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Billy Beane | Playing career | training prepared to give Beane the job as their starting left fielder over incumbent Mickey Hatcher, but he dealt with injuries and ineffectiveness. Beane appeared in 80 games for the 1986 Minnesota Twins, batting .216. He also appeared in 32 games for the Toledo Mud Hens of the International League. The Twins sent Be... |
Caterina Verde | Work | linguistic twists. Her photographs and video works incorporate text, and are often presented in installation form. As Matthew Rose (a freelance journalist and artist who has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal) commented in 2004:
When viewing Verde’s work -- a range of video, painting, photograph... |
Charles Rigault de Genouilly | Early career | which had been sent to Da Nang (Tourane) to negotiate for the release of two French Catholic missionaries, were attacked without warning by several Vietnamese vessels, in an incident known as the Bombardment of Tourane. The two French ships fought back, and with their superior armament rapidly destroyed their attacker... |
Buchenwald concentration camp | Literature & Visit from President Obama and Chancellor Merkel | Buchenwald, including his father's death. Visit from President Obama and Chancellor Merkel On June 5, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Buchenwald after a tour of Dresden Castle and Church of Our Lady. During the visit they were accompanied by Elie Wiesel and Bertrand Herz, b... |
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd | Privy Council decision | not receptive to the chain of reasoning in the speech of Lord Bridge in the case of British Leyland Motor Corp. v. Armstrong Patents Co. He observed:
This reasoning involves a somewhat unorthodox extension of what would normally be understood by the inherent right to repair one’s motor car. Of course one has a right t... |
Brodmann area 8 | Human & Guenon | Brodmann area 8 Human Brodmann area 8, or BA8, is part of the frontal cortex in the human brain. Situated just anterior to the premotor cortex (BA6), it includes the frontal eye fields (so-named because they are believed to play an important role in the control of eye movements). Damage to this area, by stroke, trauma ... |
Benjamin Roxburgh-Smith | Combat duty | 19 July, he was shot down, suffering minor injuries in the process. He returned to duty, and having been appointed a flight commander with the acting rank of captain on 4 August 1918, he shot down four enemy aircraft in both August and September, and in October five; two on 5 October, and three on 14 October, rounding ... |
CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles (2014) | Tournament | were oftentimes direct rivals. |
California Institute of Technology | Graduate program | grants MD/PhD degrees. Students in this program do their preclinical and clinical work at USC or UCLA, and their PhD work with any member of the Caltech faculty, including the Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering and Applied Sciences Divisions. The MD degree would be from USC or UCLA and the PhD would be awarded from Ca... |
Castle of Silves | Republic | and recuperate the dungeons, including the installation of new rafters, water protection and improvement of drainage structures. Meanwhile, the Centre for the Studies of Art and Archeology of Tomar (Portuguese: Centro de estudos de Arte e Arqueologia de Tomar) was involved with museum-ification of some of the spaces, u... |
Cameron Run Watershed | Tributaries & History: first inhabitants and changes to the watershed | converge with Backlick Run. In the lower center of the watershed: Backlick and Lower Holmes Run and Pike Branch (flanking in from the south) converge with Cameron Run from the northeast. History: first inhabitants and changes to the watershed The CRW was heavily forested until the mid-1600s. A large beaver population c... |
Chiba Takusaburō | Legacy | In his text, Takusaburō stated that: "Even the tumult of a crowd or the bustle of the marketplace can be the laboratory in which man attains wisdom." Using his own experiences as a guide, Takusaburō emphasized the world as a great book of learning, where real knowledge could only be attained by reading everyday life an... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | Treatment | also reported that medications including cotrimoxazole, amphotericin B, itraconazole, and ketoconazole might also show beneficial effects. In addition, given the fact that Conidiobolus coronatus infection causes a similar disease as B. ranarum infection does, coupled with the fact that fluconazole shows great effects o... |
Castle of Silves | History & Kingdom | 11th century. The walls and towers that today represent the Castle of Silves came from these campaigns and public works by Almoravides and Almohads in the 12th and 13th centuries. The castles internal water catchment, and large rain fed underground cistern were used to provide freshwater for the surrounding dwellings (... |
Chance and Necessity | The Kingdom and darkness | revelation places value judgments within the hands of man himself. Monod believes that objective truth and the theory of values cannot be separated “because the very definition of “true” knowledge reposes in the final analysis upon an ethical postulate” (Monod, 173). It is at this point that author’s argument turns upo... |
Charles Momsen | World War II | Commander, Submarine Squadron 2 (ComSubRon 2) and Commander, Submarine Squadron 4 (ComSubRon 4). While Momsen was ComSubRon 2 in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, captains under his command reported their Mark 14 torpedoes were not functioning properly. When fired from the preferred perpendicular angle of impact, the torpedoes ... |
Chariots of Fire (play) | Production | the athletics-heavy story to the stage. Hall recruited the award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett, based on his many successes including Earthquakes in London, to write the script for the play.
Set designer Miriam Buether transformed Hampstead Theatre into its very own stadium, giving the audience an immersive experien... |
Caryl Parker Haskins | Career & Haskins Laboratories | an Sc.D. from multiple institutions.
Haskins taught at Union College as a Research Professor from 1937 to 1955. He was also a Research Associate at MIT from 1935 to 1945.
In the late 1940s, Haskins began to study the evolution of Guppies in the streams of Trinidad. He found that male Guppies in stream ponds further ups... |
Caterina Verde | Antenna TV & Strange Positioning Systems | the early 1990s, Verde co-directed and produced an artist's television show called Antenna TV, with Anney Bonney. Twelve episodes were produced for public access TV. The show debuted at the club The Cooler, on West 14th Street. The artists on Antenna TV included: Mike Ballou, Fred Tomaselli; Sylvie Degiez and Wayne Lop... |
CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT 1882 | Cape Government Railways | these 4th Class locomotives entered service, the two Eastern System mainlines were open to King William's Town and approaching Sterkstroom respectively. Those of the Midland System were completed to Graaff Reinet and approaching Cradock respectively, while the Western System mainline was open to Beaufort West.
All thes... |
Chance and Necessity | Microscopic cybernetics | the galactoside sugars to penetrate and accumulate within the cell. When Escherica coli are grown in a medium with no galactosides, the three proteins are synthesized very slowly (about one molecule every five generations). About two minutes after adding a galactoside inducer, the rate of synthesis of the three protein... |
Battle of Rossbach | Opening moves | advanced post.
Although aware of some of these movements, Soubise thought the Prussians were in full retreat. He ordered his advanced guard to hasten toward the Janus hill, but he issued no instructions on where, how and when to deploy. The Allied infantry moved in three long columns: at the head were the French regim... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Collectivization | of production proved futile in late 1932. On November 29, in order to complete the plan, Ukraine was to collect 94 million poods, 4.8 million of them from sovkhozes. On January 2, targets were again lowered to 62.5 million poods. On January 14, the targets were lowered even further to 33.1 million. At the same time, G... |
By Your Leave | Plot | By Your Leave Plot Henry and Ellen Smith are a middle-aged married couple who have settled into a routine life in the suburbs of New York. Henry feels that the spice has gone out of their marriage, while Ellen is more content with their lot in life. When the couple comes into a financial windfall, Henry suggests that t... |
Catherine Ricafort | null | Catherine Ricafort Catherine Ricafort is an American actress and singer. Ricafort has appeared in several Broadway productions, including Allegiance, the 2013 production of Cinderella, Mamma Mia!, Disaster! and Honeymoon in Vegas. Ricafort also appeared on NBC's The Sing-Off, in season 2, as part of the group, The Bac... |
Cardigan (UK Parliament constituency) | History | Loveden Loveden, of Gogerddan. Loveden had obtained the estate through his marriage to Margaret Pryse, and coveted a parliamentary seat for his son, Pryse Loveden, who had adopted the name Pryse Pryse upon inheriting the estate upon his mother's death in 1796.
However, the Lisburne interest remained predominant until a... |
Carl Wiman | null | Carl Wiman Carl Johan Josef Ernst Wiman (1867–1944) was a Swedish paleontologist and the first professor of paleontology at Uppsala University. He published on a variety of topics, including extinct penguins, and dinosaur fossils sent to Sweden from China and the San Juan Basin of New Mexico (U.S.A.). He is responsib... |
Bruce Webster | Personal life | of Houston–Clear Lake in southeast Houston, Texas.
Webster performed the co-design and programming of the original Apple II version of the computer game SunDog: Frozen Legacy for FTL Games. The game was somewhat of a success and is still recognized today as one of the landmark games for early home computers.
Webster we... |
Charlotte Harbor, Florida | Geography | Charlotte Harbor, Florida Geography Charlotte Harbor is located at 26°57′50″N 82°3′44″W (26.963897, -82.062267) on the north bank of the Peace River, the main tidal inlet to the Charlotte Harbor estuary, itself an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Route 41, the Tamiami Trail, crosses the Peace River between Charlotte Har... |
Charter for Compassion | Compassionate Communities | the University of Kansas’ Community Tool Box, with which the Charter collaborated on this project. The Charter's model for building Compassionate Communities resides on the University of Kansas’ Community Tool Box website.
The cities and communities that sign on to become Compassionate Cities and Communities often begi... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Background | Causes of the Holodomor Background During the 1930s, the Soviet Union was dominated by Joseph Stalin, who sought to reshape Soviet society with aggressive economic planning. As the leader of the Soviet Union, he constructed a totalitarian state whose policies have been blamed for millions of deaths. During his time as ... |
Billie Lou Watt | Career | Ma Bagge (Eustace's mother) on the series Courage the Cowardly Dog from 1999 to 2001. She would succumb to lung cancer in New York City later that year, leaving her husband Hal and their three children. For her contributions to the entertainment industry, and her charitable works, she was inducted into the Ritenour Alu... |
Chiba Takusaburō | Draft constitution | to model a democratic future for Japan as well. During his meetings at the 'Learning and Debating Society,' Takusaburō relentlessly worked out the fine details of the articles which delegated the rights of the people, and the powers that would be left to the national assembly.
While Takusaburō's initial draft lacked le... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Railroad ownership | longer gave his ships favored treatment. In addition, the only railroad from that city—the Galveston, Houston and Henderson—could not run any of its rolling stock north of Houston. Morgan also adapted to the progress of the railroad networks. First, in 1873, he changed his freight tariffs from rates by container volume... |
British nationality law and Hong Kong | Early colonial era | British nationality law and Hong Kong Early colonial era English common law has the rationale of natural-born citizenship, following the principle of jus soli, in the theory that people born within the dominion of The Crown, which included self-governing dominions and Crown colonies, would have a "natural allegiance" t... |
Charter for Compassion | Compassionate Communities | build a compassionate society. The Tool Box is intended to provide communities with a starting point and a process to follow, though it is adaptable to the unique circumstances of any community that seeks to become a Compassionate Community. There are four broad phases: Discover and Assess; Focus and Commit; Build and ... |
Carson Mansion | William Carson | Humboldt Bay. All winter, Carson and his team hauled logs from the Freshwater slough to the Pioneer Mill on the shores of Humboldt Bay. In spring, the party went back to the mines where they had previously staked claim on Big Bar by the Trinity. They built a dam and continued mining until they heard that a large sawmil... |
California Institute of Technology | Honor code & People | further erosion of trust between some parts of the undergraduate community and the administration. People As of October 2019, Caltech has 38 Nobel laureates to its name awarded to 22 alumni, which includes 5 Caltech professors who are also alumni (Carl D. Anderson, Linus Pauling, William A. Fowler, Edward B. Lewis, and... |
Chance and Necessity | Vitalisms and animisms | animisms In chapter two "Vitalisms and Animisms" Monod states that invariance must have preceded teleonomy, a conclusion reached by the Darwinian idea that teleonomic structures are due to variations in structures that already had the property of invariance and could therefore preserve the effects of chance mutations. ... |
Castle of Silves | Kingdom & Republic | the earthquake, and the ceilings repainted.
During the Liberal Wars the walls were repaired by the population, under Remexido, who ignored the foundations of the original castle. Republic In excavations beginning on 13 August 2005 and lasting into 2006, archaeologists Rosa and Mário Varela Gomes brought light onto the ... |
Chariots of Fire (play) | Critical reception | is a triumph of will that is in keeping with the spirit of the story it tells.... This is an unmissable theatrical offering in the year of the London Olympics."
Many reviewers commented on the intense, often breathless, physicality of the production. The high-speed running around the perimeter of the auditorium and thr... |
Boa imperator | Behavior | semi-arboreal snakes, young Boa imperator may climb into trees and shrubs to forage; however, they become mostly terrestrial as they become older and heavier. Boa imperators strike when they perceive a threat. Their bite can be painful, especially from large snakes, but is rarely dangerous to humans. Specimens from Cen... |
Chileab | null | Chileab Chileab, also known as Daniel, was the second son of David, King of Israel, according to the Bible. He was David's son with his third wife Abigail, widow of Nabal the Carmelite, and is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 3:1, and 2 Samuel 3:3. Unlike the other of David's three elder sons, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah who... |
Cantilena (album) | Reception | Cantilena (album) Reception Jazz commentator Richard Lehnert states "Well my first – and second and third-impressions of First House's cool, sculpted, heady music are of sustained fires of excitement, intelligence, and clarity. Live long and prosper, guys – you've charted another great, serious jazz album."
Master saxo... |
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2010 | null | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2010 The 23rd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2010, were announced on December 20, 2010. |
Bunch–Davies vacuum | null | Bunch–Davies vacuum In quantum field theory in curved spacetime, there is a whole class of quantum states over a background de Sitter space which are invariant under all the isometries: the alpha-vacua. Among them there is a particular one whose associated Green functions verify a condition (Hadamard condition) consist... |
Chip Ganassi Racing | CART history & IndyCar Series history | onto Formula One. IndyCar Series history Chip Ganassi Racing initially entered the Indy Racing League (IRL) with Juan Pablo Montoya and Jimmy Vasser in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 won by rookie Montoya. In 2001 they returned to Indy with Vasser, Bruno Junqueira, Nicolas Minassian, and NASCAR's Tony Stewart, who would als... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Elimination of Ukrainian cultural elite | followed the assault on Ukrainian national culture that started in 1928. The events of 1932–1933 in Ukraine were seen by the Soviet Communist leaders as an instrument against Ukrainian self-determination. At the 12th Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CP(b)U), Moscow-appointed leader Pavel Postyshev declared ... |
By the Light of the Moon (The Vampire Diaries) | Plot | calls him out for trying to fool her and tells him that she smelled him and the wolfsbane since the beginning. She threatens Damon and leaves. Damon tries to follow her but Alaric stops him and asks him to go home, lock the doors, and wait to deal with it until the morning when the full moon is gone.
Bonnie goes to Luk... |
Bruce Webster | Career & Personal life | an invited speaker at conferences in the US, Japan, Russia, Central America, and the Middle East. He has likewise appeared on TV news broadcasts and been cited in publications such as Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and Barron’s. He has testified three separate times before Congress. Personal life Webster currently ... |
Chime Communications Limited | London Stock Exchange de-listing | Stock Exchange on 16 October 2015 and re-registered as a private company following a takeover by Providence Equity Partners (81.1%) and WPP plc (18.9%). Chime was re-registered as a limited company on 19 October 2015. |
Causes of the Holodomor | Collectivization | the numbers of "hunger and malnutrition cases" as registered by the GPU of Ukrainian SSR increased every day.
Whilst the long-lasting effect of overall collectivization had an adverse effect on agricultural output everywhere, Ukraine had long been the most agriculturally productive area, providing over 50% of exported ... |
Caryl Parker Haskins | Public service | 1971 to 1981.
He was President of the Sigma Xi scientific research honor society in 1967-68. He remained a Trustee of Carnegie Institution and of Haskins Laboratories, as well as Trustee Emeritus of the National Geographic Society, until his death. |
Charles Punchard Jr. | First Landscape Architect of the National Park Service | Landscape Architect of the National Park Service During World War I, Punchard's physical condition prevented from joining the military, but he was appointed in June 1917 as the Landscape Architect for the District of Columbia in the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds. While serving as the landscape architect for t... |
Chariots of Fire (play) | Critical reception | is sure to be a huge popular theatrical success." |
Chip Ganassi Racing | IndyCar Series history | 2008 IndyCar season was even stronger for the team with eventual champion Dixon taking wins at Homestead, Indianapolis, Texas, Nashville, Edmonton, and Kentucky, and teammate Wheldon finishing 4th overall after winning at Kansas again and at Iowa. Shortly before the conclusion of the season it was announced that Wheldo... |
Catherine Breillat | Life and career | with the cinéma du corps/cinema of the body genre. In an interview with Senses of Cinema, she described David Cronenberg as another filmmaker she considers to have a similar approach to sexuality in film.
Though Breillat spends most of her time behind the camera, she has acted in a handful of movies. She made her film ... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | Brooke family | leased out to Brooke & Buckley until Edward and George attained their majorities. The Schuylkill Canal (completed 1825) passed through Birdsboro and, prior to railroads, was the primary means of transporting anthracite coal to Philadelphia and elsewhere. The young brothers took charge of the business in 1837, and diver... |
Chibaminato Station | Lines & Station layout & History & Passenger statistics | Chibaminato Station Lines Chibaminato Station is served by the JR East Keiyō Line and Chiba Urban Monorail Line 1. Station layout JR Chibaminato Station is an elevated station with one side platform and one island platform serving three elevated tracks. The Chiba Urban Monorail Chibaminato Station has two side platform... |
Cheonan Girls' High School | Location & Leadership and structure | it moved to Samryeong-dong, under Mount Mamang and next to Samgeori Park on the outskirts of the city. The location is at the foot of the mountain surrounded by farms, making the school a very fresh and natural environment for the students. The walk up the hill to the school is a notable feature for the students, who ... |
Carlos Saleiro | International career | career Saleiro represented Portugal at the 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. He scored against England in the semi-finals, a 2–2 draw at the Estádio do Fontelo; he went on convert his penalty in the shoot-out to help Portugal progress into the final. He also played in the final, where two goals from Márcio Sous... |
Chemotaxis | Receptor regulation & Chemoattractants and chemorepellents | 'know' whether it is traveling up or down a gradient. Although the methylation system accounts for the wide range of sensitivity that bacteria have to chemical gradients, other mechanisms are involved in increasing the absolute value of the sensitivity on a given background. Well-established examples are the ultra-sens... |
C.H.U.D. | Plot | or to leave him to become their prey. Later that evening at a diner, two police officers enter and while the waitress and the two are discussing, the monsters return and attack the diner inhabitants.
Captain Bosch argues with Wilson over how to deal with the threat: Wilson wants to seal the sewers, open up some gas lin... |
Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy | Life | of his fellow schoolmates in this group was Lord Thomas Howard, son of the second Duke of Norfolk, whose own tutor at Lambeth had been John Leland. Leland in turn praised Charles's skill in Latin and presented a book along with commendatory verses to him.
In 1523 Juan Luis Vives wrote a short educational treatise dedic... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | Open house and auction | conducted guided tours as a fund-raiser for local community organizations and scholarships. Some 857 people waited in line and paid $10 each to tour the mansion.
Horst Auctioneers conducted an on-site sale of the property on September 29, 2018. A couple from Toronto, Canada, Vineet and Twisha Talpade, purchased it for... |
Charles Punchard Jr. | Tour of the National Parks | rustic architectural style composed of rough granite and river stones, wooden clapboard and logs." While at Yosemite, he recommended dredging silt that had built up in Mirror Lake and trimming the trees on the valley floor to create better vistas.
In the spring of 1919, Punchard visited Grand Canyon National Park. He... |
Bobby Grich | Baseball career | originally planned to move Grich to shortstop as they had Jerry Remy at second. However, Grich suffered a herniated disk in his back trying to move an air-conditioning unit during the 1977 season and played in only 52 games. The Angels traded Remy to the Boston Red Sox for Don Aase and moved Grich back to second for th... |
Chance and Necessity | The demon of Maxwell | proteins are the molecular agents of teleonomic performance in living beings. Monod continues by writing that living beings are chemical machines, every organism constitutes a coherent and functional unit, and that the organism is a self-constructing machine whose macroscopic structure is not determined by outside forc... |
Anti-ballistic missile | American Nike-X and Sentinel | own, lead to the conclusion that the system would simply be too costly for the very low amount of protection it could provide.
By the time it was cancelled in 1963, potential upgrades had been explored for some time. Among these were radars capable of scanning much greater volumes of space and able to track many warhea... |
Battle of Fort Anne | Pursuit | 200 men from the 9th, 20th, and 21st regiments, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Hill, at a point south of Skenesboro with the objective of cutting off the road to Fort Anne.
The Americans were in the process of portaging around the falls at Skenesboro to Wood Creek when Burgoyne's boats arrived and opened fire. En... |
Battle of Rossbach | Aftermath | together, much less fighting together, a problem that expressed itself most evidently in the disastrous wheeling pivot. Furthermore, the Reichsarmee contingents came from many principalities, some of which were Protestant, and many of which were unhappy about any alliance with the French; most were more adverse to the ... |
Casca (series) | Audiobook & Ebooks | was subsequently withdrawn in 2006 following the collapse of Americana Audio. Ebooks From January 2014, the series was put into ebook format, and all existing books in the series with the exception of the two Paul Dengelegi novels (23 & 24) and the two removed novels of Michael Goodwin (29 & 33) were available in kindl... |
Charles Wesley's House | Child prodigies | harpsichord. Hymn tunes and the works of Handel were the family's favourite pieces.
The first music teachers for the two prodigies were both local church organists. From around the age of six, Charles junior had lessons from Edmund Rooke, who was organist at All Saints' Church from 1759 and at Bristol Cathedral during ... |
Boy de Jong | International career & Personal life | As a Feyenoord youth player, De Jong played in various Netherlands national youth teams. He was the starting goalkeeper of the Netherlands team which was victorious at the 2011 European Under-17 Championship. Personal life On 5 August 2018, De Jong became a father. His partner gave birth to a daughter, named Philou Lov... |
Calendar (British TV programme) | January 2007 to February 2009 & September 2013 to present | "East" and "South" regions were merged to form a larger "South" area.
"North" (north, west, and south west Yorkshire; north Derbyshire)
"South" (central and east Lincolnshire; east and south east Yorkshire; east Nottinghamshire; north Norfolk).
The regular presenters of the North edition were Duncan Wood and Christine... |
Chañaral Province | Administration | appointed by Piñera during his second term. |
Carolyn Rafaelian | Background | Carolyn Rafaelian Background Rafaelian's father opened a jewelry factory in 1966, in which Rafaelian and her sister worked. Over time she helped her father design pieces and produced original designs herself for her father's jewelry manufacturing company Cinerama. She attended Prout Memorial High School for Girls (late... |
Charlotte Harbor, Florida | Geography & Notable event | water. Notable event On August 13, 2004, Hurricane Charley first made mainland landfall at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor. |
CAESAR self-propelled howitzer | Design | an Extended Range, Full Bore (ERFB) shell, and more than 50 km using rocket assisted shells. The system is integrated with a fully computerized system, providing an automatic control. During Eurosatory 2006, CAESAR was exhibited with an automated laying system based on the SIGMA 30 inertial navigation system.
Nexter is... |
Caproni Vizzola F.4 | Development | not be used in fighters; the F.4 project therefore was halted prior to construction of a prototype in favor of continued development of the F.5, which employed a radial engine.
In the summer of 1939, Italy received its first Daimler-Benz DB 601A—a liquid-cooled inverted V-12 engine rated at 876 kW (1,175 hp) from Germa... |
Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus | Family and childhood | Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus Family and childhood Charlotte was born in Nicosia on 28 June 1444, the eldest and only surviving daughter of King John II of Cyprus and Helena Palaiologina. Her younger sister Cleopha died in June 1448, shortly before Charlotte's fourth birthday, leaving her the sole legitimate heir to the C... |
Charles Punchard Jr. | Death & Impact and legacy | he came in professional contact." Impact and legacy At the end of 1919, the first Director of the Park Service, Stephen Mather, reported that Punchard had made his office one of the "most important influences for the betterment of the national parks." Horace Albright, who later succeeded Mather as Director, wrote:
"As... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Nicaragua | right to stock in the canal, and annual cash payments. Under a separate deal, Vanderbilt also gained the right-of-way through Nicaragua using any means of transportation, which would remain in effect even if his company did not complete the canal. However, this second deal was signed after a civil war split Nicaragua i... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Family life | which Charles Morgan was a partner, and in 1850, Quintard and Morgan purchased the firm outright and renamed it the Morgan Iron Works. Morgan's eldest daughter Emily Ann married Israel C. Harris of New Orleans. In December 1847, Harris founded a partnership with Charles Morgan's youngest son Henry, and the firm of Harr... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | Origin | his physical fitness activities upon military discharge, was driven by his ambition to design a proper boys' work program with the Toronto YMCA, attending various national boys conferences. In 1912, Statten became the Boys' Work Secretary on the national YMCA executive. Borrowing from both Canadian and American YMCA pr... |
Billie Lou Watt | Career | Search for Tomorrow from 1968 to 1981. In the meantime, Watt continued to provide voice-acting and script-writing duties for English redubs of Japanese anime, such as the 1970s feature-length Jack and the Beanstalk (1974 film) (as Jack), Taro the Dragon Boy (as the title character), and the Biblical-based TV series Sup... |
Capel Bond | null | life in the Midlands, directing the Coventry Musical Society in large works such as Handel's Messiah and Samson, organising concerts and participating in festivals in Coventry and Birmingham.
His Six Concertos in Seven Parts (London, 1766) are a collection of four concerti grossi and a concerto each for bassoon and tru... |
Bandai Museum | Gundam Museum & Gundam Cafe | the seventh floor and half of the eighth floor and features exhibits mainly from the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam franchise and have three distinct sections: Colony Exhibit, Zaku Exhibit, and a Gundam Exhibit. The museum has three interactive exhibits in which a visitor may use and experience, the Gundam Li... |
Battle of Antietam | "Burnside's Bridge" | 25 yards (23 m) of the enemy. By 1 p.m., Confederate ammunition was running low, and word reached Toombs that Rodman's men were crossing Snavely's Ford on their flank. He ordered a withdrawal. His Georgians had cost the Federals more than 500 casualties, giving up fewer than 160 themselves. And they had stalled Burnsid... |
Bob Miller (sportscaster) | Los Angeles Kings & Other appearances | the Anaheim Ducks on April 9, 2017. On September 12th, 2017, the Kings announced that Bob Miller would remain with the Kings organization as an ambassador and continue to contribute to the team on a part-time basis which includes being the MC for the Kings Legends Nights. Other appearances He has performed voice over a... |
Chip Ganassi Racing | IndyCar Series history | the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday May 30, 2010.
For 2011, Ganassi expanded, to add an additional 2-car team for Graham Rahal and Charlie Kimball housed in the race shop of NHRA drag racer Kenny Bernstein.
Ganassi announced that in 2012, all 4 cars would be powered by Honda engines after the series decided to have multiple... |
Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria | In the news | of the few Nigerian women who have carved a niche for themselves in the sphere of taxation, an area which is ordinarily dominated by men. Somorin is the 24th member to be conferred with the status of a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. At the CITN, she has served as member/vicechairman/ chairman... |
Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria | In the news | the Institute. According to a statement made available to New Telegraph, other elected officers include Chief Cyril Ikemefuna Ede -Vice President, Ms. Gladys Olajumoke Simplice, Deputy Vice President, and Mr. Adesina Adedayo, who returned unopposed as the Honorary Treasurer.
Somorin, popularly known as “TEJUTAX,” start... |
CFM International LEAP | Production & Operations | 2,000 in 2020.
Over the first half of 2019, CFM revenues were up by 23% to €5.9 billion with 1,119 deliveries included a declining 258 CFM56s, more than offsetted by 861 LEAPs.
Recurring operating income rose by 34% to €1.2 billion, but was reduced by €107 million ($118 million) due to the negative margins and initial ... |
Chiba Takusaburō | Learning and Debating Society | of activity for metropolitan intellectuals "on the crest" of the Freedom and People's Rights movement. The new Learning and Debating Society became the ground for local activists to improve debating and oratory skills and increase the level of political discussion. An active member of the group, Takusaburō soon graspe... |
Chemotaxis | Motility & Chemotactic selection | microtubular system of the basal body and the beat of the 9 + 2 microtubules within cilia. The orchestrated beating of hundreds of cilia is synchronized by a submembranous system built between basal bodies.
The details of the signaling pathways are still not totally clear. Chemotactic selection While some chemotaxis re... |
Chance and Necessity | Molecular ontogeny & Invariance and perturbation | what the next amino acid will be. He says this "random" message seems to be composed haphazardly from a random origin and he ends the chapter poetically: "Randomness caught on the wing, preserved, reproduced by the machinery of invariance and thus converted into order, rule, and necessity. A totally blind process can b... |
Bukcheong sajanoreum | Procedures & Transmission | or get its hair. Transmission In August 1960, people who defected to South Korea from Bukchung province organized a transmission committee. At that time, Yun Youn-chun, Kim Su-seok, Byun Young-ho, Dong Young-suk, Yeo Je-sung, Jeon Jung-sik and others were designated as holders. |
Chiba Takusaburō | Legacy | believed that people's rights should be extended if necessary by armed force and resistance. In contrast, the Treatise on the Kingly Way opposed both sides of the political spectrum. Takusaburō argued that by unifying the limited rights of both the people and the imperial force in a freely accepted contract, it will se... |
Cape Cleveland Light | Heritage listing | The lighthouse was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 9 November 1998. |
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