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Musgrave Block | Geomorphology of Quaternary deposits | Musgrave Block The Musgrave Block (also known as the Musgrave Province) is an east-west trending belt of Proterozoic granulite-gneiss basement rocks approximately 500 kilometres (310 mi) long. The Musgrave Block extends from western South Australia into Western Australia.
The Musgrave Block is primarily exposed through the actions of the Petermann Orogeny at c. 535-550 Ma, which exhumed the orogenic belt along the Woodroffe Thrust. Geomorphology of Quaternary deposits The Musgrave Block is currently passive geologically, with surficial processes described as residual erosion. The area currently experiences on average less than 150mm (6 inches) of rainfall per annum, which provides little surface |
Moutier | History | city and a number of construction projects followed. A swimming pool opened in that same year. In 1955 a second primary school opened along with a new building for the secondary school. A new train station opened in 1961. In 1962 the old secondary school was converted into a town hall. A primary school in Chantemerle opened in 1973 and a new district hospital was built in 1976. There are two museums in town, the villa Bechler with the Jurassic Museum of Arts and the villa Junker with the Museum of Automatic Lathes.
Politically, the |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Governor-General | broadcast addressed to the people of the US, Jinnah expressed his views regarding Pakistan's constitution to be in the following way:
The Constitution of Pakistan is yet to be framed by the Pakistan Constituent Assembly, I do not know what the ultimate shape of the constitution is going to be, but I am sure that it will be of a democratic type, embodying the essential principles of Islam. Today these are as applicable in actual life as these were 1300 years ago. Islam and its idealism have taught us democracy. It has taught equality of man, justice and fair play to |
Music in the Civilization video game series | Overview & Gods & Kings | music that has been modified from earlier games, such as Civilization III.
The theme song is "Coronation" composed by Christopher Tin, and the main menu music is "Baba Yetu", also composed by him. The latter features lyrics based on a Swahili adaptation of the Lord's Prayer by Chris Kiagiri. Vocals were performed by Stanford Talisman. Gods & Kings The Civilization V expansion, Gods & Kings, includes the soundtrack within the game files.
1. Opening Movie Music
2. Gods & Kings Theme, based on Te Deum
3, 4. Gustavus Adolphus – Sweden – "Du Gamla, Du Fria"
5, 6. Boudicca – The Celts – "Lord Gregory, |
Mynydd Illtud | Archaeology | published in 1982.
The course of a Roman road, Sarn Helen can be traced from south-west to north-east across the common.
Near Twyn y Gaer are a few pillow mounds which date from the 18th and 19th centuries, when rabbits were bred on a large scale for their meat and fur.
Llanilltyd church and associated earthworks (51.9240°N 3.4975°W) are also of interest, as is Bedd Gwyl Illtyd. |
Mood congruence | Gordon Bower | the groups that represented the neutral group that neither had feelings of negativity or positivity. These groups recalled more positive words than negative words.
Another aspect of Bower's theory in mood-congruence in memory is that the rate of occurrence of particular emotionally represented nodes may become implicitly primed. Even if an individual is not paying full attention to the event in which the affective priming had occurred. Affective memory nodes are then able to connect to a further multitude of inferred or generalized meaning where the congruent recall may not be of a specific autobiographical event. The recall may instead form |
Munstead Wood | null | house and garden design. The number of these collaborations has been put at around 120; other well known ones include Deanery Garden in Berkshire and Hestercombe House in Somerset.
The entire original area of Jekyll's property is grade I listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Since Jekyll's time, it has been divided into six plots with different owners.
The main house, which retains the name of Munstead Wood and whose plot contains most of the original gardens, is a grade I listed building. The properties in the other plots, which are to the north and west of |
Knebworth Festival 1979 | Critical reaction | quarters.
The negative reviews prompted the ire of Robert Plant, who made sarcastic reference to them on-stage during the 11 August show. However, Plant himself later expressed reservations about the concerts:
Knebworth was useless. It was no good at all. It was no good because we weren't ready to do it, the whole thing was a management decision. It felt like I was cheating myself because I wasn't as relaxed as I could have been. There was so much expectation there and the least we could have done was to have been confident enough to kill. We maimed the beast for life, |
Lokve pri Dobrniču | Name | Lokve pri Dobrniču Name The name of the settlement was changed from Lokve to Lokve pri Dobrniču in 1955. |
Muffie Meyer | Biography | are: The Crash of 1929, a one-hour program for American Experience which traces the "New Era" of prosperity that ends with the great stock market crash of 1929; Behind the Scenes, a 10-part series for children on the arts, hosted by Penn and Teller, and featuring celebrated British artist David Hockney, Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King), jazz legend Max Roach, choreographer David Parsons, and The Simpsons creator Matt Groening; American Photography – a Century of Images, a three-hour series about the impact of photography on America in the 20th century; Dancing, two programs in the international series |
Montgomery, Minnesota | History & Arts and culture | Montgomery, Minnesota History Montgomery as platted in 1877 when the railroad was extended to that point. Arts and culture Montgomery celebrates its Czechoslovakian heritage annually at the end of July with one of Minnesota's oldest festivals, Kolacky Days. The festival dates back to 1929, when an estimated 6,000 people visited Montgomery for the first Kolacky Day celebration, held on October 1.
"The Kolacky Day spirit reigned supreme from early Tuesday morning until a comparatively late hour Wednesday morning. More than 1,600 of the celebrated delicacies were devoured," according to a Montgomery Messenger account from the following week.
Events at the first celebration |
Music Hall Strike of 1907 | Pre-strike years | meetings culminated in a Saturday evening presentation of the week's rehearsals. The meetings became popular and increased in number to two or three times a week.
Music hall entertainment received its first surge in popularity during the 1860s the audiences of which consisted of mainly working class people. The impresario Charles Morton actively invited women into his music hall, believing that they had a "civilising influence on the men". The surge in popularity further attracted female performers and by the 1860s, it had become common place for women to appear in the halls.
By 1875 there were 375 music halls in London |
Mood (psychology) | Types of mood | in their life.
There have been many studies done on the effect of positive emotion on the cognitive mind and there is speculation that positive mood can affect our minds in good or bad ways. Generally, positive mood has been found to enhance creative problem solving and flexible yet careful thinking. Some studies have stated that positive moods let people think creatively, freely, and be more imaginative. Positive mood can also help individuals in situations in which heavy thinking and brainstorming is involved. In one experiment, individuals who were induced with a positive mood enhanced performance on the Remote Associates Task |
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen | Jennifer Francis | Lazarus trial, she met with an assistant D.A. and told her about the resistance she had initially encountered over the possibility of Lazarus as a suspect in the Rasmussen murder. Several months later she was called into her supervisor's office and asked to relate those events. A month later she told Detective Nuttall, who had spearheaded the reinvestigation that led to Lazarus' arrest, as well.
The next month she was called into her supervisor's supervisor's office, and told to go to an employee counseling service, an act she knew to be punitive, "because you look stressed." The therapist who spoke with |
Morbid Tales | Legacy | Morbid Tales Legacy The thrash metal intensity of Morbid Tales had a major influence on the then-developing death metal and black metal genres. It included elements that were adopted by the pioneers of both styles. The band's bleak and dead serious fashion style was also influential, including their corpse paint face makeup. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked Morbid Tales as 28th on their list of 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.'
In the commentary for Darkthrone's album Panzerfaust, Fenriz cites this album along with Bathory's Under the Sign of the Black Mark and Vader's Necrolust as key riff inspirations.
"Danse |
Lol Hamlett | Playing career | First Division in 1946–47, and then 17th in 1947–48 and 14th in 1948–49. In his three years at Burnden Park, he scored nine goals in 72 league and 13 FA Cup appearances. He was present at the Burnden Park disaster on 9 March 1946, where 33 spectators were killed.
He signed with Gordon Hodgson's Port Vale in May 1949. He went straight into the "Valiants" first team, making 40 Third Division South and four FA Cup appearances in the 1949–50 season. He then played 45 league and four FA Cup games in the 1950–51 campaign, as the club moved grounds from |
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen | Jennifer Francis | her seemed to Francis to be more interested in finding out what she knew about the Lazarus case and who she might have shared it with. After two sessions in which she declined to share that information, she was again called into her supervisor's office and told she was not cooperating and needed to "talk this out." She told the therapist she was getting a lawyer, after which further sessions were canceled as a "mistake."
Two detectives from RHD interrogated her the next month, July 2010. She told them she was concerned that events leading to Lazarus's arrest in which she |
Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid | Instrumentation | Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid Instrumentation Composed for two violins, a viola, and two cellos, the Night Music of the Streets of Madrid quintet is in the C major key, and is approximately 13 minutes in duration. |
Nùng people | From the Middle Ages to the Present | These waves were a result of the continuous drought of Guangxi which made the thinly occupied lands of northern Vietnam an attractive alternative habitation. The immigration process was generally a peaceful one as the Nùng purchased land from the "Tho" owners. The Nùng were superior to the Tho in cultivating wet rice and transformed poor lands, facilitating later migrations into adjoining areas. The repeated violent incursions of the Taiping era and the Black Flag occupation accelerated the outflow of Tho as the bands from China were largely Zhuang who favored the Nùng at the expense of the Tho. The |
Messin' with the Kid | Original song | the studio, they needed another song for the session: "one thing led to another and ... it took us five minutes, maybe ten minutes and we had it".
What's this you hear goin' all around town
The people are sayin' you're gonna to put The Kid down
Well oh lord, well look at what you did
You can call it what you wanna, but I call it messin' with The Kid
Wells sang the song, but unlike most of his early singles, he does not play harmonica. The backup is provided by Earl Hooker (and possibly Lacey Gibson) on guitar, Johnny "Big Moose" Walker on |
Miracle of Sound | Music and reception by critics & Collaborative works | based on the popular Blizzard game Overwatch, and called it "an incredibly catchy tune" with the lyrics "mirroring the game's relentlessly positive outlook".
In late 2016, he released "Pawns of War", a Battlefield 1 inspired song where Dunne's goal was to fuse the feel of the game's soundtrack with old military marching tunes, creating a composition that focuses on soldiers doomed to be forgotten after being thrown into the "meat grinder" of WWI. Collaborative works Dunne generally works alone, performing or electronically creating all of the instrument tracks for his music and layering the result to create a single track. He |
Mississippi Coast Coliseum | Wrestling | 8 years. SmackDown comes about once a year. |
Louisiana Highway 1077 | Route description | Louisiana Highway 1077 Route description From the south, LA 1077 begins at the southern tip of Madisonville where the Tchefuncte River flows into Lake Pontchartrain. The route heads north on Main Street, closely following the west bank of the river. Within its first mile, LA 1077 crosses a one-lane bridge spanning a small canal, followed by a narrow two-lane bridge over a bayou. On its way into town, the highway passes the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum, as well as the local library and town hall. LA 1077 crosses LA 22 (Mulberry Street) one block west of a swing bridge |
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen | Initial investigation & Cold case | caliber like the one that had fired the three bullets into Rasmussen that were later identified by experts as Federal .38J Plus-P. Mayer's partner, Steve Hooks, found the bite mark unusual, as bites during struggles are much more commonly inflicted by women, while the majority of burglars are men. However, because men have bitten opponents during fights as well, the burglary theory stood. Cold case The suspected burglars to whom detectives ascribed the crime remained at large, despite a follow-up newspaper story eight months later and a reward offered by the Rasmussen family. The LAPD, preoccupied with the violence resulting |
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen | Crime and investigation | that the BMW he bought for Rasmussen as an engagement gift was missing. Because of Rasmussen's morning plans, he found it strange that she would have later gone out without letting him know. The house's answering machine had not been activated, despite both of them usually activating it when leaving the house unoccupied.
Inside, Ruetten found Rasmussen dead on the living room floor, shot three times. There were signs of a struggle, such as a porcelain vase that had apparently been broken over Rasmussen's head prior to the shooting, a bloody handprint next to the burglar alarm's panic button, and a |
Mossi people | Mogho Naaba court | figures are displayed each year at royal festivals called na possum, when the heads of each household in the community reaffirm their allegiance and loyalty to the chief. |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Origins | Dickenson, Ellis Hillman and others on the executive of the RSL decided to launch the Militant newspaper, initially a four-page monthly. Peter Taaffe was appointed the first editor, and in 1965 became national secretary.
The name of the paper was the same as the American SWP publication The Militant, and as a result "most of the pioneers of Militant were not enthralled by the choice of the name" writes Taaffe. But "Militant did stand for what its proponents intended: the aim of winning in the first instance, the most conscious, combative, fighting, i.e. militant, sections of the working class." Some Trotskyists |
Mr. Justice Raffles | Plot | going to Levy's house. At the Albany, Raffles insists that they pack and leave England. At first, the reason seems to be that Levy has been suddenly murdered, but on the continental train Bunny learns that Raffles is actually avoiding Belsize, who Raffles has feelings for. At a station, they encounter Mackenzie, who informs them that Levy was murdered by an unrelated debtor. All danger at home is now gone. Regardless, Bunny stays with Raffles.
Several years later, Bunny, now Raffles's biographer of ruined reputation, runs into Teddy at a Turkish bath. Teddy eagerly bids Bunny to write all about the |
Lynwood Baptist Church | History | Lynwood Baptist Church History Lynwood Baptist Church began in 1959 with a congregation of 27 with the opening of the Third Baptist Church on the north side of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The church remained known as Third Baptist Church until 1965. At that time the church's name was changed to its current moniker with the assistance of the First Baptist Church of Cape Girardeau.
Groundbreaking for the first Lynwood Baptist Church location took place in January 1961 at Lynnwood and Randol Streets. The first service held at that location was on March 4, 1962. In 1996 Lynwood relocated to a new |
Miloš Havel | Career | Miloš Havel Career Havel ran the movie theater Lucerna Palace in Prague and later established the Barrandov Studios. During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Havel was forced to sell his share in Barrandov Studios but he remained in charge, and protected its staff from forced labour in Germany. At that time, Barrandov Studios produced newsreels and propaganda films for the government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as well as Czech productions. Havel was later credited with using his influence in the Protectorate to enable Lída Baarová, the former mistress of Joseph Goebbels, to perform in what have become |
Moutier | History | issue of Jurassic separatism is a major issue in Moutier. In 1974 a plebiscite voted to remain part of Bern by a margin of only 70 votes. This led to acts of vandalism on 16 March 1974 and on 7 September 1975 an armed standoff at the Hôtel de la Gare which was broken up by an elite team of Bernese police on the following day. Two other plebiscites also came down on the side of remaining in the Canton of Bern, including one in 1998 which passed with a thin majority of 41 votes. In |
McNally v. United States | Appeal | concluded that Hunt also had a fiduciary duty to the people of Kentucky as a de facto public official due to his substantial participation in governmental affairs and "de facto control" of the awarding of the insurance contract to Wombwell.
The appellants also argued that their rights to due process of law were violated by the indictment, contending that it failed to allege that Hunt and Gray had a fiduciary duty to the citizens of Kentucky, a fact of which they necessarily had to be informed in order to understand the elements of the charges against them. The Sixth Circuit rejected |
Montgomery, Minnesota | Arts and culture | last Sunday in September, was dropped in favor of the first weekend in August. The earlier date and warmer weather brought huge crowds to the festival. In 1975, Kolacky Day became Kolacky Days and the event was held for the first time at the end of July. It is now celebrated on the fourth full weekend of that month. The shift was made at the urging of the Green Giant vegetable canning company, to avoid conflict with the busy corn-processing season.
Other annual events include the Torchlight Parade & Fireworks, the Masopust Festival also known as "The Czech Mardi Gras" and |
Murder of Graeme Thorne | Investigation & Extradition and trial | AYO-382), had a Pekingese as a family pet, and his wife had dyed blonde hair. However, Bradley and his family had vacated the house on 7 July for a rented flat at 49 Osborne Street Manly, and had left Australia for London with his family a week earlier, on Monday 26 September, aboard SS Himalaya. Extradition and trial When Himalaya docked at Colombo, Ceylon, on Monday 10 October, two Sydney policemen, Sergeants Brian Doyle and Jack Bateman, were waiting for Bradley. After five weeks of legal wrangling, Bradley was extradited to Australia on 18 November 1960, allegedly making a verbal |
Musgrave Block | Palaeozoic rocks & Palgrave Volcanic Association | neoproterozoic to Permian. Palgrave Volcanic Association The Palgrave Palgrave Volcanic Association is a large volcanic and granite caldera edifice of about 1500 square kilometres sandwiched between the Jameson Range Intrusion and the gneisses underlying the Bentley Supergroup volcanics.
The caldera is in two parts, an overlying volcanic edifice composed primarily of porphyritic rhyolite and dacite with occasional vent complex agglomerates, which shows prominent circular ring-complex faults, and the Winburn Granite which underlies the caldera and is primarily exposed in the east as a pink, potassium-feldspathic porphyry granite, the lower margins of which are weakly tectonised.
The whole caldera edifice is tilted |
Malay language in the Philippines | History | it to be an original of Tagalog.
Politicians in the Philippines had actually contemplated on renaming the country to "Malaysia", before the actual federation was named so. Some maps had also referred to the area now comprising Philippines, Indonesia and East Malaysia as "Malaysia" as a whole.
Malay is related to the native languages of the Philippines, being Austronesian languages. Many words in the Tagalog and various Visayan languages are derived from Old Malay.
Although the history of Malay influence in Philippine history is a subject of conversation, no attempts have been made to ever promote Malay or even Spanish. The number of |
Missing in action | Before the 20th century & World War I | Geneva Convention did not specifically address the issue of MIAs, the reasoning behind it (which specified the humane treatment of wounded enemy soldiers) was influential. World War I The phenomenon of MIAs became particularly notable during World War I, where the mechanized nature of modern warfare meant that a single battle could cause astounding numbers of casualties. For example, in 1916 over 300,000 Allied and German combatants were killed in the Battle of the Somme. A total of 19,240 British and Commonwealth combatants were killed in action or died of wounds on the first day of that battle alone. It |
Music Information Centre Lithuania | Mission & Database | musical genres, currently including classical/contemporary, jazz/improvised, folk/world/country, pop/rock/urban, electronic music and oldies. MICL serves the needs of people, professionally involved in different genres of music. Database Music Information Centre Lithuania facilities available for public use:
- manuscript archive, containing scores and parts by Lithuanian classical and contemporary composers (original manuscripts, hard and digital copies of almost 7.000 works);
- sound archive of Lithuanian classical and contemporary music (over 10.000 unreleased recordings);
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- on-line database on Lithuanian music and musicians (almost 400 profiles with |
My Life as a Dog | Attempted sequel/trilogy | by Graeme Clifford. According to Jonsson, it was to have been part of a planned trilogy. |
Mohammad Wasim | Career in Pakistan | Mohammad Wasim Career in Pakistan He has scored two Test centuries for Pakistan including one on Test debut. His debut came against New Zealand in 1996, after scoring a duck in the first innings he went on to record 109 in the second innings batting at number 7. He gradually moved up the order in subsequent tests eventually to open the innings for Pakistan in Tests. His second test ton came against Zimbabwe, scoring 192 in Harare, 1998.
Wasim's most prominent experience in a Pakistani shirt came in Pakistan winning the Carlton and United Series in Australia against perhaps the two |
Man-in-the-middle attack | Tamper detection | reach the other party, this could be indicative of a third party's interference inserting additional latency in the transaction.
Quantum Cryptography, in theory, provides tamper-evidence for transactions through the no-cloning theorem. Protocols based on quantum cryptography typically authenticate part or all of their classical communication with an unconditionally secure authentication scheme e.g. Wegman-Carter authentication. |
Milton J. Durham | Later life and death | of Congressman William Campbell Preston Breckinridge because of his admission, under oath, of having an extramarital affair. Later that year, the announcement of Durham as a replacement speaker for Senator William Lindsay at a rally in Mount Sterling, Kentucky advocating the gold standard touched off a riot among free silver supporters in which one man was killed and several others were injured. In 1896, Durham disputed an article that appeared in the Lexington Leader newspaper claiming that he and other sound money backers had advised Treasury Secretary John G. Carlisle not to visit Kentucky at that time. Durham's initial meeting |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Rising leader | In April 1913, he again went to Britain, with Gokhale, to meet with officials on behalf of the Congress. Gokhale, a Hindu, later stated that Jinnah "has true stuff in him, and that freedom from all sectarian prejudice which will make him the best ambassador of Hindu–Muslim Unity". Jinnah led another delegation of the Congress to London in 1914, but due to the start of the First World War found officials little interested in Indian reforms. By coincidence, he was in Britain at the same time as a man who would become a great political rival of his, Mohandas Gandhi, |
N.E.R.D.S. | N.E.R.D.S.: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society (2009) & N.E.R.D.S.: M is for Mama's Boy (2010) & N.E.R.D.S.: The Cheerleaders of Doom (2011) | to change the surface of the earth. Newly recruited Jackson "Braceface" and the rest of the N.E.R.D.S. have to stop him before it is too late. N.E.R.D.S.: M is for Mama's Boy (2010) Duncan "Gluestick " Dewey and the rest of the team are going up against rogue agent Heathcliff "Choppers" Hodges, computer genius Albert, and an army of squirrels who are planning to sterilize worldwide computers. Things get more complicated when the team are stripped of their powers and have to rely on their resources to save the day. N.E.R.D.S.: The Cheerleaders of Doom (2011) When a device that |
Movie production incentives in the United States | Pros | effect of a tax incentive is the direct production spend for the region in hotel rooms for visiting cast and crew, lumber for sets, food for catering, fuel for trucks and generators, to the secondary expenditures of crew members who go to local restaurants for dinner, the dry cleaners for their laundry, and the need for everyday sundry items from toothpaste to shampoo. These expenses average in the millions of dollars on a typical Studio feature which usually carries approximately a 100 traveling crew members and employs another 100 crew locally.
Second, if the area did not previously have an existing |
Mustafa IV | Reign & Death | show the rebels Selim's body, and they promptly tossed it into the inner courtyard of the palace. Mustafa then ascended his throne, assuming that Mahmud was also dead, but the prince had been hiding in the furnace of a bath. Just as the rebels demanded that Mustafa "yield his place to a worthier," Mahmud revealed himself, and Mustafa was deposed. The failure of his short reign prevented the efforts to undo the reforms, which continued under Mahmud. Death Mustafa was later killed on Mahmud's orders on 16 November 1808, and was buried in his father's mausoleum. |
Medieval English wool trade | Later Middle Ages & Early Modern period | Riccardi, a group of bankers from Lucca in Italy, became particularly prominent in English taxation and finance. Among the most famous merchants participating in the English wool trade were Jean Boinebroke of Douai (d. 1286) on the Continental side, and William de la Pole (d. 1366) on the English.
Guild organisations seem to have emerged in the textile industry earlier in England than elsewhere in Europe, being attested already in the 1130s in London, Winchester, Lincoln, Oxford, Nottingham, and Huntingdon. Early Modern period By the sixteenth century, the quality of English wools was in decline, perhaps partly due to a switch |
Mattia Marchesetti | Biography | deal for €250,000 in 4-year contract. However, he failed to play regularly either in 2007–08 Serie B. In January 2008 Vicenza signed him outright for another €150,000, as part of Luca Rigoni's deal.
On 25 June 2008, 5 days before the closure of 2007–08 financial year, Marchesetti and Riccardo Fissore were sold to Mantova for €1M and €500,000 respectively, which made Vicneza had a profit of €625,000 and €481,250 respectively in accounting. However, the payment was only via the transfer of registration rights of Valerio Di Cesare (€1M) and Simone Calori (€500,000). All 4 players signed 3-year contract. The deals made |
NXT TakeOver: The End | Storylines & Preliminary matches | and Aries at NXT TakeOver: The End.
On June 2, William Regal announced that Tye Dillinger would face Andrade Cien Almas at NXT TakeOver: The End. Preliminary matches In the first match, Andrade Cien Almas faced Tye Dillinger. In the end, Almas performed a running double knee smash on Dillinger, who was cornered, to win the match.
Next, American Alpha (Jason Jordan and Chad Gable) defended the NXT Tag Team Championship against The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder). In the end, The Revival executed the "Shatter Machine" on Jordan to regain the title. Post-match, American Alpha were ambushed and attacked by |
Mick Farren | Writing & Counterculture activity | works of non-fiction, a number of biographical (including four on Elvis Presley), autobiographical and culture books (such as The Black Leather Jacket) and much poetry.
From 2003 to 2008, he was a columnist for the weekly newspaper Los Angeles CityBeat.
In his 3 May 2010 Doc40 blog, Farren announced that he was writing another Victor Renquist novel, with the working title of Renquist V.
In 2013 he worked with digital imprint Ink Monkey Books on audio inserts (with Andy Colquhoun of The Deviants) for reissues of The Texts of Festival and the DNA Cowboys sequence. Counterculture activity Farren organised the Phun City Festival |
Malaysia at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships | null | Malaysia at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships This page is an overview of Malaysia at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Rising leader | leader In 1857, many Indians had risen in revolt against British rule. In the aftermath of the conflict, some Anglo-Indians, as well as Indians in Britain, called for greater self-government for the subcontinent, resulting in the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1885. Most founding members had been educated in Britain, and were content with the minimal reform efforts being made by the government. Muslims were not enthusiastic about calls for democratic institutions in British India, as they constituted a quarter to a third of the population, outnumbered by the Hindus. Early meetings of the Congress contained a minority |
Malcolm Turnbull | 2016 federal election | as 2 July 2016.
During the 2016 federal election campaign, a ReachTEL opinion poll of 626 Wentworth voters conducted on 31 May predicted a two-party swing against Turnbull for the first time since his election to Wentworth, revealing a reduced 58% two-party vote from a large 10.9% two-party swing. A controversy occurred during the election campaign, when the president of the Australian National Imams Council, Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman participated in an Iftar dinner hosted by Turnbull at Kirribilli House. Turnbull said he would not have invited Alsuleiman if he had known of his position regarding homosexuals.
At the election, the Coalition lost |
La Paz traffic zebras | Milestones | Expansion of the Zebras Program to Tarija, Bolivia
In 2010 the Mayor of Tarija visited the city of La Paz and while passing through the center of La Paz he found a Zebra operating at the traffic lights of Cochabamba Street and Av. Mariscal Santa Cruz. After the experience, the Mayor of Tarija requested to the Municipal Autonomous Government of La Paz to export the Program with the same line to his city. This year the Zebras project started in the city of Tarija, Bolivia.
2011 -Expansion in macro districts of La Paz
It was proposed the creation of macro-district teams to |
Mode series | DoOon | of the planets of their galaxy and beyond.
Ddwng's people, though scientifically advanced, have tastes Colene describes as "lowbrow American." In addition, the more powerful members of the mode seem quite ruthless and cruel: in the past, they had attempted to conquer their neighboring modes in order to exploit their resources. Due to these actions, a confederation of other modes confined the DoOon to their home mode and prevented their use of Virtual Mode chips. Leaders possess pain dials that can be used to cause pain directly to the nervous system of anyone within the radius of the possessor. Pain dial |
Music Information Centre Lithuania | Promotion and marketing | marketing The MICL pursues active promotion of Lithuanian classical and contemporary music among performers, organisers of music events, broadcasters, journalists, by sending and giving out the packages of CDs, scores, catalogues, brochures, and other material. The MICL also co-organises performances of Lithuanian music at international events.
As a publisher, the MICL collaborates with the international recording companies (such as Naxos, Finlandia Records - at present, a division of the Warner Classics label, Ondine, Avie Records, Megadisc, Toccata Classics, Profil Medien, etc.), licensing the recordings for release in various markets worldwide.
As a subdivision of the MICL, the Music Lithuania export project organises |
Matten bei Interlaken | Religion | was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 367 individuals (or about 10.00% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 individuals (or about 0.08% of the population) who were Jewish, and 110 (or about 3.00% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 8 individuals who were Buddhist, 10 individuals who were Hindu and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 194 (or about 5.28% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 130 individuals (or about 3.54% of the population) did not answer the question. |
Marymount School of New York | Facilities & Academics | room, a fitness room, and a dance studio. There is a free shuttle bus that takes Marymount's students across these three campuses and to sporting events to ensure that every child's safety. Despite the School's expansion, Marymount has a very close-knit community with an average class size of 50 girls and a student-teacher ratio of 6:1. Academics Marymount is divided into four different divisions that serve each age group's specific developmental and academic needs. The Lower School includes Nursery-Class II; the Lower Middle School includes Classes III-V; the Upper Middle School includes Classes VI-VIII; and the Upper School includes Classes |
Music Hall Strike of 1907 | null | Music Hall Strike of 1907 The Music Hall Strike of 1907 was a theatrical dispute which took place between music hall employees, stage artistes and London theatre proprietors. The catalyst for the strikes were the employees' lack of pay, the scrapping of perks, and an increase in working hours, and matinée performances.
The strike commenced on 22 January 1907 at the Holborn Empire in London and lasted for two weeks. The dispute gained momentum owing to the support from popular entertainers including Marie Dainton, Marie Lloyd, Arthur Roberts, Joe Elvin and Gus Elen, all of whom were active on picket lines |
NZR DSA class | Introduction to service & Withdrawal and preservation | these locomotives were allocated the DSA classification.
The first batch of seven DSA class locomotives arrived in 1953 from the Drewry Car Company, with another fourteen coming from that maker the following year. NZR also placed orders in 1954 with W. G. Bagnall and Hunslet for a further ten and fifteen locomotives respectively, which were delivered in 1956-57 by Bagnall and 1954-58 by Hunslet. After this, no further DSAs were purchased until NZR placed an order with Mitsubishi Heavy Engineering for a further ten locomotives in 1967, all of which were delivered later that year. Withdrawal and preservation With the rationalisation |
Murder of the Zec family | Investigation & Aftermath |
On 19 February 1992, the Supreme Court of Croatia reviewed and remanded the case. On 9 July 1992, the County Court in Zagreb again rendered a not-guilty verdict. The Croatian judicial system was criticized for this. Most legal experts argued the verdict was far-fetched and included a highly dubious interpretation of legal provisions, due to strong political pressure exerted on the court. Aftermath After their release, Suljić and Hodak maintained criminal lifestyles that were extensively covered in local newspapers. Rimac became a bodyguard of the Minister of Defence Gojko Šušak and progressed to a high rank in the Croatian Army. |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Aftermath & Legacy and historical view | Muslim faith and not under a divisive sectarian identity." Liaquat H. Merchant, Jinnah's grandnephew, writes that "the Quaid was not a Shia; he was also not a Sunni, he was simply a Muslim". An eminent lawyer who practised in the Bombay High Court until 1940 testified that Jinnah used to pray as an orthodox Sunni. According to Akbar Ahmed, Jinnah became a firm Sunni Muslim by the end of his life. Legacy and historical view Jinnah's legacy is Pakistan. According to Mohiuddin, "He was and continues to be as highly honored in Pakistan as [first US president] George Washington is |
Mood (psychology) | Types of mood | and anxious tend to be in rumination. However, although an individual's affective states can influence the somatic changes, these individuals are not hypochondriacs.
Although negative moods are generally characterized as bad, not all negative moods are necessarily damaging. The Negative State Relief Model states that human beings have an innate drive to reduce negative moods. People can reduce their negative moods by engaging in any mood-elevating behavior (called Mood repair strategies), such as helping behavior, as it is paired with positive value such as smiles and thank you. Thus negative mood increases helpfulness because helping others can reduce one's own bad |
Madhu Bangarappa | Career & Personal life | Madhu Bangarappa Career S. Madhu Bangarappa was a Janata Dal (Secular) Political party Member of Legislative Assembly elected from the Sorab constituency.He is also candidate for the Shimoga seat Lok sabha by polls 2018.
Madhu has also produced Kannada feature films such as Belliyappa Bangarappa (1992) which were big blockbuster hits in which his brother Kumar Bangarappa has and co-Produced. Personal life Madhu Bangarappa was born to former Chief Minister of Karnataka late S. Bangarappa and late Shakuntala Bangarappa. He has an elder brother Kumar Bangarappa and 3 sisters. |
NHL on NBC commentators | 2007–09 & 2010–present | show originates from the game venue. 2007–09 Due to NBC's move to flex scheduling and broadcasting only 1 game a week, only the team of Emrick, Olczyk and McGuire is now used.
Also, NBC has scrapped the studio-based intermission show and fired Clement and Ferraro. McGuire, who continues his role as "Inside the Glass" reporter, serves as host from the game venue. Former player and general manager Mike Milbury is the new analyst. During the playoffs, NBC reporters such as Bob Neumeier and Bill Patrick served as a moderator for McGuire and Milbury's analysis. 2010–present For the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals, |
NMS Vedenia | Construction and specifications & Service | boats, in order of their numbering, were: Vedenia, Vântul, Vijelia, Viforul, Vârtejul and Vulcanul. Built at the Galați shipyard, Vedenia and her sisters were commissioned in 1943. Service Along with one surviving Vospers boat, Vedenia and her five sisters formed the Escadrila de vedete torpiloare (The motor torpedo boat squadron), part of the Grupul submarine și vedete torpiloare (The submarines and motor torpedo boats group). The captain of Vedenia, Ion Zaharia, was also the leader of the entire squadron.
Vedenia was the only boat of her class to be fitted for escort service. On 25–26 May 1944, Vedenia and the surviving |
Monitor (American TV program) | Overview | James was a college student), the show did not test well, but producers refused to change the format. The first episode featured an extended story on Bobby Czyz, a light heavyweight boxer from New Jersey. The show placed last in its time period in national ratings in its debut and was one of the least-watched programs in all of prime time. Additionally, the Prokofiev score brought complaints and was compared to a funeral dirge. Reporters that worked on the program included Mark Nykanen.
Despite attempts to add anchors to broaden its appeal, new theme music and changing the title to First |
Mike Vernon (ice hockey) | Detroit, San Jose and Florida | in which he also fought Colorado goaltender Patrick Roy.
Head coach Scotty Bowman turned to the veteran Vernon as the team's starter in the 1997 playoffs after Osgood struggled late in the regular season. He recorded a 16–4 record with a 1.76GAA in the post-season, and was named the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as the most valuable player of the playoffs as Detroit won its first Stanley Cup championship in 42 years. Placed in a position where the Red Wings had to trade a goaltender due to the waiver draft, Detroit chose to trade Vernon to the San Jose Sharks in |
Nùng people | From the Middle Ages to the Present | Pays Taï), complete with armed militias and border guards. When war broke out in 1946, groups of Thai, H’mong and Muong in the northwest sided with the French and against the Vietnamese and even provided battalions to fight with the French troops. But The Nùng and Tày supported the Viet Minh and provided the Vietnamese leader, Ho Chi Minh, with a safe base for his guerrilla armies. After defeating the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the Viet Minh tried to win the allegiance of all of the northern ethnic minorities by creating two autonomous zones, Thai–Meo Autonomous Zone |
Moutier | Economy | sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 53 or 3.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 74 or 5.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 17 or 1.2% were in the information industry, 56 or 4.1% were the insurance or financial industry, 127 or 9.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 102 or 7.4% were in education and 344 or 24.9% were in health care.
In 2000, there were 2,315 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,241 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.9 workers entering the municipality for every |
Milton J. Durham | Political career | his tenure, he sparked a minor controversy between himself and Governor J. Proctor Knott when, in a private letter to a friend, he suggested that Kentucky needed a financier in the governor's office. The letter went on to say that, while Durham had no plans to actively seek the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1887, he would consider running if the nomination were offered him, provided that President Cleveland approved of his resignation to seek the office. The courier who delivered the letter also shared it with a newspaper editor who subsequently published it. Governor Knott took the letter as a |
My Life as a Dog | Plot & Reception & Attempted sequel/trilogy | the now-reconciled Ingemar and Saga are fast asleep together on a couch. Reception The movie received mostly positive reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it an average of 7.9/10. 100% of the critics at Rotten Tomatoes have given the film a positive review based on 28 reviews.
The author Kurt Vonnegut said the film to be one of his favourites, alongside Casablanca and All About Eve. Attempted sequel/trilogy A production was to have been in the works in the early 1990s on an English language sequel titled either My Life as a Dog at Sea or My Father, His Son. In |
Kaitlin Hawayek | 2018–2019 season: National bronze medal | move to Montreal, Hawayek called it "a great training center that we’re happy to be a part of. It makes us feel able to skate more openly and freely, and I think we’ll continue that for the next few years." They were assigned to the 2019 Four Continents Championships, where they finished fifth, and the 2019 World Championships, where they placed ninth. |
Miloš Havel | Career | lack of evidence, he was nevertheless banned from working in the film industry as "morally unfit", and Barrandov Studios was nationalized. Havel attempted to skip the country in 1949, but was arrested by Soviet authorities and deported back to Czechoslovakia where he was sentenced to one year of labor. Released early due to poor health, he went to stay with the family of Václav Havel, receiving a mixed welcome on his arrival with Václav Havel's mother telling Havel the family had experienced "enough troubles already because of you".
Havel left the country a second time in 1952, ultimately settling in Munich |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Poll tax & Open Turn | 1991, but by now most Militant members were drawing the conclusion that their way forward was blocked in the Labour Party. Open Turn In April 1991, Militant decided to support the setting up of Scottish Militant Labour, an independent organisation in Scotland. At the same time, it decided to support independent Broad Left candidates in Liverpool standing against the official Labour Party. All five Broad Left candidates won in the May 1991 local elections. Eric Heffer, MP for Liverpool Walton died in May 1991, and the Broad Left decided to stand Militant supporter Lesley Mahmood as the candidate of 'Real |
Len Ford | 1950 season | day he really was a man." Brown later recalled that Ford was the team's "only real hope of plugging a hole" and recalled one sequence as a defining moment in the game:
I'll always remember one three-play sequence where he threw Vitamin Smith for a 14-yard loss on a reverse, sacked [Bob] Waterfield for another big loss and finally smothered Glenn Davis on an end run. That turned the game around for us.
The Browns' defense held the Rams scoreless in the fourth quarter, and the Browns won the championship game by a 30-28 score in their first season in |
Maria Barroso | Biography | he was in the Aljube prison. They had one son, politician João Soares, born 1949, and a daughter, Isabel Barroso Soares, born 1951, who manages the Colégio Moderno in Lisbon.
Although not as politically involved as her husband, Maria Barroso was a founding member of the Socialist Party in Bad Münstereifel, Germany in 1973. She was the President of the Aristides Sousa Mendes Foundation, the Pro Dignitate Association and the head of the Portuguese Red Cross for several years.
Maria Barroso had a degree in Historical and Philosophical Sciences from the Faculty of Arts, Lisbon and the course of Dramatic Arts from |
My Little Pony: Meet the Ponies | Sweetie Belle's Party | and taken out of the oven, Sweetie Belle takes a taste test on their cake, only finding out it wasn't done well and the taste isn't what they imagined. The ponies apologized to Sweetie Belle and they all agree to do another cake, this time following instructions on baking and decorating. In the end, they all learn that they need to follow instructions next time and as everyone is full and can't eat their cake, they still had fun making them. |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Wilderness years; interlude in England | electorates, based on religion, necessary to ensure Muslims had a voice in the government, was willing to compromise on this point, but talks between the two parties failed. He put forth proposals that he hoped might satisfy a broad range of Muslims and reunite the League, calling for mandatory representation for Muslims in legislatures and cabinets. These became known as his Fourteen Points. He could not secure adoption of the Fourteen Points, as the League meeting in Delhi at which he hoped to gain a vote instead dissolved into chaotic argument.
After Baldwin was defeated at the 1929 British parliamentary |
Millennium (novel series) | Origins & Publication | locations for the Millennium series, and that the two of them physically checked places together and discussed where the characters would live. Publication Having begun writing the first book in summer 2002, Larsson waited until he had finished the first two and most of the third before submitting them to Swedish publishers. Baksi suggested he might have written the first chapter in 1997, which is when Larsson told him he was writing a novel. While other publishers had turned the manuscripts down, Expo's publisher Robert Aschberg recommended them to Norstedts Förlag, whose editors accepted after reading the first two books |
Mường Tè District | Geography | Mường Tè District Geography The district lies in the western part of Lai Châu Province, to the west of Nậm Nhùn District. There are various ethnic minorities of Tai, Hmong, Lahu, Hani, Si La, Phunoi, etc. |
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen | Initial investigation | a maid in a neighboring unit reported hearing screaming and fighting earlier in the day, she did not recall hearing gunshots. She thought the whole event had been a domestic dispute and did not call police. It appeared that the perpetrator had been in the process of taking electronic equipment when Rasmussen came upon them, and as a result, jewelry had been left behind and the vehicle taken as a getaway. The abandoned BMW was recovered a week later; it yielded no new evidence. The only other thing that appeared to have been taken from the home was the couple's |
My Little Pony: Meet the Ponies | Starsong's Party & Toola-Roola's Party | Belle decides to join in the party. Toola-Roola's Party Toola-Roola is decorating the table with plates until she hears the doorbell. Her friends came in and greeted her saying that they were all ready for Toola-Roola's art session as they were going to paint and decorate their own plates. Everyone started to decorate and paint their own plates as they use their imagination on the design they're using. After the art session, Toola-Roola said to her friends to put some placecards with their cutie marks on them so they can tell whose plate is whom as they leave and wait |
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen | Second investigation & Arrest of Lazarus | she had been drinking, which police retrieved. A sample was taken from it, and it matched the DNA from the bite mark on Sherri Rasmussen. Arrest of Lazarus Rob Bub, the homicide detective supervisor at Van Nuys, began letting his senior officers, all the way up to Chief William Bratton, know of the case along with senior prosecutors from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. It was transferred to the Robbery-Homicide Division (RHD), which handled many of the department's high-profile cases, including the art theft bureau where Lazarus herself worked. Her arrest was planned carefully. On the day of |
Moutier | Heritage sites of national significance & Politics & Economy | a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire urbanized village of Moutier is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. Politics In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Social Democratic Party (SP) which received 23.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Swiss People's Party (SVP) (22.7%), the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) (17.7%) and another local party (15.1%). In the federal election, a total of 1,898 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 38.2%. Economy The area has a lot of factories that produce high-precision |
Monte Pisanino | Name | Monte Pisanino Name According to the legend, it takes its name from a Pisan soldier who took refuge here. Locally it is called Pizzo della Caranca. |
Mavis Amankwah | Rich Visions & Rich Visions Small Business & Business Ambassador | no surprise to anyone. Rich Visions Small Business In 2009, Amankwah launched Rich Visions Small Business (RVSB) to provide professional Business Support (for start-ups and existing businesses), Funding Assistance, Marketing and PR services to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Entrepreneurs, Sole Traders and Organisations. Business Ambassador In January 2013, Amankwah was appointed as the Business Ambassador for a social enterprise called Positive Inclusions. Positive Inclusions were working on the Start Up Loans Scheme as one of the official "Delivery Partners" on the project delivering the scheme. Amankwah, as Business Ambassador for Positive Inclusions, is working on promoting this scheme to |
Mister Ed | Beginnings | Mister Ed Beginnings The Mister Ed show concept was derived from a series of short stories by children's author Walter R. Brooks, which began with The Talking Horse in the September 18, 1937, issue of Liberty magazine. Brooks is otherwise best known for the Freddy the Pig series of children's novels, which likewise featured talking animals that interact with humans. Sonia Chernus, secretary to director Arthur Lubin, introduced Lubin to the Brooks stories and is credited with developing the concept for television.
The show's concept resembles that of the Francis the Talking Mule movies in which an equine title character talks, |
Mine clearance organization | Response International & Stiftung Sankt Barbara Deutschland - Saint Barbara Foundation (SBF) | support victims of violent conflict. Over the last decade successful multi-sector programmes have been implemented in Angola, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Lebanon and Pakistan. The objective of these programmes is to design and implement projects that offer immediate relief to victims of conflict and provide sustainable conditions to enable longer term development. Response International's projects have included landmine clearance and landmine awareness and victim rehabilitation. Stiftung Sankt Barbara Deutschland - Saint Barbara Foundation (SBF) Stiftung Sankt Barbara Deutschland - Saint Barbara Foundation (SBF) is a humanitarian foundation registered in Germany. Since 1995 SBF clears landmines and ERW and supports different projects |
Michel Brière | Death & Legacy | surgeries. Brière was given a prognosis that gave him a 50–50 chance of living.
Brière was transferred to Montreal's Marie-Clarac Rehabilitation Hospital on March 27, 1971. The Penguins finished the regular season at home on April 4, 1971 and missed the playoffs. Nine days later, after 11 months in a coma, Brière died at 4:20 p.m. Six members of the Penguins, including general manager Jack Riley, equipment manager Ken Carson and coach Red Kelly, attended the funeral outside Montreal. A memorial service was held in St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh, in which most of the team officials and some players attended. Legacy |
Nùng people | From the Middle Ages to the Present | and Viet Bac Autonomous Zone respectively, allowing limited self-government within a “unified multi-national state”. During the Vietnam War, many Nùng fought alongside the North Vietnamese Army (NVA).
After the Unification of Vietnam in 1975, Viet Bac Autonomous Zone in which the Nùng and Tày were most numerous was revoked by Lê Duẩn. the new government pursued a policy of forced assimilation of the minorities into the Vietnamese culture. All education was conducted in the Vietnamese language, traditional customs were discouraged or outlawed, and minority people were moved from their villages into government settlements. At the same time the government created “New |
NXT TakeOver: The End | Reception | a longtime fan, I love the use of Ellering, who looks tremendous for his age." Meanwhile, Aries-Nakamura was "a hell of a match" with Powell enjoying how "Aries looked so strong in defeat". Lastly, in the opener, "Almas showed some tremendous athleticism, and Dillinger played his part in the match very nicely". |
Mossi people | Hierarchy & Traditional and cultural holidays and events & Mogho Naaba court | the education and raising of children. Traditional and cultural holidays and events Ceremonies and celebrations pace the life of Mossi people, with each celebration having its particulars. Through them the community expresses joy or suffering, or simply fulfills duties to the memory of the ancestors. Mogho Naaba court The Friday Mogho Naaba court ceremony derives from an event when the Moro Naba's sister fled north to the land of Yadega, the kingdom called Yatenga. As she fled north, she carried all of the amulets of power, or nam, with her. The Moro Naba had to decide whether to follow her |
Michel Brière | Legacy | them Mike's story." Brière's number was officially retired on January 5, 2001, nine days after Penguins' co-owner Mario Lemieux came out of retirement to once again wear his number 66. Brière and Lemieux are the only two players in Penguins' history to have their numbers retired.
The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League renamed its MVP award the Michel Brière Memorial Trophy in 1972. The Pittsburgh Penguins also present the Michel Brière Rookie of the Year Award annually to the season's best rookie player. |
Music Hall Strike of 1907 | Pre-strike years & Preceding years and factors | with a further 384 in the rest of England. In-line with the increased number of venues, proprietors enlisted a catering workforce who would supply food and alcohol to patrons. In London, and to capitalise on the increasing public demand, some entertainers frequently appeared at several halls each night. As a result, the performers became popular, not only in London, but in the English provinces. Preceding years and factors To match the success of the modern layout of contemporary theatres, music hall proprietors began to adopt the same design. One such establishment, the London Pavilion, was restyled as such in |
Nadia Nerina | Professional career | a masterpiece, and has since entered the contemporary canon, in no small measure because of its original leading lady.
Nerina was also well known outside England. In the early 1950s, she toured South Africa several times, presenting recital programs with fellow South African Alexis Rassine and starring with him in a local production of Giselle in Cape Town. With the Sadler's Wells company (later the Royal Ballet), she toured Europe and North America on many occasions. She was particularly popular in France, where she was applauded for her performances in Massine's Mam'zelle Angot and Cranko's Bonne-Bouche, both with a distinctly Gallic |
Music Hall Strike of 1907 | Preceding years and factors | 1885. The refurbishments, which included fixed seating in the stalls, lead to the early origins of variety theatre, but the improvements proved expensive and managers had to adhere to the strict safety regulations which had recently been introduced. Together with the increase of the performers fee, music hall proprietors were forced to sell their shares and formed syndicates with wealthy investors.
By the 1890s, music hall entertainment had earned a more risqué reputation. Artists including Marie Lloyd were receiving frequent criticism from theatre reviewers and influential feminists, who disagreed with the bawdy performances. The writer and feminist Laura Ormiston Chant, |
Mohammed Khalfan Bin Kharbash | null | Mohammed Khalfan Bin Kharbash Mohammed Khalfan Bin Kharbash (Arabic: محمد خلفان بن خرباش) (c.1955 – 12 March 2016) was the former minister of finance and industry of the United Arab Emirates (1997–2007). From the Emirate of Dubai, he also chaired a number of banks' boards. |
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo | Bear Flag Revolt | admiration. Ill-advisedly, however, as some say, or dominated by a desire to rule without let or hindrance, as others say, they placed themselves under the shelter of a flag that pictured a bear, an animal that we took as the emblem of rapine and force. This mistake was the cause of all the trouble, for when the Californians saw parties of men running over their plains and forests under the 'Bear Flag,' they thought that they were dealing with robbers and took the steps they thought most effective for the protection of their lives and property.
Vallejo, his French secretary Victor |
Munstead Wood | Garden | back, but thinned the young trees, creating areas of different varieties and different combinations of varieties, and gave each area its own underplantings of flowers and shrubs. The resulting woodland garden was viewed via a series of long woodland walks. Nearer the house the woods merged gradually into lawns. Seasonal gardens flowered in succession through the year: the "spring garden", the "hidden garden", the "June garden", and the main herbaceous border, 200 feet (61 m) long, which flowered from July until October. Each garden displayed carefully arranged shades of colour.
Jekyll turned the lower field into a kitchen garden. There was also |
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