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Bryan Woodward | null | Bryan Woodward Bryan Woodward (born August 3, 1974) is an American former middle distance runner who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was born in Long Beach, California. |
Burkholderia pseudomallei | Identification | useful for this purpose, but this has been shown not to be the case.
Laboratory identification of B. pseudomallei can be difficult, especially in Western countries where it is rarely seen. The large, wrinkled colonies look like environmental contaminants, so are often discarded as being of no clinical significance. C... |
Chiba Takusaburō | "Wanderer Seeking Truth" | as Christian thought reached northeastern Japan, Takusaburō left his Buddhist studies after five months and turned to the tutelage of Father Nikolai.
Born as Ivan Dimitriyevich Kasatkin in 1863, Father Nikolai dreamed of traveling to Japan after reading Captain Vasily Golovnin's, Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan in St... |
Cat Person | Synopsis | Slate describes it as a story of "how two people who don’t know or seemingly even really like each other can end up in bed". Margot later rejects Robert and the story ends on a bitter note. |
Caldwell Home Place | Description and history | Caldwell Home Place Description and history As originally constructed around 1896, the building stood on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River to serve as a store with a mail drop and supply station for the then sparsely populated community.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 13, 2003. |
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert | Biography | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert Biography Gellert was born at Hainichen in Saxony, at the foot of the Erzgebirge. After attending the school of St. Afra in Meissen, he entered Leipzig University in 1734 as a student of theology, but in 1738 Gellert broke off his studies as his family could no longer afford to support him... |
Client–server model | null | Client–server model Client–server model is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients. Often clients and servers communicate over a computer network on separate hardware, but both client an... |
Camilo Sabio | Politics & Conviction and other controversies | of the Philippine Constitutional Association (PhilConsA) from 1998 to 2002. He was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as chairman of the PCGG in 2005 when its previous chairperson, Haydee Yorac died of ovarian cancer and took his oath May 2, 2005. Conviction and other controversies In 2012, the Office of th... |
Battle for Jerusalem | Overview & Blockade at Latrun and Bab al-Wad | Battle for Jerusalem Overview Aside from the large Jewish population, Jerusalem held special importance to the Yishuv for "religious and nationalist" reasons. Blockade at Latrun and Bab al-Wad Following the outbreak of disturbances at the end of 1947 the road between Tel Aviv and Jewish Jerusalem became increasingly di... |
Cheonan Girls' High School | Admissions process & School uniform & Summer uniform | province-wide test in December. Depending on their results, the top 500 students wishing to attend the school are allowed entrance. Students then sit an exam conducted by the school to establish their ability in English and Mathematics. School uniform All students must wear a school uniform, however the level of for... |
CDex | History | almost three years, with CDex 1.70 Beta 2 following soon after on 23 June 2006. In 2008 Berdyshev was joined by Ariane Gomes as project developers. On 18 November 2009 CDex 1.70 Beta 4 was released. CDex 1.70 Final was released on 29 June 2014 featuring a Unicode and Multibyte version.
On 30 June 2007, just one day aft... |
Cincinnati riots of 1855 | Reactions | order" and asked "Has the Protestant religion come to so low a condition that it requires such means to give it character and support?"
The Republicans, who had seen the Catholic issue as a way of gaining the votes of Protestant immigrants, were dismayed. Editor Joseph Medill called the Know Nothing leaders "knaves an... |
Chopper (ghost) | History | Chopper (ghost) History In the summer of 1981, Chopper started appearing in phone calls made by the dentist. He spewed insults with a distorted voice and only appeared to be nice to the then 16-year-old dental assistant Claudia. At some point, the dentist called the police to find the source of the supposed person terr... |
Clanculus euchelioides | Description | basal margins are thin, lirate, and iridescent within (the lirae not extending to the margin). The oblique columella is straight, rib-like, with an attenuated keel elevated into a tooth-like prominence at the base, and separated from the basal margin of the aperture by a deep gemmulated ribs of about equal magnitude. A... |
Carlos Saleiro | International career | played in the final where Portugal defeated England 1–0 at Sixfields Stadium. |
Cape Whitson | Important Bird Area | comprises the ice-free land of the cape, extending for 1.5 km between Aitken Cove and Methuen Cove. It has an elevation of less than 250 m. |
Busy Bees Nurseries | null | 12 nurseries in Malaysia, the number of nurseries has now increased further to 52 in Singapore. Busy Bees also founded a childcare voucher company in 1998, which they later sold in 2008.
The Busy Bees Nurseries in the UK is supported by learning programmes in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framewo... |
Call Me Bandicoot | null | Call Me Bandicoot Call Me Bandicoot is a 1970 young adult novel written by U.S. author William Pène du Bois. The novel takes place on the Staten Island Ferry and focuses on the relationship between an adult passenger and a young man who spins tall tales in exchange for food. |
Chris Shays | National security & Elections | from within the FBI, CIA, and NSA regarding the disputed legality of surveillance, Shays chaired a hearing on National Whistleblower Protection. This hearing was largely opposed by the Republican leadership and the Bush administration, which was attempting to strip intelligence employees of whistleblower protections. T... |
Client–server model | Example & Early history | An application server interprets the returned data by applying the bank's business logic, and provides the output to the web server. Finally, the web server returns the result to the client web browser for display.
In each step of this sequence of client–server message exchanges, a computer processes a request and re... |
Chai Wan | History | executed at the Sai Wan Battery despite having surrendered. After the fort was closed in the 1980s Sai Sau Wan become an area for new population.
In 1929, the Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch purchased land for the Chai Wan Campsite where Chai Wan Park is now situated. The land returned to Hong Kong Governm... |
Carlos Saleiro | International career | seven goals in 18 under-17 games, and then won two caps at under-18 level in 2004. The following year he scored one goal in eight appearances for the under-19 team. He travelled with the Portugal under-20 squad for the 2007 Toulon Tournament, and featured in three games.
He was called up to the Portugal under-21 team a... |
Burang Town | History and religion | Bön establishment. Tsegu covers many terraces and may be reached by ladders, and contains many unique and ancient wall-painting, darkened from centuries of smoke.
It seems that the Tegla kar (Lying Tiger fort) was built during the Zhangzhung dynasty which was conquered by the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo in the early 7t... |
Battle of Long Tan | D Company regroups & A Company and 3 Troop fight through | the heavy artillery fire to get that close. Meanwhile, the VC had set up a light and a heavy machine-gun on the forward slopes of Nui Dat 2 and these continued to engage the Australians throughout the battle. Yet, while they were able to achieve plunging fire from this vantage point, they were unable to observe D Compa... |
Carbofuran | Toxicity to vertebrates & Toxicity to humans | At low-level exposures carbofuran may cause transient alterations in the concentration of hormones. These alterations may consequently lead to serious reproductive problems following repeated exposure. When exposed in utero or during lactation, a decrease in sperm motility, sperm count along with increase in percent ab... |
Charter for Compassion | Self-Organizing Structure | enterprise and directs other people to carry out the steps necessary to reach that goal. CFC supports self-organization, believing that sustainable change emerges organically from communities. As such, it facilitates connections between resources, individuals and organizations with the intent of supporting (not control... |
Charles Punchard Jr. | First Landscape Architect of the National Park Service | National Park Service as its first Landscape Engineer. Writing in Landscape Architecture, Punchard described the new position as follows:
"The problems of the Landscape Engineer of the National Park Service are many and embrace every detail which has to do with the appearance of the parks. He works in an advisory cap... |
Cleveland Family History Society | null | History Societies. |
Chip Ganassi Racing | IndyCar Series history | title in a tiebreaker with Juan Pablo Montoya on the strength of three wins at Long Beach, Texas, and Sonoma. Kanaan would not win that year, but had two runner up finishes at Texas and Fontana. Both Karam and Saavedra would struggle in the No. 8, save for a lone podium by Karam at Iowa. For 2016, Ganassi would replace... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Blacklist system | for private farmers. Cessation of any sort of credit and demand for early repayment of credit and other financial obligations." Initially, such sanctions were applied to only six villages, but later they were applied to numerous rural settlements and districts. For peasants, who were not kolkhoz members and who were "u... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Sale of Morgan Iron Works & Railroad ownership | Line, which operated between Louisiana and Texas. Railroad ownership To this point, Morgan had invested in the first-tier mortgage bonds of the NOO & GW, but had not yet held equity in any railroads. The NOO & GW had fallen behind in its coupon payments. The Illinois Central Railroad, a large bondholder, filed suit on ... |
Business Ethics (The Office) | Plot | as he claimed, and Jim appears happy to hear this and stops using the stopwatch.
Michael, upset by Holly's feelings, takes her to a restaurant to smooth things over, and inconspicuously tries to ignite a relationship. After Holly states that Dunder Mifflin is not a family but a workplace, Michael becomes bitter toward... |
Clam juice | Soda fountains & Cocktails & Clamato | to one-ounce of clam juice in an eight-ounce glass, the remainder of which was filled with hot water. Accompaniments included soda crackers, celery salt, salt and pepper. The beverage was sometimes prepared with the addition of milk or hot milk. The addition of a small portion of butter would enhance the flavor of hot ... |
Cape Cleveland Light | Establishment | February 1878. The lighthouses were formally approved in April 1878 and tenders for the construction of both stations, each including a lighthouse and two keepers' cottages, were called in May 1878 and closed in June 1878. The tenders were awarded to W. P. Clark, who also constructed Bustard Head Light (1868), Low Isle... |
CZ 52 | Operation | receiver aft of the left grip panel. The manual safety blocks movement of the sear, which prevents the hammer from releasing and firing a round. A second safety, in the form of a spring-loaded firing pin block, prevents the pistol from firing unless the trigger is pulled fully to the rear; this feature renders the pist... |
Bronze Horseman | Siege of Leningrad | 900 days of bombing and artillery virtually untouched. True to the legend, Leningrad was never taken. |
Charles Wesley's House | Architecture | has two sash windows per floor, with stepped voussoirs over the windows. The houses are surrounded by modern buildings. |
Cheonan Girls' High School | Summer uniform & Winter uniform & Academic dress & Sports & Gymnastics | skirt.
Casual – gray shorts and a white and blue polo-shirt (designed by the students). Winter uniform Formal – Royal Blue Blazer, Cardigan, Vest and Pencil Skirt and tie. White blouse.
Casual – Grey and blue-striped sports tracksuit embossed with the school emblem. Academic dress Students graduate wearing unive... |
Cape Cleveland Light | Other structures & Site operation and visiting & Heritage listing | henhouse. The main section roof is covered with asphalt, and the extension has a pitched galvanised iron gable roof. One rectangular opening is in the main section and one in the extension. The garage and the workshop are timber-framed and fibro clad, with a gable roofs of corrugated fibro cement with metal gutters and... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Elimination of Ukrainian cultural elite & Consequence of collectivization & Collectivization | its collectivization policies, and to orchestrate a deliberate mass starvation by hunger of Ukrainians, wherever they were found throughout the Soviet Empire. This documentary reinforces the view that the Holodomor was indeed an act of genocide. Consequence of collectivization While a complex task, it is possible to gr... |
Chunseong | The commander of monks | of alcoholic drinks and often drank beer and makgeolli (which he referred to as gokcha, or grain drinks).
One night, he had too much to drink and got caught violating curfew hours by a police officer. The police asked "Who are you?" Chunseong said, "I am a Jungdaejang (translated to "company commander")! The police of... |
Claudia Pandolfi | Life and career | Claudia Pandolfi Life and career Claudia Pandolfi was born in Rome, the daughter of the CEO of the Laura Biagiotti Fashion House.
Her career began in 1991 on the stage of the Miss Italia beauty contest, in which she reached the semi-finals, capturing the attention of Michele Placido who offered her the main role in the... |
Chloroflexus aurantiacus | Physiology | plants. While oxygenic phototrophs use water as an electron donor for phototrophy, Chloroflexus uses reduced sulfur compounds such as hydrogen sulfide, thiosulfate, or elemental sulfur. This belies their antiquated name green non-sulfur bacteria, however Chloroflexus spp. can also utilize hydrogen(H₂) as a source of el... |
Buchenwald concentration camp | Liberation | room. On April 8 at noon, Damazyn and Russian prisoner Konstantin Ivanovich Leonov sent the Morse code message prepared by leaders of the prisoners' underground resistance (supposedly Walter Bartel and Harry Kuhn):
To the Allies. To the army of General Patton. This is the Buchenwald concentration camp. SOS. We request ... |
Berechiah ha-Nakdan | Biography | Berechiah ha-Nakdan Berechiah ben Natronai Krespia ha-Nakdan (Hebrew: ברכיה בן נטרונאי הנקדן; fl. 12th–13th century) was a Jewish exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, translator, poet, and philosopher. His best-known works are Mishle Shu'alim (Fox Fables) and Sefer ha-Ḥibbur (The Book of Compilation). Biography Little... |
Church Street (Nashville, Tennessee) | Location | Church Street (Nashville, Tennessee) Location It runs from Downtown Nashville at 1st Avenue North off the Cumberland River all the way down to Midtown Nashville at 21st Avenue North. At 21st Avenue North, it becomes known as Elliston Place, until the corner of West End Avenue and Centennial Park, off the campus of Vand... |
Clean Water Services | History | grow in the service area of USA, the water quality of the Tualatin River worsened. In 1986, the Northwest Environmental Defense Center filed a lawsuit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency, prompting Total maximum daily loads for the Tualatin River. A Clean Water Act amendment added regulation of st... |
Carbofuran | Toxicity to humans & Health scare in Thailand & Death of Lions in Kenya | to MT2 melatonin receptor (Ki = 1.7 uM). Disruption of melatonin signaling could impact the circadian rhythm balance and is linked to elevated risk of developing diabetes. Health scare in Thailand Due to nonregistration of 4 carcinogenic chemicals used on crops not listed in the Dangerous Substances Act of Thailand, ve... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | New York and Charleston Steam Packet Company & Gulf coast packets | her sails were not able to drive and control the ship. The storm pushed Home toward the shore and ran it aground, and 99 people died trying to reach land. Gulf coast packets In 1837, Morgan started running steamboat service between New Orleans and Galveston, Texas, which was the first packet boat service running betwee... |
Client–server model | Client and server communication & Example | tasks at any moment, and relies on a scheduling system to prioritize incoming requests from clients to accommodate them. To prevent abuse and maximize availability, server software may limit the availability to clients. Denial of service attacks are designed to exploit a server's obligation to process requests by overl... |
Buchenwald concentration camp | Allied POWs | had crashed in occupied France. Two explanations are given for them being sent to a concentration camp: first, that they had managed to make contact with the French Resistance, some were disguised as civilians, and they were carrying false papers when caught; they were therefore categorized by the Germans as spies, whi... |
Chuck Webb | College | rushed 35 times for 294 yards, breaking the single-game rushing record of 248 yards set by Johnnie Jones in 1983. He finished his regular season with 27 carries for 145 yards against Kentucky (he missed the regular season finale against Vanderbilt with an injury). In Tennessee's win over Arkansas in the 1990 Cotton B... |
Causes of the Holodomor | Blacklist system & Restrictions on freedom of movement | Decree, the villages Liutenky and Havrylivka were removed from the black list after 88% and 70% plan completion, respectively.
Measures were taken to persecute those withholding or bargaining grain. This was done frequently by requisition detachments, which raided farms to collect grain, and regardless of whether or no... |
Cincinnati Bearcats | Radio and television | 2010 former Bearcat Anthony Buford, was relieved from his Color commentator duties after pleading guilty in a mortgage fraud scheme Terry Nelson a former bearcat, replaced Buford for color commentary. |
Clinical trial management system | Terminology & Background | data are shared in a way that eliminates the need for users to enter the same data or perform the same action in both applications. The shift in the definition of "eClinical" has been a natural part of the industry’s evolution to seek better ways to utilize multiple technologies together within a clinical trial. Backgr... |
Beijing Subway restricted stations | Fushouling station (52#/No. 102) | Beijing Subway restricted stations Fushouling station (52#/No. 102) Fushouling station (simplified Chinese: 福寿岭站; traditional Chinese: 福壽嶺站; pinyin: Fúshòulǐng Zhàn) is actually the third last station of Line 1, Beijing Subway. This station is located near the Metro Drivers' Vocational School. It was initially planned ... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Railroad ownership | million, owned the entire NOO & GW. He renamed it Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad. At the time of purchase, the assets included a terminal each at Algiers and Brashear, and eighty miles of single-track in between. The Algiers terminal included forty acres with 370-feet of frontage on the Mississippi River, direct... |
Civil defense in Finland | null | the 1980s civil defense authorities considered, however, that evacuation of the civilian population to escape fallout following a nuclear attack would be pointless, and no provision was made for such a contingency.
The public's perception of civil defense efforts was marked by considerable indifference during the 1980s... |
Bulbophyllum lilianae | Distribution and habitat | situations where it is exposed to full sun and wind or mist and fog. It occurs between the Cedar Bay National Park, the Evelyn Tableland and Paluma Range National Park. |
Camera angle | Angles and their impact | perfect the camera angles. One milliframe (mF) equals about .328cm (0.129 inches). However, the exact size of a milliframe is almost impossible to calculate since it is not a physical measurement. Angles and their impact Where the camera is placed in relation to the subject can affect the way the viewer perceives the s... |
Clinical trial management system | Terminology | Clinical trial management system Terminology eClinical is a term used within the biopharmaceutical industry to refer to trial automation technology. Originally, "eClinical" was used to refer to any involved technology. Without a more specific definition, the industry used "eClinical" to name technologies such as electr... |
Cincinnati riots of 1855 | Riots & Reactions | Cincinnati riots of 1855 Riots In the April 1855 elections, the Know Nothings nominated a slate of candidates with James Taylor, the populist anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic editor of the Cincinnati Times, as candidate for mayor.
Taylor's inflammatory attacks on immigrants caused rising tension in the city, with fight... |
California Institute of Technology | Research | agencies contributing to research are NASA, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy. Caltech received $144 million in federal funding for the physical sciences, $40.8 million for the life sciences, $33.5 million for engineering, $14.4 million... |
Christoph Ruckhäberle | null | Ruckhäberle is represented by Campoli Presti in London and Paris, Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen, Galerie Kleindienst in Leipzig and Zieher Smith & Horton in New York. |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | Sales | game bested Halo 5: Guardians to become the top selling game. Black Ops III was the top best selling game in the US according to NPD's figures. Black Ops III later became the top selling game of 2015. According to Activision, Black Ops III was one of the best-selling games released for the eighth generation of video ga... |
Chiba Takusaburō | "Wanderer Seeking Truth" | of National Learning, known as kokugaku, under Nabeshima Ichirō in Kesennuma. In Nabeshima, an eccentric teacher educating students in both arithmetic and classical Japanese literature, Takusaburō hoped to discover the ideology of the Meiji government. Kokugaku studies encapsulated the philosophy behind the sonnō jōi m... |
Claire Martin (writer) | Honours | being "one of the most important writers of her generation in Canada". She was promoted to Companion in 2001. She was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2007. She won the Prix du Cercle du livre de France in 1958 for her first book Avec ou sans amour. She won the Prix France-Québec in 1965 and the Gover... |
Cardigan (UK Parliament constituency) | History | 1841 election (see below). By agreement between Pryse and William Edward Powell, who continued as member for the county until his resignation in 1854, neither challenged the other's domination and so elections were almost always unopposed.
The one exception was the 1841 election when there was a close contest with John... |
Clam juice | Preparation | Clam juice Clam juice is the broth obtained from clams. It is prepared using the liquid collected from steamed clams. Clam juice is used as an ingredient in various dishes, as a beverage that is drunk in its whole form, and as an ingredient in various beverages. Preparation Clam juice is typically prepared from the liq... |
Chernogolovka | History & Administrative and municipal status | Chernogolovka History Chernogolovka for the first time has been officially mentioned in 1710. In 1956, Chernogolovka grew into a scientific center with the help of Nobel Prize winner Nikolay Semyonov. Semyonov started the experimental branch of Moscow Institute of Chemical Physics, which in the 1960s–1970s grew into a ... |
Chiba Takusaburō | Background & Early life | composed of the old samurai elite. By the 1870s, political protest against the new Meiji government emerged. Formerly a leader of the Restoration, Itagaki Taisuke urged the public to end the tyranny of the inner elite dominating the government. This Freedom and People's Rights Movement petitioned for a national assembl... |
Canadian Bird-class patrol vessel | Design & Service history | mortar. Service history Loon was the first to commission, on 30 November 1955 at Toronto, Ontario. The vessel sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia in December through treacherous ice conditions. Cormorant and Mallard were commissioned on 16 July 1956 at Midland, Ontario and Penetang, Ontario respectively. Blue Heron commissi... |
Carolyn Rafaelian | Business career | with Alex and Ani, and also the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year in the products category for New England. Her firm's revenue grew from $5 million in 2010 to over $500 million in 2016 and the company’s Charity By Design initiative, where 20% of sales go to charity, makes up 20% of sales.
Rafaelian owns a cafe franc... |
APB (1987 video game) | Gameplay | game also gives the player the task of arresting fugitive felons. Every other day, starting on the third day, the player can go after an A.P.B. ("All Points Bulletin"). When a fugitive is caught and returned to the station, the player must violently shake the suspect to get a confession before the Chief enters the room... |
Charter for Compassion | Self-Organizing Structure & Compassionate Communities | as the Charter Community Tool Box, the Charter Education Institute and informational materials on the Charter. Compassionate Communities At the heart of the Charter for Compassion's work is its Campaign for Compassionate Communities. In the beginning, this effort was focused on building a network of cities, but it soon... |
Chariots of Fire (play) | Critical reception | leads that, "Both actors are splendid." Christopher Hart of the Sunday Times also gave the play five stars, declaring it "a bravura version of the 1981 movie". "It's Edward Hall's staging that's the real winner" he wrote, describing the running sequences as "pure exhilaration". He summed up the play as "a joyful antido... |
Auguste de Pradines | Musical career | In his home city of Port-au-Prince and throughout the provinces, he was in great demand as a singer before, during, and after the occupation in clubs, at private parties, in theaters, and eventually at outdoor rallies." Kandjo wrote satirical songs and in other ways participated in the campaign to unseat Louis Borno, p... |
Burial of Drowned Persons Acts 1808 and 1886 | null | of Porthleven. The construction of this harbour was another of the consequences of the loss of the Anson.
This act was amended by the Burial of Drowned Persons Act 1886 (citation 49 & 50 Vict c.20), to extend its applicability to bodies found in, or cast on shore from, all tidal or navigable waters. This was needed fol... |
Brian C. Wimes | Biography & Federal judicial service | 2001 to 2007, he served as Drug Court Commissioner in Jackson County. In 2007 he was appointed circuit court judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri by Governor Matt Blunt, a position he held until his confirmation as a district judge. Federal judicial service On September 22, 2011, President Obama nomina... |
Cameron Fenton | Amateur career & Professional career | Cameron Fenton Amateur career Fenton began playing rugby at Bell Baxter High School, with whom he won the Brewin Dolphin Plate. He was then awarded a scholarship to Strathallan School.
At amateur club level he began at Howe of Fife Rugby Club. He then moved to the BT Premiership side Stirling County followed by the Gla... |
Cheonan Girls' High School | History & Location | the addition of several new buildings.
2010 – Chungnam Board of Education awarded the school the title of Myeongmungo Godunghakyo, meaning Prestige School. Location The school is located in the city of Cheonan in the province of Chungcheongnam-do, often called Chungnam-do for short. Cheonan is about 1 hour south of ... |
Church of St Mary, Hulme | null | of Victorian buildings, including a listed rectory, the Pevsner Buildings of England volume for Manchester describes the church as having "stood through two complete cycles of urban decay, dereliction, destruction and renewal, standing alone amid utter desolation in the 1960s and again in the 1990s".
At the time of l... |
Bouri Field | Overview | Bouri Field Overview In 1974, the Italian oil company Eni S.p.A signed a Production sharing agreement (PSA) awarded by the state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) of Libya for onshore and offshore exploration in areas near Tripoli. This is where the Bouri field was discovered offshore at a depth of 8,700 feet (2,700... |
A.F.C. Euro Kickers | History | 191 goals and leading the Panamanian league in scoring for six consecutive seasons (1990 to 1995-96). During that stretch he was also the league's most valuable player three times (1990, 1992, and 1993).
The arrival of Ardines coincided with the era of greatest success for Eurokickers. They reached the finals in 1991... |
Charlie Williams (comedian) | Later life | the BBC's Football Focus programme. Williams suffered from Parkinson's disease in his later life, and died on 2 September 2006, aged 78. |
Ciutadella de Menorca | History | siege for eight days entered and decimated the town. The town was defended by only a few hundred men. All of Ciutadella's 3,099 inhabitants who survived the siege were taken as slaves to Turkey together with other inhabitants of surrounding villages. In total, 3,452 residents were sold into slavery in the slave markets... |
Chrabliyine Mosque | Interior and layout | prayers and religious rituals around the bodies of the deceased before they are buried. (This space is attached but separate from the rest of the mosque in order to protect the cleanliness and sanctity of the main prayer space.) Both this funerary space and the main prayer hall can also be accessed by smaller secondary... |
City of Ashland (shipwreck) | History | City of Ashland (shipwreck) History City of Ashland was built in 1883 and owned by the Superior Lumber Company, located in Ashland. The ship primarily was used for timber rafting. As timber was harvested around the Bad River area of Wisconsin, the logs would collect near the shore, where City of Ashland would pick them... |
Chief merchandising officer | Responsibilities | Chief merchandising officer Responsibilities A Chief Merchandising Officer has the responsibility of overseeing a company or other organization's buying and selling activities and utilizing the information gathered to develop a plan of action toward future purchase decisions. They often make these decisions on behalf o... |
Cigarette girl | Uniform | Cigarette girl In Europe and the United States, a cigarette girl is a person who sells or provides cigarettes from a tray held by a neck strap. They may also carry cigars and other items like candy, snacks, and chewing gum on their trays. Uniform The most common uniform is a red and black short saloon-style skirt above... |
Cloonnafinneela, County Kerry | Archaeology and history | his vision. He asked for the miracle of healing to be transferred to the well instead for others.
The Irish version of Cloonnafinneela is unvalidated; there have been a number of different anglicized spellings. Local folklore tells of a Fineela family which lived long ago in forts evident in the landscape. No one used... |
Brushless DC electric motor | Brushless solution | due to friction. The enhanced efficiency is greatest in the no-load and low-load region of the motor's performance curve. Under high mechanical loads, brushless motors and high-quality brushed motors are comparable in efficiency.
Environments and requirements in which manufacturers use brushless-type DC motors include ... |
Charles Morgan (businessman) | Mexican War | interest in Palmetto and became an investment partner with Morgan in the 249-ton steamship Yacht, a much smaller vessel better suited for navigating the sandbars of the Texas coast. Portland was a steamer built in 1835 which originally served the coast of Maine; she was brought into the Morgan fleet late in 1847 and as... |
Biggesee | Purpose | Biggesee Purpose The lake serves to regulate the rivers Ruhr and Lenne as well as providing water for the Ruhrgebiet. It is fed from the Bigge, a tributary of the Lenne.
The lake serves primarily to store water for the Ruhrgebiet so as to maintain the same level of water in the Ruhr. The lake can deliver, via the river... |
Clinical trial management system | Background & Purpose | clinical trial always has accurate and up-to-date information. As the number of relevant applications increases with greater adoption of EDC and other technologies, the problems of duplication of data and redundancy in process have increased. As a consequence, the pursuit of an integrated technology suite to streamline... |
Chunseong | Korean War | his name to comply with the Japanese colonial authorities, but he refused.
In 1944, he went to the Doksungsan Sudeok Temple, where he studied under Mangong Song Wolmyon (만공 송월면, 萬空 宋月面). Mangong was top of the Korean Ganhwaseon (看話禪, 간화선). He trained for Mangong. In 1946 he returned to Mangwol Temple (망월사, 望月寺) as its ... |
Choose Me | Plot | show. When Eve's married lover, Zack, calls looking for her, Nancy asks penetrating questions and begins dispensing relationship advice, despite the fact that she herself has been unable to maintain a successful relationship. Zack in turn resumes his pursuit of Eve, although his wife, Pearl, has begun to haunt Eve's ba... |
Chloride, Arizona | History & Climate | 1944 it was nearly a ghost town.
American author Louis L'Amour visited Chloride sometime between 1927 and 1929 after the Weepah, Nevada goldrush, where he had bought, and then sold, a claim for $50. During his visit the town of Chloride caught fire. L'amour assisted the town citizens in a bucket brigade that ultimate... |
California Institute of Technology | Throop College & World Wars | Wilson Observatory in 1904. He joined Throop's board of trustees in 1907, and soon began developing it and the whole of Pasadena into a major scientific and cultural destination. He engineered the appointment of James A. B. Scherer, a literary scholar untutored in science but a capable administrator and fund raiser, to... |
California Institute of Technology | Rivalry with MIT | the inscription read "The Only Institute of Technology." Caltech students also passed out T-shirts to MIT's incoming freshman class that had MIT written on the front and "... because not everyone can go to Caltech" along with an image of a palm tree on the back.
MIT retaliated in April 2006, when students posing as the... |
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