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Olympiacos F.C. | Support | you realise it's not all that... But this place is the real deal." The experienced Czech international winger Jaroslav Plašil paid further testament to the hostile atmosphere created by Olympiacos fans at home before his team Bordeaux visit the Karaiskakis Stadium, where he had played during his time with Monaco and stated, "It was one of the most intense atmospheres I've ever experienced in a stadium, so I expect it will be a bit like hell for us. Their supporters really can help their team." Former Paris Saint-Germain superstar striker Zlatan Ibrahimović spoke of his admiration for Olympiacos supporters after |
North American porcupine | Subspecies & Description | ranging from northern Mexico to Colorado. E. d. bruneri can be found in the midwest from Arkansas to Montana. The last three are found in the west. From south to north they are E.d. epixanthum, E. d. nigrescens, and E. d. myops. Description Porcupines are usually dark brown or black in color, with white highlights. They have a stocky body, a small face, short legs, and a short, thick tail. This species is the largest of the New World porcupines and is one of the largest North American rodents, second only to the American beaver in size. The head-and-body length |
Nicolas Lawson | null | Nicolas Lawson Nicholas Jean Messan Lawson (born 11 March 1953) is a Togolese politician and businessman.
Lawson was born in Aného, Lacs Prefecture. He studied hotel management in Ireland and economics in France. After working as an executive for a number of French companies, he established a network of businesses in West Africa, including food processing in Côte d'Ivoire, pharmaceuticals manufacturing in Ghana, and newspaper publishing in Togo.
As Togo transitioned from one-party rule to a multiparty system, Lawson took part in the Sovereign National Conference of July and August 1991 as a member of the Association for Social Faith and Freedom, |
Oleg Tozoni | Education and professional activities | Oleg Tozoni Education and professional activities Tozoni received a M.S. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Novocherkassk Polytechnical Institute in 1951, and 1958 respectively, and Doctor of Science (a Post Doctoral degree) in Electrical Engineering from Kiev Polytechnical Institute in 1965. He was a member of Editorial Board of COMPEL – International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Consultant to the Science Application Institute of Electronics, Warsaw, Poland from 1985 to 1988. Prior to emigration from the USSR, in 1989, Tozoni was also a member of Editorial Boards of publications of the USSR Academy of |
Peter Van Gheluwe | Career | Belge", followed by an exhibition in the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. He receives a bronze medal in the Europaprize for painting (Ostend) in 1984. Two years later, he is honored with another distinction in the "Jeune Peinture Belge", again followed by an exhibition in the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, together with Wim Delvoye, Dirk Braeckman and others. Many other individual and group exhibitions take place afterwards, in Ghent, Middelburg, Palma de Mallorca, the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and others.
From the start of his artistic career, Van Gheluwe focusses on the workings of light. That |
Nero the Second | null | Nero the Second "Nero the Second" or "Nero II" is a traditional ballad that was popular amongst Jacobites in Great Britain and Ireland during the first half of the eighteenth century.
The Nero of the title, a reference to the tyrannical Roman Emperor Nero, is a thinly disguised version of George I the Hanoverian who had come to the throne in 1714. Jacobites supported a rival Stuart claimant the English-born James Francis Edward Stuart, styled James III by his followers, who was now living in exile. |
Philippine adobo | Variations | and fruits, like water spinach (adobong kangkong), bamboo shoots (adobong labong), eggplant (adobong talong), banana flowers (adobong pusô ng saging), and okra (adobong okra).
Even more exotic versions include adobong sawâ (snake), adobong palakâ (frogs), Kapampangan adobung kamaru (mole crickets), and the adobong atay at balunbalunan (chicken liver and gizzard).
There are also regional variations. In southern Luzon (Bicol region), and Muslim Zamboanga, for example, it is common to see adobo cooked with coconut milk (known as adobo sa gatâ). In Cavite, mashed pork liver is added. In Laguna, turmeric was added, giving the dish a distinct yellowish color (known |
Ou Xuanyi | Career summary | at the Syed Modi International a Super 300 BWF tournament. |
PNA Azopardo (GC-25) | Design | (19 knots at maximum intermittent power). The design has a maximum range of 3650 nautical miles at a cruise speed of 16 knots.
She has 3 electrical generators of 185Kva each, powering a varied array of systems: controls and communications system that integrates with other PNA air and surface assets; navigation radar; echosound; direction finder; and helicopter navigation control.Azopardo is equipped with two water cannons for firefighting, anti-contamination gear, active stabilizers and a retractable hangar and landing par with support facilities for an Alouette-sized helicopter. She is armed with a single 40mm L/70 Bofors dual-purpose autocannon in a position at the |
Philadelphia Mint | First building (1792–1833) | The smelt house was the first public building erected by the United States government.
A three-story brick structure facing Seventh Street was constructed a few months later. Measuring nearly 37 ft (11 m) wide on the street, it only extended back 33 ft (10 m). The gold and silver for the mint were contained in basement vaults. The first floor housed deposit and weighing rooms, along with the press room, where striking coins took place. Mint official offices were on the second floor, and the assay office was located on the third floor. A photograph of the Seventh Street building taken around 1908 show |
Paloma del Río | Biography | television, in the sports section of the news. After a few months she passed some exams that allowed her to maintain her position at TVE.
After a reorganization of the information services, she began to carry out sports broadcasts, the first of which was a table tennis match in Seville. The following month, in June 1987, she covered the Rhythmic Gymnastics Spanish Individual Championships for La 2 from Palma de Mallorca (replacing Maria Escario, who began to present newscasts). After this she was a commentator for similar events, such as the World Championships, the European Championships, the World Cup (2016–2018), and |
Otto Tregonan | null | Otto Tregonan Otto Tregonan (died 1439), of Tregonan, Cornwall, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Bodmin in 1410, 1411, November 1414, March 1416, 1417, May 1421 and 1425. |
Passion (manga) | Book Four | to Hikaru. However, she runs into Nagisa first, who is also looking for Hikaru. Nagisa flirts with Mami, but she tells him they are rivals. Shima interrupts this, and Nagisa, unaware of Shima's identity as Hikaru's "Madonna", flirts with him and invites him to tea. Shima, curious about his rival, agrees.
Mami, worried about her favored teacher, reports to Morikawa that Shima has been "taken hostage" by Nagisa. Amamiya, who has been napping in Morikawa's office, hears this, and gets up to go "rescue" Shima. His intervention is unnecessary, but Shima once again feels guilty for letting his jealousy get the |
Peter Gabriel (1982 album) | In other media | scene of the episode "Evan" from the first season of the television series Miami Vice. With seven songs used, Gabriel had the most songs featured by a solo artist in the series. He is also the only artist to have had a song used in four of the show's five seasons. (None of his songs were used in the second season, though "Take Me Home" by Phil Collins, which features backing vocals by Gabriel, was used in the second-season premiere.) The song was also used in the film Natural Born Killers.
"Shock the Monkey" was featured on the 1987 film, Project |
Phillip Davey | World War I | of Menin Road at Polygon Wood. The following month Davey was gassed while the 10th Battalion was relieving troops in the front-line near Westhoek Ridge; he returned to his unit in early November.
Through the winter of 1917/1918, the battalion rotated through various duties, in and out of the front-line. On 3 January 1918, Davey rescued a wounded soldier under heavy fire, and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. The recommendation read:
On the night of 3 January 1918, near Warneton, when on patrol one of our men was badly wounded by machine gun fire. On seeing |
Noah's Ark (1928 film) | Plot | Travis helps a pious minister (Paul McAllister) reclaim his seat from a rude fellow passenger. A washed-out bridge causes a deadly derailment. Travis and Al rescue Marie (Dolores Costello), a German member of a small theatrical troupe, from underneath the wreckage with the help of a prisoner (Malcolm Waite) who had just unhandcuffed himself from a now-dead escort.
At the nearby lodge where they take shelter, fellow survivor Nickoloff (Noah Beery), an officer in the Russian Secret Service, tries to sneak into Marie's room. When Travis objects, a fight breaks out, during which Nickoloff is cut on the hand by a |
Nathan Munson | Career | U's already 1–0 down from a Chris Pike goal. Roy McDonough covered in goal until half time, where he conceded another goal to Pike. Munson was brought on at half time but was sent off in the 68th minute after conceding to Chris Fry and Pike once again, giving him a hat-trick, scoring against three different goalkeepers in the same game. McDonough returned to goal following Munson's dismissal and conceded again, this time to Derek Hall in the 88th minute to result in a disastrous 5–0 loss.
Munson was to make only two further league appearances for the club, a 2-1 |
Palermo | Italian unification and today | beings but animals". Anti-sicilian prejudice was part of the fascist regime's world view, being promoted by pro-fascist newspapers, particularly in the north of Italy.
In 1946 the city was declared the seat of the Regional Parliament, as capital of a Special Status Region (1947) whose seat is in the Palazzo dei Normanni.
A theme in the city's modern age has been the struggle against the Mafia, Red Brigades and outlaws such as Salvatore Giuliano, who controlled the neighbouring area of Montelepre. The Italian state effectively has had to share control of the territory, economically and administratively, with the Mafia.
The so-called "Sack of |
Palermo | Port & National rail & Education | section known as "tourist marina" for sailing yachts and catamarans. National rail The main railway station of Palermo is Palermo Centrale which links to the other cities of Sicily, including Agrigento, Trapani and Catania, and through Messina and the strait to the rest of Italy. The railways also connect to the Palermo airport with departures every thirty minutes. Education The local university is the University of Palermo, the island's second oldest university. It was officially founded in 1806, although historical records indicate that medicine and law have been taught there since the late 15th century. The Orto botanico di Palermo |
Palaephatus | One author behind these traditions | is Artaxerxes III Ochus, these data are all compatible with a student of Aristotle about 340 BC, who came from the area around the Hellespont to Athens, and is called the Egyptian, sometimes, because he wrote on Egypt. The only internal evidence in the surviving book are citations of the two philosophers in the introduction and two literary references; if Melissus is Melissus of Samos, he lived in the previous century, and one possible Lamiscus is a Pythagorean contemporary of Plato. The literary references are one citation of Hesiod and the presentation of Alcestis, which is quite similar to |
Oxibendazole | Synthesis | Oxibendazole Synthesis 4‑Hydroxyacetamide (1) is alkylated with n-propyl bromide in the presence of potassium hydroxide to give the ether (2). Nitration of this product with nitric and sulfuric acids proceeds at the position ortho to the amide group (3), which is then reduced with SnCl₂ to yield the phenylenediamine derivative (4). Reaction of that intermediate with S-methyl isothiourea proceeds first by aromatic cyclisation to the guanidine derivative followed by elimination of methyl mercaptan to yield the 2-aminobenzimidazole system (5). Acylation with methyl chloroformate results in the formation of a urethane on the amino group to produce oxibendazole (6). |
Partition of a set | Partitions and equivalence relations & Refinement of partitions | partition P of X, we can define an equivalence relation on X by setting x ~ y precisely when x and y are in the same part in P. Thus the notions of equivalence relation and partition are essentially equivalent.
The axiom of choice guarantees for any partition of a set X the existence of a subset of X containing exactly one element from each part of the partition. This implies that given an equivalence relation on a set one can select a canonical representative element from every equivalence class. Refinement of partitions A partition α of a set X is |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | History | in Florida and California, in 2002 and 2003. The 2004 assessment took place against the backdrop of the controversial recount effort in the 2000 US presidential election, and came about largely through the initiative of 13 Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives. That group, which included Barbara Lee, of California, and Eddie Bernice Johnson, of Texas, initially addressed a request for election observers to the United Nations, in a letter to Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, but the request was declined. Subsequently, the administration of President George W. Bush, through the State Department, headed by Secretary |
Peter Sugandhar | Seminarian: 1964-1968 & University convocation: 1969 | not only the Protestant, Orthodox and Indigenous traditions, but also the Catholic (Latin rite) when the Franciscan Friar J. A. G. Gerwin van Leeuwen, OFM also began studying at the UTC, Bangalore during 1966-1968, which later enabled Sugandhar to relate to other Churches within Christianity and also participate in a Pontifical council in 2000. University convocation: 1969 As an aspirant of the Diocese of Medak, Sugandhar underwent Spiritual formation at the United Theological College, Bangalore, affiliated to India's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) {a University under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956}with degree-granting |
Osteoblast | Bone structure | Osteoblast Bone structure The skeleton is a large organ that is formed and degraded throughout life in the air-breathing vertebrates. The skeleton, often referred to as the skeletal system, is important both as a supporting structure and for maintenance of calcium, phosphate, and acid-base status in the whole organism. The functional part of bone, the bone matrix, is entirely extracellular. The bone matrix consists of protein and mineral. The protein forms the organic matrix. It is synthesized and then the mineral is added. The vast majority of the organic matrix is collagen, which provides tensile strength. The matrix is mineralized |
NXT TakeOver: The End | Reception | skills" and an "amazing" entrance. Asuka-Jax was rated 2.75 stars as both women gave a "fine display", with Asuka showing "underdog fire" and Jax "as a dominant force ... done in by her hubris". Bálor-Joe was rated 3.5 stars, "a very good main event", but due to a predictable match result, the "tired concept" of cage matches, and "close camera work" without "intimacy", it "just didn't seem to come together as the total package to 'end an era' for NXT."
Jim Varsallone of the Miami Herald wrote that the event was "another action-packed, crowd-pleasing NXT TakeOver special" in front of a |
One Week Friends | Plot & Manga | One Week Friends Plot High schooler Yūki Hase notices that his classmate Kaori Fujimiya is always alone and seemingly has no friends. After approaching her and becoming better acquainted, Kaori reveals that every Monday she loses all memory of her friends. Despite learning this, Yūki endeavors to befriend her anew every week. Manga One Week Friends began as a one-shot manga by Matcha Hazuki and was first published in Gangan Joker's September 2011 issue. A full serialization later followed in Square Enix's Gangan Joker from January 21, 2012. After spanning three years, the series came to an end in the |
Nafisa Kamal | Early life and education & Career | Finance, Government of Bangladesh. He is the founder of Lotus-Kamal Group where Nafisa is currently heading the daily business operation and expansion. Kamal has also served as the President of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, Asian Cricket Council and International Cricket Council. Career She started her professional involvement in cricket as director of the franchise Sylhet Royals in the first edition of the 2012 BPL. From the third edition of BPL she established her own team Comilla Victorians as a tribute to her ancestral home Comilla. Comilla victorians were crowned the champions in their debut season. The team won their second time champions title in BPL 2019 under |
Peugeot 203 | Australian production & Cape Town-Paris | in Australia, beginning in mid 1952, and thus becoming the first Peugeot model to enter production in that country. Cape Town-Paris This was the route taken by Andre Mercier and Charles de Cortanze in 1953, it was 15,000 km (9,300 mi) and they performed it in a record time of 17 days. The event also sparked interest in the incredible fuel economy of the vehicle – a single tank lasted 900 km (560 mi), even with the tough terrain.
In 2003 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the heroic journey, Didier Pijolet and Leigh Wootton both completed the feat in under a month. They were armed |
Pavlovsk railway station | History | Pavlovsk music hall.
In 1844 the building suffered a fire, but was restored soon. From 1860 to 1884 the station was rebuilt three times and expanded. In 1898 Pavlovsk railway station has become part of the private Moscow-Vindava-Rybinsk railway. The station building was destroyed during the Second world war.
The current station building was built 60 meters north of the old building in 1955. It was designed by the architect Evgeny Levinson, who revived the palace and park ensembles of Pushkin and Pavlovsk. This is a one-story building with side porticos and a hexagonal rotunda with a spire in the central part. |
Paracaspase | "Type 1" & Amoebas & Animals | can be found in all deuterostomes, like sea urchin, lancelets, tunicates and lampreys (a non-jawed vertebrate). Notably, mammals have lost PCASP2 and PCASP3 and only have PCASP1 (MALT1). The non-deuterostome invertebrate type 1 paracaspase closest related to PCASP3 can surprisingly be found in molluscs, which could indicate that there were 2 paralog type 1 paracaspases present in the first bilaterans (like in cnidarians), and that different bilateran lineages have kept one or the other paralog. Amoebas The paracaspase in Dictyostelium seems to regulate osmotic stress tolerance by vacuolar expansion. Animals Paracaspase in animals has mostly been studied in humans and |
My Life as a Dog | Plot | to stay with their uncle Sandberg (Leif Ericson) in the city, but his wife thinks the boy is mentally disturbed. After his mother passes away, he is sent back to Småland.
Mr. Arvidsson has died in the interim; Gunnar and Ulla now share the house with a large Greek family. Gunnar welcomes him and consoles him as best he can, but the house is so crowded, he has Ingemar live with Mrs. Arvidsson in another house. Meanwhile, Ingemar becomes the object of contention between Saga and another girl. When they start fighting over him, he grabs onto Saga's leg and starts |
Peter Feuchtwanger | Life and work | Peter Feuchtwanger Peter Bernhard Feuchtwanger (26 June 1930 – 18 June 2016) was a German pianist, composer, and teacher. He lived for many years in London. Life and work Feuchtwanger was born in Munich as the son of a local bank director, Theodore Feuchtwanger (1858–1956). During World War II, the family fled to Haifa. Peter Feuchtwanger was a self-taught pianist who later developed exercises to help pianists learn a natural effortless technique. They also help pianists who have physical problems due to their approach to playing.
Feuchtwanger's piano teachers included Edwin Fischer and Walter Gieseking, but especially inspiring were the pianist |
Peter Fourier | Reformer and founder | to the people of the Principality of Salm-Salm, which had embraced Calvinism. Within six months his gentle persuasion and efforts were rewarded with the re-establishment of Catholicism in the realm.
Fourier himself was elected as Abbot General of the congregation in 1632. He hoped to guide his fellow canons to caring for children, as the canonesses were doing. This vision never took root among the men, however.
After the invasion by the Kingdom of France of the Duchy of Lorraine in 1632 under Cardinal Richelieu, Fourier refused to swear an oath of loyalty to King Louis XIII of France. Thus he and |
Pablo Melgar | International career | and full international levels. Tournaments in which he partaked include the under-17 and under-20 World Cup qualifying, the 1999 Pan American Games, the 2000 Olympic tournament qualifying and the Central American Games of 2002.
He made his senior debut in a January 2002 friendly match against Cuba and has earned a total of 56 caps (including a non official game against Argentina), scoring 1 goal. He has represented his country in 16 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played at the 2003 UNCAF Nations Cup and the 2005 and 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cups. |
Peter Sugandhar | Ecumenism and the unity of the Churches & Towards spiritual formation | John Paul II. Towards spiritual formation As an Administrator of the Diocese of Medak from 1993 through 2009, Sugandhar donned the mantle of a Vocation Promoter and led many youth to full-time ministry making them undergo studies in divinity at the Spiritual formation centres in Secunderabad and at Bangalore at the Andhra Christian Theological College and the United Theological College, both of which were notable for their Old Testament scholarship with the presence of G. Babu Rao, CBCNC in Secunderabad and Gnana Robinson, CSI in Bangalore. Incidentally, Sugandhar's senior graduate companion R. Yesurathnam, CSI who had been notable as a |
Norton, Massachusetts | History | Norton, Massachusetts History Norton was first settled in 1669 and was called North Taunton for its location on the northern border of Taunton, Massachusetts. The town was renamed "Norton"—after Norton, Oxfordshire, England, where many early settlers had originated—when the town was officially established on March 17, 1710. Parts of Norton were originally established as Easton on December 21, 1725, and as Mansfield on April 26, 1770.
Metacomet, the Wampanoag Indian sachem also known as "King Phillip", is said to have hidden in a cave here near the end of King Philip's War before meeting his death in Hockomock Swamp. |
Perea | null | Perea Perea or Peraea (Greek: Περαία, "the country beyond"), was the portion of the kingdom of Herod the Great occupying the eastern side of the Jordan River valley, from about one third the way down the Jordan River segment connecting the Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea to about one third the way down the north-eastern shore of the Dead Sea; it did not extend very far to the east. Herod the Great's kingdom was bequeathed to four heirs, of which Herod Antipas received both Perea and Galilee. He dedicated the city Livias in the north of the Dead Sea. |
Peter Yorke | Early life & Priesthood | Westport. Priesthood In 1882, Yorke graduated from St. Jarlath's College in Tuam. He then went to St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, where he studied for four years before being adopted by the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He was ordained in 1887. He was pastor of St. Peter's in 1914.
In San Francisco, he became the editor of The Monitor, the official newspaper of the archdiocese. In 1901, he supported the workers in a Teamsters strike. In 1902, he founded and edited a local newspaper called The Leader.
Yorke was the author of the best-selling textbook The Ghosts of Bigotry, originally republished in San |
Peter Sharpe | Life | Peter Sharpe Peter Sharpe (December 10, 1777 in New York City – August 3, 1842 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American politician who served as a United States Representative from New York. Life He "was a Maiden-lane whip-maker, of the average intelligence of a mechanic", and was an alderman of New York City.
He was a member from New York County of the New York State Assembly in 1814-15 and from 1816 to 1821, and was Speaker in 1820-21. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821.
Credentials of his election to the Seventeenth Congress were |
Patrick F. Philbin | Academics & Career | covenant. Career Philbin first served as a law clerk for the federal appeals judge, Laurence Silberman, Next he worked as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Following his clerkships, Philbin entered private practice in the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
During the Bush Administration, Philbin served as a political appointee in the Department of Justice, first as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003 and then as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General from 2003 to 2005. Philbin was one of |
Peruvanam Pooram | History | starts in the evening and stretches till dawn of the next day. The pooram has its highlight in the form of the four-hour Panchari melam starting at about 4am.
Although the more popular Thrissur Pooram can be accredited with bringing major changes to the conduct of Poorams in Kerala, the Peruvanam Pooram claims a rich history, and it has witnessed a lot of innovations/additions, some of which form the core of temple festivals in Kerala.The first performance of the Panchari melam is said to have been performed for the Pooram of Urakathamma Thiruvadi, at the Peruvanam Pooram. Caparisons for elephants, called |
Martina Deuchler | Selected works | Locality in Premodern Korea. Harvard East Asian Monographs 378. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. ISBN 978-0-674-50430-1
“Kimchi-Erinnerungen an Südkorea.” In S(e)oul food. Koreanisch-kulinarische Erinnerungen mit Bildern von Cookie Fischer-Han. Ed. by Mareile Flitsch. Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, 2016. pp. 64–67.
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Martina Deuchler, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 18 works in 56 publications in 4 languages and 1,694 library holdings. |
Ness-class combat stores ship | null | Ness-class combat stores ship The Ness-class combat stores ship were a class of three Combat stores ships built by Swan Hunter for the Royal Navy's Fleet Auxiliary in the mid 1960s. They were purchased by the United States Navy in the mid 1980s and renamed Sirius-class. They were operated by Military Sealift Command for the US Navy until the late 2000s when they were deactivated. |
Peter Yorke | Early life | Peter Yorke Father Peter Christopher Yorke (13 August 1864 – 4 April 1925) was an Irish-American Catholic priest and a noted Irish Republican and Labor activist in San Francisco. Early life Born on Galway's Long Walk on 13 August 1864, he was the youngest child of Gregory Yorke, a sea captain, and his wife, Bridget, née Kelly. Gregory Yorke died six months before Peter was born.
The Yorke family were originally from Holland, where the name was spelled Jorke. Peter Yorke's grandfather, Christopher Yorke, came to Galway in the early 19th century, building lighthouses and breakwaters in Galway, Aran and |
Philippine adobo | History | spices), paksiw (a broth of meat with vinegar and spices), sangkutsa (pre-cooking meat by braising them in vinegar and spices), and finally adobo (a stew of vinegar, garlic, salt/soy sauce, and other spices). It is believed that paksiw, sangkutsa, and adobo were all derivations of kinilaw. They are also related to cooking techniques like sinigang and pinangat na isda that also have a sour broth, albeit using native fruits like calamansi, tamarind, unripe mangoes, bilimbi, santol, and star fruit instead of vinegar.
When the Spanish Empire colonized the Philippines in the late 16th century and early 17th century, they encountered the |
Parque Arqueológico do Solstício | Findings & Significance | buried here because they were significant. Shards of bowls and other pieces of pottery have been found in smaller pits near by. These bowls, lids, and urns have been found created in the shapes of animals and human-like figurines. Significance Evidence has been found near the Rego Grande site and all over the Amazon to suggest that the indigenous people of the region lived in a complex societies that involved both agriculture and a close relationship with the natural environment around them.
There are also several other megalithic sites in Brazil that follow the curves of the Rego Grande river. The |
Nnama | The Nnama family today | the Traditional Prime Minister of Nibo from Dec 2014 until his death in Feb 2016. He authored a book centered around his childhood experiences growing up in Nibo |
Peter Sugandhar | Juridical precedence & Seminarian: 1964-1968 | D. Dorothy Dayasheela Ebenezer, the manner of conduction of domestic enquiry was highly appreciated by then juridical experts and the case law continues to be used as a citation in the courts of law. Seminarian: 1964-1968 During the bishopric of Eber Priestley as Bishop - in - Medak, Sugandhar was admitted in 1963 as a ministerial candidate of the Diocese of Medak and a year later, was sent for ministerial formation in 1964 to the United Theological College, Bangalore, an affiliated institution of the Senate of Serampore College (University). Sugandhar underwent a four-year spiritual formation at the Seminary in |
Orange roughy | Fisheries | were fished down. For many stocks, the lack of understanding of the biological characteristics meant that they were overfished. Due to its longevity, late maturation, and relatively low fecundity, orange roughy stocks tend to recover slower than most other species.
A number of orange roughy stocks live outside the jurisdiction of any particular nation, making it more challenging to limit overall catches. The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) and the South Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement have orange roughy stocks which are managed within their jurisdiction. These organizations have made progress on collecting better information on total orange |
Osteoblast | Osteogenesis & Bone morphogenetic proteins | transcription factor is Sp7 transcription factor. Osteochondroprogenitor cells differentiate under the influence of growth factors, although isolated mesenchymal stem cells in tissue culture, form osteoblasts under permissive conditions that include vitamin C and substrates for alkaline phosphatase, a key enzyme that provides high concentrations of phosphate at the mineral deposition site. Bone morphogenetic proteins Key growth factors in endochondral skeletal differentiation include bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) that determine to a major extent where chondrocyte differentiation occurs and where spaces are left between bones. The system of cartilage replacement by bone has a complex regulatory system. BMP2 also regulates early skeletal |
Ohio's 6th congressional district | History | district was shifted dramatically eastward to make the seat friendlier for Strickland. At the same time, it effectively ended the career of James Traficant in the neighboring 17th District by placing his hometown of Poland into the 6th. Traficant opted to run in his old district and lost. The district currently includes all of Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Gallia, Guernsey, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Noble and Washington counties, and portions of Athens, Mahoning, Muskingum, Scioto and Tuscarawas counties.
In 2010, Republican Bill Johnson defeated incumbent Democrat Charles Wilson, returning the seat Republican for the first time since 1997. Following |
Murder of Graeme Thorne | Media | Investigation Australia season 1 episode "Kid for Ransom" aired in 2005. In 2008, a children's detective book titled Kidnapping File: the Graeme Thorne Case was developed by Amanda Howard and published in the U.S. The book Kidnapped by Mark Tedeschi QC was published in 2015, and in January 2018, Casefile True Crime Podcast featured the Thorne kidnapping in Case 75. |
Only in America (Brooks & Dunn song) | Content | Only in America (Brooks & Dunn song) Content "Only in America" is an up-tempo in the keys of E and F major (the song transposes upward before the final chorus), accompanied largely by electric guitar. Its lyrics outline the lives of various people across the United States — a school bus driver and her bus full of children in the first verse, and a pair of newlyweds (a 'welder's son and a banker's daughter') in their limousine in the second verse — before observing in the chorus that "only in America" do such people "get to dream as big as |
Oskar Pfister | null | of the Oedipus Complex, castration anxiety and infantile sexuality. From a religious standpoint, Pfister advocated a return to what he saw as the original fundamental teachings of Jesus Christ.
The Oskar Pfister Award is awarded by the American Psychiatric Association, with the Association of Professional Chaplains, for significant contributions to the field of religion and psychiatry. |
Peter Badcoe | Early life and career | the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) battalion on operations in Quảng Ngãi Province, during which the unit had contacts with the enemy, including a pitched battle. During what was supposed to be a rest period, he arranged a helicopter flight to visit a Montagnard base in the Central Highlands. When his return to Malaya was delayed by an aircraft engine breakdown, he managed to join a heliborne operation of the 7th ARVN Division in the Mekong Delta. He returned to the 1st Field Regiment from November 1962 until August 1965. At this point, Badcoe transferred from the artillery to the Royal |
Odense Steel Shipyard | After yard closure | 2012, the site has been transformed to an industrial park housing a large number of companies within the offshore sector. Most companies work with production, storage and discharge of large components for offshore and heavy industries. The area of more than 1,000,000 square metres (11,000,000 sq ft), of which 166,000 square metres (1,790,000 sq ft) is under roof, combined with the gantry crane and the harbour area makes it ideal for handling heavy industry. The LORC wind turbine test facility is expanding in 2015 at a cost of DKK 120m.
In December 2014 DONG Energy ordered 32 Vestas V164 wind turbines (256 MW) for the |
Paul Moran (musician) | Compositions | Polish Films and Canadian Films.
During the mid 1990s, Moran was composing and recording for 80’s icons Bronski Beat and Toyah at Bucks Music in Notting hill Gate. Collaborating with North London producer Martin Rex in the early 2000s, Moran wrote many popular TV ads, including such popular brands as Persil, Dove, Tetley Bitter and Andrex, commissioned by Saatchi & Saatchi.
In 2000, Moran embarked on a solo career, composing over half of the tracks on his debut jazz organ album ‘Smokin’ B3’, reaching number 8 in the HMV British jazz charts in 2000. It led to famous Hammond Organ icon Jimmy |
Peter Moore (serial killer) | Imprisonment | and review to be compatible with human rights.
In February 2015, the ECHR upheld the lawfulness of whole life orders, on the ground that they can be reviewed in exceptional circumstances, following a fresh challenge by murderer Arthur Hutchinson, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for a triple murder in Sheffield more than 30 years earlier. Another legal challenge to the court by Hutchinson was rejected in January 2017. A fresh challenge by another "whole life" prisoner, Jamie Reynolds, who murdered a teenage girl in Shropshire in 2013 - is now reportedly pending with the ECHR. By this stage, there |
Paracaspase | "Type 2" & "Type 1" | animals represent the ancestral form which only consists of a caspase-like domain. This form of paracaspase can be found in ctenophora, trichoplax, sponges and cnidarians. Cnidarians also have "type 1" paracaspases. "Type 1" The "type 1" paracaspases are characterized by a MALT1-like domain composition with a death domain, immunoglobulin-like domains and a caspase-like domain. The "type 1" paracaspases first originated sometime before the last common ancestor of the bilaterans and cnidaria, indicating that "type 1" paracaspases originated during the ediacaran period. The jawed vertebrates (starting from sharks) have 3 paralogs: PCASP1, PCASP2 and PCASP3. PCASP3 is the ancestral copy and |
Perea | Other authors | Jadur near Al-Salt ) was the chief city or metropolis of Perea (not to be confused with Gadara of the Decapolis−a Hellenistic city). Following the Roman conquest of Judea led by Pompey in 63 BCE, Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into five districts of legal and religious councils known as Sanhedrin and based at Jerusalem, Jericho, Sepphoris (Galilee), Amathus (Perea) and Gadara (Perea—Al-Salt or Decapolis—Umm Qais). Other authors Ptolemy does not use the term Perea in his Geography, but rather the periphrasis "across the Jordan". And he enumerates the "Perean" cities; Cosmas, Libias, Callirhoe, Gazorus, |
Peter Badcoe | Post-script | memoirs were offered for sale by auction in Sydney on 20 May 2008 and were sold for A$488,000 to the media magnate and philanthropist Kerry Stokes in collaboration with the Government of South Australia. Badcoe's Victoria Cross and associated medals were displayed at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, prior to being toured to 17 regional towns in South Australia between 21 March and 20 June 2009, before being displayed permanently at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra from 2016. The award for the player displaying the most courage, skill, self-sacrifice and teamwork in the Australian Football League match in |
PAOK FC | 2017–18 eventful season | 2pts ahead of AEK), PAOK–Olympiacos derby was suspended before kick-off when Olympiacos manager Óscar García Junyent was hit by an object thrown from the crowd (reportedly by an unfolding cash register paper roll). Óscar García received medical attention before being taken to a private general hospital (Interbalkan Medical Center). The private clinic where García was taken issued a statement about five hours after the coach was admitted, saying that due to his medical condition García had to stay at the hospital overnight and PAOK vs Olympiacos game never started. Olympiacos communications chief Karapapas stated that he expected a huge apology |
Monastery of Saint Mina | The New Monastery and Cathedral of Saint Mina & Abbot | community. Today, the Monastery of Saint Mina is one of the most famous monasteries in Egypt. The relics of Saint Mina, as well as that of Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria lie in this monastery. Abbot As of 2003 Kyrillos (Cyril) was the bishop and abbot of the Monastery of Saint Mina. |
Paleontology in West Virginia | Paleozoic | by extremely salty seawater during a dry climate preserved West Virginian eurypterids. Other Silurian life forms of West Virginia included nautiloids with straight shells and an abundance of ostracods. Late in the Devonian the sea quickly withdrew to the west. The Hampshire Formation's continental red beds were deposited during this regression. During the transition from the Silurian to Early Devonian West Virginia was home to corals, whose remains fossilized by silicification.
During the Late Devonian the state's seas had begun filling in with sediments eroded from mountains outside of the state.
However, the state would once more be submerged during the early |
Passion (manga) | Book Two | "forced" himself on Shima. He tells Hikaru that it wasn't rape because it was what Shima wanted, and that his scratches came from Shima 'holding on', not fighting him. Shima also admits that he felt guilty, and as penance, severed their play-acting so that Hikaru could have a good love life in the future, without being burdened by a serious relationship. However, Shima's plan did not work, as Hikaru's love life is dysfunctional. Hikaru proposes that they act as pretend lovers until he graduates from university, with the agreement that if either one finds someone better, they can leave the |
Legal history of China | Imperial era | Legal history of China Imperial era Contemporary social control is rooted in the Confucian past. The teachings of Confucius have had an enduring effect on Chinese life and have provided the basis for the social order through much of the country's history. Confucians believed in the fundamental goodness of man and advocated rule by moral persuasion in accordance with the concept of li (propriety), a set of generally accepted social values or norms of behavior. Li was enforced by society rather than by courts. Education was considered the key ingredient for maintaining order, and codes of law were intended only |
Peter Goddard (educationalist) | Biography | his enthusiasm and drive". Goddard published a book entitled A History of the place of grammar in secondary schools from 1920–1967 based on his Dip Ed thesis. He co-authored a book on linguistics and later wrote seven secondary school English textbooks. In 1968 he took up a lectureship in English at the University of Canterbury.
In 1974 he became the foundation Principal of Orewa College. Goddard then held the positions of Inspector of Schools and later the northern regional superintendent of education under the old Education Department. He was the first national Manager for Auckland in the new Ministry of Education |
Phillip Davey | World War I & Later life | all agree that no VC was ever better earned than Phil Davey's". Four of Davey's brothers had also enlisted, Claude, Richard, Joseph and Arthur, with Joseph being aged 16 when he joined up. Joseph was wounded at Pozières and was promoted to lance corporal before his real age was discovered and he was sent home. Phillip's brothers Claude and Richard were also awarded the Military Medal during World War I, Claude being killed in action in 1917. Later life After returning from the war, Davey worked for South Australian Railways as a labourer and linesman over three periods between 1926 |
Olympiacos F.C. | Seven consecutive Championships, near-miss to UEFA Champions League semi-finals (1996–2003) | the 10.000 Olympiacos fans who travelled to Italy to erupt into joyous ecstasy. In the second leg in Athens, Olympiacos totally dominated the match, and scored the goal that put them in the driving seat in the 12th minute of the game, when Siniša Gogić's powerful header found the back of the net after Grigoris Georgatos's superb cross. They also missed an outstanding chance to double the lead, when Giorgos Amanatidis' powerful header from short distance was saved by Michelangelo Rampulla. Olympiacos kept the ticket to the semi-finals in his hands until the 85th minute, when Juventus, who hadn't produced |
Ohio Wisler Mennonite | Customs and beliefs & Members and congregation | and a more aggressive approach to outreach. They have altered the manner of worship from the Old Order form. Members and congregation In 1995 the Ohio Wisler Mennonite Churches had 131 households in four congregations. In the year 2000 they had 421 adherents with a total population of about 800 people in five congregations, all in Ohio. According to website of the Mennonite World Conference they had 322 adherents in four congregations in 2018. |
Peter Badcoe | Post-script | support of a Sector operation in Phu Thu District. He monitored a radio transmission which stated that the Subsector Adviser, a United States Army Officer, had been killed and that his body was within 50 metres of an enemy machine gun position; further, the United States Medical Adviser had been wounded and was in immediate danger from the enemy. Major Badcoe with complete disregard for his own safety moved alone across 600 metres of fire-swept ground and reached the wounded Adviser, attended to him and ensured his future safety. He then organised a force of one platoon and led them |
PAOK FC | The great team of the 1970s | Northern Greece at the time and signing many of them to PAOK, president Giorgos Pantelakis built a very strong team (including Stavros Sarafis, Christos Terzanidis, Kostas Iosifidis, Giannis Gounaris, Dimitris Paridis, Achilleas Aslanidis, Koulis Apostolidis, Filotas Pellios, Aristarchos Fountoukidis, Panagiotis Kermanidis, Angelos Anastasiadis, Neto Guerino and captained by Giorgos Koudas). Playing spectacular football, the team managed to win their first Championship (1976), two Cups (1972, 1974), a Greater Greece Cup (1973) and distinguish themselves in European competitions.
Captain Giorgos Koudas became even inspiration for a popular song by the Greek songwriter and PAOK supporter Nikos Papazoglou and lyricist Manolis Rasoulis.
PAOK participated |
Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe | null | of The Midge, Oxford Club, London Powys was a member of the winning crew in the Stewards' Challenge Cup at Henley. Curiously in a law case reported in the Reading Mercury of 15 November 1862, it was reported that he was lame and always walked with a heavy stick, with which he was said to have assaulted a defaulting tenant; so when did this lameness happen or how did he row if lame?
Philip Powys became a barrister and was J.P. for Oxfordshire. At the 1859 general election, Powys was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Newport |
Peter Watts (audio engineer) | Overview & Early career | Audio Ltd., in Swansea, U.K., in partnership with Greg Mackie, founder of noted pro audio products companies TAPCO and Mackie Designs. Early career At the age of 16, Watts began working at Trident on the mixer assembly line in their factory on the Shepperton Film Studios lot. In 1976, he showed company co-founder Malcolm Toft an idea he had for a computer-based mixer automation system, using a Sinclair Spectrum computer, which could change equalization settings automatically without using voltage-controlled amplifiers (VCA). Toft liked the idea and it became the basis for the automation of the Trident Di-An (digitally controlled analog) |
Phil Anderson (politician) | Political positions | He also called for repealing the state income tax.
Anderson opposes military intervention, stating U.S. foreign policy has created more terrorists. While pulling back from drone strikes and military action overseas, Anderson believes the U.S. should still maintain a strong defense.
Anderson has been openly critical of the Foxconn deal, in which Governor Scott Walker approved a new factory for the company in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, costing the state $3 billion. Anderson said he is skeptical as to whether Foxconn will be able to pay back the investment over multiple years, due to a fast developing technology industry.
Anderson advocates reform of the |
Orange–Fish River Tunnel | Purpose & Route | across the water-shed into another river system. The Orange-Fish Tunnel, together with its network of canals, weirs and balancing dams, has enabled these areas to be restored and has made the irrigation of thousands of hectares of additional land possible. The main purpose of the tunnel is to divert water from the Gariep Dam to the Eastern Cape for irrigation, household and industrial use. Route The tunnel diverts water from the Orange River to the Great Fish River and the semi-arid areas of Eastern Cape province.
The inlet tower at 30°41′26″S 25°45′46″E takes water from the Gariep Dam at Oviston: |
Meg Stinks! | Plot & Reception | first day there and got the nickname "Warthog." Reception Eric Thurm of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B, saying "So this episode is called 'Meg Stinks!' The title, at first, does not bode particularly well—the Meg hatred well has simply been exhausted too many times and in too obnoxious ways, concentrated most recently in this season’s terrible "A Fistful of Meg.” There are a bunch of garden-variety 'Meg is gross' jokes in this episode about her unattractiveness and 'stupidity,' but they feel perfunctory in a way that makes them boring and mildly distracting rather than straight-up irritating, and |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | Structure and institutions | the Media, established in December 1997, acts as a watchdog to provide early warning on violations of freedom of expression in OSCE participating States. The representative also assists participating States by advocating and promoting full compliance with OSCE norms, principles and commitments regarding freedom of expression and free media. As of 2011, the current representative is expert in media law from Bosnia and Herzegovina Dunja Mijatovic.
The High Commissioner on National Minorities was created on 8 July 1992 by the Helsinki Summit Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is charged with identifying and seeking early resolution |
Philosophy of human rights | Theory of value and property | Locke uses the word property in both broad and narrow senses. In a broad sense, it covers a wide range of human interests and aspirations; more narrowly, it refers to material goods. He argues that property is a natural right and it is derived from labour. In addition, property precedes government and government cannot "dispose of the estates of the subjects arbitrarily." To deny valid property rights according to Locke is to deny human rights. The British philosopher had significant impacts upon the development of the Government of the UK and was central to the fundamental founding philosophy of the |
Patrick Cramer | Life | the University of Heidelberg in 1998. From 1999 until 2001 Cramer worked as postdoctoral researcher and fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the laboratory of the later Nobel Prize laureate Roger D. Kornberg at Stanford University, USA.
In 2001 Patrick Cramer returned to Germany where he obtained a tenure-track professorship for biochemistry at the Gene Center of the University of Munich (Ludwig Maximilians University, LMU where he was later, in 2004, appointed full professor of biochemistry. Patrick Cramer headed the Gene Center of the University of Munich for 10 years, from 2004 until 2013. He also served as Dean |
Phishing | Covert redirect | the victim would like to authorize the app. If the victim chooses to authorize the app, a "token" will be sent to the attacker and the victim's personal sensitive information could be exposed. These information may include the email address, birth date, contacts, and work history. In case the "token” has greater privilege, the attacker could obtain more sensitive information including the mailbox, online presence, and friends list. Worse still, the attacker may possibly control and operate the user’s account. Even if the victim does not choose to authorize the app, he or she will still get redirected to a |
ODB++ | Concerns | incremental value of this integration to both Mentor Graphics and the partner company." Some direct competitors inferred this meant restricted access. This was a source of frustration not only for competitors but also for the Mentor user community.
In 2012, Julian Coates, director of business development at Mentor's Valor division claimed that, so far, all ODB++ partners, including competitors to Mentor, who have applied for assistance to build and maintain ODB++ interfaces via the ODB++ Solutions Alliance have been accepted without reservation or cost. In addition, the format specification is now openly available via the ODB++ Solutions Alliance without the need |
Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe | null | before I could write. I was reared on the banks of Thames. My father was a very good oarsman at St John's, Oxford, and put me to work going down in the boat to Mapledurham church on Sunday afternoons". Powys was educated at Eton College, and Balliol College, Oxford and also noted "I rowed all through my Eton and Oxford life" and "I found my College Boat the cheapest amusement in Oxford. I never hunted, but always rowed". In 1839 Powys rowed number 7 in the Oxford boat in the Boat Race. In 1841 and 1842 as a member |
Passion (manga) | Novelization & Reception | the manga, and re-uses some of Shoko Takaku's illustrations, it does give the reader some additional information, such as the full names of all of the characters, as well as slightly more in-depth character history. However, much of the dialogue is lifted directly from the manga, and the novelization is often simply referred to as "Passion" as well. Reception Kris at ManicAboutManga.com, describes Passion as "a gorgeous release" and gives the first two books a grade of A−, however Johanna Draper Carlson at Manga Worth Reading, derided Passion as "everything bad about the yaoi genre".
At the Journal of the Lincoln |
Old Sow whirlpool | Origin | connect Moose Island (Eastport, Maine) to Carlow Island (in Eastport), Carlow Island to Pleasant Point and to connect Treat Island (in Eastport) to Dudley Island (in Lubec, Maine). The changes in local water flow from the dikes reportedly reduced predictability of the "funnel" effect of Old Sow. |
Peruvanam Pooram | Vilakku & Cherpu Bhagavathy | to Peruvanam also form an array in front of the elephants. The drummers (Marars) and other supporting percussionists from the respective temples then start an elaborate Panchari Melam. At midnight with no artificial light to spoil the show this event called a ‘Vilakku’ has a mesmerizing effect. Cherpu Bhagavathy Cherpu Bhagavathy is the last to enter the walkway. But, the deity would have arrived by midnight, along the road from the temple which is about a mile away, at the turning to the Thayamkulangara Subrahmaniaswamy temple. There, a Panchavadyam of very high standards commences at about 11:30 PM. The procession |
Palermo | Economy and infrastructure & Public transport & Buses & Coaches & Palermo Public Transportation Statistics | home of the Sicilian Mafia). Public transport Palermo has a local railway called the Palermo metropolitan railway service. Buses Palermo's public bus system is operated by AMAT which covers a net area of 340 km (211 mi). About 90 different routes reach every part of the city. Coaches The local coach company, AST, with its coaches totalling 35 lines, links Palermo to all of the main cities in Sicily. Palermo Public Transportation Statistics The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Palermo, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 63 min. 14.% of public transit |
Nootka Crisis | Nootka Conventions | misinterpretation of his achievement and of British imperial thinking at the time.
The official transfer occurred on March 28, 1795. José Manuel de Álava represented Spain and Lieutenant Thomas Pearce Britain. The British flag was ceremoniously raised and lowered. Afterwards, Pearce presented the flag to Maquinna and asked him to raise it whenever a ship appeared.
Under the Nootka Convention, Britain and Spain agreed not to establish any permanent base at Nootka Sound, but ships from either nation could visit. The two nations also agreed to prevent any other nation from establishing sovereignty.
The Nootka Conventions are sometimes described as a commitment by |
Passion (manga) | Book Two & Book Three | relationship. Shima agrees, and the two lovers reunite. Amamiya announces himself completely over Shima, and begins an affair with the school nurse, Ms. Morikawa. Book Three Book Three begins a year after the events of Book Two, and Hikaru and Shima are still "playing lovers". Hikaru now works at a cafe part-time and Shima is the chairperson of the school festival. Because they are both so busy, it's been a long time since they've seen each other, but Hikaru calls Shima everyday when he takes a break at the cafe. During one call, they make plans to meet at the |
Mine clearance organization | Area cleared | of mine contaminated area and about 199 million square meters of former battle area contaminated by UXO. |
North American porcupine | Description & Quills | are highly tempted by the succulent buds and twigs at the ends of the branches. The porcupine, the wolverine, and the skunk are the only North American mammals that have strongly contrasting black-and-white coloration, because they are the only mammals that benefit from letting other animals know where and what they are in the dark of night. Quills The most distinguishing feature of the porcupine is its coat of quills. An adult porcupine has about 30,000 quills that cover all of its body except its underbelly, face, and feet. Quills are modified hairs formed into sharp, barbed, hollow spines. They |
Peter Germer | null | Peter Germer Peter Germer (born 26 September 1949) is a German former wrestler who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. |
Palermo | Italian unification and today & Patron saints | crime family. According to La Repubblica, "Off they go, through the streets of Passo di Rigano, Boccadifalco, Torretta and at the same time, Brooklyn, Staten Island, New Jersey. Because from Sicily to the US, the old mafia has returned". Patron saints The patron saint of Palermo is Saint Rosalia, who is widely revered.
On 14 July, people in Palermo celebrate the annual Festino, the most important religious event of the year. The Festino is a procession which goes through the main street of Palermo to commemorate the miracle attributed to Saint Rosalia who, it is believed, freed the city from the |
Paul Rodriguez (actor) | Film & Awards | Ali, and has also performed voiceover roles for King of the Hill, Dora the Explorer, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Rodriguez has also undertaken other roles in the film industry: He directed and starred in the film A Million to Juan, and he produced and appeared in the 2002 comedy film The Original Latin Kings of Comedy.
In 2009 the Paul Rodriguez: Comedy Rehab movie featured a night of Latino comedy that is hosted by Rodriguez and Paul Rodriguez: Just for the Record, which documents a live performance by the comedian, was released in 2011. Awards In 2004 Comedy Central ranked him |
Norwottuck Branch Rail Trail | History | Norwottuck Branch Rail Trail History The rail bed under which the trail operated opened in 1887 under the control of the Central Massachusetts Railroad. Shortly after its completion, it was leased by the Boston and Maine Railroad and referred to as the Central Massachusetts Branch. Three round trip passenger trains were run in the 1920s, as well as numerous freight trains. Competition from cars and trucks caused a decline on the line, as passenger service was discontinued in 1932 and freight service managed to hang on for another forty-two years, primarily to deliver goods to a farmer's supply warehouse in |
Peter Badcoe | Vietnam War | the survivors. He eventually concluded that the conflict was an "unwinnable war". On 7 April, Badcoe, who wrote frankly to his wife and children, penned a letter to them expressing his "unease and cynicism" about the conduct of the war and indicating that he wished to come home. At this time Badcoe was planning to take a short break on the Japanese island of Okinawa starting the following day, with an Australian Army friend who had been visiting him, observing operations.
When he returned from the field early in the morning of 7 April, Badcoe was told that he was |
Phonological history of English close front vowels | Lowering & Thank–think merger | lax, near-close near-front unrounded vowel, /ɪ/, in Modern English, as found in words like kit. (Similarly, short /u/ has become /ʊ/.) According to Roger Lass, this laxing occurred in the 17th century, but other linguists have suggested that it took place potentially much earlier.
The short mid vowels have also undergone lowering, so that the continuation of Middle English /e/ (as in words like dress) now has a quality closer to [ɛ] in most accents. Again, though, it is not clear whether the vowel already had a lower value in Middle English. Thank–think merger The thank–think merger is the lowering of |
Phishing | Covert redirect & Social engineering | website controlled by the attacker. This could potentially further compromise the victim.
This vulnerability was discovered by Wang Jing, a Mathematics Ph.D. student at School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Covert redirect is a notable security flaw, though it is not a threat to the Internet worth significant attention. Social engineering Users can be encouraged to click on various kinds of unexpected content for a variety of technical and social reasons. For example, a malicious attachment might masquerade as a benign linked Google doc.
Alternatively users might be outraged by a fake news story, click a |
PRECIS | Background | change scenarios for their region of interest. These scenarios can be used in impact, vulnerability and adaptation studies, and to aid in the preparation of National Communications, as required under Articles 4.1 and 4.8 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
PRECIS has been developed at the Hadley Centre at the Met Office with funding from the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
PRECIS is made available |
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