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Italian War of 1521–1526 | Initial moves | the dogged resistance of the French, led by Pierre Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard and Anne de Montmorency, during the Siege of Mezieres, which gave Francis time to gather an army to confront the attack. On 22 October 1521, Francis encountered the main Imperial army, which was commanded by Charles V himself, near Valenciennes. Despite the urging of Charles de Bourbon, Francis hesitated to attack, which allowed Charles time to retreat. When the French were finally ready to advance, the start of heavy rains prevented an effective pursuit and the Imperial forces were able to escape without a battle. |
Jesse H. Jones | Banking | National Bank of Commerce. This bank later merged with Texas National Bank in 1964 to become the Texas National Bank of Commerce, renamed to Texas Commerce Bank which grew into a major regional financial institution. It became part of JP Morgan Chase & Co. in 2008.
In 1931 two local banks were in danger of failing. Public National Bank faced a clientele demanding cash and Houston National Bank had too many distressed loans. Public National Bank had barely enough cash on hand to last through Saturday, October 24. The next day, Jones hosted at meeting of local bankers at his office |
Joint Base San Antonio | Overview & Fort Sam Houston | force of over 8,000 personnel, manages an annual budget of 800 million, interface with 1,000 civic leaders of San Antonio, 20 smaller communities, four counties and four Congressional Districts, support more than 200 mission partners, supported and supporting units, and finally, support more than 250,000 other personnel including 425 retired general officers (2nd largest concentration in U.S.). Fort Sam Houston The primary mission at Fort Sam Houston is as a medical training and support post. The 502d Mission Support Group performs the installation support mission . The post is the home of Army North, Army South, Army 5th Recruiting |
Immigration Department (Hong Kong) | History | Immigration Department (Hong Kong) History Prior to the 1950s, immigration to Hong Kong was not controlled by the government of Hong Kong and migrants freely entered Hong Kong. But the end of World War II the influx of migrants from China to Hong Kong to flee Communist rule resulted in immigration control.
From 1949 to 1961, registration of persons with identification was required under the Registration of Persons Ordinance 1949 and established a Commissioner of Registration.
Until the establishment of Immigration Department on 4 August 1961, immigration control in Hong Kong was handled by the Hong Kong Police Force. The Immigration Service |
Infamous Assassinations | Episode 22: Alexander I of Yugoslavia & Episode 23: Hendrik Verwoerd & Episode 24: Franz Ferdinand & Episode 25: Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi | dead by Vlado Chernozemski, a Bulgarian nationalist.
The episode seriously lacks factual accuracy in multiple occasions, e.g. claiming that Bulgaria was a Muslim country etc. and speaker seriously mispronounces most of the names and titles. Episode 23: Hendrik Verwoerd On 6 September 1966 in Cape Town, South Africa, South African Prime Minister Verwoerd was stabbed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas. Episode 24: Franz Ferdinand On 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, Austrian Archduke Ferdinand was shot dead by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip. Episode 25: Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi On 31 October 1984 in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister I. Gandhi was |
Jo Luijten | Videos | Jo Luijten Videos Most of his videos show what social networking sites and video games might have looked like in the 1980s or 1990s. His videos have received positive press from a number of news and technology websites. They were highlighted by Mashable, Wired, The Huffington Post, CNET, ITN, Gizmodo and other media.
As part of the YouTube Comedy Week in 2013, Warwick Davis presented Warwick Davis' Top 10 Tech Sketch Moments, which included a video made by Luijten. The Nighthawk Cinema in New York City in collaboration with Daily Motion selected his video If Angry Birds were invented in |
John Hartford | Life | He immersed himself in the local music scene, working as a DJ, playing in bands, and occasionally recording singles for local labels. In 1965, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, the center of the country music industry. In 1966, he signed with RCA Victor and produced his first album, Looks at Life, in the same year.
In 1967, Hartford's second album Earthwords & Music spawned his first major songwriting hit, "Gentle On My Mind". His recording of the song was only a modest success, but it caught the notice of Glen Campbell, who recorded his own version, which gave the |
Johor Bahru–Singapore Rapid Transit System | History | suspended after Malaysia's general election.
In end-July 2018, Malaysia Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook expressed hope that the project would proceed as planned and that the Malaysian cabinet has given in-principle approval to the project but are still looking into the cost and other details. He also mentioned that the issue of compensation did not apply as the joint operating company was not set up yet. A working paper on the project would be presented to the cabinet soon and the joint operating company would be set up once the full approval is given by the cabinet. Despite the delay, he |
Japanese raccoon dog | In folklore and tradition | into humans and sing songs (化人以歌). ". Bake-danuki subsequently appear in such classics as the Nihon Ryōiki and the Uji Shūi Monogatari. In some regions of Japan, bake-danuki are reputed to have abilities similar to those attributed to kitsune (foxes): they can shapeshift into other things or people, and can possess human beings.
Many legends of tanuki exist in the Sado Islands of Niigata Prefecture and in Shikoku, and among them, like the Danzaburou-danuki of Sado, the Kinchō-tanuki and Rokuemon-tanuki of Awa Province (Tokushima Prefecture), and the Yashima no Hage-tanuki of Kagawa Prefecture, the tanuki that possessed special abilities were given |
John C. Colt | Marriage and death | him every day by Henshaw. He dined on meals from local hotels such as quail on toast, game pates, reed birds, and ortolans. Several attempts were made to remove him from the prison by dressing him in women's clothing but all these efforts were foiled. A doctor was hired who claimed he could resuscitate Colt from the hanging, providing the body did not remain suspended long, as he believed Colt's neck to be of such thickness that strangulation would be impossible. Colt's friends lodged the doctor in the Shakespeare Hotel on the morning of the scheduled |
Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte | null | Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte, aka Jean Laforcade, Seigneur de Lafitte, aka Jean Lafourcade, aka Jean II. de Forcade (* Before 1525 in Béarn; † about December 1589 in Béarn, presumably in Pau), was a Protestant nobleman and a descendant of the noble family of Forcade of Béarn in Navarre.
He, like his ancestors and his descendants, was a member of court of the Albret family, the rulers of Lower Navarre. A soldier in early life, then a financial officer by occupation later, he was General Treasurer of the King |
James Simms (instrument maker) | null | were named William and James. |
John Fee | Career & Death | the first Bill to pass into law through the Assembly.
He lost his Assembly seat at the 2003 election. He did not contest his council seat in 2005. Death Fee died on 10 November 2007 as a result of a brain tumour. |
James Adams (entrepreneur) | Appointments & Audiobooks | NSAAB) which was congressionally mandated to oversee all of the NSA's technology programs.
From 2000 to 2007, Adams was involved in a number of covert programs for the U.S. intelligence community involving cyber warfare, psychological operations, terrorism, and proliferation. Audiobooks Adams first became involved in the audiobook world as a narrator, when he read titles ranging from Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency to Once More, My Darling Rogue.
He founded BeeAudio in 2010, simplifying audiobook production for the digital age using cloud-based solutions and a global network of more than 300 narrators, proofers, and editors. BeeAudio is the largest independent producer of |
House of Jamalullail (Perlis) | Succession dispute | as the heir-presumptive. Syed Hassan was a nephew by his older half-brother Syed Mahmud. An illness struck Syed Hassan the following year; he died shortly after that.
The State Council held another vote, and elected Syed Hassan's son, Syed Putra as the new heir presumptive. Another contender, Syed Hamzah, a younger half-brother of Syed Alwi and the Vice-President of the state council, dissented on the outcome of the choice as it ran afoul of the Islamic inheritance laws. The Raja (Syed Alwi) and the British maintained their support for Syed Putra, but as Syed Alwi fell ill at the outbreak of |
Hans Grade | null | first air mail, when pilot Pentz made a flight from Bork to Bruck in February 1912 with a small sack of mail in his lap. Although successful, Grade monoplanes did not become as famous as many contemporary European designs, and for this reason comparatively few were built.
In 1921 he established an automobile company called "Grade Automobilwerke AG", which produced small, 2 seater personal cars.
The small aircraft company, founded with this money, did not survived the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. His extraordinary construction of driving a car with no use of a gear-box did not stand against the established constructions.
The |
James Vint | Service in the legislature | (the 8th and 23rd wards of the City of Milwaukee). He received 1521 votes, to 1501 for Republican incumbent Fred R. Zimmerman, 143 for Democrat Harry McLogan, and 12 for Prohibitionist William Trout. He was assigned to the standing committees on agricultural exhibitions, and on express, telegraph and telephone.
In 1912, after a redistricting, he ran from the 11th Milwaukee County district, which included the 23rd ward from his old district, and the 11th ward, which had formerly constituted the 11th district and been represented by fellow Socialist Frederick Brockhausen (who was running for the Wisconsin State Senate). He won re-election, |
Jonathan Wathen | Life and career | (i.e., the canal that runs from the nose to the ear). Although he made this presentation to the Society, he was never admitted there as a Fellow. However, he was elected a Fellow to the Society of Antiquaries of London. Eventually, Jonathan and his brother established separate practices, with Jonathan ending up at Bond-court, in Walbrook, London, and Samuel at Great Cumberland Street in St. Marylebone. In addition, Jonathan became a surgeon in 1770 at the London Magdalen Hospital, which was an institution to rehabilitate prostitutes, and this may have been an extension of his earlier work at the Lying-in |
John B. McClelland | Crawford expedition | McClelland's orders to follow the advance in a solid column, did not follow the prescribed route, becoming entangled in the wetlands.
John Slover, one of the guides on the Crawford Expedition, saw McClelland's body at Wapatomica. The Indians had painted his body black, cut him with their tomahawks, and burnt holes with loads of gunpowder into it. His body was cruelly mangled; the blood mixed with gunpowder and was rendered black. McClelland's body, along with the body of William Harrison, Colonel Crawford's son-in-law and the body of young William Crawford, the Colonel's nephew, was dragged approximately two hundred yards outside of |
James Ludington | Biography | purchase were investigated by James Halpin and Dr. Hunt, as to the amount of funds and whether they were properly appropriated. In 1856, Ludington was implicated in a bribery and fraud scheme surrounding the sale. He was cleared of wrongdoing after a lengthy legislative investigation and public testimony.
Ludington platted 360 acres of the land around Pere Marquette in 1867 and sold lots to individuals, developing the town. In the same year, he built a large commercial building, called "The Big Store" that sold a variety of goods. Also at that time Ludington founded the first newspaper in the village, the |
Inflatable Rescue Boat | Brief history | Australia: with manager Ken Brown approaching Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) to test the French brand.
The first Zodiac IRB was developed in 1972 by Ken Brown of Zodiac Inflatable Boats Australia in conjunction with Harry Brown OAM of North Cronulla SLSC and SLSA. The Zodiac IRB was recognised as the superior performing IRB for SLSA across the country. Ken Brown soon improved the Zodiac IRB modifying the removable floor and transom, introducing new specifications accepted by SLSA. Originating at North Cronulla SLSC, the Zodiac IRB participated in several surf rescue competitions, including Soldiers Beach SLSC in |
John Franklin Botume | Life and career & Modern Singing Methods | lost one eye due to a fishing accident and was in poor health. The accident occurred sometime before 18 June 1891, which was the date of Frank's U.S. Passport application listing that he had "1 artificial eye". John Franklin Botume died suddenly of a hemorrhage October 17, 1917 in Boston at age 61. He was never married nor had any children. Modern Singing Methods In his Modern Singing Methods, John Franklin Botume was perhaps the first published vocal pedagogue to bridge the substantial gap between the "old Italian school" and the "modern school" of singing, showing the strengths |
John Andrew Frey | Career & Personal life | of the Pre-Raphaelities in England... It is the cloaking of earthly desires in a mantle of aristocracy, of manor houses, gilded ladies, estates swarming with peacocks and swans, of boat and garden parties, and the perpetual games of love." Personal life John Frey and Peter Louis Morris, an expert in French cuisine, were together 43 years. They met while they were both students at Catholic University. Though fellow students, they met at what was at the time Washington, D.C., most popular gay venues, the Chicken Hut, a piano bar/restaurant on H Street near Lafayette Park. The Mattachine Society sponsored biweekly |
Internet radio audience measurement | null | contents.
TouchCast, along with numerous other online companies offer commercially downloadable stream analytics software called CasterStats, which allows any broadcaster to measure its internet audience from their streaming server data. |
Jim Les | Professional career | two ten-day contracts, Les signed with the Kings for the rest of the season on January 20, 1991. With the Kings that season, Les reached career highs in scoring average (7.2 PPG), assists (5.4 APG), steals (1.04 SPG) and field goal percentage (.444), while also leading the league in three-point field goal percentage (.461). The following year, he was runner-up to Craig Hodges in the AT&T Long Distance Shootout contest. Les played over 200 games for the Kings over 4 seasons before the team waived him on January 9, 1994.
Les signed with the Omaha Racers (formerly the Rochester Flyers) |
Ixkun | Monuments | Stela 2 at Sacul. The text of Stela 1 suggests that Rabbit God K's mother, Lady Ik, was originally from another city named as Akbal, which has yet to be identified.
Stela 2 records two battles, one against Sacul on 21 December 779 and the other against Ucanal on 10 May 780. The text of the stela names the predecessor of "Rabbit God K". The text is incomplete but this ruler has been nicknamed "Eight Skull" by epigraphers, and he is believed to have dedicated the monument. Stela 2 is located in front of the stairway of Structure 6, just to |
Jhumpa Lahiri | Early and personal life & Literary career | now senior editor of TIME Latin America. Lahiri lives in Rome with her husband and their two children, Octavio (b. 2002) and Noor (b. 2005). Lahiri joined the Princeton University faculty on July 1, 2015 as a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts. Literary career Lahiri's early short stories faced rejection from publishers "for years". Her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, was finally released in 1999. The stories address sensitive dilemmas in the lives of Indians or Indian immigrants, with themes such as marital difficulties, the bereavement over a stillborn child, and the |
Jim Bowden (rugby league) | International honours & Challenge Cup Final appearances | Jim Bowden (rugby league) International honours Jim Bowden won a cap for England while at Huddersfield in 1953 against France, and won caps for Great Britain while at Huddersfield in 1954 against Australia (2 matches), and New Zealand.
Jim Bowden also represented Great Britain while at Huddersfield between 1952 and 1956 against France (1 non-Test match). Challenge Cup Final appearances Jim Bowden played right-prop, i.e. number 10, in Huddersfield's 15-10 victory over St. Helens in the 1953 Challenge Cup Final during the 1952-53 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 25 April 1953, in front of a crowd of 89,588. |
Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News | History | Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News was an English weekly magazine founded in 1874 and published in London. In 1945 it changed its name to the Sport and Country, and in 1957 to the Farm and Country, before closing in 1970. History The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News was founded in 1874. The paper covered, as its title indicates, both sporting and theatrical events, including news and criticism. It also contained original pieces of fiction in serials and a story or two in each issue. There were numerous similar publications in |
Hussein Bicar | Birth and early life & The teacher | a harsh reality. Bicar did manage, however, to earn a living during these difficult times and, paradoxically, to develop a versatility that served him well throughout his career. The teacher Even from a very early age Bicar taught art to others, in Alexandria when he was just ten years old, he was a music teacher for society ladies who due to cultural restrictions could not use adult male teachers. One of his first jobs was a painter of folkloric scenes in the Helwan wax museum on Ibrahim street. He also found work as a teacher in elementary and secondary schools |
Ivan L. Slavich Jr. | HU-1A/UH-1B Counter-Insurgency | Earle Wheeler, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Slavich and his men were finally able to test their experiment in combat. The unit was first deployed to Thailand, and then in 1962, the testing ground was moved to the battlefield when Slavich took command of the newly formed Utility Tactical Transport Company (UTT) in Vietnam. The UTT was tasked with providing close-in battlefield support to the dual-rotor H-21 troop carriers. By flying in formation with the troop carriers and employing a unique circular daisy chain pattern at the landing zone so that each Huey was covered by the one |
John Lyon (cricketer) | Early cricket career | John Lyon (cricketer) Early cricket career A wicket-keeper and a lower order right-handed batsman, Lyon played for Lancashire's second eleven in the Minor Counties Championship and the Second Eleven Championship from 1970, while playing club cricket for St Helens Recreation in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition. He worked as a glass cutter at Pilkington, the glass company whose headquarters are in St Helens.
In 1973, Lyon made his first-class debut for Lancashire in the match against Oxford University, and later that season played in two County Championship games. The following year, 1974, when the regular Lancashire wicket-keeper Farokh Engineer was |
I Can't Lose | Background & Music video | few hundred amazing singers" in assorted churches, nightclubs, bars and community centres. However they "had a very specific vocalist in mind", who turned out to be Keyone as both of them realised as she started singing in Mississippi State University. Music video A music video was produced for the song. It features both Ronson and Starr performing in an underground Chinatown club along with assorted musicians. The title of the source album, Uptown Special, appears frequently throughout the video. Two rival gangs gamble whilst this performance is going on; after one group loses, a dance-fight breaks out in the car |
John Reed (fur trader) | Pacific Fur Company | medical attention at Fort Okanogan. Reed later returned to Fort Astoria in May 1812.
Reed opened a dwelling in 1813 along the Malheur River in the vicinity of modern Vale, Oregon. He later relocated to the junction of the Boise and Snake Rivers. In the first month of 1814, an attack on the post by a group of Bannock natives and killed Reed and two men there. An outpost some distance away maintained by the trappers was also attacked. Four PFC employees were killed there, including Pierre Dorion Jr., though his wife Marie Aioe Dorion and two infant children survived. Marie |
Joseph Curran | Other roles & Retirement and death | a body established by AFL-CIO maritime unions and U.S. shipping companies to discuss and resolve labor issues.
Curran was also vice chairman of the Seafarer's Section of the International Transportworkers Federation, an international confederation of maritime unions.
Curran was also vice president of the United Seamen's Service. Retirement and death Curran suffered a heart attack in 1953 which left him somewhat less physically able than before. Over the next few years, he gradually cut back his workload, and stopped visiting local unions and attending most union meetings. In the mid-1960s, he turned over most of the union's daily business to secretary-treasurer Shannon |
James Syvitski | Biography | James Syvitski Biography Syvitski obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Lakehead University in 1974 in both geology and mathematics and an Honors degree in geology in 1975. In 1978, he became a Ph.D. recipient from the University of British Columbia. After graduation, he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. In 1981, he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia where he worked as a Senior Research Scientist of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography with the Canadian Federal Department Natural Resources Canada. During that period he received appointments as Adjunct Professor at Canadian Universities: Dalhousie, Laval Universities, Memorial |
John G. Agar (lawyer) | Early life and education | John G. Agar (lawyer) John G. Agar (June 3, 1856 – September 20, 1935) was a prominent New York lawyer and a leader of the reform political movement. Early life and education John Giraud Agar was born June 3, 1856 to William Agar and Theresa Price. In 1876, he graduated with a B.A. from the Georgetown University. Followed by a Masters of Arts in 1888 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1889 and a Doctor of Laws in 1910. In 1878, he attended the Columbia College Law School and graduated in 1880. On February 28, 1892, he married Agnes Louis |
Harold D. Roth | Biography | the fields of knowledge with which the Chinese emperor needed to be conversant, the Huainanzi contains chapters on cosmology and cosmogony, astronomy, geography, rulership, and warfare, to name a few of its major topics. Roth has argued that while the Huainanzi is inclusive of a very wide range philosophical ideas from many traditions, that its overarching intellectual context is provided by the inner cultivation tradition of classical Daoism. After working on the textual history of this major work in his first book, in the mid 1990s Roth developed a project for the first complete English translation with colleague John Major |
Jesse H. Jones | Personal life | of Anita and Main Street, south of downtown Houston. Jones managed the estate of his uncle, M. T. Jones, and continued to act as a business manager for his aunt and his cousins for many years. Much of his social life revolved around them, too. His future wife, Mary Gibbs Jones, was first married to his cousin, Will Jones.
Jones married Mary Gibbs on December 15, 1920. They resided at the Rice Hotel until 1926 when they moved into their penthouse at the new Lamar Hotel. Alfred C. Finn designed and supervised the construction of the building, but Jones hired John |
John Smith (Ontario MP) | null | John Smith (Ontario MP) John Smith (February 18, 1894 – November 8, 1977) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Lincoln in the House of Commons of Canada as a Progressive Conservative member from 1957 to 1962.
He was born in Scotland in 1894, the son of Daniel Smith and Annie Douglas, and grew up there. Smith was a building contractor in St. Catharines. He served in the Canadian Army during World War I. In 1924, he married Jean Wood. Smith served on the city council of St. Catharines and was mayor from 1954 to 1957. He was defeated |
Irving Scholar | Nottingham Forest | attacking other board members for a "farcical lack of professionalism". Forest have never played in the Premier League since then. At one point the team was relegated to the third tier of English Football, its lowest position since the 1950s. |
John Niemeyer Findlay | Husserl | Findlay translated into English Husserl's Logische Untersuchungen (Logical Investigations ), which he regarded as the author's best work, representing a developmental stage when the idea of phenomenological bracketing was not yet taken as the basis of a philosophical system, covering in fact for loose subjectivism. To Findlay, the work was also one of the peaks of philosophy generally, suggesting superior alternatives both for overly minimalistic or naturalistic efforts in ontology and for Ordinary Language treatments of consciousness and thought. Findlay also contributed final editing and wrote addenda to translations of Hegel's Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit. And in 2013 Oxford |
John Herbert King | null | was only to be used for commercial advantage by a Dutch bank. King returned to London in early 1935. Pieck continued to run the case by visits to London until 1936, when the job of running King was transferred to Theodore Maly. King continued to pass copies of Foreign Office telegraphic traffic to Maly until June 1937, when Maly was recalled to Moscow. In September 1939 the Soviet defector Walter Krivitsky exposed King's name as a spy for the Soviet Union to the British Embassy in Washington. Coincidentally a business associate of Pieck's in London reported suspicious activities by him |
Jim Leslie (journalist) | 1976 activities | in connection with Griffith's murder in 1977 was Kenneth C. Brouillette of Lettsworth, Louisiana, who was being held at the Concordia Parish Jail. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's office said that Gardner and Griffith were accused of killing Leslie for $30,000, paid by D'Artois, in retaliation for Leslie's testimony before a Caddo Parish grand jury about D'Artois's activities.
D'Artois died in June 1977 during open heart surgery in San Antonio, Texas. He never faced trial for his role in the case. The killing of Leslie was never fully solved, and no one was convicted of either Leslie's or Griffith's murders. |
Jayson Foster | College career | ways: rushing, passing, receiving, punt return and kickoff return.
During his Sophomore year, as starting quarterback, Foster set a conference record rushing for a touchdown in all 12 games, the only player in I-AA to accomplish that feat. He rushed for 1,481 yards which was the third-most rushing yards by a quarterback in NCAA I-FCS history. He led the Eagle offense to its fifth straight I-FCS rushing title, averaging 387 yards on the ground and the team ranked sixth nationally in scoring offense (38 ppg) and eighth in passing efficiency and total offense. Individually, he ranked 10th in rushing (123.4 ypg), |
Jane Addams | Pacifism | the franchise and women's meaningful inclusion in formal international peace processes at war's end. Following the conference, Addams and a congressional delegation traveled throughout Europe meeting with leaders, citizen groups, and wounded soldiers from both sides. Her leadership during the conference and her travels to the Capitals of the war-torn regions were cited in nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Addams was opposed to U.S. interventionism, expansionism and ultimately was against those who sought American dominance abroad. In 1915 she gave a speech at Carnegie Hall and was booed offstage for opposing U.S. intervention into World War I. Addams damned war |
Joanna Wardlaw | Early life and education | Joanna Wardlaw Early life and education Wardlaw was born on 4 November 1958 in London, England. She was educated at Park School, an all-girls school in Glasgow, Scotland. She studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1979, and Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) in 1982. She later undertook research for a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree, completing it in 1994. Her doctoral thesis concerned the pathophysiology and treatment of ischaemic stroke, and was titled "Imaging and treatment of acute ischaemic stroke: the application and verification of non-invasive |
Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom) | Structure & Foreign liaison | input from across the intelligence and security agencies and other related bodies.
Membership comprises senior officials in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence and United Kingdom Armed Forces, Home Office, Department for International Development, HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office.
The JIC is subject to oversight by the Intelligence and Security Committee. It is supported by the Joint Intelligence Organisation. Foreign liaison Ever since World War II, the chief of the London station of the United States Central Intelligence Agency has attended the JIC's weekly meetings. One former US intelligence officer has described this as the "highlight of the job" |
Joseph Curran | Greater New York Industrial Union | were investigated, including the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, the Teachers Union of the City of New York, the United Public Workers of America and the Department Store Employees Union.
CIO president Philip Murray appointed a three-member board in October 1940 to forestall the House investigation. The board members reported to Murray that Curran, Kills and the GNYIU executive board had been advocating pro-communist policies. The GNYIU was on the verge of supporting Henry A. Wallace in an independent bid for president as well. The national CIO executive board revoked the charter of the GNYIU in November |
Jesse H. Jones | Banking & Publishing | to the bailout fund. Customers of Public National Bank gained access to their accounts on October 26. Publishing Jones acquired his fifty-percent interest in the Houston Chronicle from Marcellus Elliot Foster in August 1906. Though Foster was the paper's editor, Jones's engagement in the paper's positions was evident by the letters between the two men. For example, Jones supported Foster's public opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, which had been a growing movement in Texas after World War I. Foster stressed his editorial independence, while Jones vowed that he was willing to risk financial loss and personal safety to |
John Yau | Life and career | 2002), Forbidden Entries (Black Sparrow, 1996), Berlin Diptychon with Photographs by Bill Barrette (Timken, 1995), Edificio Sayonara (Black Sparrow, 1992),Corpse and Mirror (Holt & Rinehardt, 1983), a National Poetry Series book selected by John Ashbery, and Broken Off by The Music (Burning Deck, 1981). Artists' books include projects with Squeak Carnwath, Richard Tuttle, Norbert Prangenberg, Hanns Schimannsky, Archie Rand, Norman Bluhm, Pat Steir, Suzanne McClelland, Robert Therrien, Leiko Ikemura, and Jürgen Partenheimer (a.o.), his books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993). He has |
Ingenta | History | Ingenta History The company was formed in 2007 following the merger of Ingenta (founded in 1998), VISTA International (founded in 1977), and Publishers Communication Group (founded in 1990). From 2007 until 2016, it was known as Publishing Technology.
In 2016, Ingenta purchased the advertising software company 5fifteen. |
Gino Martino | Chaotic Wrestling (2000–2001) & Independent circuit (2002–2003) | later, Ferraro defeated Jimmy Cash in a Tables match. His last match was against Scarecrow on December 14, 2001, which ended in a disqualification. Suffering a serious neck injury in his bout with Ronnie D. Lishus, he took three months off to recuperate and lost 30 pounds by the time he returned to action early the next year. Independent circuit (2002–2003) Prior to the end of his first run with Chaotic Wrestling, Ferraro returned to Rhode Island where he and Ali Mohammed regained the PCW Tag Team Championship from The Mutilators on October 4, 2002. On January 18, 2003, in |
John Ddumba Ssentamu | Education & Personal details | of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), also in Economics. Personal details Professor John Ddumba Ssentamu is married. He is of the Roman Catholic faith. |
Jean-Jacques Goldman | Biography | and the end of the USSR—the title song features the Red Army Choir), one live album, Du New Morning au Zénith, and released several successful singles, such as "Nuit", "À nos actes manqués", "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" (another song about war and how it affects people's lives), "Juste après" (inspired by a scene in a TV documentary about the work of Médecins Sans Frontières in Congo showing a missionary sister's harrowing struggle to reanimate a newborn) and "Tu manques". Several of these songs were later re-recorded in English, but did not find much success in England or the United |
John Nelder | Biography & Awards and distinctions | a taxidermist and provided with bogus histories.
Nelder died on 7 August 2010 in Luton and Dunstable Hospital, taken there after a fall at home, which was incidental to the cause of death. Awards and distinctions Nelder was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976 and received the Royal Statistical Society's Guy Medal in Gold in 2005. He was also the recipient of the inaugural Karl Pearson Prize of the International Statistical Institute, with Peter McCullagh, "for their monograph Generalized Linear Models (1983)".
As tribute on his eightieth birthday, a festschrift Methods and Models in Statistics: In Honour of Professor |
Jack the Ripper in fiction | Film | in a lunatic asylum. The story's basis was an 1895 newspaper report that Robert James Lees had used psychic powers to track the Ripper to the home of a London physician.
Jack the Ripper (1959), produced by Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker and written by Jimmy Sangster, is loosely based on Leonard Matters' theory that the Ripper was an avenging doctor. It borrowed icons from previously successful horror films, such as Dracula (1958) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), by giving the Ripper a costume of a top hat and cape. The plot is a standard "whodunit" with the usual |
John G. Agar (lawyer) | Career | for public schools. He resigned as school commissioner in 1899 after faulting Tammany Hall for not releasing the funds raised for building and improving schools; removing the requirement for teachers to hold a license; and giving more power to those in politics to choose principals that aligned with their beliefs rather than the best for the job. Due to these defects, Agar declared he could not accomplish anything good for the public school system. After his resignation, Agar proposed to fix these defects by making the Board of Education separate from the political governance of the city; control over finances |
John Fryer (entomologist) | Life | John Fryer (entomologist) Sir John Claud Fortescue Fryer KBE FRS FRSE (13 August 1886 – 22 November 1948) was an English entomologist. He was president of the Royal Entomological Society from 1938 to 1939 and was a fellow of the Royal Society. Life He was born at The Priory in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, the son of Herbert Fortescue Fryer, a farmer and amateur entomologist, and his wife Margaret Katherine Terry. He was educated at Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Like his father and his uncle, the naturalist Alfred Fryer, his main interest was in natural history.
In 1908 and |
It's Only Rock 'n Roll | Recording | 'n Roll was Mick Taylor's last album with the Rolling Stones, and he played on just seven of the 10 tracks (he did not play on tracks 2, 3 or 6).
Similar to receiving no writing credits on the Stones' previous album, Goats Head Soup, Taylor reportedly had made songwriting contributions to "Till the Next Goodbye" and "Time Waits for No One," but on the album jacket, all original songs were credited to Jagger/Richards. Taylor said in 1997:
"I did have a falling out with Mick Jagger over some songs I felt I should have been credited with co-writing on It's |
Javier Suárez (economist) | null | Javier Suárez (economist) Javier Suárez Bernaldo de Quirós (born 1966, in Madrid) is a Spanish economist who is known for his specialization in financial crises.
He studied economics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Bachelor's degree, 1989) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Doctorate, 1994)
He was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University (1994) and Lecturer in Economics at the London School of Economics (1994–1996).
He currently works as a professor at CEMFI (Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros, Center for Monetary and Financial Studies), and collaborates with Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and |
Isaac Lockwood House | History & Description | sons, Peter, Henry, and Augustus, with Peter owning the house. Peter Lockwood lived in the house with his wife Amelia, and the property remained in the Lockwood family until Amelia Lockwood sold it in 1912. It was later abandoned, and used as a granary and chicken coop in the 1930s, and had its roof torn off by a tornado in the 1960s. The house was restored in the early 1990s. Description The Isaac Lockwood House is a two story brick Italian Villa house with a hip roof; a single story gable-roofed ell is attached to the rear. The main section |
Jane Addams | Remembrances | Illinois, assisted by the Illinois Division of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Chicago activist Jan Lisa Huttner traveled throughout Illinois as Director of International Relations for AAUW-Illinois to help publicize the date, and later gave annual presentations about Jane Addams Day in costume as Jane Addams. In 2010, Huttner appeared as Jane Addams at a 150th Birthday Party sponsored by Rockford University (Jane Addams' alma mater), and in 2011, she appeared as Jane Addams at an event sponsored by the Chicago Park District.
There is a Jane Addams Memorial Park located near Navy Pier in Chicago. In 2007, the |
J. Stitt Wilson | Political activity | of America.
Wilson was a delegate from California to the 1904, 1910, and 1912 national conventions of the Socialist Party. At that 1912 gathering Wilson joined with Ernest Untermann, Joshua Wanhope, and Robert Hunter as a majority of the Committee on Immigration in offering a resolution on immigration which was pro-exclusionary, backing the American Federation of Labor in its desire to stop manufacturers from importing cheap, non-union labor from the Far East. This proposal, primarily written by Untermann and Wanhope, was effectively killed by the convention on a motion by Charles Solomon of New York not to receive the committee's report, |
Joseph William Foster | Career | in Chicago, which was the start of many Global adventures and experiences that after 15 years brought him together with Paul Fireman and later many stars of film and television.
As the surviving Founder of Reebok, Joe still welcomes the opportunity to travel and recount those early stories from start-up to making Reebok the World No. 1 sports brand. Joe currently resides in Tenerife, where he is writing a book of his many experiences and adventures. |
Johnny Carey | Early years & Second World War | for United on 23 September 1937 against Southampton. During his first season with United, Carey, together with Harry Baird, Jack Rowley, Tommy Bamford, Tommy Breen and Stan Pearson, helped United gain promotion to the First Division. Second World War During the Second World War, Carey continued to play for Manchester United and between 1939 and 1943 he played 112 games and scored 47 goals in the wartime regional leagues. He also played as a guest for several other clubs including Cardiff City, Manchester City, Everton, Liverpool and Middlesbrough
On 28 April 1940, Carey guested for a League of Ireland XI against |
Jan Ullrich | 2000 – 2002 Tours | three-man break with Telekom teammates Andreas Klöden and Alexander Vinokourov, Ullrich won the gold with Vinokourov second and Klöden rounding out the all-Telekom podium. He won the silver in the time-trial, losing by only seven seconds to Viatcheslav Ekimov but beating Armstrong soundly into third.
In May 2002, Ullrich had his driver's license revoked after a drunk driving incident. After a positive blood sample for amphetamine in June 2002, Ullrich's contract with Team Telekom was ended, and he was banned for six months. He said he had taken ecstasy with amphetamine. He had not been racing since January due to a |
Jésus Etcheverry | null | Jésus Etcheverry Jésus Etchéverry (14 November 1911 in Bordeaux – 12 January 1988 in Paris) was a French operatic conductor.
He began studying the violin while still very young, and played with diverse small orchestras to pay for his tuitions. At age 20, he was engaged by the Symphonic Orchestra in Casablanca, as first violinist, and shortly after began teaching at the Music Conservatory there. He spent the war years in Morocco, and began conducting in an improvised opera season, organised by French expatriate opera singers. The success was such that once the war over, he returned to France and became |
Jerald Ericksen | Biography | 1982 Ericksen moved to University of Minnesota where he took a joint appointment in the School of Mathematics and the Aerospace and Mechanics Department. Starting with a lecture to a general audience he was able to start a graduate course in liquid crystals. Then with Roger Fosdick a seminar or course in continuum mechanics was developed. Further, Ericksen taught a course in Thermodynamics of Solids, which he developed into a textbook published in 1998.
He was also instrumental in the year- long program in continuum physics and partial differential equations held by at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications where |
Jean E. Fairfax | Early life and education & Career in education and church activism | schools and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1941, graduating with honors in Liberal Arts and being inducted into the honor society Phi Beta Kappa. In 1944 she earned a master's degree in World Religions from Union Theological Seminary, where she studied under Reinhold Niebuhr. She later attended Harvard University as a Radcliffe visiting scholar, 1984-1986. Career in education and church activism In 1942, Fairfax moved to Kentucky and served as Dean of Women at Kentucky State College until 1944. Subsequently, she served as Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskeegee, Alabama from 1944 to |
Jefferson Rock | null | the mountain for three miles, the terrible precipice hanging in fragments over you, and within about 20 miles reach Frederictown and the fine country around that. This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic."
The uppermost slab of Jefferson Rock originally rested on a natural stone foundation so narrow that one was able to sway the rock back and forth with a gentle push. Because this natural foundation had "dwindled to very unsafe dimensions by the action of the weather, and still more, by the devastations of tourists and curiosity-hunters," four stone pillars were placed under each corner of the |
Ivan L. Slavich Jr. | HU-1A/UH-1B Counter-Insurgency | immediately behind it, five to six Hueys were able to protect up to 30 H-21 troop carriers at one time.
Under Slavich's command, the UTT quickly earned a reputation for "innovative use of helicopter-borne firepower, finely honed aviator skills, and aggressive support of the ground soldier". Slavich and his men again and again proved that the highly maneuverable and extremely tactical Huey gunships were far superior to fixed-wing aircraft when it came to the kind of close-in support that was required for a Southeast Asian battlefield, especially when lines often blurred between enemy camp and civilian village. Unlike fixed-wing fighter bombers, |
John Traphagan | Other activities | Austin, Texas. He was a co-organizer of the 2004 Japanese Families in a Global Age: Conflict and Change Conference in Pittsburgh.
In 2010 Traphagan was named Secretary General of the Japan Anthropology Workshop.
He is past president of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology and past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. |
Israel Militosyan | Personal life | was the last. |
Jim Leslie (journalist) | 1974 campaign & 1976 activities | D'Artois had tried to pay him with city funds for his services, rather than from the campaign account, which was the only legal source. He told friend and former colleague, Elliot Stonecipher, that D'Artois had told him to cash the checks, and warned him against testifying in an upcoming grand jury. 1976 activities In the summer of 1976, Leslie was involved in the advertising campaign in support of a right-to-work bill under consideration in the Louisiana State Legislature. It was controversial, as labor unions strongly opposed it. Much of the lobbying in favor of the bill had been directed by |
Jane Addams | Remembrances | was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the 2015 LGBT History Month.
Jane Addams was possibly the inspiration of the character of Edith Keeler (played by Joan Collins) in the Hugo Award winning 1967 Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever, which is widely considered to be one of the best episodes in the Star Trek series. Like Addams, Keeler was a visionary social reformer, based in a large city, who was active in the world peace movement.
In 2014 Addams was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk |
Jerzy Sikorski | Early life | Jerzy Sikorski Early life Jerzy Sikorski was born on July 25, 1935 in Vilnius (Polish: Wilno), to Anna Wołk-Lewanowicz (1914–1995) and Feliks Sikorski (1889–1980). Five years later (1940) Sikorski's sister Maria Danuta was born.
In October 1944, during World War II, Sikorski's mother Anna was arrested by the People's Commissariat for State Security along with 40 other people, when she was exposed as a courier between Vilnius' "Kedyw" and the general staff of the Polish Home Army. Early in January 1945 Sikorski's father Feliks was also arrested because he was a soldier of the 1st Polish Corps under the Polish |
Joseph Curran | Formation of NMU & Presidency | Coast District of the International Longshoremen's Association, to lead the new maritime industrial union, the other union leaders balked. Curran agreed to affiliate with the CIO, but refused to let Bridges or anyone else take over his union. His views were reflected among those of the other union leaders, and the CIO's maritime industrial union never got off the ground. Presidency During the next 36 years, Joseph Curran worked to make American merchant seamen the best-paid maritime workers in the world. NMU established a 40-hour work week, overtime, paid vacations, pension and health benefits, tuition reimbursement, and standards for |
Jannie Stander | Golden Lions | He missed out on the semi-final, where the Golden Lions lost 41–44 to Western Province after extra time.
He made a solitary appearance for the Golden Lions in the 2014 Vodacom Cup, playing off the bench in a 110–0 victory against his former side the Limpopo Blue Bulls in a match in Polokwane. He started twelve of the Golden Lions U21s' matches during the 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship, with tries against Border U21 and Western Province U21 helping his side reach the semi-finals once again. Like 2013, however, they were eliminated at the semi-final stage, this |
Joint Base San Antonio | Randolph Air Force Base | performs the installation support mission at Randolph. It is the focal point for all base activities. It is composed of the 902d Force Support Squadron; the 902d Communications Squadron; the 902d Civil Engineer Squadron; the 902d Contracting Squadron; the 902d Logistics Readiness Squadron, and 902d Comptroller Squadron. These units serve the needs of the wing and tenant units on the base, including more than 15,000 people on the base and more than 24,000 Air Force retirees in the local area. |
John Keells Holdings | 2010 - Present | a 78 per cent stake of the General Life Insurance business. JayKay Marketing Services (Private) Limited merged with Nexus Networks (Private) Limited, with JMSL being the surviving entity. Divested stakes in Expo Lanka Holdings PLC and Access Engineering PLC. John Keells Research partnered with the University of Maine, USA to develop reinforcing fibres using agricultural waste.
JKH was ranked first in the LMD Magazine's “Most Respected Entities in Sri Lanka” survey for the tenth time since the inception of the survey in 2005 as well as being ranked No.1 in Business Today Magazine's "list of Sri Lanka's top 25 companies |
Jesse H. Jones | American Red Cross | the nation, spending more time in the federal capital than in his home town. He responded to World War I demands by leading a fundraising effort in Houston for the American Red Cross. Sixteen of his friends accepted his challenge to donate $5,000 each (equivalent to $100,000 in 2016), spurring the local effort to meet and exceed its fundraising quota. President Wilson asked Jones to become director general of military relief for the American Red Cross during World War I, a position he held until 1919. During his first post in Washington, D.C., his department was responsible for seven |
John C. Colt | Murder of Samuel Adams | The mayor asked the Superintendent of Carts, William Godfrey, to locate the carman in question and determine the location of the crate. Godfrey found Barstow, who told him the parcel had been delivered to the freighter Kalamazoo.
The Kalamazoo was still in port, delayed from sailing by a storm. The New York police, accompanied by the city's mayor and the carman, boarded the ship and asked if the crate was still in the cargo hold. The decomposing body had already started emitting a strong odor, which ship hands had assumed was a poison put out to kill rats. The |
Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526–1568) | 1540s | in Hungary: a French artillery unit was dispatched in 1543–1544 and attached to the Ottoman Army. In August 1543, the Ottoman succeeded in the Siege of Esztergom The siege would be followed by the capture of the Hungarian coronation city of Székesfehérvár in September 1543. Other cities that were captured during this campaign are Siklós and Szeged in order to better protect Buda. However, continuous delay of the push toward the west, because of the siege of these fortresses, meant that the Ottomans could not launch any new offensive against Austria.
From 1548 to the end of the war, a Habsburg |
John Davies (photographer) | Life and work | local politics, as his interest in the use of public space has been both personal and professional. The shift in subject matter also developed into a fascination with urban regeneration and work on this includes his Metropoli Project, City State, and Cities on the Edge, the latter of which he curated, in addition to contributing images of his own.
Davies' style was a major influence on the practice of noted art photographer Andreas Gursky.
His book A Green and Pleasant Land was the first photobook published by Dewi Lewis, while Lewis was at Cornerhouse. Lewis would later go on to found Dewi |
Jhumpa Lahiri | Early and personal life | M.A. in English, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Comparative Literature, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. Her dissertation, completed in 1997, was entitled Accursed Palace: The Italian palazzo on the Jacobean stage (1603–1625). Her principal advisers were William Carroll (English) and Hellmut Wohl (Art History). She took a fellowship at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years (1997–1998). Lahiri has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
In 2001, Lahiri married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then deputy editor of TIME Latin America, and who is |
Jean-Jacques Goldman | Biography | States.
Michael Jones, is a Welsh singer who had settled in his mother's native France. He and Goldman scored a hit in the early 1980s with "Je te donne", a bilingual song with Jones singing the English verses and Goldman the French ones.
From 1997 to 2003 he returned to performing as a solo act, releasing two albums, En passant in 1997 and Chansons pour les pieds in 2001, as well as two live albums, Tournée 98 En passant and Un tour ensemble, with new hit songs like "On ira", "Quand tu danses", "Sache que je", "Bonne idée", "Tournent les violons", "Ensemble", |
Fry and the Slurm Factory | Plot | The Planet Express crew arrives at the Slurm plant on Wormulon. After meeting Slurms McKenzie, the crew takes a tour down a river of Slurm through the factory, and see the Grunka-Lunkas manufacture Slurm. Fry tries to drink the Slurm from the river due to his thirst, but he falls off the boat and remembers he does not know how to swim. Leela dives in to save him, and Bender joins them because "Everybody else was doing it."
The three are sucked into a whirlpool and deposited in a cave under the factory. They discover that the factory they toured was |
Jim Les | Professional career | July 1986. Two months later, Les signed with the Philadelphia 76ers but was waived in December without playing a game. Les re-signed with the 76ers on July 1, 1987 but was waived on November 3 before the regular season.
Les later signed with the Rochester Flyers of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) and played 12 games from 1987 to 1988. In the summer of 1988, Les signed with the Chicago Express of the World Basketball League (WBL). Les was a 1988 All-WBL selection and led the league in three-point field goal percentage in 1988 with 46.7%. The Chicago Express were runners-up |
Japan–Saudi Arabia relations | Economic relations | signed during the visit a joint declaration on cooperation between the UK and Japan for the atheist and the era of the twentieth century, which included Many of the pillars, which included confirmation of the leaderships of the two countries and their commitment to do their utmost to implement the program of joint cooperation and stressed the importance of the role of the private sector in promoting bilateral economic ties and agreed on the need to encourage and facilitate cooperation in the private sector in both countries in addition to the importance of cooperation for the development of trade relations |
Jason McGuinness | Career | season.
McGuinness formed a great partnership with Liam Burns which played a big part in Bohs' great defensive record as they marched to 2008 Premier Division title, winning it by a record breaking 19 points from St Patricks Athletic. Whilst participating in 2008's UEFA Intertoto Cup, he scored in both rounds, against Rhyl and FK Riga.
Jason started the season well but was fined two weeks' wages and suspended for five games in May 2009 after racially abusing Benin captain Romuald Boco during a game between Sligo Rovers and Bohemians on 5 May 2009. On his return, he struggled to find form |
Jin Mao Tower | Structure & Operations | and quakes. The swimming pool on the 57th floor is also said to act as a passive damper. The exterior curtain wall is made of glass, stainless steel, aluminum, and granite and is criss-crossed by complex latticework cladding made of aluminum alloy pipes. Operations Official dedication was August 28, 1998, a date also chosen with the number 8 in mind. The building was fully operational in 1999. The Jin Mao Tower is owned by the China Jin Mao Group Co. Ltd (formerly China Shanghai Foreign Trade Centre Co. Ltd). It reportedly has a daily maintenance cost of 1 million RMB |
Judge Jerry | Development | Judge Jerry Development Host Jerry Springer had planned on retiring after The Jerry Springer Show ended production in 2018. NBCUniversal, which had syndicated that show, was interested in retaining Springer's services and convinced him to take on hosting duties for an arbitration court show, the distributor's first entry into the genre. Springer was intrigued by the opportunity to host a more "grown-up" program and to use his law school education.
The signature "Jerry! Jerry!" chant has been carried over to Judge Jerry, albeit only at the beginning of the show and never during the actual proceedings. Cases for Judge Jerry are |
Jordan Conroy | Ireland | Ireland’s 21—19 victory over England helped Ireland achieve a third place finish. He was selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament.
At the 2019 Hong Kong Sevens qualifier for the 2019–20 season, Conroy led all try scorers with 10 tries in the tournament, earning the Player of the Tournament award. His try-scoring included a hat-trick in pool play against Russia, and two key tries in a tight 19–10 come-from-behind win in the semifinal against Germany. |
John B. McClelland | Early life and family & American revolution | on November 12, 1759, and was either the founder or co-founder of McClellandtown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He was the father of John McClelland (1766-1849), who became an officer during the War of 1812. American revolution In 1776, McClelland's Fort, an early army outpost, was built on a cliff near Royal Spring Park, Georgetown, Kentucky. The fort was abandoned in 1777, however, after Indian attacks increased in frequency and severity. John B. McClelland may have been involved in surveying the land, or possibly building a nearby log cabin. Though, it's more likely that a cousin, by the name of John McClelland |
James Glenwright Unger | Playing career & Personal | is for most goals scored in a period with 4 goals in a 7-5 loss vs. University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Unger's short-lived pro career came in the ECHL with the Toledo Storm during the 2006-2007 season in which he had 1 GP with no points. During the 2006-07 ECHL playoffs, he had 4 GP with 1 goal and 2 assists. The following season Unger had a brief stint with the Johnstown Chiefs in which he played in two games but did not score. Personal Unger retired from professional hockey in February 2008 and has since started a career |
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Gokaigers | Gai Ikari | Great Powers. He was originally denied by Captain Marvelous to be a part of the crew as he didn't think Gai brought something unique to his crew nor did he feel that Gai knew what it meant to be an enemy of the Zangyack empire. His enthusiasm and bravery allowed Gai to join the Gokaigers with the vow to use his powers to destroy the Zangyack Empire for good. Upon joining the Gokaigers, his bounty is initially established at Z=100,000, later raised to Z=300,000 due to his role in the death of Warz Gill. Gai also has a strange power |
Italian War of 1521–1526 | Pavia | of gunpowder and shot gathered by the Duke of Ferrara; but the French position was simultaneously weakened by the departure of nearly 5,000 Grisons Swiss mercenaries, who returned to their cantons in order to defend them against marauding landsknechts.
In January 1525, Lannoy was reinforced by the arrival of Georg Frundsberg with 15,000 fresh landsknechts and renewed the offensive. D'Avalos captured the French outpost at San Angelo, cutting the lines of communication between Pavia and Milan, while a separate column of landsknechts advanced on Belgiojoso and, despite being briefly pushed back by a raid led by Medici and Bonnivet, occupied |
Jenő Szervánszky | Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | Landholders' Party led by Zoltán Tildy. A republic was proclaimed, and Tildy was elected President. A coalition cabinet was formed, with Ferenc Nagy, a prominent member of the Small Landholders' Party, as Premier and Mátyás Rákosi, the General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist party, as Vice-Premier. A period of political instability followed the war but the hardliner Mátyás Rákosi eventually became prime minister. The communists took power, supported by the Soviet Union, while opponents of the communist regime were sent to labour camps.
After the death of Joseph Stalin in March, 1953, the Soviets followed somewhat more liberal policies. This so-called |
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