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Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 | Court challenge | ruling prevents the State from enforcing Sections 30-1-2 and 30-1-4.1 of the Utah Code and Article I, § 29 of the Utah Constitution to the extent these laws prohibit a person from marrying another person of the same sex. State Senator Jim Dabakis and his partner of 27 years were among the first same-sex couples to marr... |
USS Albatross (MSC-289) | Return to Vietnam combat zone | coast. Albatross operated for 42 days in the combat zone and was relieved by Widgeon (MSC-208) on 6 June. After a brief pause at Sasebo, Albatross sailed for Buckner Bay, Okinawa, on 20 June. While en route, she held mine countermeasures training. Upon her return to Sasebo on 5 July, the minesweeper spent three months ... |
Steve Young | 1991 season | also rushing for 63 yards and another touchdown in a 52–14 win over the Chicago Bears in a Monday Night Football game at Candlestick Park.
Young finished the season with an NFL best 101.8 passer rating. Despite missing five full games and most of a sixth, he still threw for 2,517 yards and 17 touchdowns with only 8 int... |
Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 | Background | host Doug Wright, believed that since the new statement applied only to "sexual relations" it highlighted precisely how Amendment 3 went too far.
The Episcopal church publicly opposed the amendment.
Three candidates for Utah attorney general, including incumbent Republican Mark Shurtleff, issued a joint statement oppos... |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | Themes | and significant academic scrutiny is unusual; in literary study, the canon and its academic defenders often focused on "high literary" works that didn't have large popular followings. In her study of postmodernism, Linda Hutcheon described The French Lieutenant's Woman's binary of popular and academic interest as a par... |
Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung | SA uniforms under Ernst Röhm (1930–1933) & Final pattern SA uniforms (1934–1945) | into an actual rank. The insignia for Ernst Röhm’s new rank (known as Stabschef) consisted of a wreathed star which was designed after that of a Bolivian General, due to Röhm’s previous military experience as a military adviser in Bolivia. Final pattern SA uniforms (1934–1945) A slight alteration to the rank and insign... |
Tommy Ryan | Boxing career | Tommy Ryan Boxing career Ryan was considered by many one of the greatest Middleweights in boxing history. He was the World Middleweight Champion from 1898 to 1906. Some of his opponents included Mysterious Billy Smith, Kid McCoy, Tommy West, and Jack Bonner. After his retirement as a fighter he became a boxing teacher ... |
Vivian Beynon Harris | Early life | Vivian Beynon Harris Early life His mother was Gertrude Parkes, the daughter of successful Birmingham ironmaster John Israel Parkes. His father was George Beynon Harris, a schoolteacher from Port Eynon in South Wales, who, after passing the Incorporated Law Society final examination in 1889, practised as a solicitor in... |
USS Ross (DD-563) | 1951 – 1953 | Va., on the 29th, in company with another destroyer . Local operations occupied the summer; and, in late summer, she moved to Philadelphia Navy Yard for overhaul/conversion with a tri-pod mainmast to support high-tech radar/countermeasures and beefed-up 3.50" armament to counter missiles,replacing the 20/40mm AA armame... |
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons | Chapter 11: Left, Right, and Center & Chapter 12: The Man, the Myth, the Legend | and similarities and roles of the left and right brain, and the left and right hemispheres. Chapter 12: The Man, the Myth, the Legend Phineas Gage got an iron rod shot up through his skull, injuring his brain and his skull and blinding him in his left eye. His surgeon performed medical surgery on him that relieved the ... |
To Live and Die in L.A. (film) | Car Chase & Television series | behind only Bullitt (the consensus #1) and either The French Connection or The Seven-Ups. By any measure employed, the car chase and the closing credits of To Live And Die in LA - which feature a high speed POV driving sequence - are among the best automotive photography ever filmed. Television series William Friedkin ... |
Vincenzo Lapuma | Biography | in the Campo Verano. |
Too big to fail | Bank size and concentration & Moral hazard | bank institutions reached a peak of 14,495 in 1984; this fell to 6,532 by the end of 2010. The ten largest U.S. banks held nearly 50% of U.S. deposits as of 2011. Moral hazard Some critics have argued that "The way things are now banks reap profits if their trades pan out, but taxpayers can be stuck picking up the tab ... |
Vivian Osborne Marsh | Career | II, she christened a Navy cargo ship, the S. S. Ocean Telegraph, in Oakland in 1944. She was leader in the Women's Ambulance and Defense Corps of America, a civilian readiness organization.
Marsh took part in Republican Party politics in California. She was a member of the State Republican Legislative Council, and of t... |
Virgen de los desamparados | Basilica de la Virgen de los Desamparados & Decree of 1493 | Roman temple. A renaissance arch leads from the Basilica on Plaza de la Virgen to Valencia cathedral. Inside the Basilica there is a Gothic style statue of The Virgin with two children at her feet. A mechanical device allows the statue to revolve. Antonio Palomino (1653 - 1726) painted the frescoes on the dome of the n... |
Viola Beach | Reactions | the band's agent was quoted as saying, "There's a lot of music, a lot of demos, a lot of amazing songs, and it'd be great if it got out, but at the moment, everybody's still grieving. We need to sit down and work out what we do with it."
On 26 June 2016, Coldplay, led by Chris Martin, paid tribute to Viola Beach at Gla... |
UFM100.3 | Post-media Merger & Rebranding to UFM100.3 | Singapore and Asian entertainment scene.
In 2010, Radio 1003 founded the Global Chinese Golden Chart, a global chart, which ranked Chinese radio stations around the world, including Taiwan's HIT FM, China's Music Radio, CITY FM, and Malaysia's My FM. The chart enabled the station to collaborate with record labels in th... |
V12 engine | Marine engines | racing by the Société Antoinette to designs by Léon Levavasseur, building on experience gained with in-line four-cylinder engines. In 1904, the Putney Motor Works completed a new V12 marine racing engine—the first V12 engine produced for any purpose. Known as the "Craig-Dörwald" engine after Putney's founding partners,... |
State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. | Bilski | be briefed by the applicant, the PTO, and the amici curiae was "Whether the court should reconsider State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., 149 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. 1998) . . . in which the court had held that business methods could be patented, and whether th[at] case[ ] should be overruled i... |
Vidyashilp Academy | Campus & Curriculum & Ranking and reputation | Vidyashilp Academy Campus Vidyashilp Academy is located near the Jakkur Flying Club in Yelahanka, Bengaluru North. Vidyashilp Academy is a member of the Association of International Schools in India. It has a big campus with 18 sports,all with 2 or 3 coaches. It mainly follows the ICSE board but also offers IGCSE and A... |
Virtual community | On civic participation & On communication | their ideas through digital media, but also connect with large networked communities. Within these spaces, young people are pushing the boundaries of traditional forms of engagement such as voting and joining political organizations and creating their own ways to discuss, connect, and act in their communities.
Civic en... |
Vickers F.B.16 | Design and development | the F.B.16D, emerging in this form in June 1917. It was armed with a single Lewis gun mounted between the cylinder banks of the engine and firing through a hollow propeller shaft, while a second Lewis gun was mounted on a sliding mount above the upper wing. Performance was once again good, impressing the fighter pilot... |
Vasant Raiji | Life and career | brother Madan was also a Bombay cricketer. |
Vladimír Šmicer | Bordeaux & Slavia Prague | The injury was the worst moment of his career and he even considered retiring. As a result, he missed the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, but he did not retire. After another long recovery, Šmicer did not extend his contract in Bordeaux and left the club in the summer of 2007. He made 28 appearances and scored three go... |
University of Agder | History | 1811, a resolution was passed to establish Norway's first university in Christiania (Oslo).
Even without a university in the region, and as the need for better educated employees rose, several smaller colleges were established throughout the Agder region. The first, Christiansands Stiftsseminarium på Holt, later known ... |
Too big to fail | Reducing risk-taking through regulation | cushions (i.e., lower leverage ratios or higher capital ratios), among other steps.
Banks are required to maintain a ratio of high-quality, easily sold assets, in the event of financial difficulty either at the bank or in the financial system. These are capital requirements. Further, since the 2008 crisis, regulators h... |
Volcanic gas | Magmatic gases and high-temperature volcanic gases | the gas can flow rapidly through the continuous permeable network towards the surface. This mechanism has been used to explain activity at Santiaguito, Santa Maria volcano, Guatemala and Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat. If the gas cannot escape fast enough from the magma, it will fragment the magma into small parti... |
Valery Androsov | Biography & Interior design & Monuments | Archimedes Children's School of Architecture and Art. Interior design Androsov contributed to the interior design of the District Youth Palace, and designed many other interior spaces, which demonstrate his mastery of modern materials and which have retained ergonomic and aesthetic appeal over the decades. Monuments An... |
Thomas Muster | Pro tour | record on the surface 111–5, which was, at the time, the best two-year clay-court record since the open era began in 1968. Despite Muster's continued dominance on clay-courts in 1996, he was upset in the Round of 16 at the 1996 French Open, losing to eventual finalist Michael Stich. In July 1996, in the final of the 19... |
Trendsetters Limited | History | original songs were subsequently recorded by the band) and was replaced by Bruce Turner, a guitarist/vocalist from Andover. Trendsetters Limited released their first single, "In a Big Way", on 26 March 1964 on Parlophone Records, but despite widespread publicity, including an appearance alongside Henry Mancini on South... |
Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 | Court challenge | Judges Paul Joseph Kelly, Jr., Carlos F. Lucero, and Jerome Holmes of the Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling in a 2-1 decision. Judge Lucero wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Judge Holmes, with Judge Kelly authoring a dissent. The ruling was immediately stayed pending appeal. On August 5, Uta... |
Tiémoué Bakayoko | Return to Monaco (loan) & International career & Style of play | of €42.5 million. International career Bakayoko was called up to the senior France squad for the first time to face Luxembourg and Spain in March 2017 after Paul Pogba withdrew through injury. He made his debut on 28 March 2017 against the latter, replacing Adrien Rabiot at half-time of a 2–0 friendly home loss. Style ... |
Unified communications | History | considering the efforts of Unified Communications solutions providers, the overall goal is to no longer focus strictly on the telephony portion of daily communications. The unification of all communication devices inside a single platform provides the mobility, presence, and contact capabilities that extend beyond the... |
University of Roehampton | Specialist facilities | University of Roehampton Specialist facilities The University has a range of specialist facilities for use in teaching and research. This includes:
Biomechanics Laboratory: used for a wide range of biomechanical assessments. Facilities include a nine-camera Vicon 3D motion capture system, three Kistler force plates, t... |
Tour de Ratières | History & Garden | Tour de Ratières History The Tour de Ratières is a Carolingian tower protected as a monument historique since 21 October 1926 by the French Ministry of Culture.
Excavations in 1993, at the time of important renovations, confirmed the existence of an earlier occupation of the site, possibly a motte-and-bailey castle. Ga... |
Triton (comics) | Fictional character biography | City with the Royal Family seeking aid for the earthquake threatened Attilan, and battled Shatterstar. He was imprisoned by Maximus, and then aided the Royal Family in the defeat of Maximus and his evil Inhumans. He left Earth with the Inhuman Royal Family to prevent the Kree subjugation of the Inhumans, and battled va... |
Trapped in Tangiers | Production & Release | did not come to visit, which led to Grau to complete shooting. The scenes Grau filmed he described as very small, such as a car arriving at the port of Malaga and the foot pressing on an accelerator. Release Trapped in Tangiers was released on 8 November 1957. The was distributed in Italy by Euro International Film whe... |
Up (2009 film) | Accolades | nominated for Best Picture in their respective years. Up also won Best Original Score and Best Animated Feature Film at the 67th Golden Globe Awards. It was nominated for nine Annie Awards in eight categories, winning two awards for "Best Animated Feature" and "Best Directing in a Feature Production". Up also received ... |
Virginia State Route 261 | Route description | Truck turns north onto US 11. US 250 Truck follows US 11 and SR 262 north and west to reconnect with US 250 northwest of Staunton. SR 261 continues west to its northern terminus at the intersection of Coalter Street and Edgewood Road northeast of downtown Staunton. |
Triumph Tour | History | Triumph Tour History By 1981, the Jacksons had regained success as a platinum-selling recording group with two albums, Destiny (1978) and Triumph (1980). Additionally, lead singer Michael Jackson was in the final stages of promoting his 1979 multi-platinum album, Off the Wall. This tour allowed Michael to bring in new ... |
Virtual community | Virtual worlds | avatars that users create are like humans. Users can choose to make avatars like themselves, or take on an entirely different personality than them. When characters interact with other characters, they can get to know one another not only through text based talking, but also by virtual experience(such as having avatars... |
Viola Beach | Deaths & Reactions | the bridge may have been violent enough to cause the death of the car's occupants. The inquest heard that the car's speed was 108 km/h (67 mph). Reactions On 14 February, the day the news was announced, there was a round of applause for the band at the Premier League match between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur.... |
Trent Richardson | Cleveland Browns | in his touches after having just come off the disabled list. The following week, in a 24-34 loss against the Cincinnati Bengals, he rushed for 109 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries. He also had 4 receptions for 36 yards and a receiving touchdown. He was the first Browns rookie to rush for over 100 yards and score rus... |
Vicente Lombardo Toledano | Early career | Vicente Lombardo Toledano Early career Lombardo Toledano was born in Teziutlán, Puebla, to middle-class parents of Sephardic Jewish descent from Spain and Italy. After obtaining his law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1919, he pursued a master's degree in philosophy and letters there,... |
Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 | Background | in July endorsing constitutional amendments that define marriage. On October 20, just 13 days before Utahns voted on the amendment, the LDS church officially stated that "Any other sexual relations, including those between persons of the same gender, undermine the divinely created institution of the family. The Church ... |
Ulugh Beg | Astronomy | use for many years.
Using it, he compiled the 1437 Zij-i-Sultani of 994 stars, generally considered the greatest star catalogue between those of Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe, a work that stands alongside Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars. The serious errors which he found in previous Arabian star catalogues (many ... |
Tomáš Bagi | Club career | Tomáš Bagi Club career Bagi started his career in the youth ranks of ŠK Slovan Bratislava. He made his debut for ŠK Slovan Bratislava against FK Dukla Banská Bystrica on 6 April 2010. |
Volcano: The Blast Coaster | Ride experience & Incidents & Records | mountain. After another turnaround and a third heartline roll, the train made a turning 80-foot (24 m) drop into the final brake run. Incidents On June 23, 2006, the roller coaster experienced a launch failure when a train carrying 15 passengers stalled and rolled back slightly. Some were stranded for more than two hou... |
Viktor Fainberg | Biography & Other | dismissed for this activity which helped Fainberg be released. In 1974, they married and emigrated from the Soviet Union.
In emigration, Fainberg has initiated the formation of "Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuses" (CAPA) to fight punitive psychiatry in the USSR. In 1983, the Soviet Union was expelled from the World Ps... |
Vangelis Theocharis | Panathinaikos | Vangelis Theocharis Panathinaikos He plays mainly as a defender, and joined Panathinaikos from the team's youth ranks. |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | Afghanistan and Iraq | 3d Air Force and its 603rd Air and Space Operations Center assumed responsibility for U.S. military air operations in Africa (except for Egypt), with the 603 AOC absorbing the former 617th Air Operations Center. |
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem | Incomparability between agents | canonical way to compare the two. Hence expressions like uX(L) + uY(L) and uX(L) − uY(L) are not canonically defined, nor are comparisons like uX(L) < uY(L) canonically true or false. In particular, the aforementioned "total VNM-utility" and "average VNM-utility" of a population are not canonically meaningful without... |
ULTra (rapid transit) | Ultra & Vehicles | at Heathrow Airport, in 2005 the owner of the airport, BAA Airports Ltd, purchased 25% of the company. Following its successful launch, there are now plans to extend it to the rest of the airport and even to the nearest town of Staines-upon-Thames, which is home to many of the airport's staff. Vehicles The electric-pow... |
Tullimaar House | 19th century | Tullimaar House Tullimaar House is a mansion just east of Perranarworthal in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; it is not visible from the main A39 Falmouth to Truro road, and stands in private grounds. However, the white gate forming the entrance to the property can be seen from the road. 19th century It was bui... |
Unmanned aircraft in Singapore | Opinions by industry players & Developments in UA regulations and initiatives | condominiums are banning the use of drones within their estates, citing concerns over privacy and safety. Developments in UA regulations and initiatives In 2017, Singapore joined the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Advisory Group, a 15-member group set up by the United Nations’ civil aviation arm to draw up global rule... |
Viva Pataca | 2006–2011: Hong Kong | the Hong Kong Derby. In April, jockey Gerald Mosse rode him to a sixth-place finish behind winner Iridescence in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup. At the end of May he came back with a win under jockey Michael Kinane in the Group One Champions & Chater Cup.
Returning to the track in October for the 2006-2007 campaign, under ... |
Viola Beach | Career & Influences | a statement from the members' families. It reached number one on the album chart on 5 August. Influences When asked about his musical influences, singer-guitarist Kris Leonard said, "I'm definitely not consciously influenced by anyone", but mentioned the Coral, the Zutons, the Beatles and Hooton Tennis Club as being am... |
Volcanic gas | Magmatic gases and high-temperature volcanic gases | the total volatile contents of the initial magma and the viscosity of the magma, which is controlled by its composition.
The term `closed system' degassing refers to the case where gas and its parent magma ascend together and in equilibrium with each other. The composition of the emitted gas is in equilibrium with the ... |
Université Adventiste Zurcher | History | the Indian Ocean Union Conference located in Antananarivo). The following year, the UAZ moved to Antsirabe then unto, a 200-hectare piece of property, abutting the National Highway between Antananarivo and Antsirabe. Construction began in July 1998 and continued until March, 1999. On March 25, 1999, building was suffic... |
Vicente Lombardo Toledano | Formation of the CTM and alliance with Cárdenas | strike on February 5, 1936. Cárdenas led a demonstration in Monterrey in which he called for unification of the various labor organizations into one national body associated with the PRI, then named the Partido Revolucionario Mexicano.
The political crisis deepened when Calles launched a series of verbal attacks on Cá... |
United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013 | Political aftermath | points (53 percent to 31 percent). Another poll showed a 74% disapproval rating of the way Republicans handled the crisis while 61% disapproved of the way Democrats handled the budget talks. According to a Gallup Poll, "60 percent of respondents said that a third major party is needed to represent the American people",... |
Tim Nicholls | Education & Political career | Tim Nicholls Education Nicholls was educated at Trinity Grammar School in Melbourne and the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane.
He completed a Bachelor of Laws at Queensland University of Technology. Political career Nicholls, originally a solicitor, began his career as a councillor in the Hamilton ward of the ... |
Viva Pataca | 2006–2011: Hong Kong | media. However, owner Stanley Ho eventually decided against it.
Following a layoff of nearly four months, in his return to racing on 21 October 2007, Viva Pataca finished seventh in the 1600 meter Group 3 Sha Tin Trophy Handicap. On 11 November 2007 have won the Hong Kong Cup Trial in ease, successfully outrunning Pack... |
Unified communications | History | Instead, the handset lived on the network as another computer device. The transport of audio was therefore no longer a variation in voltages or modulation of frequency such as with the handsets from before, but rather encoding the conversation using a CODEC (G.711 originally) and transporting it with a protocol such a... |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | Style and structure & Narration | literary works, and the multiple endings. Narration Throughout the novel, the omniscient narrative voice, alongside a series of footnotes, reflect with an objective tone on a number of plot devices: the author's difficulty controlling the characters; the conventions that are expected of a "Victorian novel"; and, analys... |
United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013 | Background | to run deficits or incur obligations. Rather, it is a limit on the ability to pay obligations already incurred." It does not prohibit Congress from creating further obligations upon the United States. The ceiling was last set at $16.4 trillion in 2011.
On January 15, 2013, Fitch Ratings warned that delays in raising th... |
USS Albatross (MSC-289) | Vietnam War operations | duties there, she also operated from Nha Trang and Ben Goi. On 1 August, Albatross was detached from her Vietnamese service and sailed for the Philippines. She reached Subic Bay on 4 August and began upkeep. Late in August, the minesweeper made a trip to Hong Kong for a rest and relaxation period before returning to Sa... |
Vivian Beynon Harris | Career & Death and legacy | which he was responsible for administering his brother's literary estate. He also wrote two memoirs of his brother including one for Foundation: The International Review Of Science Fiction. Death and legacy After Harris died in 1987, his bequest amounting to £9924.29 to the National Trust was put towards the purchase o... |
Viking 2 | Search for life | that could measure the composition and abundance of organic compounds in the Martian soil.
The results were surprising and interesting: the GCMS gave a negative result; the PR gave a positive result, the GEX gave a negative result, and the LR gave a positive result. Viking scientist Patricia Straat recently stated, "O... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | French withdrawal from NATO's military structure | switched over completely to McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IID fighter-bombers and then undertook intensive preparations for their new role within USAFE. The primary task of the four dual-based squadrons was to carry out Project Crested Cap. Crested Cap was the Air Force part of the Army's Exercise REFORGER, during whic... |
Transport Legislation Amendment (Taxi Services Reform and Other Matters) Act 2011 | Transfer of taxi regulatory responsibility to the Department of Transport & Post-Inquiry Amendments | Secretary of the Department of Transport. This step occurred as an interim measure prior to the eventual transfer of the function to the Taxi Services Commission on completion of the current Taxi Industry Inquiry. In the interim, the function is exercised by the Victorian Taxi Directorate on delegation from the Secre... |
The Turn in the Road | Plot | searches for the truth in connection with the purpose of God. Meanwhile, his son Bob (Alexander) is cared for by the wife's sister. Paul decides to leave Chicago on a freight train, and returns to his home town and spends the night in his father's barn. The next morning Bob, who has spent the night with his grandfather... |
Volcanic gas | Low-temperature volcanic gases and hydrothermal systems & Non-explosive volcanic gas release | the surface expression of such hydrothermal systems, low-temperature volcanic gases (<400 °C) are either emanating as steam-gas mixtures or in dissolved form in hot springs. At the ocean floor, such hot supersaturated hydrothermal fluids form gigantic chimney structures called black smokers, at the point of emission in... |
Volcanic gas | Composition & Magmatic gases and high-temperature volcanic gases | the most abundant volcanic gas, normally comprising more than 60% of total emissions. Carbon dioxide typically accounts for 10 to 40% of emissions.
Volcanoes located at convergent plate boundaries emit more water vapor and chlorine than volcanoes at hot spots or divergent plate boundaries. This is caused by the additio... |
Valley View, Ohio | Geography & 2010 census | square miles (14.43 km²), of which 5.44 square miles (14.09 km²) is land and 0.13 square miles (0.34 km²) is water. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,034 people, 758 households, and 583 families residing in the village. The population density was 373.9 inhabitants per square mile (144.4/km²). There wer... |
Verbandspokal | History | the South Baden Cup was established in 1945, the Hesse Cup in 1946, the Bavarian Cup in 1947, with a long interruption from 1954 to 1998, the North Baden Cup in 1949 and the Württemberg Cup in 1950.
In Northern Germany the Bremen Cup was established in 1950, the Schleswig-Holstein Cup from 1953, the Hamburg Cup was spo... |
Unequal treaty | China & Chinese resentment | foreign missionaries, at least in theory, to reside within China. In addition, foreign residents in the port cities were afforded trials by their own consular authorities rather than the Chinese legal system, a concept termed extraterritoriality. Under the treaties, the UK and the US established the British Supreme Cou... |
Toyohara Kunichika | Early life and education & Artist on the cusp of a new era | to create several portraits of his teacher. When Kunisada died in 1865, his student was commissioned to design two memorial portraits. The right panel of the portrait contains an obituary written by the writer, Kanagaki Robun, while the left contains memorial poems written by the three top students, including Kunichika... |
Triora | Culture & Francesco Moraldo from Creppo | the mushroom festival in September; and Halloween, at the end of October. Then there are the many smaller fairs of the year, including the Christmas bonfire on 24 December; St. John of the Meadows, the local patron saint's day, on 23 June; a chestnut fair in October; an All Souls Day fair, at the start of November; and... |
Staro Gracko massacre | Massacre | approximately 9:13pm, British KFOR troops heard gunfire and contacted a NATO reaction-force which hurried to the scene. The NATO soldiers subsequently discovered the bodies of thirteen Serbs next to a combine harvester by an open field. A fourteenth body was discovered lying on a tractor nearby. The farmers had been re... |
Viola Beach | Deaths | two cars were standing in the left-hand lane, in front of the first set of barriers. The band's car arrived in the left lane, braked and then swerved left, narrowly passing the first car before driving on. The driver in the stationary front car estimated the speed of the band's car at 60 km/h (37 mph). He said their ca... |
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology | Notable research findings | researchers at the Institute led by Professor John Collinge published the results of a study which showed that the number of cases of CJD caused by the consumption of BSE-infected beef may have been higher than previously calculated and that BSE, in addition to causing variant CJD (vCJD), may also have caused some case... |
Two for the Seesaw | Plot | Two for the Seesaw Plot Jerry Ryan (Mitchum) is a lawyer from Nebraska who has recently separated from his wife. To get away from it all, he has moved to a shabby apartment in New York. He is struggling with the divorce, which has been filed but is not final, and takes long walks at night.
At a party he meets Gittel Mo... |
Transylvania (series) | Transylvania III - Vanquish the Night & Reception | a larger vocabulary. The game also had some digital voice and many of the puzzles involved references to ancient mythology. In this game the player had to vanquish an evil king. Reception The first game in the series was well received, appearing in the Billboard and Softalk best-sellers charts and in The Wall Street ... |
Valapuram | GMUP School Valapuram & Culture | Valapuram GMUP School Valapuram GMUPS (Government Mappila upper primary school).
It is the old government school in pulamanthol panchayath. It is situated in Valapuram town. This school was started in 1911. The golden jubilee celebration was celebrated in 2011. Now available classes are: LKG, 1 to 7.
This school will... |
The Sapphires (film) | Box office & Critical response | final box office takings were less than 1/14 of the film's Australian final box office takings. In its United States release, where the film only appeared in the top 20 for one weekend (at #19, April 5–7, 2013), the film completed its run with just under $2.5m, and releases in Germany and the Netherlands yielded under ... |
Volkoff Industries | Other | later revealed to have a platoon of Spetsnaz paratroopers at their disposal. |
Tampa International Airport | Short-term-parking garage & Long-term-parking garage & Economy parking garage | contains 3,612 spaces. Long-term-parking garage Long-term-parking was originally a large lot sitting on what is today, the present-day long-term-parking garage. The garage was built in several phases from 1990 to 1997 after increased passenger traffic swamped the parking lot beyond capacity. A monorail (situated on Lev... |
The gods (theatrical) | null | The gods (theatrical) The gods (UK English), or sometimes paradise, is a theatrical term, referring to the highest areas of a theatre such as the upper balconies. These are generally the cheapest seats. One reason for naming the cheapest seats "the gods" is because the theatres have beautifully painted ceilings, often ... |
Vicryl | null | provide antimicrobial protection of the suture line. Because Vicryl is slow-absorbing and often braided, its use is contraindicated in the closure of any cutaneous wound exposed to the air, as it draws moisture from the healing tissue to the skin and allows bacteria and irritants to migrate into the wound. This inevita... |
Uzan Group | null | Turkish government for $10bn in damages, but lost the case in front of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes trade panel. |
Virgen de los desamparados | The miracle of the angels & Basilica de la Virgen de los Desamparados | exchange for their board. They were taken to a place known as "The Hermitage". After four days and without any sound emanating from within, the brothers forced the door and found the image of the Virgin Mary. The mysterious pilgrims had disappeared. Shortly after, a paralyzed and blind woman, who was the wife of one of... |
Vide Noir | Release and promotion | to the hand-selected locations, including national parks, hikes, beaches, and even a volcano, where they could then listen to one song.
The band also launched a Vide Noir public access television show in select American cities. This was designed to be an immersive program that "expands upon the album's narratives and t... |
Tig Trager | Season 1 | and burn them in a furnace at the local morgue. Unexpectedly, Tig says a heartfelt prayer over their bodies.
When local businessman Elliot Oswald went to the Sons of Anarchy and asked them to find the man who raped his 13-year-old daughter, they quickly agreed. When the gang find that the man is one of the carnies from... |
Vivian Beer | Career & Recognition | work is often a collaboration of the surrounding nature and culture of where it will be placed. The variety of designs, textures, patterns, and colors in her assortment of work express this goal. Beer has become a master at crafting hard material into impressive functioning pieces of art. Recognition Beer’s success in ... |
Volkoff Industries | Organization | the ship The Contessa, which he uses as a base. in "Chuck Versus the Push Mix", Chuck Bartowski and Morgan Grimes try to access the Hydra database, but cannot do so until they trick Volkoff into speaking the phrase that acts as a password. Once they access the database, a virus written by Stephen before his death moves... |
Vladimír Šmicer | International career | career in 1993. He was an essential player in three UEFA European Championships for the Czech Republic, in total earning 80 caps and scoring 27 goals. He also has one cap for the Representation of Czechs and Slovaks team (the combined team of the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, as t... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | 1961 Berlin Crisis | This possibility started an exodus of Germans from the eastern zone as they rushed to leave their sector and relocate in West Germany.
Departures snowballed from a few dozen refugees daily to a flow of 4,000 per day by August 1961. On the night of 12 August 1961 the Soviet backed East German government began erecting t... |
USS Ross (DD-563) | 1951 – 1953 & 1954 | operations off the Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean followed, then in the spring of 1954 she began a cruise around the world. 1954 Departing Norfolk 20 April, Ross transited the Panama Canal and crossed the Pacific. Arriving at Yokosuka, Japan on 28 May, she served with the 7th Fleet until the end of August, rang... |
Tofo-Sant'Eleuterio | Geography & History | provincial road "Fonte a collina" (from the spring to the hill) which from Fiumicino (a village near San Nicolò a Tordino in the commune of Teramo leads to Sant'Onofrio in the commune of Campli. The town is adjacent to a ridge of the Fiumicino torrent, a tributary on the left bank of the Tordino river. History Historic... |
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