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Jim Leslie (journalist) | 1974 campaign | campaign In 1974 George D'Artois, the Public Service Commissioner in Shreveport since 1962, hired Leslie to create his communications as part of his campaign for reelection. In 1970 D'Artois faced a greater challenge from a Republican competitor, and he was aware of growing Republican strength in the city and state, as white conservatives started to leave the Democratic Party. D'Artois gained reelection.
A team of reporters from the Shreveport Times began working on a series of investigations about D'Artois in the mid-1970s. One line led to Leslie, who still held two uncancelled checks from the 1974 campaign. He told reporters that |
Itahar | Geography | The soil is composed of different varieties of alluvium. The main rivers are: Nagar, Mahananda, Kulik, Gamari, Chhiramati (Srimati) and Tangon. The rivers have little water in the dry season but with heavy rains, during monsoon, overflow the banks. The Mahananda river flows along the western boundary of Itahar CD Block. The Chhiramati river covers a portion of the eastern boundary and the Gamari river flows through Itahar CD Block.
Itahar CD Block is bounded by Raiganj and Kaliaganj CD Blocks on the north, Harirampur CD Block, in Dakshin Dinajpur district, on the east, Gazole CD Block, in Malda |
Jean Déré | Life | Jean Déré Jean Déré (23 June 1886 – 6 December 1970) was a French music educator and composer. Life Born in Niort, Déré was introduced to classical music by his father, who was organist and choir director in Niort, and performed in public at the age of six. From 1897 he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was a student of Louis Diémer, Albert Lavignac, Georges Caussade, Charles Lenepveu, Jules Massenet and Charles Marie Widor.
Already in the time of the First World War he developed his first compositions, among them a symphonic poem and an opera. During this |
Jefry Rodríguez | Washington Nationals | in 2017, and the Carolina League named him its Pitcher of the Week for the first week of May. He began the season by posting a 3–2 record and a 3.51 ERA, with a strikeout-to-walk ratio of almost four-to-one, and he held opposing batters to a .228 batting average. On May 16, 2017, however, he received an 80-game suspension after testing positive for a metabolite of Clomiphene, classified by the league as a prohibited performance-enhancing drug. The Washington Post noted the rarity of the suspension for the Nationals, reporting that he was the team's only "prominent" minor-league player to be |
Joey Kramer | Life and career | connection between the name "Aerosmith" and Sinclair Lewis' novel Arrowsmith.
Shortly before joining Aerosmith Kramer worked with Chubby & the Turnpikes (later to be known as Tavares) alongside Bernie Worrell.
He made a guest appearance in the 22nd season of The Simpsons, in the episode "The Ned-Liest Catch", as a former partner of Bart's teacher Mrs. Krabappel, as told in the third-season episode Flaming Moe's, which featured the whole of Aerosmith, the first-ever band to guest star on the show.
In 2015, Kramer tweeted about how he had been made into a Simpsons action figure.
In June 2011, Kramer did a fan Q&A and |
Jan Ullrich | 2004 and 2005 Tour | finished fourth, 8:50 behind Armstrong, his first finish lower than second. Klöden finished second and Ivan Basso third.
For 2005, Ullrich again captained T-Mobile. He maintained a low profile for the early season, surfacing in the 2005 Tour de Suisse, which he finished third behind Aitor González and Michael Rogers.
The day before the 2005 Tour de France, Ullrich was training when his team car stopped unexpectedly. Ullrich hit the back window, ending up in the back seat of the car. Less than 24 hours later Ullrich was passed by Armstrong in the time trial. Ullrich fell again in the mountains, bruising |
Joey Kramer | Life and career | revealed his open-mindedness to outside writers, stating he does not care about it as long as it's all five members of Aerosmith playing the material written.
In 2013, Kramer announced his new partnership with Comfort Foods, Inc. who now will roast, package and distribute his whole bean, organic coffee line: Rockin’ & Roastin’ Coffee.
In 2015, he announced a business partnership with Les Otten, the former vice chairman of the Boston Red Sox, to open two Joey Kramer's Rockin’ & Roastin’ Café and Restaurant. The first restaurant is located in Newry, Maine at the foot of the Sunday River Ski |
Ghost town | Asia & Antarctica | suffered a drastic population decline as a result of the War in Abkhazia in the early 1990s. Antarctica The oldest ghost town in Antarctica is on Deception Island, where in 1906, a Norwegian-Chilean company set up a whaling station at Whalers Bay, which they used as a base for their factory ship, the Gobernador Bories. Other whaling operations followed suit, and by 1914 there were thirteen factory ships based there. The station ceased to be profitable during the Great Depression, and was abandoned in 1931. In 1969, the station was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. There are also many |
Jesse H. Jones | Family history and early life | Jesse was responsible for receiving (or sometimes rejecting), classifying, warehousing, and shipping tobacco. In addition, his name was on the company bank account, and he signed checks for the company's operations.
At the age of seventeen, Jesse's family returned to Dallas. After several attempts to find a suitable job in Dallas and the surrounding region, Jesse started working in Hillsboro, Texas, at one of his uncle's lumberyards. He performed manual labor, but also served the office side of the business, such as bookkeeping and debt collection. Despite these varied duties, he earned the standard salary for a salesman: $40 per month. |
Jackson Health System | Jackson Memorial Hospital & Holtz Children's Hospital | volume in 2016.
Home to one of the largest graduate medical education programs in the U.S., Jackson Memorial Hospital works in conjunction with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine faculty, offering services including patient care, educational programs, a research-focused clinical setting and community services that focus on health-related issues. Jackson North Medical Center is also affiliated with the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of "America's Best Hospitals," among the top 50 hospitals nationwide in various specialties. Holtz Children's Hospital Jackson's Holtz Children's |
Jean Harbor | National team & Post playing career | was forced to field an ad hoc player line up for a game against Peru. Post playing career In 2004, Harbor worked for NASA.
In Spring of 2004, Harbor will be holding Soccer Clinics for Global Perspective Youth Sports of Buckeye, AZ |
John Davidson (ice hockey) | Playing career & Broadcasting career | after Martin Biron briefly wore the number in 1995, the league banned the use of the number.
Davidson was the inspiration for the song "Double Vision" from 1978's album Double Vision by Foreigner. Members of the band who were Rangers fans were watching a Stanley Cup Playoff game between Davidson's New York Rangers and the Buffalo Sabres. Davidson was shaken up when a shot hit his goalie mask. As he was recovering, announcers Jim Gordon and Bill Chadwick said Davidson was suffering from "Double Vision." Broadcasting career After retiring due to injury, he joined MSG's hockey coverage staff in 1983, and |
Joaquín Ezpeleta Enrile | Biography | Joaquín Ezpeleta Enrile Biography Ezpeleta was the son of the Count of Ezpeleta de Beire, Governor-General of Cuba from 1785 to 1789 and Viceroy of Nueva Granada from 1789 to 1797, and nephew of Pasqual Enrile y Alcedo, Governor-General of the Philippines. In late 1807 his father was appointed Captain-General of Catalonia and Ezpeleta was with him when the French troops, commanded by General Duhesne, attacked the city of Barcelona in 1808.
Ezpeleta was captured and moved to France but he escaped soon later and he re-enrolled into the Army, being captured again in 1812 and imprisoned until the end of |
Indians in the United Arab Emirates | Immigration boom & Demographics | of Kerala, or were Indian Arabs, descendants of Arabs who had previously emigrated to India. It was also in the late 1960s that the Hindu Temple and first Indian schools were built for expatriate Indian families. Indian migration to the UAE drastically increased in the 1970s and 1980s, with the expansion of the oil industry and the growth of free trade in Dubai. Annual migration of Indians to the UAE, which stood at 4,600 in 1975, rose to over 125,000 by 1985, and stood at nearly 200,000 in 1999. Demographics In the 2.8 million migrants, 1 million are from Kerala |
John Davies (photographer) | Life and work | Art to complete a foundation course, then studying at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University), graduating in 1974. Following this, he began working on long-term projects, seeking commissions and arts funding to support his work. He has worked closely with Amber/Side Collective on a number of commissions.
In 1981, Davies won a one-year photography fellowship at Sheffield Polytechnic, and he became senior research fellow at the Art School of University of Wales Cardiff (UWIC) in 1995.
He is known for producing large photographic prints of images produced from high vantage points, using traditional darkroom techniques. His work in the 1980s primarily used |
James Keene (footballer) | Early career & Sweden | His fourth and final goal for the club came in a 2-0 league victory against Brentford. He then joined League 2 side Boston United, where he scored his first and only goal for the club in a 1-1 draw with Rochdale. Sweden Keene was loaned in March 2006 to GAIS for the Swedish 2006 Allsvenskan. Keene scored the first goal of the season for GAIS in the Allsvenskan in the Gothenburg derby against Örgryte IS. He finished the season as the club's top scorer with 10 goals in 22 league appearances, and following his success he was at the end |
Infamous Assassinations | Episode 25: Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi & Episode 26: John F. Kennedy | shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards. Almost 7 years later, her son R. Gandhi was killed by a Tamil suicide bomber. Episode 26: John F. Kennedy On 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas, US President Kennedy was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
Johann Albrecht Bengel | Gnomon Novi Testamenti | conformity with grammatico-historical rules not to be hampered by dogmatical considerations; and not to be influenced by the symbolical books. Bengel's hope that the Gnomon would help to rekindle a fresh interest in the study of the New Testament was fully realized. It has passed through many editions, has been translated into German and into English (by Marvin Vincent in 1860), and is still valued by expositors of the New Testament. John Wesley made great use of it in compiling his Expository Notes upon the New Testament (1755).
Besides the two works already described, Bengel was the editor or author of |
Jhumpa Lahiri | Literary career | the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (only the seventh time a story collection had won the award).
In 2003, Lahiri published her first novel, The Namesake. The theme and plot of this story was influenced in part by a family story she heard growing up. Her father's cousin was involved in a train wreck and was only saved when the workers saw a beam of light reflected off of a watch he was wearing. Similarly, the protagonist's father in The Namesake was rescued due to his peers recognizing the books that he read by Russian author Nikolai Gogol. The father and |
Iván Cervantes | Career | two-stroke or 475 - 650 cc four-stroke). In the 2008 season, continuing with KTM, he finished second to Honda's Mika Ahola.
He also won the 2008/09 FIM Indoor Enduro World Cup, winning five races. In 2009/10 he was runner-up with one win and six second-place finishes. He returned for the 2011/12 season, resulting 5th with two podiums.
In 2011 Ivan changed bike to GasGas
In various press interviews, Cervantes has stated that his goal is to win two world titles in each of the three enduro categories, and then to try to win the Dakar Rally. |
Jan Ullrich | 2003 Tour and sportsmanship | gap by another 19 seconds in the first mountain stage. Two days later Ullrich rode away from Armstrong on the Tourmalet but Armstrong caught up. Half way into the next climb, Luz Ardiden, Armstrong's handlebar got caught in a spectator's yellow musette waving in the air and he fell. Ullrich waited for Armstrong to recover, returning the courteous display by Armstrong 2 years previously. Armstrong then caught the group and attacked shortly afterwards.
Ullrich lost 40 seconds in the final kilometers, but the final time trial would be decisive. In it, Ullrich crashed and saw a stage and Tour victory disappear. |
Jerzy Sikorski | Location of Copernicus’ observatories & Recognition | still-extant plaster astronomical table that was used by Copernicus from 1516 to 1521. Recognition Sikorski has been awarded Polish presidential medals for his professional work as a historian and Copernicologist: the Gold Cross of Merit (1975) and Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1986).
On the fifteenth anniversary of the Warmia-Mazury Business Club, the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński gave presidential orders and awards to deserving club members. On March 28, 2008, the title "Personality of the Year 2008 in Warmia and Mazury" was awarded to Jerzy Sikorski for his research into the life and science of Nicolas Copernicus, |
Jakob Messikommer | Appreciation of his work | World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, of which are 56 located in Switzerland. |
Hutton Companies | History & Philanthropy | was primarily a venture capitalist and private equity partner in numerous real estate developments throughout the state of California. By the end of the 1970s, Hutton had evolved into a full service real estate development company and land owner.
In 1985, Mrs. Hutton retired from Hutton Companies to pursue her philanthropic work with her non-profit foundation: The Hutton Foundation. Today, the Hutton Foundation has approximately $100,000,000 in endowment and donates millions annually to the arts, health care, education, and civic causes. Philanthropy Mrs. Hutton was a generous benefactor of education and children causes. Chapman University has recognized Hutton's generosity by naming |
John G. Agar (lawyer) | Early life and education & Career | Macdonough. Together, they had five children including Herbert Agar, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History. His son and namesake John G. Agar Jr. died in WW I in October,1918 at St. Mihiel, northern France. Career In 1881, Agar was appointed Assistant Attorney for the Southern District New York by President Garfield. He resigned in 1882 to become a senior member of Agar, Ely, and Fulton, a role he held until his death.
In 1896, he was named a school commissioner on the New York City Board of Education and is credited for removing education from politics and obtaining better funding |
It's a Family Affair-We'll Settle It Ourselves | History | the play at Mikhail Katkov's in Merzlyakovsky Lane where another Moscow University professor, I.V.Belyaev was also present. Both Ostrovsky and Sadovsky started to receive invitations to the houses of Moscow cultural elite (Nikolai and Karolina Pavlovs, Alexander Veltman, professors Stepan Shevyryov and Mikhail Pogodin, at Meshchersky's and Sheremetyev's, even in the astronomer Alexander Drashusov's observatory where they became frequent guests since the autumn of 1849. Ivan Goncharov, who was in Moscow on his way from Saint Petersburg to Simbirsk, has heard the Bankrupt, liked it a lot and advised Ostrovsky to send the play to Krayevsky's Otechestvennye Zapiski. The author |
Jocelyn (opera) | Recordings | Jocelyn (opera) Recordings The popular Berceuse has been recorded by many tenors, including Tino Rossi, Capoul, John McCormack, Beniamino Gigli, Edmond Clément, Richard Crooks, Nicolai Gedda, Jussi Björling and Plácido Domingo, as well as by the cellist Pablo Casals. |
Jean E. Fairfax | NAACP Legal Defense Fund | Bell) escorted 6-year-old Debra Lewis to her first day of integrating the all-white Carthage Elementary School in rural Leake County, MS.
Interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor, Fairfax once said, "Someone had to break the pattern, and very often the civil rights revolution was initiated by the most vulnerable black persons. Many of them were women and many of them were children -- tough, resilient, hopeful, beautiful children. The greatest experience of my life was standing with them as they took the risks." Later she would claim that rural counties of the Deep South had some of the most integrated school |
Jane Addams | Pacifism | conference convened by Women at the Hague. At the time, both the US and The Netherlands were neutral. Jane Addams chaired this pathbreaking International Congress of Women at the Hague, which included almost twelve hundred participants from 12 warring and neutral countries. Their goal was to develop a framework to end the violence of war. Both national and international political systems excluded women's voices. The women delegates argued that the exclusion of women from policy discourse and decisions around war and peace resulted in flawed policy. The delegates adopted a series of resolutions addressing these problems and called for extending |
John Fee | Career | John Fee Career Born in Newry, County Down, Fee was educated at St Patrick's Primary School in Crossmaglen, South Armagh, and St Colman's College, Newry before attending Queen's University Belfast. He worked as the Editor of the Creggan Historical Journal from 1986 before in 1988 becoming the Parliamentary Research Assistant to Seamus Mallon, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) Member of Parliament for Newry and Armagh.
Fee was elected to Newry and Mourne District Council for the SDLP in 1989, and in 1998 was chosen as one of Northern Ireland's representatives on the European Committee of the Regions. He served |
Infamous Assassinations | Episode 3: Princess Anne & Episode 4: Anwar Sadat & Episode 5: Lord Mountbatten & Episode 6: Ronald Reagan & Episode 7: John Lennon | gunman attempted to kidnap The Queen's daughter, believing he could receive a multi-million pound ransom by doing so. Episode 4: Anwar Sadat On 6 October 1981 in Cairo, Egyptian President Sadat was shot dead by Islamic extremist soldiers. Episode 5: Lord Mountbatten On 27 August 1979 in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, Prince Philip's uncle Louis Mountbatten was killed by an IRA bomb. Episode 6: Ronald Reagan On 30 March 1981 in Washington D.C., John Hinckley, Jr. shot US President Reagan, wrongly believing that doing so would make actress Jodie Foster love him. Episode 7: John Lennon On 8 December |
Jesse H. Jones | Exit from Washington | Jones released the two letters to several newspapers, including The New York Times. The letters criticized Roosevelt's decision to name Wallace as Secretary of Commerce. Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina called both Jones and Wallace to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee, each on consecutive days. Jones testified on the first day that he did not believe that Wallace was a suitable candidate. He characterized Wallace as a visionary who lacked business experience. Sometime during the five hours of testimony the next day, Wallace touted his own business experience, but sought to restrict the scope of power from |
Igor Bunich | Operatsia Groza | signed. After Georgy Zhukov became chief of the general staff in February 1941, the plan was called MP 41 (Mobilisatsyonni Plan 41). Bunich points to the Russian military archives, where it can be found (ZAMO, f. 15A, op.2154, d.4,l. 199-287). This document contains information about the Soviet military power in June 1941: 300 divisions, 8 million soldiers, 27,500 tanks, 32,628 airplanes. The total number of the German warplanes at that time was only about 6,000 although the majority of the Soviet aircraft was obsolete.
Bunich is not the only Russian historian who questioned the thesis of the "cowardly attack of the |
John Michael Seabright | Career & Judicial service | Law of the University of Hawaii in 1999, 2000, and 2002. Judicial service On February 14, 2005, Seabright was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii vacated by Alan Cooke Kay. Seabright was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 27, 2005, and received his commission on April 28, 2005. He became Chief Judge on November 6, 2015 when Susan Oki Mollway assumed senior status. |
Jadar (Drina) | River | another important left tributary, the Likodra river, near the village and former mine of Zavlaka. The Jadar continues next to the villages of Brezovice, Radinac [where it receives another left tributary, the Rakovica River (Cyrillic: Раковица), Brnjaci, Draginac, Bradić, Lipnica, Gornji Dobrić and Kozjak, before it empties into the Drina, near the Straža village, just south of the town of Janja in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Jadar belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin, drains an area of 894 km² and it is not navigable. The river is notorious for its floods which happen almost on annual basis. The |
John Hartford | Works & In popular culture | He sketched the cover art for some of his mid-career albums, drawing with both hands simultaneously. In popular culture His song "This Eve of Parting", from the 1968 album The Love Album, was featured in the 2017 movie Lady Bird, portions being heard at two different points in the film. |
John Hartford | Final years and legacy & Works | Louis Walk of Fame in honor of his work. He also was given a posthumous Presidents Award by the Americana Music Association in September 2005. The annual John Hartford Memorial Festival is held at the Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground near Beanblossom, Indiana. Works Hartford recorded more than 30 albums, ranging across a broad spectrum of styles—from the traditional country of his early RCA recordings, to the new and experimental sound of his early newgrass recordings, to the traditional folk style to which he often returned later in his life. Hartford's albums also vary widely in formality, from |
Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte | Chambre des Comptes in Pau | Registrar, a Huissier and a Patrimonial Prosecutor (a "Procureur Patrimonial"); the jurisdiction and knowledge were set forth for all matters concerning the types of income and expense accounting, and the circumstances and dependencies, all the same, and with the same authority and justice that had belonged to the King himself. By 28 October 1563, the number of huissiers had been increased to two. On 30 September 1569, the Queen Regnant Jeanne published new laws about religion with two main principles: the first being to suspended all officers who were not Huguenot and prohibit the Lieutenant General from enlisting Catholics, and |
Hirofumi Yoshida | Career | Il Don Chisciotte. In October 2013 Maestro Yoshida conducted the same production at Kyoto Opera Festival, which is organised with the support of the Japanese government and whose Artistic Director is the same Hirofumi Yoshida. One of the recitals took place in Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, which is UNESCO World Heritage site. It was the first time in Japan (Yokohama and Kyoto). It was the first time in the 1400 years of history of the temple that an opera performance was held in there. In the same year, Maestro Yoshida is awarded he was awarded the “Enrico Caruso” International Prize, |
Johan Hellsten | Chess career | has an Elo rating of 2550, making him the No. 4 ranked Swedish player, though he is inactive. |
Jean Harbor | Professional | the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks. In 1991, he led the league in scoring with seventeen goals and eleven assists in twenty games as the Bays fell to the Albany Capitals in the semi-finals. Harbor took first team All APSL and league MVP honors. The team folded at the end of the season.
With the collapse of the Bays, Harbor moved indoors in the fall of 1991 with the Baltimore Blast of Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). However, Harbor once again saw his team fold, this time along with the entire league, at the end of the |
James C. Nelson | Legal career | Washington University Law School in 1974, he moved to Cut Bank, Montana to take over his father-in-law's law firm. After representing a Native American tribe, the tribe gave him the honorary name of E-E-Nistowas, or Buffalo Body.
During this time, he served as President of the Glacier Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation, and a member of the Montana Gaming Advisory Council and the Governor's Task Force on Corrections and Criminal Justice Policy. He served as Glacier County Attorney (the county's top prosecutor) until May 1993 when Republican Governor Marc Racicot (the |
Jack the Ripper in fiction | Film | is the murderer. Coincidentally, in both movies, character actor Frank Finlay plays Inspector Lestrade. Part of the conspiracy plotline was followed in the television miniseries Jack the Ripper (1988) starring Michael Caine as Inspector Frederick Abberline. In the 1997 film The Ripper, Samuel West starred as Prince Eddy, who was revealed as the Ripper, and Love Lies Bleeding (1999 film) featured Paul Rhys, Emily Raymond and Faye Dunaway in another film. In 2001, the Hughes Brothers made the comic book From Hell into a film of the same name starring Johnny Depp as Abberline. The film again sticks to the |
Hobbing | History | of manual gear hobs that helped to produce gears prior to the gears of the 19th century and earlier. Along with these completely manual gear hobs will be samples of some of the first semi-automated gear hobs, and finally examples of more recent technology that demonstrates the fully automated process that modern gear hobs use to produce gears today. A few producers of gear hobs also have interesting literature on the history of gear hobs, including details about how modern gear hobs can produce thousands of gears in a single hour. |
Jane Addams | Sociology | was established (1889). Members of Hull House welcomed the first group of professors, who soon were "intimately involved with Hull House" and assiduously engaged with applied social reform and philanthropy" In 1893, for example, faculty (Vincent, Small and Bennis) worked with Jane Addams and fellow Hull House resident Florence Kelley to pass legislation "banning sweat shops and employment of children" Albion Small, chair of the Chicago Department of Sociology and founder of the American Journal of Sociology, called for a sociology that was active "in the work of perfecting and applying plans and devices for social improvement and |
John C. Colt | Early life | Colt then traveled to the Great Lakes region to recuperate and bought a farm in Michigan on Gooden's Lake; however, tubercular symptoms began again and he soon left for Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became a teacher of one of the first correspondence courses in America; he also became part of a group known for Bohemianism, and considered John Howard Payne and Hiram Powers among his friends.
From there he attempted many business ventures throughout the United States: land speculator in Texas, soap manufacturer in New York, grocery wholesaler in Georgia, fur trader, dry-goods merchant in Florida, and an organizer of |
Jane Addams | Peace movement | more battleships. She went on to speak and campaign extensively for Roosevelt's 1912 presidential campaign.
In January 1915, she became involved in the Woman's Peace Party and was elected national chairman. Addams was invited by European women peace activists to preside over the International Congress of Women in The Hague, 28–30 April 1915, and was chosen to head the commission to find an end to the war. This included meeting ten leaders in neutral countries as well as those at war to discuss mediation. This was the first significant international effort against the war. Addams, along with co-delegates Emily Balch and |
Fundulus luciae | Description | killifish is the smallest member of its genus, rarely exceeding 50 mm total length or 40 mm standard length. Larval fish transition to juvenile stage at around 10 mm standard length. Sexual maturity is attained at approximately 24–27 mm TL (males) and 28–30 mm TL (females). Body shape is elongated and less stocky than Fundulus heteroclitus, with an upturned mouth, flattened head and rounded caudal fin characteristic of the genus. Adults are sexually dimorphic, although both sexes are darker on top with a lighter belly. Juveniles and adult females are similar in appearance, with a body that is grayish-green to olive green in color, lacking |
Gokaigers | Ranger Keys | Jet Phoenix-style attack as the Jetmen. In the Gokaigers' final battle, it is revealed that they can access the Super Modes of the various Super Sentai teams such as the Shinkengers' Hyper Mode and the Dekarangers' SWAT Mode.
Aside from the five Gokaiger keys, the other Ranger Keys are not specific to any of the five Gokaigers. While the Gokaigers can primarily transform into a previous Super Sentai hero of their color, the Gokaigers can use a Ranger Key of any color. For example, in the events of episode 2 and the film Tensou Sentai Goseiger vs. Shinkenger: Epic on Ginmaku, |
George W. Aldridge | Party boss | President Warren G. Harding. In this role, "he had not become a particularly conspicuous figure." He remained in the role until his death the following year in 1922. |
John Lewis (British politician) | Career | John Lewis (British politician) John Lewis (14 December 1912 – 14 June 1969) was a British Labour Party politician, who played a major part in the controversial arrest of society osteopath Stephen Ward, landlord of Christine Keeler in the Profumo affair of 1963. Career After making a fortune in industrial rubber, Lewis was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the two-seat constituency of Bolton at the 1945 general election, and became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General. The constituency was divided in a boundary review for the 1950 general election, when he was returned as MP for the new |
Jack Murphy (Irish politician) | Accusations | ever seek, or claim, "leadership" of the unemployed or any other movement – on the contrary it is very noticeable that in both his own published writings and in his speeches to the Dáil he very seldom refers to himself at all (preferring to talk in terms of "we, the unemployed") but whenever he does speak of himself in first person, he referred to himself as merely a "representative" of the unemployed.
A final accusation made against Murphy in absentia after his emigration was that he resigned and left Ireland because he was not up to the task of solving the |
John Nicholls (RAF officer) | RAF career | John Nicholls (RAF officer) RAF career Educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Nicholls joined the Royal Air Force in June 1945 and served as a pilot during the later stages of the Second World War. During the Korean War he was seconded to the United States Air Force where he saw active service as a pilot and shot down a MiG 15. In 1959 he was seconded to English Electric to test fly the new supersonic Lightning. He was appointed Officer Commanding the Air Fighting Development Squadron in 1962, Deputy Director of Air Staff Briefing |
John Andrew Frey | Early life & Career | John Andrew Frey John Andrew Frey (August 29, 1929 – August 22, 1997) was an American philologist. Early life John "Jack" Andrew Frey was born on August 29, 1929, the son of George Henry Frey and Marie Berter.
Frey was a Fulbright Scholar. In 1955 he collaborated to The Stylistic Relationship Between Poetry and Prose in the Cántico Espiritual of San Juan de la Cruz, Volumes 52-55. He graduated in 1957 and his thesis was Motif symbolism in the disciples of Mallarmé, which he published in 1969. Career John Frey became a professor of Romance Languages at George Washington University. He |
John Gadsby Chapman | Life and career | of Pocahontas was formally unveiled in the Capitol rotunda.
Besides historical paintings and portraits, Chapman also produced wood engravings and etchings, and frequently contributed illustrations to Harper Brothers' publications. Chapman's American Drawing Book, published in 1847, became a standard text for art students.
On the swell of these successes, Chapman moved his family to Rome, and made an earnest living selling paintings of rural Campania to American visitors. However, at the onset of the American Civil War, the tourist industry dried up, affecting Chapman's fortunes greatly. In addition, Chapman's own son, Conrad Wise Chapman, returned to America to fight on |
John Carroll Lynch | Early life & Career | John Carroll Lynch Early life Lynch was born in Boulder, Colorado. He attended Regis Jesuit High School in Denver. He studied theater at The Catholic University of America, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1986. Career Lynch was a member of the Guthrie Theater company. He starred in several productions, toured with the company and worked there for over eight seasons.
Lynch made his feature film debut in Grumpy Old Men (1993). He gained notice starring as Norm Gunderson in the Coen brothers' film Fargo (1996). His other notable films are Face/Off (1997), Bubble Boy (2001), Gothika |
Jerry Lamb (bishop) | Background | Joaquin in central California after Bishop John-David Schofield and at least 40 parishes left the Episcopal Church for the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. About seven congregations are still Episcopal. |
Jane Addams | Sociology & Remembrances | history.
Mary Jo Deegan, in her 1988 book Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918 was the first person to recover Addams influence on Sociology. Deegan's work has led to recognition of Addams' place in sociology. In a 2001 address, for example, Joe Feagin, then president of the American Sociology Association, identified Addams as a "key founder" and he called for sociology to again claim its activist roots and commitment to social justice. Remembrances On December 10, 2007, Illinois celebrated the first annual Jane Addams Day. Jane Addams Day was initiated by a dedicated school teacher from Dongola, |
Janet Honour | Athletics career | Janet Honour Athletics career Honour became the 1967 National champion (under the name Oldall) and the 1971 National champion (under the name Honour) after winning the British AAA pentathlon championship.
In 1970 she competed in the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh finishing sixth in the high jump. Four years later she represented England in the 100 metres hurdles and pentathlon events, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
Igor Kutergin | Club career | Igor Kutergin Club career He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk on 21 April 2019 in a game against FC Zvezda Perm. |
Edward P. Hurt | Death and legacy | Memorial Park in southwest Baltimore County, Maryland. Hurt was survived by his wife Beatrice, one brother and three sisters. In addition to the Hurt Gymnasium, named is his honor in 1952, a scholarship fund was established in the name of Edward and Beatrice Hurt and the "Eddie Hurt Invitational track meet" is held annually at the university. |
Indian religions | Ritual & Mythology | literature, many classical narratives and purana have Hindu, Buddhist or Jain versions. All four traditions have notions of karma, dharma, samsara, moksha and various forms of Yoga. Mythology Rama is a heroic figure in all of these religions. In Hinduism he is the God-incarnate in the form of a princely king; in Buddhism, he is a Bodhisattva-incarnate; in Jainism, he is the perfect human being. Among the Buddhist Ramayanas are: Vessantarajataka, Reamker, Ramakien, Phra Lak Phra Lam, Hikayat Seri Rama etc. There also exists the Khamti Ramayana among the Khamti tribe of Asom wherein Rama is an Avatar of |
John Lyon (cricketer) | After first-class cricket | associated with clubs at Bangor and Clontarf as a coach. He later settled in South Africa where he ran a bar, and he died there on 1 January 2010.
Lyon was married in 1972 to Cynthia Mary. He also played rugby league. |
Johann Albrecht Bengel | Greek New Testament | and at Stuttgart in the same year, but without the critical apparatus. As early as 1725, in an addition to his edition of Chrysostoms De Sacerdotio, he had given an account in his Prodromus Novi Testamenti Graeci recte cauteque adornandi of the principles on which his intended edition was to be based. In preparation for his work, Bengel was able to avail himself of the collations of upwards of twenty manuscripts, none of them, however, of great importance, twelve of which had been collated by himself. In constituting the text, he imposed upon himself the singular restriction of not inserting |
John C. Colt | Marriage and death | York City's infamous prison, the Tombs. His sentence was to be performed on November 14, 1842. Colt asked that he be allowed to marry Caroline Henshaw on the morning of his hanging. While imprisoned, Colt lived luxuriously in his prison cell, receiving daily visits from friends and family, smoking Cuban cigars, sleeping in an actual bed instead of a mound of straw and wearing silk dressing gowns inside and a seal skin overcoat for his daily walks in the prison yard. His cell contained the latest novels, a gilded bird cage with a canary and fresh flowers brought to |
Homer Jordan | Early life & College Career: 1981 National Championship | Homer Jordan Early life Homer Jordan grew up in Athens, Georgia. His father died from diabetes when Jordan was 12, leaving behind Jordan, his mother and three sisters. Jordan played football, starring at quarterback and safety at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens. After earning All-State honors as a quarterback, Jordan signed with Clemson University as he wished to remain at the quarterback position in his college career. College Career: 1981 National Championship Jordan attended Clemson University from 1979 to 1982 and was a pioneer of dual threat quarterbacks, with his ability to both pass and run. With Jordan as |
Jamestown Rediscovery | null | Jamestown Rediscovery Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) investigating the remains of the original settlement at Jamestown established in the Virginia Colony beginning on May 14, 1607. In 1994, at the behest of Preservation Virginia, archaeologist William Kelso began directing excavations at Historic Jamestowne on Jamestown Island. By 1996, the Jamestown Rediscovery team had discovered the foundations of the 1607 James Fort, long thought to have disappeared in the waters of the James River. Initially a 10-year project, given the wealth of knowledge and artifacts uncovered throughout its |
Jimmy Madison (musician) | null | Jimmy Madison (musician) James Henry Madison (born February 17, 1947, Cincinnati) is an American jazz drummer.
Madison grew up in a musical family and was playing drums in public by age twelve. In 1966 he worked in Ohio with Don Goldie, then toured with Lionel Hampton. He worked both in Cincinnati and New York in the late 1960s; by 1969 he had joined Marian McPartland in New York, working with her until 1972. In the 1970s he also worked with James Brown, Bobby Hackett, Joe Farrell, David Matthews, Roland Kirk, Carmen McRae, Harold Danko, Chet Baker, Urbie Green, Michel Legrand, |
ITER | Criticism | as Robert Bussard and Eric Lerner, have been critical of ITER for diverting funding from what they believe could be a potentially more viable and/or cost-effective path to fusion power, such as the polywell reactor.
Many critics accuse ITER researchers of being unwilling to face up to the technical and economic potential problems posed by tokamak fusion schemes. The expected cost of ITER has risen from US$5 billion to US$20 billion, and the timeline for operation at full power was moved from the original estimate of 2016 to 2027.
A French association including about 700 anti-nuclear groups, Sortir du nucléaire (Get Out |
Itahar | Agriculture | related occupations.”
Agricultural potential has been uneven across Uttar Dinajpur based on soil conditions and irrigation potential. This has generated considerable internal migration within the district, as areas with higher agricultural potential and higher labour demand has attracted large number of people. The impact of land reforms has also varied. As the Islampur subdivision blocks evolved initially under the Bihar administration, the land estates were larger in size and the extent of land acquired under ceiling laws were higher. The cultivator population in Islampur subdivision was also thinner. Such conditions have been favourable for migrants. The movement of people from agricultural |
John C. Colt | Early life | John C. Colt Early life John Colt was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father was Christopher Colt, a farmer who had relocated his family to Hartford when he changed professions and became a businessman. His mother was Sarah (née Caldwell), with whom Christopher had eight children. Two died during childhood; the eldest sister, Margaret, died of tuberculosis when John was 13 years old; and his brother, Samuel Colt, achieved fame and fortune after founding the Colt's Manufacturing Company.
When John was age nine, his father sent him to Hopkins Academy; the next year, the father took him out again, partly because |
Jerry Lamb (bishop) | Background | Coadjutor of Northern California in 1991 and was consecrated on June 9 of that year. In 1992, he became the diocesan bishop. Also in 1992 he was awarded an honorary D.D. from The Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He is the 868th bishop consecrated into the historical episcopate of the Episcopal Church.
Lamb retired at the end of 2006 and was succeeded by the Rev. Canon Barry L. Beisner. He was then appointed assisting bishop of Nevada after the election of Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as presiding bishop.
In March 2008, Lamb was appointed to administer the Episcopal Diocese of San |
James Cañón | Books | James Cañón Books Cañón's debut novel, Tales from the Town of Widows, (ISBN 978-0061140389) was originally written in English, his second language. It was first published in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. by Harper Collins in 2007. Praised internationally as "An important contribution to American literature," the novel tells the story of Mariquita, a Colombian village that's forever altered the day a band of communist guerrillas takes out all but three of its men. Left to fend for themselves, the abandoned women slowly emerge from their supporting roles as wives and daughters to become unwitting founders of a radically socialist |
Itahar | Population | most districts bordering the Bangladesh-West Bengal frontier showed similar escalation. However, after 1981, when population growth in most other West Bengal districts had tapered off, growth rates in Uttar Dinajpur again showed a fresh spurt. Thus, no deceleration in population growth rates occurred in the district until after 1991… In addition to Hindu and tribal migrants from across the international border, a sizeable number of migrant Muslims have also settled in the district, mainly driven by economic reasons… migrants from other states comprised 23% of the total migrants residing in Uttar Dinajpur.” The large number of migrants from other states |
Jan Ullrich | Early professional career & 1996 Tour de France | of the 1995 Tour de Suisse. At 21 he wanted to start the 1995 Tour de France but Godefroot thought it was early. Instead he went to the small German stage race, the Hofbräu Cup, where he ended third. Ullrich started the 1995 Vuelta a España later that year only to abandon on stage 12. 1996 Tour de France Ullrich gave up a place in the 1996 German Olympic team to ride his first Tour. He finished the prologue 33 seconds down. He stayed within the top 20 until the mountains on stage 7 when Miguel Indurain cracked. Ullrich finished |
James W. Rodgers | Death of Charles Merrifield & Murder trial | him up." Rodgers said that he "challenged Merrifield with a gun" and shot him when Merrifield attacked him with a large wrench. Murder trial Rodgers was arraigned at the San Juan County Courthouse in Monticello, Utah on June 26, 1957, and was formally charged with murder. Rodgers claimed that he was suffering from syphilis and pleaded "guilty by reason of insanity". During the trial, Rodgers asserted that he had killed Merrifield in self-defense. However, Merrifield was determined to have been shot by Rodgers' .38-caliber handgun while at the controls of the large shovel at the mine. Upon being convicted and |
Jason McGuinness | Career | and lost his place to Ken Oman. He also missed Bohs' EA Sports Cup final win over Waterford United in the September but did pick up his second league winners medal in a row as Bohs finished top of the table ahead of their rivals Shamrock Rovers.
Despite putting in a superb performance in the Setanta Sports Cup Final, Jason and Bohemians had a disappointing 2010 season where the club lost their league title on goal difference and failed to make an impact in Europe where they made an embarrassing exit to Welsh side The New Saints.
When McGuinness' contract expired at |
Indians in the United Arab Emirates | Economic contribution | on the list of Indian millionaires living in Dubai.
The Gulf Medical University founded by Thumbay Moideen is an Indian contribution to the Higher Education scenario in the UAE. Today students from over 68 countries study in their campus in Ajman and the University is well known in the medical education circles.
Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty (known as Dr. B.R. Shetty) is the Founder and Non-Executive Chairman Abu Dhabi based NMC Healthcare and Chairman of UAE Exchange.[2] He is Founder, CEO and MD of Neopharma and Chairman of BRS Ventures. UAE Exchange, Dr. Shetty when he initially started in 1975 was interested in |
Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte | Parents & Marriage | citing sources, that he is the son of Noble Gaston de Forcade. They were unable to verify his filiation and the spread of approximate birth years discredits this hypothesis.
Records available in the 21st century imply, without confirming, that he was instead the son of Maréchal Arnaudt de Forcade, who originally received the noble fief of La Fitte as a donation from Jeanne d'Albret in 1571. Marriage Records indicate that Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte may have married at least two times.
Noble Jean de Forcade, Squire, notarized his marriage contract with Odette de Rey at Maître Ouzannet, Notary and |
John C. Colt | Verdict | their struggle. By analyzing the number, shape, and position of the wounds and the blood splatter; Rogers deduced that the two "grappled face to face within a foot-and-a-half of each other" and "Adams was in an erect position at the time the fatal blows were inflicted". The report was submitted to Governor William H. Seward in the hope of securing a pardon for Colt. Seward was overwhelmed with requests asking for a pardon for Colt, including those from 36 lawyers who visited him personally in Albany as well as from judges and attorneys who knew Seward, such |
Jhumpa Lahiri | Early and personal life | she has "felt intense pressure to be two things, loyal to the old world and fluent in the new." Much of her experiences growing up as a child were marked by these two sides tugging away at one other. When she became an adult, she found that she was able to be part of these two dimensions without the embarrassment and struggle that she had when she was a child. Lahiri graduated from South Kingstown High School and received her B.A. in English literature from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1989.
Lahiri then received multiple degrees from Boston University: an |
Jhumpa Lahiri | Early and personal life | Jhumpa Lahiri Early and personal life Lahiri was born in London, the daughter of Bengali
Indian emigrants from the state of West Bengal. Her family moved to the United States when she was three; Lahiri considers herself an American and has said, "I wasn't born here, but I might as well have been." Lahiri grew up in Kingston, Rhode Island, where her father Amar Lahiri works as a librarian at the University of Rhode Island; he is the basis for the protagonist in "The Third and Final Continent", the story which concludes Interpreter of Maladies. Lahiri's mother wanted her children to |
John Davidson (ice hockey) | Playing career | John Davidson (ice hockey) Playing career Growing up in western Canada, he played his minor hockey in Calgary, Alberta. He was drafted fifth overall in 1973, and became the first goalie in NHL history to jump directly from major junior to the NHL. While his hockey career was fraught with many significant injuries, he is perhaps best remembered as a player for leading the Rangers to the 1979 Stanley Cup Finals on an injured left knee. His jersey numbers were 35, 00 and 30. Davidson was the first, and one of only two, NHL players to wear the number 00; |
Jacques Besson | Life | Jacques Besson Life Little information has survived about Besson's early life; he described himself as being from Colombières, part of Escarton de Oulx, now in Cesana Torinese, Italy. He was most likely born around 1540. In the early 1550s he is recorded as teaching mathematics in Paris, following which the next account of him dates from April 1557, when he is recorded in the minutes of the town council of Lausanne, Switzerland, as being paid for models of pumps and fountains.
In 1559 he published his first treatise in Zurich, the De absoluta ratione extrahendi olea et aquas e medicamentis simplicibus |
Howrah Yeshvantapur Duronto Express | Timings | and reaches Howrah Junction the next day at 4:45 PM. |
Herbesthal railway station | Construction and operation by the Rhine Railway Company <1843-1880 | the most important international rail routes in western Europe.
Initially Herbesthal station was a shared responsibility, administered both from Ronheide Station at the top of the Ronheider incline and from Verviers in Belgium. The Rhine Railway Company provided the railcars and train staff while the Belgian State Railway company provided the locomotives. For the Ronheider incline itself the trains were initially hauled up the slope using a cable powered by a static steam engine. The system proved troublesome and costly in operation, however, and was abandoned little by little, so that after 1854 trains on |
Indobune | Taxonomy & Fossil distribution | Indobune Taxonomy Indobune was named by Rose et al. (2006). Its type is Indobune vastanensis. It was assigned to Anthracobunidae by Rose et al. (2006). However, in a 2014 cladistic analysis it was suggested to more likely be a member of Cambaytheriidae. Fossil distribution The fossil distribution is restricted to Gujarat state, India. |
Jane March | Life and career | Jane March Life and career March was born Jane March Horwood in Edgware, London. Her father, Bernard Horwood, a design and technology secondary school teacher of English and Spanish ancestry. Her mother, Jean, a newsagent, is Vietnamese and Chinese. March has one brother, a landscape designer.
At age 14, whilst still attending Nower Hill High School in Pinner, north London, March won a local "Become a Model" contest. She signed with Storm Model Managementand began working as a print model using her middle name March, which was also her birth month.
After GCSEs, March moved to an apartment in Wimbledon with friends |
Jane March | Life and career | Leung on set was a disgusting allegation. Jean-Jacques Annaud had a lot to do with that – he was trying to promote the film. ... I felt exploited by him. He never dispelled the rumours. He would walk into a room and be ambiguous, which ignited the fire. Everywhere I went in the world, the rumour followed me.
Two years after The Lover, she co-starred with Bruce Willis in the erotic thriller Color of Night (1994), directed by Richard Rush. The script was the first March had received since The Lover. She later said, "I didn't like the script at all, |
John Nelder | Contributions & Biography | as a way of unifying various other statistical models, including linear regression, logistic regression and Poisson regression. They proposed an iteratively reweighted least squares method for maximum likelihood estimation of the model parameters.
In statistical inference, Nelder (along with George Barnard and A. W. F. Edwards) emphasized the importance of the likelihood in data analysis, promoting this "likelihood approach" as an alternative to frequentist and Bayesian statistics.
In response-surface optimization, Nelder and Roger Mead proposed the Nelder-Mead simplex heuristic, widely used in engineering and statistics. Biography Born in Brushford, near Dulverton, Somerset, Nelder was educated at Blundell's School and Sidney Sussex College, |
Initiative Measure 124 (Seattle) | Support | wrote, "Critics of the initiative—largely hotel-industry representatives—call the measure's stipulations overreaching and Draconian. They say many hotels already have these kinds of protections in place. They also point to I-124's union-exemption clause: If workers belong to a union, their hotel will not be subject to some of the measure's stipulations, to allow for freer collective bargaining. We ourselves recognize that the union exemption may be faintly disguised self-interest; employers might find the law onerous, leading them to encourage unionization in hopes of a better deal. But if the byproduct of passing I-124 is a stronger local union, so be it. |
Joaquim Gomes de Souza | null | Joaquim Gomes de Souza Joaquim Gomes de Souza "Souzinha" (15 February 1829, in Itapecuru Mirim – 1 June 1864, in London) was a Brazilian mathematician who worked on numerical analysis and differential equations. He was a pioneer on the study of mathematics in Brazil, and was described by José Leite Lopes as "the first great mathematician from Brazil".
In 1844, Gomes de Souza enrolled at the Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro (now a part of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) to study medicine. He had a deep love for the natural sciences, which led him to also |
Joe (Inspiral Carpets song) | Music video | Joe (Inspiral Carpets song) Music video A music video for the song was filmed by an unknown avantgardist in 1990. It features shots of a homeless man and footage of a British cities including London ( including St. Paul's Cathedral and Christ Church, Spitalfields) mixed with shots of many-coloured lines running up and down the screen, filmed with a blue filter. The video was typical of many English "Indie" releases of the "Madchester" era. In 1995, to promote the release of The Singles, another video was released, based on footage from 21790 and set to a shortened version of the |
Jeffrey Laitman | Mentoring, students, and collaborators | Samuel Marquez, Ph.D.; neurobiologist Patrick J. Gannon, Ph.D.; otologist/neurobiologist, David R. Friedland, M.D., Ph.D; anthropologists Douglas Broadfield, Ph.D. and Anthony Pagano, Ph.D.; developmental anatomist Armand Balboni, Ph.D; head and neck cancer surgeon, Eric Genden, M.D.; and health and exercise specialists, Carrie McCulloch, M.D. and Stephanie Pieczenik Marango, M.D.. He has mentored many students in research and taught over 5,000 medical students over his career. Laitman has also mentored many young scientists from around the world, many of whom have come to work in his Laboratory at Mount Sinai. He collaborates frequently with colleagues both in the United |
Jean-Baptiste Abel | Deputy | national deputy for the 1st district of Toulon in the general elections of August–September 1893. After taking his seat he was particularly involved in marine questions. He was appointed secretary of the chamber from 12 January 1897 to the end of the legislature. He ran again in the general election of 8–22 May 1898 but was defeated. He was appointed counselor to the Riom court of appeal, and then to the Nîmes court of appeal, holding this position for the next ten years.
Abel ran again in the general elections of April–May 1910 as national deputy for the 1st district of |
Jesse H. Jones | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Jones's task as the new chair of the RFC was to reopen another 2,000 banks. He began with the reorganization of two of Detroit's largest banks by collaborating with Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors. They formed a new bank with matching investments from the RFC and General Motors, but more significantly, the RFC covered the deposits of the 800,000 frozen accounts from both failed banks with a loan of $230 million (equivalent to $3,500,000,000 in 2016).
In the first three years of the Roosevelt Administration, the RFC had issued $8 billion in loans; however, these outflows were offset by $3.5 |
ITER | Background & Organization history | reactor. Organization history ITER began in 1985 as a Reagan–Gorbachev initiative with the equal participation of the Soviet Union, the European Atomic Energy Community, the United States, and Japan through the 1988–1998 initial design phases. Preparations for the first Gorbachev-Reagan Summit showed that there were no tangible agreements in the works for the summit.
One energy research project, however, was being considered quietly by two physicists, Alvin Trivelpiece and Evgeny Velikhov. The project involved collaboration on the next phase of magnetic fusion research — the construction of a demonstration model. At the time, magnetic fusion research was ongoing in Japan, Europe, |
Hypermiling | Hypermiling with electric cars & Hypermiling with aircraft | and the whole drive took around 30 hours. The tester used the autopilot of Tesla Model 3, running the car unmanned. The test car did not drive on a public road. Hypermiling with aircraft There have been several aircraft hypermiling competitions held throughout the years, such the FuelVenture and CAFE challenges. Klaus Savier won the 2009 Fuelventure 400 in a VariEze aircraft which got 45 MPG at 207 MPH with a modified Continental O-200 engine upgraded with a computerized a fuel injection and ignition system by Light Speed Engineering. By slowing to extend range, mileage approaches 100 miles |
Jefry Rodríguez | Washington Nationals | Jefry Rodríguez Washington Nationals Rodríguez grew up in the Dominican Republic playing shortstop, but he became a pitcher at age 18, shortly before the Nationals signed him in 2012. He began his professional career in 2012 with 10 games for the Dominican Summer League Nationals in the rookie-league-level Dominican Summer League, starting nine of them and posting a record of 0–2 and an earned run average (ERA) of 2.93 with 35 strikeouts and 33 walks in 43 innings pitched.
Rodríguez spent 2013 in the rookie-league-level Gulf Coast League with the Gulf Coast League Nationals, who that year finished their regular |
Johan Jacob Ahrenberg | Literature | he knew personally, e.g. Heinrich Schliemann, Vasily Vereshchagin, Ivan Turgenev, Viktor Rydberg, Charles Garnier and Arthur de Gobineau; the racist ideas of the latter influenced Ahrenberg to a certain degree. Overall, his literary production has been described as a skilled but somewhat uneven writer and his books "did not become classics". |
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