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Emily Lau
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Chairperson of the Democratic Party & Reputation
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party chair post in December 2016 and was succeeded by legislator Wu Chi-wai.
She also relinquished all of her party positions in the coming months.
After her retirement from the LedCo, she kept working as a television journalist, interviewing several political heavyweights in her shows. Reputation Lau is considered a politician with strong convictions on the promotion of democratic human rights and equal opportunities in Hong Kong.
She was labeled by the Hong Kong government as "radical", "outside mainstream public opinion" and a "solitary exception".
She was among the most popular legislators throughout the 1990s. The last British Governor Chris
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Gmina Janikowo
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Villages & Neighbouring gminas
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Gmina Janikowo Villages Apart from the town of Janikowo, Gmina Janikowo contains the villages and settlements of Broniewice, Dobieszewice, Głogówiec, Góry, Kołodziejewo, Kołuda Mała, Kołuda Wielka, Ludzisko, Sielec and Trląg. Neighbouring gminas Gmina Janikowo is bordered by the gminas of Dąbrowa, Inowrocław, Mogilno, Pakość and Strzelno.
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Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails
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Gordon Glaves Memorial Pathway & Cambridge to Paris Rail-Trail
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Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails The Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails are a network of multi-use interurban recreational rail trails connecting several municipalities in Southern Ontario, Canada. The trails are part of the Southern Ontario Loop of the Trans Canada Trail. From end to end, the trail is 80 kilometres (50 mi) long, running from Cambridge South through Paris to Brantford and then East to central Hamilton. Gordon Glaves Memorial Pathway The first portion of the Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails to be completed was named the Gordon Glaves Memorial Pathway in 1993. Cambridge to Paris Rail-Trail The second portion of the Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails is the Cambridge to Paris
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History of Landsbanki
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1896–1905: Head office built and branches opened
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Tryggvi Gunnarsson put his many years of political and business experience to good use in expanding Landsbanki's operations. He developed contacts with foreign banks, so that the bank was able to offer inexpensive international money transfers, While the majority of lending was still real estate mortgages, some credit was provided for expansion in fisheries, where larger, decked fishing vessels were appearing.
Just prior to the dawn of the new century, the stately Landsbanki headquarters (costing half of the bank's reserve funds) opened on the corner of Austurstræti and Pósthússtræti, where the Bank has remained to this day. The imposing Neo-Renaissance style
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Heinie Stafford
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Tufts University (1912–1916)
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Heinie Stafford Tufts University (1912–1916) Born in Orleans, Vermont, Stafford played in the hotel leagues with Oneonta in 1911 and Saranac Lake in 1912. In 1912, Stafford received a scholarship from Tufts University where he was chosen as the senior class president. Stafford was a star sprinter and captain of the school's baseball team. In 1916, the Tufts baseball team went 18–1 but lost to Harvard for the college championship of the East. An article in the Boston Herald said the following of Stafford: "He has well earned the right to be called the fastest base runner in college baseball,
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Glemsford
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History
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in 1302. The church features the Golding Chapel, built in memory of the rich Glemsford cloth merchant, John Golding. Golding lived in the Angel House, another timber building adjacent to The Angel public house, which serves traditional real ales. Golding left money for the chapel to be built when he died, likewise as with other parish churches St Mary's Church tower was rebuilt in the 19th century. Monks Hall itself has gone through changes of use and appearance through the centuries and is now a private residence. Glemsford Methodist Church is situated at the other end of the village and
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Georgi Emmanuel
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Biography
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fought at the Battle of Mir (1812) on the 9th of July, for which he received the Order of St. Vladimir (3rd Class). He took part in actions at Novoselsk, Saltanovka, Smolensk and the retreat from the Battle of Borodino to the Shevardino Redoubt. He led several charges against the French at Shevardino but was wounded in the chest. For his courage, he received the Order of St. George (4th Class). Emmanuel spent next weeks recuperating and joined the army in late September at the Battle of Tarutino. In October he was assigned to the advance guard and fought at
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Hochtief
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Revival and international expansion
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roof, contains a mosque, can accommodate 80,000 travellers at once, and is believed to be the largest terminal in the world.
The 1980s were a difficult time financially, with less foreign work coming through; though they headed the consortium that built the Mosul Dam in Iraq from 1981-84. There was domestic growth, highlighted by the architecturally radical Messe Torhaus in Frankfurt, completed in 1984. It was later involved in the construction of the Messeturm in the same city; once completed in 1991 it was Europe's tallest building. In the mid-1990s, Hochtief was involved in yet another major skyscraper development in Frankfurt,
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Ghost town
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Disasters, actual and anticipated
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town as well.
Ghost towns may also occasionally come into being due to an anticipated natural disaster – for example, the Canadian town of Lemieux, Ontario was abandoned in 1991 after soil testing revealed that the community was built on an unstable bed of Leda clay. Two years after the last building in Lemieux was demolished, a landslide swept part of the former town-site into the South Nation River. Two decades earlier, the Canadian town of Saint-Jean-Vianney, Québec, also constructed on a Leda clay base, had been abandoned after a landslide on 4 May 1971, which swept away 41 homes, killing
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H. Roy Wheeler
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Biography
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solicited funds from the Homebuilders Association. Wheeler sought to make Civil Rights an issue in his legislative race, saying that Stamler was an opponent of Civil Rights and that the Caucus System served to block Civil Rights legislation. Stamler said that he was the sponsor of a bill that advocated fair housing in the State Assembly.
The New York Times noted the highly negative tone of the Senate race: "The campaign has veered sharply in the last two weeks into a vitriolic struggle with attempts at character assassination overshadowing all other issues."
The race turned out to be not all
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Hirola
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Ecology
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is adapted to arid environments with annual rainfall averaging 300 to 600 millimetres (12 to 24 in). Their habitats range from open grassland with light bush to wooded savannahs with low shrubs and scattered trees, most often on sandy soils. Despite the arid environments they inhabit hirola appear to be able to survive independently of surface water. Andanje observed hirola drinking on only 10 occasions in 674 observations (1.5%) and all 10 observations of drinking occurred at the height of the dry season. Hirola do however favour short green grass and in 392 of 674
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Heritage Crafts Association
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Heritage Crafts Association The Heritage Crafts Association (HCA) is a registered United Kingdom charity set up to support and promote traditional crafts.
The charity was launched at the Victoria & Albert Museum in March 2010, with a membership programme for supporters.
The HCA initiated a 30-minute adjournment debate on the state of traditional crafts in Westminster in June 2009.
In May 2017, in association with The Radcliffe Trust, the Association published the HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts. This publication was also covered on Woman's Hour.
The HCA holds the secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Craft, which first met on 16
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Governorship of Mitt Romney
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Cuts in funding to local communities
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by 22 percent over the course of Romney's tenure. In response to complaints about the high residential property taxes, Romney supported and signed into law legislation that allowed communities to shift some of the burden of rising property taxes from residential property owners onto business owners. He also expressed approval for state tax law changes that would permit communities to raise local sales taxes and fees if the local voters agreed.
As with the 2003 emergency revision budget, Medicaid funding, which was responsible for more than one-fourth of all state spending and which had been growing rapidly, was targeted for cuts in
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Essex skipper
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Life cycle
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Essex skipper Life cycle Eggs are laid in strings on the stems of grasses where they remain over the winter. The Essex skipper's favoured foodplant is cock's-foot (Dactylis glomerata), and it rarely uses the small skipper's favoured foodplant Yorkshire fog. Essex skippers' other foods include creeping soft grass (Holcus mollis), couch grass (Elymus repens), timothy-grass (Phleum pratense), meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis), false brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum) and tor-grass (Brachypodium pinnatum). This skipper's caterpillars emerge in the spring and feed until June before forming shelters from leaves tied with silk at the base of the foodplant to pupate. Adults fly from July
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Heat burst
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Forecasting
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is owned by both the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. The purpose of their research was to discover any technological benefits and challenges in detecting heat bursts, document the time of day and year that heat bursts mostly occur, and to research the topography of where heat bursts mostly occur in Oklahoma.
Scientists and meteorologists use archived data to manually study data that detected 390 potential heat burst days during a fifteen-year period. In studying the archived data, they observed that 58% of the potential days had dry-line passages, frontal passages or a temperature change. The temperature change was
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Hanyang University College of Engineering
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Education & ABEEK
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Hanyang University College of Engineering College of Engineering Hanyang University (한양대학교 공과대학) is the oldest engineering school in South Korea which is established in 1939. It is the major college(number of students, professors, etc.) of Hanyang University. Education College of Engineering, Hanyang University has its own education program than generals of Hanyang University. For example, : ABEEK (Certification of Engineering Education) and Project for graduation. The education policy down below is for only in college of engineering. It also has another education program according to general program of Hanyang University, like exchange student program with MIT ABEEK ABEEK is Certification of
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Henry T. Bannon
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Indian Head Rock
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Indians and local history is reflected in his efforts to document and publicize the Indian Head Rock, a local artifact, which he examined in 1894 and 1920. He wrote an account of the Indian Head Rock for the Ohio State Archaeology and Historic Society which was published in the society's journal in 1921.
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Harry C. Aderholt
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Biography
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warfare techniques, and was instrumental in developing the Laos airfield complex known as Lima sites. These fields were used throughout Southeast Asia as support sites for special warfare operations and as CH-3 "Jolly Green" helicopter forward staging bases for rescue and recovery operations in Laos and North Vietnam.
From August 1962 to February 1964, Aderholt served as special advisor to the commander of the United States Air Force Special Air Warfare Center (SAWC) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. During this period, he contributed to and participated in RAND Corporation studies which resulted in the publication of the Single Integrated Attack
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Henry of Treviso
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Henry of Treviso Henry of Treviso (German: Heinrich von Bozen; Italian: Arrigo [Enrico] da Bolzano) (died 1315), also known as Henry of Bolzano or Blessed Rigo, was a lay pilgrim and holy man, a German from Bolzano (Bozen), who established himself in Treviso after the death of his wife and son. There he lived in extreme poverty, subsisting on alms, the excess of which he distributed among the poor.
His death was accompanied by "a popular outpouring of emotion" and he was declared the patron saint of Treviso as early as 1316, just one year after his death. In 1317 the
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Henri Louis, Prince of Guéméné
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Biography
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Henri Louis, Prince of Guéméné Biography Henri Louis was born in Paris, a member of the House of Rohan, which claimed ancestry relating to the Dukes of Brittany. He was the only son of the family's main branch chief, Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné, whereas his mother Marie Louise Henriette Jeanne de La Tour d'Auvergne (daughter of Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne) had an illegitimate child with her lover, Charles Edward Stuart.
On 15 January 1761, he married his second cousin, Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan, daughter of Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise and Princess Anna
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Gennethleia
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Note On Name
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is also how it appeared on Me Agapi O,ti Kaneis in 2004. However, in 2006, the song appeared on the CD single disc Koinonia Ora as Γεννέθλεια (Gennethleia). The word (which translates as Birthday) is correctly spelt in Greek as Γενέθλια (the alternative spelling does not exist in Modern Greek). It is unclear why the spelling was changed, two years after the release, but is most likely due to a desire by Sfakianakis to allow listeners to properly differentiate between his version and Bikakis’.
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Green Liberal Party of Switzerland
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History
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Green Liberal Party of Switzerland History The party was founded on 19 July 2007 by four cantonal parties of the same name that had seceded from the Green Party. These branches were in Basel-Landschaft, Bern, St. Gallen, and Zurich.
In the 2007 election to the National Council on 22 October 2007, the party ran in Zurich and St. Gallen. Despite being limited to only two cantons, the party won 1.4% of the popular vote nationwide and 3 out of 200 seats. In Zurich, they won 7% of the vote. One of these three had been a National Councillor for
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Hirofumi Yoshida
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Education & Career
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Music Master at the Chigiana Academy of Music in Siena with the masters Juri Temirkanov e Myung-Whun Chung Career In 2008, Yoshida conducted Don Carlos in Hong Kong. In January 2009, he was appointed music director at Teatro Sociale di Mantova, Mantua, Italy.
In March 2013, maestro Yoshida conducts Rigoletto at al Teatro Vittorio Emanuele II of Messina on the occasion of 200 years from Giuseppe Verdi's birth. In July 2013 the Bologna Opera House (Teatro Comunale of Bologna) invited Yoshida on the occasion of its 250th anniversary to conduct two Baroque opera programmes composed by Padre Martini: Il maestro di musica and
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Ghizer District
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Geography & Rivers
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central place from all valleys like Phandar, Yasin, Poniyal, etc. The valley is located between the world's greatest mountain ranges, namely the Hindu Kush and Karakarum.
The highest peak Ghizer District is Koyo Zom (6,871 m) (Hindu Kush Range), which lies on the boundary between Ghizer District and Chitral.
Some of the main places in the district are Koh-i-Ghizer, Golaghmuli Valley, Ishkoman and Yasin valleys. Other places include Gupis, Chatorkhand, Imit and Utz. Rivers The main river in the district is the Ghizer River, which is formed from the Gupis and Ishkoman Rivers; both meet at Hatoon valley with Hayim as
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Hey, O.K
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Cover-versions
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Hey, O.K Cover-versions In 2011 the band re-sung the song “Країна мрій” (The Land of Dreams) in the Belarusian language as “Краіна мрой” for the Budzma! Tuzin. Perazagruzka-2 compilation album. In 2018 the music portal Tuzin.fm together with Letapis.by selected this self-cover by Vopli Vidopliassova in the top of “60 today’s hits in the Belarusian language,” a list of best songs released since 1988.
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Genesis Rabbah
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Introductory passages & The principle of division
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expositions was ready at hand. The original work on these passages consisted principally in the combining and grouping of the several sentences and expositions into a coordinate whole, arranged so that the last member forms the actual introduction to the exposition of the section. Definitely characterized as they are in their beginning by these introductions, the sections of Genesis Rabba have no formal ending, although several show a transition to the Biblical passage that is expounded in the following section. The principle of division In the manuscripts, as well as in the editions, the sections are consecutively numbered. Many quotations
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Heffter Research Institute
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Organization (board and staff) & Published research & Cancer distress
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of seven scientists and five Philanthropists. Dr. Nichols remains the president, with George Greer, M.D. as the medical director and Lynette Herring as the business manager. Published research The institute has provided funding for more than 80 Scientific publications concerned with psychedelic drug research. Cancer distress One supported research study found that a single dose of psilocybin significantly reduced anxiety and depressive symptoms in cancer patients. The institute then funded two larger clinical trials of the same treatment at New York University and Johns Hopkins University, which is expected to be published in 2016. Following that, the institute will be
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Ferndale, Washington
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Geography & 2010 census
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United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.69 square miles (17.33 km²), of which, 6.61 square miles (17.12 km²) is land and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km²) is water. Downtown Ferndale is located near the river, along with Griffintown and a largely industrial area east of the Nooksack River. Northwest of these areas are suburban developments. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 11,415 people, 4,210 households, and 3,025 families residing in the city. The Washington state Office of Financial Management estimated for its April 1 annual population estimate that Ferndale had grown to 14,354
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Hervé Guy
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Club career & International career
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Tanger. In July 2017, Guy was loaned out to Saudi Arabian club Al-Qadsiah FC. He made his league debut for the club on 11 August 2017 in a 2-1 victory over Al-Raed FC. International career Guy represented the Ivory Coast U-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates.
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Highly Suspect
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MCID (2018–present)
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that year in July, Stevens and the rest of the band changed their profile pictures to black. This was followed by an announcement on their social media that their third album, dubbed “HS4”, was slated for release in 2019 with support from a tour. The first tracks for the album will drop August 16th. Stevens posted a teaser for one of the tracks on the album on July 24, 2019.
On August 15, 2019, the band announced the album was officially named MCID. Preorders and presaves were offered on August 16, the same day two singles—“16” and “Upperdrugs”—were released.
A single featuring
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Harry C. Aderholt
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Biography
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Air Force Base, Florida, in December 1948, Aderholt returned to Maxwell and served as a flight instructor and flying safety officer with the 3800th Air Base Wing.
During the Korean War, from July 1950 to September 1951, Aderholt commanded a Special Air Warfare Detachment of the 21st Troop Carrier Squadron. He next was assigned as an operations staff officer with the 1007th Air Intelligence Service Group in Washington, D.C. In June 1953 he was transferred to Donaldson Air Force Base, South Carolina, where he served with Headquarters Eighteenth Air Force as tactical and operations staff officer in the Directorate of Operations
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Herbesthal railway station
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Construction and operation by the Rhine Railway Company <1843-1880
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years after Herbesthal station, the promised branch line to Eupen was opened, on 1 March 1864: Herbesthal station was extended to accommodate the new service. The little rail depot at the station probably also dates from this period.
By now a post office had been built at the station, relocated in 1855 from Henri-Chapelle on instructions from the regional head post office at Aachen. At Herbesthal this quickly became one of Europe's busiest mail depots. In 1890 the postal facilities were relocated to a new purposes built post office building beside the station, which would be
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Guts (The Walking Dead)
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Plot
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to Rick, his friend Shane Walsh, and his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and son Carl (Chandler Riggs), are safe. Shane and Lori still believe Rick is dead and have begun a relationship together.
As walkers swarm the building, the group finds its escape route through the sewer cut off. Rick spots a box truck nearby they could use to escape. Rick and Glenn cover themselves in the blood and viscera of a dispatched walker to mask their scent from other walkers as they walk through the horde. It soon starts to rain, washing away the walker scent, and Rick and
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Floor hockey
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History
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Floor hockey History Floor hockey codes derived from ice hockey were first officially played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1875, but the game's official creation is credited to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Samuel Perry Jacks, better known as "Sam Jacks". Jacks is the individual credited with both the creation of the official skateless game derived from ice hockey and codifying its first set of rules in 1936. At the time, Jacks was working as assistant physical director at the West End YMCA in Toronto. His achievement was later recognized by the United Nations.
Floor hockey is a physical fitness
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Eagle River, Wisconsin
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Founding
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from the abundance of eagles nesting along the river. It is believed that Bethuel Draper and "Dutch Pete" Cramer camped in the area in 1853 and were responsible for naming the community. A settlement grew as other families settled in the area in 1857. The town of Eagle River was created by an act of the state legislature in 1885. Vilas County was set off from Oneida County on April 12, 1893 and named for William Freeman Vilas, a migrant from Vermont. Vilas had served for Wisconsin in the United States Senate from 1891 to 1897. In the 1850s migrants
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History of Cagliari
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Spanish Habsburg era & 18th century
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the island. 18th century In 1718, after the brief rule of the Austrian Habsburgs, the Savoy dynasty obtained the Kingdom of Sardinia, which remained an autonomous institution in relation to the mainland states of the dynasty and solemnly swore to respect the ancient customs and privileges. But the eighteenth century was the era of absolute monarchies, and the new ruling house gradually transformed the old kingdom created by the medieval Aragonese kings into one best suited to the needs of the new times. In order not to convene the parliament, the rulers did not increase the donativo, the taxes collected
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FC Viitorul II Constanța
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History & Stadium
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Also the under 19 team of Viitorul had great results in European Competitions. Stadium The club played its home matches on Orășenesc Stadium from Ovidiu, stadium used also by the first team until 2012 when it promoted to Liga I.
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County of Tyrol
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Establishment
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the Trent diocese. They extended their territory over much of the region and came to surpass the power of the bishops, who were nominally their feudal lords. After the deposition of the Welf duke Henry X of Bavaria in 1138, the Counts of Tyrol strengthened their independence. When Henry the Lion was again enfeoffed with the Bavarian duchy by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at the 1154 Imperial Diet in Goslar, his possessions no longer comprised the Tyrolean lands. The Counts maintained that independence under the rising Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty. In 1210, Count Albert IV of Tyrol also took over the Vogt
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Governorship of Mitt Romney
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Same-sex marriage
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Romney believes domestic partnership status should be recognized in a way that includes the potential for health benefits and rights of survivorship."
Romney strongly opposed same-sex marriage during his governorship. He emphasized his desire to "protect the institution of marriage" while denouncing discrimination against gays and lesbians. "Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians," Romney said in 2004.
On June 2, 2006, Romney sent a letter to each member of the U.S. Senate urging them to vote in favor of the Marriage
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Hatchback
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Brazil & India
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top five selling models in Brazil were hatchbacks. However in the 1980s and 1990s, hatchbacks were less popular than sedans, leading manufacturers to develop compact sedan models for the Brazilian market, for example the Fiat Premio and sedan versions of the Opel Corsa and Ford Fiesta. India Hatchbacks are the highest selling car body style in India. The Maruti 800 sold over 2.5 million units since its launch in 1983. Since 2004, Maruti 800 has been overtaken by Maruti Alto as the car with highest annual sales. In 2015, Tata Motors launched a hatchback version of the Nano, the least
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Hinduism in Indonesia
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Arrival of Hinduism
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2005, particularly at the Cibuaya and Batujaya sites, suggests that Tarumanagara revered deity Wisnu (Vishnu) of Hinduism. Ancient Hindu kingdoms of Java built many square temples, named rivers on the island as Gomati and Ganges, and completed major irrigation and infrastructure projects.
Several notable ancient Indonesian Hindu kingdoms were Mataram, famous for the construction of one of the world's largest Hindu temple complexes - the Prambanan temple, followed by Kediri and Singhasari. Hinduism along with Buddhism spread across the archipelago. Numerous sastras and sutras of Hinduism were translated into the Javanese language, and expressed in art form. Rishi Agastya, for example,
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Go Ask Alice
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Beatrice Sparks authorship controversy
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sue if the published book could be traced back to their daughter.
Not long after Go Ask Alice's publication, Beatrice Sparks began making public appearances presenting herself as the book's editor. (Ellen Roberts, who in the early 1970s was an editor at Prentice Hall, was also credited at that time with having edited the book; a later source refers to Roberts as having "consulted" on the book.) According to Caitlin White, when Sparks' name became public, some researchers discovered that copyright records listed Sparks as the sole author—not editor—of the book, raising questions about whether she had written it herself. Suspicions
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Gino Martino
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Return to CW (2010)
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his match against Rick Fuller. They challenged Julian Starr and Matt Logan for the Chaotic Wrestling Tag Team Championship in Hudson, Massachusetts the next day, but were unable to win the belts. On December 3, 2010, The Alliance of Violence and Chase Del Monte & Rick Fuller battled to a double-countout at CW's "Fan Appreciation Night" in Lowell, Massachusetts. At the end of the year he was interviewed by The Eagle-Tribune while performing at a benefit show Salem police and firefighters at Drew Estate Cigars. He was also a guest on the Canadian internet radio show Rope2Rope Radio where he
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Holt, Missouri
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2000 census
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18 and 8.5% of those age 65 or over.
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Herbesthal railway station
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Description
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many years. Eventually, despite local protests, the main station building itself was torn down in 1983. All that now (2014) remains visible is a couple of foundation stones and steps. During the summer of 2014 the local municipality organised an exhibition on the site, dedicated to the station's history. Plans exist for a more permanent display or exhibition centre.
The goods station was located to the west of the passenger station. After the closure of the passenger station in 1966 part of the goods station was reallocated to Welkenraedt station, a
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Greco-Roman mysteries
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Influence on Early Christianity
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in Christianity such as baptism and the Eucharist to mystery religions, it has been demonstrated that the origins of baptism rather lie in Jewish purificatory ritual and that cult meals were so widespread in the ancient world that attempting to demonstrate their origins from any one source is arbitrary. Searches for Christianity deriving content from mystery religions has also been unsuccessful; many of them (such as the mysteries of Eleusis and Samothrace) had no content but rather limited themselves to showing objects in initiation.
The studies of modern scholarship reveal that while Christianity was not a mystery religion, it was compared
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Governorship of Mitt Romney
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Transportation policy and the "Big Dig" & Emergency responses
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to inspect the faulty work it had itself done.
Since the collapse, the Securities and Exchange Commission has informally investigated whether Massachusetts Turnpike Authority bonds misled investors. The SEC has requested documents relating to the Big Dig from the Turnpike Authority, the state Treasurer's office, the highway department and the governor's executive transportation office.
As governor, Romney worked with members of Congress from Massachusetts to request federal spending earmarks to benefit state transportation projects. These included a safety review for the Big Dig as well as funds for local bridges and highway interchanges. Emergency responses In May 2006, heavy rains produced
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Henry Foss High School
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History & Daffodil Festival
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the "team teaching" structure. Shortly after, Tacoma Schools Superintendent Jim Shoemaker directed the school's principal to override this decision and apply for a grant extension. Daffodil Festival Each year, Henry Foss High School participates in the Pierce County Daffodil Festival, a regional tradition since 1933. Each year a competition is held in the fall within the school, for the title of Henry Foss Daffodil Princess. Once selected, the Henry Foss Princess joins other area school representatives in competition for the title of Daffodil Festival Queen. A prestigious regional award, Henry Foss princesses often return to the parade as area celebrity
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Geoffrey Moss
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later by the popular and influential short story collection, Defeat (1923). Thereafter Moss published roughly a book a year until the outbreak of the Second World War, his œuvre comprising novels, short story collections, verse, children's stories and works of non-fiction on European politics and military matters.
Although entirely forgotten today, Moss's works seem to have been extremely popular among general readers (if not always among critics) and influential among his fellow writers. Defeat, which is made up of six thematically linked short stories dealing with life in Germany in the wake of defeat in the First World War, influenced the
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Geology of Germany
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Cenozoic platform
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The largest continuous outcrops are the Upper Rhine Graben with the Mainz Basin and the Molasse Basin (Alpine foreland trough). Special "subsidence areas" are the Nördlinger Ries and the Steinheim crater, both originating through a meteorite impact event. The Cenozoic deposits in the Central European Blocks region consist of both siliciclastic rocks and limestones and both marine and continental sediments. The Cenozoic in Germany is also represented by volcanic rocks. In contrast to the mostly acidic (SiO₂-rich) volcanic rocks of the transition level, the Cenozoic formations are mostly intermediate to very SiO₂-poor (trachyte, basalt, phonolite, tephrite, nephelinite and basanite). The
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Herbesthal railway station
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Locomotive depot
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however, the heavy luxury international express services from Ostend were generally hauled by locomotives maintained at the depots in Liege and Brussels.
After 1945 Herbesthal became the home deport for the "Pacific class" NMBS/SNCB Type 1s, used for the prestigious international luxury trains.
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Giacomo Puccini
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Marriage and affairs & Politics
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descendant of the Manfredi family, Nadia Manfredi, in 2007, Puccini was actually having an affair with Giulia Manfredi, Doria's cousin. Press reports at the time when these documents were discovered alleged that Nadia Manfredi was Puccini's granddaughter, by a son, Antonio Manfredi, born to Giulia. Politics Unlike Wagner and Verdi, Puccini was not active in politics. Puccini biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz wrote: "Throughout this entire period [of World War I and its immediate aftermath], Puccini's interest in politics was close to zero, as it had been all his life, so far as one can judge. He seemed almost indifferent to
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Hitchcock (film)
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Critical response
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German Expressionism to the paintings of Edward Hopper.
Many critics compared the film to the HBO biopic The Girl, which was released a month earlier and detailed Hitchcock making The Birds and Marnie. Justin Chang of Variety wrote that "the comparatively frothy Hitchcock offers a more sympathetic, even comedic assessment of the man behind the portly silhouette." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter also made note that the film "brings a measure of authenticity entirely missing from The Girl." When writing about the film as a whole, McCarthy said, "Hitchcock might be a work of fantasy and speculation as much as
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Highgate, Birmingham
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Streets & Highgate Park
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originally consisted of back-to-back houses, with outside toilets and water taps. In 1938 the Council demolished these houses and built St. Martin's Flats. They were built using concrete because it was cheap, however it made them inherently damp. The flats quickly deteriorated and they were eventually knocked down in 1980. Private houses were built on the site in 1987.
Stanhope Street was called Ryland Street up to 1881. Louisa Ryland was a member of one of the wealthiest families of Birmingham, and owned a lot of land in Birmingham, including parts of Highgate. Highgate Park Highgate Park stands on land
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Hindgut fermentation
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Types & Insects
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larger species such as horses, and cecal fermenters are smaller animals such as rabbits and rodents. However, in spite of the terminology, colonic fermenters such as horses make extensive use of the cecum to break down cellulose. Also, colonic fermenters typically have a proportionally longer large intestine than small intestine, whereas cecal fermenters have a considerably enlarged cecum compared to the rest of the digestive tract. Insects In addition to mammals, several insects are also hindgut fermenters, the best studied of which are the termites, which are characterised by an enlarged "paunch" of the hindgut that also houses the bulk
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Heinkel HE 5
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Operational history & Preservation
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He 111 crewed by Uffz Gunther Golz, Ogfr Erhard Fischer, Ogfr Herbert Schröder och Ogfr Hans Wolf, had to make forced landing. While circling the downed He 111, the rear seat gunner Olsen opened fire with his 7.7 mm machine gun towards the German crew. He was later reported for court martial for this action. However, before this took place, Olsen was killed in an accident in a S12 on 23 September 1941.
All other downed aircraft by Sweden during WWII were due to Anti Aircraft Artillery. Preservation Two HE 5s are preserved in museums - one at the Flygvapenmuseum
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Gaz Bennett
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Storylines
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across the room to Lauren saying that he doesn't need her help and support anyway, leaving him slightly heartbroken.
Gaz returns in 2011 and threatens Anita before she leaves Hollyoaks. He later gets a job in The Dog in the Pond pub by owner Heidi Costello and later finds her upset where they end up kissing. Later that month, while helping Rae take her belongings in to the flat he finds a drug stash which is Doug Carter's and later becomes involved with drug dealing by working for Brendan Brady. In October 2011, he began a relationship with Sinead O'Connor (Stephanie
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Han Lim Lee
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Career
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By 2006, Bobby Jack became the most popular clothing among children.
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Guedel's classification
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History
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Guedel's classification Guedel's classification is a means of assessing of depth of general anesthesia introduced by Arthur Ernest Guedel (1883-1956) in 1937. History Since general anesthesia first became widely used in late 1846, assessment of anesthetic depth was a problem. To determine the depth of anesthesia, the anesthetist relies on a series of physical signs of the patient. In 1847, John Snow (1813-1858) and Francis Plomley attempted to describe various stages of general anesthesia, but Guedel in 1937 described a detailed system which was generally accepted.
This classification was designed for use of a sole inhalational anesthetic agent, diethyl ether (commonly
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Hitchcock (film)
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Critical response
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Rotten Tomatoes gives a rating of 60%, based on 214 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Though it suffers from tonal inconsistency and a lack of truly insightful retrospection, Hitchcock is elevated by inspired performances from its two distinguished leads." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 55 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Soon after the film's world premiere at the AFI Fest 2012, the first reviews of Hitchcock were published. Tom O'Neil of The Huffington Post wrote, "When the film unspooled at AFI Fest on Thursday
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Hatchback
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Liftback
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Hatchback A hatchback is a car with a hatch-type rear door that opens upwards and often a shared volume for the passenger and cargo areas.
When the body style of a car is described as a hatchback, typically it is referring to a utilitarian small car; however hatchback doors are also used on several sports cars, SUVs and large luxury cars. The modern form of the hatchback body style was developed through the 1960s and rose in popularity through the 1970s. Liftback 'Liftback' is a marketing term for hatchback models with a fastback profile, where the rear cargo door or hatch
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Hell Divers
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Plot
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Mitchell (Dorothy Jordan), visits him, he proposes marriage to her, but Windy uses a practical joke to get even with Steve. Unaware that Ann is Steve's fiancee and not simply a girl he is trying to impress, Windy bribes an old acquaintance, Lulu (Marie Prevost), to pretend to be Steve's outraged lover. Ann leaves upset and will not listen to Steve's denials.
Griffin loses an arm following a mid-air collision at night. The accident occurs when the aircraft are returning from delivering the admiral to his flagship the Saratoga before the squadron embarks. Griffin is retired and replaced in command of
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Glass Houses (novel)
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Plot summary & Online show
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Glass Houses (novel) Plot summary The first in the award winning series, Glass Houses is about college freshman, Claire Danvers who has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they will have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else? Online show The whole Morganville Vampires series was turned into
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Hatchback
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North America & Japan
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Two-seat hatchback derivatives were introduced for 1982, the Ford EXP and the Mercury LN-7.
Chrysler Corporation's first hatchbacks (and first front-wheel drive cars) were the 1978 Dodge Omni / Plymouth Horizon models, which were based on the French Simca-Talbot Horizon. These were followed by the 3-door hatchback Dodge Omni 024 / Plymouth Horizon TC3 which were later renamed Dodge Charger and Plymouth Turismo. Japan The first Japanese hatchbacks were the 1972 Honda Civic, Nissan Sunny and Nissan Cherry. The Civic and Cherry had front-wheel drive powertrains, which later became the common configuration for a hatchback. Along with the Honda Civic, other
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Gay Meadow
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General overview
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town centre towering above the ground on the hilltop behind. A number of the town's landmarks, including Shrewsbury Castle and Shrewsbury Abbey were visible from the ground.
For many years, Shrewsbury coracle maker Fred Davies would sit in his coracle during Shrewsbury Town home matches and retrieve stray footballs from the River Severn. Although Davies died long ago, his legend is still associated with the club.
Due to the ground being rather small and cramped, between the river and a major railway junction, there was little scope for expansion or renovation. Access, via a small side street known as 'The Narrows', was
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Highgate, Birmingham
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Population
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opposite Highgate Park.
Highgate is also home to the Birmingham Sports Centre and Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College, both of which are being redeveloped. Birmingham Sports Centre is to be demolished and a new Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College is being constructed at Haden Circus.
Local amenities include an array of small shops, around Gooch Street.
Nearby areas include Lee Bank, Balsall Heath, Edgbaston and Sparkbrook. Population Most of Highgate was built after 1850, by 1900 it had a population of about 15,000. The local community is now very mixed due to successive waves of immigration. It includes Afro-Caribbeans, Pakistanis,
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Higher education controversy in Odisha
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Location of First IIT of India
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the first IIT was to be established in Balasore. However, due to some misunderstanding on the part of the state government, land could not be procured for the project and the first IIT was thus moved to Kharagpur. The proximity of Kharagpur to Odisha is cited as proof of the theory that the government of India actually intended the first IIT for Odisha. A similar theory is held in favour in Andhra Pradesh regarding IIT Madras. Both theories are highly controversial but reflect the dissatisfaction of the people of those states, especially Odisha in the allocation made by the central
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Hitchcock (film)
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Release & Box office & Critical response
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Theatre in Hollywood. The first trailer for the film was released on October 10, 2012.
Hitchcock was released onto DVD and Blu-ray on March 12, 2013 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The home media releases contain several making-of featurettes as well as commentary between director Sacha Gervasi and author Stephen Rebello, a deleted scene, and the film's theatrical trailer. Box office Hitchcock has earned an estimated $24.7 million worldwide. During its opening on Thanksgiving weekend, the film debuted in 17 theaters and grossed an average of $16,924 per theater. Critical response Hitchcock received mixed reviews from the critics. Review aggregator
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FASTBUS
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History & Standards
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together with the late development of inexpensive protocol chips, hindered the expression of the full potential of FASTBUS multi-segment architecture. Standards FASTBUS is described in the IEEE standard 960-1986: "IEEE Standard FASTBUS Modular High-Speed Data Acquisition and Control System"
The system on which the IEEE standard is based (US Department of Energy Report DOE/ER-0189) was developed by the NIM committee of the US Department of Energy. Representatives of the ESONE committee of European laboratories and of other laboratories in Europe and Canada also contributed to the standard.
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Folsom State Prison
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Facilities & History
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Unit 1 is the most populous cellblock in the United States, with a capacity of nearly 1,200 inmates on four five-tiered sections. All cells include a toilet, sink, bunks, and storage space for inmate possessions.
Prison facilities also include two dining halls, a large central prison exercise yard, and two smaller exercise yards. The visiting room includes an attached patio as well as space for non-contact visits. History FSP is California's second-oldest prison, long known for its harsh conditions in the decades following the California Gold Rush. Although FSP now houses primarily medium security prisoners, it was one of America's first
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Hatchback
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India
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expensive road car in the world.
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Fort Rucker
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History
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1944. At the end of the war, the 91st and 94th Infantry Divisions were sent to Camp Rucker and deactivated.
Camp Rucker was also used to train dozens of units of less than division size; these included tank, infantry replacement, and Women's Army Corps units. During the latter part of the Second World War, several hundred German and a few Italian prisoners-of-war were housed in stockades near the railroad east of the warehouse area, on the southern edge of the post. The 91st and 94th Infantry Divisions were sent to Camp Rucker at the end of the war and deactivated in
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Harold D. Roth
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Biography
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Varela, James Austin, and Richard Davidson, philosophers such as William James and Evan Thompson, and educators such as John Dewey and Parker Palmer, Brown Contemplative Studies has served as a model for research institutes and academic programs at many institutions of higher education throughout North America. Roth has helped pioneer the field through such publications as "Contemplative Studies: Prospects for a New Field", Columbia Teacher's College Record (2006); "Against Cognitive Imperialism", Religion East and West (2008); "Contemplative Studies: Can It Flourish in the Religious Studies Classroom?" Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy for Religious Studies (2011); and
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Han Feizi
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The "Two Handles"
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if the "keeper of the hat" lays a robe on the sleeping Emperor, he has to be put to death for overstepping his office, while the "keeper of the robe" has to be put to death for failing to do his duty. The philosophy of the "Two Handles" likens the ruler to the tiger or leopard, which "overpowers other animals by its sharp teeth and claws"(rewards and punishments). Without them he is like any other man; his existence depends upon them. To "avoid any possibility of usurpation by his ministers", power and the "handles of the law" must "not be
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History of Landsbanki
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1886–1895: Banking as a sideline
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Act of the Icelandic parliament, Althingi, Landsbanki Íslands commenced operation on 1 July 1886, when it opened on the street known as Baker's Hill (Bakarabrekka), later called Bank Street (Bankastræti) in the centre of Reykjavík.
The bank's establishment was intended to boost monetary transactions and the country's nascent industries. For most of the 19th century Iceland had neither a monetary institution nor financial services. Money could be sent to Denmark for safe custody, e.g. by purchasing state savings bonds. Loans could only be obtained, if at all, from well-off individuals, while merchants could only be convinced to loan goods on credit.
The
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Gennadius Scholarius
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Return to Constantinople
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Orthodox light. This point marks Scholarius' increasing theological distance from Aquinas, where he begins to be more theologically condemnatory of him in later works (e.g., his treatises on the Holy Spirit and his Preface to the Greek "Summa Theologiae"). However, this distance can be overstated. Marcus Plested observes that Scholarios' "love and esteem for Thomas was to continued undimmed throughout his career" "although he would often accentuate the note of caution in later works." Despite his cautions, Scholarios writes of Thomas "we love this divinely-inspired and wise man." He wrote many works to defend his new convictions,
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Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné
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Life
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Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné Life Françoise-Marguerite was born in Paris, France, on 10 October 1646, in the fashionable Place des Vosges. She was the first child of Henri de Sévigné and his young wife, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal. Two years later, at the family's Château des Rochers-Sévigné in Brittany, her brother, Charles de Sévigné, was born. In 1651, Henri was killed in a duel over his mistress, Madame de Gondran. Now a widow, the Marquise de Sévigné took her children back to Paris where they came to live with her uncle, l'abbé de Coulanges, in the Marais district.
After her mother became well-established
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Grinton Will
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Marriage & Legacy
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in the economics department at the University of Connecticut before getting married. Grinton and Clarissa had two sons together-Brian Robert and David Grinton Will. Legacy The Grassy Sprain Library's name was changed to the Grinton I. Will Library upon Will's retirement in 1973. Will died in June 1986 at the age of 83.
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Gibson ES-335
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ES-355
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binding. The fingerboard inlays are inlaid mother-of-pearl blocks, beginning at the first position of the fretboard. In addition to the headstock, binding is also applied to the fretboard and both the front and the back edges of the body. Rather than the rosewood fretboard on a 335 or 345, both variations of the 355 have an ebony fingerboard for a 'smoother' sound. Reissues use a richlite fingerboard. Early models of Epiphone's limited edition budget version had an ebony fingerboard but the later issues had a rosewood board.
The ES-355 was available with a Vibrola vibrato unit or a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece.
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First Aid Kit (band)
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2017
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record store day issue was limited to 500 copies. The regular release with black vinyl single was released on 6 June.
At Håkan Hellström's concerts on 9 and 10 June at Stockholm Olympic Stadium and on 28 and 29 July and at Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg, Johanna and Klara joined to sing with him several songs. On 25 August, Håkan Hellström published a live recording of "Du Fria" in digital format.
First Aid Kit started again touring in the summer. First concert was on 16 June in Borgholm, Sweden. BBC broadcast their Glastonbury Festival concert on 23 June. Johanna played now bass
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History of Landsbanki
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1936–1945: Depression and war & 1946–1955: Trade protectionism
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war The Great Depression stifled economic activity in Iceland, and it was only with the beginning of World War II that Landsbanki's situation began to improve significantly. An addition to its city centre headquarters was taken into service in the summer of 1940.
Soon afterwards official trading in securities began, when the Landsbanki Securities Exchange opened just before Christmas 1942. Growth during the wartime years from 1939 to 1944 was so rapid that turnover at Landsbanki's main branch in Reykjavík increased tenfold – not least due to favourable trading terms between Iceland and the Allied nations. 1946–1955: Trade protectionism After the
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Gino Martino
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Return to NWA NE (2004–2005)
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"Buxton Barroom Brawl" in Buxton, Maine. The bout was voted the best match of the year for New Wrestling Horizons by the Freaks of Wrestling website. Ferraro followed this up with successful title defenses against Johnny Curtis, Craig Stratton, Brian Black, and Jason Rumble.
In addition to the NWA New England-New Wrestling Horizons interpromotional shows, Ferraro also wrestled solely for NWH shows where he feuded with Larry Huntley. On September 28, Ferraro also pinned Jason Rumble in a match to decide the number one contender for the NWH Heavyweight Championship. He later teamed with Danny Dangerous to win the NWH Tag
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Hinduism in Indonesia
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Hinduism in colonial era & Hinduism in the modern era
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conflict and inter-Sultanate warfare was unfolding, and new power centers were attempting to consolidate regions under their control, European colonialism arrived. The Indonesian archipelago was soon dominated by the Dutch colonial empire. The Dutch colonial empire helped prevent inter-religious conflict, and it slowly began the process of excavating, understanding and preserving Indonesia's ancient Hindu-Buddhist cultural foundations, particularly in Java and western islands of Indonesia. Hinduism in the modern era After Indonesia gained its independence from Dutch colonial rule, it officially recognized only monotheistic religions under pressure from political Islam. Further, Indonesia required an individual to have a religion to gain
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Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery
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Closure
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converting Hitchin Town Hall to museum use, which is scheduled to open in 2019. Hitchin Museum closed to the public on 1 September 2012.
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Dan Brouthers
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Later career & Later life and legacy
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was hitless in a two-game stint before retiring.
Brouthers is still among the all-time leaders in many offensive categories. His .342 batting average ranks ninth, 205 triples ranks eighth, and his .423 on-base percentage ranks 15th. He is tied with Mike Tiernan for fourth among 19th-century home run hitters with a total of 106, behind Roger Connor (138), Sam Thompson (127), and Stovey (122). Later life and legacy Brouthers played minor league baseball for the 1898 Toronto Maple Leafs of the Eastern League, where he won a batting title with a .415 average. Later he played for the Poughkeepsie, New York,
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HMS Paladin (G69)
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First time in the Mediterranean
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the other destroyer was severely damaged. Pakenham received six direct hits from gunfire and was disabled. Paladin took her in tow, but two hours later, still far from Malta and under the threat of airstrikes after dawn, Pakenham had to be scuttled.
On the night of 29/30 April, Paladin and Nubian made a sweep along the south coast of Sicily and sank a 2,000 ton merchant ship escorted by E-boats, without damage or casualties to themselves. On the night of 3/4 May, Paladin, with Nubian and Petard, on another sweep from Malta, sank the Italian torpedo boat Perseo and the large
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Hochtief
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Revival and international expansion
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began to take responsibility for more operational aspects of projects, including service provision, financing, facility management and software development, following a concept of being a "system leader", as set out by CEO Hans-Peter Keitel. These tasks were felt to be higher up the value chain, and would help the firm shake off the slowdown that had followed the initial boom of German reunification. These concepts were notably put into action during the construction of the new Athens International Airport in the late 1990s.
In 1999, Hochtief made big inroads into the United States market through its merger with Turner Corporation, while
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Hochtief
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Early years & After the Helfmann brothers
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international venture and its first project using reinforced concrete. Philipp Helfmann died in the same year, with his son-in-law, Hans Weidmann, taking over as Chief Executive. After the Helfmann brothers The firm grew rapidly, but was not comparable with the major German construction concerns of the era. In 1921 it attracted investment from the industrialist Hugo Stinnes (described by Time as the "New Emperor of Germany" for his wealth and influence) and in 1922 the firm moved its base to Essen as part of its integration into the Stinnes group. Stinnes planned to use Hochtief for all his construction projects,
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Henry Francis Lyte
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Character and personality
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and French; enjoyed discussing literature; and was knowledgeable about wild flowers. At Berry Head House, a former military hospital at Berry Head, Lyte built a magnificent library —largely of theology and old English poetry—described in his obituary as "one of the most extensive and valuable in the West of England."
Nevertheless, Lyte was also able to identify with his parish of fishermen, visiting them at their homes and on board their ships in harbour, supplying every vessel with a Bible, and compiling songs and a manual of devotions for use at sea. In theology Lyte was a conservative evangelical who
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Greco-Roman mysteries
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Characteristics
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initiate in one or more mysteries, and at the same time adhere to a certain philosophical school. Many of the aspects of public religion such as sacrifices, ritual meals, and ritual purification were repeated within the mystery, but with the additional requirement that they take place in secrecy and be confined to a closed set of initiates. The mystery schools offered a niche for the preservation of ancient religious ritual.
Though historians have given up trying to outline a rigid definition to categorize all mystery cults, a number of characteristics that the mystery cults shared can be outlined. All the
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Hayes site
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Description
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Hayes site Description The site consisted of four platform mounds with a plaza. The site has not been excavated but ceramics typical of the Plum Bayou culture have been found at the site.
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He's A Smoothie
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Sale and Death
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a Smoothie was sold to a California syndicate led by William E. Pasko III, who planned to retire the horse at the end of the year to stand at stud. He's a Smoothie was competing in the August 7 Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga Race Course when he broke down as a result of torn ligaments and had to be humanely euthanized.
In 2003, He's a Smoothie's racing career was honored with induction in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
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Hawaiian Electric Industries
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Generation & Electric vehicles
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from 10.7 million barrels in 2008.
Hawaiian Electric supports the adoption of electric vehicles. The company's goal is to have the majority of vehicles in Hawaii be electric vehicles by 2045. As of November 2018, it currently stands at 1% of all vehicles on the road. Hawaiian Electric filed a road map with the state. Electric vehicles Through a cooperative effort with HECO, High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC), an agency of the State of Hawai’i, initiated the Hawai’i Electric Vehicle Demonstration Project (HEVDP) consortium to develop an electric vehicle industry in Hawai’i. The islands have about 5,000 rechargeable vehicles.
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Harold D. Roth
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Biography
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began a detailed textual analysis of classical Chinese texts on inner cultivation demonstrating that they contained a distinctive set of technical terms that could be organized under three philosophical categories: cosmology, psychology/inner cultivation, and political thought. Expanding the work of A.C. Graham, he further determined that these extant sources of inner cultivation could be organized into three distinctive philosophical groupings, "Individualist", Primitivist, and Syncretist and argued these could be considered different phases in the development of this classical Daoist tradition. Roth systematized these arguments in providing the intellectual context for his translation of a short and distinctive text entitled Neiye
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Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526–1568)
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1540s
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weeks old. An Austrian attack on Buda followed the news of the death of John, but the appeals of John's widow to Suleiman were not unanswered and in 1541 the elderly General Rogendorf was defeated outside of Buda, before he could even cross the Danube to take it. The next year Ferdinand besieged Pest but was repulsed.
In April 1543 Suleiman launched another campaign in Hungary, bringing back Bran and other forts so that much of Hungary was under Ottoman control. As part of a Franco-Ottoman alliance (see also: Franco-Hungarian alliance and Petar Keglević), French troops were supplied to the Ottomans
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Geoffrey Clarke
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group of artists including Lynn Chadwick, Reg Butler and Kenneth Armitage who in 1952 was exhibited in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. They were described by art critic Herbert Read as "the geometry of fear sculptors". He was commissioned to create the cross of nails for Coventry Cathedral and also worked on three of the nave windows between 1957 and 1962. In 1965 he had a retrospective at The Redfern Gallery, London and his work is also held at the Tate Gallery. Clarke was made a Royal Academician in 1975.
He was the subject of the Shell Film Unit
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Holland's Next Top Model (season 10)
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Format changes
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Holland's Next Top Model (season 10) Format changes This cycle introduced the participation of male contestants. Application was restricted exclusively to female contestants in prior cycles of the show. The show also saw the return of linear call-outs at elimination. The last cycle to follow the format was cycle 5 in 2011.
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History of Cagliari
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Roman era
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the ancient city as extending to a considerable length towards the promontory or headland, the projection of which sheltered its port; the latter affords good anchorage for large vessels. But besides this, which is only a well-sheltered roadstead, a large saltwater lake adjoins the city. This lagoon, called the Stagno di Cagliari, communicates with the bay by a narrow channel, and appears according to Claudian to have been used in ancient times as an inner harbor or basin. The promontory adjoining the city is evidently that noticed by Ptolemy (Κάραλις πόλις καὶ ἄκρα), but the Caralitanum Promontorium of Pliny can
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Hong Seok-cheon
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Career
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which he recounted his failed romance with a Dutch man named Tony.
Forced out of the entertainment business, Hong wanted to leave the country to study in New York, but he said he decided stay in Korea to prove to his detractors that he could be a success. He started his first restaurant Our Place in 2002, two years after he came out. He now owns and runs nine high-end restaurants in Itaewon, home to a large expat community in Seoul. Hong's restaurants are all characterized by the prefix "My," namely: My Hong, My Chi chi*s, My Thai, My Thai China,
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Herbesthal railway station
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Electrification
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locomotives. In the end the decision was taken that for trains operating along the line from Liege to Aachen, switching of the power supply and locomotives should be centralised some distance inside Germany, at Aachen, where the equivalent switch would also be made for trains coming from the Netherlands. An added advantage of choosing Aachen was that many international passenger trains were already held up there while being reconfigured, as blocks of carriages from the directions of Rotterdam and Brussels were split or merged for the next part of their journeys across Germany. Where
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