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Scottish society in the early modern era | Women | responsibly for their actions was assumed to lie with their husbands, fathers and kin. In the post-Reformation period there was a criminalisation of women, partly evident in witchcraft prosecutions from 1563. Through the 1640s, independent commissions were set up to try women for child murder, and after pressure from the kirk a law of 1690 placed the presumption of guilt on a woman if she concealed a pregnancy and birth, and her child later died.
By the eighteenth century many poorer girls were being taught in dame schools, informally set up by a widow or spinster to teach reading, sewing and |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Countee Cullen branch & Hutson tenure (1948–1980) | monthly concert recitals in the auditorium to enhance public spirit, but the demand by performers and audience members to continue the practice made it permanent. Hutson tenure (1948–1980) In 1948, Jean Blackwell, later Jean Blackwell Hutson, was named the director of the Center. In a 1966 speech, Hutson warned of the perilous status of the Schomburg collection.
In 1971, the Center began being supported by the privately funded Schomburg Corporation. The next year, funds by New York City were allocated to renovate the building at 103 West 135th, and it was renamed the building of the Schomburg Collection for Research in |
Schmidt (singer) | Life & Career | Schmidt (singer) Life Schmidt grew up in Koblenz, Germany. When 16, she visited Hurtwood House near Dorking, Surrey, England where she began writing songs in English. At age 17, she left for the USA for a year, returning to Munich, Germany afterwards for finishing school.
Since her childhood she had the wish to become a musician and worked towards that goal. In June 2010, Schmidt signed with Warner Music Group.
Schmidt lives in Berlin and London Career Schmidt released her first EP, Above Sin City, in October 2011. Her full-length album, Femme SCHMIDT, followed in May 2012. Schmidt Femme SCHMIDT debuted at |
Rubis-class submarine | Proposed Canada-class & AMETHYSTE rebuild | "ice pick" so the submarine could operate under ice and were developing a modification for their torpedo tubes which were too short to use the Mark 48 torpedoes. The purchase was finally abandoned in April 1989 due to high costs, particularly with the end of the Cold War. AMETHYSTE rebuild The initial design of the Rubis proved to be problematic with unexpectedly high noise levels. This led to the Améthyste silencing program (AMÉlioration Tactique HYdrodynamique Silence Transmission Ecoute, literally Silent Acoustic Transmission Tactical Hydrodynamic Improvement) which was applied to the fifth (S605 Améthyste) and sixth (S606 Perle) hulls.
Améthyste and |
Point Lay, Alaska | Lifestyle and economy & Military radar | Point Lay, Alaska Lifestyle and economy The village has an annual hunt of beluga whales within the Kasegaluk Lagoon. On the Fourth of July, a parade runs through town led by the fire engines and ambulances of the town's modern fire department.
The Inupaiq name for the village is Kali, which means "mound", after a raised area on the barrier island where the old village stood. The school and fire department bear the name Kali.
The Kali school is a part of the North Slope Borough School District. Military radar Until recently, a cluster of radar dishes existed near Point |
Mel's Hole | Description | Mel's Hole Mel's Hole is, according to an urban legend, an allegedly "bottomless pit" near Ellensburg, Washington. Claims about it were first made on the radio show Coast to Coast AM by a guest calling himself "Mel Waters." Later investigation revealed no such person was listed as residing in that area and no credible evidence that the hole exists. Description The legend of the bottomless hole started on February 21, 1997, when a man identified as Mel Waters appeared as a guest on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. Waters claimed that he owned rural property nine miles west |
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo | Statue unearthed from Jaipur, India | weighing around 3 tons, was ordered sculpted by the Maharaja Ram Singh ji of Jaipur, as a tribute to Lord Mayo after his assassination. The sculptors were J. Forsyth and R. Monti. The company's name as inscribed on the statue was R. Masefield & Co., London. To prevent it from vandalism, this statue was buried in the premises of the Albert Hall Museum of Jaipur at the time of the independence of India. After six decades, this statue was unearthed by the Jaipur Mayo Alumni Chapter on 29 May 2007 from the premises of the Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur and |
Savoy cabbage | Uses | provides fiber, vitamins A, C, K and B6, folate, potassium, manganese, thiamin, calcium, iron and magnesium.
Savoy can be difficult to grow as it suffers from caterpillars, pigeons and club root disease. It does best in full sun,
and is winter-hardy, able to tolerate the cold, frost and snow. |
Royal Hospital School | Academics & History | enterprise and entrepreneurship and religious studies. History The school was originally located at Greenwich Hospital, and was based in what is now the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The Hospital was founded in 1694, and the school in 1712, both by Royal Charter. The original purpose of the school was to provide assistance and education to the orphans of seafarers in the Royal and Merchant Navies, and it was once the largest school for navigation and seamanship in the country.
The school has been located in Holbrook since 1933. The Holbrook campus was designed by the Birmingham-based arts and crafts |
Ramadan Çitaku | Biography | 1944 declaring the LANC council as a transitional parliament and establishing a provisional government, thus being crucial in helping the communists to take the power. In 1945, he became a member of the Constituent Assembly (Alb: Asambleja Kushtetuese), the first Albanian Parliament of post-World War II. He remained there until 1950.
On 22 October 1944, due to his rich warfare curricula and without any distinguished skills in finance, he was elected Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Enver Hoxha. He retained this position until his replacement by Kiço Ngjela on February 6, 1948. In 1946, he became the |
Scarlett Raven | Career | notable personalities including Orlando Bloom, Take That band member Mark Owen, Jim Beach manager of rock group Queen and many more.
Raven's approach has developed a body of work that takes the visual element of a painting beyond the canvas through the use of Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality allows an immersive experience of her art. It enables Raven to document the creative journey and offers a new method of artistic expression. The concept Raven has pioneered has been described as bridging a gap between digital and tangible art and she is now considered by some as the World’s First Augmented |
Scandic Hotels | Ratos & Facts and figures & Growth | acquired by the London-based Hilton Group. The hotel chain changed ownership again in 2007, this time bought by Swedish private equity firm EQT for EUR 833 million. Facts and figures As of 31 December 2017, the company employs 9,359 people and operates 262 hotels with 49,983 guest rooms.
Operating result (EBITDA) for 2017 amounted to SEK 1,570 million. Growth In 2014, Scandic acquired the Rica Hotels chain, which added 72 properties in Norway and Sweden to its portfolio.
In 2017, Scandic announced its buy-out of all 43 Restel hotels in Finland for 114.5 million euros, including those under the Cumulus and Holiday |
Roberto Firmino | International career | career Firmino said that it was his "dream" to play in the national team though he had no "contact with national team manager Dunga". On 23 October 2014, Firmino received his first call up to Brazil national football team for the friendly matches against Turkey and Austria. He commented, "I'm very happy about the nomination and would especially like to thank the team". He debuted in a 4–0 win over Turkey on 12 November, replacing fellow debutant Luiz Adriano for the last 17 minutes. Firmino scored his first goal six days later in the latter match, a 2–1 away |
Rudolf Sanzin | Life | Rudolf Sanzin Rudolf Sanzin (4 June 1874 – 2 June 1922) was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer. Life Rudolf Sanzin was born in Mürzzuschlag, in the province of Styria, Austria on 4 June 1874. His father was an official with the Austrian Southern Railway or Südbahn. After completing his A levels (Matura) he studied at the Graz University of Technology until 1900. The following year he was himself given a job with the Südbahn, but did his doctorate in 1904 at Graz (with a dissertation entitled Investigations into the performance of a locomotive and confirmation of the optimum loading |
Rail transport in Iceland | Recently proposed railways | passenger railway from Reykjavík to Keflavík International Airport, firstly in the early 2000s. In 2003 the idea of an airport railway was eliminated and a dual carriageway road (road 41) was built instead of the railway, opening in 2008.
More recently, a private group has been looking into the idea of an airport railway. In 2014, a feasibility study was undertaken by Ráðgjöf og verkefnastjórnun, which declared that a high speed airport railway would be feasible with the increasing numbers of tourists coming to Iceland and passenger numbers at Keflavík International Airport. The project has begun looking for funding and has |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Poverty and vagrancy | per cent, funds were not available for local causes such as poor relief. Protestant reformers in the Book of Discipline (1560) proposed that part of the patrimony of the Catholic Church be used to support the poor, but this aim was never realised. Population growth and economic dislocation from the second half of the sixteenth century led to a growing problem of vagrancy. The government reacted with three major pieces of legislation on poverty and vagrancy in 1574, 1579 and 1592. The kirk became a major element of the system of poor relief, and justices of the peace were given |
Scoop Jardine | 2011–12 | and huge contributors. Jardine and the Orange led Syracuse to the number 1 spot for 6 weeks in December and January. Jardine's numbers dropped a bit by averaging 8.9 points and 4.9 assists, but still led the Orange to a Big East regular season title. After getting only 22 MPG in the Big East Tournament, Jardine played a vital role in the NCAA Tournament. Jardine led the team in assists in all 4 of their tournament games and averaged 13.8 PPG. Despite all of his effort, Jardine and the Orange fell short of their Final Four and National Championship goals |
Ronnie Aguilar | Early life and career & Professional career | that included a 16–1 start, defeating the No. 1 team in the nation, a No. 4 ranking by the NABC, and 10-game win streak and 23 wins in a single season, before being ushered out of the NCAA postseason by BYU-Hawaii, whom the Toros bested during the regular season. Professional career Between November and December 2011, Aguilar played six games in the NBA Development League for the Bakersfield Jam, averaging 2.2 points and 4.2 rebounds in 5.9 minutes per game.
On September 27, 2012, Aguilar signed for the 2012/13 season with the Los Angeles Lakers.
On January 26, 2013, Aguilar signed with |
Sapta Puri | Mathura | Hanuman idol. Images of Shiva and goddess Durga are also seen within the main temple foyer. The main temple complex also has a small shrine where Krishna was born (said to be the prison where he was born) depicting images of Vasudeva, Devaki and four-armed Krishna.
On the bank of the Yamuna River, at Vishrama ghat aarti is offered every evening to the river, since it is stated to be the location where Krishna rested after slaying King Kamsa, his maternal uncle. Images of goddess Yamuna and her brother Yama, the god of death, are also located here.
There are many |
Rugby union in Ivory Coast | Since 1995 | Mauritius and Morocco, Ivory Coast were promoted from Division 1C to Division 1B of the competition. |
Peter Gabriel (1982 album) | Songs | Peter Gabriel (1982 album) Songs The songs on the album cover a wide variety of subject matter. "The Rhythm of the Heat" is based on Carl Jung's experience while observing a group of African drummers. "San Jacinto" reflects on the fear and pain experienced by a Native American man who sees his culture overwhelmed by modern white society, its lyrics based on a story told to Gabriel by an Apache member. "Shock the Monkey", a meditation on jealousy, uses imagery of a primate to describe personal anxieties. "Lay Your Hands on Me" deals with a theme of healing, through trust, |
Same-sex marriage in Campeche | Civil unions & Injunctions | Same-sex marriage in Campeche Civil unions On 11 April 2013, the Party of the Democratic Revolution introduced a measure to legalize civil unions (Spanish: sociedad civil de convivencia) in Campeche. The bill was unanimously passed on 20 December 2013, and while it covers both same-sex and opposite-sex couples, it specifically provides that it "shall not constitute a civil partnership of people living together in marriage and cohabitation." An additional distinction is that it is not filed with the Civil Registrar, but with the Public Registry of Property and Trade.
Since 2016, couples in civil unions may legally adopt children. Injunctions On |
Severinus of Bordeaux | null | Arianism when he heard a voice that told him to go to Bordeaux. He was already a bishop at this time. According to the poet Venantius Fortunatus, he was the bishop of Trier, which had come under Frankish control in 407. At Bordeaux, the sitting bishop, Amandus, likewise instructed by a voice, resigned his office to Severinus, or possibly merely made him his successor. |
Serbian comics | 1991 - present | of the International Comics Festival in Belgrade and teacher at the “Đorđe Lobačev“ comics school, artist Vladimir Vesović launched Tron in 1992 and Stripmania in 1996, magazines that carried comics by local creators. The latter was printed by Luxor Comics, a publishing house owned by Milan Konjević, who also wrote and published Generation Tesla and Twilight Fighters in 1995, as well as Factor 4 and Wild Magic in 2006, all titles drawn by Serbian artists. Before he started working for Dupuis, artist Milan Jovanović teamed up with Croatian writer Darko Macan to produce La Bête Noire in 2002; the five-part |
Semi-colony | Origins of the term | Semi-colony Origins of the term The concept of a semi-colony originated in the earlier years of the Communist International, which initially classified the countries of the world as being either imperialist countries, semi-colonies, and colonies. From that definition followed a political strategy for the labour movement in each type of country (for example as regards nationalisation of industry, workers' rights, democratisation, the ownership of land). The general perspective of the Communist International was that it was impossible for semi-colonial countries to achieve substantive industrialisation and transform property relations without a socialist and democratic revolution. In other words, the power of |
Setpoint (control system) | Examples | Setpoint (control system) In cybernetics and control theory, a setpoint (also set point or set-point) is the desired or target value for an essential variable, or process value of a system. Departure of such a variable from its setpoint is one basis for error-controlled regulation using negative feedback for automatic control. The set point is usually abbreviated to SP, and the process value is usually abbreviated to PV. Examples Cruise control
The SP-PV error can be used to return a system to its norm. An everyday example is the cruise control on a road vehicle; where external influences such as |
Santa Rosa Science and Technology High School | History | Santa Rosa Science and Technology High School History President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed into law the Republic Act 9083, creating the Santa Rosa Science and Technology High School on April 8, 2001. Cong. Uliran T. Joaquin of the First District of Laguna was its principal author.
The law was implemented in the school year 2002-2003 through the initiative and financial support of the local government of Santa Rosa led by Mayor Leon C. Arcillas. |
Saturnino Lizano Gutiérrez | Public office & President of the Republic | Chamber of Representatives (1869–1870), member of the 1870 Constituents Assembly, Secretary of Government and annexed offices of Police and Industry (May - July 1876), Secretary General of Government (in charge of all Secretaries of Government) (July 1876), Secretary of Government and annexed offices Public Works and War and Navy (1876–1877), Secretary of State (July - August 1876), Financial Agent of Costa Rica in London (1877–1878), Secretary of Government with annexed offices (1880–1882) and First in Line to the Presidency of the Republic (1881–1882). President of the Republic In June 1882, he was asked to take the Presidential Office due to |
SR Merchant Navy class | Operational assessment | of Steam". The constant concern for ease of maintenance and utility had not previously been seen on locomotives of older design, whilst their highly efficient boilers represented the ultimate in British steam technology, the hallmark of a successful locomotive design. Despite this, the number of innovations introduced at the same time made the class unreliable and difficult to maintain during the first few years of service. Many of these difficulties were overcome during the rebuilding, leading to D.L. Bradley's statement that the modified locomotives were "the finest express locomotives to work in the country". Overall, the class was largely successful, |
Scribe (comics) | Fictional character biography | Scribe (comics) Fictional character biography Scribe, an albino mutant, was a member of the Inner Circle of the London Hellfire Club. With a special device she would record everything that is said in the Inner Circle’s meetings. Scribe was merged with and possessed by the mutant bodystealer known as Mountjoy. When Brian Braddock became the Black Bishop, the Mountjoy-possessed Scribe confided in him. She told Brian that the Inner Circle knew he used to be Captain Britain and she needed his help. She told Brian about the Inner Circle’s plot to use a demon under London to control the city’s |
Seo-Young Chu | Life & Education & Work | "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe," in Entropy Magazine, in which Chu wrote about being abused at Stanford and living with posttraumatic stress. The publication became part of the dialogue about #MeToo. "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" was selected for inclusion in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. Education In 1999 Chu earned a B.A. degree from Yale. In 2001, Chu earned a M.A. degree from Stanford. In 2007, Chu earned a Ph.D. degree from Harvard. Work Chu has written and spoken about science fiction, the DMZ in Korea, postmemory han, poetry, North Korea, her experiences as a survivor of sexual |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Family & Demography | discouraged, causing some consternation among local lairds who wished to be buried with their ancestors. This led to the uniquely Scottish solution of adding a fourth aisle to "T"-plan churches, usually behind the pulpit, which were closed off and used for the burial of the families of the local laird. For the majority, however, burial had to be outside the church, and graveyards with stone markers became increasingly common from the early seventeenth century. Demography There are almost no reliable sources with which to track the population of Scotland before the late seventeenth century. Estimates based on English records suggest |
Sexuality in Japan | Politics and law & AIDS, other STDs, and contraceptives | but some prefectures set the age of consent for same-sex sexual activity higher than for opposite-sex sexual activity.
Despite recommendations from the Council for Human Rights Promotion, the Diet has yet to include protections against discrimination for sexual orientation in the country's civil rights code. Although national civil rights laws do not protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation, some local governments have enacted such laws. For example, the government of Tokyo has passed laws that ban discrimination in employment based on sexual identity. The major political parties express little public support for gay rights issues. AIDS, other STDs, and contraceptives |
Santa Cruz del Quiché | Pacific conquest by the Dominican friars | in the heart of Guatemala where there were no previous colonies and where the natives were considered fierce and war-like. Because of the fact that the land had not been possible to conquer by military means, the governor of Guatemala, Alonso de Maldonado, agreed to sign a contract promising that if the venture was successful he would not establish any new encomiendas in the area. Las Casas's group of friars established a Dominican presence in Rabinal, Sacapulas and Cobán, reaching as far as Chahal. Through the efforts of Las Casas' missionaries the so-called "Land of War" came to be called |
Royal Hospital School | Pupils & Academics | a stepping stone to University or life beyond school.
There are around 100 international students from about 30 countries. The school has specialist staff for international students and provides an English as an Additional Language. Academics The school uses the National Curriculum Key Stages 3 (Years 7-9), 4 (Years 10-11), and 5 (Years 12-13), and provides a large choice of subjects for study. These include English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, German, physics, chemistry, biology, Latin, geography, history, mathematics, design technology, art, music, music technology, computing, physical education, media studies, business studies, psychology, sociology, drama and theatre, art history, government and politics, textiles, |
Scoop Jardine | 2010–11 & 2011–12 | season and had his best season statistic wise. He was a big contributor throughout the season playing in all 35 games averaging 12.5 points, 5.9 assists, and 1.6 steals. His biggest game was against Marquette on January 29, 2011 as he recorded a double-double with 13 assists and 13 points. However, Jardine and the Orange would fail to advance to the Sweet 16 as they lost in an upset against Marquette in the 3rd round of the NCAA Tournament. 2011–12 In one of the most successful seasons in Syracuse history, Jardine and his teammate Kris Joseph were the senior leaders |
SS Conte Verde | Lloyd Sabaudo’s Transatlantic Line & Lloyd Triestino’s Far East Line | Langenus, Henri Christophe, and Thomas Balvay also crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the ship. Other celebrities who sailed on the Conte Verde include Fyodor Chaliapin, a Russian opera singer, Josephine Baker, an American dancer, Fosco Maraini, an Italian academic of Tibetan and Japanese studies as well as a photographer and mountaineer, and Dacia Maraini, an Italian writer. Giovanni Giotta, owner of a famous San Francisco café, the Caffe Trieste founded in 1956, was a member of the ship’s crew. Lloyd Triestino’s Far East Line After acquisition by Italian Line in 1932, she became a part of Lloyd Triestino (also chartered |
Scarlotte Deupree | Miss Alabama & Life after Miss Alabama | Scarlotte Deupree Miss Alabama Deupree competed at Miss Alabama as Miss Camellia and had competed in the pageant four previous times. Her talent was a vocal performance of the song, "Holding Out for a Hero". Her personal platform was adult literacy, which she chose in high school after she discovered that 25 percent of people from Alabama read at a very low reading level. She is a graduate of Samford University. While at Samford, she was inducted into the Kappa Chapter of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Life after Miss Alabama Deupree is married to Allen Kilgore, a |
Serbian comics | "The Golden Age" (1932-1941) & 1945–1990 | new communist regime or forced to emigrate. 1945–1990 After WWII the government considered comics decadent products of the West, therefore worthless and even harmful for children. In 1946 state-owned daily newspaper Borba criticized comics as "black market ersatz goods". For years to come, comics would be discouraged or outright banned. New magazines like Tri ugursuza (after Les Pieds nickelés) and Vrabac (The Sparrow) were short-lived, although comic strips and cartoons survived in the humor magazines Jež and Mali Jež, where Milorad Dobrić and Dejan Nastić published in the 1960s.
The outlook changed after the Tito-Stalin Split in 1948. In 1951 Walt |
Sarenza | History | Sarenza History Sarenza was created in September 2005 with the launch of the French website www.sarenza.com. The company grew thanks to two successful investments totaling six million Euros and decided to focus on international expansion.
Sarenza was restructured in March 2007 when the three cofounders left the company. Stéphane Treppoz then became the president of Sarenza, and Hélène Boulet-Supau became the managing director. They raised three million Euros to continue the company's growth. and maintain its lead position in the market with a new, automatic warehouse near Paris, an internal customer service department, and revised business techniques. One |
Red-tailed monkey | Distinguishing features & Size | Red-tailed monkey Distinguishing features The red-tailed monkey is named as it sounds, for its red coloration of the tail's underside as well as the bi-coloration of the tail as the reddish color increases from the base to the tip. There are other features characteristic to this mammal as well such as the white nose and cheeks in the midst of black or dark grey body fur. Red-tailed monkeys also have very large, elastic cheeks which are used in gathering food and storing it in their mouths for safety. Size Sizes of their bodies range between individuals as well as between |
Sexuality in Japan | Decreasing sexual activity | country of Singapore averaging 73 times a year, and the world average at 103 times a year. Additionally the survey reported that only 24% of Japanese respondents said they were happy with their sex lives, compared to the global average of 44%.
The reasons for this decline in sex interest are still widely discussed; There are many theories and different contributing factors. A large part of it may be attributed to the fact that in most respects, men and women live very separate lives socially, and there is little relaxed contact with the opposite sex outside of school ties or friends |
Phishing | Browsers alerting users to fraudulent websites & Augmenting password logins | is similar in principle to using a hosts file to block web adverts.
To mitigate the problem of phishing sites impersonating a victim site by embedding its images (such as logos), several site owners have altered the images to send a message to the visitor that a site may be fraudulent. The image may be moved to a new filename and the original permanently replaced, or a server can detect that the image was not requested as part of normal browsing, and instead send a warning image. Augmenting password logins The Bank of America website is one of several that asks |
Sal Paolantonio | Before ESPN & Personal life | for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1993-1995. During that time he also served as a reporter for WPHL-TV nightly news show, Inquirer News Tonight and hosted Saturday Morning Sports Page on WIP sports radio. In 1993, he published his first book, a biography of Frank L. Rizzo entitled The Last Big Man in Big City America. Personal life Paolantonio has been a resident of Haddon Township, New Jersey. His given name is Salvatore Anthony Nicholas Paolantonio. He later moved to nearby Moorestown. |
SBV Vitesse | Amateur team & Vitesse Legends | Vitesse 1892", who played their home matches at the Sportcomplex Valkenhuizen. In total, the club has won 5 trophies; one Derde Klasse title, one Vierde Klasse title, one Zesde Klasse title and two Arnhem Cups. On 2009, Vitesse 1892 was declared bankrupt. The amateur section has produced a number of professional players including Andy van der Meijde, Nicky Hofs, Léon Hese, Erwin van de Looi en Theo Janssen. Vitesse Legends Vitesse Legends are a beneficiary team that was initiated by Ben Snelders, Leo de Kleermaeker and Dik Herberts in the nineties, competing in at least one match a year, usually |
Renee McGinnis | Biography and career | in Germany, Australia, New York City, Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Md. Her curatorial debut occurred when she launched “The Chicago Solution Show 2003″ with the late Ed Paschke as juror, then again in 2005 with Art Institute of Chicago Curator of contemporary Collections James Rondeau. The exhibition showcased work expressing "solutions" to our global problems rather than simply express the problem itself.
In 2002, she starred as herself in the Iranian-American film by director Hossein Khandan "American Burqa" screened at The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, Illinois. McGinnis is married to Andres Buenaventura and has two children. She is currently represented |
Roy Cheung | Early life and career & Present day | Roy Cheung Early life and career As a child, Cheung idolized kung-fu legend Bruce Lee but never seriously considered a career in acting.
Starting out as a model, Cheung turned to acting when director Yeung Fan cast him in his 1986 film Lost Romance and the first of his many roles portraying a villain followed in the acclaimed director Ringo Lam's 1987 City on Fire.
In 1996, Cheung appeared in the 3rd, 4th and 6th installments of the Young and Dangerous series. Roles that heralded the beginning of a long working relationship with director/cinematographer Andrew Lau. Present day Recently, Cheung has appeared |
Sapta Puri | Mathura | a reprieve. British archeologists were successful in recreating the ancient historicity of the city and providing insight to Indian culture. Krishna temples and ancient history are now both major attractions of the city.
The present Keshav Dev Temple has been built at the same location where several major temples had been built in the 5000 years of hoary past, which is traced to the Vajranabha, the great grandson of Krishna. A grand temple was rebuilt during the reign of Chandra Gupta Vikramaditya in the 5th century that was sacked by Mahmud of Ghazni. Thereafter, at the same location Raja Veer Singh |
Pityrodia lepidota | Description & Taxonomy and naming & Distribution and habitat | other lobes are slightly smaller. Flowering occurs from June to December, sometimes as late as March and is followed by hairy, oval-shaped fruit with the sepals still attached. Taxonomy and naming This species was first formally described in 1883 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Chloanthes lepidota and published the description in Southern Science Record. In 1904 Georg Pritzel changed the name to Pityrodia lepidota. The specific epithet (lepidota) is an Ancient Greek word meaning "scaly". Distribution and habitat This pityrodia grows in sandy or gravelly soils on sandplains and dunes. It is mainly found in the |
Prince George's County, Maryland | Transportation & Prince George's County Metro Rail | called Call-A-Cab in which eligible customers who sign up for the service purchase coupons giving them a 50 percent discount with participating taxicab companies in Prince George's and Montgomery Counties. Prince George's County Metro Rail Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has fifteen stations of the Washington Metro system, located in Prince George's County, with four of them as terminus stations: Greenbelt, New Carrollton, Largo, and Branch Avenue.The Purple Line, which would link highly developed areas of both Montgomery and Prince George's Counties is currently under-construction and slated to open in 2022. The Purple Line will provide connections to the |
North American porcupine | Distribution and habitat & Diet & Behavior | and into northern Mexico. They are commonly found in coniferous and mixed forested areas, but have adapted to harsh environments such as shrublands, tundra, and deserts. They make their dens in hollow trees or in rocky areas. Diet During the summer, they eat twigs, roots, stems, berries, and other vegetation. In the winter, they mainly eat conifer needles and tree bark. Porcupines are selective in their eating; for example out of every 1,000 trees in the Catskill Mountains, porcupines will only eat from 1-2 linden trees and one bigtoothed aspen. Behavior Porcupines are nearsighted and slow-moving. They are mainly active |
R.K. Malhotra | Awards and recognition | 2012.
Outstanding Executive of the decade award from the Unity International Foundation— 2010-11 |
Sexuality in Japan | Pornography | Sexuality in Japan Pornography Historically, pornography in Japan may have begun as early as the Edo period as erotic artwork referred to as shunga that was typically done on woodblock prints. Between the 1920s and '30s in Japan there was a literary and artistic movement known as ero guro which focused on eroticism, sexual corruption and decadence. Softcore pornographic theatrical films known as pink films dominated the domestic cinema in Japan from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.
In contemporary times Japanese pornography has gained a worldwide following and is frequently translated and exported to other cultures because of its large spectrum |
René Wenzel | Biography | settlements with USAC´s insurance company on behalf of USAC and René Wenzel. Wenzel continue to deny the charges.
Wenzel's 'Bike Racing 101' written with Kendra was published in May 2003.
Wenzel directed the small Continental team, Subway, in 2004 and in 2005 owned it. Its best result was to win the 2005 Tour of El Salvador.
Kendra and René Wenzel separated in May 2005, and divorced in August 2007.
In November 2007, the Malaysian National Cycling Federation offered Wenzel the position of director of coaching, but it never came to fruition.
Wenzel now (2015) works as a Personal Assistant for the Executive of Business Development |
SS Kowloon No.1 | Second World War | days later to join Convoy WP 461, which had departed from Milford Haven on 13 January and arrived at Portsmouth on 15 January. She left the convoy at St Helens Roads, off the Isle of Wight to join Convoy CE 237, which arrived at Southend, Essex on 16 January.
Empire Dirk spend the next six months sailing the east coast of the United Kingdom, mostly in convoys between Methil Fife and Southend, with calls at Blyth, Northumberland, Hull, Yorkshire, and the Tyne. She departed from Southend on 21 July as a member of Convoy ETC 44, which was bound for the |
SM UB-65 | Allegations of haunting | seen again. During the first test dive of UB-65, a fracture occurred in a ballast tank, causing the submarine to sink to the bottom of the sea. The crew lacked any means of renewing the oxygen in the vessel, but after 12 hours the crew finally managed to raise the submarine to the surface of the ocean. These incidents may have given rise to a belief among the crew that the ship was cursed. As no one wanted to board or be stationed on the ship, it is believed that the German Imperial Navy called a priest on board to |
Richard Arthur | Political career | Mosman and was survived by his wife, son and two daughters. |
Rauheneck Castle (Ebern) | Description | neck ditch in front of the zwinger system had to be crossed. A sealed earlier gate, situated to its right on the ground floor of the palas, has survived. The original main gate could have been located in the gap in the wall in front of the chapel on the other side of the castle (see Zeune's artist's impression).
During the construction of the bridge, one of the two bretèches of the zwinger was largely dismantled. The surviving bretèche is in a critically dangerous condition, its left part having collapsed decades ago.
To the right rise the ruins of palas (13th to |
Sapta Puri | Varanasi | sacred cities of Hinduism”. Its historical and religious legacy dates to the Budhha period (6th Century BC) and has been the centre of religious “Brahminical learning” with sages, philosophers, writers and musicians making it their home in the past several centuries. But much of its temple glory was subject to plundering and destruction by Mohammad Ghauri in the 12th century. The temples and religious institutions seen now in the city are mostly of the 18th century vintage.
The temples and the bathing ghats (ghats are embankments made in steps of stone slabs along the river bank where pilgrims perform ritual ablutions) |
Riverkeeper | Growth of the organization | a commercial fisherman. Cronin boated much of the Hudson and fostered an admiration for the river from his experiences with local fishermen. After facing multiple struggles as a fisherman, he found love in the river's beauty and bounty, but also hardship in its daily trials. His passion developed beyond simple environmentalism to encompass a deeper respect for a mutual coexistence between himself and the river.
Boyle found his Riverkeeper in John Cronin and Cronin found his calling in this new organization. Only after Cronin's first acts as Riverkeeper did it grow in popularity. Upon taking on his role as Riverkeeper |
Rohan Sebastian | Early life | the lead off gymnast in the final rotation. He was elected co-captain of the Michigan men's gymnastics team as a senior and led the team to another NCAA Team Championship and Big Ten Conference team championship, alongside US Olympian Samuel Mikulak. |
Savile Row tailoring | Cad and the Dandy & Kathryn Sargent | and Canary Wharf. As of August 2013, C&D reached annual sales of £2.5m. In 2013, C&D entered the shoe market, buying the existing manufacturer Wildsmith, a 166-year-old business. C&D founders Sleater and Meiers are keen to complement Wildsmith's "Made in Britain" credentials by eventually making all of its suits here, too. "Customers want quality, they want 'Made in England', which is why we're switching" stated Meiers. Kathryn Sargent In April 2016, the tailor Kathryn Sargent became the first woman to open a tailoring house in SR. Among those Sargent has dressed include royalty, actors, politicians and David Beckham. The master |
Noeazy | History | Noeazy History The band was founded as a student club by the members when they were undergraduate students at KAIST in 2006 and band activities continued even as they started their graduate studies. The name Noeazy is a combination of the word "noisy" and "not easy", stylized with a 'z' instead of an 's'.
Noeazy started off playing cover songs of popular bands before producing their own music, playing in campus festivals and a variety of indie music festivals in South Korea. In 2008, two of their songs were included in the Daejeon Indie Pride Compilations album, an album designed to |
Olympiacos F.C. | Seven consecutive Championships, near-miss to UEFA Champions League semi-finals (1996–2003) | any chances in the game, equalised the score after a crucial mistake by Dimitris Eleftheropoulos, who had been the team's hero in all the previous games. Despite the big disappointment from the way the qualification to the semi-finals was lost, the presence of the team in the Champions League quarter-finals, their best-ever European campaign, combined with the domestic double, marked a very successful season for the club, arguably the best in their long history.
The next four seasons (1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03) Olympiacos signed world-class players of great magnitude such as Giovanni, Zlatko Zahovič and the World champion Christian Karembeu, as |
Savile Row tailoring | Alexander McQueen & Ozwald Boateng | Year award Alexander McQueen CBE served an apprenticeship with Savile Row tailors Anderson & Sheppard, before joining Gieves & Hawkes. He later joined the theatrical costumiers Angels and Bermans. McQueen went on to found the fashion house Alexander McQueen, from which the creative director Sarah Burton designed the dress worn by Catherine Middleton during her wedding to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge in April 2011. Alexander McQueen have a flagship store at Number 9, Savile Row for Bespoke and Made-to-Measure. Ozwald Boateng Ozwald Boateng, a pioneer of the new generation, saw himself as both tailor and a designer, coining the |
Savile Row tailoring | New generation & Richard James | celebrity clients, disseminate their products via supermarket chains and attract wider national and international custom, raising the profile of their new tailoring style. In 2001 Richard James (tailor) was awarded the title Menswear Designer of the Year by the British Fashion Council, following that up in 2008 with the Bespoke Designer of the Year award, in recognition of its contribution to British tailoring. Boateng received the French Trophee de la Mode for Best Male Designer in 1996. Richard James Richard James was founded in 1992 and was the first of the 'New Establishment' or New Bespoke Movement tailors of Savile |
RollerJam | Jams | from the black start/finish line, while the skaters had to continuously skate until a time-out was called or the period ended. In seasons 3-4, this changed to every single jam starting from a standstill start from the black line. In either case, jammers had to start from the back of the pack (the whole group) and work their way through, with the first jammer to break out winning the status of lead jammer. The skaters then got one point for every opponent they successfully lapped. The lead jammer could cut off the jam early by placing |
Sasino | Geography | Sasino Geography It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of Choczewo, 37 km (23 mi) north-west of Wejherowo, and 72 km (45 mi) north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. |
Seyi Rhodes | Education & Life and career | Bristol, where he studied Politics and Sociology. Life and career After school and university, Rhodes joined the BBC as a researcher, and in 2001 joined Channel 4 to work on the Dispatches programme. He says: "I had always wanted to go into television journalism, right from the time I saw, as a small boy, Kate Adie reporting from Tiananmen Square in 1989." In 2003, he joined The Wright Stuff talk show on Channel Five Television, taking over as presenter of the "Man with the Mic" section from Matt Rudge, and becoming its second-longest-running presenter before leaving in 2005. Rhodes has |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Depots and other installations | war an Ordnance station was established as part of the new training camp at Aldershot: a hutted encampment was provided for troops to practise combined training, alongside a depot to furnish them with field stores. In the 1880s an effort was made to decentralise the reserves of equipment; as many as sixty-two small regional centres were set up, in an effort to bring stores closer to the units that would use them. Later, with the establishment of larger camps and garrisons in the early 20th century, these were consolidated into eighteen larger Ordnance stations. At the same time, during the |
Ruthin RFC | Club history | leading position in North Wales. Having lost over 15 players due to injury, retirement and transfers at the end of the 2005-06 season, 2006-07 was one of rebuilding and a number of promising young players have emerged to take the club forward in the next few years. Winning the North Wales Cup again in 2007-08 was a notable achievement for Ruthin's young side. For the 2009/2010 season Rhuthun returned to wearing the original Blue and White hoop kit for the club 10th anniversary after returning in 1999,the current away kit is a pink and white hoop kit.
Winning the North Wales |
Sexuality in Japan | Decreasing sexual activity | respectively, since the survey was last conducted in 2008. It was also reported that 83.7% of men who turned 20 that year were not dating anyone, with 49.3% stating they had never had a girlfriend. 59% of female respondents of the same age group responded similarly, a 12% increase from the 2008 survey.
Some scholars have criticized the media reporting and scholarship on so-called "sexless" Japan many of these surveys exclude LGBT people, divorcees, widows, single parents or people who have married between the ages of 18-30. This necessarily exaggerates the number of virgins by excluding a huge segment of the |
Pocotaligo, South Carolina | Colonial & Civil War | South Carolina's history. Pocotaligo was eventually taken over by settlers, who established a bridge over the creek and allowed the community to be an important stop along the overland route between Charleston and Savannah. Civil War Prior to the Civil War, Pocotaligo became an important stop on the Charleston and Savannah Railway, with a depot located about one mile northwest of the settlement. When hostilities began in 1861 and the Federal capture of the Beaufort area in the Battle of Port Royal, control of the railway became an objective in disrupting the Confederate economy. Pocotaligo was the |
RisingOn | Powergate & Kaiser championships | RisingOn Powergate Versus.Co., Ltd. was established in 2005 to find talented fighters in the West Japan area (Kansai). They held their first event, "POWERGATE The Unknowns Strike Back", on June 19, 2005 at Flamingo the Arusha in Osaka.
Since September 2006, some events featured the use of a hexagonal cage, as well as prohibiting strikes to the head of a downed opponent. Additionally, kickboxing matches were also featured. Kaiser championships In 2008, Versus.Co.,Ltd. announced that they would hold tournaments to sanction the first champions at lightweight (70 kg) and middleweight (83 kg). The tournament was named the "Kaiser Grand Prix", and champions were |
Rooster Teeth | Let's Play & The Roost | was announced that YouTubers JT Machinima, NoahJ456, LazarBeam, and Sugar Pine 7 had joined Let's Play, with JT Machinima being the first of which to have merchandise sold through the RT Store. On July 12, 2017, it was announced that The Creatures would be disbanding, effectively ending their partnership with Let's Play. In May 2019, Sugar Pine 7 also announced their departure from the Rooster Teeth family. On May 1, 2019, Craig announced Game Attack was now independent and had no further business relationship with Rooster Teeth and no longer a part of the Let's Play family of networks. The |
Sapta Puri | Dwarka | in a well in Ladva village to protect it from Muslim marauders and again it was shifted to Dungarpur where the temple was renovated. In 1861, Maharaja Khanderao renovated the temple. During British rule, the temple tower was rebuilt. A golden pitcher was fixed on the temple tower by Maharaja Gaekwad in the year 1903 and further renovations were undertaken by the then Shankarachrya of Dwarka Peet. Since 1960, the conservation of the temple is under the control of the Government of India.
The present Dwarakhadheesh temple, also called the Jagat Mandir (universal shrine) or trilok sundar (most beautiful in all |
Prince George's County, Maryland | Religion & Crime | or 1.8% of the total area of the county. Crime Prince George's County accounted for 20% of murders in the State of Maryland from 1985 to 2006. A twenty-year crime index trends study, performed by Prince George's County Police Department Information Resource Management, showed the county had a 23.1% increase in total crime for the years of 2000 to 2004. Between the years of 1984 to 2004, Prince George's had a 62.8% increase in total crime.
However, as of 2009, crime had generally declined in the county and the number of homicides declined from 151 in 2005 to 99 in 2009.
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Royal Society of Tasmania | History | art and natural history specimens, all housed in The Royal Society of Tasmania Museum. These collections became the basis of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 1885, when the Society gave them to the Government.
The Society also built up a substantial Library. In September 1930 a new library was opened which held more than 20,000 books and pamphlets. The society’s coat of arms, carved in wood by local artist Nellie Payne was presented at this time.
A branch of the Society was formed in Launceston in 1853. It lapsed but was reconstituted in 1921 and has continued since then. |
Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex | Ebola Treatment | Treatment During the Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia, SKD was the site of a Chinese-built Ebola treatment unit. The 100-bed hospital, constructed by the Chinese firm CNQC, was planned for 160 specialized medical personnel from China. It opened in November 2014 with a ceremony attended by President Sirleaf In May 2015 the ETU was decommissioned after treating 10 confirmed cases and admitting 110 patients. The 20-room facility and its more than 920,000 items, including more than 1,500 kinds of medical instruments and materials worth approximately $7 million, was turned over to the Liberian government. As part of the ceremony, |
Royal Holloway Students' Union | Entertainment | Williamson halls of residence. This will relocated within the new Library and Student Services building, which is due to open in Autumn 2017.
A number of high-profile acts have performed on Union Nights, including Lethal Bizzle, DJ Fresh, Jonas Blue, MNEK, Lawson, Coolio, The Hoosiers, N Dubz and Labrinth, alongside novelty acts such as The Cheeky Girls. Special guest appearances have been made by Made in Chelsea cast members Jamie Laing and Alex Mytton.
An annual Summer Ball is held at the Founder's Building at the year's end, with a breakfast for 'survivors' the following morning at 6 am. Headline acts have included |
Shadowside (song) | Music video | Shadowside (song) Music video The music video was shot in Germany by director Uwe Flade and made commercially available on a German special edition of Foot of the Mountain. |
Ricardo Gomes da Silva | Oman | in the competition's history. He also helped them win the 2015 AFC Beach Soccer Championship where in the finals they defeated Asian beach soccer giants, Japan 3-2 on penalties and thus earning a spot in the 2015 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup which was held in Espinho, Portugal.
In early 2018, the Portuguese helped Oman win only its 2nd Arabian Gulf Cup title defeating the United Arab Emirates in the final on penalties following a goalless draw. |
Setpoint (control system) | Examples | gradients cause speed changes (PV), and the driver also alters the desired set speed (SP). The automatic control algorithm restores the actual speed to the desired speed in the optimum way, without delay or overshoot, by altering the power output of the vehicle's engine. In this way the SP-PV error is used to control the PV so that it equals the SP. A widespread use of SP-PV error control is the PID controller.
Industrial applications
Special consideration must be given for engineering applications. In industrial systems, physical or process restraints may limit the determined set point. For example, a reactor which |
Sefton Samuels | Life and work | and broadcaster Tim Samuels, on The Culture Show on BBC Two. Samuels was a winner at the 2011 Royal Academy of Arts Eyewitness awards—inspired by Brassaï and Robert Capa—for street photography he took in Madeira. |
Savile Row tailoring | New generation | James (tailor) opened its Savile Row store in 1992, it introduced Saturday opening, something of a revolution to Savile Row at that time. Eight years later in 2000, Richard James (tailor) opened a new shop with large plate glass windows that allowed customers to see inside.
The new generation challenged the traditional Savile Row styling, bringing twists and "a fine sense of colour to bespoke suits." They were seen to "push the envelope of modern suit making and bespoke active wear, creating more contemporary silhouettes with bolder fabrics." Unlike the older establishments, this new generation of tailors set out to garner |
Russian battleship Oryol | Service | squadron down the Atlantic coast of Africa, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and reached the island of Nosy Be off the north-west coast of Madagascar on 9 January 1905 where they remained for two months while Rozhestvensky finalized his coaling arrangements. The squadron sailed for Camranh Bay, French Indochina, on 16 March and reached it almost a month later to await the obsolete ships of the 3rd Pacific Squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov. The latter ships reached Camranh Bay on 9 May and the combined force sailed for Vladivostok on 14 May. With all of the additional |
Rotvoll controversy | Key events | was held by 500 people outside the construction area. |
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Rooster Teeth | Camp Camp | Rooster Teeth's Summer of Animation promotion. It focuses on a young boy named Max, voiced by Michael Jones, who is forced to go to summer camp but makes two friends there who help him constantly torment their camp counselor, David, voiced by Miles Luna. It airs on Fridays for Rooster Teeth FIRST members and Saturdays for site members. The show was created by Jordan Cwierz and Miles Luna. The first season was extended by two episodes due to positive reception, for a total of 12 episodes in its first season. Camp Camp's composer is Benjamin Zecker, with Miles Luna writing |
Right to property | John Locke and the American and French revolutions | eventually the right to vote in the nascent United States was extended to white men who owned a specified amount of real estate and personal property.
French revolutionaries recognised property rights in Article 17 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1791), which stated that no one "may be deprived of property rights unless a legally established public necessity required it and upon condition of a just and previous indemnity". Articles 3 and 6 declared that "all citizens have the right to contribute personally or through their representatives" in the political system and that "all citizens |
Sexuality in Japan | Film | cinema. The first kiss to be seen in Japanese film—discreetly half-hidden by an umbrella—caused a national sensation in 1946. Foreign films throughout the 1950s introduced female nudity into international cinema and were imported to Japan without problem. Nevertheless, until the early 1960s, graphic depictions of nudity and sex in Japanese film could only be seen in single-reel "stag films," made illegally by underground film producers such as those depicted in Imamura's film The Pornographers (1966).
Mainstream pornography did not arrive in Japan until the advent of Pink film. Erotic films were called "pink film" because the color pink carries erotic and |
Parque Arqueológico do Solstício | Discovery & Findings | function of this megalithic site is unknown, much like other sites such as Stonehenge, a much older site in Great Britain. Discovery The first reports of the Rego Grande site are from naturalist Emilio Goeldi in the late 19th century. Locals have called the site "Tropical Stonehenge" for some time. In 2005, archaeologists began excavation of the site after it was reported by a geologist during a socioeconomic study. Findings Though the stones have not been submitted to dating techniques, carbon-dating of pottery sherds has placed the site at 500 – 2000 years old. The origin of these granite blocks |
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia | Synopsis & Filmmaker background | Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia Synopsis Samsara documents how the Cambodian people have suffered and recovered since Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge took over the country and since the subsequent invasion by Vietnam. The film uses "prophecies, Buddhist teachings, folklore, and dreams to describe Cambodians' worldviews". As part of documenting the Cambodians' suffering, the film covers several women's experiences. Filmmaker background Before Samsara, Ellen Bruno worked in international relief in places like Mexico and on the border of Cambodia and Thailand. Her jobs include working as a field coordinator for the International Rescue Committee and as a director |
Sangassou orthohantavirus | Renal syndrome & Reservoirs | other than the United States where deer mice are the natural hosts. It was discovered in 1993 during an outbreak in the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Reservoirs Natural reservoirs for this hantavirus species include the slit faced bat, moles, and shrews. Rodent-borne hantaviruses form three major evolutionary clades corresponding to the subfamilies of their rodent hosts. HTNV, SEOV, and DOBV are examples of Murinae-associated hantaviruses. PUUV and Tula orthohantavirus (TULV) belong to the Arvicolinae-associated hantaviruses, and SNV and ANDV are representatives of Neotominae- and Sigmodontinae-associated hantaviruses. |
Savile Row tailoring | Future | grown at roughly double the pace of luxury womenswear, the tailors of Savile Row face the stark reality that bespoke tailoring is simply not a scalable business.
How different companies compete in the forthcoming years will vary. Starting with the 150-year-old company Dege & Skinner, William Skinner points out the young people involved: the future generation of tailors, serving apprenticeships within the trade. He stated in an interview to The Guardian: "That highlights our belief in the future of the bespoke tailoring business. We have invested in the future of the trade, because we are confident about the future of the |
Sarenza | Sarenza begins international expansion & Key figures & Items | in December 2010. Then, in the first trimester of 2011, Sarenza arrived in Spain and the Netherlands. In March 2012, a new wave of openings occurred with the launch of the Polish website and the European website, permitting delivery to numerous countries in northern and eastern Europe. Key figures In 2010 Sarenza achieved a revenue of 80 million Euros, four times the revenue of 2008 and 20 times the revenue of 2006.
In 2011, Sarenza reached over 100 million Euros in revenue. Items In June 2012, Sarenza passed the mark of six million items sold since its creation.
Sarenza stocks over one |
Royers Lock | null | 1887, but during the Cold War renamed to Lefèbvredok and now part of the Amerikadok. To prevent association of the name Siberia with the USSR during the cold war, a new name was chosen after Théo Lefèvre, who was prime minister of Belgium at the time.
The Royers bridge consists of a road deck on top of the gate and a lift bridge on top of the storage chamber. When opening the lower gate, the bridge is lifted to about 15° to allow the gate to slide inside the storage chamber. The original Lefèbvre bridge has been replaced and now consists |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Witchtrials | hunt was in 1661–62, which involved 664 named witches in four counties. From this point prosecutions began to decline, as trials were more tightly controlled by the judiciary and government, torture was more sparingly used and standards of evidence were raised. There may also have been a growing scepticism, and with relative peace and stability the economic and social tensions that contributed to accusation may have reduced. There were occasional local outbreaks such as the one in East Lothian in 1678 and Paisley in 1697. The last recorded executions were in 1706, and the last trial was in 1727. The |
Shakespeare in Love | Plot precedents and similarities | writing partner of Brahms', confirmed that he had lent a copy of the novel to Stoppard after he joined the writing team, but that the basic plot of the film had been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware of the earlier work.
The film's plot can claim a tradition in fiction reaching back to Alexandre Duval's "Shakespeare amoureux ou la Piece a l'Etude" (1804), in which Shakespeare falls in love with an actress who is playing Richard III.
The writers of Shakespeare in Love were sued in 1999 by bestselling author Faye Kellerman. She claimed that the plotline was stolen |
Sebastián Soria | Early career & Al Gharafa | eventually proved his value and ended up playing the rest of the 2003 season on the first team.
In mid-2004, Soria got an offer from Frenchman Bruno Metsu to play for Al-Gharafa in Qatar. He had to look Qatar up on a map as he was unsure of where it was located. Nevertheless, he accepted the proposal despite the geographical uncertainty. He arrived in Qatar in 2004 and was naturalized in 2006. Al Gharafa Soria joined Al Gharafa in 2004 under the supervision of Bruno Metsu. It was the first time he had played outside of Uruguay. He won the 2004–05 |
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