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C-36 (cipher machine)
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1937. Both machines had five pinwheels with 17, 19, 21, 23 and 25 pins, each individually settable, giving a maximum period of 3,900,225 for the machine. The C-362 revision included a few other improvements, most notably movable lugs instead of fixed.
One variant had a Thai alphabet on the pinwheels, rather than the usual Latin alphabet.
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Arkansas Razorbacks football
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LSU & Texas
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2007, Arkansas stunned top-ranked LSU in triple overtime, 50–48, giving them their first win in Baton Rouge since 1993, and their first victory over a top-ranked team since beating Texas in 1981, winning back the Golden Boot trophy (after 4 consecutive seasons in the hands of LSU) in the process. In 2008, the Razorbacks defended the trophy, winning 31–30 on a last minute touchdown drive. As of 2018, LSU leads the series 40–22–2. Texas The Arkansas-Texas game has not been regularly played since Arkansas's departure from the Southwest Conference in 1991, and this has dulled the intensity of the rivalry.
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Battle of Long Tan
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A Company and 3 Troop fight through
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and one on the left under Sergeant Leslie O'Reilly, each with two vehicles forward and one back evenly spaced 40 metres (44 yd) apart, while he remained in the centre moving astride the road. At 18:22 they began to advance on a 300-metre (330 yd) frontage, only to again be ordered by radio to halt and wait for Townsend. With sunset due at 19:11 and darkness already beginning to fall due to the heavy rain clouds overhead, Roberts once more decided to press on.
The relief force moved into the plantation in open formation, unaware of the location of D Company or the
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Boeing KC-767
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USAF lease, cancellation and re-award & Italian Air Force
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in prison in 2005, and the resignation of Boeing CEO Philip M. Condit. The Air Force's KC-767A contract was officially canceled by the DoD in January 2006. Italian Air Force Boeing continued development of the aircraft. Italy selected the KC-767A and signed a contract in 2002 becoming the launch customer, with delivery set for 2005. The Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) ordered four aircraft. This version is based on the 767-200ER and is named the KC-767 Tanker Transport, and is fitted with boom and hose-drogue refueling systems on the centerline with hose-drogue wingpod systems.
Italy's aircraft became the first KC-767
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CZ 52
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Description
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CZ 52 Description The CZ 52 pistol is a roller-locked short recoil–operated, detachable box magazine–fed, single-action, semi-automatic pistol chambered for the 7.62×25mm Tokarev cartridge (the gun was originally designed for 9×19mm Parabellum caliber but due to political pressures had to be redesigned for the then-standard Soviet pistol cartridge). It weighs approximately two pounds unloaded. Military models feature either a parkerized finish or a gray oxide coating, while some CZ 52s were arsenal reblued in the 1970s. These re-finished guns are usually marked as such.
Ergonomically, the grip of the CZ 52 is long when measured from front to rear and slim
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British Columbia Youth Parliament
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Post World War II to the end of the OBP era
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II to the end of the OBP era While the 15th Session in 1939 prorogued with full intention of holding a Session in 1940, the OBP did not meet during World War II. By war's end, the TUXIS movement had diminished and the National Boys' Work Board was in a weak state of affairs. It took the Boys' Work Secretary for the United Church, Rev. Robert McLaren, to revive the OBP. Through his efforts, the pre-war partners who sponsored Parliament (Protestant churches and YMCA) joined forces to establish a Parliamentary Convention in Vancouver to rebuild the organization. It is in
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Bolvadin
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Bolvadin today
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producing morphine for the pharmaceutical industry. However today the plain is also used for growing grain and fruit. The higher mountainside is forested. The climate is hot in summer, cold enough to snow in winter. Lake Eber lies at the south-east edge of the plain, 967 m above sea level. Carp fishing and cutting rushes contribute to the economy of this farming district. This is not a rich region, it lacks infrastructure such as public transport and the people of Bolvadin are conservative.
Bolvadin is renowned for its cream made of buffalo milk.
The area is vulnerable to earthquakes.
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California Institute of Technology
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House system & Athletics
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transform the undergraduate housing system from regular fraternities to a house system. Four south houses (or hovses) were built: Blacker House, Dabney House, Fleming House and Ricketts House. In the 1960s, three north houses were built: Lloyd House, Page House, and Ruddock House, and during the 1990s, Avery House. The four south houses closed for renovation in 2005 and reopened in 2006. All first year students live in the house system and 95% of undergraduates remain affiliated with a house. Athletics Caltech has athletic teams in baseball, men's and women's basketball, cross country, fencing, men's and women's soccer, swimming and
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Āma
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Historicity
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Yashovarman's defeat against Lalitaditya Muktapida, or following his death. The identity of Samudrasena is not certain. Some historians have identified Dharma with the Pala king Dharmapala, although Dharmapala conquered Kannauj during the reign of the later Ayudha kings. According to historian Shyam Manohar Mishra, Āma probably defeated Dharmapala before the Palas became powerful, but ultimately, Dharmapala emerged victorious. According to D. C. Sircar, Āma probably fought with an earlier Pala king, whom the Jain chroniclers may have confused with Dharmapala.
According to Vakpati himself, he composed Madhu-Matha-Vijaya before he wrote Gaudavaho during Yashovarman's reign. Thus, the Prabhavaka Charita claim of Madhu-Matha-Vijaya
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Brändli BX-2 Cherry
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Design and development
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straight tapered with ailerons. The wings can be removed rapidly for transport. The tail surfaces are straight tapered and the stabilator is fitted with a full-span anti-servo tab.
The Cherry seats two, in side-by-side configuration under a large, almost fully transparent, forward sliding canopy. It has a retractable tricycle undercarriage, with simple, outward folding main legs. A conventional undercarriage is an option. The prototype was powered by a 65 hp (49 kW) Continental A65 flat four engine. Since then Cherrys have used flat fours with powers of up to 100 hp (75 kW), including some from the Continental range, the Volkswagen derived Limbach
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Amelia Earhart
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Assuming another identity
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an out-of-court settlement with her. Subsequently, Bolam's personal life history was thoroughly documented by researchers, eliminating any possibility that she was Earhart. Kevin Richlin, a professional criminal forensic expert hired by National Geographic, studied photographs of both women and cited many measurable facial differences between Earhart and Bolam.
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Callie Thorne
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Life and career
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Series at the Gracie Allen Awards for her role.
Thorne has also done work on stage, such as in the off-Broadway play The Country Club (1999), with Cynthia Nixon in New York. Additionally, she appeared with Eric Bogosian and Sam Rockwell in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2005), directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. She is set to portray Emme Haladjian in TNT upcoming horror series Breed.
Thorne portrayed Captain Nancy Santiani on the NBC police procedural drama The Mysteries of Laura. She left The Mysteries of Laura in 2016.
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Brown's Hotel (Catskills)
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Insurance and legal issues
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fire.
So many former residents of the Grandview Palace attended the subsequent Town Board session seeking answers that the meeting had to be adjourned and relocated down the street to a community center. A unanimous vote by the board condemned the entire property as the two remaining buildings were uninhabitable. Only Building F, surviving intact, and one wing of Building I were structurally safe to enter after the incident. Building B was the second unit unscathed by fire but a crumbling wall made it unsafe to enter. Portions of the building were found to contain asbestos, a substance no longer used
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Arthur Addison
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History
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Arthur Addison History He was born in Adelaide the son of Thomas Plummer Addison, who emigrated to South Australia with his wife Eliza aboard the Pestonjee Bomanjee, arriving in October 1838, and who was for many years deputy collector of Customs of South Australia.
Arthur was educated at St. Peter's College, and on leaving found employment with Younghusband and Cadell's River Murray Navigation Company. After three years he worked for the National Bank, then four years with the Bank of South Australia, during which time he served as the bank's Port Elliot branch.
He next went into business with William Bowman, setting
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Brett Cairns
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General officer & Retirement and beyond
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the United States Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety Canada and many other inter-agency partners from both nations that are involved in security, defence and intelligence matters. In 2014 Brett was awarded the US Legion of Merit in recognition of his work as the NORAD J3. The citation reads "For exceptionally meritorious service as Director of Operations, Headquarters North American Aerospace Defense Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, from May 2005 to August 2008." Retirement and beyond Brett retired from the Canadian Forces in 2008. He completed his work on the writing of a 136-page book on Leadership and
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Battle of Long Tan
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D Company reinforced
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dead and wounded proved a slow process but with the casualties finally loaded onto the carriers D Company left at 22:45, while B and A Companies departed on foot 45 minutes later. Roberts established a landing zone by forming a square and illuminated it with the interior lights of the APCs by opening their top hatches. The artillery ceased as the evacuation commenced with the first casualties taken out by a US Army Dustoff helicopter, while the remainder were extracted by six UH-1B Iroquois from No. 9 Squadron RAAF. Despite being slowed by the requirement for the helicopters to land
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Battle for Jerusalem
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Blockade at Latrun and Bab al-Wad
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the siege of Jerusalem and the annexation of the captured areas to the Jewish state became primary goals for the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Ambushes by Palestinian Arab irregulars became more frequent and more sophisticated. The intention of the besieging forces was to isolate the 100,000 Jewish residents of the city from the rest of the Jewish inhabitants of Palestine and, in the case of the Jordanian forces, to capture East Jerusalem (including the Old City).
In December 1947 the Jewish Agency set up the Jerusalem Emergency Committee, headed by Dov Yosef, which stockpiled food and fuel. In
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Beloved (1998 film)
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Critical reception
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also no longer listed in the top ten on the box office chart by the November 6–8 weekend and had dropped to the rank of 12 on the chart by this point in time.
In 2013, Winfrey reflected on the film, saying: "To this day I ask myself, was it a mistake? Was it a mistake to not try and make [it] a more commercial film? To take some things out and tell the story differently so that it would be more palatable to an audience? Well, if you wanted to make a film that everybody would see, then that would
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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd
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Background & Privy Council decision
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defendant, holding that by manufacturing cartridge parts by reverse engineering from the plaintiff’s cartridge parts the defendant had indirectly reproduced in three-dimensional form the plaintiff’s drawings from which those parts had been made, thereby infringing the plaintiff’s copyright in those drawings. The High Court also held that the "spare parts exception" of the British Leyland case did not entitle the defendant to do so.
The Court of Appeal of Hong Kong, by a majority, allowed the defendant’s appeal holding that the manufacture of cartridges did fall within that exception. Privy Council decision Lord Hoffman, speaking for the Privy Council, was
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Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame
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1996 & 1997 & 1998 & 1999
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Sid Catlett - Tex Beneke - Lucky Millinder - Al Cohn - Jess Stacy - Milton Hinton - Alberta Hunter 1997 Wild Bill Davison - Bobby Hackett - Pete Fountain - Ray Brown - Tony Williams - Freddie Keppard - Mel Powell - Muggsy Spanier - Charlie Shavers - Tony Bennett 1998 Eddie Miller - Dorothy Donegan - Wayne Shorter - Yank Lawson - Claude Hopkins - Adrian Rollini - Art Hodes - Will Bradley - Louis Jordan - Maxine Sullivan 1999 Sonny Rollins - Barney Kessel - Billy Taylor - Jonah Jones - Tommy Flanagan - Barry Harris -
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Arvelia Myers
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Awards and acknowledgements
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Junior Tennis Program Appreciation Award, USTA Community Service Award, Arthur Ashe Special Service Award, ATA Outstanding Service Award, No Ad Pioneer Award, Harlem Week/Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce-Community Service Award, the USTA 10-year Volunteer Service Award, the ETA Louise Cilla Award, the Arvelia Myers service award and others. She was inducted into the Black Tennis Hall of Fame posthumously in 2019.
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Battle of Long Tan
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Fighting continues
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despite the weight of the indirect fire increasingly becoming available to support the Australian infantry, the VC were able to apply superior fire power as they tried to isolate and attack each platoon in turn. To retrieve the situation, Smith planned to pull his company into an all-round defensive position enabling his platoons to support each other fighting a co-ordinated battle, and to care for the wounded until a relief force could arrive to assist. Seemingly intent on attacking Nui Dat, the VC moved to overrun the beleaguered force, but the dispersal of the Australian platoons made it difficult for
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Birmingham Bulldogs
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History
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Bulldogs set down a marker for the rest of the season and scored a 30 – 20 win. This set the tone for the rest of the season and the Bulldogs eventually finished eighth and progressed to the play-offs where they were just pipped by Coventry Bears.
Midway through the 2005 season, the club had to withdraw from the competition and revert to playing in the Midlands Regional division of the Rugby League Conference. In 2006, the club re-established itself in the Rugby League Conference Midlands Premier Division.
Russell Parker was appointed as a full-time Community Rugby League Coach for Birmingham in
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California Institute of Technology
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In media and popular culture
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characters and one female lead character in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory are employed at the Institute. Caltech is also the inspiration, and frequent film location, for the California Institute of Science of Numb3rs. On film, the Pacific Tech of The War of the Worlds and Real Genius is based on Caltech.
In nonfiction, two 2007 documentaries examine aspects of Caltech: Curious, its researchers, and Quantum Hoops, its men's basketball team.
Given its Los Angeles-area location, the grounds of the Institute are often host to short scenes in movies and television. The Athenaeum dining club appears in the Beverly Hills Cop
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Billy Pierce
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Detroit Tigers (1945, 1948) & Chicago White Sox (1949–1961)
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whether it was White Sox general manager Frank Lane or his Detroit counterpart Billy Evans who switched the focus to Pierce; the Tigers tried to call off the deal one day after it was completed upon fully realizing what they had given up, even offering $50,000 to get Pierce back, but Lane had no intention of giving up the steal he had accomplished in his first trade as general manager. Chicago White Sox (1949–1961) In his first seasons with White Sox, Pierce's control problems continued; his 137 walks in 1950 tied him for the fourth most ever by an AL
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Brown's Hotel (Catskills)
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Insurance and legal issues
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Owners who had missed several of the $90 monthly maintenance fees after the blaze were not allowed to ask questions and others who had not paid any fees since the fire were banned altogether. A case pitting Grandview Palace against both insurance companies went to court in December 2012.
A Board meeting on February 15, 2013 offered no new answers. Western Heritage liability insurance which is a director and liability policy and the umbrella policy from National Surety have also filed denial of claims against Grandview Palace. Grandview is also under attack after suing their broker Otts insurance. Judge Oing of
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Amazarashi
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2015–2016: Sekai Shuusoku Ni Ichi Ichi Roku
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and 1 essay to the March edition of Bungeishunju, published by Bungeishunju Ltd.. "Aomori Song", one of the five poems, was made available for free on music.jp. The renowmed Sci-Fi Author, Miyauchi Yuusuke (宮内悠介) commented on the poem saying "While it seemed like it was presenting the prefecture and city, it didn't really define it, seeming like a Machida Kou's mindset work".
On February 24, the band released its 3rd full-length, Sekai Shuusoku Ni Ichi Ichi Roku (世界収束二一一六; "World Convergence 2116").
On the same day, the Mika Nakashima tribute album, MIKA NAKASHIMA TRIBUTE, performed by various artists, was released. It featured a
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British Racing Drivers' Club
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Membership status & Young driver support
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is confined to gentlemen who have competed in an open motor road-racing event or taken a first, second or third place award in a Brooklands Automobile Racing Club's Meeting. Every candidate must be proposed by one and seconded by another member of the club, to both of whom he is personally known."
Women have been elected Honorary Member of the Club since 1928, however it was not until 1994 that they were able to become Full Members. As a consequence, the British Women Racing Drivers Club was founded in 1962 by Mary Wheeler. Young driver support The support and development
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California Institute of Technology
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Athletics
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beat Whittier College on February 10, for its second SCIAC win, and placed its first member on the All Conference team. The 2006–2007 season is the most successful season in the history of the program.
In 2007, 2008, and 2009, the women's table tennis team (a club team) competed in nationals. The women's Ultimate club team, known as "Snatch", has also been very successful in recent years, ranking 44 of over 200 college teams in the Ultimate Player's Association.
On February 2, 2013, the Caltech baseball team ended a 228-game losing streak, the team's first win in nearly 10 years.
The track and
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Beach tag
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Beach tag A beach tag (also beach badge or beach token) is an admission pass that must be purchased to access a beach. It is commonly associated with the New Jersey Shore. The system restricts summer beach access to residents and paying visitors. Visitors and residents in communities with the beach tag system typically pay a fee for a daily, weekly or seasonal pass. Staff patrol the beach looking for people who are not displaying their tag, and visitors without one are asked to purchase a tag or leave. Beaches with a beach-tag program use the proceeds to offset the
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Battle of Long Tan
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A Company and 3 Troop fight through
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about 100 men, believed to be the lead elements of the force that had just been struck, now withdrawing in the opposite direction after abandoning its attempt to outflank D Company. The APCs opened fire, engaging their flank with heavy machine-guns. A number were hit while others turned to engage the cavalry as it closed with them. A 57 mm RCL then fired on one of the APCs at close range with the round narrowly missing and blowing apart a tree which fell across the vehicle. The crew commander, Corporal John Carter, engaged the anti-armour team from the top of the
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Bristol in the English Civil War
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city became an important Royalist supply base, and center for communication, administration, and manufacture. The Royalists were dependent on foreign aid and the importation of weaponry. Ships laden with ordnance had to evade Parliamentarian patrols in order to offload their cargo at Bristol.
A typical myth about Bristol during the civil war concerns it capture by Prince Rupert in July 1643. Traditionally it has been accepted that Bristol was attacked by a Royalist army of up to 20,000 men and that William Walker had irresponsibly reduced the garrison to 1,500 infantry and 300 mounted troops, insufficient to man the defensive lines
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British Columbia Youth Parliament
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Camp Phoenix
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Camp Phoenix was held at Camp George Pringle in the summer of 1968, with 36 underprivileged and handicapped boys in attendance.
Camp Phoenix expanded over the decades to serve both boys and girls. For a number of years, Camp Phoenix was held in August every year, often at a different location in British Columbia each year. Camp Phoenix was funded and organized by the BCYP members, with a few key positions at the camp itself (such as medical staff and camp director) held by alumni or other adults. From the first camp through 2010, approximately 1500 children attended Camp Phoenix. In
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Boletaceae
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Taxonomy & Distribution
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first described by the French botanist François Fulgis Chevallier in 1826, as a family distinct from Agaricaceae. Five genera were initially included in Chevallier's circumscription: Boletus (which is the type genus of the family), Cladoporus (now synonymous with Laetiporus), Physisporus (now Perenniporia), Polyporus, and Fistulina. However, all of the original genera except Boletus have since been transferred to different families, and several new Boletaceae genera have been described. Distribution Boletes are found worldwide, on every continent except Antarctica. Well-known and well-described in the temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere, newer research has shown significant diversity in tropical and southern hemisphere
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Brett Cairns
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General officer
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officer Brett was promoted to Brigadier General in 2002 and appointed to NDHQ in Ottawa as the Director General Aerospace Development from 2002 to 2004. While in that position he created, wrote and had published a Vision (Strategic Vectors) and Guide (Security Above All) for the transformation of Canada's Air Force. As part of this work, he coordinated the production of a DVD (Canada's Air Force – Security Above All) for the Air Force. He also wrote and had published a long-term modernization plan (The Aerospace Capability Framework) for the Air Force. As well, he led Project
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Black Lives Matter
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2014
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a "Freedom Ride", that brought more than 500 African-Americans from across the United States into Ferguson, Missouri, to support the work being done on the ground by local organizations. The movement continued to be involved in the Ferguson unrest, following the death of Michael Brown. Also in August, Los Angeles Police Department officers shot and killed Ezell Ford. Following the shooting, BLM protested his death in Los Angeles into 2015.
In November, a New York City Police Department officer shot and killed, Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old African-American man. Gurley's death was later protested by Black Lives Matter in New York City.
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British nationality law and Hong Kong
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British Nationality Act, 1948
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subject. The British Nationality Act, 1948 provided for a new status of Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC), consisting of British subjects who had a close relationship (either through birth or descent) with the United Kingdom and its remaining colonies. The Act also provided that British subjects could be known by the alternative title Commonwealth citizen.
The Act came into force on 1 January 1949 and stipulated that anyone born in "United Kingdom or a colony" on or after that date was a CUKC. Those who were British subjects on 31 December 1948 were entitled to acquire CUKC status
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Carlos Lapetra
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Club career & International career
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against Atlético Madrid in 1964 and Athletic Bilbao in 1966.
Lapetra retired from football at only 30, due to recurrent injury problems and as Zaragoza did not renew his contract. He settled in Huesca subsequently, working in directorial capacities with SD Huesca and the Spanish national team and dying on 24 December 1995 at the age of 57, due to cancer. International career Lapetra earned 13 caps for Spain, during three years. He was part of the squads that appeared at the 1964 European Nations' Cup (starting in the 2–1 final win against the Soviet Union in the place of legendary
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Bello, Antioquia
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Geography & Metropolitan area
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the Cerro Quitasol (pyramidal mountain, 2,880 meters above sea level), located north of the city and considered by its grandeur as the tutelary hill of Bello. Metropolitan area The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley is an administrative political entity which is based throughout the Aburrá Valley at an average altitude of about 1,538 meters.
The area comprises 10 municipalities, and is crossed from south to north by the Medellín River which, being born to its south in the town of Caldas, it takes on the name of Rio Porce in the north, in the municipality of Barbosa.
It was the first
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C.H.U.D.
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Plot
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forbidden the NRC to transport the toxic wastes through New York because of the large-scale danger to the public, it has secretly been hiding the waste by-products, marked as "Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal", beneath Manhattan in the abandoned subway tunnels. The underground homeless population has been coming into contact with these by-products, turning them into the mutated creatures. To protect this secret Wilson sends a man to disrupt A.J. from making phone calls to the press. This thug then locks A.J. in an underground access tunnel either to suffocate from the gas to be used to asphyxiate the C.H.U.D.s,
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Cardigan (UK Parliament constituency)
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History
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Gogerddan withdrew in favour of William Edward Powell of Nanteos, in order to avoid a contest. This was a political as well as a personal compromise, since Powell was a Tory and Pryse a Whig. In 1818, Pryse was elected unopposed for the boroughs, and held the seat for over thirty years. In 1832 the Reform Act resulted in a larger electorate as householders of homes worth over £10 were enfranchised in the boroughs. The constituency was still dominated by the Loveden-Pryse family of Gogerddan. Pryse Pryse held the seat from 1818 until his death in 1849, except for the
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CFM International LEAP
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Design
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fan in the compressor, a second-generation Twin Annular Pre-mixing Swirler (TAPS II) combustor, and a bypass ratio around 10-11:1.
GE is using ceramic matrix composites (CMC) to build the turbine shrouds.
These technological advances are projected to produce 16% lower fuel consumption. Reliability is also supported by use of an eductor-based oil cooling system similar to that of the GEnx, featuring coolers mounted on the inner lining of the fan duct. According to Aviation Week's article, "The eductor device produces a venturi effect, which ensures a positive pressure to keep oil in the lower internal sump." The engine has some of
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Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania)
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Interior
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of four tall windows above the gallery, that also lighted the upper hall.
The second floor followed a similar plan as the first, with four large bedrooms opening onto an extended upper hall. A dressing room between each pair of bedrooms allowed for discrete access by servants. The third floor featured a central lobby, illuminated by a large frosted-glass skylight and surrounded by seven rooms. These included a round nursery (in the tower), a long southeast bedroom (with dressing room), servant rooms, and storage. One of the house's ingenious features was the windowless back staircase, that climbed from the basement kitchen
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Brig
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Rigging
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Brig Rigging In sailing, a full-rigged brig is a vessel with two square rigged masts (fore and main). The main mast of a brig is the aft one. To improve maneuverability, the mainmast carries a small (gaff rigged) fore-and-aft sail.
Brig sails are named after the masts to which they are attached: the mainsail; above that the main topsail; above that the main topgallant sail; and occasionally a very small sail, called the royal, is above that. Behind the main sail there is a small fore-and-aft sail called the spanker or boom mainsail (it is somewhat similar to the main sail
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Battle of Long Tan
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Fighting continues
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resupply instead. By coincidence, two RAAF Iroquois were available at Nui Dat, having been used for the concert, and were committed to support D Company.
Smith requested close air support, calling for the waiting aircraft to drop napalm across 11 Platoon's eastern frontage. The Phantoms soon arrived, but the rain and low cloud obscured the coloured smoke the Australians had thrown to mark their position through the trees. Stanley was forced to halt the artillery while the aircraft flew overhead, but as Smith was unable to establish communications with the forward air observer he wanted the aircraft to move out of
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Canons Ashby House
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History
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staunch defence of individual freedom of thought. Today, a statue of Anne Hutchinson stands in front of the State House in Boston, Massachusetts.
Interior of Canons Ashby House
The interior of Canons Ashby House is noted for its Elizabethan wall paintings and its Jacobean plasterwork. It has remained essentially unchanged since 1710 and is presented as it was during the time of Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden (1818–1899), a Victorian antiquary with an interest in history. His daughter, the historian and photographer Alice Dryden (1866–1956) was born in the house and lived there for 33 years. She moved away after her
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Bonny Ibhawoh
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a critic of absolute cultural relativism in the interpretation of human rights norms. He has argued that the cultural relativist stance has been dominated by urban-based elites whose perception of "cultural legitimacy" focuses on the idealized and invented traditions of collectivism, definitive gender roles, and conservative patriarchy in the interpretation of moral values. His book "Imperialism and Human Rights" has been described as "one of the first to explore the role rights performed during the process of decolonization of Africa." Ibhawoh is a recipient of the John Holland Award for Professional Achievement. Ibhawoh is a member of the College of
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Carlos Sandoval
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Biography and Work
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is one of the highest recognitions awarded to Mexican artists by the Mexican Government. He also worked as an assistant to Conlon Nancarrow (1991–94). He has been invited to take part numerous events and contemporary music festivals such as Darmstadt Summer Courses (1990 Germany), Donaueschinger MusikTage (1994 and 2016, Germany) and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2009, UK, headlining), among others. He is an author of multiple articles and essays about music.
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Carl Jacobsen House
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Architecture
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the right thing and let people talk"), which is also seen on the high walls of the winter garden at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
The left side of the main building is also in red brick and has a richly decorated facade. There are Zodiac symbols around the cornices.
The roof is clad in slate shingles and has copper flashings, ornamental chimneys and decorative wrought iron metalwork along the roof ridge.
Many of the building's decorations, both internally and externally, refer to the Jacobsen family or their brewery. Carl and Ottilia Jacobsen's names, as well as those of their children and of his
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Bruce Quarrie
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Career & Criticism & Personal life
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the entire Westphalian army of the Napoleonic era. Criticism Noting Quarrie's works on the Waffen-SS, the military historian S.P. MacKenzie describes him as a popular historian "partially or wholly seduced by the [Waffen-SS] mystique". He connects Quarrie with the contemporary Waffen-SS historical revisionism, first propounded by HIAG, the Waffen-SS lobby group from the 1950–1990s. Commenting on this contemporary trend, Mackenzie writes that "as older generation of Waffen-SS scribes has died off, a new, post-war cadre of writers has done much to perpetuate the image of the force as a revolutionary European army" and includes Quarrie in this group. Personal life
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Carlos Barral
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Biography
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three volumes of memoirs are also held in high esteem.
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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd
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Background
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to reproduce the drawings in any material form, such as replacement toner cartridges.
The aftermarket in cartridges contributed significantly to the plaintiff’s profits, and the initial cost of one of its machines was much lower than the aggregate cost of cartridges used during the life of the machine. In Hong Kong refillers of used cartridges had 40% of the cartridge market. The defendant manufactured new cartridges in Hong Kong for sale there and for export in competition with the plaintiff’s cartridges.
In an action by the plaintiff in the High Court of Hong Kong the judge granted an injunction against the
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Cannonball Run II
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Plot
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money from him.
The race begins with JJ and Victor dressed as a US Army general and his driver, a private. They catch the attention of Betty (Marilu Henner) and Veronica (Shirley MacLaine), who are dressed as nuns for a musical, but remain in character and hitch a ride with JJ and Victor when they think the guys could become overnight millionaires. They do not lose their habits until later.
Other racers include Mitsubishi engineer Jackie Chan, teamed with a giant behind the wheel (Richard Kiel) in a car—a Mitsubishi Starion—able to go under water. In a red Lamborghini (white at first)
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Battle of Long Tan
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12 Platoon attempts to link up with Buick
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Meanwhile, at 17:05 Roberts arrived at the 6 RAR headquarters at Nui Dat with his troop of 10 APCs, and was quickly briefed by the Operations Officer on the situation before departing to pick up A Company from their lines. After more than an hour of fighting, D Company was still widely dispersed; 10 Platoon had been unable to break through to 11 Platoon from the north, while there remained only a slight chance 12 Platoon would have more success from the north-west. With the VC enjoying a considerable numerical advantage, Smith feared his platoons would be defeated in detail
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California Institute of Technology
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Project Vista & Post-war growth
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one takes into account visiting scientists, military liaisons, secretarial, and security staff. In compensation for its participation, the university received about $750,000. Post-war growth In the 1950s–1970s, Caltech was the home of Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman, whose work was central to the establishment of the Standard Model of particle physics. Feynman was also widely known outside the physics community as an exceptional teacher and colorful, unconventional character.
During Lee A. DuBridge's tenure as Caltech's president (1946–1969), Caltech's faculty doubled and the campus tripled in size. DuBridge, unlike his predecessors, welcomed federal funding of science. New research fields flourished, including chemical
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Automotive X Prize
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Knockout stage & Finals stage
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demonstrate at least 67 MPGe on a test track. These were held at the Michigan International Speedway from 20–29 June 2010. After this stage, only 15 vehicles from 12 teams remained in the competition. Finals stage The final stages will determine the winning teams. To complete the race successfully, vehicles must maintain a minimum average speed (maximum allowable time) while meeting PIAXP requirements for fuel economy (90 MPGe) and emissions. The finals also include a tie breaking race; the vehicle with the best overall time while still meeting requirements will take the purse. The
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Beam projector
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Beam projector A beam projector is a lenseless stage lighting instrument with very little beam spread. It uses two reflectors. The primary reflector is a parabolic reflector and the secondary reflector is a spherical reflector. The parabolic reflector organizes the light into nearly parallel beams, and the spherical reflector is placed in front of the lamp to reflect light from the lamp back to the parabolic reflector, which reduces spill. The result is an intense shaft of light that cannot be easily controlled or modified. Beam projectors are often used to create a godspot effect. The beam projector no longer
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C.H.U.D.
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Home media
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was released for home video on Betamax and VHS by Media Home Entertainment in 1984. The film was released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on January 30, 2001. The company released the film again in 2008 as a part of its Cult Fiction series. Image Entertainment would release the film in 2011, and in 2012, with the later release being a part of a two-disc multi-feature alongside Children of the Corn, Creepshow 2, and House. A two-disc Special Edition was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Arrow Video on November 22, 2016.
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Carbohydrate catabolism
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Carbohydrate catabolism Digestion is the breakdown of carbohydrates to yield an energy rich compound called ATP. The production of ATP is achieved through the oxidation of glucose molecules. In oxidation, the electrons are stripped from a glucose molecule to reduce NAD+ and FAD. NAD+ and FAD possess a high energy potential to drive the production of ATP in the electron transport chain. ATP production occurs in the mitochondria of the cell. There are two methods of producing ATP: aerobic and anaerobic.
In aerobic respiration, oxygen is required. Oxygen plays a key role as it increases ATP production from
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Campbell Sports Center
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Reviews
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Campbell Sports Center Reviews Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times called it "not a beauty. But it is a tough, sophisticated and imaginative work of architecture for a devilish site."
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Bismacine
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Bismacine Bismacine, also known as Chromacine, is a substance manufactured by American Biologics Corporation and marketed as a purported alternative treatment for Lyme disease. Bismacine contains high levels of bismuth, and two deaths are recorded following the use of intravenous bismacine to treat Lyme disease. In 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers not to use bismacine, noting that it is ineffective and dangerous.
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Amelia Earhart
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Family fortunes
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of a new house and even the hiring of two servants, it soon became apparent that Edwin was an alcoholic. Five years later in 1914, he was forced to retire and although he attempted to rehabilitate himself through treatment, he was never reinstated at the Rock Island Railroad. At about this time, Earhart's grandmother Amelia Otis died suddenly, leaving a substantial estate that placed her daughter's share in a trust, fearing that Edwin's drinking would drain the funds. The Otis house was auctioned along with all of its contents; Earhart was heartbroken and later described it as the end of
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Barneyville Historic District
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Description and history
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built wooden ships, failed when demand for metal-hulled ships rose in the late 1850s. One of the former shipyard workers learned to make jewelry, and built a small factory on the shipyard site, which flourished until the 1920s. Neither the jewelry factory nor the shipyard structures have survived; the site now has a marker.
The district covers about 27 acres (11 ha), and includes 11 primary buildings, and two sites: that of the shipyard, and that of the house of the area's first settler, the Rev. John Myles. The oldest surviving building in the district is the c. 1750 house of Jonathan
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Calliae
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Calliae Calliae or Kalliai (Ancient Greek: Καλλίαι), also known as Callia or Kallia (Καλλία), was a village of ancient Arcadia, located near Tegea. With Dipoena and Nonacris, it formed the Arcadian Tripolis. Its population was translated to the newly formed city of Megalopolis upon the foundation of the latter city in 371 BCE. Its site is unlocated.
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California Institute of Technology
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Research
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Laboratory in Corona del Mar, California. The Institute launched the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech in 2006, the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2008, and is also the current home for the Einstein Papers Project. The Spitzer Science Center (SSC), part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center located on the Caltech campus, is the data analysis and community support center for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Caltech partnered with UCLA to establish a Joint Center for Translational Medicine (UCLA-Caltech JCTM), which conducts experimental research into clinical applications, including the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer.
Caltech operates several TCCON
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Birth of the Cool
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Thornhill's influence
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his desired sound. As arrangers, both Evans and Mulligan gave Thornhill credit for crafting their sound. Thornhill's band gave Evans the opportunity to try his hand at arranging small-group bebop tunes for big band, a practice few others were participating in. Mulligan recalls Thornhill teaching him "the greatest lesson in dynamics, the art of underblowing." Thornhill has also been credited with launching the move away from call and response between sections and the move towards unison harmonies.
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Birth of the Cool
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Recording
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on all three sessions, though the instrumental lineup was constant (excepting the omission of piano on a few songs and the addition of Hagood on "Darn That Dream"). The first session occurred on January 21, 1949, recording four tracks: Mulligan's "Jeru" and "Godchild" as well as Lewis's "Move" and "Budo". Jazz critic Richard Cook hypothesizes that Capitol, wanting to get a good start, recorded these numbers first because they were the most catchy tunes in the nonet's small repertoire. That date Kai Winding replaced Zwerin on trombone, Al Haig replaced Lewis on piano, and Joe Shulman replaced McKibbon
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Battle of Cold Harbor
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June 1
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of Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden, recently transferred from the West following his poor performance in the Battle of Chickamauga, occupied a doglegged position with an angle that was parallel to the Shady Grove Road, separated from the V Corps by a marsh known as Magnolia Swamp. Two divisions of Early's Corps—Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rodes on the left, Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon on the right—used this area as their avenue of approach for an attack that began at 7 p.m. Warren later described this attack as a "feeler", and despite some initial successes, aided by the poor battle
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Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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Correspondence with Washington
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do; ...
I cannot conclude without expressing some concern that I should differ so widely in Sentiments from you in a matter of such great Moment & general Import; & should much distrust my own judgement upon the occasion, if my Nature did not recoil at the thought of Submitting to Measures which I think Subversive of every thing that I ought to hold dear and valuable – and did I not find, at the same time, that the voice of Mankind is with me.
Bryan Fairfax respectfully disagreed:
There is a new opinion now lately advanced in Virginia that the Parliament have
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California Institute of Technology
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Undergraduate program
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load, 48 units is considered a heavy load, and registrations above 51 units require an overload petition. Approximately 20 percent of students double-major. This is achievable since the humanities and social sciences majors have been designed to be done in conjunction with a science major. Although choosing two options in the same division is discouraged, it is still possible.
First-year students are enrolled in first-term classes based upon results of placement exams in math, physics, chemistry, and writing and take all classes in their first two terms on a Pass/Fail basis. There is little competition; collaboration on homework is encouraged and
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Bandai Museum
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G Style Cafe
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theme encompassing the different series in its decor through the addition of Gundam SEED, Zeta Gundam, and the original Gundam private rooms. The changed cafe menu is a bit more focused on the recent Gundam SEED Cosmic Era timeline, with drinks such as Sword of Justice (Seigi no Ken 正義の剣), an Athrun Zala drink; Wings of Freedom (Jiyuu no Tsubasa 自由の翼), a Kira Yamato drink; and Princess of Orb (Oobu no Hime Kun オーブの姫君), a Cagalli Yula Athha drink. However, the menu still retains some of the other series with items like Char's Custom Zaku Omelette-rice (Shaa Senyuu Zaku Omuraisu
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Battle of Long Tan
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Preliminary operations
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provided with food and medical aid, followed by further searches of Dục Mỹ and Dục Trung. By 10 August Bình Ba and its approaches had been cleared and the Australians commenced searching the areas east and west of Route 2. Although little contact occurred, one Australian was killed on 14 August during a brief fire-fight after a group of VC approached their harbour. Route 2 was opened to civilian traffic on 18 August. By the conclusion of the operation, 17 VC had been apprehended and a further 77 suspects detained, destroying the Bình Ba guerrilla platoon, crippling the infrastructure of
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Cameron Run Watershed
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Expansion: first cities and increasing needs of the population & Urban growth and watershed deterioration
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the watershed, and by 1965, most land suitable for development had been built upon Urban growth and watershed deterioration As development occurred in the watershed, the floodplains along the perennial streams were altered. Naturally occurring wetlands were filled in or drained to make way for structures (roads, bridges, and housing). "Marshes were once extensive in both the Piedmont and Coastal Plain parts of the watershed, but today only a few wetlands remain . . . The Virginia Department of Forestry reports a 32% decrease in forest resources in the watershed from 1957 to 1992".
Developers were able to build in the
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Brown's Hotel (Catskills)
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History
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of several hotels, purchased the Black Apple Inn from the Appel family for US $70,000. The Appels had built the hotel in the early 1920s. After making an additional $100,000 in renovations, the 473-room hotel opened as Charles and Lillian Brown's Hotel and Country Club with the phone number Hurleyville 150. The resort became known for the wealthy patrons it attracted, competing against the larger establishments in the area. Without the advantage of having a golf course, the owners concentrated their capital on the finest food and big names in entertainment to entice tourists.
The hotel's Brown Derby night club would
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California Institute of Technology
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Research
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stations as part of an international collaborative effort of measuring greenhouse gases globally. One station is on campus.
Undergraduates at Caltech are also encouraged to participate in research. About 80% of the class of 2010 did research through the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program at least once during their stay, and many continued during the school year. Students write and submit SURF proposals for research projects in collaboration with professors, and about 70 percent of applicants are awarded SURFs. The program is open to both Caltech and non-Caltech undergraduate students. It serves as preparation for graduate school and helps
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Battle of Goose Green
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Attack on the airfield
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platoon took up new positions and helped cover the retreat of Gómez-Centurión along the Darwin-Goose Green track.
Four Paras of D Company and approximately a dozen Argentines were killed in these engagements. Among the British dead were 29-year-old Lieutenant Barry and two NCOs, Lance-Corporal Smith and Corporal Sullivan, who were killed after Barry's attempt to convince Sub-Lieutenant Gómez-Centurión to surrender had been rebuffed. C Company had not lost a single man in the Darwin School fighting, but Private Steve Dixon, from D Company, died when a splinter from a 35 mm anti-aircraft shell struck him in the chest. The Argentine 35mm anti-aircraft
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Bidong Island
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Vietnamese refugees
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Southeast Asian countries discouraged refugees from landing on their shores. Refugee boats were often pushed offshore or towed to Bidong and other designated camps.
Conditions on Bidong were difficult. One visitor, Leo Cherne, called Bidong "Hell Isle." Refugees crowded onto the island "lived in makeshift huts two and three stories high made of salvaged timbers from wrecked boats, plastic sheets, tin cans, and corrugated iron sheets." Latrines and wells were inadequate; tropical rainstorms sent rivers of filthy water through the camp; all food and clean water had to be imported from the mainland. Water was rationed at one gallon per
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Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field
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Setting
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Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field Setting The oil field is one of many discovered in the 1960s and 1970s underneath the ocean bottom offshore of Southern California. Most of the field is in relatively shallow water, with the water depths ranging from about 120 to 200 feet (61 m). It is about three miles (5 km) long by one half mile across, extending from west-southwest to east-northeast, and has a total productive surface area of approximately 340 acres (1.4 km²).
The field is divided into five leases, with three in the state tidelands zone, and two in the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) zone.
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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd
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Privy Council decision & Subsequent developments
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Leyland case cannot be said to be plainly and obviously present in this case. The analogy with repair is not strong enough to bring the case within the exceptional doctrine which the House of Lords propounded. ...They will therefore humbly advise Her Majesty that the appeal should be allowed.... Subsequent developments In Mars U.K. Ltd. v. Teknowledge Ltd., the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, considered the non-derogation doctrine in the wake of Green Cartridge. Mr. Justice Jacob interpreted Green Cartridge as holding that the British Leyland “spare parts exception applied only where it was plain and obvious that the
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By Your Leave
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Production
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that production on the film would begin by August 1. By the time the picture was filming in August, Genevieve Tobin was selected to play the female role opposite Morgan; she had been loaned to RKO by Warner Bros. Charles Ray, a famous film star during the silent picture era, was added to the cast the same month. Also in August it was revealed that Allan Scott had written a role specifically into the screenplay for Gene Lockhart, who had been loaned to RKO by MGM. In early September it was revealed that Charles Ray had joined the cast. "Fatty"
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British nationality law and Hong Kong
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British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act, 1990: British citizenship for 50,000 Hong Kong families & Hong Kong (War Wives and Widows) Act, 1996: British citizenship for Hong Kong war wives and widows
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30 June 1997. Hong Kong (War Wives and Widows) Act, 1996: British citizenship for Hong Kong war wives and widows Women who had received assurance from the Secretary of State that they would be eligible for settlement in the United Kingdom on the basis of their husband's war service in the defence of Hong Kong may be registered as British Citizens if they were resident in Hong Kong and had not remarried. There is no requirement for the woman to hold (or have held) any form of British nationality. Women registered as British Citizens under this act acquire British
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CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT 1882
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Characteristics & Modifications
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of 1880 and 1881.
Since these locomotives were delivered with permanently coupled tenders, their cabs did not need side entrances with double handrails, like their predecessors of 1880 and 1881 did with their optional tenders. Access was by pairs of steps, mounted on the engine as well as on the tender, with one handrail attached to the engine and the other to the tender. Modifications On the Eastern System, problems were experienced with the low-grade local coal from the Cyphergat and Molteno collieries in the Stormberg. It had a high content of non-combustible material which often caused delays, since it required
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Bremridge
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de Tracy confirmation & FitzMartin
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which still survives today in residence at its ancient seat of Cruwys Morchard, anciently held as tenants of the de Tracey family; members of the Beaumont family (Latinised to Bello Monte) of Youlston in the parish of Shirwell, great landowners, a member of the de Filleigh family lord of the manor of Filleigh, in which parish is now situated Bremridge; and Hugh de Chagford, of Chagford, Dartmoor. Also William Coffin of Portledge, lord of the manor of Alwington, which family survived there in the male line until 1766. FitzMartin The eventual heiress of the barony was Maud de
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Black Lives Matter
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Republicans
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Jersey chapters of the NAACP and ACLU.
BLM activists also called on the Republican National Committee to have a presidential debate focused on issues of racial justice. The RNC, however, declined to alter their debate schedule, and instead also supported a townhall or forum.
In November 2015, a BLM protester was physically assaulted at a Donald Trump rally in Birmingham, Alabama. In response, Trump said, "maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing." Trump had previously threatened to fight any Black Lives Matter protesters if they attempted to speak at one of his events.
In
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B-Prolog
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Arrays and the array subscript notation & Loops with foreach and list comprehension
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be used to access elements of lists. For example, the nth/3 predicate can be defined as follows:
nth(I,L,E) :- E @= L[I]. Loops with foreach and list comprehension Prolog relies on recursion to describe loops. The lack of powerful loop constructs has arguably made Prolog less acceptable to beginners and less productive to experienced programmers because it is often tedious to define small auxiliary recursive predicates for loops. The emergence of constraint programming constructs such as CLP(FD) has further revealed this weakness of Prolog as a modeling language. B-Prolog provides a built-in, called foreach, for iterating over collections and the list
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British nationality law and Hong Kong
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British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act, 1990: British citizenship for 50,000 Hong Kong families
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to creating the British Nationality Selection Scheme, which granted to a select 50,000 people and their families the ability to obtain full British citizenship without having to fulfill the ordinary requirements, under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act, 1990. Under the act, the Home Secretary was required to register any person recommended by the Governor of Hong Kong (as well as the applicant's spouse and minor children) as a British Citizen. Any person who was registered under the act automatically ceased to be a BDTC upon registration as a British Citizen. No person could be registered under the act after
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Camera angle
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Angles and their impact
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the viewer the setting. The rest of the shots are most typically done in an eye level or point of view shot although it is possible to do any shot with any angle. There is the long shot which shows the subject even though the setting still dominates the picture frame.
Then, there is the medium long shot which makes the subject and the setting have equal importance and has the two about 50/50 in the frame. Then is the medium shot which emphasizes the character and is about a knees to waist up type shot. Then the medium close
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Battle of Long Tan
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Lessons learned and subsequent operations
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procedures were implemented to provide clearer direction in such circumstances.
A week following the battle US II FFV launched a large-scale corps-sized sweep of Phước Tuy on 23 August. Operation Toledo saw the deployment of two brigades of the US 1st Infantry Division, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, and two ARVN Ranger battalions in an attempt to destroy the 274th and 275th Regiments. 1 ATF involvement included both 5 and 6 RAR and supporting units. It lasted until 8 September and despite the intensity of the previous fighting little contact occurred, with no evidence of a large
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Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania)
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Brooke family
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"Brooke Manor" (1844, demolished 1968) on a hill overlooking the town. In the mid-1870s, he hired Furness to modernize and expand it. George designed and oversaw construction of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, in the early 1850s. Twenty years later, he did the same for its Sunday school building (1872–73), which he and his brother donated. George designed his own Second Empire mansion, "Brookewood" (1860, burned 1917), and its many additions. After Edward's 1878 death, George selected Furness to design a major expansion of St. Michael's Church, 1884-85. This included the addition of transepts, a chancel and choir, a bell
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Bronze Horseman
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Statue
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Bronze Horseman Statue The equestrian statue of Peter the Great is situated in the Senate Square (formerly the Decembrists Square), in Saint Petersburg. Catherine the Great, a German princess who married into the Romanov line, was anxious to connect herself to Peter the Great to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the people. She ordered its construction, and had it inscribed with the phrase Petro Primo Catharina Secunda MDCCLXXXII in Latin and Петру перьвому Екатерина вторая, лѣта 1782 in Russian, both meaning 'Catherine the Second to Peter the First, 1782', an expression of her admiration for her predecessor and her
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Brushless DC electric motor
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Transport & Cordless tools
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hybrid vehicles and personal transporters. Most electric bicycles use brushless motors that are sometimes built into the wheel hub itself, with the stator fixed solidly to the axle and the magnets attached to and rotating with the wheel. Most electrically powered RC models use brushless motors because of their high efficiency. Cordless tools Brushless motors are found in many modern cordless tools, including some string trimmers, leaf blowers, saws (circular or reciprocating), and drills/drivers. The advantages of brushless over brushed motors (low weight, high efficiency) are more important to handheld, battery powered tools than to large, stationary tools plugged into
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Battle of Goose Green
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Darwin Parks
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suppress the trenches which were giving us so much trouble. We took about 45 minutes to extract ourselves by the use of smoke and pauses in firing.
Between 9 and 10 that morning, 2 Para's A and B Companies broke off their attacks and began to withdraw to the reverse side of Middle Hill and the base of Coronation Point, with 2 Para's second-in-command, Major Chris Keeble requiring 2 hours to resume the attacks after the death of the British battalion commander."We were outranged. We just couldn't get across the open ground to get at their machine-guns, and after five hours
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Battle of Cold Harbor
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June 1
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management of Crittenden, both Confederate probes were repulsed.
At this same time, Warren's division under Lockwood had become lost wandering on unfamiliar farm roads. Despite having dispatched Lockwood explicitly, the V Corps commander wrote to Meade, "In some unaccountable way, [Lockwood] took his whole division, without my knowing it, away from the left of the line of battle, and turned up the dark 2 miles in my rear, and I have not yet got him back. All this time the firing should have guided him at least. He is too incompetent, and too high rank leaves us no subordinate place for
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Battle of Rossbach
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Trap
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in what they presumed would be the general chase. Any semblance of the wheeling pivot was lost in these fresh maneuvers, and the remaining columns lost all cohesion and order.
Moller's artillery on Janus hill again opened fire on this confusion of men and horses at 3:15 pm. When they came under the fire of Moller's guns, the Allied cavalry, which now lay north of Reichardtswerben and well ahead of their own infantry, suffered from the barrage, but the commanders were not particularly concerned about the display of cannon fire. It was usual to employ heavy guns to protect a retreat,
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CS 27
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Design
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CS 27 Design The CS 27 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a masthead sloop rig, a transom-hung rudder and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 6,100 lb (2,767 kg) and carries 2,400 lb (1,089 kg) of ballast.
The boat has a draft of 5.17 ft (1.58 m) with the standard iron-ballasted keel and 3.92 ft (1.19 m) with the optional longer shoal draft lead-ballasted keel. About 90 were built with the shoal draft keel.
The boat was initially fitted with a Japanese Yanmar YSE diesel engine and later a Yanmar 1GM model.
In 1977 an increased area rudder with 2 in (5.1 cm) more added to the
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Boy de Jong
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Telstar
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September 2016, playing in the KNVB Cup away match against JVC Cuijk (3–1 win). Three days later, he made his Eerste Divisie league debut, replacing the injured Wesley Zonneveld in the fourth minute of the home match against FC Eindhoven (1–4 loss). On 30 September, he started in the away match against FC Den Bosch, keeping the first clean sheet of his senior career as the game ended 0–0. Due to a serious injury sustained by Zonneveld in January 2017, De Jong became the first choice goalkeeper for Telstar for the remainder of the season. He ended his first season
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California Institute of Technology
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Undergraduate program
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program emphasizes instruction in the arts and sciences and has high graduate coexistence. Caltech offers 24 majors (called "options") and six minors across all six academic divisions. Caltech also offers interdisciplinary programs in Applied Physics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Computation and Neural Systems, Control and Dynamical Systems, Environmental Science and Engineering, Geobiology and Astrobiology, Geochemistry, and Planetary Astronomy. The most popular options are Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Physics.
Prior to the entering class of 2013, Caltech required students to take a core curriculum of five terms of mathematics, five terms of physics, two terms of chemistry, one term
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CFM International LEAP
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Operations
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choose LEAP engines to power their A320neo aircraft; 39 PW1100G engines vs 396 CFM LEAP engines from January through early August 2017. As an example of PW1100G reliability issues, 9% of LEAP-powered A320neos were out of service for at least one week in July 2017, compared with 46% of those using the PW1100G. LEAP market share rose from 55% to 60% in 2016, but orders for 1,523 aircraft (29%) still haven't specified which engine will be chosen.
Introduction is smooth with the Boeing 737 MAX Leap 1B starting revenue service in May 2017 with Malindo Air with 8 h daily utilization,
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Bolsøy
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History
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Bolsøy History The parish of Bolsøy was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). According to the 1835 census, Bolsøy had a population of 2,391. On 1 January 1877, the Sotnakken farm (population: 19) was added to Bolsøy Municipality from Nesset Municipality. In 1915, a part of Bolsøy with 183 inhabitants was transferred to the town of Molde. Again in 1952, another part of Bolsøy (population: 1,913) was transferred to the town of Molde.
During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1
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Cape Cleveland Light
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Establishment
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Cape Cleveland Light Establishment Cape Cleveland was named by Captain James Cook in 1770, either in honour of a John Clevland the Secretary to the Admiralty around that time, or after Cleveland, England where he was born.
The need for a lighthouse at Cape Cleveland arose with the proclamation of Cleveland Bay as a port of entry in 1865, and the development of Townsville into a major port. From its beginning, the lighthouse was closely related to the Dent Island Light. The construction of both lighthouses was recommended by Commander George Poynter Heath, the Chairman of the Queensland Marine Board, in
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