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Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Settings and characters | (Ron Perlman), who reside in the fictional Morg City. Treyarch describes the new characters as "troubled individuals" with "a long and sordid history of past misdeeds". The four characters are thrown into a twisted version of the city, overrun by zombies, and are guided by a mysterious, unreliable figure called the Sha... |
Belarus Democracy Act of 2004 | null | 2011, further amending and updating the act.
All three bills were introduced by Representative Chris Smith, of New Jersey.
Earlier versions of the act that were introduced in 2001 and 2003 but not enacted into law were more severe, prohibiting travel of Belarusian officials, freezing assets, blocking certain trade, and... |
California Institute of Technology | Caltech startups & In media and popular culture | Impinj, Fulcrum Microsystems, Nanosys, Inc., Photon etc., Xencor, and Wavestream Wireless have emerged from Caltech. In media and popular culture Caltech has appeared in many works of popular culture, both as itself and in disguised form. As with MIT, a Caltech reference is often used to establish a character's high le... |
Casca (series) | Dr. Julius Goldman & The Longini | on his life and experiences throughout the ages. Dr. Goldman later leaves the Army and establishes his own practice.
As Dr Goldman ages and reaches his mid-70s, he introduces Casca to Danny Landries, the son of his former army comrade, Colonel Bob Landries. Danny first meets Casca in book 34 (Devil's Horseman) and grad... |
Belgica antarctica | Tolerance to extreme conditions & Lifecycle | to temperatures of +30 °C kills individuals in a few hours. It can, however, resist partial desiccation, surviving the loss of up to 70% of body water. Lifecycle B. antarctica spends most of its two-year lifecycle in four larval stages. Overwintering may occur in any instar. Terrestrial algae (particularly Prasiola cri... |
Bracken School Readiness Assessment | null | BSRA can be used with children as young as 2.6 years of age. The BSRA is composed of the first six subtests from the revised Bracken Basic Concepts Scale (BBCS-R). |
Bridgend Athletic RFC | History | Bridgend Athletic RFC History Bridgend Athletic RFC was reformed in 1972, after the Bridgend Youth team members in that year wanted to form a senior team so they didn't have to go their separate ways into senior rugby, hence the formation of the club which had previously existed up to 1939. The club become full member... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Collectivization | This had been long recognized, and while projections for agricultural production were adjusted, the shock of limited production could not be easily managed. While collections by the state were in turn limited, there were already clear stresses. The 1932 total Soviet harvest was to be 29.5 million tons in state collecti... |
Ceremonial deism | Usage by the Supreme Court | can, in a discrete category of cases, acknowledge or refer to the divine without offending the Constitution. This category of "ceremonial deism" most clearly encompasses such things as the national motto ("In God We Trust"), religious references in traditional patriotic songs such as "The Star-Spangled Banner", and the... |
Central Highlands (Madagascar) | null | Central Highlands (Madagascar) The Central Highlands, Central High Plateau, or Hauts-Plateaux are a mountainous biogeographical region in central Madagascar. They include the contiguous part of the island's interior above 800 m (2,600 ft) altitude. The Central Highlands are separated from the Northern Highlands of the ... |
Black Lives Matter | Internet and social media & Direct action | driven activism all over the world. Direct action BLM generally engages in direct action tactics that make people uncomfortable enough that they must address the issue. BLM has been known to build power through protest and rallies. BLM has also staged die-ins and held one during the 2015 Twin Cities Marathon.
Political... |
Castle Rotondo | Origin of the name & History | Castle Rotondo Origin of the name Castle Rotondo is named after the noble family, 'Rotondo' that resided in it for over 400 years. Prior to this, it was 'Castle Štafileo'. History The first owner, and builder, Stefano Štafileo arrived from Crete, Greece, and married a woman from Trogir. He became a well-respected resid... |
Asylum and Immigration Tribunal | Origins & The IAA | in high security cases. The information given to appellants and their representatives is limited as compared to other removal hearings. Origins The system of appeals to adjudicators (who were appointed by the Secretary of State) with the right of subsequent appeal to the Immigration Appeal Tribunal (IAT) (whose members... |
Chance and Necessity | Teleonomic & Inspiration & Awards & Summary | Chance and Necessity Teleonomic In this book, Monod adopted the term teleonomic to permit recognition of purpose in biology without appealing to a final cause. Inspiration According to the introduction the book's title was inspired by a line attributed to Democritus, "Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of... |
1969 York race riot | Escalating racial tension and the murder of Henry Schaad | series of white-on-black crimes incited retaliation in the form of fire-bombings and street brawls.
On July 17, 1969, with racial tensions at the boiling point, a black youth who burned himself playing with lighter fluid blamed a local white gang known as the Girarders. That would later be revealed as a lie, but not be... |
Boletaceae | Conservation & Edibility | climate changes and long-term drought. In a ten-year study from the island of Cyprus, most bolete species were found to be rare, highly restricted by low soil moisture and exhibited very erratic fruiting patterns strongly correlating to annual, late summer and early autumn precipitation. Edibility A large number of bol... |
California Institute of Technology | Rivalry with MIT & Honor code | group of Caltech students handed out mugs emblazoned with the MIT logo on the front and the words "The Institute of Technology" on the back. When heated, the mugs turn orange, display a palm tree, and read "Caltech The Hotter Institute of Technology." Identical mugs continue to be sold at the Caltech campus store. Hono... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Legislation provisions | dispatch of goods for the villages of all regions of Ukraine shall cease until kolkhozy and individual peasants begin to honestly and conscientiously fulfill their duty to the working class and the Red Army by delivering grain."
On November 24, the Politburo instructed that all those sentenced to confinement of three y... |
Cannonball Run II | Plot | with "two great-looking chicks in it" (as the cops chasing them continually say) is the duo of Jill Rivers (Susan Anton) and Marcie Thatcher (Catherine Bach). Another team (Mel Tillis and Tony Danza) is accompanied by an orangutan, who at times appears to be the driver. They are pulled over at one point by traffic cops... |
Big Three (Atlanta Braves) | Big Three era | to a 1-0 win over the New York Mets and put them one game away from advancing to the World Series. John Smoltz did his part on Game 4 as he only allowed two runs in 7.1 innings, but Mike Remlinger could not seal it for the Braves as he gave up another run which ultimately cost them the game, as they lost 3-2. After all... |
California Institute of Technology | Alumni | non-profit educational organization, the Exploratorium.
Arnold Beckman (PhD 1928) invented the pH meter and commercialized it with the founding of Beckman Instruments. His success with that company enabled him to provide seed funding for William Shockley (BS 1932), who had co-invented semiconductor transistors and want... |
Cameron Run Watershed | Urban growth and watershed deterioration & Recent history and improvement efforts | thorough NEPA assessment before approval. Many of the natural stream channels were piped, resulting in a network of storm sewers and culverts. In particular, Cameron Run was both straightened and moved to accommodate the Beltway and Route 1 interchanges and expansions. Recent history and improvement efforts The effect... |
Canada World View | null | Canada World View Canada World View (ISSN 1491-4573) was a quarterly magazine published by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade from 1998 until the spring of 2006. It described itself as providing "an overview of Canada's perspective on foreign policy issues and highlights the "Government ... |
Benji Madden | Career | 6 Mafia, Chamillionaire, and Matisyahu. As of September 2009 Madden has guest played in the band Taintstick, led by radio talk show host, professional MMA fighter, and pro skateboarder, Jason Ellis.
On April 3, 2010, Madden took part in a boxing match against MTV and VH1 host Riki Rachtman at Ellismania 5: Get These Br... |
Battle of Long Tan | Recognition | heroic unit citation, and the 275th Regiment may have been given a similar award. Many VC soldiers were also awarded Certificates of Commendation for their role in the fighting.
D Company, 6 RAR was awarded a US Presidential Unit Citation by Lyndon Johnson on 28 May 1968. The Royal Australian Regiment and 3rd Cavalry R... |
British nationality law and Hong Kong | Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2009: British citizenship for British Nationals (Overseas) who do not have another nationality or citizenship & British citizenship for non-ethnic Chinese which were wrongfully denied | the limbo status of probably the last remaining group of solely British nationals who have no other nationality or citizenship, who have not recently and deliberately given up another nationality or citizenship". To be eligible for registration, they must demonstrate that they had not lost, through action or inaction, ... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Collectivization | and transportation, or spoiled at elevators (wet grain). The total winter sowing area shrunk by ~2 million hectares. Livestock in kolkhozes remained without forage, which was collected under grain procurement. A similar occurrence happened with respect to seeds and wages awarded to kolhoz members. Grain collection con... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Natural reasons | to cause serious food shortages or even famine. The historian Mark Tauger believes that if these factors had not developed in 1931 and 1932, agricultural production would have been considerably larger.
The drought was not as bad as that of the non-famine year of 1936, and the earlier drought was centered outside Ukrain... |
Chance and Necessity | Vitalisms and animisms | a history of animating objects by giving spirits to them so as to bridge the apparent gap between the living and non-living. To them, a being made sense and was understandable only through the purpose animating the being and so, if mysterious objects, such as rocks, rivers, rain, and stars, exist it must also be for a ... |
Calendar (British TV programme) | 1968 to January 2007 | along with a mid-afternoon bulletin. In the latter part of the 1980s, ITV News Calendar expanded its lunchtime bulletin into a half-hour magazine show, Calendar Lunchtime Live. The programme was scrapped in early 1988 but reintroduced for a short period during 2001.
For over twenty years from June 1990, Calendar was pr... |
Chance and Necessity | Summary | because the living world is only a fraction of the universe. Monod believes the ultimate aim of science is to "clarify man's relationship to the universe" (Monod, xi) and from that reasoning he accords biology a central role. He goes on to state that he does not intend to make a thorough survey of modern biology but ra... |
Catawba (town), Wisconsin | Geography & Demographics | Catawba (town), Wisconsin Catawba is a town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 283 at the 2000 census. The Village of Catawba is located within the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 50.0 square miles (129.5 km²), of which, 50.0 square m... |
California Institute of Technology | Organization and administration & Academics | The JPL Director also serves as a Caltech Vice President and is responsible to the President of the Institute for the management of the laboratory. Academics Caltech is a small four-year, highly residential research university with a slight majority in graduate programs. The Institute has been accredited by the Western... |
California Institute of Technology | Undergraduate program | of biology, two terms of lab courses, one term of scientific communication, three terms of physical education, and 12 terms of humanities and social science. Since 2013, only three terms each of mathematics and physics have been required by the institute, with the remaining two terms each required by certain options.
A... |
Códice de Roda | null | Códice de Roda The Códice de Roda or Códice de Meyá (Roda or Meyá codex) is a medieval manuscript that represents a unique source for details of the 9th and early 10th century Kingdom of Navarre and neighbouring principalities. It is currently held in Madrid as Real Academia de la Historia cód. 78.
The codex is though... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Collectivization | the situation had very limited success. The quota on carried-on foods provision was lifted by Stalin (at Kosior's request) at the end of May 1932. The July GPU reports for the first half of 1932 mentioned the "difficulties with food" in 127 out of 484 rayons and acknowledged the incompleteness of the information for t... |
Cassiobury Park | Etymology & Lay out | The name "Caegesho" referred to a larger area of land granted by Offa to the Abbey of St Albans in 793. "Caeg" (Old English cæg) may have been a man's name, while Old English ho means "a spur of land". It was spelled "Caissou" or "Chaissou" in the 11th century and gradually evolved into "Cassio".
The suffix "-bury" o... |
Camille Bourniquel | Life | Camille Bourniquel Camille Bourniquel (7 March 1918 – 1 April 2013) was a French poet, novelist and painter. Life Born in Paris, Bourniquel became friends with the poets and painters of his generation, François Baron-Renouard, Bazaine, Bertholle, Elvire Jan, Hartung, Jean Le Moal, Manessier, Pignon, Singier. He wrote p... |
Bkerké | History | a body being secretively buried and tells the local ruler. He sends a contingent of horsemen to gain access to the convent, where they discover "abominations which make the hair stand on end". The founder of the convent, Hendia, had "destroyed her nuns, sometimes to get their property into her hands, at other times, be... |
Chance and Necessity | Evolution | many random recombinations of part of the antibody gene. The antibody that is able to bind to the antigen is multiplied. This remarkable example shows chance as the basis for one of the most precise adaptation phenomena. Monod makes the point that selection of a mutation is due to the environmental surroundings of the ... |
Barsam | Sex ratio & Literacy | are 1028 girls under 6 years of age per 1000 boys of the same age in the village. Overall sex ratio in the village has decreased by 14 females per 1000 male during the years from 2001 to 2011. Child sex ratio here has increased by 236 girls per 1000 boys during the same time. Literacy Total 975 people in the village ar... |
Caffe Mediterraneum | History | starring Dustin Hoffman was also filmed at a table in the Med, with Telegraph Avenue visible outside the window.
Of Telegraph Avenue, "many city officials and merchants say the avenue has lost its vibrancy" since the 1960s, but "until the 1990s, the Med thrived as a center for conversation and caffeine." Changes in own... |
Canadian Bird-class patrol vessel | Service history | had run aground off Nova Scotia. The heavy seas prevented rescue by ship and the crew were taken off by helicopter. |
BKMA Yerevan | History | for the following season. Halfway through the 1997 season, BKMA were folded and all their remaining matches were awarded 3–0 to their opponents, resulting in the 12th and last position and relegation. The club has been inactive ever since.
In 2019, BKMA was revived by the efforts of the Defence minister of Armenia Davi... |
Brunei People's Party | Formation & Radical influences from Malaya | Brunei People's Party Formation Brunei People's Party was established, initially, as a branch of the Malayan People's Party (MPP) on 21 January 1956, at the house owned by a prominent leader, H.M. Salleh at Kampong Kianggeh, Brunei Town, two months after MPP was founded in Malaya. About 150 people attended the event. S... |
Caverphone | Etymology | Caverphone Etymology The Caverphone was created by David Hood in the Caversham Project at the University of Otago in New Zealand in 2002, revised in 2004. It was created to assist in data matching between late 19th century and early 20th century electoral rolls, where the name only needed to be in a "commonly recognisa... |
Billy Pierce | Detroit Tigers (1945, 1948) | team's victory in the 1945 World Series although he did not appear in any games. He had a remarkably unassuming presence; Paul Richards, then a catcher for the Tigers, later recalled occasionally going to his neighborhood drugstore. One day, Pierce went up to him at practice and asked why Richards never talked to him a... |
Benyoucef Benkhedda | Early life & Algerian War | degree in pharmacy in 1953. In 1942 he joined the Algerian People's Party (PPA). A year later he was arrested and detained by local SDECE agents for campaigning against conscription of Algerians in the war against Germany as part of the "unsubmissives of Blida". He was released eight months later. Algerian War He was a... |
Bremridge | John Dodderidge (1555-1628) | present large sandstone building with the date "1901" sculpted on its parapet. A room of ornate carved oak panelling dated 1617 from this house survives in Barnstaple Guildhall, known as the "Dodderidge Room" and an ornate overmantel displays the date 1617 between the initials "PD" and "ED", signifying Pentecost and h... |
Battle of Long Tan | 50th anniversary | well as a concert by Little Pattie led to the Vietnamese government cancelling the event. Following late-night talks by Malcolm Turnbull with the prime minister of Vietnam, a low-key ceremony was once again permitted. On 18 August 2016 a low-key ceremony was held on the battlefield; more than 1,000 Australian veterans ... |
Belgrade Cooperative | History & The building | close vicinity to the so-called Little Market on the Sava River. The construction began in the spring of 1905 and was completed in 1907, in the record time for that period.
The total floor area covers 5,000 m² (54,000 sq ft). The building Belgrade Cooperative Building was built according to the project by two leading B... |
Automotive X Prize | History | year, the X Prize Foundation solidified sponsorship for the prize and on 20 March 2008 announced that Progressive Insurance would be the Title Sponsor of the Prize and fund the $10 million purse. From that point onward, it was known as the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize (PIAXP).
At the 12 April 2007 announce... |
CDex | Features | CDex Features CDex is able to convert CD audio into several formats including WAV, Vorbis, MP3 (using the LAME encoder), VQF, Musepack, APE, and many others. As of version 1.70b2 FLAC encoding is native, but for version 1.51 FLAC and other codecs can be used by using an external encoder. It supports CD-Text to allow ri... |
Brown's Hotel (Catskills) | Jerry Lewis association | Lewis on another billboard stated “Brown’s is my favorite resort.” Jerry Lewis’ father Danny, a former vaudeville entertainer, also performed emcee duties at the lounge. For years during his famous telethon, Lewis would appeal to viewers to ask “Uncle Charles and Aunt Lillian” to donate to the fight against muscular dy... |
Carl Jacobsen House | Architecture & Garden | parents and grand parents, from part of the decorations on the facade facing the garden.
The servants' wing is decorated with glazed ceramic reliefs of grasses and fruits created by K. Hansen Reistrup at Kähler's workshop. Garden On the rear side of the house, a raised veranda with a rough iron balustrade runs along th... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | 20th century | of Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and a great-great-grandfather on his mother's side. Edward II made the portrait the centerpiece of his mansion's parlor. George Jr. inherited the pendant portrait of the Speaker's wife, Catharine Schaeffer Muhlenberg. The F... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Information blockade | say that the Soviet regime, by preventing news of the famine from reaching the outside world, prevented foreign sources from providing aid to alleviate the famine and associated hardships. Some claim the same thing happened during the earlier 1921–23 famine in the Soviet Union. With regard to the earlier famine, some r... |
Chance and Necessity | Molecular ontogeny | loses function but, if the initial "normal" conditions are restored, the subunits will usually reassemble spontaneously. This spontaneity is due to the fact that the chemical potential needed to form the oligomer is present in the solution of monomers and because the bonds formed are non-covalent.
The author continues ... |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Multiplayer & Zombies | a tenth specialist named Blackjack was added to the game. Blackjack is able to mimic the abilities of other specialists, and is only playable for a short amount of time upon completing a set of challenges. A new "Gunsmith" feature offers aesthetic variations in weapon attachments, allowing various weapon customization ... |
Cassiobury Park | Lay out | more direct route. The direction of flow is north to south. The Gade is a tributary of the Colne, which ultimately flows into the Thames at Staines.
The valley is partly wooded. Some of the woodland is rather wet and gloomy, but very beautiful; alder Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. is frequent beside the streams. Here als... |
Castle of Silves | History | include the extensive walls in the west. In 1160, it was sacked by Ferdinand I of León and Castile, but remained only for a short time in the hand of the Christians: it was quickly recaptured by the Moors. King Sancho I of Portugal, supported by the powerful Crusader army, conquered the city, after a prolong encircleme... |
Carlos Saleiro | Sporting CP | appearances, he managed to feature in the play-offs as the club secured promotion into the Liga de Honra (second tier). He returned to the club for the 2006–07 campaign, and scored four goals in 26 games as they were relegated in 15th place. He returned to the Liga de Honra for the 2007–08 campaign on loan at newly pro... |
Binet-Valmer | Biography | title of his magnum opus, In Search of Lost Time: Initially it was called Les Intermittences du cœur, but when Proust learned that Binet-Valmer had published the novel Le Cœur en désordre (1912), the name was changed to À la recherche du temps perdu, with the former title making an appearance as a subtitle in the volum... |
Who Are You (The Who song) | Live performances | This can be seen in the DVD At Kilburn 1977 + Live at the Coliseum. Despite that being the first performance, this song had its roots in jams in the band's 1976 concerts, most notably at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto on 21 October 1976, drummer Keith Moon's last North American appearance with The Who, where the band play... |
Cecogram | Etymology & Origin | the blind' (formerly, 'literature for the blind'), Royal Mail uses 'articles for the blind', and the United States Postal Service uses 'free matter for the blind'. Origin Braille printing uses paper formats larger and heavier than those used in traditional printing. Posting braille media is therefore more expensive. To... |
Beth Brant | Activism/Mentor | workshops, including the Women of Colour Writing Workshop held in Vancouver in 1991, the 1991 Michigan Festival of Writers in East Lansing, the International Feminist Book Fair held in Amsterdam in 1992, and the Flight of the Mind Writing Workshop in Eugene, Oregon in 1992. In addition, she formed creative writing work... |
Black Lives Matter | 2014 | In Oakland, California, fourteen Black Lives Matter activists were arrested after they stopped a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train for more than an hour on Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year. The protest, led by Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, was organized in response to the grand... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Location & May 31 | positioned to receive reinforcements sailing up the Pamunkey River, and could attack either the Confederate capital or its Army of Northern Virginia. May 31 The cavalry forces that had fought at Old Church continued to face each other on May 31. Lee sent a cavalry division under Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to reinforce Brig... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Collectivization | 1930 decree, in which the deadline for the complete collectivization of the Ukrainian SSR was set for the period from the end of 1931 to spring 1932, the authorities decided to accelerate the completion of the campaign in autumn 1930. The high expectations of the plan were outperformed by local authorities even withou... |
Carl-August Fleischhauer | Biography | of Liechtenstein property in the area of former Czechoslovakia in connection with the Second World War as a German international investment and its attraction to settle German war debts. The court at this time reigning German Judge Bruno Simma took no part in the decision, since he had previously worked as a legal advi... |
Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Revolutionary War & Correspondence with Washington | he visited Washington, at Valley Forge. Correspondence with Washington When the Fairfax Resolves were debated in 1774, Fairfax sent letters to George Washington, the chairman of the committee considering the Resolves, giving reasons why they should not be adopted:
For I think myself bound to oppose violent measures now... |
Centennial High School (Oregon) | Academics | Centennial High School (Oregon) Academics In 1989, Centennial High School was honored in the Blue Ribbon Schools Program, the highest honor a school can receive in the United States.
In 2008, 76% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 411 students, 311 graduated, 73 dropped out, eight received a mod... |
Anthony Miller (murderer) | The trial & Execution | to death by Lord Wheatley, the trial judge. However, as a 16-year-old, Denovan was considered a child in the judicial system and therefore too young to face the death penalty. Consequently, he was sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure. Execution The appeals of both Miller and Denovan were dismissed by the ... |
Chance and Necessity | Vitalisms and animisms | the principle of objectivity).
He divides these theories into vitalist, in which the teleonomic principle operates only in living matter (there is a purpose/direction in which living things alone develop), and animist, in which there is a universal teleonomic principle (that is expressed more intensely in the biosphere... |
Carbofuran | Chemistry & Bans | Carbofuran Chemistry The technical or chemical name of carbofuran is 2,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-7-benzofuranyl methylcarbamate and its CAS number is 1563-66-2. It is manufactured by the reaction of methyl isocyanate with 2,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-7-hydroxybenzofuran. Bans Carbofuran is banned in Canada and the European U... |
California Institute of Technology | Alumni | concentrated their studies on the very small universe of atoms and molecules. Nobel laureate Carl D. Anderson (BS 1927, PhD 1930) proved the existence of positrons and muons, Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan (BS 1928, MS 1929) synthesized the first transuranium element, Nobel laureate Leo James Rainwater (BS 1939) investi... |
Cardigan (UK Parliament constituency) | History | Cardigan (UK Parliament constituency) History For much of its existence, the constituency was dominated by a relatively small number of landed families. During the eighteenth century, representation was keenly contested between the county families.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the county town of Cardigan rema... |
Ceriano Laghetto-Groane railway station | Services | Ceriano Laghetto-Groane railway station Services Ceriano Laghetto-Groane is served by the line S9 of Milan suburban railway service, operated by the lombard railway company Trenord. |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Story | robot. Rescued by Taylor, the Player undergoes cybernetic surgery to save their life, being installed with a direct neural interface (DNI) and receiving virtual training from Taylor and his team during surgery. Hendricks also undergoes surgery.
After five years of wetwork, the Player and Hendricks are put under the com... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | Transition to BCYP to present | instituted a fundraising campaign between 1991 and 1993. The campaign raised $75,000 in donations from alumni, service organizations, and corporations. The Vancouver Foundation matched that amount, to establish the Walter S. Owen Fund.
At that same time, the BCYP undertook new fundraising initiatives, such as holding a... |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Settings and characters & Development | Gersh, as well as introduces the mysterious omnipotent being Doctor Monty (Malcolm McDowell). Robert Picardo also briefly reprises his role from Call of Duty: Black Ops as United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Development Call of Duty: Black Ops III is the twelfth game in the Call of Duty franchise, and t... |
Behnam Malakooti | Education | Behnam Malakooti Education Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (1982), Purdue University
MS in Industrial Engineering (1979), Purdue University
MS in Economics (1978), Purdue University |
California Institute of Technology | Athletics | diving, men's and women's tennis, track and field, women's volleyball, and men's and women's water polo. Caltech's mascot is the Beaver, a homage to nature's engineer. Its teams (with the exception of the fencing team) play in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which Caltech co-founded in 191... |
Carbohydrate catabolism | The Citric acid cycle (also known as the Krebs cycle) & Oxidative phosphorylation | further harness the energy from the acetyl group. The energy from the acetyl group, in the form of electrons, is used to reduce NAD+ and FAD to NADH and FADH₂, respectively. NADH and FADH₂ contain the stored energy harnessed from the initial glucose molecule and is used in the electron transport chain where the bulk of... |
Carlos Sandoval | Biography and Work | not receive education primarily in Europe or the US and have no formal degree in composing. He did however, eventually take up studying in Europe, where he learnt Piano tuning and construction at the Bösendorfer Klavier Fabrik in Vienna (1980–82). This stint, rather than the "Vienna School") changed his outlook on musi... |
Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy | Life | Mountjoy's children. Like his father, Mountjoy was deeply interested in the humanist educational programme and he tried to engage the learned scholar and educationist Roger Ascham, then teaching at Cambridge, as a tutor to his eldest son and secretary to himself. Although Ascham did not take the position — and he also ... |
Callanish VIII | null | it would appear that a semicircle was the original intention. The tallest stone is nearly three metres high and the cliff-edge axis of the circle gives a diameter of about 20 metres. |
California Institute of Technology | Performing and visual arts & Annual events | Bands and a Concert Band. For vocal music, Caltech has a mixed voice Glee Club and a smaller Chamber Singer group. The theater program at Caltech is known as TACIT, or Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology. There are two to three plays organized by TACIT per year, and they were involved in the producti... |
Chance and Necessity | The Kingdom and darkness | the main threat became other men and tribal warfare came to be an important evolutionary selection factor and this would favor group cohesion. Cultural evolution affected physical evolution; “it is behavior that orients selective pressure” (Monod, 162). The author then says that due to the accelerating pace of cultural... |
Canberra Week | null | Canberra Week Canberra Week is an Australian television series which aired only in Canberra.
The series aired on ABC, and included a news segment, interviews and a gardening segment. It ran from 1963 to 1965, and aired in a 25-minute time-slot. It was replaced with Studio 11 in 1966. It was one of a small number of tel... |
Castle of Alvor | History | Within ten years, on 13 December 1505, King Manuel issued a foral (charter) to the parish of Alvor.
The apparent simplicity of the structure that survived to this day contrasts with the importance of the location during the Middle Ages. Current thinking suggests that the actual Castle of Alvor corresponded to the primi... |
Carbuncle Cup | null | magazine's website was at first used to select the winner. Since 2009 a small group of critics has selected the winner.
The award was inspired by the Carbuncle Awards of Scottish architecture magazine Urban Realm, formerly Prospect, had been presenting to buildings and areas in Scotland since 2000.
The names derive fro... |
California Institute of Technology | Annual events | pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen and dropped from a sufficient height would produce a triboluminescent spark. This yearly event involves a crowd of observers, who try to spot the elusive spark. The title of the event is an oblique reference to the famous Millikan oil-drop experiment which measured e, the elemental uni... |
Canadian Pacific 2816 | Preservation and other remaining H1 Hudsons | the non-streamlined H1a and H1b classes built in 1929 and 1930 numbered 2800–2819. The four other remaining sister engines to 2816 are the semi-streamlined Royal Hudsons numbered 2820–2864. The remaining Royal Hudsons are numbers 2839 (H1c), 2850 and 2858 (both H1d) and the 2860 (H1e). Currently, 2816 and 2860 are the ... |
Brushless DC electric motor | Aeromodelling | to large motors rated at well into the kilowatt output range, have revolutionized the market for electric-powered model flight, displacing virtually all brushed electric motors, except for low powered inexpensive often toy grade aircraft. They have also encouraged a growth of simple, lightweight electric model aircraft... |
Cape Meares | Geography & Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint | Cape Meares Geography Immediately north of the cape is the community of Cape Meares, next to Cape Meares Lake. Cape Meares beach extends north of the community of Cape Meares, along a sand spit, or peninsula, that encloses Tillamook Bay. The peninsula is alternatively known as Bayocean, after a popular upscale resort... |
Berechiah ha-Nakdan | Biography & Fox Fables | honour at his father's respected position and refers to him as a "tanna and pedant." Fox Fables Berechiah is known chiefly as the author of Mishle Shu'alim (Hebrew: משלי שועלים, 'Fox Fables'), a set of over a hundred fables in rhymed prose, some of his own invention and some reworked from Aesop's Fables, the Talmud, a... |
Aviation Week & Space Technology | History & Editions & Ownership and related products | Aviation Week & Space Technology History The magazine was first published in August 1916 and changed to its current title in January 1960. Other titles the magazine has held include Aviation & Aircraft Journal (1920–1921), Aviation (1922–1947), Aviation Week (1947–1958), Aviation Week Including Space Technology (1958–1... |
C.H.U.D. | Plot | C.H.U.D. Plot The film opens with a woman, Flora Bosch, walking her dog down an empty, darkened city street. As she passes by a manhole, a creature attacks Mrs. Bosch and drags her and the dog into the sewers.
George Cooper lives with his girlfriend Lauren. George, a once-prominent fashion photographer, has since forgo... |
Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol | Sexual differentiation | (1996) lists diethylstilbestrol (pp. 2175–76) as a nonsteroidal estrogen with carcinogenic properties that "causes male impotence and transsexual changes, especially in offspring exposed in utero".
There is some evidence linking prenatal hormonal influences on sexual orientation, gender identity and transgender develop... |
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