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Legal history of China | Development after 1949 | control and regarded themselves as supervisors of the masses who subscribed to a common set of communist values. The new cadres saw this common ideology as providing better overall direction than strict legal controls could. They believed that China was too large to be governed by any single set of fixed rules or a legal bureaucracy. They preferred to administer justice by simplified directives tailored to the needs of local communities so that the people (and the new cadres) could participate fully in their implementation. As part of this plan, the cadres organized "study groups" to familiarize every citizen with |
Kyoto | Rail | like other major cities in Japan, Kyoto is well served by rail transportation systems operated by several different companies and organizations. The city's main gateway terminal, Kyoto Station, which is one of the most popular stations in the country, connects The Tōkaidō Shinkansen bullet train Line (see below) with five JR West lines, a Kintetsu line and a municipal subway line.
The Keihan, the Hankyu, and other rail networks also offer frequent services within the city and to other cities and suburbs in the Kinki region.
There is a Railway Heritage site in Kyoto, where visitors can experience the range of Japanese |
J. D. Humphreys | Biography | of money to the college and named Sun Yat-sen and Kong Ying-wah, then the students at the college.
He was understood to be retiring from active business owing to an affection of the heart from which he suffered, and from which he died on 8 November 1897 at Folkestone, England. |
Jennifer Seberry | Research | bent functions for network security. She has published numerous papers on mathematics, cryptography, and computer and network security. She led the team that produced the LOKI and LOKI97 block ciphers and the HAVAL cryptographic hash functions. Seberry is also a co-author of the Py stream cipher, which was a candidate for the eSTREAM stream cipher project. |
Like a Prayer (album) | Legacy | was the moment when Madonna went from being the voice of America's teenagers to the worldwide high priestess of pop". Singer Taylor Swift explained that with the album Madonna made "the most incredible, bold, risky, decisions as far as pop music goes", citing the title track as "legitimately one of the greatest pop songs of all time."
According to Douglas Kellner, the album and its singles were particularly influential on the music video field. The video for the title track "Like a Prayer", which depicted Madonna as a witness to a murder of a white girl by white supremacists, Catholic symbols |
Kōki Moriya | Early baseball career | Kōki Moriya Early baseball career Kōki started playing little league baseball for the Tamashima Minami Elementary School and his team won runner up in the Okayama Prefectural Tournament during his 5th grade. He initially started as an outfielder, but switched to a pitching role when he played for Kurosaki Junior High. He went on to become the ace pitcher of Kurashiki Technical High, but his team never made it to either Spring Koshien or Summer Koshien.
When he went undrafted after graduation, he joined the Industrial Leagues under Honda Suzuka. He spent his first 2 years mostly in the dug out |
Len Ford | 1950 season | and ends Mac Speedie and Dante Lavelli, the 1950 Browns finished the regular season with a 10–2 record and won the 1950 NFL Championship Game over the Los Angeles Rams.
In a mid-October game against the Chicago Cardinals, an elbow by Pat Harder broke Ford's nose, cheekbone, and maxilla (upper jaw), knocked out two teeth, loosened several teeth and chipped another. Ford, who had been fighting with Harder throughout the game, punched him following the play, resulting in a penalty, his ejection from the game and a $50 ($521 in 2018 dollars) fine. NFL commissioner Bert Bell withdrew the fine when |
Len Ford | Los Angeles Dons (AAFC) | a 7–7 record, good for third place in the AAFC West. Ford played basketball in the off-season for the New York Renaissance, an all-black professional team in the National Basketball League. He did not play basketball at Michigan, the Big Ten Conference having maintained racial segregation of basketball until 1950.
Ford had 36 catches for 577 yards and one touchdown in 1949, while the Dons fell to 4–8. The AAFC struggled financially during Ford's time with the Dons. Its teams competed with NFL franchises for fans' attention and player talent – the Dons shared a city with the NFL's Los Angeles |
LGBT rights in Yemen | Constitutional law & Penal Code | LGBT rights in Yemen Constitutional law The Constitution of Republic Of Yemen, amended in 2001, does not explicitly address LGBT rights. It does guarantee certain human rights to all citizens, with the condition that all legislation must be compatible with principles of Islamic Shariah law. Penal Code Punishment for homosexuality in Yemen can originate from the codified penal code, or from people seeking to enforce traditional Islamic morality.
Article 264 of the national penal code prohibits private consensual homosexual acts between adult men. The stipulated punishment in the law for unmarried men is 100 lashes and up to a year in |
Koert Vermeulen | “Tree rings” - Christmas Illumination of Champs-Elysees in Paris (2011-2014) | Christmas illuminations. Out of over 27 entries, ACT Lighting Design was declared award winner in June 2010, with its light art installation “Tree Rings”(2011-2014). The project was headed up by principal designer Koert Vermeulen and artistic director Marcos Viñals Bassols. They approached the Avenue as a stage play, combining innovation with a strong visual identity. The main idea was to obtain a “new aesthetic that was not related to the traditional image of Christmas," and to create a distinctive and long lasting experience for the public. The project aimed at breaking with the past, not only through an original design, |
László Szőke | Career | László Szőke Career Szőke was born in Budapest. In 1949 he moved to Italy under contract to Fanfulla before becoming a well-known name in Italian football by being transferred to first division Udinese who went on to place themselves in second position, behind the great AC Milan, in the Serie A division during the 1955–56 season.
Szőke had a spell in Colombia with Atlético Junior during the 1951 season.
Subsequently he transferred to Triestina and with them he won the Italian serie B championship in 1957/58.
At the end of the 1960 season he was ceded to Brescia, coached at the time by |
Jesse H. Jones | Family history and early life | returned with his large family to Robertson County, where he acquired a new farm to work. So Jesse was back in Tennessee at the age of twelve.
Jesse had been a diligent worker as a boy, caring for the farm animals, and performing many common household chores. During the summers when his family had lived in Dallas—when he was a young teenager—he hacked out weeds, picked cotton, and herded cattle. He did not display the same diligence for school, and later, Jesse recalled many scoldings and punishments from his teachers. His father challenged his two sons with a tobacco plot |
Kyoto Journal | History | Kyoto Journal History Kyoto Journal was founded in 1986 by editor and designer John Einarsen, whose editorial vision was heavily influenced by publications like CoEvolution Quarterly, which blended arts, spirituality, and Asian cultures.
The magazine was awarded the Utne Reader's prestigious Independent Press Award for Excellence in Art & Design in 1998, and it has been regularly shortlisted for General Excellence, Local/Regional Coverage, Writing Excellence, and Best Essays.
Until 2011, it was published by Harada Shokei of Heian Bunka Center, a Japanese calligraphy school in Kyoto. After the publication of 75 full print issues, the magazine announced in December 2010 that |
Legal history of China | Modernization of China’s Legal Practices | provide legal services.
On July 1, 1992, in order to meet growing demand, the Chinese government opened the legal services market to foreign law firms allowing them to establish offices in China when the Ministry of Justice and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAOIC) issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.
However, there are still many regulatory barriers to entry to protect the domestic legal industry. For example, only foreign law firms, rather than individual foreign lawyers may apply for a permit to set up an office in China. New offices can only be |
Lighting in libraries | History | so to keep up with the desire of people, manufactures turned to cheap ways to increase outputs of books. This cheap process is now failing under the pressure of modern lights, which can be traced back to the invention that changed libraries in the 19th century. |
Kyoto Animation | Animation Do & Works | them have joint signatures. Works In the list below, only the productions that Kyoto Animation was the main producer for are listed. |
John B. McClelland | American revolution & Westmoreland Militia | "to choose such persons only to act for them in the ensuing convention as are distinguished for wisdom, integrity, and a firm attachment to the liberties of this province." In pursuance of this recommendation, delegates were chosen July 5, 1776, and the eight delegates to the convention elected for Westmoreland County were John Moore, Edward Cook, James Perry, James Barr, James Smith, John Carmichael, John McClelland, and Christopher Lobingier. Westmoreland Militia At the outset of the Revolutionary War, McClelland was appointed to a citizen’s committee to procure arms and ammunition for the defense of the struggling new nation. He enlisted |
Len Ford | 1950 season | became a fixture of Cleveland's defense alongside linebacker Bill Willis and defensive back Warren Lahr. He was one of five black players for Cleveland – the others were Willis, punter Horace Gillom and fullbacks Emerson Cole and Marion Motley – at a time when many other teams had never signed a black player. The Browns, in fact, had roughly a third of the black players in the NFL on their roster. Cleveland sports writer Chuck Heaton later recalled that Ford was "a leader, particularly with the black players on the squad."
Led by an offense that featured Motley, quarterback Otto Graham |
John Tarnoff | null | video game Big Brother based on the book. He and director John Badham co-wrote the successful PC/PlayStation game WarGames, based on Badham's hit movie.
From 1995 to 2003, with writer and artist Robit Hairman, he co-founded Talkie, Inc., a technology company that created online conversational animated characters for marketing, brand building, lead generation, customer service and training. Talkie created "Claire," Sprint PCS' automated customer service rep.
Tarnoff holds a B.A. from Amherst College, and a M.A. in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. He grew up in New York and Paris, and lives in Los Angeles. |
Legal history of China | Modernization of China’s Legal Practices | a branch office of the foreign firm. Issues relating to Chinese law must be referred to Chinese law firms. Foreign lawyers are also prohibited from interpreting or practicing Chinese law nor representing their clients in court.
While the trend in China's legal landscape is to continue to open up the legal market, China's laws and regulations have helped develop a number of domestic Chinese firms to specializing commercial law to meet demand. According to Asia Law and Business magazine China Awards, the top China firms were King & Wood PRC Lawyers (now King & Wood Mallesons), Commerce & Finance Law Offices, |
Lafayette Regional Xpressway | null | Lafayette Regional Xpressway The Lafayette Regional Xpressway (LRX) is a planned controlled-access toll road in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. The LRX has also been termed the Lafayette Loop. It will provide an alternative highway for north-south traffic bypassing the City of Lafayette's urban core. The expressway is being planned by the Lafayette Metropolitan Expressway Commission. The LRX will connect I-49 north of Lafayette near the city of Carencro, Louisiana, I-10 west of Lafayette near the cities of Scott, Louisiana and Duson, Louisiana, and U.S. 90 south of the city of Lafayette near the city of Youngsville, Louisiana. The proposed roadway will |
Kuromukuro | Broadcast and distribution | Loop" (永遠ループ lit. Eternal Loop) by Ami Wajima. |
Legal history of China | 1978-1981 | standards for managing social, economic and political relationships, including foreign investment. Law has been perceived as a key element of regime legitimacy as it serves to institutionalise economic reform.
The 1980 Criminal Law was intended to protect state property as well as the personal and property rights of citizens against unlawful infringement by any person or institution. It safeguarded the fundamental rights stipulated in the 1978 state constitution and prescribed penalties for counterrevolutionary activities (crimes against the state) and other criminal offenses. Prevention of crime and rehabilitation through education (taking into account actual conditions in China in 1979) were stressed. Illegal |
Kent Lambert | 2010 election & 2017 legislative session | 2010, Lambert ran for election to the 9th District Senate seat. He ran unopposed in both the primary and the general election, and won a 4-year term to the Colorado Senate. 2017 legislative session In the 2017 legislative session, Lambert served as the chairman of the Joint Budget Committee and vice-chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
He chairs the Legislative Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Committee and serves as vice-chair of the Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders Interim Study Committee.
In addition to his responsibilities as the chair of the JBC, he ran a wide variety of bills, including Senate |
Judicial independence in Australia | Security of tenure | pleasure and the Governor in council could remove them without cause. More recent examples of courts being abolished without protecting the tenure of the judges are the abolition of the Court of Petty Sessions (NSW) and its replacement by the Local Court in which all but 6 magistrates were appointed to the new court, and the abolition of the Victorian Accident Compensation Tribunal in 1992 by the Victorian government which by-passed the legislative removal mechanism and removed all judges.
Twice sitting judges have been removed as a result of the introduction of a retirement age. In 1918 the NSW Parliament passed |
Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir) | Painting | Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir) Painting It is inspired at least in part by a sculpture by François Girardon, The Bath of the Nymphs (1672), a low lead relief realized for a fountain park of Versailles. It also reflects the influence of the works of Ingres, and particularly the frescoes of Raphael, whose style he had absorbed during his trip to Italy. These two great artists influenced Renoir's entire way of painting and drawing: he began to paint in a more disciplined and more conventional manner, gave up painting outdoors, and made the female nude – until then only an occasional subject– |
Lampaul-Guimiliau Parish close | Altarpiece of the Passion & Descent from the Cross | of Léon and below that a depiction of the Virgin Mary's birth. The central section was supplied by an Antwerp workshop and in eight magnificent tableaux, the sculptors have created 80 images representing the story of the passion. At the very bottom the scenes presented are of the Last supper and Jesus washing the disciples' feet and in the other sections, we see representations of Judas' kiss, the flagellation, Jesus carrying the cross, the descent from the cross, the entombment and the altar of the passion itself. Descent from the Cross This is a remarkable work of art dating |
Kevin Whitehead | Biography | Sun Ra , the Astro Black and other Solar Myths.
Whitehead has also written liner notes for albums, including recordings by Ab Baars, Sylvie Courvoisier, Charles Gayle, François Houle, Phillip Johnston, Sheila Jordan, Henry Threadgill, Myra Melford (Michael Moore, 1993), Simon Nabatov / Han Bennink, Pharoah Sanders, Daniel Schnyder, Aki Takase, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Clusone 3, and the ICP Orchestra. In 2012 he was nominated for the JJA Award of the Jazz Journalists Association for his liner notes of the Sam Rivers album Trilogy (Mosaic Select). He also taught jazz literature at Towson University, University of Kansas, and Goucher College.
As |
If You See God, Tell Him | Plot | heart attack, Godfrey attempts to perform a post mortem, which he believes himself to be an expert in after purchasing a partwork of Complete Medical Knowledge. As a result, he is arrested for murder.
At the trial, Gordon makes an impassioned plea, claiming that it is not Godfrey who should be on trial, but the advertisers who are murdering all of our minds. Godfrey is convicted and sent to a hospital for the criminally insane; languishing in his cell, he is happy under the illusion that he is the centre of attention at a dinner party, where fancy chocolates are being |
KOOP (FM) | Fires | first was blamed on careless smoking by a neighbor; the second, on the nightclub's faulty heating and air conditioning unit.
The February fire knocked KOOP off the air for 17 days, during which time KVRX covered its sister station's hours, as it had following the original fire. KOOP resumed broadcasting on 21 February from studios at the city's classical music station KMFA. By the end of 2006, KOOP had found new quarters at 3823 Airport Boulevard, where it built two broadcast studios, two production rooms, a music library, meeting space and offices. The station began broadcasting from the facility on 9 |
Leonardo de Mango | Biography | Leonardo de Mango Biography In 1862, under the patronage of an aristocratic family of Bari, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples and studied there for eight years under Filippo Palizzi and Domenico Morelli. Morelli was a painter who treated exotic orientalist themes. During this period de Mango also worked with Saverio Altamura, Bernardo Celentano, Raffaele d'Auria, Federico Maldarelli, Raffaele Postiglione and Giuseppe Mancinelli.
In 1883 De Mango settled in Istanbul during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, where he is known to have set up, and taught for some time at, the oil painting department of the |
Lead Hill, Arkansas | Climate & Points of interest | the lowest minimum temperatures during Arkansas's cooler months. This distinction, though, is often shared with the small Buffalo River hamlet of Gilbert. Points of interest Ozark Medieval Fortress
Bull Shoals Lake
Lead Hill is located near Branson, Missouri and Diamond City. |
Like a Prayer (album) | Development | the soundtrack Who's That Girl (1987). Both Bray and Leonard wanted to bring their unique style to the project, and they developed completely different music for the title track. Eventually, Madonna felt that the music presented to her by Leonard was more interesting, and she started to work with him. According to the singer, Leonard was also facing emotional turmoil; "I was working with Pat, who was also in a very dark state of mind, and we worked in a very isolated place in the Valley". On January 6, 1989, following a nullified divorce filing in late 1987 and several |
Kim Se-hyun | Amateur career & Professional career | Kim Se-hyun Amateur career Kim was born in Seoul, and attended Duksoo High School there. He first gained attention in 2004 when he led his team to the national championship and was named Best Pitcher at the 56th Hwarang Flag National Championship, a major competition for high school baseball in South Korea. The following year he helped his team to win its second consecutive championship at the 57th Hwarang Flag National Championship. Professional career Kim made himself eligible for the 2006 KBO Draft and was selected as the 17th overall pick in the draft by the Hyundai Unicorns.
He changed his |
Judy O'Bannon | The "State's Living Room" & Building a Global Community & Work with other First Ladies | Residence to make it accessible for people with disabilities. Building a Global Community As First Lady, O'Bannon led three People to People Ambassador Program international delegations—Russia in 1999 and South Africa in 2001 and 2003—that included Indiana leaders in the areas of education, the arts, government, foundation leadership, health and HIV/AIDS and community development. Work with other First Ladies During her years as First Lady, O'Bannon actively participated in the National Governor's Association's (NGA) Spouses' Program, including hosting seminars for governors' spouses' staff. She also co-hosted with her husband the 2003 NGA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. O'Bannon was also active |
Lichchavi Express | Time Table | JN106:1506:2510:007452
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Kaitlin Hawayek | 2014–2015 season & 2015–2016 season & 2016–2017 season | 2014 NHK Trophy, winning the bronze medal at the latter. 2015–2016 season Baker sustained a concussion when Hawayek accidentally struck him with her arm in September 2015, just prior to the Labor Day weekend. He returned to limited training after two weeks and full training a week later.
Hawayek/Baker finished fourth at the 2015 Skate America. Due to food poisoning, Hawayek vomited eight times in four hours during the night before the short dance at the 2015 Cup of China. After competing in the first segment, the duo decided to withdraw. They placed fifth at the 2016 U.S. Championships. 2016–2017 season |
Lal Jas Raj | null | Lal Jas Raj Lal Jas Raj also known as Maggar Pir was a Sufi saint who had a large number of Hindu disciples. The name Lal Jas Raj was given by his Hindu followers. He was patronized by the dhobis (washermen) and bhistis (water carriers) of the area.
A monastery of Lal Jas Raj is currently located in Dipalpur, Okara District, Punjab, Pakistan. Today the dilapidated and empty chamber stands infested with bats and rats. The doors to the chamber are jammed and a stairway is serving as storage for dried dung cakes of the neighbours.
The structure has gone |
Jack Del Rio | Early years | Jack Del Rio Early years Jack Louis Del Rio was born in Castro Valley, California to a father of Mexican descent and an Italian-American mother.Jack attended Hayward High School in Hayward, California where he developed into a notable three-sport athlete, earning All-state honors in football, baseball and basketball.
In football, Jack helped his team win a North Coast Section 2A Championship. In baseball although he was the starting catcher. In one game Jack was used as a pitcher and struck out 16 in a playoff game against Mission San Jose-Fremont. Jack and future Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu were teammates in |
Like a Prayer (album) | Tour & Commercial performance | Japan, on April 27, 1990, and Blond Ambition World Tour Live, taped in Nice, France, on August 5, 1990. Commercial performance In the United States, Like a Prayer debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200, on the issue dated April 8, 1989. It quickly rose to the top of the chart after its third week, where it remained for six consecutive weeks, making it Madonna's longest-running number 1 album. The album spent a total of 77 weeks on the chart. The album also reached a peak of number 55 on Billboard's R&B Albums list. It was eventually |
Leonardo de Mango | Istanbul dreamscapes | sea and the trees along the shore enhance the dream-like atmosphere. Besides these scenes on the Marmara, the artist also depicted a large number of other spots in Istanbul including Büyükdere, Göksu (the Sweet Waters of Asia), the old Muslim quarter of Eyüp, the Greek district of Phanar, the Princes’ Islands, the Golden Horn, Seraglio Point and the Bosphorus. Despite his powerful use, especially, of color in his oil paintings, problems of perspective are nonetheless observable here and there.
A prolific artist, De Mango worked extensively in oil, watercolor, pencil and India ink. Not only did he continuously treat new subjects, |
Kamacite | Thomson structures & Optical properties & Magnetism | pressure, and composition of the meteorite. Optical properties Kamacite is opaque and can be observed only in reflected light microscopy. It is isometric and therefore behaves isotropically. Magnetism As the meteorite cools below 750 °C iron becomes magnetic as it moves into the kamacite phase. During this cooling the meteorite takes on non-conventional thermoremanent magnetization. Thermoremanent magnetization on Earth gives iron minerals formed in the Earth's crust, a higher magnetization than if they were formed in the same field at room temperature. This is a non-conventional thermoremanent magnetization because it appears to be due to a chemical remanent process which is |
Leonardo de Mango | de Mango at Dolmabahçe Palace | years of the near half-century he spent in Istanbul, De Mango lived in a single room allocated to him by Marcello Campaner in the ‘Palazzetto dei Dragomani’ (Translators’ House) behind the Casa d’Italia. De Mango, who died at the age of eighty-eight, never married and nursed a perpetual longing for a family. Leonardo de Mango, is thought to have made some 1500 drawings and paintings, both oils and water colors, during his 47-year sojourn in Istanbul. |
Iris ruthenica | Description & Biochemistry & Taxonomy | seeds are pyriform (pear-shaped) and have an aril (white appendage on the edge of the seed). The aril disappears soon after and shrivels up. Biochemistry As most irises are diploid, having two sets of chromosomes. Which can be used to identify hybrids and classification of groupings. It has a chromosome count: 2n=84 (found by Simonet in 1934). Taxonomy It is written as 紫苞鸢尾 in Chinese script, and known as 'zi bao yuan wei'.
It is named after the region of the 'Ruthenia', in Transylvania and Romania,
It has several common names; 'ever blooming iris' (in the UK), 'Russian Iris', 'pilgrim iris' |
Like a Prayer (album) | Legacy | on British television network Channel 4 placed Like a Prayer at number eight on list of "The 100 Greatest Albums in Music History". In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at number 20 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s", saying: "By the late '80s, Madonna was already one of the biggest pop stars of all time, but with Like a Prayer, she became one of the most important".
Taraborrelli wrote that Like a Prayer was a turning point's in Madonna's career; "Every important artist has at least one album in his or her career whose critical and commercial |
Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg | Use of animals in research & Knighthood and peerage | 2007. The focus of the centre is on the three Rs: the replacement, refinement, and reduction of animal testing. The three Rs were first published in the 1959 by W. M. S. Russell and Rex Birch in the book The Principles of Humane Experimentation Technique. The UK government currently still regards animal testing as necessary, but science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville said that a "major opportunity" now existed to make progress in improving the welfare of animals used in testing through the three R's. Knighthood and peerage Turnberg received a knighthood in 1994 Birthday Honours for services to medicine, |
Liberal socialism | Ethical socialism & Germany | responsibilities as well as support of an organic society in which individuals flourish through cooperation. Blair argued that Labour ran into problems in the 1960s and 1970s when it abandoned ethical socialism and that its recovery required a return to the values promoted by the Attlee government. However, Blair's critics (both inside and outside Labour) have accused him of completely abandoning socialism in favour of capitalism. Germany An early version of liberal socialism was developed in Germany by Franz Oppenheimer. Though he was committed to socialism, Oppenheimer's theories inspired the development of the social liberalism that was pursued by German |
John Keells Holdings | 1870 - 1990: Founding and incorporation | John Keells Holdings 1870 - 1990: Founding and incorporation In 1870, two English brothers, George and Edwin John set up E. John & Co., a firm of produce and exchange brokers. In 1948 The firm merged with two London based tea brokers, William Jas and Hy Thompson & Co., and GeoWhite & Co., thereby evolving into a private liability company in the name of E. John, Thompson, White & Company Ltd. The firm amalgamated with Keell and Waldock Ltd., another long established produce, share and freight broking company thus changing its name to John Keell Thompson White Ltd. in |
Leonardo de Mango | Istanbul dreamscapes | he is also known, upon popular demand, to have reworked at his Beyoğlu atelier some of his earlier studies of Damascus, Beirut and Egypt from sketches at hand, selling most of them to his Levantine clients.
With the proclamation of the Republic on 29 October 1923 and the transfer of the seat of government to Ankara, artistic activities in Istanbul began to lose momentum as development focused on the new capital. During this formative period in the Turkish art of painting and its milieu, the artist was, therefore, far-removed from the new developments. Owing to advancing age, his activities were restricted |
Hirofumi Yoshida | Education | Hirofumi Yoshida Education Yoshida's parents, his father Toru from Tokyo and his mother Ayako from Hokkaido, send their son to the “Kōnodai High School”. Later, following his passion, Yoshida attends the Tokyo College of Music, where he specializes in piano with professor Yukiko Okafuji, in contrabass with Mitsuru Onozaki, in musicology with Reiko Arima and Tomiko Kojiba and in conduction with Yasuhiko Shiozawa, Jun-Ichi Hirokami and Yujiro Tsuda. Between 1994 and 1995, Yoshida move to Vienna to obtain the Music and Arts Master at Vienna's University with the masters Hans Graf and Julius Kalmar. In 1996, he obtained the Advanced |
Kliph Nesteroff | The Comedians | For comedy completists and comedians alike, this book is a real treat." The Washington Post said of Nesteroff, "He writes with insider perception but never seems to be either whitewashing or trashing any of this outrageous cast. Like a biblical epic, The Comedians seems to have a cast of thousands. One act barely somersaults offstage before Nesteroff leads on the next. The anecdotes are memorable and often hilarious ... With his encyclopedic knowledge, talent for vivid anecdotes and tireless gusto, he drives this busload of rowdy clowns into the 21st century." The Onion's AV Club stated, "Nesteroff is intent on |
Lisette Melendez | Career & 1990s | who had also worked with Sweet Sensation and Samantha Fox. A few years of dance club touring eventually led to the recording of the single "Together Forever" Produced By Carlos Berrios and Platinum Producer Frankie Cutlass, and soon after a full album with Fever/Columbia Records. 1990s Four more albums followed, including her second album True To Life in 1994 which spawned the Billboard Hot 100 hit "Goody Goody" (#53), A Day In My Life (Without You) (#49) and "Will You Ever Save Me" which charted on the Rhythmic Top 40 at #38. The album did extremely well in Japan, both |
Lee Rourke | Novels | - its landscape and its atmosphere. Haunted and haunting, 'Vulgar Things' is part mystery, part romance, part odyssey: a novel in which the menial entrances and the banal compels.
The Canal follows an unnamed narrator as he tries to make sense of the everyday violence around him. One morning, instead of walking to work (his usual weekday routine), he simply walks to the Regent’s canal in north east London, where he finds himself a suitable bench to sit on opposite a whitewashed office block on the other side of the murky water. He spends most of this first morning watching the |
Kerch Strait | Ferry and bridge transportation | 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi)-long dam, provoking the 2003 Tuzla Island conflict.
After the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea the government of Russia decided to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait. The 19-kilometre Crimean Bridge opened to road traffic in May 2018 and the rail section is expected to be operational in 2019.
Russian state-backed media claims that construction of the bridge caused increases in nutrients and planktons in the waters, attracting large numbers of fish and more than 1,000 of endangered Black Sea bottlenose dolphins. However, Ukraine claims that the acoustic noise and pollution from both the bridge construction and military exercises |
Kamacite | Planets & Uses & Museums, university and photo specimen preparation | Earth and its occurrence on Mars gives clues to the origin of its larger source rock. Uses The primary research use of kamacite is to shed light on a meteorite's history. Whether it is looking at the shock history in the iron structures or the conditions during the formation of the meteorite using the kamacite-taenite boundary understanding kamacite is key to understanding our universe. Museums, university and photo specimen preparation Due to the rareness and the generally dull appearance of kamacite it is not popular among private collectors. However many museums and universities have samples of kamacite in their collection. |
Kakinoki, Shimane | null | Kakinoki, Shimane Kakinoki (柿木村 Kakinoki-mura) was a village located in Kanoashi District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 1,789 and a density of 12.99 persons per km². The total area was 137.72 km².
On October 1, 2005, Kakinoki, along with the village of Muikaichi (also from Kanoashi District), were merged to create the town of Yoshika. |
Lake Local School District (Stark County) | Funding Issues | no idea whatsoever... Back in 2009 and 2011 when the schools tried to pass those bond issues, that (tobacco settlement) money was there, (We) were not aware that the money was not still available in 2015... We didn’t ask that question and they didn’t share it.” |
Las Rozas de Madrid | History | A6/M505 route.
During the Spanish civil war it became the site of major battles, a reminder of this time are the concrete forms of bunkers that remain in the Dehesa of Navalcarbón and along the valley of the river Guadarrama.
In the winter of 1936 the pro-Franco troops advanced for the west of Madrid from their bases at Brunete, Villaviciosa de Odón and Campamento. In the middle of a dense fog with freezing temperature, Franco's rebels, supported by the air force, engaged the republican forces in one of the bloodiest battles of the civil War. The inhabitants of Las |
Kike Mateo | Football career | Kike Mateo Football career Born in Murcia, Mateo spent until the age of 25 in the third and fourth divisions, when he signed with SD Eibar in the summer of 2004. During the second level campaign he did not miss one single game, as the Basque team nearly achieved an historical La Liga promotion, eventually finishing fourth; subsequently he played another two seasons in division two, with Hércules CF, also appearing and scoring regularly.
In 2007–08, Mateo proved instrumental for Sporting de Gijón, whom he joined in July 2007 as a free agent, netting a squad-best 12 goals as the Asturias |
Legal history of China | Early years of the People's Republic (1949–1953) | policies, directives, laws, and decrees of the people's government. They also were to investigate and prosecute counterrevolutionary and other criminal cases; to contest illegal or improper judgments rendered by judicial organs at every level; and to investigate illegal measures taken by places of detention and labor-reform organs anywhere in the country. They were to dispose of cases submitted by citizens who were dissatisfied with the decision of "no prosecution" made by the procuratorial organs of lower levels and to intervene in important civil cases and administrative legal actions affecting the national interest.
The period 1949-52 was one of national integration in |
John VII of Constantinople | Life | John VII of Constantinople Life John was born to an aristocratic family of Armenian origin. His father was Pankratios Morocharzanios and he had a brother, Arsaber. Warren Treadgold identifies the latter with the Arsaber who married a sister of the Empress Theodora. John's sister was the mother of the later Patriarch Photios. Beginning his clerical career in c. 811, John was also a painter of icons and a correspondent of Theodore of Stoudios. By 814, John had become an Iconoclast and Emperor Leo V chose him to lead a committee to collect patristic texts supporting this theological |
Kim Clark (candidate) | Notable Performers & Profile in The New York Times and Other Press | Karma), Cowboy Junkies (Alternative – Double Platinum Albums include The Trinity Session – Natural Born Killers), Todd Snider ("Todd Snider's compressed story-songs are so vivid and knowing that they seem completely plausible" - Rolling Stone), Anne Harris , Steve Evans , Bela Fleck , The BoDeans, Autumn Defense, Richie Havens, Poi Dog Pondering, The Guitars of Spain, Pacifica Quartet, Tom Wopat, Howard Levy, Tom Dreesen, and many others. Profile in The New York Times and Other Press The New York Times authored a full-page profile of Clark and his longtime partner David Fink in a story entitled "A Getaway |
Kurian Kachappilly | Later career & Major contributions | of OWLS - he now possesses more than 700 Owls - from different countries and different types. At present, Prof. Dr. Kurian Kachappilly is the President of Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (DVK), Bangalore, Karnataka, India! Major contributions Kachappilly was the chief organizer of the International Process Philosophy Congress in Bangalore (2009). About 500 philosophers and intellectuals from Asia, Africa, Europe and United States attended this seventh international conference, jointly organized by Dharmaram College, Bangalore, Christ University, Bangalore and International Process Network (IPN).
The second major conference was on "Mysticism without Bounds" (2011), and the Chief Guest was the Dalai Lama; |
La Paz traffic zebras | Milestones | relationships that were fractured and distanced began to feed into a relationship of fellowship. The young Urban Educators, began to express their messages from the cordiality, the respect and the love.
In 2007 the Citizen Culture Strategy was created to work the themes: “La Paz in Order”, “La Paz Safe”, “La Paz Clean and Healthy” and “La Paz without Noise”. In 2011, because of the mega-slip, one more theme was added to the strategy “La Paz Alert” that works the management and prevention of risks. In 2016 the last theme “La Paz Happy” is created, which is transversal to the others.
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Litigation over global surveillance | Klayman v. Obama & ACLU v. Clapper | every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval ... Surely, such a program infringes on 'that degree of privacy' that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment." ACLU v. Clapper The American Civil Liberties Union and its affiliates brought suit challenging the legality of the NSA's bulk data collection program. The district court granted a dismissal, and the plaintiffs announced their intention to appeal the decision to the Second Circuit court of Appeals.
ACLU v Clapper was heard before the Second Circuit on May 7, 2015. The Second Circuit did not address |
Jacob Hopewell | Hopewell's "Relic" | noted birdhouse builder although some claimed they were actually houses for his family spirits). For the next year (until he died) Jacob III placed a photograph from every family function he could find, probably in hopes that somehow the power of the machine would exist in the remaining object and that his dead son would be able to see all he had missed. This practice was met with further ridicule within the larger community. However, years later, when the birdhouse was rediscovered, photographs from multiple families were found inside, implying that others in the community, made desperate by the loss |
Lilian Garcia-Roig | Exhibitions & Awards and residencies | has shown nationally at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Art Museum of the Americas both in Washington, D.C. and extensively in the south, especially in Texas and Florida. Internationally, she has shown at the Chopo Museum in Mexico City and Byblos Art Gallery in Verona, Italy. Awards and residencies Major awards include a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in Painting, a Mid-America Arts Alliance/NEA Fellowship Award in Painting, State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Award in painting & a Kimbrough Award from the Dallas Museum of Art. Residencies include a Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, |
Leytonstone School | Admissions & History | Leytonstone School Leytonstone School is a mixed, comprehensive 11-16 school on Colworth Road in Leytonstone, London. Admissions The school formerly specialised in Business and Enterprise. The school numbers 875 students, as of 2009. History The buildings on Colworth Road were opened in 1911, being designed by W Jacques. Girlz were transferred there from the Elson House Girls High School on Wallwood Road.
Before the early 1970s, the school was a grammar school, Leyton County High School for Girls, and was subsequently renamed Leyton Senior High School for Girls when it became a comprehensive single sex secondary school. In the 1980s, it |
Kingsley Kuku | International engagements / Recognition | United States by the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus
(GLBC). And according to a report by a major Nigerian newspaper on the notification of the award to Kuku by the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, "The Commendation and honour from the State of Georgia is in recognition of your (Kuku's) unrivalled contribution to Nigeria’s socioeconomic growth and development, leading the Presidential Amnesty Program transparently and undertaken monumental projects that have contributed immensely towards reforming the ex-agitators and contributing manpower to the Oil & Gas, aviation, logistics and other services industry in Nigeria and Africa at large". At the Commendation & Award ceremony, |
Listeria | Research | physicians are more likely to encounter this otherwise-rare infection (only seven per 1,000,000 healthy people are infected with virulent Listeria each year). Better understanding the cell biology of Listeria infections, including relevant virulence factors, may lead to better treatments for listeriosis and other intracytoplasmic parasite infections. Researchers are now investigating the use of Listeria as a cancer vaccine, taking advantage of its "ability to induce potent innate and adaptive immunity." |
Laurence Muir | Philanthropy | $37 million and most similar schools in Australia have adopted the format.
In the mid eighties he served with Sir Eric Neal as chairman for the Finance Committee for the 6th Duke of Edinburgh Study Conference. The corporate response was such that after a successful conference a surplus of $250,000 was available for the future.
In 1984 he founded and funded the Delta Society of Australia. The aim of the society was to make Governments and the Community more aware of the benefits of pets both as companions and for therapy. Working with a group of leading Veterinarians and |
Kent Lambert | 2008 election & 2009 legislative session & 2010 election | Post, while the Colorado Springs Independent endorsed his opponent. Lambert won re-election with 71 percent of the popular vote.
Lambert was also a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, alongside El Paso County Commissioner Wayne Williams and Colorado’s Attorney General John Suthers. 2009 legislative session For the 2009 legislative session, Lambert was named to seats on the House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee and the House Finance Committee, where he was the ranking Republican.
In August 2009, Lambert was appointed to the Joint Budget Committee to replace departing member Rep. Dan Marostica. 2010 election In the |
Kerch Strait | Ferry and bridge transportation | there were four train ferry ships; later three car-ferry ships were added. Train transportation continued for almost 40 years. The aging train-ferries became obsolete in the late 1980s and were removed from service. In the autumn of 2004, new ships were delivered as replacements and train transportation was re-established.
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov campaigned for a highway bridge to be constructed across the strait. Since 1944, various bridge projects to span the strait have been proposed or attempted, always hampered by the difficult geologic and geographic configuration of the area. Construction of an approach was actually started in 2003 with the |
Like a Prayer (album) | Tour | which visited Asia, North America and Europe.
Originally planned as the "Like a Prayer World Tour", it consisted of 57 dates and was divided into five different sections; the first inspired by the 1927 German expressionist film Metropolis, the second by religious themes, the third by the film Dick Tracy and cabaret, the fourth by Art Deco, and the fifth was an encore. The show contained sexual themes and Catholic imagery, such as in the performances of "Like a Prayer" and "Oh Father”, which were based in church-like surroundings with Madonna wearing a crucifix and her backup dancers dressed like priests |
John Davies (photographer) | Life and work | medium format cameras, and work from the 1990s a large format camera, although in recent years he has begun using dSLR and digital medium format cameras in his work as well. While his career began by producing traditional, but masterful, landscape images he quickly progressed to composition where the natural environment was juxtaposed against industrial elements impinging on it. This theme of industrialisation has become more prominent with The British Landscape his best-known body of work, and recent work in Mount Fuji, Japan (Fuji City), a meditation on the balance between nature and industry. He has also become involved in |
Legal history of China | 1978-1981 | to, by one at the next higher level. Each procuratorate was responsible to the standing committee of the people's congress at the corresponding level.
People's congresses have been re-established at all levels, charged with the work of enacting law. The use of mediation committees – informed groups of citizens who resolve about 90 percent of the China's civil disputes and some minor criminal cases at no cost to the parties – is one innovative device. There are more than 800,000 such committees in both rural and urban areas. The primary motivation has been to limit arbitrary behaviour by powerful officials and to provide |
Kwangju Foreign School | School philosophy and curriculum | Kwangju Foreign School School philosophy and curriculum Students attend international schools because the classes are taught in English, and to gain acceptance into universities in the U.S. The course curriculum is therefore identical to that of U.S high schools, and counseling services in the schools provide the students with direction as to the appropriate activities to be involved in and the preparation necessary for the special entrance exams for non native English speakers. The school is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)
The school has an ESL program for students with limited English skills. Some of the |
Lille Congress | null | Lille Congress The Lille Congress was the twelfth national congress of the French Socialist Party (Parti socialiste or PS). It took place from 3 to 5 April 1987. |
Johnny Carey | IFA XI & Coaching career | Together with Peter Farrell, Con Martin, Bill Gorman, Tommy Eglington, Alex Stevenson and Davy Walsh, he was one of seven players born in the Irish Free State to play for the IFA XI that day. The draw helped the team finish as runners-up in the 1947 British Home Championship. Coaching career One of Carey's earliest experiences as a coach came when he was still an active player; he took charge of the Ireland team at the 1948 Olympics. Ireland lost 3–1 to the Netherlands in the opening round in a game played at Fratton Park. Carey retired as a player |
Kovilje Monastery | Architecture | Kovilje Monastery Architecture The monastery consists of two temples: the first is dedicated to the Holy Archangel Gabriel and another, that was later built, is dedicated to St. Nicholas. Church of the Holy Archangel partially rests on the rock, so it can be classified in a group of ascetic cave churches. It is a single building with altar niche. It is believed to have been built in the late 12th or the early 13th century, judging by the remains of frescoes and traditions.
Another temple has a rectangular base and a dome. From frescoes dating from the 13th century, which have |
Jonas of Bobbio | null | Jonas of Bobbio Monk Jonas of Bobbio or Jonas Bobiensis in Latin, also known as Jonas of Susa (Sigusia, now Susa, Italy, c. 600 – after 659 AD) was a Columbanian monk and writer of hagiography, among which his Life of Saint Columbanus is notable.
In 618, Jonas arrived at the monastery of Bobbio Abbey in the province of Pavia, just three years after the death of its founder Columbanus, and he asserted that he had based his account of the great Irish saint on the testimony of persons who had known him intimately, such as the saint's companions.
Jonas was appointed |
Linkage (horse) | Preakness Stakes | a mile he was one length back and at the mile was one and half back as the leader tipped the clock at 1:362/5 for eight furlongs. At the top of the stretch Shoemaker asked Linkage for his run and he responded willingly. He closed steadily with every stride in a game effort but could not quite catch Aloma's Ruler who held on to win by a neck. Linkage came in second by seven lengths over 41-1 longshot Cut Away. Linkage took home 20% of the purse which equalled $40,000 that day in the 107th running of the Preakness. |
Lighting in libraries | null | Lighting in libraries The issue of lighting in libraries is one that is still discussed and debated today. Well-designed and carefully positioned lighting makes patrons feel good and comfortable in their surroundings; bad lighting creates problems for patrons when they are reading, studying or searching for books and may keep their visit to the library short. Lighting can even have a negative impact on library staff too. If poor lighting harms the ability of the staff to function, which can happen if lighting creates glare and heavy shadows, the library is likely to be unpopular. A library with insufficient or |
Jack Murphy (Irish politician) | Accusations | many quarters which attempted to put an unfavourable "spin" on both his intentions and his actions as a TD. He later responded to several of the chief accusations laid against him in the article "Why I left Ireland" as told to Jim Flanagan which was published in The Sunday Review on 29 March 1959.
One accusation is he used his influence as a TD to cheat the system and assist supporters. However Murphy himself stated emphatically to Jim Flanagan in this article how he was careful to avoid abusing his influence as a TD. For example, he refused to get jobs |
Lachhu Maharaj (musician) | Death | on 28 July 2016, at the age of 71. He was cremated in Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Condolences were received from Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Politician Sonia Gandhi commented that "His contributions to classical as well as the popular film genre would forever inspire artistes in the years to come."
Then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, said in his condolence message that 'Lacchu Maharaj popularized tabla playing internationally with his talented performances, and his death was a huge loss'.
Classical singer Girija Devi said it was an irreparable loss, and Maharaj knew |
Klamath Union High School | History & Academics | Klamath Union High School History Funding of the school began in 1901, with the first graduate in 1903. The construction of the school began in 1927, with the first marching band the following year. KUHS opened with 520 students and had 77 graduates in its first year. Paul Jackson was the principal and, in 1958, Pelican Pete was chosen as the school's mascot.
The school colors are red and white, and a large "K" is marked in white stone on a nearby hill. Academics In 2008, 89% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 186 students, 166 |
Lewis Teague (painter) | Biography | Norwich, Vermont in 1954. Together they raised four children in Vermont. Teague learned to paint and draw again, in his studio in Norwich, this time using his right hand.
He delivered a body of work that was shown at the New York World's Fair in the Gas Pavilion restaurant in 1960, at the Port Authority in 1964, and through the Bermuda Society of Arts in Bermuda, with Henry Moore in 1965. Numerous shows in Vermont and New York City punctuated his career until his death in 1978.
A show was held posthumously in 1983 at the Unicorn Gallery in Aspen, which |
LGBT music | Origin of the term & History | LGBT music Origin of the term The origin of the genre arose during the 1980s when post-disco dance and house music, Hi-NRG, and freestyle music became more prevalent in the United States and LGBT artists gained prominence for exploring popular music trends. DJ Larry Levan started his DJ career at the gay disco Paradise Garage. History In the 1890s, New Orleans began testing different prostitution policies which led to brothels and gay musicians like Tony Jackson or Bessie Smith. Jazz was born from many homosexual artists. As it flourished, blues performers like Lucille Bogan and Ma Rainey began singing about |
Lilian Garcia-Roig | Awards and residencies | Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Artists Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Milton & Sally Avery Fellowship, Hambidge Fellow and as a visiting artist at the Ludwig Foundation in Havana, Cuba. |
Len Ford | Early years | Len Ford Early years Ford was born in Washington, D.C., in 1926. His father, Leonard G. Ford, Sr., was a Virginia native who was employed as a "skilled laborer" by the federal government in 1920 and as a printing operator at the Government Printing Office in 1940. His mother, Jeraldine, was also a Virginia native who worked as a social worker in a settlement house in 1940. Ford had an older sister, Anita, and a younger brother, Claude.
As a teenager, Ford attended Armstrong Technical High School, where he played football, basketball and baseball. As a high school athlete, |
Knox County, Tennessee | 2010 census & Legislative Branch | and 13.05% aged 65 and older. The median age was 37.2 years. 51.39% of the population was female, and 48.61% was male.
The median household income was estimated to be $52,458, and the per capita income was estimated to be $30,541. Approximately 13.5% of the population was below the poverty line. Legislative Branch The Knox County Board of Commissioners is the legislative body of Knox County and consists of 11 members: nine elected at the district level and two elected countywide to serve at-large. Commissioners meet multiple times each month, with their primary business meetings being a monthly work session and |
Josip Iličić | Personal life | had lived in Slovenia his whole life. Later, he made a similar comment regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country where he was born. |
Josip Pivarić | Dinamo Zagreb | Josip Pivarić Dinamo Zagreb Josip Pivarić joined the GNK Dinamo Zagreb youth academy at a young age. He was promoted to the first team during the spring of 2008. He went out on loan to Dinamo feeder club NK Lokomotiva Zagreb that same year, making 13 appearances in his first season with the Lokosi. In January 2009, he signed a seven and a half year contract with Dinamo Zagreb, spending until the end of the 2011–12 season on loan at Lokomotiva.
In January 2012, Pivarić rejoined the senior squad at Dinamo. He made his senior debut for Dinamo on 25 February |
Liberal socialism | John Stuart Mill | a socialist outlook and defending some socialist causes. Within this revised work, he also made the radical proposal that the whole wage system be abolished in favour of a co-operative wage system. Nonetheless, some of his views on the idea of flat taxation remained, albeit altered in the third edition of the Principles of Political Economy to reflect a concern for differentiating restrictions on "unearned" incomes, which he favoured; and those on "earned" incomes, which he did not favour.
Mill's Principles of Political Economy, first published in 1848, was one of the most widely read of all books on economics in |
Leicester City Centre | Facilities | extreme south, in Southfields), Museum Square (off New Walk) and Town Hall Square being considerable open spaces. Outside the ring road are Castle Gardens (by Leicester Castle), De Montfort Square (off New Walk), Victoria Park, Aylestone Meadows, Western Park and Abbey Park.
Musical venues in the city are somewhat limited since the closure in 1998 then the demolition of the Granby Halls in 2001– the largest two venues, De Montfort Hall (mentioned above) and University of Leicester's students union (now an O2 academy), are both in Southfields, some way from the city centre, whose main venues include the pub-sized The Musician, |
Linda de Mol | Television | Linda de Mol Television De Mol made her television debut at age 12 in Wat je zegt ben je zelf, a programme made by children for AVRO.
In 1984, she resurfaced on Sky Channel, hosting music programmes such as Coca-Cola Eurochart Top 50 and In touch with the Dutch (some of Endemol's first productions). From 1986 onwards, De Mol announced cartoons on The DJ Kat Show named after her feline sidekick played by US-exile puppeteer Robbie Hahn. In 1990, some of the scripts for Billy Hot Dog were re-written and shown on TROS' Wednesday evening slot.
De Mol went on to present |
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians | Membership & Language | Annuity Payrolls of Chippewas and Ottawas of Michigan," listed under certain Ottawa chiefs; and is not enrolled in another tribe. The Tribe also accepts: "Any child who is less than
18 years of age, who meets the membership criteria in Section 1, shall be eligible for membership,
notwithstanding such adoption." Language The Little River Band's original language Anishinaabemowin, an Algonquian language, is designated as "critically endangered" by the 2010 Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Few elders and other members can still speak the full language. The Band is spread out far |
Iqbal Manzil | Inside the Iqbal Manzil & Library | used by him are also on display. Library The library at the Iqbal Manzil holds over 4000 books, 2000 on Iqbaliyat alone, all of which were donated by visitors. Visitors can sit in the library free of cost and peruse the scholarly works at their own leisure. The library has facilitated 5 students in attaining their Ph.D on the works of Iqbal. The Punjab Government has announced to establish an advance research centre at the Iqbal Manzil which would facilitate research being conducted on Iqbal and his works. The research centre has not yet been established despite more than two |
Littleton Kirkpatrick | Biography | Littleton Kirkpatrick Biography Kirkpatrick was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on October 19, 1797. He graduated from Princeton College in 1815. He studied law in Washington, D.C., was admitted to the bar in 1821, and returned to New Brunswick to begin his practice. He was master in court chancery in 1824, and surrogate of Middlesex County from 1831 to 1836.
He was Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1841 to 1842. His grandfather John Bubenheim Bayard had been elected mayor of the city in 1790.
Kirkpatrick served as a trustee of Rutgers College from 1841 to 1859. He |
La Paz traffic zebras | The Program & Milestones | of the children who see in them an inspiring character and an example to follow. Milestones 2001 - Pilot experience accompanying the Vial Plan
The project was born on November 19, 2001 with the figure of a Zebra on 4 legs to attract the attention of the citizens in La Paz, Bolivia. Starting with only 24 young people, the idea was to wear a costume of a zebra to draw attention and start the Vial Plan, making visible the strips of the zebra crossing with a character representing a zebra.
2002 - Organization schedules, places and equipment
The support for the Vial Plan |
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