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Charles Rigault de Genouilly
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Later career
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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 resignation he retired to Spain to live out his last years. He died in Barcelona in 1873.
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By Your Leave
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Production
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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 was also announced that H. N. Swanson, primarily known as a literary agent, would be the producer on the film. Swanson had worked as an associate producer on several RKO films in 1933 and 1934.
In early July it was announced
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Canadair CF-5
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Netherlands
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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 and the last NF-5 was stood down in March 1991.
Most surplus aircraft were sold to Turkey and Venezuela or retained for spares support, a number of aircraft were given free to Greece.
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Castle of Silves
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Architecture & Interior
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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 supply in the castle. Interior On the second floor of the Governor's residence, there are two halls covered in painted wood. One of these halls
includes a painting of royal arms, framed in shells and acanthus leaves, while on the four lateral panels, are military "trophies" comprising suits of armor,
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Babylonian cuneiform numerals
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Characters
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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 (360° in a circle or 60° in an angle of an equilateral triangle), minutes, and seconds in trigonometry and the measurement of time, although both of these systems are actually mixed radix.
A common theory is that 60, a superior highly composite number (the previous and next in the series being
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Bobby Soxer (singer)
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Personal life
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since 2009.
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Battle of Goose Green
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Darwin Hill
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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 position of Boca Hill was reported taken at 13.47 local time after heavy fighting by Major John Crosland's B Company with support from the MILAN anti-tank platoon. Sub-lieutenants Aliaga and Peluffo were gravely wounded in the fighting. Crosland was the most experienced British officer and, as the events of
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Chariots of Fire (play)
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Critical reception
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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 Independent noted that, in a play about competition, "what eventually emerges as the really engaging battle of wills is that of Abrahams and Liddell versus the British Establishment – ironic, as they each strive to shine for king and country." And The Observer opined that "[Hall's] fantastically enjoyable production of Chariots of Fire
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Bounce (Tarkan song)
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Extra information 12-inch Releases
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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.
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Battle of Antietam
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Cornfield
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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 butts and bayonets due to short visibility in the corn. Officers rode about cursing and yelling orders no one could hear in the noise. Rifles became hot and fouled from too much firing; the air was filled with a hail of bullets and shells.
Meade's 1st Brigade of Pennsylvanians, under Brig.
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Bradford Morrow
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Life
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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 English and comparative literature at Yale University. Upon leaving Yale, Morrow moved first to Ithaca, New York, where he began research on a full-scale bibliography of Wyndham Lewis, consulting the archives at Cornell University, and then to Santa Barbara, California, where he met John Martin, of Black
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Charles Punchard Jr.
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Tour of the National Parks & Death
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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 water and sewer systems at the park's campgrounds. He favored the acquisition of Longmire Springs and recommended that the springs be "walled up or confined in a neat, orderly way, and made more inviting." Death In June 1920, as the condition of his lungs deteriorated, Punchard died at age 35 at his
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Causes of the Holodomor
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Refusal to provide aid for starving
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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 GPU and oblast authorities are dated to mid-January 1933. However, the first food aid sent by Central Soviet authorities for the Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk regions 400 thousand poods (6600 tonnes, 200 thousand poods or 3300 tonnes for each) appeared as early as February 7, 1933. Measures were introduced to localize these cases using locally
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Byker railway station
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Riverside Branch
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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 between Howden and Percy Main stations and the 6.5 mile route opened on 1 May 1879 by the North Eastern Railway. From Byker, the line entered a tunnel under Shields Road and continued to St. Peter's; St. Anthony's, Walker; Carville; Point Pleasant and Willington Quay before rejoining the main
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CFM International LEAP
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Development & Orders
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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, 2017. Orders On July 20, 2011, American Airlines announced that it planned to purchase 100 Boeing 737 aircraft featuring the LEAP-1B engine. The project was approved by Boeing on August 30, 2011 as the Boeing 737 MAX. Southwest Airlines is the launch customer of the 737 MAX with a
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Alicia Keys
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2006–2008: Film debut and As I Am
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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 felt she needed to "escape" and went to Egypt for three weeks. She explained: "That trip was definitely the most crucial thing I've ever done for myself in my life to date. It was a very difficult time that I was dealing with, and it just came to
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Cassiobury Park
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Filming location
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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).
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Charles Naginski
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Music
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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 of The Pasture, a poem by Robert Frost has remained in the vocal repertoire, due to its publication in an anthology of American songs. All of these songs are "distinctive, fresh, and full of personality", with "arresting harmonic, melodic, and structural invention. Because the composer
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Chance and Necessity
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Of strange objects
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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 exception to this last criterion in the form of a crystal and, at this point, he states that the internal forces that determine structure within living beings are "of the same nature as the microscopic interactions responsible for crystalline morphologies" (Monod, 11), a theme that he promises to develop in later chapters.
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Berlin (The Blacklist)
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Reviews
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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 the season has been so content to just push the goalposts to the next week that there's no guarantee that the crazy and deadly will ever come."
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Battle of Long Tan
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Preliminary operations
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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 Nui Dat 2 and returned through the Long Tân rubber plantation. The following day A Company, 6 RAR departed on a three-day patrol on a route which included Nui Dat 2 and the ridge to the north-west. Any sizeable VC force in the vicinity would have
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Brown County Courthouse (Ohio)
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History
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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 anew or to repair the structure. After a vote, the county decided to repair the structure to its pre-fire condition. Local citizens banded together to form the Brown County Courthouse Reconstruction Association to help repair the building. The courthouse was re-dedicated in
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Canadair CF-5
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Design and development
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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 Netherlands Air Force was signed in early 1967, 75 single-seaters to replace the Republic F-84 and 30 twin-seaters to replace the Lockheed T-33. The plan to use some single-seaters for photo-reconnaissance to replace the Lockheed F-104G Starfighters never materialized. Intended production of F-5 in Europe by Fokker and
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Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
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Early life
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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 in academia, becoming Professor of Law at Manchester in 1986. Two years earlier, she became the first woman and youngest person to be appointed to the Law Commission, overseeing a number of important reforms in family law during her nine years with the Commission. In
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Causes of the Holodomor
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Information blockade & Refusal to provide aid for starving
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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 Bohemian-Austrian Cardinal Theodor Innitzer began an awareness-raising campaign in the West about the massive deaths by hunger and occasional cases of cannibalism that were occurring in Ukraine and the North Caucasus at that time. Refusal to provide aid for starving Some sources claim that, despite the pleas for assistance and the
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Centennial High School (Oregon)
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Academics & Activities
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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 Centennial's marching band has won the Portland Grand Floral Parade more than 20 times, including 15 times consecutively. The band's 2000 fall field show, "Gloria", held the record for the highest scoring show in the Northwest Marching Band Circuit.
Centennial's Future Business Leaders of America chapter has won the 6A Chapter of the
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Bob Miller (sportscaster)
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Other appearances & Honors
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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 California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame. The press box at Staples Center, the Kings' home arena, is named in his honor.
Miller received the 2,319th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in television, on October 2, 2006. At the ceremony he
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Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol
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DES sons & Sexual differentiation
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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 research has centered on a long-standing question of whether prenatal exposure to DES in offspring of mothers who were prescribed DES may have included sexual orientation and gender-related behavioral effects and physical intersex conditions. Kaplan published the first-known medical study (1959) of intersex condition in a male prenatally-exposed to DES.
The reference source Dictionary of Organic Compounds, 6th edition
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B-Prolog
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Arrays and the array subscript notation
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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 are initialized to be free variables.
The built-in predicate arg/3 can be used to access array elements, but it requires a temporary variable to store the result, and a chain of calls to access an element of a multi-dimensional array. To facilitate accessing array elements, B-Prolog supports the array subscript notation
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Charles Momsen
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Early years in the Navy
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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 early, due to the involvement of the United States in World War I.
From 1919 to 1921, Momsen served on the battleship Oklahoma (BB-37). In 1921, he entered the Submarine School in New London, Connecticut, graduating in January 1922. 18 months later, he took command of the submarine
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Cannonball Run II
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Production
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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 else." She was replaced by Shirley Maclaine.
Frank Sinatra agreed to do a cameo at the suggestion of Davis and Martin. Needham wrote three versions of the script for him - one where he could work a week, another where he did two days, and
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Cassiobury Park
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14th to 19th century
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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 canal company.
C. 1799–1805, the 5th Earl of Essex commissioned James Wyatt to remodel the house in the Gothic style, and Humphry Repton to overhaul the park. Later, a number of lodges and other buildings were constructed by Wyatt's nephew, Jeffry Wyatville; of these, only Cassiobury Lodge
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Bello, Antioquia
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History
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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 territory now called Bello.
In 1574 the Spanish subject, Gaspar de Rodas, requested a land grant for the Aburrá Valley from the town hall of Santa Fe de Antioquia in order to establish therein "herds of livestock and agricultural plots", in order to provide food for the conquest. He was
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Battle of Long Tan
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Clearing the battlefield, 19–21 August 1966
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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 pits was also found; while C Company located a makeshift hospital close by containing 14 graves. Both had recently been occupied. Later, an Australian OH-13 reported the presence of scattered groups of civilians, with the largest numbering 30 to 40 people—mostly women with baskets and bags, while
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Carlos Barral
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Biography
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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.
Barral was a senator in the Socialists' Party of Catalonia-Spanish Socialist Workers' Party for Tarragona in 1982 and afterwards its European Parliament representative.
He is best known for his two poetry books, Metropolitano, 19 historias de mi guerra civil ("Metropolitan, 19 Stories of My Civil War") and Lecciones de cosas ("Lessons of Things"), but his
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Chariots of Fire (play)
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Critical reception
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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. He also noted approvingly that Hall's "kaleidoscopic pageant" of a play is bound together by music, including Gilbert and Sullivan numbers, Scottish bagpipes, a medley of British folk tunes, and the iconic Vangelis theme.
Andrzej Lukowski of Time Out wrote, "This lavish stage adaptation ... is about as close to a West End musical as it's possible
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Charles Morgan (businessman)
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Panama
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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 Pacific side from Panama to San Francisco.
A business collaboration between Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt was spurred by a disabled ship. By accident, the two men departed New York on Morgan's Crescent City on December 14, 1849. Both were travelling in order to investigate the transportation business in Central America.
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Calendar (British TV programme)
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September 2013 to present
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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 on Monday 16 September 2013. Calendar began broadcasting in high definition on Sunday 31 March 2016.
As with many ITV regional news programmes, some areas of the ITV Yorkshire region overlap with neighbouring ITV regions. For instance; Newark is covered by both Calendar and ITV News Central; similarly, north Norfolk is covered by both
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Cannonball Run II
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Production & Box office
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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 scene with minimal fuss.
Part of the film was shot near Tucson Arizona. To show the momentum of the race, the producers commissioned Ralph Bakshi to animate a cartoon sequence for the finale. Box office In North America,
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III
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Special editions and downloadable content & Sales
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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 first to PlayStation 4 for players who pre-order Black Ops 4 on the aforementioned platform. Sales Black Ops III sold over 6.6 million copies in its first week of sales and grossed over $550 million in sales during its first three days of release. In the United Kingdom, the
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Barneyville Historic District
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Description and history
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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 structure with Colonial Revival alterations made in the early 20th century.
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Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant
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Technology & Funding & Purpose
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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 also loaning the land where the plant is located. The government also negotiated loans from the Inter-American Development Bank, the Clean Technology Fund, the German state-owned development bank (KfW), and the European Union. Purpose The project is part of Chile’s national renewable energy program, intended to provide Chile
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California Institute of Technology
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Rivalry with MIT
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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 Preview Weekend. Articles included "MIT Invents the Interweb", "Architects Deem Campus 'Unfortunate'", and "Infinite Corridor Not Actually Infinite".
In December 2009, some Caltech students declared that MIT had been sold and had become the Caltech East campus. A "sold" banner was hung on front of the MIT dome building and a "Welcome
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Battle of Rossbach
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Opening moves & Trap
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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 Schartau hill, which lay at right angles to the Janus and Pölzen. Frederick had no intention of either forming a line parallel to the enemy or of retreating. His army could move as a unit twice as fast as the Allies' army. If, at the moment of contact, the Allies had
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Chair-maker
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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 forbade menuisiers to engage in cabinet making. Some menuisiers produced the planed and carved wood paneling for rooms (boiseries), while others, menuisiers en sièges, produced the frames for seat furniture, which would be upholstered by other craftsmen, such as huissiers.
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By the Light of the Moon (The Vampire Diaries)
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Plot
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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't want to break the curse and that he also does not intend to hurt her or anyone she loves. He says that Klaus has become paranoid over the years and he just wants to find where he
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Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant
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Technology
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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 electricity supply without interruptions if required. The Project secured up to 950 GW·h per year sale.
Additionally, the plant will have a sub-station and transmission line connected to the SING (Sistema Interconectado del Norte Grande) or Norte Grande Electric Grid.
With 250 metres in height, the main tower will
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Charles Morgan (businessman)
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Railroad ownership
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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 Illinois Central's suit was dismissed in Federal District Court, and Morgan won his suit, sending the NOO & GW into an auction at the New Orleans Custom House. Through an agent, Morgan purchased the NOO & GW on May 25, 1869 for $2,050,000.
Morgan, for his more than $2
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Black Lives Matter
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Canada
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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 solidarity with marginalized black lives. Black Lives Matter was a featured part of the Take Back the Night event in Toronto.
In June 2016, Black Lives Matter was selected by Pride Toronto as the honoured group in that year's Pride parade, during which they staged a sit-in to block the parade from
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III
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Campaign & Multiplayer
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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 while giving players complete gun control. In addition to the Pick 10 class system from Black Ops II, Treyarch implemented a character system called "Specialists", where players can pick from 9 different soldiers, each with either a special weapon or ability unique to them. In a later update,
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Black Lives Matter
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2014
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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 protested the shooting of John Crawford III. The shooting of Renisha McBride was protested by Black Lives Matter.
Also in December, in response to the decision by the grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson on any charges related to the death of Michael Brown, a protest march was
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Bar-tailed cuckoo-dove
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Distribution and habitat & Status and conservation
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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. Status and conservation Since 1988, the bar-tailed cuckoo-dove has been rated as a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species. This is because it has a very large range—more than 20,000 km² (7,700 mi²)—and because it has a stable population trend. Also, although its population numbers has not been determined, it is commonly
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Charles Courtney Curran
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Career
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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 arts colony of Cragsmoor, the couple and their family would summer at Cragsmoor for the next forty years, and Curran would create some of his best known paintings in the vicinity. They feature young attractive girls dressed in white or pastel colors posed in brilliant sunshine. Two examples of these
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Carbofuran
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Toxicity to humans
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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 resultant carbofuran-serum protein labeling has been reported that impacts human health and well-being. Since its toxic effects are due to its activity as a cholinesterase inhibitor it is considered a neurotoxic pesticide. A recent study reports that carbofuran is a structural mimic of the neurohormone melatonin and could directly bind
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Chance and Necessity
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Summary & Of strange objects
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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 artificial objects and states that "the basic premise of the scientific method... [is] that nature is objective and not projective" (Monod, 3). Through a series of thought experiments and rhetorical questions, he leads the reader on a difficult path to three characteristics of living beings. One is teleonomy
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Bull Street tram stop
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Services
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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.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III
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Development & Music
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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 August 26, 2015. All versions of the multiplayer beta ran for six days. Music Jack Wall, who previously composed the score for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, returned along with Treyarch's Audio Director Brian Tuey to compose the score for the game. The game also featured
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CAESAR self-propelled howitzer
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Design & Caesar 8x8
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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 with a standard unarmoured forward control four-person cab, but one of the options is a fully armour protected cab. Gross vehicle weight would depend on the level of armour protection, but is about 30 tonnes. It is powered by a 410 hp diesel engine.
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Carolyn Culliton
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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.
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Black Lives Matter
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2015
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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 men to leave, the men opened fire, shooting five protesters. All injuries required hospitalization, but were not life-threatening. The men fled the scene only to be found later and arrested. The three men arrested were young and white, and observers called them white supremacists. In February 2017,
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Brock Marion
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Early years
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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 secondary in tackles each year. He played cornerback during his first three years, before moving to strong safety as a senior. He finished his career with 303 tackles, 13 interceptions and deflected an additional 44 passes.
After his sophomore season, the University of Nevada earned three consecutive conference titles. In
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Boletaceae
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Lookalikes & Toxicity
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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. Toxicity Rubroboletus satanas has long been considered to be poisonous, though it is not known to be have been responsible for any fatalities and the symptoms are predominantly gastrointestinal in nature. A glycoprotein, bolesatine, is thought to be responsible for the poisonings. When given to
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Battle of Goose Green
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Darwin Parks
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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 called on the Argentines to surrender. The death of Lieutenant-Colonel Jones was attributed to a sniper identified as an Argentine Army Green Beret, Corporal Osvaldo Faustino Olmos, who was interviewed by the British newspaper Daily Express in 1996. Commando-trained Olmos, of RI 25, had refused to leave his foxhole and his section fired
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Blue Murder at St Trinian's
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Synopsis
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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 impoverished and opportunistic Ricketts begins to make a play for Gates, thinking she will come into an inheritance when her grandmother dies.
By the time they reach Rome, Gates has told Ricketts about her engagement, her real identity, and her mission. In Rome, just before the water polo match,
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Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania)
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20th century
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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 years, dying at 77, on November 20, 1940. He slipped and fell into a half-filled bathtub of scalding water, and died of burns at Reading Hospital. His viewing was held at the mansion: "Last evening hundreds of friends and former associates in various organizations
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British Columbia Youth Parliament
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Transition to BCYP to present
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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, and Catholic members of the OBP. These boys qualified for membership in the OBP by associating themselves with youth groups connected to the sponsoring organizations of the OBP.
With the election of the New Democratic Party under Dave Barrett in the 1972 provincial election, pressure came from the
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Arima Onsen
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Springs & Accommodation
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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.
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Brushless DC electric motor
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Controller implementations & Applications
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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 measuring winding saturation caused by the position of the magnets to infer the rotor position.
Two key performance parameters of brushless DC motors are the motor constants (torque constant) and (back-EMF constant also known as speed constant ). Applications Brushless motors fulfill many functions originally performed by brushed
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Bruce McTavish
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Refereeing & Philanthropy
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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 Referees.
McTavish has won accolades for the Philippines due in relation to his work as referee. He was named World Boxing Council Referee of the Year in 2013, 2015, and 2017. McTavish is the only Philippine representative to have received the accolade. Philanthropy He was a member of the Rotary
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Cassiobury Park
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Fauna and flora
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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 the bird-watcher. Teal (Anas crecca), water rail (Rallus aquaticus), grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea), grey heron (Ardea cinerea) and kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) are regular visitors or resident. Especially in freezing weather, the disused cress-beds can yield waders: most often snipe (Gallinago gallinago), but also redshank (Tringa totanus) and green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
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Camera angle
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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 and how they perceive the scene that is shot. There are a few different routes that a camera operator could take to achieve this effect. The typical shot measurements unit is the milliframe. Milliframes are used to calculate how much the shot should be moved to
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Beni Mora
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First Dance & Second Dance
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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 under four minutes in performance. It is an allegretto with lighter scoring than the outer movements. It begins with a rhythm for solo timpani, over which a solo bassoon enters with a quiet theme. The gentle mood is maintained by a flute solo, interrupted by
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Charles Rigault de Genouilly
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Early career
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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 Genouilly, a naval commander during the American War of Independence.
Rigault de Genouilly entered the École Polytechnique in 1825. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1827, and served in the Morea expedition aboard the frigate Fleur de Lys during the Greek War of Independence. In 1828 he was transferred to Résolue,
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Birth of the Cool
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Recording
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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 Boyd on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums, and John Lewis returning to piano. At this session, the nonet recorded Mulligan's "Venus de Milo", Lewis's "Rouge", Carisi's "Israel", and "Boplicity", a collaboration between Davis and Evans, credited to the pseudonym "Cleo Henry".
The band did not return to the
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Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania)
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Interior
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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 entrance was the hall's canted, floor-to-ceiling sandstone-and-oak chimneypiece. To the south was a long billiard room, with a carved-oak chimneypiece and twin French doors opening onto the porch. To the west (in the front) was the parlor, with a gray granite arched fireplace and Colonial Revival butternut
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Bouri Field
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Export Development & Djeffara-Pelagian Basin Province: Formation
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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 Basin Province: Formation The Bouri field is situated in the Djeffara-Pelagian Basin Province (also known as the "Pelagian Basin"), and produces from the Bou Dabbous-Tertiary TPS. The Province is primarily an offshore region of the Mediterranean, located off eastern Tunisia and northern Libya (northwest of the Sirte Basin), and extending slightly into Italian
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Categoría Primera C
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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 C began in 1991, there was a system of promotions and demotions between it and Primera B. This system ceased from 2002 when, for administrative and economic reasons, the Primera C tournament was not played.
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Battle of Long Tan
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Patrolling east of Nui Dat, 18 August 1966
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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 a fast pace, traversing the low scrub, swamp and paddy fields as they closed in on B Company's position. Meanwhile, the rock and roll acts Little Pattie and Col Joye and the Joy Boys had flown into Nui Dat and were setting up for the afternoon
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Charles Morgan (businessman)
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Early career
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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. In addition to equity shares, he acted as ship's husband for seven vessels of The Ship Line, and for thirteen sailing vessels in which he had owned shares. His duties as husband included bookkeeping, dispatching, maintenance, and outfitter. In 1831, Morgan partnered with Benjamin Aymars to establish the first packet service
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Battlegroup 107
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History & Composition and equipment
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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 the German air base at Leipheim in late 2006. Following the exercise, lieutenant-general Hans Sonneveld, second-in-command of the Dutch forces, commented that the EU Battlegroups are a new step towards the "rising self-awareness of Europe". Composition and equipment Battlegroup 107 originally consisted of 720 Dutch soldiers, 800 German soldiers and 200 Finnish
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Códice de Roda
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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.
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Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant
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History
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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 personnel on site. Construction progress was more than 50% complete. In October 2016,
EIG Global Energy Partners became the sole owner of the project, after acquiring the participation of Abengoa, which remained as a technological partner and builder.
In February 2018, after Abengoa completed the construction of the 100 MW photovoltaic section, the plant started operation.
In
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Buchenwald concentration camp
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Subcamps & Allied POWs
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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 German authorities to send Western Allied POWs to concentration camps, Buchenwald held a group of 168 aviators for two months. These men were from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Jamaica. They all arrived at Buchenwald on August 20, 1944.
All these airmen were in aircraft that
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CVT M-300
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Development
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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 surface finish. The fuselage was conventionally built using wooden frames, plywood skinning with a glass fibre nose cone, and integral swept fin which supported the narrow chord all-flying tailplane. Two prototypes were built with the first flight taking place in April 1968.
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Causes of the Holodomor
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Requisition quotas
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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 procure only 7.2 million tons, and in 1932 just 4.3 million tons of a reduced quota of 6.6 million tons.
Sources such as Encyclopædia Britannica say there was no physical basis for famine in Ukraine, and that Soviet authorities set quotas for Ukraine at exceedingly
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Barachiel (Dungeons & Dragons)
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Description & Relationships & Realm
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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 dead spells back to the Prime Material Plane.
Planes of Law mentions a ruling trumpet archon called Israfel, lord of the heralds. Realm Barachiel dwells in the Citadel of Stars, a towering fortress with gleaming marble walls on the shore of the Silver Sea. An almost constant stream of trumpet archons
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Buchenwald concentration camp
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Liberation
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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. 242 out of 1,200, in one month.
As we walked out into the courtyard, a man fell dead. Two others, they must have been over 60, were crawling toward the latrine. I saw it, but will not describe it.
— Extract from Edward R. Murrow's Buchenwald
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Brixton, Devon
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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 older.
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Badd Giacaman Museum
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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 by the Department of Antiquities, in coordination with the UNDP and the Greek Orthodox Society.
The museum houses several ethnographic and archaeological artifacts depicting the process of olive oil production. The exhibits demonstrate the use of olive oil for lamps, medicine, food, soap, cosmetics, etc.
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Boletaceae
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Lookalikes
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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 brownish stipe with a dark brown (sometimes approaching black) reticulum, while the cep has whitish pores, which in maturity become yellowish or sometimes with a faint olivaceous tint, a light-colored (white and/or similar in color to the rest of the stipe) reticulum and white hyphae tufts at
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Charles Punchard Jr.
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Tour of the National Parks
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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 inspected most of the parks, consulting and advising superintendents, providing some sketches and working drawing, and giving in some instances 'detailed instructions on the ground,' or field supervision of maintenance and construction activities." He spent two-and-a-half months at Yellowstone National Park studying the buildings used by the park's concessionaires.
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Charles Wesley's House
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Wesley family
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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 often away from home. Sarah sometimes accompanied him. By 1756 this lifestyle had taken its toll on his health, and after that year he made no further long journeys to distant parts of the country. However, he still spent much of his time away in London, attending to the Methodist community there.
He was the Methodist "minister
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Carl Wiman
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"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 Palaeospheniscus wimani, the fossil turtle Dracochelys wimani, the ichthyosaur Wimanius and the sauropod dinosaur Borealosaurus wimani.
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Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant
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Cerro Dominador CSP project & Technology
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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 the sun on two axes, concentrating the solar radiation on a receiver on the upper part of the tower, where the heat is transferred to molten salts.
The molten salts then transfer their heat in a heat exchanger to water, generating superheated steam, which feeds a turbine that transforms the kinetic energy of the
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Charter for Compassion
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History & Charter for Compassion -- The Organization
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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 for Compassion -- The Organization Just a few months after Armstrong was awarded the TED Prize, a partnership of individuals and organizations around the world began coalescing to bring the Charter for Compassion to life. On May 4, 2009, the Compassionate Action Network (CAN) was launched
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Capys of Dardania
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Family & Mythology
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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.
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California Institute of Technology
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Graduate program & Research
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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 of the code. Research Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934 and remains a research university with "very high" research activity, primarily in STEM fields. Caltech manages research expenditures of $270 million annually, 66th among all universities in the U.S. and 17th among private institutions without medical schools for 2008. The largest federal
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Batman: Bad Blood
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Plot
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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 Heretic," who detonates explosives planted within the facility. Batman flings Batwoman to safety and apparently perishes in the explosion.
Two weeks later, a concerned Alfred Pennyworth sends a distress signal to Nightwing. Meanwhile, at a monastery in the Himalayas, Bruce's twelve-year-old son Damian Wayne watches a news report of Batman's disappearance
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California Institute of Technology
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Athletics
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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 basketball team snapped a 50-game losing streak, defeating the Pomona–Pitzer Sagehens 55–53. The women's program, which entered the SCIAC in 2002, garnered their first conference win. On the bench as honorary coach for the evening was Dr. Robert Grubbs, 2005 Nobel laureate in Chemistry. The team went on to
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Alicia Keys
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1981–1993: Early life
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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 streets had led her to carry a homemade knife for protection. She became very wary, emotionally guarded, and she began wearing gender-neutral clothing and what would become her trademark cornrows. Keys explained that she is grateful for growing up where she did as it prepared her for the
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