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Melanie Horsnell | Musical career & Personal life | number of other stations.
The Cloud Appreciation Society, released in 2013, shares heartbreaking songs of small town love and loss, glows with an acoustic stripped-back sound, and is intermingled with Melanie's quintessential starry-eyed voice, lyrics to die for and a delicate but timeless presence, which has made her so adored on the scene.
In 2017 Melanie went on a six-week European tour with Blue Mountains-based singer-songwriter Steve Appel (also known as King Curly); their collaborative album, The World Has A Gentle Soul, was released in 2018. Personal life Melanie Horsnell, a Wiradjuri woman, is the mother of two daughters: Gypsy (born |
Len Ford | 1950 season | the damage to Ford's face was revealed. Ford's facial injuries were so severe that a plastic surgery was required, "virtually rebuilding the big end's face." The Browns' long-time team doctor, Vic Ippolito, described Ford's injuries as "a sickening sight."
Because of the injury, Ford started only four regular season games in 1950. However, he asked to be reinstated for the 1950 NFL Championship Game. Head coach Paul Brown agreed to allow Ford to suit up after receiving approval from the team doctor and arranging for a special mask to be built to protect Ford from further injury. |
Mildred Dilling | Harp career | performed as a guest artist with broadcasting studio orchestras throughout the UK and Ireland. She played with NBC's afternoon Chamber Music Series, performing every work then available for harp and string quartet. She performed at the White House seven times for five different presidents. The State Department sent Dilling on three German tours, two in Holland, and two in Austria some time after 1948. They also sent her to Asia in 1961. In 1963–1964 Dilling again toured Asia, including the Middle East. The State Department sent her to Central and South America in 1966, and she toured Asia again, this |
Megacorpstate | OPEC stability and performance & Assumptions on OPEC's stability | becomes unstable, then the oil production of the member nations may become unstable as well. Hence some nations might choose to quit the organization in order to stabilize their oil sectors. Since OPEC is the dominant entity in the Megacorpstate, fluctuations in its performance will affect the market accordingly. For example, with the increase of its revenue stability, the stability of the market will increase and vice versa. Assumptions on OPEC's stability Many economists predicted that the organization would soon die after it became a powerful price setter in the year 1973. In support of their views, they argued that |
Michael Patrick Thornton | Career | trained at the iO Improv Program, under Mick Napier at Annoyance Theatre, and occasionally teaches at Second City, The School at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, and Columbia College. He regularly improvises with Natural Gas, with Susan Messing in Messing With A Friend / Thornton & Messing (seen at Steppenwolf and at The Annoyance thru the TBS Just For Laughs Festival). His two-person improv sets include: with Kyle Zornes in Thornes, Kirby O’Connell in Mike And Kirby: No Suggestioms, Please, and Jillian Burfete in Thornton & Burfete at The Second City. Michael's two person improv show is called You & Me, |
Linda de Mol | Television & Music & Personal life | shows and quizzes, such as Miljoenenjacht (the original version of Deal or No Deal), De Slimste, and M/V. From 2005 until 2009, De Mol starred in the weekly drama series Gooische Vrouwen on RTL4 (originally on Tien). Music In 1991 De Mol released a Dutch-language album written by Henk Westbroek of the former band Het Goede Doel. Six years later Dino released De Mol's holiday CD single "Perfect Harmony", a duet with The Bold and the Beautiful star Jeff Trachta and featuring backing vocals by American singer Wendy Alane Wright. Personal life De Mol married her childhood sweetheart, jeweler Fred |
Mohammad Ruhul Amin | Legacy | lives in poverty and struggles to make a living. |
Minden Township, Michigan | Demographics | 14.9% of those under age 18 and 23.7% of those age 65 or over. |
MV Nusa Kenari 02 | Sinking | wave struck the starboard side of the vessel, causing it to lean on one side and breaking off the upper deck. After this, many of the passengers abandoned the vessel and swam to safety. Due to the short distance from the shores, most passengers were able to swim to safety. Local police statements by the following day indicated that three people had been confirmed killed and another four were still missing, with 49 survivors.
It was later found that Nusa Kenari 02 had set sail without permission from the port authority of Alor. In the search for the missing passengers, 29 |
Mode series | Significant secondary characters & Significance of character names | razor, he longs for a normal life. Slick longs to see his niece Esta, but her mother, his sister, has barred him from doing so because of his unsavory connections.
Esta, Slick's niece, is a depressive twelve-year-old with an unhappy home life.
Stave, a peasant of Oria, is a friend and possible love interest of Nona. Significance of character names Colene is the anglicized form of the name Cailín, which means "girl" in Irish.
Darius was a common name for kings in ancient Persia.
Maresy Doats is named for the song "Mairzy Doats." Colene was unaware of the proper spelling at the time she |
Michael J. McGuire | Consulting firms and teaching assignments | years, he started to grow the firm until it ultimately had 37 employees in three offices: Santa Monica and Newport Beach, California and Denver, Colorado. During the period 1992 to 2000, McGuire was the leader of the Technology Working Group that fed information to the multi-stakeholder regulatory negotiations process (including the USEPA) which resulted in the adoption of five landmark drinking water regulations: Interim Surface Water Treatment Rule, Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule, Information Collection Rule, Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule and Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
In April 2005, the national engineering |
Mississippi Coast Coliseum | Ice hockey & Basketball | and were to play at the Coliseum for the 2009–10 season. Basketball It was home to the Gulf Coast Bandits, a basketball team that played in the World Basketball Association (WBA). The Bandits cancelled their 2006 season for the same reasons as the Sea Wolves and didn't return in 2007. The Coliseum also hosted the Mississippi Coast Gamblers of the United States Basketball League in 1994.
On October 13, 2013, the New Orleans Pelicans hosted the Atlanta Hawks in a preseason NBA game. Nearly 4,000 spectators came to the game, won by the Pelicans.
The coliseum hosted the 1990 and 1994 Metro |
Mammomonogamus | Life cycle | research is needed to fully elucidate the lifecycle, but both larvae and adults appear to be infective. One recent case reported finding adult worms in the duodenum, which is the first presentation of adult worms not in the upper respiratory region. The adult worms might have been coughed up and reswallowed before settling in the duodenum. The development from larvae to adults is about three weeks, but the existence of a larval pulmonary cycle is uncertain. Intermediate hosts, although not fully known, may be earthworms (an intermediate host for the genus Syngamus), snails, or arthropods. Other than intermediate hosts, no |
Kyaw Yin | null | Kyaw Yin Kyaw Yin (Burmese: ကျော်ရင် 1873 - 1939), also known as Mee-Bone-Pyan U Kyaw Yin, was a Burmese balloonist who flew a hot air balloon to many places in Burma. He flew his personally designed hot air balloon (Mee-Bone-Pyan in Burmese) in acrobatic fashion as a stuntman. He tried extensively to get a license from the British Government for flying hot air balloons (at that time, Burma was under British colonial rule).
When he started performing, he was a school teacher in Tavoy High School. From the age of 56 to 66 years, he flew 55 times with his balloon |
Mass drug administration | Indirect MDA | drug resistance can develop when a large population of P. falciparum undergoing high transmission rates is exposed to intense drug pressure. The project was launched in 1960 and covered a population of approximately 20,000. Sea salt was mixed with pyrimethamine at a concentration of 0.05%. Between 1960 and 1961, 77 tons of medicated salt were distributed in the area. After widespread pyrimethamine resistance was reported, pyrimethamine was replaced by chloroquine. From 1961 to 1962, 75 tons of chloroquine were distributed. In two indicator districts, the parasite rates decreased from 40% to 7% and from 27% to 14%. Chloroquine resistant |
Mennonite Publishing Company | Decline | John F. Funk was removed from his position as a bishop of the Mennonite church, church members began to argue that a Mennonite publishing agency should be owned by the church it represented, two rival Mennonite publishing organizations named the Gospel Witness Company and the Mennonite Book and Tract Society were established, and the Company faced financial difficulties after a bank failure. On March 26, 1907, a fire which destroyed half of the Mennonite Publishing Company's physical operations served as a final blow to the Company's fortunes. The last issue of the Herald of Truth was published on April 9, |
Mine clearance organization | G4S Ordnance Management & BACTEC International (rebranded to become SafeLane Global in 2018) & Crosstech SA | part of ArmorGroup International, which was acquired by G4S plc in April 2008. BACTEC International (rebranded to become SafeLane Global in 2018) BACTEC rebranded to become SafeLane Global on October 1, 2018. It is an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and landmine clearance company. BACTEC was established in 1991 to provide risk mitigation services for unexploded ordnance and landmine clearance, supporting construction projects and worldwide explosive ordnance clearance initiatives. Crosstech SA Crosstech SA is a commercial company that is 100% owned by the FSD. It was set up to serve the needs of customers (such as the UN in Sudan) |
Lewis Waterman | The ink blot myth | "three fissure feed" which his first pen-related patent was granted in 1884.
Waterman is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA. Following his death in Brooklyn in 1901, his nephew Frank D. Waterman took the business overseas and increased sales to 350,000 pens per year.
Waterman was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006. The ink blot myth There has been a great deal of mythologizing of Waterman's life and career. The tale that he was prompted to invent a better fountain pen upon losing an insurance sale after the contract was spoiled by an ink blot left |
Mackerras pendulum | Two-party-preferred percentage | the swing required for the seat to change hands. Given a uniform swing to the opposition or government parties, the number of seats that change hands can be predicted. Two-party-preferred percentage The two-party preferred (2PP) method of prediction attempts to estimate the flow of second and subsequent preferences from smaller parties in order of their expected elimination during the instant-runoff voting process, to establish ultimately which major party the voters will choose – Labor or Coalition (Liberal/National) in the Australian context. A Coalition 2PP of 51% would mean a Labor 2PP of 49% and vice versa. Whichever party polls the |
Mode series | Mode theory | must remain in contact with the anchors lest they become lost in one of the non-anchor modes. In addition, only objects from anchor modes may be transported on the Virtual Mode; any other materials will remain in their mode of origin. Once the anchor point is fixed, mode travelers may step in and out of the Virtual Mode at that point, thereby being able to interact fully in the anchor reality. Anchor persons may only travel ten feet across non-anchor modes before crossing the border into the next reality. Though each mode is only ten feet deep, it is infinitely |
Mister Ed | Beginnings & Synopsis | into syndication first. He managed to get single-sponsor identification for the program on over 100 stations. The show was recast with Alan Young in the lead. Production began in November 1960, although Lubin did not direct early episodes because he was working in Europe on a film. The first 26 episodes were received well enough for the show to be picked up by CBS. Synopsis The show in effect had two leads operating as a comedy team. The title role of Mister Ed, a talking palomino, was played by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by former Western film actor Allan |
Massachusetts Teachers' Oath | In force | social activism. He turned down the Hollis Professorship in Divinity at Harvard.
The controversy also cost the long-serving state Commissioner of Education Payson Smith his job. Smith had spoken out against the legislation during the hearings, but nevertheless strictly enforced the law despite a compromise worked out with leading educators and the Attorney General, Paul Dever. Despite this, Democratic Governor James Michael Curley wanted Smith out. Smith's term expired on December 1, 1935, and he continued to serve as Acting Commissioner while he awaited his fate. The media and educational leaders pressured Curley to re-appoint Smith, so Curley met with the |
Mister Ed | Remakes & Legacy | Basche as Wilbur, and Sherilyn Fenn as Carol.
In 2012, Waterman Entertainment announced they were developing a new feature film based on Mister Ed. Legacy A race horse named after the character in the television show took part in the 1994 Grand National steeplechase at Aintree, England, but did not complete the course.
In 2007, it was reported that a housing developer intended to create a community near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, built around the supposed final resting place of Mister Ed (who died in 1970). It was intended to be themed to the style of the show and its period. |
Inflatable Rescue Boat | Patrolling | ocean surf beaches where either the surf is too powerful or the beach too large to perform rescues effectively on a board.
Prior to the start of a patrol, it is the driver's responsibility to ensure the craft is correctly set up and ready for patrolling duties. Typically this will involve inflating the crafts four pontoons to the correct pressure with a hand/foot or electric pump. The motor is test run in a tank of fresh water to check full function and reliability before installation to the transom. The fuel bladder is filled and installed along with a tow rope, rescue |
Legal history of China | Legal reforms under the 1982 Constitution | national security" but international scholars agree, that the new headline covers largely the same provisions as in the 1979 criminal law.
Criminal procedures reforms also encouraged establishment of a more transparent, adversarial trial process. Minor crimes such as prostitution and drug use are sometimes dealt with under re-education through labor laws.
In some cases, China was willing to adopt whole sectors of a foreign legal system. Examples are the banking and securities system (heavily influenced by the United States) and industrial property laws (a copy of the German system).
They have contributed to establishing the legal order of the domestic market, attracting foreign |
Mike Dart | Basket weaving | his interest in basketry began during childhood when he would watch his grandmother, the late Pauline Dart weave baskets and build woven furniture out of willow, hickory and other materials native to the land around her home.
Mike's baskets are generally classified as "contemporary" because his primary media are contemporary materials such as rattan reed and RIT Fabric and other aniline dyes. However, he does weave with natural materials such as honeysuckle and buckbrush (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus). But he says that he will always weave with contemporary materials because it allows him to express himself better artistically, and there are certain colors |
Mark Noble | 2017–18 season & 2018-19 season & 2019-20 season | described as "horrific", Noble grappled with the supporter, throwing him to the ground. On 5 May 2018, he scored the second goal in a 2–0 away win at Leicester City, a result which ensured West Ham's survival in the Premier League. Noble described the goal, a volley from the edge of the penalty area, as "the best of his career". 2018-19 season Noble scored his first goal of the season on 9 February 2019, a penalty past Vicente Guaita of Crystal Palace after he had fouled Michail Antonio in the area. The game finished 1-1. 2019-20 season Noble missed the |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Open Turn | during the next epoch - two, three, five or even ten years — as the crisis of world capitalism, and especially British capitalism, unfolds."
The Majority did not dispute the numbers expelled. It argued "we face a profoundly changed situation". The Labour leadership's policies and methods "have led to a severe decline in the level of activity within the [Labour] party...Marxists are tolerated within the party only where they do not pose a threat at the moment". The Labour Party Young Socialists had been closed:
In the early to mid-eighties, we had fifty to seventy delegates to the Labour Party annual |
Melanie Copeland | Coaching career & Personal life | in Sarpsborg, after being released by Sunderland and Gateshead College for the trip. Personal life Copeland is the cousin of Alan Shearer. |
Ixkun | Monuments | the ruler, is depicted standing and facing left, wearing a feathered headdress representing a zoomorphic deity, from the forehead of which emerges a waterlily that is being nibbled by a fish. The figure is richly dressed and ornamented, with earspools and a belt with two anthropomorphic heads attached. The principal figure is very similar to the principal figure on Stela 6 from Xutilha. The prisoner is separated from the ruler above by a horizontal band, he is depicted looking upwards and to the right. He has long hair bound back and wears a short feathered headdress. Long textile strips hang |
Molon Labe (Falling Skies) | Plot | basement before they leave the hospital, with Matt along as security. Soon after the prisoner has been brought to base, the humans are attacked. Weaver realizes the frontal assault is a diversion and sends Tom to stop a mech that has sneaked through the back. While successful, the resulting explosion traps Anne, Lourdes and Matt in the basement. Karen then appears offering terms: Surrender the Overlord and everyone will be spared, though Tom and Hal don't buy this for a second. Ben and Tom argue over Ben's ultimate fate with the teen deciding to leave after this for the Second |
Millennium (novel series) | Origins | life and how she would react in certain situations.
Larsson's friend and colleague Kurdo Baksi believes the author was also influenced by two murders in 2001 and 2002: Melissa Nordell, a model killed by her boyfriend, and Fadime Şahindal, a Swedish-Kurdish woman killed by her father. Both women were killed at the hands of men or as victims of honor crime. To Larsson, there was no difference, and the "systematic violence" against women highly affected and inspired him to take action against these crimes through his writing. Eva Gabrielsson, Larsson's longtime partner, wrote that "the trilogy allowed Stieg to denounce everyone |
Mode series | DoOon | pronounced /duˈoʊən/, is a super-science reality in which psionic power, including emotional transfer, is possible in limited form, but sympathetic magic is non-operational.
The people of the primary planet have created technology which is able to bypass some of the laws of physics, such as the speed of light, making FTL travel possible. They have refined the science of genetic engineering; people suffer from no genetic diseases and few effects of aging. They are also able to manufacture android-like beings called "nulls" from leftover genetic material. In addition, interstellar travel has made it possible for them to conquer and colonize many |
Mississippi County, Missouri | Education & State | adults 25 years of age and older in Mississippi County, 61.1% possesses a high school diploma or higher while 9.6% holds a bachelor's degree or higher as their highest educational attainment. State Mississippi County is split in half by two different districts of the Missouri House of Representatives. The northern portion of the county is a part of House District 148 and is currently represented by State Representative Holly Rehder(R) of Sikeston. The southern portion of the county is a part of House District 149 and is represented by State Representative Don Rone(R) of Portageville.
All of Mississippi |
Lithium iridate | Synthesis & Properties | α phase is formed at 750–1050 °C, while heating to higher temperatures results in the β phase. The use of Li metal instead of more traditional lithium carbonate, which is easier to handle and store, results in larger crystals. The γ phase can be obtained by the calcination of lithium carbonate and iridium(IV) oxide, followed by annealing in molten lithium hydroxide at 700–800 °C. Properties Lithium iridate is black in color and has a relatively high, temperature-independent electrical conductivity characteristic of metals. Its both α and β phases exhibit the Kitaev exchange coupling between magnetic spins originating from Ir⁴⁺ ions. |
Microsoft PlaysForSure | Overview & Content providers who offer PlaysForSure-certified video & Criticisms | important requirements include time to synchronize a device with a PC, UI performance (time between pressing "play" and hearing music), gapless playback, and so on. Content providers who offer PlaysForSure-certified video Although there exists a PlaysForSure certification for video, and there are a variety of PlaysForSure-certified portable and network video players that could play PlaysForSure-certified video, if it were offered, no online store currently offers video that is certified to play on all PlaysForSure video players. Criticisms A 2005 court case strongly criticised the wording of a Microsoft licensing agreement related to portable devices. The license prohibited makers of portable |
Love dart | Anatomical context | the penis, as is the case in some species of Aneitinae (a subfamily of Athoracophoridae), Sagdidae, Euconulidae, Gastrodontidae and Onchidiidae. Alternatively, it can lead to the vagina, as in the case in some species of Ariopeltinae (a subfamily of Oopeltidae), Ariolimacinae (a subfamily of Ariolimacidae), Philomycidae, other species within the Bradybaenidae, and also in the Hygromiidae, Helicidae and Dyakiidae.
Only two families have darts present in every species: the Bradybaenidae and in the Dyakiidae. In all the other families there is reduction or loss of dart-making ability in some of the species (cf.).
Many species have only one dart sac, however other |
Martin Outram | Biography | Martin Outram Martin Outram is an English viola soloist and violist of the Maggini Quartet. Biography Martin Outram studied at Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Outram is the violist of the Maggini Quartet.
He has appeared as soloist with the London Mozart Players, Britten Sinfonia, Ambache Chamber Orchestra and New London Orchestra. He is an advocate of British contemporary music, giving first performances of pieces by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, York Bowen (first European performance of his Viola Concerto), Adam Gorb, David Gow and Britten (first concert performance of Britten's "Portrait |
Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore | History & Events | games and the formation of a group called "Via il Sassuolo da Reggio Emilia" (Sassuolo out of Reggio Emilia), but also marches through the city centre to raise the attention on the topic. In September 2016, Luca Vecchi, Mayor of Reggio Emilia, was heavily booed by the fans during the club's presentation due to the Municipality position on the dispute. Events It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of A.C. Reggiana 1919. It also hosts larger rugby union matches for Pro14 team, Zebre of Parma.
Football club Carpi used the ground for home matches during |
Law Uk Folk Museum | Restoration | 1970s and urged the curator of the new Hong Kong Museum of History—which opened in July 1975—to buy and renovate Law Uk.
The building was ultimately restored and reopened as the Law Uk Folk Museum in 1989. It was declared a monument of Hong Kong in the same year on 10 November. The museum served as one of the three branches of the Hong Kong Museum of History, along with the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence and the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum. This has now been expanded to five branches with the addition of the Fireboat Alexander Grantham |
Messin' with the Kid | Recognition and legacy | with The Kid |
Michael D. Knox | Career | Michael D. Knox Career Knox's career has spanned the fields and topics of death and dying, community mental health, ethics, the prevention of HIV/AIDS, and peace. Much of his academic work has been accomplished at the University of South Florida, where he has been a faculty member since 1986. At USF, Knox has been responsible for more than $35 million in grants and other external funding to the university. He has developed grant-funded collaborations with the USF Departments of Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Criminology and with the USF College of Public Health. He has developed grant-funded consortia with the |
Majesty Rose | Early life | Majesty Rose Early life Majesty Rose was born on February 29, 1992, to Lori Grant and Rickey York. Rose began writing at age ten and taught herself the acoustic guitar at seventeen. Despite her skills as a singer and guitarist, she has never taken formal lessons.
She was a student at the Eastern Wayne High School and graduated in 2010. She also attended Wayne Community College and participated in SGA (Student Government Association). She worked as a preschool teacher at the Goldsboro Family YMCA before appearing on American Idol. Rose is known in her community for serving at multiple |
Miss World Sri Lanka | History | Miss World Sri Lanka History Sri Lanka debut in 1953 at Miss World pageant. Previously the country named as Ceylon for competing at the pageant in 1957 to 1972. Nowadays, the official name for the country named as Sri Lanka. Miss Sri Lanka pageant became national franchise for Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Asia Pacific International pageants.
Since 1953 the official winner competed at Miss World, sometimes a handpicked delegate is sent. Sri Lanka has one International winner from Miss Asia Pacific International, Bernadine Rosemarie Fernando Ramanyake in 1985, she was crowned the official winner in Kuala Lumpur, |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Peak influence | Executive.
Blackburn CLP was the first local party to expel a Militant activist, in 1983, and the constituency MP Jack Straw was of the opinion that dealing with the group was necessary if the party was to win the next general election. Militant's membership kept growing though, at least until 1986, when it reached 8,100 plus, according to Crick, who cites internal figures, but adds a caveat that this figure may be inflated. Militant's public fund raising peaked in 1986. In 1964, it set a target of £500 in funds. In 1980 it raised £94,000. In 1985 and 1986 its Fighting |
Mikkel Aaland | Beginning career & Digital photography instruction | day Mike Disfarmer." In 1982 Aaland appeared as a guest on the David Letterman Show, sharing work from both Sweat and County Fair.
During an interview in 1981 Aaland was introduced to the newly emerging field of digital photography by renowned photographer Ansel Adams. He contributed articles and photos for other publications such as American Photographer, FOTO, American Photo, Digital Creativity, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Popular Science, and Wired. In 1981 he received the National Art Directors award for photography. Digital photography instruction Aaland was one of the first to write about digital photography. In the 1980s he wrote covered the |
Man-in-the-middle attack | null | Man-in-the-middle attack In cryptography and computer security, a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) is an attack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communications between two parties who believe they are directly communicating with each other. One example of a MITM attack is active eavesdropping, in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them to make them believe they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker. The attacker must be able to intercept all relevant messages passing between the two |
La Paz traffic zebras | The Program | worked polishing shoes or selling candies on the streets to play this curious character.
This policy of focusing on people's needs and improving the citizen’s behavior, helped to see more clearly the phenomenon that was taking place on the streets. Citizens and drivers did not understand the work of these young people dressed as zebras and sometimes reacted violently. On the other hand, the zebras did not understand their role in the Vial Plan, only felt that they were people doing funny things on the streets.
That is when the training process with the young volunteers that were part of the Zebra |
Mine clearance organization | Horizon Assignments | Government of India for the demining projects in Sri Lanka. Since September 2012, Horizon is working on Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) / UXO survey and detection as a part of soil remediation project under taken by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India for Kuwait Oil company (KOC) at Kuwait. In Nov- Dec 2014, HORIZON successfully completed UXO Anomaly Avoidance Project for AMEC's Soil sampling Activity. In Kuwait, Horizon has carried out EOD/UXO survey of more than 400,000 sq m and Radiological Survey of more than 270,000 sq m area. HORIZON has so far detected and destroyed around 124,630 land |
Mission Woods, Kansas | History & Geography & 2010 census | Mission Woods, Kansas History Mission Woods had its start in the 1930s when J.C. Nichols laid out the subdivision and started building. It was named from a Native American mission established at the site in the 19th century, and from the scenic wooded setting.
Mission Woods became a Google Fiber "fiberhood" in 2014, with installation and service beginning. Geography Mission Woods is located at 39°1′59″N 94°36′47″W (39.033188, -94.613003). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.10 square miles (0.26 km²), all of it land. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 178 |
Mike Vernon (ice hockey) | Calgary Flames | He led the team to a 5–4 overtime victory to end the streak. It was also Vernon's first NHL win. He recorded his first career shutout, also against Vancouver, on February 26 in a 4–0 win during a stretch where Vernon went two months without losing in which he started.
Three of Vernon's nine regular season wins came against the Winnipeg Jets, Calgary's first round opponent in the 1986 Stanley Cup playoffs. Though he had only 21-games of NHL experience, Vernon was named the starter for the series. He led the Flames to a three-game sweep of Winnipeg, followed |
Isao Okazaki | Political involvement & After release from prison | to select 75 women to work at the Kure Naval Arsenal, but realized that women of higher status were not part of the selection pool, and leaked this fact. He was forced to resign. He then became a member of Dai Nippon Genron Hokokukai, a right-wing party. After release from prison After his release from prison, Okazaki entered the lumber business in Matsue City. He took care of those who had been imprisoned for the war. A right-wing organization, Seinen Kodotai (Young Pro-emperor organization) formed with him as its leader. In December 1956, the National Union (of right wing organizations) |
Maysie Webb | Personal life & Honours | Maysie Webb Personal life Webb lived with her life-long partner Margaret Bryant. Honours In the 1979 New Year Honours, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of her work as deputy director of the British Museum.
A portrait by Peter Greenham was commissioned by the Trustees of the British Museum to mark Webb's retirement in 1983. |
Marty McSorley | Early life and hockey career & Assault conviction | a sudden and infamous end in a game against the Vancouver Canucks on February 21, 2000. Assault conviction In a game between the Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks in Vancouver on February 21, 2000, McSorley swung his stick and hit Donald Brashear in the head with 4.6 seconds left in the game. Brashear fell backwards and hit his head hard on the ice, losing consciousness and suffering a Grade III concussion. McSorley was charged with assault and suspended by the NHL for the remainder of the 1999–2000 season (including the playoffs) missing 23 games. On October 6, 2000, Judge William |
Metropolitan Borough of Battersea | Coat of arms | River Thames, and bore sixteen gold stars for the sixteen wards of the borough. The new crest on top of the helm was the dove of the 1901 design, with the addition of sprigs of lavender, for the old lavender fields of the area, and Lavender Hill, the main road of Battersea. The old motto was retained. |
Mildred Dilling | Harp career | time with Charlene, in 1967. She gave a recital for UNESCO in Paris in October 1968. In 1971 she visited Iceland, where she was a soloist with the Iceland Symphony. There she had some of her last performances with her sister Charlene, who died in 1972.
Dilling was one of the founders of the American Harp Society in 1962 and served as a judge in many of its national student contests. She also frequently served as a judge for the Ruth Lorraine Close Awards. From 1964 until 1982, she held a two-week masterclass and workshop at UCLA. In 1970 she |
Mary Ellen Edmunds | Missionary Training Center and Relief Society & Other contributions & Awards | in 1984. She had planned on being in Nigeria for three years, but had to return home early due to illness. After returning from Nigeria, Edmunds was a member of the Relief Society General Board from 1986 to 1997. Other contributions Edmunds was a member of the Utah County Board of Health from 1988 to 1998. She was a Trustee of the Utah South Region International Council on Harmonisation Governing Board from 1998 through 2003. She has also been a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Thrasher Research Fund. Awards Edmunds received the Alumni Distinguished Service Award from |
Martin Vunk | Club career | Martin Vunk Club career Vunk was named the Meistriliiga Player of the Year for his performances for Flora in 2008. On 21 November 2009, he signed a two-year loan deal with Syrianska. On 5 January 2011, he signed a one and a half year contract with Nea Salamis Famagusta, previously released for that deal by Flora. On 25 July 2012, he signed a two-year contract with the Greek club Panachaiki.
On 9 February 2013, he signed a one-year contract with Sillamäe Kalev.
On 22 February 2014, he signed a one-year contract with Nõmme Kalju.
On 9 December 2014, he signed a one-year contract |
Marci Hamilton | Background and ideas & Media appearances | false assumptions that are endangering children. The think tank works to study the issues, track societal and legislative responses and trends, provide expert testimony to explain the issues to legislators and policymakers, and to educate the public. Hamilton currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Academic Director. Media appearances Hamilton appeared on The Daily Show in 2005 to discuss her book God vs. the Gavel. In this interview she highlights the existence of laws that offer criminal and civil protection for those who seek "faith healing" rather than traditional medicine for those under their care. She also |
Memories...Do Not Open | Commercial performance | number one on the Billboard 200 with 221,000 album-equivalent units, of which 166,000 were pure album sales. As of August 25, 2017, the album has moved 1,000,000 album-equivalent units in the United States. |
Maine State Route 151 | Route description | (13 km) past Athens, the road reaches a small clearing which is the center of the town of Brighton. At the center, SR 154 has its western terminus at SR 151. SR 151 contunes north before ending at an intersection with SR 16 in the Northeast Somerset hamlet of Mayfield Corner, northwest of two small ponds. |
Louisiana Highway 1077 | Future | a program that aims to transfer about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of state-owned roadways to local governments over the next several years. Under this plan of "right-sizing" the state highway system, the entirety of LA 1077 is proposed for deletion as it no longer meets a significant interurban travel function. |
Mike Vernon (ice hockey) | Junior | Mike Vernon (ice hockey) Junior A native of Calgary, Vernon played his junior hockey in his hometown. First for the Calgary Canucks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League in 1979–80, and then the Calgary Wranglers of the Western Hockey League (WHL). He appeared in 59 games in his first WHL season, 1980–81, posting a 33–17–1 record before leading the team to the WHL finals where the Wranglers lost the best-of-seven championship to the Victoria Cougars, four games to three. He attracted the attention of the Calgary Flames, who selected him with their third round pick, 56th overall, at the 1981 |
Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014 | Debate and discussion | that the bill would make it easier for American immigrants "supporting their extended families overseas" to help their relatives, while still "providing the necessary safeguards to ensure their money reaches its intended destination." The bill would help these people by "streamlining the remittance process and eliminating regulatory barriers to sending money home."
The list of organizations who support the bill include the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Money Transmitter Regulators Association, Oxfam America, African Development Solutions (ADESO), the Somali American Remittances association, Tawakal Money Express, Kaah Express, Dahab-shiil, Amal USA Inc, and the Somali Action Alliance, and The Confederation of Somali |
Michael Patrick Thornton | Career | Michael Patrick Thornton Career Artistic director & co-founder of The Gift Theatre, Michael was most recently seen onstage as King Richard III in The Gift Theatre's production of RICHARD III at Steppenwolf in a historic production where Thornton became the first actor to ever act onstage while wearing a robotic exoskeleton. Other recent stage credits include Iago in Othello at The Gift Theatre and in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 50th anniversary production of Our Town and onstage at The Gift in the world premiere of Hinderaker's Joseph Jefferson Award-nominated Dirty. Previous stage credits: U.S. premiere of Absolute Hell at The |
Minden Township, Michigan | Demographics | 27.3% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.0 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $30,227, and the median income for a family was $38,500. Males had a median income of $31,029 versus $20,066 for females. The per capita income for the township was $14,770. About 7.5% of families and 12.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including |
Maximum (film) | Box office & Critical reception | heavy competition from The Amazing Spider-Man. The second week also went poorly, as the much awaited Bol Bachchan released.On the third week,it almost disappeared from cinemas due to release of Cocktail and was declared a disaster grossing only ₹22.5 million. Critical reception Maximum garnered mostly negative reviews. Aniruddha Guha of DNA gave it 2 stars (on 5) and wrote – "Maximum ends up as a 'me too' among many RGV-inspired films in the last few years, even though that may not have been the intention. Sadly, there was potential". Janhavi Patel of FilmiTadka rated Maximum with 2 out of 5 stars |
Marty McSorley | Early life and hockey career | bruising style made him a fan favorite; but he strove to improve his game beyond being primarily known as an enforcer, earning great respect around the league for his hard work ethic, his fine team play, and his articulate intelligence off the ice.
In the 1992–93 NHL regular season, McSorley led all defensemen in shorthanded goals with three.
The Kings reached the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals against the Montreal Canadiens, but in Game 2 with the Kings up 2–1, McSorley was caught with an illegal stick, contributing to the Canadiens game-tying goal. Montreal ending up winning that game in overtime and ultimately |
Lush! | null | a self-contained operation. The promoter, and manager of the club, Col Hamilton, is also the resident DJ. Music on resident-played nights would generally be house music, but the regular guest DJs are more likely to play trance music.
Shortly after opening, CJ Agnelli of Agnelli & Nelson and Col Hamilton immortalised the club with one of their first releases, titled "Lush", and the later remixes, "Lush Gold". The cover art of both releases featured the club's logo, a large yellow/orange circle. An edition of Discover Records "Live As" series has also been recorded at the venue.
Large quantities of clubbers travel |
Len Bradbury | null | Len Bradbury Leonard Bradbury (July 1914 – 2007) was an English footballer. His regular position was as a forward. He was born in Northwich, Cheshire. He played for Manchester United, Old Wittonians, Northwich Victoria, and University of Manchester. |
Mackerras pendulum | Two-party-preferred percentage | Party was at the 1983 federal election, on 53.23 percent. The largest unofficial result was 58.2% for Labor at the 1943 federal election, estimated by Mackerras.
Considering two-party-preferred estimates going back to the 1949 election, the swing to Labor at the 2007 federal election was the third-largest two-party swing, behind Malcolm Fraser and the coalition in 1975 on 7.4 percentage points and Gough Whitlam and Labor in 1969 on 7.1 points. |
Mikey Kearney | Blackwater Community School & Cork Institute of Technology & Ballyduff Upper | Mikey Kearney Blackwater Community School Kearney first came to prominence as a hurler with Blackwater Community School where he played in every grade of hurling. On 23 November 2011, he lined out at midfield when Blackwater CS defeated Dungarvan CBS by 0-11 to 0-08 to win the Dean Ryan Cup. Kearney also lined out for the school in the Harty Cup. Cork Institute of Technology Kearney studied at the Cork Institute of Technology and joined the senior hurling team in his second year at the institute. He was a regular player in several Fitzgibbon Cup campaigns. Ballyduff Upper Kearney joined |
Marta Matamoros | Death and legacy | the Grand Cross of the Order of Omar Torrijos Herrera. She was honored by the University of Panama as one of the 100 outstanding women of Panama during the centennial celebration of Panama and the Institute for Women of the university is named in her honor. The Library of the National Confederation of Workers of Panama bears her name, as does a conference room in the Ministry of Labor and Workforce Development. In 2006, an executive decree created the Order of Marta Matamoros to honor women who have been role models and strengthened the nation by working for socio-economic, political |
Michael D. Knox | HIV/AIDS & Antiwar efforts | University of Puerto Rico, the University of Florida, the University of Miami, the University of the Virgin Islands and Florida A&M University to provide faculty and clinical training sites throughout the region.
Knox traveled to India in 2003 to speak and to dedicate two new educational programs associated with USF. He was Co-Chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research's (amfAR) 16th National HIV/AIDS Update Conference held in March 2004 and delivered an opening plenary which argued against current US wars in favor of more government support for prevention,. Antiwar efforts The long-standing antiwar activities of Michael Knox began in 1965 |
Minyan ware | Forms and styles | (or highly ribbed pedestal feet) are an important characteristic of Middle Helladic II and Middle Helladic III Gray Minyan Ware in central Greece. Of course, this characteristic is also present on Middle Helladic III Yellow Minyan Ware goblets from Corinth and the Argolid. During the final phase of the Middle Helladic period, shallowly incised rings more or less replaced goblet feet and "ring stems" in northeastern Peloponnese.
Minyan Ware from the Middle Helladic I period is decorated in the form of grooves on the upper shoulder of kantharoi and bowls. During the Middle Helladic II period, stamped concentric circles and "festoons" |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Labour Party and press responses to entryism | he finally began his job in January 1977.
Militant general secretary Taaffe was interviewed by Michael Davie, a journalist for The Observer, for an article published on 19 December 1976:
"No country constitutes a genuinely democratic workers' state," Mr Taaffe said. He spoke of the "monstrous police apparatus" in Russia, and the dictatorships of China and Cuba. Why would not the same thing happen here, if everything was taken over by the state? "Because Britain has a long democratic tradition, and there is no possibility of a socialist society being attained here without the working class, and the middle class, being |
Michel L'Affilard | Biography | Geneva in 1971, ISBN 2-8266-0349-3. |
Minyan ware | Forms and styles & Areas of production | (or parallel semicircles) became a common characteristic of decoration especially on Black (or Argive) Minyan Ware. Areas of production Gray Minyan Ware is mostly found in central Greece and is also common in the Peloponnese during the Middle Helladic I and Middle Helladic II periods. Black (or Argive) Minyan Ware is common in northern Peloponnese and is mostly decorated with stamped and incised ornaments. Red Minyan Ware is commonly found in Aegina, Attica, the northern Cyclades and Boeotia. Yellow Minyan Ware first appears during the Middle Helladic II and Middle Helladic III periods. Due to its light surface color, this |
Martin Talty | Personal & Trivia | played the uilleann pipes in both the Laichtín Naofa Céilí Band and in The Tulla Céilí Band.
He attended the same primary school as Willie Clancy, and the two developed a life-long friendship, strengthened by playing the same instruments. After Clancy's death, he was one of the founder of the Willie Clancy Summer School. Personal Talty married Mary (Ciss) Kennelly (1925-2018) in 1962 and then went to England for a year where they lived in Warminster and Epsom Downs. They had two children. Trivia As a teenager Talty played Gaelic football with Milltown Malbay GAA. He did not get much |
Mike Vernon (ice hockey) | Calgary Flames & Detroit, San Jose and Florida | had to withdraw due to a knee injury. After nearly ten seasons with Vernon as Calgary's starting goaltender, the Flames felt it was time to hand the starting goaltender duties to Trevor Kidd. On June 29, 1994, they traded Vernon to the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for defenceman Steve Chiasson. The Red Wings had been pursuing a deal for Vernon since the previous season. Detroit, San Jose and Florida Detroit anticipated the veteran Vernon would help develop their young goaltender Chris Osgood. As Detroit's top goaltender in 1994–95, Vernon posted a 19–6–4 record and helped the Red Wings win |
Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014 | Background & Provisions of the bill | the poor). According to World Bank estimates, remittances totaled US$414 billion in 2009, of which US$316 billion went to developing countries that involved 192 million migrant workers. For some individual recipient countries, remittances can be as high as a third of their GDP. As remittance receivers often have a higher propensity to own a bank account, remittances promote access to financial services for the sender and recipient, an essential aspect of leveraging remittances to promote economic development. According to some social scientists remittances have social significance that extends well beyond the mere financial dimensions. Provisions of the bill According to |
Lyons Government | Foundation of United Australia Party | future prime minister Robert Menzies. In parliament on 13 March 1931, though still a member of the ALP, Lyons supported a no confidence motion against the Scullin Labor government. He resigned from the ALP soon afterward, along with Trade Minister James Fenton and four other right-wing ALP MPs. The United Australia Party was then formed from a merger of the six Labor dissidents, the opposition Nationalist Party of Australia, and several citizens' groups. Lyons became the new party's leader, and hence Leader of the Opposition, with John Latham, the last leader of the Nationalists, as his deputy. The |
Monastery of Saint Mina | History | Monastery of Saint Mina History Following the execution of Saint Mina, his sister brought his body to a church in Alexandria. When the time of persecution ended, during the papacy of Pope Athanasius of Alexandria, an angel appeared to the Pope and ordered him to load the saint's body on a camel and head towards the Western Desert. At a certain spot near a water well at the end of Lake Mariout, not far from Alexandria, the camel stopped and wouldn't move. The Christians took this a sign from God and there buried Saint Mina's body after placing it in |
Milton J. Durham | Political career | Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1879). During his congressional tenure, he served on the House Committees on Banking and Currency, Coinage, and Weights and Measures, and chaired the House Committees on Appropriations and Revision of the Laws. He also served on committees investigating the failure of the First Bank of the United States, alleged fraud in the Western Judicial District of Arkansas, the accounts of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the condition of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. In response to the investigation of Freedman's Savings and Trust, he sponsored legislation designed |
Mine clearance organization | Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) & 6 Alpha Associates | non-aligned, independent, non-government organisation based in Geneva.
FSD also conducts disaster relief work, with major interventions in Sri Lanka following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and during the January–March 2008 cold weather crisis in Tajikistan. FSD has conducted interventions in 21 countries since 1998, and is currently engaged in implementing 5 programmes worldwide, these are Lao, Lebanon, Sri-Lanka, Sudan and Tajikistan. FSD also conducted support operations for the World Food Programme (WFP) as a stand-by partner from 2001. 6 Alpha Associates 6 Alpha Associates provides independent consultancy in mine clearance, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). The company is |
Mandalay Bay | History & 2017 shooting | the project in September 2002. The name of the tower, THEhotel at Mandalay Bay, was revealed in October 2003. The tower opened on December 17, 2003.
In February 2005, Mandalay Resort Group was sold to MGM Mirage (later MGM Resorts International), which currently owns the resort. The acquisition was finalized on April 25, 2005. 2017 shooting On October 1, 2017, gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest, a country music festival, from a room on the 32nd floor of the hotel, killing 58 and wounding 546. The shooting ended when Paddock died by suicide before Las Vegas Metropolitan |
Michelle Maemone | College career & Utah Royals, 2019- | her sophomore year. Utah Royals, 2019- Maemone was drafted by the Utah Royals FC in the third round, 23rd overall, of the 2019 NWSL College Draft. She was signed by the Royals in April 2019. She made her debut for the club as a starter on April 20, 2019 due to injuries to both Becca Moros and Kelley O'Hara. The day prior to her club debut, Maomone had had 101 degree fever. |
Linchong | History & Administrative division | Linchong History In 1961, Linchong People's Commune was set up. In 1984 was incorporated as a township. At the end of 2015, Tiantang Township (Chinese: 天堂乡) and Huanglei Township (Chinese: 黄雷乡) were revoked. Some places merged into the township and then it was upgraded to a town. Administrative division As of 2015, the town is divided into 24 villages: Linchong (Chinese: 林冲村), Tangjia (Chinese: 塘家村), Liujia (Chinese: 刘家村), Tianba (Chinese: 田坝村), Dabao (Chinese: 大堡村), Shimaping (Chinese: 石马坪村), Douxi (Chinese: 斗溪村), Woman (Chinese: 卧慢村), Banlishan (Chinese: 板栗山村), Dipu (Chinese: 地蒲村), Mawang (Chinese: 马王村), Tangzhai (Chinese: 塘寨村), Guigen (Chinese: 桂根村), Dixi (Chinese: |
Maritime Regional Congress of Soviets of Peasant Deputies | null | Maritime Regional Congress of Soviets of Peasant Deputies The Maritime Regional Congress of Soviets of Peasant Deputies was a body of peasant soviets (councils) in the Maritime Province of Russia.
The 2nd Maritime Regional Congress of Soviet of Peasant Deputies was held September 30-October 3, 1917. 564 delegates took part in the Congress. The Congress marked a split in Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries (SR) in the province. On the inaugural day of the meeting, SR party representatives were excluded from the Congress presidium with the argument that only genuine peasants would be allowed occupy leadership roles. The urban intellectual leaders of the |
Liberal Arts and Sciences at Tilburg University | Student Population | 2008. One year later, in September 2009, the number of first-year students increased to 62 students. Tilburg University is striving for a maximum of 100 first-year students each year in order to maintain the small-scale groups and small-scale character of the programme.
50% of the Liberal Arts and Sciences students at Tilburg University are international. International students come from a variety of countries including Canada, the US, Austria, Belgium, China, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Latvia, Poland, Germany, Israel, Bulgaria, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. In addition, most of the Dutch students also have an international background. Not surprisingly, Liberal Arts |
Manuel Fernandes (footballer, born 1986) | Benfica & Portsmouth | CF in the group stage, with Benfica again only being ousted by the eventual champions, in this case FC Barcelona in the quarter-finals. Portsmouth In the summer of 2006, Fernandes signed for Portsmouth of the Premier League on loan, with a deal agreed for a permanent transfer of approximately £7 million if he fully recovered from his groin injury. A transfer was first proposed in late July, but could not be concluded as the player was still suffering from the injury, failing his medical at the club twice; in an unusual move, Benfica allowed the player to be treated at Portsmouth |
Mireya Correa | Biography and career | Mireya Correa Biography and career Correa graduated from the University of Panama with a degree in biology and chemistry in 1963. She received a master's degree in botany from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1967. She was a professor at the University of Panama. She became a scientific collaborator at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in 1987.
She was the Director of the Herbarium at the University of Panama, a research and teaching facility of the Natural Science Faculty from the time of its founding in 1968. The collection contains more than seventy thousand specimens. It has been part |
Mikel Scicluna | Professional wrestling career | enjoyed success as a tag team wrestler, winning the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship with Smasher Sloan on September 22, 1966, in Washington, D.C. (though they eventually lost the belts in the same city to Spiros Arion and Antonio Pugliese), then the WWWF World Tag Team Championship with King Curtis Iaukea on February 1, 1972, in Philadelphia.
In singles competition, Scicluna defeated Spiros Arion for Australia's IWA World Championship on June 15, 1968, and would challenge Bruno Sammartino and Pedro Morales for the WWWF Championship from time to time. One of his biggest career wins was pinning Waldo Von Erich |
Montgomery Building (El Paso, Texas) | Architectural significance | Timber was scarce in El Paso but the railroad brought milled lumber, much of it from the Cloudcroft area. Railroads also brought pressed tin, cast iron, glass and hardware that were used to simulate styles popular in the eastern United States.
The one-part commercial building is a simple box with a decorated wood façade and cornice. The architectural style of small, pitched-roof buildings with false fronts created the commercial core of the new western towns during the mid-19th century.
The Montgomery building had one ground-level floor with a false front added to make the building appear taller. The false front was topped |
Missing in action | World War I | the former battlefields of the Western Front every year. These discoveries happen regularly, often during the course of agricultural work or construction projects. Typically, the remains of one or several men are found at a time. However, occasionally the numbers recovered are much larger e.g. the mass grave at Fromelles (excavated in 2009) which contained the skeletal remains of no less than 250 Allied soldiers. Another example is the excavation which took place at Carspach (Alsace region of France) in early 2012, which uncovered the remains of 21 German soldiers, lost in an underground shelter since 1918, after being buried |
Mansfield Branch (Great Northern Railway) | null | estimated cost of repairs exceeded $1,000,000.00. Several wooden bridge trestles and track had to be repaired in order to keep the train operational. Great Northern Railway’s records show that 49 wooden trestles were built along this stretch the track, the most of any branch line in the United States. Also, one wooden tunnel was constructed near the falls at Douglas Creek, and in 2000 the tunnel collapsed from years of neglect. In 2000 both ends were closed up with thousands of cubic yards of soil.
The Mansfield branch was one of the last branch lines in the country to |
Minuscule 554 | Text & History | Kˣ in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed Byzantine text.
The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted. History The manuscript was held in the monastery Mar Saba. In 1834 Robert Curzon, Lord Zouche, brought this manuscript to England (along with the codices 548, 552, 554). The entire collection of Curzon was bequeathed by his daughter in 1917 to the British Museum, where it had been deposited, by his son, since 1876.
The manuscripts was added to the list of the New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (541) and C. R. Gregory (553).
The manuscript was |
Mike McCue | Tellme Networks and Microsoft & Flipboard | proprietary applications to open standards applications and drove the adoption of VoiceXML. The system became the standard for "voice browsers" and in March 2007 the company was acquired by Microsoft for a rumoured $800 million, with McCue joining as General Manager.
McCue described his efforts to make design a higher priority at Microsoft as a work in progress during his time at the company, "I'd give it probably a 'C-plus' to a 'B' right now," he said in 2009. Flipboard McCue left Microsoft in June 2009. In January 2010, he co-founded, with Evan Doll, one of the early engineers on the |
Miracle of Sound | Early life and origins of Miracle of Sound | Miracle of Sound Early life and origins of Miracle of Sound Dunne is the son of late Irish poet Seán Dunne and is from Cork, Ireland. Before starting Miracle of Sound, Dunne spent 15 years playing in various groups.
As part of his previous band, Lotus Lullaby, he and his bandmates competed in and won the Bank of Ireland National Student Music Awards in 2006, as well as the Murphy's Battle of the Bands earlier the same year.
After the break-up of Lotus Lullaby, Dunne became inspired by the video games he was playing and wrote several songs based on his favourite |
Like a Prayer (album) | Legacy & Personnel | associated with free play and self-reflexivity of images in postmodernism." Author John Semonche explained in his book Censoring sex that with True Blue and Like a Prayer, Madonna pushed the envelope of what could be shown on television, which resulted in increase of her popularity. Personnel Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. |
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