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4632780 | In August 1814, a force of 2,500 soldiers under General Robert Ross freed from the Peninsular War arrived in Bermuda aboard , three frigates, three sloops and ten other vessels, intended to be used for diversionary raids along the coasts of Maryland and Virginia. | 263 |
58211348 | The Twentieth Century architectural historian and critic Jennifer Taylor describes the church as combining "in a quite magical manner" the "clear forms and high natural lighting" characteristic of the Sydney School with "a Greek sense of the three dimensional form and sequential progression." The setting and the sequential "reveal" procession towards the building is a significant aspect of the design and siting of the church.
The church which crowns a rocky hill top with its soaring white walls has State significant landmark qualities. The high visual prominence of the church has been somewhat obscured in recent years by vegetation. | 640 |
72243420 | Negative reviews of Secret Police focused on the poor execution of the gameplay. Craig Harris of IGN dismissed the game as "flat-out dull", stating the "driving portion is rather boring", critiquing that "the camera shifts over to the side in a tight curve so that you can't see what's two pixels in front of (you)...it's a dirty trick to make the game harder to play." Game Boy Xtreme considered the game to be an "average conversion" of the source material, with "weak visuals". | 480 |
570193 | Jacob Frank "Jay" Coonley (1832–1915) New York Ambrotypist, Coonley was originally a landscape painter who early on learned the trade from George N. Barnard. He managed Edward Anthony's stereoscopic print shop until 1862, taking assignments in Pennsylvania, New York and Washington, D.C. When war erupted, Coonley remained in Washington, photographing generals soldiers, statesman and the like. In 1862 he briefly moved to Philadelphia to open the portrait gallery partnership of Coonley & Wolfsberger. | 502 |
11270304 | An account of the hunting species, very grave by modern standards, quotes their exploits at: four lions (including the two man-eaters of Del-Marodile), five elephants, fifteen crocodiles, around a dozen rhinos, one giraffe (a new subpecie), two panthers, seven hyaenas, fifteen zebras, three wild asses (onagers), two greater kudu, eleven lesser kudus, eight hartebeest, twenty five oryx antelopes (gemsbok), eight warthogs, around one hundred different gazelles plus foxes, jackals, monkeys. | 493 |
29295147 | The children of his first marriage were John Walter de Longueville Giffard, Reverend Francis Osbern Giffard, Hardinge Stanley Giffard the 1st Earl of Halsbury, Sara Lees Giffard, and Susanna Giffard. From his second marriage he had Henry Stanley Giffard, Richard Plantagenet Giffard, Katharine Lippencott Giffard, and Mary Lees Fane Giffard. | 341 |
44788382 | UM practises an unproven technique on women called "Deeper Femaleness" claiming it is "great for rape recovery". It involves the "hands-on esoteric healing" of a woman's abdomen and pubic area and manipulation of the woman's pubic bone. UM publications show the therapy is performed by men.
The treatments have been characterised as "sleazy" with one ex-patient comparing her experience to being subjected to a "grooming exercise". UM has responded by taking the ex-patient to the Supreme Court of NSW alleging defamation. | 522 |
10628994 | The scene where Annaamalai beats up Sargunam in a one-sided fight was filmed at Hotel Ambassador Pallava. Filming was completed in 45 working days.
Annaamalai was edited by the duo Ganesh Kumar. It was the first film to feature the introductory "Super Star" graphic title card, where the words 'SUPER' and 'STAR' form in blue dots on the screen followed by R-A-J-N-I in gold, set to the sound of laser beams while the word "Hey!" plays in loop in the background. | 462 |
39852097 | Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly | 56 |
64300939 | Face 2 Face is a Kannada romantic thriller film directed by Sandeep Janardhan. The film was released on 15 March 2019.
The film revolves around three characters: Santhosh, Sneha and Preethi. Santhosh is in love with Preethi, but a small incident changes the situation. Santhosh struggles to get his love back with the help of Sneha, who has just applied for a divorce from her husband. This continues to show three parallel stories - one about the possessive mother, a romantic story and a tale of a friendship. | 511 |
5767480 | Johnny Raygun is an action/adventure/sci-fi/comedy comic book published by JetPack Press, a small press publisher located in Rochester, New Hampshire. The title refers to the main protagonist, whose name is Johnny and is an agent of the elite "Raygun Agency." The comic's first publication was in 2003, and has largely been a quarterly publication.
The eponymous hero is actually named John Kurtzberg, a nod to famed comic book creator Jack Kirby. | 447 |
50039112 | The southern portion of the gully area has the oldest paving. A variety of paving materials are used, including bricks, concrete slabs and concrete "crazy paving." Retaining walls reflect this pattern: log retaining walls and concrete stone pitching in southern parts give way to block walls in northern areas.
The materials used in this work are simple in contrast to the workmanship evident in its execution, which is of an outstanding quality. Railings made of galvanised pipe are placed as needed. Over time a number of these have been replaced with timber railings. | 570 |
64335933 | He also illustrated fables by Charles Perrault and produced caricatures for Le Petit Journal during World War I.
An avid traveller, he visited Russia, Italy, Greece, the Middle East and Turkey. He became an official painter for the Navy in 1918, and was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor in 1927. In addition to his paintings and drawings, he created tapestry designs for The Beauvais Manufactory and the Manufacture des Gobelins, as well as decorating some churches and town halls. | 486 |
16282052 | Gaelic games clubs in County Waterford
Gaelic football clubs in County Waterford | 80 |
9185402 | As a young boy, he played in a band named, "Shanna and the Country Bugs" with his father and his siblings. He worked many years in the construction industry before coming into his success with EODM.
In June 2010, it was announced in the media that Brian had been diagnosed with an unspecified cancer, for which he would be undergoing chemotherapy.
A statement from O'Connor in regard to his diagnoses:
"In regards to my current health situation, with the remarkable support and love from my amazing friends and family, I am receiving the best medical and moral attention one could ask for. | 589 |
3464610 | Similarly, consequentialists may identify pleasure, the lack of pain, and/or the fulfillment of one's preferences as having intrinsic value, making actions that produce them merely instrumentally valuable. On the other hand, proponents of deontological ethics argue that morally right actions (those that respect moral duty to others) are always intrinsically valuable, regardless of their consequences.
Other names for intrinsic value are terminal value, essential value, principle value, or ultimate importance.
In philosophy and ethics, an end, or telos, is the ultimate goal in a series of steps. | 600 |
17225515 | He KO'd Johan Mparpagiannis in the first round at the K-1 World MAX North European Qualification 2007 in Stockholm on November 27, and took revenge on Naoufal Benazzouz by TKOing him in Roosendaal, Netherlands on December 9.
Zimmerman kicked off 2007 by knocking out Jerry Hofman in Amersfoort, Netherlands on January 21. He then recorded the two biggest wins of his career when he took decision wins over K-1 veterans Brecht Wallis and Petar Majstorovic. | 455 |
40902664 | - ひ/辶 + 日 + へ/⺩ = 遑
- か/金 + 日 + へ/⺩ = 鍠
- さ/阝 + 日 + へ/⺩ = 隍
- せ/食 + 日 + へ/⺩ = 鰉 | 97 |
55940832 | Japan || Ext.R Decision (Unanimous) || 4 || 3:00
| 2010-09-20 || Win||style="text-align:left"| Tetsuya Yamato || GoodLoser "Krush.10" || Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 | 194 |
10681235 | From 1884 to 1889, he also established and headed a medical preparatory school at Davidson College.
In 1889 Barringer accepted a position as chair of Physiology and chair of Surgery at University of Virginia. He served as chairman of the faculty at UVA (a position then equivalent to president) from 1895 to 1903. As chairman of the faculty, Barringer oversaw a major revision of the medical curriculum. Clinical years of education were added to strengthen training, as was common in Europe. | 492 |
26307736 | The Melbourne band My Disco released an official statement prior to the rally:
Looking at the live music culture outside Victoria, we count ourselves lucky to live and be actively involved in the Melbourne music scene. Venue closures throughout Sydney and Brisbane have forced live music to struggle in inner city suburban homes, warehouses, art spaces and anywhere that will host it in a desperate effort to save a once flourishing community. | 443 |
75163170 | For example, for a 10-year-old athlete, the maximum amount of time spent in organized sporting activities (including all team practices and all games for all sports as well as all independent practice assigned by the coach or other adult) should not exceed a total of 10 hours per week, and the player should also spend a minimum of five hours per week in self-directed, freely chosen, independent play, such as climbing trees or playing with other children on a playground. Unstructured play time reduces the risk of injuries. | 528 |
36595547 | His first match in Australia was against New South Wales and saw New Zealand lose 23-18. He played against Tamworth on 11 June in a 21-13 win. He was in try scoring form against New South Wales on 21 June, crossing for 3 tries but it wasn't enough to avoid a 22-19 defeat. He scored New Zealand's second try after he beat the tackle of White and after some fumbling play crossed the line. His own second came after receiving a pass from Bill Williams and he ran over for a try. | 477 |
1176488 | He worked alongside the Indian royal families, tutoring the Raja Serfoji of Tanjore, and was influential in establishing Protestant Christianity in southern India.
Christian was born on 8 October (sometimes given as 22 or 26 October 1726) at Sonnenburg, in the electorate of Brandenburg, Prussia. His father was George Schwartz and his mother Margaret Grunerin. His mother died when he was young and he went to grammar school in Sonnenburg under Mr Helm. | 454 |
53242921 | (23 June 1889 – 29 December 1964), better known by his pen name , was a Japanese poet, children's book author and essayist. He is considered a significant representative of Japanese symbolism.
Miki was born in Tatsuno in Hyōgo Prefecture in 1889, the oldest son of Setsujirō Miki and Kata Midorikawa (1869–1962). Midorikawa married at 15, and was a nurse and a significant figure in the women's movement of the Meiji period. | 424 |
60471295 | On December 31, 2018, UCLA fired head coach Steve Alford after 5½ seasons and named assistant coach Murry Bartow interim head coach for the remainder of the season. On April 9, 2019, Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin was named the new head coach of the Bruins.
On March 14, 2019, Washington State fired head coach Ernie Kent after 5 seasons. | 341 |
73545200 | Kerry Packer's War and Power Games: The Packer–Murdoch War.
Year of birth missing (living people) | 97 |
56242460 | Of the relationship, he said: "I didn't feel that just because she was Mia's daughter, there was any great moral dilemma. It was a fact, but not one with any great import."
During the fall of 1992, the Connecticut State Police interviewed Dylan using anatomical dolls. The last of the interviews took place on December 30, 1992, during which Dylan inserted the penis of the male doll into the vagina of the female doll. | 419 |
20412917 | was a launched in 1915 and transferred to the War Department in 1923. | 70 |
2349480 | She never appeared in another film, but David O. Selznick did invite her to film a sound test for a role in his 1938 film The Young in Heart, which Taylor did, but she declined the part and actress Minnie Dupree was cast. (The test exists and has been shown on TV from time to time). In preparing interviews for what became Broadway: The Golden Age, Rick McKay asked each person who had influenced him or her the most", and Laurette Taylor's name often was mentioned. | 467 |
49672355 | The associated amendment was added to the ballot for the 2022 primaries as Constitutional Amendment C. Supporters of Medicaid expansion viewed passage of Amendment C as an attempt to prevent Medicaid expansion from passing via ballot initiative; Dakotans for Health unsuccessfully challenged the resolution in the South Dakota Supreme Court in May 2021. Medicaid expansion was placed on the 2022 general election ballot as Constitutional Amendment D after garnering 38,244 signatures. | 484 |
38055813 | Maarouf did not advocate an Islamic state, and was wary of Islamist groups, however his group cooperates with them on the battlefield. | 134 |
15847540 | The following year he returned to INR and served a temporary tour at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, before joining the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff in 1985. Between 1985 and 1993, Miller advised Secretaries of State George Shultz and James Baker, helping the latter plan the Madrid Peace Conference of October 1991.
In June 1993, Miller was appointed Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator. For the next seven years, he worked as part of a small interagency team where he helped structure the U.S. | 515 |
44260471 | Between August 16 and November 29, 1989, she led new excavations in the central area of the sanctuary under the auspices of the University of Chicago, mostly to clear up disputes that had arisen over the conclusions Broneer had drawn from his finds. The first report of the 1989 findings was published in Hesperia in 1992, with subsequent reports following in later years. | 372 |
9719897 | Since 2001, François von Finck has been on the supervisory board of Staatl. Mineralbrunnen AG in Bad Brückenau, and since July 2001, he has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Carlton-Holding AG in Allschwil, Switzerland, which controls almost 100% of Mövenpick. Through the Shareholder Group von Finck, he is a partner in the globally active Swiss industrial conglomerate Von Roll Holding AG. His family controls the majority of voting rights there. | 461 |
30609223 | When Milan was annexed to the Napoleonic Empire, governor Francesco Melzi d'Eril ordered the demolition of the Spanish walls and the replacement of the original gates. At the time, the gates were to serve as customs duty stations, and their architecture was supposed to reflect the grandeur of the Napoleonic Empire as well as the role of Milan as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. As a consequence, many of Milan's modern "gates" are located where the Spanish gates used to be, but only date back to the 19th Century. | 521 |
34857842 | They decided to form a new, all-women’s group with the sole purpose of performing at the festival the next year and avoid future conflicts. This new group became Sawagi, a Japanese word suggested by one of the founding members meaning “Commotion.”
In order to stay on good terms with Katari, Sawagi needed to create a completely new repertoire. As a result, Sawagi’s repertoire is primarily made up of original compositions. | 424 |
65317637 | While visiting his terminally ill aunt Joan in Cornwall, Strike is approached by a woman who wants to hire Strike's firm to investigate the disappearance of her mother, Margot Bamborough, a general practitioner in Clerkenwell, London, almost 40 years previously, on 11 October 1974. As a result of their previous successes, business partners Strike and Robin now employ three contract investigators and an office manager. | 421 |
19218257 | Wolfgang Wiegard (born 17 February 1946) is a German economist and member of the German Council of Economic Experts. He served as chairman of the council from April 2002 to March 2005.
Born in Berlin, Wiegard studied at the University of Heidelberg, receiving his doctoral degree in economics in 1981. Since 1999 Wiegard holds a tenured professorship in economics at the University of Regensburg.
Wiegard is considered a strong proponent of neoclassical supply-side economics. | 476 |
1421978 | His translation of Gray's "Elegy" is still cited by scholars as the conventional starting-point for the Russian Romantic Movement. He also wrote some prose, the best known example of which is the 1809 short story "Marina roshcha" ("Mary's grove"), about the ancient past of Moscow; it was inspired by Nikolay Karamzin's famous story "Bednaya Liza" ("Poor Liza", 1792).
Zhukovsky translated from a staggeringly wide range of sources, often without attribution, given that modern ideas of intellectual property did not exist in his day. | 534 |
2108937 | Signage has also been erected, and the highway has been restored to the official state map in 2013.
State highways in the United States shorter than one mile | 157 |
47701879 | La Cucaracha (26 March 2001 – 9 February 2014) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Bred and owned by the Yorkshire businessman Guy Reed she was trained by Barry Hills at Lambourn. She was a specialist sprinter, who won both of her races as a juvenile but injury restricted her career to five races in two years until she emerged as a top class sprinter as a four-year-old. | 388 |
23941149 | Both models are usually marketed together as a family of aircraft. The Pipistrel Taurus two-seat motorglider uses the same wing as the Sinus.
In 2013, Pipistrel started offering the Sinus Flex model, which is a standard Sinus with two interchangeable wingtip sets. The outer section of the wing can be replaced by a shorter part consisting of the winglet of the Virus model, converting the aircraft from motor glider to sport cruiser in minutes. | 446 |
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| {{|Lord Douglas's Estate Act 1835|private|20|19-02-1835|note3=|maintained=y|repealed=n|archived=n|}} | 215 |
40522007 | In business, a benefit corporation is a type of for-profit corporate entity whose goals include making a positive impact on society. Laws concerning conventional corporations typically do not define the "best interest of the corporation", which has led some to believe that increasing shareholder value (profits and/or share price) is the only overarching or compelling interest of a corporation. Benefit corporations explicitly specify that profit is not their only goal. Their activities may or may not differ much from traditional corporations. An ordinary corporation may change to a benefit corporation merely by stating in its approved corporate bylaws that it is a benefit corporation. | 694 |
58845455 | Hahella chejuensis is a Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped and motile bacterium from the genus of Hahella which has been isolated from Marado in Korea. | 151 |
29505052 | He was then in 2010 called up to the Liberia to participate in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification against Zimbabwe, he was however left out of the game as a reserve, he was then pulled up to the main squad against Mali, he started the match and was substituted off in the 82nd minute. | 294 |
10997766 | In the eighties, Mayorga also worked for the cause of peace in Central America, acting as Executive Secretary of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development (the Sanford Commission).
Under the presidency of Violeta Chamorro he served as president of the Central Bank of Nicaragua in 1990, where he launched the monetary reform based on the Cordoba Oro that brought to an end the highest hyperinflation in Latin America. | 450 |
2869290 | David Bradbury (compiler), "Pages From Brigham's History" Whitehaven, Past Presented (2008)
Cumbria County History Trust: Brigham (nb: provisional research only - see Talk page) | 179 |
12407196 | In 1920 following the WWI draw-down, Captain McClure would briefly return to the Philippine Islands, stationed in Manila with the 27th Infantry Regiment. With the continuing draw-down and realignment of forces, McClure would receive reassignment.
Upon his return to the United States in 1920, McClure would be assigned to the 19th Infantry Regiment located at Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he served as the post exchange officer. Being an Army officer that relished working in an operational context, McClure reportedly despised this assignment. | 541 |
13066592 | 2002: Katherine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize
2002: Prague Summer Program Fellowship in Poetry
2001: Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission
1997: Fellowship in Poetry from Literary Arts, Inc.
Everything I Don't Know, Jerzy Ficowski, translated from the Polish with Piotr Sommer (World Poetry 2021)
Window Left Open (Graywolf Press, 2016)
Rochester Knockings, Hubert Haddad, translated from the French (Open Letter, 2015) | 443 |
3693888 | Peter Catalanotto is an American book illustrator.
Peter Catalanotto was born in March 1959 in Brooklyn, NY, and grew up in East Northport, Long Island, where he attended Elwood-John Glenn High School. Educated at the Pratt Institute, Peter's career as an illustrator began in the 1980s, painting jackets for young adult books and illustrating for newspapers and magazines. In 1987 he was asked to illustrate All I See by Cynthia Rylant. Peter then went on to write several picture books, the first being Dylan's Day Out, published in 1989. | 540 |
2625529 | By 1387, the Hongwu Emperor had set his sights further and prepared for an attack on the Baiyi (Möng Mao) polity to the south. Under the commander Mu Ying, the Ming forces attacked the Baiyi with firearms, taking a claimed 30,000 heads. Si Lunfa was subsequently dunned for all the costs of the military expedition against him, as a quid pro quo for recognizing him as ruler of the Baiyi. | 388 |
61542581 | To date all 3 AFL grand finals (labeled "Part 1") & all 3 NRL grand finals (labeled "Part 2") have been broadcast on ABC News Radio
Triple J supports, promotes and broadcasts clips from the Raw Comedy Competition, which is produced by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Podcasts of competition sets are available via the Triple J website.
Restoring the Balance was broadcast sporadically on Sunday afternoons during 2004. | 431 |
73348527 | First observed in 2003, it was organized by Annie Sprinkle and Robyn Few, founder of the Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP). It is observed annually on 17 December.
Red Umbrella Marches, sometimes referred to as Sex Worker Pride marches, began in 2001 as part of the 49th Venice Biennale of Art. The action was initiated by the Slovenian artist Tadej Pgacar and sex workers who created a living installation they titled Prostitute Pavilion. Sex Worker Pride is observed on 14 September. | 486 |
5396269 | In February 2013 Prometheus announced the Brandweek Report, which appeared quarterly within the pages of Adweek and also appeared online and in Adweek's iPad edition.
In 2014, Prometheus Global Media, which also owned The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, acquired Mediabistro.com and merged the editorial, job board and education platforms with Adweek (along with Brandweek and Mediaweek brands). The Clio Awards. Mediabistro, Adweek, Clio and Film Expo were then spun out from Guggenheim Partners/Prometheus Global into a new company, Mediabistro Holdings. | 559 |
65618367 | In 1871 a renewed effort was made to include the plan in Italy's defence budget. However, in 1882 the General Staff Committee declared its opposition to the idea, considering an Austrian violation of Swiss territory unlikely, and a German attack unrealistic. By this time the Triple Alliance had in any case neutralised these threats of invasion. Nonetheless, work on the projects resumed, and carried on haltingly until 1911, when the State Defense Office brought forward a scheme along the Bergamasque Alps and the Ticino salient. | 532 |
38036541 | Lê Lợi divided his army into small bands of partisan fighters and utilized guerrilla tactics to fight against regular Ming units.
In February, a Ming army under general Ma Ji attacked Lam Sơn, but was ambushed by Lam Sơn partisans near the Chu River. A betrayer led the Ming army to Lam Sơn to attack Lê Lợi in surprise. Lê Lợi's nine-year-old daughter was taken as hostage and sent to Yongle's harem. | 401 |
5127913 | According to Georgian law, Georgian and Abkhazian are co-official; according to Abkhazian law – Abkhazian and Russian. The elder generation of Abkhazis spoke Georgian, Russian and Abkhazi.
Belarus has two official languages: Belarusian and Russian.
Estonia has one official language, Estonian, but there is also a sizeable Russian-speaking community (around 30% in 2000) who speak Russian. | 391 |
16453203 | However, the team did not win the game and was eliminated in quarter-final.
Ip Chung Long joined the newly promoted club Southern after spending one season with Rangers.
On 29 June 2017, Ip signed a contract to return to Yuen Long for a second time.
Following the final match of the season on 13 May 2018, Ip retired from professional football and joined the Hong Kong Police Force. | 382 |
8015365 | Hedstrom conducted research on the management and preservation of electronic records for nearly 20 years beginning at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (1979–83). She was a principal planner of a major conference on electronic records research held in 1991, which established national priorities for research and development.
She has shaped the research agenda in digital preservation, beginning with her 1991 article "Understanding Electronic Incunabula." The article remains a profound statement of the research challenges posed by the emergence of the digital order. | 577 |
75191230 | Relations only continued to improve since the rise of Min Aung Hlaing who came to power in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. The UN General Assembly passed a resolution on June 18, 2021, urging the military of Myanmar to end violence, free political prisoners, and restore democracy after the country's coup. The UN members were urged to "prevent the flow of arms into Myanmar" by the resolution. The only nation to vote against was Belarus.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Belarus and Myanmar are among the few countries to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | 567 |
71536531 | The Schock 40 is an American sailboat that was designed by DynaYacht as a racer and first built in 2000.
The design was built by W. D. Schock Corp in the United States, starting in 2000, with ten boats built, but it is now out of production.
The Schock 40 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a masthead sloop rig with a carbon fiber mast and an aluminum boom, a plumb stem with a retractable bowsprit and a reverse transom. | 452 |
3244705 | Genitography is the radiography of the urogenital sinus and internal duct structures after injection of a contrast medium through the opening of the sinus.
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Twenty-sixth Edition) () | 223 |
2459226 | In some species, the sporozoites and trophozoites are capable of asexual replication – a process called schizogony or merogony.
In all species, two mature trophozoites eventually pair up in a process known as syzygy and develop into gamonts. During syzygy, gamont orientation differs between species (side-to-side, head-to-tail). A gametocyst wall forms around each gamont pair, which then begins to divide into hundreds of gametes. | 432 |
60247594 | He was promoted to Lord of Trade in December 1743, but was dismissed. A year later in December 1744 when the Granville government was turned out. He did not vote on the Hanoverians in 1746. By 1747 he had transferred his allegiance to Pelham, and was returned unopposed for Edinburghshire again at the 1747 British general election.
Gilmour died on 9 August 1750, leaving a son Alexander who succeeded to the baronetcy. | 420 |
225222 | 1651 – In the wake of the English Civil War, Virginia acknowledges the authority of the Parliament of England.
1655 – New Sweden becomes incorporated into the Dutch colony of New Netherland
1655 – John Casor was declared a slave for life after Anthony Johnson, a free black man, sued Robert Parker for stolen services.
1656 – Elizabeth Key Grinstead was one of the first black people to sue for freedom for alleged slavery and win.
1656 – First Quakers arrive in New England. | 475 |
24793921 | Two years before his death, in 1997, he received his second Alfréd Radok Award, this time for the production of Chekhov's play Ivanov. The same year, the Israeli Habima Theatre invited him to a guest production of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Petr Lébl was known as a sensitive and complicated personality. According to testimonies provided by his colleagues, he suffered from depression and often spoke openly about his suicidal tendencies. He attempted to fight with his depressive disorder, and shortly before his death he visited a psychiatrist. | 540 |
1056595 | Sky Full of Moon (1952) as Al
Battle Circus (1953) as Sergeant Orvil Statt
Code Two (1953) as Police Sgt. Jumbo Culdane
Kiss Me Kate (1953) as Lippy
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953) as Silva
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) as Policeman
Tennessee Champ (1954) as Willy Wurble
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954) as Lt. | 322 |
192352 | Soap is an American sitcom television series that originally ran on ABC from September 13, 1977, until April 20, 1981. The show was created as a nighttime parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format, and featured melodramatic plotlines including alien abduction, demonic possession, extramarital affairs, murder, kidnapping, unknown diseases, amnesia, cults, organized crime warfare, a communist revolution and teacher-student relationships. | 554 |
61598357 | The Welcome Stranger is sometimes confused with the similarly named Welcome Nugget, which was found in June 1858 at Bakery Hill, Ballarat, Australia by the Red Hill Mining Company. The Welcome weighed . It was melted down in London in November 1859.
Large nuggets are still being found around the world. On 16 January 2013, a large gold nugget was found near the city of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia by an amateur gold prospector. | 433 |
54054338 | 2007 || Siding Spring || SSS || APOPHAmoon || align=right data-sort-value="0.46" | 460 m ||
| 489487 || || — || March 13, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || EMA || align=right | 2.6 km ||
| 489488 || || — || April 14, | 233 |
52881952 | Attractions include the "Bondinho" cable car ride, inaugurated in 1912, Cláudio Coutinho Track for running or walking, the Morro da Urca trail with views of Corcovado, Copacabana, Botafogo and Guanabara Bay, and many rock climbing routes.
The two peaks are typical outcrops of augen gneiss, the same gneiss that forms the steep rock walls of the city. Kinzigite gneiss, less resistant to weathering, is present in the depression between Urca Hill and Sugar Loaf. | 463 |
73423994 | The younger version of the Novgorod First Chronicle (N1L) preserves an older text than that found in copies of the Primary Chronicle (PVL), and sometimes directly contradicts it. Unlike the N1L's author, the compiler of the PVL was particularly interested in explaining the relationship between the terms Varangians and Rus. This fitted with his larger geographical and ethnographical efforts of 'placing the Rus' in a biblical context', as well as 'want[ing] to map the peoples and regions with which this Rus' state came into contact.' | 537 |
33028897 | Tesch's mother had died of cancer after her first day of racing at the games; shortly after winning the gold medal, she said it was "a beautiful way to celebrate my mum's life to win gold on a beautiful sunny day at the Paralympic Games".
At the 2014 IFDS World Championships in Halifax, Canada, Tesch teamed with Fitzgibbon to win the two-person SKUD 18 class. Tesch and Fitzgibbon won the 2015 IFDS World Championships in Melbourne. | 434 |
51216322 | Jackson v McClintock (1998) 8 TCLR 161 is a cited case in New Zealand regarding relief under the Contractual Remedies Act 1979. | 127 |
26919923 | (Hick) Abbott – namesake of the Abbott Cup, presented to Junior Hockey champion of Western Canada
Dick Irvin (1919–1921) – future Hockey Hall of Fame player and coach
Bernie Morris (1913–14) – Stanley Cup champion with 1917 Seattle Metropolitans | 247 |
228526 | "Vaka" was also heavily used in the soundtrack to the 2010 Norwegian film King of Devil's Island.
The 2006 Academy Award-nominated Danish film After the Wedding also uses "Untitled #1" ("Vaka") as background music during the funeral of a major character. Multiple songs from the album are incorporated into the soundtrack for the 2024 video game Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, based on the popular Moomin series.
All tracks are officially untitled, although each track has an alternate name by which the band refers to it. | 524 |
18612929 | Two days later, a group of up to 200 loyalists ordered all shops in Portadown town centre to shut, then tried to march on Garvaghy Road from both ends, but were held back by police. That night, 21 police officers were hurt in clashes with loyalists.
On 14 July, calls by Portadown Orangemen for another day of widespread protest went unheeded, as the Armagh and Grand Lodges refused to support their calls. Businesses remained open and only several roads were blocked for a short time. The security barriers were removed and soldiers returned to barracks. | 555 |
379623 | After his parole, Ewell retired to work as a "gentleman farmer" on his wife's farm near Spring Hill, Tennessee, which he helped to become profitable, and also leased a successful cotton plantation in Mississippi. His leg stump had largely healed by the war's end and no longer seriously bothered him, but he continued to suffer from neuralgia and other ailments. He doted on Lizinka's children and grandchildren. He was president of the Columbia Female Academy's board of trustees, a communicant at St. | 502 |
8933122 | am in) A State of Yearning (Tha Fadachd Om Fhin)" - 4:41
"I Will Set My Ship in Order" - 6:04
"Mìle Marbhaisg (A Thousand Curses)" - 4:34
"A State of Yearning" - 4:41 | 169 |
92221 | Attempting to unite the party and prevent a Republican victory, Black invited Barkley, who had not been linked to either leader despite his support for prohibition, to be temporary chairman of the 1919 state Democratic convention. Barkley's convention address attacked Republicans and praised the Democrats' record without making reference to prohibition, but many in the Beckham faction refused to accept Black, and he was defeated in the general election by Republican Edwin P. Morrow. Chairing the convention introduced Barkley to state political leaders outside the First District. | 585 |
62877212 | Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcasters (NPO), (NOS) and AVROTROS, the contest was held at Rotterdam Ahoy, and consisted of two semi-finals on 18 and 20 May, and a final on 22 May 2021. The three live shows were presented by Dutch television presenters and singers Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit, and Dutch YouTube personality and make-up artist Nikkie de Jager. | 411 |
28194377 | The panels originally represented the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension and the Coronation of the Virgin, but the fifth panel was replaced by the Descent of the Holy Ghost when it was restored. There are three bays with square-headed windows with "flamboyant" tracery. The chapel has octagonal corner pinnacles and at the north-eastern corner there is a small embattled octagonal turret with a small bell tower, which originally contained two bells.
In the north east corner a newel staircase leads to the roof. | 537 |
53888364 | With the latter he served in South America at the Cape of Good Hope and later in Ceylon. During this period he began tabulating statistics of soldiers and various diseases in an attempt to understand under-lying patterns.
In 1809 he was gazetted as Assistant Surgeon to the 2nd Ceylon Regiment and in 1813 became full Surgeon to the 1st Ceylon Regiment. He saw action in the Second Kandyan War. | 394 |
39466995 | In 2000 the United Kingdom (10.3%) and Ukraine (7.2%) were the most common places of birth for the 25.4% of the residents who were born abroad, considered an average percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city or county as a whole.
The median household income in 2008 dollars was $108,199, considered high for both the city and county. The percentage of households earning $125,000 or more was high, compared to the city and the county at large. The average household size of 1.9 people was relatively low. | 517 |
428416 | Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. The arts funding system in England underwent considerable reorganisation in 2002 when all of the regional arts boards were subsumed into Arts Council England and became regional offices of the national organisation.
Arts Council England is a government-funded body dedicated to promoting the performing, visual and literary arts in England. | 623 |
60026182 | They are mostly used for pulling carriages.
Zombie-like beings who mostly live in Dead's Lament. Not all of them are dangerous.
Skeleton warriors who live in Dead's Lament.
The lord of Dead's Lament. He can use a variety of magic. It is later discovered that he is a part of the Netherlord.
One of the Demon Lord's generals. He is much stronger than a stratum lord and takes pleasure in hunting and killing. | 407 |
422763 | He began his activity as a militant in the Second World War. He then joined a tiny Trotskyist group, the Union Communiste, led by Barta (David Korner) a Romanian Trotskyist. Given that the group was clandestine, all members adopted cadre names and there was a considerable stress on security within the group. This continues today as does the emphasis of the UCI on orienting towards workers in the workplaces.
The UC did not take part in the regroupment of the other French Trotskyist groups which took place in 1944 and led to the foundation of the Internationalist Communist Party. | 585 |
83909 | The rationale of the above can be summed up as follows:
Kinetic energy of each type of particle (in this example, Hydrogen and Oxygen, as above) within the system is equal, as defined by thermodynamic temperature:
Which can be simplified and rearranged to:
Ergo, when constraining the system to the passage of particles through an area, Graham's Law appears as written at the start of this article. | 398 |
36879652 | The specific epithet velteni is in honor of Jürgen Velten who loaned the authors specimens that they studied. D. velteni is the most recent of three Deinodryinus species to be described from the fossil record: Deinodryinus areolatus is also known from a fossil preserved in Baltic amber, while Deinodryinus? aptianus is known only from a Mongolian compression fossil in marl. | 377 |
65496619 | Classical Mechanics a textbook on similar topics by Herbert Goldstein
List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics
Full text of A treatise on the analytical dynamics of particles and rigid bodies (3rd edition) at the Internet Archive | 253 |
410828 | In the early morning of June 14, 1846, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was taken prisoner by a ragtag band of Americans, led by William B. Ide, who had decided to emulate the Texans by revolting against California's Mexican government. They later made and raised an improvised flag featuring a grizzly bear that some viewers mistook for a pig. Instead of resisting, Vallejo, who favored the American takeover of California, invited the rebels inside his quarters in the Casa Grande for a meal and drinks. | 499 |
11154310 | An amplitude gate (also, slicer or slice amplifier) is a circuit whose output is only the part of the input signal that lies between two amplitude boundary level values. | 169 |
339330 | He migrated permanently to Cuba when he was 22. He attempted to reclaim his Spanish citizenship in 2001.
In 1938, Fuentes replaced the Pilar's original first mate, Carlos Gutiérrez, after Hemingway's mistress, Jane Mason, hired him to be the first mate of her boat after becoming jealous of Hemingway's relationship with Martha Gellhorn.
Fuentes, a lifelong cigar smoker, died from cancer in Cojimar in 2002. | 408 |
30678988 | His first wife was E. N. Lukhutina, whom he married in 1872 (date unknown), and his second was M. G. Ilovayskaya (born Blagosvetlova), married 1903. Ilovayskaya was the wife of a famous critic and publicist, editor of the Russkoye Slovo ("Russian Word") and Delo ("Business") magazines, Gregory Blagosvetlov. His first marriage proved unsuccessful. | 348 |
1648785 | Beginning Fall 2014, Rutgers University started offering baccalaureate degrees programs on the CCM campus in psychology, journalism, criminal justice, and public and non-profit administration.
The student body consists of more than 8,500 undergraduate students. There are more than 40 student clubs on campus.
County College of Morris is smoke-free and was one of the first public colleges to ban smoking entirely. The decision to ban smoking was a project of the 2005-2006 Student Government Association.
CCM is a NJCAA Division II school. | 540 |
66423508 | This list of laboratory biosecurity incidents includes accidental laboratory-acquired infections and laboratory releases of lethal pathogens, containment failures in or during transport of lethal pathogens, and incidents of exposure of lethal pathogens to laboratory personnel, improper disposal of contaminated waste, and/or the escape of laboratory animals. The list is grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred and does not include every reported laboratory-acquired infection. | 501 |
602134 | One of his most famous athletes was Canadian hurdler Earl Thomson, Dartmouth Class of 22, the winner of the gold medal in the 110 metres hurdles at the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1930, Hillman, along with Thomson and Harold Barron, was involved in the design of a new safer hurdle, with a view to reducing the danger of bad falls and injuries.
Hillman also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the College Track Coaches Association of America. | 437 |
25499245 | The Washington Post's Tom Shales, on the other hand, was substantially kinder than most critics, saying "the show seemed merely okay at first encounter," but after seeing the season's other new shows, "Over the Top is looking better and better. I could almost kiss it right on the lips."Over the Top'' debuted opposite the World Series with minuscule promotion to lowest ratings ABC had ever had for a non-rerun-filled Tuesday night, so it was canceled after only three episodes had aired. | 490 |
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