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Chariots of Fire (play) | Differences from the film & Critical reception | various emotions that take place while running, and then finishing, a race.
And in contrast to the film, the play also introduces a female admirer for Eric Liddell: his real-life fiancée Florence Mackenzie, the daughter of Canadian missionaries to China. Also in the play, the very fit ensemble cast and extras are not ... |
Clabber Girl | null | of sour milk. In the early 1800s, people mixed clabber with pearl ash, soda, cream of tartar, and a few other ingredients to make what we know today as baking powder. The first baking powder brand by Hulman and company was the "Milk Brand". In 1899, it was changed to the "Clabber Brand". In 1923, the company changed t... |
Angus Deaton | Biography | Angus Deaton Biography Deaton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He attended Hawick High School and then Fettes College as a foundation scholar. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Cambridge, the last with a 1975 thesis entitled Models of consumer demand and their application to the United Kin... |
Chon (band) | History | Chon (band) History In 2010, the band began a brief hiatus, but reunited in 2011 to record two new songs, "O.G." and "Breathe". They returned in 2013 with the release of their debut EP entitled Newborn Sun. The following year Chon released their second EP, entitled Woohoo!. In 2014, Chon embarked on two consecutive nat... |
Chiba Takusaburō | "Wanderer Seeking Truth" & Spiritual crisis | Chiba (Takusaburō) was arrested because of his religious preaching and disputes with the Buddhists and Shintoists in his community. After completing his hundred-day prison sentence, Takusaburō returned to Father Nikolai's seminary in Ochanomizu, Tokyo.
In 1872, the Japanese government confronted Father Nikolai, with ac... |
Cameron Run Watershed | Flooding issues & Recent flood events | a land transfer to Alexandria in January 1973. Alexandria then used its own money to channelize Cameron Run upstream of the Capital Beltway—not as a federal program. Recent flood events A major rain event that took place June 25–28, 2006 led to extreme flooding in the Cameron Run Watershed. The United States Army Corp... |
Brown's Hotel (Catskills) | Rumors and myths & Jerry Lewis association | information about older movies), The Front was shot in Manhattan and, although comedian Lenny Bruce had performed at Brown's, the film itself was shot in Miami Beach. Both films do contain sequences in the Catskills and contain scenes with locations that bear a striking resemblance to Brown's. Jerry Lewis association T... |
Carbuncle Cup | null | Carbuncle Cup The Carbuncle Cup is an architecture prize, given annually by the magazine Building Design to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months". It is intended to be a humorous response to the prestigious Stirling Prize, given by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
The cu... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Death and legacy | & TRSC) facilitated a division of his estate, delegated to the administration of Charles A. Whitney. In April 1878, just a few weeks prior to his death, Morgan conveyed shares of the company to Mary Jane Sexton Morgan, Maria Louis Morgan Whitney, Frances Eliza Morgan Quintard, Charles A. Whitney, George W. Quintard, an... |
Cannabis in the Maldives | History & Cultivation | Cannabis in the Maldives Cannabis in the Maldives is illegal. History Per the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, drug availability was first recorded in the 1970s in the Maldives. Cannabis usage was noted among tourists, who may have introduced it to the country. Cultivation The Yea... |
Cincinnati Bearcats | Radio and television | airs basketball games. Egger is the backup play-by-play man for basketball. Starting in 2008, Fox Sports Ohio became the local TV flagship station for basketball until the 2016-17 season. during the 2015-16 Basketball season, Machock decided to reduce his travel schedule and not attend every road game as in previous ye... |
City Duma | Russian Empire | City Duma Russian Empire Originated in Russia on the basis of a decree issued on 21 April 1785 by Empress Catherine II "The instruments on the rights and benefits of the cities of the Russian Empire" which included the creation of the "General City Duma". General Duma has elected an executive body, "Шестигласная дума" ... |
Charlie Colkett | Loan to Bristol Rovers & Loan to Swindon Town | Northampton Town. Colkett was recalled by Chelsea on 5 January 2017 ending his loan spell with Bristol Rovers with 17 appearances in all competitions and 3 goals. Loan to Swindon Town On 11 January 2017, Colkett joined Swindon Town on loan for the remainder of the 2016–17 campaign. Three days later, Colkett made his Sw... |
Chrabliyine Mosque | Interior and layout | is also an entrance to an ablutions room. On its southern/eastern side is the prayer hall, featuring two transverse naves formed by rows of five horseshoe arches parallel to the qibla wall (i.e. the wall towards which prayers face). The mihrab, a decorative alcove or niche in the qibla wall that symbolizes the directio... |
Bean bag chair | History | modernism period was Gio Ponti. Inspired by modernism's art movements, Ponti created new forms of objects. His asymmetrically balanced designs freed the Italian objects form their classic representations. The designer promoted Italian designs on famous exhibitions called 'Milan Triennale': "These exhibitions, organized... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 1 | Keitt and destroying his brigade's cohesion. Hoke obeyed what he understood to be his orders and did not join in the attack, which was quickly called back by Anderson.
By 9 a.m. Wright's lead elements arrived at the crossroads and began to extend and improve the entrenchments started by the cavalrymen. Although Grant h... |
Brock Marion | Dallas Cowboys & Miami Dolphins | record
114 tackles (second on the team), 6 interceptions (tied for the second on the team) and helped the Cowboys win Super Bowl XXX.
In 1996, he missed 6 games and the playoffs because of a season ending left scapula injury, finishing with 77 tackles (fifth on the team). In 1997, the Baltimore Ravens nearly signed him... |
Charlie Colkett | Chelsea | Charlie Colkett Chelsea In 2007, Colkett joined Chelsea at under-11 level from Charlton Athletic and progressed through the club's academy system. He was part of the Chelsea youth side which recorded back to back triumphs in both the UEFA Youth League and the FA Youth Cup in 2015 and 2016.
On 9 April 2016, Colkett was ... |
Alfred Gessow | A Lecturer in Helicopter Theory & University of Maryland (1980-2002) | University. He also lectured at international universities including the University of Aachen (Germany), the Technion (Israel), and the Korean Advanced Institute of Sciences (South Korea). University of Maryland (1980-2002) Prof. Gessow joined the University of Maryland in 1980 as the Chair of the Department of Aerospa... |
Chime Communications Limited | Executive management & Good Relations group & London Stock Exchange de-listing | the board on 31 December 2006), and Lord Bell (who left the board in June 2012 following a MBO by Bell Pottinger's management team). Good Relations group The Good Relations Group, owned by Chime Communications Limited, has 215 staff, 172 based in the UK. As well as Good Relations, the group also includes agencies Harva... |
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert | Translations & Legacy | John W. Van Cleve (Lewiston and Lampeter: Mellen, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7734-4514-7). Legacy Beethoven set to music six of Gellert's poems as Sechs Lieder Gellerts am Klavier zu singen (1803); the poems were all from Geistliche Oden und Lieder, including "Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur". Some of Gellerts poems became hymns, ... |
Annuit cœptis | Change from Deo Favente to Annuit Cœptis | Deo Favente to Annuit Cœptis Annuit Cœptis is translated by the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Mint, and the U.S. Treasury as, "He [God] has favored our undertakings" (brackets in original). However, the original Latin does not explicitly state who (or what) is the subject of the sentence. Robert Hieronimus, who wrot... |
Christopher Coleman (businessman) | Early life & Career | Christopher Coleman (businessman) Early life Christopher Coleman was born on 25 June 1968 in London. He was the son of Anne Marie and John Coleman. He was educated at the Westminster School. He graduated from the London School of Economics, where he earned a BSc in Economics. Career Coleman began his career at N M Roth... |
Charles Naginski | Biography | Charles Naginski Charles Naginski (Cairo, Egypt, May 29, 1909 – Lenox, Massachusetts, August 4, 1940) was an American composer of art songs and other musical works. Biography Charles Naginski was the son of Russian Jewish parents. His father, who was his first piano teacher, recognized his talent for music and composit... |
Clabber Girl | null | Clabber Girl Clabber Girl is a brand of baking powder, baking soda, and corn starch popular in the United States. It was owned and manufactured by Hulman & Company, which also owns and operates the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and INDYCAR, the sanctioning body for American open-wheel racing. The Clabber Girl Corporatio... |
Claire-Marie Le Guay | Current projects | has also worked as an assistant to Bruno Rigutto at the Paris Conservatoire since 2001. |
California Institute of Technology | Throop College | California Institute of Technology Throop College Caltech started as a vocational school founded in Pasadena in 1891 by local businessman and politician Amos G. Throop. The school was known successively as Throop University, Throop Polytechnic Institute (and Manual Training School) and Throop College of Technology befo... |
Chance and Necessity | Vitalisms and animisms | principles, but not deducible from those principles and therefore essentially unpredictable" (Monod, 43). In his view, the biosphere is unpredictable for the same reason that the particular configuration of atoms in a pebble are unpredictable. By this Monod does not mean to imply that the biosphere is not explicable fr... |
Black Lives Matter | Movement for Black Lives statement about Israel | Black Lives, a group affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, has been criticized by some Jewish groups and by the Ecumenical Leadership Council of Missouri, an association of hundreds of predominantly African-American churches in Missouri, for its statement regarding Israel. In a platform released in August 20... |
Arrow (season 1) | Casting | castin was mixed, with many fans wanting Justin Hartley to reprise his role from Smallville. Amell was one of the first actors to audition for the role of Oliver Queen, and Kreisberg felt that he "hit the target from the outset" and "everyone else just paled in comparison". Arrow's pilot script was the first Amell audi... |
Claire McCarthy | Teaching & Personal life | TAFE. In the Australian film The Black Balloon she had the role of choreographer to a group of autistic adults who were starring in the film and also contributed to the musical soundtrack as she also did with Sisters and The Waiting City. Personal life She is married to award-winning cinematographer, Denson Baker ACS.... |
Charles Punchard Jr. | Tour of the National Parks | on "making it appear to the visitor that he has come upon the cave in the course of a walk along a trail." Punchard's access plan for Crystal Cave was later adopted at Carlsbad Caverns and Mammoth Caves.
Punchard then traveled to Yosemite National Park where he stayed for seven months at the end of 1918 and beginning ... |
Burkholderia pseudomallei | Identification & Disinfection & Medical importance & Antibiotic treatment and sensitivity testing | centres. Disinfection B. pseudomallei is susceptible to numerous disinfectants, including benzalkonium chloride, iodine, mercuric chloride, potassium permanganate, 1% sodium hypochlorite, 70% ethanol, 2% glutaraldehyde, and to a lesser extent, phenolic preparations. B. pseudomallei is effectively killed by the commerci... |
Carlos Saleiro | Sporting CP | Franchi for the last qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Four days later he made his league debut for the club, in a 1–0 win at former side Académica. He made a total of 28 appearances in the 2009–10 season, scoring five goals, mostly under the stewardship of new head coach Carlos Carvalhal. He made 39 appea... |
Claire-Marie Le Guay | Early life & Current projects | Claire-Marie Le Guay Early life Le Guay was born in Paris, France. She began playing piano at age 4 and entered the Paris Conservatoire at age 14, where she studied with Jacques Rouvier, Pascal Devoyon and Bruno Rigutto. Following her education in Paris, Le Guay continued her training with a variety of established teac... |
Bo Le | Horse physiognomy | in Changsha discovered the Mawangdui Silk Texts. They included a fragmentary text about judging horses, which scholars tentatively call the Xiangmajing 相馬經 "Classic of Horse Physiognomy" (also used for a 5th-century text). This manuscript mentions Bole himself (tr. Harrist 1997:137); "What Bole physiognomized were the ... |
Boeing KC-767 | Italian Air Force | to be assembled. The aircraft were initially built as 767-200ER commercial airplanes, then flown to a separate facility for conversion into tankers. Italy's first aircraft made its maiden flight on 21 May 2005. Italy's second aircraft arrived for modification at the Naples, Italy facility of Boeing's partner, Aeronava... |
Brown's Hotel (Catskills) | History | prevalent in the hospitality industry. Filling a niche, the area quickly became a mecca for Jewish-American families. Brown's Hotel was located in the hamlet of Loch Sheldrake in the Town of Fallsburg, Sullivan County, New York. History By the 1940s, Sullivan County, New York became a popular resort area in the Catski... |
Brigitte Vasallo | Biography | Brigitte Vasallo Biography Daughter of a Galician family that migrated to France and then to Catalonia, she vindicates her xarnego identity, although she does not fit with the original meaning of the term. She has spent most of her adult life in Morocco, which has allowed her to acquire a perspective of the ethnocentri... |
Códice de Roda | null | Ordóñez, Queen of Navarre. Still, the manuscript is perhaps best known for its genealogies of the dynasties ruling on both sides of the Pyrenees.
The genealogies in the Roda Codex have played a critical role in interpreting the scant surviving historical record of the dynasties covered. The family accounts span as ma... |
Cláudio Camunguelo | null | Cláudio Camunguelo Cláudio Camunguelo (June 5, 1947 – December 24, 2007) was a Brazilian flautist, dancer, composer and singer/improviser of samba and choro . His compositions were used by several of the more famous sambistas and choro artists including Zeca Pagodinho. |
Chrabliyine Mosque | Location and origin of name & Minaret and exterior | to a type of traditional Moroccan women's shoe called "cherbil" in which the local shops specialized (and still do to some extent today). Minaret and exterior The mosque is considered notable for its minaret, which is particularly well-decorated in the medieval Moroccan-Andalusian style (evolved from earlier Almohad mo... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Railroad ownership | in New Orleans. The city's access to the Mississippi River was less important in light of Morgan's Texas and Louisiana Railroad. After the dredging of the Atchafalya River in 1872, Morgan moved all of his
Louisiana steamboat operations from New Orleans to Brashear, relying on the ferry from New Orleans to Algiers, and... |
Chiba Takusaburō | Draft constitution | family and aristocracy in the last position. Takusaburō's constitution also clearly stated that any convicted person will not be subject to capital punishment, and that the terms "guilty" or "innocence" must be determined through a trial by jury.
In the early 1880s, segregation of educational systems from political th... |
Civil defense in Finland | null | rock, but most are beneath office and residential buildings. Some are designed for multiple use as parking garages, schoolrooms, skating rinks, and swimming pools. By law, builders are obliged to include shelters in blocks measuring 3,000 cubic meters or more. In the late 1980s, in Helsinki, 536,000 spaces were provide... |
CiteSeerX | Focused crawling & Usage & Data & Other SeerSuite-based search engines | publisher metadata. As such citation counts in CiteSeerˣ are usually less than those in Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search who have access to publisher metadata. Usage CiteSeerˣ has nearly 1 million users worldwide based on unique IP addresses and has millions of hits daily. Annual downloads of document PDFs ... |
Christine Meeusen | Biography | Christine Meeusen Biography Christine Meeusen initially adopted the persona of a nun named "Sister Kate" in participating in the Occupy Movement in 2010, and continues to use the Sister Kate moniker and dress in the production of cannabis medicine.
She produces the medicine in a semi-cooperative operation in Merced, Ca... |
Billie Lou Watt | Early life & Career | Billie Lou Watt Early life Watt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where her career on the stage began at the age of 12 in the role of Becky in a local play based on the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Career Her first role on a professional stage came two years later at the St. Louis Municipal Opera production of The... |
Chris Wreghitt | null | company continues to be run from the Wreghitt's family home in Worcestershire, despite it being flooded in 2007. |
Byker railway station | Riverside Branch & Location & Closure | line before Percy Main. Location The station was accessed from Roger Street, itself off Heaton Park Road. The ramp to the platforms was only a foot wide and each platform had a waiting shelter and a small booking office on the southbound platform. A metal footbridge linked both platforms and remained in situ until 1964... |
Charles Rigault de Genouilly | Early career & Crimean War | de cabinet of the navy minister Joseph Grégoire Cazy. Between 1849 and 1851 he was captain successively of the paddle steamer frigate Vauban and of Charlemagne, the first screw-driven French battleship converted from a sailing ship. This type of conversion was called a vaisseau mixte to distinguish it from purpose-bui... |
Chunseong | Death | actions along with the social influence of Confucianism. That taboo eased in the 1990s, but in 2002, Doal Kim Yong-ok used one of his anecdotes for a program on EBS. In 2004, South Korean broadcasting programs began to report more of his words and actions. |
By the Light of the Moon (The Vampire Diaries) | Plot | on the moonstone and Caroline has to be with Tyler. He gets a call from Alaric who informs him that Jules is in town and that the authorities are now searching for Mason. Damon has to leave for the Grill, leaving Jeremy with Elena. He meets Alaric at the Grill and they wonder if Jules is also a werewolf and decide to f... |
Clarence Royce | Season 4 & Season 5 & Relationships With Various Groups and People | cynically using Marcus Garvey-inspired campaign posters to win their vote. The mayor's security detail leaks the news of Royce and Watkins' falling out to Deputy Commissioner William Rawls, who believes that Carcetti can do better things for the BPD. After Watkins lends his support to Carcetti, Royce loses the election... |
Clarence Royce | Relationship with Property Developers & Relationship with Police Department and State's Attorney's office | developer money, he is stated to be "in bed with every developer" having their security as a paramount concern of his. Relationship with Police Department and State's Attorney's office As Mayor Royce's office is viewed as being soft on crime by the public safety subcommittee, Royce is extremely critical of the Baltimor... |
Bushwick Bill | Early life & Career | Bushwick Bill Early life Bushwick Bill was born Richard Stephen Shaw on December 8, 1966, in Kingston, Jamaica. His father was a merchant marine, and his mother was a maid. Shaw was born with dwarfism and was listed as 3 feet 8 inches (112 cm) tall. Career Shaw got his start in the music industry in 1986 as a member of... |
Christiaan Brunings | Early life | Christiaan Brunings Christiaan Brunings (Mannheim-Neckarau, 3 November 1736 – The Hague, 16 May 1805) was a Dutch hydraulic engineer. Early life Brunings was the son of a preacher in Mannheim-Neckarau in Germany. After high school he attended the University of Heidelberg. He had to break off his studies for lack of mo... |
Charles Rigault de Genouilly | War in Vietnam & Later career | the Catholic faith in Vietnam but not to seek any territorial gains. Later career Between 1862 and 1864, following his return to France, Rigault de Genouilly served first aboard Bretagne and then aboard Ville de Paris as commander of the French squadron of evolutions (escadre d’évolutions) in the Mediterranean. He was... |
Clarence Royce | Season 3 | on Burrell to reduce the felony rate citywide, and orders the BPD to reduce felonies by a minimum of 5% in each district and keep the murder rate below 275 for the year in order to counter Carcetti's campaign. When crime rates begin to rise, Parker and Watkins urge Royce to fire Burrell as police commissioner. Royce fi... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | New York and Charleston Steam Packet Company | in profits.
However, the risks faced by ocean-going steamers threatened the company. William Gibbons sank off the coast of New Inlet, South Carolina in October 1836, which caused a loss of public confidence in addition to
the direct financial loss. Some of the investors sold David Brown and then abandoned the company... |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Seize Glory & Pre-order | letters, appears the slogan, “There’s a Soldier in All of Us.”
Activision hired Wayne McClammy as the director. Wayne has been the director of many Call of Duty advertisements. According to Activision Publishing CMO Tim Ellis, the trailer's intent was to show that “The gaming population is so much bigger and more diver... |
Caryl Parker Haskins | Public service | Haskins used his scientific knowledge for the war effort. He was a liaison officer with the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) and then worked with the chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. After the war, he advised the Research and Development Board of the Army and the Navy, the Secret... |
Chékéba Hachemi | Women's rights activist and diplomat | projects concerning the place of women in companies. As the Strategy Advisor of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, she was involved in the organisation of an international conference "Stand, Speak, Rise Up" to end sexual violence in fragile environments in Luxembourg in March 2019 in partnership with We are not weapons o... |
Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field | Setting | The three drilling and production platforms remaining of the original five are in the western part of the field, arranged in a line running from west to east, with Henry on the west, followed by Platform Houchin and Platform Hogan, with Hogan nearest to the state tidelands boundary and the shore. Oil and gas from Platf... |
Chemotaxis | Flagellum regulation | CheA, at a single highly conserved histidine residue. CheA, in turn, transfers phosphoryl groups to conserved aspartate residues in the response regulators CheB and CheY; CheA is a histidine kinase and it does not actively transfer the phosphoryl group, rather, the response regulator CheB takes the phosphoryl group fro... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | 20th century | was in Birdsboro for Christmas, 1917, when "Brookewood" burned, "the result of Christmas tree candles igniting nearby curtains." "Firemen were unable to save the house because it was so cold that the source of water supply was frozen." The couple bought "Clingan," just west of Birdsboro, that had been the home of siste... |
Burning of the Midnight Lamp | Release and reception | a single in the UK by Track Records on August 19, 1967, backed with the specially-recorded B-side "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"; the single was also released in certain regions of Europe by Polydor Records. The release entered the UK Singles Chart on September 2 at number 32, spent nine weeks in the ch... |
Chandrahasan (film) | Other versions | by two other silent versions, in 1928 and 1929 by Kanjilal Rathod and Dadasaheb Phalke, respectively. In 1933, Sarvotham Bhadani made the first Hindi version of the tale. The Tamil version which came in 1936 was second talking picture to be made on the tale. This was followed by a Telugu version in 1941, a second Hindi... |
Chañaral Province | Geography and demography & Administration | Chañaral Province Geography and demography According to the 2012 census by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the province spans an area of 24,436.2 km² (9,435 sq mi) and had a population of 28,874 inhabitants, giving it a population density of 1.3/km² (3/sq mi). Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the populatio... |
Biomarkers of exposure assessment | Biomarkers of susceptibility & Biomarkers of exposure | Biomarkers of exposure assessment Biomarkers of susceptibility Biomarkers of susceptibility are indicators of the natural characteristics of an organism that make it more susceptible to the effects of an exposure to a chemical. They can help define what sensitivities are more susceptible as well as critical times when... |
Cheonan Girls' High School | Class and examination schedule & 1st Grade & 2nd Grade | and examination schedule All grades take classes in periods of 50 minutes and an additional 4 classes on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month. Students take both Midterm and End of Term exams, all of which count towards their final grades. 1st Grade Students Study a total of 16 subjects from 08:30 – 16:30 Monday to W... |
Bill MacIlwraith | null | (1975–79), about an American writer and her English butler, starred Elaine Strich and Donald Sinden. A later comedy series Seconds Out (1981–82), about a boxer, starred Robert Lindsay. His other television work includes plays for the Armchair Theatre series broadcast between 1970 and 1972, and episodes of Justice with ... |
Bunny Chan | Biography | Bunny Chan Bunny Chan Chung-bun, GBS, JP (Chinese: 陳振彬; born 1957) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician. He is the incumbent chairman of the Kwun Tong District Council, a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress of China and the chairman of the Hong Kong Army Cadets Association. Biography Bunny Chan was ... |
Bhuj | Geography & Demographics & Culture | side of the city is a hill known as Bhujia Hill, on which there is a Bhujia Fort, that separates Bhuj city and Madhapar town ( considered one of the richest villages in Asia ). It has two lakes namely Hamirsar and Deshadsar (દેેેશળસર). Demographics In 2011 the of Bhuj was 213,514, which consisted of 111,146 males and 1... |
California Institute of Technology | Project Vista | security. The project was created to study new ways of improving the relationship between tactical air support and ground troops. The Army, Air Force, and Navy sponsored the project, however it was under contract with the Army. The study was named after the hotel, Vista del Arroyo Hotel, which housed the study. The st... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | Interior | the firebox, oak corbels carved with oversized dahlias supporting the mantel shelf, and an oak frieze of abstracted flowers crowning the whole. The newel post was carved with a plump oak floral garland, which was echoed in miniature elsewhere in the hall. The billiard room chimneypiece featured a frieze of hibiscus car... |
California Institute of Technology | Alumni | a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956, but his aggressive management style and odd personality at the Shockley Lab became unbearable. In late 1957, eight of his researchers resigned and with support from Sherman Fairchild formed Fairchild Semiconductor. Among the "traitorous eight" was Gordon E. Moore (P... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | General | service-oriented programme run by its own members rather than working with programmes run by other organizations (the exception to this being camps). Projects included annual hobby shows, athletic competitions, leadership training programmes, and work with handicapped youth.
The OBP's social service programme expanded ... |
Charles Momsen | Later years | 1945, he directed a fleet of nearly 200 surplus Army and Navy ships, manned by Japanese crews, that evacuated the first of nearly six million Japanese from Manchuria, Formosa, and islands in the Pacific.
Momsen served on the Navy General Board from June 1947 until May 1948. He served as Assistant Chief of Naval Operati... |
Assyrian folk/pop music | null | of the Syriac Churches. Assyrian folk can also be found in traditional Middle Eastern makams, and it has similarities to other folk music in Western Asia, such as Kurdish, Turkish, Persian, and Armenian music. Assyrian songs are generally sung in Iraqi Koine, a standard variety of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. However, older s... |
Christopher Wase | Life | Christopher Wase Christopher Wase (1627–1690) was an English scholar, author, translator, and educator, who was the Architypographus of Oxford University Press for several years. Life The son of John Wase of London, he was born in Hackney. He was educated at Eton College, and in 1645 was admitted scholar of King's Coll... |
Callum Ainley | Career | Callum Ainley Career Ainley began his career in Crewe Alexandra's youth system and made his professional debut, aged 17, on 5 September 2015 in a 3–1 defeat against Swindon Town. He scored his first goal for Crewe in a 3–1 win against Doncaster Rovers on 30 April 2016. Exactly four months later, he scored his second se... |
Christof Putzel | Career | Christof Putzel Career Christof began his production career while an undergraduate at Connecticut College, where he produced his first documentary, "Left Behind," about AIDS orphans in Kenya. The film won over a dozen awards at film festivals, including a Student Academy Award, the International Documentary Association... |
Cheonan Girls' High School | Gymnastics & Shooting & School clubs and publications | Games. Shooting The school has a dedicated Shooting Club and Team with a full-time coach and private firing range. They won 2nd prize in the national “Michuholgi” Tournament in 2010. School clubs and publications Art Club – A club to further the talents of students looking to become artists.
Cheonyo Karak – This is a... |
Bronze Horseman | Statue | ran except Khailov, who risked his life to salvage the casting. After being remelted and recast, the statue was later finished. It took 12 years, from 1770 to 1782, to create the Bronze Horseman, including pedestal, horse and rider.
The tsar's face is the work of the young Marie-Anne Collot, then only 18 years old. She... |
CECPQ1 | Details | planned to disable CECPQ1 in a later Chrome update.
In CECPQ1, 32 bytes of shared secret material are derived using X25519 key exchange, with a further 32 bytes being derived using the newhope lattice-based key exchange method (whence the quantum-resistance). The resulting bytes are concatenated and form a pre-master s... |
Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria | In the news | the umbrella body of tax Institutes in the region.
In May 2011 Sebastian Owuama, President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, attended the annual tax conference of the CITN in Abuja where he called for an end to the squabble between ICAN and the CITN.
In June 2011 Sunday Jegede, president of the CITN, wa... |
Christopher Oscanyan | Biography | son-in-law of the sultan, and minister of ordnance. While he was thus engaged he was appointed special agent to purchase the trousseau of Adilé Sultana, who was about to be married to Mehmed Aali Pasha, and in this capacity he frequently visited the palace.
After the ceremony, Oscanyan acted as correspondent for severa... |
Carlos Saleiro | Sporting CP | Setúbal. However, he featured just five times in the league under coach Daúto Faquirá, leading Saleiro to complain to the press about his lack of first team opportunities. He spent the second half of the campaign on loan at Académica, and finished the season as the club's joint-second highest scorer (tied with Modou So... |
Antoin Sevruguin | Ethnographical photography | accepted method of ethnological research in the nineteenth century. Many European ethnological museums bought Sevruguins portraiture to complement their scientific collection. Museums collected pictures of merchants in the bazaar, members of a zurkhana (a wrestling school), dervishes, gatherings of crowds to see the ta... |
Cemetery Gates | Theme | Cemetery Gates Theme The lyrics lament the death of a female lover and the prospect of dying or committing suicide and rejoining her in the afterlife.
Phil Anselmo has credited numerous inspirations for the song. He stated in an interview in 1991 that the song was written about his good friends that had committed suic... |
Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field | Setting & Geology | in 154 to 173 feet (53 m) of water, and range from 3.7 to 4.3 miles (6.9 km) from land. Geology Along with the Dos Cuadras field to the west, the Carpinteria offshore field is part of a larger anticlinal trend beginning on land north of Ventura with the Ventura Oil Field, and continuing with breaks west through the San... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Southern Steamship Company | 1855. Chartered in Louisiana, it opened some of his Gulf shipping interests to outside investors. Morgan was a minority shareholder, controlling only 500 of 4,000 shares. However, two of the members of the board were Morgan's New Orleans agents, Israel Harris (his son-in-law) and Henry R. Morgan (his son). Their partne... |
Charles Baker (surveyor) | null | various activities, he contributed significantly to the settlement and development of the areas where he lived. |
Cameron Run Watershed | Flooding issues | in the wake of the damage caused by Hurricane Agnes the previous year. Today, the WID functions as a State Agency to maintain and operate the dam, manage water quality of the lake, manage the discharges from the dam and maintain and improve the environmental integrity of the watershed above the lake. By law, the WID mu... |
Chopper (ghost) | Discovery of the fraud | themselves to a psychiatric hospital. Claudia was fired, completely retreated from the public and assumed a new identity. |
Claudius Maximus | In the Apologia & In the Historia Augusta | be a reference to Stoicism. Though Apuleius is clearly trying to flatter his judge, at least some of his attributions were likely true since he was acquitted. In the Historia Augusta The Historia Augusta mentions Claudius Maximus in a single sentence in the section on Marcus Aurelius. It mentions that his name was Clau... |
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert | Biography & Works | Gellert gave up the idea of entering the ministry. However, he finally completed his magister degree in 1743 and qualified as a university lecturer in 1744. In 1745 he established himself as a Privatdozent in philosophy at the university of Leipzig, lecturing on poetry, rhetoric, and moral philosophy. In 1751 he was ap... |
Chip Ganassi Racing | CART history | Chip Ganassi Racing CART history In 1989, Chip Ganassi, who had driven in the IndyCar World Series but had his career cut short due to a career-ending crash at Michigan in 1984, joined Pat Patrick as co-owner for Emerson Fittipaldi's Marlboro IndyCar team. Patrick had announced he was going to retire at the end of the ... |
Chris Shays | 2008 election & 2012 U.S. Senate candidacy | largest margins for a Republican-held district. Shays' defeat resulted in there being no Republicans representing New England in the House for the first time since the GOP's inception in the 1850s.
Shays carried 14 of the 17 towns in his district. However, Himes took the three largest towns—Bridgeport, Norwalk and Sta... |
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