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Knebworth Festival 1979 | History | added.
The band's fee for performing was reportedly the largest ever paid to one single act at that time.
In the lead-up to the concerts, Led Zeppelin undertook extensive rehearsals at Bray Film studios in London, and attended the venue at Knebworth in order to inspect the site, complete a publicity photograph shoot and perform a soundcheck. In addition, they performed two low-key warm-up shows in late July at the Falkoner Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Also performing at the Knebworth concerts in 1979 were The New Barbarians, featuring Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards (The New Barbarians played only at the second concert on August |
Kamen Rider OOO | The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals & Movie War Mega Max | The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals (劇場版 仮面ライダーオーズ WONDERFUL 将軍と21のコアメダル Gekijōban Kamen Raidā Ōzu Wandāfuru Shōgun to Nijū-ichi no Koa Medaru) is the main theatrical release for Kamen Rider OOO, released on August 6, 2011, alongside the film for Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. It also features the first on-screen appearance of the 13th Heisei Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Fourze. The event of the movie took place between episode 36 and 37. Movie War Mega Max A crossover film between Kamen Rider OOO and Kamen Rider Fourze in the same vein as the Movie War 2010 and Movie War Core films, |
Land imprinter | Imprinting | reverses the desertification process by pressing V-shape imprints into the soil with steel angles on a heavy roller (Figures 3 and 4). Rainwater then funnels into the troughs of the imprints, where the water infiltrates into the indentation and air exhausts from the crests (Figure 5). Seedlings are protected from wind, and organic material is concentrated at the base of the troughs to provide nutrients to the seedling. Wind protection attenuates evaporation at the base of the seedling, maximizing water availability to the plant during the rainy season. The seedbed may remain dry for some time before water infiltrates and |
Law of the Czech Republic | History | Czech lands, the process of formation of modern legislation dates back to the era of enlightened absolutism, when they were a core part of the Austrian Empire. Reforms of government were to a large extent the work of empress Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II, who participated in creating the first civil code of the country in 1787, called Josephinisches Gesetzbuch. This was a forbearer to the comprehensive codification of civil law in 1811, known as the Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (ABGB). ABGB was received in 1918 by Czechoslovakia, among other successor states, but only for Czech lands (Bohemia, Moravia |
Justus von Liebig | Plant nutrition | experimental techniques. Using more precise methods of measurement as a basis for estimation, he pointed out contradictions such as the inability of existing soil humus to provide enough carbon to support the plants growing in it. By the late 1830s, researchers such as Karl Sprengel were using Liebig's methods of combustion analysis to assess manures, concluding that their value could be attributed to their constituent minerals. Liebig synthesized ideas about the mineral theory of plant nutrition and added his own conviction that inorganic materials could provide nutrients as effectively as organic sources.
In his theory of mineral nutrients, Liebig identified the |
Joseph Curran | Greater New York Industrial Union & Other roles | 1940. Curran denied that he was a communist before both the CIO executive board and the Joint Commerce Committee of the U.S. Congress. Curran became increasingly anti-communist thereafter. In 1946, he pulled the NMU out of a Committee for Maritime Unity which was led by Harry Bridges. After World War II, he purged thousands of members and elected leaders he suspected of harboring communist sympathies. Other roles Curran served on a number of other committees, boards and positions with other organizations.
For many years, he was chair of the AFL-CIO's Maritime Committee. He was also co-chair of the Labor-Management Maritime Committee, |
Kyoto | Geography & Demographics | table that provides the city with ample freshwater wells. Due to large-scale urbanization, the amount of rain draining into the table is dwindling and wells across the area are drying at an increasing rate. Demographics Historically, Kyoto was the largest city in Japan, later surpassed by Osaka and Edo (Tokyo) towards the end of the 16th century. In the pre-war years, Kyoto traded places with Kobe and Nagoya ranking as the 4th and 5th largest city. In 1947, it went back to being 3rd. By 1960 it had fallen to 5th again, and by 1990 it had fallen to 7th, |
Kodokushi | Responses | campaigns and movements to prevent lonely deaths. Officials in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward have started a kodokushi awareness campaign that includes scheduled social events and checking in on the well-being of elderly citizens. |
Lambrate | The Chapel | of Lambrate is the old chapel located in the centre of the district, at the corner of via Bertolazzi and via Dardanoni, which existed since Roman times (possibly having a pagan rather than Christian origin). The history of the chapel is entertwined with the lives of Saints Charles Borromeo and Federico Borromeo. According to Alessandro Manzoni's scholars, an implicit reference to the chapel is found in The Betrothed when the main character Renzo Tramaglino travels from Milan to Trezzo d'Adda.
During World War II, on 13 August 1943, the chapel was hit by a bomb that knocked down part of the |
Josip Iličić | International career & Personal life | against Australia on 11 August 2010.
He scored his first international goal on 10 September 2013 against Cyprus. Personal life Josip Iličić was born in Prijedor, present day Bosnia and Herzegovina and moved to Slovenia after the death of his father when he was only one year old, together with his mother Ana and brother Igor. As a top prospect without national team experience he was once asked in an interview if he would be interested in playing for Croatia national football team, due to his Croatian ancestry, but Iličić replied that he would have never accepted the offer because he |
Lawndale, California | History | expansion of defense industry nearby, many young people who wished to live in the Beach Cities found that they simply could not afford to do so, and settled in less glamorous inland cities such as Lawndale. But with the contraction of this industry after the cold war, Lawndale reverted to its previous pattern. Lawndale has attempted to attract more owner–residents, as well as tourists with the 2003 completion of the "Beautify Lawndale" urban renewal project along the city's stretch of Hawthorne Boulevard (State Route 107), a major South Bay thoroughfare.
A large electronic billboard was installed and began running advertising |
Knox County, Tennessee | Geography & Cherokee Caverns | created by Fort Loudoun Dam several miles downstream in Lenoir City. Cherokee Caverns Cherokee Caverns is located 14 miles west of Knoxville on Highway 62. It was discovered in 1854 by Robert Crudgington who noticed fog emerging between rocks on his farm. He dug the entrance open and explored the cave. His daughter Margaret Crudgington opened the cave to the public in 1929 under the name Gentrys Cave, then changed the name to Grand Caverns in 1930. The cave has been open to the public, sporadically, ever since, under a variety of names. The name |
Leicester City Centre | Facilities | The former ABC Cinema on Belgrave Gate has now been demolished and is currently being used as a car park, the site will be turned into a new shopping area with shops, casino, theatre and a new link road which will provide access to the new Highcross Leicester and St. Margaret's bus station.
Since the closure of St Margaret's baths, there is no municipal swimming pool in the city centre. Its replacement, the Braunstone Leisure Centre, is some miles away in Braunstone.
The area in the inside of the ring-road is nearly entirely built up, with only Nelson Mandela Park (at the |
LGBT rights in Yemen | Penal Code & al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | prison. The law stipulates that married men convicted of homosexuality are to be put to death.
Article 268 of the national penal code prohibits private consensual homosexual acts between adult women. The law stipulates that premeditated acts of lesbianism are punished with up to three years in prison.
In addition to the penal code, punishment for homosexuality can originate from people seeking to enforce traditional Islamic morality within their own family or for the broader society. In vigilante cases such as this, the punishment for homosexuality is oftentimes death. al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula In 2013 there were credible reports of members |
Klaus Mehnert | null | died in Flanders in 1917 as a German soldier. Mehnert attended the University of Tübingen, the University of Munich, the University of California, Berkeley, and finally the University of Berlin, where he received his PhD under Professor Otto Hoetzsch in 1928. Hoetzsch and Mehnert later took part in the short-lived society to study the Soviet command economy, ARPLAN.
Over the next ten years, he traveled frequently, to America, the Soviet Union, Japan, and China. He married Enid Keyes († 1955) in California in 1933. From 1934 to 1936 he served as a Soviet correspondent for a German newspaper.
Subsequently, Mehnert |
Labo Airport | Rehabilitation and expansion | airport in the Philippines. Ozamiz Airport is included in the project. Soon, Ozamiz Airport will capable for night landing flights.
On November 29, 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte led the groundbreaking ceremony of the new passenger terminal as part of the modernization project of the airport. The entire cost of the project is about P922 million. It is also part of the Build Build Build program of the administration. |
Kovilje Monastery | Restoration | all this, the monastery was highly ranked as an important place in both spiritual, as well as in national and political life of the people of this region. One of the oldest schools in Serbia was open here in 1867. There was also a school for future priests. Since 1813, the monastery performed an active function of a regular parochial school.
The monastery was restored in 2005, and the monastery refectory was built during 2007–2009. |
Khalid Albudoor | Education and early work | Khalid Albudoor Education and early work He studied mass communication at United Arab Emirates University and then attended Ohio University in the United States where he obtained an MA in script writing. He began publishing his poetry in 1980 and has been quite active in his community, helping to establish the Emirati Writers’ Union and participating in several poetry festivals in the UAE and abroad. His first collection of poetry “NIGHT” , published in Lebanon in 1992, won Al-Khal Poetry Award. To date, he has published six poetry collections.
Since 1988, Albudoor has been working as researcher and documentary film |
Legal history of China | Legal system under the 1975 Constitution | to have the power to arrest without having to go through other judicial organs.
The National People's Congress theoretically was still empowered to enact laws, select and reject state officials, and direct the judiciary. The party, however, was the ultimate arbiter, and the Supreme People's Court was no longer designated the highest judicial body in the land but was only mentioned in passing as one of the courts exercising judicial authority.
Equality before the law, a provision of the 1954 state constitution, was eliminated. Moreover, people no longer had the right to engage in scientific research or literary or artistic creation nor |
La Bamba (song) | Other notable versions | their music. "Weird Al" Yankovic included a parody of the song, titled "Lasagna", on his album, Even Worse. The song focuses on stereotypical Italian culture and cuisines. The song also heavily featured an accordion.
Wyclef Jean and Dora the Explorer in the 2010 Mega Music feast on Nickelodeon. |
Legal history of China | 1978-1981 | conferences were held throughout China to make recommendations to the National People's Congress concerning an independent judiciary. According to the recommendations, Chinese courts in the future would base their judgments on the law, while continuing to "work under unified leadership of the local party committees." In short, party policy no longer would be the equivalent of the law, but judicial independence in China could still be modified by party guidance.
Peng Zhen, director of the Legal Affairs Commission and active in the reform efforts of the early 1960s, announced the new laws in June 1979 and had them published shortly thereafter. |
Lankaran Lowland | Climate | a place of tea, rice and citrus plantations. The maximum annual precipitation in Lankaran Lowland is between 1,600 mm to 1,800 mm, which along the Talysh Mountains is the highest precipitation in Azerbaijan. |
Kamacite | Meteor crater Arizona & Planets | first confirmed meteor impact site on the planet, and was not universally recognized as such till the 1950s. In the 1960s United States Geological Survey discovered kamacite in specimens gathered from around the site tying the mineral to meteorites. Planets Kamacite primarily forms on meteorites but has been found on extraterrestrial bodies such as Mars. This was discovered by The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity. The kamacite did not originate on Mars but was put there by a meteorite. This was particularly of interest because the meteorite fell under the lesser known class of mesosiderites. Mesosiderites are very rare on |
John Tait Robertson | Club & International | third-place finish in the Second Division, one place off promotion. Robertson then surprisingly resigned from the club (third in the table at the time) on 27 November 1906. Chelsea were promoted to the top flight at the end of that season under caretaker secretary-manager William Lewis. Soon afterwards Robertson became player-manager of Glossop, where he remained until summer 1909, when he became reserve-team manager at Manchester United. International Robertson made his debut for Scotland on 2 April 1898 while at Everton, in a 3–1 home defeat to England in the Home Nations Championship. His second cap came on 8 April |
Law Uk Folk Museum | Architecture | to be symmetrical and features a lightwell at the front of the hall. This was key as the house did not have many windows, for fear of robbers and pirates.
As part of the restoration in the 1980s, a new annex to the house was built that matched the overall architectural style of Law Uk. |
James Syvitski | Biography | University of Newfoundland and the Institut national de la recherche scientifique of Quebec. In 1995, Professor Syvitski retired from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography and moved to Boulder, Colorado, USA where he was appointed Director (1995-2007) of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research of the University of Colorado, where he also performed duties as a Professor in the Departments of Geological Sciences, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and the graduate program in Geophysics. In 2007, he became Executive Director of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System.
Professor Syvitski has written over 300 peer-reviewed books and articles some |
Lathrop High School (Alaska) | Activities | and has placed 4th in Division 2 at the national competition.
The school has a symphonic band and a jazz band as well as two orchestras and several different types of choirs. On December 7, 2011, Lathrop's symphonic band performed for the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The music groups have also combined to raise ten thousand dollars for the school with the help of a generous program. |
Kallikratis | Geography & History & Wars against the Ottoman Turks | crossed on a 4 km path. Before 1900, Kallikratis was a large village with more than 130 families. Today, only a few tens of inhabitants still live in the village and many of the houses are deserted. Kallikratis is uninhabited during the colder months of the year, since in that time the local shepherds move with their herds in transhumance to the warmer climate of the villages near the shore. History Kallikratis never lived under permanent foreign rule and its residents have a long tradition of participation in national fights for freedom. Wars against the Ottoman Turks In 1770, Kallikratis was |
Lake Ridge Academy | School Leadership & Campus Facilities | at Lake Ridge is Peter Srsen and Michelle Robertson is the Senior Director of Development. In addition, Susan Haas is the Director of Marketing & Communications and Leannie McAlllister is the Assistant Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving. Campus Facilities The buildings on the Lake Ridge campus include Lower, Middle, and Upper School buildings, the Bettcher Convocation Center, which houses classrooms, a stage, and an auditorium, the Community Resource Center, a building holding four foreign language classrooms, three computer labs, a video lab, a Kiva gathering place, and a K–12 library. The campus also includes Rob Hall, a hardwood |
Lasiommata maera | Distribution and habitat & Description | Lasiommata maera Distribution and habitat The species is common in continental Europe. It is also present in the Urals, south western Siberia, Asia Minor, Syria, Iran, Central Asia and the Himalayas. It is absent from the United Kingdom. Its preferred habitats are edges of the forest, unmanaged clearings on forested areas, rocky dry areas and stony slopes, at an elevation of 0–2,000 metres (0–6,562 ft) above sea level. Description Lasiommata maera has a wingspan of 44–56 millimetres (1.7–2.2 in). These large butterflies are quite variable in color and pattern. Usually the upperside is orange in the forewings and mostly brown in the |
Kings Head, West Tilbury | Architecture and History | Kings Head, West Tilbury Architecture and History Grade 2 Listed Building (Listed 10 November 1981).
Late C18 house, altered C19. Plastered brick, with red plain tile roof.
Two storeys. Four window range double hung vertical sliding sashes with
glazing bars. Two C19 ground floor bays, western one now main entrance |
Kingsley Kuku | International engagements / Recognition | of the international community that is consistently suing for peace and security around the world and promoting increase in international trade amongst the developed and the developing countries, had given impetus for notable Western nations such as the United Kingdom to provide some form of interventions in addressing the challenges of insecurity and violence in the Niger Delta region to protect Nigeria's economic lifeline and prevent escalation of crises across the country and within the West African sub-region. Amongst the strategies, offered Nigeria as support, in stemming the disturbance and uprising from the Niger Delta agitators was the establishment of |
Lawndale, California | 2010 & 2000 | household income of $47,769, with 16.7% of the population living below the federal poverty line. 2000 As of the census of 2000, there were 31,711 people, 9,555 households, and 7,022 families residing in the city. The population density was 16,036.7 inhabitants per square mile (6,183.7/km²). There were 9,869 housing units at an average density of 4,990.9 per square mile (1,924.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 42.24% White, 12.61% African American, 0.99% Native American, 9.63% Asian, 0.91% Pacific Islander, 27.07% from other races, and 6.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race |
Lawrence Cohn | null | President's Award, for his work on Robert Johnson. He was also selected as one of the "100 Most Important People In The Music Business." [BAM, 1991[
During his tenure at both CBS & Playboy, he was responsible in various ways for the Discovery/Signing/Producing/Career Decisions of many artists including but not limited to: Billy Joel [as "Attila"], Willie Nelson, REO Speedwagon, Cheap Trick [as "Fuse"], Edgar Winter, White Trash, Johnny Winter, Fleetwood Mac [Peter Green version], Shuggie Otis, Johnny Otis, Sugarcane Harris, The Johnny Otis Show, Ivory Joe Hunter, ABBA [as "Bjorn & Benny"], Jo Ann Kelly, Brenda Patterson, Sam |
La Anonima | History | Braun Menendez conglomerate worked in different areas, monopolizing much of the wool trade, meat packing industry and banking sector of the Patagonia. Both families were part of the Argentine Rural Society and together owned the Exploitation Company of Tierra del Fuego, having 430,000 hectares with 1,250,000 sheep that produced 5 million kilos of wool, as well as leather and meat.
The company spearheaded economic development in the region, becoming involved in industries as diverse as electricity generation and transmission, telephony, and transportation of people and goods.
This process was not without conflict, though. Like other large trading companies in the Americas at |
Kindlestown Castle | History & Building | In 1377 the Uí Broin took Kindlestown itself. It was recovered by Robert Wikeford, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and it later passed into the possession of the Archbold family.
Around 1402 there was another attempt by the O'Byrnes to take over, but Donnacha O'Byrne was defeated by the Archbolds. Kindlestown Castle flourished during this time and we know from the Inquisitions of James I that in 1621 it was surrounded by 400 acres (160 ha) of land and had a water mill.
The Archbolds fell into debt and Edward Archbold sold Kindlestown to William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath in 1630. Building |
Lansing Wolves | History | the CSHL.
The team ownership was initially the Revolution Advertising LLC. until acquired by Dr. Joseph Burkhardt in 2014. On April 1, 2014, the team re-branded itself as the West Michigan Wolves.
In 2017, the franchise relocated the Lasing suburb of Dimondale, Michigan, and were renamed Lansing Wolves.
In 2018, the Wolves left the NA3HL for United States Premier Hockey League's Premier Division, a non-sanctioned league. |
Kyoto Animation | History | vocal opening and ending sequences for four installments of Konami's long-running baseball game series Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū (Power Pro).
Since 2009, Kyoto Animation has hosted the annual Kyoto Animation Award to find new stories, later publishing them in their KA Esuma Bunko imprint. Winning submissions have a chance of being adapted into an anime. Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, Free!, Beyond the Boundary and Myriad Colors Phantom World were based on novels that received an honorable mention in this competition. In 2014, the novel Violet Evergarden became the first work and so far the only one to win a grand |
Justus von Liebig | Marmite & Later life | He promoted the use of baking powder to make lighter bread, studied the chemistry of coffee-making, and developed a breast-milk substitute for babies who could not suckle. He is considered to have made possible the invention of Marmite, because of his discovery that yeast could be concentrated. Later life In 1852, Liebig accepted an appointment from King Maximilian II of Bavaria to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He also became scientific advisor to King Maxilimian II, who hoped to transform the University of Munich into a center for scientific research and development. In part, Liebig accepted the post because, |
Lake Local School District (Stark County) | Funding Issues | coming from a tobacco company lawsuit from 2007. The settlement in 2007 resulted in $4.1 billion for the commission. A spokesman for Ohio Facilities Construction Commission confirmed that these funds were exhausted in fiscal year 2011, four years prior to the passage of bond issue 14. The spokeswoman for Lake Local schools Karen Koch claimed after that the school wouldn't have promoted the tobacco lawsuit money if they had known it wasn't available. The funding for the project would come from state dollars, now backed by bonds sold by the Ohio general revenue fund and money allocated by legislators.
“We had |
Independence Day Reception (Finland) | Growing tradition | lasted for an hour. Guests were offered coffee and refreshments in the Gothic hall in the Presidential Palace.
The first evening reception was hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Ståhlberg in 1922, when the ceremony also included traditional presidential greeting of guests, and dance. Serving of alcohol at the event started after the abolition of the Finnish prohibition law in 1934. During the reign of president Kyösti Kallio in 1937 and 1938 there was no dancing or serving of alcohol due to prevailing religious beliefs. In the era of president J. K. Paasikivi serving of punch was started. Short films were made |
La Paz traffic zebras | The Program | To develop the Vial Plan, a group young and creative people had the idea to show the zebra crossing, with a character that would represent a Zebra: a two pieces costume that emulates the animal. In a playful way they could make people notice that there is a space for them to exercise their rights as citizens and to walk safely through the streets. That’s how they realized that there was a great amount of citizens of La Paz that didn’t know there was a zebra crossing or what was it for. For this initiative they invited young people that |
Knebworth | History & Twinning & Sport and leisure & Nature reserve | Williams, who for three nights in August 2003 performed to the largest crowds ever assembled for a single performer. Twinning On 16 June 1990 the village was twinned with the commune of Châtelaillon-Plage in France. Sport and leisure Knebworth has a Non-League football club Knebworth F.C. who play at Knebworth Recreation Ground. Knebworth Tennis Club and Knebworth Bowls Club are also based at the Recreation Ground.
Knebworth Park Cricket Club play at their ground in Knebworth Park. Green Dragon Bowmen, an archery club, are also based in the Park. Nature reserve Knebworth Woods is a Site of Special Scientific |
Jupiter One | Band history | Jupiter One Band history Kaoru Ishibashi and Zac Colwell are the founding members of the group. Other members are K's wife Mocha, a Japanese-born keyboardist and violinist, drummer Dave Heilman, and bassist Pat "Panda" Dougherty. K also performs in of Montreal, Regina Spektor's touring band, and a solo project, Kishi Bashi.
Ishibashi and Colwell first met while travelling musicians in the orchestra of Barnum's Kaleidoscape. After the circus tour ended they spent time in Zac's hometown of Austin before moving to New York in 2003, where Jupiter One would officially form. In New York, Ishibashi re-connected with then-girlfriend Mocha, a Japanese-born |
Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre | null | the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in 1888, the land was occupied by Kelvinbank House, a mansion dating from the 1780s, with the property sited almost exactly on the location of the bowling centre pavilion. |
Julia Franck | Life & Literary works | Julia Franck Life Julia Franck, a twin, is the daughter of the actress Anna Franck and of the television producer Jürgen Sehmisch.
In 1978 the family moved to West Berlin where they spent nine months in a refugee camp. and later to Schleswig-Holstein. Franck studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala. She worked as an editor for Sender Freies Berlin and contributed to various newspapers and magazines. She lives with her children in Berlin. Literary works Franck is the author of five novels, one |
Kugisho B3Y | Development and design | Kugisho B3Y Development and design In 1932, the Imperial Japanese Navy had a requirement, 7-Shi, for a new torpedo bomber to replace the Mitsubishi B2M. The air arsenal at Yokosuka prepared its own design to meet this requirement, competing against designs by Mitsubishi and Nakajima.
The resulting aircraft was a three-seat single-engine biplane, with a fuselage of steel tube construction and two-bay wooden wings that could fold rearwards for storage aboard aircraft carriers. It was powered by a single Hiro Type 91 W engine rated at 450 kW (600 hp).
Testing proved that the aircraft had poor stability and control, and that the engine |
Laʻaloa Bay | null | letter and demand they implement all of the Protective measures, or potentially they could face millions of dollars in fines. In December 2014 the County of Hawaii is currently starting to implement the Preservation Plan. Unfortunately many of the historic sites have now been severely damaged.
Based on the ongoing and tireless efforts of members of the La'aloa Ohana, on May 10, 2017 the County of Hawaii announced it would be closing the parking lot at La'aloa Beach Park on May 17, 2017, indefinitely, due to the ongoing desecration caused by the parking lot. Please visit the La'aloa Beach Park |
Kyoto | International relations | capital city of Japan, a seat of learning and culture, has long-established ties with other great cities around the world. Many foreign scholars, artists and writers have stayed in Kyoto over the centuries. |
Legion of Christ | Ethos & Formation | minute or one soul. Formation As a whole, the Legion is dedicated to advancing the Church's mission in the world, and to this end submits candidates to a rigorous formation of four dimensions: human, spiritual, intellectual and apostolic. This formation caused critics to accuse the Legion of producing priests and religious who all spoke and behaved in the same way. The Legion's defenders argued that, just as members of a family receive similar upbringing, so the members of the Legion were formed in like ways, but still respected the freedom of the individual. The new constitutions approved by Pope |
Joseph Tyan | Life | asking Emir Bashir II to ally himself with Napoleon. Despite Tyan's hopes, Emir Bashir remained neutral and the British-Ottoman alliance defeated Napoleon at Akko.
The difficulties of the Patriarchate of Joseph Tyan increased; he came in conflict with Emir Bashir II not only for his support of Napoleon, but also for the excessive taxes the Emir imposed on the Maronite peasants. He also had to face the discontent of some of his bishops, led by the Khazen Sheikhes, who in 1800 wrote to Rome complaining that Tyan illegally took church properties and instigated discord. Actually the real reason for the Khazen |
Leicester City Centre | Modern developments | road (the Harborough Turnpike, now the A6), as the main route to London, because the Welford Road terminated in the tiny streets of the old town, and was therefore a hindrance for vehicles, while the London Road went past the East Gates of the city.
Meanwhile, the civic centre moved southwards, with the Corporation of Leicester moving to a new town hall building in 1876 in the Market Street area, facing onto a new Town Hall Square, and just outside the walled town. Between these areas is the modern market, based to the south-west of the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower area, |
James P. Hoffa | Labor Day speech & Organizing successes | I mean, I guess ex-cons are the only ones left who can still talk like men every now and then." Goldberg went on to state that the issue was not the language, but the "absolutely bizarre standard" for language established after Tucson.
Some commentators and journalists have charged that the context of the quote was changed by editing out the "Everybody here's got to vote" passage by the news organization; Fox News Channel and other media outlets, thus fueling the controversy by making the speech sound like a call for violence instead of a call to vote. Organizing successes In recent |
Leningrad Front | History | with the task of containing the German Army Group Courland, which would continue to resist Soviet forces up until the end of war in Europe.
On June 24, 1945, the Leningrad front was reorganized into the Leningrad Military District. |
Legal history of China | Development after 1949 | the system of the Soviet Union. In general, the specialists wanted codified law, enforced by a strict Soviet-style legal bureaucracy. Without such procedures, they felt, there would be too much arbitrariness, and eventually the legal system would become ineffective. Many of these specialists passed from the scene when the Soviet model was abandoned in the late 1950s, but some became party members and gained influential positions.
In the first thirty years of the People's Republic, the new legal cadres—chosen more for their ideological convictions than legal expertise—conducted the day-to-day legal work. These cadres favored the Maoist system of social and political |
Jefry Rodríguez | Washington Nationals & Cleveland Indians | during the game. The Nationals optioned Rodríguez back to Harrisburg on June 4 before he could make another major-league appearance.
Rodríguez had made 13 starts and pitched 68 innings for Harrisburg during the season, posting a 3.31 ERA for the Senators with 72 strikeouts and 28 walks, when on June 19 the Nationals recalled him to make his second career MLB appearance, first MLB start, and first appearance at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., in that evening's Beltway Series game against the Baltimore Orioles. Cleveland Indians On November 30, 2018, Rodríguez was traded to the Cleveland Indians, along with minor leaguer |
Lal Jas Raj | Legend | into disrepair. There used to be a grand annual 'mela' here. Hindus would visit here for the Jhund or Mundan ceremony to shave off the heads of their sons. After the partition of India in 1947 the mela has stopped due to the exodus of the Hindu population from the area. Legend According to legend Lal Jas Raj was the young son of Raja Dipa Chand, the founder of Dipalpur. The boy sank in the earth due to the curse of his stepmother Rani Dholran. Raja Dipa Chand constructed this monastery in the memory of his son. |
Koert Vermeulen | Start of career & Entertainment lighting design | Koert Vermeulen Start of career Inspired by the modernity and creativity of his native city, Koert started his career in 1989, when he founded his first professional lighting & sound supply company. He started to conceive the lighting for nightclubs, concerts and fashion shows of Antwerp, he also discovered the world of corporate events. Entertainment lighting design After founding ACT Lighting Design in 1995, Koert started to expand his work to stage plays, urban operas, “sound & light” shows, fashion shows, such as “Décrocher la Lune”, in cooperation with artistic director Luc Petit. In 1999, Koert met Franco Dragone, |
Kateryna Serdyuk (skier) | Career | Kateryna Serdyuk (skier) Career Serdyuk competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Ukraine. She placed 45th in the qualifying round in the sprint, failing to advance to the knockout stages. She was scheduled to compete in the team sprint with Marina Lisogor, but did not start due to injury. The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine claimed Serdyuk was injured.
Serdyuk made her World Cup debut in November 2008. As of April 2014, her best finish is 11th, in a relay event at La Clusaz in 2008–09. Her best individual finish is 56th, in a freestyle mass start event at La Clusaz |
Labaya | Career | know that since the return (to Egypt) of the [Egyptian]-archers, Lab'ayu has waged war against me. We are thus unable to do the plucking: Ka-Zi-ra (harvesting), and we are unable to get out of the city gate, because of Lab'ayu. When he learned that archers were not coming out, he immediately determined to take Magidda. May the king save his city lest Lab'ayu seize it. Look, the city is consumed by pestilence, by.... ...So may the king give a garrison of 100 men to guard his city lest Lab'ayu seize it. Look, Lab'ayu has no other purpose. He seeks simply |
Lawndale, California | 2010 | (7.5%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 64 (0.7%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 1,758 households (18.2%) were made up of individuals and 442 (4.6%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.37. There were 7,161 families (74.0% of all households); the average family size was 3.84.
The population was spread out with 8,927 people (27.2%) under the age of 18, 3,744 people (11.4%) aged 18 to 24, 10,541 people (32.2%) aged 25 to 44, 7,301 people (22.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,256 people (6.9%) who were 65 years of age |
Lathrop High School (Alaska) | History | Lathrop High School (Alaska) History Lathrop High School's roots are directly traced to Fairbanks High School, reflecting what for many years was the only public school in Fairbanks.
Fairbanks formed an independent school district, a territorial-era device allowing for areas both inside and outside of incorporated cities to operate a combined school district for a community or region. As a result, Fairbanks experienced a period of rapid school construction during the 1950s.
Construction activities began on the first stand-alone high school for Fairbanks in early 1954, on land which had been deeded by homesteader Paul Rickert to the City of Fairbanks |
Kerch Strait | Kerch–Yenikale Canal & Fishing | compulsory pilot assistance. Fishing Several fish-processing plants are located on the Crimean coast of the strait. The fishing season begins in late autumn and lasts for 2 to 3 months, when many seiners put out into the strait to fish. The Taman Bay is a major fishing ground, with many fishing villages scattered along the coast. |
Legion of Christ | Marcial Maciel | of Christ accused the founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, who died in 2008, of “reprehensible and objectively immoral behavior” as head of the order from its founding in 1941 until Pope Benedict XVI removed him from active ministry in 2006. The scandal also resulted in Pope Benedict XVI removing the vows of charity and humility which required members to maintain secrecy, impermeability, and refrain from criticism of superiors. Despite these actions, Pope Benedict XVI never defrocked Maciel.
The Legion underwent a visitation by the Vatican and a process of renewal through a series of discussions revolving around the charism |
Governorship of Mitt Romney | Same-sex marriage | adults. Adults are who they saw. Adults stood before them in the courtroom. And so they thought of adult rights, equal rights for adults ... Marriage is also for children. In fact, marriage is principally for the nurturing and development of children. The children of America have the right to have a father and a mother.
In 2004, the Massachusetts General Court addressed the issue of gay marriage before the implementation of the Goodridge decision. During a constitutional convention, the predominantly Democratic legislature approved an amendment that would have banned gay marriage and established civil unions. An initial amendment offered by |
Labastide-Paumès | Sights | Labastide-Paumès Sights The Château de Labastide-Paumès dates back in parts to the 9th century. The main building is circa 1164 castle which includes a large tower with a spiral staircase, built approximately one hundred years later. Privately owned, it has been listed since 1927 as a historic site by the French Ministry of Culture. |
Leicester City Centre | LE1 Postal district & Nearby places | LE1 (as above). Nearby places To the west, the city centre borders the river, on the other side of this is the West End of Leicester. To the south-east it borders Highfields, to the east, St Matthew's, and to the north-east, Belgrave. |
Legal history of China | Legal system under the 1975 Constitution | local government body established during the Cultural Revolution decade), or by a mob. Spur-of-the- moment circulars and party regulations continued to take the place of a code of criminal law or judicial procedure. For example, during demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in early 1976, three demonstrators were seized by police and accused of being counterrevolutionaries in support of Deng Xiaoping. The three were "tried" by the "masses" during a two-hour "struggle meeting," a session where thousands of onlookers shouted their accusations. After this "trial," during which the accused were forbidden to offer a defense (even if they had wished to), |
Kodokushi | Causes & Responses | from the corporate culture.
Masaki Ichinose, head of the University of Tokyo's Institute of Death and Life Studies, hypothesizes that the increase in kodokushi is linked to Japan's contemporary culture which ignores death. Several hundred years ago, Japanese people commonly confronted death; for example, bodies were typically buried by family members. In contrast, in modern Japan, there are fewer opportunities to witness death and death is not readily discussed.
Hypothesized psychological reasons for the increase in kodokushi include social apathy and life stress. Social isolation is used as a coping mechanism to avoid stressful situations. Responses Some districts in Japan have begun |
Len Ford | 1953 season & 1954 season | Bowl. 1954 season Willis and Motley retired after the 1953 season, but Ford and Don Colo continued to anchor the defense alongside Lahr in the secondary. The 1954 Browns lost two of their first three games, but finished the season with a 9–3 record and returned to win the 1954 NFL Championship Game over the Lions. Ford had two interceptions in the Browns' 56–10 win over the Lions, including one which he returned 45 yards to set a new NFL playoff record. Ford recovered a career-high five fumbles in 1954, and he was selected as a first-team All-Pro by the |
Lawndale, California | History | in 2004 until it was realized that the sign violated a city ordinance prohibiting advertising of out-of-town businesses on signs of that nature. For its first 18 months the sign was sponsored by Fox and promoted upcoming television shows and movies under the Fox label. It also later gained and lost a sponsorship with Acura before its current sponsorship for Los Angeles radio station 100.3 – The Sound. The billboard is said to generate Lawndale $200,000 annually. In 2012 the Lawndale community center opened up its doors.
Roy Rogers lived there for a time and Fred Dryer was raised there. |
Laurence Muir | Philanthropy | the Australian National University and served for eleven years (the duration) on the Board of the Parliament House Construction Authority.
In 1981 Muir established for the Federal Government, the Canberra Development Board and as its chairman for eight years he was responsible for stimulating the private sector growth of the ACT economy. During this time he assisted the Government in attracting and staging the IAAF World Cup in Athletics in Canberra. As Chairman of the Parliament House Construction Authority Artworks Advisory Committee he worked with arts and crafts professionals from all over Australia to assemble the notable collection of |
La Paz traffic zebras | Milestones | the present that we must all protect," was the message that began to spread through the Zebras Urban Educators Program, educating with values in the squares of the macrodistricts on Saturdays.
In 2012 began the implementation of the "Zebra Week" which consisted of visiting educational units on Mondays, hospitals on Tuesdays, markets of the city on Wednesday, Thursdays youth spaces and Fridays nursing homes.
2013 - Formation of the Zebras Urban Educators Unit, support to the Municipal School Program of Citizen Culture and start of the communication campaign "Zeta"
In 2013, the project grew into the Zebras Urban Educators Unit of the Citizen |
Keidane McAlpine | Coaching career | Keidane McAlpine Coaching career In July 2006, he was hired as an assistant coach at Auburn. He was hired to be the head coach at Washington State in January 2012. He was then hired to be the head coach at USC in December 2013. In July 2016, McAlpine signed a contract extension at USC. McAlpine led the Trojans to a national championship in 2016. |
Kamacite | Meteorites | they come in three types LL, L, and H; LL stands for Low iron, Low metal, L stands for Low iron abundance, and H is High iron content. All ordinary chondrites contain kamacite in decreasing abundance as you move from H to LL chondrites.
Kamacite is also found in many of the less common meteorites mesosiderites and E chondrites. E chondrites are chondrites which are made primarily of enstatite and only account for 2% of meteorites that fall onto the Earth. E chondrites have an entirely different source rock than that of the ordinary chondrites. In analysis of kamacite in E |
Land imprinter | Uses and limitations | on burned seedbeds in Oregon. |
Lawndale, California | Media & Municipal government & State and federal representation | programs and events happening in the City of Lawndale. The Lawndalian is now available Online at the city's website.
The Lawndale Tribune is the community paper for the City of Lawndale. Municipal government Harold Hofmann served as mayor for 23 years, due to there not being city term limits and running unopposed in most elections. State and federal representation In the California State Legislature, Lawndale is in the 35th Senate District, represented by Democrat Steven Bradford, and in the 62nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Autumn Burke.
In the United States House of Representatives, Lawndale is in California's 43rd congressional |
Len Ford | 1950 season & 1951 season | the league. 1951 season Ford continued to excel as a pass-rusher in 1951, when the Browns again advanced to the NFL Championship Game but lost to the Rams. He recovered four fumbles during the season and was named a first-team All-Pro by both the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press International (UPI). He was also named to the Pro Bowl, the NFL's all-star game. Ford's dominating play allowed Brown to assign him to two offensive linemen, giving Cleveland the latitude to put four men on the line and use three linebackers in what is now known as the 4–3 |
Koert Vermeulen | Entertainment lighting design | and illuminates several projects for him, such as the prestigious Le Rêve, a show launched in April 2005 at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.
Koert also illuminates the corporate shows of Hermès, Coca-Cola, the National Bank of Belgium, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Ernst&Young, Siemens, Samsonite, Saatchi and Mercedes, and collaborates with artistic director Dirk Decloedt, and event agencies such as Any Performance, KCom, D-Side, DDMC and Guava. In 2011, Koert conceived the lighting design of Metinvest corporate show in Ukraine, which was directed by Luc Petit CREATION and produced by K-Events agency.
For 15 years, he has also ensured the visual |
LGBT music | History | their sexual adventures with other women. Soon after jazz took off, Broadway shows and musical audiences began to take shape as well.
Despite progress in LGBT tolerance and acceptance, musicians still remain marginalized in popular music. American composer Leonard Bernstein had many homosexual relations, often with other musicians and composers despite being in a heterosexual marriage. Artists like Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Dimitri Mitropoulos and many others were subject to hiding their sexual identities from the public. American pianist Liberace was famously closeted and vehemently denied allegations of homosexuality until his death in 1987, suing a Daily Mirror columnist for |
La Anonima | History & Present | in the Braun family, who assumed the current leadership of the company and launched a new strategy aimed at gaining leadership in the retail industry of the Patagonia region through a policy of growth, adopting new technologies and establishing a new corporate identity. The company is known for being an early adopter of innovative retail technology such as barcodes, in the 1980s. Present In 1991, the company opened a small chain of stores in a convenience store format under the Best name. This chain was sold in 2010 to French retailer Carrefour (which also operates its flagship banner in Argentina), |
Lazo Wildlife Park | null | Lazo Wildlife Park Lazo Wildlife Park is a protected area on eastern Vancouver Island in the Comox Valley Regional District(CVRD). It lies at the north end of Lazo Marsh and its entrance is at the end of Sand Pines Drive in Comox. Part of the park lies on the Comox Sandhills in which the forest contains a large proportion of Shore Pine. Douglas-Fir, Western White Pine and Western Red Cedar are prominent among the other tree species present. Bird life is dominated by nesting populations of ducks and geese. Soils in the area were mapped in 1959 as Arrowsmith peat |
Keystone (train) | Service history | Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA) in May 1976 for $80,000. SEMTA never used the equipment, and sold it to the Chicago, Central and Pacific Railroad in 1986. |
La Bamba (song) | Early recordings & Music video | songwriting credited to Luis Martinez Serrano.
The Swedish-American folk singer William Clauson recorded the song in several languages in the early and mid 1950s. He claimed to have heard the song in Veracruz, and in performance slowed down the tempo to encourage audience participation. Another version, "somewhat bowdlerized", was recorded by Cynthia Gooding on her 1953 Elektra album, Mexican Folk Songs. The song was also recorded for the French market in 1956 by Juanita Linda and her backing group Los Mont-Real. Music video The Los Lobos version remained No. 1 for three weeks in the summer of 1987. The music video |
John L. Jackson Jr. | null | John L. Jackson Jr. John L. Jackson Jr. is Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology, Professor of Africana Studies and Dean of University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn, he served as a junior fellow at Harvard University's Society of Fellows and taught cultural anthropology at Duke University.
Jackson was named as the Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania effective January 1, 2019.
Jackson graduated summa cum laude from Howard University. He has two master's degrees as well as a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia |
Jesus Insulted by the Soldiers | null | bought the work jointly with Jean-Baptiste Faure in 1894, Faure exhibited it in New York and finally Durand-Ruel sold it for 22,000 francs to James Deering. |
Katrina Patchett | Early life & Career | Katrina Patchett Early life She has been dancing since the age of three and competing since the age of seven. She was brought up in her mother (Julie Patchett)'s dance studio in Perth, Western Australia, daughter of two internationally successful ballroom dancers who reached seventh in the world. At age thirteen she became a Western Australian State Champion. Career Patchett moved to Europe at the age of 16, living, training and working in Denmark (partnering with Joachim Dahlström) before moving to France, at 19, to partner with the former winner of The Dancing Show, Maxime Dereymez. Together in 2007, |
Lee Rourke | Novels | commuters walking and cycling to and fro, together with the swans, coots and moorhens who have made the canal their home. He blames the onset of boredom for this sudden change in lifestyle. He is soon joined by a young woman on the same bench. She doesn’t speak, just stares ahead at the whitewashed office block, watching its occupants move from office to office and desk to desk. In this coming together begins a complicated treatise on violence, catastrophe, secrets, death, aviation, weight, technology and gravity, as this mysterious woman leads the narrator into a dark world of obsession and |
La Anonima | Present | items.
During Argentina's 2001 economic crisis, the company registered a severe drop in its turnover for the first time in its history. After consumer confidence was restored in the country in 2003, the company went through several years of uninterrupted growth in terms of revenue and profits.
In 2005 the company acquired from the Williner family a local supermarket chain, Quijote, that operated in a small area in Santa Fe. Eventually, the Quijote brand was phased out and the remaining stores were reopened under the La Anonima banner.
In recent years the company has invested heavily in its meat processing and packing plants, |
James Fry (Australian politician) | Biography | James Fry (Australian politician) Biography Fry was born in West End, Queensland, the son of Charles Fry and his wife Caroline (née Davies). he was educated at West End State School and in World War One he joined the AIF with at first, the 3rd Infantry Battalion where he was a member of the Special Tropical Corps in November 1914 and later the 9th Battalion where he was stationed in France. He returned to Australia in late 1915 with the rank of Major.
In 1918 he became an optometrist. He married Sarah Chegwin (died 1957) in 1902 and they had |
Leicester City Centre | The old city | Wall. The east gate was at the eastern end of High Street (preserved in the street name Eastgates), the north gate was at the northern end of Highcross Street, the west gate was on the town side of West Bridge, and the south gate was in the modern Friar Lane area – the city walls ran along the current Millstone Lane, Horsefair Street, Gallowtree Gate, Church Gate, Sanvey Gate and Soar Lane, with the western wall possibly running along the river Soar (there is some doubt as to whether the western wall existed). The city centre was the High Cross, |
Legion of Christ | Formation & Initial expansion | a few times a year such as two weeks in the summer, three days for Thanksgiving and four days for Christmas.
High school seminarians are encouraged to write to their families every week; other members of the congregation are also encouraged to write their families.
Some critics used to describe the Legion as a cult. Initial expansion The Legion began in Mexico where its largest base remains. Houses of formation were established in Spain and Italy within its first decade. In the 1960s, chapters of the organization were founded in Ireland and then in the United States. In the 1970s and 80s |
Kathleen de Leon Jones | Departure from Hi-5 | of all the original members to permanently leave Hi-5.
Kathleen de Leon Jones currently resides in Las Vegas with husband Daniel and daughters, Mikayla and Keira. In November 2016, while in the process of selling some properties in Surfers Paradise, they stated that they would one day look to move back to the Gold Coast. |
Kevin Spraggett | Chess career | World Open, 1984 Commonwealth Championship, 1984 New York Open, and 1985 Commonwealth Championship. He did not play an international-standard grandmaster round-robin tournament until Wijk aan Zee early in 1985, just after his thirtieth birthday, at which time he was the highest-rated IM in the world.
Spraggett won his first of seven Canadian titles in 1984, which qualified him into the Taxco Interzonal the next year. His fourth-place result at Taxco 1985, where he topped many more famous players, automatically earned the International Grandmaster title, and seeded him to the Candidates event, the first Canadian to achieve this. He came in last |
La Bamba (song) | Early recordings | recordings Although an obscure and possibly non-existent 1908 Mexican recording has been cited, the earliest certain recording of the song is that by Alvaro Hernández Ortiz, credited as El Jarocho, which was released on the Victor label in Mexico in about 1939 (Victor 76102). This recording was reissued on a 1997 compilation by Yazoo Records, The Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. 4.
According to a 1945 article in Life magazine, the song and associated dance were brought "out of the jungle" at Veracruz by American bandleader Everett Hoagland, who introduced it at Ciro's nightclub in Mexico City. It became popular, |
King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France | Historical inaccuracies & Recording | not do so in real life. The tennis balls are also disputed; some chroniclers mention them, but other historians conclude that they are probably a legend, possibly borrowed from a story of Darius and Alexander. Recording The song appears on Richard Thompson's 1000 Years of Popular Music. |
Kyoto | Festivals & Football | over 1000 years and are a major tourist attraction. The first is the Aoi Matsuri on May 15. Two months later (July 1 to 31) is the Gion Matsuri known as one of the 3 great festivals of Japan, culminating in a massive parade on July 17. Kyoto marks the Bon Festival with the Gozan no Okuribi, lighting fires on mountains to guide the spirits home (August 16). The October 22 Jidai Matsuri, Festival of the Ages, celebrates Kyoto's illustrious past. Football In football, Kyoto is represented by Kyoto Sanga FC who won the Emperor's Cup in 2002, and rose |
Jackson Health System | Jackson Memorial Hospital | Jackson Health System Jackson Memorial Hospital Jackson Memorial Hospital opened in 1918 as a 13-bed community hospital and has grown into an accredited, tax-assisted, tertiary teaching hospital.
It is also home to Ryder Trauma Center, the only adult and pediatric Level 1 trauma center in Miami-Dade County, and a designated U.S. Army Forward Surgical Team Training Facility, where military healthcare personnel prepare to treat soldiers injured on the battlefield.
The only Florida hospital to perform every kind of organ transplant for both adult and pediatric patients, Jackson Memorial's Miami Transplant Institute transplant center was the third-largest in the United States by total |
Julie Rotblatt-Amrany | Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt-Amrany & Style and methods | Illinois. Her serious illness deepened Rotblatt-Amrany's interest in consciousness and how it integrates with matter, on how matter and energy transform, and on the evolution of human intelligence. Style and methods Rebelling against the academic bias against figurative art in the 1970s and 1980s, Rotblatt-Amrany has brought new vitality to the subject of the human form by integrating into her work recent discoveries in astronomy, physics, and medicine. Her pieces often juxtapose polar opposites such as serenity and tension, and are underpinned philosophically by a view of the universe as a process of endless transformation, with no true beginnings |
Leroy Township, Barton County, Missouri | Geography | Leroy Township, Barton County, Missouri Geography Leroy Township covers an area of 40.44 square miles (104.7 km²) and contains no incorporated settlements. According to the USGS, it contains two cemeteries: Leroy and Shiloh.
The streams of Bitter Creek, East Fork Dry Wood Creek and West Elm Branch run through this township. |
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