every June in Georgetown. It moved to Georgetown in 2011 and features premier electronic artists.
On February 19, 2020, Parker the Show Dog was sworn in as honorary mayor of Georgetown. Local Colorado celebrity Parker the Snow Dog, received worldwide attention for becoming the new honorary mayor of Georgetown. Parker is the official mascot of Loveland Ski Area, an avid Broncos fan and philanthropist and Camp Therapy Dog for Rocky Mountain Easter Seals. | 499 |
7963694 | He may have come from a family of mullahs, a profession generally passed on from father to son and requires undergoing theological training at a madrasa. Abdullah moved to Broken Hill around 1899 and found work as a camel driver. He asserted himself as the spiritual leader of the town's small Muslim community and became the imam of the local mosque. His responsibilities included leading daily prayers and slaughtering animals al-Halāl. | 438 |
10469460 | Indeed, although the concept of the Russian soul grew upon Western ideas, its advocates believed that Russia had made those ideas its own and would use them to save Europe from itself. The term Russian soul is also to be found in Russian folk culture.
The Russian soul evolved and entered into Western consciousness in the following decades, most famously through the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky. | 394 |
22199521 | The same recurrence relation is applied at each lattice point, although the parameter r is slightly increased with each time step. The result is a raw form of chaotic behavior in a map lattice. However, there are no significant spatial correlations or pertinent fronts to the chaotic behavior. No obvious order is apparent.
For a basic coupling, we consider a 'single neighbor' coupling where the value at any given site is computed from the recursive maps both on itself and on the neighboring site . The coupling parameter is equally weighted. | 548 |
35912418 | Maximilian Leon Dubrawski (; born July 1, 1949) is the Roman Catholic bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi.
Dubrawski was born near Zhytomyr, present day Ukraine. In 1978 he entered the seminary in Riga. On August 31, 1982, he joined the Franciscan Order (then province Bernardine). He was ordained on May 29, 1983 in Riga, Latvia from Cardinal Julijans Vaivods. On August 21, 1986 made his final vows. | 395 |
2998481 | The KNX-FM calls previously existed on sister station KCBS-FM on 93.1 (Now a Jack FM station) from 1948 to 1983 and again from 1986 to 1989. during this time, KNX began simulcasting on KRTH HD2.
As of June 2007, CBS Radio has all but completely dropped the title of "Free FM" as a format and has instead replaced it with the more generic "FM Talk." New domain names without the "Free FM" are now in use for several of the "Free FM" stations. | 441 |
4083209 | Cannonball Creek Brewing Company – Golden
Dry Dock Brewing Co. – Aurora
Elk Mountain Brewing Company – Parker
Fort Collins Brewery – Fort Collins | 147 |
12163240 | Even Heg established a transit center of sorts for immigrants. The Heg barn was erected at Muskego during 1843. This barn, the first home in America for many Norwegian immigrant, became a social and religious center in the frontier area. His spacious barn played a prominent part in the early history of the settlement, both as an assembly place and as a social and religious center for the Muskego community of Norwegian immigrants.
Claus Lauritz Clausen arrived during 1843, becoming the pastor in the Muskego settlement. | 523 |
70757853 | In South Park, Stan Marsh and Tolkien Black are concerned about the former's father, Randy, who is derisively referred to as "Karen". Randy and Steve Black's arguing is interrupted by a Denver water commissioner examining the water supplies at their respective farms. Meanwhile, Eric Cartman is despondent over residing in the abandoned hot dog stand. He is intrigued when he notices construction on a house across the street for golf course owner Talnua Cussler. Cartman suggests to his mother, Liane, that she get breast implants to attract Cussler. | 551 |
64452501 | Wong founded the Phoenix Spring Ensemble in 1977 to integrate European classical music, American jazz improvisation, and extended instrumental techniques with traditional Chinese music.
Wong composed film scores for the Academy Award-winning movie producers Allie Light and Irving Saraf. In 1988, she received the Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement for Original Music Theater for her work with the American Conservatory Theater's production of Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions. She has directed the Pursuit of Excellence Concert Series since 1990. Wong is also a board member of the Junior Bach Society. | 630 |
19747927 | During the War of Polish Succession the Duchy was occupied by the French for four years, between 1734 and 1738.
When Giuseppe Gonzaga died in 1746, Italy was again a theater of war in the War of Austrian Succession, and the Duchy was annexed by Austria.
Two years later, in the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle, Guastalla was ceded to the Spanish, together with the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, with which it was merged. | 413 |
535245 | On mission day 213 and 216 a total of 20 grams of fuel were spent and a delta-v of 2.5 mm per second were added unexpectedly.
15 September 2005 — Telemetry received showed that a solar flare had hit the spacecraft around September 8 or 9. The star tracker subsystem was left in an abnormal state and needed to be fixed.
12 March 2006 — The OSIRIS instrument was trained on the future flyby target asteroid Steins for science observation, and the data was downlinked to Earth over three days just before solar conjunction. | 521 |
32909976 | Archer was forced to resign, replaced by Sir John Maffey.
After leaving the Sudan, Archer spent most of the next fifteen years organizing the salt industry in Kutch, India.
Archer settled in the south of France when he retired, dying at Cannes on 1 May 1964.
Archer made significant contributions to the study of birds and their breeding and migration habits in British East Africa, while considering a professional career as a big-game hunter. | 444 |
53208192 | He attended Glasgow High school then Glasgow University before joining the family business of Hurlet & Campsie Alum Company, in their offices at 77 Union Street in Glasgow. The firm made various raw chemical products, including potash and alum.
He played a very active part in the life of Glasgow joining the Town Council in 1874 and being variously Dean of Guild, Chairman of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Dean of Faculties at the University of Glasgow, and Chairman of the Clyde Navigation Trust. He was also Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace for Lanarkshire. | 575 |
7796670 | By March this had turned into a four-horse race between Portsmouth, Brighton, Charlton and Cardiff City but by the end of the season, the title was between Portsmouth and Brighton. With just two games left of the season, Portsmouth needed four points to secure the title though Pompey won them both, sealing the Women's Premier League Southern Division title with a victory at home in front of a large crowd. This marked Portsmouth's second league title in four seasons. However, they lost the promotion play off against the Northern League Winners, Sheffield F.C. | 564 |
557837 | After stopping at Pearl Harbor and Yokosuka, where a new radar antenna was installed, the ship arrived at U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay on 12 June. Picking up her helicopter detachment the cruiser departed the next day for duty with Task Force 77 on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf.
From 15 June to 13 July, Chicago, call-sign Red Crown, began evaluating the concept of radar surveillance of all U.S. Navy air operations over designated areas of the Gulf and North Vietnam. | 472 |
40312355 | This original structure was maintained until 1735, when a new building, concluded in ten years, was erected by architect Juan Bautista Sacchetti in cooperation with Ventura Rodríguez. At that time its name was changed from Corral del Príncipe to Teatro del Príncipe. Later, the site became a theatre of work which was one of the largest in the country. In 1849, it was transformed into the current Teatro Español, the only theatre in Madrid really similar to an ancient open-air theatre. | 487 |
11593439 | Non-profit organizations based in Alexandria, Virginia | 54 |
7058782 | 1995) Interfilm-Prize (Max Ophüls Prize Saarbrücken) Opening film of the Salzburg Festival 1995 (Festival hall)
1996: Hans Hollein – Everything is Architecture TV-documentary on Austrian architect Hans Hollein
1997: Alma – The Widow of the 4 Arts (The life of Alma Mahler-Werfel)
2004: Where Blade Runner meets Batman – Downtown Los Angeles
2004: Die Seele brennt heut wieder sehr''' – Porträt Hilde Sochor (80) | 415 |
63471854 | Northlands Gill; a narrow stream stretching the entire width of both Graylands and Old Holbrook.
Old Holbrook is a rural area, and therefore is largely agrarian. This is reflected in the more forested north and central parts of the hamlet, where crops are grown and animal husbandry is practised.
The southern half of the hamlet is less forested with a lower elevation, making it more suitable for more contemporary commercial businesses. This area hosts a swimming school, a nursery school and an animal rescue shelter. | 520 |
22403790 | Producer - Don Law, Frank Jones, Larry Butler, Charlie Bragg, Jack Routh | 72 |
38846324 | Furthermore, oxymatrine has been shown to decrease cardiac ischemia (decreased blood perfusion), myocardial injury, arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats), and improve heart failure by increasing cardiac function.
Recent research has shown that oxymatrine prevents cardiac fibrosis in rats. The development of fibrotic tissue in the heart occurs when fibroblasts produce excessive amounts of collagen (particularly types I and III), which accumulate and deposit in the heart. The excessive transformation to fibrotic tissue negatively affects the function and structure of the heart. | 579 |
67195887 | follows the misadventures of Cuphead and Mugman, a pair of anthropomorphic cup brothers who live with their elderly grandfather and caretaker, Elder Kettle, in a teapot-shaped cottage. The brothers' stories often center around them trying to find their way out of various issues, occasionally meeting and interacting with characters from its video game source material. | 369 |
28207591 | 14 Melodies (Live at Le Petit Faucheux France) (album CD/DVD) 2015
Le chant des coeurs () 2009
Le concept en poèmes ( ) 2010 | 126 |
6011372 | In 1942, Narla Venkateswara Rao was promoted from news-editor to editor of the paper. He held this position for seventeen years, a period of time that is considered epochal in Telugu journalism. He was responsible for many revolutionary changes in headline and caption writing, in the framing of action photos, in news display and in page make-up. It was during Narla's editorship that the paper was closed down for a brief period during the Quit India Movement. | 462 |
23635330 | As Grey’s spokesman, Haldane informed Lichnowski that if we attack France, England will come to France’s aid, for England cannot tolerate a disturbance in the European balance of power. H.M. welcomed this message as providing the desired clarification for all those who have been lulled into a false sense of security by the recently friendly English press.
'Austria must deal firmly with the Slavs living outside its borders (the Serbs) if it does not want to lose control over the Slavs under the Austrian monarchy. | 517 |
5706880 | Atul Club offers several sport facilities such as badminton, billiards, swimming, table tennis and also has a gymnasium for fitness enthusiasts.
Ulhas Cricket Ground is biggest cricket ground of Atul village. Utkarsh, Ulhas organization organises cricket tournament, culture programs, food festival, annual fun fair at Ulhas Cricket Ground for joy and encouraging local people in sports. Atul Premier League(APL) was also organized at this place by Atul Yuva Group and Atul Co. Op. Housing Society. | 498 |
11790668 | Demirbag-Sten has a background in journalism and has been a frequent contributor in Swedish newspapers such as Expressen, Östgöta Correspondenten, Göteborgs-Posten, Dagens Nyheter, Fokus and Axess. She has worked at the National Swedish Touring Theatre, Amnesty International and as a special adviser to the former Swedish Minister for Integration Leif Blomberg. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and history from Stockholm University. | 458 |
36518277 | The Living Room is a Primary Health Service located in Hosier Lane that provides free healthcare and support to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness or with complex healthcare needs. The Living Room is the only service of its kind in the CBD of Melbourne where people can receive medical attention, contraception, legal advice, as well as wash their clothes, shower and access the internet and send and receive mail.
Foot Patrol is a confidential mobile, street based, syringe exchange program that operates in the Melbourne CBD 365 days a year. | 559 |
8269845 | Nixon's second wife's name was Kim; they had one child - Autumn.
After leaving the national country music scene, Nixon entered the real estate business in the St. Louis area, but continued to perform locally. He owned and performed at several country bars and restaurants in the St. Louis area, including Choo Choo's Cafe in Foristell, Missouri.
Nixon died of pulmonary lung disease in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 30, 2013, at age 74. He is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in O'Fallon, Missouri. | 495 |
33820143 | The 2011 Wainwright Roaming Buffalo Classic was held from November 18 to 21 at the Wainwright Curling Club in Wainwright, Alberta as part of the 2011–12 World Curling Tour. The purse for the event was CAD$50,000, and the winner of the event, Brent Pierce, received CAD$12,000. The event was held in a triple-knockout format. | 324 |
74784313 | Jambo Means Hello won the 1974 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book, and was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 1975.
The couple divorced in 1974. Feelings died on September 29, 2011, in Philadelphia. | 203 |
588741 | Dudgeon stated, "If we had had the chance of a third take it would have been brilliant". The performance was broadcast on 9 October and repeated on 16 October; it helped "Space Oddity" peak at number five by early November. The Top of the Pops performance was followed by performances on Germany's 4-3-2-1 Musik Für Junge Leute on 22 October (broadcast on 22 November) and on Switzerland's Hits A-Go-Go on 3 November. | 417 |
33486892 | The Medical University of Plovdiv has four faculties, one department and one Medical College:
Training in the Faculty of Medicine lasts six years, and preclinical as well as clinical disciplines are involved, together with a one-year clinical rotation.
The Faculty of Dental Medicine provides Masters of Science in Dental medicine and offers specialization of doctors of dental medicine.
Students in the Faculty of Pharmacy obtain the degree of Master of Science, while taking advantage during their studies of laboratories for practical training. | 550 |
11725977 | The awards are presented annually by the Australian Recording Industry Association.
Powderfinger has won multiple APRA Awards from the Australasian Performing Right Association, including "Songwriter of the Year" in 2004. The band has also won "Song of the Year" twice, in 2000 and 2001.
The Helpmann Awards is an awards show, celebrating live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Performance Australia since 2001. Note: 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | 523 |
217821 | She and Young split in 1974, and his song "Already One" bookends their relationship. Later she and musician and film score composer Jack Nitzsche became lovers. Nitzsche had previously worked with Young on several albums. In 1979, Nitzsche was charged with threatening to kill her after he barged into her home and beat her with a handgun. He pled guilty to threatening her, was fined, and placed on three years' probation.
Her off-Broadway debut came as a replacement in 1981 with A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking. | 527 |
64805705 | Sidwell (2015:114) lists the following Proto-Palaungic forms that are also shared with Khmuic but not with other Austroasiatic branches, and is unsure of whether they diffused from Palaungic to Khmuic or vice versa. | 215 |
66070 | Under torture Crichton discovers that the Ancients placed specialized knowledge of wormholes in his subconscious mind – knowledge that Scorpius is particularly eager to access. The other Moya crew launch a rescue attempt.
Meanwhile, Moya gives birth to her baby, discovering that the child – named Talyn – is a volatile hybrid warship designed by the Peacekeepers instead of the usual peaceful Leviathan. Upon Crais's arrival, Scorpius takes over his command. Crais defects to Moya to save himself, accepting along the way that Crichton had not meant to kill his brother. | 571 |
2917125 | The Georgian buildings on the south facing platforms were demolished in the early 1960s and a small open waiting shelter built in their place. | 142 |
332657 | "Certainly, (talking with Clouston) behind the scenes would be a lot more effective, and trying to work through it."
Tom Molloy, a close friend of the Heatley family, stoked the fires in Ottawa with a letter published in the Ottawa Citizen criticizing the widespread negative reaction to the trade request. "(Heatley's) mother is very upset. And the attacks are all personal stuff, about his character", Molloy lamented, adding that "Nobody mentions that this is a guy who gives up a month of his summer every year to play for Team Canada." | 540 |
63883409 | For creative production, reviewers noted the screen suffered from poor overall accuracy, contrast, and color range (at less than 70% coverage of the DCI-P3 standard) compared to other direct competitors, such as the Apple MacBook Pro and Dell XPS lineup, both of which come with factory-calibrated displays and significantly better visual reproduction than the Surface Book 3. For gaming and entertainment consumption, the Surface Book 3's thick screen bezels, slow response time, and the lack of higher refresh-rate display panels negatively impacted the product proposition in this area. | 589 |
1924623 | The resulting mix was darker in tone than the original. Ulf composed "more than twenty songs", but only one was used on the released album. Linn wrote and produced a demo titled "Lapponia", which was originally submitted for The Bridge, but the track was rejected.
Arista generally chose songs written by Jonas for the album, although not all of these songs were considered album-worthy in their original versions. Jenny was asked to record new vocals for a reproduced version of "Donnie", and Linn's vocals were cut altogether. | 528 |
57767424 | Shafeen has also assisted the government to handle Rohingya issues along the border.
Shafeenul Islam was praised by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, for his efforts to diversify tea products including using tea to make pickles and cosmetic products.
Shafeenul is married to Shoma Islam. The couple have only a daughter. Shafeen's father, Colonel Md Nurul Islam, an Army Medical Corps officer also served in the Bangladesh Army for 33 years before retiring in 1994. | 480 |
62355790 | Lord Greville died on 14 May 1952 and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest legitimate son, Ronald. Upon Ronald's death in 1987, the barony of Greville became extinct, although his second son Peter Charles Algernon Ascroft Greville may come to inherit the Title.
Lord Greville, 3rd Baron Greville, Charles Beresford Fulke Greville had two sons. | 348 |
34635355 | Lavoie assumed command of 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, on 24 June 2005. Shortly after his appointment, Lavoie commenced specialized training for OP ATHENA and deployed to Afghanistan in August 2006.
Lavoie's operational experience includes employment as a rifle platoon commander during the OKA Crisis, as a company second-in-command in Croatia and Bosnia in 1992/1993, and as a battle group operations officer in Kosovo in 1999/2000. He was commanding officer of the 1 RCR Battle Group in Afghanistan in 2006/2007. | 530 |
1430758 | FANUC ( or ; often styled Fanuc) is a Japanese group of companies that provide automation products and services such as robotics and computer numerical control wireless systems. These companies are principally of Japan, Fanuc America Corporation of Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA, and FANUC Europe Corporation S.A. of Luxembourg.
FANUC is one of the largest makers of industrial robots in the world. FANUC had its beginnings as part of Fujitsu developing early numerical control (NC) and servo systems. FANUC is acronym for Fuji Automatic NUmerical Control. | 558 |
60690604 | Contrary to its European neighbours, England did not have a tradition of professional police forces. Crime prevention was carried out by a combination of the town watch and the parish constabulary appointed by the justices of the peace in each county. In Great Britain during the late 1790s, anti-police views were based on the possible encroachment of absolutism through professionalised law enforcement, the obstruction of the magistrates' power and skepticism towards trusting an unfamiliar organisation. | 507 |
46612239 | The men's 4 × 100 metres relay sprint competition of the athletics events at the 2015 Pan American Games took place on July 24 and 25, 2015 at CIBC Pan Am and Parapan Am Athletics Stadium. The United States team, consisting of Sean McLean, Wallace Spearmon, Kendal Williams, and Remontay McClain were awarded the gold medal following the disqualification of Team Canada. | 370 |
4158045 | Jason Buchanan from AllMovie praised the film, calling it "one of the most underappreciated low-budget horror films of the 1970's". In his review on the film, Buchanan commended the film's atmosphere, score, Conners' performance, and unsettling use of sound and imagery, comparing it to Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. TV Guide awarded the film two out of four stars, calling it a "bizarre, eerie shocker".
The film was released on VHS and DVD by Cult Video on July 20, 1998. | 487 |
1530536 | #14: Alejandro Escovedo (March–April), #15: Ralph Stanley (May–June), #16: Lucinda Williams (July–Aug), #17: Emmylou Harris (Sept–Oct), #18: Golden Smog (Nov–Dec)
1999: #19: Don Williams (Jan–Feb), #20: Steve Earle & Del McCoury (March–April), #21: Old 97's (May–June), #22: Gram Parsons (July–Aug), | 309 |
24839344 | However, in the mid-1990s the low quality of most domestically produced consumer goods continued to limit enterprises' profits and therefore their ability to modernize production operations. On the other side of the "vicious circle," reliance on an outmoded production system guaranteed that product quality would remain low and uncompetitive.
Most prices were left to the market, although local and regional governments control the prices of some staples. Energy prices remain controlled, but the Government has been shifting these prices upward to close the gap with world market prices. | 589 |
9270882 | AllGames Shawn Sackenheim found its gameplay to be simple but unique and challenging, and praised the character animations for being "cute and entertaining", as well as the extra game modes and replay value. However, Sackenheim criticized both visuals and music for being repetitive.
Retrospective reviews for Chew Man Fu have been equally positive. Reviewing the Virtual Console re-release, IGNs Lucas M. Thomas compared its gameplay with both Adventures of Lolo and Mole Mania, but remarked that said gameplay could prove simplistic to most players. | 551 |
25732549 | The company's acquisition of BinOptics in 2014, allows them to use self-aligning etched facet technology to ensure an efficient manufacturing and testing process. Much of MACOM's current sub-microwave RF product line are generic substitutes for the Motorola SPS MRF series Beryllium Oxide devices produced in the mid-1990s, rebranded with revised device datasheets.
MACOM creates semiconductors for a variety of industries: while the company does provide some semiconductors for consumer electronics, its products are primarily used in commercial and industrial applications. | 576 |
67696148 | Alberto Gallo (born 1983) is Chief Investment Officer and Founder at Andromeda Capital Management.
In 1997, joined Scuola Navale Militare "F. Morosini" in Venice, where he become chief cadet of his class.
He graduated in Economics from Bocconi University cum laude at 21, two years ahead of the norm.
Gallo joined Merrill Lynch in 2004, in London, moving to Bear Stearns in 2007 to run global credit derivatives strategy. | 421 |
71661742 | On arrival at Jeju, shortly after 11:00 local time, the weather was poor, with driving rain and winds of up to brought about by Typhoon Doug. The crew aborted their first approach. On their second attempt, the flaps were selected at a reduced setting (CONF3) due to the risk of windshear, which meant that the approach speed was higher than usual.
The aircraft touched down more than halfway down the runway, and was unable to stop within the remaining distance. | 463 |
2242860 | The Beatles recorded "This Boy" on 17 October 1963, the same day they recorded "I Want To Hold Your Hand", the group's first fan club Christmas single, and a version of "You Really Got a Hold on Me".
They recorded fifteen takes of "This Boy" followed by two overdubs. The song was recorded with a rounded ending, although it was faded out during a mixing session on 21 October. Two takes were joined to make the final master, with the edit between the middle eight and final verse (1:28).
Alternative recordings have also been officially released. | 547 |
54555900 | For the next two years she carried troops between Britain, Gibraltar, Port Said in Egypt and Taranto in Italy, and in 1945 she made one visit to Bombay. In 1946 she repatriated Italian prisoners of war from Liverpool to Naples and UK military personnel from the Far East to Britain. She operated between Liverpool, Bombay and Singapore.
In 1947 the UK Government released the ship for return to civilian service. Furness, Withy had her overhauled and refitted and her third funnel was reinstated. | 496 |
18413515 | The solvolysis of several cyclopentyl and steroidal esters show that large solvolysis rates and differences between epimers can occur which surpass those of the 2-norbornyl system. In these cases a vicinal C–C or C–H bond can lead to significant delocalization of the positive charge, if these bonds are close to antiperiplanar to the leaving group, and the migration leads to a more stable tertiary carbocation. The reaction products in these cases always result from the migration of the neighbouring bond. | 510 |
9777301 | In February 2023 Auto Express launched the Real-World Road Test; a test that sees groups of two or three new cars subjected to a rigorous assessment processes focused on car buyers’ needs. The test considers the merits of each car, not only the way that it drives, but also every aspect important to owners, from the space inside to the usability of infotainment systems. Equally importantly, it gives a clear indication of how much car buyers can expect to pay to buy and run the car. | 485 |
72635333 | In such cases, more advanced methods based on the rigorous modal analysis of partially-filled waveguides or optimization methods can be used. A modification of the method for single-port measurements was also reported.
In addition to homogenous materials, the extension of the method was developed to obtain constitutive parameters of isotropic and bianisotropic metamaterials.
Electric and magnetic fields in matter | 416 |
23270459 | Chris [Nolan] really likes people to see his movies in a theater and not see it all beforehand so everything that you do to market that—at least early on—is with an eye to feeding the interest to fans."
A viral marketing campaign was employed for the film. After the revelation of the first teaser trailer, in August 2009, the film's official website featured only an animation of Cobb's spinning top. In December, the top toppled over and the website opened the online game Mind Crime, which upon completion revealed Inceptions poster. | 536 |
9202179 | It is claimed that 12% of the group's profits went to fund Hezbollah, although no dollar figure was specified. A separate report claimed that the joint operations between the United States and Colombia resulted in the arrest of nearly 130 individuals suspected of being members of a cell formed from an alliance among a famous Colombian drug syndicate known as "North Valley", an armed leftist militant organisation composed by former and current members of FARC, and a group of smugglers of Lebanese origin. | 508 |
35572412 | Since the time of J. J. Wettstein the minuscules manuscripts have been indicated by Arabic numerals, but the numbers in each of the four groups of the books of the New Testament began with 1, and thus "1" might indicate a book in any of the manuscripts (f.e. 1eap, 1r, 2e, 2ap). Different parts of the same manuscript had different numbers (f.e. 18evv, 113Acts, 132Paul, and 51Apoc belonged to the same manuscript). | 415 |
149950 | Beneath it was panelled pedestal inscribed "He was a Man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again". The sculpture remained in Pall Mall until the building was demolished in 1868 or 1869, when it was moved to New Place.
One of his most bizarre works is the 1801 Anatomical Crucifixion, a dissected body nailed to a cross, in the Hunterian Museum in London. | 377 |
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