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Roy Fox | The 1920s/30s | soundtracks.
In 1930, Fox was invited to perform in London, which he first did on September 29, 1930. He recorded on the BBC that year, and when his band returned to the U.S. the following spring, Fox remained behind, recording with a new group for Decca Records and accepting an engagement at the Monseigneur restaurant in Piccadilly.
In 1932, he fell ill with pleurisy and traveled to Switzerland for a stay at a sanatorium. During his convalescence the band was led by its pianist, Lew Stone. Upon Fox's return he resumed control of the band but when the Monseigneur contract came |
Russian battleship Oryol | Japanese career as Iwami | by gun shields. The fore and aft eight-inch guns were repositioned one deck lower, on the same level as the midships guns, and the midships 75-millimeter gun positions were plated over. The 75-millimeter guns were replaced by sixteen Japanese-built QF 12-pounder, 12 cwt guns and two submerged broadside 18-inch torpedo tubes replaced her original torpedo armament. Her boilers were replaced by an unknown number of Japanese-built Miyabara water-tube boilers. These changes reduced her displacement to approximately 13,500 long tons (13,700 t) and her crew now totaled 806 officers and crewmen.
Iwami was assigned to the 1st Fleet on 26 November 1907 although |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Predecessors of the RAOC | Royal Army Ordnance Corps Predecessors of the RAOC Supply and repair of technical equipment, principally artillery and small arms, was the responsibility of the Master General of the Ordnance and the Board of Ordnance from the Middle Ages until they lost their independence in 1855. Thereafter followed thirty years of fluctuating allocation of responsibilities and a great variety of titles of both corps and individuals. This complex, convoluted and largely unsatisfactory period insofar as Army logistics was concerned was summarised in 1889 as follows:
'The English Ordnance Department goes back into an older history than the Army. There |
Röntgen equivalent physical | null | was commonly used until the 1960s, but was gradually displaced by the rad starting in 1954 and later the gray starting in 1977. |
Ontario Highway 24 | History | route due to rougher terrain along that road's course making it less desirable for a highway route. The highway turned east at Singhampton and continued to near Glen Huron, where it curved back north to rejoin Hurontario until its terminus in Collingwood. This left a large gap in the highway, including the terminus near Erin that did not end at a provincial highway. This was remedied eight months later when the DHO assumed several county roads in Peel County (now the Regional Municipality of Peel) on April 13, 1938. This established Highway 24 between the county boundary and Orangeville, via Alton, as |
SR Merchant Navy class | Design & Cylinders, valve gear, wheels and brakes | Navy class was undertaken by the drawing office at Brighton works, but some work was also undertaken by Ashford and Eastleigh. This division of responsibility was possibly due to Bulleid's wish to restrict knowledge of the new class to a limited number of personnel. The design incorporated a number of novel features, compared to then-current steam locomotive practice in Great Britain. Cylinders, valve gear, wheels and brakes Three 18 inches (46 cm) diameter cylinders drove the centre coupled axle. The inside cylinder was steeply inclined at 1:7.5 but the outside cylinders were horizontal.
It was originally intended to use a gear-driven valve |
Prime meridian (Greenwich) | History | circles with newer and better instruments were built, on each occasion next door to the existing one. This was to allow uninterrupted observation during each new construction. The final meridian was established as an imaginary line from the north pole to the south pole passing through the Airy transit circle. This became Great Britain's meridian in 1851. For all practical purposes of the period, the changes as the meridian was moved went unnoticed.
Transit instruments are installed to be perpendicular to the local level (which is a plane perpendicular to a plumb line). In 1884, the International Meridian Conference took place |
Political positions of Kirsten Gillibrand | Immigration | illegal immigrants and supported increasing the number of border patrol agents. She was a co-sponsor of the SAVE Act, which aimed to increase the number of border guards, increase surveillance, and hasten deportations. Breaking with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Gillibrand opposed his plan to issue drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. She also voted in favor of legislation targeting and withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities. Americans for Better Immigration, an immigration reduction lobby, graded Gillibrand at a B.
Following her appointment to the Senate, Gillibrand's positions were criticized by immigration advocates and Democratic elected officials, especially in New York. |
Prince George's County, Maryland | Central County | According to the 2010 census, it has generally been the fastest growing region of the county. Mitchellville is named for a wealthy African American family, the Mitchells, who owned a large portion of land in this area of the county. Central Avenue, a major exit off the I-95 beltway, running east to west, is one of two main roads in this portion of the county. The other major roadway is Old Crain Highway, which runs north to south along the eastern portion of the county. The Newton White Mansion on the grounds is a popular site for weddings and political |
Redneck Rampage | Redneck Deer Huntin' | Redneck Deer Huntin' Deer Huntin' is a hunting game using the same engine as the previous games in the series. It was developed by Xatrix Entertainment. |
President's Daily Brief | Usage by presidents and presidents-elect | a week, no exceptions" (for a putative 86% in-person attendance record) though "Bush records [were] not yet available electronically for analysis". Obama records, by contrast in this analysis, showed that during "his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012 [within the 1,225 days analyzed], his attendance ... [fell] to just over 38 percent."
In the first six weeks of the presidential transition of Donald Trump in 2016, the President-elect averaged about one PDB a week. He had "participated in multiple PDBs |
Radar display | A-Scope | generator known as a time base generator that swept the spot across the display, timed to match the pulse repetition frequency of the radar. This spread out the blips across the display according to the time they were received. Since the return time of the signal corresponds to twice the distance to the target divided by the speed of light, the distance along the axis directly indicates the range to any target. This was usually measured against a scale above the display.
Chain Home signals were normally received on a pair of antennas arranged at right angles. Using a device known |
Roberto Firmino | 2017–18 season | Premier League history to win four consecutive away games by a margin of at least three goals.
On 5 January 2018, during a FA Cup match against rivals Everton, Firmino was the subject of controversy following a clash with Everton defender Mason Holgate. Holgate pushed Firmino into the advertising boards, which was followed by the pair exchanging words, with Firmino seemingly insulting the player. Following the match, Holgate accused Firmino of racially abusing him, which he denied. A day later, the Football Association opened an investigation on the matter. Nearly two months later, after they had took statements from 12 different |
Parap Airfield | History | the aerodrome in a number of raids on Darwin during 1942, resulting in extensive damage to the town and hangar. The hangar was extensively damaged after suffering a direct hit and the damage can still be seen in the north-east corner of the original steel frame.
No. 6 Communications Flight RAAF was based at the aerodrome from August 1942 and delivered mail and food supplies to army and RAAF outposts, as far afield as the Wessel Islands.
In 1945 the Department of Aviation made RAAF Darwin available for shared civil aviation purposes and as a result, the civilian airport at Parap was |
Political positions of Kirsten Gillibrand | Housing & Terrorism | Building program as authorizing "HUD to partner with national nonprofit community development organizations to provide education, training, and financial support to local community development corporations (CDCs) across the country" and expressing disappointment that President Trump's budget "has slated this program for elimination after decades of successful economic and community development." The senators wrote of their hope that the subcommittee would support continued funding for Section 4 in Fiscal Year 2020. Terrorism Gillibrand has co-sponsored legislation restoring habeas corpus for detainees in the War on Terror. In 2011, she voted for extending provisions of the Patriot Act. She also voted for |
Practical Farmers of Iowa | History | Practical Farmers of Iowa History Practical Farmers of Iowa was founded in 1985 by Larry Kallem and Richard Thompson. |
Renee McGinnis | Biography and career | Renee McGinnis Biography and career McGinnis grew up on a farm in central Illinois where her Irish-American ancestors have owned farms since the later half of the 19th century. Her mother's ancestors immigrated from Norway and Denmark in the later half of the 19th century. In Norway the family built luxury yachts for the British market. This ended when the steel hulled ships became more desirable. She attended Illinois Wesleyan University, earning a BFA in 1984 and continued with graduate work in sociology and anthropology at the University of Chicago.
She has exhibited widely in Chicago and has also been shown |
Rupa Rani Ramkali | Plot | Rupa Rani Ramkali Rupa Rani Ramkali is a Hindi action movie of Bollywood directed by K.I. Shaikh and produced by Kamal Nayar. This film was released on 23 March 2001 in the banner of Millennium 2000 Films. Plot This is a revenge story of Ramkali, a dancer turned bandit. |
SUnit | History | SUnit SUnit is a unit testing framework for the programming language Smalltalk. It is the original source of the xUnit design, originally written by one of the creators of Extreme Programming, Kent Beck. SUnit allows writing tests and checking results in Smalltalk. History SUnit was originally described by Beck in "Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns" (1989), then published as chapter 30 "Simple Smalltalk Testing", in the book Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk by Kent Beck, Donald G. Firesmith (Editor) (Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Pub. Date: December 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-64437-2, 408pp) |
Oton Iveković | Early years | Oton Iveković Oton Iveković (17 April 1869 – 4 July 1939) was a painter from modern-day Croatia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He later taught at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. Iveković largely concerned himself with historical topics as well as some religious themes. Many of his paintings remain the chief representations of Croatian history. Early years Oton Iveković was born on 17 April 1869 in Klanjec, where he finished elementary school. He attended high school for three and a half years in Zagreb where, except for History and Art, he neglected other subjects. |
Roberto Firmino | 2015–16 season & 2016–17 season | braces against Arsenal and Norwich City that month; the latter performance, in which he also assisted in a 5–4 win, earned comparisons to Raheem Sterling. With his form improved, Firmino was voted to be Liverpool's Player of the Month in January. Firmino ended the season as Liverpool's league top scorer with ten goals. 2016–17 season On 23 August, Firmino scored his first goal of the 2016–17 season, scoring in a 5–0 win over Burton Albion in the second round of the EFL Cup. Firmino scored his first league goals of the season in a 4–1 win over Leicester City, scoring |
Reccared I | Reign | Jews. Among the canons of five synods during Reccared's reign, E. A. Thompson could find none disadvantaging the Jewish community.
The information for the rest of Reccared's reign is scanty. John of Biclaro, Reccared's contemporary, ends his account with the Third Council of Toledo. Isidore of Seville, bishop Leander's brother, praises his peaceful government, clemency, and generosity: standard encomia. He returned various properties, even some private ones, that had been confiscated by his father, and founded many churches and monasteries. Pope Gregory, writing to Reccared in Aug. 599 (Epp. ix. 61, 121), extols him for embracing the true faith and inducing |
Rooster Teeth | Camp Camp & gen:LOCK | the outlines for "The Camp Camp Theme Song Song" and "Better Than You." The DVD/Blu-ray combo pack of the first two seasons was released on May 22, 2018, with its third season premiering on May 25. gen:LOCK At RTX Austin 2017, Rooster Teeth Animation has announced that they will be making a new series called gen:LOCK that is a mecha action drama series by RWBY producer, Gray G. Haddock. It was teased at New York Comic Con and RTX London. It was originally set for a late 2018 release, but was pushed back to January 2019. On May 21, 2018, |
SM UB-65 | Rediscovery | of the wreck by nautical archaeologist Innes McCartney and U-boat historian Dr. Axel Niestlé (through identification of design features such as the type of deck gun, and identification numbers that were stamped on one of her propellers) proved conclusively that the wreck was that of UB-65. A survey of the wreck showed no obvious indication of weapon attack being the cause of loss (although this could not be ruled out; damage assessment expert David Manley determined that shock damage from a depth charge attack could have caused loss through failure of internal seawater systems and hull penetrations that would |
Richard Dowling (writer) | null | children, Margret, Sarah and David. He died at the age of 52, just as he was becoming known as a popular writer. His books were still published for a number of years after his death.
Copies of the books are kept in the National Library in London and are available on line now they have been digitised. |
Royal Society of Tasmania | History | Royal Society of Tasmania History The Society was founded on 14 October 1843 at a meeting convened by Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Lieutenant Governor, as the Botanical and Horticultural Society of Van Diemen’s Land. Its original aim was to ‘develop the physical character of the Island and illustrate its natural history and productions’. Established under its own Act of the Tasmanian Parliament, the Society is permitted it to create its own By-Laws.
In its early years, the Society was responsible for much of the work in founding the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, and also began building up substantial collections of both |
Rail transport in Iceland | The track network | Icelandic rail project, the Reykjavík Harbour Railway, of 900 mm (2 ft 11 ⁷⁄₁₆ in) narrow gauge, operated from 1913 until 1928 for the construction of the harbour breakwaters. The railway operated from a quarry outside the city, Öskjuhlíð, from which it ran a short distance to a junction, passing loop, and sidings. This junction was located just south of a large field which became (and remains) the Reykjavík city airport. From here one line ran to the west, around the western edge of the city, before proceeding along the newly constructed western harbour pier to the island of Effersey. Here a headshunt allowed trains |
Realtime Gaming | Software features | indicates that operators are not able to choose between payout settings for their slots and video poker games. They have expressed intentions to limit operator liability for a single game to $50,000 by default, by reducing maximum bet sizes.
Some RTG casinos offer progressive jackpot games with jackpots that are pooled between all the different casinos that offer these games. The largest of these jackpots are usually Jackpot Piñatas and Aztec's Millions. Compared to similarly sized multi-million dollar jackpots offered by competing game developers such as Microgaming or Playtech, these jackpots are rarely won and their slow rate of increase suggests |
Rooster Teeth | Death Battle & Game Kids | ScrewAttack YouTube channel was re-branded to Death Battle to better match the channel's main content. The ScrewAttack section of the Rooster Teeth website was turned into an archive for the channels old content. Game Kids Game Kids was a division of Rooster Teeth Productions aimed at creating kid and family friendly content. The channel launched on December 1, 2014 and featured the series "Sim Sisters" featuring Millie Ramsey, the daughter of Geoff Ramsey, and her nanny Chelsea playing Sims together, "Kids Play" featuring Matt Hullum and his children Webb and Mills or Burnie Burns and his children JD and Teddy, |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Field units | required the support of very large numbers of troops, animals and equipment in hostile environments. They produced a well-developed system of stores dumps and repair facilities along extended lines-of-communication. The two decades before the First World War saw the increasing mechanization of the Army but this was largely undertaken on a piecemeal basis. The ordnance role largely remained confined to artillery with the ASC leading the way with vehicles and the RE with aviation and communications. Much of the story of the next hundred years of Army logistics is the reorganization and steady rationalization of these and other technical |
Roger Shimomura | Early life & Education | called "Kill the Jap" with the sons of artist Paul Horiuchi, who lived across the street – but, as he grew up, he felt increasing anguish over the conflict between his father's wish that he become a doctor, and his own desire to follow in the footsteps of his three uncles, who were all commercial artists. Education After graduating from Garfield High School, Shimomura began studying graphic design at the University of Washington, earning his BA in 1961. He was also required to join the ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) program. Despite his severe distaste for the program, he |
Sacha Alexander | The Gigolos | on 20 July 2009.
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh in Metro described Alexander as "one to watch"." and told readers to "seek out this cliché-confounding, utterly intriguing debut Brit flick", adding that The Gigolos is a "real rough gem.". Variety's Derek Elley described the film as an "accomplished debut" and a "likable Brit character comedy".
Alexander is credited as Sacha Tarter in the film.
Extras on the DVD include The Big Idea, a previously unreleased mockumentary about the business world made by Alexander, Sather and Bracewell. |
SS Norlom | SS Empire Dunlin | on 13 May.
Empire Dunlin departed from New York on 25 August, sailing to Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, where she joined Convoy BX 35, which departed from Boston on 26 August and arrived at Halifax two days later. Carrying general cargo and steel, she joined Convoy SC 98, which departed from Halifax on 29 August and arrived at Liverpool on 13 September. She left the convoy at Loch Ewe on 12 September and joined Convoy WN 336, which arrived at Methil on 15 September. She then joined Convoy FS 909, which departed the next day and arrived at Southend on 18 |
Red Auerbach | Early life & First coaching years (1941–1950) | Team All-Brooklyn" by the World-Telegram in his senior year. Auerbach received an athletic scholarship to the basketball program of Bill Reinhart at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Auerbach was a standout basketball player and graduated with a M.A. in 1941. In those years, Auerbach began to understand the importance of the fast break, appreciating how potent three charging attackers against two back-pedalling defenders could be. First coaching years (1941–1950) In 1941, Auerbach began coaching basketball at the St. Albans School and Roosevelt High School in Washington, D.C. Two years later, he joined the US Navy for three years, coaching |
Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit | Propositions for the Further Security of Public Debt & Seigniorage and Sequestration | not only as a public defense of sovereignty but a private tool for prosperity. Propositions for the Further Security of Public Debt Following his outline of the System of Public Credit, Hamilton proposed what he believed to be 10 necessary amendments to ensure its stability and survival, but not immortality, in the years ahead. Seigniorage and Sequestration Hamilton’s conclusion included two philosophical question both which had far reaching implications on the idea of public credit. In essence, did a government have the right to tax its own funds, and did that government have a right to sequester or confiscate the |
Red Rickshaw Revolution | Participants | Red Rickshaw Revolution The Red rickshaw Revolution (RRR) is an initiative launched by the Vodafone Foundation in India to empower women for social development in India. The revolution was started on 9 March 2013, when three women riding a red autorickshaw departed from Delhi to reach Mumbai on 18 March 2013. The rickshaws will pass through Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra to raise money for NGOs working to empower Indian women. Participants The Red rickshaw Revolution was launched by Laura Turkington, Director of the Vodafone Foundation in India, Carina Deegan, who supports the Foundation’s activities and Sunita Chaudhary, first |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Post-war to 1993 | Bramley in 1974) and three Central Vehicle Depots: Ludgershall for 'A' (armoured) vehicles, and Ashchurch and Hilton for 'B' ('soft-skinned') vehicles (CVD Marchington having closed in 1965, CVDs Feltham and Irvine in the early 1970s).
Across the UK the structure of smaller Regional Depots, Ordnance Support Units (OSUs), Training Materiel Parks, supply depots and Ammunition Sub-Depots was steadily run down. A reconfiguration in the late 1960s provided four Regional Depots (Thatcham, Hereford, Catterick and Stirling) and nine OSUs: Aldershot, Ashford, Burscough, Colchester, Feltham, Old Dalby, Thetford, Tidworth and Woolwich (which had been downgraded following the closure of the Royal Ordnance Factory |
SM UB-65 | Service history & Rediscovery | SM UB-65 Service history During her active career she sailed on six war patrols, sinking six merchant ships and damaging six more. She also sank the British Anchusa-class sloop HMS Arbutus.
The U-boat was lost off Padstow, Cornwall on or after 14 July 1918 with the loss of all her 37 crew. Rediscovery An expedition mounted in 2004 as part of the Channel 4 Wreck Detectives underwater archaeological TV series to survey a previously unidentified U-boat wreck that had been located earlier at
50.611°N 5.005°W, during a routine survey by the Royal Navy, confirmed the identity of the boat as UB-65. Inspection |
Realtime Gaming | Caribbean 21 controversy | Realtime Gaming Realtime Gaming (RTG) is an online casino company developing download-based casino software, licensed by various operators running their own branded RTG-powered casino sites. The company was established in Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, but moved all development to Heredia, Costa Rica in 2007-2008.
The company was acquired in January 2007 by Hastings International, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, a company managed by a corporate services provider called HBM Group. Caribbean 21 controversy In 2004 the company hit the news when a player won $1.3 million from a $1,000 deposit, playing Caribbean 21 for high stakes at Hampton Casino. The same player also |
Riona Kiuchi | Childhood and youth | which is a very popular and traditional part of TTK featuring a lot of original music videos and has played completely original songs since the 2005 season. Despite a newcomer, she sang the first song for the group "Sakasamasakasa" as the leading vocalist. Next year, she was entrusted with solo parts in the theme song of the 2006 season, and she also recorded a duet song "Fuyu no Ageha (Swallowtail in Winter)" with Ramu Hosoda who was the second Terebi Senshi from avex. In her final season on TTK, Kiuchi finally got an opportunity to sing a completely solo song |
Ruben F. Mettler | Career & Philanthropy | 1984, and as chairman of The Business Council from 1985 to 1986. Philanthropy In 1977, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to develop a program to promote the hiring of Vietnam veterans. He served as chairman of the United Negro College Fund. He received the Nation's Most Outstanding Electrical Engineer Award from Eta Kappa Nu in 1954, One of Ten Outstanding Young Men of America Award from the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1955, the Meritorious Civilian Service Award from the United States Department of Defense in 1969, the National Relations Award from the National Conference of Christians |
Rooster Teeth | Others | ended on September 24, 2017.
Created to test elaborate social experiments, Social Disorder follows Chris Demarais and Aaron Marquis as they compete for points as a game show. The first episode, The Body Bag Experiment, debuted on September 15, 2014, in which Demarais and Marquis had to drag each other around in a body bag trying to get bystanders to help them out. Points were awarded for making up reasons as to what was in the bag or why they were dragging the bag in the first place.
Crunch Time is a web series that initially aired in September, 2016. The original |
Rob Zicari | Career | porn directors Tom Byron and Van Damage and porn star Tiffany Mynx (who have since left the company). Janet Romano started to work for him in the same year, first as an actress and then as a director.
Beginning in 2000, Zicari and AVN Magazine engaged in a "propaganda war" against one another, and as a result, Black's products were not reviewed or advertised in that trade magazine for several years.
In 2001 Zicari (as Rob Black) unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Los Angeles, receiving 789 votes.
Rob Zicari is nephew to porn entrepreneur Charles Zicari, a.k.a. Chuck Zane and cousin to fellow |
Rabindra Singh Baniya | Theater Role Plays | directed play Jaat Sodhnu Jogiko.
He has portrayed many characters in plays like Aastha Ko Mandir, Etihash Aba Lekhinchha, Dosh Kasai ko Chaiina, Bhoko Ghar, Hareyeko Patra, Tyo ghar, New Nepal, Ek Raat and Jananta ki Dusman.
He showed even more acting prowess by acting in street plays titled Prajatantra (2056), Janata ko Prajantatra, Ujayalo Bhabishya and Hosiyar. He has continuously worked in dramas and plays that portray and shed light on the underbelly of society. He did this in his street drama For New Nepal. He then took up a project that would teach society about environmental awareness. The drama was |
Russian battleship Oryol | Service | all four Borodino-class battleships under Rozhestvensky's direct command. The ship fired the first shots of the Battle of Tsushima when the ship's captain, Nikolay Yung, ordered her to open fire at a Japanese cruiser that was shadowing the Russian formation at a range of 9,000 meters (9,800 yd). Rozhestvensky had not given any pre-battle instructions to the fleet covering this situation, but he ordered Yung to cease fire after 30 rounds had been fired without effect.
Oryol was not heavily engaged during the early part of the battle, but she was set on fire by Japanese shells during this time. About an |
Riverkeeper | Importance | of concerned citizens, the growth of networks and a meaningful sense of place.
The public trust doctrine separates private ownership from resources held in common by the public. This legal right, recognized in New York's Constitution, holds that the people own the Hudson River and all citizens have a right to its use, but none can abuse this privilege to degrade its use by others. This democratic value was offset during the Industrial Revolution when courts and legislatures overlooked the public trust and gave more power to industry. A similar erosion of another common law, nuisance law, occurred in the same |
SBV Vitesse | Vitesse II & Amateur team | reserve team (Under-21) currently plays in the Beloften Eredivisie. It plays its home matches at Papendal and it is coached by Joseph Oosting. The team is composed mostly of professional footballers, who are often recent graduates from the highest youth level (Vitesse U19) serving their first professional contract as a reserve, or players who are otherwise unable to play in the first team. Amateur team In 1984 it was decided to divide the professional and amateur sections of the club. The professional section was renamed SBV (Stichting Betaald Voetbal – "Professional Football Foundation") Vitesse whilst the amateur section became "(AVC) |
Samuel Osgood | Early life & The Revolution | the provincial congress that functioned as a revolutionary government. The Revolution Osgood led a local company of minutemen into the Battle of Lexington and Concord in the spring of 1775. They followed the retreating British, and became part of the Siege of Boston. As more troops assembled, he was made Major of a brigade while serving at Cambridge. He became an aide to General Artemas Ward, and was promoted to Colonel. When the siege succeeded in the spring of 1776 Osgood left the army and returned to the provincial congress.
The Provincial Congress named Osgood to the Massachusetts Board of War |
Rongorongo text F | Provenance | after his death. In 1930 it was traded to Stéphen Chauvet. Chauvet died in 1950; its location until Arman acquired it c. 1990 is unknown. After Arman's death in 2005 it passed to the private Merton Simpson gallery.
Several scholars, such as Guy, have doubts as to the authenticity of this tablet. However, Fischer believes it to be authentic based on "its provenance, glyphic morphology, and sequences shared with other tablets". |
Piasa | Murals | Piasa Murals The original mural was created prior to the arrival of any European explorers in the region, and possibly before 1200 CE. The location of the image was at a river-bluff terminus of the American Bottoms floodplain. It may have been an older iconograph from the large Mississippian culture city of Cahokia, which began developing about 900 CE. Cahokia was at its peak about 1200 CE, with 20,000 to 30,000 residents. It was the largest prehistoric city north of Mexico and a major chiefdom. Icons and animal pictographs, such as falcons, thunder-birds, bird men, and monstrous snakes were common |
Saidpur, Bangladesh | Transport & Sports | Rajshahi, Khulna and other divisions every day. The Nilshagor Express enhanced the train transportation. There are more than 650 buses from Saidpur to Dhaka or Chittagong or other big cities. It is a very important commercial city of Bangladesh. Sports There are two big sports stadium and play grounds are available to meet the city's sports-loving people. Many divisional and district level cricket, football, festival sports take place during the year. |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Post-war to 1993 & Formation of Royal Logistic Corps | that successfully managed huge surges in matériel. Increasingly these operations had a joint Service element. Formation of Royal Logistic Corps On 5 April 1993, following the Options for Change review, the Royal Army Ordnance Corps united with the Royal Corps of Transport, the Royal Pioneer Corps, the Army Catering Corps, and the Postal and Courier Service of the Royal Engineers, to form the Royal Logistic Corps. Later that year the RLC withdrew from the Tower of London, where the RAOC had continued to maintain a centuries-old link; and the following year the last vestige of the once-vast ordnance depot |
Residents Rally | 1989 ACT general election & Liberal-Residents Rally Alliance government | ACT at the time, and attempted to build themselves into a political force. While their power in the Assembly suffered a blow when Moore clashed with Collaery and quit the party to sit as an independent in October 1989, Residents Rally still saw themselves as a player in ACT politics, and decided to make this clear. Liberal-Residents Rally Alliance government Tensions between Residents Rally and the Follett Labor government had been building for some time. The two parties had clashed over planning issues, dealings with the federal government and concerns over potential interference with the judiciary, as well as the |
Nootka Crisis | Diplomatic responses | still the monarch and the French military was relatively intact. In response to the Nootka Crisis France mobilized its navy. But by the end of August the French government had decided it could not become involved. The National Assembly, growing in power, declared that France would not go to war. Spain's position was threatened and negotiations to avoid war began.
The Dutch Republic provided naval support to the British during the Nootka Crisis, a result of a shift in Dutch alliance from France to Britain. This was the first test of the Triple Alliance of Britain, Prussia, and the Dutch Republic.
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Peter D. Mitchell | Chemiosmotic hypothesis & Protonmotive Q-cycle & Awards and honours | energy of the electrochemical gradient to make ATP; and by the discovery by André Jagendorf that a pH difference across the thylakoid membrane in the chloroplast results in ATP synthesis. Protonmotive Q-cycle Later, Peter Mitchell also hypothesized some of the complex details of electron transport chains. He conceived of the coupling of proton pumping to quinone-based electron bifurcation, which contributes to the proton motive force and thus, ATP synthesis. Awards and honours In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory." He |
Rat Pack | 1950s | which served as a regular hangout.
Visiting members included Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Nat King Cole, Robert Mitchum, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Lena Horne, Jerry Lewis and Cesar Romero.
According to Stephen Bogart, the original members of the Holmby Hills Rat Pack were: Frank Sinatra (pack master), Judy Garland (first vice-president), Sid Luft (cage master), Bogart (rat in charge of public relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), Nathaniel Benchley (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen. In his autobiography The Moon's a Balloon, David Niven confirms that |
Saidpur, Bangladesh | Civil administration & Economy | 15 wards and 43 mahallas. A municipality mayor is elected every 5 years. Economy The city is the commercial hub for the surrounding districts. The biggest railway workshop of Bangladesh is here. The city never sleeps, it is also known as city of night. Business always runs here night and day. The city centre has a number of government and private banks, insurance companies, residential hotels, Chinese and Indian restaurants, fast food, sweet shops, gift shop and many more. It is an important economic zone in Bangladesh.
Recently local businessmen have invested in the ready-made garments sector, and they have succeeded |
Queen's Police Medal | King's Police Medal | of crime or public disorder, or of fire.
(e) Valuable political and secret services.
(f) Special services to Royalty and Heads of States.
(g) Prolonged service; but only when distinguished by very exceptional ability and merit.
Provision was also made for the forfeiture of the award in the event that a recipient was later convicted of a criminal offence.
Minor amendments to the warrant were made on 3 October 1916. On 1 October 1930, changes were made to the forfeiture provisions, no longer specifying grounds for forfeiture, but also allowing the medal to be restored again. In the 1932 New Year Honours list, a distinction |
Royers Lock | null | of the road deck on top of the gate and a rolling bridge accessible from the sides, to cover the storage chamber. |
Paleontology in West Virginia | null | Paleontology in West Virginia Paleontology in West Virginia refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of West Virginia. West Virginia's fossil record begins in the Cambrian. From that time through the rest of the early Paleozoic, the state was at least partially submerged under a shallow sea. The Paleozoic seas of West Virginia were home to creatures like corals, eurypterids, graptolites, nautiloids, and trilobites at varying times. During the Carboniferous period, the sea was replaced by lushly vegetated coastal swamps. West Virginia is an excellent source of fossil plants due to these deposits. |
Rooster Teeth | Rooster Teeth FIRST | paying members access to content before being offered to the public, in addition to extra site features, exclusive videos and merchandise. Sponsorships have been credited with "keeping the lights on" in the company's early years and a "major reason" for Rooster Teeth's growth and the first way that they monetized content.
On July 1, 2016 the ad-free "Sponsorship" program was rebranded as "FIRST" and offered a new option to upgrade to an even higher-level tier called Double Gold that included such perks as: a 10% discount on all Rooster Teeth items, first access to live event VIP passes and a box |
Run Boy | Release | Run Boy Release A music video for "Run Boy" was shot in the summer of 2008 in Los Angeles. The lead single, along with a visually electric music video premiered on People.com on March 3, 2009 and received generally positive reviews. The music video was produced by Megan M Duffy and directed by Hannah Lux Davis. Director of photography was Brett Pawlak. The album is influenced by hip-hop of the late-80s/early-90s, the British pop invasion, new wave, and contemporary artists from Motown to the hiperati.
"I know the video is not for everyone but I want ‘the kids’ to like my |
Mr. Vain | Commercial performance & Music video & Impact and legacy | a 7" vinyl single since the 1950s and heralded the demise of the 7" single as a mass market medium. Music video The music video for "Mr. Vain" was directed by Matt Broadley. It premiered in the United Kingdom on August 1993. Impact and legacy MTV Dance ranked "Mr. Vain" at number 65 in their list of The 100 Biggest 90's Dance Anthems of All Time in November 2011.
The Guardian picked "Mr. Vain" in their Sounds of Germany: a history of German pop in 10 songs in 2012. They wrote: "Culture Beat's glorious Mr Vain, with its rollicking beat, diva |
RollerJam | Creation & Overview | November 1998, a week after Thanksgiving. Overview RollerJam featured several teams of skaters competing in the fictional World Skating League (WSL). Jerry Seltzer served as on-screen WSL commissioner, although he only made a few appearances. The initial teams, each consisting of seven men and seven women, were the New York Enforcers, California Quakes, Florida Sundogs, Nevada Hot Dice, Texas Rustlers, and Illinois Riot (the original names of the latter three teams were the Las Vegas High Rollers, Texas Twisters, and Illinois Inferno; their names were changed prior to the start of the first season). Two notable veterans from Roller Games, |
Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion | Gameplay & Combat | to the likes of Fire Emblem or Super Robot Wars, units and heroes do not gain experience points to level up or gain new talents and superior combat. Players experience the game's plot via scripted cutscenes and dialogue. Combat Each turn in the game is divided into two distinct phases. Players issue up to six command points during the Command Phase. In missions where the player controls multiple factions, six more command points are granted per additional faction. Once all commands have been issued, the Battle Phase occurs. During this phase, all units and formations make their moves as assigned |
Rubyville Elementary School | Brief history | Rubyville Elementary School Brief history The Clay Local School District (CLSD) was created in 1940 to serve the residents of Clay Township and the individual communities of Eden Park, Rosemount, Rubyville, and Twin Valley. For those students who desired to go on to high school before the opening of the high school in 1940, the board of education provided their tuition to Glenwood High School or to Portsmouth High School. "There were buses to transport students to and from school, but there was no cafeteria, therefore, students brought their lunches." The first graduating class in 1940 was |
Ryan Brobbel | Club career & International career | draw with Halesowen Town on 3 October 2015.
On 1 February 2016, Brobbel signed for Welsh Premier League champions The New Saints. International career Brobbel is eligible to represent England, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland at international level, and has been on training camps with both Irish teams. He played for the Northern Ireland national under-17, under-18 and under-19 teams before making his debut for the under-21 team in a 3–0 away defeat against Malta on 30 May 2013. His first goal for the under-21s came in a 2–1 home defeat to Serbia in a 2015 UEFA European Under-21 |
Programmable logic controller | Security & Simulation | computer worm in June 2010, security of PLCs received little attention. Modern PLCs generally contain a real-time operating system such as OS-9 or VxWorks, and exploits for these systems exist much as they do for desktop computer operating systems such as Microsoft Windows. PLCs can also be attacked by gaining control of a computer they communicate with. Simulation In order to properly understand the operation of a PLC, it is necessary to spend considerable time programming, testing, and debugging PLC programs. PLC systems are inherently expensive, and down-time is often very costly. In addition, if a PLC is programmed incorrectly |
SS Kowloon No.1 | Second World War | Dirk was built for the MoWT. She was launched on 31 August 1943, and completed in November. Her port of registry was Troon. The Official Number 167650 and Code Letters BFKW were allocated. She was placed under the management of C Strubin & Son.
Empire Dirk made her maiden voyage on 28 November 1943, when she departed from the Clyde for Preston, Lancashire, arriving five days later. She departed from Preston on 10 December for the Clyde, arriving on 12 December and departing six days later for Swansea, Glamorgan, where she arrived on 22 December. She sailed from Swansea on 5 |
Resignation (House) | Plot | problem is due to high fat from fast food, Honey becomes outraged with her boyfriend. House goes as far as to get her to submit a job application to him. The episode ends with House meeting Honey in a bar. She realizes that their meeting is not a job interview, rather more of a date, and House immediately tells her about his rotten personality. Instead of being repulsed, she does not seem to mind it because House was upfront and honest about his flaws. |
Sandra Brewster | Career and work | artist-in-residence in Brazil, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago and South Africa, and her work has been published in numerous magazines, including Caribbean Beat and The Walrus.
One of Brewster's most prominent bodies of work is Smiths – a series of drawings that question identity and representation. Smiths began in 2014 when Brewster started cutting pages with the name "Smith" from phone books, and transposed these pages over afro-headed, faceless individuals. The series combines the varied personalities, desires, and personal stories of these people by applying a unified visual treatment, which removed any sense of individuality. Brewster eventually developed these drawings into a |
Recueil des historiens des croisades | Presentation | viewed in some major libraries. The 1967 reprint of the entire collection by Gregg Press can also be found in major libraries, and there are also full-text PDF files available online, which have been made available by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Gallica project. Documents can be downloaded in their entirety, or stepped through page by page, with both the original text, and a French translation. Presentation According to the introductory Report to the first volume of the Western Historians, this collection brings up to date the previous collection published in 1611 by Jacques Bongars under the |
Reception of Unaccompanied Minors from the Northern Triangle | Children in the workforce & Mental health of children | minors from attending school during the day. Stephanie Canizales, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California, works with Guatemalan youth and reported that among the participants in her study the median weekly income was $350 for working 11 hours a day, 6 days a week. Mental health of children Unaccompanied minors migrating to the United States from the Northern Triangle are considered hidden populations, a term applied to certain populations within society for which there is few observable data. In the case of unaccompanied minors, there is scarce scientific data because their illegal status can discourage their sponsors |
Robert Drewe | Critical responses | he was 29. Since the early 1970s Drewe has returned to journalism only briefly to earn money to keep himself and his family going. Yet he had built a successful career in journalism in a number of newspapers and magazines including the West Australian ( 1961–64), the Age ( 1 9 6 4 – 7 0 ), ^ Australian (1970–74) and The Bulletin (1975–76 and 1980–83).
Drewe won three major national awards including the Walkley Award (twice), Australia's version of the Pulitzer Prize. His experience ranged from investigative reporter to literary editor and columnist. From his period with the Australian on, |
Ryan Speedo Green | Life and career | Ryan Speedo Green Ryan Speedo Green (born 1 April 1986) is an American bass-baritone opera singer. Life and career Green was born in Suffolk, Virginia, and grew up in low-income housing and a trailer park. He was sent to juvenile detention at the age of 12 after he threatened to stab his mother and brother.
Green earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the Hartt School of Music, and a Master of Music at Florida State University. He won several singing competitions. In March 2011, he was one of the five winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Following an |
Saidpur, Bangladesh | Economy | in capturing a good market position in India, Nepal, Bhutan. By the help and initiative taken by SME foundation these garments are now exporting their goods in Europe, United States etc. There are some medium and heavy industries growing here, specially agricultural industry, crockery, organic fertilizer, oil from recycled tires, light metal industry, etc. There are also some good markets and shopping malls here. Communication is so good here to run a business. The pottery is also very beautiful and unique. It has captured a good market nationally and internationally.
There are 24 private and government banks in Saidpur - most |
Right to property | International conventions | Social and Cultural Rights. The European Convention on Human Rights, in Protocol 1, article 1, acknowledges a right for natural and legal persons to "peaceful enjoyment of his possessions", subject to the "general interest or to secure the payment of taxes". also see Bill of Rights. International conventions Property rights are also recognised in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination which states in Article 5 that everyone has the right to equality before the law without distinction as to race, colour and national or ethnic origin, including the "right to own property alone as |
Prime meridian (Greenwich) | History | to establish an internationally recognised single meridian. The meridian chosen was that which passed through the Airy transit circle at Greenwich and it became the prime meridian.
At around the time of this conference, scientists were making measurements to determine the deflection of the vertical on a large scale. One might expect that plumb lines set up in various locations, if extended downward, would all pass through a single point, the centre of the Earth, but this is not the case, primarily due to the Earth being an ellipsoid, not a sphere. The downward extended plumb lines don't even all intersect |
Saint-Ambroise (Paris Métro) | History & Platforms | first in a series of 273 futures to benefit from the components. However, its corridors were only modernised on 20 December 2005.
In 2018, 3,037,654 passengers entered this station which places it at the 183rd out of 302. Platforms Saint-Ambroise is a standard configuration station It has two platforms separated by metro tracks and the arch is elliptical. The decoration is the style used for the majority of metro stations. The lighting strips are white and rounded in the Gaudin style of the metro revival of the 2000s (although they have a second row of reflectors, a prototype variant that was |
Samuel Hole | Life | father’s parish of St. Andrew's Church, Caunton, firstly as curate and from 1850 as its vicar. A prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral and an honorary chaplain to Edward Benson, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, he became Dean of Rochester in 1887. Noted for his expertise with roses and an inaugural recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Victoria Medal of Honour.
There are two memorials to Hole at Rochester Cathedral. The most impressive is a recumbent marble life-size figure by F. W. Pomeroy.
Dean Hole is further remembered on the number 3 bell at Rochester: "In remembrance of S. Reynolds Hole, Dean. |
Ruslan Tarpan | Business activity | of Ukraine and cities` municipalities.
Since 2012 until now Ruslan Tarpan has been actively seeking new markets for construction and investment projects, periodically participating in tenders in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa, as well as collaborating at the invitation of the government agencies of countries of these regions in the pre-contract services on the most socially significant projects, dominantly, water supply and sanitation projects, hydrotechnical structures, hospitals, medical centers.
In this course, he and his company's teams of experts have been periodically performing consulting services and participating in tenders, basically, related to water supply and sanitation projects (concepts |
Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google, Inc. | Subsequent Development & Implications | the three-year-old trademark infringement lawsuit between them and to meaningfully collaborate to combat online ads for counterfeit goods and prevent the misuse and abuse of trademarks on the Internet." The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Implications Google relies on AdWord as a primary revenue generator for its $60 billion business. Though it is unknown how much of that revenue is trademark related, a negative ruling could have significantly affected Google's revenue.
After the Second Circuit's decision in Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc. it has become fairly settled that keyword advertising satisfies the 'use in commerce' prong of direct |
Rotvoll controversy | Key events | there were few activists left at the camp, and in early October Statoil sent a letter to them informing them that they would start construction soon. On 10 October 1991 the police woke the activists and informed them that Statoil was to start construction. This resulted in a quick mobilisation and 75 activists refusing to move in civil disobedience. They were removed by the police, and that day the construction workers did as much damage as possible to hinder more actions, but the next day 65 people let themselves be arrested to hinder construction. The following day a legal demonstration |
Rovin | Rovin Type D2 & Rovin Type D3 | mm in length and with a 1700 mm wheelbase, and light-weight construction allowed for an empty weight of just 300 Kg. The vehicle now had two headlights. The engine was still at the back, but a small hatch in the body work right at the front of the car provided access to the battery.
Although most sales were in France, the car was also advertised in the francophone western Swiss press and exhibited at the Geneva Motor Show early in 1948.
During 1947 and 1948 approximately 700 D2s were produced. Rovin Type D3 The D3 was little changed |
Rehearsal letter | Purpose | even version, they are also useful for telling applicants for positions in the orchestra what passages they need to play at the audition. They are also useful for easy reference in scholarly essays about orchestral works. However, rehearsal letters are altogether absent from some editions of some pieces that have them in other editions, such as the older editions of Richard Wagner's Meistersinger prelude.
Rehearsal letters are less useful in unaccompanied instrumental music such as the solo piano repertoire (although they may be used in duets), since the instrumentalist has no need to communicate to a fellow player where to resume |
Robert Niblock | Early life and education & Career | Robert Niblock Early life and education Niblock is the youngest of four children and the first person in his immediate family to attend college. He worked to pay his own way through college, earning a bachelor's degree in accounting from the Belk College of Business at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. Career Before Lowe's, Niblock had a nine-year career with accounting firm Ernst & Young.
Niblock joined Lowe's in 1993 and became, and has served as director of taxation, vice president and treasurer (1997–1998), senior vice president (1999–2000), executive vice president (2001–2003) and chief |
SR Merchant Navy class | Performance of the modified locomotives | result of hammerblow, caused by the balance weights for the outside Walschaerts valve gear, whereas the original valve gear design was largely self-balanced. On 26 June 1967, 35003 Royal Mail recorded the highest speed ever for the class. Hauling a train comprising three carriages and two parcels vans (164 tons tare, 180 tons gross) between Weymouth and Waterloo, the mile between milepost 38 and milepost 37 (located between Winchfield and Fleet) was covered in 34 seconds, a speed of 105.88 mph. This was also the last authenticated speed in excess of 100 mph achieved by a steam locomotive in the United Kingdom, |
Sandy Petersen | Biography | games.
He left id Software for Ensemble Studios in June 1997. There, he has worked as a game designer on several of their Age of Empires titles, including Rise of Rome, Age of Kings, and The Conquerors. During this time, he was a frequent poster on the HeavenGames forums under the username ES_Sandyman. He ran an extremely popular series of threads, "Ask Sandyman", where forum members could ask him about anything they wanted.
Petersen was the Executive Producer for the movie The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) which was nominated for awards at the Chicago and Warsaw International Film Festivals. It was produced |
SS Norlom | SS Editor & SS Empire Dunlin | She loaded a cargo of scrap iron, "special cargo", steel and vehicles. She was due to sail with Convoy HX 114, which departed on 11 March for the British port of Liverpool, Lancashire but she did not sail. Instead Editor departed on 20 March as a member of Convoy SC 26, which arrived at Liverpool on 8 April. Her destination was Manchester, Lancashire. SS Empire Dunlin Editor was then transferred to the MoWT and renamed Empire Dunlin. She was allocated the United Kingdom Official Number 168161 and the Code Letters GNLL. Her port of registry was changed to London and |
Robert Edward Difenderfer | Biography | retail confectionery business at Jenkintown, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1923. Interment in Westminster Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd. |
Saidpur, Bangladesh | Education & Transport | Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dinajpur. It has one of the major university co-ordinated by Bangladesh Army named Bangladesh Army University of Science and Technology (BAUST). It offers major undergraduate courses like EEE, CSE, ME, IPE and BBA. Source University website www.baust.edu.bd. Transport The city is well connected to the major cities of the country by railway, bus highways and airways. Saidpur Airport is the only airport in Rangpur Division. The services of Biman Bangladesh, Regent Airways, US-Bangla Airlines and Novoair is available on Saidpur Airport. There are many intercity train services from Saidpur to capital city Dhaka, |
Sakata District, Shiga | null | Sakata District, Shiga Sakata (坂田郡 Sakata-gun) was a district located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 41,126 and a density of 184.34 persons per km². The total area is 223.10 km².
By the time of founding, the district compromise the areas of the cities of Maibara, Hikone Toriimoto area, and the city Nagahama (former city). On April 1, 1943, the city of Nagahama (former city) was formed, and in 1952, the village of Toriimoto was merged into the city of Hikone. On February 14, 2005, the towns of Ibuki, Santō, and Maihara merged to |
Richard Court | Departure from politics & Post-political life | was forced to resign from parliament the next day, leaving Barnett to take the leadership unopposed in the ensuing party room ballot. Post-political life On 9 June 2003 Richard Court was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). The award cited "[his] service to the Western Australian Parliament and to the community, particularly the Indigenous community, and in the areas of child health research and cultural heritage and to economic development through negotiating major resource projects including the export of gas to China furthering the interests of the nation as a whole."
In November 2016, Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Programmable logic controller | Programming & Functionality | ladder diagram (LD), structured text (ST; similar to the Pascal programming language), instruction list (IL; similar to assembly language), and sequential function chart (SFC). These techniques emphasize logical organization of operations.
While the fundamental concepts of PLC programming are common to all manufacturers, differences in I/O addressing, memory organization, and instruction sets mean that PLC programs are never perfectly interchangeable between different makers. Even within the same product line of a single manufacturer, different models may not be directly compatible. Functionality The functionality of the PLC has evolved over the years to include sequential relay control, motion control, process control, distributed |
Rigault Deproux RD-3 | null | Rigault Deproux RD-3 The Rigault-Deproux RD-3 was a tourism gyroplane built by the French company Rigault-Deproux in the 1960s. |
Red Bank Battlefield | Park features | General Hugh Mercer, killed at the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777.) remain. The prominent historical feature of the park is the remains of the ditch which surrounded the now-gone earthworks. Around these works and along the riverbank are several period cannons, including four raised from the wrecks of the British man-of-war HMS Augusta and a British sloop, HMS Merlin. The three American cannons facing the Whitall House were found in 1935 buried on the site. Nearer to the Whitall House, a preserved section of the chevaux-de-frise river defenses of the Fort Mercer and Fort Mifflin system is displayed, along |
Robin Morton (cycling) | 1980-82 | Robin Morton (cycling) Robin Morton is an American former cycling team manager and was the first and only female manager in men's professional cycling. She also created the first Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) registered American professional road racing team in 1984. Cycling in Europe is a traditionally male sport and includes rules prohibiting women from the race caravans. At managers' meetings prior to races in Europe, the race organization would vote on whether Morton would be allowed to ride in the team car. Robin was elected to the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2016. 1980-82 Morton's first involvement with |
Richard Bridgeman, 7th Earl of Bradford | Career | Hertfordshire, where he opened Porters Restaurant in Berkhamsted. The restaurant closed on 30th September 2018.
From 1986 to 1999 he was Chairman of Weston Park Enterprises. Because the 6th Earl left the family with large death duties, Bradford gifted his home Weston Park and 1,000 acres to the nation in 1986, with the support of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, to the Weston Park Foundation.
As of 1998, he is Chairman of VIP Internet Ltd, a website design company, which also operates its own websites, such as Stately-Homes.com, now sold, and A-London-Guide.com.
In 2001, he was a candidate for political office, running |
SM UB-65 | Previous beliefs regarding loss | be a buoy on the horizon. Moving closer, Captain Forster found that it was actually a German submarine, only later to be identified as UB-65. It was listing heavily on the water's surface, seemingly disabled. Forster guided his sub around it, hoping to line up a torpedo shot. But before he could do so, the crippled vessel was torn apart by a huge explosion. UB-65 rose up on its bows and sank. There were no survivors and no bodies were ever recovered. The sound of small propellers and an underwater signalling device could be heard for a short while after |
Renee McGinnis | Biography and career | by Zg Gallery in Chicago. |
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