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V12 engine | Characteristics & Marine engines | particularly the short, wide radial engine.
During World War II the power of fighter engines was stepped up to extreme levels using multi-speed superchargers and ultra-high octane gasoline, so the extreme smoothness of the V12 prevented the powerful engines from tearing apart the light airframes of fighters. After Wo... |
Unmanned aircraft in Singapore | Personal Data Protection Act & Telecommunications Act | to have sufficient awareness that drones are in operation in the general locale. For example, it may be appropriate to place a notice at points of entry to the area of operation, where individuals are able to read the notice prior to entry. Telecommunications Act Users with UAs that contain short range devices that con... |
Up (2009 film) | Animation & Music | to be twice Carl's size. There are 10,927 balloons for shots of the house just flying, 20,622 balloons for the lift-off sequence, and a varying number in other scenes. Music Up is the third Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino, after The Incredibles and Ratatouille. What Pete Docter wanted most importantly out ... |
Too big to fail | Reducing risk-taking through regulation | banks. Proprietary trading refers to using customer deposits to speculate in risky assets for the benefit of the bank rather than customers. The Dodd–Frank Act as enacted into law includes several loopholes to the ban, allowing proprietary trading in certain circumstances. However, the regulations required to enforce t... |
Tracey Perry | Political life | the Minister of Innovation, Business and Rural Development and subsequently Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier serving until the Davis government was defeated in the 2015 general election.
She was re-elected in the 2011 and 2015 general elections.
In 2018, Perry gain notable attention for her role in the House of A... |
Tuve Hasselquist | Biography | Paxton, Illinois. Hasselquist strove to solidify the place of the college in the life of its church. In 1875, under his leadership, Augustana College was moved to Rock Island, Illinois which was a more central location among the growing number of Augustana Synod congregations. Tuve Hasselquist continued to function as... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | USAFE in Turkey | operations in Turkey. Between 1969 and 1973, sites at Samsun and Trabzon were turned over to the Turkish government. In addition, Cigli Air Base, which since 1963 had been used by USAF rotational squadrons, was turned over to the Turkish Air Force in 1970. The U.S. continued, however, to fund the maintenance of numerou... |
Up (2009 film) | Plot | they are attempting to capture the bird themselves and alluding to other suspected rivals having faced death at his hands.
Carl and Russell flee with Kevin and Dug, but Muntz captures Kevin and starts a fire beneath Carl's house, forcing him to choose between saving it or Kevin. Carl saves the house, allowing Muntz to ... |
Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law | Bicameral Conference Committee & Signing into law and partial veto | Congress and signing of the President.
the House of Representatives and the Senate ratified the version of the bill prepared by the Bicameral Conference Committee on December 13, 2017. Signing into law and partial veto President Duterte exercised his veto power to void 5 provisions of the law. The provisions vetoed wer... |
Thomas Wright (rugby) | Rugby union & Rugby league | Thomas Wright (rugby) Rugby union Wright was born in Hawick. He was capped once for Scotland in 1947. He also played for Hawick RFC. Rugby league Wright transferred to Leeds in 1948–1949.
He later played for the Scotland national rugby league team. |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | SS-20s pointing at Europe | as the Gryphon and based on the U.S. Navy's nuclear Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM-N), to be operated by the USAF. Of the cruise missiles, 160 were stationed in England, 96 in West Germany, 112 in Italy, 48 in the Netherlands, and 48 in Belgium. All 108 Pershings were stationed in West Germany. The second significa... |
Up (2009 film) | Critical response | channeling him while performing the role of Carl.Variety editor Todd McCarthy described Carl as a combination of both Tracy and Matthau.
The relationship between Carl and his wife Ellie has been praised in several media outlets. In his book Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Message of Children's Films, author M. Keith Book... |
Tig Trager | Season 1 | Instead of starting a war, Clay decided to make a deal; SAMCRO handed over Chuck and the plates, and the Triads let them keep the stolen money. Meanwhile, Kyle Hobart, a disgraced former SAMCRO member, went to Jax and asked him if the Sons wanted in on his deal selling stolen car parts. Jax accepted and invited him to ... |
United States International University Africa | History | the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) to form Alliant International University.
Over 130 nationalities are represented among the student population undertaking 24 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs at USIU Africa. The university has an alumni population in excess of 140,000. |
Surf Party | Surf bands & Shooting | surf band.
The Routers was a band formed by Mike Gordon, whose first release in September 1962 was "Let's Go (Pony)", which reached # 19 on the Billboard charts. Gordon, who also formed The Marketts and wrote their million seller "Out Of Limits" Billboard charts and "Surfer's Stomp" Billboard charts which was one of t... |
Up (2009 film) | Animation | head is proportioned: he has a squarish appearance to symbolize his containment within his house, while Russell is rounded like a balloon. The challenge on Up was making these stylized characters feel natural, although Docter remarked the effect came across better than animating the realistic humans from Toy Story, who... |
Uvea | Pharmacology | Uvea Pharmacology The pupil provides a visible example of the neural feedback control in the body. This is subserved by a balance between the antagonistic sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system. Informal pharmacological experiments have been performed on the pupil for centuries, since... |
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications | The Center for Public Interest Communications & UF CJC Online | and advise students who plan to build careers in the field.
In May 2019, The Center for Public Interest Communications, in collaboration with UF CJC Online, launched the nation’s first master's degree program in Public Interest Communications. UF CJC Online The College of Journalism and Mass Communications launched its... |
Tyler Clippard | Washington Nationals | pitcher for the 2009 campaign. Nationals' pitching coach Steve McCatty told Clippard that his future was pitching in relief, because his pitch count tended to get too high in starts, and opposing batters hit Clippard well by the third time the lineup turned over in a game. Clippard at first resisted the transition to t... |
University of Leicester | Leicester Medical School & Engineering | is home to a large medical school, Leicester Medical School, which opened in 1971. The school was formerly in partnership with the University of Warwick, and the Leicester-Warwick medical school proved to be a success in helping Leicester expand, and Warwick establish. The partnership ran the end of its course towards ... |
Up (2009 film) | Development | and thus the film was dedicated to them). Grant gave the script his approval as well as some advice before his death in 2005. Docter recalled Grant would remind him the audience needed an "emotional bedrock" because of how wacky the adventure would become; here it is Carl mourning for his wife. Docter felt Grant's pers... |
University of Leicester | Desire for a university | sat the exam of the University of London.
In the late 19th century, presidents of the society Revered James Went, headmaster of the Wyggeston Boys' School, and Mr J.D Paul regularly called for an establishment of a University College However, no private donations to establish the University were forthcoming and the Cor... |
Tim O'Leary | Introduction | Tim O'Leary Introduction "Tinhead" made his first appearance in Brookside as a school bully at Brookside Comprehensive in 1996. Danny Simpson (Andrew Butler) was Tinhead's main target, as he tried to bully him into helping him with his schoolwork. Tinhead was the leader of a gang of boys who continued to terrorise othe... |
University of Agder | History & Organisation and administration | was established by a merger in 1994, when the six public regional colleges in the Agder counties became one institution. The University College received full university accreditation and became the University of Agder on 1 September 2007. In 2015, the University of Agder has approximately 12,000 students and 1,100 empl... |
USS Burrfish | Service with the Royal Canadian Navy | "clockwork mice" for surface ships and aircraft, as a passive target for their training. The submarine participated in joint Royal Canadian Navy/Royal Canadian Air Force and joint US/Canada training exercises in the Pacific.
In May 1966, her five-year loan was renewed for $1 million, and the sub underwent a refit in 19... |
USS Bayfield | Decommissioning | on 15 September 1969 and scrapped. |
USS Albatross (MSC-289) | Return to Japan for repairs & Cryptographic and propulsion problems | Islands in the Gulf of Thailand. Her relief arrived on 7 November, and Albatross sailed to Kaohsiung for repairs to an inoperative air compressor system which hindered her maneuverability. The minesweeper reached Sasebo on 18 November for training and holiday leave. On 29 December 1966 she left Japan for another patrol... |
Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz | Background | the power of the major US film companies. This was particularly worrying for European film makers, since they were almost entirely excluded from the American market. They met in Paris in February 1909 to discuss sales and rental methods to get out a crisis of over-production (especially in France) and the supply of fil... |
The Prince & Me 2: The Royal Wedding | Plot | plots to try to steal Edvard from Paige, both for her personal reasons (to become Queen of Denmark) and that her father, a Norwegian royal, is heavily in debt and seeks to marry Kirsten into the royal family's money.
At one point Kirsten offers to help Paige with her study of the Danish language per a Danish marriage l... |
Tourism in Tunisia | History & New developments | markets such as Russia and China. From 2003-2004, it regained tourists, and 2007 saw arrivals increasing by 3 percent over that of 2006.
Tourism in Tunisia suffered severe blows following the Bardo National Museum attack and the Sousse attack in 2015, but Tunisia managed to retrieve its position as one of the top dest... |
Tampa International Airport | Flying boat & Tampa International Airport | Tampa International Airport Flying boat Tampa Bay is the birthplace of commercial airline service, when pioneer aviator Tony Jannus flew the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Tampa using a Benoist Flying Boat—the first scheduled commercial air... |
University of Leicester | Galaxy Radio & Notable people | Stadium. Notable people Notable academics from the university include; Anthony Giddens, prominent sociologist who taught social psychology, Sarah Hainsworth, Professor of Materials and Forensic Engineering, involved in analysing the wounds on the skeleton of Richard III, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, NASA astronaut and physicist... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | Iraq and Kuwait in the 1990s | deployed to Turkey for Joint Task Force Proven Force, forming the 7440th Composite Wing (Provisional). A total of 60,000 USAFE personnel were committed to the war effort; however, fewer than 10,000 actually deployed. More than half of the command's aircraft deployed to support Desert Storm.
The command's air support wa... |
USS Manatee (AO-58) | World War II | USS Manatee (AO-58) World War II Shortly after a ten-day shakedown period, Manatee departed the Chesapeake Bay area for the Dutch West Indies. Loading at that oil center, she got underway for the Panama Canal and the Pacific. Arriving at Eniwetok 16 June 1944, she replenished the amphibious forces then invading Saipan.... |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea | Culinary uses & In Native American cuisine | bears and foxes, and many fruit-eating birds. Caterpillars of the case-bearer moths Coleophora glitzella, Coleophora idaeella and Coleophora vitisella are obligate feeders on V. vitis-idaea leaves. In Native American cuisine Alaska natives mix the berries with rose hip pulp and sugar to make jam, cook the berries as a ... |
Tormod Petter Svennevig | null | Tormod Petter Svennevig Tormod Petter Svennevig (24 May 1929 – 24 November 2016) was a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Centre Party.
He was born in Eide, Grimstad, and took his Master of Arts degree in political science at the New School for Social Research in New York. He started working for the Ministry of ... |
Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz | Ufa & Destruction | owner, Paul Davidson, former head of production at Ufa.
Then in December 1925 Ufa announced the so-called Parufamet contract, which gave virtual control of Ufa's first-run theatres (including the Ufa-Theater am Nollendorfplatz) to Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer while also granting them 50 percent of income from Ufa'... |
Truce of Andrusovo | Consequences | Truce of Andrusovo The Truce of Andrusovo (Polish: Rozejm w Andruszowie, Russian: Андрусовское перемирие, Andrusovskoye Pieriemiriye, also sometimes known as Treaty of Andrusovo) established a thirteen-and-a-half year truce, signed in 1667 between Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which had foug... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | Iraq and Kuwait in the 1990s | and this was mainly done by establishing the Iraqi no-fly zones starting above the 36th parallel in Iraq. The operation immediately began air dropping food and supplies to the refugees. More than 2,400 USAFE personnel were deployed, along with 36 fighter aircraft to provide protection for the transports. In a relativel... |
Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale | Plot | The Snow plays during this scene) and all make it safely except for Jerry, who falls from a frozen waterfall and through the ice, becomes tangled in a weed and seemingly drowns. He is then revived and freed by the magic and then is pulled up by Nelly and Paulie. This makes Paulie unravel by melting the glue that keeps ... |
The Prince & Me 2: The Royal Wedding | Plot | queen has a green thumb and she waves her hand and flowers grow". The stress caused by the law causes Paige and Edvard to break up. Edvard decides to marry Kirsten. Paige decides to stay in Denmark to finish her semester. During the wedding planning of Kirsten and Edvard, Paige sees through Edvard's body language that ... |
Triton (comics) | Heroes Reborn & Marvel Zombies | Triton is seen as one of the many heroes on board the well-outfitted, shrinking spaceship belonging to Doctor Doom. He, along with many other heroes and Inhumans, must return to the main Marvel universe or all those within the alternate one will be endangered. Despite Doom's lust for power endangering the mission, ever... |
Ultrafast monochromator | Applications | time-broadening, of a single high-order harmonic pulse out of the many generated by an ultrafast laser pulse interacting with a gas target. |
The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel | Productions | Tower. |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | Iraq and Kuwait in the 1990s | air support missions.
USAFE activated aeromedical staging facilities and contingency hospitals, increasing available bed space 1,500 percent above normal peacetime operations. More than 9,000 patients, mostly suffering from noncombat-related illnesses and injuries, were evacuated to Europe. More than 3,000 were treated... |
The Revolution (newspaper) | Background | The Revolution (newspaper) Background The creators of The Revolution, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were leading women's rights activists. Stanton was an organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the first women's rights convention, and the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments.
At the ... |
The Judas Tree | Plot | return for, and that David would never have returned to help her in her mission as a doctor. He needed a woman who would be strong enough to master him. Underestimating the reaction, Kathy runs out into the night to her accidental death.
Kathy was betrayed more by David's cynicism, doubt and lack of courage than by the... |
University of Leicester | Teaching & Research | second only to Cambridge in 2008 and again joint first in 2009. Research The University has research groups in the areas of astrophysics, biochemistry and genetics. The techniques used in genetic fingerprinting were invented and developed at Leicester in 1984 by Sir Alec Jeffreys. It also houses Europe's biggest academ... |
Szymon Buchbinder | Biography | He apparently died there around 1908, although he may have lived until as late as 1924. He seldom exhibited; notably with the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts during his stay there and at an exhibition of German painters at the Grafton Galleries in 1906. |
Tullimaar House | 19th century | an adventurer in Tresavean Mine, from which he derived a large fortune. He had Tullimaar built and resided there until his death 12 years later in 1840. He was buried at Gwennap.
The house has been the home of many distinguished residents or guests including Sarah Parkin widow of Dr. Henry Parkin, RN, Inspector-General... |
United States Penitentiary, Allenwood | 1996 murder & 2005 murder | that life was appropriate sentence based upon multiple circumstances, including Hammer's acceptance of responsibility and remorsefulness, his extended family history of dysfunction, abuse and mental illness, his mental and emotional impairments and his self-improvement, specifically citing Hammer's writing to at-risk c... |
University of Leicester | The Attenboroughs | of Leicester is commonly associated with the Attenborough family. Richard and David Attenborough (with their younger brother John) spent their childhood in College House, which is now home to part of the Maths department (and is now near to the Attenborough tower, the tallest building on the campus and home to many of ... |
Tim Nicholls | Political career | Flegg for the Liberal Party leadership. He did not initially have enough support in the eight member Liberal caucus.
Shortly after the federal election of 2007, Nicholls again stood against Flegg for leadership. Eventually Mark McArdle was offered as a neutral party and he accepted leadership with Nicholls as his deput... |
Tig Trager | Season 6 | loose end as August tells Jax that once Clay is killed he needs to deliver Trager a deal he already backed out of once. After settling the beef with the director's brother, Tig is told by Jax to go back to the warehouse and wait for the prospects to pick him up. At the end of the episode, he is met by August and his me... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | USAF mobilization | However, if the larger C-54 Skymaster was used, about 180 could supply the cargo necessary. However, there simply weren't that many aircraft available. The Military Air Transport Service (MATS) was ordered to mobilize all available C-54s and C-82 wherever they could in the world to support the airlift, and to refurbish... |
Unimédia | Description | Unimédia Description Before being bought by the Gesca group in 2000, this groupe controlled the following dailies: Le Soleil (Quebec City), Le Quotidien (Chicoutimi), and Le Droit (Ottawa). It also owned about 30 weeklies and managed three printing plants that produced newspapers, magazines and paperbacks. |
ULTra (rapid transit) | Ultra | vehicle no longer needs strong mechanical contact with the guideway, which can be dramatically reduced in complexity.
In the case of Ultra, the guideway can consist of as little as two parallel rows of concrete barriers, similar to the bumpers found in a car park. The vehicle uses them for fine guidance only; it is abl... |
Trigarium | Religious use | ritual, performed in the Campus Martius in honor of Mars on October 15. The lead horse of the winning team was sacrificed ad Nixas, a landmark just east of the Trigarium that was either an altar to the birth deities (di nixi) or perhaps something called the Ciconiae Nixae. At the October Horse ceremonies, two neighborh... |
The Revolution (newspaper) | Establishing the newspaper | with Train, Stanton and Anthony instead made a deal with him to establish a weekly newspaper that they would operate with his financial backing, which he indicated could be as much as $100,000.
Train and his associate David Melliss would have space to express their views, but otherwise Stanton and Anthony would be free... |
Transport Legislation Amendment (Taxi Services Reform and Other Matters) Act 2011 | Reporting & Independence & Transfer of taxi regulatory responsibility to the Department of Transport | report has been released and recommendations are available. The review must be completed within 12 months of the report being laid before Parliament. Independence The TSC is independent of Ministers and Government generally in its initial inquiry phase. No provision is included for the Commission to be directed durin... |
ULTra (rapid transit) | Vehicles & Control technology & Test track | cargo capsule. They can be valuable in airport environments, where the network can be used to haul small freight. Control technology According to Ultra, its control system has three separate levels of operation, with the following features: Test track The 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) test track in Cardiff was launched in Janu... |
The Secret Policeman's Ball | 1979 – The Secret Policeman's Ball | Billington – transmitted on BBC TV on 22 June 1979. Cleese and Palin explained their support for Amnesty and their reasons for doing the shows.
The shows took place over four consecutive nights at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on 27–30 June 1979.
The shows were again filmed by a rudimentary 16 mm documentary crew and... |
Trigarium | null | half of the 4th century.
To preserve its flexibility of purpose, the Trigarium had no permanent structures; it was used for chariot training and all forms of equestrian exercise. The faction headquarters of the professional charioteers were established nearby, with the Trigarium just northwest of the stables and clubho... |
Vaccine-naive | Effect on herd immunity | Vaccine-naive Vaccine-naive is a lack of immunity, or immunologic memory, to a disease because the person has not been vaccinated. There are a variety of reasons why a person may not have received a vaccination including contraindications due to preexisting medical conditions, lack of resources, previous vaccination f... |
Valentine Ackland | Life | 1969. Warner outlived Ackland by nine years, dying in 1978. Ackland's reflections upon her relationship with Warner and with American heiress and writer Elizabeth Wade White (1908–1994), were posthumously published in For Sylvia: An Honest Account (1985).
Ackland was a highly emotional woman prone to numerous self-dou... |
Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale | Plot | and her string slips out of his hand. The cats pull her string, and she tells them where the others are headed. The remaining three make it to the Toy Maker (the Spanish Dance plays during this scene) and, after initially looking like they have failed when Tom and the other Cat Guards cut them off at the door only to b... |
Susanna and the Elders (Lotto) | History & Description | Susanna and the Elders (Lotto) History The work has the signature LOTUS PICTOR 1517. The date places it during Lotto's sojourn in Bergamo, executed perhaps as a private commission. It is likely that it formed a cover for a portrait.
The painting is known in catalogues only from the 20th century, when it was part of the... |
V12 engine | V12 road cars | during which National (Indianapolis) copied the Packard engine, and Weidely Motors (also of Indianapolis) offered a proprietary engine. Soon after the end of World War I, Lancia offered a 22° V12, Fiat had a 60° model 520 (1921-2), British truck manufacturer Ensign announced a V12 that did not materialize, and in 1926,... |
True and Untrue | Synopsis & Motifs | overheard all they said, so this year, they did not do more than say good night and part. Motifs The plot of this story is similar to that of The Grateful Beasts, where the hero is crippled by companions, and because of this learns secrets. Numerous other variants exist, such as the Russian Правда и Кривда (Honesty an... |
University of Leicester | Desire for a university & University status to modern day | suggested that Leicester should join forces with neighboring university colleges of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington and Loughborough, to create a federal East Midlands college, rather than an independent one. University status to modern day In 1957, the University College was granted its Royal Charter, and has since then ... |
To Live and Die in L.A. (film) | Principal photography | was used, and linked back to the production. The son of one of the crew members tried to use some of the prop money to buy candy at a local store and was caught. Three FBI agents from Washington, D.C. interviewed 12-15 crew members including Friedkin who screened the workprint for them. He offered to show the film to t... |
V12 engine | Characteristics | cylinder with the same displacement, which would have pistons too large and a stroke too long to meet the same RPM and power requirements (although it would make more torque than the 12 cylinder).
In a large displacement, high-power engine, a 60° V12 fits into a longer and narrower space than a V8 and most other V conf... |
Tig Trager | Season 3 | Tig accepts their help because they need the money to get Tara. When ATF gives the ransom money Tig, following orders from Salazar, puts it into a trash can in the park. Kids on bicycles see this and decide to steal it. Tig and one of the undercover ATF agents chase them down, Salazar spots the agent and drives on when... |
Ulugh Beg | Science | for the empire. Between 1417 and 1420, he built a madrasa ("university" or "institute") on Registan Square in Samarkand (currently in Uzbekistan), and he invited numerous Islamic astronomers and mathematicians to study there. The madrasa building still survives. Ulugh Beg's most famous pupil in astronomy was Ali Qushch... |
Urartu BC | History | was the first president of the club who chaired between 2016 and 2017, followed by Karen Giloyan. Tigran Gyokchyan managed the team during the same period until late 2017 when he was replaced by Sargis Stepanyan. |
V12 engine | Later V12s in aviation | companies produced the Liberty L-12. Soon after the end of World War I V12 engines powered the first trans-atlantic crossings by the Curtiss NC Flying boats (4 x Liberty L-12), the first non-stop crossing by Alcock and Brown in a Vickers Vimy (2× Rolls-Royce Eagles and the first airship crossing by HM airship R-34 (5× ... |
Up (2009 film) | Critical response | and was further positively received within the added context of historical non-Asian castings for Asian roles in entertainment. Asian-American organizations and entertainment websites, such as media watchdog Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA), Racebending.com, and Angry Asian Man praised the character and... |
Ullinish | Fauna and flora & Landmarks | flora The common teal nests in Ullinish. Other avifauna include the common raven, long-eared owl, hen harrier, merlin, osprey, black grouse, and bar-tailed godwit. Landmarks The largest building in the area is the Ullinish Country Lodge, a historic hotel which contains six rooms. Originally a farmhouse, it was built in... |
USS Clamagore (SS-343) | Operational history | new home port, and after a period of coastwise operations, sailed 5 April 1960 to join the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean for a tour of duty which continued until July, when the submarine returned to Charleston. For the remainder of 1960 Clamagore operated off the east coast.
In 1962, Clamagore became one of only nine ... |
United Nations Peace Messenger Cities | null | mutual respect to enable the requirements of peace based on justice and human rights to be better understood".
The International Association of Peace Messenger Cities was established in 1988 and now administers the programme according to the statute of the Association and criteria for membership. The International Asso... |
Theo Pinson | 2018–19 season | between the Nets and their NBA G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets. Pinson made his NBA debut on October 20, 2018, in a 132–112 loss to the Indiana Pacers, scoring two points with a rebound and two assists in six and half minutes of play. On April 10, 2019 the Nets converted Pinson's two-way deal to a full NBA con... |
USS Burrfish | Research & Awards | whose parts scale fractally. The turbulent water through which the submarine’s nose plowed in a one-dimensional line was not one long alternation of fast and slow water. Instead, seen in all three dimensions, it was a complicated pattern of churning eddies and torrents, all interrelated from start of journey to end of ... |
Valley View, Ohio | 2010 census & 2000 census | 6.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 18.8% were from 25 to 44; 37.1% were from 45 to 64; and 16.3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 50.6% male and 49.4% female. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 2,179 people, 779 households, and 634 families residing in the village.... |
The Song of Scorpions | Critical response | Bhaskaran of The Hindustani Times rated the film highly, saying "The Song of Scorpions is a story set on the undulating golden sands of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, the sights and sounds of the mesmeric atmosphere caught most imaginatively by cinematographer Pietro Zuercher. I was bowled over by the light and shade co... |
USS Manatee (AO-58) | Korean War & Vietnam War | Manatee’s operating schedule continued to be six months in the western Pacific, six months on the west coast. During this period, she participated in fleet operations and in underway training exercises, as well as undergoing regular overhauls. Included in her Pacific deployment for 1954 was the replenishment of the shi... |
Triton (comics) | Fictional character biography | members of the Royal Family, acting as a scout for them. He is freed from the "negative zone" barrier, along with the rest of the Inhumans. He aids the Fantastic Four in battle against Blastaar.
Triton later met the Sub-Mariner, and then battled Plantman's Leviathan. He aided the Inhuman Royal Family in defeating Maxim... |
Turnover tax in the Soviet Union | null | decree about the turnover tax. |
Stuart Litel | Awards and Recognitions & Litel and Informix | Stuart Litel Stuart Litel (born 1961) is the founder of the New England Informix User Group (NEIUG) and has been an active member of the International Informix Users Group (IIUG), which he joined in 1997. He is now the president of IIUG. He has been elected as president for the first time in 2004. Awards and Recognitio... |
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology | Notable research findings & Education & Library | Huntington's disease at the Institute's Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre. Education The Institute currently offers the following postgraduate-level courses: Library The Institute operates a joint library with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, which is located at the Institute. The libra... |
United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013 | Debate | Boehner and the Senate Republican minority leader, Mitch McConnell as well as other Republicans argued that the debt ceiling should not be raised unless spending is cut by an amount equal to or greater than the debt ceiling increase. Republicans also argued that the Treasury can avoid debt default by prioritizing inter... |
United States Penitentiary, Allenwood | Facility and programs | United States Penitentiary, Allenwood Facility and programs USP Allenwood has four two-level housing units each of which consists of four 16-cell ranges around a central dayroom where inmates can congregate during the times they are allowed outside their cells. Most cells house two inmates each. Recreational and couns... |
Triton (comics) | Marvel Zombies & Ultimate Marvel | travels with the zombie Inhumans to eat human clones that are under the control of the Kingpin. A zombie Triton later makes an excursion to the Marvel Apes world, along with infected super-powered beings. They kill one person (Marvel Chimp). Triton's body is heavily damaged and all the zombies are sent back to their ho... |
The Wicker Man (film series) | The Wicker Man (1973) & The Wicker Tree (2011) | all time. It also won the 1978 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. A scene from this film was #45 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. The Wicker Tree (2011) In 2006, Robin Hardy published a follow-up novel to The Wicker Man storyline entitled Cowboys for Christ. It follows two young Americans, Beth and Steve, who lea... |
Unequal treaty | China | imposed on China after a war, and because they encroached upon China's sovereign rights ... which reduced her to semicolonial status". In response, historian Elizabeth Cobbs wrote, "Ironically, however, the treaties also resulted partly from China's initial reluctance to consider any treaties whatsoever, since it viewe... |
Up (2009 film) | Critical response | scene. Reelviews editor James Berardinelli praised their relationship, stating that it brought a tear to his eye in a way no animated film has done, including anything by famed anime director Hayao Miyazaki. Ann Hornaday praised the prologue, describing it as "worthy of Chaplin in its heartbreaking poignancy." Chicago ... |
Tim Seely | Career | Pericles, Prince of Tyre. He also had roles in various Shakespeare plays, including as Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew, Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Polonius in Hamlet, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing and the King of France in All's Well That Ends Well.
In the late 1950s, he also took roles in film and television... |
Toshiya Sugiuchi | 2009 | in the tournament finals against South Korea.
On April 5, in his first start of the regular season against the Orix Buffaloes, Sugiuchi struck out five over 7⅔ innings to bring his career strikeout total to 1003. He was the fourth-fastest pitcher in NPB history to amass 1000 career strikeouts (following Hideo Nomo, Kaz... |
Surprise of Meaux | Course | Surprise of Meaux The surprise of Meaux (La surprise de Meaux) was a conspiracy organised in 1567 by Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé to capture Charles IX and the rest of the French royal family. It failed, and sparked the Second War of Religion (1567-1568). Course Sensing rising danger to French Protestants, Condé... |
The Wicker Man (film series) | The Wicker Man (1973) | The Wicker Man (film series) The Wicker Man (1973) The Wicker Man was released in 1973. The film was directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer, who based his screenplay loosely on the David Pinner novel Ritual.
The story follows a Scottish police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward), who visits t... |
Up (2009 film) | Development | but had Carl and Russell landing the house on a Soviet-era spy airship camouflaged as a giant cloud rather than on a tepui. This concept was rewritten due to its similarity to another idea Pixar was developing. Another idea Docter added, then removed, was magic fountain-of-youth eggs laid by the bird, in order to expla... |
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