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Old Dunstonian Association | Old Dunstonian Sport LTD | Old Dunstonian Association Old Dunstonian Sport LTD Formal OD clubs exist for a number of different sports. Some like those for Rugby and Cricket are long-established with a regular fixture list and their own programmes of off-the-field events, others draw their members together to fulfil occasional fixtures.
The OD Clubhouse and Ground at Park Langley is home for these clubs and is run by a formal limited company, the OD Sports Club Limited. The company is responsible for running the Clubhouse and Ground and their finances, for the continuing maintenance and development of the facilities, and for appointing and supervising non-OD |
Open Wonderland | Immersive audio and telephony | live people at this quality. jVoiceBridge adapts to allow remote users with lower bandwidth connections to use lower audio fidelities, including telephone-quality.
If you are having a conversation, the high-fidelity audio allows you to hear people's voices coming from the appropriate directions, as you would in the real world. Since voices or other sounds become softer as you move away from them, Open Wonderland easily supports multiple, simultaneous conversations within the same virtual space.
A wide range of audio-related modules can be created using jVoiceBridge. For example, an in-world virtual telephone allows users without access to a computer to dial in to |
OPLS | Implementation | BOSS and MCPRO programs developed by Jorgensen. Other packages such as TINKER, GROMACS, PCMODEL, Abalone, Hyperchem, LAMMPS, Desmond and NAMD also implement OPLS force fields. |
Olympiacos F.C. | Seven consecutive Championships, near-miss to UEFA Champions League semi-finals (1996–2003) | Greek Championship in nine seasons, putting an end to the "stone years" and officially beginning Olympiacos' era of domination. In the next season, 1997–98, Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Siniša Gogić, Ilias Poursanidis and the Ghanaian striker Peter Ofori-Quaye were transferred to the club and Olympiacos won the 1997–98 Championship. Bajević's team, along with AEK and Panathinaikos, were closely separated in the table, but finally Olympiacos made an important away win against Panathinaikos (0–2) and celebrated the second consecutive Championship, with three points difference from Panathinaikos. Olympiacos participated for the first time in the UEFA Champions League group stage and took third place |
Lyons Government | Foreign policy & Death of Joseph Lyons | increasingly dominant in public affairs with the rise of fascism in Europe and militant Japan in Asia. Scarred by the experiences of World War I, Australia reluctantly prepared for a new war, in which the primacy of the British Royal Navy would prove insufficient to defend Australia from attack from the north. Billy Hughes was brought back into cabinet by Lyons in 1936 and appointed Minister for External Affairs in 1937. From 1938, Lyons used Hughes to head a recruitment drive for the Australian Defence Force. Death of Joseph Lyons On 7 April 1939, with the storm clouds of the |
N.E.R.D.S. | N.E.R.D.S.: The Villain Virus (2012) & N.E.R.D.S.: Attack of the Bullies (2013) | own. A virus is spread around the country and normal people are going berzerk. N.E.R.D.S.: Attack of the Bullies (2013) Miss Holiday, who is now the evil Miss Information, has assembled her own team of kids with their own super nanobyte upgrades, naming them the Brotherhood of Unstoppable Liars, Lowlifes, and Intimidating Enemies of Society (aka the BULLIES), who plan to go back in time and prevent N.E.R.D.S. from ever existing. Ruby "Pufferfish" Peet's teammates begin to vanish one by one, and she enlists Agent Brand and Heathcliff Hodges to go back to the 1970s and help the original nerdy |
Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are | Plot & Single release and reception | my body just like a wound").
At the end of the video, whenever Meat Loaf sings the line "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are", he sees either the ghost of the plane, the woman or himself when he was younger. As with the lyrics, the sequence depicts how, as Allmusic says, "he still feels haunted by their memory." Single release and reception The song was the sixth track from Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell released as a single. It reached number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 26 on |
Minyan ware | Origins & Forms and styles | between 2200 and 2150 BC. There is nothing particularly "northern" regarding the ceramic progenitors of Minyan Ware. The exception, however, entails the spread of Minyan Ware from central Greece to northeastern Peloponnese, which can be seen as "coming from the north" with respect to the Peloponnese. Currently, there is uncertainty as to how Minyan Ware arrived in central Greece or how it was indigenously developed. Forms and styles Minyan Ware is a form of monochrome burnished pottery produced from extremely fine or moderately fine clay. Varieties of Minyan Ware entail Yellow, Red, Gray, and Black (or Argive). Open forms such |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Postwar | 1945 elections for the Constituent Assembly of India, the League won every seat reserved for Muslims. In the provincial elections in January 1946, the League took 75% of the Muslim vote, an increase from 4.4% in 1937. According to his biographer Bolitho, "This was Jinnah's glorious hour: his arduous political campaigns, his robust beliefs and claims, were at last justified." Wolpert wrote that the League election showing "appeared to prove the universal appeal of Pakistan among Muslims of the subcontinent". The Congress dominated the central assembly nevertheless, though it lost four seats from its previous strength.
In February 1946, the British |
Onchestos (mythology) | Family & Plutarch's account & Pausanias' account | Onchestos (mythology) Family Little is known about Onchestos and only two literary sources (Plutarch in Quaestiones Graecae and Pausanias in Description of Greece) gives information about him. In these accounts he was described as the Boeotian son of Poseidon and father of Abrota, wife of Nisos and Megareus. In some traditions, Onchestus was called the son of Boeotus. Plutarch's account When Nisus, from whom Nisaea acquired its name, was king, he took a wife from Boeotia, Habrotê, daughter of Onchestus, the sister of Megareus, a woman who, as it appears, was both exceptionally intelligent and remarkably discreet. Pausanias' account Distant |
OPLS | Functional form & Parameterization | OPLS The OPLS (Optimized Potentials for Liquid Simulations) force field was developed by Prof. William L. Jorgensen at Purdue University and later at Yale University. Functional form The functional form of the OPLS force field is very similar to that of AMBER:
with the combining rules and .
Intramolecular nonbonded interactions are counted only for atoms three or more bonds apart; 1,4 interactions are scaled down by the "fudge factor" , otherwise . All the interaction sites are centered on the atoms; there are no "lone pairs". Parameterization Several sets of OPLS parameters have been published. There is OPLS-ua |
Nicky Thomas | Death | 1990. |
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen | Jennifer Francis & Appeal | someone else prior to her receipt of it.
In 2015, the parties made motions to the judge as to what evidence could be heard by a jury at trial. At the beginning of 2017, Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson ruled that Francis could proceed to trial alleging a violation of state labor law. He found there were no triable issues of fact on her claims of harassment, discrimination and retaliation. In April 2019, a jury found for the city. Appeal Lazarus filed a lengthy appeal of her conviction in May 2013 with the California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Four, |
Olympiacos F.C. | The Legend (1946–1959) | Kourouklatos and Dionysis Minardos. As soon as regular fixtures recommenced, the Piraeus club returned to their dominant position in Greek football. From 1946 to 1959, Olympiacos won 9 out of the 11 Greek Championships (1947, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959), bringing home 15 Championship titles in a total of 23 completed seasons of the Greek League. The six-straight Greek Championships won by Olympiacos from 1954 to 1959 was an unmatched achievement in Greek football history, an all-time record which stood for 44 years, up until Olympiacos managed to win seven-straight Greek Championships from 1997 to 2003.
Furthermore, during |
Noctum (role-playing game) | Ancient Gate & Hack & Slash & Legions of Hell & Morose Miroir | world is a typical concept. Hack & Slash This is almost a mode of play. The focus is violence and the stories are driven forward by high-octane action. By using the Duke Mode the action is kept quick and dirty. Here the actual killing of antagonists by different methods is the main thing. Legions of Hell This style is often played with an even mix of action, research and investigation. The game universe is viewed through the lens of Biblical scripture and Judeo-Christian-Islamic mythology. Possessions, entities that display demonic features (strengths/limitations), and prophecies are common elements. Morose Miroir Atrocities incarnate |
Northern Triangle temperate forests | Setting & Flora | subtropical forests lie to the south, while the Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests lie to the northwest across the Patkai Range. The Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows bound the ecoregion to the north. The Northern Triangle temperate forests are similar to the Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests, which occupy the middle elevations of the Himalaya range in Eastern India, Bhutan, and eastern Nepal, and extend along the north slope of the Patkai range in Arunachal Pradesh. Flora The main plant communities of the Northern Triangle temperate forests are broadleaf forests and mixed forests. The forests are diverse, blending plants characteristic of |
Muhammad Waseem | Early career | two months, under Jeff Mayweather (Floyd's uncle). Waseem defeated Oliva via unanimous decision when all three judges scored the fight in his favour 119-112, 120-108, 120-108 and became the first Pakistani to win the WBC Silver flyweight title. Waseem made his first defence of his WBC Silver title on 27 November 2016 at the Gwanakgu Hall in Seoul. His opponent was undefeated 22-year-old Giemel Magramo (17-0, 13 KOs). The fight went the 12 round distance. Judge Jun Bae Lim scored the bout wide 117-110 for Waseem and judges Jerrold Tomeldan and Noppharat Sricharoen scored the fight close 114-113 for Waseem, |
Molarity (comic strip) | Collections | of the strips. |
One Night in Lisbon | Plot | of like being related in a way. You know the way you feel about relatives. They do a lot of things that irritate you, but when it comes right down to it, you are related. You have the same ideas, speak the same language and have the same plans for the future," and he realizes that he "shares with them a common history, heritage, language and political ideology" |
One For Arthur | 2016/2017 National Hunt season | contention three fences out, at which point the favourite Blaklion had opened up a clear advantage. One For Arthur overtook the favourite approaching the final obstacle and stayed on up the run-in to win by four and a half lengths from Cause of Causes, with Saint Are taking third ahead of Blaklion. He became the second horse trained in Scotland to win the race, following Rubstic's victory in 1979. After the race Fox said "It's the best feeling I've ever had. He's just such a brave horse. It's a sign of a true racehorse to win the Grand National. It's |
Music of Nevada | Hard rock & Indie | Way have twice charted on the Billboard 200. Four singles have charted on the Hot Rock Songs chart.
Otherwise have charted on the Billboard 200 twice, and blend hard rock and alternative rock. They charted on the Hot Rock Songs chart with "Soldiers".
Slaughter have charted on the Billboard 200 three times, but more recent albums courtesy of an independent label have failed to chart.
Heavy metal group Hemlock have never charted on the Billboard 200.
In 2011, Five Finger Death Punch relocated to Las Vegas. They have had 3 #2 albums on the Billboard 200, like in 2013. Indie As a result |
Music of Nevada | Garage rock & Gospel & Hard rock | with garage rock, while Rob Bell (of The Yeller Bellies) mixes country with garage rock in his project known as The Psyatics Gospel Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Gladys Knight lives in Las Vegas and leads the Saints Unified Voices gospel music choir. Together with the choir, Knight earned a Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album. Hard rock Post-hardcore group Escape the Fate have charted on the Billboard 200 three times. Two singles have charted on the Hot Rock Songs chart.
Post-hardcore group Falling in Reverse have charted on the Billboard 200 three times.
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Only Theatre of Pain | Content & Anniversary concert | Only Theatre of Pain Content Describing the album's themes, The A.V. Club opined the record as being "relentless in its morbid embrace of Christian eschatology. Williams was raised in a Southern Baptist family, which makes his adversarial appropriation of Catholic imagery more nuanced than simple blasphemy; he’s approaching the cross from the perspective of both Protestantism and what one can only assume to be either atheism or Satanism". Anniversary concert On April 13, 2007, the remaining members of the Only Theatre of Pain line-up of Christian Death reunited as Christian Death 1334 to perform the album in full at the |
Oliver Colvile | Electoral Commission and police investigation & Japan Tobacco | national return of what in the commission's view should have been reported as candidate spending meant that there was a realistic prospect that this enabled its candidates to gain a financial advantage over opponents. Oliver Colville was investigated by Devon and Cornwall Police over whether he breached election spending rules. Devon and Cornwall Police subsequently confirmed that a file has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for a decision on whether Mr Colville should be prosecuted for electoral fraud in relation to the 2015 general election. Japan Tobacco Colvile was criticised when it was revealed in October 2011 that |
Olympiacos F.C. | Domination in the early 1980s, UEFA Cup quarter-finalists (1975–1996) & Seven consecutive Championships, near-miss to UEFA Champions League semi-finals (1996–2003) | II with a late goal by Giorgos Vaitsis and a goalless draw at Karaiskakis Stadium in the second leg. They did not manage to qualify for the semi-finals, however, as they were eliminated by Atlético Madrid (1–1 draw at home, 3–1 loss in Madrid). Seven consecutive Championships, near-miss to UEFA Champions League semi-finals (1996–2003) In 1996, Socratis Kokkalis appointed Dušan Bajević as the team's head coach. By that time, Olympiacos had already a very strong roster, with players like Kyriakos Karataidis, Vassilis Karapialis, Grigoris Georgatos, Alexis Alexandris, Giorgos Amanatidis, Nikos Dabizas and Ilija Ivić. Upon Bajević's arrival, Kokkalis opted to |
Narthamalai | History & Tourism | rains and lightning. The restoration work was carried out by Tennavan Tamiladirayan.
In modern times, the temple is maintained and administered by archaeological department of India as a protected monument.
The place was called Telinga-kula-kala-puram in the 11th century during the times of Rajaraja Chola I and his son Rajendra Chola I. Tourism Narthamalai is located 11 miles Northeast West of Pudukottai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The cave temples of Narthamalai have stood the test of time. Its beautifully carved pillars and statues will never give away that these temples date all the way back to the early |
Niklaus Manuel Deutsch | Biography | have done more for the adoption of the Reformation in Berne than the sermons of Haller. The two plays were printed as early as 1524, and again in 1540. The 1540 edition was the basis of a re-edition published in 1836.
In 1523, he was given the office of Bernese reeve of Erlach, Echallens and Nidau.
He was sent as a representative of Bern to the Swiss Diet in 1526.
He served as a member in the city council (Kleiner Rat) from April 1528 until his death. |
Noson Lawen (TV series) | null | Noson Lawen (TV series) Noson Lawen is a long-running Welsh-language television series, first broadcast on S4C in Wales in 1982.
The term Noson Lawen translates roughly into English as A Merry Evening. The programme takes the form of a variety show, with performers including singing duets, sketches, choirs, comedians etc. and with a different host every week. Presenters have included Gillian Elisa, and guests include not only Welsh-speaking performers like Dafydd Iwan, Robin Huw Bowen and John Ogwen, but international stars such as the quartet bond.
In the show's early years the audience were seated on straw bales, with the various performances |
Narthamalai | Tourism | architecture is an early example of Chola Art, continuing the tradition of the Pallavas. The other portions of Narthamalai houses the 8th century Jaina Abode, the Aluruttimalai Jain Caves. There are also two rock-cut caves, one of which houses twelve life size sculptures of Vishnu. The temple is considered one of the oldest stone temples in South India.
A manifestation of ancient Tamil culture, the Narthamalai temples is just one of your tutors if you want learn more about one of the oldest living civilization.
There is another Historical event occurred here, the Thanjai Perya kovil was built with the stones taken |
Oliver Colvile | Background & Electoral Commission and police investigation | campaigns which saw the Conservatives return to Parliament a number of its candidates in marginal seats. Colvile has lived for the past 10 years at The Millfields (formerly the Royal Naval Hospital), Plymouth. Electoral Commission and police investigation In March 2017, the Electoral Commission fined the Conservative Party £70,000. During the 2015 general election coaches of activists were transported to marginal constituencies including Plymouth Sutton & Devonport to campaign alongside or in close proximity to local campaigners. The tour party stopped off at the Jury's Inn in Exeter Street, Plymouth, where it used 29 rooms. The inclusion in the Party |
Neosho, Missouri | Civil War: 1861−1865 | 1863. After the war, the county records were found intact in a cell in the jail, where they had been concealed by R.W. Ellis, the county clerk, before he left to join the Confederate Army in 1861.
On July 3, 1861 the Union force of Col. Franz Sigel moved from Neosho to find and trap Gov Jackson's Missouri State Guard force, reported to be somewhere near Lamar, Missouri. Sigel, believing that another Union force should be chasing them from their Union victory at Boonville on June 17. Col. Sigel knew that Sterling Price and another Confederate Army were south of his |
Opel 8/40 PS | The bodies & Switch to an underslung chassis | produced, notably by Karosseriewerke Otto Kühn of Halle who specialised in producing bodies for Opel, concentrating on styles for which demand was insufficient to justify Opel tooling up to build the bodies themselves. Switch to an underslung chassis The “Limousine” (sedan/saloon) bodied cars underwent a significant upgrade, with slightly longer bodies (despite the wheelbase being unchanged) early in 1929. The principal change was the switch from a traditional “Hochbett” (Overslung) chassis to a “Tiefbett” (Underslung) chassis. Opel’s principal competitor for this model was probably the Adler Standard 6 which underwent the same change only in |
Nootka Crisis | Background | key point in Britain's position during the Nootka Crisis. Spain strongly disputed both claims, and the true facts of the matter have never been fully established. The land and building aside, there is no doubt that Meares's men, and a group of Chinese workers they brought, built the sloop North West America. It was launched in September 1788, the first non-indigenous vessel built in the Pacific Northwest. The North West America would also play a role in the Nootka Crisis, being one of the vessels seized by Spain.
At the end of the summer Meares and the three ships left.
During the |
Ohio State Route 685 | Route description & History | comes very tightly into its intersection with Truetown Road (County Road 95), traveling in a "U" shape from southeast to northeast. The landscape opens up a bit as the highway runs northeasterly back into Trimble Township, with a few homes appearing along the way, along with some grassy knolls. SR 685 bends to the east as it arrives at its endpoint, a T-intersection with SR 13 one mile (1.6 km) southwest of Jacksonville. History When first added to the state highway system in 1937, the highway running between SR 78 at Buchtel and SR 13 near Jacksonville that currently carries the SR 685 designation was identified |
Operation Linda Nchi | Eritrea | of aiding Al-Shabaab. In early November 2011, media reports also claimed that the Eritrean government had sent two plane-loads of arms to Al-Shabaab insurgents in southern Somalia. Eritrea's Foreign Minister issued a press release dismissing the charges as "pure fabrication and outright lies", and suggested that the reports were part of a "disinformation campaign" with the intended effect of discrediting Eritrea.
On 3 November, Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula met with the Eritrean ambassador to Kenya to seek clarification on intelligence allegations that weapons were being flown to Al-Shabaab from Eritrea. Wetangula later told the press on 11 November that Kenya |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Postwar | to), such as a joint military or communications. However, by December 1946, he insisted on a fully sovereign Pakistan with dominion status.
Following the failure of the London trip, Jinnah was in no hurry to reach an agreement, considering that time would allow him to gain the undivided provinces of Bengal and Punjab for Pakistan, but these wealthy, populous provinces had sizeable non-Muslim minorities, complicating a settlement. The Attlee ministry desired a rapid British departure from the subcontinent, but had little confidence in Wavell to achieve that end. Beginning in December 1946, British officials began looking for a viceregal successor to |
North Druid Hills, Georgia | History | the land in the Candler Lake and South Fork Peachtree Creek area during his lifetime. His land was later purchased by Walter Candler.
Major Washington Jackson Houston owned land on the north side of the South Fork of Peachtree Creek, in what is now Briarcliff. Visitors used to visit Major Houston to buy ground cornmeal produced by his 1876 gristmill or to attend social gatherings held on his property. Major Houston converted the mill into an early hydroelectric plant circa 1900. Atlanta contractor Harry J. Carr bought Houston's land in the 1920s and constructed the fieldstone and wrought iron home |
Nash Hills | null | Nash Hills Nash Hills (81°53′S 89°23′W) is a short range of isolated mostly ice-covered hills about 25 nautical miles (46 km) northwest of Martin Hills. The feature was positioned by the U.S. Ellsworth-Byrd Traverse Party on December 10, 1958. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Archie R. Nash, U.S. Navy, Officer-in-Charge at Byrd Station in 1962. |
Olympiacos F.C. | Domination in Greece and World War II (1931–1946) | life, while Nikos Grigoratos was injured in the leg during the Battle of Klisura. Furthermore, after the subsequent German occupation of Greece, Olympiacos players joined the Greek Resistance and fought fiercely against the Nazis. Olympiacos player Nikos Godas, an emblematic figure for the club, was captain of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and fought against the Germans in many fronts. He was executed wearing Olympiacos shirt and shorts, as was his last wish: "Shoot me and kill me with my Olympiacos shirt on, and do not blindfold me, I want to see the colours of my team before the |
New Haven Colony | Fundamental Agreement | independent towns of Milford and Guilford and named New Haven Colony. Eaton served as governor until his death in 1658. The Bible contains no reference to trial by jury, so the colonists eliminated it, and magistrates sat in judgment.
The leaders attempted numerous merchandising enterprises, but they all failed. Much of the money went into a great ship sent to London in 1646, with £5000 in cargo of grain and beaver hides. It never arrived. Minister Davenport was an Oxford-educated intellectual, and he set up a grammar school and wanted to establish a college. Yale College |
Norbert Dorsey | Biography | Maguire of the Diocese of Springfield and Bishop Reginald Edward Vincent Arliss, C.P. of the Territorial Prelature of Marbel (now Roman Catholic Diocese of Marbel). On March 20, 1990, he was appointed the third Bishop of the Diocese of Orlando and on November 13, 2004, he retired upon reaching 75 years of age.
He received several awards and honors: named a Knight Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (KCHS) for his work on behalf of Near East refugees in 1978; given the Peace and Unity Award of the St. Martin Porres Association of Miami, Florida for building |
Murder of the Zec family | Murder & Investigation | Aleksandra and Marija were killed and dumped in a garbage pit. Aleksandra's siblings, Gordana and Dušan, managed to successfully hide and fled to their grandmother's home in Banja Luka. Subsequent investigations purport that Rimac allegedly did not want Aleksandra to be killed, but the others opposed any mercy as she was a witness. The girl was shot in the head with an automatic Heckler & Koch rifle, by Munib Suljić. Investigation Just a few days after the crime, the police arrested the perpetrators, and during the early investigation they admitted to the liquidation and described it in detail. However, these |
Microglandular hyperplasia | Diagnosis | Microglandular hyperplasia Microglandular hyperplasia (MGH) of the cervix is an epithelial (endocervical mucosa) benign abnormality (lesion) associated with gland proliferation. It can terminate in mature squamous metaplasia, and it is suspected reserve cells are involved in this process, perhaps in the form of reserve cell hyperplasia with glandular differentiation. Diagnosis MGH shows certain cytomorphologic features from pap smears, such as bi- or tridimensional cellular clusters consisting of glandular cells with vacuolated cytoplasm together with reserve cells with scant cytoplasm. These features however are not characteristic exclusively to MGH, often being present in adenocarcinoma-affected tissue as well, and these tissues can |
Open Wonderland | Technical overview & Immersive audio and telephony | shared. Wonderland's federation scheme, which takes full advantage of the Java Programming Language's ability to dynamically load code, means that when a user moves from one world to another, the necessary missing code is downloaded on an as-needed basis. Additionally, users' avatar information is stored on their local system so that their avatar goes with them from one world to the next. Immersive audio and telephony Open Wonderland features tight integration of immersive, high-fidelity stereo audio. Using the open source voice bridge, 'jVoiceBridge', not only do you hear recorded audio in stereo at CD-quality, but you also can hear other |
National Assembly (Bulgaria) | Layout & Grand National Assembly | be present at any time during a parliamentary session. Any of them may, however, be called up by Parliament at any time if needed. Grand National Assembly In addition to the ordinary National Assembly, a Grand National Assembly (Велико народно събрание, Veliko narodno sybranie) may be convened in order for matters of special jurisdiction, such as: 1) Adoption of a new Constitution; 2) Amendment of certain articles of the Constitution, e.g. those related with the basic civil rights; 3) Changes in the territory (gain or loss) of the Republic, etc. Before the World War II the Grand National Assembly was |
New Haven Colony | Pursuit of the regicide judges | Eaton stayed as governor until his death in 1658, when leadership of the Colony was given to Francis Newman, followed by William Leete in 1660.
In 1661, the judges who had signed the death warrant of Charles I of England in 1649 were pursued by Charles II. Judges Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe both fled to New Haven to seek refuge from the king's forces, and John Davenport arranged for them to hide in the hills northwest of the town. They purportedly took refuge in Three Judges' Cave, a rock formation in West Rock park that today bears a |
Ogbanje | null | rid of the evil spirit, whereas finding the evil spirits Iyi-uwa, which they had dug somewhere secret, would ensure the Ọgbanje would never plague the family with misfortune again. The Iyi-ụwa was the Ọgbanje's way of coming back to the world and also a way of finding its targeted family. The dead child would be cut or mutilated so he or she would not return. Some ọgbanje, however, were said to return, bearing the physical scars of the mutilation.
Belief in Ọgbanje in Igboland is not as strong as it was before although there are still some believers. Sometimes the |
Monica Svensson | null | Monica Svensson Monica Svensson (born December 26, 1978) is a retired race walker from Sweden. She represented her native country at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France, where she ended up in 27th place in the women's 20 km walk event. She was credited with the world best time in 50 km walk before the event got official recognition. |
North Carolina's 9th congressional district | 2018 election | informant had delivered 185 absentee ballot applications and the leader personally delivered 592 more. On December 6, Democratic candidate McCready withdrew his earlier submitted election concession. Republican candidate Harris agreed for a new election to be held if allegations of election fraud could be proven by the election board to have affected the contest's outcome. The leader of the North Carolina Republicans, Robin Hayes, stated on December 11 that, regardless to what extent election fraud could be proven to have altered the election, a new election would be necessary in the state's 9th Congressional District if investigators can verify |
Miracle of Sound | Music and reception by critics | based on Irish folklore, topped the iTunes Metal chart for 2 days following its release in early 2015. Metal Up was described as mix of classic rock, hard rock, and metal, and was praised by Firstherd for its celtic influences in some songs which were "very original when placed in a metal framework". The album was also given a 5 out of 5 score by Rock Review.
Shortly before the Wasteland 2 Director's Cut re-release in 2015, Dunne released a parody of the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing", titled "I want my RPG". The lyrics of the song criticise modern |
Ontario Highway 525 | Route description | Ontario Highway 525 Route description Highway 525 is a very remote highway in northwestern Ontario. There are no settlements along its 35.5-kilometre (22.1 mi) length, and the closest human habitation is Minaki near its southern terminus and Whitedog near its northern terminus. The route begins west of Minaki, branching off from Highway 596, which travels south to Kenora. It travels north along a wide strip of land bounded by Sand Lake to the east, and by Swan Lake and Tetu Lake to the west, all part of the Winnipeg River watershed. Zig-zagging in a generally northward direction, the highway passes through thick boreal |
Neale Cooper | Playing career | Neale Cooper Playing career Born in Darjeeling, India, Cooper attended Airyhall Primary School and Hazlehead Academy in Aberdeen and began his senior career with Aberdeen, the team he had supported as a boy. A first-team regular from the beginning of the 1981–82 season, he starred in midfield for the Dons for five seasons in which he won two Premier Division championships, four Scottish Cups, one League Cup, the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup under the management of Alex Ferguson. Having initially moved into a flat in Aberdeen as a young player, Cooper was 'persuaded' by |
Muhammad Waseem | World title challenge | the round ended. Mthlane controlled the bout from the start winning the early rounds by outworking Waseem. Waseem gave away most of the early rounds feeling out Mthalane. The fight changed in round 6 due to Waseem throwing and landing more shots. Mthalane came back strong in round 7. Between rounds 8 and 10, both boxers continued to trade, turning the fight into a near slugfest. Waseem came out strong in round 12 throwing many shots, likely knowing he may need a stoppage to win the bout. Mthalane took the shots well and began throwing shots of his own. Waseem |
Old Perry County Courthouse (Ohio) | Architecture | the construction of the jail led to its modification. A cupola sits atop the building, which measures five bays wide on the front. None of the names of its architects and builders are known. Although the original central doorway survived into the 1950s, the other two doors in the facade were replaced by that time; they had been repurposed to permit direct access to the second floor, which had been converted into spaces for an American Legion post, a library, and a barbershop. No dormer windows pierce the hip roof, which was likely covered with slates |
North American porcupine | Predators | tail to the fisher. If the fisher manages to force a porcupine down to the ground, the porcupine will try to present its hindquarters and tail to the attacker, but the fisher is quick and agile. As it circles the porcupine, every chance it gets, it bites the face. After repeated attacks, the porcupine eventually weakens, allowing the fisher to flip the porcupine over and rip open the porcupine's underbelly, thus killing it. The fisher will then consume the porcupine through the chest and abdomen, avoiding the quills. One study suggested that since male fishers are considerably larger than females |
Olympiacos F.C. | New presidency, seven consecutive championships and European ascent (2010–2017) | away win against Marseille (0–1), they lost the qualification to the knock-out stage after Marseille's controversial 2–3 away win in Dortmund in game 6, with Marseille scoring two goals in the last five minutes of the match to come back from an early 2–0 Dortmund lead. Olympiacos continued in Europa League where he was drawn to play against Rubin Kazan. The Greek champions eliminated the Russian side with two wins (1–0 in both Kazan and Piraeus) and were up to play against Metalist Kharkiv in the Last 16 of the competition. They won the first match in Ukraine with David |
Ogbanje | null | Ogbanje An Ọgbanje (strictly "Ọgbanje" and cannot be substituted with "Ọbanje", the "gb" forms a single consonant in the Igbo language) is a term in Odinani (Igbo: ọ̀dị̀nànị̀) (or ) for what was believed to be an evil spirit that would deliberately plague a family with misfortune. Its literal translation in the Igbo language is "children who come and go". It was believed that within a certain amount of time from birth (usually not past puberty), the Ọgbanje would deliberately die and then come back and repeat the cycle causing the family grief. Female circumcision was sometimes thought to get |
Nexus 7 (2012) | Hardware and design | the bottom of the device, preventing the headphone wire from draping across the screen.
Two models of the Nexus 7 were available at launch, one with 8 GB of storage, priced at US$199 or £159, and one with 16 GB of storage, priced at $249 or £199. On October 29, 2012, the Nexus 7 lineup was revised: the 8 GB model was discontinued, the price of the 16 GB version was reduced to $199, and a 32 GB variant was introduced at the $249 price point. The low cost of the Nexus 7 put it in competition with the Kindle Fire, with which it shared |
Museo Leonora Carrington | San Luis Potosí | Museo Leonora Carrington San Luis Potosí The museum is part of the San Luis Potosí Centenario Arts Center, home to art education schools, exhibition halls, workshops and the Multipurpose Theater. The complex was built in the 19th century to serve as a prison, it was designed as a panopticon, the control system originally proposed by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, whereby a group of buildings is guarded from a central tower.
In 1999, the prison was moved to a new location. Most of the buildings and outdoor areas were restored by architect Alejandro Sanchez between 2005 and 2009, and the |
North Rona | History | Sgeir, the island was formerly managed by Scottish Natural Heritage as a nature reserve, for its important grey seal and seabird colonies. These include the European storm-petrel and the larger Leach's storm-petrel, for which North Rona is an important breeding locality. It remains a protected area for nature and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Protection Area.
In "Island at the edge of the world", the poet Kathleen Jamie describes a visit to the island, as well as in an essay in her collection Sightlines.
The island hosts an automatic light beacon, remotely monitored by the Northern |
Old Perry County Courthouse (Ohio) | Historic context | years later, the present building was constructed on the village's public square; officials quickly found it to be insufficiently large for their needs, so until a new jail was built adjacent to the courthouse in 1848, some offices remained in the jail.
As the village of New Lexington grew in importance, its residents began to agitate for the county seat to be moved to their community. From 1851 to 1859, the state legislature passed three separate laws to permit the county seat to be moved; contentious elections and a decision by the Supreme Court of Ohio saw the county seat |
Music Information Centre Lithuania | History & Mission | to maintain close contacts with all relevant parties in the Lithuanian music industry and facilitate the export of Lithuanian music productions ranging from pop, folk, jazz and electronic to post/modern art music. The MICL also collaborates with the international recording companies, licensing the recordings for release in various markets world-wide. Mission For nearly two decades, MICL have sought to make the music created by Lithuanian artists more accessible, to get it more often performed and heard. Through the ever-expanding national and international cooperation with individual artists, contributors and institutions, the MICL seeks to cover and promote a wide diversity of |
Murray Roston | Biography & Research | of Humanities Faculty at Bar Ilan. In 1999, he was appointed to the permanent faculty at UCLA as Adjunct Professor, and subsequently taught there every third year, while retaining his position in Israel. Roston is a member of numerous Editorial and Advisory Boards and he was a member of Academic Council, and Director of Humanities Program, of Open University of Israel. Research Roston is an interdisciplinary scholar, author of a series of books examining how a knowledge of contemporary changes in the visual arts can illumine our understanding of parallel developments in literature. His Changing Perspectives in literature and the |
North Druid Hills, Georgia | Toco Hills | North Druid Hills, Georgia Toco Hills Toco Hills is a large commercial and residential neighborhood in the eastern portion of the North Druid Hills CDP. The commercial component consists of two major shopping centers that are located at the intersection of LaVista and North Druid Hills roads that were developed in the 1950s. While it is generally accepted that the name "Toco Hills" is derived from the Toco Hill shopping center, the origin of that name is disputed. Some sources claim that the developer chose the name Toco because it was the Brazilian Indian word for "good luck." Other sources |
Nedd Fechan | Geology & Habitat protection & Archaeology | falls of which Sgwd Ddwli and Sgwd Pedol are the most acclaimed. Each of the falls is associated with faults bringing harder sandstone beds into contact with the more readily eroded mudstones. Habitat protection The entire gorge section of the Nedd Fechan valley is protected as part of a larger site of special scientific interest which also covers neighbouring river gorges. It also forms a part of a larger special area of conservation designated for its rare bryophyte flora. Archaeology Downstream of the Pyrddin confluence is abundant evidence of the former silica rock mining industry. A number of adits |
Ludwig Mond | Education and career | Ludwig Mond Education and career Ludwig Mond was born into a Jewish family in Kassel, Germany. His parents were Meyer Bär (Moritz) Mond and Henrietta Levinsohn. After attending schools in his home town, he studied chemistry at the University of Marburg under Hermann Kolbe and at the University of Heidelberg under Robert Bunsen but he never gained a degree. He then worked in factories in Germany and the Netherlands before coming to England to work at the factory of John Hutchinson & Co in Widnes in 1862. He worked in Utrecht for the firm of P. Smits & de |
Olopatadine | Brand names | names Brand names include Pazeo, Pataday, Patanol S, Patanol, Opatanol, Olopat, Patanase. It is also available as an oral tablet in Japan under the tradename Allelock, manufactured by Kyowa Hakko Kogyo. |
Optimist (dinghy) | Performance & Competition | differing qualities enable sailors to upgrade their equipment as they progress.
The Optimist is the slowest dinghy in the world according to the RYA Portsmouth Yardstick scheme, with a Portsmouth number of 1646. Its equivalent rating in the US scheme is a D-PN of 123.6. Competition The Optimist is the biggest youth racing class in the world. As well as the annual world championship the class also has six continental championships, attended by a total of over 850 sailors a year. Many of the top world Optimist sailors have become world-class Laser Radial or 4.7 sailors after they "age-out" but |
Nootka Crisis | Background | based on the foothold accomplished by Meares.
While the British fur traders were getting organized, the Spanish were continuing their effort to secure the Pacific Northwest. At first the Spanish were responding mainly to Russian activity in Alaska. On a 1788 voyage to Alaska, Esteban José Martínez had learned that the Russians were intending to establish a fortified outpost at Nootka Sound. This, in addition to the increasing use of Nootka Sound by British fur traders, resulted in the Spanish decision to assert sovereignty on the northwest coast once and for all. Plans were laid for Nootka Sound to be colonized. |
One Week Friends | Reception | and almost nothing happens throughout the first half of the series. Regardless, Kimlinger praised the plot's character development, saying that it saves the first half with its progression through little events; he added that the dramatic scenes are nicely underplayed to help viewers care for the characters. Kimlinger wrote that Brain's Base and director Tarou Iwasaki provide the series with a style that's perfect, calling the minimalist backgrounds evocative with the right mood and the character animations superb, saying "that makes the show what it is: a sleeper delight, plain and simple."
The manga has had over 1 million copies printed |
Onofre R. Pagsanghan | Teaching and theater career | staged, such as “Doon Po sa Amin”, “Ang Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio” and “Sinta!”; all of which he translated from their English counterpart and adapted to the Philippine context. The group became nationally renowned for its polished and professional presentations.
Throughout the years, Pagsanghan gained numerous awards for his work in education and theater. In 1970, he was awarded the Gawad Balagtas Award and the Patnubay ng Kalinangan award for his theater work. In addition, “Sinta” bagged the award for the Best Musical Film in the 1977 FAMAS. In honor of his 45th year of teaching, the Dulaang Sibol Theater was |
Neo Ned | Synopsis & Reception & Awards & Film release | Neo Ned Synopsis The film stars Jeremy Renner as Ned Nelson, a Skinhead who ends up in a mental institution where he meets Rachael (Gabrielle Union), a black woman claiming to be the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. The unlikely couple's hookup leads them down a shocking road to recovery. Reception The film currently holds an 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. Awards To date, the film has won 10 film awards, out of 10 total nominations. Film release After three years of festival screenings (from 2005's Tribeca Film Festival premiere to 2008's Suppository Films Reelblack Festival), the film premiered on Starz on |
Oleg Vassiliev (painter) | Style | space swirling about time. Such abstract aesthetic thought was alien to mainstream Soviet Realism and demonstrates the liberties afforded graphic designers during this period. With a preoccupation for the structural qualities of a composition, these aesthetics also find their origin in Russian Constructivism of the 1920s.
"...Vassiliev's recurring preoccupation with light and shade in his oeuvre also points to a psychological dimension, with light symbolising consciousness and dark, the subconscious. Elements of German Romanticism influence his thought. He searches for answers in an unfathomable world, posing questions without obvious answers and leaving the viewer feeling nonplussed, a hallmark of |
Mausam (1975 film) | Plot | Mausam (1975 film) Plot Mausam is the dramatic love story of Dr. Amarnath Gill, who falls for Chanda, the daughter of a local healer, Harihar Thapa, when visiting Darjeeling to prepare for his medical exams. Then he has to leave back to Calcutta for his final exams. He promises Chanda to return, though he never keeps his promise. Twenty-five years later, he returns as a wealthy man and searches for Chanda and her father. He learns that Harihar has died and that Chanda was married to a crippled old man. She gave birth to a daughter, became insane and died. |
Nnama | Royal families & Surrender to the British | Court headed by Okoli Ijeoma (Ijoma/Ijomah) of Ndikelionwu (Ndike), a warlord ruling over all the towns in what is now known as Anambra State from 1856 until the British conquest of the heartland in 1896. Nnama sealed a lifelong blood treaty with this warlord in 1876 through the marriage of his sister to Okoli's 2nd son, Crown Prince Nwene Ijeoma (Ijoma/Ijomah). Surrender to the British Nibo was the first town to capitulate to the British Army. Nnama sent an emissary to Okoli briefing him of the mighty military strength and arsenal of the British Battalion and informing him that the |
Ophiothrix suensoni | Biology | to a high point on its host sponge or sea rod and extends some of its arms to catch plankton and suspended particles floating past. It also feeds on the organic film that is found on the surface of its host.
Ophiothrix suensoni is dioecious. Breeding takes place all year round but peaks in the late summer and autumn. The males have larger gonads than the females perhaps in order to increase the concentration of sperm in the vicinity of females as they do not synchronize their spawning. |
Olfersia | Distribution | Olfersia Distribution Olfersia are found worldwide with the exception of Australia, but are most abundant in North and Central America. |
Newham Rural Fire Brigade | History | to erect a fire station and construction was completed in 1960.
During 1961 the tank unit was converted into a trailer-type unit, build up by the local volunteers on a truck axle assembly. As the brigade at this time was a branch, it was ineligible for equipment from the Country Fire Authority.
In 1963 the Newham branch actively participated in the fund raising for Woodend's new VHF wireless sets, and the CFA promised a new motor and pump to replace the failing, public subscribed one on the trailer unit. After discussions with the CFA regarding further equipment for the Newham branch, and |
Nubian bustard | Description & Life history | Nubian bustard Description In this species, males average around 5–7 kg (11–15 lb) and measure around 80 cm (31 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) in wingspan. Females are much smaller at around 3 kg (6.6 lb) and 60 cm (24 in) in length and 150 cm (59 in) across the wings. It is smaller than the sympatric Arabian bustard, as well as more rufous with a different body shape. Compared to larger bustards the Nubian has a more rounded body, a relatively long, thin neck and a rounded head. Life history Observation of breeding has occurred from July to October have been reported across the species' range.
Young birds and |
Mutazoids | Description & Publication history | Mutazoids Mutazoids is a role-playing game published by Whit Productions Inc. in 1989. Description Mutazoids is a science-fantasy system set in 2073, sixty years after a weird plague mutated humanity into three types: Acceptables, only slightly deformed; Mutazoids, mutant monsters; and Supers, humans with super-powers. Publication history Mutazoids was first published by Whit Productions Inc. in 1989. Mutazoids was acquired by MT Enterprises (Moses Wildermuth and Stephen Lee) in 2002. The game was updated with Mutazoids 3e by Moses Wildermuth of MT Enterprises in 2003. Mutazoids is as of 2014 supported by FSC at http://Mutazoids.com |
Operation Linda Nchi | Military events & Aftermath | 20 people were killed in the battle, mainly consisting of Ethiopian soldiers and Al-Shabaab insurgents.
At least 60 Al-Shabaab fighters were killed due to airstrikes by the Kenyan military on 7 January 2012, according to officials in Kenya, with a further 50 or so injured. Aftermath On 28 September 2012, Kenyan AMISOM forces, assisted by forces from the Somali National Army and the Ras Kamboni militia, launched an amphibious offensive on Kismayo. Al-Shabaab forces withdrew from the city the next day, with the AMISOM forces later moving in.
In September 2013, the Westgate shopping mall shooting in Nairobi was reportedly in retaliation |
Open Wonderland | Technical overview | see, interact with, or edit the object. These access controls are hierarchical, so access can be applied to a single object in a space or to all objects within a room, building or other enclosing 3D structure. Security is a server-side function. This means that objects are never sent to a client that does not have permission to view the object, making it more difficult to defeat the security system.
Federation enables users of Open Wonderland worlds to navigate from one world to another through a number of different user interface mechanisms. These worlds can be dramatically different from one another |
Mohamed bin Abdulrahman M. Hassan Fakhro | Later life & His origins | Emir Sheikh. Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, both rulers of Bahrain, also continued to hold him as a man of wisdom and a trusted advisor. His origins Mohammed bin Abdulrahman belongs to the Al-Hassan branch from Al-Fakhro family which is attributed to the Banu-Tamim tribe. This family is considered to be highly respected by the leaders of the GCC as well as other families and tribes; they are Sunni Arabs. Some members of this family have played major roles in the political, economic, and social lives of the GCC. In addition, they are considered to be very close to the |
Norman G. Baker | Federal case and conviction | Brinkley Act, a provision included in the Communications Act of 1934.
As Arkansas was unable to close down the Baker Hospital (which had revitalized Eureka Springs's economy), the federal government brought charges against Norman Baker with seven counts of mail fraud. The case, opened in September 1939, was complicated by the fact that Baker had no formal post in the business, exercising control through proxies. However, despite appeals all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Baker was sentenced to four years of jail and $4,000 restitution. In January 1940, the court found Baker's cure a "pure hoax" and "utterly false" |
Orange–Fish River Tunnel | Route & Construction | the time. Construction Construction started in 1966; preliminary works included a tarred road running along the rout of the tunnel, and three towns, Oviston at the North end, one in the one middle called "Mid-shaft", and "Teebus" at the South end. These towns included such facilities as a Clubhouse, tennis courts, a community hall, primary school, clinic, etc.. At Oviston there was also a power station to provide electricity to the tunnels and to the towns. Other facilities included Contractor's yards, a testing laboratory, and offices for the staff.
The tunnel is 19'-6" in finished diameter, with |
Joker's Millions | Plot | thinking that he still has plenty of it left, only to discover that Barlowe has had the last laugh after all from beyond the grave - the inheritance money is counterfeit. He then receives a visit from the IRS, which has assessed an inheritance tax based on the total amount of the supposed fortune.
The Joker is torn between reporting the inheritance money as counterfeit in order to avoid the tax liability (thus becoming a laughing stock in the Gotham City underworld for admitting that Barlowe had tricked him), going to jail for tax evasion, or returning to crime in order |
Onofre R. Pagsanghan | Early life | Onofre R. Pagsanghan Early life Pagsanghan was born in Tondo, Manila, on June 12, 1927 to parents Hipolito Pagsanghan and Vicente Rivera. Raised in poverty, Pagsanghan was able to study in Ateneo through a scholarship. When he was 13, his grandfather met a priest that knew the president of Ateneo. He was able to get a 50% discount which Though this was a big help, he still could not afford this, so the priest handled the other 50%( based on interview with him). Unfortunately, his schooling was halted due to the invasion of the Japanese. Classes eventually resumed in 1945 |
Nick Greiner | ICAC investigation and resignation | case with New South Wales Court of Appeal and argued any such motions would breach natural justice while the appeal was being heard, but Labor and the independents argued that the Parliament was the body which should decide Greiner's future. Labor tabled a no-confidence motion, which was due up for vote on 24 June. The independents told Greiner that unless he resigned, they would withdraw their support from the government and support the no-confidence motion. Accordingly, Greiner resigned, and was succeeded by John Fahey.
Greiner successfully appealed against the finding in the New South Wales Court of Appeal, which in a |
Maxo 187 | Singles | Maxo 187 Singles On February 27, 2015, Kream released the mixtape's lead single, "Cell Boomin". Later, the single appeared on Frank Ocean's curated playlist on Spotify, Blonded. In the Pitchfork Media review of the mixtape, the track was described as a "drug peddler anthem with [a] bouncing flow that explore[s] static thump[s] and a syrupy codeine haze." |
Nazira Karodia | Career and research & Awards and honours | for gender equality in research and innovation. She is also working on programmes to promote careers in science and engineering, especially for students from underrepresented parts of the community.
Since 2015 she has held the position of Professor of Science Education at the University of Wolverhampton and became Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering in 2016. She has partnered with the Doaba Group of Colleges. In 2018 she launched a new partnerships health sciene course. Awards and honours Karodia received a commendation from the National Educational Opportunities Network (NEON) in 2015 for Outstanding Contribution to Widening Access. |
New Haven Colony | Fundamental Agreement & United Colonies of New England Confederation | was opened in 1701, long after his death. United Colonies of New England Confederation The colony's success soon attracted other believers, as well as those who were not Puritans. They expanded into additional towns (called plantations), establishing Milford and Guilford on the mainland in 1639, and Stamford and Southold on the North Fork of Long Island in 1640, forming the original component of the confederation which called itself the United Colonies of New England. Branford joined in 1643 and was the last official plantation in the New Haven Confederation. They based their government on that of Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
Old Sow whirlpool | Origin | Old Sow whirlpool Old Sow is the largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere, located off the southwestern shore of Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada, and off the northeast shore of Moose Island, the principal island of Eastport, Maine. Origin The whirlpool is caused by local bathymetry and extreme tidal range where waters exchange between Passamaquoddy Bay and the Bay of Fundy, combined with the unusual topography of the location's sea floor at the confluence of the numerous local currents.
The whirlpools form in an area with a diameter of approximately 250 feet (76 m), as determined by the president of the |
Malcolm Turnbull | Entry to parliament & Cabinet Minister | Turnbull spent over A$600,000 on his campaign. While the Liberal primary vote eventually fell by 10.3% to a total 41.8%, King received only 18% of the primary vote with a 57%/43% Liberal/Labor preference split which meant Turnbull was elected, albeit on a reduced 55.5% two-party vote after a 2.4% swing. The result meant that Wentworth was classified as a marginal seat for the first time since the 1993 federal election. Cabinet Minister Announcing a cabinet reshuffle on 24 January 2006, Prime Minister John Howard promoted Turnbull from the backbench to the role of parliamentary secretary, giving him special responsibility for |
Nina Eik-Nes | null | Nina Eik-Nes Nina Eik-Nes, née Nina Lange Dahler (5 January 1900 – 22 May 1997) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Nord-Trøndelag during the terms 1945–1949 and 1950–1953. She lived in Sparbu at the time. She was a prominent member of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association, especially during World War II. Among others, she helped set up a field hospital at Mære School of Agriculture during the Norwegian Campaign. The field hospital was not used as such, but the equipment was stored, secretly kept away from German |
Mildred Callahan Jones | Flag making | nylon flags personalized for her individual customers. Famous clients and customers reportedly included former United States President Ronald Reagan, as well as actors Jack Lemmon and Carol Channing. A special custom made flag was ordered by the Governor of Virginia as a gift to actor James Garner after he filmed a television movie in Richmond.
However, as the popularity of her trademark "It's a Girl" and "It's a Boy" decorative flags soared, Jones and her company soon began mass-producing flags to be sold in major retail stores. She continued to hand sew special order flags throughout her career.
She expanded her Festival |
Marmaray Tunnel | History | Marmaray Tunnel History The construction of a railway tunnel underneath the Bosporus strait dates back to 1860, when Sultan Abdulmejid I first proposed an undersea crossing of the strait. The project was brought up again in 1892, under Abdul Hamid II, when French engineers drew up a plan for such a tunnel. The plan however, was never realized.
Plans to build a modern trans-Bosporus tunnel were put forward in 1997, based on a feasibility study ten years prior, and the necessary capital secured in 1999. Preparatory works on the project began in 2001 and construction began in May 2004. The |
Open Wonderland | Goals | Open Wonderland Goals One important goal of the project is for the environment to be completely extensible. Developers and graphic artists can extend the functionality to create entire new worlds, new features in existing worlds, or new behaviors for objects and avatars. The art path for Wonderland is also open. The eventual goal is to support content creation within the world, but in the shorter term, the goal is to support importing art from open source 3D content creation tools as well as professional 3D modeling and animation applications.
Open Wonderland aims to provide a secure world in which organizations may |
Molon Labe (Falling Skies) | Plot & Ratings & Reviews | begins the final leg of their journey to Charleston. Ratings In its original American broadcast, "Molon Labe" was seen by an estimated 3.45 million household viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. "Molon Labe" received a 1.2 rating among viewers between ages 18 and 49, meaning 1.2 percent of viewers in that age bracket watched the episode. Reviews Les Chappell of The A.V. Club gave the episode an A-, remarking that the series is strong when it "tries to be scary". He continued "Maybe Falling Skies will fall into the same potholes I’ve complained about repeatedly, but after "Molon Labe," I’m once |
Orchid Tapes | Showcases | artists including Elvis Depressedly, Alex G, Ricky Eat Acid, R.L. Kelly, Home Alone and Four Visions played a showcase at Brooklyn’s Shea Stadium. |
Olivera Pešić | Early life and career & Political career | Olivera Pešić Olivera Pešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Пешић; born 1979) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. Early life and career Pešić is a graduate economist based in Leskovac. She has been the deputy director of the municipality's economic development agency and the leader of a local team charged with ensuring recertification as a favourable business environment. Political career Pešić has been the leader of the Progressive Party's group in the Leskovac municipal assembly.
She was given the seventy-eighth position on the Progressive Party's |
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