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United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families | Background and activities | United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families The United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (Committee) was a committee of select members of the United States House of Representatives that was in existence from 1983 to 1993. The purpose of the Committee was "to provi... |
United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War | History & Inspections | to argue that the Council had authorized the subsequent invasion. Regardless of the threatened or likely vetoes, it seems that the coalition at no time was assured any more than four affirmative votes in the Council—the US, Britain, Spain, and Bulgaria—well short of the requirement for nine affirmative votes.
On Septem... |
Truce of Calais | Truce | independence; and Philip was prevented from punishing those French nobles who had conspired, or even fought, against him. The Truce of Calais was to run for nine months to 7 July 1348. In November 1348 the truce was extended for a further twelve months and again in May 1349. It was subsequently repeatedly extended unti... |
USS Clamagore (SS-343) | Construction & Operational history | USS Clamagore (SS-343) Construction Clamagore was built by Electric Boat Co. in Groton, Connecticut near the end of World War II. She was launched on 25 February 1945 and sponsored by Miss Mary Jane Jacobs, daughter of Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs and commissioned on 28 June 1945, with Commander S.C. Loomis, Jr., takin... |
Ursula Bloom | Biography | always a dominant influence: she had read every book of his before she was ten years of age, and then re-read them in her teens. A prolific author, she wrote over 500 books, an achievement that earned her recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records. Many of her novels were written under pseudonyms, including Shei... |
Up (2009 film) | Video games | platforms.
A video game, Kinect Rush: A Disney–Pixar Adventure, was also released on March 20, 2012, for the Xbox 360. It features characters from five of Pixar's films: Up, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Toy Story. |
Two for the Seesaw | Production | Elizabeth Taylor in the film. When Taylor was forced to drop out because of shooting overruns on Cleopatra, Newman was free to take the role of 'Fast Eddie' Felson in The Hustler.
"Second Chance", the title tune, became a pop music and jazz standard, recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and other artists. At the 35th Academy Aw... |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | Themes & Gender | the novel a feminist novel?", its engagement with metafictional and metahistorical concepts and its treatment of science and religion. Gender The novel creates a number of binaries between men and women. Michelle Phillips Buchberger argues that The French Lieutenant's Woman, along with Fowles two earlier novels The Col... |
Triton (comics) | Powers and abilities & Amalgam Comics & Earth X & Heroes Reborn | a constant mist of water and providing a supply of fresh water to his gills. Amalgam Comics In the Amalgam Comics continuity, Triserinak - a combination of DC's Serifan and Marvel's Triton and Karnak - is a member of the superhero group Un-People in Amalgam Comics universe. Earth X In the alternate future of Earth X Tr... |
UFM100.3 | Early History | and Corrinne May.
UFM 1003 also launched U Chart, which served as an alternative to YES 933's Top of the Pop charts. Singaporean mandopop singer Stefanie Sun topped the first-ever chart on 7 October 2001 with her hit Green Light.
In February 2002, UFM 1003 and its sister station WKRZ 91.3 were designated as official ra... |
United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War | Inspections & Colin Powell's presentation | US, France, United Kingdom and other countries thought that this declaration failed to account for all of Iraq's chemical and biological agents. Many of these countries had supplied the Iraqi regime with the technology to make these weapons in the 1980s during the Iran–Iraq War. On December 19, United States Secretary ... |
Storage water heater | Fossil fuel fired water heaters & Wood & Electric water heaters | fan to aid in the expulsion of combustion gasses. Wood As fossil fuels, burning wood causes greenhouse effect gases. However, wood is a renewable source of energy. A sustainable heat system would be to use solar heat in the summer, and the minimum of wood in the winter, thanks to maximum insulation. Electric water heat... |
United Nations Peace Messenger Cities | null | United Nations Peace Messenger Cities United Nations Peace Messenger Cities are cities around the world that have volunteered for an initiative sponsored by the United Nations to promote peace and understanding between nations.
The movement began in the International Year of Peace, 1986 and lasted until 1991, during th... |
Unreasonable search and seizure in New Zealand | Visual observation & Covert surveillance | will generally not be a search. However, cases have shown that even where there is some conscious action there may not be a search as requesting an individual hold their hands out to be observed or hold a bicycle up so the serial number could be seen were both not seen to be searches. Covert surveillance The use of sur... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | Origins | and he wanted them withdrawn. Nobody in Washington objected. Thus, the XII Tactical Air Command, the now USAFE combat organization after the inactivation of the four Air Forces, was inactivated on 10 May 1947. By this time, USAFE's fighting force appears to have dropped to a single unit, the 86th Fighter Group, which w... |
The Five-Storied Pagoda | Themes | stands in status compared to others in his field [pg 97].
When Jubei finishes the pagoda, it is considered a “Deva King” because of its tall stature and stability [pg 97].
Homo-social Society
Male relationships dominate in The Five-Storied Pagoda. Although the wives show concern for their husbands out of wifely katagi... |
Victor Deguise | World War I | become available. Deguise managed to withstand determined German attacks until the beginning of October, thus enabling the escape of significant Belgian and British military personnel towards Nieuwpoort. However the arrival of heavy German siege guns (such as the Big Bertha) made his position untenable, and he was forc... |
Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Point of View Gun & QUEST & Supernova bomb | holsters are empty. At the end of the movie Arthur Dent possesses the gun, and Zaphod has not yet turned the gun over to Humma Kavula. QUEST Quite Unwieldy Experimental Sublimation Torpedo, an experimental anti-god missile used by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz to attack the god Thor in the novel And Another Thing.... The Vo... |
V12 engine | Early aero engines & Later V12s in aviation | at the outbreak of World War I. During the war further enlargement to 100 x 150 mm created the 240 bhp (180 kW) 'Gurkha'. Later V12s in aviation By the end of World War I, V12s were well established in aviation, powering some of the newest and largest fighters and bombers and being produced by companies such as Renault... |
Trial Kennedy | Post-split activities | through the Showdown Rounds as one of the final four members of Goodrem's team left in the competition.
In November 2017, the band announced a live performance for May 26th, 2018, to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the release of New Manic Art. |
Valery Makharadze | Career in government | As part of this, Makharadze and nationality minister Valery Tishkov signed an agreement with the German government to help resettle Volga Germans in their native region. Among his other tasks was to oversee the implementation of economic reforms begun by the central government in the regions. However, when Boris Yeltsi... |
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales | Publication history | as they tumbled along the current of the Androscoggin; or shooting pigeons and grey squirrels in the woods; or bat-fowling in the summer twilight; or catching trouts in that shadowy little stream which, I suppose, is still wandering riverward through the forest.
Bridge believed that Hawthorne "overvalued" his friendshi... |
University of Agder | Organisation and administration & Faculties and Academia & Teacher Education & Library | all economic and administrative affairs. Faculties and Academia The University of Agder has six faculties as well as an own unit fior teacher education. Teacher Education The teacher training programmes are organized in an interdisciplinary fashion. Library Agder University Research Archive (AURA) is a full text digita... |
Up (2009 film) | Plot | whom he names "Kevin". They then meet a Golden Retriever named Dug, who wears a special collar that allows him to speak and who vows to take the bird to his master. The next day, they encounter a pack of aggressive dogs led by Alpha, a Doberman Pinscher, and are taken to their master, who turns out to be Charles Muntz.... |
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature | Plot | Surly, the latter convinces Feng and the animals must work together regardless of whether they are from the city or a park; this causes Feng to spare him, and agree to help.
Surly and the mice free the animals, and round them up to take back Liberty Park. They manage to overwhelm the humans, destroy all the rides, and ... |
Up (2009 film) | Box office & Critical response | earnings. Among major countries, it was the highest-grossing animated film of 2009 only in Spain ($37.1 million), Australia ($25.3 million), and South Korea ($6.32 million). Critical response On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 98% approval rating based on 293 reviews, with an average rating of 8.71/... |
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 | Background | United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Background The first official statement on UK participation in Eurovision 2013 was made on 17 January 2013, with the BBC's Eurovision semi-finals commentator Scott Mills stating that he would be hearing the UK's song "next week" – indicating that the BBC had made an in... |
USS Burrfish | Construction and career | New London, Connecticut, for inactivation and was placed out of commission in reserve on 10 October 1946.
On 2 November 1948 Burrfish was recommissioned and assigned to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for conversion to a radar picket submarine. Her designation was changed to SSR-312 on 27 January 1949 and her conversion was ... |
Victor Pinchuk | Philanthropy | February 2013, Pinchuk committed to giving half or more of his fortune during his lifetime and beyond to philanthropic causes, joining the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic initiative founded in 2010 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Pinchuk has donated from $10 to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation between 1994 and 20... |
ULTra (rapid transit) | null | ULTra (rapid transit) Ultra (Urban Light Transit) is a personal rapid transit PODCAR system developed by the British engineering company Ultra Global PRT (formerly Advanced Transport Systems).
The first public system opened at Heathrow Airport in London in May 2011. It consists of 21 vehicles operating on a 3.9-kilomet... |
Veterans Health Administration | Use of electronic records | nurses are given bar-coded wristbands, and all medications are bar-coded as well. Nurses are given wands, which they use to scan themselves, the patient, and the medication bottle before dispensing drugs. This helps prevent four of the most common dispensing errors: wrong med, wrong dose, wrong time, and wrong patient.... |
To Live and Die in L.A. (film) | Principal photography | in the film and it took six weeks to shoot. At this point, Friedkin was working with a very stripped down crew. He came up with the idea of staging the chase against the flow of traffic on February 25, 1963 when he was driving home from a wedding in Chicago. He fell asleep at the wheel and woke up in the wrong lane wit... |
USS Garfield Thomas | Transfer to Pacific Theatre operations & Greek service | for the Marshalls. She arrived Eniwetok on 16 August 1945, and operated between the Marshalls and the Carolines, screening convoys and taking her turn as patrol ship until she departed Eniwetok on 8 December for Pearl Harbor, arriving eight days later.
After a month's duty as weather station ship Garfield Thomas depart... |
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications | The Center for Public Interest Communications | helps organizations apply behavioral, cognitive and social science to create strategic communication designed to achieve positive social change.
Public interest communications is a science-driven approach to strategic communications that results in lasting change on an issue that transcends the interests of any single ... |
Ulugh Beg | Astronomy & Mathematics & War of succession and death | tilt as 23°30'17" in the sexagesimal system of degrees, minutes and seconds of arc, which in decimal notation converts to 23.5047°. Mathematics In mathematics, Ulugh Beg wrote accurate trigonometric tables of sine and tangent values correct to at least eight decimal places. War of succession and death In 1447, upon lea... |
The Secret Policeman's Ball | 1981 – The Secret Policeman's Other Ball | Nine O'Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott. Lewis secured a return appearance by Billy Connolly and a debut appearance by "alternative" comedian Alexei Sayle who Lewis had recently discovered and was managing.
Building on the success of P... |
Trigarium | Triga | but are not known to have been raced. The chariot of Achilles in the Iliad (16.152) was drawn by two immortal horses and a third who was mortal. In Etruscan racing, the third horse served as a trace horse on the inside of the turn, and was not yoked. The Romans only rarely raced with a team of three. Dionysius mentione... |
Stoddart Publishing | History | Stoddart Publishing History In 1995, Stoddart published a book by photographer Jock Carroll, Glenn Gould: Some Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man, being a collection of photographs of the late Canadian pianist, accompanied by captions written by Carroll. The photographs and narrative were based on an interview wi... |
TelefériQo | Overview | TelefériQo The TelefériQo (from teleférico and Quito), or TelefériQo Cruz Loma, is a gondola lift in Quito, Ecuador, running from the edge of the city centre up the east side of Pichincha Volcano to lookout Cruz Loma. It is one of the highest aerial lifts in the world, rising from 3,117 m (10,226 ft) to 3,945 m (12,943... |
Sutarfeni | Preparation | and the recipe is unsuitable for preparation at home. (Videos illustrating the manual preparaton show 3-4 people standing around a large pan and pulling the pastry into a circle that is repeatedly folded upon itself.) Alternative recipes start either with shredded filo pastry, which is fried in butter or shortening, or... |
Veterans Health Administration | Primary care | military women reporting IPV experiences in the past year use VHA primary care as their main source of healthcare. The VHA does not have an upper age limit for IPV screening, acknowledging that IPV is not limited by age. However, it is believed that early detection is helpful towards allowing victims to access much nee... |
Verbandspokal | Rules and regulations | Verbandspokal Rules and regulations Rules and regulations for the Verbandspokale are set by the regional football associations and vary. Bavaria, the largest one, stipulates that reserve teams are not permitted to participate in the Bavarian Cup. Teams from lower divisions always have home advantage, if two teams of th... |
USS Gatling | World War II & 1944 | USS Gatling World War II After shakedown out of Bermuda and alteration at New York early November, the new destroyer called at Norfolk, Virginia, to conduct training cruises for crews of destroyers still under construction.
On 19 November 1943 Gatling proceeded to Trinidad, British West Indies, to escort aircraft carri... |
Under officer | Australia | Under officer Australia The Royal Military College, Duntroon uses the appointments of senior under officer and under officer for senior Staff Cadets.
In the Australian Army Cadets and Australian Air Force Cadets, the rank of Cadet Under Officer (abbreviated in writing to 'CUO') is the highest cadet rank. They are salut... |
Tiff Lacey | Career as an electronic music guest vocalist & 2011 – 2013: "¡Viva!" and further EDM impact | December 2009, with remix package provided by Ivan Spell and Gabriel Lukosz.
In January 2010 "I Know" with George Acosta was released. The remix of the tune by Beat Service was played on A State Of Trance.
In April 2010, Lacey signed with label Loverush Digital for the release of her solo album. Later in that year she ... |
Veterans Health Administration | Financial Assessment for Long-Term Care Services & Home health care & Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) | a Veteran qualifies for cost-free services or to what extent they are required to make long-care co-pays. Unlike co-pays for other VA health care services, which are based on fixed changes for all long-term care co-pay changes are individually adjusted based on each Veteran's financial status. Home health care Home hea... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | 1961 Berlin Crisis | became USAFE's first test of what was known as a "Flexible Response" strategy. In the spring of 1961, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev decided that the Soviet Union would sign a peace treaty with the East German government. In effect the German Democratic Republic would control the Russian zone of Berlin and could end ... |
The X Factor (British series 12) | Caroline Flack and Olly Murs | of chemistry. They were expected to inject some fun and energy but that has yet to be seen. We've seen this year's line-up undertake a big shake-up and Olly and Caroline were considered to be a safe bet." It was also stated that Flack's other commitments were discussed beforehand. A spokesperson said: "Olly and Carolin... |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea | Traditional medicine & Medicinal use by Native Americans & Other uses & Related species | traditional Austrian medicine the fruits have been administrated internally as jelly or syrup for treatment of disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys and urinary tract, and fever. Medicinal use by Native Americans The Upper Tanana eat the berries or use the juice of the berries to treat colds, coughs and sore... |
Tofo-Sant'Eleuterio | History | an elementary school, which had been housed in a private home, was constructed. A church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception was constructed during the mid 1960s. The church is by no means grandiose and was constructed in large part through the hard labor and economic support of the local citizens. Portions of the b... |
Verband Deutscher Tonmeister | null | members of the VDT, making up roughly 10%.
Even though the designation of Tonmeister is a fixed part of the name of the association its members carry many other job titles like audio engineer, sound director, music director, sound designer, producer, record producer and music supervisor. The occupational title Tonmeist... |
Thomas Whitbread | Arrest, trial and execution & Works | being mutilated. The crowd showed that on this occasion its sympathies were with the victims, and it listened in respectful silence as Whitbread and the others made lengthy speeches protesting their innocence. The others executed with him were John Gavan, John Fenwick, William Harcourt and Anthony Turner. After the ex... |
Talwin Morris | Death and Posthumous Reputation | 1955.
His one piece of published writing, the 9th special supplement of Percy Venner Bradshaw's the Press Art School titled The Illustration of Children's Books, was published posthumously in 1912 with an addendum by his successor A. A. Campbell.
In 1911, and again in 1924, books in the possession of his widow Alice we... |
The Perfect Pumpkin Pie | Plot | The Perfect Pumpkin Pie The Perfect Pumpkie Pie is a 2005 children's picture book by Denys Cazet. Plot On Halloween, Mrs. Wikinson bakes a perfect pie for her grouchy husband and reminds him that when they die, there will be no pie. After she said that, her husband yells that he isn't going then. Soon after, he falls d... |
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons | Chapter 3: Wiring and Rewiring & Chapter 4: Facing Brain Damage | Created in his lab, he tried it, and was startled by the results. It ultimately showed that we all carry the latent ability of synesthesia if we knew how to tap it as LSD does.
Cajal (from the previous chapter) pointed out that adult neurons and neuron circuits could not renew themselves, and once they were dead, they ... |
Van der Woude syndrome | Genetic Counseling | 50% chance of passing on their mutated IRF6 allele to a their child. Furthermore, if a cleft patient has lip pits, he or she has a ten times greater risk of having a child with cleft lip with or without cleft palate than a cleft patient who does not have lip pits. Types of clefting between parents and affected childr... |
Stanisław Nogaj | null | Stanisław Nogaj Stanisław Nogaj was a Polish journalist and writer from Silesia. During the World War II he was arrested by the Germans and sent to the Dachau concentration camp and then to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where he had been working at the camp's chancellery of Concentration Camp Gusen I. After ... |
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The Young and the Hopeless | Composition & Release | It’s kind of a song we wrote for ourselves". Release During the group's appearance on 2002 Warped Tour, The Used were aware Good Charlotte needed a drummer and introduced them to Chris Wilson. Shortly after this, Wilson became the group's drummer. In July 2002, the group filmed a video for "Lifestyles of the Rich & Fam... |
USS Albatross (MSC-289) | Return to Vietnam combat zone & Gulf of Tonkin operations | Hong Kong, Albatross got underway on 10 December to return to Sasebo. Gulf of Tonkin operations Albatross began her first "Market Time" patrol of 1969 on 5 March. She remained in the Gulf of Tonkin for 44 days before sailing to Hong Kong on 24 April for a rest and relaxation period. The ship spent the remainder of the ... |
Vide Noir | Writing and recording & Themes and composition | first to be recorded on a major record label. The album was mixed by veteran music producer Dave Fridmann, who the band chose to work with due to his previous work with Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips, and Baroness. Themes and composition The album's title, Vide Noir, is French for "Black Void". Frontman and lyricist Ben... |
Veterans Health Administration | History & Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 | eligibility rules. A major focus of the transformation was the tracking of a number of performance indicators—including quality-of-care measures—and holding senior managers accountable for improvements in those measures. Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 In May 2014, major problems with scheduling timely a... |
Thomas Stewart (civil engineer) | Life | Thomas Stewart (civil engineer) Life Stewart was born at Craigend, Perthshire, Scotland on 30 March 1857. At age 16, he became a student of D.H. Halkett in Alyth. In 1876, he was named an assistant at the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks. He studied at the University of Glasgow. In 1881, he was an assistant to John Wolfe... |
Veterans Health Administration | Primary care | health includes evaluation and assistance for issues such as depression, mood, and anxiety disorders; intimate partner and domestic violence; elder abuse or neglect; parenting and anger management; marital, caregiver, or family-related stress; and post-deployment adjustment or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Vet... |
The Girls Next Door | Reception | weeks later. Ratings then dropped even further to 919,000 viewers only five weeks after the premiere. |
USS R-7 (SS-84) | 1940–1946 | 11 October 1945. In September 1946 she was sold for scrap to John J. Duane of Quincy, Massachusetts. |
Tyler Clippard | Oakland Athletics and New York Mets & Arizona Diamondbacks and return to the Yankees | pitching prospect Casey Meisner. Clippard returned to a setup role, with Jeurys Familia remaining the Mets' closer. In 32 ¹⁄₃ innings with the Mets, Clippard pitched to a 3.06 ERA. In the 2015 MLB postseason, Clippard allowed five earned runs in 6 ²⁄₃ innings. Arizona Diamondbacks and return to the Yankees After rece... |
Thomas Sturge the elder | Family life | at least ten children. Early in the 19th century, he took into the business at least four of his sons, including his namesake Thomas Sturge the younger. The firm then became Thomas Sturge & Sons.
Thomas Sturge the elder died at Bath on 11 August 1825. |
USS Bayfield | 1946–1960 | for a cruise to Japan and back in September 1951, did not return to the Far East until March 1952, again to support troops in Korea.
During the next two years, Bayfield made three more cruises to the Orient and performed special duty in August and September 1954, assisting in the evacuation of refugees that resulted fr... |
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense | Responsibilities | officer, to whom the deputy chief management officer reported, but those responsibilities were split into a new chief management officer of the Department of Defense position.
The deputy secretary, among the office's many responsibilities, chairs the Senior Level Review Group (SLRG), before 2005 known as Defense Resou... |
The Five-Storied Pagoda | Setting | and Okichi interact. It is a necessary setting to display the Katagi of the wife since, as the wife, she should not leave the house. This is also where Seikichi all but lives, and is where Okichi nudges Seikichi to avenge Genta; leading him to attack Jūbei.
Jubei's House
Also acts as a way to display the Katagi of the... |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea | Culinary uses | Russian soft drink, known as "lingonberry water", is mentioned by Alexander Pushkin in Eugene Onegin. In Russian folk medicine, lingonberry water was used as a mild laxative. A traditional Finnish dish is sautéed reindeer (poronkäristys) with mashed potatoes and lingonberries, either cooked or raw with sugar. In Finlan... |
Vickers F.B.16 | Design and development | A final version was the F.B.16H, which replaced the Lorrane-Dietrich with a 300 hp (224 kW) Hispano-Suiza, a speed of 147 mph (237 km/h) being claimed, but yet again, no production followed. |
Toshiya Sugiuchi | 2006 & 2007 | the Hawks' first game of the second stage of the Pacific League playoffs, but left the game after giving up two runs in the first three innings and was charged with the loss. 2007 Sugiuchi had another comeback year in 2007, continuing his peculiar tradition of having a good season every other year. He became the Hawks'... |
University of Leicester | University status to modern day | life", is a reflection of the war memorial origins of its formation. It is believed to have been Rattray's suggestion.
The university medical school, Leicester Medical School, opened in 1971.
In 1994, the University of Leicester celebrated winning the Queen's Anniversary Prize for its work in Physics & Astronomy. The ... |
Vergarola explosion | Allied investigation | were attending an annual swimming event called Scarioni Cup. The explosion had strong political implications, because local Italian leaders and the main Italian newspaper L'Arena di Pola, suggested that it was a demonstration against the Italian feelings of the residents, and a way to reinforce the possible (later actu... |
United States International University Africa | Location & History | United States International University Africa Location The university campus is located in the Mirema neighborhood, in the Kasarani suburb of Nairobi, Kenya's capital and largest city. This location lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi), by road, northeast of Nairobi's central business district. The coordinates of th... |
Up (2009 film) | Critical response | was praised in several media outlets for his portrayal of Carl. San Francisco Chronicle editor Mick LaSalle praised Asner as a great choice due to having a grumpiness to his voice that is not truly grumpy, but rather coming from a protective stance. Entertainment Weekly editor Lisa Schwarzbaum praised Asner's acting, s... |
Turnover tax in the Soviet Union | null | Turnover tax in the Soviet Union The turnover tax (Russian: налог с оборота) in the Soviet Union was first introduced during the Soviet tax reform of 1930–1932, soon after the end of the New Economic Policy. It was broadly similar to a Value Added Tax, though its specifics were crafted to serve various Soviet economic-... |
United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War | History | United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War History Prior to 2002, the Security Council had passed 16 resolutions on Iraq. In 2002, the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441.
In 2003, the governments of the US, Britain, and Spain proposed another resolution on Iraq, which they called the "eighteenth ... |
Université Adventiste Zurcher | History | Université Adventiste Zurcher Université Adventiste Zurcher is the Seventh-day Adventist university located in Antsirabe, Madagascar. History Université Adventiste Zurcher was established in 1995, following the destruction of Adventist University of Central Africa in Rwanda in 1994. To replace it, the Southern Africa-I... |
Stephen King-Hall | Life | 1914 and 1918, with the Grand Fleet, serving on HMS Southampton and 11th Submarine Flotilla. He gained the rank of commander in the service of the Royal Navy in 1928, before resigning in 1929. He wrote several plays between 1924 and 1940, including Posterity accepted by Leonard Woolf for the Hogarth Essays. He joined t... |
USS Gatling | 1951–60 & Awards | and Iran, after which Gatling returned to her home base at Rhode Island 11 October 1959.
Gatling, after distinguished service in war and peace, again decommissioned 2 May 1960 and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Norfolk. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 1 December 1974, sold 22 February 1977 and br... |
VOLI | Overview & Social responsibility | became authorised dealer for BMW and Mini car makers for Montenegro. Social responsibility In 2011, the company became the general sponsor of KK Budućnost Podgorica, the country's most successful basketball club. The club was renamed KK Budućnost VOLI, and company's CEO, Dragan Bokan, has become the club's president. |
USS Ross (DD-563) | 1955 – 1959 & Fate | Gibraltar at the end of the month and continued on. On 8 November she transited the Suez Canal and until mid-December operated in the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean area. She then retransmitted the Canal, and remained with the 6th Fleet until 16 February 1958.
Ross returned to Norfolk 5 March 1959. During the summ... |
Triton (comics) | Powers and abilities | water to survive, and cannot exist out of water without artificial aids. His resistance to deep sea pressure also gives him superhuman strength and speed underwater. He has the ability to survive underwater indefinitely, and the ability to withstand the temperature and pressure of ocean depths. His vision is more sens... |
Unified communications | null | and media types.
In its broadest sense, the UC can encompass all forms of communications that are exchanged via a network to include other forms of communications such as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and digital signage Communications as they become an integrated part of the network communications deployment and... |
Too big to fail | Public opinion polls & Lobbying by banking industry & Historical examples | hasn't been matched since, was likely the result of the strong U.S. banking system established after the 1930s Great Depression and the related efforts of banks and regulators to build Americans' confidence in that system." Lobbying by banking industry In the USA, the banking industry spent over $100 million lobbying p... |
Tig Trager | Season 3 | Tig's vote Kozik can't transfer. This results in a fight between Tig and Kozik. Despite their dislike for each other Tig and Kozik are able to work together, and they successfully kill a possible snitch as a favor for the Mayans MC. When Gemma escapes from police custody, Tig openly volunteers to not go to Belfast, s... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | Iraq and Kuwait in the 1990s | U.S. armed forces. The USAF portion of ONW was primarily a USAFE operation, since all USAF assets participating operated out of Europe. The USAF portion of the mission was partially flown by rotational aircraft and units from Air Combat Command, Air Mobility Command, Pacific Air Forces, Air Force Special Operations Com... |
Up (2009 film) | Box office | audience was 53% female and 47% under 17 years old. The film experienced small drop-offs on subsequent weekends, but lost first place to The Hangover.
Outside the US and Canada, it is the 43rd-highest-grossing film, the tenth-highest-grossing animated film, the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2009, and the third-highest... |
Ulster coat | null | Burr and Alexander Hamilton (as portrayed by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Lin-Manuel Miranda respectively) are seen wearing Ulster coats in the final duel in the song The World Was Wide Enough . |
Tiff Lacey | 2014 - present: More EDM | duet with fellow singer Cari Golden.
In March, "Tears In Rain" with Simon Pitt was released, in a remixed version by ReOrder, on Fraction Records. The single saw Lacey returning to the uplifting trance genre. It was supported by Armin van Buuren on his A State Of Trance show and peaked at #32 on the Beatport Trance Top... |
Too big to fail | Regulatory crisis & Stopping the run | "too big to fail," and the "provide assistance" option was reluctantly taken. The dilemma then became how to provide assistance without significantly unbalancing the nation's banking system. Stopping the run To prevent immediate failure, the Federal Reserve announced categorically that it would meet any liquidity needs... |
Viola Beach | Reactions | of the Leamington concert at a gig in Bournemouth that evening. They also planned to showcase the band's material on the tour where Viola Beach were scheduled to support them.
On 2 April 2016, a tribute concert was staged at Warrington's Parr Hall, with performances by several of the band's friends and influences, incl... |
Theatre of West Pomerania | null | (on the Museum Harbour Stage, Bühne am Museumshafen, in the ruined Eldena Abbey and on the market place) and in other towns in Western Pomerania (Vorpommern). |
Unified communications | History | based on Asterisk, a leading open source telephony project. The aim of these open source UC projects is to allow the open source community of developers and users to have a say in unified communications and what it means.
IBM entered the unified communications marketplace with several products, beginning in 2006 with t... |
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons | Chapter 7: Sex and Punishment & Chapter 8: The Sacred Disease | (in vain) to scare her. Taking her to haunted houses, she often ran ahead, eager to find out what else awaited.
After this tale, Kean ties it in with the limbic system, the topic of the chapter, and the temporal lobe.
In regards to the temporal lobe, Kean mentions duo Heinrich Klüver and Paul Bucy. The pair experimente... |
USS Ross (DD-563) | Ross disabled | cover for that minesweeping and hydrography unit. Her duty, however, ended abruptly less than 15 hours later.
At 01:33 on 19 October, she struck a mine to port under the forward engineroom and fireroom; and began to list to port. At 01:55 she struck a second mine in the vicinity of the after engineroom. The list increa... |
Viking 2 | Lander & Landing site soil analysis | 12, 1980, when its batteries failed. Landing site soil analysis The soil resembled those produced from the weathering of basaltic lavas. The tested soil contained abundant silicon and iron, along with significant amounts of magnesium, aluminum, sulfur, calcium, and titanium. Trace elements, strontium and yttrium, were... |
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