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Joseph Curran | Retirement and death | agreed, but a re-run election did not change the outcome.
In 1973, shortly after Curran won re-election for a thirteenth term as union president, Morrissey sued Curran and charged him with misappropriating union funds. In a precedent-setting ruling in Morrissey and Ibrahim v. Curran, 650 F.2d 1267 (1981), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit established a broad right for union members to sue union officers for improper financial practices.
Morrissey's barrage of lawsuits against Curran led him to retire suddenly on March 5, 1973. Long-time secretary-treasurer Shannon J. Wall succeeded him as president.
Curran retired to Boca Raton, Florida. He |
Italian War of 1521–1526 | Madrid | 1526, and was ratified by a French delegation in April 1527 at Greenwich.
Francis, however, had no intentions of complying with the remaining provisions of the Treaty of Madrid. On 22 March, with the Pope's blessing, he proclaimed that he would not be bound by the Treaty of Madrid because it had been signed under duress. Clement VII, who had meanwhile become convinced that the Emperor's growing power was a threat to his own position in Italy, sent envoys to Francis and Henry VIII suggesting an alliance against Charles. Henry, having received nothing from the Treaty of Madrid, was |
KOZY (AM) | Programming | sister station, KBAJ in 2018.
KOZY airs syndicated programming including "Little Known Facts" with Chaz Allan, "American Hit List" with M.G. Kelly, as well as the "Twilight Zone".
KOZY's music programming features the hit songs of the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s. A music library of literally thousands of musical selections provides a very wide music base generally exceeding that of typical "oldies" radio stations. |
Lakshagriha | Location | district and state roadways buses ply to the village. Baraut City is the nearest railway station. The Hastinapur is about 71 km from Barnawa and takes 1hr 30mins to reach there.
There are some other claims for potential Lashkgriha. Handia in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, India is one of them. The site, as on date, is a huge mound which covers an area of 29 Bigha. It is located on the northern bank of River Ganges, and is about 4 km away from NH2 highway. |
Justin Lee Collins | Television and film | show was aired on Sky One entitled Justin Lee Collins: 180, which followed his quest to be a professional darts player. In the show, he practised with Keith Deller and played in the BDO International Open on 15 June 2008. He lost in the first round 3-0 in legs to county player Stuart Bousfield, who was in the top 100 in the BDO rankings at the time.
He signed a £3 million deal with ITV for a show which focused on topical issues, but with a comedic twist, titled The Justin Lee Collins Show on ITV2 which ran from March to |
Julian Iantzi | Work in the media | he has also presented programmes about the life of the Basque communities in The United States.
In March 2007, he made the leap to national television, presenting the programme Brainiac, on Cuatro. Later, in the summer of 2008, he presented El muro infernal, the Spanish a version of the successful format Hole in the wall of Fuji TV, on La Sexta.
His last job before returning to EITB was with Antena 3, as a moderator in Vaya par... de tres, a programme guided by María Patiño and Jesús Mariñas.
Later he returned to EITB to present new editions of El conquistador del fin |
Lago di Fondi | Geology & Ecology | The positions of the lakes are determined by local elevations and equilibrium between inflow and outflow. In the last few centuries bonifica or "restoration", of the marshland to produce agricultural land, and associated control of the water channels, have stabilized the lakes as landforms. Ecology According to the Water Framework Directive of the European Union the lagoons of Lazio are transitional waters, "partly saline" but "influenced by freshwater flows." Although the geology is the same in this case the ecology is far from it. Transitional waters tend to be biodiverse; each case is a "habitat island" due to variability of |
Kapilasa Wildlife Sanctuary | Flora and fauna & Biological Protection | sanctuary.
Important fauna include Asian elephant, Bengal fox, Golden jackal, Gray langur, Indian crested porcupine, Indian giant squirrel, Indian peafowl, Sambar deer, Striped hyena, Wild boar, and various varieties of birds, lizards etc. Biological Protection The sanctuary has been a prime subject of multiple protests by wildlife protection groups due to heavy industrialization and government policies that are threatening the biodiversity and ecosystem. |
Lampaul-Guimiliau Parish close | Rood screen & Pulpit | Mary and John the Evangelist in attendance and bas-reliefs covering various scenes from the passion carved on the main cross beam; Christ's agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, the flagellation, the crowning with thorns, the " Ecce homo", angels with chalices to collect Jesus' blood, Jesus carrying the cross, Jesus disrobed, the crucifixion and the descent from the cross. On the choir side of the screen are further bas-reliefs depicting the Annunciation and the twelve Sybils announcing the coming of a "saviour". Pulpit This dates to 1759-1760 and is decorated with images of the four Evangelists and the four "Doctors |
Kamacite | Important minor elements, substitutions, solid solutions & Relationship with taenite | used to allow researchers to easily index the amount of alteration that has taken place in the sample. This index can be later referenced when analyzing other areas of the meteorite where alteration is not as clear. Relationship with taenite Taenite is the nickel rich end member of the kamacite–taenite solid solution. Taenite is naturally occurring on Earth whereas kamacite is only found on Earth when it comes from space. Kamacite forms taenite as it forms and expels nickel to the surrounding area, this area forms taenite. Due to the face centered nature of the kamacite lattice and the body |
Laurence Muir | Business & Philanthropy | the Canberra Development Board. Philanthropy Laurence Macdonald Muir was knighted in 1981 for distinguished service to the community. His activities since then combined corporate board work with government and community service.
He was involved in many charitable organisations and was a patron of both the Microsurgery Foundation and The Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. He was a founding trustee of Earthwatch Australia and a board member of the Sir Robert Menzies Trust. He was an honorary life trustee of CEDA.
At the request of the Commonwealth Government he served for two terms on the Council of |
Kalavari Samsaram | Plot | family and to help others. Here Vishnu gives him a word to his father that he will silently clear all the debts without defaming him and does not reveal this secret to anyone including the family members. There onwards, Vishnu becomes a dictator to the family, keeps everything in a strict & disciplined manner with a lot of rules & regulations when everyone in the family starts hating him. Rest of the story is how Vishnu protects the family prestige and his father's honor. |
Krogh's principle | History | Krogh's principle History Krogh's principle is named after the Danish physiologist August Krogh, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his contributions to understanding the anatomy and physiology of the capillary system, who described it in The American Journal of Physiology in 1929. However, the principle was first elucidated nearly 60 years prior to this, and in almost the same words as Krogh, in 1865 by Claude Bernard, the French instigator of experimental medicine, on page 27 of his "Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale":
Dans l'investigation scientifique, les moindres procédés sont de la plus haute importance. Le choix |
Kingsley Kuku | Activism & Politics | were set out to tackle injustice and maladministration within the Nigerian socio-political structure. He was a pioneer member of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), a notable ethnic rights group in Nigeria; and was the second spokesman of the Council. He was signatory to the historical Kaiama Declaration. Kingsley Kuku has remained a vocal voice and an active stakeholder for the development and restoration of lasting peace in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Politics After his involvement in the Ijaw Youth Council, Kuku contested and was elected as a Member of the Ondo State House of Assembly and became Chairman |
KWLO (AM) | History | KWLO (AM) History KWLO started as a construction permit owned by RAMS III in 2009, however did not make it to air for another eight years. On January 1, 2019, KWLO changed its format to Classic hits.
In 2019, Rams III sold KWLO-Provo, and 1580 Utah’s Goat and the translator station K260DS $300,000 to Utah County Radio company called JJIE and JJIE owners Frank and Melanie Mueller. Also in 2019, Valleydale Broadcasting LLC sold KPVO-Fountain Green and 99.9 Utah’s Goat $25,000 to Utah County Radio company called JJIE and JJIE owners Frank and Melanie Mueller. |
Herbesthal railway station | Construction and operation by the Rhine Railway Company <1843-1880 & Rail nationalisation and expansion 1880–1914 | taken over by the Belgian postal administration in 1920. During the 1920s up to 1,000 mail bags were processed here daily, and it was only after the introduction of so-called mobile sorting offices, using dedicated rail-cars, that the postal facilities at Herbesthal station were removed. Rail nationalisation and expansion 1880–1914 Despite bitter opposition from company president Gustav von Mevissen, the Rhine Railway Company was nationalised in 1880. Company assets, including the station at Herbesthal, were taken over by the Royal Railway Directorate of "Cöln" (Rhine Leftbank Operations) (" Königliche Eisenbahndirection zu Cöln (linksrheinische)" / KED) based in |
Julia Slingo | Honours and awards & Personal life | awarded the International Meteorological Organization Prize from the World Meteorological Organization.
Slingo was the first female Professor of Meteorology in the UK. In 2008, she became the first woman President of the Royal Meteorological Society. She was interviewed on The Life Scientific by Jim Al-Khalili in 2014. Personal life Slingo married Anthony Slingo in 1978. He was an environmental scientist who died in 2008. They had two daughters; Mary and Anna. She lives in Sidmouth in Devon. |
Jam sandwich (food) | In popular culture | by Adam McNaughton, and it was sung to the tune of Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?). It was performed by Matt McGinn and many others.
The musical group Jethro Tull referenced a jam sandwich in their 1971 song "Up the 'Pool." 'The 'Pool' is short for Blackpool, Lancashire, in the north of England, and singer Ian Anderson adopts a Lancashire inflection and colloquialisms: "I'm going up the 'Pool/ from down the smoke [referring to London and the more industrialized south of England] below/ to taste me mum's jam sarnies/ and see our Auntie Flo." |
Job creation index | United States | Job creation index A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers. In the US, the index score is derived by subtracting the percentage of American workers who say their employers are 'firing' from the percentage of workers who say their employers are 'hiring'. United States The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession.
According to Gallup, in 2013 North Dakota was ranked number 1 for job creation in the US and had the highest job creation index with a score of 40, thus |
Jean VI Rolin | Biography | in 1484. The Estates of Burgundy named him ambassador to Charles VIII of France, of whom he quickly became the counsellor. He entered the Parlement of Paris and rose through the various levels.
He was bishop of Autun from June 8, 1500, to the date of his death on April 4, 1501, some considerable time after receiving the pallium, a position obtained with difficulty, because the previous bishop, Antoine de Chalon, had resigned to make way for Olivier de Vienne, a canon of Lyon, and Pope Alexander VI, had already granted the appropriate bulls. The canons of Autun protested and with |
Katihar−Siliguri Intercity Express | Coaches & Service | Katihar−Siliguri Intercity Express Coaches The 15719 / 20 Katihar - Siliguri Junction Intercity Express has five Non AC chair car, five general unreserved & two SLR (seating with luggage rake) coaches . It does not carry a pantry car coach.
As is customary with most train services in India, coach composition may be amended at the discretion of Indian Railways depending on demand. Service The 22869 Katihar Junction - Siliguri Junction Intercity Express covers the distance of 203 km (126 mi) in 5 hours 15 mins (39 km/hr) & in 5 hours 15 mins as the 15720 Siliguri Junction - Katihar Junction Intercity Express (39 km/hr).
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Lúrio University | Athletics | built a field and stands. |
Larry Keating | Career | and continued in this role on the short-lived sequel, The George Burns Show.
During his first episode on The Burns and Allen Show, George Burns stopped the action just before Harry's entrance and explained that Clark had left the show. Then he introduced Larry Keating to Bea Benaderet who played Blanche Morton saying, "This is Larry Keating and he is going to be your husband now". The pair greeted and complimented each other on their previous work. George remarked that if they are going to be so nice to each other, no one will believe they are married.
Keating played Roger Addison, |
Kovilje Monastery | Architecture & Restoration | survived only in fragments, characters of saints are still well preserved. Restoration During the year 1644, Metropolitan of Raska, Gavrilo(Rašković), visits the monastery and finds it extremely neglected, in serious condition. Then he restores it and stays in it for a while, and in 1651 he endows the Monastery with a shackled and decorated Holy Gospel for the liturgical needs of the restored church of St. Nicholas, and frees the monastery land, which was returned to the monastery.
From the records of 1733,we find that a spiritualist Filip lives in the monastery, who taught those who wanted to become priests. From |
Krogh's principle | History | will find out before very long the essential mechanisms of mammalian kidney function, but the general problem of excretion can be solved only when excretory organs are studied wherever we find them and in all their essential modifications. Such studies will be sure, moreover, to expand and deepen our insight into problems of the human kidney and will prove of value also from the narrowest utilitarian point of view.
For such a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice or a few such animals on which it can be most conveniently studied. Many years ago when |
Jack Murphy (Irish politician) | Resignation & Emigration to Canada | house that my presence there was a symbol of broken promises. I said that I would support any scheme to put an end to mass unemployment and emigration. But in my 15 months in the Dáil, no-one put forward such a scheme." Emigration to Canada Immediately following his resignation as a TD, Murphy, now once again unemployed, discovered to his dismay that as a result of his cards not being stamped during his time in office he was no longer eligible for full assistance and was reduced to living on the meagre sum of £2 1 shilling per week for |
Jane Addams | Pacifism | as a cataclysm that undermined human kindness, solidarity, civic friendship, and caused families across the world to struggle. In turn her views were denounced by patriotic groups and newspapers during World War I (1917–18). Oswald Garrison Villard came to her defense when she suggested that armies gave liquor to soldiers just before major ground attacks. "Take the case of Jane Addams for one. With what abuse did not the [New York] Times cover her, one of the noblest of our women, because she told the simple truth that the Allied troops were often given liquor or drugs before charging across |
Jimmy Madison (musician) | null | Chip Jackson, Ricky Ford, Jack Walrath, David Schnitter, Paul Nash, and Stanley Turrentine. In the 1990s he played with Maceo Parker,Red Rodney aka albino red,chris potter, tariq shah, and Steve Gilmore. |
Kay Harker | Kay Harker in The Box of Delights & Kay Harker and the Jones family children | the Hunter and various others. Kay eventually manages to thwart the plans of Abner Brown by rescuing Cole Hawlings (and the choirboys) from Brown's subterranean dungeon. The story concludes with great festivities on Christmas Eve as the abducted make their way back home in time for the Christmas Service. The story concludes with Kay's re-awakening on the train home for the start of the Christmas holidays, with the realisation that the story was nothing more than a dream. Kay Harker and the Jones family children In the book and the BBC series, these characters play the most important role in |
Lake Ridge Academy | Kemper Science and Engineering Building & Recent events | general student population. The classes that take place in the chemistry laboratory include Chemistry, Honors Chemistry and AP Chemistry. The Kemper Building is also home to the Institute of Scientific Research and Exploration, as well as the Engineering Institute. Recent events Lake Ridge annually participates in the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education's Mock Trial competition, and took first place in the state of Ohio in the 2008 competition. The team moved on to the national competition, held in Wilmington, Delaware, and were ranked 13th in the nation. The team regularly places within the top ten within the State of Ohio |
King Gordy | Career | bandmate Bang Belushi, released in 2016.
In 2017, he and Bizarre got signed by Twiztid to Majik Ninja Entertainment as a hip hop duo L.A.R.S.. They released their eponymous debut album on February 16, 2018. |
Jordan Holmes | International career | for the U19s and U20s in the Asian Championship and U20's World Cup qualifiers. In May 2015 Holmes was selected to play against Brazil for Australia's U20s at Win Stadium Wollongong. Although Australia were defeated 1-0, Holmes produced a man of the match performance pulling out a string of outstanding saves from Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) and Andrea Perieria (Manchester United). Holmes is currently vice captain of the U23 Australian Olyroos. |
Kunaal Roy Kapur | Personal life | earliest accredited teachers of Ballroom and Latin American dancing in India, with degrees from the Federal Association of Teachers of Dancing in London.
Kunaal is married to Shayonti. They have two children. He is of paternal Punjabi and maternal Jewish descent.
Sidharth Roy Kapur of UTV is his elder brother and Aditya Roy Kapur is his younger brother.
Actress Vidya Balan is his sister-law as she is married to Sidharth. |
John Gadsby Chapman | Life and career | the side of the Confederate States of America.
The economic deprivation inflicted on Chapman during the 1860s became insurmountable. In Rome, he was forced to live off the kindness of fellow expatriates, and finally returned to America, sick and poor, to spend his last days with another son, John Linton Chapman, in Brooklyn, New York. It was there, in 1889, that he died a pauper. |
Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary | Threats and conservation issues | have been electrocuted to death by local population.
Kalyani Dam in Chamala Valley, a part of Sri Venkateswara National Park, is a good habitat for elephants. A corridor for elephants is being planned between Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary and Sri Venkateswara National Park under Project Elephant. |
Jonathan Wathen | Life and career | Jonathan Wathen Jonathan Wathen (c.1728-1808) was an English surgeon, who specialized in diseases of the eye and practiced in London during the Georgian era. He was teacher and mentor to the ophthalmologist James Ware, and Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller, the oculist to George III. Life and career Jonathan Wathen was born in 1727 or 1728, most likely in Stroud, Gloucestershire, to Jonathan Wathen, a wealthy clothier of Stroud, and his wife Sarah Watkins. He apprenticed about 1745 under his older brother, Samuel Wathen, M.D., a well-known London physician whose patients included the Rev. John Wesley and Queen Charlotte, the wife |
Kingsley Kuku | Politics | of the House Committee on Information for four years. He was at various times Special Assistant and Head of Conflict Management Unit at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC); a Member of the Presidential Committee on Amnesty; and Secretary of the Presidential Committee on Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Niger Delta. Kuku's diverse engagements in the listed official designations paved the way for him for a greater task. In January 2011, he was appointed Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, on the Niger Delta and Chairman Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme. President Jonathan reappointed him |
La Anonima | History | well as regular passenger and cargo transportation lines between Buenos Aires and Punta Arenas, with stopovers in several Argentine Patagonia ports, through the use of two ships made to order in Britain: the Argentine and the Asturian.
Mr. Menendez died in Buenos Aires in 1918, never having lost his Spanish nationality. At the time, the president of La Anónima was his son-in-law, Mauricio Braun (of German and Prussian descent), who remained in this position until 1932, when he was replaced by Carlos Menéndez Behety.
By 1929 it had 25 branches in different locations within southern Argentina, in addition to 4 ships.
The |
Joe (Inspiral Carpets song) | Music video | song.
When played live as Hingley's modified version, the intro blast beat was repeated for exactly one minute. This can be heard on the 21790 live video. The Inspirals stopped extending the blast beat around 1991. Around the Revenge of the Goldfish era, the song, instead of abruptly ending, would instead have a final guitar strum and a final measure of Clint Boon's keyboards. Recent performances (both with Hingley and Holt) have returned to the studio-style ending. |
Kim Clark (candidate) | Early career | Kim Clark (candidate) Kim Clark (born April 6, 1959) is a creative professional active in film, television, and live performance. He is a businessman and community leader in Three Oaks, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois where he has lived for the past 15 years with his partner David Fink, their Michigan-based creative efforts having been featured in The New York Times. Clark is an ethicist who specializes in poverty and documentary filmmaking, an expert pipe organ builder, and full-time teacher at DePaul University. Early career After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in applied psychology from Loyola University Chicago and |
Kamakura shogunate | The Hōjō Regency | convenient puppet. The problem was solved choosing Kujo Yoritsune, a distant relation of the Minamoto, who would be the fourth shōgun and figurehead, while Hōjō Yoshitoki would take care of day-to-day business. However powerless, future shōguns would always be chosen from either Fujiwara or imperial lineage to keep the bloodline pure and give legitimacy to the rule. This succession proceeded for more than a century.
In 1221 Emperor Go-Toba tried to regain power in what would be called the Jōkyū War (承久の乱 Jōkyū no Ran), but the attempt failed. The power of the Hōjō remained unchallenged until 1324, when Emperor Go-Daigo |
John B. McClelland | Crawford expedition | and made third in command of an expedition, led by Colonel William Crawford, intended to put an end to Indian attacks on American settlers in that region. In fact, John McClelland was one of four majors elected for the Crawford Expedition. The other Majors included David Williamson (Pennsylvania) of Washington County, Pennsylvania, Thomas Gaddis of Westmoreland (now Fayette), and James Brenton also of Westmoreland County (now part of Washington County, Pennsylvania). By that time, McClelland was certainly no novice in military affairs, having been a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth Battalion of Militia of Westmoreland County, to which he was elected |
Law of the Czech Republic | History | of 1989, but they turned out to be short-lived, as in 1992 the Constitution of the Czech Republic has been promulgated after the division of Czechoslovakia, and entered into force in 1993. |
Lauren Scott | Civil rights activism | Lauren Scott Civil rights activism Scott founded Equality Nevada, Inc. in 2009 and served as the Executive Director from 2009 through 2015. Equality Nevada was organized to fight for LGBTQ equality in Nevada and it was voted one of the top grassroots organizations in Northern Nevada in 2009.
Scott supported the repeal of the military "Don't ask, don't tell" policy in 2010. A ban on military service by openly gay and lesbian service members was ruled as a violation of the US Constitution in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America in 2011.
In the 2011 legislative session, Scott continued to |
Kyaw Yin | null | that was 45 feet in height and could fly up to 2 miles in normal weather. Most of his flight income was donated to charity. He tried for a worldwide show but failed due to the difficulty acquiring a license. His last performance was in 1939 in Tavoy; he died later that year.
He is mentioned, along with a photo, in Into Hidden Burma by Maurice Collis. |
Iris Chang | Depression and death | get up and get out of the house every morning. I will stop by to visit my parents then go for a long walk. I will follow the doctor's orders for medications. I promise not to hurt myself. I promise not to visit Web sites that talk about suicide.
The next note was a draft of the third:
When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute. It is far better that you remember me as I was—in my heyday |
Jack Murphy (Irish politician) | Canada | in the Canadian Armed Forces, Signal Corps. Johnston had just been posted to Regina after a large winter army exercise near Alberta, he heard about an Irish family who were living in Regina and tracked them down. He says "The first time I met Jack, I was shocked to find him and his family living in a small 1 bedroom shack without heating buried under huge snow drifts. It was bitterly cold and their situation was grim. It turns out that while Jack had managed to get some work as a carpenter with a company called "Sash And Door" during |
Jhumpa Lahiri | Literary career | on November 20, 2013, it lost out for that award to James McBride and his novel The Good Lord Bird.
In December 2015, Lahiri published a non-fiction essay called "Teach Yourself Italian" in The New Yorker about her experience learning Italian. In the essay she declared that she is now only writing in Italian, and the essay itself was translated from Italian to English.
Jhumpa Lahiri was judged as the winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 for her book The Lowland (Vintage Books/ Random House, India) at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival for which she entered Limca Book |
Laura Martinozzi | Duchess of Modena & Regent of Modena & Later life | Modena, Alfonso IV d'Este. The wedding by proxy occurred at the Palace of Compiègne with the Count of Soissons acting as the Duke of Modena. They had three children, two of which survived infancy. Regent of Modena Upon the death of her spouse in 1662, she became regent of Modena during the minority of her son, Francesco d'Este, Duke of Modena. She discontinued her regency in 1674. Later life Laura was abandoned by her son The mentally and physically weak Francesco II came under the influence of his half-brother Cesare, and thus Laura moved to Rome with her mother.
She died |
Kanagawa 1st district | null | in the 2003 and 2005 general elections. Satō retired from politics in 2007, but in the national landslide Democratic victory of 2009, first time candidate Mieko Nakabayashi won the 1st district against Matsumoto. Matsumoto was Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Abe cabinet, Satō was chairman of the House of Representatives committee on the environment in the 1990s and chaired the disciplinary committee in 2004.
In the landslide Democratic defeat of 2012, Nakabayashi lost more than 84,000 votes compared to 2009. Matsumoto lost only less than 17,000 votes and regained the district. |
Kormilda College | History & Kormilda today | the College expanded its curriculum to include Year 7 and in 2006 was officially awarded full accreditation by the Council of Internationally Accredited Schools, Australasian branch (CIASa).
Former students include Northern Territory government minister Bess Price. Kormilda today Whilst maintaining the provision of full secondary residential education programmes for indigenous students, Kormilda College now also serves the broader community. In 2015 the day and residential student enrolment exceeds 640 who are in Years K to 12. Those students are representative of the wide variety of cultural backgrounds found in the Northern Territory. Approximately one third of Kormilda students are Indigenous and |
John Nicholas (academic) | null | John Nicholas (academic) John Nicholas D.D. was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
Nicholas was elected Warden (head) of New College, Oxford, in 1675, a post he held until 1679.
During his time as Warden of New College, he was also Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1677 until 1679. He was elected warden of Winchester College in 1679, a post he held until his death. |
Johor Bahru–Singapore Rapid Transit System | History | reduce the national debt, Malaysia's new Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook mentioned in end-May 2018 that Malaysia remains committed to the project but the Ministry of Finance would be looking at ways to reduce the cost of the project. However, in mid-July 2018, Singapore Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said in Parliament that Singapore had not heard anything official from the new Malaysian government despite Loke's comments. A joint operating company between Singapore's SMRT Corporation and Malaysia's Prasarana Malaysia was supposed to be incorporated by June 30, 2018 but did not occur either as discussions between the two companies were |
José Juan Macías | Mexico national team | in an eventual 3–1 victory. |
Lane Cove Council | Location & Council history | Lane Cove Council Location On the western and southern borders is the Lane Cove River with the Ryde and Hunter's Hill, across the river on the western and southern banks respectively. To the north is the Willoughby and to the east is North Sydney. Council history In May 1865, 67 residents of the rural District of Willoughby, which included what is now Lane Cove, sent a petition to the Governor Sir John Young, requesting the incorporation of the "Municipality of North Willoughby". This resulted in the municipality being formally proclaimed on 23 October 1865.
There were no wards until 1876 when |
La Bamba (song) | Traditional versions & Early recordings | perhaps through the popularity of ballet folklórico. The dance is performed displaying the newly wed couple's unity through the performance of complicated, delicate steps in unison as well as through creation of a bow from a listón, a long red ribbon, using only their feet.
The "arriba" (literally "up") part of the song suggests the nature of the dance, in which the footwork, called "zapateado", is done faster and faster as the music tempo accelerates. A repeated lyric is "Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán", meaning "I am not a sailor, I am the captain"; Veracruz is a maritime locale. Early |
Kindlestown Castle | History | the widow of Ralph Mac Giolla Mocholmág (Sir Ralph Fitzdermot) in 1292 and had custody of his lands for his stepson, John Fitzdermot. He retained some of the land for himself as can be seen from a deed dated 1304, and may have built the castle to protect against attack from the native Irish. In 1301 the Uí Broin (O'Byrnes) burned down nearby Rathdown Castle; the occupants may have taken refuge at Kindlestown. But John Fitzdermot had not the stomach for the fight with the Irish, conveying the manor of Rathdown about 1305 to Nigel le Brun, Escheator of Ireland. |
KOOP (FM) | Fires | as part of a plea agreement, Feinstein would serve 120 days at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville, pay $134,000 restitution, serve 10 years probation upon release from prison, and undergo community service and counseling.
The station was back on the air within a few weeks, using studio space donated by Entercom Austin, which owns three of the city's commercial stations. KOOP returned to its Airport Boulevard studio in September 2008. |
KOOP (FM) | Early History | the organization. An application dated July 4, 1986, was submitted to the FCC. That was rejected August 5, 1987; an additional $1,500 of engineering work was required to comply with FAA requirements, and the proposed tower height was lowered to 98 feet. There were also special requirements because of a non-interference treaty between the US and Mexico, although the tower site was more than 200 miles from the Mexican border.
On May 4, 1988, the Co-op Radio checking account was frozen for 90 days, for inability to pay the $7.50 monthly fee. They still owed more than |
Koert Vermeulen | Light art installations & “Tree rings” - Christmas Illumination of Champs-Elysees in Paris (2011-2014) | own light festival, and also for “Arbres et Lumières” in Geneva and Luxembourg.
In collaboration with Odeaubois, Vermeulen expand his work towards artistic light sculptures.
“OVO”, is a multi-sensory art object, to which a dimension of a luminous event is added, provided by plays of light and visual effects of water and acoustic animations. This lighting sculpture was presented for the first time during the 2010 Festival of Lights in Lyon before travelling all over the world. “Tree rings” - Christmas Illumination of Champs-Elysees in Paris (2011-2014) In 2009, the “Comité Champs-Elysées” launched an international competition for the new design of the |
King Gordy | Career | King Gordy Sings The Blues, a new Fat Killahz effort The E.P., and his debut extended play Jesus Christ's Mistress. The following year he nicknamed himself as Dark Lord Vader and dropped his most recent second solo EP Hail Dark Lord Vader, which marked him his comeback into horrorcore. He has started to aggressively promote his harder image in social media, and Twitter suspended Gordy for various reasons as he mentions on the album.
After recovering from being shot five times during an alleged robbery in Detroit, King Gordy came back with Herojuana, a collaborative six-track EP with his Fat Killahz |
Kevin Deeromram | Personal life & Honours | born in Stockholm to a Swedish father. Honours TS |
Jack Murphy (Irish politician) | The 16th Dáil | Dáil and set the scene for what was to follow. The suspicion and disdain with which Murphy was regarded with by established parliamentary members meant that initially he could not get answers to even to the most basic of his queries – such as how much unemployment relief money was to be spent in Dublin. In contrast, the same politicians had no problem in addressing trivial concerns like those raised by Fine Gael's Jack Belton when he asked about the "hardship imposed on cricket clubs because of the cost of cricket balls".
Despite this, over his term, Murphy stubbornly persisted and |
Kyoto Journal | History & Contributors | it would switch to digital editions beginning with issue 76. Contributors Contributors to Kyoto Journal have included Gary Snyder, Pico Iyer, Nobuyoshi Araki, Royall Tyler (academic), Donald Richie, Barry Lopez, Arne Naess, Kōbō Abe, Peter Matthiessen, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, and Linda Connor. Author Suzanne Kamata is the current fiction editor. |
La Vita Nuova | Critical reception & Cultural references | Wallace Stevens called the text "one of the great documents of Christianity," and noting that the text displays the influence of Christianity in promulgating "the distinctly feminine virtues in place of the sterner ideals of antiquity." Cultural references The Henry Holiday painting Dante meets Beatrice at Ponte Santa Trinita (1883) is inspired by La Vita Nuova, as was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Salutation of Beatrice (1859). Rossetti translated the work into English in 1848 and used the character name Monna Vanna from it as a title for his 1866 painting Monna Vanna.
La vita nuova is a 1902 cantata based |
Lachhu Maharaj (musician) | Death | the nuances of tabla like no other artist.
On October 16, 2018, Google dedicated a doodle to Lachhu Maharaj on his 74th birthday anniversary. |
Lawndale, California | History & Media | Traci Lords lived in Lawndale near the beginning of her adult film career. Media Lawndale Community Cable Television on Channel 22 is a Public-access television cable TV station. The City of Lawndale's Cable Television Department is funded by the Lawndale Cable Usage Corporation and the City of Lawndale through Local Access Fees and Cable television franchise fee provided by the local cable company, Time Warner Cable. The Lawndale Cable Usage Corporation is the non-profit, California corporation that receives these fees, and provides for the development of Lawndale Community Cable Television.
The Lawndalian a citywide newsletter that informs the residents about |
La Vita Nuova | Cultural references | (in English) are interspersed throughout the piece.
The final mission in the 2008 game Devil May Cry 4 is entitled "La Vita Nuova". |
Kolno | World War II | II Following the Nazi German and Soviet Invasion of Poland in World War II Kolno was taken over by the German forces on 8 September 1939. On 29 September Soviets enter the area in accordance with the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. The town remained in Soviet hands until Operation Barbarossa (22 June 1941) when it was overrun again by the Wehrmacht.
On 5 1941 Hermann Göring and Erich Koch visited the town, and some 30 to 37 Jews were murdered by the local Poles. The rest of the Jewish population, some 2,350 to 3,000 Jews, were executed in several stages beginning on |
Jupiter One | Releases and performances & Third studio album and side projects | their track "Countdown" was played during the pre-episode of Heroes Season 3 on NBC, and Kyle XY season 2 on ABC. It was also featured in commercials for Payless and MLB Network.
They opened for Regina Spektor on her 2009 North American tour. They also opened for Spektor on her 2010 Australasian tour. Third studio album and side projects The band has been working on many separate projects since the release of Sunshower. In late 2011, the band got together to talk about some new ideas for their third studio album. Though many good ideas were thrown around, other current projects |
Jane Addams | Remembrances | state of Illinois renamed the Northwest Tollway as the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway. Hull House buildings were demolished for the establishment of the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, in 1963, and relocated. The Hull residence itself was preserved as museum and monument to Jane Addams.
The Jane Addams College of Social Work is a professional school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Jane Addams Business Careers Center is a high school in Cleveland, Ohio. Jane Addams High School For Academic Careers is a high school in The Bronx, NY. Jane Addams House is a residence hall |
Kuthaund | Education & Culture | Kuthaund Education The town has several schools and colleges, including the Janta Sanatan Dharm Inter College. Culture The main Hindu temples in Kuthaund include Ram Janki Temple, Hanuman Temple, Badi Mata temple and Maha Kaleshwar Temple, Narmdeshwar Maharaj Temple, Gadhi Wale Baba. |
Ixkun | Monuments | the southeastern Petén. Most of the stelae belonging to this sculptural tradition are only carved on one side. On the majority, rulers are depicted standing and facing left with the legs parted to form a triangle. The depiction of war captives underneath the ruler's image is stylistically similar to representations in the Petexbatun and Pasión River region.
Altogether eleven stelae are known for the site, and six altars have also been recovered.
Stela 1 was erected in the middle of the North Plaza, opposite Structure 3. It was sculpted from limestone and stands 4.13 metres (13.5 ft) high. Each edge of the monument |
Justin Verlander | 2003: Silver medal at Pan American Games & Minor leagues | in 2003 and helped the US to a silver medal in the Pan American Games. He was named CAA Rookie of the Year in 2002, and earned All-CAA honors in 2003 and 2004. Verlander was named the ODU Alumni Association's Male Athlete of the Year in 2004, and was the second overall pick in the 2004 Major League Baseball draft by the Detroit Tigers. Minor leagues Verlander's professional baseball career began when the Detroit Tigers selected him second overall in the 2004 MLB Draft. He signed a contract on October 25, 2004. Verlander made his professional debut in 2005. He |
Lázaro Blanco | null | Lázaro Blanco Lázaro Blanco Fuentes (April 1, 1938 – May 4, 2011) was a Mexican photographer.
Blanco was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He directed the Casa del Lago Photography Workshop in Mexico City from 1968 until his death.
Blanco's work has been shown in numerous galleries. |
Jesse H. Jones | 1928 Democratic National Convention | to $2,300,000 in 2016) to bring the 1928 Democratic National Convention to Houston. Other cities matched or exceeded this amount, but Jones vowed that Houston would beat the others in hospitality. When Jones returned to Texas from Washington, D.C., where he had been negotiating, local greeters mobbed the train depots in Marshall, Texas and Conroe, with a few brandishing "Jesse Jones for President" signs. At Union Station, 50,000 Houstonians staged a homecoming for Jones, replete with marching bands, bunting, and banners. They staged a parade from Union Station to the Jones home at the Lamar Hotel. This hero's welcome preceded |
Justus von Liebig | Research and development | a small stipend, without laboratory funding or access to facilities.
His situation was complicated by the presence of existing faculty: Professor Wilhelm Zimmermann (1780–1825) taught general chemistry as part of the philosophy faculty, leaving medical chemistry and pharmacy to Professor Philipp Vogt in the medical faculty. Vogt was happy to support a reorganization in which pharmacy was taught by Liebig and became the responsibility of the faculty of arts, rather than the faculty of medicine. Zimmermann found himself competing unsuccessfully with Liebig for students and their lecture fees. He refused to allow Liebig to use existing space and equipment, and |
Laurence Muir | Philanthropy | the mid eighties he chaired the Australian Brain Foundation after which he served for ten years as a Trustee for the Foundation for Development Co-operation (Australian only private aid agency helping the people of underdeveloped countries).
In the lead up to the 1996 bid by Melbourne for the right to host the Olympic Games, he served as a Commissioner responsible for winning the votes of all IOC members in the Caribbean, Central and South American regions. After five visits to fifteen countries and visitation from the IOC officials, the quest ended unsuccessfully in Tokyo.
For almost forty years he was involved |
Keith Ferguson (voice actor) | Voice acting | featuring Shaquille O'Neal as an unlikely victorious horse-race jockey. |
Kingsley Kuku | Early life & Education | Kingsley Kuku Early life Kingsley Kuku was born in Arogbo, the traditional headquarters of the Ijaw ethnic nationality in Ondo State, Nigeria. He had his early education in Arogbo before moving out of the community to further his study. Education Kuku attended Patrick Catholic Primary School, Arogbo, Ondo State (1977–1983), Nigeria. He had his secondary education at Ijaw national High School, Arogbo, Ondo State (1983–1988). He later proceeded for his higher education and obtained a Bachelor of Education degree in English Language at the Ondo State University, Ado Ekiti, now Ekiti State University in 1995; and M.Sc. in International Relations |
Kyoto | Karasuma Line | in Fushimi-ku.
Between Kitaōji and Jūjō, trains run beneath the north-south Karasuma Street (烏丸通 Karasuma-dori), hence the name. They link to the other subway line, the Tōzai Line, at Karasuma Oike. They also connect to the JR lines at Kyoto Station and the Hankyu Kyoto Line running cross-town beneath Shijō Street at the intersection of Shijō Karasuma, Kyoto's central business district. At Shijō Karasuma, the subway station is named Shijō, whereas Hankyu's station is called Karasuma.
The Transportation Bureau and Kintetsu jointly operate through services, which continue to the Kintetsu Kyoto Line to Kintetsu Nara Station in Nara. The Karasuma Line and |
James William Newton | null | James William Newton Captain James William Newton (1831–1906) claimed to have invented the foghorn technique by using loud and low notes. |
Joseph Shallit | null | Philadelphia Record. Subsequent to this event, the rule was changed.
Shallit served in the Army Signal Corps in the Philippines during World War II. Upon his return, he began to write, publishing his first mystery, The Billion-Dollar Body, in 1947 with Lippincott. Other mysteries include Yell Bloody Murder, Lady, Don't Die on My Doorstep, and Kiss the Killer. Take Your Last Look was published under the pseudonym "Matt Brady". He also wrote a number of short stories for science fiction magazines, including "Education of a Martian", in the August 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. A short story, |
Lane Cove Council | Council history | the council was divided into three wards: Chatsworth Ward to the north, Middle Harbour Ward to the east and Lane Cove Ward to the west. Lane Cove Ward subsequently became the separate "Borough of Lane Cove" on 11 February 1895. With the passing of the Local Government Act, 1906, the name was changed to be the "Municipality of Lane Cove" and with the passing of the Local Government Act, 1993, the council legally changed to "Lane Cove Council" and aldermen were retitled councillors.
A 2015 review of local government boundaries by the NSW Government Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal recommended that |
Konstantin Leontiev | Works and political thought | those of Friedrich Nietzsche and Oswald Spengler. Preceding the latter's theory of the cyclical nature of civilizations and The Decline of the West by several decades, Leontiev proposed that all societies undergo a state of flowering and increasing complexity followed by one of "secondary simplification", decay and, ultimately, death. Leontiev felt that the West had reached the beginning of secondary simplification.
A pessimist, Leontiev made several predictions that turned out to come true. He prophesied that in the 20th century, there would be a bloody revolution in Russia led by an "anti-Christ" that would be socialist and tyrannical in nature and |
Inflatable Rescue Boat | Overview | side pontoon and his right hand operates the outboard motor by means of a tiller arm and throttle. The Crewman sits on the upper half of the starboard side pontoon. A handle is attached by a rope to the nose of the boat for him to hold with his left hand, while his right hand may hold a strap attached to the starboard pontoon. He balances the boat and allows it to go over large waves before they break without flipping. He also assists when going through a breaking wave, commonly referred to as "punching-through". As of 2011 |
Land imprinter | Uses and limitations | and has been used to plant 20,000 hectares of land with grasses and other plant species in Arizona. Imprinting is most effective on loam soils that have some moisture but are not wet, which can cause soil to become compacted into the imprinter teeth. Imprinting has been conducted on slopes of up to 45% grade. For those applications cables can be used to tow the imprinter up the incline. The land imprinter is not well adapted for shallow soil or extremely rocky soil and is not well suited to mulching large stands of brush. Large shrubs must be chopped or |
Lee Rourke | Anthologies & Non-Fiction | Stories 2011, Edited by Nicholas Royle, Salt Publishing, UK (2011).
Best European Fiction, Edited by Aleksandar Hemon, Dalkey Archive Press, US (2011).
Writing at the Edge, Edited by Zsolt Alapi, Siren Song Press, Canada (2007).
3:AM London, New York, Paris, Edited by Andrew Stevens, Social Disease Books, London, (2008).
The Bookaholics’ Guide to Blogs, Compiled by Rebecca Gillieron & Catheryn Kilgarriff, Marion Boyars Publishers, London/New York, (2007).
Love Hotel City, Edited by Andrew Stevens, Future Fiction London, London, (2009).
The Beat Anthology, Edited by Sean McGahey, Blackheath Books, (2010). Non-Fiction A Brief History of Fables: From Aesop to Flash Fiction is published by Hesperus Press.
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Jordie Albiston | Genre | Jordie Albiston Genre Structuralist; Mathematics; Documentary |
La Bamba (song) | Traditional versions | La Bamba (song) Traditional versions "La Bamba" is a classic example of the son jarocho musical style, which originated in the Mexican state of Veracruz and combines Spanish, indigenous, and African musical elements. The song is typically played on one or two arpas jarochas (harps) along with guitar relatives the jarana jarocha and the requinto jarocho. Lyrics to the song vary greatly, as performers often improvise verses while performing. However, versions such as those by musical groups Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan and Los Pregoneros del Puerto have survived because of the artists' popularity. The traditional aspect of "La Bamba" lies |
Kamen Rider OOO | Super Hero Taisen & Movie War Ultimatum | Sentai Go-Busters also participated. Shu Watanabe and Riho Takada had reprised their roles as Eiji Hino and Hina Izumi, while Asaya Kimijima and Hiroaki Iwanaga reprised their roles voicing Kamen Rider Birth and Kamen Rider Birth Prototype respectively. Movie War Ultimatum Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum (仮面ライダー×仮面ライダー ウィザード&フォーゼ MOVIE大戦アルティメイタム Kamen Raidā × Kamen Raidā Wizādo Ando Fōze Mūbī Taisen Arutimeitamu) was released on December 8, 2012, as the annual winter "Movie War" film. Shu Watanabe made a cameo appearance, reprising his role as Eiji Hino as he only appears in the Movie War Ultimatum |
Italian War of 1521–1526 | France at bay | In October 1523, a French army of 18,000 under Bonnivet advanced through the Piedmont to Novara, where it was joined by a similarly sized force of Swiss mercenaries. Prospero Colonna, who had only 9,000 men to oppose the French advance, retreated to Milan. Bonnivet, however, overestimated the size of the Imperial army and moved into winter quarters rather than attacking the city; and the Imperial commanders were able to summon 15,000 landsknechts and a large force under Bourbon's command by 28 December, when Charles de Lannoy replaced the dying Colonna. Many of the Swiss now abandoned the French army, |
Jose Levy | null | wrote that “unlike many theatre managers, (Levy) was intensely interested in theatre. The fact that managing a theatre was his business never destroyed his love for the drama as an art.” |
John B. McClelland | Memorial | Tent Church Road, Uniontown, Pennsylvania). |
Lawndale, California | 2010 | or older. The median age was 31.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.6 males.
There were 10,151 housing units at an average density of 5,141.9 per square mile (1,985.3/km²), of which 3,326 (34.4%) were owner-occupied, and 6,355 (65.6%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.7%; the rental vacancy rate was 3.8%. 11,606 people (35.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 20,988 people (64.0%) lived in rental housing units.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Lawndale had a median |
Jack Murphy (Irish politician) | 1957 general election & The 16th Dáil | had fielded Roddy Connolly (son of James Connolly) as their candidate, though many Labour activists in the area campaigned for Murphy.
Murphy was considered an independent as he was not affiliated to any of the established political parties like Fianna Fáil, which won the majority of seats at the 1957 general election. The 16th Dáil While many of his unemployed supporters considered the fact that Murphy had been elected as victory in itself, neither they nor Murphy had anticipated the task he faced inside the Dáil. His maiden speech was greeted by sneers and sniggers from the professional politicians in the |
Kuromukuro | Plot | Kuromukuro Plot 450 years prior to the present, an extraterrestrial force called Efy Dolgh invades Earth; the people of Sengoku era Japan dub their mecha and robotic drones as oni. The Washiba Clan falls victim to them, but clan heir Yukihime and her samurai retainer Kennosuke Tokisada Ouma fight back with a stolen Efy Dolgh mecha, which they dub the "Black Relic" (黒骸 Kuromukuro). They succeed in vanquishing their foes, but when the Black Relic is caught in an enemy explosion, Yukihime disappears.
60 years ago, the Black Relic is unearthed during the construction of the Kurobe Dam. In the present |
Hambardzum Arakelian | Biography | Hambardzum Arakelian Hambardzum Arakelian (Armenian: Համբարձում Առաքելյան Shahriar (Armenian: Շահրիար), 1865, Shusha, Russian Empire - 1918, Tbilisi) was an Armenian journalist, writer and public activist, the founder of The Relief Committee for Armenian migrants (1915) and Armenian Popular party. Biography He studied in Shusha, then in Baku and Moscow, then moved to Tbilisi, where edited "Mshak" paper (succeed to Grigor Artsruni). He participated to Hague Peace Conference, marked the necessity of reforms in Armenians-inhabited territories of Ottoman Empire. An opposer of October Revolution, he was killed in 1918. |
Indian white-eye | Behaviour and ecology | and plant fibre. The nest is built in about 4 days and the two pale blue eggs are laid within a couple of days of each other. The eggs hatch in about 10 days. Both sexes take care of brooding the chicks which fledge in about 10 days. Though mainly insectivorous, the Indian white-eye will also eat nectar and fruits of various kinds.
They call frequently as they forage and the usual contact call is a soft nasal cheer. They pollinate flowers when they visit them for flower insects (such as thrips) and possibly nectar (questioned) that form their diet. The |
José Arnaiz | Barcelona & Leganés | in the second division.
Arnaiz made his first-team debut on 24 October 2017, starting the match and scoring the last goal in a 3–0 away win against Real Murcia for the Copa del Rey. The following 3 January, he netted the opener in a 1–1 away draw against RC Celta de Vigo also for the national cup; he went on score three times during that competition, only needing as many shots to achieve the feat.
Arnaiz's maiden La Liga appearance took place on 7 January 2018, when he replaced Sergi Roberto late in a 3–0 home defeat of Levante UD. Leganés On |
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