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Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940) | Design and description | Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940) Design and description The Kagerō class was an enlarged and improved version of the preceding Asashio class. Their crew numbered 240 officers and enlisted men. The ships measured 118.5 meters (388 ft 9 in) overall, with a beam of 10.8 meters (35 ft 5 in) and a draft of 3.76 meters (12 ft 4 in). They displaced 2,065 metric tons (2,032 long tons) at standard load and 2,529 metric tons (2,489 long tons) at deep load. The ships had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at |
History of Cagliari | Modern era & World War II | to 1936, the population grew to about 88,000 inhabitants, an increase of 237%. World War II During World War II Cagliari was heavily bombed by the Allies in February 1943. There was a strategic bombing plan to destroy the Axis powers' military capability but also to terrorize their population and sabotage the economic war effort. The fascist war caused the destruction or serious damage of 80% of the city's housing and the death of almost 2,000 civilians, due mostly to cluster bombs. The town was coventrated, as was said at that time. In order to escape the bombardments and the |
Jean-Jacques Goldman | Biography | toi". He recorded a double album in 1987, Entre gris clair et gris foncé ("Between light grey and dark grey"), which launched a string of hits – "Elle a fait un bébé toute seule", "Puisque tu pars", "Là-bas" (a duet with Sirima), "Il changeait la vie" – and was a major success, with more than 2 million units sold.
The critics were severe, deriding his high-pitched voice, his style and demeanour (which they perceived as tame and innocuous) and his soft songs as marketed for teenage girls. In reaction, he purchased a full page in two major newspapers, displaying excerpts from |
James Ludington | Biography | known as the village of Pere Marquette in the northwestern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Ford defaulted on the loan and became insolvent in 1859, Ludington took over the operations of this sawmill.
In 1854, Ludington filed for the purchase of unsold school land from the state of Wisconsin that was believed to contain some 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares). The sale was challenged and ultimately cancelled when the parcel was identified as containing over 200,000 acres (81,000 hectares). The purchase was re-filed after a further effort to specify which parcels were included. In 1855, the arrangements behind Ludington's |
Ira C. Eaker | Air Service and Air Corps career | May 2, 1927, he served as a pilot of one of the Loening OA-1 float planes of the Pan American Goodwill Flight that made a 22,000 mile (35,200 km) trip around South America and, with the others, was awarded the Mackay Trophy. He then became executive officer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War at Washington, D.C.
In September 1926, he was named operations and line maintenance officer at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C. While on that duty, he participated as chief pilot on the endurance flight of the Army plane, Question Mark, from 1 to January 7, 1929, establishing a |
Jacques Besson | Life & Theatrum Instrumentorum | out by a rival. By 1565 he was back in Paris, where in 1567 he published his second treatise, Le Cosmolabe, which described an elaborate instrument based on the astrolabe which could be used for navigation, surveying, cartography, and astronomy. Le Cosmolabe also introduced a number of mechanical inventions that he hoped to describe in more detail in a future work. Besson was described as a professor of mathematics from Orléans. Theatrum Instrumentorum When King Charles IX of France made a royal visit to Orléans in 1569, Besson presented to the King a draft of his new treatise, what was |
IdeaPad | IdeaPad Yoga 11 | RAM is sufficient due to the reduced memory requirements of Windows RT applications. The Yoga 11 is sold with solid-state drives in 32 GB and 64 GB capacities. The Yoga 11 runs the Windows RT operating system. Microsoft Office 2013 ships pre-installed. Like all Windows RT devices, the Yoga 11 cannot run software designed for earlier versions of Windows, only apps designed for the new Metro interface are compatible. The Yoga 11 has an 11.6-inch glossy screen that makes use of in-plane switching technology and runs at a resolution of 1366×768. The screen has a maximum brightness of only 344 nits, but |
Japonicana | Touring & Chart performance | cancelled due to a penalty by his own agency Johnny's Entertainment because he didn't contact his agency beforehand to report his marriage at the time. Chart performance The album has debuted on the Oricon's daily album charts at number one, and stayed as the number two on the weekly charts, selling 69,887 copies in its first week of release. It charted for seven weeks, and with 80,331 copies sold it was the 86th best-selling album of the year in Japan.
It was certified Gold by RIAJ denoting over 100,000 shipments.
On the Billboards Japan Top Albums chart peaked at number two. On |
Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet | Biography | Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet (15 September 1700, Saint-Pol-de-Léon – 21 March 1784, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic, bishop of Limoges and preceptor to the grandchildren of Louis XV. Biography Chancellor of Bourges, he served as bishop of Limoges from 1739 to 1758 but left behind no written works and little is known of his life. It is known he was a modest and sincerely pious man, which earned him an appointment as preceptor to the duke of Burgundy, who died in 1761 aged 9, then to his brothers, the future Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X. He |
Indiana Pacers | 2010–2017: Paul George era | rights to Reid were traded on draft night to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange to the rights to forward/center Magnum Rolle. The Pacers signed George to his rookie contract on July 1, 2010. Stephenson signed a multi-year contract with the team on July 22. Just before training camp, Rolle was signed, along with big man Lance Allred. Both were cut before the regular season began.
On August 11, 2010, the Pacers acquired guard Darren Collison and swingman James Posey from the New Orleans Hornets in a four-team, five-player deal. Troy Murphy was dealt to the New Jersey Nets in that |
James Keene (footballer) | Early career | James Keene (footballer) Early career Keene is a product of the Portsmouth youth scheme. After making his way through the ranks – including a successful 'work experience' loan at A.F.C. Newbury – he was loaned to Football League Two club Kidderminster Harriers, making his debut in a 2–0 defeat to Bristol Rovers. Keene was the Man of the Match for the visitors. He played five more games for Kidderminster, excelling during his loan period.
He was rewarded upon his return to Fratton Park with his first professional contract, to run until the summer of 2007.
Following his loan he broke into the |
Jason Ellison | San Francisco Giants | Winn and a late-season injury. Despite his limited play in the second half, still ranking among National League rookie leaders in runs with 49, hits with 93, doubles with 18, triples with 2, steals with 14, and outfield assists with 5. He made 82 starts overall, 64 in center field and 18 in right field, hitting .269 with 40 runs, 18 doubles, a triple, three home runs, 23 RBIs, 23 walks and 11 steals. He stole 14 bases, eighth-most ever by a Giants rookie and highest since Marvin Benard swiped 25 in 1996. He was the most productive during |
Jason Crabb | Career | 41st GMA Dove Awards. On September 28, 2010, Spring Hill Music Group released Jason's second solo project, a Christmas album titled Because It's Christmas. In 2011, the family group reunited to record a new album, along with a concert tour from the end of 2011 through the beginning of 2012.
In October 2012, Crabb appeared on Marie Osmond's Hallmark Channel show, Marie. In November, he was featured on Fox News Channel with anchor Kelly Wright for a special segment called "Beyond The Dream". During the Christmas 2012 season, Jason teamed up with Sandi Patty for A Christmas Celebration Tour. One of |
Jean Déré | Life | time he also taught in Niort and temporarily represented Widor as organist at The Great Organ of Église Saint-Sulpice de Paris, where he also met Albert Schweitzer several times.
As the competition and the Prix de Rome were suspended during the war, Déré had already clearly exceeded the maximum age of thirty years laid down in the rules when he participated in 1919. He won the "Second Grand Prix" with the cantata Le Poéte et la Fée.
He then taught counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming professor of solfège and harmony from 1937 to 1956. In 1933 he became one |
Iqbal Manzil | Renovation & Inside the Iqbal Manzil | roof was painted. Old curtains were replaced and the second storey was carpeted. After renovation, the number of visitors shot up to about 200 per day. The Government released Rs.14 million for restoring the building.
In the last few years, Riaz Hussain Naqvi, the curator of Iqbal Manzil, has been actively involved in the restoration of this historic building and has been successful to quite some extent. Inside the Iqbal Manzil Many tourists come to Sialkot especially to visit the Iqbal Manzil. It is the place where he lived and wrote poetry that would later stimulate the creation of the Pakistan |
Internet slang | Around the world | include using symbols to separate the characters of a word to avoid detection from manual or automated text pattern scanning and consequential censorship. An outstanding example is the use of the term river crab to denote censorship. River crab (hexie) is pronounced the same as "harmony"—the official term used to justify political discipline and censorship. As such Chinese netizens reappropriate the official terms in a sarcastic way.
Abbreviations are popular across different cultures, including countries like Japan, China, France, Portugal, etc., and are used according to the particular language the Internet users speak. Significantly, this same style of slang creation is |
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur | Author | terms – the life on the American frontier and to explore the concept of the American Dream, portraying American society as characterized by the principles of equal opportunity and self-determination. His work provided useful information and understanding of the "New World" that helped to create an American identity in the minds of Europeans by describing an entire country rather than another regional colony. The writing celebrated American ingenuity and the uncomplicated lifestyle. It described the acceptance of religious diversity in a society being created from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. His application of the Latin maxim "Ubi panis |
James Lepaio | Personal life & Club career & International career | James Lepaio Personal life Lepaio is the cousin of George Panapa. Club career Lepaio has played since 2017 for FC Manu Laeva. International career Lepaio played in May 2011 with the Tuvalu national futsal team at the Oceanian Futsal Championship. He played all four games.
He made his debut for the Tuvalu national football team in the friendly match against Samoa on 22 August 2011.
Also in 2011, he played four games for the national football team at the Pacific Games 2011 as a midfielder: against American Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, (he scored Tuvalu's only goal in a 6–1 defeat) and Guam. |
Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte | Marriage | secretary of the commune of Laplume on 29 April 1554. Odette de Rey, was the sister of Noble Jacques de Rey, seigneur de La Salle, who was a captain and the military commandant of the village of Laplume.
A pension in the amount of 100 écus in gold was established by the Chambre des Comptes of Navarre in favor of the widow of the sieur de La Forcade, Demoiselle Loyse d'Aboval, for the services rendered by her husband on 27 August 1591.
Louise d'Aboval, widow of Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de Lafitte, Président des Comptes, notarized her testament about 1595 at |
Izabela Abramowicz | Life | Saint Vladimir University in Kiev, obtaining an undergraduate degree with a gold medal for her thesis On double integrals on algebraic surfaces. Her dissertation supervisor was Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev.
She received consent from the Minister of Education to remain at the university without a stipend to prepare for her Master's degree, the requirements for which she had almost fulfilled in 1918.
In 1923, she moved to Łęczyca, near Poznań, where she stayed till the Second World War. During the German occupation of Poland, between 1942 and 1944, she was arrested and made to work at various factories in Poznań and Luboń. |
James K. Gibson | Biography | James K. Gibson James King Gibson (February 18, 1812 – March 30, 1879) was a nineteenth-century politician, merchant, sheriff and banker from Virginia. Biography Born in Abingdon, Virginia, Gibson attended the common schools as a child. He moved to Huntsville, Alabama in 1833, but moved back to Abingdon in 1834 and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was duputy sheriff of Washington County, Virginia in 1834 and 1835 and was appointed postmaster of Abingdon in 1837, serving until 1849. Gibson was elected a Conservative to the United States House of Representatives in 1869, serving from 1870 to 1871. After declining reelection |
Indian religions | Epic and Early Puranic Period (200 BCE – 500 CE) | of the rise of the Guptas (c. 320–467 CE), which he calls the "Hindus synthesis", "Brahmanic synthesis", or "orthodox synthesis". It develops in interaction with other religions and peoples:
The emerging self-definitions of Hinduism were forged in the context of continuous interaction with heterodox religions (Buddhists, Jains, Ajivikas) throughout this whole period, and with foreign people (Yavanas, or Greeks; Sakas, or Scythians; Pahlavas, or Parthians; and Kusanas, or Kushans) from the third phase on [between the Mauryan empire and the rise of the Guptas].
The end of the Vedantic period around the 2nd century CE spawned a number of branches that furthered |
Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte | Chambre des Comptes in Pau | for the next five generations of his direct descendants.
The Chambre des Comptes of Navarre was created by Henry II of Navarre on 4 January 1527, and was reconfirmed and authorized by his successor, Antoine of Navarre, on 11 September 1560, who made at the same time a number of laws to set out the powers of the officers, not only for the Chambre des Comptes of Navarre in Pau, but also for those of Nérac and Vendôme. Among these laws were those that determined the number of officers that each one had to have, namely one President, five Counselors/Auditors, a |
ITER | Vacuum vessel | this adds up to a total of 5,116 tonnes. Its external diameter will measure 19.4 metres (64 ft), the internal 6.5 metres (21 ft). Once assembled, the whole structure will be 11.3 metres (37 ft) high.
The primary function of the vacuum vessel is to provide a hermetically sealed plasma container. Its main components are the main vessel, the port structures and the supporting system. The main vessel is a double walled structure with poloidal and toroidal stiffening ribs between 60-millimetre-thick (2.4 in) shells to reinforce the vessel structure. These ribs also form the flow passages for the cooling water. The space between the double |
Hacker (card game) | History | Hacker (card game) Hacker is a card game (not a trading card game) for 3–6 players published by Steve Jackson Games (SJG) in 1992. History In early 1990, SJG was developing a game called GURPS Cyberpunk. On March 1 of that year, the company was raided by the United States Secret Service as part of a nationwide investigation of data piracy. The agents took computers, printers, hard drives, at least one pocket calculator, over 300 floppy disks, and an entire BBS server. In the court case that followed, the Secret Services justified their actions by calling GURPS Cyberpunk "a handbook |
Hindgut fermentation | Efficiency & Speed | conditions where ruminants might not be able to obtain nutrition adequate for their needs. Hindgut fermenters are able to extract more nutrition out of small quantities of feed. The large hind-gut fermenters are bulk feeders: they ingest large quantities of low-nutrient food, which they process more rapidly than would be possible for a similarly sized foregut fermenter. The main food in that category is grass, and grassland grazers move over long distances to take advantage of the growth phases of grass in different regions. Speed The ability to process food more rapidly than foregut fermenters gives hindgut fermenters an |
Italian War of 1521–1526 | Pavia | artillery by a rapid advance and was surrounded and cut apart by landsknechts and d'Avalos's massed Spanish arquebusiers. Meanwhile, a series of protracted infantry engagements resulted in the rout of the Swiss and French infantry. The French suffered massive casualties, losing the majority of their army. Bonnivet, Jacques de la Palice, La Trémoille, and Richard de la Pole were killed, while Anne de Montmorency, Robert de la Marck, and Francis himself were taken prisoner along with a host of lesser nobles. The night following the battle, Francis gave Lannoy a letter to be delivered to his mother in |
Jacob Hopewell | Death & Hopewell's "Relic" | a special lightning rod (which he is known to have invented but never patented). These scholars say he knew the lightning was coming, knew it would make the machine work and knew a fire would probably ensue and kill him. Hopewell's "Relic" In December 1943 Jacob Hopewell III was up in his attic packing away some of his son's belongings, Richard Hopewell IV, who had recently died of an infected battle wound. According to Jacob III, as he was finding a place for his son's belongings he knocked over an old chest that held all the personal documents of Jacob |
James Vint | Background & Service in the legislature | James Vint James H. Vint (January 14, 1881 – ?) was a machinist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served three terms as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Background Vint was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on January 14, 1881, and came to Milwaukee in 1892, where he was educated in the Milwaukee Public Schools. He became a machinist and a member of the Machinists Union (his 1913 Wisconsin Blue Book profile says he had been a union member eleven years). Service in the legislature In 1910, Vint was elected to the Assembly to represent the Eighth Milwaukee County district |
Jan Ullrich | 2004 and 2005 Tour & Post-Armstrong | his ribs. He could not keep up with Armstrong or Ivan Basso. Ullrich began focusing on finishing ahead of Michael Rasmussen for a podium position. He rode a good second time trial, beating all but Armstrong. Rasmussen had several crashes and bike changes, which gave Ullrich a podium place in the Tour. Post-Armstrong Armstrong retired after the Tour in 2005. Ullrich decided to ride one or two more years. Early reports said Ullrich was in better shape than previous years and could be ready for his second victory in the Tour. Ullrich finished 115th in the Tour de Romandie on |
J. D. Humphreys | Biography | J. D. Humphreys John David Humphreys (14 September 1837 – 8 November 1897) was an English merchant, chemist and druggist in Hong Kong. He was general manager of the A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd. and member of the Sanitary Board. Biography Humphreys was trained for a commercial career and spent some time in India when he was young. He was attracted to Australia by the gold discoveries and spent years working on the field. Subsequently, he moved to Hong Kong in 1867 and became bookkeeper to A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.. Owing to his exceptional business aptitude he |
James C. Nelson | Supreme Court tenure | by Justice Antonin Scalia.
In a 2009 child custody case between two same-sex partners, Kulstad v. Maniaci, Nelson gained attention from the media and civil rights groups for his concurring opinion that stated:
Naming it for the evil it is, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is an expression of bigotry. And, whether rationalized on the basis of majoritarian morality, partisan ideology, or religious tenets, homophobic discrimination is still bigotry. It cannot be justified; it cannot be legalized; it cannot be constitutionalized ... Lesbian and gay Montanans must not be forced to fight to marry, to raise their children, and |
Jairon Feliciano Damasio | Career | made history in this club and bring Persebaya promoted to ISL. He also played with Persema Malang before moving to Perseman Manokwari in 2011, season 2012 jairon moving to Persibo Bojonegoro and there he was champion of the Indonesian Cup, after great season he moved to Saudi Arabian Al Nasr. |
Hakim Habibur Rahman | Social and political work | were the traditional leaders of the Panchayet system of local government of Dhaka. He edited Al Mushriq, an Urdu monthly journal, in 1906, and launched another Urdu monthly, Jadu, together with Khwaja Adel in 1924. He founded the Tibbia Habibia College in Dhaka in 1930. Apart from his general support to the Dhaka Museum, he donated 231 old coins, some of gold and silver, to the museum in 1936.
Tibbia Habibia College is the one of oldest medical colleges and the oldest Unani medical college in Bangladesh. This was not only a college, it was the pioneer of Unani medicine revolution |
Jeffrey Laitman | Biography & Mentoring, students, and collaborators | Professor in the Graduate Faculties of Biomedical Sciences of Mount Sinai and of Anthropology of the City University of New York. Laitman is also a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History, and member of the faculty of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), a research-training program supported by the National Science Foundation. Mentoring, students, and collaborators Laitman has been the research advisor and mentor for many medical and graduate-level students that have gone on to prominent careers in medicine, science, and medical education. Notable amongst these are: comparative anatomists, Joy Reidenberg, Ph.D and |
James Glenwright Unger | Personal | in the financial services industry. |
Jason Biggs | Early life and education & Career | Jason Biggs Early life and education Biggs was born in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey, to Angela Biggs (née Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Louis Biggs, a shipping company manager. Biggs' father is of English and Italian descent and Biggs' mother is of Sicilian descent. His last name is derived from his English ancestry. He was raised Roman Catholic.
Biggs grew up in Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School, where he achieved success in tennis. Biggs originally attended New York University before attending Montclair State University, eventually dropping out. Career Biggs began acting at the |
Illicium floridanum | Description | Illicium floridanum Description The Florida anise tree has large evergreen lance shaped leaves that are lustrous and dark green. When crushed the leaf has a sweet odor, described as being "anise-like". The leaf of this plant has a parallel main vein. Within the leaf of this shrub, a flower also grows. The flower has 20 to 30 maroon-colored petals. The petals are typically 2 inches (5 cm) in diameter. The flower is attractive, and it is often overlooked within the lush shiny foliage. The flower has a fish-like odor. If the flower is ripe, the seed explodes out of the |
Ishaq Beg Munonov | Ili Uprising | Uprising In 1943, he secretly returned to southern Xinjiang and organized a militia called the Puli Liberation Organization in Tashkurgan where he led a rebellion in June 1944. After the outbreak of the Soviet-backed Ili Rebellion in November 1944, he became a deputy commander-in-chief of the Ili National Army. The uprising gave rise to the Second East Turkestan Republic (ETR). Ishaq Beg was a member of the pro-Soviet progressive faction within the ETR. He reportedly held both Chinese and Soviet citizenship. In the summer of 1945, he directed the Battle of Jinghe-Wusu.
In June 1946, |
Jack Murphy (Irish politician) | Hunger strike | for the ending of food subsidies which was going to hit his support base of the unemployed and low paid workers particularly hard. Murphy later said: "In my time in the Dáil and even before that, I was in many of their [the unemployed] homes. I saw hunger and misery, ill-nourished children and despairing parents. That is still continuing. I knew when the 'famine budget' of 1957 was brought in that their position would be worsened."
Murphy tried first to oppose the impending budget within the Dáil. In his statement of 15 May 1957 he contrasted the budget sharply with the |
Jean Hunter Cowan | Biography | Artists and, later in life, served as the Society's president throughout the 1950s. Cowan became a member of the Society of Scottish Artists in 1945 and also exhibited with the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society. She exhibited both bronze sculptures and watercolour paintings with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
Cowan travelled extensively throughout her life, especially in Africa and south-east Asia, and pursued several interests other than her art. In 1924 she won both the ladies golf championship of India and the ladies tennis doubles championship of Malaysia. She was a talented amateur violinist |
Jean-Pierre Juneau | null | Jean-Pierre Juneau Jean-Pierre Juneau (born April 24, 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian former diplomat. He retired in 2010 after serving as the Canadian Ambassador to Cuba. Prior to taking up his last position in 2007, he was his country's Ambassador and Permanent Representative the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
James A. Parker (foreign service officer) | null | Program at Boston University. While there, he sought to rent a house in Lexington, but was rebuffed by the owner Mark Moore, Jr. His lawsuit led to a protest on the Lexington Battle Green.
Parker later served in Douala and Yaoundé, Cameroon where he was Consul General and later Deputy Chief of Mission. His last overseas assignment was in La Paz, Bolivia where he was again Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'affaires. He also served as Desk Officer for Central Africa. |
Jamestown Rediscovery | Supposed loss | of the original Jamestown settlement of 1607 had washed into the James River long ago. The archaeologists, including William Kelso, Beverly (Bly) Straube, and Nick Luccketti, used primary source material to estimate the location of the fort on Jamestown Island, such as the Zuniga Map, created by a Spanish spy of the same name, and the accounts of original colonists, such as William Strachey, Captain Ralph Hamor, and John Smith. Upon analysis of these sources and other buildings, the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists discovered the postholes of the original fort; discoloration in the soil left the evidence of the palisades and |
Jean-Jacques Goldman | Biography | after a song he wrote for that year's charity album, "Toute la vie", sparked controversy for its lyrics, which were deemed "reactionary", with an unfair portrayal of current youth and a pointless opposition between "young" and "old" generations.
Throughout his career, Goldman has frequently composed for other singers (sometimes using pseudonyms), most notably Johnny Hallyday (the whole Gang album in 1985, among his most successful) and Céline Dion. He wrote and produced two whole albums for her: D'eux in 1995 (released in the US as The French Album), which is still the best selling French album in history with 10 million |
Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo | 1994 onwards | celebration of its 60th anniversary, the exhibition was staged again in 1994 and renamed Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo. The 4-day expo, which was held at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, was attended by 200,000 visitors. The 33rd to 37th HKBPE was then held at Tamar Site in Central from 1998 to 2002, and was relocated to Victoria Park in Causeway Bay in 2003.
In 2008, the event had an attendance of 2.16 million people, and took in sales of HK$270 million in its 23 days, which was 20 percent more than in 2007.
In 2004, an additional version of |
Jack the Ripper in fiction | Film | Film Marie Belloc Lowndes' book The Lodger has been made into five films: Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Lodger (1932), The Lodger (1944), Man in the Attic (1953) and The Lodger (2009). Hitchcock decided to cast romantic lead Ivor Novello as the title character in his version of The Lodger, with the consequence that the film company, Gainsborough Pictures, insisted on a re-write to make Novello's character more sympathetic. In a change from the original story, whether the lodger is the killer is no longer left ambivalent at the end. Instead, the lodger's |
James Adams (entrepreneur) | Early career & iDefense | The Final Terror, Taking the Tunnel, and Hard Target.
In 1998, he published The Next World War: Computer are the Weapons and the Front Line is Everywhere with Simon & Schuster, the research of which influenced his leadership at iDefense. iDefense Adams founded Infrastructure Defense, aka iDefense, in 1998. In a 2000 congressional oversight hearing on the ILOVEYOU virus and its impact on the U.S. financial services industry, Adams described his company: "iDefense provides intelligence-driven products, daily reports, consulting, and certification that allow clients to mitigate or avoid computer network, Internet and information asset attacks before they occur," he said.
In 2005, |
Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol | null | Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (18 August 1786 – 16 September 1851) was a French physician.
Lugol was born in Montauban. He studied medicine in Paris and graduated MD in 1812. In 1819 he was appointed acting physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis a post he held until he retired. After his death in 1851 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, his daughter Adele-Augustine, married Paul Broca.
Lugol was interested in tuberculosis and presented a paper to the Royal Academy of Science in Paris in which he advocated the use of fresh air, exercise, cold bathing and drugs. He also published four books on |
Initiative Measure 124 (Seattle) | Provisions | Qualifying workers would receive an amount based on their income, family size, the federal poverty line, and the lowest premium offered on the Washington Health Benefits Exchange for a gold-level policy. This provision applies to hotels with 100 or more rooms.
Workers can enforce these rights by filing a complaint with the City of Seattle or filing suit in King County Superior Court. Penalties issued against hotels go to the complainant, affected workers, and the city Office of Civil Rights. The measure prohibits employer retaliation for exercising any of these rights. The law has a rebuttable presumption that any adverse action |
Jane March | Life and career | but it was a Bruce Willis film and I wasn't going to turn it down".
March also had reservations about the nudity required by the part: she planned to require the filmmakers to alter some nude scenes, but she eventually did not do so because her working experience on the film was very happy. She went on saying, "I wasn't at all comfortable with the nudity in Color of Night. ... At least in The Lover the scenes were relevant to the script. In Color of Night they were just gratuitous."
While Color of Night was in production, March began |
Jamestown Canyon encephalitis | Lifecycle | to a vertebrate host when an infected mosquito takes a blood meal. It thus cycles between mosquito and vertebrate amplifier hosts, mainly white-tailed deer. In a study from Newfoundland, JCV was significantly associated with large mammals such as sheep, cattle and horses. In Michigan and Ontario moose and bison are believed to be the primary reservoir.
The virus winters in mosquito eggs, which it reaches by transovarial transmission.
The female mosquito lays eggs that carry the virus, and the offspring can transmit the virus to deer or ruminants and humans. Infected mosquitoes were found equally distributed throughout the state of Connecticut, irrespective |
IdeaPad | Y series (2008-2016) | 2008.
These were the IdeaPad Y710 and Y510 laptops, with 17-inch and 15-inch screens, respectively. The Y series is a line of ordinary laptops with gaming-oriented appearance – a marked difference from ThinkPads.
The laptops in the IdeaPad Y Series were Y400, Y450, Y460, Y460p, Y470, Y480, Y510, Y560, Y560p, Y570, Y580 and Y560d. The current models offered in a "Legion" subbrand, and comes with a 14", 15" and 17" screens.
The notable models of Y series is the 2016's Y900 with a slim mechanical keyboard, 2013's Y400 and Y500 with a advanced UltraBay with optional secondary discrete graphic card, and 2008's Y710 with |
Jack Del Rio | Oakland Raiders | head coach Tony Sparano.
In 2016, Del Rio led the Raiders to a 12–4 record, with the team making the playoffs for the first time since 2002. They lost to the Texans in the wild card round.
On February 10, 2017, Del Rio signed a 4-year contract extension. After the Raiders' 30–10 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers in the regular season finale and a 6–10 record, on December 31, 2017, Del Rio was fired by Mark Davis.
Following the 2018 season, he was under consideration to become the new defensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals and join new head coach |
Hugh Rodman | Biography | fisheries. From 1901 to 1904 he commanded Iroquois in Hawaiian waters. Next on the Asiatic Station, he served in New Orleans (CL-22), Cincinnati (C-7), Wisconsin (BB-9) and, in 1905, commanded the gunboat Elcano on the Yangtze River Patrol.
From 1907 to 1909, he attended the Naval War College and served as Lighthouse Inspector, 6th Naval District. In 1909 he returned to the Far East to serve in turn as captain of the yard, Cavite, Philippine Islands, and as commanding officer of Cleveland (C-19). Captain of the yard, Mare Island Navy Yard, in 1911, he assumed command of Connecticut (BB-18), flagship, Atlantic Fleet, in 1912, and of |
Italian War of 1521–1526 | Pavia | then signed a secret agreement with Pope Clement VII, who pledged not to assist Charles in exchange for Francis's assistance with the conquest of Naples. Against the advice of his senior commanders, Francis detached a portion of his forces under the Duke of Albany and sent them south to aid the Pope. Lannoy attempted to intercept the expedition near Fiorenzuola, but suffered heavy casualties and was forced to return to Lodi by the intervention of the infamous Black Bands of Giovanni de' Medici, which had just entered French service. Medici then returned to Pavia with a supply train |
Jason Bloom (lacrosse) | College career & Professional career | Jason Bloom (lacrosse) College career Bloom earned a psychology degree from The Ohio State University, where he captained the Buckeyes in 2004 and 2005. He was a four-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete and a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection. Professional career Bloom played two season with the Colorado Mammoth, before being traded to the Boston Blazers for current Colorado captain John Gallant. Bloom joined the Boston Blazers for their inaugural season during the 2009 NLL season, and was named NLL Transition Player of the Week during 2009. Bloom was traded in June 2009 to the Washington Stealth, and was |
Jason Ellison | San Francisco Giants | nine stolen bases in 81 contests. He earned promotion to Fresno in July and proceeded to hit Pacific Coast League pitching at .311 clip with 31 runs, eight doubles, a triple, and three home runs, eight RBI and 16 stolen bases over 49 contests to close out the 2002 campaign. He was selected Grizzlies' Player of Month for August. Ellison was added to 40-man roster November 21.
Ellison spent the majority of the 2003 season at Fresno, but also made his Major League debut with Giants. He was recalled from Fresno May 9, taking roster spot of disabled outfielder Marvin Benard. |
Isla Pardo | Biology | Isla Pardo Biology Isla Pardo has four species of reptiles: Crotalus enyo (Baja California rattlesnake), Phyllodactylus nocticolus (peninsular leaf-toed gecko), Sauromalus ater (common chuckwalla), and Urosaurus nigricaudus (black-tailed brush lizard). |
Jason Ellison | San Francisco Giants | for seventh with .300 batting average. He led Volcanoes in games with 74 played, at-bats with 300, runs, hits, doubles with 15 and stolen bases with 13. He earned Salem-Keizer's Player of Month honors in his first month in pro ball, snagging the June award.
He spent his second professional campaign with the Class-A Hagerstown Suns in 2001, where he established career highs in runs with 95 and RBIs with 55. Ellison finished among South Atlantic League leaders in doubles, second with 38, runs, second and on-base percentage, third with a .388 clip. His .291 batting average ranked second on Suns, |
Ishaq Beg Munonov | Legacy | memorial cemetery in Yining. The cemetery has a stele with calligraphy by Mao Zedong, praising Ishaq Beg and his fellow martyrs for their contributions to the Chinese people’s revolution and mourning their death en route to the Inaugural Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing. |
James Legge | Life | James Legge Life James Legge was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire. He enrolled in Aberdeen Grammar School at age 13 and then King's College, Aberdeen at age 15. After studying at the Highbury Theological College, London, he went in 1839 as a missionary to China, but remained at Malacca three years, in charge of the Anglo-Chinese College there. The College was subsequently moved to Hong Kong, where Legge lived for nearly thirty years. On 2 December 1843 his wife Mary Isabella Morison gave birth in Hong Kong to a son who lived for only a few hours. A Chinese Christian, Wat |
Han Feizi | Introduction & Wu wei | Han Fei quotes the Springs and Autumns of Tao Zuo: “'Less than half of all rulers die of illness.' If the ruler of men is unaware of this, disorders will be manifold and unrestrained. Thus it is said: If those who benefit from a lord’s death are many, the ruler will be imperiled." Wu wei Devoting the entirety of Chapter 14, "How to Love the Ministers", to "persuading the ruler to be ruthless to his ministers", Han Fei's enlightened ruler strikes terror into his ministers by doing nothing (Wu wei). The qualities of a ruler, his "mental power, moral excellence |
Jack the Ripper in fiction | Music & Sports | Radio Werewolf's album The Fiery Summons features "From Hell" which uses words from the letters attributed to the Ripper.
The power metal band Falconer wrote a song entitled "Jack the Knife" for their album Grime vs. Grandeur. This song is heavily inspired by the story of Jack the Ripper and makes many references to the mythical traits associated with him. The Brazilian thrash metal band Torture Squad also recorded a song based on Jack the Ripper's legend. The song is titled "Leather Apron" and was included on the band's 2003 album Pandemonium. Sports In 2011 an independent minor league baseball team |
Ivan Minekov | null | Ivan Minekov Born on January 28, 1947 in Pazardzhik, Ivan Minekov (Bulgarian: Иван Минеков) is one of the most appreciated contemporary Bulgarian sculptors.
A graduate of the Academy for Fine Arts "Nicolae Grigorescu" in Bucharest, Romania (1970–1975), under Professor Paul Vasilescu's beneficial guidance, Ivan Minekov's striking talent quickly attracted the attention of the Bulgarian artistic society.
In the early years of his career, Ivan Minekov participated in all common exhibitions in Bulgaria, as well as in representative exhibitions in Europe. In the period between 1975 and 1990 he completed a number of large monumental works in many Bulgarian cities, among which his |
Jean Le Sueur | null | Le Sueur.
In 1650, Le Sueur moved to the site where the chapel was being built. It became the parish church for Sainte-Geneviève hill, under the ministry of Abbé Le Sueur, who also became the tutor to the Bourdon progeny. The chapel was even mentioned in a 1660 dispatch to the Holy See by Bishop Laval. |
Jane Addams | Pacifism | No Man's Land. Yet when the facts came out at the hands of Sir Philip Gibbs and others not one word of apology was ever forthcoming." Even after the war the WILPF's program of peace and disarmament was characterized by opponents as radical, Communist-influenced, unpatriotic, and unfeminine. Young veterans in the American Legion, supported by some members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the League of Women Voters, were ill-prepared to confront the older, better-educated, more financially secure and nationally famous women of the WILPF. Nevertheless, the DAR could and did expel Addams from membership in their |
James P. Hoffa | Legislative activities during tenure | to overturn regulations that extended the number of hours a driver could spend behind the wheel of a truck. The Teamsters argued the rule would contribute to driver fatigue. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with the Teamsters, but it was the Obama administration that finally agreed to change the rule.
Under his leadership, the Teamsters ended a federal program in 2009 that allowed Mexican truckers to haul goods beyond the border zone in the United States. Hoffa predicted the failure of a second version of the program in October 2011, and challenged it |
J C Slaughter Falls | Location and features | J C Slaughter Falls Location and features The falls are situated within Mount Coot-tha Forest park, where there is a picnic area and parking area.
The Mount Coot-tha summit track travels from the J C Slaughter Falls Picnic Area through open eucalypt forest. The grade is steep over short sections. Mount Coot-tha Lookout offers sweeping views of the city, Moreton Bay, Stradbroke Island and the southern ranges. The track is classified as an easy walk and takes about one hour and is 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) return in distance. Mount Coot-tha Forest is 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of Brisbane Central Business District. |
Howrah Yeshvantapur Duronto Express | Coaches & Service | Howrah Yeshvantapur Duronto Express Coaches The 12245 / 46 Howrah Yeshvantapur Duronto Express presently has 1 AC First Class, 1 AC 2 tier, 4 AC 3 AC tier, 11 Sleeper Class and 2 SLR (seating cum luggage rake) coaches. In addition, it carries a Pantry car coach.
As is customary with most train services in India, Coach Composition may be amended at the discretion of Indian Railways depending on demand.All Coaches are LHB Hybrid Coach. Service The 12245 Howrah Yeshvantapur Duronto Express covers the distance of 1946 kilometres in 29 hours 00 mins (67.10 km/hr) & in 29 hours 15 mins as 12246 Yeshvantapur |
James McClatchy | Life and career | a supporter of the people's interests against those of corporations and corrupt politicians, McClatchy made The Bee a bastion of progressive reformism. Upon his death in 1883, the paper's leadership passed to James's sons, Charles and Valentine. |
Indians in the United Arab Emirates | Demographics | workers can voluntarily leave the country without facing imprisonment or having to pay fines. One such three month amnesty program in 2007 benefited 110,000 illegal Indian migrants, all of whom were either legally reabsorbed into the UAE workforce or allowed to return to India without sanctions or imprisonment.
There is also a sizeable population of second or third generation U.A.E-born Indians. They share characteristics with other third culture kids, forming a cultural identity that blends their heritage culture and growing up in the U.A.E, and a more fluid sense of home. Many U.A.E-born Indians further migrate to countries such as Canada, |
Han Feizi | Wu wei | and physical prowess" are irrelevant. He discards his private reason and morality, and shows no personal feelings. What is important is his method of government. Fa (administrative standards) require no perfection on the part of the ruler.
Han Fei's use of Wu-Wei may have been derivative of Taoism, but emphasizes autocracy ("Tao does not identify with anything but itself, the ruler does not identify with the ministers") and Shu (technique) as arguably more of a "practical principle of political control" than any state of mind. He nonetheless begins by waiting "empty and still."
Tao is the beginning of the myriad things, the |
IdeaPad | Business Edition & MIIX 300 | as 8 gigabytes of RAM and a 256-gigabyte SATA solid state drive. The main feature that distinguishes the Business Edition from the standard Miix 700 is its Trusted Platform Module chip that works with bundled software to provide "enterprise-level" security. MIIX 300 Lenovo unveiled a Windows 8.1 tablet at Mobile World Congress, called the IdeaPad MIIX 300. It is a mid-size tablet, weighing at 0.8 lbs. (360 g), 0.4 inches (9.3 mm) thick, and length and width will be 5.1 × 8.5 in. (130 × 215 mm). According to preliminary reviews, other features include pixel density of about 188 ppi and has an IPS |
Herbesthal railway station | Postwar revival | during the 1950s because of the growth in road transport. Herbesthal now became the home deport for the "Pacific class" NMBS/SNCB Type 1s, built in the late 1930s but still used for the prestigious international luxury trains, and during the 1950s the most powerful high speed steam locomotive used in Belgium. Herbesthal was again one of the most important frontier stations in western Europe. Not only the Northern Express, but also the Tauern Express were now making the switch between German and Belgian locomotives at Herbesthal. When the Trans Europ Express (TEE) |
Internet slang | Use beyond computer-mediated communication | conversation is brought forward to direct offline communication through the telephone and direct talking, as well as through written language, such as in writing notes or letters. In the case of interjections, such as numerically based and abbreviated Internet slang, are not pronounced as they are written physically or replaced by any actual action. Rather, they become lexicalized and spoken like non-slang words in a "stage direction" like fashion, where the actual action is not carried out but substituted with a verbal signal. The notions of flaming and trolling have also extended outside the computer, and are used in the |
Festivals of Odisha | Bali Jatra/Kartika Purnima & Gajalaxmi Puja & Nuakhai | celebrated to mark the voyages made by ancient sea traders from Odisha to Bali. It falls on the day of Kartik Purnima. On this day, miniatures of the boats called boitas are released in ponds, rivers and the sea.Festival is celebrated for a week all across the state. A major annual trade fair is also held in Cuttack. Gajalaxmi Puja The Gaja-Lakshmi Puja (ଗଜଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀ ପୂଜା) is celebrated primarily in Dhenkanal and Kendrapara town. It is an 11-day festival dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi, which begins on Kumar Purnima. Nuakhai Nuakhai (ନୂଆ ଖାଇ) is particularly celebrated in the Sambalpuri cultural region. It |
James P. Hoffa | Organizing successes | like you," Hoffa said. "… We are engaged in national campaigns that will test the resources of the union. Without a mighty army of Teamster member organizers, we're not going to get it done."
"We formed our union with the Teamsters so we could have an opportunity to negotiate for fair pay, benefits and equal treatment," said Nicole Miles, a monitor at First Student in Parkville, Missouri and Local 838 member. "Coming from a Teamster family, I supported the Teamsters because I wanted to be part of a union that will support me. I'm proud of our vote to join the |
Jenő Szervánszky | Second World War & After the war & Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | a few weeks he ate less and less. His physical state rapidly deteriorated to the extent that he weighed only thirty-eight kilos. His plan worked and he was released as of no practical use as a worker. After the war Between 1946 and 1951 Szervánszky did graphical work and drew pictures to illustrate news stories at a time when technology did not run to photographs in newspapers. In 1951 he began teaching at the College of Applied Arts. Hungarian Revolution of 1956 After the defeat of Germany, elections were held on November 4, 1945. They were won by the Small |
Italian War of 1521–1526 | Pavia | two of the breaches, but was beaten back with heavy casualties; hampered by rainy weather and a lack of gunpowder, the French decided to wait for the defenders to starve.
In early December, a Spanish force commanded by Hugo of Moncada landed near Genoa, intending to interfere in a conflict between pro-Valois and pro-Habsburg factions in the city. Francis dispatched a larger force under Michele Antonio I of Saluzzo to intercept them. Confronted by the more numerous French and left without naval support by the arrival of a pro-Valois fleet commanded by Andrea Doria, the Spanish troops surrendered. Francis |
Indian white-eye | Description & Distribution and habitat | is brighter yellow-green above. Some authors consider the nominate race to be restricted to Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam and Yunnan and consider the peninsular race as occidentis (or amabilis if the form from Kathiawar described by Koelz is considered valid).
In Sri Lanka, race egregia is smaller and has a brighter back and throat than the endemic Sri Lanka white-eye, Zosterops ceylonensis found in the central hills. Distribution and habitat The species is found in a wide range of habitats from scrub to moist forest. They sometimes occur on mangrove areas such as in the Karachi area. and on islands they may |
Jane March | Life and career | and continued to model before a call to audition in Paris on her 17th birthday following a cover shoot of Just Seventeen which had attracted the attention of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud's wife. March was chosen to play the female lead in 1992 film The Lover, based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras.
False rumours that the sex scenes between March and her co-star Tony Leung Ka-fai in the film had been real and not simulated led to her being dubbed "The sinner from Pinner". Speaking about the rumours in 2004, March said:
The suggestion that I'd slept with Tony |
History of Landsbanki | null | History of Landsbanki In establishing Landsbanki, the Icelandic parliament hoped to boost monetary transactions and encourage the country's nascent industries. Following its opening on 1 July 1886, the bank's first decades of operation were restricted by its limited financial capacity; it was little more than a savings and loan society. Following the turn of the 20th century, however, Icelandic society progressed and prospered as industrialisation finally made inroads, and the bank grew and developed in parallel to the nation. In the 1920s Landsbanki became Iceland's largest bank, and was made responsible for issuing its bank notes. After the issuing of |
Jason McGuinness | Career | Jason McGuinness Career McGuinness played at youth level for Tolka Rovers, Sheriff Y.C. and Bohemians before graduating to the Bohs first team, making his league debut as a substitute against UCD in August 2002. He made his Irish Under 21 debut four days later in an international against Finland.
With the likes of Colin Hawkins and Ken Oman in his way of regular first team football, he joined rivals Shamrock Rovers and spent 2 seasons scoring 7 goals in 57 total appearances there where he established himself at the heart of their defence before re-joining Bohs in time for the 2006 |
Jacob Hoornbeck Stone House | History | house in the course of its existence. |
Ian Stevens (footballer) | Carlisle United & Wrexham & Carlisle United | the Cumbrians' promotion, the club were relegated immediately and only preserved their football league status the following season thanks to a goal from on loan goalkeeper Jimmy Glass. Wrexham Stevens took a free transfer to Wrexham in July 1999. In his only season at the Racecourse Ground, he scored four goals in 20 matches. He also played a game on loan at Cheltenham Town without scoring. Carlisle United Stevens' release from Wrexham in August 2000 paved the way for a return to Carlisle. However, in June 2002 he went for one last hurrah with Shrewsbury Town. In his one season |
Irish penal rosary | Description | Irish penal rosary The Irish Penal Rosary (Irish: An Paidrín Beag) was a single-decade rosary used during penal times in Ireland, when Roman Catholicism and its religious objects were forbidden. This version of the rosary is easily hidden, allowing devout Roman Catholics to pray with less fear of being detected. Description The crucifix has various symbols of the Passion: a hammer for the nails of the cross; a halo for the Crown of Thorns; a jug symbolizing the Last Supper; cords for binding which recall the Scourging at the Pillar; the spear used at Calvary; a cock and pot, which |
Jan Ullrich | 1998 Tour de France & 1999 Vuelta a España | and could not ride the 1999 Tour, which ended in the first of seven 'victories' for Lance Armstrong. Ullrich set his targets on the world time trial championship in October by riding the Vuelta. 1999 Vuelta a España On the first mountain stage, Ullrich narrowly won against the defending Vuelta a España champion Abraham Olano of Team ONCE in a group sprint that included Frank Vandenbroucke, Roberto Heras and Davide Rebellin. Olano took the leader's golden jersey with Ullrich second. Olano won the following stage, a time trial, with almost one minute over Ullrich and increased his lead in stage |
I Still Believe in Santa Claus | Song information | Crosby's recording of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" spent two weeks at number three upon its first release in 1943.
In 1949, recordings of "Blue Christmas" by Russ Morgan, Ernest Tubb, and Hugo Winterhalter made the Billboard charts. That same year marked the first charting of "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?", thanks to The Orioles. 1952 saw the release of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", with versions by Molly Bee, Jimmy Boyd, and Spike Jones all making the charts that holiday season. Frank Sinatra's recording of "The Christmas Waltz" was released in 1954, and John Lennon and Yoko |
Jefry Rodríguez | Washington Nationals | season with a record of 49-9, giving them the highest winning percentage (.845) for a full regular season ever achieved by a minor-league baseball team based in the United States. The team then won all three of its playoff games, defeating the Gulf Coast League Pirates in a single-game semifinal playoff and sweeping the Gulf Coast League Red Sox in the best-of-three league championship series, to become the 2013 Gulf Coast League champions. During the season, Rodríguez made 12 appearances, all starts, and went 3–0 with an ERA of 2.45, 43 strikeouts, and 20 walks in 47 ²⁄₃ innings of work.
Rodríguez |
Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte | Brief History of Auvillar | October 1509 with Charles IV, Duke of Alençon, Count of Armagnac and, in June 1515, Viscount of Auvillar. He died in 1525 without descendance and she remarried with Henry d'Albret, King of Navarre in 1527 who therewith also became Viscount of Auvillar. He was succeeded by his daughter, Jeanne d'Albret in 1555 through her marriage to Antoine de Bourbon. The Protestants retained possession of Auvillar until June 1571, when the city was retaken by royalist troops. No sooner was Auvillar retaken by royalist troops, than the inhabitants of Auvillar, completely demolished the Viscountal castle to avenge the excesses and abuses |
Jean Harbor | Professional | Rapids, Harbor returned to the Seattle SeaDogs where he was MVP of the All Star game. That season Harbor also helped lead Seattle to the final CISL Championship defeating the Houston Hotshots 2 games to 0. Once again, Harbor saw a team and a league fold at the end of the season. In October 1997, Harbor moved to the Florida ThunderCats of the NPSL as the team began preparations for its first, and ultimately, its only season. The ThunderCats had significant financial problems during the 1998–1999 season and sold Harbor's contract to the Philadelphia KiXX just prior to |
Irving Scholar | Tottenham Hotspur & Nottingham Forest | at White Hart Lane, Behind Closed Doors, in 1992 with Mihir Bose as his co-author. Nottingham Forest Scholar became a director of Nottingham Forest in 1997 with the consortium that took over the club, the group included author Phil Soar, businessman Julian Markham and Saracens F.C. chairman Nigel Wray. Irving would go on to sell some of Nottingham Forests top talent behind the back of Manager Harry Bassett which lead to Dutch Striker pierre van Hoojidonk going strike.Nigel Doughty bought Forest after the club's flotation on the Alternative Investment Market. Scholar resigned from his directorship in June 1999 after |
Indian religions | Late Vedic period (from 850 BCE) & Sanskritization | the Vedas, interpreting the Vedic pantheon as a unitary view of the universe with 'God' (Brahman) seen as immanent and transcendent in the forms of Ishvara and Brahman. This post-Vedic systems of thought, along with the Upanishads and later texts like epics (namely Gita of Mahabharat), is a major component of modern Hinduism. The ritualistic traditions of Vedic religion are preserved in the conservative Śrauta tradition. Sanskritization Since Vedic times, "people from many strata of society throughout the subcontinent tended to adapt their religious and social life to Brahmanic norms", a process sometimes called Sanskritization. It is reflected in the |
Ixkun | Group 37 | face of the platform to the upper level, measuring 6.8 by 2.5 metres (22.3 by 8.2 ft). Excavations revealed that Structure 37-A was built in a single construction phase.
Structure 37-B is situated upon the northern part of Structure 37. It was built in the Late Classic during the third construction phase and rests upon the floor built during the second phase. It was a low rectangular stepped platform measuring 12 by 4.2 metres (39 by 14 ft). This structure was badly preserved but did not appear to have a stairway.
Structure 37-C is on the eastern side of Structure 37. It was built |
Itahar | Population | block had a total population of 249,500, out of which 127,332 were males and 122,168 were females. Itahar block registered a population growth of 26.58 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for the district was 28.72 per cent.
The only census town in Itahar CD Block was (2011 population in brackets): Itahar (6,022).
Large villages (with 4,000+ population) in Itahar CD Block were (2011 population in brackets): Gorahar (4,823), Keotal (4,655), Dhulahar (5,681), Gulandar (4,105), Kapsia (10,159), Barot (4,394), Bangar (4,512) and Khesra (5,617).
Other villages in Itahar CD Block included (2011 population in brackets): Jayhat (3,957), Chhayghara (2001) and Durgapur |
Jane Addams | Legacy | symbolic interactionism, used the neighborhood and its people to write his 1948 best seller, Knock on Any Door. His novel later became a well known court-room film in 1949. This book and film brought attention to how a resident lived an everyday life inside a settlement house and his relationship with Jane Addams, herself.
Addams' role as reformer enabled her to petition the establishment at and alter the social and physical geography of her Chicago neighborhood. Although contemporary academic sociologists defined her engagement as "social work," Addams' efforts differed significantly from activities typically labeled as "social work" during that time period. |
Ixkun | Monuments | has four holes bored into it, these holes are not large enough to have been useful in transporting the monument, archaeologists therefor believe that they were used to hold torches or banners. It is sculpted on only one face, which bears the images of king "Rabbit God K" and the visiting king Ch'iyel of Sacul, the visit is recorded as having taken place on 11 October 790. The monument has five sculpted hieroglyphic panels, although not all of the glyphs are legible. The largest panel forms a T shape underneath the portraits of the two rulers. The stela appears to |
Jackson Tower | History | not currently function as of summer 2011. |
Hamilton North and Bellshill (Scottish Parliament constituency) | Constituency boundaries and council areas & North Lanarkshire council area | Hamilton North and Bellshill (Scottish Parliament constituency) Constituency boundaries and council areas The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.
The Holyrood constituency covered a western portion of the North Lanarkshire council area and a northern portion of the South Lanarkshire council area. North Lanarkshire council area The rest of the North Lanarkshire area was covered by Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth and Motherwell |
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