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Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux | Majority opinion | majority opinion was written by Justice Frankfurter.
The majority held that the district court's abstention was justified because the issue of eminent domain was “intimately involved with the sovereign prerogative.” Given that such matters “normally turn on legislation with much local variation interpreted in local settings,” it was proper for federal courts to defer to state courts “in a matter close to the political interests of a State” in the interests of “harmonious federal-state relations.” The majority also noted that the district court had not abdicated jurisdiction but simply postponed it, allowing for the possibility of the case being returned to |
Lu Shang | During Emperor Xuānzong's reign | Emperor Xuānzong arguing that that leniency would have the opposite effect of drawing further divine displeasure. Due to the machinations of Lu's fellow chancellor Bai Minzhong, Emperor Xuānzong approved Ma's petition, and soon thereafter, Lu was removed from his chancellor position and made the military governor of Wuchang Circuit (武昌, headquartered in modern Wuhan, Hubei).
In 859, Lu was suffering from an illness, and he submitted a petition requesting a replacement. Emperor Xuānzong recalled him to Chang'an to serve as minister of census (戶部尚書, Hubu Shangshu). Later that year, though, before Lu could reach Chang'an, he died at |
Lisette Melendez | Early life & Career | Lisette Melendez Early life Melendez was born and raised in East Harlem, New York. Melendez's childhood inspirations include her mother and aunt, who sang in a church choir and community theater. She honed her singing voice in her teenage years through emulating Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler. In high school she became a fan of Puerto Rican freestyle music singer Lisa Lisa who had many dance hits. Melendez, also of Puerto Rican descent, was inspired by Lisa Lisa's success. Career She got her break in 1988 and sang backing vocals for a track by dance music record producer Carlos Berrios, |
Littleton Kirkpatrick | Legacy | legatee. Rutgers used the proceeds of this bequest to build Kirkpatrick Chapel in 1873. Today, this chapel is located on the historic Queen's Campus section of Rutgers's College Avenue Campus. |
Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg | Knighthood and peerage | having the honour conferred by The Queen on 13 December 1994. On 4 May 2000 he was created a Life Peer by Letters Patent, taking the title Baron Turnberg, of Cheadle in the County of Cheshire.
At the House of Lords, Turnberg speaks frequently on medical practice, medical ethics, and the Middle East.
He is President of the All-Party Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group and a parliamentary supporter of Labour Friends of Israel.
He resigned from the Labour group in July 2019 together with Ara Darzi and David Triesman. Turnberg cited dissatisfaction with the party's policies on foreign affairs, its approach to Brexit |
Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont | Life | of the Christian Church. The second is a history of the Roman emperors during the same period.
Tillemont became a priest at the age of thirty-nine and settled at Port-Royal. When Port-Royal was dissolved in 1679, he moved to his family estate at Tillemont, where he spent the rest of his life, pursuing his historical work with great devotion. His Histoire began to issue from the press in 1690 and his Mémoires in 1693. The publication of both works was not complete at the time of his death. The final volumes were completed and published posthumously by his secretary Michel Tronchay. |
Lovro Šturm | Biography | Lovro Šturm Biography He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). After completing grammar school in Ljubljana he enrolled at the Faculty of Law at Ljubljana University. He completed his degree in 1961. After completing additional studies in Trieste and Strasbourg, he was awarded a diploma by the International Faculty of Comparative Law in 1963.
He headed the Public Administration Institute of the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. Lovro Šturm was the President of the Council of the Public Administration Institute. Between 1976 and 1976, he worked as a legal advisor of the OECD, and between |
Love dart | null | of using love darts in snails is a form of sexual selection. Prior to copulation, each of the two snails (or slugs) attempts to "shoot" one (or more) darts into the other snail (or slug). There is no organ to receive the dart; this action is more analogous to a stabbing, or to being shot with an arrow or flechette. The dart does not fly through the air to reach its target however; instead it is fired as a contact shot.
The love dart is not a penial stylet (in other words this is not an accessory organ for sperm transfer). |
Journals of legislative bodies | United Kingdom | Clerks at the Table, and printed on the responsibility of the Clerk of the House. In the Commons the Votes and Proceedings, but not the Journal, bear the Speaker's signature in fulfilment of a former order that he should "peruse" them before publication. The journals of the British House of Commons begin in the first year of the reign of Edward VI in 1547, and are complete, except for a short interval under Elizabeth I. Those of the House of Lords date from the first year of Henry VIII in 1509. Before that date the proceedings in parliament were entered |
Little Hadham | Hadham Hall | a heart in a silver box was found at Hadham Hall, suggesting that the King sent the heart to Capell's son. It was later taken to Cassiobury, but since the dissolution and sale of the Cassiobury estate, the whereabouts of Capell's heart are now unknown. A memorial stone to Lord Capell is in St Cecelia's Church in Little Hadham.
After the move to Watford, Hadham Hall fell into disrepair and was partly demolished, although it was retained by the Capell family, and the estate continued to be farmed by tenant farmers. The Capells used the hall to entertain important guests, such |
Laurence Muir | Philanthropy | Laurence Muir is proud to be the Patron of the Microsurgery Foundation at the Bernard O’Brien Research Centre.
In the Mid seventies Laurence was challenged to raise $13 million to build St. Vincents Private Hospital for Sister Fabian the then Head of the Sisters of Charity at St Vincents. Urged on by the devout sister ("God will find a way Mr Muir") the goal was achieved by persuading the State Government to provide a Government guarantee thereby making the loan a "30/20" semi Governmental which the Institutions were happy to subscribe at a rate the hospital could handle.
In the seventies |
Kent Lambert | Biography and early career & Early campaigns | leader in several churches and was an Eagle Scout and scoutmaster. Early campaigns After retiring from the Air Force at the rank of colonel in 2004, Lambert entered Colorado politics, challenging Michael Merrifield for the 18th house district seat in central Colorado Springs, losing with 42 percent of the vote. He served as legislative assistant to representatives Dave Schultheis and Keith King and helped found the Republican Study Committee of Colorado, serving as its executive director until 2005.
In 2006, Lambert ran to succeed Rep. David Schultheis, who was elected to the Colorado Senate that same year. Lambert faced Colin Mullaney |
John C. Colt | Early life & Double-entry bookkeeping | Mardi Gras masquerade celebrations in New Orleans. Double-entry bookkeeping While teaching in Louisville during 1834, Colt began lecturing on "Italian Book-keeping", or double-entry bookkeeping. He toured the United States giving a series of lectures concerning the topic and by 1837 had begun writing a textbook concerning the subject.
His textbook, The Italian science of double-entry book-keeping: simplified, arranged and methodized, received good reviews. Colt had the book published in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, and by 1839 more than 200 schools were using it. Colt eliminated the word "Italian" from the title for the second edition and included transcripts |
Liberal socialism | Germany | through the Sopade. In 1934, the Sopade began to publish material that indicated that the SPD was turning towards liberal socialism. Curt Geyer, a prominent proponent of liberal socialism within the Sopade, declared that Sopade represented the tradition of Weimar Republic social democracy—liberal democratic socialism and declared that Sopade's held true to its mandate of traditional liberal principles combined with the political realism of socialism. After the restoration of democracy in West Germany, the SPD's Godesberg Program in 1959 eliminated the party's remaining Marxist policies. The SPD then became officially based upon freiheitlicher Sozialismus (liberal socialism). West German Chancellor Willy |
La Verdad (horse) | Background & 2013: three-year-old season | La Verdad (horse) Background The phrase "la verdad" means "the truth" in Spanish. La Verdad's sire is Yes It's True, a multiple graded stakes winner who placed in 15 stakes races during his career, including victories in the Grade 1 De Francis Dash, Grade 2 Riva Ridge and six Grade 3 events. Her mother, Noble Fire, was sired by Hook and Ladder, a two-time graded stakes winner in Florida. 2013: three-year-old season La Verdad began her racing career at the age of three against New York-breds. She broke her maiden in her second lifetime start at Aqueduct on April 7, |
Lu Shang | During Emperor Wenzong's and Emperor Wuzong's reigns | was complex, and the administrators were using this opportunity to embezzle profits from the fishermen who produced salt. When Lu reached Su Prefecture, he met with the fishermen personally and simplified the regulations, allowing them to sell as much salt as they could properly produce, rather than set quotas, and this benefited the people greatly. It was said that, as a result, the taxation the government received from the salt monopoly at Su Prefecture was doubled. Li Shi the chancellor in charge of the monopoly at the time was impressed, and he had Lu made the governor |
KERN | History | by Casey Kasem, beginning on July 4, 1970. Also in 1970, KERN sold its FM station to The Reliable Broadcast Company, which had just bought 1350 KLYD (now KLHC). Emmy Award winning writer Ken Levine (then known as Ken Stevens) got his start in radio at KERN in 1971.
As Top 40 listening switched to FM in the late 1970s, KERN moved to a middle of the road format, with national news supplied by ABC Radio News. In the 1980s, KERN began adding some talk shows to its schedule. By the mid-1990s, KERN had made the switch to all |
Legal history of China | 1978-1981 | preceded the announcements. Beginning in early 1979, for example, the media hosted debates on subjects such as judicial independence, presumption of innocence, and equality of all citizens before the law. A national conference of procuratorates in January 1979 stressed the need for thorough investigations in all cases and respect for evidence. The participants in the conference warned that extorted confessions would no longer be accepted and that the police could not make arrests without procuratorate approval. If circumstances did not permit prior approval, the approval had to be obtained after the fact or the detainee had to be released.
Judicial work |
Leoluca Orlando | Biography | he ran as centre-left candidate for mayor of Palermo, after having won the centre-left primary election in a landslide with about 72% of the votes. He however lost to incumbent Diego Cammarata of the House of Freedoms, who obtained about 53% of votes compared with Orlando's 45%. Following the results, Orlando denounced massive electoral frauds and asked for the annulment of the vote.
In March 2012 he announced his candidacy for Mayor of Palermo as an independent in the May elections, after having unsuccessfully supported Rita Borsellino's mayoral bid in a controversial primary election won by his former protégé Fabrizio Ferrandelli. |
Justin Lee Collins | Television and film | Collins confirmed that he would therefore not be making another series of The Justin Lee Collins Show for ITV2. On joining Five he hosted the game show Heads Or Tails, where players can win up to £1m by correctly calling coin flips and a chat show called Good Times which has since been cancelled due to poor viewing figures.
In Justin Lee Collins: The Wrestler, Collins trains for 10 days in Mexico with a Mexican transvestite Luchador (Mexican wrestler) who fights under the name Cassan Lee Dro, as an exotico. Justin adopts a rudo (bad guy) Luchador persona, El Glorioso, |
Lower Basildon | Notable people | 1741. Tull developed his ideas at a farm called Prosperous at Shalbourne, just south of Hungerford. |
John Lyon (cricketer) | Early cricket career & Regular county player | as Lancashire's first-choice wicket-keeper in 1975 and 1976, leaving Lyon playing mostly for the second team. But in his one first-class match of 1976, against Somerset at Weston-super-Mare, he went in as nightwatchman after 21 wickets had fallen on the first day and Jack Simmons, opening Lancashire's second innings, had been forced to retire hurt after being hit over the eye. Lyon survived that night and went on the next day to make 60, his first innings of more than 50. Regular county player After the 1976 season, Engineer went into business, and though Lancashire paid him a retainer, the |
Listasavn Føroya | Annual exhibitions | of four, representing a person of the state government, the artist's association named above, the artist's union and the city council of Tórshavn (one of each).
Listasavn Føroya is open year round. From May 1st to 31st of August the museum is open all days of the week from 11 to 17. From 1st of September to 30th of April the museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 13 to 16. The building hosts a coffee shop and a book and art store. Annual exhibitions One exhibition which normally is every summer, it the Olavsoka Exhibition (Ólavsøkuframsýningin), which is the Faroe |
Koert Vermeulen | Illuminations compensated by solar energy production & Lighting design for opening and closing ceremonies of Youth Olympic Games in Singapore (2010) | (concentrated PhotoVoltaic) systems in Themis solar power plant, located in Targassonne in the Pyrénées-Orientales department. The entire consumption of energy utilized by the illuminations is being off-set with the solar energy (average of 40 days), which is put back into the French national grid (ERDF).
ACT Lighting Design's innovative approach used the latest LED technology, combined with "a artistic aesthetic and simplicity", and Tree Rings will grace Paris's avenue during the festive season until 2014. Lighting design for opening and closing ceremonies of Youth Olympic Games in Singapore (2010) In May 2009, Koert Vermeulen with ACT Lighting Design won the selection |
Loch Errochty | Water supply to the loch | loch. Other small streams flow directly off the 892-metre-high (2,927 ft) mountain of Beinn a' Chuallaich which stands just to the south. Supplementary water is diverted into the loch from the east by the Errochty catchwater, a system of tunnels and surface pipelines at a height of approximately 380 metres which redirects water from five small tributary streams of the River Garry, and the Garry itself. The catchwater then goes through a tunnel in the hill which separates the Garry and Errochty valleys to join the loch. This method of re-directing water allows it to be used more often to generate |
Lily D'Ambrosio | Political career & Personal life | Lily D'Ambrosio Political career D'Ambrosio joined the Labor Party at university, and subsequently became an organiser with the Australian Services Union in 1986. She was promoted to state organiser in 1994, and served in the position until 1999, when she became an electorate officer to Alex Andrianopoulos, the then-Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He retired in 2002, and she replaced him as the party's candidate in his safe seat of Mill Park.
In 2010, D'Ambrosio joined John Brumby's cabinet when she was appointed Minister for Community Development after a cabinet reshuffle following the resignation of Lynne Kosky. Personal life D'Ambrosio |
Listeria | Pathogenesis | bacterium instead usurps the host cell's cytoskeleton to move. Listeria, inventively, polymerizes an actin tail or "comet", from actin monomers in the host's cytoplasm with the promotion of virulence factor ActA. The comet forms in a polar manner and aids the bacterial migration to the host cell's outer membrane. Gelsolin, an actin filament severing protein, localizes at the tail of Listeria and accelerates the bacterium's motility. Once at the cell surface, the actin-propelled Listeria pushes against the cell's membrane to form protrusions called filopods or "rockets". The protrusions are guided by the cell's leading edge to |
Laurits Tuxen | Biography & Personal life | his self-portrait in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and portraits of P. S. Krøyer, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. He also made portraits in sculpture, including a portrait group of Krøyer and Michael Ancher. Tuxen went on to paint a number of landscapes in and around Skagen, but also completed a number of paintings of his family, friends and garden flowers. Personal life He was married in 1886 to Charlotte Pauline Ursule de Baisieux (1862-1899).
In 1901, after the death of his first wife, he married Frederikke Kos Treschow (1856-1946).
He subsequently purchased Madam Bendsen's |
Julius Caesar (Andrea Ferrucci) | History & Description | Julius Caesar (Andrea Ferrucci) Julius Caesar is the name of a bust by 16th century artist Andrea Ferrucci depicting Roman dictator Julius Caesar. The sculpture is a Chiaramonti-Pisa type style bust of Caesar inspired by the Chiaramonti Caesar portrait. History The bust was made between 1512 and 1614. It is now located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Description The bust portrays Caesar at about the age of 45 to 50, showing some wrinkles, but still vigorous with a thin, broad forehead, direct eyes, Roman nose, smallish jawline with a slightly prominent chin and a long |
Ji Yun | Late life & Poetry & "A Sail in the Glass" & Mansion | 82 in 1805.
In Ji Yun's late life, he was inspired by Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi to compile his own collections of remarkable tales, many of which were held to be satirical portraits of prominent Neo-Confucian scholars. Poetry One poem by Ji Yun is shown below: "A Sail in the Glass" Countless welcoming good mountains along the river,
My eyes are lit up as soon as I'm out of Hangzhou,
Misty river banks with mixed sky and green,
A sail in the glass. Mansion The mansion in which Ji Yun lived for the last thirty years of his life was originally the residence of |
Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire | In popular culture | purchase of a semi-derelict farmhouse (Trehilyn) by the broadcaster Griff Rhys Jones and the ensuing BBC television documentary, A Pembrokeshire Farmhouse, which recorded its restoration. |
Lawrence Cohn | null | Phillips [productions], Wayne Cochran & the CC Riders, Lead Belly [first live concert], Otis Blackwell, Gene Austin, Rufus [pre-Chaka Khan], Max Weinberg ["Blackstone"], Poco, Tammy Wynette, Charlie Rich, Jim & Jesse, Bob Luman, David Houston, Jim Messina, Terry Reid, Mashmakan [Canadian super group], Gary Busey ["Carp"], Redbone, CHASE. Santana, Neil Diamond, Taj Mahal, Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem, Gene Autry, Pete Seeger, Bill Monroe.
Cohn spent several years in Paris, France as the head of a Magazine & Book Publishing Company. He is a "three category" Blues Foundation winner [Hall of Fame; Vintage Historical Reissue; Career: Historical Preservation] as well |
LGBT music | LGBT artists and music | with her album Dirty Computer, and released the song "Make Me Feel"; the music video detailing a woman's attraction to two club goers.
Straight and cisgender allies have also produced LGBT-oriented music. Country artist Phil Vassar released the song "Bobbi with an I" in 2009, which uses a humorous narrative to encourage acceptance of transgender individuals. Singer-songwriter Hozier released the song "Take Me to Church", whose music video partially focused on religion-based homophobia. "1-800-273-8255", a song performed by Logic and Alessia Cara, dealt with homophobia and the pain that it results in. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis teamed up with Mary Lambert |
Luigi Pirotta | Background | represented the CNGEI in all international Scout conferences, and led the Italian contingents to the 6th World Scout Jamboree in 1947 and the 7th World Scout Jamboree in 1951. |
Kyoto | Baseball & Horse racing & International relations | their franchised games at Kinugasa Ballpark (ja:衣笠球場 Kinugasa Kyujo) in Kita-ku. In 2010, Nishikyogoku Stadium in Ukyo-ku became the home of a newly formed girls professional baseball team, the Kyoto Asto Dreams.
Additionally, Kyoto's high school baseball teams are strong, with Heian and Toba in particular making strong showings recently at the annual tournament held in Koshien Stadium, Nishinomiya, near Osaka. Horse racing Kyoto Racecourse in Fushimi-ku is one of ten racecourses operated by the Japan Racing Association. It hosts notable horse races including the Kikuka-shō, Spring Tenno Sho, and Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup. International relations Kyoto, having been the |
Lower Basildon | Basildon Park & Black and white & Grotto and wildlife | Lower Basildon Basildon Park The National Trust property, Basildon Park, is just above the church. Black and white The village is well-known locally for the presence of a row of timber-framed "black-and-white" houses to the west. However, only one of these possesses a true timber frame. The remainder are built of brick, and clad with timber to resemble framing. These latter houses are said to have been designed by Edwin Lutyens, who had been commissioned to design workers' cottages for Basildon Park. Grotto and wildlife Basildon Grotto, or The Grotto House, is located 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to the west on |
Linda de Mol | Personal life | Reuter, on 23 August 1991. In September 1995 they divorced. Soon after, De Mol started dating director Sander Vahle. They moved in together a year later. The pair have two children, son Julian (born 1997) and daughter Noa (born 1999). On 31 October 2007 it was announced that De Mol and Vahle had officially separated. Since then De Mol has been in a relationship with composer and keyboardist Jeroen Rietbergen. |
Lauren Scott | Civil rights activism | work to advance civil rights in Nevada. By working with members of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Nevada Women's Lobby and the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), she was able to help secure the passage of transgender inclusive civil rights legislation for the first time in Nevada. She has been recognized on the floor of both the Nevada Assembly and the Senate.
During the 2013 Nevada legislative session Scott testified in support of SB139, a bill to add 'gender identity and expression' to the state hate crime statutes. The bill was signed by Governor Brian Sandoval on May 21, |
LGBT music | LGBT artists and music | artists, the increasing social tolerance of the late 20th and early 21st centuries allowed such artists to come out publicly. Early examples of this arose with the sexual liberation movement, with artists such as Elton John, Village People, Sylvester, Tom Robinson, Jill Sobule, Indigo Girls, k.d. lang, Queen, David Bowie, Little Richard, Esquerita, Melissa Etheridge, Janis Ian, The B-52's, Cher, Kylie Minogue, Grace Jones and Marc Almond, among others.
The 1980s saw increased exposure to LGBT culture, namely genderbending and cross-dressing, in the music industry with artists such as Culture Club, George Michael, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys, Dead |
Laurence Muir | Philanthropy | launched in the mid eighties with Muir as chairman. It was subsequently the subject of a private sector takeover.
In 1986 he worked with Sir Ian McLennan and Mr Baillieu Myer and the Minister for Science Hon. Barry Jones to establish the National Science and Technology Centre. In 1988 the centre was built in the Parliamentary Triangle in Canberra enabling science to take its place with the Arts and the Law. The Board of the National Science and Technology Centre was asked by the Government to take hands on science to every part of Australia. Which has |
Knebworth Festival 1979 | History | on a lengthy tour, as explained by Dave Lewis:
The whole [Led Zeppelin touring] operation had become too big. Page's experience from the 1971 club tour ruled out any small dates. They had played the biggest indoor arena in the UK (Earls Court 1975) four years earlier. As Peter Grant saw it, they had to come back in the grandest style possible. Knebworth was the answer and after negotiations with promoter Freddie Bannister the 4 August date was scheduled with a second date on hold. The demand for tickets for the first date was enormous, leading to the second date being |
Leroy Orange | null | technicalities, the Bluhm Legal Clinic Director Thomas F. Geraghty and clinic students entered the case.
On 10 January 2003 Illinois Governor George Ryan granted Orange a full pardon based on innocence, criticizing prosecutors and the judiciary for relying on "procedural technicalities at the exclusion of the quest for truth".
Leroy Orange was subsequently arrested for attempting to sell crack cocaine to an undercover police officer. |
London bullion market | Unallocated risks & Membership | September 2009. While members of the LBMA provide no information on the backing for unallocated gold the improbably high turnover is suggestive they are operating a fractional reserve system where unallocated accounts are only partially backed by physical gold. Similarly to a bank run this makes LBMA unallocated gold accounts susceptible to loss if a sufficient number of market participants request delivery of physical bullion. Membership LBMA accepts memberships from companies that deal with business closely related to gold or silver bullion in the London market. Members pay between £5,000 and £12,000 annually depending on membership type. LBMA members come |
Lupus Servatus | Literary contribution | his letters. It is because of his passion for copying and preserving manuscripts so that they may be passed on that he is regarded as an influential literate figure and the first humanist. Though his personal works and letters discuss theological matters it was not his chief interest. Philology was his desired area of expertise. Scholars have increasingly become aware of the detailed examination that Lupus undertook when studying his acquired texts. The scholar E.K. Rand of Harvard University reveals:
"...no less than five manuscripts that contain the corrections or collations of Lupus and one that is entirely written by that |
Kawasaki KAT-1 | Design and development | tips, constructed from two metal spars and stressed aluminium skin. Inboard of the ailerons, which are fabric covered over aluminium alloy frames and mass balanced, there are hydraulically operated split flaps. The horizontal tail, mounted on the top of the fuselage, is also straight tapered with blunt tips but the fin and rudder are more rounded, with a long dorsal fillet reaching forward to the rear of the cockpit glazing. All the rear surfaces have alloy frames and fabric covering. The rudder and elevator are both statically and aerodynamically balanced and carry trim tabs.
The fuselage of the |
John Franklin Botume | Life and career | John Franklin Botume John Franklin Botume (November 21, 1855 – October 17, 1917) was a singer, choir director and vocal pedagogist. He is the author of several books on singing including Modern Singing Methods: Their Use and Abuse (1885). Life and career John Franklin Botume was born in Boston, Massachusetts on November 21, 1855 to Elizabeth Augusta (Lord) Botume and John Botume, Jr., a successful businessman with the Baldwin, Botume & Co. packing company. John Franklin was the only son and had two sisters.
Coming from a well-to-do family, Frank (as he frequently went by) attended the Boston Latin |
Kalinga Magha | The Rise of Dambadeniya | (General) Subha; another was Gangadoni, founded by the general Sankha, barely 15 miles ('two yojanas') from Magha's capital. From these places the various nobles 'gave as little heed to the infamous army of the Ruler Magha, though ... as to a blade of grass and protected without fear that district and the Order [of Buddhist monks]'.
The man who eventually emerged as the leader of the resistance was Vijayabahu III, who the chronicles identify as a descendant of Sirisamghabodhi (242-244 or 251-253), a king of Rajarata, though it is possible that the relationship was through marriage. He appears to have spent |
Len Ford | Family and later years | a reputation for being "cagey with the dollar" and told Jet magazine in 1955: "In what other sport can a boy just graduated from college make $5,000 in his first six months, then have a half-year left to make more money?" After retiring from football, Ford attended the Detroit College of Law for a year-and-a-half, but never received a law degree. From 1963 until at least December 1970, Ford worked as the assistant director at Considine Recreation Center, the largest recreation center in Detroit. At the time of his death 16 months later, he was described in |
Jesse H. Jones | Exit from Washington & Zoning proponent & Suite 8F Group | the Commerce Department and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which he claimed were exploited by business interests. Zoning proponent In 1948, Hugh Roy Cullen led the effort to prevent new zoning regulation for land development in the city of Houston. This was in response to a group of zoning advocates led by Jones. Cullen believed zoning regulations to be socialist and un-American. Two more attempts to introduce zoning regulations to the city of Houston failed in 1962 and 1993. Suite 8F Group Jones was associated with a group of Houston political and social leaders known as the Suite 8F Group, named |
Koba Gvenetadze | Education and career | Koba Gvenetadze Education and career Gvenetadze was educated at Tbilisi State University and graduated with a masters in economics from The American University in Washington, D.C.. He was formerly Deputy Minister of Finance and a Deputy State Minister, before serving as a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund between 2002 and 2015. |
Listasavn Føroya | Annual exhibitions | Islands Art Society's annual Exhibition of Faroese art. At the Olavsoka Art Exhibition 2010 there were 103 artworks by 38 Faroese artist, of which five exhibited for the first time in the Faroe Islands Art Museum.
Another annual exhibition is the Spring Exhibition of Faroese Art (Várfram sýningin). |
Louis Hirsch | Life and career | Innocence (starring Anna Held), and The Girl and the Wizard. In 1910, He Came From Milwaukee was Hirsch's first full score. His Revue of Revues (1911) introduced French star Gaby Deslys to America. He subsequently wrote the music to many songs that Deslys made popular, including "The Gaby Glide", "Come Dance With Me", and "When You Hear Love's Hello". One of his best jazz tunes is "It's Getting Very Dark on Old Broadway". His first major success was Vera Violetta (1911), which made Al Jolson a star. For the Schuberts in 1912 and 1913, he contributed music to The Whirl |
Long draw | Technique | hand holding the fiber is the active hand, and the one closer to the wheel is passive. The passive hand smooths yarn, picks out vegetable matter, and pulls out extra bits of fluff, but that is all. The work of drafting is done by the active hand, and most of the regulation and smoothing of yarn is done by twist and tension.
Drafting is done by pinching off a short section of the rolag, and then pulling back while twist is added to it. The active hand pulls back until the yarn is the desired thickness. The passive hand controls how |
Leicester City Centre | The old city | at the junction of the current High Street and Highcross Street (in mediaeval times, High Street ran between the north and south gates along the line of the current Highcross Street, while the current High Street was called Swinesmarket). Leicester Cathedral and the Guildhall occupy this old area of town.
Leicester Castle lay on the south-western corner of the walls, and the Newarke was a separate walled area nearby. The Newarke Gateway (now known as the Magazine) is the only medieval gateway remaining. A small section of the town wall can be seen in the churchyard of St Mary de |
Liberal socialism | John Stuart Mill | utilitarian society would agree that everyone should be equal one way or another. Therefore, receiving inheritance would put one ahead of society unless taxed on the inheritance. Those who donate should consider and choose carefully where their money goes—some charities are more deserving than others. Considering public charities boards such as a government will disburse the money equally. However, a private charity board like a church would disburse the monies fairly to those who are in more need than others.
Mill later altered his views toward a more socialist bent, adding chapters to his Principles of Political Economy in defence of |
Litigation over global surveillance | Background & Hepting v. AT&T | Litigation over global surveillance Background Ongoing news reports in the international media have revealed operational details about the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its international partners' global surveillance of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens. The reports emanate from a cache of top secret documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In June 2013, the first of Snowden's documents were published simultaneously by The Washington Post and The Guardian, attracting considerable public attention. Hepting v. AT&T Hepting v. AT&T is a US class action lawsuit filed in January 2006 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) against the telecommunications company AT&T, |
K-2 (Kansas highway) | Route description & History | traffic (AADT) on K-2 ranged from 590 slightly northeast of Hazelton to 3820 slightly north of Anthony. History K-2 was originally designated in 1927 from Norton to Colorado. Then by 1931, K-2 became part of US-36 when it was extended into the state. The current K-2 was designated on January 7, 1937 and went from US-160 to K-42 in Norwich. Until 1950, K-2 turned northward south of Norwich and ended at K-42 in Norwich. Then in a January 1, 1950 resolution the turn was eliminated and it continued northeastward to end at K-42 east of Norwich. In 1963, K-2 was |
Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio album) | Release history | A standard LP album version containing all five tracks was released under the title Long Yellow Road (not to be confused with later Toshiko Akiyoshi quartet and big band recordings of the same title, Long Yellow Road). Another version, containing most of the same tracks from the same session, was also released in Japan under the title, Tosiko Akiyosi Recital. All five tracks from the original session as well as all six tracks from 1961's Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals were later combined on a single CD released in Japan by King Records as 1961 - Toshiko |
Lupus Servatus | Lupus as abbot & Military service | over to a private owner thereby causing the monastery's revenue to drop. Military service In these days it was common for abbots to serve as military commanders who supplied their own forces, if the king decided to go to war. Ferrières was one of these monasteries that had to provide soldiers and accommodate them. Lupus was not fond of leading soldiers into battle. He wrote a letter to the Bishop of Pordalus, begging him to use his authority to influence the king so that he could carry on as an abbot, not as a military leader.
During the war between Charles |
Khitindra Chandra Baishya | Career & Swimming | Division of CAAB. Swimming On 16 September 1974, Baishya completed a 93 hour and 11 minutes open water swim in the pond of Jagannath Hall at Dhaka University and again at the same pond for 108 hours and 5 minutes in 1976 which was organized by Dhaka University Central Students' Union. In 1980, he went to India and crossed 74 km course of Bhagirathi River under 12 hours and 28 minutes. In 2017, he crossed 146 km down the Kangsha River in 43 hours and 12 minutes. On 5 September 2018, he broke his previous record when he crossed 185 |
Indian religions | Buddhism | decline in India, but survived in Nepal and Sri Lanka, and remains more widespread in Southeast and East Asia.
Gautama Buddha, who was called an "awakened one" (Buddha), was born into the Shakya clan living at Kapilavastu and Lumbini in what is now southern Nepal. The Buddha was born at Lumbini, as emperor Ashoka's Lumbini pillar records, just before the kingdom of Magadha (which traditionally is said to have lasted from c. 546–324 BCE) rose to power. The Shakyas claimed Angirasa and Gautama Maharishi lineage, via descent from the royal lineage of Ayodhya.
Buddhism emphasises enlightenment (nibbana, nirvana) and liberation from |
Luciano Gaucci | Ahn controversy & Thoroughbred horse racing & Bankrupt and escape | to Perugia, which mounted a character assassination against Ahn just because he scored against Italy." Thoroughbred horse racing Luciano Gaucci also owned Allevamento White Star, a Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing operation who gained international fame in the late 1980s with the European Champion thoroughbred Tony Bin, winner of six Group One races including France's most prestigious event, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Gaucci also owned multiple stakes race winner Sikeston as well as Dr Devious, a colt he sold to American weight loss guru Sidney H. Craig and who won England's 1992 Epsom Derby. Bankrupt and escape After |
Kirby Grant | Movie career | adopting his first and middle names professionally. "Robert Stanton" and "Virginia Vale" were introduced in the RKO Radio Pictures feature Three Sons, with Edward Ellis and William Gargan. For the next few years Grant freelanced among various studios; his most familiar picture from this period (as Kirby Grant) is probably Blondie Goes Latin, a 1941 film with Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake.
Grant also appeared briefly in the 1943 submarine picture Destination Tokyo, playing the role of Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, organizer of the famous Doolittle Raid on Japan.
In 1943, Grant signed with Universal Pictures, where he played romantic leads |
Legal history of China | 1978-1981 | incarcerations, fabrications, prosecutions, and intimidation were forbidden, but the provisions of the law did not apply retroactively.
The Criminal Law contained a provision prohibiting the criminal prosecution of a person who had "reactionary," that is, antiparty, ideas but who had committed no "reactionary" actions. As Peng Zhen pointed out in late 1979, because "most contradictions were among the people," involving constructive criticism not antagonistic to the party or state, punishment was inappropriate (see Chinese intellectualism). As in some other areas of the law, the actual judicial disposition appeared at times to be at variance with this particular principle.
The law defined criminal |
Luna Park (play) | Summary & Original production | deal with their loss, anger and other emotions, while Lee, Kayla, Daniel, and Leslie follow through with their relationships, Daniel and Leslie become engaged. The play lacks a final resolution per se; the audience is somewhat "left hanging." Original production The play was originally performed by a group of students and directed by Martha Stookey at the International High School of San Francisco in November 2005. It ran six productions for two weekends, each performance selling out. |
Littleton Kirkpatrick | Biography & Legacy | was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress, serving in office one term from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845. He was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business.
He died in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 15, 1859. He was interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery in New Brunswick. He was reinterred in Van Liew Cemetery, North Brunswick, New Jersey in 1921. Legacy His wife, Sophia, remained in the city of New Brunswick after Littleton's death. When she died on March 6, 1871 at the age of 68, she named Rutgers College as her estate's residuary |
Litchfield Theatres | History | Company. The theatre chain was sold to United Artists Theaters (which itself was sold to Regal Entertainment Group in 1999), and The Litchfield Company was sold to a real estate group in Pawley's Island South Carolina. The Litchfield Company has continued to exist, but the theatre chain has not been revived.
A. Foster McKissick died in a plane crash in 1990. |
Kurian Kachappilly | Major contributions | and "Bounds of Ethics in a Globalized World" (2014), in which delegates and representatives from seventy plus countries took part.
A. Books
01.[2015] Kachappilly, Kurian, ed. Mysticism without Bounds, New Delhi: Christian World Imprints, 2015.
02.[2013] Kachappilly, Kurian, ed. Mystic Musings in World Religions, New Delhi: Christian World Imprints, 2013.
03.[2013] Kachappilly, Kurian, ed. Mystic Musings in Art and Poetry, New Delhi: Christian World Imprints, 2013.
04.[2012] Kachappilly, Kurian, ed. Process, Religion and Society (Dharmaram Process Series, Vol.III), Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2012.
05.[2011] Kachappilly, Kurian, ed. Process, Religion and Society (Dharmaram Process Series, Vol.II), Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2011.
06.[2011] Kachappilly, Kurian, ed. Process, Religion and Society (Dharmaram |
Kim Clark (candidate) | Fellowships and Chairs & Screenwriting | Theater and Performing Arts Technology. As planned, the school has announced that the degree will begin in 2011.
In 2010, Clark was awarded the Wicklander Fellowship, which is given to full-time DePaul faculty for the application of professional ethics as the topics relate a particular field of research. Screenwriting Clark has written two plays, Binding Arbitration and Girl Talk, both of which have been produced. In 2000, Clark premiered the original stage play "Girl Talk" at the Other Side Stage Festival on a co-bill with young monologist David Sedaris. The premiere fell in the same week Sedaris' book "Naked" hit |
Justus von Liebig | Transforming chemistry education | a time. He lived in a cramped apartment on the floor above with his wife and children.
Liebig was one of the first chemists to organize a laboratory in its present form, engaging with students in empirical research on a large scale through a combination of research and teaching. His methods of organic analysis enabled him to direct the analytical work of many graduate students. Liebig's students were from many of the German states, as well as Britain and the United States, and they helped create an international reputation for their Doktorvater. His laboratory became renowned |
Klaus Mehnert | null | Klaus Mehnert Klaus Mehnert (October 10, 1906, Moscow, Russia – January 2, 1984, Freudenstadt, Germany) was a globetrotting German political scientist and a journalist. As a scholar, he was a prolific author; as a journalist, he practiced in the USSR as a correspondent, in China as a publisher, and in Germany. He was a professor at two American universities before World War II. In the late 1970s he authored several books on recent youth led political movements (youth movements) in various Western countries.
At the outbreak of World War I, Mehnert's family had to abandon Moscow for Stuttgart, Germany. His father |
Judy O'Bannon | Honors and recognitions | leaders from diverse backgrounds and experiences in an innovative and creative program designed to foster civic commitment and engagement."
On November 16, 2016, O'Bannon was honored by the Indiana Association for Community Economic Development for "a lifetime of moving communities forward" noting that "Judy is a full-time advocate for neighborhoods and community development. With no budget for travel, no specific professional background and no mandate requiring her to do so, Judy travels the state preaching the importance of neighborhood cooperation and community revitalization. She has chaired the Indiana Main Street Council since 1986, is active in local programs, and plays an |
Listeria | Epidemiology & Prevention | six were fatal, in an outbreak caused by contaminated meat (produced by North Country Cooked Meats) in hospital sandwiches. In 2019, two people in Australia died after probably eating smoked salmon and a third fell ill but survived the disease. In september 2019, three deaths and a miscarriage were reported in the Netherlands after the consumption of listeria-infected deli meats produced by Offerman. Prevention Preventing listeriosis as a foodborne illness requires effective sanitation of food contact surfaces. Ethanol is an effective topical sanitizer against Listeria. Quaternary ammonium can be used in conjunction with alcohol as a food-contact safe sanitizer with |
La Paz traffic zebras | Milestones | serve other sectors of the city and therefore to respond the demands beyond the Municipality.
Requests for visits with zebras to educational units and other organizations were increasing year by year, due to the educational value of the character and the themes that he teaches. For this reason, teams of zebras for the sub-municipalities of four macro districts were formed: Max Paredes, Centro, Cotahuma and the Líder team, generating a greater space of opportunity for young people.
2012 - Zebra educator of children and expansion of the Program to the city of Sucre and creation of the Program of Happiness
"Because children are |
Knebworth Festival 1979 | Critical reaction | but we didn't kill it. It was good, but only because everybody made it good. There was that sense of event.
In an interview he gave in 2005, Plant elaborated:
I was racked with nerves. It was our first British gig in four years and we could have gone back to the Queen's Head pub. We talked about doing something like that. But instead we went back in such a flurry and a fluster to 210,000 people in a field and 180,000 more the next day [sic], surrounded by Keith and Ronnie and Todd Rundgren. Nobody's big enough to meet those |
Life Explored | Comparison with the Christianity Explored course | acknowledged among postmoderns than the concept of law-breaking, LE explains sin as idolatry, while CE explains sin as law-breaking.
Life Explored uses two films - one story film and one teaching film - in each session to engage the participant. The story film - for the most part filmed without dialogue - helps the viewer see how one has replaced the gift of God himself with a cheaper, and inadequate substitute. The second film is a teaching film (like the CE films) reveals the God of the Bible as the answer to our deepest longing.
In early 2017 the blog The Happy |
John Franklin Botume | Modern Singing Methods | and weaknesses of each method alone and how they could support each other combined. Botume believed that one great strength of the "old Italian school" is its regimen of developing the voice over a long period of training and exercise. He also found this to be a weakness in the "modern school" training:
The teacher of the future will […] follow the old process. He will attempt little the first or the second year, and will go gradually, carefully, regularly and, above all, slowly to the end. […] Nature is a hard task-mistress. What you steal from her today, |
Like a Prayer (album) | Composition | choir provides background vocals that heighten the song's spiritual nature, and a rock guitar keeps the music dark and mysterious. The second track, "Express Yourself", talks about rejecting material pleasures and only accepting the best for oneself; throughout the song, subtexts are employed. According to the singer, the track is a tribute to Sly & the Family Stone. The third track, "Love Song", is a duet with recording artist Prince. The song was co-written by Madonna and Prince and features the artist's "signature scratchy disco guitar breaks through Madonna's synths".
Originally titled "State of Matrimony", the song Till Death Do |
Lichchavi Express | Traction & Operation & Accident | locomotive hauls the trains from Anand Vihar Terminal up to Allahabad Junction handling over to a Samastipur or Jhansi based WDM 3A which then hauls the train for the remainder of its journey. Operation 14006 Anand Vihar Terminal Sitamarhi Lichchavi Express runs from Anand Vihar Terminal on a daily basis reaching Sitamarhi the next day.
14005 Sitamarhi Anand Vihar Terminal Lichchavi Express runs from Sitamarhi on a daily basis reaching Anand Vihar Terminal the next day. Accident In an accident due to dense fog on 2 January 2010, the Lichchavi Express collided with the stationary Magadh Express train |
Leicester City Centre | LE1 Postal district | the path of the ring-road until it reaches Waterloo Way, where the border diverges substantially, to include the swathe of land between London Road, Victoria Park Road and Waterloo Way in the LE1 postcode, including the University of Leicester, the De Montfort Hall, Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, Regent College, the Welford Road cemetery, and Victoria Park. However, London Road station remains outside LE1.
The boundary then includes several streets west of the railway line but east of the ring-road as part of LE1, before meeting up with the roundabout again and then going inwards to exclude Humberstone Road from |
Laurence Muir | Philanthropy | in the Alfred Hospital and Baker Medical Research Fund Raising effort. After 10 years of service on the Alfred Board he served as a board member and later Chairman of The Baker (Australia's premier Heart Research Institute). He led several fund raising appeals for these institutions. For the past 20 years, he has been Patron of The Baker Medical Research Institute.
In 1987 he helped to bring the Earthwatch Institute to Australia and with Sir John Crawford, Professor Ruther Ford Robertson, and Dr Jim Vernon, was a founding Trustee. He remained active in Earthwatch until his death |
London bullion market | Gold trading | is traded primarily via over-the-counter (OTC) transactions, with limited volume trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) based on the LBMA price.
Twice daily, at 10:30 AM and 3:00 PM (local time). the LBMA publishes the gold price in US dollars. These forward contracts are known as gold futures contracts. Spot gold is traded for settlement two business days following the trade date, with a business day defined as a day when both the New York and London markets are open for business.
Unlike many commodity markets, the forward market for gold is driven by spot |
Lovro Šturm | Biography | 1977 and 1988 at the United Nations.
He is the author of twelve books and two hundred publications and is an expert in the field of administrative–legal sciences. His work has been part of twenty-two group research projects. His scientific contributions examine the operation of administration, constitutional and judiciary protection of human rights.
During the first democratic elections in Slovenia in 1990, he was a member of the National Electoral Commission. Later that year he was elected a member of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, serving as its president between 1997–1998. In 2000, he was appointed as Minister of |
Kormilda College | Kormilda today & Primary school | the majority of those are residential students from remote north Australian communities. Two-thirds of students are non-Indigenous, and mostly day students from the Darwin and Greater Darwin region. Kormilda accepts students of all faiths and religions. Primary school In 2015 Kormilda College opened a new primary school and currently has over 70 students enrolled. |
Justin Verlander | Amateur career & Old Dominion University | Justin Verlander Amateur career Verlander's father Richard sent him to The Richmond Baseball Academy when he was young. He was able to throw his fastball 84 mph (135 km/h) shortly after joining the academy. His velocity plateaued at 86 mph (138 km/h) during his senior year at Goochland High School, during which he was sidetracked by strep throat. Verlander's velocity reached 87 mph (140 km/h) during his first year at Old Dominion. Old Dominion University Verlander, a 6′ 5", 200 pound (1.96 m, 91 kg) right-handed pitcher, played for the Old Dominion University baseball team for three years. On May 17, 2002, he struck out a then-school |
Kaitlin Hawayek | 2013–2014 season: World Junior title & 2014–2015 season | gold medal in their JGP events, at the JGP Mexico and the JGP Poland. Their results qualified them to the JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where they won the silver medal. They then won the gold medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships, setting a new Junior World record for the overall score with a total of 157.12 points. 2014–2015 season Hawayek/Baker began their season at an ISU Challenger Series event, the 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy. They finished fourth after placing fourth in the short and third in the free dance. Their Grand Prix assignments were the 2014 Rostelecom Cup and |
Jessica Denay | Books & Personal life | for The Hot Mom to Be Handbook: Womb With a View, in 2008, celebrities Gwen Stefani, Melora Hardin and others were on site. Personal life Jessica was married to Days of Our Lives actor Bryan Dattilo (Lucas) in 1999, they divorced in 2001 and have one son, Gabriel. |
Lee Yoon-mi | Personal life | on March 24, 2010, and Joo Ra-el, who was born on August 4, 2015.
Lee also sponsors children through Compassion International, an organization founded in 1952 to help children orphaned by war in South Korea. |
Leo Yankevich | Writing activities & Personal life | only occasionally in free verse. He was a prolific translator, having rendered into English poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanisław Grochowiak, Czesław Miłosz, Alexander Blok, Leopold Staff, Nikolay Gumilev, Bolesław Leśmian, and many others. He has a large internet presence with work published in scores of online publications, ranging from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Poets Against War. Personal life Yankevich was married and had three sons. |
Little Hadham | Hadham Hall | Little Hadham Hadham Hall Hadham Hall, an ancient manor house situated 0.8 miles (1.3 km) south-east of the village on the Stortford Road, was the family seat of the Capell (or Capel) family, also Rayne Hall in Rayne, Essex. It was bought by Sir William Capel, who served twice as Lord Mayor of London, in 1503-4 and 1510. The family seat remained at Rayne, until the 1570s, when Sir Henry Capell built a new house at Little Hadham, replacing the old hall. In 1578, Sir Henry Capell welcomed Queen Elizabeth I of England as a guest at Hadham Hall; an account |
Len Ford | 1956 and 1957 seasons & Green Bay Packers | the Browns, led by Jim Brown, reached the 1957 NFL Championship Game, losing to the Lions. Cleveland's defense allowed the fewest points in the NFL in six of Ford's eight seasons with the team. Green Bay Packers In May 1958, the Browns traded Ford to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for a draft choice. Green Bay coach Ray McLean said at the time that he acquired Ford for his talent at putting pressure on the quarterback and noted that "he's one of the toughest guys in the league to block because of his speed, size and agility." The |
Legion of Christ | Marcial Maciel | after private studies.
After years of denial by the Congregation and the Regnum Christi movement and dismissal of accusations made by many former members, an investigation prompted by the Vatican led to the conclusion that allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Maciel were true. The superiors of the congregation did not officially inform the rest of the congregation until a year after his death, during which time, they continued to permit an internal culture of revering him as a saint. When the information was leaked to the press, the Legion was pressured into making a statement on the matter.
The Legionaries |
Julia Domna | Power and influence | viewed positively for most of her tenure, as indicators and evidence include the coins minted with her portrait, mentioning her with the titles and also simply as "Julia Augusta". Julia is said to have exceeded all other Roman empresses in titles and honours.
The empress was involved in building projects, most notably the aedes Vestae after the fire of Commodus in 192 destroyed areas of the temple and the home, or Atrium, of the Vestal Virgins; based on numismatic evidence, historical authors, and a laconic inscription found in situ, some scholars agree that Julia funded restorations to the site during |
Jean Déré | Life | of the pioneers in the broadcasting of great classical concerts with Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, Élisabeth Brasseur and Igor Stravinsky. He was Jacques Loussier's teacher.
He is the author of pieces for piano, violin, orchestra and an opera Le Mirage. He is also author of film music, in particular Kœnigsmark (1923).
He remained active as a composer and wrote numerous church music works in addition to orchestral and choral works and chamber music.
Déré died in Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne at age 84. |
Krogh's principle | History | my teacher, Christian Bohr, was interested in the respiratory mechanism of the lung and devised the method of studying the exchange through each lung separately, he found that a certain kind of tortoise possessed a trachea dividing into the main bronchi high up in the neck, and we used to say as a laboratory joke that this animal had been created expressly for the purposes of respiration physiology. I have no doubt that there is quite a number of animals which are similarly "created" for special physiological purposes, but I am afraid that most of them are unknown to |
Lee Rourke | Non-Fiction & Criticism & Boredom | Rourke here considers the permutations of the form, from Aesop's tortoise and hare, via Plato's socio-political works and the later ribald medieval tales, to Kafka's anthropomorphism and present-day authors including Blake Butler, Joseph Young, Shane Jones and Jonathan Lethem. A Brief History of Fables offers a bold take on the new face of literature. Criticism Reviews for Ready, Steady, Book
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Articles/Reviews at The Guardian
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Reviews for The Independent
Dazed and Arouzed by Gavin James BowerThe RiverWildlife by Joe StretchThe Bird Room by Chris Killen
Reviews for Bookforum
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Reviews for The Quarterly Conversation
The Power of Flies by Lydie Salvayre Boredom Rourke’s fiction deals primarily with |
Leicester City Centre | The old city & Modern developments | Castro. The town's main gates were sold and demolished in the late 18th century, being an impediment to the flow of traffic (the city's hay market was outside the walls for this reason, the main market being situated within the south-east corner of the walls). Modern developments With increasing development, particularly in the 19th century, the focal point moved eastwards, with the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower roundabout seeing the five-way junction of the London to Manchester, Birmingham to Yarmouth and Fosse Way roads. This was influenced by the replacement of the Welford Road (now the A5199) by the Market Harborough |
Listeria | Treatment | the bacteria have spread to the bloodstream and central nervous system. Treatment includes intravenous delivery of high-dose antibiotics and hospital care of duration which depends on how widespread the infection is, but usually no less than 2 weeks. Ampicillin, penicillin, or amoxicillin are often given for invasive listeriosis, and gentamicin is often added in patients with compromised immune systems. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, vancomycin, and fluoroquinolones can be used in cases of allergy to penicillin. For treatment to be effective, the antibiotic must penetrate the host cell and bind to penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3). Cephalosporins are not effective for treatment of listeriosis.
Prompt treatment |
Lowside Quarter | null | Lowside Quarter Lowside Quarter is a civil parish in Copeland, Cumbria, England. At the 2011 census it had a population of 583.
The parish has an area of 785.43 hectares (3.0326 sq mi). Its southwestern boundary is the coast, and it is bordered by the parishes of St Bees and Egremont to the north and Beckermet to the east. It has four main settlements, the hamlets or villages of Braystones, Coulderton, Middletown and Nethertown. The parish lies between the A595 road and the sea, and the B5345 goes through the parish. The Cumbrian Coast line railway from Barrow-in-Furness to Whitehaven runs along |
Loot Crate | Crates & Sponsorship & Loot Crate Vault | Loot Crate, but all the items were intended for cats, dogs or other pets. The concept ended on September 2017. Sponsorship In mid-2014, Loot Crate officially sponsored American eSports team OpTic Gaming.
In 2016, Loot Crate officially sponsored the Dungeons & Dragons web series program Critical Role. Loot Crate Vault Loot Crate has a second website called Loot Vault.
Loot Vault was created to allow people to buy specific items from crates months after they have been released. |
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