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Charles Rigault de Genouilly | Later career | Genouilly turned down the offer of command of one of the French fleets during the Franco-Prussian War and resigned as navy minister on the fall of the Second Empire after the battle of Sedan. One of his last acts as navy minister was to order naval personnel and gunboats to take part in the Siege of Paris. After his ... |
By Your Leave | Production | and Mary Astor was announced to be loaned to RKO to star in the film. In June, Astor was once again announced as one of the stars, with Frank Morgan and Skeets Gallagher also announced as being attached to the film, William Seiter was slated to direct the picture. Morgan was loaned to RKO from MGM. At this point, it wa... |
Canadair CF-5 | Netherlands | conversion unit to train pilots on the new type. The NF-5 would serve with four operation squadrons, 313 and 315 Squadron at Twenthe, 316 Squadron at Gilze-Rijen and 314 Squadron at Eindhoven. The last NF-5 was delivered in March 1972.
From 1986 the squadrons began to convert to the licence-built General Dynamics F-16 ... |
Castle of Silves | Architecture & Interior | soil level. The Cistern of Moura, is a 10 metres (33 ft) high, 820 square metres (8,800 sq ft) superficial area, with five naves marked by four orders of columns, interlinked by semi-circular archways. The Cisterna dos Cães, within the courtyard, is a vertical hole of 60 metres (200 ft) depth, that also supported water... |
Babylonian cuneiform numerals | Characters | was used merely to facilitate the representation of the large set of digits needed, while the place-values in a digit string were consistently 60-based and the arithmetic needed to work with these digit strings was correspondingly sexagesimal.
The legacy of sexagesimal still survives to this day, in the form of degrees... |
Bobby Soxer (singer) | Personal life | since 2009. |
Battle of Goose Green | Darwin Hill | been two battles going on in the Darwin hillocks—one around Darwin Hill (Black strongpoint) looking down on Darwin Bay, and an equally fierce one in front of Boca Hill (White strongpoint), also known as Boca House Ruins. Sub-Lieutenant Guillermo Ricardo Aliaga's 3rd Platoon of RI 8's C Company held Boca Hill. The posit... |
Chariots of Fire (play) | Critical reception | to get without in fact being one", citing the frequent Gilbert and Sullivan hits, the impressive stadium set, the 21-strong ensemble cast, and the stylized running choreography. Lukowski praised Bartlett for his "funny, pithy and creative" script, and summarized the production by asserting it is "a spectacle".
The Inde... |
Bounce (Tarkan song) | Extra information 12-inch Releases | Bounce (Tarkan song) Extra information 12-inch Releases Along with a promotional vinyl release of the single, there were three 12" versions released for promotional use/club DJs, too. |
Battle of Antietam | Cornfield | Col. Lee as "artillery Hell."
Seeing the glint of Confederate bayonets concealed in the Cornfield, Hooker halted his infantry and brought up four batteries of artillery, which fired shell and canister over the heads of the Federal infantry into the field. A savage battle began, with considerable melee action with rifle... |
Bradford Morrow | Life | Field Service, completing his final year of high school at a Liceo Scientifico in Cuneo, Italy. After completing his B.A. in English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 1969–1972, where he graduated summa cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa, he received a Danforth Fellowship to continue graduate studies in ... |
Charles Punchard Jr. | Tour of the National Parks & Death | or alternatively, adoption of indigenous adobe architecture.
He then traveled to Hawaii in May 1919 aboard the SS Korea Maru, conducting an inspection of a new national park in Hawaii.
Punchard also visited Mount Rainier several times and made limited observations and recommendations there. He oversaw installation of ... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Refusal to provide aid for starving | acknowledged famine situation, the Moscow authorities refused to provide aid; some researchers state that aid was provided only during the summer. The first reports regarding malnutrition and hunger in rural areas and towns (which were undersupplied through the recently introduced rationing system) to the Ukrainian GP... |
Byker railway station | Riverside Branch | Byker railway station Riverside Branch Byker railway station was located immediately south east of the Riverside Junction, the junction itself being west of Heaton station on the North Tyneside Loop. Byker was the first station on the Riverside Branch which was in fact a loop which rejoined the North Tyneside line betw... |
CFM International LEAP | Development & Orders | induced by the older design and improving efficiency. In April 2015, it was reported that the LEAP-1B was suffering up to a 5% shortfall on its promised reduction in fuel consumption.
It obtained its 180-minute ETOPS approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority and the European Aviation Safety Agency on June 19, 2... |
Alicia Keys | 2006–2008: Film debut and As I Am | the voice of Mommy Martian in the "Mission to Mars" episode of the children's television series The Backyardigans, in which she sang an original song, "Almost Everything Is Boinga Here". That same year, Keys nearly suffered a mental breakdown. Her grandmother had died and her family was heavily dependent on her. She fe... |
Cassiobury Park | Filming location | location when it provided the backdrop of a forest on the planet Naboo which featured in the scene in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, in which Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his Jedi apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) first meet Jar Jar Binks (Ahmed Best). |
Charles Naginski | Music | music. A notable performance of his Sinfonietta was given by the chamber orchestra at Yaddo in September, 1940, as a tribute to the composer. However, his instrumental works have had few public performances in subsequent years.
His art songs are better known. Of the seven songs that were published, only his setting o... |
Chance and Necessity | Of strange objects | which Monod defines as the characteristic of being "endowed with a purpose or project" (Monod, 9). Another is autonomous morphogenesis, which points out that a living being’s structure results from interactions within the being as opposed to the external forces that shape artificial artifacts. Monod offers a single exc... |
Berlin (The Blacklist) | Reviews | episode. He stated: "Like many of the 2014 episodes of The Blacklist, "Berlin" was far from bad, but lacked some of the spark that drove the episodes from last fall. This one delivered a couple of key reveals and certainly set stories and characters up for what could be a crazy, deadly finale. Yet, this second half of ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | patrols were sent out. Yet the existence of a SIGINT capability was a closely guarded secret, and knowledge of the source of the reports had been limited to Jackson, his two intelligence officers, and the 1 ATF operations officer, while neither battalion commander had access. On 15 August D Company, 6 RAR patrolled to ... |
Brown County Courthouse (Ohio) | History | were added in 1914 for extra room. A fire started by an arsonist swept through the courthouse in 1977 and was determined to be started in the northern stairwell and the judge's chambers. Nobody has ever been accused or convicted of the crime. The county was placed with the decision to tear down the burnt husk and start... |
Canadair CF-5 | Design and development | thrust were used, and a more sophisticated navigation system was added. The nose of the CF-5 was also interchangeable with a specially designed reconnaissance set with four cameras in it. Over the course of its life, it received many upgrades to its avionics and capabilities.
An order for 105 aircraft for the Royal Net... |
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond | Early life | with a starred first and top of her class.
After becoming an assistant law lecturer at the Victoria University of Manchester (now the University of Manchester), she was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1969, topping the list in the bar finals for that year.
Working part-time as a barrister, Hale spent 18 years mostly... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Information blockade & Refusal to provide aid for starving | not suffer, while district Party committees were instructed to supply every child with milk and decreed that those who failed to mobilize resources to feed the hungry or denied hospitalization to famine victims be prosecuted."
By the end of 1933, based on data collected by undercover investigation and photos, the Bohem... |
Centennial High School (Oregon) | Academics & Activities | scores by 12% in one year.
In February 2014 the school hosted Unity Week.
In 2016, Katharine Dean, a science teacher of Centennial High School won Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
In 2018 Chris Knudsen, a 158-158 head coach, had resigned after 32 years of service. Activities Centen... |
Bob Miller (sportscaster) | Other appearances & Honors | ABC and FOX. He also called some games for FX during the 1996 World Cup of Hockey. Honors Miller was honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame as the 2000 recipient of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, and was inducted into the Los Angeles Kings Hall of Fame, into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame, and into the Southern Calif... |
Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol | DES sons & Sexual differentiation | positively linked to a condition known as hypogonadism (low testosterone levels) that may require treatment with testosterone replacement therapy. Sexual differentiation Research investigating the possible behavioral and psychosexual effects of prenatal DES exposure in human males occurred as early as 1973. This resear... |
B-Prolog | Arrays and the array subscript notation | new_array(X,Dims), where X must be an uninstantiated variable and Dims a list of positive integers that specifies the dimensions of the array. For example, the call new_array(X,[10,20]) binds X to a two dimensional array whose first dimension has 10 elements and second dimension has 20 elements. All the array elements ... |
Charles Momsen | Early years in the Navy | Charles Momsen Early years in the Navy Momsen entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1914, but he was dismissed after a widespread cheating scandal during the spring of his first year there. However, Momsen pursued another appointment to the Academy, received it, repeated his plebe year, and graduated in 1919 — one year ear... |
Cannonball Run II | Production | Production Jaclyn Smith was originally meant to be the female lead but dropped out. "I think she was scared to death to be up there against Burt and Dom," said Needham later, claiming Smith was worried about his improvisational style. "I don't want someone on the set that's gonna be that scared. So we went somewhere el... |
Cassiobury Park | 14th to 19th century | avenue of 296 lime trees was planted, linking the gardens to Whippendell Wood; remnants can still be seen today.
In the late eighteenth century, parts of the Grand Union Canal passing through the property were widened and landscaped on the insistence of William Capell, 4th Earl of Essex, who sat on the board of the can... |
Bello, Antioquia | History | 1541 troops under the command of Jerónimo Luis Tejelo (Deputy Marshal to Jorge Robledo) found the wide valley of Los Aburrá inhabited by indigenous farmers who had "a habitat organized in groups with scattered houses, forming clusters of houses". This was especially true in the town of Niquías, which occupied the terri... |
Battle of Long Tan | Clearing the battlefield, 19–21 August 1966 | RAR was also withdrawn for two days leave in Vung Tau.
The rest of 6 RAR continued the search, with A Company discovering a series of freshly built and recently abandoned hides along the VC withdrawal route, which were believed to have been prepared as delay positions. An older defensive position of approximately 40 pi... |
Carlos Barral | Biography | publishers. As a compromise between literary and commercial goals, two prizes were devised: the Prix International and the Prix Formentor, to be initiated in 1961. Prize winners included Borges, Beckett and Bellow.
Barral also participated in the launching and management of the publishing house Barral Editores in 1970.... |
Chariots of Fire (play) | Critical reception | stage's greater ability to open up to the protagonists’ inner voices, showing Abrahams’ preoccupation with his never-present father and in particular Liddell's devout brand of muscular Christianity ...." Michael Billington of The Guardian praised "Edward Hall's bravura production" and Miriam Buether's "brilliant" set. ... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Panama | newly built Empire City, adding to the Panama service, with the two ships forming the Empire City Line. Morgan and John T. Howard increased their investment in westbound transportation throughout 1849 and 1850, first buying the screw-steamer Sarah Sands, then four more ships of the line, three of which sailed the Pacif... |
Calendar (British TV programme) | September 2013 to present | and South opt-out services from 6 minutes to 20 minutes during the half-hour 6 pm programme, in addition to separate weekday daytime and weekend bulletins for the two regions.
The separate late night bulletins are also retained and localised weather forecasts were introduced. The expanded sub-regional service launched... |
Cannonball Run II | Production & Box office | one where he could do his scene in a day. He picked the latter. He was paid $30,000 which he donated to charity. It was the first film he had made in three years and the first time he had reunited with Rat Pack members professionally or personally in three years. Needham says he turned up half an hour early and did his... |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Special editions and downloadable content & Sales | 2018, Activision and Treyarch announced the "Back in Black" map pack, which contains four remastered versions of fan-favorite multiplayer maps from Black Ops and Black Ops II: "Summit", "Jungle", "Firing Range", and "Slums". These four maps, which are also included in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 at launch, are offered fi... |
Barneyville Historic District | Description and history | Barney at 166 Old Providence Road. The house includes both Georgian and later Federal period styling, and has a locally rare brick ell. Barney also built the double house at 22-24 Barneyville Road c. 1771-74. Mason Barney's house, at 1 Barneyville Road, was built in the early 19th century, and is a fine Federal period ... |
Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant | Technology & Funding & Purpose | be the second tallest man-made structure in Chile after Gran Torre Costanera.
The plant has an estimated lifespan of 30 to 50 years. Funding The cost of the project is estimated at US$1 billion, and construction started in May 2014. The Chilean government, through CORFO, is providing US$20 million of funding and is als... |
California Institute of Technology | Rivalry with MIT | Fleming House traveled to MIT and reclaimed their cannon on April 10, 2006.
On April 13, 2007 (Friday the 13th), a group of students from The California Tech, Caltech's campus newspaper, arrived and distributed fake copies of The Tech, MIT's campus newspaper, while prospective students were visiting for their Campus Pr... |
Battle of Rossbach | Opening moves & Trap | ground reconnaissance and sent no advanced guard. His army marched blindly into Frederick's clutches. Trap When the Prussians broke camp, they left a handful of light troops to demonstrate before the French advance post commanded by the Comte de Saint-Germain. These light troops constituted the flank guard on the Schar... |
Chair-maker | null | the country manufactories it is otherwise; yet even these pay some regard to keeping their workmen constantly at the chair, or to cabinet work. The two branches seem evidently to require different talents in workmen, in order to become proficients."
In Paris, a chair-maker was a menuisier, or joiner: guild regulations ... |
By the Light of the Moon (The Vampire Diaries) | Plot | is terrified when she sees that the "writer" is Elijah (Daniel Gillies) and he is in the house. Elijah thanks Jenna for her help and pretends to leave. Elena runs to Jeremy's room to talk to him but Elijah stops her saying that he wants to talk to her.
Elijah and Elena get in her room and he lets her know that he doesn... |
Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant | Technology | steam into electric energy using the Rankine cycle. In this way, the Cerro Dominador plant will be capable of generating around 110 MW of power.
The plant will have an advanced storage system enabling it to generate electricity for up to 17.5 hours without direct solar radiation, which allows it to provide a stable ele... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Railroad ownership | these suits competed against an earlier lawsuit filed in federal court by the Illinois Central Railroad, which was attempting to force the NOO & GW into liquidation. This was inimical to Morgan's financial interests since he was a major bondholder, and Taylor's suit asked for a court-ordered sale of the railroad. The I... |
Black Lives Matter | Canada | Canada In July 2015, BLM protesters shut down Allen Road in Toronto, Ontario, protesting the shooting deaths of two black men in the metropolitan area—Andrew Loku and Jermaine Carby—at the hands of police. In September, BLM activists shut down streets in Toronto, rallied against police brutality, and stood in solidarit... |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Campaign & Multiplayer | replay the entire campaign with a new narrative, as well as zombies replacing most of the normal enemies. Multiplayer The multiplayer introduces a new momentum based movement system, which utilizes thruster packs to allow players to perform slow boosts into the air, as well as perform wall running and sliding, all the ... |
Black Lives Matter | 2014 | gathered at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, to protest the killings of unarmed black men by police. At least twenty members of a protest that had been using the slogan were arrested. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, BLM protested the police shooting of Dontre Hamilton, who died in April. Black Lives Matter prote... |
Bar-tailed cuckoo-dove | Distribution and habitat & Status and conservation | Distribution and habitat It is native to Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. It inhabits old-growth forests, forest peripheries, and second-growth forests. It also occurs commonly on submontane forests on altitudes of up to 2,600 metres (8,500 ft) from sea levels, and occasionally at sea levels on hills adjacent to coasts.... |
Charles Courtney Curran | Career | San Francisco). Curran also showed three of his pictures at the Paris Salons.
There Curran often used family members as models when he painted on the shores of Lake Erie, experimenting with a variety of artistic styles including impressionism, symbolism, tonalism and naturalism.
After the Currans visited the summer art... |
Carbofuran | Toxicity to humans | of any insecticide widely used on field crops (only aldicarb and parathion are more toxic). Most carbofuran is applied by commercial applicators using closed systems with engineered controls so there is no exposure to it in preparation. However in developing countries, occupational exposure to the Carbofuran and res... |
Chance and Necessity | Summary & Of strange objects | the obligation of upholding" (Monod, xiv). In the last paragraph of the preface, Monod explains that his essay developed from the Robins Lectures that he gave in 1969 at Pomona College. Of strange objects Monod starts off chapter I entitled "Of Strange Objects" with a consideration of the difference between natural and... |
Bull Street tram stop | Services | Bull Street tram stop Services Mondays to Saturdays, Midland Metro services in each direction between Grand Central and Wolverhampton St George's run at six to eight-minute intervals during the day, and at fifteen-minute intervals during the evenings and on Sundays. |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Development & Music | Black Ops III, would be released first on PlayStation platforms as timed exclusives. This ends a similar exclusivity deal with Microsoft dating back to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
A multiplayer beta was released for the PlayStation 4 on August 18, 2015, and was released for the Xbox One and Microsoft Windows on Aug... |
CAESAR self-propelled howitzer | Design & Caesar 8x8 | cabs of existing CAESARs. Heavier armor will increase its weight by 400 kg (880 pounds) and raise the price by 4-5 percent. Caesar 8x8 In 16 September 2015, Nexter has unveiled the Caesar 8x8 at DSEI 2015 with high level of mobility ensured by a modified Tatra T-815 8x8 chassis. The 8x8 Caesar being shown is fitted wi... |
Carolyn Culliton | null | Carolyn Culliton Carolyn Culliton (née DeMoney) is an American daytime serial writer and an alumnus of Northwestern University. Her husband is daytime serial writer Richard Culliton. She was born in Indiana. |
Black Lives Matter | 2015 | an SUV. Later that month a march was organized to honor Jamar Clark, from the 4th Precinct to downtown Minneapolis. After the march, a group of men carrying firearms and body armor appeared and began calling the protesters racial slurs according to a spokesperson for Black Lives Matter. After protesters asked the armed... |
Brock Marion | Early years | Brock Marion Early years Marion played high school football at West High School, where as a senior he received All-State honor after leading the state with 13 interceptions. He also lettered in basketball and track
He accepted a scholarship to attend the University of Nevada. He became a four-year starter, leading the ... |
Boletaceae | Lookalikes & Toxicity | the base of the stipe. The bitter bolete also lacks the stuffed or plugged pore appearance (caused by a hyphal mat of cheilocystidia) that is common in the cep and its allies. If uncertain, tasting a small piece of cap context should clinch the identification, since Tylopilus felleus has a strong, foul bitter taste. T... |
Battle of Goose Green | Darwin Parks | of fighting, ammunition was critical," explained Major John Crosland in an interview with British war correspondent Max Hastings. Corporal David Abols later said that an Argentine sniper was mainly responsible for holding up A Company and with shooting several paras in the morning fighting. Nevertheless, the paras call... |
Blue Murder at St Trinian's | Synopsis | anyone. Also on the tour are Eric the Liftman (Michael Ripper), the only Ministry representative who would go, and Gates posing as interpreter Ursula Blewitt. Harry leads the entourage in his bubble car, accompanied by the three sixth form leaders, to whom he reveals Gates’ identity. On the boat to France, the impoveri... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | 20th century | Site and part of Hopewell Big Woods. In her will, she bequeathed "Brookeholm" to her husband—it had been his wedding present to her 48 years earlier. Her obituary listed sons George III and Charles living at home, and Edward Jr. (now married) living in a house on the estate.
Edward Brooke II survived his wife by five y... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | Transition to BCYP to present | went as far as to organize a separate "Older Girls' Parliament" to meet during the Easter break.
At this same time, there was a movement to expand the constituent membership of the Boys' Parliament beyond the select churches providing members at the time. For example, by the late 1960s, there had been Lutheran, Jewish,... |
Arima Onsen | Springs & Accommodation | is ginsen (銀泉, "silver spring"), which is colorless and contains radium and carbonate. Accommodation In 2007, there were more than 20 hotels and inns in the Arima Onsen area. |
Brushless DC electric motor | Controller implementations & Applications | rotor is stationary. This is usually accomplished by beginning rotation from an arbitrary phase, and then skipping to the correct phase if it is found to be wrong. This can cause the motor to run briefly backwards, adding even more complexity to the startup sequence. Other sensorless controllers are capable of measurin... |
Bruce McTavish | Refereeing & Philanthropy | of Manny Pacquiao. Other notable matches he officiated was the match between Siriporn Thaweesuk and Ayaka Miyano in Klong Prem Central Prison, Bangkok, Thailand. Thaweesuk was the winner of the match which was also the first women's world title match. He is currently the vice-chairman of the World Boxing Council of Ref... |
Cassiobury Park | Fauna and flora | the old timber; spotted flycatchers the more open ground; and redwings and fieldfares the more open ground yet. Common and black-headed, and sometimes lesser black-backed and herring, gulls form loose flocks on the lower reaches towards the Gade.
The canal, the river and its associated streams provide more interest for... |
Camera angle | null | Camera angle The camera angle marks the specific location at which the movie camera or video camera is placed to take a shot. A scene may be shot from several camera angles simultaneously. This will give a different experience and sometimes emotion. The different camera angles will have different effects on the viewer... |
Beni Mora | First Dance & Second Dance | The movement typically takes between 5½ and 6½ minutes in performance, though in a 1924 recording with the London Symphony Orchestra the composer took it at a much quicker tempo, ending the movement within 4½ minutes: see table below. Second Dance This is the shortest of the three movements, typically taking a little ... |
Charles Rigault de Genouilly | Early career | Charles Rigault de Genouilly Early career Charles Rigault de Genouilly was born and raised in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France, into a family with naval connections. His father was a naval engineer and his mother, Adélaïde-Caroline Mithon de Genouilly, was the niece and adopted daughter of Claude Mithon de Genouill... |
Birth of the Cool | Recording | on bass.
The second recording date came three months later on April 22, 1949 with Davis filling in for Fats Navarro in Tadd Dameron's band with Charlie Parker during the interim. The band returned to the studio with five substitutions in personnel: J. J. Johnson on trombone, Sandy Siegelstein on French horn, Nelson Boy... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | Interior | with all of the first floor formal rooms opening onto a large L-shaped hall. A round library (the base of the apse) was tucked into the angle of the "L." It featured two large sash windows with curved windowseats, a recessed chimneypiece carved with flowers, and two curving built-in bookcases. Opposite the library entr... |
Bouri Field | Export Development & Djeffara-Pelagian Basin Province: Formation | a processing facility at Melitah, on the Libyan coast, via Greenstream to southeastern Sicily. From Sicily, the natural gas flows to the Italian mainland, and then onwards to the rest of Europe. Throughput on the Greenstream line reportedly can be boosted to 385×10⁹ cu ft (1.09×10¹⁰ m³) per year. Djeffara-Pelagian Basi... |
Categoría Primera C | null | Categoría Primera C The Categoría Primera C was the third division of the Colombian football league system. It was created in 1991 by DIMAYOR, and was managed by Difútbol (División Aficionada del Fútbol Colombiano) until its disappearance in 2010.
Primera C was mostly composed by amateur and reserve teams. When Primera... |
Battle of Long Tan | Patrolling east of Nui Dat, 18 August 1966 | Company having been out for longer than expected, Smith wanted to relieve Ford before more time elapsed and then follow the VC tracks to continue the pursuit that afternoon. Opting for speed, he adopted single file, with 12 Platoon under Second Lieutenant David Sabben in the lead. Despite the heat the company moved at ... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Early career | growing importance of New York as a port. He conducted business as both a grocer and a chandler, but his early business activities included importer and exporter, retailer and wholesaler, and shipping merchant.
Morgan owned stakes in eighteen sailing packet ships and fifteen sailing tramp vessels between 1819 and 1846.... |
Battlegroup 107 | History & Composition and equipment | Battlegroup 107 History Dutch minister of Defence Henk Kamp and his EU colleagues agreed upon the formation of the Dutch–German–Finnish battlegroup on 22 November 2004 in Brussels. Because the Finnish were assigned to intelligence work, they were informally known as the "Nokia brigade".
The final exercise took place at... |
Códice de Roda | null | work of Ibn Hazm, were prepared in an Iberian Muslim context in the Ebro valley and passed to Navarre at the time the codex was compiled. |
Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant | History | Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant History Construction started on May 2014. On 29 August 2015, workers mobilization started a strike over poor working conditions. Following Abengoa financial woes, construction halted on January 2016, after about 1,500 workers were fired from the project, leaving only maintenance pers... |
Buchenwald concentration camp | Subcamps & Allied POWs | prisoner, resulting in an estimated 95,758,843 Reichsmarks in revenue for the SS between June 1943 and February 1945. There were more than 95 subcamps in all. Conditions were worse than at the main camp, with prisoners provided insufficient food and inadequate shelter. Allied POWs Although it was highly unusual for Ger... |
CVT M-300 | Development | CVT M-300 Development Designed by Alberto Morelli this single seat high performance standard class glider was intended for competition flying, record breaking and club use. Advanced constructional techniques used for the, plywood skinned, Aluminium Alloy sparred, M-300 wings ensured accurate surfaces with high quality ... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Requisition quotas | grain exports. The same year Ukraine produced 27% of the Soviet harvest but provided 38% of the deliveries, and in 1931 it made 42% of the deliveries. Yet the Ukrainian harvest fell from 23.9 million tons to 18.3 million tons in 1931, but the previous year's quota of 7.7 million tons remained. Authorities were able to ... |
Barachiel (Dungeons & Dragons) | Description & Relationships & Realm | burnished silver trumpet.
In previous editions, tome archons were described as having the heads of eagles or wise owls, but in 3rd edition they are given humanoid heads. Relationships Barachiel rules the trumpet archons, archons of resurrection and song whose duty it is to guide souls called by resurrection or raise de... |
Buchenwald concentration camp | Liberation | to a bunk. The stink was beyond all description.
They called the doctor. We inspected his records. There were only names in the little black book, nothing more. Nothing about who these men were, what they had done, or hoped. Behind the names of those who had died, there was a cross. I counted them. They totaled 242. 24... |
Brixton, Devon | null | Brixton, Devon Brixton is a village, parish and former manor situated near Plymouth in Devon, England. It is located on the A379 Plymouth to Kingsbridge road and is about 6 miles (9.7 km) from Plymouth. Its population is 1207.
It has views of the River Yealm. The church is 15th century, with a tower arch 200 years olde... |
Badd Giacaman Museum | null | Badd Giacaman Museum The Badd Jackaman Museum (Arabic: متحف بد جقمان, also known as the al-Bad Museum for Olive Oil Production) is located in the center of Bethlehem, near the Church of the Nativity. The building in which the museum was built dates from the 18th–19th century. From 1998 to 2000, the museum was restored... |
Boletaceae | Lookalikes | named bitter bolete (Tylopilus felleus), with a taste compared to bile, as well as some orange-capped species of Leccinum. As the bitter bolete resembles somewhat the king bolete, it can produce literally a bitter disappointment to the mushroom hunter. The rule of thumb is that the bitter bolete has pink pores, and a b... |
Charles Punchard Jr. | Tour of the National Parks | conditions at the national parks in the Western United States. He reportedly "gave special attention to the entrance to parks, the location and designe of park buildings, the layout of campgrounds, and the physical appearance of lakes and roadsides." According to one account, "an apparently reinvigorated Punchard ins... |
Charles Wesley's House | Wesley family | Charles Wesley's House Wesley family Charles Wesley (1707–1788), and his wife, Sarah Gwynne (1726–1822) from Brecknockshire, moved into the house in September 1749, after their marriage earlier that year.
Initially, Charles continued his "itinerations", that is travelling and preaching around the country, and so was of... |
Carl Wiman | null | "Wiman's Law" states that the stolon of dendroid graptolites divides in groups of three: "one branch went into the bitheca, one into the autotheca, and one continued up along the stipe."
He is recognized for his contributions to paleontology in the names of the extinct penguins Archaeospheniscus wimani and Palaeospheni... |
Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant | Cerro Dominador CSP project & Technology | finished, Cerro Dominador will be the largest CSP power plant with storage in Latin America. The facility will have a total aperture area of 1,484,000 m² (15,970,000 sq ft). Technology The Cerro Dominador project will have a 110 MW solar-thermal tower. This technology uses a series of mirrors (heliostats) that track th... |
Charter for Compassion | History & Charter for Compassion -- The Organization | That day, more than 75 launch events took place around the globe and more than 60 Charter for Compassion plaques designed by Yves Behar were hung at significant religious and secular sites around the world. At its launch, the Charter was endorsed by the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu among many others. Charter ... |
Capys of Dardania | Family & Mythology | of the priest Laocoon. In some versions of the myth, Capys was the brother of Ganymede while his mother Hieromneme was also called his wife. Mythology Capys or a different Capys, founded the city of Capua. |
California Institute of Technology | Graduate program & Research | support. Financial support for graduate students comes in the form of fellowships, research assistantships, teaching assistantships or a combination of fellowship and assistantship support.
Graduate students are bound by the Honor Code, as are the undergraduates, and the Graduate Honor Council oversees any violations o... |
Batman: Bad Blood | Plot | Batman: Bad Blood Plot Two years since the previous movie, Batwoman intercepts a crowd of criminals in Gotham City that includes Electrocutioner, Tusk, Firefly, Killer Moth, and others. When a fight ensues, Batman arrives. They are confronted by the apparent leader of the criminals, a masked man calling himself "the He... |
California Institute of Technology | Athletics | over Occidental on February 22, 2011 the team had not won a game in conference play since 1985. Ryan Elmquist's free throw with 3.3 seconds in regulation gave the Beavers the victory. The documentary film Quantum Hoops concerns the events of the Beavers' 2005–06 season.
On January 13, 2007, the Caltech women's basketba... |
Alicia Keys | 1981–1993: Early life | variety of people growing up, and lifestyles, lows and highs. I think it makes you realise right away what you want and what you don't want", Keys said. Keys recalled feeling fearful early on of the "animal instinct" she witnessed, and eventually feeling "high" due to recurrent harassment. Her experiences in the street... |
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