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Indiana Pacers | 2005–2010: Danny Granger era | 2006–07 season as one of the worst seasons in team history. For the Pacers, who finished with a 35–47 record, nearly everything that could have gone wrong did. The turning point of the season would be an 11-game losing streak that started around the all-star break. Injuries to Jermaine O'Neal and Marquis Daniels, a lack of a solid back up point guard, the blockbuster trade midway through the season that interrupted the team chemistry, poor defensive efforts, and being the NBA's worst offensive team were the main reasons leading to the team's struggles. The April 15 loss to New Jersey |
Indians in the United Arab Emirates | Demographics | and 450,000 from Tamil Nadu, form the majority in Indian community living in UAE. By 1999, the population of Indian migrants in the UAE, which stood at 170,000 in 1975, was at 750,000. The estimated population of Indians in the UAE as of 2009 is near 2 million. Indians constitute 42% of the total UAE population. There is no pathway to naturalisation and citizenship. A vast majority of Indian migrants are on employment based visas, while others are on business or trade visas. Some are also on spouse visas. Approximately 26% of Indian migrants live in apartments or villas |
IdeaPad | History | responsive."
On September 21, 2016, Lenovo confirmed that their Yoga series is not meant to be compatible with Linux operating systems, that they know it is impossible to install Linux on some models, and that it is not supported. This came in the wake of media coverage of problems that users were having while trying to install Ubuntu on several Yoga models, including the 900 ISK2, 900 ISK For Business, 900S, and 710, which were traced back to Lenovo intentionally disabling and removing support for the AHCI storage mode for the device's solid-state drive in the computer's BIOS, in favor of |
Gambling in New Jersey | Early era & Expansion of gambling | parimutuel gambling, and in 1897 the voters of New Jersey approved a referendum which amended the state constitution to ban all gambling (or possibly all commercial gambling). Expansion of gambling From 1894 to 1939, all gambling was theoretically outlawed in New Jersey, but enforcement was spotty, and it is not clear whether social gambling was prohibited. Bookmaking, numbers games, and slot machines were common through the state, many churches and other non-profit organizations openly held bingos, and Freehold Raceway operated without interruption. Racetrack gambling was re-legalized in 1939. In 1953, voters approved a referendum to officially allow non-profit organizations to |
Indian Creek (Stone County, Missouri) | null | Indian Creek (Stone County, Missouri) Indian Creek is a stream in the Carroll County, Arkansas and Stone County, Missouri.
The stream headwaters are at 36°23′26″N 93°28′30″W and the confluence with Table Rock Lake is at 36°31′10″N 93°31′21″W.
Indian Creek was so named on account of Delaware settlement in the area. |
Hell Divers | Production | the US Navy Department, not only featuring the song (uncredited but considered the unofficial song of the US Navy), "Anchors Aweigh" (1906) (written by Charles A. Zimmerman, lyrics by Alfred Hart Miles and R. Lovell) in the opening credits but also a dedication to the naval aviators who made the film possible.
While a small number of miniatures stood in for the real aircraft, as well in a mock battle by airships attacking the Saratoga, the majority of the aerial scenes directed by Marshall, featured the actual Helldivers of VF-1B. Real events were woven into the film; footage of the historic |
Ford Torino | Torino King Cobra & Collectibility | Torino King Cobra with the Boss 429 has been listed on eBay as of 3 May 2014, with a "buy-it-now" price of $599,999. Collectibility The 1970–71 Torino Cobras, the 1969 Torino Talladega, the 1970 King Cobra, the 1968–1971 Torino GT convertibles, and the 1969 Cobras are the most collectible Torino muscle cars. The 1972 body style has received notable exposure with the release of the 2008 film Gran Torino (featuring a 1972 Gran Torino Sport and Clint Eastwood) and the 2009 film Fast & Furious. The 1974–76 body style was popularized due to the 1970s television series Starsky and |
Iban Mayo | Biography | Iban Mayo Biography Renowned as a climber, Mayo turned pro with Euskaltel–Euskadi in 2000, and became one of the Basque Country's prospects for glory. He stayed with Euskaltel-Euskadi throughout 2000–2006. The biggest result came in the 2003 Tour de France, when he won a stage up Alpe d'Huez. Mayo finished the Tour sixth.
In 2004 Mayo won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, regarded as preparation for the Tour de France. He beat Lance Armstrong by two minutes in a time trial on Mont Ventoux, breaking the record. He was seen as a dangerous outsider for the Tour de France in the |
Indiana Pacers | 2010–2017: Paul George era | duties and named assistant coach Frank Vogel interim head coach.
On the NBA's trade deadline on February 24, 2011, numerous sports news outlets, including ESPN, reported that the Pacers had agreed to a three-team trade that would have sent Josh McRoberts to the Memphis Grizzlies and Brandon Rush to the New Orleans Hornets, while the Pacers would have received O. J. Mayo from the Grizzlies in return, and the Hornets would have sent an unidentified player to the Grizzlies. However, the trading period expired at 3:00 pm EST, and the trade paperwork did not reach the NBA's main offices for approval until |
IAAF Cross Country Permit Meetings | null | IAAF Cross Country Permit Meetings The IAAF Cross Country Permit Meetings are an annual series of independently-run cross country running competitions which are recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations with permit status. First held in 1999, the meetings can be used to gain qualification to the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. The number of legs in the series varies from around six to twelve meetings per year, with dates spanning the European winter months, from November to February, prior to the World Championships scheduled in March. The series replaced the IAAF World Cross Challenge, which was first held |
I Can't Lose | Background | I Can't Lose Background The song was written as the follow-up to "Uptown Funk" from Uptown Special. "I Can't Lose" was written mostly by Jeff Bhasker and samples Snoop Dogg's "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)" from Doggystyle and "Hot Music" by Soho; in an interview with The Guardian, Ronson described how Bhaskar had decided that the most appropriate way of discovering an appropriate vocalist for the song was to "drive through the deep south to find someone to sing it", an idea which Ronson loved. This trawling process led to Ronson and Bhaskar sifting through "a |
Indian religions | Early Vedic period – early Vedic compositions (c. 1750–1200 BCE) | live". Sat means "that which really exists [...] the really existent truth; the Good", and Sat-ya means "is-ness". Rta, "that which is properly joined; order, rule; truth", is the principle of natural order which regulates and coordinates the operation of the universe and everything within it. "Satya (truth as being) and rita (truth as law) are the primary principles of Reality and its manifestation is the background of the canons of dharma, or a life of righteousness." "Satya is the principle of integration rooted in the Absolute, rita is its application and function as the rule and order operating in |
Initiative Measure 124 (Seattle) | Provisions | appeals. Workers must be given paid time to make a police report and be given the option to work in a different area of the hotel. Police may only be contacted with the permission of the worker. Hotels are required to warn guests about these rules with a placard written in a large font placed on the interior side of their room doors.
Under the initiative, when a hotel is sold the new owners are required to offer employees of the previous owner work before hiring replacement staff. This requirement applies from the day of sale until six months after the |
Infamous Assassinations | Episode 9: Leon Trotsky & Episode 10: Charles de Gaulle & Episode 11: Pope John Paul II & Episode 12: Adolf Hitler & Episode 13: Wladyslaw Sikorski | with a mountaineering ice axe by Ramón Mercader, on the orders of Joseph Stalin. Episode 10: Charles de Gaulle Attempts to kill French President de Gaulle. Episode 11: Pope John Paul II On 13 May 1981 in Vatican City, Turkish nationalist Mehmet Ali Ağca shot the Pope for reasons that still remain unclear and disputed. Episode 12: Adolf Hitler On 20 July 1944 in Rastenburg, Germany, a bomb was planted with the intention of killing the Nazi dictator, but he was only slightly injured. Hitler had many people who were involved in the plot killed soon after. Episode 13: Wladyslaw |
Hinson Leung | International & 2013-14 Match fixing scandal | Hinson Leung International Hinson Leung Cheuk-hin was included in Kim Pan-Gon's squad for the 2010 East Asian Football Championship qualifiers, which began in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Sunday 23 August 2009, when Hinson was only 21 years old and only played a top class football match once. Leung admitted he was included in the squad only because he was a South China player. "It is a great honour for me to represent Hong Kong,' he said. 'But I know this would not have happened if I was not playing for South China." 2013-14 Match fixing scandal Hinson Leung was arrested on |
Hitchcock (film) | Critical response | night, the audience burst into wild huzzahs at the end. This Hitchcock is so well made, so much fun and so suspenseful that it would make the original Hitchcock proud ... It's a serious contender for Best Picture, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Makeup, Music Score, and maybe Art Direction." John Patterson of The Guardian called the film "clever and witty"; "the making of Psycho is depicted in detail without our seeing one frame of the completed movie" and concluding "it lives and breathes through Hopkins and Mirren."
Upon its theatrical release, Mary Pols of Time called the film "a |
Hurter's spadefoot toad | Habitat | Hurter's spadefoot toad Habitat The species occurs in areas of sandy, gravelly, or soft, light soils in wooded or unwooded terrain and in sandy open woodland and savanna as well as in mesquite scrub. During periods inactivity it burrows underground. Breeding takes place in temporary pools formed by heavy rains. |
Indiana Pacers | 2005–2010: Danny Granger era | Nets knocked the Pacers out of the playoffs for the first time since the 1996–97 season.
On April 10, 2007, the Pacers announced the firing of coach Rick Carlisle, with the Pacers' first losing record in ten seasons being the main reason for the coach's dismissal. Pacers President Larry Bird noted that Carlisle had the opportunity to return to the Pacers franchise in another role. Later, Carlisle opted to leave and took a broadcasting job with ESPN before returning to coach the Dallas Mavericks in 2008 (where he would win a championship in 2011). On May 31, 2007, Jim O'Brien was |
Indiana Pacers | 1976–1987: Early NBA struggles | for most of the next decade, as they traded away Knight and Buse before the 1977–78 season even started. They acquired Adrian Dantley in exchange for Knight, but Dantley (who was averaging nearly 27 points per game at the time) was traded in December, while the Pacers' second-leading scorer, John Williamson, was dealt in January.
The early Pacers came out on the short end of two of the most one-sided trades in NBA history. In 1980, they traded Alex English to the Nuggets in order to reacquire former ABA star George McGinnis. McGinnis was long past his prime, and contributed very |
Internet slang | Use beyond computer-mediated communication | geographically proximate to one another, and where the Internet is not primarily used. Internet slang is now prevalent in telephony, mainly through short messages (SMS) communication. Abbreviations and interjections, especially, have been popularized in this medium, perhaps due to the limited character space for writing messages on mobile phones. Another possible reason for this spread is the convenience of transferring the existing mappings between expression and meaning into a similar space of interaction.
At the same time, Internet slang has also taken a place as part of everyday offline language, among those with digital access. The nature and content of online |
Igor Kalinauskas | The "Wandering Stars" series | hearts," says Alisa Lozhkina, editor-in-chief of Art Ukraine.
Of "The City - New York", four large paintings from the series "The Wondering Stars", the artist and art historian Christina Katrakis, MFA, says, "One may argue, that the height of the contemporary "tondo movement" took place in early sixties and seventies, with works by such artists as Wojciech Fangor and his non-tantric disc-like paintings. This theme was later continued in a series of works by Lea Lenhart. While some artists such as Robert Schaberl, Hans Herbert Hartwieg, also Gary Lang and Tracy Melton still continue to work in the Tondo movement |
Formula One Arcade | Gameplay | Formula One Arcade Gameplay Formula One Arcade is based on the 2001 Formula One season, the game was centered on hectic racing action and is considered unrealistic. Players compete in a quick race of just a few laps, collecting checkpoints to keep the time and have to collect pickups such as a speed boost (which make the car faster), large tires (which gives the car more grip) and shields (which make the car invulnerable). |
Harrison McIntosh | Career & Style and technique | close in 1992. He was then represented by Santa Monica-based Frank Lloyd Gallery in the 1990s.
In 1992, McIntosh developed glaucoma and macular degeneration; nonetheless, the ceramicist continued to work in his studio until 2006, at the age of 91. On January 21, 2016 at the age of 101, McIntosh died.
Over his more than 60-year career, McIntosh had 43 solo exhibitions. He is represented in over 40 art collections globally. Style and technique McIntosh style remained consistent throughout his career, inspired by Japanese pottery and aesthetics, as well as European modern design. Although many of his contemporaries were known for creating |
Inflatable Rescue Boat | Brief history & Patrolling | Marine had developed the rigid hull for the SLSA IRB. Brown and his team received an Australian Design Award in 1987 for the rigid hull. Since the introduction of the IRB more than 200,000 lives across the nation have been saved.
In New Zealand by 1978 the Mk I Arancia IRB was tested at Piha. During that test the first ever Arancia IRB rescue of a swimmer washed up on rocks was performed. The IRB is world renowned as a superior surf rescue craft. Patrolling IRBs are of great value when patrolling a beach especially |
Gobi Cashmere | Post-privatization & The world cashmere industry | around 48 thousand 100% cashmere coats were sold worldwide. The world cashmere industry Mongolia supplies 9,600 tons of raw cashmere per year to the world. 15% of the total raw cashmere supplied by Mongolia are being used to manufacture finished goods whereas the remaining 85% are being exported in semi processed form. 70% of the total raw material used to produce finished garments in Mongolia are being procured by Gobi Corporation with the remaining 30% being used by other producers in Mongolia. The global fashion luxury cashmere clothing market is expected to reach US$4.2 billion in 2025, growing at an |
Indiana Pacers | Logos and uniforms & Detroit Pistons | Nike on July 28, 2017. Detroit Pistons The Pacers and Pistons met for the first time in the 1990 Playoffs, the Pistons swept the Pacers in three straight games on their way to their second straight NBA championship. But the rivalry truly began in the 2003–04 season. The Pacers finished with a league best 61 wins and were led by Jermaine O'Neal, Ron Artest, and Reggie Miller, and coached by Rick Carlisle. Carlisle had been fired by Detroit at the end of the previous season. Detroit was led by Chauncey Billups, Ben Wallace, Rasheed Wallace, Tayshaun Prince, and Richard Hamilton, |
Hrishikesh Sulabh | Life & Work | magazine 'Kathadesh'.
″Dharti Aaba″ and Rani ka Sapna are Hrishikesh Sulabh's latest play. Work His works can be broadly classified into three categories – plays, short stories, and theatre criticism. |
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Indiana Pacers | 1987–2005: The Reggie Miller era | to the Dallas Mavericks for future NBA Sixth Man-of-the Year Detlef Schrempf.
From 1989 to 1993, the Pacers would play at or near .500 and qualify for the playoffs, in 1989–90, the Pacers parlayed a fast start into the team's third playoff appearance. But the Pacers were swept by the Detroit Pistons, who would go on to win their second consecutive NBA Championship. Reggie Miller became the first Pacer to play in the All-Star Game since 1976 on the strength of his 24.6 points-per-game average. Despite four straight first round exits, this period was highlighted by a first round series with |
Indian religions | Smriti & Vedanta – Brahma sutras (200 BCE) | current of thoughts that are based, like smriti, directly on sruti." According to Hiltebeitel, "the consolidation of Hinduism takes place under the sign of bhakti." It is the Bhagavadgita that seals this achievement. The result is a universal achievement that may be called smarta. It views Shiva and Vishnu as "complementary in their functions but ontologically identical". Vedanta – Brahma sutras (200 BCE) In earlier writings, Sanskrit 'Vedānta' simply referred to the Upanishads, the most speculative and philosophical of the Vedic texts. However, in the medieval period of Hinduism, the word Vedānta came to mean the school of philosophy that |
Interior design regulation in the United States | Practice regulation & Title regulation | any individual to practice commercial interior decoration Title regulation A title restricts the use of the title as defined by that jurisdiction, with titles varying by jurisdictions and precedence in that jurisdiction. The titles currently in use are, “certified interior designer,” “registered interior designer,” and “licensed interior designer”. The titles are restricted to be used only by those who have satisfied minimum competency requirements and accept the accountability required by the government in a regulated profession.
Currently, 19 states have regulation which allows the practice of interior design, but restricts some form of the title to those licensed and regulated persons.
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Hallie Buckley | Career | extensively researched by a local community group. Buckley's team examined remains from unmarked graves and used a range of scientific techniques to match them with historical records. As of 2018, she was planning a similar project on the Chinese cemetery at Lawrence. |
Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict | Reviews and reception | Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict Reviews and reception London Review of Books published a review stating that the book served as "both an impressive analysis of Zionist ideology and a searing but scholarly indictment of Israel's treatment of the Arabs since 1948."
Rita J. Simon from American University gave it a mixed review. The book, she says, is the most comprehensive and the most virulent of a set of books she reviewed; while she says "Finkelstein's arguments...are usually documented with data and scholarly arguments" and "is more than an emotional diatribe against Israel" she criticized it for letting the |
Hollywood station (Florida) | Seaboard Air Line Railway | section of the station contains the baggage room. Entry into the passenger waiting room is through doors on the southern end. On the west side of the building is a separate entrance into what was, in keeping with racial segregation laws of the era, the "colored" waiting room; it was converted into railroad offices by the Seaboard in 1963.
Also in 1963, the Seaboard added a large Spanish-style barrel tile canopy to shelter the southern entrance, modifying the architectural details of the two entry porticos. At the same time, the railroad replaced the concrete-etched station signs on either end of |
He Hongjing | Before and during the Zhaoyi campaign | believing that he had shown his faithfulness, diverted Wang Zai's troops to Heyang Circuit (河陽, headquartered in modern Jiaozuo, Henan), which had been defeated several times by Zhaoyi troops, instead, and also bestowed the honorary title of acting Zuo Pushe (左僕射) on He Hongjing.
In 844, the Zhaoyi officer Wang Zhao (王釗), fearing that Liu would punish him for his continued military failures, surrendered Min Prefecture to He Hongjing. The Zhaoyi officer An Yu (安玉), hearing that Wang Zhao had surrendered to He Hongjing and that Pei Wen (裴問) and Cui Gu (崔嘏) had surrendered Xing Prefecture (邢州, in modern Xingtai, |
Indiana Pacers | 2000–2005: Isiah Thomas era & 2005–2010: Danny Granger era | the Pistons and lost the next 3 games, losing the series 4–2. The final game (Game 6) was on May 19, 2005; Reggie Miller, in his final NBA game, scored 27 points and received a huge standing ovation from the crowd. Despite Miller's effort, the Pacers lost, sending Miller into retirement without an NBA Championship in his 18-year career, all with the Pacers. Miller had his No. 31 jersey retired by the Pacers on March 30, 2006 when the Pacers played the Phoenix Suns. 2005–2010: Danny Granger era Despite the loss of Reggie Miller, the Artest saga, and many key injuries |
Homosexualities | Scientific and academic journals | blindness" that has dominated research on homosexuality in the United States since the early 1970s. He contrasted it unfavorably with the work of European thinkers whom he credited with "provocative theoretical speculations": the philosophers Michel Foucault and Guy Hocquenghem, the gay rights activist Mario Mieli, the sexologist Martin Dannecker, and the sociologist Jeffrey Weeks.
Levin noted that the book received much attention. However, he criticized its authors for using a non-random sample. He also accused them of being credulous about their informants' reports, employing special pleading and circular reasoning, seeking to demonstrate preferred conclusions, and making misleading use of statistics. In |
Guts (The Walking Dead) | Production | as Merle Dixon. The following month after Sarah Wayne Callies was announced to play the role of Rick's wife Lori Grimes, Laurie Holden claimed the role of Andrea; Holden had previously worked with Darabont in the science-fiction horror film The Mist (2007). Andrew Rothenberg played Jim. Sam Witwer, who had collaborated with Darabont in The Mist, appeared as a dying soldier. Frances Cobb played a camp survivor. Chance Bartels played the walker shot by Merle. Kirkman stated that he was thrilled upon hearing of the actor's appearance, and added that he had known of Rooker since the comedy film |
Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News | History | Library of the British Museum, the British Library holds copies of the paper from 28 February 1874. The University of Wisconsin–Madison has all but three of the first twenty-five volumes in its English and Irish Periodicals collection. |
Igor Kalinauskas | The Last Supper: Spirit, Flesh, Blood | pictorial polyptych altar and pillars in the shape of angels that protected the improvised nave. There was a big white table to "bring closer" the biblical scene. In addition, in the background could be heard the music of Zikr. "In the beginning of last century Wagner started to elaborate the theory of the unity of arts. And from that time on, many artists have tried to accomplish perfection, universal art that could combine all the arts... Today I was present at this amazing synthetic act, where Igor Kalinauskas, as a stage director, a musician and an artist, united all types |
INS Jalashwa (L41) | Description | INS Jalashwa (L41) Description Jalashwa features a well deck, which can house up to four LCM-8 mechanised landing craft that can be launched by flooding the well deck and lowering the hinged gate aft of the ship. She also has a flight deck for helicopter operations from which up to six medium helicopters can operate simultaneously. The deck can also be used to operate vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft like the Sea Harrier, in special circumstances. She is also capable of embarking over 1,000 troops, and is fully equipped with extensive medical facilities including four operation theatres, a 12-bed |
Indiana Pacers | Miami Heat | time the Heat lost two in a row in the year were the games against Indiana and Portland. During the waning minutes of Game 6 in the Semifinals between the Pacers and the New York Knicks, the Pacers' fans were chanting "Beat The Heat" as their team beat their old New York rivals. True to form, the Heat and the Pacers met in the Conference Finals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs on May 22, 2013. Several instances of physicality became prominent in the series: Shane Battier received an offensive foul for throwing his knee at Hibbert's midsection; Hibbert claimed that |
Highly Suspect | The Boy Who Died Wolf (2016–2017) & MCID (2018–present) | Their second studio album, The Boy Who Died Wolf, was released November 18, 2016. The band released the single "My Name Is Human" on September 7, 2016. A second single, "Little One", was released on April 26, 2017. On December 6, it was announced that "My Name Is Human" was nominated for Best Rock Song at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. MCID (2018–present) On November 26, 2018, lead vocalist Johnny Stevens released a raw teaser of one of the songs that will appear on the album, codenamed "Teddy Bear". Production for Highly Suspect's third album began on February 25, 2019.
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INS Jalashwa (L41) | Service history | evacuate Indian citizens from Libya in the aftermath of the turmoil from the 2011 Libyan civil war. They carried their full air wings, and a contingent of Marine special forces.
INS Jalashwa has undergone two refits. A short one, limited by financial constraints, helped the ship attain higher speeds. The second refit in 2012 was longer, and her radars and sensors were replaced with indigenous equipment. This reduced the navy's dependence on US-origin components, as it was uncomfortable with the US inspection regime. |
Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph | Science results | more complex than previously known. This includes features described as solar heat bombs, high-speed plasma jets, nano-flares, and mini-tornadoes. These features are an important step in understanding the transfer of heat to the corona.
In 2019 IRIS detected tadpole like jets coming out from the Sun according to NASA. |
Inga Ålenius | Early life and career & Later years and death | in television, playing the role of "Astrid" on Hem till byn, Sweden's longest running TV series, for 30 years. Ålenius had starred alongside actor Nils Poppe in several roles during the early 1990s. Later years and death After turning 70, Ålenius moved to the town of Helsingborg. Her last role was in the play I Sista Minuten. Ålenius died following a brief illness in 2017, aged 78. |
Infibeam | Generic top level domain name registry & Logistics aggregation platform & Payments | September 2014. Logistics aggregation platform ShipDroid, a logistics aggregation platform launched in January 2015, to provide uniformity of logistics services to small merchants across all courier partners. The platform covers 20,000 pincodes across 600 cities. The platform lets merchants choose modes of delivery such as surface, rail, or air mode, and can opt for delivery commitment SLAs such as express or regular. Payments Infibeam invested $8.9 million in payment gateway CCAvenue in 2016. In Feb 2017, it announced further investment and likely merger with CCAvenue. In May 2018, Infibeam Inc invested $1.17 million acquiring the 100% stake in Vavian International |
Haggith | Later references | for generations afterwards Mapu's book was widely read, exerted considerable cultural influence among Jews and influenced the development of the budding Zionist movement.
Due especially to Mapu's book, "Hagit" - not previously attested among Jews - is commonly used as a female first name in contemporary Israel. |
Indians in the United Arab Emirates | Economic contribution & Indo-Emirati relations | extortions and other activities. Dubai, in particular has been associated with the smuggling of gold and precious metals. Dawood Ibrahim, head of the organised crime syndicate D-Company, is estimated to have smuggled 20 to 30 tonnes of gold to India. Indo-Emirati relations India and the UAE (United Arab Emirates) have generally enjoyed cordial relations, partly due to their shared history with the British presence in Asia, and partly due to the pre-colonial history of trade, commerce and settlement between the nations. In 1999, the UAE government secured the release of 25 civilian passengers aboard Indian Airlines flight IC-814 that had |
Het Anker Brewery | Distillery De Molenberg | (which was originally brewed by Liefmans Brewery and then acquired by Duvel Moortgat Brewery) was ranked #6 in a 2010 New York Times test of Belgian-style beers. Het Anker is also brewing Dentergems Wit, a wheat beer brewed earlier by Liefmans.
Specialty beers include the Cuvée van de Keizer, brewed once a year on the birthday of Charles V, available as a strong pale ale (red) and a dark ale ("blue"). Distillery De Molenberg In 2010, a full-fledged whisky distillery was built and put into operation in Blaasveld, in the 17-century family farm. From the mash of Gouden Carolus Tripel , |
Invictus (novel) | Cover description | Invictus (novel) Cover description AD 54. The soldiers of the Roman army patrol a vast Empire, enforcing imperial rule with brutal efficiency.
In Hispania, tensions have reached boiling point. Bands of rebels range over the land. A unit of the army’s finest is dispatched to restore the peace. Their commander is Vitellius, a veteran of unmatched ambition.
Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro are amongst the Roman troops. Their mission is fraught with danger: on the one hand, feuding tribes, challenging terrain and an embittered populace. On the other: intrigue against the ageing Emperor Claudius.
Only through strategic brilliance, unparalleled courage and the smile |
Hussein Bicar | The artist | a sculptured quality on his figures in their austere settings.
This philosophical orientation towards expressing the spirituality of subjects is also apparent in Bicar’s portraits. His subjects seem to glow and exude their personalities. Since his college days, Bicar has continued to be an outstanding portrait artist.
A gentle, modest, and extremely gifted man, Hussein Bicar’s contribution to the arts of Egypt is beyond measure. After more than half a century as an artist and critic, he continued to be eclectic in his tastes, receptive to change, and eager to understand all schools of art as they reflect world conditions. Elegant in |
Icon Health & Fitness | Legal History | was later upheld on appeal. |
Human rights in Finland | Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant construction project & Human right violations in Thailand | trade unions took their case to court. Thirty-two people were fired for joining the trade union Sähköliitto. Human right violations in Thailand British migrant rights expert Andy Hall (activist) who worked for the Finnish NGO Finnwatch in Thailand was handed a four-year suspended prison sentence for his report on human rights abuses in the country's fruit-processing industry which products were exported in Finland. The charges related to publication of a report Cheap Has a High Price in 2013 by Finnwatch, a Finnish civil society organisation. The report outlined allegations of serious human rights violations, as use of child labour, at |
Indian religions | Rise of Shramanic tradition (7th to 5th centuries BCE) & Jainism | this movement.
Shramana gave rise to the concept of the cycle of birth and death, the concept of samsara, and the concept of liberation. The influence of Upanishads on Buddhism has been a subject of debate among scholars. While Radhakrishnan, Oldenberg and Neumann were convinced of Upanishadic influence on the Buddhist canon, Eliot and Thomas highlighted the points where Buddhism was opposed to Upanishads. Buddhism may have been influenced by some Upanishadic ideas, it however discarded their orthodox tendencies. In Buddhist texts Buddha is presented as rejecting avenues of salvation as "pernicious views". Jainism Jainism was established by a lineage |
Indo-Pacific languages | Proposal & Reception | and suggests that it may be more than 40,000 years old. Reception Greenberg's proposal was based on rough estimation of lexical similarity and typological similarity and has not reached a stage where it can be confirmed by the standard comparative method, including the reconstruction of a protolanguage. The languages of Tasmania are extinct and so poorly attested that many historical linguists regard them as unclassifiable. Roger Blench has dismissed the Indo-Pacific proposal as improbable, observing that while it "purported to be a purely linguistic exercise...it conveniently swept up all the languages of the crinklyhaired populations in the region that were |
Internally Displaced Person Camp in Lagos | null | Internally Displaced Person Camp in Lagos Internally Displaced Person Camp in Lagos is located in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State, and it was established in the first quarter of the year 2016 by the Federal Government to cater for migrants and internally displaced persons in the state as well as served as a re-integration centre.
The centre was established in partnership with Web of Hearts, which is a non-governmental organization based in Lagos State. The centre was commissioned by Hajiya Hadiza Sani Kangiwa,who is the Honourable Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons
According to Hajiya |
Infamous Assassinations | Episode 19: Yitzhak Rabin & Episode 20: Tsar Nicholas II & Episode 21: Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq & Episode 22: Alexander I of Yugoslavia | be a traitor for doing deals with the Palestinians. Episode 20: Tsar Nicholas II On 17 July 1918 in Ekaterinburg, Russia, Bolsheviks shot dead the tsar, his wife, and their five children; then buried them in a wood. Episode 21: Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq On 17 August 1988 in Pakistan, Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq died in a plane crash, along with the US Ambassador and several high-ranking military officials. It was ruled an accident, but there are many conspiracy theories about the death of Zia-ul-Haq. Episode 22: Alexander I of Yugoslavia On 9 October 1934 in Marseille, France, Yugoslav King Alexander was shot |
Howrah Yeshvantapur Duronto Express | Service & Loco link & Timings | Howrah Duronto Express (67.69 km/hr).
As the average speed of the train is above 55 km/h (34 mph), as per Indian Railway rules, its fare includes a Superfast surcharge. Loco link As the route is fully electrified, it is powered by a Santragachi based WAP 7 or WAP 4 or Tatanagar based WAP 7 for its entire journey. Timings 12245 Howrah Yeshvantapur Duronto Express leaves Howrah Junction at 10:50 AM every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday and reaches Yeshvantapur Junction the next day at 4:00 PM.
12246 Yeshvantapur Howrah Duronto Express leaves Yeshvantapur Junction at 11:00 AM every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Sunday |
He's A Smoothie | 1966 & 1967 Horse of the Year | Stakes. 1967 Horse of the Year In 1967, He's a Smoothie raced in both Canada and the United States. His major victories came in the Canadian Maturity Stakes, the Durham Cup Handicap, the Eclipse Stakes, his second straight Seagram Cup Handicap, and the most prestigious win of his career, the Canadian International Championship.
Based on his performances in Canada, He's a Smoothie was invited to compete against some of the best American and European horses in the November 12, 1967 Washington, D.C. International Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse in Maryland. He's a Smoothie ran fourth after he was given seven more |
Human rights in Finland | Gender equality at work & Children's rights & LGBT rights | August 2013, many companies neglected to obey this law. However, the law was poorly enforced. Children's rights Finland has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Having children work or beg is forbidden as is any misuse of children. Furthermore, it is illegal to hit a child under unreasonable conditions.
The number and backgrounds of teen prostitutes in Finland is not recorded. Buying or attempting to buy sex from a minor is a crime in Finland. Legal responsibility for the deed always lies with the buyer. LGBT rights Finland practices forced sterilization for people who have undergone sex |
INX Media case | 2010–2015 & 2017 | Private Equity Limited, New Silk Route (NSR) PE Mauritius, and Dunearn Investment (Mauritius). In 2013 the investigation was halted without explanation. In May 2014 the investigative wing of the Central Board of Direct Taxes compiled a tax history of the INX Group and suggested that the Mukerjeas had laundered Rs. 275.5 crore (Rs. 2.755 billion) via Mauritius into eight INX Group subsidiary companies between 2007 and 2008. In September 2015 the Mumbai office of the Enforcement Directorate indicated that it would reopen the 2010 FEMA case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. 2017 On 15 May 2017, the |
Imam Ali Mosque | Architecture and decoration | Qibla Portal respectively. There are two additional monumental portals, the Portal of Muslim Ibn 'Aqil, north of the Clock Gate, and the al-'Amara, or al-Faraj Portal, at the southwestern corner. A courtyard surrounds the inner shrine, while the inner shrine is linked on the west to the Al-Ra's Mosque. The inner shrine is a large cube with chamfered edges, topped by an onion-shaped dome 42 m (138 ft) in height, and flanked by twin 38 m (125 ft) tall minarets. |
Igor Bunich | Operatsia Groza | them through tetanus. In Bunich's view Stalin is not the main responsible for these human losses, but Zhukov. Stalin was a statesman but not a soldier, in strategic questions he had to rely on the advice of his generals, and Zhukov was not a very talented one. For example, he gave order to pile up heaps of ammunition under the bare sky in Soviet occupied Poland to a kind of Egyptian pyramids, which could be easily detected by the scout planes of the "Fliegerabteilung" of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris' "Abwehr" patrolling over this region as early as a month before the |
Interstate 265 | Indiana & Kentucky | Interstate 265 Indiana Interstate 265 (I-265) in the U.S. state of Indiana presently runs 13.1 miles (21.1 km) from I-64 at the western edge of New Albany to the Lewis and Clark Bridge near Utica. Beginning at its western terminus, the freeway is concurrent with Indiana State Road 62 until Exit 10. Kentucky Interstate 265 (I-265) in the U.S. state of Kentucky presently runs 38.9 miles (62.6 km) from the Lewis and Clark Bridge in northern Louisville to an interchange with I-65 in southern Louisville. The entire freeway is concurrent with Kentucky Route 841.
The Gene Snyder Freeway in which KY 841 and I-265 |
Hirola | Social structure and reproduction & Threats | new herds are established (Butynski, 2000).
Hirola are seasonal breeders with young being born from September to November. Data on age of sexual maturity and gestation period are not available for wild hirola however in captivity gestation was around 7.5 months (227–242 days) with one female mating at 1.4 years old and giving birth at 1.9 years. Another pair of hirola mated when they were 1.7 years of age. In captivity one of the main causes of mortality is wounds caused by intra-hirola aggression, including aggression between females. Threats The reasons for the historic decline of the hirola |
Hrœrekr Ringslinger | null | Hrœrekr Ringslinger Hrœrekr Ringslinger or Ringscatterer, Old Norse: Hrærekr slöngvanbaugi, Old Danish: Rørik Slængeborræ or Rørik Slyngebond was a legendary 7th-century king of Zealand or Denmark, who appears in Chronicon Lethrense, Annals of Lund, Gesta Danorum, Sögubrot, Njáls saga, Hversu Noregr byggðist, Skjöldunga saga, and Bjarkarímur. Connection with such historical figures such as Horik I, who ruled Denmark around 854 for a dozen or so years, or the founder of the Rurik dynasty is fraught with difficulty.
Beside the name, the Danish and the West Norse traditions have little more in common than his living a few generations after Hrólfr Kraki, |
History of Landsbanki | 1946–1955: Trade protectionism & 1956–1965: Central bank separated from commercial operations | its open-handed lending policy to the fishing industry, borrowing by this sector doubled in the following decades, rising from 23% of total loans outstanding in 1941 to 46% in 1960. The development was reflected in the major surge in the contribution of fisheries to GDP. 1956–1965: Central bank separated from commercial operations In 1957, Landsbanki was divided into a central bank and a state-owned commercial bank. Four years later the final connections between the two were severed and subsequently the Central Bank of Iceland controlled foreign currency trading and supervised the country's commercial and savings banks. Despite the separation, commercial |
Gino Martino | Early life | Ferraro was later employed as director of sales and marketing at Patriot Plastics in Woburn, Massachusetts, and remained with the company throughout his pro wrestling career.
Ferraro eventually became interested in a pro wrestling career. He considered attending Killer Kowalski's wrestling school in Malden, Massachusetts but decided against it due to the high tuition fees. He was instead trained by Jeff "Bruiser" Costa, Rip Morrison, Dan Petiglio, and Paul Zine among others. Zine specifically helped develop his in-ring persona and getting him bookings in his early career. He also received additional training from Tony Rumble, Ox Baker, and The Iron Sheik |
Henry of Treviso | null | commune tried and failed to obtain official ecclesiastical sanction for his cult. He was beatified in 1750 by Pope Benedict XIV. A Trevisan priest, Count Rambaldo degli Azzoni Avogari, published a hagiography of him in 1760. |
ITER | Responses to criticism | fusion reactor chamber (one half gram of deuterium/tritium fuel) is only sufficient to sustain the fusion burn pulse from minutes up to an hour at most, whereas a fission reactor usually contains several years' worth of fuel.
Moreover, some detritiation systems will be implemented, so that, at a fuel cycle inventory level of about 2 kg (4.4 lb), ITER will eventually need to recycle large amounts of tritium and at turnovers orders of magnitude higher than any preceding tritium facility worldwide.
In the case of an accident (or sabotage), it is expected that a fusion reactor would release far less radioactive pollution than would |
Herluf Trolle | Early life | Beate Iversdatter (ca 1440-1487), heiress of Lillö, and daughter of lord Iver Axelsen til Thott, fiefholder of the island of Gulland.
At the age of nineteen, Trolle went to Metropolitanskolen (Vor Frue Skole) at Copenhagen, subsequently completing his studies at Wittenberg University from 1536-1537. Here he adopted the views of the German Lutheran reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), with whom he was in intimate correspondence for some years.
His marriage with Birgitte Gøye (1511-1574), the daughter of Lord High Treasurer Mogens Gøye (ca. 1470–1544), brought him a rich inheritance, and in 1557 he was summoned to the membership of the High |
Highgate, Birmingham | Highgate Park | that was originally owned by Elizabeth Hollier, who used it for grazing. When Elizabeth died her will stated that the land was to be used for charity. The four fields were to be rented out, and twelve poor people of Aston Parish and twelve poor people of Birmingham Parish were to be clothed with the money each year. In 1875, the Trustees of Elizabeth Hollier's Charity wanted to develop the land for industry, but Birmingham Corporation bought it for a park. The part of the park near Alcester Street was later asphalted to serve as a playground. Highgate Park is |
Governorship of Mitt Romney | Military and veterans benefits | wars. Romney signed the bill into law on Veterans Day 2005.
In a November 3, 2006 press release, Romney stated that the account that funds the insurance benefits created in the "Welcome Home Bill" faced a deficit of $64,000. The Massachusetts legislature was out of session at the time of the shortfall. According to the press release, Romney transferred money from the governor's office budget to cover the deficit.
Working with the legislature, Romney developed legislation to provide tax exemptions to disabled veterans and benefits to families of fallen and missing soldiers. Romney signed the Massachusetts Military Enhanced Relief Individual Tax (MERIT) |
Human rights in Finland | Military and civilian service & Arms trade to undemocratic countries & Migrant workers | the minimum time spent in military service, Amnesty International views it as a punitive measure. In addition, those conscientious objectors that refuse civilian service are sent to prison. According to Amnesty, they are prisoners of conscience. Arms trade to undemocratic countries In 2011, the government of Finland granted arms export licenses to twenty-five countries in contravention of European Union guidelines. In October 2011, the Finnish Ministry of Defence granted export licenses for the transport of sniper rifles and ammunition to Kazakhstan. Migrant workers By 2011, Finland had not signed the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of |
He's A Smoothie | 1966 | He's A Smoothie 1966 He's a Smoothie was trained by the owner's son, Warren Beasley, who said, "I was listed as the trainer but Bobby (Bateman) was really the trainer." Slow to develop, the colt did not race at age two. At age three, he earned his first win in May 1966 on the dirt at the Fort Erie Racetrack in Fort Erie, Ontario. He went on to win the Mohawk Handicap, the Fairbanks Handicap, the first of two straight Seagram Cup Handicaps, the Valedictory Handicap at 1³⁄₄ miles, and a Canadian Classic, the Prince of Wales |
Indian religions | Tantra & Vedanta | culture began to be rejuvenated by the patronage of the Gupta Dynasty. The position of the Brahmans was reinforced, and the first Hindu temples emerged during the late Gupta age. Vedanta In the same period Vedanta changed, incorporating Buddhist thought and its emphasis on consciousness and the working of the mind. Buddhism, which was supported by the ancient Indian urban civilisation lost influence to the traditional religions, which were rooted in the countryside. In Bengal, Buddhism was even prosecuted. But at the same time, Buddhism was incorporated into Hinduism, when Gaudapada used Buddhist philosophy to reinterpret the Upanishads. This also |
Infernal Noise Brigade | null | a European tour that also brought them to England, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria.
Their website describes their music as combining "elements of drumline, taiko, Mughal and North African rhythms, elements of Balkan fanfares, breakbeats, and just about anything else." Although best known for their free (and often confrontational) public performances at political protests, they sometimes performed at more conventional concerts and club gigs, usually featured as part of a musically eclectic program.
Christopher Frizzelle, in an "obituary" for the band in the Seattle-based arts weekly The Stranger, remarked that their "most important and dramatic public events were standoffs with cops" |
Go Ask Alice | Censorship & Adaptations | teenage girl has not been an issue in censorship disputes. Nilsen and others have criticized this on the basis that the dishonesty of presenting a probable fake memoir to young readers as real should raise greater concerns than the content. Adaptations The ABC television network broadcast a made-for-television movie, Go Ask Alice, based on the book. It starred Jamie Smith-Jackson, William Shatner, Ruth Roman, Wendell Burton, Julie Adams, and Andy Griffith. Also among the cast were Robert Carradine, Mackenzie Phillips, and Charles Martin Smith. The film was promoted as an anti-drug film based on a true story.
The film was |
Indiana Pacers | Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum (1967–1974) & Market Square Arena (1974–1999) | ABA merged with the NBA. Market Square Arena (1974–1999) Market Square Arena was home of the Indiana Pacers from 1974 to 1999. The first Pacers basketball game ever held in the arena was a preseason game against the Milwaukee Bucks; attendance was 16,929. The first regular-season ABA game in the arena was held on October 18, 1974, against the San Antonio Spurs; the Pacers lost in double overtime, 129–121 in front of 7,473 fans. The first Pacers victory in Market Square Arena came on October 23 with a 122–107 win over the Spirits of St. Louis. The 1974–75 season ended |
Indian religions | Indian philosophy & Hindu literature | by other schools, and it is no longer a living tradition. Other Indian philosophies generally regarded as atheistic include Samkhya and Mimāṃsā. Hindu literature Two of Hinduism's most revered epics, the Mahabharata and Ramayana were compositions of this period. Devotion to particular deities was reflected from the composition of texts composed to their worship. For example, the Ganapati Purana was written for devotion to Ganapati (or Ganesh). Popular deities of this era were Shiva, Vishnu, Durga, Surya, Skanda, and Ganesh (including the forms/incarnations of these deities).
In the latter Vedantic period, several texts were also composed as summaries/attachments to the Upanishads. |
Georges Suarez | Biography | interested in Georges Clemenceau and Aristide Briand, to whom he devoted long monographs of anecdotes.
Like many of his contemporaries, Suarez adopted an ambiguous political stance over the course of time. Switching back and forth between the left (he was interested in the Cartel des gauches left-wing alliance) and the right (he followed the Stavisky Affair and the riot at the Palais Bourbon in 1934), Suarez preserved a centrist, pacifist and germanophile stance.
Suarez often met with journalists close to Jean Luchaire's daily newspaper Notre temps, which supported Briand's politics of peace with Germany. He was also close to Bertrand de Jouvenel |
IdeaPad | MIIX 300 & MIIX 310 | screen which supports wide viewing angles. It has a micro-USB port and an on-screen Windows button. Powered by a quad-core Atom Bay Trail chip, the MIIX 300 will provide 2 GB of RAM, and internal storage capacity will top out at 64 GB. It will come with Windows 8.1 with Bing and a year’s subscription to Office 365. Battery life is around 7 hours for a single charge. MIIX 310 The MIIX 310 is a Windows 10 tablet with a detachable keyboard. It has an Intel Atom X5 8300 processor with integrated graphics. 128 gigabytes of eMMC internal storage come |
Indians in the United Arab Emirates | Culture | Award ceremonies such as the International Indian Film Academy Awards, Asianet Film Awards, as well as Filmfare Awards have previously been held in Dubai; the city is also a popular destination for filming Indian films. |
Homosexualities | Gay media | to test negative stereotypes about gay people. He criticized them for using language that contained implied value judgments, and suggested that their division of homosexuals into five different "types" was a value-laden classification. He disagreed with what he considered their attempt to "demote the sense of unified or shared experience among gays", and criticized their failure to "attempt to delineate the experience we all share." He maintained that because their respondents were mainly middle class, they were unable to further explore Kinsey's findings about "the division of sexual and sex-related behavior based on class." He considered them naive to believe |
Infibeam | Acquisitions | Picsquare.com, a personalised photo printing website. In 2014, it acquired Odigma, a digital marketing company, for US$5 million. In 2017, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to acquire DRC Systems, a provider of enterprise ERP solutions and customized software for e-commerce applications.
In 2017, Infibeam has merged with CCAVenue, India's largest payment gateway by transactions, in a deal that valued the payment gateway at $289 million. Also, in 2018 Infibeam acquired Snapdeal's wholly owned subsidiary Unicommerce - a Cloud-Based E-Commerce Order Management Software for ₹ 120 Crore.
Lately, in May 2018 Infibeam Inc. has acquired 100% shareholding of Vavian International Ltd. The |
Harvard College social clubs | Controversy & Lawsuit | the early 1980s for that reason. Lawsuit In December 2018 separate suits were filed in federal and Massachusetts courts by national fraternities and sororities which alleged that Harvard's policies against single-sex clubs were discriminatory. The lawsuits are expected to play out over the course of several years. |
INX Media case | 2017 & 2018 | a "politically-motivated vendetta" against him and his son. 2018 Karti Chidambaram's chartered accountant, S. Bhaskararaman, was arrested for allegedly assisting him to manage his wealth in India and abroad in February 2018. In the same month, Karti Chidambaram was arrested by CBI at Chennai airport and was brought to Delhi. He received bail after spending 23 days in jail.
In March 2018, Indrani Mukerjea told the CBI in a statement that a $1-million deal had been struck between Karti Chidambaram and the Mukerjeas to secure FIPB approval in favour of INX Media. In October 2018, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized assets |
I'm Making Believe | The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald recording & Other versions & Reception & Chart performance | Gabler. "I'm Making Believe" was recorded with two opposing choruses by Fitzgerald and Ink Spots member Bill Kenny. The single was released in November 1944 as a 78-rpm disc by Decca Records. Other versions "I'm Making Believe" was also recorded by the Three Suns, Hal McIntyre and Mark Warnow. Reception The Billboard praised the pairing of Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots, predicting the song would be popular among both jukebox and phonograph listeners. DownBeat wrote of it: "[Fitzgerald] really tears this one apart … She's never done anything like it, and her vocal is actually thrilling." Chart performance The Ink |
Hideaki Matsuura | Playing career | (2008). He retired end of 2008 season. |
Hell Divers | Plot | Hell Divers Plot Leading Chief Petty Officer "Windy" Riker (Wallace Beery) is a veteran aerial gunner of a Navy Helldiver dive bomber and the leading chief of Fighting Squadron One, about to go to Panama aboard the USS Saratoga aircraft carrier. He loses his five-year title of "champion machine gunner" after young C.P.O. Steve Nelson (Clark Gable) joins the squadron. Windy, notorious for using his fists to enforce discipline, is charged by local police with wrecking a Turkish bath. Windy is saved from arrest, however, when Lieutenant Commander Jack Griffin (John Miljan), skipper of the squadron, intervenes on his behalf. Griffin |
ITER | Organization history | under the direction of William Flynn Martin that resulted in a consensus that the US should go forward with the project.
Martin and Velikhov concluded the agreement that was agreed at the summit and announced in the last paragraph of this historic summit meeting, "... The two leaders emphasized the potential importance of the work aimed at utilizing controlled thermonuclear fusion for peaceful purposes and, in this connection, advocated the widest practicable development of international cooperation in obtaining this source of energy, which is essentially inexhaustible, for the benefit for all mankind."
Conceptual and engineering design phases carried out under the auspices |
Hoxnian Stage | null | is named after Hoxne in the English county of Suffolk where some of the deposits it created were first found. Plant and vertebrate fossils indicate that it was a period of relatively warm climate. Clactonian and Acheulean flint tools and early human remains have been found dating to this stage. |
Garšviai Book Smuggling Society | null | 1894 and April 1895, two members of the society – Antanas Bružas and Andrius Bielinis – were arrested and sentenced to time in prison and exile, but the police did not uncover their connections to the Garšviai Society. The society unraveled when the police arrested Ūdra and found his notebook with names and addresses of his associates in June 1895. After a wide investigation, six men were put on trial while Jurgis Bielinis evaded capture. Ūdra and two others received two years in prison and five years in exile. Individual members of the society continued book smuggling, but the loss |
ITER | Breeder blanket & Magnet system | lithium metatitanate and lithium orthosilicate. Requirements of breeder materials include good tritium production and extraction, mechanical stability and low activation levels. Magnet system The central solenoid coil will use superconducting niobium-tin to carry 46 kA and produce a field of up to 13.5 teslas.
The 18 toroidal field coils will also use niobium-tin. At their maximum field strength of 11.8 teslas, they will be able to store 41 gigajoules. They have been tested at a record 80 kA. Other lower field ITER magnets (PF and CC) will use niobium-titanium for their superconducting elements. As of now the in-wall shielding blocks to |
Hinduism in Indonesia | History & Arrival of Hinduism | Hinduism in Indonesia History The natives of Indonesian Archipelago practiced indigenous animism and dynamism, beliefs common to the Austronesian people. Native Indonesians venerated and revered ancestral spirits; they also believed that some spirits may inhabit certain places such as large trees, stones, forests, mountains, or any sacred place. This unseen spiritual entity that has supernatural power is identified by ancient Javanese, Sundanese and Balinese as "hyang" that can mean either divine or ancestral. In modern Indonesian, "hyang" tends to be associated with God. Arrival of Hinduism Hindu influences reached the Indonesian Archipelago as early as the first century. Historical evidence |
Gaz Bennett | Reception | race featuring Gaz and Lauren astride killer-bladed mowers, larking about like people who'd clearly forgotten they were stalked habitually by bad luck and tragedy." |
Indiana Pacers | 1976–1987: Early NBA struggles | were joined in the merged league by the Denver Nuggets, New York Nets, and San Antonio Spurs.
The league charged a $3.2 million entry fee for each former ABA team. Since the NBA would only agree to accept four ABA teams in the ABA–NBA merger, the Pacers and the three other surviving ABA teams also had to compensate the two remaining ABA franchises which were not a part of the merger, the Spirits of St. Louis and Kentucky Colonels. As a result of the merger, the four teams dealt with financial troubles. Additionally, the Pacers had some financial troubles which dated |
Henry Foss High School | Daffodil Festival & Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps & January 2007 shooting | alumni. At Henry Foss High School, every princess is professionally photographed, and her portrait is displayed alongside every other Henry Foss Princess in the school hallway. Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Henry Foss High School is host to an AFJROTC program. It develops leadership, self-discipline, citizenship, and patriotism within students. January 2007 shooting On January 3, 2007, 17-year-old student Samnang Kok was shot to death in the school's hallway (10th grade hallway across a science classroom) as classes were about to resume after Winter break. The 18-year-old student Douglas Chanthabouly was convicted of Kok's murder and was sentenced |
Indian religions | Dravidian culture | one, typically associated with Shaktism. The temples of the Sangam days, mainly of Madurai, seem to have had priestesses to the deity, which also appear predominantly a goddess. In the Sangam literature, there is an elaborate description of the rites performed by the Kurava priestess in the shrine Palamutircholai. Among the early Dravidians the practice of erecting memorial stones “Natukal or Hero Stone had appeared, and it continued for quite a long time after the Sangam age, down to about 16th century. It was customary for people who sought victory in war to worship these hero stones to bless them |
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