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Gustav Gaudernack | The years at the National Hospital, Oslo & Cancer vaccines; from idea to clinical trials | National Hospital. Together with Professor Frode Vartdal, Gaudernack contributed to the development of cell-isolation systems for tissue-typing based on mono-disperse magnetic beads (Dynabeads) developed by Professor John Ugelstad. There was a great need for fast tissue-typing techniques and the work was performed in collaboration with the biotechnology company Dynal which funded the research. He further generated monoclonal antibodies specific for the hematopoietic stem cell marker, CD34. A joint collaboration with Dynal, the Norwegian Radium Hospital and Baxter resulted in development of an instrument to isolate hematopoietic stem cells in large scale using anti-CD34 mAb coupled to Dynabeads. Cancer vaccines; from |
Henry Foss High School | History | Henry Foss High School History In 1982, Foss became the first high school in Washington State to introduce the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program.
In the spring of 2001, the school was selected by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as an Achiever High School in Washington State. The school received a $9 million grant to restructure college preparation efforts, as well as an additional $100 million in scholarships. Among the efforts funded by these grants was a restructuring of the school into smaller "academies", a move unpopular with some faculty and students. In April 2004, a group of Foss sophomores |
Governorship of Mitt Romney | Same-sex marriage | v. Virginia decision due to it not saying anything about race. However, in March 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared the statute legal under the state's constitution.
Romney declared the "ruling is an important victory for traditional marriage". He also stated, "It would have been wrong for the Supreme Judicial Court to impose its mistaken view of marriage on the rest of the country. The continuing threat of the judicial redefinition of marriage, here and in several other states, is why I believe that the best and most reliable way to preserve the institution of marriage is to pass an |
George W. George | Early life | George W. George Early life George Warren Goldberg was born in Manhattan on February 8, 1920. His parents were the cartoonist Rube Goldberg and Goldberg's wife, Irma Seeman. George attended Williams College.
George's father, Rube Goldberg, often received hate mail for his political cartoons during World War II. Rube insisted that both of his sons, George and Thomas, change their surnames to protect themselves. When Thomas chose the last name "George", George decided to take the same surname as his brother. The newly renamed George W. George wanted to keep a sense of family togetherness by having the same name |
Fort Rucker | History | Fort Rucker History The original name of the post was Ozark Triangular Division Camp, but before the camp was officially opened on 1 May 1942, the War Department named it Camp Rucker. The post was named in honor of Colonel Edmund W. Rucker, a Civil War Confederate officer, who was given the honorary title of "General," and who became an industrial leader in Birmingham after the war.
Fort Rucker (situated on 58,000 acres (235 km²) of sub-marginal farmland, and formerly a wildlife refuge) was opened on 1 May 1942 as "Camp Rucker", and had quarters for 3,280 Officers and 39,461 Enlisted Personnel.
In |
Haas Wheat & Partners | Hicks & Haas | Haas Wheat & Partners Hicks & Haas Robert (Bobby) Haas formed Hicks & Haas together with Tom Hicks in 1984. Prior to 1984, Haas was a principal of a venture capital firm and a partner in a Midwest law firm specializing in corporate and securities law. The next year Hicks & Haas firm bought Hicks Communications, a radio outfit run by Hicks' brother Steven.
Hicks & Haas' biggest coup was its mid-1980s acquisition of several soft drink makers, including Dr Pepper and 7 Up. The firm took Dr Pepper/7 Up public just 18 months after merging the two companies. In all, |
Grupo Tampico | History | pesos ($790 million dollars) in stock for the Coca-Cola bottling operations of Grupo Tampico. |
Emmy Rossum | Acting career | after nine seasons.
In mid-2011, Rossum starred in D. J. Caruso's social film, Inside; the online film aired in several segments, incorporating multiple social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. The following year, Rossum played Ridley, a siren Caster in Beautiful Creatures (2013), based on the young adult fantasy novel of the same name. Although the film was released to mixed reviews, Rossum's performance was praised by critics and fans. She also starred in the drama You're Not You as Bec, an inexperienced caregiver who looks after and befriends Kate (Hilary Swank), who suffers from the degenerative disease ALS. By |
Froissy Dompierre Light Railway | History | sugar refinery in Dompierre. In 1927, a further deviation was built to avoid Cappy Port, which required a 300 metres (330 yd) tunnel. The line was extended to Chaulnes in 1931. The line escaped World War II with little damage, although one train of molasses was attacked by a British aircraft. Two Coferna diesel locomotives were acquired in 1942, working alongside the Feldbahn 0-8-0s. The steam locomotives were retired in 1946 and replaced by three Plymouth loco-tracteurs. The extensions to Péronne and Chaulnes had been removed by 1954 and increased competition from road traffic meant that the line ceased operations in |
Hôtel de Grimaldi-Régusse | Location & History & Heritage significance | Hôtel de Grimaldi-Régusse Location It is located at 26, rue de l'Opéra in Aix-en-Provence, in the Villeneuve quarter. History It was designed by architects Pierre Puget (1620-1694) and Thomas Veyrier for Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse (1612-1687) in 1680. The facade was designed by architect Laurent Vallon (1652-1724). The ceiling in a drawing-room was painted by Sébastien Barras (1653-1703). The main door is sculpted with designs of lions surrounded by foliage. Heritage significance It has been listed as a monument historique since 21 February 1973. |
Heath Tarbert | Early career | the United States.
From 2008 to 2009, he served as Associate Counsel to the President of the United States, providing legal advice to the National Economic Council and the Council of Economic Advisers. In that role, he advised senior White House and Cabinet officials on issues related to the U.S. Government's response to the financial crisis.
From 2009 to 2010, Tarbert served as Special Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. During his tenure, he participated in negotiations that eventually led to passage of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
From 2010 to 2013, |
Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails | Cambridge to Paris Rail-Trail & Hamilton to Brantford Rail Trail | Rail-Trail was opened in 1994. It runs along the old Lake Erie & Northern Railway. It stretches 18 kilometres (11 mi). Hamilton to Brantford Rail Trail In 1996, the Hamilton to Brantford Rail Trail was the third portion of the Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails to be completed. It runs 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Hamilton to Brantford through the towns of Dundas and Jerseyville. The entire former railway bed is surfaced with stone dust and marked with a post at each kilometer, with frequent benches by the side of the path. From Brantford to Jerseyville the trail is owned and maintained by the |
Hawker, South Australia | History & Establishment and Naming | railway line, until the route was moved further west when the line was upgraded. Establishment and Naming The State Library of South Australia Place Names list gives this account of the naming of the town.
"Hawker - George Charles Hawker was born in London, in 1819, the second son of Admiral Edward Hawker and, after his arrival in South Australia in the Lysander in September 1840, ran sheep in the Nuriootpa
district and, in 1841, established the ‘Bungaree Run’ with two brothers.
Entering parliament in 1858, he became Speaker in 1860, returned to England in 1865 and, apart from a short return |
Herbesthal railway station | Locomotive depot | depot was closed down. As part of the reparations package agreed by the victorious powers a large number of formerly German locomotives were transferred to Belgium in 1920, and through the 1920s many of the Belgian locomotives stored at Herbesthal were ones that had originally operated in Germany. These included Belgian Type 81 (previously Prussian Type G8.1)s, Belgian Type 93 (previously Prussian Type T9.3)s and Belgian Type 97 (previously Prussian Type T14)s. The Herbesthal locomotive fleet also included Belgian built Type 7s and, after 1945, Type 29s. Through the 1920s and 1930s, |
Heli Lääts | Early life and education & Career | enrolled at the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn, graduating in 1955. Her first year at the Conservatory, she was under the direction of singer Georg Ots.
In 1960, Lääts graduated with a degree in singing from the Conservatory, having studied under Tiit Kuusik. She was the first Estonian singer to receive a qualification in estrada and chamber singing. Career In 1956, Lääts began to perform as an estrada singer with the Emil Laansoo Ensemble and the Eesti Raadio Estrada Orchestra. Estrada, during the Soviet period, usually referred to performers of traditional popular |
Gerlafingen | Demographics & Politics | 519 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 1,898 apartments (86.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 153 apartments (7.0%) were seasonally occupied and 136 apartments (6.2%) were empty. As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 1.7 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 1.98%.
The historical population is given in the following chart: Politics In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 29.41% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (28.52%), the |
Hans-Ulrich Reissig | Research contributions and honors | and received the Liebig Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker in 2014. |
Herbert Seddon | Retirement & Honours and awards | planned collaborative study which compared the surgical and medical treatment of tuberculosis of the spine. Honours and awards Seddon was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1951. He received the Robert Jones Medal, and his Robert Jones lecture in 1960 was devoted to nerve grafting. For his work in Lebanon he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the Cedar of Lebanon. He was elected President of the British Orthopaedic Association and was made Knight Bachelor in 1964. Seddon was awarded honorary degrees by the Royal University of Malta and by |
Gala (singer) | 2015 & 2016 | unreleased songs. The album contains remixes by Todd Terry amongst others. 2016 In 2016 Gala recorded an acoustic version of "Freed from Desire" at Les Studios Saint Germain in Paris, for the movie "Un homme à la hauteur" directed by Laurent Tirard with Jean Dujardin (Academy Award Winner for Best Actor 2012 in The Artist) released in May 2016.
In May 2016, a Wigan Athletic supporter uploaded on YouTube an adaptation of "Freed from Desire" titled 'Will Grigg's on Fire', in recognition of the recent goal-scoring feats of Will Grigg, a Wigan player. Since it was uploaded, the song has become |
Henriette Louise de Bourbon | Marriage negotiation | XV's chief minister. Along with his mistress, Madame de Prie, the duke wanted to make his sister the queen in the hope of being able to influence the young king. Henriette Louise, however, did not want to marry at all, saying that she instead wanted to become a nun like her cousin Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans.
She was one of the final four seriously considered candidates when the original list of 99 princesses was first reduced to seventeen and then to four, leaving her and her sister alongside Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange and Princess Amelia of Great |
Gino Martino | Chaotic Wrestling (2000–2001) | October 20, 2000, he defeated Jay Jaillette for the Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship in Worcester, Massachusetts. In his seven-month championship reign, Ferraro successfully defended the title against some of the top wrestlers in the Northeast. On January 12, 2001, he defeated John Kronus in a "Revere Street Fight" involving a bed of nails. He also faced El Mascarado (February 9), "Mr. USA" Tony Atlas (February 23), and Ronnie D. Lishus (April 6), the latter match being officiated by special guest referee Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat. Another notable opponent was his tag team partner, Ali Mohammed, who he defeated in a |
Hasegawa Shigure | Writing style | Essays on Japanese Women's Writing, stated that these plays "resisted clichéd tragic endings and featured heroines who strove for self-fulfillment and independence."
M. Cody Poulton, the author of A Beggar's Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930, wrote that Tamotsu Watanabe (渡辺 保 Watanabe Tamotsu), a critic of kabuki works, had "expressed his shock at how dark Shigure's modern plays were". |
Frants Banner | Biography | have had. |
Geology of Malta | Lower Coralline Limestone Formation & Globigerina Limestone Formation | in 2017. Globigerina Limestone Formation The Globigerina Limestone (Maltese: Franka) is a soft, gold-coloured limestone of Aquitanian to Langhian age (~23–14 million years old), ranging in thickness from 23 m to 207 m. It contains many fossils, especially those of the foraminifera Globigerina that give it its name. It is divided into three members, the lower, middle and upper, with the boundaries between them being hardgrounds, representing the effects of further seabed exposure.
Since prehistoric times, this limestone has constituted the majority of building material used in Malta. Exposed to the air, the stone takes on a rosy colour, which browns with the |
Harvard College social clubs | Sanctions | on our campus is disempowering and exclusionary", a new policy provides that students entering in the fall of 2017 or later who join unrecognized single-sex organizations (such as single-sex final clubs, fraternities, and sororities) will be barred from campus leadership positions such as team captaincies, and from receiving recommendation letters from Harvard requisite for scholarships and fellowships.
At least one club has protested that the new rule infringes students' right of free association, and enforcement may be stymied by the difficulty of establishing who the members of each club are. In 2016, the President and Vice President of the Undergraduate Council, |
Giovanni Morelli | null | a conduit for intellectual life of the North. His fully developed technique was published as Die Werke Italienischer Meister, ("The work of the Italian masters") in 1880; it appeared under the anagrammatic pseudonym "Ivan Lermolieff".
The Morellian method is based on clues offered by trifling details rather than identities of composition and subject matter or other broad treatments that are more likely to be seized upon by students, copyists and imitators. Instead, as Carlo Ginzburg analysed the Morellian method, the art historian operates in the manner of a detective, "each discovering, from clues unnoticed by others, the author in one case |
Hani Motoko | Early Schooling & Higher Education | Due to Motoko's close relationship with her grandfather, he enabled her to attend Tokyo's First Higher Girls' School (Kōtō Jogakkō). At the time, no colleges in Japan admitted women. Higher Education Christian Schools began to open their doors to women and Motoko was able to attend the Meiji Girls' School (Meiji Jogakkō).Christian Schools, unlike the Japanese school at the time, promoted modernity and the advancement of women's social status, preparing them for leadership roles in society.
At the Meiji Girls' School (Meiji Jogakkō), Iwamoto Yoshiharu, the school's president and editor of Jogaku Zasshi (a women's magazine), became her first mentor. In |
Henri-Georges Clouzot | Later career and failing health (1960–1977) | film examines the sexual jealousy of a man towards his flirtatious wife, whose psychological state deforms everything with desire. Lead actor Serge Reggiani fell ill one week after shooting began and had to be replaced. Clouzot himself also became ill during production, which led doctors and insurance agents to order the production be stopped. Between 1965 and 1967, Clouzot filmed for French television five documentaries of Herbert von Karajan conducting Verdi's Requiem, Dvořák's New World Symphony, Schumann's 4th Symphony, Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Mozart's 5th Violin Concerto. After production finished on the documentaries, Clouzot was able to finance his final |
Gokaigers | Joe Gibken & Luka Millfy | joined he had a bounty of Z=1,000,000. Since directly attacking the Zangyack armada sent to conquer Earth, Joe's bounty is eventually raised to Z=2,000,000 and then Z=4,000,000. After the death of Warz Gill, his bounty increases to Z=8,000,000. With five Gokai Sabers and five blue Ranger Keys, Gokai Blue can perform the Final Wave Five-Blade Style Blue Slash (五刀流ブルースラッシュ Gotōryū Burū Surasshu).
Joe Gibken is portrayed by Yuki Yamada (山田 裕貴 Yamada Yuki). Luka Millfy Luka Millfy (ルカ・ミルフィ Ruka Mirufi) is a tomboy who serves as the crew's lookout and can transform into Gokai Yellow (ゴーカイイエロー Gōkai Ierō). Originally a poor, |
Hamina Fortress | Construction | Hamina Fortress Construction The location of the fortress used to be the marketplace of the Vehkalahti, which had received city rights in 1653 under the name of Vehkalahden Uusikaupunki. The city was destroyed in the Great Northern War in 1712. The construction of the fortress began by Swedish general Axel von Löwen after the Treaty of Nystadt in early 1720s. Von Löwen wanted to prevent the Russian advance into the Gulf of Finland as envisioned by the Tsar Peter the Great, who wanted to open the sea routes for Russia. Alongside the Hamina fortress the construction of another fortress also |
Giuseppe Grandi | Life | he could see his work inaugurated.
The city of Milan has renamed a piazza after him. |
Hareesh Tibrewala | Early life and education & Career | Hareesh Tibrewala Early life and education He was born in Mukundgarh, Rajasthan, India. He studied at Hindi Vidya Bhavan and earned a bachelor's degree from VJTI, University of Mumbai and a master's degree from the University of Southern California. Career He studied Business Strategy Planning at AKZO-Nobel, Germany. He started his career as a partner with IFCM Counselors, a human asset management company. In 1997, he co-founded Homeindia.com. Social Wavelength is Hareesh's third venture. He was President of the Rotary Club of Mumbai, Sea Pearl, as well as the founder and co-chairperson of the expert committee on information technology at |
Hielo (song) | Composition & Reception | view of a man "hardened by betrayals, mistrust, and lack of love" whose way of assuming relationships changes, becoming a "new, cold and cruel person." Reception Writing for Billboard, Suzette Fernandez stated that "The Big Boss is leaving his mark in the genre in his simple and powerful style," highlighting the absence of explicit words, commonly used in trap music. Writing for El País, Javier Marmisa stated that the song is "a musical bet that has worked wonderfully," but at the same time it is "less danceable than other hits like 'Dura', 'Gasolina' and 'Despacito'." Marmisa also opined that the |
Han Feizi | Performance and title (Xing-Ming) | language could be developed, functions could be strictly defined to prevent conflict and corruption, and objective rules (Fa) impervious to divergent interpretation could be established, judged solely by their effectiveness. By narrowing down the options to exactly one, discussions on the "right way of government" could be eliminated. Whatever the situation (Shih) brings is the correct Dao.
Though recommending use of Shen Buhai's techniques, Han Fei's Xing-Ming is both considerably narrower and more specific. The functional dichotomy implied in Han Fei's mechanistic accountability is not readily implied in Shen's, and might be said to be more in line with the later |
H. Roy Wheeler | Biography | that close, with Stamler winning by 7,230 votes, 96,171 to 88,941 (52%-48%). |
Guelo Star | Professional career | the moment, "Amame o matame", performed by Ivy Queen and Don Omar. After the incredible acceptance of his compositions and after months of negotiations, his management office, GLAD Empire, was able to close the business with Universal Music Publishing Group, for the editorial management of its extraordinary catalog.
With a catalog that exceeds 500 compositions, Guelo Star has left his mark on numerous issues with important exponents such as De La Ghetto, Daddy Yankee, J Alvarez, J Balvin, Jory Boy, MC Ceja, Gotay, Pipe Calderon, Dálmata and recently arrived the opportunity to compose the next single by Wisin & Yandel, "Todo |
Gobi Cashmere | CEO & Sales and market share | has a good command of English and Russian languages. Sales and market share Gobi Cashmere stands apart as an industry leader largely for its completely vertically integrated production line (“From Goat to Coat”), strong brand presence, and operation of international branch stores. Within Mongolia, it has captured an estimated 82% of total market share through marketing initiatives and cost competitiveness. Economies of scale improve Gobi’s efficiency and gives it an edge over other domestic firms. Gobi’s investment in international branding and expansion also allow it to capitalize on the global growth in demand. It has begun designing product lines specifically |
Hielo (song) | Background & Synopsis | a temperature below zero. The visual premiered through Daddy Yankee's YouTube account on May 18, 2018. Synopsis The music video starts in a snowy environment with a man opening a big box, releasing a Siberian Husky who immediately runs through some nearby woods. Meanwhile, Daddy Yankee begins to perform the song at the Hôtel de Glace and a white-dressed woman wanders around a room, putting a crown over her head. She goes down the stairs, takes a bouquet of roses and enters a chapel, where Daddy Yankee is waiting for her at the altar, wearing a black Winter coat. He |
Giovio Series | Origins and history | produced from coins, busts, or earlier life portraits were acceptable. Giovio worked zealously to acquire works for his collection, writing to dozens of public figures across Europe and the Near East to solicit portraits. His correspondence reveals that he bargained, cajoled and even bribed subjects for pictures, many of which he paid for himself.
What made Giovio's collection unique was his intent to open it to the public: his 20th century biographer T. C. Price Zimmermann writes that "the idea of founding a portrait museum on the lake was his most original contribution to European civilization." The inspirational value of collections |
Gregorio Pio Catapang | Chief of Staff | Philippine Navy.
Catapang promised to enhance the anti-insurgency campaign, dubbed the Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP), especially against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF). |
Hawker, South Australia | Establishment and Naming |
visit, remained there until 1874.
Upon his return to the colony he re-entered the political arena in 1875, retiring in 1883.
Hawker Hill, west of Lake Frome, was named by John McDouall Stuart on 2 June 1859; Mount Hawker, South-West
of Lake Eyre South, was named by John McD. Stuart on 1 July 1861.
The town of Hawker was proclaimed on 1 July 1880 and its sale occasioned very spirited bidding particularly for
‘blocks near the railway station favourably placed for hotels and shops’: The supreme site was the large corner (Lot 470) on which the Royal Hotel (now Hawker Hotel) was erected |
Herefordshire Council elections | null | Herefordshire Council elections Herefordshire is a unitary authority and ceremonial county in England. It was created on 1 April 1998 replacing Hereford, South Herefordshire, parts of Leominster and Malvern Hills and Hereford and Worcester County Council. |
Hans Hagnell | null | member of the Swedish parliament from 1956 to 1973. In 1971 Hagnell was appointed to governor of Gävleborg County (1971-1986) by prime minister Olof Palme. Hagnell succeeded Jarl Hjalmarson, the former leader of the conservative Swedish Moderate Party as governor. |
HMS Amfitrite (1804) | HMS Blanche | French crew had been ill below decks during the engagement. Guerrière had been aiming to cripple the Blanche by firing to bring down her masts, so that the Guerrière might escape. When this failed, Guerrière was eventually worn down and forced to strike.
Blanche escorted Guerrière back to Britain, arriving with her prize on 26 July in Yarmouth Roads. Guerrière was commissioned into the Navy as HMS Guerriere, after a repair and refit that brought her to 48 guns. Lavie was knighted and Blanche's first lieutenant received a promotion. In 1847 the Admiralty issued the Naval General |
HMS Bleasdale (L50) | Service history | HMS Bleasdale (L50) Service history On commissioning Bleasdale served in the English Channel. In 1942 she was allocated as part of the Naval escort force for the unsuccessful Dieppe Raid in July 1942. In 1943 she remained in the English Channel. In 1944 she served mostly in the English Channel and was part of the escort force for the assault and landings in Normandy, as part of the D-Day operations. She provided gunfire support on Juno Beach.
In 1945 she was nominated for service in the Far East and underwent refit before passage. She was at Port Swetteneham in the Far |
Geology of Germany | Transition & Mesozoic platform | few conglomerates and no volcanic rocks. The transition level is divided lithostratigraphically into Stephanian and Permian (Rotliegend) sequences. Rocks of the transition level are found today mainly in the Saar-Nahe Basin, the Halle-Leipzig area (e.g. Halle Porphyry Complex), the Ore Mountain Basin and the Thuringian Forest. Mesozoic platform The Mesozoic platform includes all virtually unfolded sedimentary rocks of the Mesozoic (Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous), but also includes some Paleozoic deposits of the Lopingian epoch of the late Permian. In northern Germany, in principle, even the relatively unfolded or weakly folded post-Caledonian/pre-Permian sediments (including the Ruhr Carboniferous and its western continuation |
Ford Doolittle | null | eukaryotes. He has shown the importance of horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotic evolution.
As of 2007, he has been Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He received his BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University in 1963 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1967, under Charles Yanofsky. He went on to do postdoctoral fellowships with Sol Spiegelman and Norman R. Pace.
In 1981, Doolittle received some level of notoriety for his article in The CoEvolution Quarterly entitled "Is Nature Really Motherly?". This was a sharp rebuttal of J. E. Lovelock's formulation of the Gaia Theory. Doolittle's |
Great man theory | Overview | history of the world is but the biography of great men", reflecting his belief that heroes shape history through both their personal attributes and divine inspiration. In his book On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, Carlyle saw history as having turned on the decisions, works, ideas, and characters of "heroes", giving detailed analysis of six types: The hero as divinity (such as Odin), prophet (such as Jesus), poet (such as Shakespeare), priest (such as Martin Luther), man of letters (such as Rousseau), and king (such as Napoleon). Carlyle also argued that the study of great men was "profitable" |
Haverhill Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota | Geography & Demographics | Haverhill Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 33.3 square miles (86 km²), all of it land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,601 people, 531 households, and 452 families residing in the township. The population density was 48.1 people per square mile (18.6/km²). There were 543 housing units at an average density of 16.3/sq mi (6.3/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 95.63% White, 1.12% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.81% Asian, 0.19% from other races, and 1.06% from two or more races. Hispanic or |
Governorship of Mitt Romney | Emergency budget cuts | emergency powers (under the existing Section "9C" authority in state law) to make unilateral cuts in the fiscal year 2003 budget.
Romney's initial emergency budget proposal for fiscal year 2003 called for $343 million in immediate funding cuts, necessitating layoffs of state employees and cuts in aid to cities and towns for public safety and education. He explained in a televised address, "There's no time to restructure state government or remake state programs. On such an emergency timetable, there's just time for cuts." He also proposed cuts in state expenditures for Medicaid, the government program providing health care for the poorest |
Hasegawa Shigure | History | time of her first marriage. Hartley stated that Hasegawa became the era's first "acknowledged" female kabuki playwright in 1905. In 1914 she began caring for the son of one of her brothers, Toratarō; the boy's name was Hitoshi. In 1915 Hasegawa began providing financial support for her family after the failure of her mother's businesses and the decline of her father's reputation due to having an involvement in a business scandal described by Hartley as "peripheral". In 1916 she met Mikami Otokichi (三上 於菟吉), who became her second husband. He wrote serial fiction. Hasegawa's father died in 1918. In 1919 |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner | World War II | of the 20 July Plot on Hitler's life in 1944, Kaltenbrunner was summoned to Hitler's wartime headquarters at the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) in East Prussia to begin the investigation into who was responsible for the assassination attempt. Once it was revealed that an attempted military coup against Hitler had been launched, Himmler and Kaltenbrunner had to tread carefully, as the military was not under the jurisdiction of the Gestapo or the SD. Since the attempt failed, the conspirators were soon identified. An estimated 5,000 people were eventually executed, with many more sent to concentration camps.
Historian Heinz Höhne counted Kaltenbrunner among |
Giacomo Puccini | Style and critical reception | such as his use of Chinese folk melodies in Turandot.
All of Puccini's operas have at least one set piece for a lead singer that is separate enough from its surroundings that it can be treated as a distinct aria, and most of his works have several of these. At the same time, Puccini's work continued the trend away from operas constructed from a series of set pieces, and instead used a more "through-composed" or integrated construction. His works are strongly melodic. In orchestration, Puccini frequently doubled the vocal line in unison or at octaves in order to emphasize and strengthen |
Henry Francis Lyte | Brixham & Character and personality | building." Lyte added to his clerical income by taking resident pupils into his home, including the blind brother of Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, later British prime minister. About 1830, Lyte made excavations at nearby Ash Hole Cavern, where he discovered pottery and human remains. Character and personality Lyte was a tall and "unusually handsome" man, "slightly eccentric but of great personal charm, a man noted for his wit and human understanding, a born poet and an able scholar." He was an expert flute player and according to his great-grandson always had his flute with him. Lyte spoke Latin, Greek, |
Hawaiian Electric Industries | Island expansion | Light Company (later to be renamed Hawai'i Electric Light Company, abbreviated HELCO and pronounced HEL-coh). MECO had expansion plans of its own. In 1988, it acquired the Lanai City power plant on the island of Lana'i, and in 1989, Molokai Electric Company on the island of Moloka'i. Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (HEI) was created as a holding company for these various utilities in 1983.
In 2013, HECO began working with Siemens to develop a self-healing grid in eastern Oahu and Waikiki that will ensure a reliable electrical supply.
On December 4, 2014, NextEra Energy tendered an offer to purchase HEI for $4.3 |
Henri-Georges Clouzot | Personal life & Style | Dark. In 1962, Clouzot met de Gonzalez again after she had returned from South America. In December 1963, Clouzot and Inès de Gonzalez married. In the 1960s, Clouzot converted to Roman Catholicism. Style With the exception of the comedy film Miquette et sa mère, every directorial feature of Clouzot involves deception, betrayal and violent deaths. When basing screenplays on written work, Clouzot often changed the stories dramatically, using only key points of the original story. The author Stanislas-André Steeman, whom Clouzot worked with twice, said Clouzot would only "build something after having contemptuously demolished any resemblance to the original, purely |
Gretchen Whitmer | 2018 election & Education & Health care | Schuette in the November 6 election by nearly a 10-point margin. Education Whitmer would like to phase in full-day Universal Pre-K for 4-year-olds in Michigan. She also wants to reduce the cost of childcare for struggling families. She would eliminate Michigan's current 3rd grade "read or flunk" policy, which she has said penalizes students who have been failed by the education system, and would instead work to improve their reading skills. She proposes that all high school students be offered two years of debt-free higher education, either college or post-secondary training for skilled trades. Health care Whitmer has said she |
Hakim Sanaullah Cancer Centre | Latest news | Tak, an anaesthetist, implanted a Chemoport Device, which is an embedded device within the layers of the skin, to act as a port for the administration of chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer. Also, on the next day, a limb-salvage surgery was performed, saving the left lower limb of a patient, who had been deemed incurable, and advised amputation of the part. As of 9 August 2009, the patient is doing fine.
Plans are afoot to bring a CT scan to the hospital, and also to establish a telemedicine link with national and international cancer institutions to further cancer care research in Kashmir.
In |
Gennethleia | The Original Version | album, Bikakis’ son Giorgos contracted a rare disease, which is believed to befall only every one millionth person. During a very difficult period for Bikakis and his wife Amalia, the former wrote a song that would touch the soul of every person to hear it. Bikakis narrated the event as follows (roughly translated from Greek):
“In this difficult phase of my life, I transferred to paper what I was holding inside of me. In the words I wrote my emotions. I did not mean it as a song, but after a short while my father died, and so I formed the |
HMS Bonne Citoyenne (1796) | Greene and the Americans & Fate | be different.
Constitution left on 6 January 1813, but Bonne Citoyenne did not sortie even though Hornet was now apparently alone. The arrival of the third rate Montagu on 24 January 1813 finally forced Hornet to leave; she sailed for the Caribbean where off the Demerara River she encountered and captured the sloop HMS Peacock, which subsequently sank. Greene sailed for Portsmouth on 26 January, arriving there in April. Bonne Citoyenne then returned to Jamaica, before again returning to Britain. Fate In August 1814 or so Captain Augustus Clifford took command of Bonne Citoyenne. She was laid up in ordinary in January |
Glemsford | History & Governance | a considerable number of shops and public houses. Among the public houses are The Black Lion, a Medieval timber building, The Angel, The Cock Inn, and The Cherry Tree. Governance Glemsford is part of the electoral ward called Glemsford and Stanstead. The total population of this ward taken at the 2011 Census was 3,701. |
Han Feizi | Wu wei | forms and names and see if they are identical. Then the ruler will find nothing to worry about as everything is reduced to its reality.
Tao exists in invisibility; its function, in unintelligibility. Be empty and reposed and have nothing to do-Then from the dark see defects in the light. See but never be seen. Hear but never be heard. Know but never be known. If you hear any word uttered, do not change it nor move it but compare it with the deed and see if word and deed coincide with each other. Place every official with a censor. Do |
HMS Wellesley (1815) | First Opium War | day, seamen and Royal Marines of the naval squadron attacked and captured the fort, camp and guns at a Chinese position during the Battle of First Bar. The squadron also destroyed the Chinese Admiral's vessel Cambridge, formerly a 34-gun East Indiaman.
Between 23 and 30 May, she participated in joint operations that led to the capture of Canton, and subsequent payment by the Chinese of a six million dollar reparations payment imposed on them. Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker replaced Commodore Sir James Bremer as commander-in-chief of the squadron in China on 10 August.
On 26 August Wellesley participated in the destruction of |
Fulcher of Chartres | Life & Chronicle | Prior at the Mount of Olives. After 1115 he was the canon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, possibly attached to the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, and was probably responsible for the relics and treasures in the church. Fulcher was a resident of Jerusalem until 1127. After that date, nothing further is known about him. Any details about his death are unknown. Chronicle Fulcher wrote a chronicle of the crusade, made of three books. He started writing it in 1101 and finished around 1128. The chronicle is considered among the best records of the crusade. |
Harry Lipscomb | Biography | Lipscomb and five other men of the ship's engineering department entered the engine room to haul the boiler fires and perform other tasks necessary to prevent a boiler explosion. After ensuring the safety of the ship, they then searched for and removed the bodies of the three sailors killed in the initial explosion.
For these actions, Lipscomb and the five other men were awarded the Medal of Honor a month later, on October 4. The others were Chief Machinist's Mate Thomas Stanton, Chief Machinist's Mate Karl Westa, Chief Watertender August Holtz, Chief Watertender Patrick Reid, and Machinist's Mate First Class Charles |
Herluf Trolle | Military career | five smaller vessels and, after uniting with a Lübeck squadron of six line ships, encountered, off the isle of Öland, a superior Swedish fleet of thirty-eight ships under Norwegian born, Swedish admiral Jakob Bagge (1502–1577). Supported by two other Danish ships, Trolle attacked the Swedish flagship Mars (also known as Makalös or Jutehataren), then the largest warship in northern waters, but was beaten off at nightfall. The fight was renewed at six o'clock the following morning, when the Makalös was again attacked and forced to surrender, but blew up immediately afterwards, no fewer than 300 Lübeck and Danish sailors |
Heritage Award | History | some of the country's most iconic music acts. The first Heritage Award was presented to the UK Britpop band Blur on 30 November 2009 by PRS for Music chairman Ellis Rich. |
Go Ask Alice | Censorship | the United States, co-sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, found that Go Ask Alice was the most frequently censored book in high school libraries.
Decades after its original publication, Go Ask Alice became one of the most challenged books of the 1990s and 2000s. On the American Library Association (ALA) list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s, Go Ask Alice was ranked at number 25; on the ALA list compiled for the 2000s, it rose to position 18.
The likely authoring of the book by one or more adults rather than by an unnamed |
Henriette Louise de Bourbon | Marriage negotiation & Nun | as they feared she was too governed by her mother and would give her influence, and with that, Henriette-Louise was no longer considered a useful ally as queen by her brother.
In the end, Henriette-Louise was also refused and Marie Leszczyńska, one the candidates removed when the list was reduced to 17, was chosen instead. Nun On 14 January 1727, Henriette Louise took the veil at the Abbey of Beaumont-lès-Tours. She became the abbess of the convent in 1733 at the age of thirty. While abbess, she was known as Her Serene Highness, Madame de Bourbon. |
Gay Meadow | End of Gay Meadow | was 2006-07.
Gay Meadow's final FA Cup tie was a goalless draw against Hereford United on 11 November 2006 in the first round (Shrewsbury lost the replay at Edgar Street).
The last team to win a professional match at Gay Meadow were Shrewsbury's biggest rivals Wrexham, who won 1-0 at the second-to-last league game at the ground on 24 April 2007.
The final League game played at Gay Meadow was against Grimsby Town on 5 May 2007, a 2-2 draw, with Grimsby equalising in the final minute. To commemorate the day, a parade of former Shrewsbury Town greats was organised, with commemorative T-shirts |
HMS Attacker (D02) | History & Merchant service | part of Operation Tiderace, sailing immediately afterwards for the Clyde to de-store and enter reserve. HMS Attacker was awarded Royal Navy honours for her contribution to the Battle of the Atlantic (1943–44), for support to the Salerno landings (1943) and to the South France and Aegean campaigns in 1944. The vessel left British waters in December 1945, being formally received back into United States’ custody at Norfolk Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia on 5 January 1946 and struck from naval service on 26 February 1946. Merchant service In February 1947 the ship was sold into merchant service — to National |
Girija Prasad Joshi | Early life & Literary career | Girija Prasad Joshi Girija Prasad Joshi" महाकबि " (1939–1987) was a versatile Nepalese poet who set a new trend in Nepal Bhasa literature. His poems, epics, plays and novels broke tradition and crossed conventional boundaries. He has been honored with the title Great Poet. Early life Joshi was born in Sankhu (Sakwa), a small town in the Kathmandu Valley. His father was Dev Prasad and mother Khadga Devi Joshi. After finishing high school, he earned a bachelor's degree in education and taught in various schools. In 1981, he became headmaster of Rastriya Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Indrayani. Literary career Joshi published his |
Haas Wheat & Partners | 1992-2006 & Since 2006 | & Jenrette. From 1984 through 1989, Doug Wheat was a member of DLJ Merchant Banking and in 1989, Wheat left DLJ to co-found an investment firm, Grauer & Wheat. Tom Harrison left the firm in 1996 to join Hoak Communications Partners, the predecessor of what is today, Hoak & Co. Since 2006 In October 2006, Douglas Wheat announced that he was leaving Haas Wheat to found a new private equity firm, Foxbridge Partners. In 2007, Foxbridge merged with Challenger Capital Group, founded by Mark Stephens. |
Governorship of Mitt Romney | Last year of term | a common practice but that selling the hard drives was not. When news of the actions became widely known in 2011, a Romney spokesperson said that the purchase of the computer equipment "complied with the law and longtime executive branch practice." State government officials and aides to Romney's three predecessors as governor said that they did not know of any prior sales of hard drives to staffers. When questioned on the subject in 2011, Romney responded that he had not wanted the information to be available to "opposition research teams".
Romney's term ended January 4, 2007. Romney filed papers to establish |
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games – Women's floor | Qualification | Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games – Women's floor Qualification Qualification took place on 7 June 2015 as part of the team and individual qualification event. |
Herbert Badham | Early life & Career | Herbert Badham Early life Herbert Badham was born in 1899 in Watsons Bay, a suburb of Sydney, Australia to Herbert Lewis Badham (c1870-1937) and his wife Mary. He was one of five children in the family. He enlisted in the Australian Royal Navy in 1917 to serve in the First World War. From 1925 to 1938, he studied painting at the Julian Ashton Art School, where he was tutored by Julian Ashton, George Washington Lambert and Henry Gibbons. Career He was a realist painter, and focused on paintings scenes of everyday life. His work was exhibited at the Society of |
Garden sharing | Worldwide | Transition Timaru (Timaru, NZ) have instituted garden sharing projects as part of their Transition Towns efforts to prepare communities on a local level for the effects of climate change and peak oil. |
Heffter Research Institute | Cancer distress & Addiction & Spirituality | supporting an FDA Phase 3 study as a step toward gaining FDA approval of psilocybin for the treatment of anxiety and depression in cancer patients. Addiction Five scientific articles on Heffter-supported treatment of addictions with psilocybin have been published. Two recent small pilot studies on alcohol and smoking addiction showed significant positive results. As of early 2016, a large clinical trial is underway at New York University for alcohol dependence and at Johns Hopkins University for smoking.
Two earlier studies on the treatment of heroin addiction with ketamine also showed a significant benefit. Spirituality Several Heffter-supported studies on Spiritual experiences and |
Grace Metalious | Peyton Place & Publishing phenomenon | found an agent, M. Jacques Chambrun, who submitted the draft manuscript to three major publishers. In the summer of 1955 Leona Nevler, a freelance manuscript reader, read it for Lippincott and liked it but knew it was too steamy for a major publisher to accept. She showed it to Kathryn G. ("Kitty") Messner, president and editor in chief of the small firm Julian Messner. Messner immediately acquired the novel and asked Nevler to step in as a freelance editor for final polishing before publication. Publishing phenomenon In the summer of 1956, the Metalious family moved into a new hilltop house, |
Gokaigers | Captain Marvelous & Joe Gibken | 龍臣 Hamada Tatsuomi). Joe Gibken Joe Gibken (ジョー・ギブケン Jō Gibuken) is the loyal first mate of Captain Marvelous who can transform into Gokai Blue (ゴーカイブルー Gōkai Burū). He was the first recruit into Captain Marvelous' crew. A man of few words, his cool and serious demeanor offsets his swordsmanship skills, making him the best fighter in the team. Under his stoic and uncaring facade lies a compassionate and kind nature. His catchphrase is, "I'll borrow this," whenever he grabs a bladed weapon from an enemy or another Super Sentai warrior during battle. Joe was once a member of the Zangyack's |
Haakon County, South Dakota | 2010 census | average density of 0.6 per square mile (0.23/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 94.7% white, 1.9% American Indian, 0.4% Asian, 0.2% black or African American, 0.1% Pacific islander, 0.2% from other races, and 2.6% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 0.9% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 45.4% were German, 19.4% were Irish, 17.6% were Norwegian, 8.6% were English, 6.2% were Czech, 5.1% were Dutch, and 1.2% were American.
Of the 850 households, 23.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.6% were married couples living together, 4.2% |
Governorship of Mitt Romney | Pardons and commutations & Abortion | pardon or commutation during his four years in office. He denied 100 requests for commutations and 172 requests for pardons, including the request from a soldier serving in Iraq to be pardoned for a conviction at age 13 involving a BB gun. Abortion In March 2002 during his run for governor, Romney told the Lowell Sun that, "On a personal basis, I don't favor abortion. However, as governor of the commonwealth, I will protect a woman's right to choose under the laws of the country and the commonwealth. That's the same position I've had for many years." Also, during the |
Golden-headed manakin | Ecology | other perches. The display is accompanied by the whirring of the wings and a buzzing zit-zit call. Groups of up to 12 birds may perform together. The female builds a shallow cup nest low in a tree; two brown-mottled yellowish eggs are laid, and incubated entirely by the female for about 16–17 days.
This bird has a large range and is thus considered a species of Least Concern by the IUCN. |
Halvar Jonson | Political career & Late life and legacy | Credit. Jonson would see his popular support marginally drop but still win the electoral district by a wide margin. In the 2001 Alberta general election, Jonson would set a personal record for the largest plurality of his career. He would be returned to the Legislature in a landslide for his sixth and final term. Jonson retired at dissolution of the Legislature in 2004. His electoral district of Ponoka-Rimbey was abolished due to redistribution. Late life and legacy In honour of Jonson's public service the provincial government renamed the brain injury ward of the Alberta Hospital Ponoka, the Halvar Jonson |
Emblem of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic | Fifth version & Sixth version | version In 1948, by the Law of the Kirghiz SSR, in Article 115 of the Constitution of the Kirghiz SSR in 1937, the description of the state emblem was amended. The words "At the top of the emblem there is a five-pointed star" were added. This was confirmed by the Regulations on the State Emblem of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic, approved by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Kirghiz SSR. Sixth version In the new spelling rules of the Kirghiz language in 1956, abbreviated letters are not separated by dots, therefore the second part |
George Schuster (public servant) | Biography | George Schuster (public servant) Sir George Ernest Schuster KCSI KCMG CBE MC (25 April 1881 – 5 June 1982) was a British barrister, financier, colonial administrator and Liberal politician. Biography He was the son of Ernest Schuster, a King's Counsel, and was educated at Charterhouse School and New College, Oxford. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1905. In 1908 he married Gwendolen Parker, daughter of Mr Justice Parker, later Baron Parker of Waddington.
At the outbreak of the First World War, Schuster was working in finance in the City of London, and was prospective Liberal parliamentary |
Hettienne Park | Career | narrator of Jay Heyman's documentary film, Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary. She appeared as the Fated Beloved (Bulad Khuray) in The Warrior's Sister created by Virlana Tkacz, Sayan Zhambalov and Erzhena Zhambalov with Yara Arts Group and artists from Buryatia, based on Buryat epic in March 2004 at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York. As a playwright she authored Envy, co-produced by the Naked Angels at the Sanford Meisner Theater, and directed by John Ruocco (American Theater Wing).
Park is also known for supporting roles in such films as Bride Wars and Young Adult. She starred as Special Agent Beverly Katz, a |
Governor's Mansion (Marshall, Michigan) | Description | of the house has clapboard siding on the sides and horizontal plank siding on the front. In the front is a wide Doric portico with a Greek entablature above. Under the portico are two vertically elongated sash windows, and a front entrance framed by pilasters decorated with carved acanthus leaves. A dentiled cornice runs across the main portion of the house. |
Governorship of Mitt Romney | Drunk driving: Melanie's Bill | devices in their vehicles. The state House Judiciary Committee removed many of the bill's provisions and sent the reduced version to an eventual conference committee. Romney criticized the "watered down" bill, which he said reflected the interests of defense lawyers, and sent the bill back to legislators with amendments to restore some of the original provisions. On October 28, 2005, Romney signed the amended version of the bill, which approved two of Romney's three amendments and rejected Romney's provision for increasing penalties for motorists who refuse to take a breathalyzer test. Eleven months after the enactment of Melanie's Law, arrests |
Hell Divers | Plot | his differences with Windy, then promotes peace between them when Windy shows up at her hotel. Having a drink together in the bar, however, Windy starts a brawl. Steve tries to help him avoid the local police but Windy is thrown in jail. As the Saratoga passes through the Panama Canal, Mame bails Windy out of jail and he catches up to it by stealing a boat. For his transgressions, the captain of the Saratoga reduces Windy one rate from chief. Windy is disciplined at "Captain's Mast" and reduced to Aviation Machinist's Mate 1st Class for leaving his post without |
Hawaii (album) | Overview | find flashes of Wilson, Henry Mancini, harpsichord flourishes, 'Ramona'-style Mexican American music (complete with mariachi pulses and firefly strings), melodies that would sound just right around a campfire, swooning Hawaiian guitars, long trumpet solos that would have done Bunny Berigan proud, and just about everything else -- layer upon layer."
In the mid 1990s, Wilson was struggling to organize a comeback album with the Beach Boys and collaborator Andy Paley. After the group's Bruce Johnston heard Hawaii, an unsuccessful attempt was made to coordinate a collaboration between O'Hagan and Wilson. According to O'Hagan, he attended one meeting with Wilson and two |
Hand of Mercy | History | Hand of Mercy History Hand of Mercy formed when guitarist Adam Mclean and friend drummer Josh Zimmer started playing together. The pair advertised for musicians with similar influences and found guitarist Joshua Campiao. At a Parkway Drive show Josh Zimmer met Scott Bird and invited him to audition as a vocalist. Bird then introduced his friend Adam van den Crust, a bassist.
For several years Hand of Mercy played at hardcore venues around the Sydney, and appeared at youth centres throughout the state. They began appearing as opening acts for established groups. They released two EP's Trash the Party and |
Garšviai Book Smuggling Society | First police investigations & Prison for Bružas and Bielinis | they defended Ūdra and claimed they knew nothing about any book smuggling ring. Kazanauskas, while chatting to his guard, admitted to book smuggling and about the existence of the Garšviai Book Smuggling Society. The case was transferred to the police district chief (ispravnic) in Panevėžys, but it (perhaps due to a bribe) lingered without further action for about a year. It was resumed only after Ūdra's arrest in June 1895. Prison for Bružas and Bielinis In November 1894, Antanas Bružas brought seven bundles of various publications to his home in Zaltriškiai. An anonymous informant alerted the police which found the |
Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné | Life | and cold. Her mother’s cousin Roger de Bussy-Rabutin described her thus: "She has a keen mind, but it is a bitter sort of intelligence. She is unbearably vain, which will lead her to all sorts of stupid blunders. She will make as many enemies as her mother had made friends and admirers."
Matrimonial prospects presented themselves, but it is likely she repulsed all advances. In a madrigal, Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin made light of the situation: “And so the world is just too small / To find in it anyone at all / Who could be deemed worthy of her. |
Hainton | Church & Hainton Hall | at Hainton was once the home of the Tudor composer William Byrd; in 1562/3, the lease of the rectory was granted by the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral to Byrd for a period of 41 years. Hainton Hall Hainton Hall has been the seat of the Heneage family since the reign of Henry III. It is set in a park of 145 acres (0.59 km²), landscaped by Capability Brown about 1763. The present hall was built in 1638 with later additions, and a rebuilding and raising of the west wing, and the facing of the whole house in stucco, by |
Gretchen Whitmer | State Legislature & Senate Minority Leader & Ingham County Prosecutor | In the Senate she served on the following committees: Government Operations (ranking Democrat), Judiciary, Health Policy, Agriculture, Legislative Council and the Senate Fiscal Agency Board of Governors. Because of term limits, Whitmer could not run for reelection in 2014. Senate Minority Leader On November 5, 2010, Whitmer's Democratic colleagues unanimously chose her to be the Senate Democratic Leader, making her the first woman to lead a party caucus in the Senate. Ingham County Prosecutor On May 11, 2016, it was announced that the judges of Michigan's 30th Judicial Circuit Court had unanimously selected Whitmer to serve the remaining six months |
Giuseppe Imburgia | Biography | the season, against Ternana as left midfielder. |
Henriette Louise de Bourbon | Marriage negotiation | king against it. Further more, according to an unverified but well known legend, Madame de Prie visited Henriette Louise in order to estimate if she could indeed function as the intended ally of herself and the duke at court, and when Henriette Louise reacted by cursing her as an 'ungoodly creature' and the reason to why her brother was hated by all of France for his sin, Madame de Prie retracted her support. The financiers of the duke and Madame de Prie, the firm of the Paris Brothers Joseph Paris Duverney, also had a bad impression of Henriette-Louise |
Great man theory | Overview | a Shakespeare? How many run of the mine scientists will do the work of an Einstein?"
American scholar Frederick Adams Woods supported the great man theory in his work The Influence of Monarchs: Steps in a New Science of History. Woods investigated 386 rulers in Western Europe from the 12th century until the French revolution in the late 18th century and their influence on the course of historical events.
This theory is usually contrasted with "history from below", which emphasizes the life of the masses in addition to the leader. An overwhelming wave of smaller events causes certain developments to occur. |
Epitaph (band) | Band history | Cologne for the musical TV show Rockpalast. Shortly before the recording, in January 1977, McGillivray left the band (he joined Eloy in 1980) and was replaced by Fritz Randow (ex-Eloy). Later that year Walz and Kolbe departed, while guitarist Heinz Glass, bass guitarist Harvey Janssen and Michael Karch on keyboards, came in. This new line-up then joined the Hungarian progressive rock band Omega on the latter's 36-date European tour, which culminated in three major concerts in Budapest, before the audiences of over 30,000.
Epitaph's fourth album Return to Reality was released by Brain Records in April 1979. A boogie rock |
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