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Judicial independence in Australia | Incapacity | the Supreme Court in relation to Magistrate Maloney:
119.... it is inherent in the judicial function that the sort of supervisory constraints which the evidence identified as appropriate to those in the medical profession with a bipolar 2 condition, could not be applied to judicial officers. The principle of judicial independence would simply not allow it. Most particularly a performance assessment and oversight by other medical practitioners would not be possible in the case of a judicial officer.
120.... An undertaking not to engage in loquaciousness etc (the 1999 undertaking) or to provide judgments on time (Justice Bruce) are very different to |
Melilotus officinalis | Uses & Management | of the commercially available legumes. Sweet clover is a major source of nectar for domestic honey bees as hives near sweetclover can yield up to 200 pounds of honey in a year.
Sweetclover has been used as a phytoremediation—phytodegradation plant for treatment of soils contaminated with dioxins.
In the chemical industry, dicoumarol is extracted from the plant to produce rodenticides. Management When M. officinalis is invasive, it can be managed by mulching, hand-pulling, mowing, or herbicide applications such (e.g., 2,4-D) before flowering. Prescribed burns in late fall or early spring followed by another burn in late spring can reduce the number of |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Militant in Liverpool & Peak influence | their majorities in 1987, whilst long-standing Militant member Pat Wall was elected as a Labour MP in Bradford, together with a strong performance for Labour in Liverpool, led Militant to deny that its policies were unpopular together with left wing politicians not aligned with Militant such as Michael Meacher.
In Liverpool, the district auditor had charged the Militant-led 49 Liverpool city councillors £106,000. Their appeal to the House of Lords was lost in 1987 and an additional charge of £242,000 was imposed. The money was raised from donations from the Labour and trade union movement. Peak influence Michael Crick contends that, |
Jabari Blash | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles & Personal life | with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball for the 2019 season worth ¥120 million. Personal life Blash's younger brother, Jamori, a 23rd-round draft pick in 2017, is a first baseman in the Washington Nationals organization. |
Max Carrasco | Career | Max Carrasco Career Born in Belo Horizonte, Carrasco has played in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B with Betim Esporte Clube (formerly known as Ipatinga Futebol Clube) on multiple occasions. |
Mazda MX-6 | Future | that the manufacturer may release a new generation MX-6 in the near future. |
Minong (town), Wisconsin | Demographics | present, and 31.5% were non-families. 24.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.20 and the average family size was 2.60.
In the town, the population was spread out with 17.6% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 20.3% from 25 to 44, 35.4% from 45 to 64, and 22.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 50 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 |
Medieval English wool trade | Later Middle Ages | and Italy, where production was promoted by the adoption of the pedal-driven horizontal loom and spinning wheel, along with mechanised fulling and napping.
In 1280 about 25,000 sacks of wool were exported from England; trade in raw wool peaked around 40,000–45,000 sacks per year, falling to 33,000 in 1355 and 9,706 in 1476 as exports changed to finished cloth. As exports of raw wool fell, exports of cloths rose, from 10,000 cloths per year in 1349–50 to 60,000 in 1446–47, and c. 140,000 in 1539–40. 'By the end of the thirteenth century, the heavily industrialised areas of Europe could not have |
Louisiana Highway 1077 | Route description | spanning the Tchefuncte River. This junction also marks the southern terminus of LA 21, which begins a concurrency with LA 1077. The combined route zigzags through the center of Madisonville, turning west from Main Street onto St. John Street then northwest onto Covington Street.
While crossing over Bayou De Zaire, LA 21 and LA 1077 exit the corporate limits. A short distance later, LA 21 branches to the northeast toward the city of Covington, taking the main flow of traffic with it. LA 1077 proceeds northward, and over the next three miles (4.8 km), the highway passes Madisonville Elementary School, crosses Brewster Road, |
Martin Branner | Personal life | for some gags appearing in his cartoons.
After they retired their dance act, the Branners became the parents of Bernard Donald Branner and the art historian Robert Branner. Martin Branner converted to Roman Catholicism shortly after leaving the stage.
Martin and Edith Branner lived at 27 Riverside Drive in Waterford, Connecticut, and they were the designers of Waterford's town seal. During their many visits to Manhattan, New York City, the Branners enjoyed living in hotels; they were frequent guests at the Iroquois Hotel, which Branner called "the poor man's Algonquin." The Branner family usually spent summers boating and swimming in Connecticut.
In 1957, |
Massachusetts Teachers' Oath | Repeal | were unable to muster the two-thirds majority required to override Hurley's veto, which was sustained by a vote of 101–100.
Although newly elected Republican Governor Leverett Saltonstall indicated that he would sign a repeal bill in early 1939, it failed to pass the state legislature.
The teachers' oath legislation remained in force until invalidated by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1967 in its ruling on Pedlosky v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Massachusetts General Court passed legislation to repeal all loyalty oaths in 1986, which was signed by Governor Michael Dukakis. |
John Franklin Botume | Life and career | School and then entered Harvard College. While Frank's parents had him cut out for a career in law, he started deviating from their plans and began pursuing singing. He studied many years under the Italian voice teacher Vincenzo Cirillo.
After graduating from Harvard in 1876, he attended Harvard Law School for a year and he later taught music in Boston and Cambridge as he read law. In 1881 Frank was admitted to the Suffolk County Bar and began dividing his time between practicing law and teaching the music he enjoyed. Finally, four years later, Frank broke for good |
Judicial independence in Australia | Security of tenure & Remuneration | out of six judges, Chief Justice Cooper and Justices Real and Chubb were compulsorily retired, which permitted the government to appoint new judges. Remuneration The principle that judicial salaries should be known, fixed at the time of appointment and cannot be reduced during tenure is well established at all levels in Australia. In 1877 the Supreme Court of NSW held that a statutory requirement that a judge's salary could not be reduced required the payment of the full salary, even when the judge had failed to perform duties, in that case attending court in various towns in the northern district. |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | First actions by the Labour Party | of a register of non-affiliated groups who would be allowed to operate within the Labour Party. Hayward, according to Tam Dalyell, was thought to be unduly forgiving of Militant by some in the party, and while Hayward and Hughes agreed with Michael Foot's opposition to expulsions in his New Year message for 1982, they said that Militant would be ineligible for their proposed register. The group was given three months to conform to the party rules. Labour Weekly, the Labour Party's own newspaper, cast doubts on the viability of such a register, which it said would only work in an |
Miracle of Sound | Sale and distribution of music | resolved successfully, Dunne commented that although TuneCore was trying to help artists, their efforts did more damage than good and that he depends on let's plays and gaming videos to spread and popularise his music by word of mouth. |
Liberal socialism | John Stuart Mill | Liberal socialism John Stuart Mill The main liberal English thinker John Stuart Mill's early economic philosophy was one of free markets. However, he accepted interventions in the economy, such as a tax on alcohol, if there were sufficient utilitarian grounds. He also accepted the principle of legislative intervention for the purpose of animal welfare. Mill originally believed that "equality of taxation" meant "equality of sacrifice" and that progressive taxation penalised those who worked harder and saved more and was therefore "a mild form of robbery".
Given an equal tax rate regardless of income, Mill agreed that inheritance should be taxed. A |
Minyan ware | Term | Minyan ware Minyan ware is a broad archaeological term describing varieties of a particular style of Aegean burnished pottery associated with the Middle Helladic period (c. 2000/1900–1550 BC). The term was coined in the 19th century by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann after discovering the pottery in Orchomenos, Greece. Excavations conducted during the 1960s confirmed that Minyan ware evolved from the burnished pottery developed by the Tiryns culture of the Early Helladic III period (c. 2200/2150–2000/1900 BC). Term In the history of Aegean prehistoric archaeology, Heinrich Schliemann was the first person to coin the term "Minyan" after he discovered a distinct |
Massachusetts Teachers' Oath | Repeal | Conant and President Daniel Marsh of Boston University to lobby for repeal. As a result of the November elections, sixty representatives who supported the oath were not returned to the House, and oath opponents hoped that this change could lead to repeal.
The Republican House and Senate did pass repeal legislation in March 1937, but the vote in both chambers proved very close: 21–19 in the Senate, and 120–112 in the House. Democratic Governor Charles Francis Hurley vetoed the legislation, claiming that it was an important part of the fight against radicals and Communists. Opponents of the oath in the House |
Minuscule 302 | Description & Text & History | Minuscule 302 Description The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 333 parchment leaves (21.5 cm by 17 cm) with lacunae (Acts 2:20-31; 1 Corinthians 12:17-13:2; Hebrews 11:35-13:25). The text is written in one column per page, in 18 lines per page.
It contains Prolegomena, with scholia. The Hebrews is placed between 2 Thessalonians and 1 Timothy. The text of Hebrews 11:35-12:1 was supplied by a later hand. Text The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. History Wettstein slightly examined Acts of |
Missing in action | World War I & World War II | As a result, headstones are inscribed with such information as "A Soldier of The Cameronians" or "An Australian Corporal" etc. Where nothing is known other than the soldier's national allegiance, the headstone is inscribed "A Soldier of The Great War". The term "Sailor" or "Airman" can be substituted, as appropriate. World War II There are many missing combatants and other persons in service from World War II.
In the United States Armed Forces, 78,750 personnel missing in action had been reported by the end of the war, representing over 19 percent of the total of 405,399 killed during the conflict.
As with |
Maximum (film) | Plot | Home Ministry and 700 million from Pundit's enemies in exchange for killing Pundit. Instead, his men killed Pundit's wife. That was the reason Pundit shot Tiwari.
Before dying Tiwari confesses that he should not have done what he did. Pundit asks whether Subodh (his superior) knew of this. Finally Pundit shoots Tiwari.
Pundit hands over property documents to a reporter. The reporter tells him that there is no going back once this goes public. Pundit says that he does not want to return. Pundit comes with his daughter and the reporter to leave the city. Meanwhile, Inamdar and his men start shooting at |
Map seed | null | chunks of an existing map using the new algorithm, leading to obvious and jarring discontinuities after upgrading.
Favorable seeds can be used when speedrunning video games by specifying the map seed manually. |
Matten bei Interlaken | History | many residents of Matten served as soldiers in service of a foreign power.
Between 1300 and 1310 Interlaken Monastery acquired the village and bailiwick from other local nobles. The Monastery held the village for about two centuries. In 1528, the city of Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and began imposing it on the Bernese Oberland. Matten joined many other villages and the Monastery in an unsuccessful rebellion against the new faith. After Bern imposed its will on the Oberland, they secularized the Monastery and annexed all the Monastery lands. Matten became a part of the Bernese bailiwick |
Legal history of China | 1978-1981 | Session of the Fifth National People's Congress held in June and July 1979. The changes, effective as of January 1, 1980, reflected the leadership's conviction that if economic modernization was to succeed, the people—who had suffered through the humiliations, capricious arrests, and massive civil disorders of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76)—had to be assured that they no longer would be abused or incarcerated on the basis of hearsay or arbitrary political pronouncements.
In mid-1979 China promulgated a series of new statutes that included the country's first criminal law, the first criminal procedure law, and updated laws on courts and procuratorates. Extensive preparations |
Len Ford | Early years & University of Michigan | the center on the school's basketball team. The basketball team won its league's championship in 1944. Ford left Morgan State and joined the U.S. Navy in 1945, but stayed in the service only briefly as World War II came to an end. University of Michigan After the war, Ford transferred to the University of Michigan to play football in a bigger program than Morgan State's. He wanted to "get a shot at playing in the Rose Bowl one day", he later said. While attending Michigan, he was a member of Omega Psi Phi, an all-black fraternity whose membership also |
Jesse H. Jones | Construction and real estate | with local architect Alfred C. Finn, whom he had first worked with on the Rice Hotel. Jones juggled his Houston program with a development initiative in New York City, and he built the Melba Theater in Dallas.
In the mid-1920s, Jones increased his construction and development activity. Two new buildings, the Kirby Theater and the Kirby Lumber Company Building went up on Main Street, while he built additions to the Rice Hotel and the Houston Electric Building. During the same period he started projects in Manhattan. The first was an apartment building on Fifth Avenue at 97th Street, followed by the |
Michael Patrick Thornton | Career | County Fair; and Orestes 2.0. Elsewhere: Of Mice and Men (Steppenwolf) the World Premieres of Sean Graney's IS N UR B1UDS7REEM...and Mark Harvey Levine's LA 8AM (Collaboraction) and Picasso At The Lapin Agile (Noble Fool). Michael was a very grateful assistant director on Steppenwolf's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning August: Osage County.
A Joseph Jefferson Award-winning actor, Michael was honored with a Jeff Nomination for his performance in The Gift's World Premiere of ensemble member Andrew Hinderaker's Suicide, Incorporated. Other acting at The Gift: Will Eno's Brief Study of an Endless Thing and David Rabe's It's Just The Moon (TEN: 2013, |
Military Classic of the South | History & Other sports | Conference (SoCon) from 1936 until 2003, when VMI left for the Big South Conference and were reunited in the SoCon when VMI returned in 2014. Other sports With the return of VMI to the Southern Conference, annual rivalries have been renewed in college baseball, women's soccer, track and field, and cross country. VMI remained in the SoCon in wrestling, and continued to compete annually with The Citadel in that sport while a full member of the Big South.
The Bulldogs and Keydets, along with Air Force and Army, participated in the All-Military Classic basketball tournament, which began in |
Miles Coolidge | Public Projects & Critical Surveys | in Queens, New York to design a billboard for the park's entrance, titled The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio. Critical Surveys In addition to exhibition reviews in newspapers and art journals, three critical surveys of his work have been published: "Nowheresville", by Helen Molesworth, in Frieze, Jan/Feb 1999; "Space Probes", by Kathleen Magnan, in World Art, May, 1999; and "Miles Coolidge", by Nadja Rottner, in Camera Austria #76 (2001). |
Megacorpstate | Decision making structure & Oil pricing | view discusses that OPEC acts as a single entity and makes the final decision on prices after the members have negotiated among themselves. Another view suggests that a decision is reached after negotiations have been made among small and large shareholders after considering supply restrictions and rationing. Regardless of such perspectives, there is no formal model to represent the system. Oil pricing Like the decision making structure, there is no fixed model for price reflection. It greatly depends on the member nations to finalize a rate. Nevertheless, considering OPEC's market power, economists believe it should have set higher prices to |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Open Turn & Subsequent events | the Kinnock leadership at the present time, we have to continue to develop independent work and not allow our distinct political identity to be submerged through fear of expulsions." In Scotland, it supported "a bold, open detour in order to strengthen our forces." Subsequent events In 1991, Militant tendency left the Labour Party and changed its name to Militant Labour. Ted Grant and Alan Woods of the Minority, were expelled, although Militant asserted they had set up an alternative organisation and so had departed, noting: 'We regret that Ted Grant has split in this way. He made a |
Michael Balling | null | Michael Balling Michael Balling (27 August 1866 in Heidingsfeld, near Würzburg – 1 September 1925 in Darmstadt) was a German violist and conductor. He served as principal conductor of The Hallé, Manchester, England from 1912 to 1914.
Balling studied violin with Hermann Ritter at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and was an early convert to the viola alta, a large scale viola introduced by Ritter in 1876. By the late 1880s, Balling had established himself as a viola player of some note playing the instrument with great success in Wagner operas at the Bayreuth Festival, and later conducted there |
Major League Baseball on ABC | 1965 | games in the home cities of the clubs playing those games. Major League Baseball however, had a TV deal with NBC for the All-Star Game and World Series. At the end of the season, ABC declined to exercise its $6.5 million option for 1966, citing poor ratings, especially in New York.
According to ABC announcer Merle Harmon's profile in Curt Smith's book Voices of Summer, in 1965, CBS' Yankee Game of the Week beat ABC in the ratings in at least Dallas and Des Moines. To make matters worse, local television split the big-city audience. Therefore, ABC could show the Cubs |
Minyan ware | Term & Origins | variety of dark-burnished pottery at Orchomenos (the mythical home of King Minyas). Some of his contemporaries referred to the pottery as "Orchomenos Ware". However, the term "Minyan Ware" ultimately prevailed since it romantically recalled the glorious (though tenuous) Minyans of Greek mythology. Origins At first, Alan Wace and Carl Blegen did not yet associate Minyan Ware with the "advent of the Greeks". Both archaeologists regarded the sudden appearance of Minyan Ware as one of two interruptions in the unbroken evolution of Greek pottery from the Neolithic up until the Mycenean era. Ultimately, they concluded that "Minyan Ware indicates the introduction |
Mikey Kearney | Senior | named at centre-forward but lined out at right wing-forward when Waterford faced Limerick in the National League final. He was held scoreless in the 1-24 to 0-19 defeat. |
Mick Farren | Music & Writing | Heated Fork and Dr. Crow.
Aside from his own work, he provided lyrics for various musician friends over the years. He collaborated with Lemmy, co-writing "Lost Johnny" for Hawkwind, and "Keep Us on the Road" and "Damage Case" for Motörhead. With Larry Wallis, he co-wrote "When's the Fun Begin?" for the Pink Fairies and several tracks on Wallis' solo album Death in the Guitafternoon. He provided lyrics for the Wayne Kramer single "Get Some" during the mid-1970s, and continued to work with and for him during the 1990s. Writing During the early 1970s he contributed to the UK Underground press such |
Marvin Mandel | Early life & Political career | a school practice court honor case. Political career Mandel was first elected to public office in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1952, representing northwestern Baltimore City. Mandel served several terms throughout the tumultuous events and urban politics of the 1950s and early '60s when civil rights was on the state's front burner, and was finally chosen as Speaker of the House of Delegates in January 1963 and served in that position until January 1969. Speaker Mandel was first elected Governor and then sworn in by the legislative members of both houses in a joint session of the General Assembly |
Mine clearance organization | Mine Awareness Trust & Mines Advisory Group & Mineseeker Operations and Mineseeker Foundation | the war in Kosovo. Mines Advisory Group The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) has operated since 1989. Having worked on a variety of conflict-related projects in around 35 countries, MAG was co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for their work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. MAG has worked in over 40 countries since 1989 and currently has operations in Angola, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, Iraq, Lao P.D.R., Lebanon, Libya, Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Mineseeker Operations and Mineseeker Foundation The Mineseeker Foundation claims that it can locate mined |
Lorea Canales | Critical appraisal | characters. Her novels have been presented at national literary venues such as the International Book Fair in Monterrey, Guadalajara and Instituto de Cervantes in New York. |
Minden Township, Michigan | Demographics | Latino of any race were 3.63% of the population.
There were 237 households out of which 32.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% were married couples living together, 13.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.5% were non-families. 26.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 3.10.
In the township the population was spread out with 28.3% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | First actions by the Labour Party | votes in a card vote, 5,160,000 to 1,616,000 in each case except for that of Grant who got 175,000 extra votes in his favour. Lynn Walsh, in his failed appeal asserted: "Militant is not an organisation, it is not subsidiary or ancillary to any organisation outside the party ... Militant was proscribed as a result of an entirely one-sided inquiry which acted on McCarthyite reports and poison-pen letters from self-appointed snoopers."
After the election defeat in 1983 the NEC agreed to ban sales of Militant at party meetings and the Militant tendency was prohibited from using party facilities. By 1986, 40 |
Mister Ed | Beginnings | but only to one person, thus causing a variety of opportunities and frustrations. The first six Francis films (1950–55) were also directed by Lubin.
Lubin wanted to make a Francis television series but had been unable to secure the rights. However, upon hearing of Brooks' series of stories, he optioned them for television.
Comedian George Burns financed the original pilot for Mister Ed, which was shot at his McCadden Studio in Hollywood at a cost of $70,000. Scott McKay played Wilbur. Jack Benny was also involved behind the scenes.
Unable to sell the show to a network, Lubin decided to sell the show |
Missing in action | World War I | by a large-calibre British artillery shell. Regardless, efforts are made to identify any remains found via a thorough forensic examination. If this is achieved, attempts are made to trace any living relatives. However, it is frequently impossible to identify the remains, other than to establish some basic details of the unit they served with. In the case of British and Commonwealth MIAs, the headstone is inscribed with the maximum amount of information that is known about the person. Typically, such information is deduced from metallic objects such as brass buttons and shoulder flashes bearing regimental/unit insignia found on the body. |
Michel Adanson | In literature | maximum opus – twenty seven large volumes devoted to a systematic account of created beings and substances and the relations between them, together with a hundred and fifty volumes more of index, exact scientific description, separate treatises and a vocabulary: a hundred and fifty volumes, Jack, with forty thousand drawings and thirty thousand specimens. All this he showed to the Academy. It was much praised but never published. Yet he continued working on it in poverty and old age, and I like to think he was happy in his immense design, and with the admiration of such men as Jussieu |
Mick Farren | Counterculture activity & Death | in 1970. He has long been associated with the Hells Angels (UK) who provided security at Phun City; they even awarded Farren an "approval patch" in 1970 for use on his first solo album Mona.
He was a prominent activist in the White Panthers UK movement, a group that most notably organised free food and other support services for free festivals from the Windsor Free Festival onwards. Death Farren died at age 69 in 2013, after collapsing while performing with the Deviants at the Borderline Club in London. The cause of death was stated to be a heart attack. |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Militant in Liverpool | Labour Party gained the council from a coalition Conservative-Liberal administration on a swing of 12 seats in the local elections running on an ambitious regeneration strategy with a refusal to make above-inflation rent and rate increases. In the 1983 general election elections, Militant supporter Terry Fields won Liverpool Broadgreen.
In 1984, Liverpool City Council launched its Urban Regeneration Strategy to build 5,000 houses and other public works, cancelling 1,200 planned redundancies, creating 1,000 new jobs as well as abolishing office of Lord Mayor.
In 1985, the council joined other left wing councils in the rate-capping rebellion, although only Liverpool and Lambeth refused |
Mike Vernon (ice hockey) | Return to Calgary & Personal life | to improve at his position. He was a stand-up goaltender early in his career, but learned to adopt aspects of the butterfly style after watching them play. Standing only 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall, he relied on speed and reflexes to be a successful goaltender in the NHL. Personal life Vernon was born February 24, 1963, in Calgary. His father Martin worked in construction and was president of the South Calgary community hockey organization where young Mike played his youth hockey. Vernon attended Central Memorial High School and Henry Wise Wood Senior High School. He was always a goaltender, often |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Militant in Liverpool | action provides the only way of providing wages and salaries until 18th December, 1985. ...[giving] the Government three months to negotiate with Labour representatives a just settlement to our financial crisis. If the Government recognises its responsibility then all notices will be withdrawn." Later, the Deputy Council leader Derek Hatton and Militant's national general secretary Taaffe saw later as a great error, although the Council set a legal budget in November 1985 after borrowing £30 million.
Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock used his leader's speech to the 1985 Party Conference to attack Militant's record in Liverpool saying, "you end in the |
Missing in action | Problems and solutions | Missing in action Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire. They may have been killed, wounded, captured, or deserted. If deceased, neither their remains nor grave has been positively identified. Becoming MIA has been an occupational risk for as long as there has been warfare. Problems and solutions Until around 1912, service personnel in most countries were not routinely issued with ID tags. As a result, if someone was killed in action and his body was not recovered until much |
Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane | Career & Personal life & Honours | Duke of Edinburgh had been unable to shoot due to having his trigger finger in a splint and the then Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home had missed twice. Personal life On 10 January 1939 Adeane married Helen Chetwynd-Stapleton (c.1920–c.1995), together they had a daughter and a son. Their son Edward Adeane, a barrister, was Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales from 1979–1985.
On 30 April 1984 Adeane died of heart failure in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was cremated at Golders Green crematorium. Honours Adeane was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1946, a Companion of the Order of |
Miracle of Sound | Coordination with game developers | two additional songs based on the game; "Crucible" and "Kalros".
Some of his songs have also been used within videogames. His song based on the indie CRPG Wasteland 2, titled "Cries of a Dead World" was included in the game itself, being used for the end credits. One of Miracle of Sound's earliest songs, "Gordon Freeman Saved My Life", was later included as a playable song in the game Rock Band. His song "Keepers", in collaboration with Marcin Przybyłowicz, was written for the game Seven: The Days Long Gone and will be the official theme song of the upcoming isometric RPG, |
Melanosis coli | Cause & Histologic appearance & Prognosis & Relation to true melanoses | have been damaged, the characteristic pigmentation of the bowel wall develops. The condition can develop after just a few months of laxative use.
However, other causes are identified, including an increase in colonic epithelial apoptosis. Endoscopically, the mucosa may show a brownish discoloration in a moire pattern. Histologic appearance On biopsy, melanosis coli shows characteristic pigment-laden macrophages within the mucosa on PAS staining.
The histologic differential diagnosis of mucosal pigmentation is: lipofuscin (melanosis coli), hemosiderin-laden macrophages, and melanin (rare). Prognosis No adverse effects or consequences of melanosis coli have been identified. Relation to true melanoses The condition is unrelated to true |
Mike Burton (politician) | Re-election | term in office.
Burton was succeeded as Metro president by David Bragdon, in January 2003. |
Kyoto | Culture | special circumstances of Kyoto as a city away from the sea and home to many Buddhist temples resulted in the development of a variety of vegetables peculiar to the Kyoto area (京野菜 kyō-yasai).
Japan's television and film industry has its center in Kyoto. Many jidaigeki, action films featuring samurai, were shot at Toei Uzumasa Eigamura. A film set and theme park in one, Eigamura features replicas of traditional Japanese buildings, which are used for jidaigeki. Among the sets are a replica of the old Nihonbashi (the bridge at the entry to Edo), a traditional courthouse, a Meiji Period police box and |
Mikel Scicluna | Professional wrestling career | in six minutes at Madison Square Garden, prior to two Garden title matches with Sammartino. In the first match at MSG against Sammartino he was disqualified; Sammartino scored the pin in a rematch. Scicluna went on to lose a series of matches to Spiros Arion. In June 1976, Scicluna found himself part of history, as the opponent for Gorilla Monsoon on the night Monsoon engaged in an impromptu tussle with boxing great Muhammad Ali. Scicluna was wrestling Monsoon in a televised match and was sent over the top rope to the floor after receiving a Manchurian Chop. Scicluna waved off |
Michael Patrick Thornton | Career | 2012) The Ruby Sunrise, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Good Thief (Joseph Jefferson Award—Solo Performance, directed by Gift ensemble member John Gawlik) and Boys' Life. Elsewhere: Colossal (Kennedy Center/UT-Austin Cohen Fest) Cherry Docs (Next, directed by Kate Buckley) A Skull in Connemara (Northlight—After Dark Award, directed by B.J. Jones) The Day Maggie Blew Off Her Head (Serendipity) Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Ivanhoe) Flanagan's Wake! (Noble Fool) Zoo Story and the title role in Steppenwolf's The Elephant Man.
A graduate of The School at Steppenwolf, The Second City Conservatory, and The Second City Directing Program, Michael |
Maria Korp | Euthanasia controversy | Hospital to demonstrate against the "inhumane" decision by the Public Advocate, Julian Gardner, to stop artificially feeding her.
Maria Korp's artificial nutrition and hydration was ceased on 27 July on the decision of the Tribunal-appointed legal guardian, Mr Gardner, who stated that all of the doctors who had examined her (including a specialist independent of the hospital arranged by the Public Advocate) had advised that further treatment other than palliative care was futile and that she had no prospects of recovery. He concluded on the basis of the medical evidence and on the basis of evidence of her beliefs and values |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | First actions by the Labour Party | "atmosphere of co-operation" but that "There is no evidence that such an atmosphere exists."
In the July 1982 edition of London Labour Briefing, Jeremy Corbyn opposed expulsions of the organisation, saying that "If expulsions are in order for Militant, they should apply to us too." In the same year, he was the "provisional convener" of "Defeat the Witch-Hunt Campaign", based at Corbyn's then address. In September 1982, Militant held a special conference against the 'witch-hunt' at the Wembley Conference Centre at which Ken Livingstone spoke. An attendance was claimed of 1,622 delegates from Constituency Labour Parties and 412 trade union delegates |
Mildred Callahan Jones | Flag making | and even several castles in England. Jones' flags were even carried into space on board the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985.
Festival Flags generated more than $1 million in sales revenue a year at the peak of its success in the mid-1990s. However, sales fell to approximately 100,000 a year by 2000, which corresponded to trends within the flag industry.
In the process, Jones also became deeply committed to her Richmond and Fan district community. She was a co-founder of the Old and Historic Broad Street Association, which worked to restore homes and buildings in the Presidents Row section of the city. |
Mihail Sebastian | Life | me a Jew, and a Romanian. For me to go around and join conferences demanding that my identity as a Jewish Romanian be taken seriously would be as crazy as the Lime Trees on the island where I was born to form a conference demanding their rights to be Lime Trees. As for anyone who tells me that I'm not a Romanian, the answer is the same: go talk to the trees, and tell them they're not trees.
Yet for all the sharpness and clarity of his response, he could not help but feel betrayed and saddened by Ionescu's vicious preface:
What |
Michele Messina | Loan to Pro Piacenza & Viterbese Castrense | Pro Piacenza as a substitute replacing Matteo Abbate in the 74th minute of a 1–0 away defeat against Carrarese. On 10 September he played his first entire match for Pro Piacenza in Serie C, a 1–1 home draw against Alessandria. Messina ended his season-long loan to Pro Piacenza with 21 appearances, 11 as a starter and 1 assist. Viterbese Castrense On 7 July 2018, Messina joined to Serie C club Viterbese Castrense on an undisclosed fee and with a 2-year contract. On 29 July he made his debut for Viterbese Castrense as a substitute replacing Diego Cenciarelli in the 85th |
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo | Rise to power | of the soldiers from San Francisco to Sonoma, and began construction of his two-story Casa Grande adobe on the town plaza. He formed an alliance with Sem-Yeto, also known as Chief Solano of the Suisunes tribe, providing Vallejo with over a thousand Suisunes allies during his conflicts with other tribes.
Governor Figueroa died in September 1835, and was replaced by Nicolás Gutiérrez, who was unpopular with the Californio population, resulting in an uprising headed by Juan Alvarado the next year. Alvarado tried to persuade Vallejo to join the uprising, but he declined to become involved. One hundred-seventy Californios led by José |
Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux | Dissent | a district court is presented with a case between citizens of different states, it is disrespectful to the concept of diversity jurisdiction to send the case to a state court. A judge can abdicate his duty, wrote Justice Brennan, “only in the exceptional circumstances where the order to the parties to repair to the state court would clearly serve one of two important countervailing interests: either the avoidance of a premature and perhaps unnecessary decision of a serious federal constitutional question or the avoidance of the hazard of unsettling some delicate balance in the area of federal-state relationships.” Justice Brennan, |
Michael J. McGuire | Honors | Award is given “to recognize those whose careers in the water works industry exemplify vision, creativity and excellent professional performance characteristic of Abel Wolman's long and productive career.” |
Mass drug administration | Direct drug administration | received the first round of MDA. According to the investigators, the intervention resulted in the eradication of the vector and rapid elimination of malaria from the area.
Two large trials of MDA combined with household spraying with DDT were conducted in Cameroun and Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) in 1960–1961. In both trials, substantial reductions in the prevalence of parasitaemia were achieved but transmission was not interrupted. In Bobo-Dioulasso, where primaquine was used in combination with either chloroquine or amodiaquine, the prevalence of gametocytes and Anopheles gambiae sporozoites were reduced substantially. A MDA was also combined with DDT spraying in Zanzibar (Dola |
Later Silla | Culture | the mouth of the Yangtze River.
Later Silla was a golden age of art and culture, as evidenced by the Hwangnyongsa, Seokguram, and Emille Bell. Buddhism flourished during this time, and many Korean Buddhists gained great fame among Chinese Buddhists and contributed to Chinese Buddhism, including: Woncheuk, Wonhyo, Uisang, Musang, and Kim Gyo-gak, a Silla prince whose influence made Mount Jiuhua one of the Four Sacred Mountains of Chinese Buddhism.
Unified Silla and the Tang maintained close ties. This was evidenced by the continual importation of Chinese culture. Many Korean monks went to China to learn about Buddhism. The monk Hyech'o went |
Like a Prayer (album) | Composition | single from Like a Prayer, is "Cherish". Built around the themes of love and relationship, with William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet being one of the major inspirations, the song includes a line from "Cherish" by the 1960s band the Association. The lyrics of "Cherish" make it a simple love song, where Madonna talks about devotion and having her lover by her side, whom she would never leave. Following "Cherish" is "Dear Jessie"; according to Rikky Rooksby, the song sounds more like a children's lullaby than a pop song. The lyrics encourage the little girl Jessie to use her imagination. It |
Limbo | In other denominations and religions | of Jesus, "When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives..." (Eph. 4:8, quoting Psa. 68:18). These individuals, the captives, now reside with God in Heaven. Both "Compartments" still exist, but Abraham's Bosom is now empty, while the other chamber is not, according to this doctrine.
Mormons teach that "all who have died without a knowledge of [the] gospel, who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry, shall be heirs of the celestial kingdom of God." Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, and others have taught that the dead are unconscious (or even nonexistent), awaiting their destiny |
McNally v. United States | Appeal & Majority | this argument as well, stating that the indictment contained sufficient information for the defendants to be apprised of the charges, including the identification of the roles Hunt and Gray played in the conspiracy to defraud.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the convictions on May 12, 1986. The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari and reversed the decision of the lower court; the case was argued before the Court on April 22, 1987, and decided on June 24 of that year. Majority Justice White wrote the opinion of the Court, holding that the federal mail fraud statute only protected money and |
Mangalbhai Patel | Biography | Mangalbhai Patel Prof. Mangadbhai Madhavdas Patel (born 20 October 1951, Ahmedabad.; d. 15 November 2011) was Speaker of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Dec 2002 to Jan 2008. He belonged to the Bharatiya Janta Party. Biography He was born on 7 September 1942 at Parbatpura, Taluka Mansa, Dist. Gandhinagar, and died on 15 November 2011,
He was Professor of Botany at Mansa Science College. He was a member of the tenth Gujarat Legislative Assembly during the year 1998 to 2011 during three consultative session in a row for the Mansa(84) seat He was member of Bharatiya Jan Sangh since 1966. |
Mildred Dilling | Early life | Mildred Dilling Early life Mildred Dilling's mother, Rachel Freel, grew up on a farm and once heard travelling musicians play the harp and violin. Freel was so taken with the music that she was determined that her future children would learn to play the violin and harp. Freel married Frank Dilling and Mildred was born on February 23, 1894, in Marion, Indiana. Dilling had a younger sister, Charlene. As there was no harp instruction available in Marion, Mildred studied the piano starting at age six while Charlene studied the violin. Mildred's instructor was Samuel Nussbaum at the Marion Conservatory of |
Milton J. Durham | Political career | were the incumbent, Philip B. Thompson, Jr., and former Governor James B. McCreary. So great was the excitement about the race that party leaders decided to choose the nominee by a primary election rather than a nominating convention for the first time in the history of the district. Durham finished behind both Thompson and McCreary, who won the nomination and went on to defeat the Republican nominee, James Sebastian.
In 1885, President Grover Cleveland appointed Durham First Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States; he served from March 20, 1885 until the office was discontinued on April 22, 1889. During |
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center | History | merger. In November 1984, Gresham's hospital moved to its current location on Southeast Stark Street in 1984, when it was renamed as Mount Hood Medical Center. The new $15.6 million facility was five stories and had 107 beds.
Construction on a second medical office building on the campus started in 1998. In 2001, the hospital added a permanent MRI machine, replacing a mobile unit that had previously been used. The next year the imaging department completed an expansion that doubled the size and also added a CAT scan machine. In 2003, Mount Hood Medical Center started construction on a $3 million |
Mad World | Chart performance & Music video | Idol by Adam Lambert also briefly increased its sales and interest in the song. The song reached No. 11 on the Rock Digital Songs chart. Music video The music video was directed by Michel Gondry. It begins with an aerial shot of a school; the bell rings and children go out onto the pavement. The rest of the video sees the children forming different shapes whilst Jules stands on the roof and watches from above. On two occasions the camera pans towards Jules looking down at the children, whilst a third pan away sees Andrews playing a piano as the |
Kirby Park railway station | History | Kirby Park railway station History The Birkenhead Railway, owned jointly by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London and North Western Railway (LNWR), had initially opened a branch line from Hooton to Parkgate in 1866. An extension to West Kirby was completed twenty years later although Kirby Park station did not open until 1 October 1894. It was named after Kirby Park, the area surrounding the house Kirbymount, formerly the summer residence of John Hurleston Leche XV of Carden.
Originally considered an experimental station, it was constructed primarily of timber 800 m (870 yd) to the south of the current West Kirby railway |
Melanie Horsnell | Musical career | Melanie Horsnell Musical career Melanie first picked up a guitar at the age of five, learning the classical and flamenco styles of play, and began busking at Manly Beach at the age of ten. By her late teens, she still hadn’t really thought of continuing her music career – she had her heart set on managing Woolworths – until she won a spot on The Northern Composure CD and national songwriting competitions. From there she headed to London for a year, busking on a daily basis and working on her songwriting skills.
Back home, Melanie began her residency at |
Mass drug administration | Direct drug administration | again after the interventions were stopped. Entomological indices also showed only a temporary reduction in transmission, which was completely reversed after the control measures ceased. Because the investigators felt that the failure of the trial to interrupt transmission was due to operational inadequacies, they recommended a much larger and more sophisticated evaluation of insecticide spraying combined with MDA. This recommendation helped to launch the Garki project, also in Northern Nigeria, in 1969. In the Garki project, all 164 study villages in the catchment area were sprayed with propoxur, a residual insecticide. In addition, in 60 villages, MDA with sulfalene / |
Maryland Route 88 | History | Lower Beckleysville Road became MD 833. The roundabout at the intersection of MD 88 and MD 833 was constructed in 2003. |
Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys | Personnel | Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys Personnel Mary Beverly (first soprano)
Olive Simpson (second soprano)
Carol Hall (first alto)
Linda Hirst (second alto)
John Potter (first tenor)
Ward Swingle (second tenor, keyboards)
John Lubbock (baritone)
David Beavan (bass)
Daryl Runswick (electric bass)
Chris Karan (drums) |
Melaleuca Field | Awards | Distinction. In 2015, the field was selected by fans as the top rookie-level ballpark in Ballpark Digest’s Best of the Ballparks contest and was named fourth best rookie-level ballpark by the Digest. On August 14, 2017, Melaleuca Field welcomed the one millionth fan in the new ballpark's history. |
Mike Burton (politician) | Urban growth issue | were three significant boundary expansions:
In 1998, about 3,500 acres were added to make room for approximately 23,000 housing units and 14,000 jobs. Acreage included areas around the Dammasch state hospital site near Wilsonville, the Pleasant Valley area in east Multnomah, the Sunnyside Road area in Clackamas County, and a parcel of land south of Tualatin.
In 1999, another 380 acres were added based on the concept of "subregional need." An example of "subregional need" would occur when a community needed land to balance the number of homes with the number of jobs available in that area.
In 2002, an unprecedented 18,867 acres |
Meg Stinks! | Reception | are mostly filtered through Peter's blinkered perspective rather than simply the show pronouncing her as horrible. Mostly, 'Meg Stinks!' is a vast improvement over 'A Fistful of Meg' in almost every way, primarily because it’s actually more reminiscent of one of my favorite episodes of Family Guy: 'Road to Rupert.' Like that episode, 'Meg Stinks!' features a surprisingly effective Meg-Peter plot and, while it doesn't have an all-time great Stewie-Brian story, it’s still solid."
The episode received a 2.2 rating in the 18-49 years old demographic and was watched by a total of 4.40 million people. This made it the |
Lawler, Iowa | 2010 census | density of 243.2 per square mile (93.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 92.7% White, 0.2% African American, 6.8% from other races, and 0.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.9% of the population.
There were 200 households of which 24.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.0% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 36.5% were non-families. 33.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 18% had someone living alone |
Missing in action | World War II | recover human remains for identification and reburial.
During the 2000s, there was renewed attention within and without the U.S. military to finding remains of the missing, especially in the European Theatre and especially since aging witnesses and local historians were dying off. The group World War II Families for the Return of the Missing was founded in 2005 to work with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and other governmental entities towards locating and repatriating the remains of Americans lost in the conflict. The president of the group said in reference to the far more publicised efforts to find remains of U.S. |
Miracle of Sound | Coordination with game developers | and the female Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect series (Mark Meer and Jennifer Hale, respectively) performed dramatic readings of parts of the song "Commander Shepard" before the release of the Mass Effect 3, to raise publicity. BioWare subsequently sent Dunne advance footage for use in making a song and accompanying music video based on Mass Effect 3, so that his release of "Take it Back" could coincide with the game's launch. A line from his song "Commander Shepard" was also referenced in Mass Effect 3, with a character telling the player to "fight like a Krogan." Dunne later made |
Meromelia | Cause & Etymology | Meromelia Meromelia is a birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot. It results in a shrunken and deformed extremity. Cause Such defects are mainly the results of genetic disorders, but some teratogenic (or environmental) factors have been identified, such as the use of thalidomide from 1957 to 1962 for morning sickness (NVP). Etymology Gk, meros ("part") + melia ("limb") |
Maria Korp | In popular culture | the beginning of Joe's affair, and its consequences, postulating the theory that her husband was involved in her murder.
The story of her murder inspired the opera Midnight Son by Gordon Kerry and Louis Nowra, first performed by Victorian Opera in Melbourne in 2012. In April 2018, the story was also covered by Casefile True Crime Podcast. |
Michael Tshele | Personal & Career & Death | Michael Tshele Personal Tshele never married or had children. He lived with his mother and the two survived off of her pension. He was described as shy, yet friendly among his community. He attended his local Dutch Reformed Church,was an active member of the Christian Democratic Party (UCDP) and led the Matebele Burial Society. Career Tshele was a well known member of his community. He was a freelance photographer-journalist who worked for Kormorant newspaper and Leseding news as well as a community activist. In addition to being a photo-journalist he would photograph parties, weddings, and graduations. Death The following protesters |
Mike McCue | Twitter | whom Twitter had just raised $200 million in a round of funding. His recruitment led to speculation that Twitter was heading towards creating a media and publishing business.
McCue has had a long association with Kleiner Perkins, which invested in Netscape, Tellme Networks and Flipboard. Ellen Pao, who was a junior partner at the firm when he joined the board of Twitter, was also a board member at Flipboard having worked with McCue at Tellme. McCue praised the work of Pao and Kleiner Perkins, restating that opinion when Pao brought a gender-discrimination lawsuit against the venture capital firm in 2012.
McCue's departure |
Kamakura shogunate | Mongol invasions | picture of the situation of the pending Mongol invasion. The shogunate had rejected Kublai's demands to submit with contempt. The Mongol landings of 1274 met with some success, however there was no rout of the Japanese defenders, who in any case greatly outnumbered the 40,000 combined invasion force of Mongols and Korean conscripts. Noting an impending storm, the Korean admirals advised the Mongols to re-embark so that the fleet could be protected away from shore; however, the typhoon was so destructive that one-third of the Mongol force was destroyed.
After the surviving forces returned to Mongol territory, Kublai was not dissuaded |
Mikkel Aaland | Early years & Beginning career | products. Early years Aaland was born in San Francisco and grew up in nearby Livermore, California. His Norwegian born father worked as a scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research facility. Aaland was an Eagle Scout who attended Livermore High School, where he played football. He graduated from California State University in Chico with a major in photojournalism and was an All-American swimmer on the NCAA Division II championship team. Beginning career In 1978 Aaland published his first book, Sweat: The Illustrated History and Description of the Finnish Sauna, Russian Bania, Islamic Hammam, Japanese Mushi-buro, Mexican Temescal, and American |
Mark Noble | 2013–14 season & 2014–15 season | Player of the Year accolade. 2014–15 season Noble missed a penalty in a 0–1 home defeat by Tottenham on 16 August 2014, the opening game of the season, but scored his first goal of the season in the next home game, on 30 August, a 1–3 home defeat by Southampton. On 29 November 2014, Noble became West Ham's record appearance maker in the Premier League with his appearance against Newcastle United being his 205th Premier League game, overtaking Steve Potts. Noble signed a contract extension which would keep him at West Ham until 2020, with an option for a further |
Memories...Do Not Open | Singles & Promotional singles & Commercial performance | Like This", "Paris", along with "Closer", were simultaneously within the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, making the Chainsmokers the third group to have three simultaneous top 10 hits.
The third single, "Honest", was sent to top 40 radio on July 11, 2017. The single peaked at number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100. Promotional singles A promotional single, titled "The One", was released on March 27, 2017, and reached number 78 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Another promotional single, a remixed version of "Young", by Midnight Kids was released on September 29, 2017. Commercial performance Memories...Do Not Open debuted at |
Magnus Johnson | Biography | in 1936.
Johnson died in Litchfield, where he had gone for medical treatment, on September 13, 1936, and his interment is in Dassel Cemetery, Dassel, Minnesota. |
Lol Hamlett | Playing career | Lol Hamlett Playing career Hamlett played for Congleton Town, before joining Bolton Wanderers for a Cheshire County League record transfer fee of £750. World War II devastated his career, limiting him to guest appearances for Stoke City and Manchester United. Playing for Stoke, he scored two goals in 35 games in 1941–42, one goal in 34 games in 1942–43, and then played ten games in the 1943–44 season. He returned to the Victoria Ground with Bolton on 19 March 1949, and scored an own goal in a 4–0 win for the "Potters". Walter Rowley's "Trotters" meanwhile finished 18th in the |
Mike Sacks | Other Writing & Doin' It with Mike Sacks | Galifianakis, Nick Hornby, Sam Lipsyte, Merrill Markoe, Laraine Newman, Simon Rich, Bob Saget, George Saunders, Amy Sedaris, Allison Silverman, Paul Simms, Jerry Stahl, Fred Willard, and Weird Al Yankovic. He has also contributed to the books Esquire Rules and Esquire Presents: Things A Man Shouldn’t Do After the Age of Thirty; Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists; and The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals. Doin' It with Mike Sacks Sacks podcast started in January 2016. The show consists of interviews, comedy bits, and bootleg audio clips. Guests include: David Sedaris, Julie Klausner, Ben Schwartz, Jack Handey, |
Little Satan | Contemporary use | Israel and America stand together," In another situation, he stated that: "For the Mullahs that rule Tehran, Israel is the small Satan and America is the great Satan." It is usually used by Islamist terrorists to recruit terrorists and by Shia speakers to propagate hatred towards Israel. The term also features heavily in contemporary Iranian propaganda.
In Fatima gate border, a Lebanese gate border near Israel, there are two pillars as sign for performing symbolic stoning little Satan and great Satan. Lebanese people with this action will not throw stone towards Israeli soldiers. Hizbullah has same political ideology with Iran and |
Marilyn Ferguson | Aquarius Now & Death and reaction | successful. Following its release Ferguson continued to develop projects, share ideas and advise other authors. In 2007 she moved to Banning, California, near her son and his family. Death and reaction Ferguson died unexpectedly of an apparent heart attack on October 19, 2008. Her death was widely noted in the national and international media. The Los Angeles Times described her as a "galvanizing influence," and quoted her U.S. publisher, Jeremy Tarcher, who described his own personal epiphany when he first met with Ferguson and recognized the potential of the information she had collected. The New York Times called The Aquarian |
Major League Baseball on ABC | Loma Prieta earthquake | rerun of Roseanne and subsequently, The Wonder Years in the meantime), ABC was able to regain power via a backup generator. ABC's play-by-play man, Al Michaels (who was familiar with the San Francisco Bay Area dating back to his days working for the San Francisco Giants from 1974-1976) then proceeded to relay reports to Ted Koppel at ABC News' headquarters in Washington, D.C. Al Michaels was ultimately nominated for an Emmy for his on-site reporting at the World Series.
The Goodyear blimp was aloft above the ballpark to provide aerial coverage of the World Series. Blimp pilot John Crayton reported that |
Mode series | Publication | achieved the widespread popularity Anthony had hoped for. Subsequent novels in the series continued to suffer from the inadequate sales of the first, finally finding Anthony unable to find a publisher for the fourth novel. Anthony credits the Internet with raising his awareness of fan support for the series and of alternative publishing methods. Though the final book, DoOon Mode, was eventually published by Tor, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, its publication was delayed until 2001, eleven years after the writing of the first book, Virtual Mode. |
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