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Warlock (1989 film) | Plot & Production | Grimoire and buries it in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Production Screenwriter David Twohy first conceived the story as a reversal of what the film ultimately became. "I spent, if not wasted, a good six to eight weeks trying to make the warlock somebody who was persecuted during the witch craze of the 17th... |
Wannia | Discovery and naming & Description | on correlations with the Opponitzer Limestone of Austria, using the presence of Dolerosaurus, which was previously considered to be a member of Paleorhinus. However, recent zircon radiometric dating suggests that the Santa Rosa Sandstone is equivalent to the Norian-aged Shinarump Member. Furthermore, the Post Quarry wh... |
Tig Trager | Season 5 | officer, then uses the officer's sidearm to shoot the "cleaner" to death. The last that is seen of Tig in the premiere episode is him sobbing at the sight of his daughter's body.
Tig is later found by Jax, Chibs, and Bobby. They go to find Fawn to protect her from Pope. Following an altercation with a black man Tig bel... |
Veterans Health Administration | Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 | facilities across the nation. The report details the many veterans who have died waiting for health care as a result of the VA misconduct. Secret waiting lists, poor patient care, the millions of dollars that are intended for health care that has gone unspent every year and reports of bonuses paid out to employees who ... |
Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 | Background | Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 Background Both pro and anti amendment groups formed to sway voters. The "Don't Amend Alliance" organized in spring, much earlier than pro-amendment groups. The Alliance raised hundreds of thousands dollars, catching supporters of the amendment by surprise. They responded with the "Yes! ... |
Surfing the Healthcare Tsunami | Story Power | and their families in dialogue about solutions for healthcare. |
Triton (comics) | Fictional character biography & Powers and abilities | stasis tank alongside Naja, Sterilon, and other unnamed Inhumans as they are being experimented on by the Kree. Powers and abilities Triton is a member of the Inhuman race, artificially mutated by the Terrigen Mist, giving him scaly greenish skin, a small dorsal fin running from the base of the skull to the forehead, m... |
Up (2009 film) | Critical response | has been compared with Spencer Tracy, an influence on the character, by The Washington Post editor Ann Hornaday and Empire Online editor Ian Freer, who describes him as similar to a "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner-era" Tracy.Entertainment Weekly editor Lisa Schwarzbaum described his appearance as a cross between Tracy an... |
WHLX | Second sale | On May 17, 1987, Richard S. Sommerville, who by this time owned WCEN-AM/FM in Mount Pleasant, sold WSMA to Frink, Inc., under a land contract agreement to pay for the station in monthly installments of $1,845. However, in a letter to the FCC dated November 7, 1990, Washington attorney Earl Stanley stated that Sommervi... |
Uzan Group | null | Uzan Group Uzan Group was a Turkish conglomerate owned by Cem Uzan. The Group formerly owned (via the Star Media Group) Star TV, which it had founded as the first private broadcaster of the country, Metro FM, and the Star newspaper it launched in 1999. Other group companies included the Telsim mobile network and Imar B... |
Waking Season | Critical reception | Waking Season Critical reception The album has garnered mainly positive reviews, receiving critical acclaim from various publications. The aggregate review site Metacritic assigned an average score of 89 to the album based on 5 reviews, indicating "Universal Acclaim". Spin Magazine's Christopher R. Weingarten labeled W... |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea | In Native American cuisine | Inupiat use the berries to make two different desserts, one where the berries are whipped with frozen fish eggs and eaten, and they mash raw berries with canned milk and seal oil. They also make a dish of the berries which is cooked with fish eggs, fish (whitefish, sheefish or pike) and blubber.
The Upper Tanana boil t... |
Van der Woude syndrome | Genetics | contains two non-coding and seven coding exons and is part of a family of nine transcription factors with a highly conserved helix-turn-helix DNA binding domain called the Smad-interferon regulatory factor binding domain (SMIR). Mutations in coding or non-coding IRF6 exons can result in Van der Woude syndrome. Due to ... |
WIBR | History | 15, 2005 and was briefly replaced with urban music, until WIBR debuted an African-American oriented "urban talk" format. The station featured a lineup of syndicated talk shows mostly produced by Radio One, including a program hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton.
On February 19, 2007, the station switched to the format of sports... |
Trigarium | Religious use | religions, the couple are sometimes represented as the Sun and Moon. Pluto's chariot is drawn by the four horses characteristic of rulers and Sun gods. Horse racing along with the propitiation of underworld gods was characteristic of "old and obscure" Roman festivals such as the Consualia, the October Horse, the Tauria... |
Virgilio Enriquez | Education and Academic Career | Virgilio Enriquez Education and Academic Career Enriquez got his masteral and doctoral degrees in Social Psychology from Northwestern University. he started teaching Psychology in the University of the Philippines in the year 1963, and in 1965, he started using the Filipino language in teaching Psychology. In 1966, he ... |
Valentine Ackland | Life | controversial for its frank discussion of lesbianism at a time and in a society in which lesbianism was regarded as deviant and immoral behaviour.
In 1937, Ackland and Warner moved from rural Dorset to a house near Dorchester. Both became involved with Communist ideals and issues, with Ackland writing a column "Country... |
Tim O'Leary | Marriage | weds would have nowhere to live until Mick agreed to let them stay at No 5 while he and Yvonne were away on holiday.
Emily persuaded Tinhead to hold a party at the Johnson house while Mick was away, and although this seemed a good idea, things turned nasty after Sotto and Weller (two of Tinhead's ex-cell mates) turned ... |
Unified communications | History | to bring this skill in-house and thereby reduce the requirement to notify the phone company or their local PBX vendor each time a change was required in the system. This increasing privatization triggered the development of more powerful software that increased the usability and manageability of the system.
As compani... |
WEGL | History | In June 1977, the station began broadcasting in stereo. The last song broadcast in mono was Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the first song broadcast in stereo was "You've Got A Cold" by 10CC.
In 1988, the station upgraded its power to 3,000 watts and became a Class A Non-Commercial radio station. During the 1989-19... |
To Sir, with Love II | Plot | To Sir, with Love II Plot Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier), from British Guiana by way of California, took a teaching position in a London East End school in the 1967 film. He spent twenty years teaching and ten in administrative roles. He has taught the children of his former pupils, and is now retiring.
Thackeray's fo... |
Toshiya Sugiuchi | 2010 & Pitching style | out nine Fighters. A much relieved Sugiuchi then famously broke down in tears at the Hero's interview as he admitted that he finally delivered during the pennant race. Pitching style Sugiuchi is a left-handed pitcher with a clean three-quarters delivery that he repeats well from pitch to pitch. Even by Japanese standar... |
Tig Trager | Season 1 & Season 2 | before he shot her, Jax came in and stopped him from doing it at gunpoint. Jax told Chibs and Happy to leave and threatened the witness into leaving the state. He then beat up Tig for killing Donna. Season One ended at Donna's funeral the next day, which was attended by Sons of Anarchy from all over the country. There,... |
Watershed (Bristol) | History & Film | Watershed (Bristol) History The centre opened in 1982, in an area of the city which was then mainly derelict. The transit sheds, dating from 1894, had fallen into disrepair but had Grade II listed building status. By 2004, it was attracting more than half a million visitors per year. A major refurbishment in 2004/5 cos... |
Water vascular system | Sea stars & Ophiuroids | also contains some protein and high levels of potassium salts. Ophiuroids Ophiuroids, the group including brittle stars and basket stars, have a somewhat different water vascular system from sea stars, despite their superficially similar appearance. The madreporite is located on the underside of the animal, usually in ... |
ULTra (rapid transit) | Heathrow new PRT (deferred proposal) & Amritsar, India (failed proposal) | and has been deferred.
There were also plans to extend the PRT throughout the airport and to nearby hotels by using 400 pods. Amritsar, India (failed proposal) In December 2011 Ultra-Fairwood (a joint venture) announced a plan to build an 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) elevated guideway in a "Y" shaped network in Amritsar, Indi... |
WHLX | First sale & Second sale | years. For a time, WSMA maintained a small sales office in Port Huron, across the street from competitors WHLS and WSAQ. Despite the challenges, WSMA produced a modest profit during its early years.
The Port Huron office closed when the station began to fail in the late 1980s, not long after coming under the control ... |
Unreasonable search and seizure in New Zealand | Search and Surveillance Act 2012 & Unlawfulness vs unreasonableness | of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 accommodate the need to protect against unreasonable search and seizure. Therefore, cases involving possible unreasonable searches or seizures will involve significant consideration of whether the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 has been complied with. Unlawfulness vs unreasonab... |
Verband Deutscher Tonmeister | null | are Peter K. Burkowitz (developer of the REDD mixing console at EMI's Abbey Road Studios; writer of the technical part of Recording the Beatles), David Griesinger (of Lexicon) and Eberhard Sengpiel. |
Vero Beach High School | Academics | to give students the opportunity to take college-level classes at the college, online, or during the summer.
The Honors Program at Vero Beach High School spans all subjects. Honors courses can be found in English, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign language, art, and vocational classes. To graduate with hono... |
Trade Control and Expert System | SHIFT network | with the Health controls of Import of items of veterinary concern at Frontier inspection posts from Third countries."
The need for developing SHIFT was expressed in the decision 88/192/CEE of the Council on 28 March 1988.
Article 1 stated, "The Commission shall be responsible for drawing up a programme for the developm... |
WWF Hasbro action figures | Unreleased prototypes & Commonly-traded error cards and variants | Jarrett, a new Undertaker with purple gloves and no hat, a repaint of the first Doink, and Diesel.
There was also plans for a series 13 (to be released as assortment #2 in 1995). This wave would've included: a new Bret Hart (rumored), a new Diesel (different from series 12, this one would've featured Diesel wearing sun... |
VK 4501 (P) | Development & Design | for production instead.
The VK 45.01 (P) chassis was later chosen to be the basis of a new heavy Jagdpanzer (although designated a Panzerjäger) which would eventually be called the Ferdinand and mount the new, longer, 88 mm Pak 43/2.
Only one tank went into service as a command tank in the Ferdinand (Elefant) unit, and... |
Watershed (Bristol) | Digital media | and UWE set up to support interdiscplinary research and development. The Pervasive Media Studio was previously located in the Leadworks building in Anchor Square Bristol until 2011, when it moved to the Watershed building. |
Vincenzo Tommasone | Biography | Vincenzo Tommasone Biography Born in Cassino, Lazio region, Tommasone started his career at Molisan club A.C. Venafro. He then signed by Serie A club S.S. Lazio, which he was a player for their under-15 team in 2009–10 season. In summer 2012 he returned to Molise region for Sesto Campano, only left for another Serie A ... |
V12 engine | Characteristics | by tight railway clearances or street widths, while the length of the vehicle is more flexible. It is often used in marine engines where great power is required, and the hull width is limited, but a longer vessel allows faster hull speed.
In twin-propeller boats, two V12 engines can be narrow enough to sit side-by-sid... |
Under officer | United Kingdom | and in the University Officers Training Corps (although these latter are not strictly trainee officers), and is also the highest rank that can be held by cadets in the Combined Cadet Force and Army Cadet Force. There are two separate appointments: junior under officer (JUO) and senior under officer (SUO). They are usua... |
Wadham College Boat Club | History | Wadham College Boat Club History The first official record of the boat club’s existence appears in 1837 when the club was officially constituted. The Wadham 1st Eight competed in the first ever race of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1839, and narrowly lost to Trinity College, Cambridge. This defeat ... |
Walton War | Course of the war | War consisted of no real battles. Either way, these confrontations were usually violent, and even led to the war's only definite casualty. On December 14, 1804, John Havner was killed after being hit in the head with a musket. Havner's death led to the decision of the Buncombe County government to bring in the militia ... |
Up All Night (TV series) | Reviews | the writing for Rudolph's character commenting that "Will Arnett and Christina Applegate are playing parents, but Maya Rudolph is playing a sitcom character". Despite this, the performance of the main cast members has received praise from critics. Some critics compared Rudolph's role to her impersonation of Oprah Winfr... |
V12 engine | Large diesel engines | of power ratings. Many diesel locomotives have V12 engines. Examples include the 3,200 hp (2.39 MW) 12-710 from Electro-Motive Diesel and the 4,400 hp (3.28 MW) GEVO-12 from GE Transportation.
Large V12 engines are also common in ships. For example, Wärtsilä offers V12 engines with various cylinder bore diameters betwe... |
VC Leipzig | History | titles and in 1964 won the CEV European Champions Cup (against the Yugoslavian Mladost), the first European triumph for any East German sport club. Also, Leipzig won five titles in the eighties, before the German reunification.
In 2000 the club changed its name to the more German VV Leipzig (Volleyball-Verein Leipzig),... |
Walter Howchin | Australia & Legacy | rocks, that he referred to as the 'Cambrian series' of the Mount Lofty Ranges, but are now known to be Permian, which gave rise to much controversy. For much of this later period of his life he was closely associated with another great Australian geologist of his era, Edgeworth David. Legacy Howchin died in Adelaide on... |
Walter C. Oechel | Research | H₂O, energy and latter CH₄.
During the 1980s, Oechel led a team studying global warming at Toolik Lake and Barrow, Alaska to measure the greenhouse gases emitted by high Arctic vegetation, where they found evidence that the ground was emitting more gases than it was absorbing, changing the previous understanding of how... |
Veterans Health Administration | Eligibility for VA health care benefits | duty in order to be eligible. The minimum duty requirement may not apply to veterans who were discharged for a disability incurred in the line of duty, for a hardship or "early out." The VA determines the minimum requirements when the veteran enrolls for VA health care benefits.
To apply for entry into the VA health ca... |
Suparshvanatha | Iconography | in Parshvanatha icons. Statues of both tirthankaras with serpent hoods have been found in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, dating to the 5th to 10th centuries.
Unlike Parshvantha who is depicted with coils of snake behind the body, Suparshva is depicted with snake hood only overhead. Suparshva's emblem of swastika is carv... |
Weather lore | Where weather happens & Sayings which may be locally accurate & Fallibility of lore & Empirical studies | reversed for the Australian reader. Sayings which may be locally accurate Folkloric content usually has some locally based observational validity which allows these sayings to stand the test of time. Some of these observations may even have scientific explanations. Below are some of such examples. Fallibility of lore O... |
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications | ABC News at UF & The Center for Public Interest Communications | University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications ABC News at UF ABC News opened a "mini-bureau" at the College of Journalism and Communications in September 2008. It was one of five universities chosen for the ABC News on Campus program, along with Arizona State University, Syracuse University, the Unive... |
Watershed (Bristol) | Digital media | at Watershed, project resources and short original digital productions. ElectricDecember.org is an annual online advent calendar which has run since 1999.
Watershed subsidiary, iShed, was established in 2007 to produce creative collaborations, support new ideas, explore emerging technologies and develop talent. In 2016... |
WAVY-TV | News operation | aircraft in their newscasts, known as "Drone 10".
When WVBT made the switch to Fox in 1998, WAVY started producing a nightly 10 o'clock newscast on that station. It was not the market's first prime time show as CBS affiliate WTKR produced a short-lived newscast on WGNT from 1995 until 1997. ABC affiliate WVEC-TV also p... |
Veterans Health Administration | Evaluations | "Patients routinely rank the veterans system above the alternatives", according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index. In 2008, the VHA got a satisfaction rating of 85 for inpatient treatment, compared with 77 for private hospitals. In the same report VHA outpatient care scored 3 points higher than for private ho... |
Up (2009 film) | Release | to the film's worldwide release date, Pixar granted a wish from ten-year-old Colby Curtin to see the film before she died. Colby had a rare form of vascular cancer and was too sick to go to a theater. A Pixar employee flew to the Curtins' house with a DVD of the finished film and screened it for her and her family. Cur... |
Virgen de los desamparados | General hospital | General hospital In 1512, the leaders of the city combined all the city's charitable works into one general hospital. However, in 1545, the General Hospital of Valencia was destroyed by a fire in which 30 patients perished. A new hospital, the Hospital of Saragossa, was built with an specialised area for the care of ch... |
Victorine Goddard | null | Victorine Goddard Victorine Goddard (5 October 1844–12 October 1935) was a New Zealand homemaker and hotel-keeper. She was born in Waiwhakaiho, Taranaki, New Zealand on 5 October 1844. |
Toshiya Sugiuchi | 2010 | starter, he put together a fairly good April, recording a complete-game shutout of the Fighters on the 9th, and he also struck out at least nine batters in all of his starts during the month. However, in his first and last starts of the month, Sugiuchi gave up five runs. Despite having a rough start on May 16, an int... |
University of Leicester | Business & English | Department of Economics. The new school now has approximately 150 academic staff, 50 from Economics and 100 from Management. In 2010 the former School of Management was ranked 2nd after Oxford University by the Guardian.
The School of Business provides postgraduate and undergraduate programmes in Management, Accounting... |
Wayne, Lafayette County, Wisconsin | Demographics | and 8.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.2% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over. |
Viking 2 | Search for life | after the recent discovery of near-surface ice near the Viking landing zone. Some scientists still believe the results were due to living reactions. No organic chemicals were found in the soil.
Mars has almost no ozone layer, unlike the Earth, so UV light sterilizes the surface and produces highly reactive chemicals s... |
V12 engine | Early aero engines | pounds (289 kg). Its RAF 4a derivative was produced in substantial numbers during the war.
By 1912 ABC Motors were offering a water-cooled engine of 17.4 L (1,060 cu in), claimed to produce 170 bhp (130 kW) at 1,400 rpm and weigh 390–520 pounds (180–240 kg) with radiator and coolant.
In March 1914 Sunbeam exhibited an ... |
Wacey Rabbit | Playing career | Milwaukee Admirals on October 2, 2009. In the 2009–10 season, Rabbit appeared in 76 games with the Admirals, however failed to establish himself and posted a professional career low 18 points.
Without an NHL offer, Rabbit left North America and secured a try-out as a free agent with Croatian team KHL Medveščak of the E... |
Vicente Lombardo Toledano | Early career & Formation of the CTM and alliance with Cárdenas | Lázaro Cárdenas and the ruling Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM), a rival to the Labor Party associated with CROM. Lombardo Toledano was the secretary general of the CTM from 1936 to 1940. Formation of the CTM and alliance with Cárdenas Outside the CROM, Lombardo Toledano began to build a rival federation that com... |
Waukesha County gangsters | Zuta's Hit | Goodman" at the Lake View Resort on Upper Lake Nemahbin in the town of Summit. Knowing it was only a matter of time before Capone's hit squad caught up with him, Zuta made a desperate call from an Oconomowoc drug store, begging for body guards to escort him down to Chicago. Unfortunately for him, he was overheard. Arou... |
Volkoff Industries | Vivian McArthur | also Chuck's mother. Vivian accuses Chuck of being Agent X, but Chuck reveals that Vivian's father was Agent X. Riley twists this information to further his attempt at manipulating and shaping Vivian, only to be shot by Sarah. Vivian is shown to have transitioned from a victim to a villain when she seeks revenge agains... |
WLSS | Programming and history | WLSS Programming and history The content of WLSS's talk programming is conservative with show hosts such as Phil Grande of The Phil's Gang Radio Show, Hugh Hewitt and Mike Gallagher. The weekend show line up includes Kim Komando and John Ziegler.
WLSS also serves as the Sarasota affiliate of the Florida Gators radio ne... |
Water vascular system | Sea stars | is quite powerful but extremely slow.
The central ring canal, in addition to connecting the radial canals to each other and to the stone canal, also has a number of other specialised structures on the inner surface. In between each radial canal, in many sea star species, there lies a muscular sac called a polian vesicl... |
Vienna Game | Falkbeer Variation: 2...Nf6 & 3.a3 | Vienna Game Falkbeer Variation: 2...Nf6 White has three main options: 3.f4, 3.Bc4, and 3.g3. Note that 3.Nf3 transposes to the Petrov's Three Knights Game, which after 3...Nc6 leads to the Four Knights Game. 3.a3 In addition to these lines, the late American master Ariel Mengarini advocated the whimsical 3.a3, sometime... |
Weather lore | Other feast days | identical with that attributed to St Swithun in England, while in Flanders there is St Godelieve (July 6) and in Germany the Seven Sleepers Day (June 27).
In Russia, the weather on the feast of the Protecting Veil is popularly believed to indicate the severity of the forthcoming winter.
There was an old proverb from Ro... |
Volcano: The Blast Coaster | History & Ride experience | built in 1979, was demolished in May 2019. Ride experience Volcano's layout simulated the path of a volcanic eruption. Upon boarding one of two trains at the base of the mountain, riders made a slow turn left out of the station. The train then moved into its first of two launch tracks, which accelerated the train to 70... |
Trinity Presbyterian School | Academics & Christian Studies Program | and physiology, French, Latin, Spanish, art history, and studio art.
Annually, Trinity School produces a drama production in which all high school students are encouraged to participate. Christian Studies Program Students are required to enroll in one Christian Studies class per semester per year.
The 9th grade studie... |
Tomás Paschetta | Career | Tomás Paschetta Career Before playing at senior level for Nueva Chicago, Paschetta spent time in the youth of Defensores de Belgrano. In 2015, Nueva Chicago selected the defender on the substitutes bench for a Primera División fixture but he didn't come on in a goalless draw with Colón; that came in a season which conc... |
Venice TV Awards | null | Venice TV Awards The Venice TV Awards are international television prizes that are awarded every September in Venice. Two weeks after the Venice International Film Festival judges from all over the world meet to select the winner in 14 categories. The prerequisite for a nomination is that the production must have been ... |
Władysław Kiełbasa | null | the Przemsza River, Kiełbasa was struck by shrapnel and killed.
He was awarded several medals including the Virtuti Militari (Class V and IV), Krzyż Niepodległości (Cross of Independence), Krzyż Kawalerski (Cavalier's Cross), Krzyż Walecznych (Cross of Valor) twice, and the Cross of Merit (Gold) twice. |
Weather lore | Calendrical lore & January & February & July | lore There are weather lore marked by dates on the year's calendar. January The Hispanic tradition of cabañuelas predicts the weather for the year based on the 12, 18 or 24 days of January or August. February There are weather lore around February 2, known as Candlemas, Brigid's Day, or St. Blaise's Day (St. Blaze's Da... |
Volkoff Industries | Organization | Venezuela and Hong Kong. Like Fulcrum and The Ring before it, Volkoff Industries is the central antagonist of Chuck's fourth season. Little other specific information has been revealed so far in the series, other than that they use a number of other companies as public fronts for their arms shipments. John Casey and Sa... |
Thomas DeMarco | BC Lions & Ottawa Redblacks | led the team on a late drive down the field, which set up a 42-yard Paul McCallum field goal to win the game 24-22. He finished the game going 18 for 33, with 208 yards and 2 touchdowns. DeMarco would struggle the following weeks, eventually getting replaced by Buck Pierce during the October 19 game against Edmonton. L... |
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem | Reaction | hypothesis is that rationality can be modeled as maximizing an expected value, which given the theorem, can be summarized as "rationality is VNM-rationality". However, the axioms themselves have been critiqued on various grounds, resulting in the axioms being given further justification.
VNM-utility is a decision utili... |
Volcanic gas | Composition | Volcanic gas Composition The principal components of volcanic gases are water vapor (H₂O), carbon dioxide (CO₂), sulfur either as sulfur dioxide (SO₂) (high-temperature volcanic gases) or hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) (low-temperature volcanic gases), nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, methane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Othe... |
Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 | Court challenge | Reyes named Gene C. Schaerr, former law clerk to Supreme Court Justices Warren Burger and Antonin Scalia, as lead outside counsel to make Utah's case to the Tenth Circuit. Schaerr was to be aided in the appeal by former Michigan Solicitor General John Bursch and Idaho Attorney (and former U.S. Attorney for the District... |
Via Caecilia | null | Via Caecilia Via Caecilia, an ancient highroad of Italy, which diverged from the Via Salaria at the 35th mile (56 km) from Rome, and ran by Amiternum to the Adriatic coast, passing probably by Hadria (Atri). A branch ran to Interamna Praetuttiorum (Teramo) and thence probably to the sea at Castrum Novum (Giulianova), a... |
Verbena bonariensis | Cultivation & Invasive species | has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Invasive species V. bonariensis self-seeds readily. This ability has raised concerns that it may become an invasive species and noxious weed in favorable habitats. It has naturalized in a number of southern United States.
Presently, the plant is on the... |
Volkoff Industries | Barbara & Dasha | in: Chuck Versus the Leftovers. Dasha Dasha (Ana Gasteyer) is a Volkoff agent who kidnapped Chuck and "Gregory Tuttle"—actually Volkoff himself in disguise—during Chuck's rogue attempt to clear his mother's name. Chuck and Tuttle escaped her custody by parachuting out of an airplane on which they were being transported... |
Van der Woude syndrome | Genetics & Pathophysiology | expected to be deleterious. This study is not the first case of different phenotypes occurring between monozygotic twins. Possible causes of phenotypic variability include variations in the intrauterine environment, epigenetic differences, or chance effects. Pathophysiology Lip pits were first reported in 1845 by Dem... |
Wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones | Reactions & Guest list | Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, which took place at the larger St Paul's Cathedral. One called it the "people's wedding", and 8,000 people were picked at random and invited into the castle grounds. The wedding ceremony was positively received by the public, and parties were held at different places in the street... |
V12 engine | V12 road cars | AMG, CL65 AMG, and SL65 AMG are powered by a V12 Bi Turbo engine making 463 kW (621 hp) and 1,000 N⋅m (740 lbf⋅ft) at 2,300-4,300 rpm. The CL65 AMG has a significant higher cost, but the V12 engine makes them a status symbol.
The V12 engine is generally smoother than the other 12-cylinder configuration, the W12, althou... |
Vivian Beer | Early life & Education & Career | Vivian Beer Vivian Beer is an American designer of metal furniture. Her furniture and sculptures primarily take on contemporary and abstract forms focusing on creating objects that interfere with the landscape. Early life In 1977, Beer was born in Bar Harbor, Maine. Education In 2000, Beer received a Bachelor’s degree ... |
Up All Night (TV series) | Reviews | show's main innovation is creating a reliable stay-at-home dad whose wife still wants to sleep with him.
The show then went further, she recalled, by then assigning the usual role of a sitcom dad to Reagan. "[She] turned into a version of Ralph Kramden, prone to tantrums and meddling," Rosin writes. "Like the classic d... |
V12 engine | V12 road cars & Heavy trucks | car so equipped. The engine also appeared in the R8 V12 TDI concept car. Heavy trucks Tatra used a 17.6 L (1,070 cu in) air-cooled naturally aspirated V12 diesel engine in many of their trucks; for instance, the Tatra T813 and uses 19 L air-cooled naturally aspirated or turbo V12 diesel engine in Tatra T815. Some large... |
VK 4501 (P) | Development | VK 4501 (P) Development On 21 May 1942, Henschel and Porsche were asked to submit designs for a 45-ton heavy tank capable of mounting the high velocity 8.8 cm Kwk 36 L/56 gun which was derived from the German 88 mm Flak 37 antiaircraft gun. Both the Henschel and Porsche tanks were to be fitted with the same turret supp... |
Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski | Early life & Military career | Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski Early life He was of mixed ancestry - the illegitimate child of Maria Dealire, an English aristocrat, and an unidentified African. He acquired the nickname "Murzynek". Maria Dealire's husband, the Polish nobleman Konstanty Jabłonowski, accepted him as his son.
In 1783 he was admitted t... |
WHLX | Reborn: WIFN-AM | owner of WATC AM 900 & WZXM FM 95.3 (now 101.5 WMJZ) in Gaylord, 220 miles north of Detroit, before selling it in 1986.
Barr/Schremp Communications changed the station's call letters to WIFN, and began a gradual phase-out of the country music format in favor of personality talk. Under the new format, the station bore ... |
WYSN | Move to 1470 & 1980s | The new image was for the new format of pop hits and rock and roll. In the late-1960s and early-1970s WWHY was a power in the Tri-State area. The next two decades would see the station's format change several times and in the 1970s the callsign changed to WKSD (for "Kan't Stop Dancing" or "Kool Sound of Disco"). 1980s ... |
Tim O'Leary | Time in prison & Marriage | prisoners took great delight in tormenting Tinhead about it. Emily explained that she posed for the photos in an attempt to earn extra money, and although Tinhead was initially furious with Emily, eventually he forgave her. Upon release, Tinhead made Carl refund the money Emily paid to pose for the photos. Marriage Soo... |
Walter Pyramid | Name change & University athletics | dean for Long Beach State's College of Business Administration from 1993 to 2000. University athletics The Walter Pyramid is currently home to the Long Beach State 49ers men's basketball and Long Beach State 49ers women's basketball programs, as well as the Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball and Long Beach State 4... |
WYSN | Early days & Move to 1470 | "Work, Play, and Live in Huntington." Move to 1470 In 1952, control of Huntington Broadcasting Corp. passed to E.A. Marshall until he was succeeded by Charles Krause in 1956. In 1955 the station changed broadcast frequencies from 1450 kHz to 1470 kHz. Struggling financially, the station was sold to The Tierney Company ... |
WJMX-FM | History | purchased WPDZ and simulcasted with its 106.3 FM signal for most of the year, while upgrading the WPDZ signal to 50 kW (at 103.3 MHz). The move from 103.1 to 103.3 was to avoid interference with the station in Surfside Beach, SC also on 103.1, then WYAK (now WSYN), allowing both stations to increase power and coverage... |
Unmanned aircraft in Singapore | Opinions by industry players | entering prohibited spaces. Government Parliamentary Committee (Home Affairs and Law) member Desmond Choo felt that it was important to conduct education campaigns to educate both users and companies that bring in drones.
Dr Foong Shaohui, a Singapore University of Technology and Design assistant professor with an inte... |
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem | Implications for the expected utility hypothesis | and transparent as possible, and each axiom should have an immediate intuitive meaning by which its appropriateness may be judged directly. In a situation like ours this last requirement is particularly vital, in spite of its vagueness: we want to make an intuitive concept amenable to mathematical treatment and to see... |
Tig Trager | Biography | "day job" is working as a mechanic at the Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair shop, and he is often used by the gang to carry out killings. He has two daughters, named Dawn and Fawn, whom he sees a couple of times each year. He suffers from acute pediophobia, a fear of dolls, which Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter actua... |
Waldemar Kaempffert | Career | In 1916, he vigorously defended the Martian canals theory against skeptics.
His obituary in The New York Times said his death, on November 27, 1956, was the result of a stroke. He was 79. On January 7, 1911, Kaempffert married Carolyn Lydia Yeaton. She died in 1933. |
Tiff Lacey | 2011 – 2013: "¡Viva!" and further EDM impact | "Mother To Daughter". The video was shot in Dorset and in her home. Her daughter also appears in it.
An album launch party was held in London on 12 August 2011, with live performances by Lacey and Paul Stevens, and guest DJ sets by Loverush UK, Stuart J and Matt Emulsion.
Her album "¡Viva!" came out on iTunes on 15 Aug... |
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