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H. C. Cradock | Biography | H. C. Cradock H.C. Cradock born Augusta Whiteford in 1863 was an English children's book writer. Biography The daughter of a Church of England clergyman, she married Rev Henry Cowper Cradock, also a Church of England clergyman and took his initials as well as his surname as her nom de plume. Their only child, Aline Mary, named after her mother-in-law Aline, was born in 1905.
Cradock died after suffering a stroke in Dorking on 15 October 1941. |
Gluconokinase | Structural studies | Gluconokinase Structural studies As of late 2007, 6 structures have been solved for this class of enzymes, with PDB accession codes 1KNQ, 1KO1, 1KO4, 1KO5, 1KO8, and 1KOF. |
Greco-Roman mysteries | Characteristics & Eleusinian Mysteries & Initiation | Sabazius, and Phrygian Cybele. Eleusinian Mysteries The Eleusinian Mysteries were the earliest and most famous of the mystery cults and lasted for over a millennium. Whenever they first originated, by the end of the 5th century BC, they had been heavily influenced by Orphism, and in Late Antiquity, they had become allegorized. Initiation In the 15th of the month of Boedromion (September/October) in the Attic calendar, as many as 3,000 potential initiates would have gathered in the agora of Athens, the gathering limited to those that spoke Greek and had never killed (as the emphasis on purity grew, this ban |
Helena Thorfinn | Biography | during her time at LUFS 2010–2012. It was widely discussed when it was published and Thorfinn appeared on many TV-shows and conferences to discuss development aid, and was voted one of Sweden's most influential voices in human rights and development 2013.
In 2014 Thorfinn moved to Burma/Myanmar where she worked for various development partners, amongst them Swedish Embassy, UNICEF, Save the Children and UNDP. She also started to scope for an NGO focused on "girl issues" called MeSheWe. While living in Myanmar/Burma Helena Thorfinn visited several Asian literature festivals where she participated in panels and seminars.
Since 2018 Thorfinn lives in Washington |
Gokaigers | Captain Marvelous | his own crew of space pirates whose members also share his ideal. Though he is the team leader, Captain Marvelous is an unpredictable sort of character who does reckless things to satisfy his curiosity, stating his actions as what any pirate would do in that particular moment, earning the ire of his crew, especially Don, at times. But his sense of responsibility as a leader is still very well intact, as shown when if his crew is ever in mortal danger, he would use his authority as captain and sacrifice himself, much like Aka Red did for him, to ensure |
Francisco Rolim | null | Francisco Rolim Francisco Rolim was a captain-general of Portuguese Cape Verde, from 3 April 1622 until his death a few months later. |
Graham Gardiner | National representative rowing | Championships in Munich and they successfully defended their title. |
Henry Tyler (Conservative politician) | Later career & Political life & Personal life | Rhymney Iron Company, chairman of the Peruvian Bondholders Committee and chairman of the Peruvian Corporation. Political life At the 1880 general election, Tyler was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Harwich in Essex. In 1882 he objected to a Theosophist article against which he raised a charge of blasphemy and became embroiled in a conflict with Annie Besant. In 1885 he was elected at Great Yarmouth, but lost the seat at the 1892 election. In 1893 he gave up the presidency of the Grand Trunk Railway Company. Personal life Tyler married Margaret Pasley, daughter of General Sir |
Gallery East | Early history | Gallery East Gallery East is an art and performance network based in Boston, Massachusetts notable for being one of the first venues to host hardcore punk rock shows for an all-ages audience. Founded in 1979 by Duane Lucia and Al Ford, it closed its location at 24 East St. in 1983, but re-emerged in 2006 as a driving force that continues to support up and coming artists and performers. Early history Gallery East opened in December 1979 and quickly gained prominence as the home for Boston’s avant-garde and alternative culture. Founded by artist Al Ford and DIY pioneer Duane Lucia, |
Guido da Velate | null | Henry IV (for a price). Guido was convinced by Anselm of Baggio, now pope, to repent of his abdication and return to his post. He died a few years later and Henry tried again (uncanonically) to appoint Gotofredo. |
Hans-Ulrich Reissig | Birth, education and academic career | Hans-Ulrich Reissig Birth, education and academic career Hans-Ulrich Reissig (German: Hans-Ulrich Reißig; born 9 May 1949 in Helmbrechts, Bavaria, Germany) is a German chemist and full professor of Organic Chemistry at FU Berlin.
Reissig studied chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) from 1970 to 1975, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1978 under the supervision of Rolf Huisgen, with a thesis "Neue Beiträge zu den Additionen der Diazoalkane und zur Chemie der 3H-Pyrazole" (Contributions to the Additions of Diazoalkanes and the Chemistry of 3H-Pyrazoles). After a postdoctoral research stay at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, with Edward Piers (1938–2010), he started |
Hawker, South Australia | Establishment and Naming | later, and this brought the top price of £246. Lot 473 on which William Powell erected a hotel later named the ‘Wonoka’ brought £147. The storekeepers H. Gadd and G. Jackson paid, respectively, £72 (Lot 415) and £100 (Lot 391) for good sites facing the railway close to the station.
While most of Hawker remained simply pegged-out blocks of bluebush, the ‘top end’ of the town, where business activity was concentrated, must have been as animated as an ant colony. Hammering could be heard all day long for initially all of the buildings were of wood and iron. There was |
Henry Tyler (Conservative politician) | Later career | Piraeus. In 1871, he received promotion to Chief Inspector of Railways, and in 1874 he went to America to inspect the Erie for British investors. He was a member of the abortive Channel Tunnel Commission in 1875 to 1876.
On retirement from the Railway Inspectorate, he became President of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada in 1877 where he established a successful working relationship with Sir Joseph Hickson. He was also chairman of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company and Deputy Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company.
He was a director of National Mutual Assurance and Globe Insurance Company, chairman of the |
History of Cagliari | Conquest by the King of Aragon | by Catalans, Valencians and Aragonese, began a new period of development, soon interrupted by the war between the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Judicatus of Arborea. The war lasted, with ups and downs, from the mid-14th century to 1420, with the Judicatus full debellatio. During this long period, the city, along with the city of Alghero, was often the Aragonese monarchs' only garrison on the island and it never fell into the hands of Arborences.
The kings of Aragon, and later the kings of Spain (who were also Kings of Sardinia), were represented in Cagliari by a viceroy. The city was |
Herbert Vianna | Biography | Herbert Vianna Biography Herbert was born in João Pessoa, Paraíba. His father was from the military and, because of that, he moved to Brasília when he was still a child. There he met band member Bi Ribeiro. When they moved to Rio de Janeiro, they formed Os Paralamas do Sucesso (some still consider them part of the "Brasília gang", along with Capital Inicial and Legião Urbana) with their friend Vital Dias playing drums. Herbert's brother is the well-known Brazilian anthropologist and cultural researcher Hermano Vianna.
After Vital was replaced by João Barone, Herbert wrote the song "Vital e Sua Moto", to |
Guyra Shire | Demographics | local government area was significantly lower than the national average. The median weekly income for residents within the Guyra Shire was significantly below the national average.
At the 2011 census, the proportion of residents in the Guyra local government area who stated their ancestry as Australian or Anglo-Saxon exceeded 90 per cent of all residents (national average was 65.2 per cent). In excess of 77 per cent of all residents in the Guyra Shire nominated a religious affiliation with Christianity at the 2011 census, which was significantly higher than the national average of 50.2 per cent. Meanwhile, as at the census |
Gleniffer Brae | Residence & School | the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Archbishop of York and Lady Baden-Powell were hosted at Gleniffer Brae. School With the death of Sidney, part of the property was donated for use as a Botanic Garden while the house and remaining grounds were sold to the Sydney Diocese of the Church of England for its Girls Grammar School (SCEGGS) in 1954. This was a significant addition to the educational facilities of the region. The church operated SCEGGS at the site until 1975, when the school merged with Illawarra Grammar School. The house was later listed for sale, before the school |
Henri-Georges Clouzot | Personal life | et Sa Mère. Clouzot named his production company after Véra and had her star in all three films made by the company: The Wages of Fear, Diabolique and Les Espions. Véra also contributed to the script of La Vérité. Véra Clouzot died of a heart attack shortly after the filming of La Vérité. Clouzot fell into a depression over her death. After her funeral, he moved to Tahiti, but returned to France in December 1960.
Clouzot met his second wife, Inès de Gonzalez, for the first time at a casting call for a film based on Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the |
Heinkel HE 5 | Development & Operational history | HE 2s, and HE 4 that it had acquired when it took over Swedish naval aviation in 1926, and eventually 40 HE 5s were built under licence by Svenska Aero. Operational history In 1927, the Soviet Union also ordered the aircraft, to replace the obsolete flying boats then in service. A prototype was tested on the Black Sea in March the following year, where it was discovered that the aircraft's performance was significantly lower than had been specified by Heinkel. Modifications were made to a second prototype, and this was flight tested in November. This led to an order in |
Eucalyptus cypellocarpa | Description & Taxonomy | of seven on a peduncle 8–22 mm (0.31–0.87 in) long, the individual buds sessile or on a pedicel up to 7 mm (0.28 in) long. Mature buds are green to yellow, oblong to oval, 8–11 mm (0.31–0.43 in) long and 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) wide with a conical to beaked operculum. Flowering occurs from January to June and from October to November and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody cylindrical or barrel-shaped, sometimes cup-shaped or hemispherical capsule 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long and wide and sessile or on a pedicel up to 6 mm (0.24 in) long. The valves of the fruit are usually below rim level. Taxonomy Eucalyptus |
Henry Francis Lyte | Early career and marriage | "keen Methodist." Furthermore, she "could not match her husband's good looks and personal charm." Nevertheless, the marriage was happy and successful. Ann eventually made Lyte's situation more comfortable by contributing her family fortune, and she was an excellent manager of the house and finances. They had two daughters and three sons, one of whom was the chemist and photographer Farnham Maxwell-Lyte. A grandson was the well known historian Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte.
From 1820 to 1822 the Lytes lived in Sway, Hampshire. Itself only five miles (8 km) from the sea, the house in Sway was the only one the |
Fink (software) | Implementation | Fink (software) Implementation Fink features a binary distribution for quick and easy installation using APT, as well as a more extensive source distribution. In addition to command-line tools for handling packages, the shareware app Phynchronicity provides a GUI.
Fink can be used to install newer versions of packages installed by macOS or to install packages not included in macOS by Apple edict. Fink stores all its data in the directory /sw by default (though this can be changed if initially compiling fink itself from source code). This goes against the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard's recommendation to use the /usr/local prefix; the reasons |
Hinduism in Indonesia | Hinduism in the modern era & Javanese Hinduism | Sundanese Sunda Wiwitan, Torajan Aluk To Dolo, and Batak Malim, with their own unique syncretic faith, have declared themselves as Hindus in order to comply with Indonesian law, while preserving their distinct traditions with differences from mainstream Indonesian Hinduism dominated by the Balinese. These factors and political activity has led to a certain resurgence of Hinduism outside of its Balinese stronghold. Javanese Hinduism Both Java and Sumatra were subject to considerable cultural influence from the Indian subcontinent. The earliest evidences of Hindu influences in Java can be found in 4th century Tarumanagara inscriptions scattered around modern Jakarta and Bogor. In |
Emmy Rossum | Music career | is so little emotional honesty." Regarding the sound and style of her music, she said, "It's pop music, but not Britney Spears bubblegum pop. I want it to have a David Gray or Annie Lennox feel. I've been spending up to 12 hours a day in the studio." Rossum cites Sarah McLachlan, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and Faith Hill as some of her influences.
Rossum's album Inside Out was produced by Stuart Brawley. It was released on October 23, 2007, and peaked at 199 in the U.S. Billboard charts. For the promotion of the record, Geffen Records featured the song, "Slow |
Harold D. Roth | Biography | Harold D. Roth Harold D. Roth is a professor of religious studies and the Director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown University. Roth is a specialist in Methods of Textual Criticism and Textual History, Classical Chinese Religious Thought, Classical Daoism, the Comparative Study of Mysticism and one of the pioneers of the new interdisciplinary academic field of Contemplative Studies. Biography During an academic career spanning over three decades, Roth has done ground- breaking work in three major intellectual fields. In the first, textual criticism, following the lead of the late SOAS professor Paul Thompson, Roth did the first complete |
Herbesthal railway station | Postwar revival & Electrification | network was set up in 1957, Herbesthal was where Belgian TEE train staff took over the railcars for the Belgian sections. Electrification Towards the end of the 1950s both the West German state railways (DB) and the Belgian state railways (SNCB) started planning for electrification. Belgium was committed to a 3 Kw DC network while the Germans had opted for a 15 Kw AC power supply. At this stage dual-voltage and multi-voltage locomotives were far from mainstream in Europe, which imposed a greater level of inflexibility on decisions about where to change power supply systems and |
History of Cagliari | Roman era & Vandal domination & Byzantine era | Thebais by the emperor Constantius. Vandal domination In 456 the city fell under the occupation of the Vandals of Africa, led by Genseric. Caralis was part of the kingdom of the Vandals for about eighty years, and became for a short time the capital of an independent Sardinian kingdom proclaimed by the Visigoth noble and Vandal governor of Sardinia, Godas. Byzantine era Sardinia was conquered by the Romans of the East under Emperor Justinian I in 534 AD. An expedition led by Belisarius defeated the Vandals and Cagliari entered the Byzantine administrative system as the seat of the ἄρχων (archon), |
Frederick A. Askew Skuse | Biography | Frederick A. Askew Skuse Frederick Arthur Askew Skuse (c. 1863 – 10 June 1896) was a British-Australian entomologist. Biography Frederick Arthur Askew Skuse, son of Thomas Edmund and Jane Skuse, was christened on 17 June 1866 at Saint Mary’s, Portsea, Portsmouth, England.
He studied at the Natural History Museum in London before leaving for Australia in 1886. He found a position at the Australian Museum in Sydney and worked on the Australian flies collection. In 1890, he was promoted to Scientific Assistant. He held this position until his early death in 1896. He was the first to scientifically describe the Asian |
Harry Heher | null | Jersey Democratic State Committee from 1922 to 1932. In 1932 he was appointed by Governor A. Harry Moore as an associate justice of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, known after 1947 as the New Jersey Supreme Court. He was reappointed to the bench in 1940, 1947, and 1954.
Heher married Anne Egan on August 5, 1925, and they had three sons: Harry Heher, Jr. (b. 1927), John Robert Heher (b. 1930), and Garrett Martin Heher (b. 1935). He died in Lawrenceville, New Jersey in 1972 at the age of 83. |
Gino Martino | Return to BTW (2009) & Return to CW (2010) | tag team match against "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka, Spike Dudley, and Lone Star (November 20). The following night, the two were defeated by Snuka and Doink the Clown in Palmer, Massachusetts. On January 23, 2010, Ferraro teamed with Jimmy Cash and Kurt Von Schmidt in a six-man tag match and were defeated by Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Nikolai Volkoff, and Jay Jaillette in Worcester, Massachusetts. A year later, he and Tommy Mack also won the promotion's tag team titles from The Untouchables. Return to CW (2010) At Chaotic Wrestling's "Cold Fury 9: The Never-ending Chase" Ferraro was inducted into the Chaotic Wrestling |
History of Cagliari | Modern era | port. Ottone Bacaredda is also famous for the violent repression of one of the earliest worker strikes in the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1807 the first lanterns were installed for public urban lighting. In 1868 gas lighting began, and electric lighting in 1913.
In 1867 a dam was built in the locality of Corongiu under Mount Serpeddì to provide the city with a water supply service; until that time the city had been served by brackish well water.
In 1871 the first stretch of railway to connect Cagliari to Sassari and Porto Torres was inaugurated. The project was completed in 1881.
In |
Hinduism in Indonesia | Tengger Hindus of Java & Osing Hindus of Java | tradition stretching back to the Majapahit Empire. There are strong similarities between the Hinduism in Bali and the Tengger variety; both are called Hindu Dharma. However, the Tengger variety does not have a caste system and the Tengger people's traditions are based on those originating from the Majapahit era. For the Tengger, Mount Bromo (Brahma) is believed to be a holy mountain. Every year the Tengger hold a ritual known as Yadnya kasada. Osing Hindus of Java In spite of the Dutch attempts to propagate Islam and Christianity among the Osings, many still stuck to their old beliefs. Today, a |
German auxiliary cruiser Orion | Raider voyage | 1940 Orion rounded Cape Horn and entered the Pacific. She entered New Zealand waters in June 1940 and laid mines off Auckland during the night of 13/14 June 1940, one of which sank the liner RMS Niagara five days later. Two other ships were caught by mines from Orion, as well as two trawlers and an auxiliary minesweeper.
This done, Orion raided across the Indian and Pacific Oceans attacking four more ships. One she sent to occupied France as a prize; the others were sunk.
On 20 October 1940 she made rendezvous with the raider German auxiliary cruiser Komet, and the supply ship Kulmerland; |
Heffter Research Institute | Founding and history & Organization (board and staff) | mechanisms of action and effects of MDMA, along with clinical studies on ketamine treatment for Heroin addiction in Russia. The institute also funded several small fellowships for young scientists.
Since the turn of the century, the institute's work has focused primarily on psilocybin, including funding the first psychedelic treatment study in the U.S. in decades, treating obsessive-compulsive disorder with psilocybin at the University of Arizona. This study coincided with a number of neuroscience studies of psilocybin and a focus on treating anxiety and depression in cancer patients with psilocybin and addictions. Organization (board and staff) The current board of directors consists |
Hindi–Urdu controversy | Hindi and Urdu movements | and lacked standardisation and vocabulary. They also argued that the Urdu language originated in India, asserted that Urdu could also be spoken fluently by most of the people and disputed the assertion that official status of language and script is essential for the spread of education.
Communal violence broke out as the issue was taken up by firebrands. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan had once stated, "I look to both Hindus and Muslims with the same eyes & consider them as two eyes of a bride. By the word nation I only mean Hindus and Muslims and nothing else. We Hindus and |
First Battle of Beruna | Depiction in the book | of the battle scene, the Witch is no longer using her wand (which was revealed to have been broken by Edmund) but using instead her Stone Knife (which she had killed Aslan with the night before). At this point, the White Witch is engaged in a fight with Peter. Suddenly, the newly arisen Aslan, along with Peter's sisters Susan and Lucy, arrives with auxiliaries from amongst those formerly petrified by the White Witch's wand, now restored by Aslan.
At once they invade the battleground and begin to wipe out the remainder of the Witch's forces. While some of the White Witch's |
Hindu Mission Hospital, Chennai | History | opened. In 2001, various facilities such as mammography, 300 MA x-ray unit, automatic film processor, C'Arm table, operating microscope and Yag laser were added. The blood bank too was upgraded besides the induction of a tempo traveller. In 2004, a critical care block was inaugurated. In 2007, color Doppler ultrasound scanner and stress test system were added to the hospital's facilities. In 2008, Prof. S. R. S. Varadhan Block, T. S. Santhanam Block, and cardio-thoracic block were added.
The first ambulance service was started in May 1993 with two vans. On 14 August 1997, a third vehicle was donated by the |
Hanelang F.C. | Stadium | home stadium is Padang Astaka Kuala Berang, an open field with 1000 capacity grandstand, in Kuala Berang. They also have played in Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium and Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium, both in Kuala Terengganu. |
Harry Heher | null | Harry Heher Harry Heher (March 20, 1889 – October 17, 1972) was a New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and Democratic Party leader.
He was born in 1889 in Trenton, New Jersey to John and Anne (Spelman) Heher. He attended the Cathedral School and Trenton High School, graduating in 1907. As was the practice at the time, he read law with a Trenton lawyer instead of attending law school. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1911.
Heher was active in Democratic politics, serving as chairman of the Mercer County Democratic Committee from 1915 to 1922 and chairman of the New |
Giacomo Puccini | Family and education | when Michele Puccini died in 1864, his son Giacomo was only six years old, and thus not capable of taking over his father's job. As a child, he nevertheless participated in the musical life of the Cattedrale di San Martino, as a member of the boys' choir and later as a substitute organist.
Puccini was given a general education at the seminary of San Michele in Lucca, and then at the seminary of the cathedral. One of Puccini's uncles, Fortunato Magi, supervised his musical education. Puccini got a diploma from the Pacini School of Music in Lucca in 1880, having studied |
HMS Attacker (D02) | Merchant service | liner the ship was renamed Fairsky and was operated by Vlasov's Italian managed company, Sitmar Line. On completion of the refurbishment in June 1958, the "new-look" vessel began a long career as a migrant-carrying ship, which was to last until 1970. On 23 June 1977, while operating as a cruise ship, Fairsky hit a submerged wreck and was beached to prevent sinking. The damage was temporarily patched and the ship refloated six days later. When the full extent of the damage became known, Sitmar decided against permanent repairs and they offered the vessel for sale.
Having been reprieved from |
History of Cagliari | Byzantine era | the provincial governor, an imperial official in charge of the whole of Sardinia (Σαρδηνία) and subject to the Exarchate of Africa. During the Gothic War, which raged in the peninsula, Goths occupied the city for a short time before it was given back into Byzantine hands. In 599 AD, the fleet of the Lombard Agilulfo raided and plundered the coasts of Cagliari, but was finally repulsed by local militias.
In the year 753 AD, Arab sources report the imposition of the jizya, a tax for those not converted to Islam, the dhimmi, on the Sardinians. This presumes the occupation of the |
Henri-Georges Clouzot | Early directorial work (1942–1947) | Clouzot broke off their friendship.Le Corbeau was a great success in France, with nearly 250,000 people having seen it in the first months of its initial release. Le Corbeau was released in 1943 and generated controversy from the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press and the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church considered the film "painful and hard, constantly morbid in its complexity". The Vichy press dubbed it the antithesis of the Révolution nationale and demanded it be banned due to its immoral values. The anti-Nazi resistance press considered it Nazi propaganda because of its negative portrayal of the French |
He Hongjing | Background | government had Li Zhifang (李執方) the military governor of Hezhong and Liu Yue (劉約) the military governor of Yichang Circuit (義昌, headquartered in modern Cangzhou, Hebei) write He Chongshun, encouraging him to submit control of Weibo to the imperial government and go to the capital Chang'an to pay homage to Emperor Wenzong's brother and successor Emperor Wuzong, but after He Chongshun refused to follow their suggestions, relented, as Emperor Wuzong, new to the throne, did not want to fight a campaign against Weibo. Emperor Wuzong thereafter made his granduncle Li Wan (李綰) the Prince of Fu the nominal military governor |
Han Feizi | Performance and title (Xing-Ming) | the autonomous minister.
Possibly referring to the drafting and imposition of laws and standardized legal terms, Xing-Ming may originally have meant "punishments and names", but with the emphasis on the latter. It functions through binding declarations (Ming), like a legal contract. Verbally committing oneself, a candidate is allotted a job, indebting him to the ruler. "Naming" people to (objectively determined) positions, it rewards or punished according to the proposed job description and whether the results fit the task entrusted by their word, which a real minister fulfils.
Han Fei insists on the perfect congruence between words and deeds. Fitting the name |
HMS Bonne Citoyenne (1796) | Greene and the Americans | single ship combat, with Commodore William Bainbridge of Constitution pledging not to intervene in any way.
Bonne Citoyenne and Hornet were evenly matched in terms of the number of guns, weight of their broadsides, and sizes of their crews. In his reply, Greene stated that he expected that he would emerge the victor in such a contest, but that he could not expect Bainbridge and Constitution to forsake their duty to intervene should Bonne Citoyenne emerge the victor. Consequently, he declined the challenge at this time and place, but stated that he stood ready to accept the opportunity should the circumstances |
History of Cagliari | Etymology | which also means "city of God."
Max Leopold Wagner traced the term to Protosardinian Karalis, reflecting the Sardinian place names of Carale (Austis), Carallai (Sorradile), Karhalis or Karhallis (Carallia) of Pamphylia and Karhalleia of Pisidia (Turkey). The toponym Karalis was connected with such words as cacarallai, criallei, crielle, chirelle, ghirelle (wild chrysanthemum [33] and Macerone) and garuleu, galureu, Galileu (pollen deposited in honey, which is yellow gold), which has affinity with the Etruscan garouleou (wild chrysanthemum).
Francesco Artizzu noticed that the root "kar" in the languages of the Mediterranean peoples meant "stone/rock" and the suffix "al/ar" gave collective value, so the word |
Gino Valenzano | Racing career | professional racing with that car and later the Lancia D20 and D24. He competed in Mille Miglia, Targa Florio and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Among his teammates were Luigi Segre and other successful drivers, including Alberto Ascari, Luigi Villoresi, Juan Manuel Fangio and Luigi Musso.
In 1955 Lancia withdrew as a team from professional racing, so Valenzano switched to Maserati and drove six more races. However, this would be his last season, because his brother Piero died during the Coppa d' Oro delle Dolomiti on July 10, 1955. |
Hawaii (album) | Overview | with the Beach Boys, but the "two separate camps" couldn't be reconciled. |
High Sheriff of Warwickshire | null | High Sheriff of Warwickshire The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. The High Sheriff changes every March. Under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 the office previously known as Sheriff was retitled High Sheriff.
For a period prior to the middle of the 16th century the Sheriff of Warwickshire was |
Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails | Hamilton to Brantford Rail Trail | Grand River Conservation Authority with the Jerseyville-Hamilton section similarly owned by The Hamilton Region Conservation Authority.
Beginning in Hamilton just north of the Chedoke Municipal Golf Course, the trail runs West over Ontario Highway 403, through Ainslie Wood and into the Dundas Valley Conservation Area. Parking and washroom facilities are available at the Dundas Valley Trail Center, 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) from the trail head. The path winds up the face of the Niagara Escarpment for 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi), reaching the trail's peak elevation at the ruins of Summit Station on the boundary of the Hamilton Harbour and Grand River watersheds.
The trail |
Evans Hall (UC Berkeley) | Computer History importance | Evans Hall (UC Berkeley) Evans Hall is the statistics, economics, and mathematics building at the University of California, Berkeley. Computer History importance Evans Hall also served as the gateway for the entire west coast's ARPAnet access during the early stages of the Internet's existence; at the time, the backbone was a 56kbit/s line to Chicago.
Because of its proximity to the engineering school, and the location of both the departments of Computer Science, and Mathematics, Evans Hall was the building in which the original vi text editor was programmed., as well as the birthplace of Berkeley Unix (BSD), and Rogue, |
Hinduism in Indonesia | Hinduism in the modern era | mostly Muslim population of government-sponsored (and predominantly Madurese) migrants and officials, and deeply resentful at the dispossession of their land and its natural resources.
Compared to their counterparts among Javanese Hindus, many Dayak leaders were also more deeply concerned about Balinese efforts to standardize Hindu ritual practice nationally; fearing a decline of their own unique 'Hindu Kaharingan' traditions and renewed external domination. By contrast, most Javanese were slow to consider Hinduism at the time, lacking a distinct organization along ethnic lines and fearing retribution from locally powerful Islamic organizations like the Nahdatul Ulama (NU).
Several native tribal peoples with beliefs such as |
General Permitted Development Order | Amendments since 2013 | 30 May 2019, would become permanent. In effect the new legislation means home owners can build up to 8 metres projection from the rear wall if building on a detached property (rather than the previous 4 metres) and 6 metres if attached (rather than the previous 3 metres) as Permitted Development. The height restrictions remain at 3 metres height to eaves and 4 metres overall height. |
French Communist Party | Doctrine | working-class cities. The Libération newspaper also alleged that PCF municipal administrations had been working to limit the number of immigrants in housing projects. However, today the PCF supports the regularization of illegal immigrants.
One consistency in the PCF's ideology has been its staunch opposition to capitalism, which must be "overcome" because according to the PCF the capitalist system is "exhausted" and "on the verge of collapse". The PCF has interpreted the current course of globalization as a confirmation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's view on the future evolution of capitalism. The party feels that the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and |
Henry T. Bannon | Local History & Indian Head Rock | Henry T. Bannon Local History Bannon wrote two popular books on local Portsmouth and Scioto County history. Scioto Sketches: An Account of Discovery and Settlement of Scioto County, Ohio was published in 1920 and described Indian settlements and early interactions with European settlers, historic flora and fauna, and Indian mounds and relics. Bannon's second book, Stories Old and Often Told: Being Chronicles of Scioto County, Ohio, was published in 1927 and it expanded on his previous work to include the War of 1812, early transportation in the area, and early industry, among other topics. Indian Head Rock Bannon's interest in |
Henri-Georges Clouzot | Legacy | Letter. In 1977, the year of Clouzot's death, William Friedkin directed a remake of The Wages of Fear called Sorcerer. French director Claude Chabrol adapted Clouzot's script for L'Enfer in 1994 for a film likewise titled L'Enfer. In 1996, an American remake of Les Diaboliques was released under the title Diabolique, starring Sharon Stone. |
Governorship of Mitt Romney | Education | that any sexual activity outside of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects, and which were prohibited from discussing the potential benefits of contraception.
During Romney's tenure as governor, Massachusetts' per capita funding for public higher education decreased from $158 to $137, and in national rank, per capita state expenditures changed from 48th to 47th.
In July 2005, Romney proposed $200 million in funding for University of Massachusetts capital projects. The governor's capital budget included $50 million earmarked to repair the crumbling parking garage and foundation of the UMass Boston campus. The Massachusetts legislature declined to vote on the bond bill |
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton | Early life and military career | Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton Early life and military career Born to Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine in 1663, Henry FitzRoy was the illegitimate son of King Charles II of England. His grandparents included King Charles I and William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison, colonel of one of the king's regiments, who was killed in action during the Civil War.
On 1 August 1672 he was married at the age of nine to the five-year-old Isabella, the daughter and heiress of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington. The wedding ceremony was repeated on 7 November 1679.
At the time of his |
Henry Babington Smith | Career | of India (CSI) in 1897.
He returned to Britain in 1899 and was immediately sent to Natal as Treasury representative in the South African War. In 1900 he became British representative on the Council of Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt, in the nominally-Ottoman Egypt, becoming its chairman in 1901. In the same year he was awarded the Osmanieh Order, Class 1. In 1903 he returned home to become secretary to the General Post Office, and was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1905 and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1908.
In 1909, |
Henry Francis Lyte | Character and personality & Decline and death | believed that man's nature was totally corrupt. Lyte frequently rose at 6 AM and prayed for two or more hours before breakfast.
In politics, Lyte was a Conservative who feared revolt among the irreligious poor. He publicly opposed Catholic Emancipation by speaking against it in several Devon towns, stating that he preferred Catholics to be "emancipated from priests and from the power of the factious and turbulent demagogues of Ireland." Lyte, a friend of Samuel Wilberforce, also opposed slavery, organising an 1833 petition to Parliament requesting it be abolished in Great Britain. Decline and death In poor health throughout his |
Harvard College social clubs | Sanctions | sanctions (59.8%), while 30.3% were against repealing the sanctions and 9.8% abstained from voting. The vote had no immediate effect on the policy.
In December 2017, the University's highest governing body, the Harvard Corporation, voted to approve the sanctions and confirm their permanence. Currently, members of the class of 2021 and beyond who are members of unrecognized (single-gender) social organizations are barred from "holding leadership positions in recognized student organizations, becoming varsity captains, or receiving College endorsement for prestigious fellowships," according to the Harvard Crimson. The University has faced questions about how it will enforce its sanctions policy, and the enforcement |
History of Landsbanki | 1986–1995: Deregulation of interest rates and national consensus | arrived in the financial market practically overnight.
Price levels in Iceland underwent a rapid transformation following the collective bargaining agreements of 1990 generally referred to as a “national consensus”. The entrenched inflation subsided so rapidly that by the latter part of the year it had reached a level on par with that in neighbouring countries. Deposit institutions were indirectly involved and contributed to restraining price levels by agreeing, as part of this consensus, to accelerate cut backs in their interest rates.
At last a long sought era of stability had dawned. Business dealings were altered to confirm with more modern |
Heath Tarbert | Early life and education | Heath Tarbert Early life and education Tarbert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended Calvert Hall College High School, a private Catholic preparatory school. While in high school, he became an Eagle Scout.
The first in his family to go away to college, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in accounting and international business in 1998 from Mount St. Mary's University. He then attended University of Pennsylvania Law School, receiving a Juris Doctor in 2001 and a Doctor of Juridical Science in 2002. Tarbert later obtained a Master of Studies and a Doctor of Philosophy in comparative |
Gloucester Valley Battle Monument | Memorial | wall. The stream is crossed by Gloucester Bridge and a path leads round to a flight of steps that takes you to the memorial stones set into a wall built into the side of the hill.
Four plaques on the original memorial still show the crest of the United Nations, the badges of the Gloucestershire Regiment and of the Royal Artillery, plus inscriptions in English and Korean which read:
This is a popular park for local Koreans. According to Lee In-jae, the mayor of Paju who raised money among local citizens to expand the park, "Freedom is not free – |
History of Landsbanki | 1896–1905: Head office built and branches opened | of the structure made it “quite the equal of such premises in the world’s great cities”. Landsbanki's operations grew steadily – not least following the establishment of a mortgage department, which could grant credit secured by real estate other than farm property. Funding for these loans was obtained by issuing the bank's first bond series, sold both in Iceland and Denmark.
This enabled Landsbanki to increase lending to industry, making its operations more like a real bank rather than a savings and loan society. A few years into the new century, the parent bank in Reykjavík was well enough established to |
Gersemia juliepackardae | Distribution | rock substrates singly, or in small groups, while some grow on dead and living sponges; these may be the first examples known where octocorals in the deep sea are living on sponges. |
Grace Metalious | Death & Legacy | will, but to little result as her estate proved to be insolvent from years of lavish living, overgenerosity towards "friends", and embezzlement by an agent. At the time of her death she had bank accounts totalling $41,174 and debts of more than $200,000. Legacy After her death, Peyton Place resurfaced as the setting for eight novels by Don Tracy (1905–1976), writing as Roger Fuller, including Evils of Peyton Place (1969) and Temptations of Peyton Place (1970), but this series achieved only modest sales.
In 2005, novelist Barbara Delinsky used Grace Metalious and Peyton Place as a springboard for Looking for Peyton |
Henry Foss High School | January 2007 shooting | to 23 years in prison. |
Genesis Rabbah | The principle of division | midrash for almost all these sections as they are still found in Genesis, with the exception of the genealogical passages. But there are sections that bear evidences of relation to the Torah portions ("sedarim") of the Palestinian triennial cycle, and a careful investigation of these may lead to the discovery of an arrangement of sedarim different from that heretofore known from old registers. However, there are sections, especially in the beginning of the midrash, in which only one or a few verses at a time are expounded. The Torah portions of the customary one-year cycle are not regarded at all |
Han Feizi | Wu wei | standard of right and wrong. That being so, the intelligent ruler, by holding to the beginning, knows the source of everything, and, by keeping to the standard, knows the origin of good and evil. Therefore, by virtue of resting empty and reposed, he waits for the course of nature to enforce itself so that all names will be defined of themselves and all affairs will be settled of themselves. Empty, he knows the essence of fullness: reposed, he becomes the corrector of motion. Who utters a word creates himself a name; who has an affair creates himself a form. Compare |
Higher education controversy in Odisha | Upgrading existing institute within Odisha to an IIEST & Shifting of planned IISER from Odisha & Establishing a Central University in Odisha's KBK region | in Odisha, but was allegedly sidelined when identifying potential IIESTs. Shifting of planned IISER from Odisha It has been alleged that the government had originally picked Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha, as one of the locations for an IISER, which was later shifted to Kolkata. This issue was resolved when it was decided to set up a similar institution, the National Institute for Science Education and Research (NISER), which would be funded through a separate ministry. NISER is the only such upcoming institution in Odisha, whereas other states have had similar non-HRD funded institutions for several decades. Establishing a |
Higher education controversy in Odisha | Hot parliamentary issue & Street protests against alleged discrimination | institution of national excellence and the demand for IIT is a long-standing one”. The opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) staged a walk-out in the Indian parliament, accusing the ruling UPA of neglecting the state's economic development.
It was reported by sections of the media in May 2007 that the Congress party-led UPA government was embarrassed by this issue.
The HRD minister, Mr. Arjun Singh has also relented. Street protests against alleged discrimination There have been several incidents of protest in Odisha in 2007. Students have taken to the streets to demand the setting up of an IIT and other educational institutions in |
Għajn Ħadid Tower | History | on the first floor, that could only be reached by a retractable ladder. The design continued to be used for all the other De Redin towers in Malta.
According to a 1743 report in which all coastal towers were inspected due to the fear of a plague, the tower was armed with two bronze cannons, gun wheels and stock, eighteen cannonballs, fifteen rotolos of gunpowder, four muskets and twelve rotolos of musket balls. It was manned by six people.
The area around the tower contains a number of fields with rubble walls that were used to grow crops and house animals. A |
Haverhill Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota | Demographics | 25.3% from 25 to 44, 29.1% from 45 to 64, and 9.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 106.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.9 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $75,343, and the median income for a family was $87,004. Males had a median income of $50,500 versus $31,833 for females. The per capita income for the township was $34,804. About 1.0% of families and 2.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including |
Genelia D'Souza | Return to Bollywood and subsequent work (2008–16) | across India and overseas, grossing ₹564 million (US$8.2 million). Her role was widely admired for her sweetness and freshness, and new style of acting, with Rediff describing her acting as a "spark that has been missing in Hindi cinema for well over a decade now". In that same year, Genelia acted in the Telugu romantic comedy Sasirekha Parinayam. The movie received favorable reviews, and Sify noted in their review that, "The life of the film is definitely Genelia and she has shown the varied emotions from innocence, sadness, romance and anger in equal proportions without a hitch."
In 2009, Genelia was cast |
HMS Amfitrite (1804) | Capture & HMS Blanche | Havana.
She was taken over and later commissioned into the Navy as HMS Amfitrite. In early 1805, she was commanded by Robert Corbet. She was renamed HMS Blanche on 3 December 1805. HMS Blanche Captain Thomas Lavie took command of Blanche in 1806 and patrolled off the English coast, protecting English shipping from French privateers and raiders. On 28 March 1806, a French squadron consisting of the French frigates Guerrière, Revanche and Sirène, and the brig-corvette Néarque, all under the command of Amand Leduc, were dispatched from Lorient, with orders to attack and destroy British and Russian whalers in the |
History of Cagliari | Rebirth | emptiness of the urban fabric. In the city's most important cemetery there is a memorial on graves where nameless victims were buried.
The Constitution of the Italian Republic, born from the ruins of war declared by Mussolini and the Savoy Monarchy, reconstituted the political unity of the island, begun with the Perfect Fusion in 1847, creating the Autonomous Region of Sardinia. Cagliari was declared the capital of the new autonomous institution. The offices of the region were concentrated in the city, which became the goal of a massive urban migration from other parts of the island. The population of all the |
Harold D. Roth | Biography | and, eventually, a small cohort of additional scholars that included, most importantly, Sarah Queen and Andrew Meyer. Together they succeeded in finally publishing a complete translation, The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China and an abridged translation, The Essential Huainanzi. In addition to his work on these translations and to his first book, Roth has published his ideas on the philosophy of the Huainanzi in a number of publications, including "The Concept of Human Nature in the Huai-nan Tzu", "Nature and Self-Cultivation in Huainanzi's 'Original Way'", "Daoist Inner Cultivation Thought |
Henri-Georges Clouzot | Early years | Henri-Georges Clouzot Early years Henri-Georges Clouzot was born in Niort, Deux-Sèvres, to mother Suzanne Clouzot and father Georges Clouzout, a book store owner. He was the first of three children in a middle-class family. Clouzot showed talent by writing plays and playing piano recitals. In 1922, Clouzot's father's bookstore went bankrupt and his family moved to Brest, where his father became an auctioneer. In Brest, Henri-Georges Clouzot went to Naval School, but was unable to become a Naval Cadet due to his myopia. At the age of 18, Clouzot left for Paris to study political science. While living in Paris, |
Hitchcock (automobile) | null | Hitchcock (automobile) The Hitchcock was and automobile built in Warren, Michigan by the Hitchcock Motor Car Company in 1909. The Hitchcock was a small car, powered by a two-cylinder, two-stroke Speedwell engine of 20 hp. Very few Hitchcock models were produced. |
Hinduism in Indonesia | Social life | resurgence around major archaeological remains of ancient Hindu temple sites was observed in Trowulan near Mojokerto. The site may be the location of the capital of the Hindu empire Majapahit. A local Hindu movement is struggling to gain control of a newly excavated temple building which they wish to see restored as a site of active Hindu worship. The temple is to be dedicated to Gajah Mada, the man attributed with transforming the small Hindu kingdom of Majapahit into an empire.
In Karanganyar region in Central Java, the renovated 14th century Cetho temple on the slope of Mount Lawu has become |
Hitchcock (film) | Plot | Hitchcock eventually confronts Alma and asks her if she is having an affair. Alma angrily denies it.
Alma temporarily takes over production of the film when Hitchcock is bedridden after collapsing from overwork, but this sequence, which included a complicated process shot showing Detective Arbogast's demise, with Alma's specification of a 35mm lens, instead of the 50mm lens preferred by Hitchcock for this film, proved to be the least effective in the film.
Meanwhile, Hitchcock expresses his disappointment to Vera Miles at how she didn't follow through on his plan to make her the next biggest star after Grace Kelly, but Miles |
Geology of Germany | Regional geological setting | European Craton during the Paleozoic through plate tectonic processes. These areas form the geological basement of Germany. The basement is the oldest of the four geological crustal levels (German: Stockwerke) that overlap in Central Europe, north of the Alps. The levels mainly reflect the age relationships of rocks and the great tectonic trends that the Earth's crust was subjected to in the course of its geological history: crustal extension and widespread, mostly marine, sedimentation alternating with crustal compression/orogeny and extensive erosion. The surface geology of Germany has evolved to its current configuration due to regional differences in the action and |
Gold (John Stewart song) | Background | nothing to him, having done it for the money and to please his record company. |
HMS Paladin (G69) | The Far East revisited & Home, conversion and scrapping | eventually sunk by other destroyers on 16 May. In June Paladin took part in sweeps in the Nicobar Channel.
In the last week of July, Paladin took part in Operation Livery, the object of which was removing mines near Phuket Island and the Malay Peninsula and bombarding appropriate targets. A platoon of crew members was sent ashore to help maintain order and prevent looting in George Town after the Japanese withdrawal.
At the end of August, after the Japanese surrender, Paladin was included in the force that proceeded to Penang, which was occupied on 3 September 1945, by Royal Marines. Home, conversion |
History of Cagliari | 18th century & Modern era | of April. However, the Savoys regained control of the town after a brief period of autonomous rule. Modern era From the 1870s, with the unification of Italy, the city experienced a century of rapid growth.
The ancient medieval and 16th century walls were dismantled, wide avenues were opened and a rational urban plan was designed.
Many outstanding buildings were erected by the end of the 19th century during the office of Mayor Ottone Bacaredda. Many of these buildings combined influences from Art Nouveau together with the traditional Sardinian taste for floral decoration; an example is the white marble City Hall near the |
Hindi–Urdu controversy | Hindi to Urdu | Devanagari script as the essential part of nationalist movement. The language policy of Congress and the independence movement paved its status as an alternative official language of independent India. Hindi was supported by religious and political leaders, social reformers, writers and intellectuals during independence movement securing that status. Hindi, along with English, was recognised as the official language of India during the institution of the Indian constitution in 1950. |
Geoffrey Clarke | null | film Cast in a New Mould. |
Endocrine disruptor | DDT | on remote glaciers in the Himalayas.
More than sixty years ago when biologists began to study the effects of DDT on laboratory animals, it was discovered that DDT interfered with reproductive development. Recent studies suggest DDT may inhibit the proper development of female reproductive organs that adversely affects reproduction into maturity. Additional studies suggest that a marked decrease in fertility in adult males may be due to DDT exposure. Most recently, it has been suggested that exposure to DDT in utero can increase a child's risk of childhood obesity. DDT is still used as anti-malarial insecticide in Africa and parts |
Hindola Mahal | History | Hindola Mahal The Hindola Mahal (English translation: “Swinging Palace”), is a large meeting hall, or durbar, in the ancient Indian city of Mandu, Madhya Pradesh. Today the Hindola Mahal is a tourist destination in the ruined city. History The Hindola Mahal might have been constructed during the reign of Hoshang Shah about 1425 C.E. but may date to the end of the 15th century during the reign of Ghiyas-al-Din.
It is one of a set buildings making up the royal palace complex at Mandu, which consists of the Jahaz Mahal, the Hindola Mahal, the Tawili Mahal, and the Nahar |
Herluf Trolle | Military career & Herlufsholm | he died at Copenhagen on 25 June, seventeen days after they had put him ashore. Herlufsholm In 1544, Herluf Trolle married Birgitte Gøye. In 1565, they founded Herlufsholm as a boarding school for "sons of noble and other honest men". It was situated on the site of a former Benedictine monastery dating from the 12th century. Herluf Trolle died during 1565 and his wife Birgitte Gøye died during 1574. Both Herluf Trolle and Birgitte Gøye were buried together at Herlufsholm in a tomb made by the Flemish sculptor Cornelis Floris de Vriendt(1514–1575). |
French Communist Party | French nationalism & Internal organization | which borders on racism in an ill-defined way, seeking to define as not purely French such and such members of the French community, is offensive to the national consciousness. Nobody here can accept that, our Party least of all.
— George Marchais, Letter to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the USSR, February 1984. Internal organization The PCF has traditionally been a "mass party", although Maurice Duverger had differentiated it from other mass parties because the PCF kept a tight control over membership and regularly expelled unsuitable members. In its heyday, the PCF maintained a large base of members and |
Hindola Mahal | Architecture | into two rooms, looks onto the main hall through an arched opening. The ground floor consists of a cruciform gallery with arms that extend to another entrance to the building and an arch to the main hall.
The Hindola Mahal represents the characteristic elements of the architectural style of the Malwa period (1400–1550): simplicity, boldness, and well-proportioned. The Hindola Mahal emphasizes its architectural simplicity with minimal ornamentation and stands out boldly through massive inclined buttresses. These elements make the Hindola Mahal a unique exaggerated example of the Malwa style. In addition, the pointed arches on the building’s |
Helen Curtin Moskey | null | Helen Curtin Moskey Helen Curtin Moskey (March 27, 1931, Hartford, Connecticut – March 25, 2003, Hartford) was an Irish-American poet of dual U.S.-Irish nationality. In 1994, she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with honors, from Trinity College (Connecticut), Hartford, Connecticut. Her senior thesis was titled A Kerry Ethnography: A History of the Descendants of Owen O'Sullivan Mors, Muingaphuca, Caragh Lake, Co. Kerry, 1926-1992. She subsequently studied poetry with several established American poets, including Mark Doty, Stanley Kunitz, and Yusef Komunyakaa; at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts; and at the University of |
Hawker, South Australia | Economy & Tourism | the Flinders Ranges. Tourism Hawker Racing Club holds a once a year Thoroughbred horse racing meeting which includes the Hawker Cup in late May which attracts many people from around the area. |
Helge Nordahl | null | Helge Nordahl Helge Nordahl (12 January 1927 – 31 March 2018) was a Norwegian philologist.
Nordahl graduated from the University of Oslo in 1953 with the cand.philol. degree in French. He was a part-time teacher at Oslo Cathedral School from 1954 to 1956, teacher at Trondheim Cathedral School from 1956 to 1963, lecturer at the University of Bergen from 1963 to 1970, docent at the University of Oslo from 1970 to 1972 and professor of Romance languages at the University of Oslo from 1972 to 1996.
Nordahl took the dr.philos. degree in 1969 with the thesis Les systèmes du subjonctif corrélatif: étude |
Herbesthal railway station | The First World War and its aftermath 1914–1944 | Towards the end of the war the station fell into the hands of plunderers returning from the front. Herbesthal station became the focus of so much congestion that an alternative less southerly route, today known as the Montzen route, was constructed by the Germans between 1915 and 1917, entering occupied Belgium from Aachen via Tongeren, completely avoiding Herbesthal and, indeed, Liege.
War ended in defeat in November 1918, to be followed by revolution and republican government at home, and the Treaty of Versailles drawn up in France. Eupen and Malmedy were transferred from Germany to Belgium, |
Henri-Georges Clouzot | Style | tried with me". When Clouzot worked with Brigitte Bardot, one scene required her character to drool and sleep. He offered her powerful sleeping pills, saying they were aspirin; this led to her stomach having to be pumped. Although he was harsh on his actors, he did not treat them fiercely off set. Delair recalled that off set there was an "innocence about him" that was not seen.
Clouzot biographer Marc Godin suggested Clouzot's life provides clues to understanding his style as a filmmaker. Clouzot was viewed by many of his collaborators as a pessimist, short-tempered, and almost always angry. Brigitte Bardot |
History of Cagliari | Phoenician colony and Punic era | of the Gulf of the Angels. A passage in the De Bello Gildonico of Claudian, who described it in the fourth century AD, says that Cagliari was founded by powerful Tyre, a city of the Lebanon, which in the early centuries of the first millennium BC experienced its most prosperous period as a commercial power between the eastern and western Mediterranean, and also founded the city of Carthage. That was the thalassocracy of Tyre. The first nucleus of Phoenician Cagliari seems to have been near the pond of Santa Gilla, but gradually the city center moved more and more to |
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