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C-36 (cipher machine) | null | 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 u... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | LSU & Texas | 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 Razorback... |
Battle of Long Tan | A Company and 3 Troop fight through | 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... |
Boeing KC-767 | USAF lease, cancellation and re-award & Italian Air Force | 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 deliver... |
CZ 52 | Description | 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-sta... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | Post World War II to the end of the OBP era | 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 Uni... |
Bolvadin | Bolvadin today | 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 rush... |
California Institute of Technology | House system & Athletics | 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... |
Āma | Historicity | 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... |
Brändli BX-2 Cherry | Design and development | 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 ... |
Amelia Earhart | Assuming another identity | 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 fa... |
Callie Thorne | Life and career | 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 ... |
Brown's Hotel (Catskills) | Insurance and legal issues | 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 ... |
Arthur Addison | History | 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 le... |
Brett Cairns | General officer & Retirement and beyond | 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 exceptio... |
Battle of Long Tan | D Company reinforced | 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.... |
Battle for Jerusalem | Blockade at Latrun and Bab al-Wad | 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 o... |
Beloved (1998 film) | Critical reception | 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... |
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd | Background & Privy Council decision | 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 C... |
Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame | 1996 & 1997 & 1998 & 1999 | 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 - Yan... |
Arvelia Myers | Awards and acknowledgements | 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 s... |
Battle of Long Tan | Fighting continues | 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 h... |
Birmingham Bulldogs | History | 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 compet... |
California Institute of Technology | In media and popular culture | 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... |
Billy Pierce | Detroit Tigers (1945, 1948) & Chicago White Sox (1949–1961) | 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 ... |
Brown's Hotel (Catskills) | Insurance and legal issues | 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,... |
Amazarashi | 2015–2016: Sekai Shuusoku Ni Ichi Ichi Roku | 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 rea... |
British Racing Drivers' Club | Membership status & Young driver support | 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 elec... |
California Institute of Technology | Athletics | 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 ... |
Beach tag | null | 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... |
Battle of Long Tan | A Company and 3 Troop fight through | 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 clos... |
Bristol in the English Civil War | null | 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 Brist... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | Camp Phoenix | 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 y... |
Boletaceae | Taxonomy & Distribution | 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, ... |
Brett Cairns | General officer | 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. ... |
Black Lives Matter | 2014 | 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 Polic... |
British nationality law and Hong Kong | British Nationality Act, 1948 | 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 b... |
Carlos Lapetra | Club career & International career | 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 1... |
Bello, Antioquia | Geography & Metropolitan area | 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 alti... |
C.H.U.D. | Plot | 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 int... |
Cardigan (UK Parliament constituency) | History | 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 ... |
CFM International LEAP | Design | 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 ... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | Interior | 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, ... |
Brig | Rigging | 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 tha... |
Battle of Long Tan | Fighting continues | 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 l... |
Canons Ashby House | History | 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 uncha... |
Bonny Ibhawoh | null | 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 conser... |
Carlos Sandoval | Biography and Work | 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 201... |
Carl Jacobsen House | Architecture | 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 flash... |
Bruce Quarrie | Career & Criticism & Personal life | 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 pr... |
Carlos Barral | Biography | three volumes of memoirs are also held in high esteem. |
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd | Background | 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 ref... |
Cannonball Run II | Plot | 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 ... |
Battle of Long Tan | 12 Platoon attempts to link up with Buick | 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 un... |
California Institute of Technology | Project Vista & Post-war growth | 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 ... |
Automotive X Prize | Knockout stage & Finals stage | 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 ma... |
Beam projector | null | 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 re... |
C.H.U.D. | Home media | 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 la... |
Carbohydrate catabolism | null | 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 pote... |
Campbell Sports Center | Reviews | 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." |
Bismacine | null | 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 200... |
Amelia Earhart | Family fortunes | 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 A... |
Barneyville Historic District | Description and history | 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 ma... |
Calliae | null | 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 ... |
California Institute of Technology | Research | 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 o... |
Birth of the Cool | Thornhill's influence | 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 lesso... |
Birth of the Cool | Recording | 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... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 1 | 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... |
Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Correspondence with Washington | 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 e... |
California Institute of Technology | Undergraduate program | 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... |
Bandai Museum | G Style Cafe | 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 o... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | 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-figh... |
Cameron Run Watershed | Expansion: first cities and increasing needs of the population & Urban growth and watershed deterioration | 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, bridge... |
Brown's Hotel (Catskills) | History | 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 ... |
California Institute of Technology | Research | 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... |
Battle of Goose Green | Attack on the airfield | 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 Sulliv... |
Bidong Island | Vietnamese refugees | 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... |
Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field | Setting | 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... |
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd | Privy Council decision & Subsequent developments | 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... |
By Your Leave | Production | 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 i... |
British nationality law and Hong Kong | 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 | 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 re... |
CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT 1882 | Characteristics & Modifications | 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 handra... |
Bremridge | de Tracy confirmation & FitzMartin | 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 whi... |
Black Lives Matter | Republicans | 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 physic... |
B-Prolog | Arrays and the array subscript notation & Loops with foreach and list comprehension | 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... |
British nationality law and Hong Kong | British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act, 1990: British citizenship for 50,000 Hong Kong families | 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 regi... |
Camera angle | Angles and their impact | 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... |
Battle of Long Tan | Lessons learned and subsequent operations | 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 ... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | Brooke family | "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... |
Bronze Horseman | Statue | 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 peopl... |
Brushless DC electric motor | Transport & Cordless tools | 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 eff... |
Battle of Goose Green | Darwin Parks | 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,... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 1 | 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, wi... |
Battle of Rossbach | Trap | 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 gun... |
CS 27 | Design | 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... |
Boy de Jong | Telstar | 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, ke... |
California Institute of Technology | Undergraduate program | 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, Contro... |
CFM International LEAP | Operations | 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 mark... |
Bolsøy | History | 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 Bo... |
Cape Cleveland Light | Establishment | 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 por... |
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