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Brett Cairns | Junior officer & Senior officer | to February 1982) he completed the Canadian Forces Staff School, upgraded to Section Lead, and completed the Fighter Weapons Instructor Course (Canada's equivalent of the USAF Weapons School and the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program).
While at the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron at Shaw... |
Billy Pierce | Offensive support | game, they averaged only 3.36 runs in Pierce's starts. By 1955 it was regularly noted that Chicago's offensive struggles were placing undue pressure on the pitching staff, wearing them out with "one tense game after another, never having a comfortable margin that might permit a little breather now and then"; Pierce was... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Procurement practice | 1930 and spring 1932, local authorities tended to collect products from kolkhozes in amounts greater than the minimum required, in order to exceed the contracted target, in some cases by more than 200%. Especially harmful methods utilized in the by contract policy were counter-plan actions, which were additional collec... |
Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Correspondence with Washington | a repeal of the Duty.
However, Washington responded:
As to your political sentiments, I would heartily join you in them, so far as relates to a humble and dutiful petition to the throne, provided there was the most distant hope of success. But have we not tried this already? Have we not addressed the Lords, and remonst... |
Camille Bernard | null | and later founded the École nouvelle, a school for children with language difficulties; the two institutions later merged into the Institut Camille-Bernard. The Théâtre des petits also had a regular radio program on Montreal's CKAC.
In 1973, she had her only major acting role, in Claude Jutra's film Kamouraska. She won... |
Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol | Sexual differentiation & DES Daughters and Sons study | this area of research is June Reinisch, former director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Reinisch cited several cases of "male feminization" among prenatally DES-exposed males.
Dr. Scott Kerlin, a major DES research scientist and founder of the DES Sons International Research Netwo... |
Chariots of Fire (play) | Critical reception | Purves of The Times wrote that "even this grumpy Olymposceptic was brought to actual tears, moved to empathy and understanding by the fabulous theatricality of it." She called Edward Hall's staging "thrilling" and the play "irresistible", adding that "above all, it's the sincerity: a full-blooded willingness to take th... |
Bruce McTavish | Naturalization & Personal life | Senate granted McTavish citizenship through House Bill No. 7388 which was sponsored by Senator Richard Gordon as chair of Senate committee on Justice and Human Rights. The Senate announced its decision to grant him citizenship on October 1, 2018. Personal life McTavish has settled in the Philippines and became a resid... |
Asclepiades of Bithynia | Medicine | asserting that he had discovered a more effective method of treating diseases than had been before known to the world. He decried the efforts of those who sought to investigate the structure of the body, or to watch the phenomena of disease, and he is said to have directed his attacks particularly against the writings ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Assessment | company from D445 Battalion—had been observed moving around the southern flank, and was only broken up by the cavalry after fears it might be ambushed on leaving Nui Dat proved groundless. Although D Company had initially been protected by indirect fire, the mobility and firepower of the cavalry proved decisive. On the... |
Battle of Rossbach | Situation in 1757 | distance from Moscow. Even so, the Imperial Russian Army offered a new threat to Prussia, forcing Frederick to abandon his invasion of Bohemia and to withdraw further into Prussian territory.
In Saxony and Silesia, the Austrian forces slowly reclaimed territory held by Frederick earlier in the year. In September, at th... |
B. H. Haggin | Career | Encounter, and The Yale Review. |
Carbofuran | Toxicity to vertebrates | kill a bird. Birds often eat numerous grains of the pesticide, mistaking them for seeds, and then die shortly thereafter. Before the granular form was banned by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1991, it was blamed for millions of bird deaths per year. the liquid version of the pesticide is less hazardous to bir... |
Billy Beane | Front office career | Twins in the American League Division Series, but were swept by the Detroit Tigers in the American League Championship Series.
Other low-payroll teams, such as the 2003 Florida Marlins and the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, have appeared in the World Series, with the former winning it.
After the 2002 season, the Boston Red Sox m... |
Big Three (Atlanta Braves) | Big Three era | East title. Tom Glavine did not pitch well in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Giants as he gave up eight runs in five innings as the Braves lost 8-5. After the Braves won Game 2 7-3, Greg Maddux went six innings while allowing two runs to lead the Braves to a 10-2 win over the Giants in Game 3 and put them one win away ... |
Charles Momsen | Gas mixtures & The Squalus rescue | commonly known as "the bends," which happens when nitrogen in the blood forms bubbles. These bubbles can block blood flow and cause intense pain, even death.
In experiments often performed by Momsen himself, the team replaced the nitrogen with nontoxic helium and mixed it with varying levels of oxygen depending on the ... |
California Institute of Technology | Post-war growth & 21st century | In 1973, the students from Dabney House protested a presidential visit with a sign on the library bearing the simple phrase "Impeach Nixon". The following week, Ross McCollum, president of the National Oil Company, wrote an open letter to Dabney House stating that in light of their actions he had decided not to donate ... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Primitive agriculture | in 1932, because of the foreign trade crisis and home producing establishing, no tractors were imported. In the whole of 1932, tractors supplied 679,000 hp (506 MW) to agriculture, considerably less than in 1931. Only about half became available in time for the harvest, and even less in time for the spring sowing. Anim... |
Canadian Pacific 2816 | Restoration | Hudson No. 2860, who had been looking for parts for 2860 and were offered the entire locomotive.
The locomotive was transported from Scranton to Montreal via Binghamton and Albany, New York, before being shipped cross country to the BC Rail steam shops in Vancouver for restoration. The locomotive was completely strippe... |
Xiao Zhichu | Personal life | was surnamed Wang. They had a son and a daughter. After she died of illness in 1931, Xiao married Chen Mannong (Chinese: 陳曼儂). They had 5 children.
His second son, Shiao Yi, was a Chinese American wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") novelist. His granddaughter Xiao Qiang, also known as Stephanie Shiao, is an actress in... |
Chance and Necessity | The Kingdom and darkness | which concentrates them among a shrinking elite. He also points to scientific and ethical advances that have allowed “genetic cripples” to live and reproduce (the author regards this as suspending natural selection). Monod says this suspension of natural selection is a peril to the species but that it will take quite a... |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Controversy & Seize Glory | team was "shocked" by the negative reaction of the marketing campaign, and offered an apology. Seize Glory Seize Glory is an official live action trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 that was directed by Wayne McClammy and starring Michael B. Jordan, Cara Delevingne and Marshawn Lynch. The trailer features Michael B. ... |
California Institute of Technology | Campus | Angeles. It is within walking distance of Old Town Pasadena and the Pasadena Playhouse District and therefore the two locations are frequent getaways for Caltech students.
In 1917 Hale hired architect Bertram Goodhue to produce a master plan for the 22 acres (8.9 ha) campus. Goodhue conceived the overall layout of the ... |
California Institute of Technology | Campus & Organization and administration | the campus include the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology, which opened in 2009, and the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Laboratory for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering followed in March 2010. The Institute also concluded an u... |
Boy Called Twist | Plot | His new friend Dodger teaches him the tricks of the trade, but the inexperienced Twist is caught trying to steal from Ebrahim Bassedien.
Although neither understand it, there is a strange affinity between this old man - who has lost his daughter - and the young boy who never knew his mother. Bassedien takes the little ... |
Cecogram | Etymology | Cecogram A cecogram (/ˈsiː.koʊ.ɡræm/ SEE-koh-gram), also known as literature for the blind, is a letter or a parcel that contains documents or items intended for visually impaired persons. Cecograms can be sent or received by such persons, as well as by organisations that provide assistance to the visually impaired. Ce... |
Bingo (1974 film) | Synopsis & Soundtrack | Bingo (1974 film) Synopsis Director Jean-Claude Lord exploits the post-October Crisis paranoia that was rampant in Quebec with considerable panache with this skilful melodrama. Although the story is not about the events leading up to the War Measures Act, it does draw upon the fabric and feelings of that time. A young ... |
Boy Called Twist | Plot | Boy Called Twist Plot Twist's mother dies in childbirth in the middle of nowhere. Fearing blame, the locals bury her in an unmarked grave and drop the baby off at a rural orphanage, where he is named Twist.
Growing up in the dusty wastes of the Swartland, sold from orphanage into child labour on the farms, and later to... |
Chance and Necessity | Invariance and perturbation | without any doubt constitute the most important discoveries ever made in biology." He adds that the full significance of the theory of natural selection was established by these discoveries. There is a brief review of DNA whose structure is a helix with translational and rotational symmetry and if artificially separate... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Legislation provisions | agricultural output was blamed on the kulaks, and later to agents and spies of foreign Intelligence Services—"nationalists", "Petlurovites", and from 1937 on, Trotskyists. According to a report by the head of the Supreme Court, by January 15, 1933, as many as 103,000 people (more than 14,000 in the Ukrainian SSR) had b... |
Cape Meares | Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint | The scenic viewpoint is the location of the "Octopus Tree", a large, multi-trunked Sitka Spruce with a trunk circumference of about 50 feet. It is accessible via a short hike from the main parking lot. |
Chai Wan | History | Northern Song and Southern Song Dynasty. During that period, there were merchants bought water in Chai Wan before they continued their journey to Guangzhou, Fujian province, for instance
Chai Wan was formerly known as Sai Wan (西灣), meaning "West Bay". At the beginning of the 18th century, the area consisted of six vill... |
Brunei People's Party | PRB in exile & Current status of PRB | an Ad Hoc Committee for the Independence of Brunei was established in Kuala Lumpur. Subsequently, on 7 May 1974, the PRB was formally reactivated with the naming of an executive committee with A.M. Azahari as president.
The PRB continued to garner international moral and material support throughout the 1970s and result... |
By the Light of the Moon (The Vampire Diaries) | Reviews | Katherine mauling each other, it all turns out to be just a dream. What a letdown."
Meg of Two Cents TV also gave a good review saying that this was a great episode. "I thought this episode did a good job of moving the story forward past [...] We’re moving forward on the road to Klaus and the werewolf storyline just ke... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | Brooke family & Furness | tower, and new church furniture (possibly executed by Daniel Pabst). George again oversaw the project, and he and his family paid for the expansion. The east transept was altered in 1887 for the installation of a Tiffany window, a memorial to Edward from his widow, Annie Moore Clymer Brooke. Furness About the time of E... |
Chance and Necessity | Invariance and perturbation | made up of proteins and nucleic acids and these are the same residues (twenty amino acids and four nucleotides). Similar functions are carried out by the same sequence of reactions that appear in all organisms for essential chemical operations (some variations exist that consist of new utilizations of universal metabol... |
Burkholderia pseudomallei | Identification | overgrown. Nonsterile specimens should, therefore, be cultured in selective media (e.g., Ashdown's or B. cepacia medium). For heavily contaminated samples, such as faeces, a modified version of Ashdown's that includes norfloxacin, amoxicillin, and polymyxin B has been proposed. In blood culture, the BacT/ALERT MB syst... |
Bill G. Lowrey | Career & Death | for Hillman College and Blue Mountain College until 1920, when he was appointed vice president of the Blue Mountain College, a position he held until 1921.
Lowrey was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1929), but was not renominated to the Seventy... |
By Your Leave | Reception | They especially enjoyed the performance of Morgan, and also gave positive mentions to Margaret Hamilton, Marian Nixon, Glenn Anders, and Neil Hamilton. Photoplay also enjoyed the film saying that it was a "... a gilt-edged guarantee of abundant chuckles," and lauding Morgan's performance of a man going through a mid-li... |
Cameron Fenton | Professional career & International career | the Warriors so he could play in their match against Canada 'A'.
On 12 September 2017, Edinburgh Rugby announced they had signed Fenton to a one year deal. International career He has represented Scotland at under-17, under-18 and under-20. |
Casimir Funk | Achievements | Vitamin B1 existed, and in his 1912 article for the Journal of State Medicine, he proposed the existence of at least four vitamins: one preventing beriberi (“antiberiberi”); one preventing scurvy (“antiscorbutic”); one preventing pellagra (“antipellagric”); and one preventing rickets (“antirachitic”). From there, Funk ... |
Chance and Necessity | Microscopic cybernetics & Molecular ontogeny | make each organism an autonomous functional unit. In the last part of the chapter Monod criticizes "holists" who challenge the value to analytically complex systems such as living organisms and that complex systems cannot be reduced to the sum of their parts. Monod first gives an example of dissecting a computer and th... |
CDex | History | release of version 1.79.
From version 1.76 the installer includes the adware OpenCandy.
In November 2017 version 1.96 was released. It is not clear who is the current code maintainer, and no contact details are provided. Four further versions were released by March 2018. |
Cassiobury Park | 14th to 19th century & Etymology | in Gade Avenue survives. At this time the park comprised 693 acres (2.80 km²), the Home Park and the Upper Park being separated by the River Gade. The Upper Park became the West Herts Golf Course.
In 1841 a fire destroyed the orangery, which was filled with newly collected plants and fine orange trees, some of which ha... |
Carbohydrate catabolism | Oxidative phosphorylation | mitochondrion to power the production of ATP. Oxidative phosphorylation contributes the majority of the ATP produced, compared to glycolysis and the Krebs cycle. While the ATP count is glycolysis and the Krebs cycle is two ATP molecules, the electron transport chain contributes, at most, twenty-eight ATP molecules. A ... |
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd | Privy Council decision | dahlias on the ground that this is the most economical way of going about it. It is hard to see why the appropriation of intellectual property rights should be any different.
Lord Hoffman then commented:
It is hard to escape the conclusion that although Lord Bridge felt driven to accept that Parliament had created inte... |
Caryl Parker Haskins | Career | Caryl Parker Haskins Caryl Parker Haskins (1908–2001) was a scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, governmental adviser and pioneering entomologist in the study of ant biology. Along with Franklin S. Cooper, he founded the Haskins Laboratories, a private, non-profit research laboratory, in 1935. He was professor... |
Burang Town | Etymology & History and religion | connection to Rakshastal. The Horse Mouth source of the Yarlung Tsanpo (Brahmaputra) is about 90 km. (55 mi.) SE of Lake Manasarovar. History and religion Burang is an ancient trading post. It is said to be the place where Sudhana, a previous incarnation of the Buddha, lived.
On a cliff above the town was the large an... |
Chance and Necessity | Of strange objects | The last general property Monod offers up as distinguishing living organisms is reproductive invariance which is the ability of a living being to reproduce and transmit the information corresponding to their own highly ordered structure. The author defines the primary telonomic project "as consisting in the transmissio... |
Brändli BX-2 Cherry | Design and development & Operational history | L.2400 and the Rotax 912. Also the flat 2-cylinder motorcycle derived BMW R1200GS has been used. Operational history The Cherry is kit built from plans, with some components provided. By 2010, more than 240 sets of plans had been sold and over 100 aircraft completed. In mid-2010, 76 were registered in Europe west of... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Refusal to provide aid for starving | available resources. While the numbers of such reports increased, the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine issued a decree on February 8, 1933, that urged every "hunger case" to be treated without delay and with a maximum mobilization of resources by kolkhozes, raions, towns, and oblasts. The... |
Canadian Pacific 2816 | Restoration & Excursion career | 2816 to its 1950s appearance and to its original specifications. During restoration, the locomotive was converted to burn oil and equipped with modern amenities such as a radio and a diesel control unit. The restoration took over two years and cost over $2,000,000, making it one of the most costly locomotive restoratio... |
Chance and Necessity | The demon of Maxwell & Microscopic cybernetics | the expense of chemical potential energy. Microscopic cybernetics In chapter four ("Microscopic Cybernetics") the author starts out by repeating the characteristic of extreme specificity of enzymes and the extreme efficiency of the chemical machinery in living organisms. The large-scale coordination among cells provide... |
Chance and Necessity | Molecular ontogeny | tertiary structure of proteins. In reviewing the tertiary structure, what he calls the native shape, he talks about the non-covalent interactions that bind the amino acids and the folding that determines the molecules three-dimensional shape including the sterospecific binding site.
The author then writes that a primar... |
Carlos Sandoval | Biography and Work | Carlos Sandoval Carlos Sandoval Mendoza (born 1956, Mexico City) Is a Mexican/German freelance composer and multimedia artist mostly recognized for his work joining technology and a Gestalt approach to the art of music composition and performance. Michael Zwenzner describes him as a "Socio-critical magician of the exte... |
Brett Cairns | Senior officer & General officer | they dealt with a resurgence of Russian Long Range Aviation approaching the shores of North America. While there, he authored an article entitled "Aerospace Power and Leadership Perspectives" that was featured in the Canadian Military Journal. He completed the United States Air Force Air War College in 2001 by corresp... |
Ceremonial deism | Usage by the Supreme Court & Controversy | all. [emphasis added, citations omitted] Controversy It has been unsuccessfully argued that the government requiring or promoting the phrase in "under God" violates protections against the establishment of religion guaranteed in the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
David Niose argues that reference to reli... |
Burial of Drowned Persons Acts 1808 and 1886 | null | by the parish for the recovery of drowned bodies. |
Camera angle | Angles and their impact | unnatural angle gives the viewer a feeling that world is out of balance or psychological unrest.
During production and post-production, it is necessary to give a unique alphanumeric identity to each camera angle, labeled as "scenes." For example: "Scene 24C." Camera angle letters are often pronounced on the set using e... |
Burning of the Midnight Lamp | Composition and lyrics | in the studio, failing to communicate or being a victim of failed understanding. The time for reflection on the plane leads Jimi to consider the downside of being the electric gypsy: the circus comes to town and moves on leaving no trace that it had ever been there – no roots, no home, no love. But Jimi keeps his own f... |
Brushless DC electric motor | Motion control systems & Positioning and actuation systems | efficiency. To obtain a variable speed response, brushless motors operate in an electromechanical system that includes an electronic motor controller and a rotor position feedback sensor.
Brushless DC motors are widely used as servomotors for machine tool servo drives. Servomotors are used for mechanical displacement, ... |
Chance and Necessity | The boundary | macromolecules capable of replication were formed, probably through spontaneous base pairing. And lastly, the evolution of a teleonomic apparatus around the "replicative structures" would lead to the primitive cell.
The author next turns his attention to the central nervous system. He lists the prime functions of the b... |
Bronze Horseman | Thunder Stone | from the Island of Kefallonia and serving as lieutenant-colonel in the Russian Army, offered to undertake the project. Carburis had studied engineering in Vienna and is considered to be the first Greek to hold a diploma in engineering.
Carburis directed workmen to wait for winter, when the ground was frozen, and then h... |
Battle of Long Tan | A Company and 3 Troop fight through | and a half hours after the battle began, D Company had succeeded in moving into an all-round defensive position. With the Australians concentrated, they threw back a heavy attack from the south-east, and then further thrusts from the east, north-east and south in close succession. Yet with D Company unable to manoeuvre... |
Billy Pierce | San Francisco Giants (1962–64) | of 23,755 gave him a roaring ovation, and he later said, "The cheers really got to me inside. Fans nowhere could have been more wonderful. I felt it way down deep."
The Giants were credited with pulling off the best deal of the year, with Larsen and Pierce – "the little southpaw chatterbox" – leading the team to the be... |
Charles Momsen | Early interest & The Momsen lung | crew died. Six sailors survived three days in the forward torpedo room, but had no way to escape. The Momsen lung After the S-4 incident, Momsen began working on a device to help trapped submariners escape safely to the surface. Officially called the Submarine Escape Lung, it consisted of an oblong rubber bag that recy... |
Binnie Roberts | Storylines | has begun to think that he and Della will soon be more than just friends. Binnie is adamant that Della should tell Steve about her sexuality, but Della finds the prospect of 'coming out' extremely daunting. Several days later, the situation is brought to a head prematurely, when Steve accidentally walks in on Della and... |
Blow Breeze | Plot | Blow Breeze Plot Mi-poong was a North Korean girl who studies dancing. She is bright and easygoing despite the situation in her country. One day, she has to defect to Seoul. She then meets Jang-go, an honest South Korean lawyer. Both of them get entangled in family inheritance problem. |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Multiplayer | the campaign, in which players battle in virtual simulations across a variety of battlefields, while wielding the avatars of nine elite soldiers, referred to collectively as "Specialists": infantry grunt Donnie "Ruin" Walsh; scoutswoman Alessandra "Outrider" Castillo; engineer David "Prophet" Wilkes; demolitions expert... |
By the Light of the Moon (The Vampire Diaries) | Plot | leave her in there but Stefan walks away to go find Elena and the two of them make up and are back together.
The episode ends with Damon apologizing to Rose for picking a fight with a werewolf that led to her getting bitten. Rose is just relieved that the myth was not real and the two of them agree to stay friends with... |
Charles Momsen | The Momsen lung & The diving bell | Service Medal for personally testing the device at a depth of 200 feet (61 m).
The Momsen lung saved its first lives in October 1944, when eight submariners used it to reach the surface after Tang (SS-306) sank in 180 feet (55 m) of water in the East China Sea.
The Momsen lung was eventually supplemented by the Steinke... |
Battle of Goose Green | Initial contact | a major raid to simulate a battalion-sized attack on Company A (under First Lieutenant Jorge Antonio Manresa), 12th Regiment that at the time was dug in on Darwin Ridge.
On 22 May, four RAF Harriers were launched from Hermes armed with cluster bombs, their intended targets being the fuel dumps and Pucaras at Goose Gree... |
Cerithiopsis prieguei | Description & Habitat | Cerithiopsis prieguei Description The maximum recorded shell length is 2.5 mm. Habitat Minimum recorded depth is 2 m. Maximum recorded depth is 71 m. |
Carl-August Fleischhauer | Biography | . In 1962 he began a career in the Foreign Office. From 1962 to 1963 he was in Iran and from 1969 to 1971 in Uruguay in diplomatic service operates. From 1972 he headed the department of international law from 1976 to 1983 legal department of the Foreign Office. In addition, he represented Germany at various internatio... |
Carbofuran | Bans & Toxicity to vertebrates | carbofuran usage in the US would be allowed only on corn, potatoes, pumpkins, sunflowers, pine seedlings and spinach grown for seed. However, in May 2009 EPA cancelled all food tolerances, an action which amounts to a de facto ban on its use on all crops grown for human consumption.
Kenya is considering banning carbofu... |
Bukit Katil (federal constituency) | History | Bukit Katil (federal constituency) History 2004–2016: The constituency contains the polling districts of Malim Jaya, Pasir Puteh, Peringgit, Pengkalan Batu, Peringgit Jaya, Bukit Palah, Bukit Piatu, Taman Asean, Seri Siantan, Rumpun Bahagia, Bachang Baru, Taman Melaka Baru, Sungai Putat, Taman Bukit Melaka, Ayer Keroh ... |
Cantilena (album) | Reception | Coltrane) as a spiritual forebear.
High Fidelity Magazine stated that, "The future of British jazz is in good hands with this acoustic quartet. The follow up to the well-received 'Eréndira', 'Cantilena' is a relaxed, free form set with classy performances all round but some particularly fine playing from Ken Stubbs on ... |
California Institute of Technology | World Wars & Project Vista | States Navy also maintained a naval training school for aeronautical engineering, resident inspectors of ordinance and naval material, and a liaison officer to the National Defense Research Committee on campus. Project Vista From April 1 to December 1, 1951, Caltech was the host of a federal classified study, Project V... |
Capel Bond | null | daughter of Abraham Spooner and his second wife, Anne Birch, at Holy Trinity in 1768. Anne's cousin Sarah Sebright (6th Baroness Sebright and mother of Henrietta, 2nd Countess Harewood) said of Capel Bond "I had seen Miss Spooner’s marriage in the news and never was more surprised how careful ought people to be that ha... |
Carl Friedrich von Gerber | null | Carl Friedrich von Gerber Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Gerber, since 1859 von Gerber (11 April 1823 – 23 December 1891) was a Saxon politician and one of Germany's leading jurists of his time.
Born to a Thuringian family in Ebeleben, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , Gerber studied law in Jena and taught it in Erlangen after 1847,... |
Carlos Saleiro | Sporting CP & Servette to Oriental | limited game time at the Estádio José Alvalade. He chose to leave Sporting CP a year before the end of his contract to search for first team football elsewhere, despite reports that new head coach Domingos Paciência's rated him highly. Servette to Oriental Saleiro signed a two-year contract with Servette in July 2011, ... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Family life | Charles Morgan (businessman) Family life Charles Morgan was born April 21, 1795 to George and Betsy Morgan. His native town was then known as Killingsworth, Connecticut, but is now known as Clinton. Charles had a younger sister named Wealthy Ann (b. September 6, 1798) and older brothers, Elias (b. September 26, 1790) a... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Criminalization of gleaning | penalty for minor offenses was limited to a fine of 500 rubles or three months of correctional labor.
The scope of this law, colloquially dubbed the "law of the wheat ears", included even the smallest appropriation of grain by peasants for personal use. A little over a month later, the law was revised, as Politburo pro... |
Catherine Breillat | Life and career | Catherine Breillat Life and career Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort. She decided to become a writer and director at the age of twelve after watching Ingmar Bergman's Gycklarnas afton, believing she had found her "fictional body" in Harriet Andersson's character, Anna.
She started her ca... |
Casca (series) | The Longini & Audiobook | the Brotherhood. We encounter them next in Casca 40 where Isabella Longini helps Casca during WWII, and again in Casca 42. Unlike the common habit where when a woman marries a man and loses her maiden name, in all cases of marriage the union results in the family name of Longini being retained, thus preserving their ... |
By Your Leave | Plot & Production | her. Putting him off, she tells him that she will give him an answer in the morning. After he leaves, she is afraid of her feelings, and she heads back to her home. After she arrives, she and Henry realize that the two really love each other, and they reconcile. Production In early January 1934, the play by Gladys Hurl... |
Brown's Hotel (Catskills) | Building fire & Insurance and legal issues | is.” Insurance and legal issues In July 2011, Grandview Palace had obtained fire insurance, in addition to another existing policy, through Hartford Insurance Company but the well-known financial group dropped its coverage less than two months later due to fire code violations. A replacement policy was then made throug... |
Battle of Long Tan | 12 Platoon attempts to link up with Buick | before eventually pushing forward another 100 metres (110 yd). By this time, the VC had succeeded in pushing behind 11 Platoon in an effort to outflank them, and a large force clashed with 12 Platoon as they attempted to come to their aid. Advancing from the north, two VC platoons then assaulted the Australians, who we... |
Carlos Saleiro | Servette to Oriental & Port Vale & International career | were made of match fixing against some of the players – though Saleiro himself was not implicated. Port Vale Saleiro signed a two-year contract with English League One club Port Vale, managed by Portuguese coach Bruno Ribeiro, in July 2016. He made his debut for the "Valiants" on 9 August, coming on as a 73rd-minute su... |
Broome, New York | History & Geography | Broome, New York History The town was one of the six original towns when the county was formed in 1797. Originally, named the "Town of Bristol," the name was changed to "Broome" in 1811.
Few settlers came to Broome until after the American Revolution. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town h... |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Special editions and downloadable content | Ops II multiplayer map Hijacked), Rise, Splash, and Gauntlet, a new Zombies map, Der Eisendrache, and several new gumballs for the Zombie mode. In March 2016, Treyarch revealed the second Map Pack, titled "Eclipse". The map pack has four new multiplayer maps, including a remake of the World at War map "Bonzai" and a ne... |
Blood Secret | Plot summary | Blood Secret Plot summary Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna refuses to speak after her mother's disappearance. Living at her great-great-aunt Constanza's house, she discovers a trunk and is transported into the lives of her Jewish ancestors living in Spain in the years before the Spanish Inquisition and in Spanish America. |
Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant | History & Cerro Dominador CSP project | May 2018, EIG Global Energy Partners closed a $758 million financing and Abengoa partnered with Acciona to restart construction and execute the second phase of the CSP section, which happened in June 2018. Among the financing funders are Natixis, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale, ABN AMRO, Banco Santander, Commerzbank a... |
California Institute of Technology | Research & House system | to explain why Caltech has the highest percentage of alumni who go on to receive a PhD of all the major universities.
The licensing and transferring of technology to the commercial sector is managed by the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT). OTT protects and manages the intellectual property developed by faculty membe... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Background & Requisition quotas | be shot or imprisoned as decided by the local secret political police; those to be sent to Siberia, North, the Urals, or Kazakhstan, after confiscation of their property; and those to be evicted from their houses and used in labour colonies within their own districts.
The combination of the elimination of kulaks, colle... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Legislation provisions | for a long period. As an example mentioned in the December 6 Decree, the village of Kamyani Potoky was removed from blacklist only on October 17, 1933, when they completed their plan for grain collection early. Beginning in January 1933, the black list regime was softened when 100% of plan execution was no longer deman... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Nicaragua | New York to San Francisco on his New and Independent Line. Morgan placed his own ships into service of Vanderbilt's company, running his Empire City Line steamers from New York, as well as Mexico from New Orleans, all of which put in at the port of San Juan del Norte. In September 1852, Vanderbilt resigned as president... |
California Institute of Technology | Athletics & Performing and visual arts | field team plays at the South Athletic Field in Tournament Park, the site of the first Rose Bowl Game.
The school also sponsored a football team prior to 1976, which played part of its home schedule at the Rose Bowl, or, as Caltech students put it, "to the largest number of empty seats in the nation". Performing and vi... |
Catherine Breillat | Life and career | €678,000. In 2009, a book written by Breillat was published, in which she alleged that Rocancourt had taken advantage of her diminished mental capacity, as she was still recovering from her stroke. The book is titled Abus de faiblesse, a French legal term usually translated as "abuse of weakness". In 2012, Rocancourt w... |
Birth of the Cool | Thornhill's influence | and French horn, and a non-vibrato playing style, hallmarks that the Miles Davis Nonet adopted for The Birth of the Cool. According to Evans:
Miles had liked some of what Gerry and I had written for Claude. The instrumentation for the Miles session was caused by the fact that this was the smallest number of instrument... |
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