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Chris Shays
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Member of the United States Congress & Police incident
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won a special election to fill the vacant seat of the late Congressman Stewart McKinney. He represented the 4th congressional district (southwestern Connecticut) until losing to Jim Himes in 2008.
During his 21 years in Congress, Christopher served on the Government Reform, Financial Services, Budget and Homeland Security committees and was the first congressman to enter Iraq after the war. Police incident In 2007, Shays raised his voice to a Capitol Hill policeman, and touched the officer's badge to read the number for not letting the congressman's visitors through a doorway. "I take full responsibility for this incident and want
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Counterproductive work behavior
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Managing strategies
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Work samples have been found to be a more effective screening tool than integrity testing alone, but integrity testing and cognitive testing together are even better screening tools. While the use of screening instruments may be an imperfect decision-making tool, the question often facing the recruitment officer is not whether the instrument is perfect, but whether, relative to other available screening tools, the screening tool is functional.
However, organizations must do more than screen employees in order to successfully manage CWBs. Substantial research has demonstrated that CWBs arise out of situational factors that occur in the day-to-day operations of
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Culture of Brazil
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Beauty
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dark-skinned maids in uniform walk behind with the bags and babies. Black and mixed-race Brazilians earn three-fifths as much as white ones. They are twice as likely to be illiterate or in prison, and less than half as likely to go to university. ... The unthinking prejudice expressed in common phrases such as 'good appearance' (meaning pale-skinned) and 'good hair' (not frizzy) means many light-skinned Brazilians have long preferred to think of themselves as 'white', whatever their parentage."
There are marking differences between perceptions of beauty among working-class patients in public hospitals, and upper-middle class patients in private clinics. Plastic surgery
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Cameron Run Watershed
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History: first inhabitants and changes to the watershed & Expansion: first cities and increasing needs of the population
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Europeans, trapping, fishing, and clearing land for farming. The first changes to the watershed came when Europeans wiped out the beaver population for their pelts, which led to deterioration of their dams and “changed the hydrology and ecosystem of the stream valley”. In the mid/late 1600s to the early 1700s, Europeans concentrated on farming tobacco, which greatly impacted soil fertility and erosion. In the 1720s, “Yankees” from New York brought new farming practices (fallowing land; bringing new/different seed stock; rotating crops; planting clover to enrich soil; using lime and animal waste as fertilizer; using deeper plowing practices) Expansion: first
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Delitto al luna park
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Plot
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Delitto al luna park Plot The singer Silvia is unwittingly involved in robberies and murders that lead to jail. Roberto believes the innocent and manages to make her release after having discovered and denounced the shady dealings in which it had fallen. Out of jail, Silvia marry Roberto.
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Definitely, Maybe
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Plot
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(often critically) and asks questions.
The story begins in 1992 when Will, an idealistic political operative, moves away from Madison, Wisconsin and his college sweetheart, Emily, to New York City, where he works on the Clinton campaign. Over the years, Will becomes involved with three women who enter his life, including Summer Hartley, an aspiring journalist, and April, the copy girl for the campaign. Will and April have a chance meeting outside work, where Will reveals he is going to propose to Emily. When Will practices his proposal to Emily on April, she is taken aback by Will's wholehearted words and
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Daz Eden
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Storylines
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to Sam. She refused and called Sam names so Daz ended their relationship.
Daz was happy to stay single but Scarlett Nicholls (Kelsey-Beth Crossley) had other ideas. They met in early 2007 when she and her mother, Carrie (Linda Lusardi), moved to the village so Scarlett could get to know her half-brothers. Scarlett fancied him instantly and Daz found out when she made him a CD of what she thought were his favourite songs. Victoria had helped Scarlett with it but didn't tell her that she was friends with Penny and did it as a practical joke. When Scarlett found out,
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David Tod Roy
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Translating Jin Ping Mei
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work, finishing in 2012.
Roy's graduate seminar on the novel took two years to read through the entire 3,000 pages of the earliest edition. He and his students saw that the novel contained abundant but unidentified quotations from earlier works. Roy spent several years making an index for every line of poetry, proverbs, or drama in the text, filling more than 10,000 three-by-five file cards. He then set out to read all of the works that were in print before the novel was compiled and this index allowed him to identify a great number of the quotations and allusions that earlier
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Dana Chandler
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Early life and education & Career
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Rickson.
In 1967, Chandler received a B.S. in Teacher Education from the Massachusetts College of Art. Career Chandler was a part of the black integrationist movement in Boston, using art for social justice and human rights.
In 1971, Chandler was hired as an assistant professor at Simmons College. He retired in May 2004.
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Davers baronets
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Davers baronets The Davers Baronetcy, of Rougham in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 12 May 1682 for Robert Davers, who had made a great fortune in Barbados before acquiring the Rougham estate in Suffolk. The second and fourth Baronets represented Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk in Parliament. The sixth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Bury St Edmunds. The title became either extinct or dormant on his death in 1806.
Thomas Davers, third son of the second Baronet, was an admiral in the Royal Navy. The family
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Decatur Dorsey
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Biography
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States Colored Infantry as a private, but was promoted to corporal less than two months later, on May 17.
On July 30, 1864, Dorsey took part in the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, Virginia. With the Siege of Petersburg at a stalemate, Union forces hoped to break the city's defenses by detonating explosives in a tunnel dug beneath the Confederate lines and charging the enemy positions in the aftermath of the explosion. The blast blew a huge crater in the Confederate defenses, and white Union soldiers rushed in to attack. Men who entered the crater became trapped as the Confederates
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Détente
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Apollo–Soyuz Hand Shake in Space & Continued conflicts
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in space. In July 1975, the first USSR-USA joint space flight was conducted and it was called the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. The primary goal of this project was to create an international docking system in order to allow two different space crafts to join in orbit, this would have allowed the crews on board to collaborate on the exploration of space. This project marked the end of the Space Race that started in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik, therefore allowing the tensions between the US and the USSR to decrease significantly. Continued conflicts As direct relations thawed, increased tensions
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Darab
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Agricultural products & In literature
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products are wheat, citrus, cotton, maize and palm. In literature In the notes to his long mystical poem The Kasidah (1880), Sir Richard Francis Burton describes his alter ego, "Haji Abdu El-Yezdi" as being a native of Darab.
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Causes of the Holodomor
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Refusal to provide aid for starving
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cut back or rejected.
Documents from Soviet archives indicate that the aid distribution was made selectively to the most affected areas, and during the spring months, such assistance was the goal of the relief effort. A special resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine for the Kiev Oblast, from March 31, 1933, ordered peasants to be hospitalized with either ailing or recovering patients. The resolution ordered improved nutrition within the limits of available resources so that they could be sent out into the fields to sow the new crop as soon as possible. The food was
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Dame Gruev
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Uprising & After the Uprising
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Bitola region. Gruev lived to see the retreat of the Turkish troops from his native village of Smilevo. He was engaged, during the course of the insurrection, in numerous skirmishes with the Ottoman Army. But with the arrival of Ottoman troops, any progress of the insurrection was made impossible and in a period of six weeks it was completely crushed. Gruev put himself to task of touring various revolutionary districts, disarming the insurgents, and storing up the war materials for future use. Gruev and his followers continued the work of organization and preparation for another uprising. After the Uprising In
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Carlos Lapetra
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Club career
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Carlos Lapetra Club career Lapetra was born in Zaragoza, Aragon, as his parents had relocated to the city from Huesca due to the Spanish Civil War. After one year in the lower leagues with CD Guadalajara he signed with Real Zaragoza in 1959, remaining with the latter until his retirement.
During his one-decade spell at the La Romareda, Lapetra was part of an attacking unit that also featured Canário, Marcelino, Eleuterio Santos and Juan Manuel Villa, dubbed Los Magníficos (The Magnificent). He helped the club to four Copa del Rey finals in the 1960s, winning twice and scoring in both matches,
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Cranesville, Pennsylvania
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History & Geography
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Cranesville, Pennsylvania History Cranesville was named after its founder, Fowler Crane. On May 31, 1985 the borough was devastated by an F4 tornado which killed three people in Cranesville and another nine in nearby Albion. Geography Cranesville is located in southwestern Erie County at 41°54′12″N 80°20′50″W (41.903313, -80.347089). It is bordered to the west by Conneaut Township and to the north, east, and south by Elk Creek Township. The borough of Albion is 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Cranesville.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.93 square miles (2.4 km²), of which 0.004 square
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Charles Rigault de Genouilly
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Crimean War & Second Opium War
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22 April 1854, one of the early naval actions of the Crimean War. Promoted contre-amiral (rear admiral) in 1854, he served with distinction in the siege of Sebastopol, where he was in command of the French marines (fusiliers-marins). Second Opium War In 1857 Rigault de Genouilly sailed aboard the frigate Némésis to join the naval armada assembled by Admiral Léonard Charner for the Second Opium War, and was placed in command of the French naval division. During the campaign he took part in the blockade of Macau and captured the capture of Canton.
After this success he served at the capture
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Davers baronets
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seat was Rushbrooke Hall from 1703 to 1806.
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Deimantas Narkevičius
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The Role of a Lifetime
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the Lithuanian landscape by Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Lukošaitis. A number of these drawing show Grūto Park, a kind of Soviet theme park in the south of Lithuania, that acts as a repository of Social Realist sculptures from the post-war era. The third is a footage of Brighton life shot by an amateur film enthusiast Geoffrey Cook which Narkevičius found in archives in Brighton.
In works like Punishment Park (1970) or La Commune (Paris 1871) (2000), Watkins has challenged what he calls the “monoform”: cinematographic editing that reduces disparate visual and acoustic parts to a narrative whole. Narkevičius undoes the monoform by
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Codex Corbeiensis II
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Codex Corbeiensis II The Codex Corbeiensis II, designated by ff² or 8 (in the Beuron system), is a 5th-century Latin Gospel Book. The text, written on vellum, is a version of the old Latin. The manuscript contains 190 parchment folio with the text of the four Gospels with lacunae (Matt 1:1-11:16; Luke 9:48; 10:20.21; 11:45-12:6.7; John 17:15-18:9; 20:22-21:8). Written in a beautiful round uncial hand.
Gospels follow in the sequence: Matthew, Luke, John, Mark.
The Latin text of the codex is a representative Western text-type in itala recension. The text is akin to preserved in Codex Vercellensis and Codex Veronensis.
The manuscript formerly
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Dale Farm
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2011 eviction
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the site were planned to be cut off on the morning of the eviction.
On 26 August a temporary 50 mph. speed limit was applied to a two-mile stretch of the A127 carriageway by Essex County Council, anticipating an influx of slow-moving caravans and trucks joining the road when the eviction commenced. Local road blocks were then introduced in areas surrounding Dale Farm. Farmers in the area blockaded their entrances to prevent illegal occupation of their land.
The British firm of bailiffs, Constant and Co., was given the £2.2 million contract to clear 54 pitches at Dale Farm.
The Gypsy Council claims
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Day-Taylor House
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Description and history
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some are set in round-arch openings. Some windows have original cast iron balconies. There are small windows of different shapes in the attic story, including a round-arch window set at the center of the main front-facing facade. A single-story veranda, supported by Corinthian columns, is arrayed around the base of the tower. The interior of the building retains little original styling.
The house was built in 1857 by Hirim Bushnell, the builder of the Connecticut State Capitol and the Memorial Arch in Bushnell Park. It was built for Albert F. Day, a prominent local merchant whose
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Chance and Necessity
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Microscopic cybernetics
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the enzyme activity with respect to the substrate. Monod lists and defines four regulatory patterns. The first is feedback inhibition. Feedback activation is when the enzyme is activated by a product of degradation of the terminal metabolite. Parallel activation takes place when the first enzyme of a metabolic sequence is activated by a metabolite synthesized by an independent parallel sequence. Activation through a precursor is defined as when an enzyme is activated by a precursor of its substrate and a particularly frequent case of this is activation of the enzyme by the substrate itself. Allosteric enzymes are usually under the
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David Hill (Oregon politician)
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Oregon
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Twality (sic) County, what is now Washington County, Oregon. The claim is in what is now Hillsboro with the recorded date of the claim is July 4, 1847. According to the claim record Hill started the claim in June 1842. With Kesley (Kelsey) and Williams recorded as arriving in Oregon in 1841, it is likely Hill arrived then as well. Hill likely arrived in October 1841 and then wintered with Joseph L. Meek, who he would later serve with in the legislature. David Hill married Lucinda Wilson June 4, 1846. On his land claim and built a cabin that was
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Desegregation in the United States Marine Corps
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1948 to 1960
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the service or becoming a steward (a food service position). A few non-white Marines advanced in grade, such as Kurt Chew-Een Lee, a Chinese-American Marine who was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1946. Lee earned the Navy Cross under fire in Korea in September 1950, serving in the 1st Battalion 7th Marines; at the time this was a primarily Euro-American unit.
On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 establishing equality of treatment and opportunity in the U.S. military regardless of race. He appointed the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services,
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Desegregation in the United States Marine Corps
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Background
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World War I integrated with European Americans in all of the service arms.
The United States Navy used black sailors as cooks, stewards, construction workers and unskilled labor, but did not train them to fight. The Marine Corps, being a combat arm of the Navy, did not recruit any black Marines. Instead, the USMC was serviced by US Navy supply personnel including black laborers. Unlike the US Army which had separate regiments that a soldier could remain in for his entire military career, Marines were individually transferred to various ship's detachments and naval bases. After World War I, the number of
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Cassiobury Park
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Fauna and flora & Filming location
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marigold (Caltha palustris) grows here, and there is a fairly large bed of great reed-mace (Typha latifolia).
An obvious feature of the riverside flora are three species of balsams: small balsam (Impatiens parviflora), jewel-weed (I. capensis), and policeman's helmet (I. glandulifera). These are said to be escapes from the canal-wharves, where they arrived with consignments of imported timber. Filming location Cassiobury Park has been used as a filming location in a number of cinema films and television programmes due to its proximity to several major film studios such as Elstree Studios. In 1997 Whippendell Woods served as a Star Wars filming
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Dale Farm
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Commentary and media
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December 2006. It was also featured on the "Children of the Road" episode of the CBBC series My Life, and in the Channel 4 series, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.
In July 2011, the expected eviction of the Travellers was the subject of the BBC television documentary entitled The Big Gypsy Eviction. On 19 September 2011, Channel 4's documentary Dispatches: The Fight For Dale Farm covered the relationship between travellers, residents affected by encampments, and the law.
In November 2011 the BBC apologised to Basildon Council after an investigation found that the One Show had broadcast a clip on the Dale Farm eviction
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Deadworld
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Publication history
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by an original illustration from over 40 various artists.
Also in 2012, Reed licensed Deadworld to PopFunk for T-shirts and to Breygent Marketing for a collector card series. IDW also released the "Deadworld Omnibus" which collected the Image series' "Requiem for the World" and "Frozen Over" plus the "Slaughterhouse" saga from Desperado. (ISBN 978-1600108587).
The most recent series was Deadworld: Restoration, the full color follow up mini-series to War of the Dead, also from IDW which debuted in December 2013 with the final issue shipping in April 2014.
In 2015, Reed launched Deadworld Zombie Soda, in 12 themed flavors: Orange Roamer (Orange); Goon
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Cornell University
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Press and scholarly publications & Research
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include the Law Review, the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs' Cornell Policy Review, the International Law Journal, the Journal of Law and Public Policy, the International Affairs Review, and the HR Review. Physical Review, recognized internationally as among the best and well known journals of physics, was founded at Cornell in 1893 before being later managed by the American Physical Society. Research Cornell, a research university, is ranked fourth in the world in producing the largest number of graduates who go on to pursue PhDs in engineering or the natural sciences at American institutions, and fifth in the world in
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Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
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Post-war & Aftermath
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just returning home, it was a process of becoming at home in Latin America again, a process that took longer than many would have hoped. Aftermath In the aftermath of the mass deportations, many companies owned by German deportees in Latin America were confiscated and expropriated, despite US intelligence recognizing that the resulting seizures would cause grave economic harm. Additionally, upon learning about the mass deportations of Germans from Latin America, the Nazi regime retaliated on the nations cooperating with the United States by scouring German occupied territory for their citizens and forcibly interning them.
For the deportees, their fate after
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Dascha Polanco
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Career
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weight", so she completed a bachelor's degree in psychology at Hunter College. After college she began working in the healthcare industry with the intention of becoming a nurse. She was working in hospital administration at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx while studying nursing when she gained the courage to pursue acting again and registered herself with an acting studio. She attended BIH Studios in New York, and while there was signed by the talent agency Shirley Grant Management. Her first acting credits were minor parts in the television series Unforgettable and NYC 22.
In 2012, Polanco was cast in the
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Desegregation in the United States Marine Corps
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Background
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which set a higher standard of unit cohesion for Marines so that they would remain loyal, maintain shipboard discipline and help put down mutinies.
In the United States Civil War, some 180,000 African Americans joined the Union Army and mostly served in support roles as teamsters, laborers, construction workers and cooks. Some fought the Confederate Army under European American officers in segregated units. In later conflicts, the United States Army used black soldiers in the Spanish–American War and in World War I. However, when the United States Army Air Service was formed, only white people were allowed. Mexican Americans served in
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David with the Head of Goliath (Massimo Stanzione)
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History
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David with the Head of Goliath (Massimo Stanzione) History In 1947, Mrs. Harry Turpin gifted a Stanzione original painting titled David With the Head of Goliath to the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego (now the San Diego Museum of Art); the work was then attributed to Ribera, but was reattributed to Stanzione by Mario Modestini in 1951, an attribution confirmed by Schleier, Felton, Zeri, and Spinosa. The painting is dated to approximately 1630. Caravaggio was an important influence in Stanzione’s artistic style and this painting illustrates a combination of styles from Caravaggio’s brutally realistic elements and dramatic lighting to
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Dejazmach Zegeye
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came back to Yejju.
After his release from Maqdala, Ras Welle Betul, who was the brother of Menelik's wife Empress Taytu Betul, went to Shewa to visit Menelik II whom he knew while in prison in Maqdala under Emperor Tewodros II. After a brief stay, Menelik II bestowed on Welle the title of Ras and appointed him governor of Yejju. This, however, led Dejazmach Zegeye to take up arms against Welle in Lasta. They met at battle, which is sometimes called Dengobat and at other times Gelesoi. There, Dejazmach Zegeye was killed.
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Christian Heinrich Grosch
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Biography
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Christian Heinrich attended the Royal Drawing School from 1819 to 1820. He also studied engineering with instructors including Benoni Aubert and Theodor Broch. In 1824, he completed his training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Christian Grosch became Oslo's first "city conductor", which is to say he acted as the city's chief architect, planning engineer, and building inspector. He also accepted private architectural assignments and was responsible for many of the city's landmarks, including the oldest part of Oslo Stock Exchange, the first campus at the University of Oslo, the original building for Norges Bank
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Dale Farm
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The Dale Farm Travellers
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Farm Housing Association. He is also a former chair of the British Gypsy Council (GCECWCR).
A reporter for the Echo claimed that some Travellers are linked to driveway surfacing in continental Europe, and door to door sales of electrical goods in Australia and Iceland, some of a "dangerous or counterfeit" nature.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that "new evidence has emerged" that some residents have cultural roots in the town of Rathkeale, County Limerick, Ireland, and some own property there.The newspaper said of the residents: "They deny any connections, yet some of them appear on deeds of homes, others on planning
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Decree 900
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Changes in political power
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on their political consciousness—poverty and associated problems persisted.
The CNCG peasant league, founded in 1950 by activists and members of the teachers' union, grew rapidly during this time and by 1945 was the largest peoples' organization in the country. The second largest was the CGTG, a rural labor union.
Efforts were made to win military support for Decree 900. These included the provision of incentives for peasants to join the army, as well as attempts to foster ties between the armed forces and the DAN. Some conflicts did emerge around the country as military leaders and peasant organizers competed for local power.
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Be My Guest (short story)
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Plot summary
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Kip works out that the system must be run by old spirits who, naturally, would have the best and most desirable hosts, the kind of people who seem to lead charmed lives and enjoy infinite privilege. Breaking into the home of one of these, he finds the occupying spirits, and threatens to dose the host with the vitamin unless he gets a better deal, not just for him but for everyone who is inhabited by spirits that are bad for them.
He eventually gets his way. The spirits have a measure of revenge because after the quarantine is lifted the three
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Dany Roland
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Biography
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Dany Roland Biography Roland was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 9, 1962; his parents were Egyptian Jews of French, Italian and Portuguese descent who emigrated to Argentina from Alexandria in the late 1950s. In 1963 his family moved to São Paulo, Brazil, where after growing up he learned how to play the drums with Zé Eduardo Nazario ( Hermeto Pascoal, Egberto Gismonti, Grupo um ) and electric guitar, and studied Economy and Journalism at the PUC-SP, but did not finish either course.
In 1978 he founded, alongside his schoolmates of the Lycée Pasteur in São Paulo Virginie Boutaud, Freddy
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C/2013 US10
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Overview
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US10 is dynamically new. It came from the Oort cloud with a loosely bound chaotic orbit that was easily perturbed by galactic tides and passing stars. Before entering the planetary region (epoch 1950), C/2013 US10 had an orbital period of several million years. After leaving the planetary region (epoch 2050), it will be on an ejection trajectory.
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Derwin Kitchen
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Maccabi Rishon LeZion (2011–2012) & Panathinaikos / Cedevita (2012–2013)
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in January.
Kitchen helped Rishon LeZion to reach the Israeli State Cup Finals, where they eventually lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv. In 32 games played during the 2011–12 season, Kitchen averaged 14.9 points, 7.0 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and 1.8 steals per game. On May 17, 2012, Kitchen was named All-Israeli League First Team. Panathinaikos / Cedevita (2012–2013) On July 12, 2012, Kitchen joined the Denver Nuggets for the 2012 NBA Summer League. One month later, Kitchen signed a one-year deal with Panathinaikos of the Greek League and the EuroLeague. However, on December 24, 2012, Kitchen was loaned to KK Cedevita for
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Clara Haskil
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Biography
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Premier Prix in violin and cello. Upon graduating, Haskil began to tour Europe, though her career was cut short by one of the numerous physical ailments she suffered throughout her life. In 1913 she was fitted with a plaster cast in an attempt to halt the progression of scoliosis. Frequent illnesses, combined with extreme stage fright that appeared in 1920, kept her from critical or financial success. Most of her life was spent in abject poverty. It was only after World War II, during a series of concerts in the Netherlands in 1949, that she began to win acclaim.
As a
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Cypriot Second Division
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Points system
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a draw and one point for a defeat. From 1970–71 until 1990–91 season, teams were awarded two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a defeat. Since 1991–92 season (until present time), teams are awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a defeat.
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Counterproductive work behavior
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Production deviance & Sabotage & Service
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done on purpose, such as doing tasks incorrectly or withholding of effort. Such behaviors can be seen in disciplinary actions and safety violations. Sabotage Employee sabotage are behaviors that can "damage or disrupt the organization's production, damaging property, the destruction of relationships, or the harming of employees or customers." Research has shown that often acts of sabotage or acts of retaliation are motivated by perceptions of organizational injustice and performed with the intention of causing harm to the target. Service Service sabotage originated from counter-productive behavior literature. Lloyd C. Harris and Emmanuel Ogbonna from Cardiff University drew from employee deviance
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Decree 900
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Conflicts over implementation
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piece of land. Other violent incidents among peasants were self-defense or retaliation against landowners who sought to disobey the law or intimidate them. In some places, peasants organized groups for self-defense and requested (usually without success) arms permits from the government. According to Neale Pearson, there were instances where "peasants illegally occupied lands and a few in which they burned pastures or crops in order to have land declared uncultivated and subject to expropriation. But these cases were isolated and limited to number".
Sometimes legal councils had difficulty measuring land, or determining how much land on an estate was really unused.
Union
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Commission de Paris
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History
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ever started, Tour d’Auvergne, was never launched.
These ships of the line featured straight sides instead of the traditional instead of the tumblehome design that had prevailed until then; this tended to heighten the ships' centre of gravity, but provided much more room for equipment in the upper decks. Stability issues were fixed with underwater stabilisers. However, they proved difficult to build in a tight financial context; the resulting lengthy construction limited the useful lifetime of the ships, compounded with their quick obsolescence caused by the introduction of the Paixhans gun, steam engines and armour plating. History During the First French
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Carl-August Fleischhauer
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Biography
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conventions as well as from 1974 to 1982 in negotiating the convention. He then in 1983 and directed to 1994 Under Secretary General the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations. During this time he was instrumental in the drafting of mandates and other framework documents of various missions of the United Nations peacekeeping involved, so for emissions ONUCA in El Salvador, UNTAG in Namibia, ONUMOZ in Mozambique and UNTAC in Cambodia. Moreover, the establishment of based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on a report, which was developed under the leadership of Carl-August Fleischhauer.
Of 6 February 1994,
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Chip Ganassi Racing
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IndyCar Series history
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Indianapolis. None of those three would drive for Ganassi in 2003; the replacements were Scott Dixon – a midseason addition to Ganassi's Champ Car team in 2002 – and Tomas Scheckter. Dixon won three races and the series championship while Scheckter struggled and was released from his contract. Tony Renna was due to replace him, but was killed in a testing crash at Indianapolis. Englishman Darren Manning wound up in the seat for 2004. The team's performance suffered the next two seasons and when Manning was fired, a bevy of drivers ran in Ganassi's cars, among them former Formula One test
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David Learner
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Career
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for BSB, playing the host Larry the Robot. It was during this time that he met Knightmare producer Tim Child for the first time, which led to a successful audition for the role of Pickle. Learner later said in an interview, "I thought I was only going to do one series, I ended up staying for three."
Learner played the wood elf Pickle on Knightmare from Series 4 to 6 (47 episodes, 1990-1992). His role was to help out teams and to provide comic relief. Pickle sometimes broke the rules, by sneaking food into the Dungeoneers Knapsack and famously stepped into
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David Brewster (painter)
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Career
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of Art (2004), and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2013). The Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland will present a retrospective of Brewster’s work in 2015.
Brewster is represented in private and museum collections including the Berman Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Vermont State House, Princeton University Art Museum, The State Museum of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received numerous awards including the Pollock-Krasner and Berkshire Taconic Foundation Grants.
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Biriyani (soundtrack)
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Production
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to a resort in Malaysia to compose the first tunes for the film. After being convinced by the director, film's lead actor Karthi agreed to sing a song titled "Mississippi" for the soundtrack, making his debut in playback singing, which was recorded in December 2012. In March 2013, Venkat Prabhu informed that two songs had been recorded and two more songs had been composed already, while two more were left to work on, which were both said to be "background songs", to be shown in montage. In late July 2013, four leading contemporary music directors, G. V. Prakash Kumar, S.
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De minimis
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Miscellaneous examples
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a certain maximum value without the need to competitively tender (the de minimis limits). There was also a maximum value that de minimis contracts could be let with any one operator in any one year."
Under the de minimis provision of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Agriculture there is no requirement to cap trade-distorting domestic support in any year during which the value of support does not exceed a certain percentage (5–10%) of the national production value per product or of all products taken together if the support is not attributable to any specific product category.
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Dewey Lake Monster
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Legend & Investigation
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and caused a flood of curious thrill-seekers and monster-hunters to besiege the local community in the summer of 1964, some of whom offered photographs and plaster casts claimed to be of footprints of the creature. Investigation Former Cass County Sheriff, Paul Parrish, was quoted as saying "it was one of the strangest times" in his "33 years of southwestern Michigan law enforcement." He added: "We investigated it long and hard, but were never able to come up with whatever it was. But some good, honest, legitimate people" reported it.
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Dawn Elder
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Recent projects (2014-2016)
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Patti Austin, Alfredo Rodriguez, Paulinho da Costa, Richard Bona and Lionel Loueke.
As of 2014 she is working, writing and producing two new albums and an event for MasterPeace featuring international celebrities. She was the international talent advisor to the MasterPeace concert that year, and Dawn Elder World Entertainment produced the event, bringing in artists such as Riffat Sultana, Assala Nasri, Andy to perform on September 21, 2014. In 2014, Elder and Hanin Omar co-wrote the Arabic adaptation of the Bob Seger song "Turn the Page." The song was performed at the Concert of Colors at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, on
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Cangjie
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Legend of character creation
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The object fell to the ground directly in front of Cangjie, and he saw it to be an impression of a hoof-print. Not being able to recognize which animal the print belonged to, he asked for the help of a local hunter passing by on the road. The hunter told him that this was, without a doubt, the hoof print of a Pixiu, being different from the hoof-print of any other beast that was alive. His conversation with the hunter greatly inspired Cangjie, leading him to believe that if he could capture in a drawing the special characteristics that set
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David Breeze
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Education and Work
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Durham, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the University of Stirling.
He led the team which resulted in the Antonine Wall being ascribed as a World Heritage Site in 2008, and formed part of the group which created the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, of which this is the first multi-national example. He also chaired the Culture 2000 project Frontiers of the Roman Empire (2005–08). He is editing with Sonja Jilek a multi-language series of books on the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Published so far are volumes on the Roman limes in
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Common ingroup identity
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Research & Criticism
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group as two units. These results suggest manipulation of seating arrangements changes group representations and influenced group bias. Criticism Criticism for the common ingroup identity model primarily questions the long term effectiveness of the approach proposed in the model. The potential of a common ingroup identity to facilitate helping naturalistic groups with history of conflict was tested at a University football game. In this experiment, salient superordinate and subgroup identities were demonstrated to increase behavioral compliance with request for assistance from a person of different race, as explained above. However, the reduction in bias is only shown to occur for
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Battle of Long Tan
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Opening moves, 16/17 August 1966
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return to Nui Dat, and was expected back by 18 August.
Although SIGINT had earlier alerted Jackson to the possible presence of a strong VC force in the vicinity of Nui Dat 2, patrols of the area revealed nothing and as a consequence B Company did not expect to meet significant opposition. Stepping off early on 17 August they believed they would not be out long and were only lightly equipped in patrol order, lacking sleeping gear and rations. With just 80 men—including many due to commence leave in Vũng Tàu the following day—they were significantly under-strength. Crossing the Suối Da
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Dens Park
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History
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sit at either end of the ground. The former usually houses home supporters while the latter houses the away supporters. A new Club Shop and ticket office were also built. Dens Park was the first stadium in Dundee to have its floodlights upgraded in the twenty-first century. Undersoil heating was installed in 2005.
Dens Park has hosted two Scottish League Cup finals and, on 25 November 2007, hosted its first Scottish Challenge Cup final. Dens also has the distinction of being one of only two stadia within Dundee to have held full Scottish Internationals, having held the event thrice. The other
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Cornell University
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Ithaca campus & Weill Cornell
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initiatives. However, the university has drawn criticism from student groups for a planned North Campus expansion for which they have not released an environmental impact statement. Weill Cornell Cornell's medical campus in New York, also called Weill Cornell, is on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It is home to two Cornell divisions: Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and has been affiliated with the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital since 1927. Although their faculty and academic divisions are separate, the Medical Center shares its administrative and teaching hospital functions with the Columbia University
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CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT 1882
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South African Railways
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1910, the three Colonial government railways (CGR, Natal Government Railways and Central South African Railways) were united under a single administration to control and administer the railways, ports and harbours of the Union. Although the South African Railways and Harbours came into existence in 1910, the actual classification and renumbering of all the rolling stock of the three constituent railways was only implemented with effect from 1 January 1912.
By 1912, nine locomotives survived. They were considered obsolete by the South African Railways, designated Class 04 and renumbered by having the numeral "0" prefixed to their existing numbers. Despite being considered
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Charles Naginski
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Biography & Music
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Newton, reported that he "spoke five languages, including English, all equally badly." As a result, the Juilliard dean asked Newton to help Naginski with his English, so the two traded lessons in English grammar for accompanying lessons.
He also studied with Roger Sessions. Later he studied at the American Academy in Rome, winning the American Rome Prize in 1938. In the summer of 1940 he went to the Tanglewood institute to study with Paul Hindemith. He died by drowning in Lenox, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1940. Music As a student, Naginski composed several large instrumental works and chamber
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Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
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Selection of deportees & Legal basis of internment & Conditions of the internment camps
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selection of internees and deportations were conducted “without inquiry as to the loyalty or the danger of the particular alien.” Legal basis of internment Before their forced arrival to the United States, the deportees were deliberately not issued any visas. Once they arrived, they were arrested by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as illegal immigrants, which formed the legal basis for the US government to intern or expell them. Conditions of the internment camps The conditions of the internment in the beginning were quite poor as it was believed that the internees would be quickly repatriated. Once it
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Come as You Are (film)
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Plot
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see the night-life of the Spanish town. Claude brings them to the centre and allows them to take off by themselves. They try to strike up a conversation with a couple of girls and invite them to go to a restaurant together. Although the girls provide them with a recommendation, they are reluctant to join and state they don't have enough time, so the boys take off on their own. On the way to the restaurant, Lars is taken aside by a different girl which he had met before in a shop. He instructs Philip and Jozef to continue without
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Carmelo Zito
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Death
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Carmelo Zito Death Carmelo Zito lived in Parkmerced until he fell and broke his hip in 1979. He moved to a nursing home in Sonoma, California. He died on June 9, 1980, from complications related to Alzheimer's. Zito was married three times and all of his wives have died.
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Crosstown Expressway (Chicago)
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Route description
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lanes depressed along Cicero Avenue and the southbound lanes depressed along the Belt Railway of Chicago tracks. Continuing south past the proposed traffic interchange at Chicago Midway International Airport, the expressway alignment was to turn southeasterly at 67th Street and continue over Belt Railway right-of-way to Lawndale Avenue then turn easterly towards the Dan Ryan Expressway along Norfolk Southern Railway right-of-way (now Metra-South West Service) and 75th Street to an interchange with the Dan Ryan Expressway (Interstate 94) north of 91st Street.
Extra lanes were planned to extend north from the proposed Dan Ryan/Crosstown interchange to connect with the Chicago
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Crispus
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Execution
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considering their positions as his favourites. In any case, such a case would not have been tried by a local court as Crispus' case clearly was. Another view suggests that Constantine killed Crispus because as a supposedly illegitimate son, he would cause a crisis in the order of succession to the throne. However, Constantine had kept him at his side for twenty years without any such decision. Constantine also had the authority to appoint his younger, legitimate sons as his heirs. Some reports claimed that Constantine was envious of the success of his son and afraid of him. This seems
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Crispus
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Early life
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have been an unofficial lover. However, Minervina might have already been dead by 307. A widowed Constantine would need no divorce.
Neither the true nature of the relationship between Constantine and Minervina nor the reason Crispus came under the protection of his father will probably ever be known. The offspring of an illegitimate affair could have caused dynastic problems and would likely be dismissed, but Crispus was raised by his father in Gaul. This can be seen as evidence of a loving and public relationship between Constantine and Minervina which gave him a reason to protect her son.
The story of Minervina
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Cornell University
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Alumni
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Superman, Frank Morgan was The Wizard of Oz, Jimmy Smits ('82) was in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Ronald D. Moore created the 2004 remake of Battlestar Galactica, and Kovid Gupta became a bestselling author and Bollywood media mogul. Peter Yarrow ('59) of folk band Peter, Paul and Mary, wrote Puff, the Magic Dragon and other classic American tunes. Steve Reich ('57) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and pioneer of Minimal music. On the architectural front, alumnus Richmond Shreve (1902) designed the Empire State Building, and Raymond M. Kennedy ('15) designed Hollywood's famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
In the arts, Arthur
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Denchworth
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Manors
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of meadow and there is a church. TRE it was worth 70 shillings and afterwards 60 shillings. Now 4 pounds."
Overlordship of the manor remained with the Ferrers family until Denecheswrth was granted to the Earls of Lancaster along with the Honour of Tutbury, presumably starting with Edmund, 1st Earl of Lancaster in the latter part of the 13th century.
Denchworth manor was assessed at half a knight's fee and had been let to Henry de Tubney by the middle of the 13th century. It remained with his manor of Tubney until 1428. Somewhen between then and 1448 the half fee was
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Cotton mill
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United Kingdom & United States
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moulded brick and terracotta features. Etched and stained glass was used in the offices. Mills were designed by specialist architects and architectural quality became a major consideration.
The power needed and provided to drive these mills was increasing. Beam engines were installed until the 1870s when horizontal engines took over. Abbey Mill Oldham (1876) needed 700 hp, Nile Mill (1896) needed 2500 hp. By the 1890, boilers produced 160 psi, and the triple expansion horizontals became standard. Chimneys were octagonal. United States Following the American Civil War, cotton mills were built in the southern states of South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. These mills grew
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Cookie Allez
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Early life & Career
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Cookie Allez Early life Cookie Allez was born circa 1948. Career She has written seven novels.
Her second novel, La Soupière, talked about a mother and her son, who works as a clinical assistant.
In her seventh novel, Dominique, published in 2015, Allez writes about a child whose parents do not tell him if he is a boy or a girl to go along with the theory of gender studies.
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Dan Brouthers
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Detroit and The Brotherhood & Boston
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as well, as he did not produce at the same level of his previous seasons. Even with the lower numbers, he still led the league in runs scored with 118, and doubles for the third year in a row. The team's decline is attributed to prolonged injuries sustained by key players, while turmoil that unfolded concerning veteran stars' salary demands, and with falling attendance numbers, the club was forced to fold at the season's end. Brouthers was then purchased by the Boston Beaneaters of the NL on October 16. Boston In 1889, his only season with the Beaneaters, he batted
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Chennai Thiruvananthapuram AC Superfast Express
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Timings & Route
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Chennai Thiruvananthapuram AC Superfast Express Timings & Route Train number 22207(on Tuesday and Friday) :
•Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M. G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station at 16.25 ↵Salem Junction arr. 20.32 & dep. 20.35
Coimbatore Main Junction arr. 23.05 & dep. 23.08
Palakkad Junction arr. 00.10 & dep. 00.15
Thrissur arr. 01.20 & dep. 01.23
Ernakulam Junction arr. 02.40 & dep. 02.45
Alappuzha arr. 03.37 & dep. 03.40
Kollam Junction arr. 05.12 & dep. 05.15
Thiruvananthapuram Central arr. 06.45
Train number 22208:
Thiruvananthapuramam Central dep. 21.30 (Sun, Wed)↵Kollam Junction arr. 22.23 & dep. 22.25↵Alappuzha arr. 23.30 & dep. 23.32↵Ernakulam Junction arr. 00.45 & dep. 00.50↵Thrissur arr. 02.02 & dep. 02.05↵Palakkad Junction
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Coach Trip (series 4)
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Day 49 - The Sahara Deserts & Day 50 - The Last Day
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it's the end of the road for the series, with the group transported by camels to a Bedouin oasis for a final party and the final vote. Day 50 - The Last Day A special, bumper, fun-filled 60 minute episode, as Brendan looks back at all the activities, tourists and highs and lows of the series.
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Desegregation in the United States Marine Corps
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Background
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unit when the brig sank in October 1777.
At least 12 other black men served with various American Marine units in 1776–1777; more may have been in service but not identified as blacks in the records. However, in 1798 when the Marine Corps was officially re-instituted, Secretary of War James McHenry specified in its rules: "No Negro, Mulatto or Indian to be enlisted". Marine Commandant William Ward Burrows instructed his recruiters regarding USMC racial policy, "You can make use of Blacks and Mulattoes while you recruit, but you cannot enlist them." This policy was in line with long-standing British naval practice
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Debubawi Zone
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Demographics
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population, while 5.4% were Amhara, 1.5% were Agaw, and all other ethnic groups 1.0%. Tigrinya is spoken by 91.7% of the population, and Amharic was a first language by 6.3% and as a second language by 11.5%. 92.2% of the population said they observed Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity while 7.6% were Muslim.
According to a May 24, 2004 World Bank memorandum, 15% of the inhabitants of Debubawi have access to electricity, this zone has a road density of 80.2 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers, the average rural household has 0.8 hectare of land (compared to the national average of 1.01 hectare of
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Diatone
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History
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Diatone History In the 1940s Mitsubishi Electric successfully developed a hard-ferrite (permanent-magnet) OP magnet and began to prepare for the commercial production of ferrite.
The Diatone speaker was developed in the fall of 1945 at Mitsubishi Electric's Ofuna Factory. It began life from the recycling of old stocks of magnets into magnetic speakers. At the time, speaker technology was not very advanced in Japan, and sales were limited to speaker products made by subcontracted manufacturers. However, since goods were in short supply after World War II, and because of strong demand and a promising future market, the company decided to go
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Dan Muller
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Style & Representation in Other Media
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follow the Impressionism of C M Russell. Later works tended more toward Realism and a documentarian style. Representation in Other Media Dan Muller is a character in Larry McMurtry's "Telegraph Days." This is a fictional account of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson from a town named Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle. Nellie goes to work for Buffalo Bill and while at his ranch in North Platte, Nebraska hangs out with Buffalo Bill's adopted "nephew" Danny Muller.
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Colin Falkland Gray
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Second World War
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July, he shot down Staffelkapitän Lothar Ehrlich of 8./JG 52. Gray observed Ehrlich to bail out into the Channel and swim for what Gray believed to be a dingy. He radioed the man's position, but the pilot did not survive the water conditions. Alternately, it is possible his victim was Leutnant Schauff from III./JG 26. On 16 August, he claimed two Bf 109s destroyed. No. 54's opponents were JG 54. I./JG 54 lost one Bf 109—the unnamed pilot being killed in a crash at Saint-Inglevert airfield after returning from the battle. 3./JG 54 and 9./JG 54 suffered the loss of
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Corporate warfare
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Art
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illustration series by the German Foreal design studio called "Corporate Warfare" visualized the power and impact of big brand corporations by branded torpedoes and atomic bombs. Dirk Schuster, cofounder of Foreal states that "big corporations can have more power than governments, so we put them in a military context".
Sam Esmail, creator of the television series Mr. Robot, states that "the next world war won't be fought with nukes, but with information, economics and corporate warfare.
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Deimantas Narkevičius
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Revisiting Solaris
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he was about sixteen or seventeen, he did not get it at all, simply not understanding what was going on in the film. Nevertheless, it engaged him and raised his curiosity. Later on Narkevičius watched Solaris over and over again. “I kept watching it until, having reached my thirties, I finally liked it a lot. Perhaps that was also due to the fact that I started to lose people who were close to me.”
Out of Tarkovsky's film language, Lem's book, photographs by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, and Donatas Banionis Narkevičius made another Solaris. In the same conversation, Narkevičius stressed the fact
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Code of Points (artistic gymnastics)
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2006 Revised Code
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competition ever begins. Competitors no longer compete on the same level. Each contestant begins with a unique start value; therefore, contestants assigned a lower start value or difficulty rating are knocked out of the winner's circle before the competition begins. They may compete, but they cannot win. A competitor with a higher difficulty rating will begin competition with a higher combined base score. There has been dissent over the fact that the new Code effectively abolishes the "perfect 10" score, for many years one of the hallmarks of gymnastics. There has also been concern that the new Code strongly favors
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Choose Me
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Critical reaction
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to it [...] this low-budget comedy-fantasy has some of the most entertaining (and best-sustained) performances I've seen all year."
The film was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
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Denchworth
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Parish church
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15th century. The Perpendicular-style pulpit is neo-Gothic and was made in 1889.
The south porch is neo-Gothic and was added during the 19th century restoration. It replaces a two-storey south porch, in whose upper room Gregory Geering and the then vicar established an antiquarian chained library. Its contents included a 1483 edition of the Golden Legend that is now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford and other rare volumes that were transferred to Denchworth vicarage. The library also held curiosities such as a "mermaid's rib".
The church has monumental brasses to Oliver Hyde (died 1516) and his wife Agnes, to William Hyde
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Denchworth
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Cleets & Lovedays
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in the early 1920s. Lovedays A messuage and seven virgates at South Denchworth seems to have come from the estate held by the Wilbrighton family in about 1250 and was the subject of legal disputes involving the Wilbrightons in 1305 and 1307. By 1310 it was held by Sir John de Charlton, who granted it to Richard de la Rivere. In 1327 Robert de la Rivere granted seisin of all the family's lands at South Denchworth to John Loveday. In 1382 Loveday's son-in-law and daughter granted this estate to John atte Hyde and it became part of the Hyde estates,
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Culture of Brazil
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Literature
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became a colony of Portugal, there was the "Jesuit Literature", whose main name was father António Vieira, a Portuguese Jesuit who became one of the most celebrated Baroque writers of the Portuguese language. A few more explicitly literary examples survive from this period, José Basílio da Gama's epic poem celebrating the conquest of the Missions by the Portuguese, and the work of Gregório de Matos Guerra, who produced a sizable amount of satirical, religious, and secular poetry. Neoclassicism was widespread in Brazil during the mid-18th century, following the Italian style.
Brazil produced significant works in Romanticism – novelists like Joaquim Manuel
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Diocese of Mid-America
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History
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the Church of the Holy Communion, in Dallas, was declared a Pro-Cathedral by Royal U. Grote, Jr..
The Diocese of Western Canada and Alaska, created in 1996, had two parishes in British Columbia, led by the Rt. Rev. Charles Dorrington, and also included the Missionary District of Cuba. Due to his small size, the diocese was extinct and incorporated in the Diocese of Mid-America, of which is now a part as the Convocation of the West and Western Canada, with Charles Dorrington as Assisting Bishop for Canada and Cuba.
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California Institute of Technology
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Pranks & Rivalry with MIT
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video game Portal.
Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen '99 and Mason Porter '98 and published in May 2007. Rivalry with MIT In 2005, a group of Caltech students pulled a string of pranks during MIT's Campus Preview Weekend for admitted students. These include covering up the word Massachusetts in the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" engraving on the main building façade with a banner so that it read "That Other Institute of Technology". A group of MIT hackers responded by altering the banner so that
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Causes of the Holodomor
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Criminalization of gleaning
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manner by fires, explosions and mass destruction of property shall be sentenced to execution without trial", and listed a number of cases in which "kulaks, former traders, and other socially-alien persons" would be subject to the death penalty. "Working individual peasants and collective farmers" who stole kolkhoz property and grain would be sentenced to ten years; the death penalty would be imposed only for "systematic theft of grain, sugar beets, animals, etc."
Soviet expectations for the 1932 grain crop were high because of Ukraine's bumper crop the previous year, which Soviet authorities believed were sustainable. When it became clear that the
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Crates of Mallus
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Works
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was also surnamed Homerikos. He wrote a commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey in nine books. Some fragments of this commentary are preserved by the scholiasts and other ancient writers. His principles were opposed to those of Aristarchus, who was the leader of the Alexandrian school. Crates was the chief representative of the allegorical theory of exegesis, and maintained that Homer intended to express scientific or philosophical truths in the form of poetry.
Besides his work on Homer, Crates wrote commentaries on the Theogony of Hesiod, on Euripides, on Aristophanes, and probably on other ancient authors; a work on the Attic
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Curved space diamond structure
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the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, as part of an exhibition titled "Everything Loose Will Land", which highlighted Art and Architecture in 1970's Los Angeles. This exhibit, of the Getty Museum's "Pacific Standard Time Presents" series: "Modern Architecture in L.A.", was meant to focus our gaze on things we might see in everyday life outside of a museum setting.
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Dave Potter (politician)
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Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea & Monterey County Board of Supervisors
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Dave Potter (politician) Dave Potter is a California politician, having served at the state, county, and city levels. Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea On November 8, 2018, Dave Potter was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea for a 2 year term. He received nearly 60% of the vote. Monterey County Board of Supervisors Dave Potter previously served as the 5th District representative and Chairman of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, board member and Chairman of the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, and board member and Chairman of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District. In addition, he also represents the Board of Supervisors on
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Cromer High railway station
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the station was built in open fields some distance from the town itself. The station resembled in design Chingford railway station, opened in 1878, another GER branch line terminus.
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Culture of Brazil
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Family and social class & Beauty
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it perceives beauty as an essential requirement for social inclusion." Beauty According to the anthropologist Alvaro Jarrin, "Beauty is constantly lived, breathed and incorporated as a social category in southeastern Brazil. The talk of beauty is pervasive in all kinds of media, from television to song lyrics, and it is a daily concern of people of all incomes and backgrounds. Remarking about a person's appearance is not only socially permissible, it is equivalent to inquiring about that person's health and showing concern for them. If a person does not look his or her best, then many Brazilians assume the person
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Cornelia Marvin Pierce
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Political career
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earlier in her career.
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Democratic Party of Japan
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2009–2012 government
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at which the party swept the LDP from power in a massive landslide, winning 308 seats (out of a total of 480 seats), reducing the LDP from 300 to 119 seats - the worst defeat for a sitting government in modern Japanese history. This was in marked contrast to the closely contested 1993 general election, the only other time the LDP has lost an election. The DPJ's strong majority in the House of Representatives assured that Hatoyama would be the next prime minister. Hatoyama was nominated on September 16 and formally appointed later that day by Emperor Akihito.
However, the
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Come as You Are (film)
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Plot
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the Dutch language. They are embarrassed and ask Claude to forgive their misbehaviour, which she accepts. The following days are very entertaining and Claude decides to overnight in open sky. The next day, she drives them to a hotel. The three are led to a meeting room and are astonished when they meet their parents. They were able to locate their sons via the original tour operator who gave them the mobile number of Claude. Claude, who got a call of the parents, could not refuse the parents' request to drive them to this hotel. She is just out of
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