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DeLand, Florida
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Sports and recreation & In the movies
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in combination with the tourist end of the industry makes it one of the town's largest supporters and invaluable to the local economy.
Central Florida Warriors of the USA Rugby League are based in DeLand. In the movies DeLand has been the filming location for a number of television and movie projects, including the 1999 Adam Sandler comedy The Waterboy. Scenes showing the fictional South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs home football games were shot at Spec Martin Stadium. Classroom and exterior scenes were filmed at Stetson University. Scenes involving Sandler's character's home were actually filmed in neighboring DeBary. Ghost
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Counterproductive work behavior
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Organizational constraints & Organizational justice
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do constraints lead to CWB, but CWB can lead to constraints. Employees who engage in CWB can find that constraints increase over time. Organizational justice Organizational justice or fairness perceptions have been shown to influence the display of counterproductive work behaviors. Distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice have all been shown to include both counterproductive work behaviors aimed at individuals, such as political deviance and personal aggression; and counterproductive work behaviors aimed at the organization, such as production slowdown and property deviance.
Overall perceptions of unfairness may particularly elicit interpersonal counterproductive work behaviors such as political deviance and personal aggressions.
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E. J. C. Morton
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North Eastern Circuit.
He was elected for Devonport at the 1892 general election, re-elected in 1895 and in 1900.
His obituary in The Times lists him as an active member of the liberal party, and a great platform speaker. He was listed in 1892 and in 1901 as secretary of the Home Rule Union.
Morton underwent an operation in early autumn 1902, and left for his sister′s residence at Amberley, Gloucestershire to recover. He died there on 3 October 1902.
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Dwarf little fruit bat
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Biology and behaviour
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active immediately after dusk and before dawn, foraging in the mid-canopy and forest understory, and covering an area of 5 to 15 ha (12 to 37 acres) each night. Pregnant females have been captured at most times of the year, suggesting the bats have little, if any, defined breeding season. The female gives birth to a single young.
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Denchworth
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Economy and amenities
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consols was put towards the upkeep of the building. The former school building is now a private house.
The village used to have a post office, which was in a 17th-century former farmhouse in Hyde Road. It is now a private house.
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Dokdonia donghaensis
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Metabolism
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light-driven sodium ion transport. This light-driven proton pump is called a proteorhodopsin, which increases the organism’s survival rate because it can convert light into energy that the organism needs to grow. Since the organism uses light for energy, it is a phototroph. D. donghaensis is able to secrete enzymes such as catalase and oxidase. Since the organism is a strict aerobe, it used oxygen as a terminal electron acceptor. The organism can grow on peptone and tryptone as the sole carbon and nitrogen sources. D. donghaensis cannot grow in the absence of NaCl or when it is greater than 7%
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Dunoon Camanachd
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Formation
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Formation Keen to give the town a team of its own, a small group of local players established Dunoon Camanachd in January 2015. Drawing on local players who had fallen out of the game, and the committed Dunoon diaspora, the team enjoyed instant success in its first ever outing, winning Edinburgh University Shinty Club's Dropkick Murphy Sixes in March 2015. Next up was the St Andrew's University Shinty Club's annual six-a-side tournament in May 2015, where the Dùnachs reached the semi finals before losing out to eventual winners Aberdour Shinty Club.
The next step for the fledgling club was to play
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Dreamer (Livin' Joy song)
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Impact and legacy & Music video
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Time" in November 2011.
Idolator ranked the song number 17 in their ranking of "The 50 Best Pop Singles of 1995'" in 2015.
BuzzFeed listed the song in the "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs Of the '90s" at number 74 in 2017. They wrote: "Female vocals set to a house beat = everything you could want from an early-'90s dance song." Music video There are three versions, the first video for the 1994 version had split-screen footage of sped up urban cityscapes with a silhouetted female dancer (unclear if this is Janice Robinson) and for its 1995 re-release Robinson is performing
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Deimantas Narkevičius
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Objects & Filmography
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of the political system becomes history. The means of expression selected by the artist, a pair of worn-out classic-style shoes, now filled with coarse salt, points to the statues of heroes that used to embody the value system of the former epoch, but the people promptly removed them from their pedestals, as politics changed its course. Filmography His-story (1998)
Mass for the Truth of Blacksmith Ignotas (1998)
Legend Coming True (1999)
Energy Lithuania (2000)
Kamietis (Countryman) (2002)
Role of a Lifetime (2003)
Scena (2003)
Once in the XX Century (2004)
Disappearance of a Tribe (2005)
Matrioškos (2005)
The Head (2007)
Revisiting Solaris (2007)
The Dud Effect (2008)
Into the Unknown (2009)
Ausgeträumt (2010)
Restricted Sensation
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Dreamer (Livin' Joy song)
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Release
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success of "Don't Give Me Your Life", the signature Visnadi sounds of thumping beats, commanding vocals and the organ sounds and synths had cemented themselves as the popular sound in dance music. Visnadi decided to revive 'Dreamer' under the Livin' Joy banner. It received an updated remix but stayed true to its original form. This was the single that finally took the Visnadi brothers to number 1. beating the out-going number one by Oasis by a narrow margin of just 500 sales.
"Dreamer" stayed on top of the chart for only a week, eventually being knocked off by the monster hit
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East West Records
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History
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East West Records History Upon its creation in 1955 by Atlantic Records, the label had one hit with the Kingsmen and went into hibernation until 1990, when Atlantic revamped the imprint as EastWest Records America. Atlantic senior VP Sylvia Rhone was appointed Chair/CEO of the fledgling label. Under Rhone's leadership, East West shot to mega success with several multiplatinum acts such as Simply Red, En Vogue, Pantera, Yo-Yo, Adina Howard, Das EFX, Snow, Gerald Levert, AC/DC, The Rembrandts, Dream Theater, Missy Elliott and MC Lyte. EastWest also distributed other imprints, such as Interscope Records, Motor Jams Records, Mecca Don
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Demographics of Chicago
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Racial and ethnic makeup
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23.1% from Europe, 18.0% from Asia and 2.6% from other parts of the world. Chicago has the fifth highest foreign-born population in the United States.
In 2016, the population of Hispanics exceeded that of Blacks to become Chicago's second largest minority group with non-Hispanic Whites representing 32.6% of the population, Hispanics at 29.7% of the population, and Blacks at 29.3% of the population. The large Hispanic population is rather recent, with the segregation between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites being low when compared to Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites. Over the years neighborhoods have seen gradual ethnic change with White ethnic neighborhoods like
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Danny Hart (cyclist)
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Career
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in June. In 2009 he won the Maxxis Cup in Vigo, Spain, and came second in the junior national championship at Innerleithen, Scotland, third at the junior world championship in Canberra, Australia and 20th in the Elite class at the Fort William, Scotland round of the World Cup in June of that year.
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DuPont Manual High School
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Other sports
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win the title.
The boys' bowling team won the state title in 2010. The school also offers basketball, dance (called the Dazzlers), field hockey, golf, lacrosse, and volleyball, among other sports teams.
The varsity field hockey team won the state title in 2011 for the first time in the history of the program.
DuPont Manual girls' lacrosse has won many state titles and tournament trophies since 2001, when the sport was developed.
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David Phillips (entrepreneur)
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Process & Outcome
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Phillips donated the puddings. This donation allowed him to receive $815 in tax write-offs further increasing his return on investment. Outcome Phillips submitted proof of mailing the certificates and Healthy Choice Foods awarded him 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles. He would apply some of the miles to his United, Delta, and Northwest frequent flyer accounts, and the majority (over 1 million miles) to his AAdvantage account, in the process earning him lifetime Gold status.
It is also speculated that neither ConAgra, the owners of the Healthy Choice brand, nor the airlines were seriously disadvantaged by the outcome, due to the small
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Donald McKay (footballer)
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Football career
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Donald McKay (footballer) Football career McKay was born in Scotland and was a shipyard engineer who came to Southampton seeking work at the Woolston shipyards. He had been a regular member of the Woolston Works football team for several years before being signed by Southampton St. Mary's in the summer of 1896.
He made his debut for the "Saints" at the County Ground in the opening match of the 1896–97 season, a 4–1 victory over Chatham. He played at right-back with his fellow Scotsmen James McKie at left-back and William McMillan at right-half. McKay retained his place for a further seven
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Dolce Gusto
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Circolo, Piccolo and Fontana
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Dolce Gusto Circolo, Piccolo and Fontana In Mid-2009 Nestlé added the Circolo series to the line. This machine, as the name suggests, sports a rounded design, with the same technical specifications of the Melody2 devices, but with a LED light in the water tank.
In September 2010, the previous two series were supplemented by three more. Besides the Creativa mentioned above, there is the Piccolo (small, KP10xx), aimed to customers with limited space, as it is smaller, with a 600 ml water tank. Other than that, it is technically identical to the Melody2 machines.
Similarly, the Fontana (KP30xx) has the same underpinnings, but
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Ed Lynch (baseball)
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MLB career & As an executive
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Lynch made only one appearance for the Mets in 1986, pitching 1.2 innings in relief in the third game of the season, when he went on the disabled list with torn cartilage in his left knee. By the time he was ready to return, he'd lost his spot in the starting rotation to the young pitchers on the 1986 World Champion squad. The Mets traded him to the Cubs for Dave Liddell and Dave Lenderman. He remained with the Cubs through 1987 before retiring. As an executive After his career ended, he attended the University of Miami School of Law,
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Ear piercing instrument
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Use on areas other than the ear lobe
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shaped, especially jewelry used in the mouth, can embed itself into the body, with the wound effectively healing over it. This can require the surgical removal of the jewelry in some cases and can lead to abscesses, infection and severe scarring. In many piercings, the narrow gauge of the jewelry used by piercing guns can lead to tearing and other ongoing trauma that expose the body to infection and cause permanent scarring. A post to BMEzine titled Gun Piercing shows graphic photos of a severe infection of the ear cartilage after piercing it with a piercing gun, which later
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Eagle River, Wisconsin
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Sports and recreation
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Snowmobile Hall of Fame are located in Eagle River.
The Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame is in Eagle River Stadium in Eagle River. Eagle River has been the host of the Labatt Blue USA hockey pond hockey championship games.Both of these have earned Eagle River the nickname "The Hockey Capital of Wisconsin."
Eagle River has a public golf course, located on East McKinley Street.
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Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
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Aftermath & US Congressional investigation and reparations
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of the deportations. US Congressional investigation and reparations In 1980, a Commission was approved by Congress as a “fact finding study” to look into the deportation of civilians to US internment camps. This commission published its report in 1983, bringing to light the US government’s actions in this period. However, this commission’s recognition of the maltreatment of German civilians from Latin Americans was limited only to its appendix. In 1988, the United States Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which granted a formal apology and reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War 2, with a $20,000 US
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Dongfeng Honda
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Operations & Products & Ciimo
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2004 and 2012 production bases in Wuhan, Hubei. Products Its product line includes or has included the below vehicles: Ciimo Ciimo is a sub-marque of Dongfeng Honda launched in April 2012 and aimed at first-time car buyers. It markets a rebadged eight-generation Honda Civic.
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Editors Press Service
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History
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Editors Press Service History Joshua B. Powers, reportedly a former U.S. government agent whose beat was South America, and in partnership with The Evening Post Publishing Company, founded Editors Press Service when he retired in 1933, providing Latin American newspapers with comics strips, cooking features, and other material, in exchange for ad space that he would in turn sell to U.S. companies.
Chilean political figure Carlos Dávila was associated with EPS from its foundation in 1933. Sebastian Tomas Robles, son of Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist Daniel Alomía Robles, was a staff cartoonist for EPS beginning in 1933.
Cartoonist Mort Leav began his
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Dawn Elder
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Dawn Elder World Media, Voices of Afghanistan (2012-2013) & Recent projects (2014-2016)
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to NPR, Love Songs for Humanity "is a mix of Central Asian art music, folklore and classic popular songs." Recent projects (2014-2016) As of 2014, Elder was developing several new festivals, along with continued work with artists including Assala Nasri, Simon Shaheen, Kadim Al Sahir, Alphonso Johnson, Bassam Saba & the New York Arab Orchestra, Ustad Farida Mahwash, Voices of Afghanistan, Enzo Avitabile, Amina, Souad Massi, and others. In May, she collaborated with Quincy Jones on the Global Gumbo Group in Association with Dawn Elder music group. The group performed in Morocco with musicians such as Siedah Garrett, Naturally 7,
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Douglas Jung
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Political career & Other achievements
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and provincial governments, respectively. Other awards came from the Chinese Benevolent Association, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Chinese Cultural Centre, Chinese Canadian National Council and Chinese Association in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Thunder Bay and Toronto, Ontario, as well as the Quebec Japanese Canadian Citizenship Association in Montreal. Other achievements Jung was also a prominent figure in the community, especially the Vancouver Chinese community. They include: Life President of Army Navy Air Force Veterans in Canada Unit #280, Patron of S.U.C.C.E.S.S.: Director of the Vancouver Symphony. B.C.: Deputy Director of the Governor General's 1992 Regional Celebration of Canada 125th Anniversary. Director of the Far East
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Dopamine receptor D5
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Experimental methods
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receptors in the mouse brain.
DRD5 knockout mice can be obtained by crossing 129/SvJ1 and C57BL/6J mice. D₅ receptor can also be inactivated in an animal model by flanking the DRD5 gene with loxP site, allowing to generate tissue or animal lacking functional D₅ receptors. The expression of D₅ receptor in vitro can also be silenced using antisense oligonucleotides.
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Donji Kraji
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Early history & 14th century
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was a vassal of Paul I Šubić of Bribir. 14th century Donji Kraji, which corresponded to Olfeld, was mentioned in a charter of Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia, dated 1332, and was one of the named lands claimed by all later Kings of Bosnia, as well as Hrvoje Vukčić.
According to some sources, Ban Kulin previously ruled the Donji Kraji, as one of four countries reporting to him. In 1406, the border of bosnian Banate ran from Grmeč mountain southeast to Skoplje on the Vrbas (today's Lower and Upper Vakuf), from the middle course of the Vrbas (east) to Una (west).
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Dawn Elder
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Early life, education & Early management, festivals (1990-1995)
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world, Latin and rock artists. She later graduated from the University of California with a degree in Music Education. Early management, festivals (1990-1995) In 1990 Elder began representing American actor Woody Harrelson. A year later she helped direct and produce the Halloween ABC Special - Woody Harrelson on ABC, one of her first television jobs. Also in 1990 she began working with Mike Love from The Beach Boys, and two years later she started managing his son Christian Love and his musical group Alex's Cane. She also worked for Arlo Guthrie on a two-year project. In 1991 she started developing
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Donji Kraji
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Early history
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some properties were assigned (giving the right of tithe collection) to the Bishop of Bosnia: Usora, Soli, and Olfeld. This took place during the term of Bosnian Ban Matej Ninoslav (r. 1232-50). Vjekoslav Klaić placed the territory of Olfeld west of Usora, based on the 1244 document and citing Konstantin Josef Jireček, who described it to be in the northwest (of medieval Bosnia), towards Croatia, encompassing Kotor on the Vrbanja, Jajce and Ključ on the Sana.
Hrvatin Stjepanić (Latin: Hrovatinus; fl. 1299–1304) was mentioned as the knez ("count") in "the lower confines of Bosnia" (de inferioribus Bosne confinibus) in 1301, and
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Duping (gaming)
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Effects
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leaving the system than entering, they observed no shortage of money in the virtual world.
Item dupes generally have the opposite effect, causing the price of the duped items to drop as the supply of that item increases.
In addition to the effects on the game economy, the sudden influx of currency or items also affects players involved in real-money trading. In the EverQuest II case, the dupers attempted to sell the illegitimate currency on Station Exchange for real money and supposedly made over US$70,000 from online auctions. Dupes are highly prized among those involved in real-money trading, and in this form
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Ebro Darden
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Feuds and controversy
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and fellow accomplished radio personality Charlamagne Tha God of Power 105.1 has been ongoing for years. In May 2017, Darden clarified their relationship, stating, "The stuff we do on the radio is stupid. It's for fun. I make fun of you for fun. That's it. It's not that deep... me and that dude don't have a personal problem... a personal relationship".
Darden was mentioned in Remy Ma's "shETHER" diss track, on which Ma insinuated that he slept with Nicki Minaj by stating "Coke head, you cheated on your man with Ebro". After jokingly going back and forth with both Ma and
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E. D. Abbott Ltd
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Lagonda & Postwar
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small Rapier and work from Frazer-Nash for coachwork on imported BMW chassis.
During the second world war the company manufactured experimental radar aerials for the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Postwar After World War 2 the company restarted its coachbuilding activities building production runs of coupés for Sunbeam-Talbot and Healey, as well as some special bodies for Jowett, Bentley and Lanchester.
Large orders came from Ford for estate car versions of their Consul and Zephyr models which kept the firm in business during the late 1950s and early 1960s, after which Ford estate production (aside from the Corsair) was done by Ford themselves
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Dupont Circle Fountain
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Background
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for its earlier attempt to honor Du Pont, so the inscription on the fountain had to include the fact that a statue erected by Congress was replaced. An early model included plans for a fountain emitting water at the top, but this wasn't incorporated into the final design. The fountain was carved by the Piccirilli Brothers, who also carved French's statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial. The contractor was the George A. Fuller Company, whose other projects include the Flatiron Building and the Plaza Hotel in New York City. In 1920, the statue was
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DuPont Manual High School
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Other sports
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the team title. Previously, their best result had come in 2006 when they tied rival St. Xavier High School for second place. The boys' team also won the state doubles title in 2006, which was the first state title in Ram tennis history on the boys' side. The team had five consecutive runner up positions from the 2001—2002 year until the 2005—2006 year. In 2008, the Manual boys' tennis team went on to win the first ever regional tournament in Manual history. The state team won the state title in 2008, making Manual the second public school to ever
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Black Lives Matter
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Canada
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moving forward for approximately half an hour. They issued a number of demands for Pride to adjust its relationship with LGBTQ people of colour, including stable funding and a suitable venue for the established Blockorama event, improved diversity in the organization's staff and volunteer base, and that Toronto Police officers be banned from marching in the parade in uniform. Pride executive director Mathieu Chantelois signed BLM's statement of demand, but later asserted that he had signed it only to end the sit-in and get the parade moving, and had not agreed to honour the demands.
In late August 2016, the Toronto
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Casimir Funk
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Achievements & Funk Award
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Foundation for Medical Research. He spent his last years studying the causes of neoplasms ("cancers"). Funk Award The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) annually honors Polish-American scientists with the Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award. Past winners have included Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann, Aleksander Wolszczan, Hilary Koprowski, Peter T. Wolczanski, Wacław Szybalski, Zbyszek Darzynkiewicz and Benoit Mandelbrot.
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Doctor Who (series 1)
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Ratings
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garners the highest audience Appreciation Index of any non-soap drama on television. Besides the second episode, "The End of the World", which garnered a 79% rating, the lowest of the series, all episodes received an AI above 80%. The series finale "The Parting of the Ways" was the highest rated episode with an AI of 89%. The success of the launch saw the BBC's Head of Drama Jane Tranter confirming on 30 March that the series would return both for a Christmas Special in December 2005 and a full second series in 2006.
The initial Sci Fi Channel broadcasts of the
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Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
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Inadequate American intelligence
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often from the bottom of the barrel. For example, Colonel Carl Strong, the military attaché in Bogota, warned of a German attack on Colombia “via Dakar and Nepal,” demonstrating his ignorance of Latin American geography.
Intelligence work in Latin America became a priority as Nazi Germany advanced across Western Europe. In June 1940, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was charged with monitoring Latin America by President Franklin Roosevelt. The ~700 FBI agents poured into Latin America were not much more competent. Agent Donald Charles Bird of the FBI was given two weeks of Spanish lessons before being sent to
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Drug Equality Alliance
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also based in large part on historical and cultural precedents.
In March 2010, in response to a Freedom of Information request process submitted by Casey William Hardison, acting with the Drug Equality Alliance, the Information Commissioner's Office ordered the Home Office to disclose a suppressed draft consultation paper with suggestions for a review of the drug classification system. This decision was subject to a last minute appeal by the Home Office, but the appeal was withdrawn on 9 July 2010 and the consultation paper was released on 12 July 2010.
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Diocirea microphylla
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Description & Taxonomy and naming
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The petals are white or pale violet joined to form a tube 1.5–2.5 millimetres (0.06–0.1 in) long with lobes which are about the same length and are spotted purple near their bases. The tube is mostly glabrous except for a few hairs on the bottom lobe. There are 4 stamens which extend slightly beyond the petal tube. The fruit that follows flowering is cone-shaped, dark brown, wrinkled and glabrous and about 2 by 1.5 millimetres (0.08 in × 0.06 in). Taxonomy and naming Diocirea microphylla was first formally described by taxonomist Bob Chinnock in Eremophila and allied genera: a monograph of the plant family
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Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
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3D laser scanned artifact images
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plans to expand the project to scanning ceramic and non-ceramic artifacts from sites throughout the Atlantic region. All 3D scan files (.obj) and constituent image files (.jpg) are publicly available for download as part of the open access DAACS database.
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David Tod Roy
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Translating Jin Ping Mei
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scholars had not known.
The translation was warmly greeted. Jonathan Spence, reviewing the first volume of the translation for the New York Review of Books in 1994, remarked on "the splendid energy with which David Tod Roy ... has translated this vast and remarkable novel". Roy's policy as a translator, Spence observed, was to
“translate everything—even puns,” and to include all traditional “formulaic” material, such as proverbs, stock couplets, and such, and that it will be the first translation to render the whole novel into English. Roy has made a "major contribution to our overall understanding of the novel by so structuring
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Dusty Donovan and Lucy Montgomery
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Casting
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due to his role on Another World, took over. In 2006, McCouch got nominated for this role in the Outstanding Supporting Actor category. McCouch briefly left the show in early 2008, when his character was supposedly killed off, but returned in the fall of the same year, and remained with the show until its last episode on September 17, 2010.
Though Lucy has been seen as a baby during the nineties, in 1999, Amanda Seyfried was the first to portray Lucy as a teenager. Seyfried portrayed the role for only a month and then left due to difficulties between her and
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Dreamer (Livin' Joy song)
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Release
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show no signs of dying away as once more it re-entered the UK top 100 (on 12 November 1994) at number 99. The following week it climbed to number 85 before descending one final time to number 97 before it bowed out.
Gianni Visnadi (one of the two producers behind Livin' Joy) was no stranger to the UK chart at this point. He and his brother Paolo had already released a previous dance track under the Alex Party banner. 'Read My Lips/Saturday Night Party' was released on 18 December 1993 where it entered at number 49. It remained in the top
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Douglas College
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Controversy
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unable to speak basic English upon graduation. They alleged mass scale fraud whereby students were guaranteed to pass their courses through various methods such as black market answer sheets, progressively easier make-up exams, and grade tampering. Robert Buller, a former Dean of Commerce and Business alleged Douglas College President Scott McAlpine said "he needed plausible deniability and he wanted to see and hear nothing" when approached about the issue. Since then, Douglas College and the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education completed an independent review of the situation. The Ministry released a report in November 2012 stating that British Columbia's
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Doug Altman
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Professional career
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Doug Altman Professional career Doug Altman graduated in 1970 with an Honours degree in Statistics from Bath University of Technology, now the University of Bath. His first job was in the Department of Community Medicine, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London. He then spent 11 years working for the Medical Research Council's Clinical Research Centre where he worked almost entirely as a statistical consultant in a wide variety of medical areas. In 1988 Doug Altman became head of the newly formed Medical Statistics Laboratory (now Medical Statistics Group) at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK), and in 1995
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Dusty Donovan and Lucy Montgomery
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Casting
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Dusty Donovan and Lucy Montgomery Dustin "Dusty" Donovan and Lucinda Marie "Lucy" Montgomery are fictional characters from the long running CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns, and have been deemed a very popular couple during their time together. Dusty, a character who's been with the show on and off since 1983, was the older bad boy on the show, and Lucy, daughter of legacy characters Craig Montgomery and Sierra Esteban, was the spoiled younger brat. These aspects made them very popular among the fans. Casting Dusty was first seen on the soap in 1983, when Brian Bloom originated
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Comparison of different machine translation approaches
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Rule-based and corpus-based machine translation
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Comparison of different machine translation approaches Rule-based and corpus-based machine translation Rule-based machine translation (RBMT) is generated on the basis of morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of both the source and the target languages. Corpus-based machine translation (CBMT) is generated on the analysis of bilingual text corpora. The former belongs to the domain of rationalism and the latter empiricism. Given large-scale and fine-grained linguistic rules, RBMT systems are capable of producing translations with reasonable quality, but constructing the system is very time-consuming and labor-intensive because such linguistic resources need to be hand-crafted, frequently referred to as knowledge acquisition problem. Moreover,
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Donal O'Sullivan (politician)
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Donal O'Sullivan (politician) Donal O'Sullivan (1893–1973) was an Irish politician. He was an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1943 to 1944. He was elected to the 4th Seanad in 1943 by the Cultural and Educational Panel. He lost his seat at the 1944 Seanad election. He was also a Clerk of the Seanad.
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Edgar McCloughry
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Military career
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the war.
McCloughry left the AFC in August 1919 and pursued a career as an engineer in the United Kingdom before joining the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1922. He served there in a strategy-planning capacity through the Second World War. In 1940, under the influence of Lord Beaverbrook, he circulated a series of anonymous memos which were highly critical of senior RAF figures; in response, he was posted to South Africa, but the fallout continued and by the end of the year the Chief of the Air Staff and several other commanders had been replaced.
McCloughry retired from the RAF in
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Cotton mill
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Early steam mills & Early weaving mills
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chimneys were square or rectangular, attached to the mill, and in some cases part of the stair column. The steam engines were typically low-pressure single-cylinder condensing beam engines. The average power in 1835 was 48 hp. Power was transmitted by a main vertical shaft with bevel gears to the horizontal shafts. The later mills had gas lighting using gas produced on site. The mules with 250–350 spindles were placed transversely to get as much light as possible. Early weaving mills The development of mills to mechanise the weaving process was more gradual partly because of the success of John Kay's 1733
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Dolores Mantez
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Life and career
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Always Pays", and then as a West Indian woman in "The Man on the Beach". She appeared as artist Rita Bell in an episode of the ABC series The Human Jungle ("The Twenty-Four Hour Man", 1964). Another of Mantez's roles was as Happy Lee, the girl suspected of Marty Hopkirk's murder in the pilot episode of the ITC series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) ("My Late Lamented Friend and Partner", 1969). During the 1960s, Mantez appeared in a number of stage musicals; these included Cowardy Custard (the Mermaid Theatre's tribute to Noël Coward), Monty Norman's The Perils of Scobie Prilt, and
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Djinni (Dungeons & Dragons)
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Publication history
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Djinni (Dungeons & Dragons) Publication history The djinni first appeared in the original Dungeons & Dragons "white box" set (1974).
The djinni appeared in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the original Monster Manual (1977). Aeraldoth, Vizier to the Caliph of the Djinn appeared in the adventure module Oasis of the White Palm (1983).
The djinni appeared in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1977), the D&D Expert Set (1981, 1983), the Companion Rules set (1984), and the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991).
The djinni appeared in second edition under the "genie" heading in Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), and in
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Doctor Who (series 1)
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Recurring and guest cast
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the character. Following on that arc, the character's debut episode would leave his morality as ambiguous, publicity materials asking, "is he a force for good or ill?" Barrowman himself was a key factor in the conception of Captain Jack. Barrowman says that at the time of his initial casting, Davies and co-executive producer, Julie Gardner had explained to him that they "basically wrote the character around [John]". On meeting him, Barrowman tried out the character using his native Scottish accent, his normal American accent, and an English accent; Davies decided it "made it bigger if it was an American accent".
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David Brewster (painter)
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Career
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Author Pamela Mandell writes that his paintings “upend the viewer’s expectations of the pastoral landscape through a startling combination of rural subject matter... with the industrial artifacts of contemporary life.” Writer Edward Lucie-Smith describes Brewster’s work as “a record of one man’s exhilarated dialogue with the natural world, and his spontaneous record of his own presence within it — they do not freeze a moment, but instead speak of a state of continuous psychic evolution.”
Brewster has been a visiting artist and critic at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (2013); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA
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Discovery quadrangle
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Crater and basin materials & Relief-forming materials
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than on the Moon or Mars, and are particularly useful in determining overlap relations and degree of modification. Relief-forming materials The Discovery quadrangle includes some of the most distinctive relief-forming material on the planet, the hilly and lineated terrain unit mapped by Trask and Guest. The unit consists of a jumble of evenly spaced hills and valleys about equal in size. Most craters within this material appear to predate its formation, and their ages cannot be estimated: their rims have been disrupted into hills and valleys identical to those of the hilly and lineated unit; the floors of some of
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David Tod Roy
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Translating Jin Ping Mei & Personal life
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is worth doing badly'. The first airplane didn’t soar, either, but it’s very good that someone got a prototype off the ground.... What does it matter if the author of Chin P’ing Mei might be less than Flaubert? Why should anyone have to feel defensive?" Personal life David Roy married Barbara Chew in 1967, while he was teaching at Princeton.
He was diagnosed with ALS (more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) just as he had finished the translation of Jin Ping Mei in 2012. Roy died in Chicago on May 30, 2016.
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Do Phool (1958 film)
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Plot & Soundtrack
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hill. Rupa realises she does not need her wheelchair as she is able to move around freely. Soundtrack Asha Bhosle sang the popular number "Aayi Pari Rang Bhari" in Raga Kalavati. Music was composed by Vasant Desai with lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri. The playback singers were Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar and Aarti Mukherjee.
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DuPont Manual High School
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Building and campus
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athletic teams. In the 1980s, the U of L women's basketball team used Manual's gym as a part-time home, playing a total of 40 games in eight seasons there. The U of L volleyball team used the Manual gym as its primary home from 1977 through 1990, after which the team moved into the newly built Cardinal Arena on its own campus. In 1992, Manual began a $3.5 million renovation of the main building which included a new roof and a glass-enclosed cafeteria for juniors and seniors.
The Youth Performing Arts School has its own building a half-block from Manual's main
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Battle of Long Tan
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D Company reinforced
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moved forward rapidly, firing their machine-guns. A brief but heavy engagement occurred, with the VC responding with automatic fire, including tracer and explosive rounds, which enveloped 3 Troop from their front and left, but was mostly high. Arriving at a crucial point in the fighting, the relief force turned the tide of the battle. The VC had been massing for another assault which would likely have destroyed D Company, yet the additional firepower and mobility of the armoured force broke their will to fight, forcing them to break contact and begin to withdraw as night approached. At 19:00 the 32
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Dragon Gold Cup
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History
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Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The hosting country and the Organising Authority continue to be selected by the Clyde Yacht Clubs' Association in conjunction with the International Dragon Association and the number of participants was limited to 120.
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Belgica antarctica
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Lifecycle
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to swarms of winged midges.
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Education in ancient Rome
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Grammaticus & Rhetor
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their studies with the grammaticus until the age of fourteen or fifteen, at which point only the wealthiest and most promising students matriculated with a rhetor. Rhetor The rhetor was the final stage in Roman education. Very few boys went on to study rhetoric. Early on in Roman history, it may have been the only way to train as a lawyer or politician.
In early Roman times, rhetoric studies were not taught exclusively through a teacher, but were learned through a student's careful observation of his elders. The practice of rhetoric was created by the Greeks before it became an institution
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Dopamine receptor D5
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Immunity & Ligands & Protein–protein interactions
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to stimulation with LPS. Ligands The D₁ and D₅ receptors have a high degree of structural homology and few ligands are available that can distinguish between them as yet. However, there is a number of ligands that are selective for D1/5 over the other dopamine receptors. The recent development of a selective D₅ antagonist has allowed the action of D₁-mediated responses to be studied in the absence of a D₅ component, but no selective D₅ agonists are yet available.
D₅ receptors show higher affinity for agonists and lower affinity for antagonists than D₁ receptors. Protein–protein interactions D₅ receptor has been shown
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Devils–Flyers rivalry
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Early history & 21st century
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6 games. 21st century The Flyers would finally defeat the Devils in the playoffs in 2003–04, when they eliminated the defending Cup champs 4 games to 1 in the 2004 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals. The Flyers also defeated the Devils in the 2010 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, again 4 games to 1, en route to the Stanley Cup Finals. The latter series was considered a big upset, as the Devils won the Atlantic Division and the 2nd seed in the East while the Flyers clinched the 7th seed in a shootout victory over the New York Rangers on the last day of
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Douglas Abbott
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Early life & Political career
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Douglas Abbott Early life Abbott was born in Lennoxville, Quebec. He attended Bishop's University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. He then attended McGill Law School, but interrupted his studies to sign up for service overseas, in 1916. Returning from the Great War, he completed his legal studies, earning his Bachelor of Civil Law. He then went to France to attend the Université de Dijon. Returning to Canada, he was called to the Barreau du Québec in 1921 and practised law in Montreal with the firm of Fleet, Phelan, Fleet & Le Mesurier. Political career Abbott
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County of Tyrol
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End of the County
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has granted further autonomy to the Trentino - Alto Adige/Südtirol province.
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Charles Punchard Jr.
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Landscape architecture practice & First Landscape Architect of the National Park Service
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Negus. He also studied for two years at the Harvard University School of Landscape Architecture. In 1911, he established the landscape architectural firm of Evans & Punchard at Cleveland, Ohio in partnership with Frederick Noble Evans. Their practice spread to the Western United States. Punchard developed tuberculosis in April 1913 and left the practice to stay at a sanitarium at Colorado Springs, Colorado. (See Tuberculosis treatment in Colorado Springs). After a year's stay in the sanitarium, he settled in Denver, Colorado. He went into practice with Irvin J. McCary from 1916 to 1917. First
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Callie Thorne
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Life and career
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comedy Ed's Next Move. In 1997 and 1998, she appeared as Det. Laura Ballard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street and its subsequent TV movie. She has also had many small roles in film and TV movies and starred in the 1998 film, Chocolate for Breakfast.
She was the lead in the USA Network series Necessary Roughness, which premiered on June 29, 2011. She received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Actress" for her role. The series remained on the air for three seasons. In 2012, she won Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama
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Crimean Bridge
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Post-Soviet times & Crimean crisis
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feasibility study to be published in 2015. Crimean crisis Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March 2014 amid the deterioration of the Ukraine-Russia relationship, president Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would build a road-rail bridge over the strait, and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a governmental decree to create a subsidiary of Avtodor to oversee the project. In April, the Ukrainian government gave Russia six months notice of its withdrawal from the now-defunct bilateral Kerch Bridge agreement. The Ukrainian think tank 'Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies' believed that the bridge could reduce shipping to
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Dublin Food Co-op
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Distinctiveness
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on the Irish scene" because of its organisational structure. At that time, it was one of only two Irish wholefood retailers established as co-operatives and the only one to take the form of a consumers' co-operative (the other, the Quay Co-operative in Cork, was organised as a workers' co-operative). The study also argued that the Co-op had "a different pricing structure to conventional businesses, only adding the margin needed to cover its operating expenses".
The Urban Co-op in Limerick was subsequently established as an additional consumer food co-operative in Ireland, commencing as a buying club in 2013. Within the capital, a
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Cotton mill
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United States & Consolidation (1918–50)
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It closed in 1985. Consolidation (1918–50) Though business revived in 1919, a shortage of building materials restricted the building of new mills, and activity was financial with the mills seeking recapitalisation. There is no clear concession on the reason for the final decline. Some say that the cotton men concentrated on making easy money ignoring the possibility of foreign competition best countered by larger mills by re-equipping the mills with more modern ring frames. Daniels and Jewkes argued the fundamental cause of the depression was a change in demand for cotton goods. J. M. Keynes suggested that there was over
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Causes of the Holodomor
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Sovkhozes general fault of 1932
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general and agricultural management and planning, despite the significant (as compared to kolkhozes) amount of modern agricultural mechanisms (agricultural tractors, harvesters, etc.) employed. The main reason for low output was that wheat was continually sown, beginning in 1929, on the same areas without fertilizers. Sovkhozes also suffered from a lack of manpower and infrastructure (roads, elevators etc.). Losses during harvesting were extremely high. Thus, instead of the expected 290 millions of poods (more than 5 million tons) in 1932, sovkhozes produced 5 time less, while the situation with livestock was even worse. As of 20 July 1932, sovhozes of the
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Eagle River, Wisconsin
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Geography & 2010 census
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a total area of 3.20 square miles (8.29 km²), of which, 3.03 square miles (7.85 km²) is land and 0.17 square miles (0.44 km²) is water. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,398 people, 684 households, and 308 families residing in the city. The population density was 461.4 inhabitants per square mile (178.1/km²). There were 876 housing units at an average density of 289.1 per square mile (111.6/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 93.0% White, 0.8% African American, 3.5% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 1.1% from other races, and 1.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino
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Dale Farm
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The Dale Farm Travellers
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questioned why pitches in the legal part of the site are usually unoccupied. However, "Grattan Puxon, a campaigner for Travellers, said the owners would spend much of the year travelling. ... and some of the plots also had to be vacated before the electricity company carried out work at some of the plots"
Robert Home stated in a telephone interview that
"the travellers [sic] would normally be on the road between April and October and use a more permanent site over the winter months. But many had remained at Dale Farm for a longer period to counter the threat of eviction."
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Debashish Chaudhuri
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Special projects & Personal life
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Martinu Philharmonic as the first Czech orchestra in India after 57 years Personal life He is married to Czech pianist Jana Chaudhuri. His brother Rajat Chaudhuri is an artist in Denver, USA, and his parents live in Kolkata, India.
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Doriot Anthony Dwyer
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Early life
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age 15, she qualified for the Illinois All-State Orchestra, and during her senior year in high school she won the national solo competition to attend the Interlochen Center for the Arts. While at Interlochen, she was offered a scholarship to attend the Eastman School of Music.
While attending Eastman, Dwyer first experienced gender bias in the music industry. Though she was permitted to play first chair in certain symphonic band selections, she was never selected as first chair for the student orchestra. After her freshman year, Dwyer auditioned for a piccolo position with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Upon impressing the conductor with
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DuPont Manual High School
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Building and campus
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building. It was completed in 1978 at a cost of $1.5 million as the final stage of the same plan that expanded Manual's campus and built Noe. Noe had been built without an auditorium in anticipation of a theater-oriented school being built on site. The YPAS building includes production facilities, a costume shop and an 886-seat proscenium-style theater. The YPAS building did not contain extensive classroom space, however, and for many years teachers conducted YPAS classes in hallways and on loading docks if other space wasn't available. Since 1993, YPAS has used an adjacent facility, built in 1899 and formerly
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Dan Muller
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Writing Life
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of good horse humor..." "The Eugene Field Society conferred an honorary membership on Muller for 'outstanding contribution to contemporary literature...".
Muller had a second book published in 1938, "Chico of the +Up Ranch". Although fictional, the "+Up Ranch" is where Muller states he was born, and the +Up logo appears in a number of Muller's artworks.
About 1942 Muller relocated to Port Washington, Wisconsin. During the 1940s and into the 1950s Muller did dozens of cover paintings and illustrated stories for Zane Grey's Western Magazine, again sharing the honor with other western art notables such as Nicholas Firfires, Leonard Reedy and the
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Deimantas Narkevičius
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Film career
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The Role of a Lifetime (2003), commissioned by UK-based organisation Art and Sacred Places for a parish church in Brighton, Narkevičius asked what it meant to be a filmmaker with a social conscience. The centrepiece of the film is an interview with British director Peter Watkins whose politically-charged, fictionalised documentary-style works had addressed the Hungarian uprising, The Battle of Culloden (1964), and the La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000), and who had left the UK in frustration at censorship and neglect settling in Vilnius. The interview is juxtaposed with 1960s Super-8 footage of Brighton & Hove, and sketches by Lithuanian artist
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Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
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Overstated threat & American demand on Latin America for deportation
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America, the Axis Powers began to groom puppets and sympathetic groups in every republic to seize the reigns [sic] of their governments’ machinery […] There were approximately three million Axis nationals residing in Latin American then, each of whom could have been made available to form part of a militant striking force capable of implementing the plans of the Axis at the appropriate time”
After the US entered the war, neutralizing the perceived threat against Latin America and securing the strategically important Panama Canal was seen by the US government as vital. American demand on Latin America for deportation The United
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Ecstasy (comics)
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Publication history & Fictional character biography
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Ecstasy (comics) Publication history Ecstasy first appeared in Dr. Strange vol. 2 #78 (August 1986), and was created by Peter B. Gillis.
The character subsequently appears in The Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger vol. 3 #5-8 (June–November 1989), The New Warriors vol. 1 #33-34 (March–April 1993), and Union Jack vol. 2 #1 (November 2006), and #3 (January 2007).
Ecstasy received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #2. Fictional character biography A French criminal, Renee Deladier, otherwise known as Madame Deladier, was a drug distributor in Marseilles, France. Her main distribution was of the drug ecstasy,
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Decree 900
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Mechanisms & Land, literacy and credit
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about this, and he agreed with us. What we wanted was to foster the control of the reform from below. This would give the peasants a strong sense of their common needs. And if, from the system of lifetime tenure, cooperatives developed, the seeds of a more collective society would have been sown.
Finally, the law established a system for using bonds to compensate people who lost acres to peasants. The property owners were paid in bonds which matured in 25 years; value of the land was based on claims made on the previous year's tax returns. Land, literacy and credit
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East Ham Baptist Church
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History
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East Ham Baptist Church History In 1895 the London Baptist Association (LBA) promoted services in East Ham, then a fast-growing dormitory suburb. A temporary iron building at the corner of Katherine Road and Victoria Avenue housed the first congregation. R. Sloven became the first minister from 1896 to 1908.
In 1901 the congregation moved to a new building in Plashet Grove, designed by Edgar Stones, with a 1000-seater sanctuary, surrounded by halls and rooms. By 1903, membership was 972, one of the strongest in the then East Ham Borough. In 1908, Charles Howe led a team of
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Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
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US Congressional investigation and reparations
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payout to all survivors. However, these reparations and the subsequent apology did not pertain to those who were deported to the United States from Latin America. To this day, no formal apology has ever been issued to Germans deported from Latin America.
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Ear piercing instrument
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Traditional model
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Ear piercing instrument Traditional model The most common design uses a spring that stores potential energy when part of the ear piercing instrument is pulled back. Pre-sterilized starter studs and matching friction backs are typically provided in pairs by the piercing gun manufacturer in sealed containers. A starter stud has a point that is designed to penetrate the earlobe when the mechanism is released. Ear piercing instruments are designed to pierce using 20- or 18-gauge earrings, normally made out of surgical steel, 24 kt. gold plated steel, 14 kt. gold, or titanium.
On the oldest types of piercing gun, one starter
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Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes
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in the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein's government. However, the government's stated reasoning was to reclaim land for agriculture and exterminate a breeding ground for mosquitoes. The displacement of more than 200,000 of the Ma'dan and the associated state-sponsored campaign of violence against them has led the United States and others to describe the draining of the marshes as genocide or ethnic cleansing.
The draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes has been described by the United Nations as a "tragic human and environmental catastrophe" on par with the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and by other observers as one of the worst
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Decree 900
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Repeal
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over land policy to government officials. Some land changed hands as a result of these laws, but the scope of reform was substantially reduced. Armas also abolished government support for labor unions and denounced their members as communists.
A long period of civil war followed, with indigenous and poor Guatemalans pitted against landowners and the military. Peace accords reached in 1996 repudiate Armas's policy, and those that followed, calling for a return to the idea of land as a social good.
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Arab–Khazar wars
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First Arab–Khazar War and aftermath
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4,000 Muslim troops were left dead on the field. Three years later, the Khazars repelled a retaliatory campaign under Habib ibn Maslama. In the aftermath of these attacks, the Khazars abandoned Balanjar and moved their capital further north, in an attempt to evade the reach of the Arab armies.
Due to the outbreak of the First Muslim Civil War and the priorities on other fronts, the Arabs refrained from repeating an attack on the Khazars until the early 8th century. The Khazars, on their part, only launched a few raids into the Transcaucasian principalities that were loosely under Muslim dominion: in
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David Moyes
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2009–2013 & Manchester United
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Ferguson.
Some fans at Everton dubbed Moyes "Dithering Dave", criticising what they saw as indecisive management, particularly regarding transfers. Manchester United On 9 May 2013, Manchester United announced that Moyes would take over the club following Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement as manager. He signed a six-year contract with the club, and officially took up his managerial position at United on 1 July 2013. His first unofficial game as United manager ended in defeat as Teeratep Winothai scored the only goal for Singha All Stars in Bangkok on 13 July 2013. On 11 August 2013, he won his only trophy with Manchester
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Culture of Brazil
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Samba
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the early 20th century, modern samba emerged and was popularized in Rio de Janeiro behind composers such as Noel Rosa, Cartola and Nelson Cavaquinho among others. The movement later spread and gained notoriety in other regions, particularly in Bahia and São Paulo. Contemporary artists include Martinho da Vila, Zeca Pagodinho and Paulinho da Viola.
Samba makes use of a distinct set of instruments, among the most notable are the cuíca, a friction drum that creates a high-pitched squeaky sound, the cavaquinho, a small instrument of the guitar family, and the pandeiro, a hand frame drum. Other instruments are the surdos, agogôs,
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Yevgeni Ivanovich Markov
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1812 Service
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commanding the 10th Corps in Tormasov’s 3rd Army of the West 1812. He participated in Kobryn 27 July and Gorodetschna 12 August. Then he served under Chichagov, but was dismissed for incompetence, when it was found that despite his high-rank, his strategising characterised by such basic errors as confusing roads with rivers on maps.
In 1813 he served in Bennigsen’s Army of Reserve, and saw action at the blockade of Hamburg.
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Dushman (1957 film)
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Plot
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a CID inspector named Mehta (Prabhu Dayal), from whom he had previously escaped. He then woos and marries Sheila to make sure that Mehta will not be able to arrest him. Ram Singh continues to steal, but Mehta discovers him in due course. Mehta immediately reveals the truth about Ram Singh to Sheila, leading to an altercation between Ram Singh and Mehta. The former manages to escape. Meanwhile, Sheila becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son.
After learning of the birth of his child and being unable to bear the separation from his wife, Ram Singh is reformed, and lives
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Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes
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History
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attempt to drain the marshes, motivated by their role as a breeding ground for mosquitoes and lack of apparent economic value, as well as the potential use of the water for irrigation. Prepared in 1951, The Haigh Report outlined a series of sluices, embankments and canals on the lower ends of the Tigris and Euphrates that would drain water for agriculture. These notably included the Main Outfall Drain (MOD), a large canal also referred to as the Third River, and the Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station. Neither were completed under British rule: they were later revived by the Ba'athist government.
During the
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David Moyes
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Manchester United
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such as Denis Law and David Beckham calling for Moyes to be given more time at the club. At the time of his sacking, United were seventh in the Premier League table, 13 points behind fourth-placed Arsenal with four matches remaining, ensuring United would fail to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since 1995 and finish outside of the top three for the first time in Premier League history. Moyes had won five points from a possible 24 against Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City, and Arsenal (the top four at the time of sacking). He was replaced in
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Declaration of war by the United States
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The War Powers Resolution
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Powers Resolution In 1973, following the withdrawal of most American troops from the Vietnam War, a debate emerged about the extent of presidential power in deploying troops without a declaration of war. A compromise in the debate was reached with the War Powers Resolution. This act clearly defined how many soldiers could be deployed by the President of the United States and for how long. It also required formal reports by the President to Congress regarding the status of such deployments, and limited the total amount of time that American forces could be deployed without a formal declaration of war.
Although
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Edward Lipiński
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Life, career and social activism
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Letter of 59 in 1975 and the Letter of 14 in 1976. In 1977 he was expelled from the PZPR.
In the spring of 1976, Lipiński sent an open letter to First Secretary Edward Gierek of the PZPR, criticizing the drastic price increase on foodstuffs that Gierek imposed in an attempt to balance Poland's import-based economy that relied heavily on Western loans. Gierek, who came to power after the overthrow of Władysław Gomułka, promised to improve the quality of life of Polish workers by raising wages and stabilizing prices. In his letter Lipiński wrote "Socialism cannot be decreed. It is and
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Chunseong
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Early monk life & March 1 movement
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a pupil, but abbess Manhae Han Yong-un (만해 한용운, 萬海 韓龍雲) rejected him because he was too young. Eventually, at age fifteen, he became a Buddhist monk, apprenticing under Manhae Han Yong-un.
Chunseong was required to read through Hwaeomgyeong (화엄경, 華嚴經) and Geumganggyeong (금강경, 金剛經). He studied them so well that he could recite the Hwaeomgyeong backwards. Because of this, he earned the nickname "Hwaeom monk" (화엄법사, 華嚴法師). March 1 movement In November 1918, Chunseong's teacher published Yusim (translated as "whole mind"), a series of magazines that written to make Buddhism appeal to the youth. The following year, Yong-un was imprisoned
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Dan Muller
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Writing Life
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Yesteryear" & Nevada State Journal, March 25, 1951). (NOTE: There does exist a painting entitled 'Riders in the Sky' that has a placard with the inscription 'Presented to Hon Senator George W Malone by Jack Fugitt Reno Nevada'. It is unknown if this is the painting mentioned in the book and newspaper as 'The Last Roundup'.)
During the late 1940s and into the 1950s Muller teamed with Eugene Freedman (who later went on to found the Enesco Corporation, distributor of Precious Moments figurines) to produce a series of western themed chalkware plaques and small statues modeled on Muller's paintings and sold
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Dunmore railway station
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History
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Gatehouse.
Plans dated 1940 with later notations show the station in a similar form to those of 1907, however with the platform extended (notation on platform "Earth filled - Sleeper face - Timber top"); an enlarged milk shed; the earlier WC crossed out (indicating its demolition); the stockyards noted as "recovered 1968" (demolished); and a new ramp to the northeast of the platform building marked "Pioneer Concrete Pty Ltd Siding No. 2 40' ramp".
Plans dated 1970 show the Gatekeeper's cottage no longer extant; the goods siding clearly shown to the east of the platform and platform buildings, with an unloading platform
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