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Incisoscutum | Embryos & Pelvic claspers | ancestors must have done. It is therefore likely that the warm reef environment of the Devonian Gogo Formation was stable and predictable, having a degree of ecological balance (for example hiding places for pregnant placoderms). This would have allowed the placoderms to invest more time and energy in producing and nurturing fewer, but more developed, offspring. Pelvic claspers Sexually dimorphic pelvic claspers have been found in male and female Incisoscutum fossil specimens. In males (WAM 03.3.28) the completely ossified clasper is a slender rod attached to a square basal plate that articulates directly with the pelvic girdle. This contrasts |
How I Got Lost | Plot | 2003. Plot The story involves a young disillusioned banker (Aaron Stanford) as seen through the eyes of his sportswriting best friend (Jacob Fishel), who has emotionally withdrawn since September 11, 2001 and the end of his post-9/11 relationship. When the two decide to leave town, the film becomes a road movie about the hidden gifts of getting lost. |
Gungsong Gungtsen | Life | Gungsong Gungtsen Gungsong Gungtsen (Wylie: gung srong gung btsan) was the only known son of Songtsen Gampo (605 or 617? – 649), the first Tibetan Emperor. Life Songtsen Gampo is said to have had five wives, the Nepalese princess Bhrikuti, and the Chinese Princess Wencheng, both devout Buddhists, are the best known, but he also married daughters of the King of Zhangzhung and the King of the Western Xia, as well as one each from the Ruyong and Mong (or Mang) clans (although other lists exist).
Gungsong Gungtsen was born to Mangza (or Mongsa) Tricham (Wylie: mang bza' khri lcham, mang |
I Still Believe in Santa Claus | Song information | Ono's "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" first made Billboard's Christmas Singles chart in 1971. |
IdeaPad | History | IdeaPad History The IdeaPad laptops were announced in January 2008. The first three models in the product line were the Y710, the Y510, and the U110. Some of the features that defined these first three models were widescreens, VeriFace facial recognition, frameless screens, touch controls, and Dolby speaker systems.
The IdeaPad design marked a deviation from the business-oriented ThinkPad laptops, towards a more consumer-oriented look and feel. Among these changes were a glossy screen and the absence of the traditional ThinkPad TrackPoint. Notebook Review said the keyboard had a ‘"distinctive ThinkPad feel" and "the touchpad and touchpad buttons were smooth and |
Initiative Measure 124 (Seattle) | Provisions | hotel is open to the public while under the management of the new employer. If during the first 90 days of operations the new owner finds that it needs fewer workers, staff must be retained by order of seniority. During this 90 day period staff may not be otherwise dismissed except for cause. Workers must be provided with a written performance evaluation at the end of this period; these records must be retained for at least three years. Conspicuous public notice of change of ownership, including contact information for the new owners, must be posted within five days after a |
Indian religions | Buddhism & Spread of Jainism and Buddhism (500–200 BCE) | knowledge and wisdom of the right path (maggarmagga-nanadasana visuddhi), attaining knowledge and wisdom through the course of practice (patipada-nanadasana visuddhi), and purification by attaining knowledge and insight wisdom (nanadasana visuddhi). Spread of Jainism and Buddhism (500–200 BCE) Both Jainism and Buddhism spread throughout India during the period of the Magadha empire.
Buddhism in India spread during the reign of Ashoka of the Maurya Empire, who patronised Buddhist teachings and unified the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BCE. He sent missionaries abroad, allowing Buddhism to spread across Asia. Jainism began its golden period during the reign of Emperor Kharavela of Kalinga |
Iris ruthenica | Description | Iris ruthenica Description Iris ruthenica is very variable and hybrids can look very similar to Iris uniflora. The other species in the Iris series Ruthenicae. It can be variable with its leaf length and width, and flower height.
It has a creeping rhizome, (about 3-5 mm in diameter) which is branched and has fibrous roots. The creeping rhizome forms a clump or a grass-like tuft plant.
It has bright green leaves, or greyish green leaves. That are tall and thin, and grass-like, measuring between 10 – 40 cm (8–13 in) long and 2 – 6 mm wide. The leaves can grow longer than the flower stem.
The |
Initiative Measure 124 (Seattle) | Legislative history & Provisions | Murray. Provisions The initiative requires hotels with 60 or more rooms to issue "panic buttons" to employees that work alone in guest rooms. Hotels are required to keep lists of guests accused of assault or harassment for five years from the date of the last accusation involving any given guest. All relevant documents must be retained for the same period. Any guest accused of assault, sexual assault, or sexual harassment must be banned from the hotel for a minimum of three years. A mere accusation is sufficient to require a ban. No investigation is required. There is no provision for |
Hyperion Records | Sawkins lawsuit | and therefore were not subject to copyright and further that Dr. Sawkins did receive payment in the form of a hire fee from the performers for their rental. The case came to court in May 2004 and the judgment went largely in favour of Dr. Sawkins. Hyperion chose to make an appeal in March 2005, in which the court upheld the original judgment. While the damages sought by Dr. Sawkins were thought to be small, the legal costs of the case were estimated to result in a liability to the company of hundreds of thousands of pounds Sterling, making the |
Greco-Roman mysteries | Samothracian Mysteries | come to be initiated from the neighboring regions. While the information here is even more scarce than that available with the Eleusinian Mysteries (and more late, dating to the Hellenistic and Roman periods), it's known that the Samothracian Mysteries significantly borrowed from the ones at Eleusis (including the word 'Mysteries'), furthermore, archaeological and linguistic data continues elucidating more of what happened at Samothrace. These rituals were also associated with others on neighboring island such as the mysteries of the deities of Cabeiri. Philip II of Macedon and his later wife Olympias were said to have met during the initiation ceremony |
Hinduism in Java | Survivals & Conversion to Hinduism | Buddha along with Hindu trinity Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma. The Badui have a religion of their own which incorporates Hindu traits. Conversion to Hinduism It is interesting to study conversion to Hinduism in two close and culturally similar regions, the Yogyakarta region, where only sporadic conversions to Hinduism had taken place, and the Klaten region, which has witnessed the highest percentage of Hindu converts in Java. It has been argued that this dissimilarity was related to the difference in the perception of Islam among the Javanese population in each region. Since the mass killings of 1965-1966 in Klaten had been |
Italian War of 1521–1526 | Initial moves | by Prospero Colonna, however, and by late November had been forced out of Milan and had retreated to a ring of towns around the Adda River. There, Lautrec was reinforced by the arrival of fresh Swiss mercenaries; but, having no money available to pay them, he gave in to their demands to engage the Imperial forces immediately. On 27 April 1522, he attacked Colonna's combined Imperial and Papal army near Milan at the Battle of Bicocca. Lautrec had planned to use his superiority in artillery to his advantage, but the Swiss, impatient to engage the enemy, masked his guns |
It's Only Rock 'n Roll | Recording | by Wood's wife at the time, Krissy, to join them at the guitarist's home. While there, Richards recorded some tracks with Wood and quickly developed a close friendship, with Richards going as far as moving into Wood's guest room. Jagger soon entered the mix and it was here that the album's lead single and title track, "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)", was first recorded. Wood worked closely on the track with Jagger, who subsequently took the song and title for their album. The released version of this song features Wood on 12-string acoustic guitar.
It's Only Rock |
Indians in the United Arab Emirates | Culture | Churches exist in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al-Khaimah. In 1998, the government of Dubai donated land for the construction of a facility to be shared by five congregations, four Protestant and one Catholic.
Restaurants serving Indian food are very popular and widely available in the Emirates. Many of the hotels in Dubai and Abu Dhabi have Indian restaurants that serve Mughlai or Tandoor cuisine, while vegetarian South Indian are available and popular in the larger cities of the UAE.
India-Pakistan cricket matches are widely followed by the Indian diaspora in the UAE. The Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, established by Abdul |
Infamous Assassinations | Episode 13: Wladyslaw Sikorski & Episode 14: Robert F. Kennedy & Episode 15: William McKinley & Episode 16: Mahatma Gandhi | Sikorski On 4 July 1943 in Gibraltar, Polish leader Sikorski was killed when the plane he was travelling in crashed. Although the crash was declared to be an accident, that ruling is disputed. Episode 14: Robert F. Kennedy On 5 June 1968 in Los Angeles, Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan shot Senator Kennedy, who died from his wounds the following day. Episode 15: William McKinley On 6 September 1901 in Buffalo, New York, Polish-American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot US President McKinley, who died as a result 8 days later. Episode 16: Mahatma Gandhi On 30 January 1948 in Delhi, India, Gandhi |
Homosexualities | Mainstream media & Scientific and academic journals | quoted Duberman as saying that Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women resulted from "the most ambitious study of male homosexuality ever attempted", and that together with Sexual Preference (1981), it "refuted a large number of previous studies that gay men were social misfits". Scientific and academic journals Homosexualities received a positive review from Clarissa K. Wittenberg in Psychiatric News and a mixed review from Stephen F. Morin in Sex Roles. The book was also reviewed by John H. Curtis in the American Journal of Family Therapy. It received two reviews in the Journal of Homosexuality, one by |
Instruments of Mercy | Background, recording, and instrumentation | Instruments of Mercy Background, recording, and instrumentation Beautiful Eulogy was formed by rappers Braille and Odd Thomas and producer Courtland Urbano in 2011. The trio contributed a track to the charity album King Kulture in 2012, and featured as guest performers on the song "Misconception" by Lecrae from his 2012 Church Clothes mixtape. In the fall of the same year, Beautiful Eulogy released its debut album, Satellite Kite, to critical acclaim.
The trio revealed in an interview on October 28, 2013 that, due to their touring schedule and Braille and Odd Thomas's responsibilities as the owners of Humble Beast, they were |
Henry Francis Lyte | Decline and death | warmer climates of France and Italy, making written suggestions about the conduct of his family's financial affairs after his death. When his daughter was married to his senior curate, Lyte did not perform the ceremony. Lyte complained of weakness and incessant coughing spasms, and he mentions medical treatments of blistering, bleeding, calomel, tartar emetic, and "large doses" of Prussic acid. Yet his friends found him buoyant, cheerful, and keenly interested in affairs of the Europe around him. Lyte spent the summer of 1847 at Berry Head then, after one final sermon to his congregation on the subject of |
Henry Francis Lyte | Youth and education & Religious conversion | and her youngest son died.
The headmaster at Portora, Dr. Robert Burrowes, recognised Henry Lyte's ability, paid the boy’s fees, and "welcomed him into his own family during the holidays." Lyte was effectively an adopted son. Religious conversion After studying at Trinity College, Dublin, and with very limited training for the ministry, Lyte took Anglican holy orders in 1815, and for some time he held a curacy in Taghmon near Wexford. Lyte's "sense of vocation was vague at this early stage. Perhaps he felt an indefinable desire to do something good in life." However, in about 1816, Lyte experienced an |
Homosexualities | Scientific and academic journals | Russell Boxley, and the other by Joseph M. Carrier. Other discussions include those by the psychologist John Paul De Cecco in the Journal of Sex Research and the philosopher Michael Levin in The Monist.
According to Ronald Bayer, Wittenberg wrote that the book was certain to become an instant classic and that it fully deserved this status. Morin described the book as a "long-awaited publication", but did not consider its authors' findings surprising. He wrote that they appeared to have found "difficulty in dealing with the diversity of experiences that they found among their gay respondents". While appreciating their attempts |
Igor Kalinauskas | Artist & The "Wandering Stars" series | out of the initial overwhelming unity of the world". The "Wandering Stars" series The "Wandering Stars" series was created in 2005 and exhibited in different countries. Stars in his pictures resembled people: a man, like a star, generates the whole world.
"'Star differs from star in glory,' the Apostle said. But for the epithet "wandering" and the colour diversity of the canvases, we might say that these are "portraits" of angel stars shown through the same symbols of the colour and whirlpool. But actually these are portraits of humans, to be more precise – the portraits of their souls, wombs and |
Icon Health & Fitness | 1970s – 1980s & 1990s | selling wood-burning stoves under the Fire King brand. In the 1980s, they began manufacturing trampolines, and then, under the name ProForm Fitness Products, treadmills, exercise bikes, indoor rowers, and home gyms.
In 1988, Weider Health and Fitness acquired Weslo and ProForm, and in 1990, moved them into the current 300,000 square feet (28,000 m²) headquarters in Logan. 1990s In 1994, Weider sold ProForm and Weslo, along with Weider Care, to IHF Capital Inc, a group led by Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, in a deal equaling US$450 million. The companies were renamed ICON Health and Fitness, Inc.
ICON acquired HealthRider in 1996, NordicTrack in |
Itahar | Geography | district, on the south, Chanchal II, Chanchal I CD Blocks in Malda district and Barsoi CD Block in Katihar district of Bihar on the west.
Approximately 206 km of the India-Bangladesh border is in Uttar Dinajpur district. It covers the eastern boundary of the district. On the western side Uttar Dinajpur district has 227 km boundary with Bihar.
Itahar CD Block has an area of 362.40 km².It has 1 panchayat samity, 12 gram panchayats, 194 gram sansads (village councils), 217 mouzas and 219 inhabited villages. Itahar police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD Block is at Itahar.
Uttar Dinajpur district is one |
History of Landsbanki | 1926–1935: The country’s leading bank | and the government was prepared to do its part to strengthen the state bank rather than a foreign-owned private bank. An act of parliament passed later that year formally made it the country's national bank, with a new central bank division created alongside its commercial bank and mortgage lending operations. The bank's board of governors was to be composed of five members, four of them elected by Althingi and a fifth, the chairman, appointed by the Minister. Amendments to the act a year later included a state guarantee for the bank's obligations, including deposits, adding to its advantage over Íslandsbanki. |
Inga Ålenius | Early life and career | Inga Ålenius Inga Maria Ålenius (15 May 1938 – 23 April 2017, in Stockholm) was a Swedish actress. She is best known for her role as "Lisen" in Fanny and Alexander. Early life and career Ålenius was born on 15 May 1938 and educated at the City Theater's drama school in Norrköping. She worked at the County Theater in Västerås, People's Theater in Gothenburg, and the National Theater. Her first film credit was the 1968 film Under ditt parasoll, a film starring the pop/rock group Sven-Ingvars.
She worked with Ingmar Bergman on his 1982 film Fanny and Alexander. She also worked |
Igor Kalinauskas | The Last Supper: Spirit, Flesh, Blood | 2006 at the Leonardo da Vinci National Science & Technology Museum in Milan. Other exhibitions of his impression from the da Vinci masterpiece included "INK The Last Supper: Spirit, Flesh, Blood" (Bratislava, Slovakia, 2011).
The most complete realization of his vision of a famous painting was presented Lavra gallery in Kiev (Ukraine) in a philosophical large-scale art project "2000 years have passed. Faces faded, but the light remained" (polyptych-installation, reminiscence). In this installation, the series of canvases represents the faces of the apostles and Christ at The Last Supper. The canvases are only a part of this installation. There were a |
Iris Chang | Depression and death | more powerful than I could have imagined. Whether it was the CIA or some other organization I will never know. As long as I am alive, these forces will never stop hounding me.
Days before I left for Louisville I had a deep foreboding about my safety. I sensed suddenly threats to my own life: an eerie feeling that I was being followed in the streets, the white van parked outside my house, damaged mail arriving at my P.O. Box. I believe my detention at Norton Hospital was the government's attempt to discredit me.
Reports said that news of her suicide hit |
Imperial Fritillaries in a Copper Vase | Description | highlights on the metal vase".
Vincent, as mentioned by the Scottish painter, Archibald Standish Hartrick, was interested in a theory that stated that "the eye carried a portion of the last sensation it had enjoyed into the next, so that something of both must be included in every picture made". The inspiration for the selection of complementary colors (orange and blue in this painting), came from noticing that "when entering a lamplit room out of the night increases the orange effect of the light, and in the contrary case, the blue." As Vincent wrote, he tried to "render intense colour |
Higher education controversy in Odisha | Establishing a Central University in Odisha's KBK region | Central University in Odisha's KBK region The Koraput-Balangir-Kalahandi (KBK) region of Odisha is one of the most backward regions of India, with famines and large-scale starvation deaths reported each year. The region lacks infrastructure and the Indian government has done very little to alleviate the plight of the impoverished masses in those districts. There is a long-standing demand by the people of Odisha for the Indian government to establish a central university in this region, as part of the plan to ameliorate the poverty through various direct and indirect means such as education, as is being done in the underdeveloped |
Iris ruthenica | Propagation | The old and damaged rhizomes should be removed before replanting. |
Iris Chang | Public notability & Depression and death | others and we should not allow that flame to be extinguished."
In 2007, the documentary Nanking was dedicated to Chang, as well as the Chinese victims of Nanking. Depression and death Chang suffered a nervous breakdown in August 2004, which her family, friends, and doctors attributed in part to constant sleep deprivation, dozens of herbal supplements, and heavy doses of psychologically damaging prescription medication. At the time, she was several months into research for her fourth book, about the Bataan Death March. She was also promoting The Chinese in America. While en route to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where she planned to gain |
Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526–1568) | 1530s | of Constantinople (1533) was signed between Ferdinand and Suleiman. John Szapolyai was recognized as King of Hungary as an Ottoman vassal. However, the Ottomans recognized the land under Habsburg rule in Hungary.
This treaty did not satisfy John Szapolyai or Ferdinand whose armies began to skirmish along the borders. Ferdinand decided to strike a decisive blow in 1537 at John by sending his ablest generals to take Osijek, thereby violating the treaty. The siege failed and led to the Battle of Gorjani, which was a disaster of similar magnitude to that of Mohács with an Ottoman relief army smashing the Austrians.
However, |
Herbert Seddon | Personal life & Death and legacy | in the Plymouth Brethren faith and later became an Anglican, serving as a lay reader in St John's Church, Stanmore. In 1951 he published an account of the Christian heritage in medicine. Death and legacy Seddon died on 21 December 1977 in Edgware General Hospital.
The Seddon medal is a silver medal awarded by the RNOH to a junior staff member for 'outstanding clinical research'. The Sir Herbert Seddon teaching Centre at the RNOH at Stanmore is named for him. |
INX Media case | Background | had permission to source foreign investments to the tune of ₹4.62 crore (US$670,000) but it has allegedly received funds worth ₹305 crore (US$44 million).
In March 2007, INX Media had approached the Chairman of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), for permission for foreign direct investment (FDI) from three non-resident investors based in Mauritius. This money was sought for creating and operating a number of television channels under the banner of INX Media. The application to the FIPB mentioned its intention to "make a downstream financial investment to the extent of 26 per cent of the issued and outstanding equity share capital of |
ICQ | History | only a highly profitable company, but one of AOL's most successful businesses. Eliav Moshe replaced Gilliam in 2009 and became ICQ's managing director.
In April 2010, AOL sold ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies, headed by Alisher Usmanov, for $187.5 million. While ICQ was displaced by AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, and other competitors in the U.S. and many other countries over the 2000s, it remained the most popular instant messaging network in Russian-speaking countries, and an important part of online culture. Popular UINs demanded over 11,000 rubles in 2010.
In September of that year, Digital Sky Technologies changed its name to Mail.Ru |
Hodh Ech Chargui Region | Geography & Demographics | (32 °F). Due to the geography, the inhabitants historically, have been nomadic. In modern times, people have migrated to urban centres during the drought in 1970 and 1980. There are a few sedentary cultivators, who are located only in the Southern regions of the country. Research has indicated that the Saharan movement has resulted in reduction of rains in the region from the 1960s, when it received close to 250 mm (9.8 in) of rainfall. Demographics As of 2013, the population of the region was 430,668, compared to 363,071 in 2011. There were 47.71 per cent females and 52.29 per cent males. As |
Gwynn Parry Jones | Life and career | Blaina along with Mostyn Thomas and others, by having a street named after him in the Forgeside council estate in 1985.
He taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he died. |
Hussein Bicar | The artist & Abu Simbel Salvage and "The Eighth Wonder" Film | his simplicity, Bicar explained, “To understand is to appreciate”. Abu Simbel Salvage and "The Eighth Wonder" Film Amongst the most magnificent works of Bicar is the set of paintings done by Bicar for "The Eighth Wonder", a documentary narrating the tale of Ramses II Temple in Abu Simbel in southern Egypt. While the construction of The Aswan Dam, begun in 1960, to stabilize the water supply of Egypt, the flooding which would result threatened the existence of irreplaceable ancient temples. Such temples are a unique legacy, not only to Egypt but to humanity as a whole. Thus, many countries came |
Gustav Gaudernack | The first footsteps in the field of immunology | Oslo (UiO) in 1972. He traveled to the University of Tromsø (UiT) as a visiting fellow the same year together with several scientists from the UiO. In the period 1973-1979, Gaudernack was a research fellow supervised by Professor Hans Prydz at the UiT. He got a position as a research fellow in the group of Professor Kristian Hannestad at the Department of Immunology, UiT (1979–1980) and further continued his work in the group of Rolf Seljeli (1980–1983). During this period he went to the University of Minnesota, USA, and worked as a research fellow for one year (1980–1981). His research |
Infibeam | Recognition | E-Commerce Payment". |
Hinduism in Java | Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms | Hinduism in Java Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms Both Java and Sumatra were subject to considerable cultural influence from the India during the first and second millennia of the Common Era. Both Hinduism and Buddhism, which share a common historical background and whose membership may even overlap at times, were widely propagated in the Maritime Southeast Asia.
Hinduism, and the Sanskrit language through which it was transmitted, became highly prestigious in Java. Many Hindu temples were built, including Prambanan near Yogyakarta, which has been designated a World Heritage Site; and Hindu kingdoms flourished, of which the most important was Majapahit.
In the sixth |
Iqbal Manzil | History | Iqbal Manzil Iqbal Manzil ("Manzil"; word in Urdu meaning 'building' or 'mansion') is the birthplace of Muslim poet and philosopher Dr Muhammad Allama Iqbal (1877-1938). It is located in the heart of the city of Sialkot in Punjab province of Pakistan. History Iqbal Manzil was purchased in 1861 by Mohammad Rafique, the great-grandfather of Allama Iqbal. The house was originally very small, but each successor kept adding to it and the building grew in size.
After the death of his father Noor Muhammad, Iqbal's his elder brother, Ata Mohammad, was named the owner of the Iqbal Manzil. Ata Mohammed's sons after |
Hans Martínez | International career | at the Toulon Tournament.
Martínez made his full squad debut on 26 January 2008, starting in a 0–0 draw against Japan. |
It's Only Rock 'n Roll | Recording | Next Goodbye" and "If You Really Want to Be My Friend" continued their immersion in ballads. Seven of the album's 10 songs crack the four-minute mark, a feature that would come to be disparaged during the rising punk rock scene of the late 1970s.
Ronnie Wood, a long-time acquaintance of the band, began to get closer to the Rolling Stones during these sessions after he invited Mick Taylor to play on his debut album, I've Got My Own Album to Do. Taylor spent some time recording and hanging out at Wood's house The Wick. By chance, Richards was asked one night |
GateKeeper (access control device) | GateKeeper Enterprise & GateKeeper Halberd | the administrator to control the deployment and management of GateKeepers on the network. The IT administrator can set security policies, gather log data for auditing, conduct productivity analysis, and deploy updates to the client software. GateKeeper Halberd In December 2017 Untethered Labs announced on Kickstarter that they would release the Halberd, a key fob with a new hardware design. According to the company, the Halberd's larger design, new processor, and added accelerometer improve the device's performance and battery life. The Halberd subsequently reached its funding goal of $25,000 by raising $50,000 in 28 days from over 400 backers and is |
Geology of Germany | Basement | crust are found in a paragneiss of the Bavarian Forest, the protolith of which was probably deposited subsequent to the Cadomian Orogeny. A sample of this paragneiss contains a detrital zircon grain, whose core crystallised from a magma during the Archean eon, before about 3.48 billion years ago.
Whereas the Caledonian folded basement lies a few thousand metres below the surface of the Central European Depression, the Variscan basement or Variscides (German: Varistikum) outcrops in the Central European Blocks area, occurring extensively in several large highland areas and also sparsely in some lowland areas in the form of basement uplifts. A |
Insect fighting | Background | Insect fighting Background Forms of insect fighting as spectator sport are practised in regions of China, Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand. Some types have a long history; for example, cricket fighting is a traditional Chinese pastime that dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Originally an indulgence of emperors, cricket fighting later became popular among commoners. Beetle fighting, with such beetles as the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Xylotrupes socrates, Dorcus titanus, Goliathus, and dynastinae beetles also occurs, especially in Japan. There is also a online fan community, watching those fights in videos on different platforms. |
ISPM 15 | ISPM 15 revision | compliance. This mark of compliance is colloquially known as the "wheat stamp". Products exempt from the ISPM 15 are made from an alternative material, like paper, plastic or wood panel products (i.e. OSB, hardboard, and plywood). ISPM 15 revision The Revision of ISPM No. 15 (2009) under Annex 1, requires that wood used to manufacture ISPM 15 compliant Wood Packaging must be made from debarked wood not to be confused with bark free wood. ISPM 15 was updated to adopt the bark restriction regulations proposed by the European Union in 2009. Australia held out for approximately one |
Gasparilla Open | null | golfer of his era, but at age 42 he had not won a PGA tournament in 2 years. In his autobiography chapter entitled Gasparilla, Hagen recounts how at dawn on the morning of the first round of the tournament, he found himself across the Bay at the Belleview-Biltmore Hotel, still attired in his tuxedo after an all-night party. To prepare for his upcoming play, he sent his chauffeur into a field beside the hotel to retrieve a few practice shots. After topping three shots in a row, he decided that was enough practice, and headed off to Tampa, briefly interrupted |
Indiana Pacers | 2005–2010: Danny Granger era & 2010–2017: Paul George era | team showed signs of life near the end of the season, winning nearly all of their last 14 games.
In May 2010, after completing his rookie season, guard A. J. Price suffered a knee injury during a charity pick-up game that would require surgery. His expected rehabilitation was to last between 4 and 6 months, to be back just in time for training camp. 2010–2017: Paul George era In the 2010 NBA draft, the Pacers selected forward/guard Paul George with the 10th overall pick. In the second round, they drafted guard Lance Stephenson, as well as forward Ryan Reid. The draft |
Hussein Bicar | The teacher | and, in 1939, was selected as a member of a team of teachers who went to Morocco to teach at the invitation of the Moroccan government. During the next four years in Morocco, he learned to speak Spanish fluently. He also traveled extensively, taking advantage of his proximity to Europe. Bicar was visiting Berlin when World War II was declared. His job in Morocco ended and the Mediterranean was closed to travelers. To return to Egypt, he was forced to go by way of the Cape around South Africa. He spent three months during this journey painting portraits in Mozambique, |
Haaf Gruney | Name & A voyage to Karmøy & Wildlife | fishing. "Haaf" is added to distinguish it from other islands, such as Sound Gruney nearby. A voyage to Karmøy On August 4, 1745, two girls from Uyea rowed here to milk some of the cows grazing here. Unfortunately, their return was marred by a strong storm, and eventually they found their tiny boat blown to Karmøy in south west Norway. The Uyea girls ended up marrying Karmøy men, and their descendants still live there. Wildlife Haaf Gruney is a national nature reserve for the storm petrels which breed there. Mousa in the southern Shetland islands also has a strong colony.
The |
Iris Chang | Early life and background | Iris Chang Early life and background Iris Chang was the daughter of two university professors, Ying-Ying Chang and Dr. Shau-Jin Chang, who emigrated from Taiwan to the United States. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanking massacre, from which her maternal grandparents managed to escape. When she tried finding books about the subject in Champaign Public Library, she found there were none. She attended University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois and graduated in 1985. She was initially a computer science major, but would later switch to |
Hinson Leung | 2013-14 Match fixing scandal | Tuesday 7 January 2014, along with 8 other people by the ICAC for alleged match-fixing. He was working as Happy Valley AA's club executive officer. |
Italian War of 1521–1526 | France at bay | was confident that seizing the disputed lands would improve his own financial position sufficiently to continue the war and began to confiscate portions of them in Louise's name. Bourbon, angered by this treatment and increasingly isolated at court, began to make overtures to Charles V to betray the French king.
By 1523, the French situation had entirely collapsed. The death of Doge Antonio Grimani brought Andrea Gritti, a veteran of the War of the League of Cambrai, to power in Venice. He quickly began negotiations with the Emperor and on 29 July concluded the Treaty of Worms, which removed the |
Indiana Pacers | 2014–2015: George out for the season | and fractured. He was stretchered off of the court. Many described his injury as one of the worst and most graphic injuries they'd seen since the Kevin Ware incident. A day later, George successfully underwent surgery. He was expected to miss the entire 2014–15 season. On April 5, 2015 Paul George returned from his injury to play in a game against the Miami Heat. George shot 5 of 12 from the field and tallied two steals, two rebounds and two assists in a winning effort. He played for fifteen minutes.
On January 14, 2014, Vogel was named the Eastern Conference head |
Interior design regulation in the United States | Practice regulation | enforced by state agencies, and more. Practice regulation A practice statute regulates certain aspects of the practice of interior design to those individuals who have established their credentials with the regulating body. Most interior design practice statutes contain exemptions which allow individuals or businesses to continue practicing in areas not subject to regulation such as residential design. Practice laws include a protective title provision as well. Three states currently restrict the practice of interior design – Louisiana, Nevada, and Florida and two other jurisdictions, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. A fourth state, Alabama, passed a practice law in 2001 |
HMS Maori (F24) | Service history | HMS Maori (F24) Service history Maori was laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan in Scotland on 6 June 1936 and launched on 2 September 1937 by Mrs. W. J. Jordan, the wife of the New Zealand High Commissioner Bill Jordan. The ship was commissioned on 2 January 1939.
Maori joined HMS Cossack's division in January 1939 and joined the Mediterranean Fleet. She and the other Tribal-class destroyers did convoy escort duties, and Maori then returned to Britain in October. Until April 1940 she patrolled the North Sea and also took part in the Norwegian Campaign. In June |
Image (category theory) | null | Image (category theory) In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the image of a morphism is a generalization of the image of a function. |
Gay Meadow | The move to New Meadow | relocation since 1986, when plans were drawn up for a new stadium to the north of the town and Sainsbury's lined up to build a supermarket on the site of the old stadium. However, with Shrewsbury relegated from the old Second Division in 1989 and Sainsbury's developing elsewhere in the town, the plans were abandoned. In the 1990s, plans were made to redevelop Gay Meadow; however, with the poor access, capacity could rise to no more than 10,000.
In 1999, recently elected chairman Roland Wycherley released plans for a new stadium, provisionally titled the New Meadow, a 10,000 all-seater stadium on |
General Permitted Development Order | Householder permitted development & Prior approval | General Permitted Development Order Householder permitted development The phrase "permitted development" is often used to refer to Schedule 2 Part 1, which relates to "Development within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse". Prior approval Some changes of use are subject to a prior approval procedure with the local planning authority (LPA). This seeks approval of various matters, dependent on the nature of the use, but might typically include matters relating to transport and highways impacts, contamination risks, and flooding risks. For example, in the case of a change of use to A3 (restaurant and cafes) under Part 3 Class C, the |
Ismail H'Maidat | Brescia & Roma | Ismail H'Maidat Brescia H'Maidat played for various teams in his youth career. In 2014, he joined Brescia. He made his Serie B debut on 30 May 2014 against Trapani. He came in as an 87th-minute substitute for Daniele Corvia in a 0–1 away win. Roma On 31 January 2016, H'Maidat moved to Serie A club Roma for €3.15 million fee (€150,000 cash plus Ndoj and Somma). on a 4½-year contract. He joined Ascoli on a temporary deal immediately.
In August 2016 H'Maidat was signed by Serie B club Vicenza. He left the club in January 2017. He was loaned to Portuguese |
Hinduism in Indonesia | Social life | of Prambanan. Today the Prambanan temple stages various annual Hindu ceremonies and festivals such as Galungan and Nyepi.
In West Java, a Hindu temple Pura Parahyangan Agung Jagatkarta was built on the slope of Mount Salak near the historic site of ancient Sunda Kingdom capital, Pakuan Pajajaran in modern Bogor. The temple, dubbed as the largest Balinese Hindu temple ever built outside Bali, was meant as the main temple for the Balinese Hindu population in the Greater Jakarta region. However, because the temple stands in a Sundanese sacred place, and also hosts a shrine dedicated to the famous Sundanese king, Prabu |
Harry C. Aderholt | Biography | redesignated United States Air Force Special Operations Force (SOF), at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, to serve as deputy chief of staff for operations.
Aderholt returned to Thailand in June 1970 for a two-year tour of duty as chief of the Air Force Advisory Group, Joint United States Military Advisory Group, in Bangkok. He retired from active military duty in December 1972 at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
He was recalled to active duty in October 1973 and assigned as deputy commander, United States Military Assistance Command Thailand, and deputy chief, Joint United States Military Advisory Group - Thailand, with headquarters at |
Hamiltonian vector field | null | defined more generally on an arbitrary Poisson manifold. The Lie bracket of two Hamiltonian vector fields corresponding to functions f and g on the manifold is itself a Hamiltonian vector field, with the Hamiltonian given by the
Poisson bracket of f and g. |
Fry and the Slurm Factory | Plot | experimental "F-ray", a flashlight-like device that enables the user to look through anything, even metal. The Professor is able to find out what is causing Bender's high fever; he reveals a watch that belongs to Amy Wong caught in one of Bender's cogs.
After repairing Bender, the Professor leaves the F-ray in the custody of Fry and Bender. Fry realizes that they could use the F-ray to scan Slurm cans for the golden bottlecap. After checking "90,000" cans, they give up on finding the winning can. Fry settles in to relax with a Slurm and chokes on the winning bottle cap. |
Guyra Shire | Main towns and villages & Demographics | Guyra Shire Main towns and villages The former Guyra Shire included the town of Guyra and villages including Ben Lomond, Black Mountain, Ebor, Llangothlin and Tingha. Demographics At the 2011 census, there were 4,397 people in the Guyra local government area, of these an approximately equal number were males and females. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 10 per cent of the population which is four times above both the national and state averages of 2.5 per cent. The median age of people in the Guyra Shire was 41 years; slightly higher than the national median of 37 |
Henry Tancred (New Zealand politician) | Early life & New Zealand | Henry Tancred (New Zealand politician) Early life Tancred was baptised on 14 May 1816 at the Isle of Wight. His father was Sir Thomas Tancred, 6th Baronet and his elder brother was Sir Thomas Tancred, 7th Baronet. He was educated at Rugby School. He served in the Austrian army and fought in Austria, Hungary and Italy. He was severely injured in a fall from a horse and had a speech impairment as a result. New Zealand Back in England to recuperate, he became interested in the Canterbury Association and decided to emigrate. He arrived in Canterbury in December 1850 from |
Homosexualities | Evaluations in books | They nevertheless consulted Bell and Weinberg's interview protocols when developing a questionnaire for their own study of ex-gays.
Judith A. Allen and her co-authors wrote in The Kinsey Institute: The First Seventy Years (2017) that Homosexualities, like Sexual Preference, abandoned Kinsey's understanding of human sexuality by focusing on homosexual people rather than homosexual behavior and rejecting the idea that categorizing people as homosexual was problematic. |
History of Cagliari | Spanish Habsburg era | was also a renowned school of painting known as "Stampace" from the name of the urban district where the shops were, which had its major representatives in Peter Cavaro, the son of Michael, Peter Raxis the elder, and Antiochus Mainas. In 1607 the University was established, as was the first public hospital. But the decadence that the Spanish Empire experienced in the second half of the seventeenth century also damaged the city and exposed it to a serious outbreak of plague in 1656, from which came by municipal vow the Feast of Sant'Efisio, still the most important religious event of |
Italian War of 1521–1526 | Prelude | of a French Emperor gave the Electors pause, and when Charles put an army in the field near Frankfurt, where they were meeting, the Electors obligingly voted for him. He was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on 23 October 1520, by which point he already controlled both the Spanish crown and the hereditary Burgundian lands in the Low Countries.
Cardinal Wolsey, hoping to increase Henry VIII's influence on the continent, offered the services of England as a mediator for the various disputes between Francis and Charles. Henry and Francis staged an extravagant meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. |
Gwynn Parry Jones | Life and career | Gwynn Parry Jones Parry Jones (14 February 1891 – 26 December 1963), known early in his career as Gwynn Jones, was a Welsh tenor of the mid-twentieth century. Life and career Gwynn Parry Jones was born in Blaina, Monmouthshire. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and in Weimar and Milan. Among his teachers were John Coates and Albert Visetti. Jones made his debut in 1914 and shortly thereafter went on an opera and concert tour to the United States. He was returning to England aboard the RMS Lusitania in May 1915 when it was torpedoed and sunk |
Folsom State Prison | Facilities | Folsom State Prison Facilities Both FSP and California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC) share the mailing address: Represa, CA 95671. Represa (translated as "dam" from the Spanish language) is the name given in 1892 to the State Prison post office because of its proximity to a dam on the American River that was under construction at the time. The dam was replaced in 1955 by the Folsom Dam.
As of March 2012, the facility's total population was 2,912, or 117.9 percent of its design capacity of 2,469.
The facility includes five housing units within the secure perimeter, including the original two-tiered structure. |
Ivan L. Slavich Jr. | Military service & HU-1A/UH-1B Counter-Insurgency | infantry platoon leader and company commander with the 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. Following the Korean War, he returned to Fort Benning for advanced infantry training, serving first as an aide-de-camp and then as a parachuting instructor with the airborne department. HU-1A/UH-1B Counter-Insurgency After earning his wings for fixed-wing and helicopter at the U.S. Army Aviation School at Fort Rucker, Alabama, Slavich was deployed to Okinawa with the 503rd Infantry Regiment. In 1960, while stationed in Okinawa, then Major Slavich discovered a detachment of 12 HU-1A "Huey" support helicopters. He formed a company, and worked to arm the |
Human rights in the British Virgin Islands | HRRCC & Belonger status and the right to work | and pursued other means of informing the people of BVI about their rights. Belonger status and the right to work While belongers have an automatic right to work on the islands, non-belongers, as a rule, require work permits. Under the Labour Code 2010, a prospective employer faced with choosing between a belonger who is minimally qualified for the job and a non-belonger who has far higher qualifications must choose the belonger. Non-belongers are not permitted to remain in the BVI unless they are working and have a work permit. Such permits must be renewed every year. A non-belonger |
Giovanni Morelli | null | high degree by Bernard Berenson, who met Morelli in 1890. The first generation of Morellian scholars also included Gustavo Frizzoni, Jean Paul Richter, Adolfo Venturi and Constance Jocelyn Ffoulkes. Morellian scholarship penetrated the English field from 1893, with the translation of his master work. The Morellian technique of connoisseurship was extended to the study of Attic vase-painters by J. D. Beazley and by Michael Roaf to the study of the Persepolis reliefs, with results that further confirmed its validity. Morellian recognition of "handling" in undocumented fifteenth and sixteenth-century sculpture, in the hands of scholars like John Pope-Hennessy, have resulted |
Infernal Noise Brigade | null | and that they "can be credited for keeping WTO protestors energized, focused, and photogenic… What their parties and their protests had in common was intensity, vividness, and a fun, frightening sense that anything could happen. They were lessons in liberation."
Frizzelle, who travelled with INB on a portion of their European tour, wrote in his review of that tour that the members used "band names", partly to "retain the mystery of the band" and partly to preserve their anonymity from their employers: almost none of the band members are professional musicians. As example, Frizzelle provided the roster from the mainland portion |
István Sugár | Career | worked as an ISU referee for ice dancing. |
Indian religions | Sanskritization & Shramanic period (c. 800–200 BCE) & Late Vedic period – Brahmanas and Upanishads – Vedanta (850–500 BCE) | tendency to identify local deities with the gods of the Sanskrit texts. Shramanic period (c. 800–200 BCE) During the time of the shramanic reform movements "many elements of the Vedic religion were lost". According to Michaels, "it is justified to see a turning point between the Vedic religion and Hindu religions". Late Vedic period – Brahmanas and Upanishads – Vedanta (850–500 BCE) The late Vedic period (9th to 6th centuries BCE) marks the beginning of the Upanisadic or Vedantic period. This period heralded the beginning of much of what became classical Hinduism, with the composition of the Upanishads, later the |
Higher education controversy in Odisha | Establishing an IIT in Odisha & Upgrading existing institute within Odisha to an IIEST | the third IIT, allegedly shifted from Odisha. If the Indian media is to be believed, the UPA government has categorically declined to establish an IIT in Orissa. Upgrading existing institute within Odisha to an IIEST The IIESTs are a group of technical institutions that are planned to be established as IIT clones. They will be set up by upgrading existing NITs and other state funded prominent engineering institutions. Several institutions have been identified by the Indian government for this purpose.
Odisha has numerous government educational institutes, among which VSSUT is the oldest. Although a front runner for being IIEST |
International Broadcasting Bureau | Director | International Broadcasting Bureau The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) is the technical support outlet within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which is a U.S. independent agency. The IBB supports the day-to-day operations of Voice of America (VOA) and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio y Televisión Martí). It also provides transmission and technical support for all of the independent non-military broadcasting services funded by the (BBG). The IBB is located in Washington, D.C. Director The position of IBB Director was appointed by the president of the United States, with Senate confirmation. The last IBB Director was Richard M. Lobo. Mr. |
Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery | Closure | greatly valued all aspects of the service (Hitchin Museum & Art Gallery, Letchworth Museum & Art Gallery, the Education Service with its School Loans scheme, the Archaeology and the Natural History Services), the two museums were both described as unfit for purpose and the Museums Resource Centre at Burymead Road in Hitchin as outdated and inefficient.
The Review had five main recommendations, one of which was to close the two existing museums at Letchworth Garden City and at Hitchin, and instead run a museum and gallery on a single town-centre site. A Feasibility Study was commissioned to investigate the possibility of |
HMS Paladin (G69) | First time in the Mediterranean & Sicily | merchant ship she was escorting, which was carrying bombs, land-mines and motor transport. At dusk on 8 May, Paladin, with Jervis and Nubian bombarded Kelibia, the most easterly point of the Cape Bon peninsula. This bombardment was repeated at dawn on the ninth.
From 1 June 1943, Paladin was among the ships which bombarded Pantellaria, prior to the main assault on that island on 11 June. The island surrendered at about midday. Sicily Paladin was present at the Sicily landings – Operation Husky, on 10 July 1943. She subsequently took part in various other operations off the Italian coast, which included |
Igor Bunich | Operatsia Groza | Igor Bunich Operatsia Groza Bunich published three volumes with the title "Operatsia Groza"—"Operation Thunderstorm"—the first one in 1994, the last one posthumously in 2004. In these books he communicates a plan of Stalin for an invasion of whole Western Europe: "Operation Thunderstorm". It can be found in the so-called "Osobaya Papka", a file which contains about 100,000 Top Secret documents. In this file it is document Nr.103202/06. The paper is signed by Marshal Semyon Timoshenko and the chief of the General Staff at that time Merezkov. It is dated 18 September 1940, three months before the German "Operation Barbarossa" was |
Isaac Kitrosser | Life magazine & Second World War & Post-war | William C. Bullitt; French politicans Paul Boncour and Paul Reynaud; American sculptor Jo Davidson; Russian dancer Serge Lifar; and the Duchess of Windsor speaking with Marthe Lahovary, Princess Bibesco. Second World War Kitrosser engaged in the French Resistance during the Second World War. He was arrested by the Gestapo and interned at Septfonds (Tarn-et-Garonne) where he managed to continue as a photographer. His photographs of Septfonds, including "Cérémonie juive dans le camp de Septfonds," were among the first published concentration camp photos after liberation in 1944. Post-war After the war Kitrosser worked on the staff of Paris-Match (1948-1955). His photography |
Hand of Mercy | History | Scum of the Earth in 2007 and 2008 respectively. In 2010 Hand of Mercy were hired to play the annual Resist Records Sydney Hardcore Festival.
Hand of Mercy's first album, The Fallout was released through Dogfight Records and the band toured in March 2011 to promote the record. Zimmer announced his departure from the band and his drumming duties were passed on to Cullum Jensen CJ Mackinnon. The band went on to play with the group A Day to Remember at the Big Top in Luna Park. In August 2011 Hand of Mercy supported For the Fallen Dreams and were |
Indiana Pacers | 2000–2005: Isiah Thomas era | seven games, winning Game 7 in Boston by the decisive margin of 97–70, just the third time the Celtics had dropped a Game 7 at home. The Pacers then advanced to the second-round against the Detroit Pistons, in a rematch of the previous year's Eastern Conference Finals. The series featured games back at The Palace of Auburn Hills, the scene of the brawl that many assumed at the time had effectively ended the Pacers' season. After losing Game 1, the Pacers won the next two games to take a 2–1 lead. However, the Pacers could not repeat their victories against |
Indians in the United Arab Emirates | Demographics | in the large cities of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah, while 15% live in rented rooms in cities. The remaining migrants (about one-third) live in collective labour accommodations (referred to as labour camps), such as those in Mussafah (Abu Dhabi) or Muhaisnah (Dubai).
In addition, over 300,000 undocumented migrants, many of whom are Indian, are said to be living in the UAE. Undocumented migrants, if caught, are jailed and then deported to their home countries. A federal law enacted in 1996 in the U.A.E imposed sanctions against undocumented migrants and their employers. The UAE government offers amnesty programmes where foreign undocumented |
Harrison McIntosh | Style and technique | the large emotional works associated with Abstract Expressionism, McIntosh focused on subtlety and deliberation through the modern, functional forms of vessels.
McIntosh was particularly renown for decorating his pots with "thin sgrafitto lines or rhythmic brush spots" made by placing contrasting slip onto the surface of his works with Japanese brushes and sponges. His often used the mishima technique, a process in which engobe is brushed into thin incised lines in the work. The quality of these brushstrokes and lines, however, changed over the course of his career. While the decoration of his early pieces have a regularity and rhythm, over |
Haffenreffer Brewery | History | Pickwick Bock Beer became the property of the Narragansett Brewing Company) having survived Prohibition and operating for nearly a century, leaving Massachusetts without a brewery for the first time in 300 years. |
Energy Efficiency Services Limited | UJALA LED bulbs & UJALA Efficient Fans | 2: 2012 for self-ballast lamps. Further, these bulbs carry a 3-year free replacement warranty against technical defects. At the bidding stage, the prospective bidders are required to provide, along with their bid documents, the test reports from National Accreditation Board of Laboratories (NABL) accredited labs. At the distribution stage, EESL picks up samples of LED bulbs at each place where the distribution is taking place and from the manufacturing facility in a random manner and gets it tested UJALA Efficient Fans Energy Efficiency Services limited (EESL) has launched the National Energy Efficient Fan Programme (NEEFP) to promote efficient use of |
Gowtam SSC | Plot | Gowtam SSC Plot Gowtam (Navdeep) is youngest of three sons of Collector Shambhu Prasad (Nassar). His wife Chaya Rani is a professor, eldest son Manoj (Shiju) is a doctor, second one Neeraj (Srinivas Varma) is a businessman, and his daughters-in-law are also in a well-to-do status. But his last son fails to go beyond S.S.C.. Gowtam is more close to his neighbors Dr. Bhanu (Bhanupriya) and Kondal Rao (Prithvi) than his family. He is not respected in the family and doesn't have a clear goal in life. He also builds a strong friendship with tutor Janaki (Sindhu), who teaches his |
Hochtief | From Nazi Germany to Reconstruction & Revival and international expansion | 1946-49. The introduction of the German mark in 1948 and the beginning of the Wirtschaftswunder brought more new work. Revival and international expansion Josef Müller took over as CEO in 1950. A decision was taken to undertake more international projects, following a period of essentially domestic work after World War II. This included a series of power infrastructure works in Turkey and bridge and smelting works construction in Egypt during the early 1950s. Many projects from this period were undertaken outside of the First World, many were funded from development aid budgets.
A high-profile success for the company came in the |
Hyphaene thebaica | Food & Egyptian tombs | fruit is known as Hoka. In northern part of Nigeria, among the Hausa people, it's known as "Goruba". In south-eastern Niger, it's fruit pulp is known as "bri" and a traditional well-known millet pancake is made with this pulp as seasoning, called "massan bri". Apart from the use of the fruit as food, juice is extracted from the young fruit and palm wine is prepared from the sap. A commercial drink in Niger, called Torridité Glacée, is made from this fruit, somewhat reminiscent in taste of ice coffee or milk chocolate. Egyptian tombs Doum palm was considered sacred by the |
Hope A. Olson | Feminist approaches to knowledge organization & The Power to Name | In the 2001 article “Sameness and Difference: A Cultural Foundation of Classification,” Olson describes how the dichotomous principles of western philosophical heritage create classification systems which privilege the mainstream, majority view. She argues in favor of a less hierarchical and more contextual and interconnected structure of knowledge, employing Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger and Tarule’s concept of connected knowing. The Power to Name Olson’s most notable work is her 2002 book The Power to Name: Locating the Limits of Subject Representation in Libraries. In it she provides historical context to modern library classification by reviewing writings by library classification pioneers |
International Speed Pool Challenge | null | the third deciding set but only in two racks (one for each player). Here, players can strike and pocket any object ball on the table. However, the last one has to be "called" before being pocketed lest it would be a foul. A bonus is awarded to a player who pockets all balls without misses after the break.
Eight ball, which is a slightly more difficult game, is played in the second set. After the break, the player must choose which group of balls (1-7 or 9-15) he/she should pocket first and that the other group will be next. After both |
Harvard College social clubs | Sanctions | Harvard College social clubs Sanctions In the fall of 2015, Harvard President Drew Faust criticized the clubs for—as stated by C. Ramsey Fahs of The Harvard Crimson—their "gender exclusivity and the potential for alcohol abuse and sexual assault on the off-campus properties." The Spee Club began admitting women in later 2015, and the Fox Club followed suit but was then temporarily shut down as graduate board members sought to re-evaluate what it meant to be a "member of the Fox".
As part of an effort to marginalize organizations that "contribute to a social life and a student culture that for many |
Iris Chang | Early life and background | journalism, earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. During her time in college she also worked as a New York Times stringer from Urbana-Champaign, and wrote six front-page articles over the course of one year. After brief stints at the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune, she pursued a master's degree in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She then embarked on her career as an author and lectured and wrote magazine articles. She married Bretton Lee Douglas, a design engineer for Cisco Systems, whom she had met in college, and had one son, |
Infibeam | History & Acquisitions | Infibeam History Infibeam was founded in 2007 by Vishal Mehta, a Cornell and MIT Sloan alumnus. After working for Dell and Amazon.com in the US for five years, Mehta returned to India in 2007 and started Infibeam along with a group of Amazon employees. He funded the company by selling his personal assets rather than opting for external equity funding. The company was started with an initial capital of ₹100-150 million. Infibeam.com started as an automobile portal in 2007, but later turned into an online retailer. In 2010, Infibeam launched 'Pi', India's first e-book reader. Acquisitions In 2008, Infibeam acquired |
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