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Richard Court | Political career | spokesman for Resources and Industrial Development, Mines and Aboriginal Affairs. He became deputy leader of the Liberal Party in September 1987, serving under Barry MacKinnon, and became leader in 1992.
In February 1993, a state election brought the Liberal Party and their coalition partner, the Nationals, to power with a stable majority following revelations from the WA Inc royal commission examining deals made with businessmen such as Alan Bond and Laurie Connell by Labor governments during the 1980s.
The Court government was comfortably re-elected in 1996. The Liberals actually won a majority in their own right (29 seats out of 57) |
Savile Row tailoring | Westminster Special Policy Area 2016 | assets and create environments where specialist traders can thrive." |
SS Taormina (1908) | History | SS Taormina (1908) History Taormina was built in 1908 by D. & W. Henderson Ltd. of Glasgow for the Italia Soc. di Navigazione a Vapore, known as the Italia Line. Taormina sailed on her maiden voyage from Genoa to New York and Philadelphia beginning on 3 September 1908. In 1909, accommodations for 120 first-class passengers were added, and in 1910, her accommodations were again reconfigured so as to carry 60 first-class and 120 second-class passengers.
After beginning her last Italia Line voyage on 16 December 1911, Taormina was taken over by Lloyd Italiano in 1912 and put in Genoa–New York service. |
Scabby Range Nature Reserve | Description | more exposed sites and along the cool air drainage lines, and on the lower slopes well developed montane open forest is extensive. The dominant association is one of alpine ash Eucalyptus delegatensis and mountain gum (Eucalyptus dalrympleana) with various inclusions of the peppermints (Eucalyptus radiata, Eucalyptus dives), manna gum (Eucalyptus viminalis) and snowgum (Ecalyptus pauciflora) which frequently reach 30m in height. Alpine ash is the most prevalent species on slopes with a south-easterly aspect. Here it forms unusual uneven aged stands. Elsewhere on the more exposed, elevated sites, a range of low stature communities exists. Low woodland and tall shrubland |
Sha-Rock | Career & Legacy | MC, grace our Summer cover."
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https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Ivxq1guY2/?igshid=1r7vb2hpikla5 Legacy Sharon Green Jackson aka MC Sha-Rock was a member of the first notable hip hop group that included a female MC and, according to popular music scholar, Kembrew McLeod, "the first group of their kind that released records commercially." Sha-Rock became the first prominent female MC in hip-hop, and the Funky 4 + 1 was the first rap group to appear on national television. Her contributions were groundbreaking in the early era of hip hop culture in the mid - to late 1970s. Sha-Rock was a founding member of the |
Shayan Modarres | Political career | unseat the incumbent, Republican Daniel Webster, in the 2014 midterm election. Modarres was endorsed by the Orlando Sentinel in the Democratic primary. |
Sexuality in Japan | Decreasing sexual activity | couples. In 2010, the 14th Japanese National Fertility Survey was conducted by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. Singles between the ages of 18–34 who are not involved in a romantic relationship and do not want one amounted to 28% for men and 23% for women. It was also found that 28% of men and 26% of women aged 35–39 had no sexual experience. However, the possibility of response bias should be taken into consideration with these figures.
In 2010, another survey published The Japanese Association for Sex Education Research Journal found that 40.8% (up from 34.6% in |
Sauvira Kingdom | Sauvira in the Kurukshetra War | five rivers." (6:20)
"The Abhishahas, the Surasenas, the Sivis, and the Vasatis, the Swalyas, the Matsyas, the Amvashtas, the Trigartas, and the Kekayas, the Sauviras, the Kitavas, and the dwellers of the eastern, western, and northern countries were all resolved to fight reckless of the lives." (6:18)
Those warriors that are opposed to Arjuna, viz., the Sauvirakas, the Sindhava-Pauravas, headed by Karna, are regarded as the foremost of car-warriors (7:108). "[M]any combatants also, belonging to the Nishadas, the Sauviras, the Valhikas, the Daradas, the Westerners, the Northerners, the Malavas, the Abhighatas, the Surasenas, the Sivis, the Vasatis, the Salwas, the Sakas, the |
Sexuality in Japan | AIDS, other STDs, and contraceptives | In the years since the world first became aware of the AIDS virus, like most industrialized nations, Japan has not suffered the high rates of AIDS disease and death that characterize some nations in Africa and South-East Asia. As of 2007 only about 100 people die each year in Japan due to AIDS. In 1992, the government of Japan justified its continued refusal to allow oral contraceptives to be distributed in the country on the belief that it would lead to reduced condom use and increased transmission of AIDS. As of 2004, condoms accounted for 80 percent of birth control |
Sexuality in Japan | Hentai and seijin manga (adult cartoons) | negative connotation in Japanese and usually means "sexually perverted", with those in Japan more often referring to hentai as "seijin" or "adult" manga/anime.
The adult manga/anime medium carries its own distinct subgenres as well. Futanari or sexual attraction to androgynous people is an extensive subgenre of seijin manga. Bakunyū is the subgenre that features females with very large breasts. In Japan lolicon refers to an attraction to underage girls. Outside Japan lolicon generally refers to the genre of seijin manga wherein childlike female characters are depicted in an erotic manner. Lolicon's male equivalent, shotacon is similarly used in the West to |
Questionaut | Gameplay | Questionaut Gameplay Players control an aeronaut who tries to get with his balloon as high as possible to get a hat which belongs to his friend Vodník. But the balloon loses its air and the aeronaut has to land on levitating planets. There are creatures on these planets who are specialized in some way (English language, Mathematics, Chemistry etc.). The player has to solve a simple problem and then answer questions from the subject in which is the creature living on the planet specialized. Each of these questions have 3 possibilities. When the player chooses the right answer, the balloon |
Shakespeare in Love | Reception | in a sweet love story, juicy court intrigue, backstage politics and some lovely moments from Romeo and Juliet... Is this a movie or an anthology? I didn't care. I was carried along by the wit, the energy and a surprising sweetness."
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 92% approval rating based on 138 critical reviews, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Endlessly witty, visually rapturous, and sweetly romantic, Shakespeare in Love is a delightful romantic comedy that succeeds on nearly every level." On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 87 out of 100 based on 33 |
Serbian comics | 1991 - present | to illustration, like Neda Dokić and Milan Pavlović.
In the 21st century new publishers like Lavirint, System Comics, Komiko, Darkwood, Rosenkrantz and others continue to nurture international as well as Serbian comics. However, the print runs remain limited, so artists have been forced to seek work abroad, especially in France. The list includes Vladimir Aleksić, Tiberiu Beka, Mirko Čolak, Bojan Kovačević, Dražen Kovačević, Miroljub Milutinović, Siniša Radović, Bojan Vukić and others. Comics in Serbia had all but retreated to bookstores and galleries until publisher Veseli četvrtak reintroduced Bonelli comics to the newsstands in 2008. As of 2018, the best-selling graphic novel |
Roberto Firmino | Hoffenheim | victory against Eintracht Frankfurt.
He was dropped from the first-team squad along with Chinedu Obasi at the end of November 2011 for showing up late for training, missing the league match against Bayer Leverkusen. He scored two more goals that season, against Wolfsburg and Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the 2012–13 season, Firmino made 36 appearances and scored seven goals.
In July 2013, Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow made a €12 million bid for Firmino. Hoffenheim captain Andreas Beck hailed Firmino's development as "outstanding" in August 2013. On 27 March 2014, Firmino extended his contract with the club, signing a three-year extension. He finished the |
Sapta Puri | Varanasi | Varanasi. The ghats at the confluence sites of these two streams with the Ganges are also held in veneration. All these factors have contributed to the city being called the religious capital of Hinduism.
Varanasi is also known as the favourite city of the Hindu deity Lord Shiva as it has been mentioned in the Rigveda that this city in older times was known as Kashi or "Shiv ki Nagri". The Pandavas went to Kashi in search of Shiva to atone for their sins of fratricide and bramhanahatya that they had committed during the epic Kurukshetra war of Mahabharata epic.
Among the |
SS Kowloon No.1 | Post-war | embargo was part of a United Nations embargo against China, which was supplying arms to Kim Il-Sung's forces in the Korean War. Nancy Moller reached Singapore on 23 May. Her cargo was stated to be worth S$2,000,000 (then £1,000,000). Her cargo had been covered by an export licence that had been issued before the embargo came into force.
Later that year, she was transferred to Mount Line Ltd, Hong Kong and renamed Mount Austin, remaining under Moller's management. She was sold to the Australian Shipping Board in 1952 and renamed Coolabah, although she was not reflagged until October 1954. She was |
Schönhausen | History | After the Protestant Reformation, the Schönhausen estate was secularized by the Electors of Brandenburg.
In 1562 the administrator of Havelberg, Joachim III Frederick of Brandenburg, ceded the Schönhausen estates to the Bismarck family from Stendal, who had to swap it against Burgstall in the Altmark. The village was devastated by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War. In 1680 it became part of the Brandenburgian Duchy of Magdeburg, a constituent land of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1701.
The Bismarcks built two Baroque residences, the castles of Schönhausen I (about 1700) and Schönhausen II (from 1729), both with extended |
Shamrock Alley | Synopsis | Shamrock Alley Synopsis Following an influx of counterfeit money, Secret Service agent John Mavio goes undercover with an Irish gang known as the West Side Boys in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. Mavio's goal is to shut down the ring of organized crime and flush out the source of the counterfeit money, an operation that is perhaps the worst in history. The gang is led by two Irish thugs from Hell's Kitchen, Mickey O’Shay and Jimmy Kahn. These two violent criminals have been terrorizing the Upper West Side for years, and are involved in more than just a counterfeit |
Sapta Puri | Haridwar | ghat, there are a large number of temples in the city dedicated to Shiva, goddess Shakti or Durga (a cable car way has been built to approach this temple, apart from the ancient approach by steps over the hills), Vishnu and a galaxy of other deities. It is the pious location where, Hindus from all parts of the country, particularly North India, immerse ashes of the dead and perform last rites.
Apart from the regular annual pilgrimage season from April to November, during February–March Magh Mela ('mela' means "fair") is also held on a large scale. Other spectacular events that are |
Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin | Historical period | Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin Historical period There has been much debate over the dating of Levantine paintings, and whether they belong to the Mesolithic, the end of the Paleolithic, or the Neolithic; they clearly represent a very different style from the much more famous Art of the Upper Paleolithic in caves on either side of the Pyrenees, but yet may well show continuity with it. According to UNESCO, the oldest art in the World Heritage Site is from 8,000 BC, and the most recent examples from around 3500 BC. The art therefore spans a period of |
Ressentiment (Scheler) | Background | Ressentiment (Scheler) Background It is difficult to imagine the intellectual concern of late 19th and early 20th Century over the collective drift in Western Civilization away from old-guard monarchial and hierarchical societal structures (i.e., one's station in life being determined primarily by birth), toward the relative uncertainty and instability embodied in such Enlightenment Era ideals such as democracy, nationhood, class struggle (Karl Marx), human equality, humanism, egalitarianism, utilitarianism and the like. As such, Ressentiment, as a phenomenon, was first viewed as a pseudo-ethically based political force enabling the lower classes of society to rise in their situation in life at |
Sapta Puri | Mathura | from the fourth century BC, when there was domination of Jain and Buddhist religious culture, have been noted from the sculptures recorded in Mathura. From this period, it has been inferred that "the city had a significant impact on the development of figurative sculpture elsewhere in the country". It was also a commercial hub during this period, imbibing composite culture and religious ethos, apart from establishing a prospering commerce both within and across the borders of the region. Following the Mauryan rule, the Kushans ruled till 3rd century AD when the sacred and secular life styles coalesced. Then a number |
Ruslan Pukhov | Overview | founded the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), which was inspired by the French think-tank Centre de Recherches et d'Études sur les Stratégies et les Technologies or Centre for Study of Strategies and Technologies (CREST). CAST publishes the Russian language journal, Eksport Vooruzheniy (Arms Exports), which cover topics on Russian and former Soviet States defense industries, arms trade, and armed forces.
Pukhov has written a number of articles and op-eds on defense matters for the New York Times, Defense News, The National Interest, and other news sources. He has also published a number of books, including Brothers Armed: Military |
Rugby union in Ivory Coast | History | country.
As a former French colony, the country has tended to come under the French sphere of influence, and many top players, including Max Brito played in France. Although the origins of Ivorian rugby go back to the 1960s and earlier, real growth came about when the paid French official Jean-François Turon managed to get the game adopted by Abidjan University at the turn of the 1980s, but it is François Dali who is seen as the father of Ivorian rugby, and his son, Athanase Dali, was the national captain during the 1990s.
Ivorian delegates were amongst those who went to the |
Sense about Science | Projects & AllTrials | food, avian influenza, chemicals and health, "electrosmog", vaccination, weather and climate, nuclear power, and the use and utility of peer review. Sense about Science encourages scientists to explain to the public the value of peer review in determining which reports should be taken seriously. Director Tracey Brown describes such critical thinking as crucial to preventing public health scares based on unpublished information. AllTrials The AllTrials campaign calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their full methods and summary results reported.
AllTrials is an international initiative of Bad Science, BMJ, Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Cochrane Collaboration, James |
Politics of Pakistan | Executive branch | Politics of Pakistan Executive branch The president of Pakistan, in keeping with the constitutional provision that the state religion is Islam, must be a Muslim. Elected for a five-year term by an Electoral College consisting of members of the Senate and National Assembly and members of the provincial assemblies, the president is eligible for re-election. But no individual may hold the office for more than two consecutive terms. The president may resign or be impeached and may be removed from office due to incapacity or gross misconduct by a two-thirds vote of the members of the parliament. The president generally |
Rubis-class submarine | AMETHYSTE rebuild & Design | Perle were both longer that the original Rubis, 73.6 metres (241 ft) as compared with 72 metres (236 ft) and the program included upgrades to the sonar, reshaping of the hull form and bow to improve silencing and additional upgrades of the electronics. With the upgrades tested and proven, the original 4 boats were rebuilt to the same standards between 1989 and 1995. Design They have a central computer system for submarine detection, processing of information, and firing of weapons. The hull is made of 80 HLES high elasticity steel. The sonar dome and sail are made of composite materials. The submarines |
Sailesh Dave | Professional life | His credits include that of Creator/Producer on more than 14 TV shows.
His production company,” Runaway Productions” is engaged in creating and producing films, TV and digital content globally. He is also a co-founder and Managing Partner of a Content Distribution company, “Runaway-Luminosity Distribution LLP.” “Runaway-Luminosity” is actively engaged in acquiring Hollywood’s finest Independent cinema and documentaries and bringing this content to the rest of the world. The company’s acquisitions include an Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour and other gems like Life, Animated, 'Harold and Lilian: a Hollywood love story' amongst many others. The company also distributes films from Lionsgate, Fox Searchlight, |
Scott Lloyd | Professional career | three seasons with the Mavs, starting 87 consecutive games at center. He scored a career-high 28 points against the Portland Trail Blazers. As a center, Lloyd had a surprisingly strong outside shot, and in the 1981–82 season he led the Mavericks with a three-point field goal percentage of .500.
Throughout his career, Lloyd became endeared to local fans for his work ethic, modesty, outgoing personality and devotion to charity causes.
Lloyd was the subject of a spirited Scott Lloyd Fan Club that operated from 1977-83. The club became famous for hanging 50-foot banners from the balconies of arenas around the NBA, |
SBV Vitesse | Mr Vitesse & Airborne-match | Bos was erected outside of the training complex at Papendal. Airborne-match Around September there is an annual 'Airborne memorial' football match. During this annual Airborne-match the veterans of World War II will be honored. The Gelredome is decorated with Airborne flags, both outside and inside the stadium, and at halftime, 120 members of the Royal British Legion played the bagpipes with some other musical guests. Clubsymbol Hertog fly with the typical Airborne colors. The match is traditionally visited by veterans who were fighting in this battle, while a special shirt is worn by Vitesse. The club drop their normal striped |
Ruslan Zhiganshin | 2015–16 season & 2016–17 season | / Luca Lanotte and Americans Madison Chock / Evan Bates. Their next competition they finished 5th at the 2015 Rostelecom Cup. On December 24-27, Ilinykh/Zhiganshin competed at the 2016 Russian Championships, where they finished 4th behind Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin after placing fourth in the short dance and second in the free dance.
Ilinykh/Zhiganshin decided to fly to Michigan on 27 February 2016 to work with Igor Shpilband. 2016–17 season They finished fourth at the 2017 Russian Championships, losing the bronze to Sinisina/Katsalapov by 0.17. They had a one-point deduction after part of their costume fell onto the ice.
Zhiganshin decided |
Sebastián Soria | International career | score. This happened in the AFC 2007 in both their games, one against Japan, and the other just recently against Vietnam. He also scored the leading goal against the United Arab Emirates. He is the only Qatari player to score on the 2007 Asian Cup. He scored three goals.
Soria scored a goal against eventual winners Japan in the 2011 Asian Cup quarterfinals but the homeside were silenced after a late goal from Inoha put Japan in the lead to win by a 3–2 victory. However, he was not included in Djamel Belmadi's squad for 2015 AFC Asian Cup. |
Sangguniang Panlalawigan | History | was codified under Batas Pambansa Blg. 337, also known as the Local Government Code of 1983. The governor served as an ex officio member, who did not vote except only to break a tie, but had the power to veto items within, or entire, Sanggunian ordinances and resolutions. However the veto can be overridden by a two-thirds vote of all voting SP members.
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan was retained as the legislative branch of all provincial governments under the 1987 Constitution and the Local Government Code of 1991. However, unlike the old Provincial Boards or the pre-1992 Sanggunian, which included in their |
S͎ | Unicode | S͎ s͎ is a symbol used in the Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a whistled s. The sound occurs in the Shona language represented by sv, as in the name of Morgan Tsvangirai. Unicode s͎ is represented in Unicode by an s and U+034E (Combining Upwards Arrow Below). |
Scabby Range Nature Reserve | Condition & Heritage listing | and pigs Sus scrofa, and with feral horses Equus caballus occasionally damaging high altitude fens and seepages. The reserve, along with the more extensive Namadgi National Park and the Bimberi Range, constitutes an area with considerable wilderness value. (1989) Heritage listing The area has significant wilderness value as it comprises part of the core and buffer of an identified Bimberi Wilderness area. It embraces a panoramic collection of scenic peaks and spurlines. The reserve protects a good sample of well developed, minimally disturbed montane forests of mountain gum Eucalyptus dalrympleana and mountain ash (Eucalyptus delegatensis), with the latter species occurring |
Savile Row tailoring | Henry Poole & Co & Gieves & Hawkes | expired and the unlisted building was demolished. Gieves & Hawkes Gieves & Hawkes is a traditional British gentleman's bespoke tailor located at No. 1 Savile Row. The business dates from the late 19th century, and was formed by the merger of two separate businesses, 'Gieves' (founded 1785) and 'Hawkes' (founded 1771). Starting out with roots from two suppliers who focused on the British Army and the Royal Navy, it was the first Savile Row tailor to provide ready-to-wear clothes. There are various Gieves & Hawkes shops and concessions around the UK and in several other countries. It holds a number |
Sapta Puri | Mathura | in the rule of Slave Dynasty or Delhi Sultanate from 1193 AD and subsequently by the Mughal Dynasty rule, which lasted till the British took over. The Mughal rule, in particular of Aurangzeb saw the highest level of persecution, when in 1669 the Keshava temple was demolished and in its place a mosque was built. Even though the jat community of the region tried unsuccessfully to restore some of the temples but repeated Muslim depredation continued and it was not until the British Raj came into effect, after the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, that Krishna worship in Mathura got |
Serbian comics | 1991 - present | to find their feet.
Meanwhile, the underground comics experienced an unprecedented boom. Aleksandar Rakezić alias Aleksandar Zograf, author of Life Under Sanctions (Fantagraphics Books, 1994), had laid a groundwork as a pioneer of comic fanzines in the 1980s. A decade later, authors like Danilo Milošev Wostok, Saša Mihajlović, Danijel Savović, Radovan Popović, Nikola Vitković, Lazar Bodroža and many others gathered around self-published editions and managed to create original and authentic works. For the first time since the late 1980s, a comic was censored in Serbia. Some would eventually try their hand at mainstream, like Leonid Pilipović and Tihomir Čelanović, or turn |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Kinship and clans | threat to the Restoration government, or relations with England, the same effort was not put into suppressing their independence as had been focused on the Borders, until after the Glorious Revolution. Economic change and the imposition of royal justice had begun to undermine the clan system before the eighteenth century, but the process was accelerated after the rebellion of 1745, with Highland dress banned, the enforced disarming of clansmen, the compulsory purchase of heritable jurisdictions, the exile of many chiefs, and the sending of ordinary clansmen to the colonies as indentured labour. All of this largely reduced clan leaders to |
Prenk Bib Doda | Early years | Prenk Bib Doda Early years Doda was born in 1860 in Orosh, Mirditë District, the son of Bibë Dodë Pasha of the Gjonmarkaj clan. His father was given the title Pasha from the Ottomans due to his support in suppressing the Albanian Revolt of 1843–44 against the Tanzimat reforms. He spent his youth in Istanbul and returned to Mirdita in 1876. During the Great Eastern Crisis, Montenegro attempted to get Albanian tribes to revolt against the empire and Ottoman officials of Shkodër attempted to counter those actions through negotiations with Doda. Doda later took two Ottoman negotiators hostage, closed access |
Savile Row tailoring | Nutters of Saville Row | Abbey Road were made by Nutters. Nutter left the business in 1976 and went to work at Kilgour, leaving Edward Sexton to continue running the business. Nutter died from complications arising from HIV/AIDS on 17 August 1992 at the Cromwell Hospital in London. Edward Sexton continues to work at his premises on Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge.
Meredith Etherington-Smith wrote: "Nutter was a gentle humorist who had a wide and interesting circle of friends attracted by his enthusiasm, by his gentle, self-mocking personality and his acerbic comments on the vagaries of others, always ending with the expression 'But who am I to talk?'." |
Shepherd Clark | Personal life | he completed a work of art entitled "The Impossible Dream", which was inspired by the blue of Trixi Schuba's Olympic skating costume, and her music choice. This work of art emphasizes the value and metaphoric importance of the circle as a shape representing life coming "full circle" when one fully trusts God. |
Savile Row tailoring | History & Henry Poole & Co | revenue for the informal group of suitmakers was now estimated to be £30-35 million pounds, with several tailoring houses having over 10% growth in recent years. The Fashion Industry's contribution as a whole to the British economy is an estimated £26 billion a year.
In November 2016, SR became a Special Policy Area within the City of Westminster. This gives SR special planning status in order to safeguard its character: "Development in the Savile Row Special Policy Area will complement and enhance its role as an international centre of excellence for bespoke tailoring." Henry Poole & Co Henry Poole & Co |
Scabby Range Nature Reserve | Description | are listed for Namadgi and would apply to scabby range also since the National Park surrounds this Nature Reserve. This avifauna is typical of tall sclerophyll forests and subalpine woodlands of the southern Monaro and adjacent highlands with rich representation of raptors, old world flycatchers, seasonal influxes of honeyeaters and parrots including the vulnerable glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami and poorly known yellow tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus). Of note also is the fact that a significant portion of the area's birds move seasonally, overwintering at lower elevations and moving to the higher country such as the Scabby Range in |
Peter Gabriel (1982 album) | Title | this new title was displayed in a sticker on top of the LP sleeve's shrink-wrap and on the spine and disc labels. Whilst Gabriel provided the title himself, the album was officially known as Peter Gabriel in other territories. As a result, it is known by fans as Security or Peter Gabriel 4. The Security title was maintained on American and Canadian releases of the album until 2010, when it reverted to the original Peter Gabriel title for reissues by Gabriel's own Real World Records label.
This was the last album by Gabriel to be titled Peter Gabriel until the 2008 |
Sefton Samuels | Life and work | Sefton Samuels Sefton Samuels (1931, Manchester) is a British photographer known for his photojournalistic portrayal of northern England. He was described by painter LS Lowry as his favourite photographer. His style has been compared to that of photographer Bill Brandt.
Shot over five decades, his pictures include images of George Best, LS Lowry, Coronation Street, Louis Armstrong and the changing culture and landscape of northern England. Around one hundred of Samuels’ photographs are held in the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum. He has also held exhibitions at the Barbican Centre, Kings Place and Proud Galleries. Life and work |
Robert Döpel | Back in Germany | Back in Germany Döpel returned to East Germany in 1957, together with his wife. He became professor of applied physics and director of the Institut für Angewandte Physik (Institute for Applied Physics) at the Hochschule für Elektrotechnik (today the Technische Universität) Ilmenau. There, he conducted spectral analysis of the mechanism of electric discharges in gases.
Later on, he was engaged in energetics in connection with waste heat and global warming problems. With his zero-dimensional climate model, he estimated global warming contributions from waste heat for coming centuries which have been confirmed meanwhile by more refined model calculations. He died in Ilmenau |
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship | Background | Music, Dance, and Drama (Sangeet Natak Akademi), an Academy of Letters (Sahitya Akademi), and an Academy of Art (Lalit Kala Akademi).
The Sangeet Natak Akademi, established on 31 May 1952 by a resolution of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (then the Ministry of Education), Government of India, headed by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, is India's National Academy for Music, Dance, and Drama. The Akademi was officially inaugurated on 28 January 1953 by the first President of India, Rajendra Prasad and P. V. Rajamannar was appointed as its first Chairman. The first members of the Executive Board of the Akademi consisted |
Reccared I | Reign | also delivered the triumphant closing sermon, which his brother Isidore entitled Homilia de triumpho ecclesiae ob conversionem Gothorum a homily upon the "triumph of the Church upon the conversion of the Goths". The text of the homily survives. Leander and the Catholic bishops immediately instituted the program of forced conversion of Jews and extirpation of the remains of Arianism as heresy. Catholic history traditionally imputes these persecutions to the Visigothic kings. When, after Reccared's reign, at a synod held at Toledo in 633, the bishops took upon themselves the nobles' right to select a king from among the royal |
Planarian | As a model system in biological and biomedical research | have implications for human health and disease. Advances in molecular genetic technologies has made the study of gene function possible in these animals and scientists are studying them worldwide. Like other invertebrate model organisms, for example C. elegans and D. melanogaster, the relative simplicity of planarians facilitates experimental study.
Planarians have a number of cell types, tissues and simple organs that are homologous to our own cells, tissues and organs. However, regeneration has attracted the most attention. Thomas Hunt Morgan was responsible for some of the first systematic studies (that still underpin modern research) before the advent of molecular biology as |
Rooster Teeth | Let's Play Live & Rooster Teeth Podcast & Community and website | returned to Austin the night before RTX 2018 began. In August 2018, Rooster Teeth announced they would replace RTX Sydney 2019 with three Let's Play Live events in different cities. Rooster Teeth Podcast On December 9, 2008, Rooster Teeth launched the Drunk Tank podcast, which was renamed the Rooster Teeth Podcast in 2011, with the previous name not being attractive to advertisers. The podcast is released weekly, and has won several honors, including being the most downloaded podcast on iTunes and winning the Best Gaming Podcast award at the Podcast Awards in 2013 and 2014. Community and website "I think |
Sapta Puri | Kanchipuram | century AD.
The city has 108 Shaiva and 18 Vaishnava temples. The Hindu philosopher Ramanujacharya who propagated the Vishishtadvaita philosophy studied here. The temples are distributed in three zones of the city namely, the Vishnu temples are in the east zone, the Shiva shrines are on the outskirts of the city in the northern zone and the Jain mandirs are on the east across the Vedavathi River.
Some of the exquisitely designed and built temples of the Vijayanagar period in Vijayanagara architecture style are the Ekamabaranath temple tower which is 192 feet (59 m) in height, and the Varadaraja Swamy temple, which has |
Rooster Teeth | Red vs. Blue & RWBY | short PSA episodes were officially spun off into their own show, simply titled Red vs. Blue PSA. RWBY RWBY (pronounced "Ruby") is an anime-styled CG-animated web-series that was created and directed by animator Monty Oum, and written by Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross. The first episode of RWBY premiered on July 5, 2013, at RTX 2013 and was released on the Rooster Teeth site on July 18, 2013. The story takes place in the world of Remnant, which is filled with supernatural forces and shadowy creatures known as the "Creatures of Grimm". Prior to the events of the series, mankind |
Shelby (album) | Singles & Commercial performance | official music video to YouTube. On March 1, 2019, "I" was released as the second single. It debuted at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the highest charting single of Skies' career. Commercial performance Shelby debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 54,122 album-equivalent units (with 6,032 in pure album sales) in its first week. This became Skies' second top-ten album on the chart. The album also accumulated a total of 68,609,096 on-demand audio streams that week. |
Scoop Jardine | 2007–08 | December 15, 2007, Jardine was promoted to the starting lineup on December 18, 2007 against Colgate. He would start nine games—including a career high 18 points against Northeastern on December 30, 2007—before being removed from the lineup after he was suspended for the January 27, 2008 game against Providence.
Jardine was suspended after it was alleged that he knew that a stolen student identification card was being used to order more than $100 worth of food. Jardine did not eat any of the food but helped carry it in when it was delivered to his apartment on Jan. 13 2008, then |
Shell plating | Strakes | more-or-less vertical Side Shell and is generally curved. See also Chine (boating).
Side: is the plating which extends from the Bilge strake(s) to the Shear strake.
Shear: is a special strake of the Side plating. It is the strake that connects the Side Shell to the Strength Deck.
Stringer: is a special strake of the Strength Deck plating. It is the strake that connects the Strength Deck to the Side Shell.
Strength Deck: is a special deck. It is normally the uppermost continuous deck and forms the top flange of the hull girder. |
Sexuality in Japan | Homosexuality & Politics and law | a new level of tolerance, as well as open scenes in more cosmopolitan cities (such as Tokyo and Osaka), Japanese gay men and lesbian women often conceal their sexuality, and many marry persons of the opposite sex to avoid discrimination. Politics and law Japan has no laws against homosexual activity and has some legal protections for gay individuals, but the Japanese government does not recognize same-sex marriage. In 2008 however, a law was passed allowing transgender people who have gone through sex reassignment surgery to change their sex on legal documents.
Consensual sex between adults of the same sex is legal, |
SDN48 | SDN48 1st Stage "Yuuwaku no Garter" | Theater. |
Shakespeare in Love | Reception | critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Shakespeare in Love was among 1999's box office number-one films in the United Kingdom. The U.S. box office reached over $100 million; including the box office from the rest of the world, the film took in over $289 million.
The Sunday Telegraph claimed that the film prompted the revival of the title of Earl of Wessex. Prince Edward was originally to have been titled Duke of Cambridge following his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999, the year after the film's release. However, after watching Shakespeare in Love, he reportedly became attracted to the title of the character |
Right to property | English Civil War | had been confiscated from the Crown and Church should be turned into communal land to be cultivated by the poor. According to the Diggers, the right to vote should be extended to all and everybody had the right to an adequate standard of living. With the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, all confiscated land returned to the Crown and Church. Some property rights were recognised and limited voting rights were established. The ideas of the Levellers on property and civil and political rights remained influential and were advanced in the subsequent 1688 Glorious Revolution, but restrictions on the |
Schönhausen | History | gardens. On 1 April 1815 the later German chancellor Otto von Bismarck was born at Schönhausen I; he nevertheless grew up at his family's estate in Kniephof, Pomerania. He inherited the Schönhausen I manor upon the death of his father in 1845; 40 years later, the Chancellor also received Schönhausen II as a present "by the German nation" on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
After World War II, Schönhausen became part of the Soviet occupation zone and the Bismarcks were deprived of their property by the Soviet Military Administration in 1945. The Communist East German government had the castle of |
Richard David Semba | 1995 | a month later he attended a National Conference at the American Society for Microbiology which was hosted at Washington, D.C., in which he spoke about Micronutrients, Vitamin A and Perinatal Transmission. Twenty-one days later he held a conference on HIV in women at the Philadelphia Sciences Group at the same place. From second to third May of the same year he, as a visiting professor, gave two lectures at the University of Washington on Effects of Nutritional Factors on Infection and “Vitamin A and HIV Infection. On November 7, 1995, he was invited to host a lecture at Valencia, Spain. |
Shepherd Clark | Figure skating career | seven sectional titles. He was the 1998 US Olympic Team Alternate (reserve skater), and the 1998 and 1999 World Figure Skating Team Alternate. In 1999, Clark placed 6th at the first Four Continents Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia; this was the highest U.S. finish in the men's event that year.
From 2015–2019, Clark participated in the annual World Figure Championship, hosted by the World Figure Sport Society. These events are known to include the most difficult of Olympic figures, World Championship figures, and creative figures of skating's past, while providing a stage for sculptural artistic skating, where edge quality and positions |
Rehearsal letter | Jazz and pop | of a 32 bar song during rehearsals. In pop music, the music is commonly organized into standard sections, such as an intro, multiple verses and choruses (refrain), one or more bridges, a guitar solo (or other instrumental solos), and an outros. As such, a bandleader who wishes to start in the middle of a song will typically specify which part of this structure the band should start on (e.g., "last four bars of the bridge, going into the guitar solo" or "last verse and go to the outro"). |
Rheometer | Capillary/contraction flow | vacuum. A pressurized capillary rheometer can be used to design thermal treatments of fluid food. This instrumentation could help prevent over and under-processing of fluid food because extrapolation to high temperatures would not be necessary. |
Samuel Checote | Preacher & Principal chief | the Civil War began. He enlisted in the Confederate Army as captain of Company B of the First Regiment of Creek Mounted Volunteers on August 13, 1861, and on August 19, 1861, he was commissioned as lieutenant colonel of his regiment. He and his regiment participated in several actions against Union forces, including the 1864 Battle of Cabin Creek and a skirmish at Pryor Creek.
After the end of the Civil War, Checote resumed his career as a Methodist preacher. He served as a circuit rider and as a presiding elder of the Indian Mission. Principal chief Checote was elected as |
Shane Sutcliffe | Career | family after losing to fellow Canadian Patrice L'Heureux on November 30, 2001. After the birth of his son, Sutcliffe worked construction to provide a steadier source of income for his new family.
However, he returned to the sport in 2004, dropping decisions to Wesley Martin and Louis Monaco. As of 2005, he lives in Nanaimo with his family and trains out of there with Don Arnott, a local kickboxing sensei.
He is what is termed a journeyman fighter, one who "journeys" to a variety of places (often on short notice) to provide relatively easy competition for up-and-coming prospects or fading |
Schola Cantorum de Venezuela | null | Grammophon and Nonesuch labels, respectively. |
Olympiacos F.C. | The Gate 7 tragedy | εσείς μας οδηγείτε." (Adhélfia, zíte, esís mas odhiyíte, "Brothers, you live, you are the ones who guide us."). At the tribune part of the stadium where Gate 7 is now, some seats are colored black instead of red, shaping the number "7", whereas there is also a monument on the eastern side of the stadium, bearing the names of all 21 supporters killed on that day in the stadium.
Even though this incident affected almost solely the fanbase of Olympiacos, other teams occasionally pay their respects to the people killed as well, as they consider the incident to be a tragedy |
Programmable logic controller | Programmable logic relay (PLR) | more recent years, small products called PLRs (programmable logic relays), and also by similar names, have become more common and accepted. These are much like PLCs, and are used in light industry where only a few points of I/O (i.e. a few signals coming in from the real world and a few going out) are needed, and low cost is desired. These small devices are typically made in a common physical size and shape by several manufacturers, and branded by the makers of larger PLCs to fill out their low end product range. Popular names include PICO Controller, NANO PLC, |
Olympiacos F.C. | The Legend (1946–1959) | the same period (1946–1959), the club won 8 Greek Cups out of 13 editions (1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959), thus completing 6 Doubles (1947, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959), three of which being consecutive (1957–1959). The legendary Olympiacos team of the 1950s, with key performers such as Andreas Mouratis, Ilias Rossidis, Thanasis Bebis, Ilias Yfantis, Babis Kotridis, Kostas Polychroniou, Giorgos Darivas, Babis Drosos, Antonis Poseidon, Savvas Theodoridis, Kostas Karapatis, Mimis Stefanakos, Thanasis Kinley, Stelios Psychos, Giannis Ioannou, Themis Moustaklis, Vasilis Xanthopoulos, Dimitris Kokkinakis, Giorgos Kansos, Kostas Papazoglou and Aristeidis Papazoglou marked Olympiacos' period of absolute domination in |
Rooster Teeth | RTX & Let's Play Live | with Hanabee and Supanova Pop Culture Expo. In February 2017, RTX London was announced, taking place October 14–15 of that year. Let's Play Live Let's Play Live is an on-stage event produced by Rooster Teeth in which Achievement Hunter and members of the Let's Play family play video games and perform comedy sketches in front of a live audience. Their first event was held on February 20, 2015, at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. On September 14, a documentary was released about the event for sponsors on their website.
Starting in 2016, LPL toured through multiple cities across North America.
LPL |
Sammy Ofer | Philanthropy & Personal life & Death & Legacy | 10 November 2008 he was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of his involvement with maritime heritage in the United Kingdom. Personal life He was married to Aviva Ofer. They had two sons: Idan Ofer and Eyal Ofer. They resided in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Death On 3 June 2011, Ofer died in his house in Tel Aviv at the age of 89. Legacy In 2013, Idan Ofer donated £25 million to London Business School in honor of his father, Sammy. The Old Marylebone Town Hall will be renamed the Sammy Ofer |
Ronnie Lee Gardner | Defense motions | the age of 4 had damaged his brain. Gardner had also huffed gas and glue with his siblings, and played with mercury stolen from gas meters by his stepfather to sell. Three of the jurors that sentenced Gardner to death signed an affidavit that they would have recommended life without parole, an option that was not available in Utah until 1992. Gardner claimed that he was a changed man who counseled other inmates and was interested in starting an organic farm project for youths on 160 acres (65 ha) in Box Elder County, Utah. Gardner's attorney presented a letter his client |
Shakespeare in Love | Plot | he learns Rosaline is sleeping with Edmund Tilney, the powerful Master of the Revels. Henslowe, who is in debt to the ruthless moneylender Fennyman and in desperate need for a new play, begins auditions anyway.
Viola de Lesseps, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, who has seen Shakespeare's plays at court, disguises herself as a man named Thomas Kent to audition. "He" gains Shakespeare's interest when he auditions with a speech from Two Gentlemen of Verona after a series of actors bore him by reciting from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, but when Shakespeare questions her, Viola runs away in fear of being |
Sauvira Kingdom | Battles between Sindhu and Sauvira & Suvira & Jayadratha | in weakness of heart, be ruled over by the daughters of the Saindhavas." (5:134) "Pierced by the wordy arrows of his mother, the son roused himself like a steed of proud mettle and achieved [defeating the Sindhus] all that his mother had pointed out." (5:136) Suvira The kingdom of Sauvira was founded by Prince Suvira, one of the sons of Sivi. The neighboring kingdoms of Madra, Kekaya, and Sindhu belonged to Madraka, Kekaya, and Vrsadarbh, the other three sons of Sivi. Jayadratha Jayadratha was the king not only of Sauvira but of Sindhu and other countries as well. (3:265) The |
Savile Row tailoring | Gieves & Hawkes & Dege & Skinner | of Royal warrant of appointments, which cover all three British Royal Warrants (Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and HRH Charles, Prince of Wales). Dege & Skinner Dege & Skinner (pronounced /ˈdiːdʒ/) is known for its expertise in military as well as civilian clothing. It remains a family-run business and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2015. Located at No. 10 Savile Row, the firm was founded as J. Dege & Sons, and became a joint venture between the two families when William Skinner Jr. joined the firm in 1916. After the Skinner family took full ownership, the business was |
Sadak 2 | Production & Marketing and release | 2019. Marketing and release On 20 September 2018, the first teaser of the film was released on Instagram by Alia Bhatt, incidentally it marked the seventieth birthday of the director Mahesh Bhatt.
The film was initially scheduled for release on 25 March 2020, but was pushed to 10 July 2020. |
Pursuit of Equality | Synopsis | sinful.
The film focuses on the compelling, human rights struggles surrounding same-sex marriage and captures the elation and despair of couples and families who are fighting for equal rights.
This film made the independent film festival circuit, winning multiple awards, and is scheduled for a wider release in the United States in 2008. |
Shamsa Al Maktoum | Disappearance in 2000 | Shamsa Al Maktoum Disappearance in 2000 In summer of 2000, Sheikha Shamsa was in UK on a holiday trip with her extended family residing at their Longcross estate near Chobham in Surrey. In an attempt to seek better future for herself and escape restrictions on her life in Dubai, she used this opportunity to flee from her family mid-July 2000. After her escape she stayed with her friends for a few weeks in a London flat before being found out by her family.
In August 2000, Shamsa was allegedly forcefully picked-up from the streets of Cambridge while walking out of |
Samuel Osgood | Early life | Samuel Osgood Early life John Osgood came to Massachusetts from Andover in England in 1638. In 1646 he started a new settlement there and named it Andover for his home town. Four generations later, Captain Peter Osgood lived there and in 1748 he had a third son whom he named Samuel.
Samuel attended Dummer Academy (now The Governor's Academy), and then Harvard College, where he studied theology and graduated in 1770. Later, he returned to Andover to follow a mercantile career. He joined the local militia, was elected to represent the town in the colonial assembly, and in 1775 to |
SS Norlom | SS Norlom | GAT 80, which arrived at Trinidad on 18 August. She left the convoy at La Romana, Dominican Republic on 14 August, departing eight days later for San Pedro de Macorís, where she arrived on 23 August.
Laden with a cargo of sugar, Norlom departed from San Pedro de Macorís on 25 August and sailed to Guantanamo Bay. She then joined Convoy GK 754, which sailed on 28 August and arrived at Key West, Florida on 31 August. She departed the next day with Convoy KN 262, which arrived at New York on 7 September, departing two days later for Boston, from |
Shongram (soundtrack) | Composition & Release | by Armeen Musa and the background music score was composed by Emon Saha. Release A seven-track album was released by Laser Vision in Bangladesh on 18 March 2014. The album was launched at the Seven Hills Restaurant in Bangla Motor, Dhaka. Present at the event were musician Azad Rahman, filmmakers; Morshedul Islam, Majharul Islam and Khalid Mahmud Mithu, director of the film Munsur Ali, general secretary of Bangladesh Film Directors Association Mushfiqur Rahman Gulzar, media personality Mosrher-ul-Alam, A K M Arifur Rahman, Chairman of Laser Vision, actors and film crew.
A full nine-track edition of the album was made available for |
Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor | QDII in China & Wenzhou pilot program | stocks in Hong Kong. See
Through train scheme to be discussed. See also Premier says caution necessary before opening floodgates to Hong Kong shares.
On April 8, 2008, an agreement between the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made it possible for Chinese individuals to invest in the US stock market. Wenzhou pilot program In April, 2012, it was announced that "Beijing’s latest financial reform will allow local residents in the wealthy city of Wenzhou to make investments abroad". The pilot program was not explicitly linked to QDII but came at the same time as an expansion |
Sheshunoff Consulting + Solutions | Sheshunoff Information Services & Sheshunoff Management Services | from Warren, Gorham & Lamont, a Thomson imprint.
In 2004, SIS was sold to Sheshunoff Management Services (see below). Sheshunoff Management Services In the late 1980s, the Sheshunoffs developed an investment banking group, and when SIS was sold to Thomson International, they retained the consulting and investment banking businesses and, in 1992, founded Sheshunoff Management Services. In the mid-90s, Sheshunoff Management Services became more focused on technology services and products, and risk management services. By 2001, they had developed a proprietary overdraft tool, Deposit Score.
In 2000, Gabrielle Sheshunoff and the private equity firm Austin Ventures launched Alex Information and, in 2004, |
Rooster Teeth | Death Battle | Play. Its website was updated to be consistent with Rooster Teeth's branding, along with all its previously existing users becoming Rooster Teeth users and its forums being absorbed into Rooster Teeth's forums.
The website is primarily known for the web series Death Battle, in which they pit pop culture icons against each other in a fight to the death and determine who would win based on extensive research of the characters. Other content includes an animated fight show without research called DBX, a podcast called Death Battle Cast, and an informative show called Desk of Death Battle.
On February 4, 2019 the |
Shirō Asano (politician) | Early life and Administrative career & Political career | he was an exchange student at the University of Illinois, Graduate School of Political Science. He returned to Japan until 1978, when he was stationed at the Japanese embassy in Washington D.C. as second and first secretary. The position in Washington lasted until 1980. Back in Japan he worked a number of posts in the Ministry of Health and Welfare and in 1993 he was posted to Miyagi Prefecture. Political career A few months after Asano arrived in Miyagi, the prefectural governor and the mayor of the city of Sendai were indicted in bribery charges that shocked the |
Royers Lock | null | Royers Lock The Royers lock (Dutch Royerssluis) is a tidal lock located in Belgium, giving access to the right bank docks in the Port of Antwerp and the Albert Canal. Although it was built for sea-going vessels, it is now mostly used by riverboats.
The construction of the lock started in 1893 and was finished in 1908. The lock is 180 metres (590 ft) long and 22 meters (72 feet) wide. The operational depth (TAW) is 6.42 meters (21.1 feet).
The lock was built to accommodate the extension of the docklands towards the north. Both the Bonaparte lock (Dutch: bonapartesluis) and the Kattendijk |
Sexuality in Japan | Film & Hentai and seijin manga (adult cartoons) | that it paved the way for true pornography in Japan as well as for multiple other genres of Japanese pornographic film including: hamedori, roshutsu, and Japanese bondage. Other Japanese pornography genres include: group sex (with gang bang as a subgenre), lesbian, and fetishes (particularly foot fetishes). Lotion play is a popular element in Japanese pornography. Hentai and seijin manga (adult cartoons) The genre of erotica known to the West as hentai (erotic cartoons or drawings) was invented in Japan; They are used in erotic manga (Japanese comic books, graphic novels) and anime (Japanese animation). The word "hentai" has a |
Push email | Protocols | to the demands of mobile email. Among the extensions are rapid IMAP resynchronization and a new NOTIFY command in IMAP. |
Rauheneck Castle (Ebern) | Description | 16th century) which have been secured by emergency work. The huge Renaissance window of the upper floor poses serious historic preservation problems. One of the windows was underpinned by a steel frame. Of interesting is a small fireplace in the tiny room next to the bridge. It may well have been the gatekeeper's room. Of the other internal buildings only remains of walls and vaults have survived.
Whether the castle has possessed a bergfried cannot be ascertained. A possible site for such a tower is considered by some castle researchers castle to be a pile of rubble west of the palas. |
Shooting at the 2015 European Games | Qualification | in order to increase the number of nations represented. Host country athletes were not restricted to the ranking qualification standard. Azerbaijan was guaranteed 9 host quota places, 5 for men and 4 for women.
Mixed events were not subject to the quota qualification standard. Nations with entries in both the relevant men's and women's events would be able to compete with existing shooters. |
Sapta Puri | Ujjain | probably, also marks the spread of Hindu religious beliefs to the Central Asia region. Particular mention could be made to the reign of Vima Kadphises, during the Kushan Dynasty, who considered Shiva as his divine patron. During his reign, apart from the influence of Greek religious practices, worship of Shiva, in particular, was also seen as an accepted practice in Iran. This leaning is attributed to Vima Kadphises’s victory over Indian territory. Inscriptions of his times in Iran establish that he had converted the temple of Dioscuri (built during Greeko – Bactrian period) at Dilberjin into a sanctuary for Shiva |
Sebastián Soria | AC Milan vs Al Sadd & Lekhwiya | of course I said yes. I like to play against the strong defenders," Soria said after his scuffles with Milan defender Philippe Senderos. After being substituted, Soria was swarmed by local fans and patiently signed autographs for approximately 15 minutes. Lekhwiya After transferring to Qatari champions Lekhwiya, Soria had the opportunity to play in the 2013 AFC Champions League. He scored 4 goals in Lekhwiya's first four group stage games, including one of the fastest goals in any Asian competition after 9 seconds against Pakhtakor on 9 April 2013. It was alleged to be the fastest goal in Asia's premier |
Ryan Dalziel | Career | Ryan Dalziel Career Born in Glasgow, Dalziel began his car racing career in 1999 in Formula Vauxhall. He drove in British Formula Renault and British Formula 3, before moving to the United States. From 2002 until 2004, he spent three years in the Toyota Atlantic Championship, finishing runner-up twice, before moving to the American Le Mans Series in 2005. He also contested one Champ Car race for Dale Coyne Racing at Toronto, finishing 9th. In 2006, he drove a Daytona Prototype in the Rolex Sports Car Series. From 2007-2009, he drove part-time with various teams in the |
Robert Döpel | In Germany | at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, and in 1932 he became a privatdozent there.
In 1939, Döpel became an extraordinarius professor at the University of Leipzig, where he was a colleague of Werner Heisenberg. At some point, Döpel succeeded Fritz Kirchner as professor of radiation physics.
On 22 April 1939, after hearing a paper by Wilhelm Hanle on the use of uranium fission in a uranmaschine (uranium machine, i.e., nuclear reactor), Georg Joos, along with Hanle, notified Wilhelm Dames, at the Reichserziehungsministerium (REM, Reich Ministry of Education), of potential military applications of nuclear energy. Just seven days later, a group, organized by Dames, met |
Rudolf Gundlach | Gundlach Rotary Periscope | periscope enabled an observer (e.g., the tank commander) to look forward (upper panel of the picture) or backward (lower panel) without moving his seat. Since it greatly increased the comfort of observer and widened the field of view, the new periscope design was used in virtually every tank built after 1940.
It was first implemented in TKS and 7TP Polish tanks. As a part of Polish-British pre-war military cooperation, the patent was sold to Vickers-Armstrong for one Polish Zloty / 1 PLN /. It was produced as Vickers Tank Periscope MK.IV (pictured), and built into all British tanks (such as Crusader, |
Shooter's Hill | Landmarks & Road alterations | the hill.
An 18th-century grade II listed milestone in the grounds of Christ Church on Shooter's Hill has 19th-century plates giving the distances "Dartford 7 miles", "London Bridge 8 miles" and a later addition: "130 miles to Ypres: in defending the salient our casualties were 90,000 killed, 70,500 missing, 450,000 wounded", commemorating the Battle of Ypres. Road alterations During the 1950s the road gradient was lowered in the west where low-powered motor vehicles of the era frequently struggled to get to the top. As a remedy, a small section of the road west of the summit was removed and the road |
Said Belmokhtar | Career | Said Belmokhtar Career Belmokhtar is the product of the FC Odessa and the Odessa Youth Sports School "Spartak" named after I. Belanov. At the professional level, he made his debut in the 2000-2001 season for Chornomorets-2 in the Ukrainian Second League. For the main team, Chornomorets he played in two games during the 2000-2001 season in the Ukrainian First League. He later played in the Odessa region with FC Palmira Odessa, and Bilyayivka. In 2007, he played abroad in the Belarusian Premier League with Smorgon .
After two seasons abroad he returned to the Ukrainian Second League with FC Bastion Illichivsk, |
Sapta Puri | Mathura | the temples along a prescribed path) and the Braj Mandal parikrama during October–November, which takes 3 months to complete on foot, as it includes going round the Govardhan hill, apart from several other shrines.
It is located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Agra, and 150 kilometres (93 mi) south of Delhi; about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from holy Vrindavan. |
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