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Dora and Friends: Into the City!
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Production
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One month later, it aired on Treehouse TV in Canada. Following the release of Dora's Explorer Girls: Our First Concert, Nickelodeon announced in 2013 that it would produce a spin-off to Dora the Explorer titled Dora and Friends: Into the City! starring Dora as a 10-year-old who goes on city adventures with a group of new friends. The series has been picked up for 20 episodes and had its prime-time premiere on Nickelodeon on August 18, 2014. The show is animated using Toon Boom Harmony. On October 9, 2014, Nickelodeon renewed the series for a 20-episode second season.
Reruns also currently
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Espada Cemetery
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Location
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Vives and by Bishop Espada, was exclusively for mentally ill men and located between the hospital of San Lazaro and the General Cemetery. In the same area was also a room of the Real Casa de Beneficencia, intended exclusively for demented women, but this had its front to Calle Belascoaín. The quarry of San Lazaro where Jose Marti had been imprisoned in 1870, was to the east. In front of the Casa de Beneficencia was the Bateria de la Reina which was named after the Count of Santa Clara, Juan Procopio Bassecourt, governor of Cuba, who built the battery between
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Federal Medical Center, Butner
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Butner study
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themselves.
A critique of the study is that the use of a population of participants in the most intensive sex offender treatment program offered in the federal prison system skewed the sample. Offenders had to have received at least a thirty-six-month sentence to be eligible for the program. Melissa Hamilton argues, "These offenders may well, then, have represented particularly dangerous offenders who were a high risk to children since they had been prosecuted, convicted, given more than minimal prison sentences, and accepted into the limited-space program because of a perceived need by themselves and program clinicians for a lengthy and intensive
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Ethion
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Reactivity and mechanism
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ethion is small and lipophilic molecule and because it has these characteristics rapid absorption across cell membranes is expected. This absorption from skin, lungs and the gut to the blood will happen via passive diffusion. Furthermore, ethion is changed in the liver, via desulfuration, into its active metabolite: ethion monoxon. Due to this change happening in the liver the primary place of damage it expected to be the liver. Ethion monoxon is an inhibitor of the neuro enzyme cholinesterase (ChE). ChE is a facilitator of nerve impulse transmission, secondary of damage is thus the brain. Because ethion monoxon is
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Drevlians
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Ethnonym & Settlements
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Drevlians Ethnonym Their name is derived from Slavic drevo/древо or derevo/дерево, meaning "wood" and "tree", because they lived in the forests. Their name may be rendered "the dwellers in the forest". Nestor the Chronicler (1056–1114) mentioned that those Slavs who settled in open fields had been called Polyani (after the Slavic pole/поле, meaning "field"), and those in forest areas Drevlyani. Settlements The Drevlians left many archaeological traces, such as agricultural settlements with semi-dugouts (or earth-houses), moundless burial grounds and barrows, fortified towns like Vruchiy (present-day Ovruch), Gorodsk, site of an ancient settlement near Malyn (supposedly, a residence of the
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Daz Eden
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Storylines
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she ran off and Daz went after her, telling her that he was flattered but was dating Penny and made both girls apologise. When Scarlett and Daz did get together, just after Scarlett's 16th birthday, Jimmy felt Daz wasn't good enough and that Scarlett was too young for boyfriends but Lexi talked him round.
When Sam moved back in with the Dingles', Scarlett suggested she move in but Daz wasn't ready for that and asked his best mate, Jake Doland (James Baxter), to move in instead. Together, they made sure that Scarlett wouldn't want to move in and it worked,
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E. A. Dupont
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Early career & United States
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E. A. Dupont Early career A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in silent films, he worked in London and in Hollywood, California. One of his greatest successes was the silent film Varieté (1925). This film, about an ex-trapeze artist, was noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund. Varieté even did well in the United States, screening for 12 weeks at New York's Rialto Theatre. United States Dupont's success was noticed
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Chiba Takusaburō
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Spiritual crisis
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reestablish feudal rule. Just before his execution, Kumoi wrote a poem of resistance against the authoritarian forces, lauded by other activists as "a compelling image of resolute revolutionary resistance". Kumoi's poem would later inspire and rouse the interests of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement supporters, which would include Takusaburō.
After Yasui Sokken's death ten months after Takusaburō's admission, Takusaburō left to study under French Catholic priest Father François Paulin Vigroux, a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who had traveled to Japan in 1873. Coined as a "walking priest", Vigroux traveled a Catholic circuit through Japan's major cities
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C. D. Atkins
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Early life and education
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C. D. Atkins Early life and education The only child of James H. Atkins, a railroad telegraph operator, and his wife Christina, an elementary school teacher, Cedric Donald "C.D." Atkins was born in Winter Haven, Florida. He enrolled at the University of Florida, where he became an Agriculture major and joined the Alpha Gamma Rho Agricultural Fraternity. He soon transferred to Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1937.
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Feld Entertainment
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Feld Entertainment
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worldwide production center. Feld agreed in October 2013 to occupy a to be built 241,457-square-foot warehouse in the Baltimore-Washington Industrial Park, Jessup, Maryland expected to be finished in November 2014 to consolidated two other warehouse elsewhere in the industrial park used for merchandise. In 2015, Feld Motor Sports HQ moved from Illinois to Ellenton.
In March 2013, Feld agreed with Marvel Entertainment, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009, to produce Marvel Universe Live!, a Marvel character-based live arena show. Marketing campaign company Cimarron Group was hired in 2013 by Feld Entertainment for all media campaign
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Endocrine disruptor
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United States
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The multitude of possible endocrine disruptors are technically regulated in the United States by many laws, including: the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Food Quality Protection Act, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.
The Congress of the United States has improved the evaluation and regulation process of drugs and other chemicals. The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 and the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1996 simultaneously provided the first legislative direction requiring the EPA to address endocrine disruption through establishment of a program for screening and
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Eric Cairns
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London Racers incident & Pittsburgh Penguins & Post playing career
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the season and the entire next season in all IIHF tournaments, although the NHL allowed him to return the following year. Pittsburgh Penguins Cairns was acquired from Florida Panthers in January 2006 to strength the Pen's defence and protect Sidney Crosby. Amazingly, Cairns started with a goal against the New York Islanders. Post playing career Cairns is currently the Director of Player Development for the New York Islanders.
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Envy-cycles procedure
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Run-time analysis
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the run-time is .
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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Biography & SS career
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dueling in his student days, although some sources attribute them to an automobile accident.
On 14 January 1934, Kaltenbrunner married Elisabeth Eder (b. 1908) who was from Linz and a Nazi Party member. They had three children. In addition to the children from his marriage, Kaltenbrunner had twins, Ursula and Wolfgang, (b. 1945) with his long-time mistress Gisela Gräfin von Westarp (née Wolf). All the children survived the war. SS career On 18 October 1930, Kaltenbrunner joined the Nazi Party with NSDAP member number 300,179. In 1931, he was the Bezirksredner (district speaker) for the Nazi Party in
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Ethion
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Metabolism
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was 20%.
In a study conducted among rats, after oral administration it was found that ethion is quite readily metabolized. The metabolization products in found in urine are four to six polar water-soluble products.
A study among chickens reveals more about the ethion distribution in the body. After 10 days of ethion exposure liver, muscle, and fat tissues were examined. In all three cases ethion or ethion derivatives were present, indicating that it is widely spread in the body. Also chicken eggs were investigated. It was found that the egg white reaches a steady ethion derivative concentration after four days while the
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Farden Township, Hubbard County, Minnesota
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Demographics
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American, 10.36% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.30% from other races, and 2.11% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.20% of the population.
There were 358 households out of which 38.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.4% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.6% were non-families. 17.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was
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Energy in the United States
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State electric characteristics & Renewable energy
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of the excellent EIA data browser permits easy access to the plethora of data available. Renewable energy Renewable energy in the United States accounted for 13.2% of the domestically produced electricity in 2014, and 11.2% of total energy generation. As of 2014, more than 143,000 people work in the solar industry and 43 states deploy net metering, where energy utilities buy back excess energy generated by solar arrays.
Renewable energy reached a major milestone in the first quarter of 2011, when it contributed 11.7% of total US energy production (2.245 quadrillion BTU or 2.369 EJ of energy), surpassing nuclear energy production (2.125 quadrillion BTU or 2.242 EJ).
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Emilio Vedova
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Career
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During this time he also participated in the Italian resistance movement. Vedova returned to Venice towards the end of the war and played a key role in the post-war Italian art movement, which was connecting to the European avant-garde. His work became much more abstract. His images represented the apprehension of the time, with his geometric shapes and color palette. In 1946 he co-signed the manifesto "Beyond Guernica" which included several Italian artists who were to become famous. In 1947 Vedova founded Fronte Nuovo delle Arti.
In 1951, Vedova exhibited his first solo show in the United States at the Catherine
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Dupont Circle Fountain
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Later history
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War monuments in Washington, D.C. that were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on September 20, 1978, and the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites on March 3, 1979. It is one of the few Civil War monuments that is a not an equestrian sculpture. The others are the Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial, Nuns of the Battlefield, the Peace Monument, and statues of Admiral David G. Farragut, Brigadier General Albert Pike and General John A. Rawlins. The fountain is designated a contributing property to the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District,
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English Electric DEUCE
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Hardware description
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store. An IBM 528 combined reader–punch could be substituted for the Hollerith equipment, giving the same input–output speeds, in which case the machine was called Mark II. Automatic conversion of alphanumeric data to BCD was provided on input, and the reverse operation on output, for all eighty card columns. On this equipment, reading and punching could proceed simultaneously, if required, and thus could be used for reading in a record, updating it, and then punching an updated record simultaneously with reading in the next record. With the seven extra delay lines, the DEUCE was denoted
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EnOcean
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EnOcean The EnOcean technology is an energy harvesting wireless technology used primarily in building automation systems, and is also applied to other applications the Internet of Things (IoT), industry (IIoT), transportation, logistics and smart homes. Modules based on EnOcean technology combine micro energy converters with ultra low power electronics, and enable wireless communications between self-powered wireless sensors, switches, controllers and gateways.
In March 2012, the EnOcean wireless standard, originally developed by the EnOcean company, was ratified as the international standard ISO/IEC 14543-3-10. The standard covers the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) layers 1-3 which are the physical, data link and networking
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Elizabeth Bailey
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Biography
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at Carnegie Mellon University, and as a visiting scholar at the Yale School of Organization and Management. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. She serves on the Board of Directors of TIAA-CREF, Altria, and CSX Corporation, and is a trustee of The Brookings Institution and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bailey has been the Vice Chairmen of Bancroft NeuroHealth since 1989.
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Estadio Mansiche
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History
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sitting, broadcasting boxes, renovated changing rooms, and an electronic scoreboard were also installed. This brought the stadium capacity to approximately 20,000. The next year, the natural grass pitch was replaced for turf for the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship. The pitch would not return to natural grass until 2013.
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Fatimid sack of Genoa
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Raid
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place outside the city walls and later in the streets of the city. The Fatimid forces having the upper hand, the city was plundered and burnt on 16 August 935, according to Ibn al-Athīr. The fleet returned to Mahdia on 28 August 935 (26 Ramaḍān 323), twelve days after the sack.
Upon Yaʻqūb's return to Mahdia, the caliph held a triumph for him. According to ʿImād al-Dīn, "the prisoners were exhibited and the fleet was decorated" while Yaʻqūb "entered the city wearing his most beautiful clothes". He then conferred with the caliph al-Ḳāʾim, sitting in a special dar al-bahr (sea
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Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
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Latin American response to U.S. demand & Selection of deportees
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US. Together with Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, they agreed to send selected Germans to the US under the promise that the deportees will be repatriated to Germany rather than interned in the US. Selection of deportees The selection of deportees was arbitrary and inaccurate in picking out potentially dangerous Germans. The selection was conducted by both by local governments and by American instructions. In total, 4,058 Germans were deported to the US. The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals was used as the basis for deportation in many Latin American countries. Many more ethnic Germans in Latin American were also
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Dyeing
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Selection of dyes & Direct application
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fabric. In contrast, vat or reactive dyes are applied on cottons to achieve excellent washing fastness. Direct application The term "direct dye application" stems from some dyestuff having to be either fermented as in the case of some natural dye or chemically reduced as in the case of synthetic vat and sulfur dyes before being applied. This renders the dye soluble so that it can be absorbed by the fiber since the insoluble dye has very little substantivity to the fiber. Direct dyes, a class of dyes largely for dyeing cotton, are water-soluble and can be applied directly to the
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Dublin Food Co-op
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Beginnings 1983-1987
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Dublin Food Co-op Beginnings 1983-1987 The origins of the Co-op lie with a group of activists brought together by the successful campaign against the construction of a nuclear power plant at Carnsore Point in County Wexford. In 1983, a number of those involved met together to form an organisation through which members could 'shop in an ecologically sound way' and 'promote the rational use of the earth's resources'. Thus, a buying club for the collective purchase of wholefoods was established. For one Saturday each month, the Co-op used a succession of locations in Temple Bar as a focal point to
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Emily Lau
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Early post-handover era
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reliability of the "One country, two systems" principle. Beside pushing for tightened human rights protection, greater efforts on equal opportunities and the establishment of a statutory right to access to information, she advocated for a complete rewrite of the Basic Law (Hong Kong's constitutional document) and for democracy in mainland China. In terms of economics policy, she supported legislation on fair trading, opposed the import of foreign labour and called for the introduction of a minimum wage. Lau received the Bruno Kreisky Award for her human rights work in 1998.
In 1998, Lau sued the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua
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Ernesto de la Cárcova Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture
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Collections
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Collections The oldest and most important of type in Latin America, the museum includes over 700 sculptures, all replicas of the originals made by die casting or copied from a mold taken from the original. Many are "first castings" of original works in the Berlin State Museums, the British Museum, the Louvre, or L'Accademia, Florence. The museum also maintains a library and an art print collection displaying works by artists trained at the institution.
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Endocrine disruptor
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U-shaped dose-response curve
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thyroid gland of female rats in doses of the order of those to which humans are exposed.
Low concentrations of endocrine disruptors can also have synergistic effects in amphibians, but it is not clear that this is an effect mediated through the endocrine system.
Critics have argued that data suggest that the amounts of chemicals in the environment are too low to cause an effect. A consensus statement by the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative argued that "The very low-dose effects of endocrine disruptors cannot be predicted from high-dose studies, which contradicts the standard 'dose makes the poison' rule of toxicology.
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David McGuffin
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David McGuffin David McGuffin is a broadcast journalist, working with National Public Radio in Washington, DC as a Supervising Editor on its flagship news and current affairs program, Morning Edition. Prior to that he helped launch Voice of America's South Sudan radio service, as its Managing Editor. From 2004 until 2010, he was the Africa Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, reporting for its television, radio and digital news services. From his base in Nairobi, Kenya, he re-asserted CBC's presence on the continent, regularly reporting from conflict zones in Darfur, Congo, Somalia and Afghanistan. He
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DuPont Manual High School
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Academics
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teams, was the 1994 Teen Champion on Jeopardy!. Three other Manual students have competed on Jeopardy!. Manual's academic teams have also won both National Science Bowl and National Academic League championships, and achieved 7th place at the NAQT's High School National Championships. Manual has a history of one of the top policy debate programs in the state. In the 1990s Manual students won the Jefferson County championships most years and qualified teams for the National Forensic League tournament and the TOC Tournament of Champions. Manual has been mentioned several times in lists of America's top high schools in
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Eric Pålsson Mullica
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Background
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Eric Pålsson Mullica Eric Pålsson Mullica (Mullikka) was an early Finnish settler to New Sweden. He and his family were the source of the name of several geographic features and places in New Jersey. Background Eric (or "Erkki" original Finnish name) Mullica was born in April 1636 in Mora, Delsbo parish, Hälsingland, Sweden. His father was Pål Jönsson Mullica who arrived in New Sweden with his wife and children on the vessel Örnen (Eagle) which sailed in 1654 from Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden. The father of Pål (Paavo) was Juho Mulikka, who had earlier moved to Sweden from Finland.
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Egg, Inc.
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Gameplay
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increases). When the player's farm has higher income, and the production rate is higher, the player can upgrade to a different egg, restarting, but with each egg selling for a higher base price. Later egg types, trucks, and hen houses are themed as being futuristic.
There are also drones which when clicked on will give the player cash. Sometimes the player may get a few golden eggs instead. Golden eggs are the premium currency; while they can be earned while playing, they can also be bought with real money, and they do not reset when upgrading the egg type or
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Empress Gao (Song dynasty)
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Life
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Empress Gao (Song dynasty) Life Gao was from Mencheng in Hao Province. She was the niece of her predecessor, her maternal aunt Empress Cao, who was the empress of Emperor Renzong of Song. She was chosen as the principal consort of the heir apparent by her aunt, Empress Cao. She had four sons and two daughters.
In 1063, Emperor Yingzong succeeded Emperor Renzong, and Gao became Empress. In 1067, her spouse was succeeded by her son, Emperor Shenzong of Song, and she was named Empress dowager. Her tenure as empress consort and empress dowager was undistinguished, and she had no
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Erlam & Ors v Rahman & Anor
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Reaction
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court findings that Tower Hamlets First did not operate any responsible financial scheme, nor in the manners as submitted in its registration as a political party, the Electoral Commission removed Tower Hamlets First from its register of political parties on 29 April 2015. The 17 remaining councillors affiliated with Tower Hamlets First went on to sit as an Independent Group. Shahed Ali was later disqualified as a councillor after pleading guilty to housing benefit fraud. Of the remaining 16, 7 eventually left the group, 4 of whom sat together under the banner People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets with Shafi Ahmed
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Father, I'll Take Care of You
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Synopsis
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Father, I'll Take Care of You Synopsis After their four children become independent, an old couple decide to live for themselves. But one day, their four children come back to them.
Director Lee Dae-young said of the series, "It will depict the confrontation between generations and siblings caused by the grown-up children cohabiting with their parents and the story of a family that overcomes those troubles with love and affection", including a romance of the younger characters. He added that the drama portrays current South Korean society where rising housing costs have encouraged young married couples to live with their parents.
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Espinoza Paz
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Success
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de Durango, Julión Álvarez, El Chapo de Sinaloa, and Duelo, among numerous others.
In 2010 he released the album "Del Rancho Para El Mundo" which included the smash hit "Al Diablo Lo Nuestro". The album was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award and was certified Gold. In 2011 he released another Gold selling album: "Canciones Que Duelen". This album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Latin Albums Chart and included the hit single "Para No Perderte". The album was also released in a deluxe version with a DVD containing several Live performances.
In 2012 he released "Un Hombre Normal", a compilation album
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Erlam & Ors v Rahman & Anor
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Intimidation & Misleading of voters & Judgment
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campaign material inside polling booths". The court in its judgment quickly rejected that going into polling booths together or leaving campaign material amounts to undue influence, leaving only intimidation at polling stations to be more thoroughly considered. Misleading of voters On the allegation that voters were misled by being told that Lutfur Rahman was the Labour Party candidate, the court decided that the evidence presented "was much too flimsy". Judgment Lutfur Rahman was found personally guilty by the court of making false statements about a candidate, bribery, and undue spiritual influence. The court also found Rahman guilty by his agents
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Eucalyptus doratoxylon
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Taxonomy & Distribution & Conservation status & Noongar Uses
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specific epithet is (doratoxylon) is derived from the Ancient Greek words dory, doratos meaning "spear" and xylon meaning "wood", possibly in reference to the use of the stems for spears. Distribution Spearwood mallee grows in sandy loam or white-grey sandy soils in heath and open forest on hills and around granite outcrops along the south coast in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions of Western Australia. Conservation status Eucalyptus doratoxylon is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife Noongar Uses Noongars used the branches to make spears: the bends in
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Denchworth
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Cleets
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middle of the 13th century. The family's land was in the manor of Circourt and was assessed at one hide, wherefrom the family derived its surname. In 1327 de la Hyde held a messuage and four virgates in Circourt. With the other Hyde estates this land was sold to Sir William Cockayne in 1617 and Gregory Geering in 1663. One of the Geerings then sold it to the Moyer family, from whom it passed by marriage to John Heathcote of Connington Castle. It then passed by marriage to William Dawnay, 6th Viscount Downe. It was still in the Dawnay family
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Douma chemical attack
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Media commentary
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canisters in Douma "used for rebel attacks later blamed on the regime."
After six months of examining the evidence, interviewing witnesses, and consulting with experts such as Higgins and Theodore Postol of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, James Harkin concluded in The Intercept that Syrian Air Force helicopters dropped two chlorine canister bombs on Douma on 7 April 2018. Harkin noted that many chlorine attacks launched by Syrian forces in the past had resulted in no casualties, hypothesizing that—in contrast to the much more lethal sarin gas—Syrian forces likely employed chlorine at Douma to induce panic among the population rather than
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Eagle River, Wisconsin
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Airport & Sports and recreation
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asphalt crosswind runway (Runway 13-31) and a helipad.
The nearest commercial airport is located 30 miles south in Rhinelander, WI. Sports and recreation Common recreational activities include boating, camping, fishing, swimming, hunting, golfing, ice fishing, and snowmobiling. Bald eagles can be viewed here, the source of the name "Eagle" River.
Eagle River is known as the "Snowmobile Capital of the World" because of the World Championship Snowmobile Derby held for over 50 years at an ice oval on the north side of the city. There are over 500 miles of groomed snowmobile trails in the county. The World Snowmobile Headquarters and International
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Education in ancient Rome
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Influences
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share this stance either, believing that athletics was only the means to maintaining good soldiers.
This illustrates one of the central differences between the two cultures and their view on education: that to the Greeks beauty or an activity could be an end in itself, and the practice of that activity was beneficial accordingly. The Romans, on the other hand, tended to be more practically minded when it came to what they taught their children. To them, it would appear, an area of study was good only as far as it served a better purpose or end determined outside
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Douglas Murray (author)
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Views
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Times called the book "a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book." In the book, he defends the German nationalist, anti-Islam, far-right group Pegida and says that the English nationalist, anti-Islam, far-right English Defence League "had a point". He describes Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, as a better sentinel of "European values" than George Soros.
Murray subsequently turned his attention to issues around social justice and identity politics in the western world in The Madness of Crowds. William Davies in The Guardian described the book as "the bizarre fantasies of a rightwing provocateur, blind to oppression." Tim Stanley in The Daily
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Diplomacy of John Adams
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Commissioner to France
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speak French, the international language of diplomacy at the time. He therefore assumed a less visible role, but emerged as the commission's chief administrator, imposing order and methods lacking in his delegation's finances and record-keeping affairs. He was frustrated by the lack of commitment on the part of the French to helping the United States. In December, Adams wrote a letter to French foreign minister, the comte de Vergennes arguing for French naval support in North America. Franklin toned down the letter, but Vergennes ignored it. In September 1778, Congress increased Franklin's powers by naming him minister plenipotentiary to France
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Cricket in fiction
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Post-war fiction
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at Lord's in 1842 that features some of the leading cricketers of that era – Felix, Fuller Pilch, and Alfred Mynn. (Flashman gets Felix's wicket through skill, Pilch's through luck, and Mynn's by 'knavery'.) MacDonald Fraser takes great care to describe the sights and sounds of Lord's as it was in the 1840s. Although very different from Sassoon's style, his descriptions of the cricket match and its setting often reach an idyllic beauty that fits in well with the romantic nostalgia for village cricket during much of the 20th century.
In Life, the Universe and Everything (1982), the third book in
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Dr PVG Raju ACA Sports Complex
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Profile
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Dr PVG Raju ACA Sports Complex Profile It has hosted five first-class matches in 2014 when Andhra cricket team played against Kerala cricket team. The stadium hosted five Twenty20 matches in 2014 when Andhra cricket team played against Karnataka cricket team. The stadium hosted five Women's Twenty20 International matches in 2014 when India women cricket team played against Sri Lanka cricket team.
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Ernesto de la Cárcova Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture
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Overview
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1923 to 1927, bequeathed his collection of German sculptures for the creation of the Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture. The National School of Fine Arts purchased a block of buildings in the eastern section of Puerto Madero for its use. These buildings were originally built around 1900 for use as the Lazareto stables, a municipal agency that was responsible for the control of imported horses entering through the Port of Buenos Aires. They were refurbished for their new purpose in 1923, and with the support of the National Commission of Fine Arts, the Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture
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EnOcean
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Technology
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layers.
The energy harvesting wireless modules are manufactured and marketed by the company EnOcean which is based in Oberhaching, Germany. EnOcean offers its technology and licenses for the patented features within the EnOcean Alliance framework. In addition, EnOcean also offers energy harvesting wireless solutions for Bluetooth® Low Energy und Zigbee PRO Green Power. Technology EnOcean technology is based on the energetically efficient exploitation of slight mechanical motion and other potentials from the environment, such as indoor light and temperature differences, using the principles of energy harvesting. In order to transform such energy fluctuations into usable electrical energy, electromagnetic, solar, and
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Ellisdale Fossil Site
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History of the discovery
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Ellisdale Fossil Site History of the discovery The Ellisdale site was discovered in 1980 by two avocational paleontologists, Robert K. Denton Jr. and Robert C. O'Neill, who brought it to the attention of David C. Parris, the Director of the Bureau of Natural History at the New Jersey State Museum. Parris encouraged the two collectors to continue monitoring the site, and within a few years hundreds of disarticulated bones of dinosaurs, crocodilians, turtles and fish had been donated to the New Jersey State Museum, which is the repository for the collection. The significance of the Ellisdale Site was recognized by
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Design Week
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Details
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Design Week Details Design Week is a business publication as distinct from design-focused publications like Wallpaper and Creative Review. Its competitors include Brand Republic and Marketing Week. Its readers come from commercial design disciplines which range from retail, products and packaging to graphics, interiors, exhibitions and digital.
The founding editor of Design Week was Jeremy Myerson and the title was edited for more than 20 years by Lynda Relph-Knight. The current editor is Tom Banks.
Back issues to 1995 include contemporary design news and interviews/retrospectives of noteworthy but not widely known designers since c.1960, e.g. Raymond Hawkey and Frank Stephenson.
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Domaine Montrose
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Domaine Montrose Domaine Montrose is a Côtes de Thongue appellation French wine estate founded in the South of France in 1701.
It is named for its location on a volcano (mont) and the pink (rose) almond tree flowers that surround the vineyards.
The vineyard is 100 hectares (1 km²). Family owned since its founding in 1701, Bernard Coste represents the 11th family generation at the Domaine; his son Olivier joined him in 2009.
The Domaine's typical rosé wine blend is 65% grenache, 25% cabernet sauvignon, and 10% syrah.
Its typical red wine blend is 35% merlot, 35% syrah, and 30%
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Farashganj
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History & Geography & Points of interest
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like raw turmeric, ginger, garlic and chilli. They built fine residences such as the Ruplal House. Geography Farashganj is located on the northern bank of the Buriganga River in Old Dhaka. Its principal thoroughfares are B. K. Das Road and Ahsanullah Road. Points of interest There are a number of historic buildings in Farashganj, mostly dilapidated. The stately two-story riverside mansion Ruplal House is now occupied by squatters. The once magnificent 19th-century mansion Bara Bari, with its ornate curved balconies over the street, has been partly demolished.
Loharpul bridge also located in Farashganj. It was a great engineering feat at
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Eric Lefkofsky
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Entrepreneurial ventures
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and provided $1 million in funding for ThePoint.com, an collective action website started by Andrew Mason, and New Enterprise Associates led an early stage investment round. In late 2008, the site changed its name to Groupon.com. In October 2009, Groupon raised $30 million from Accel Partners and New Enterprise Associates. In April 2010, Digital Sky Technology and Battery Ventures invested $135 million in Groupon at a valuation of $1.35 billion. In August 2010, Forbes reported that it was the fastest growing company in history.
In December 2010, Google offered a reported $6 billion for Groupon. The offer was turned down,
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Education in ancient Rome
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Influences
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obtaining his freedom, he continued to live in Rome and became the first schoolmaster (private tutor) to follow Greek methods of education and would translate Homer's Odyssey into Latin verse in Saturnian meter.
As Rome grew in size and in power, following the Punic Wars, the importance of the family as the central unit within Roman society began to deteriorate, and with this decline, the old Roman system of education carried out by the paterfamilias deteriorated as well. The new educational system began to center more on the one encountered by the Romans with the prominent Greek and Hellenistic centers of
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Eliseu Visconti
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Exhibitions & Teaching activities
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and Oréadas, for which he received a silver medal.
Back in Brazil, Visconti exhibited in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and obtained the first place in a contest for the drawing of postal stamps for the Brazilian Casa da Moeda.
He traveled again to Europe, where he exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1905 the portrait of the artist Nicolina Vaz de Assis now at the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. In this same year, he was invited to paint the stage curtain for the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro which he completed in his studio in Paris. Teaching activities
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Execution of Louis XVI
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Henry Essex Edgeworth & Press of the day & Charles-Henri Sanson
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France." Press of the day The 13 February issue of the Thermomètre du jour ('Daily Thermometer'), a moderate Republican newspaper, described the King as shouting "I am lost!", citing as its source the executioner, Charles-Henri Sanson. Charles-Henri Sanson Charles-Henri Sanson responded to the story by offering his own version of events in a letter dated 20 February 1793. The account of Sanson states:
Arriving at the foot of the guillotine, Louis XVI looked for a moment at the instruments of his execution and asked Sanson why the drums had stopped beating. He came forward to speak, but there were shouts to
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Emmy Rossum
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Acting career
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role as Laura Chapman in the Roland Emmerich eco-disaster film The Day After Tomorrow (2004). She later returned to New York, where she was the last to audition, in full costume and make-up, for the role of Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera (2004), the onscreen adaptation of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name. After having nearly missed the audition due to a family engagement, Rossum was asked to audition in person for Webber at his home in New York. For her role as Christine Daaé, Rossum received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best
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Ernesto de la Cárcova Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture
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Overview
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Ernesto de la Cárcova Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture Overview The museum originated with a collection of reproductions purchased by painter Ernesto de la Cárcova in Berlin from 1905 to 1908. Most of these reproductions were based on works on display at the Berlin State Museums, including those of a number of ancient Egyptian, Chaldean, and Greek busts and bronzes. Returning to Buenos Aires, he displayed a number of these works at the Buenos Aires Centennial Exposition of 1910.
Professor de la Cárcova would be appointed the first President of the National School of Fine Arts in 1921, and from
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Endocrine disruptor
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Polybrominated diphenyl ethers
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per year in the beginning of the twentieth century. When combined with high density living, the potential for home fires was higher in the 1960s than it had ever been in the US. By the late 1970s, approximately 6000 people in the US died each year in home fires.
In 1972, in response to this situation, the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control was created to study the fire problem in the US. In 1973 they published their findings in America Burning, a 192-page report that made recommendations to increase fire prevention. Most of the recommendations dealt with fire prevention
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FenCon
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2013 - FenCon X & 2014 - FenCon XI
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on Steven Brust's book tour for The Incrementalists. 2014 - FenCon XI FenCon XI was held September 26–28, 2014, at the Crowne Plaza North Dallas in Addison, Texas. Key program participants included Guest of Honor Eric Flint, Music Guest of Honor Ookla the Mok, Fan Guest of Honor Geri Sullivan, Artist Guest of Honor Rick Sternbach, Science Guest of Honor J. Storrs Hall, Toastmaster Timothy Zahn, Special Workshop Guest Carrie Vaughn, Special Artist Guest R. Cat Conrad, and Special Gaming Guest Steve Jackson. The theme of this convention was "The University of FenCon: A New Degree In Fandom". The convention
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Emily Lau
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Early post-handover era
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post-handover era After the handover in 1998 she was required to relinquish her British passport and adopt Chinese citizenship in order to be eligible in running for the 1998 Hong Kong legislative election. The pro-democracy camp ended up winning 63 percent of the popular vote and Lau was returned again to the Legislative Council where she remained until her retirement.
Lau led The Frontier to put pressure on the government for an early democratisation of Hong Kong and was an outspoken critic of a number of LedCo motions, especially on the topic of human rights; she was also sceptical of the
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Douglas Murray (author)
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Punditry
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Telegraph,The Guardian, Standpoint, and UnHerd. In 2012 he was hired as a contributing editor of The Spectator. He has debated at the Cambridge Union, the Oxford Union, and participated in several Intelligence Squared and Intelligence Squared US debates. He has also appeared on other TV channels such as Sky News and Al Jazeera.
In 2016, Murray organised a competition through The Spectator of offensive poems about Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, for which a reader donated £1,000 as the top prize. This was in reaction to the Böhmermann affair, in which German satirist, Jan Böhmermann, was prosecuted under the German penal
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English Electric DEUCE
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Programming
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the single registers, the earliest time that the next instruction could be obeyed was 64 microseconds after the present one. Thus, instructions were not executed from sequential locations. In general, instructions could transfer one or more words. Consequently, each instruction specified the location of the next instruction. Optimum programming meant that as each instruction was executed, the next one was just emerging from a Delay Line. The position of instructions in the store could greatly affect performance if the location of an instruction was not optimum.
Reading data from the card reader was done in real-time –
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Efterklang
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2001–2011
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Efterklang 2001–2011 The name Efterklang comes from the Danish word for "remembrance" or "reverberation." Formed in Copenhagen, its three core members are Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer and Rasmus Stolberg. The original lineup also included Rune Mølgaard, but he has taken a more secluded role since 2007. Drummer Thomas Husmer left the band 2011. When performing live, the core three-piece band is complemented with the addition of live band members.
Efterklang released their first album Tripper to warm critical acclaim in autumn 2004. Their second album Parades saw the band working with British producer Darren Allison (Spiritualized), and was released in October
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Come Monday
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Content
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Come Monday Content Buffett wrote the song to his wife while he was on tour. At a live performance in 1974, Buffett mentioned that he had written the song heading out to California the previous year, meaning that it would have been written as he was "heading up to San Francisco for the Labor Day Weekend show" in 1973. The single version replaces the third line, "I've got my Hush Puppies on," with "I've got my hiking shoes on."
It is one of Buffett's more popular songs, and is part of "The Big 8" that he has played at almost all
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Elaine M. Goodwin
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Awards & Forty year retrospective & Publications & BAMM and TE-21
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of Exeter in July 2010. Goodwin is an elected member of the Chelsea Arts Club in London. Forty year retrospective The Royal Albert Memorial Museum and art gallery will exhibit work by Goodwin in April 2019. The major retrospective exhibition will celebrate forty years of her art. Publications Goodwin is the author of several books on mosaics. Her most recent, Mosaic Today: Using New and Recycled Materials in Contemporary Mosaic was published in 2008. Among her other 5 titles is the Encyclopedia of Mosaics: Techniques, Materials and Designs and The Human Form in Mosaic. BAMM and TE-21 The
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FamilySearch
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Controversy
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records from Latter-Day Saints performing genealogical research.
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F. Kingsley Griffith
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Politics
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National League of Young Liberals. He was well known as a good platform performer in politics and for being an outstanding young thinker ranked alongside the likes of Elliott Dodds. He contested the Bromley division of Kent for the Liberal party in the general elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924 being unsuccessful on all three occasions.
By 1927, Griffith was so well thought of in Liberal circles that he was appointed to the Liberal Organizing Committee under the Chairmanship of future party leader Herbert Samuel along with other party luminaries such as Archie Sinclair another future leader. In March
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False pretenses
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Massachusetts & New York
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Obtaining by false pretence the making, acceptance or endorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, the release or substitution of collateral or other security, an extension of time for payment of an obligation, or the release or alteration of the obligation of a written contract, is larceny and punishable by imprisonment. New York In New York, obtaining property by false pretenses, felonious breach of trust and embezzlement are included in the term larceny,), but the methods of proof required to establish each crime remain as before the code. Obtaining lodging and food on credit at hotel
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Douma chemical attack
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OPCW investigation
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respective locations. This dissenting assessment was not included in the final report. Subsequently the head of the OPCW stated that this document had been produced by an OPCW member, however it "pointed at possible attribution, which is outside of the mandate of the [Fact-Finding Mission] with regard to the formulation of its findings." Fernando Arias, Director-General of the OPCW, said the staff member who produced the document was a liaison officer at the OPCW Command Post Office in Damascus and was tasked with temporarily assisting the FFM with information collection at some sites in Douma. Arias said 'all views, analysis,
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Dreamer (Livin' Joy song)
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Release
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Up" entered the chart on 18 November 1995 and peaked at number 17, spending just six weeks in the top 100. As a last stab at success under the Alex Party banner, Visnadi remixed and re-released "Read My Lips". This did not match the success of "Don't Give Me Your Life", crashing into the top 40 at number 28 where it dropped out of the UK top 100 in just two weeks. Alex Party was then scrapped and their focus was back on Livin' Joy.
Janice Robinson was a singer from the U.S and was the original vocalist on the 1994
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Erlam & Ors v Rahman & Anor
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Legal
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witness even if they are not called by either of the opposing parties. Witnesses are required to answer all questions posed to them, but none of their answers may be admitted as evidence against them in future court proceedings except in cases of perjury proceeding against the witness in respect of the evidence given.
Though it is a civil court, the general standard of proof used by an election court for allegations of corrupt or illegal practices is that of a criminal one, namely that of beyond reasonable doubt. The same criminal standard of proof was used by Richard Mawrey on
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Emma Beard Delaney
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African missions
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region, sixty miles from Monrovia. She traveled to the hinterland nearby, opening the Suehn Industrial Mission in 1916. The mission offered education across general subjects and topics in industrial arts, economics and health. World War I disrupted communication and commerce significantly in the region, forcing Delaney to send 55 of 84 children in the mission back to their villages.
Delaney returned to the USA by October 1920, after hard work and ill health had taken their toll. She gave several speeches in the country on behalf of the National Baptist Convention. She also met Malekebu who had married by then. Delaney
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Duping (gaming)
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Effects
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Duping (gaming) Duping refers to the practice of using a bug in a video game to illegitimately create duplicates of unique items or currency in a persistent online game, such as an MMOG. Duping can vastly destabilize a virtual economy or even the gameplay itself, depending on the item duplicated and the rate at which duplication occurs. Modern persistent world games include automated detection of duping. Duping is considered to be a game cheat. Effects The effect of duping on a game's economy depends on whether an item or currency was being duplicated and to what degree the duping took
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Cameron Run Watershed
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Urban growth and watershed deterioration
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lower third of the CRW in the late 1940s and early 1950s because there was no standard for environmental impact at the time: it would be another 20+ years before the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) took effect in 1969. National Environmental Policy Act was "one of the first laws ever written that establishes the broad national framework for protecting our environment . . . to assure that all branches of government give proper consideration to the environment prior to undertaking any major federal action that significantly affects the environment". Now, any type of building (highways, structures) must undergo a
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Deutsche Guggenheim
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Exhibitions
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in a large solo exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim. The museum's last exhibition, from November 2012 to February 2013 included still lives by Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne, landscapes by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet, abstract paintings by Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky and sculptures by Edgar Degas, Alexander Calder and Constantin Brâncuși. Titled "Visions of Modernity" and also featuring the work of Delaunay, the exhibition was intended to provide a "bookend to the Deutsche Guggenheim's very first exhibition".
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Egg donation
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History
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major organ donations. At the time of this announcement the event was captured by major news carriers and fueled healthy debate and discussion on this practice which affected the future of reproductive medicine by creating a platform for further advancements in woman's health.
This scientific breakthrough changed the outlook for those who were unable to have children due to female infertility and for women who are at high risk for passing on genetic disorders. As IVF developed, the procedures used in egg donation paralleled that development: the egg donor's eggs are now harvested from her ovaries in an outpatient surgical procedure
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Dushman (1957 film)
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Plot
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dancing girl, Gulnar (Kumkum), who dies in the crossfire between cops and bandits. He jumps aboard a train where he meets a fellow conman, Kirorilal (Radha Krishen), who becomes his partner in crime. The train reaches Allahabad. Soon after arriving, he comes across a group of girls playing on swings. Among them is Sheila (Usha Kiron), who is wearing a necklace Ram Singh takes a fancy to. He cuts the rope with his knife, resulting in Sheila falling into a river nearby. He saves her, while secretly stealing the necklace.
Ram Singh soon discovers that Sheila's brother is none other than
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Emily Prince
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Personal life and education & Career
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Emily Prince Personal life and education Prince was born in 1981 in Gold Run, California. She is married to artist Shaun O'Dell and has a son, Leon Lee Prince. She graduated from Stanford University in 2003, where she received the Raina Giese Award in Creative Painting. She completed her MFA in 2008 from University of California, Berkeley. Career Prince was part of the 2007 Venice Biennale, showing a multitude of small portraits depicting soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The piece, titled American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (But Not Including the Wounded, Nor the
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Erlam & Ors v Rahman & Anor
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Facts
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Erlam & Ors v Rahman & Anor Facts The 2014 Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election took place on 22 May 2014, concurrently with elections to all 45 seats on the Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, and the 2014 European Parliament election. Ten candidates stood for mayor, with incumbent Lutfur Rahman representing Tower Hamlets First and challengers representing the Conservative Party, Green Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, and TUSC along with 3 independents. Voting in the mayoral election was conducted using the supplementary vote system whereby the voter has the option to express a second preference choice, which would be counted
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Fernandina Subdivision
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Fernandina Subdivision The Fernandina Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation and operated by First Coast Railroad. The line runs from Yulee, Florida to Fernandina Beach, Florida for a total of 12.1 miles. At its north end it continues south from the Kingsland Subdivision and at its south end the track comes to an end.
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FC Viitorul II Constanța
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History
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County champions.
2015–16 Liga III season, first for the second team of Viitorul Constanța in the Liga III, was a tough one and the team finished only on 8th place. On the other hand, 2016–17 Liga III season was a better one for Hagi's Kids who finished on 4th place at only 5 points distance from the second place.
The project was already a successful one and a lot of Viitorul II players were promoted by Gheorghe Hagi to the first team, which also was crowned champion of Romania for the first time in its history at the end of 2016–17 season.
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Donald McKay (footballer)
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Football career
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league games, before being replaced by Samuel Meston, who had moved over from the left with McKie returning on the right, and spent the remainder of the season in the reserves.
The Saints won the first nine games of the season and finished unbeaten after twenty matches, thus claiming the Southern League title for the first time.
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Dry rot
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Discussion & Historical use of the term "dry rot"
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term seemingly indicating decay of a substance by a fungus without the presence of water. However, its historical usage dates back to the distinction between decay of cured wood in construction, i.e. dry wood, versus decay of wood in living or newly felled trees, i.e. wet wood. Historical use of the term "dry rot" 'Dry rot' is an 18th-century term that generally described what is now called brown rot. The term was used because the damage was present in cured or dried timber of ships and buildings and was thought to be caused by internal ‘fermentations’ rather than water. This
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Feld Entertainment
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Feld Entertainment
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company would continue operating its Center for Elephant Conservation.
Feld Entertainment entered into the amusement and attractions industry again. Feld and Universal Brand Development has agreed to develop multiple properties into mobile pop-up attractions in April 2018. The first being DreamWorks Trolls: The Experience starting its tour in the third quarter 2018 in New York. At the IAAPA Attractions Expo 2018, Feld offered two concepts at the expo, a Monster Jam roller coaster and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus interactive stations. In September 2019, Feld and Universal will start its joint touring show, Jurassic World Live Tour, in Columbus,
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Fencing at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
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Mixed teams composition
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Fencing at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Mixed teams composition In total there will be 9 continental teams formed.
The composition of the teams will be determined by the results achieved during the individual events. The best fencers ranked in each weapon will form the top team of each continent as follows: Europe 1, Europe 2, Europe 3, Europe 4, Asia 1, Asia 2, Americas 1, Americas 2, Africa.
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Dwayne Joseph
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Chicago Bears (second stint) & Philadelphia Eagles & Personal life
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Joseph was promoted to assistant director of pro personnel. Philadelphia Eagles Joseph was hired as the director of pro personnel of Philadelphia Eagles in May 2015. Joseph won his first Super Bowl when the Eagles defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII. Personal life Joseph attended college at Syracuse University, and earned his undergraduate degree in human development, along with a master's degree in education leadership at DePaul University.
Father to Damien Joseph who goes to St. Augustine Prep and lives in Mullica Hill, 16 years old.
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Espada Cemetery
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History
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to population growth around the area, and the resulting scarcity of church land that could be used for burial. It was proposed and sanctioned by the government of Don Salvador de Muro y Salazar in 1804, and, after two years of design and construction, the cemetery was ready for use in 1806, and was inaugurated on February 2 of that year.
The cemetery was used as the primary burial ground for the city of Havana from 1806 until the late 1860s. In 1868, a cholera epidemic broke out in the area, resulting in a greatly increased rate of death. It soon
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Festivals of Odisha
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Maha Shivaratri
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(ମହା ଶିବରାତ୍ରି) is celebrated on the 13th night or 14th day on the waning lunar fortnight in the Phalguna month. It usually falls in February or March. It is considered the night on which Shiva perform the Tandava dance. It is observed by fasting by adherents, especially. Married women pray for the well-being of their spouses. Unmarried women may pray for an ideal husband. Shiva temples are visited on this day and night. Bael fruit and leaves are offered to the god, who is worshiped in the form of a lingam. Worshipers may hold an all-night jagarana and break their
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Farashganj
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History
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Farashganj Forashganj (Bengali: ফরাশগঞ্জ) is a neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The name comes from the Bengali word for French which is Forashi and ganj, meaning market-town. History Farashganj literally means French town, it takes its name from French merchants based in Dhaka city. In 1740 the French East India Company started operations in Dhaka and built their "Kuthi" near Ahsan Manzil Palace with permission from Nowazish Mohammad Khan. The French got into minor conflicts with the British over a factory but was resolved through the mediation of Naib Nazim Jasarat Khan. The French merchants established wholesale trading posts for spices
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FC Bolat
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History
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unwanted record by drawing a single match and losing 29 to set a record low for points gained in the Kazakh premier league. They are current First Division members.
On 11 December 2015, Bolat announced they would not be taking part in the 2016 Kazakhstan First Division, and would fold.
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FC Ordino
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History
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3–5 on aggregate against Penya Encarnada d'Andorra. At the end of 2017–18 season, the team returns to the first tier after finishing 1st in Segona Divisió.
FC Ordino has often been thought of as an example of small but ambitious and successful young club.
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David Tod Roy
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Early life
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Harvard, one of the few North American universities with a Chinese program. Roy entered but failed German, and did not attend other classes. He was asked to leave, then joined the United States Army during the Korean War. While in the Army he was stationed in Japan and Taiwan, where he improved his Chinese even further by deciphering the handwritten notes of his Chinese colleagues.
He returned to Harvard to finish his undergraduate degree and went on to graduate work in Chinese studies. In 1958 he was made a member of Harvard’s prestigious Society of Fellows. He
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1944 Sun Bowl
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Game summary
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L. Cooper for 27 yards, and soon afterward, MacGruder rushed 22 yards to the Lobos' 19-yard line. However, New Mexico held firm and recovered the ball on downs, but making no progress themselves, were forced to punt. Cooper then completed a pass to the New Mexico 37-yard line for a first down, and then with seven minutes remaining to play, he connected with MacGruder for the game-winning touchdown. William "Spot" Collins kicked the extra point.
After the game, New Mexico lineman Bill Thompson and Southwestern team captain Spot Collins were named the most outstanding players. New Mexico tied a record set
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Fareham red brick
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Fareham red brick Fareham red brick is a famous red-tinged clay brick, from Fareham, Hampshire. Notable buildings constructed of these distinctive bricks include London's Royal Albert Hall and Knowle Hospital - previously known as Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum.
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De minimis
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Criminology and crime
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the freedom of movement. In this sense, law making that places a greater emphasis on human rights, such as the European Convention on Human Rights, falls into the de minimis category. Most crimes of direct action (murder, rape, assault, for example) are generally not affected by such a stance, but do require greater justification in less clear cases.
The de minimis rule in North American drug law requires a usable quantity of the substance in question before charges can be brought, known as the minority rule.
In Canada, de minimis is often used as a standard of whether a criminal offence is
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Ethion
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Summary of toxicity
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male rats and 62 mg/kg for female rats.
When being exposed through ingestion, 10 mg/kg/day and 2 mg/kg/day showed no histopathological effect on the respiratory track of rats, neither did 13-week testing on dogs (8.25 mg/kg/day).
LD50 values for pure ethion in rats of 208 mg/kg, and for technical ethion of 21 to 191 mg/kg. Other reported oral LD50 values are 40 mg/kg in mice and guinea pigs. Furthermore, inhalation of ethion is very toxic. During one study which was looking at technical-grade ethion, an LC50 of 2.31 mg/m^3 was found in male rats and of 0.45 mg/m^3 in female rats. Other data reported a 4-hour LC50 in rats of 0.864 mg/L.
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Dave Potter (politician)
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Monterey County Board of Supervisors
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the Natividad Medical Center Board of Trustees. Potter previously represented the Central Coast on the California Coastal Commission, and served on the Monterey city council and the Monterey City Planning Commission. Potter is a registered Democrat.
Dave Potter was first elected to the 5th District seat on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 1996. Geographically the largest of the five supervisorial districts in Monterey County, the 5th District covers most of the Monterey Peninsula and coastline of Monterey County, extending southward to the county's border with San Luis Obispo County. The 5th District includes the cities of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey,
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