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Rail transport in Iceland | Recently proposed railways & Light rail | 2020.
In 2019, all municipalities the rail line would pass through have approved a cooperation agreement on zoning related to the project except Hafnarfjörður, with Morgunblaðið reporting that a meeting with the mayor of Hafnarfjörður has been scheduled. Once fully agreed, construction work could begin as early as 2022. Light rail There have also been serious proposals for a light rail system for the Capital Region (Reykjavík, Kópavogur, Hafnafjörður). In the Samtök Sveitarfélaga á Höfuborgasvæðinu's(Association of municipalities in the Capital Area) master plan for the capital area, Höfuborgasvæðið 2040, the transport section outlines a plan to create a light rail/BRT system |
Sensor network query processor | TinyDB | Sensor network query processor TinyDB TinyDB is a query processing system for extracting information from a network of TinyOS sensors. Unlike existing solutions for data processing in TinyOS, TinyDB does not require embedded C code for sensors. Instead, TinyDB provides a simple, SQL-like interface to specify the data desired, along with additional parameters, as the rate at which data should be refreshed— much like a traditional database. Given a query specifying data interests, TinyDB collects that data from motes in the environment, filters it, aggregates it, and routes it to a PC. TinyDB does this via power-efficient in-network processing algorithms. |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Middle ranks & The poor | other luxury goods. Important crafts included metal working, carpentry, leather working, pottery and later brewing and wig-making. There were frequent disputes between the burgesses and craftsmen over rights and political control of the burgh, occasionally bursting into violence, as occurred at Perth in the first half of the sixteenth century. The poor At the bottom of society were the "masterless men" and women (who lacked a clear social relationship with a social superior, such as service or apprenticeship) the unemployed and vagrants, whose numbers were swelled in times of economic downturn or hardship. Masterless women may have made up as |
Sam Kirk | Collections | Art. |
SS Kowloon No.1 | Post-war | aground at Hachinohe, Japan (40°32′N 141°33′E). She was refloated on 7 October 1967 and towed to Yokosuka, arriving on 11 October. Kowloon No.1 was declared a constructive total loss. She was sold for scrap in February 1968, and was scrapped at Oppama in June 1968. |
SR Merchant Navy class | Boiler and welded firebox & Air-smoothed casing, smokebox and blastpipe | as opposed to more common riveted construction, and a steel inner firebox which was 1.5 long tons (1.5 t) lighter than a more usual copper example. Two welded steel thermic syphons were implemented to improve water circulation around the firebox and these were subcontracted to Beyer Peacock.
However he soon discovered that the Southern Railway lacked the facilities to manufacture welded boilers of this size, so the first ten boilers were ordered on outside contract from the North British Locomotive Company. Air-smoothed casing, smokebox and blastpipe The boiler was enveloped by Bulleid's air-smoothed sheet-steel casing, which was not for the purposes |
Savile Row tailoring | William Hunt & Whitcomb and Shaftesbury | The William Hunt Trilby Tour which is now widely regarded as the best amateur tournament in the UK. Whitcomb and Shaftesbury Whitcomb and Shaftesbury (W&S), named after the intersection of two nearby streets, was started in 2004 by two Indian twins Mahesh and Suresh Ramakrishnan on St. George Street, near SR. Both had been working in New York but the brothers spotted "a gap in the market for high quality tailoring and quality advice". The Chennai-born twins were able to lure Head Cutter John McCabe, a Savile Row stalwart having spent over 40 years cutting for the major names on |
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba | Legacy | the fight against oppression. Nzinga ultimately managed to shape her state into a form that tolerated her authority, though surely the fact that she survived all attacks on her and built up a strong base of loyal supporters helped as much as the relevance of the precedents she cited. While Njinga had obviously not overcome the idea that females could not rule in Ndongo during her lifetime, and had to 'become a male' to retain power, her female successors faced little problem in being accepted as rulers. The clever use of her gender and her political understandings helped lay a |
SS Taormina (1908) | History | When Lloyd Italiano, first purchased by Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) in 1911, was completely absorbed in 1918, Taormina began sailing under the NGI banner.
In July 1918, Taormina was chartered for one voyage as a United States troopship. On 26 July, Taormina, loaded with 2,680 officers and men, departed for France in the company of U.S. Navy transports Finland and Kroonland. The group met up with Navy transports Pocahontas and Susquehanna, and the Italian steamers Duca d'Aosta and Caserta from Newport News, Virginia. American cruisers Pueblo and Huntington, and destroyers Rathburne and Colhoun escorted the transports. On 2 August, Finland developed |
S. V. Sahasranamam | Illness and death | heart attacks. He had chosen the artists for the play Nandha Vilakku, authored by novelist/dramatist Krishnamani, and asked them to come for a rehearsal on 21 February. But he suffered a heart attack on 19 February 1988 and died at 4:30 pm IST. Sahasranamam's son S. V. S. Khumar is also an actor. |
Robert Llewellyn Lyons | null | Robert Llewellyn Lyons Robert Llewellyn Lyons (born January 19, 1948) is a pilot and former political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Regina Rosemont from 1986 to 1995 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member.
He was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, the son of Robert William Lyons and Goldye Patricia Williams, and was educated in Truro, at the Pictou Academy, at Queen's University and at the University of Regina. In 1971, he married Bernice Elaine Nystrom. |
Red-tailed monkey | Communication and vocalization & Feeding habits | separately or together depending on how threatened the monkey feels to its surroundings. Other types of communication are used such as chemical and olfactory communication; however, not much information is available on this type of communication. Feeding habits Red-tailed monkeys are primarily fructivorous, but are considered omnivorous because they will eat leaves, flowers, or insects in times where fruit is scarce. As they forage, these monkeys gather their findings in the expandable cheeks of their mouths. The pouches will hold a large amount of food where they can forage in one area and then carry their food away to |
SS Norlom | SS Empire Dunlin | Canada, arriving on 28 September. Laden with a cargo of scrap steel, she departed the next day as a member of Convoy SC 47, which arrived at Liverpool on 20 October. Empire Dunlin left the convoy at Oban, Argyllshire, on the west coast of Scotland on 17 October. She departed two days later with Convoy WN 195, which arrived at Methil, Fife (on the Scottish east coast) on 22 October. She left the convoy at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands on 21 October, departing the next day to join Convoy WN 196, which had left Oban on 20 October and arrived at |
Sapta Puri | Ayodhya | in love with Kusha. A temple was built by Kusha in her honour and is stated to be the only surviving ancient temple dated to the reign of Vikramaditya.
The historic legacy of this place is traced to sixth century BC, as established by archaeological and literary references. Ramayana epic is traced to late centuries of BC of the Ikshvaku Dynasty and early centuries of AD. Dasaratha, father of Rama belonged to this dynasty.
It is also the place where the Babri Masjid was built by the Mughals in the 16th century (since destroyed in 1992), which has been described in the |
Shepherd Clark | Personal life | jewel historian. In 2003, Clark is believed to have been the first skater to wear real gemstones on a skating costume, as a way to promote his jewelry designing. He is an entrepreneur in various industries, and known for working with charities and ministries. He is also known to be a cat lover; he has used cats in his promotional media, and has found adoption homes for rescued cats and kittens.
In 2017, Shepherd Clark founded a museum that seeks art talent from around the world, including figure skating artists, and awards them based upon relevance, originality, and mastery. In 2017, |
Salix alaxensis | Description & Reproduction | Salix alaxensis Description This plant is a shrub or tree up to 9 m (30 ft) tall. The stem diameter is up to 18 cm (7.1 in). In harsher climates, it remains much smaller. The smooth, gray bark becomes furrowed and scaly with age. The leaves are up to 11 cm long and have woolly undersides. Reproduction The species is dioecious, with male and female reproductive parts on separate individuals. The inflorescence is a catkin up to 10 cm long. The fruit is a capsule. The seed has a downy layer of fibers that helps it disperse via wind and moving water. The seed remains viable |
Salisbury Winter Sports Association | Mission statement & History | mission, SWSA hosts and perpetuates the annual ski-jumping competition on Satre Hill to sustain ski jumping in Salisbury and the Eastern United States. History In 1924, John Satre immigrated from Norway to the United States to work as a chauffeur in Salisbury, CT. His brothers Magnus and Olaf joined him the following year. That year they established the Salisbury Outing Club, from which organization the Salisbury Winter Sports Association developed. On January 29, 1927 the club held its first ski jumping competition with a crowd of over two hundred spectators. In 1933 the Salisbury Outing Club hosted the |
Royers Lock | null | before it opens again. There is one gate at each end of the lock and one in between (100 meters from the lower gate). The middle gate had to allow a faster turning time but the gain was very little so the gate was put out of service. For the first time, electrical engines were used to operate the gates.
Road traffic can always use at least one of the two bridges. The Royers bridge (Dutch royersbrug) is on the side of the river Scheldt. The Lefèbvre bridge (Dutch Lefèbvrebrug) is on the side of the Siberiadok, originally named Afrikadok in |
Shock Wave (film) | Box office | a total NT$5.05 million by then. On its third weekend, the film grossed NT$600,000 and grossed a total NT$6.53 million by then. On its fourth weekend, the film grossed NT$160,000, accumulating a total gross of NT$6.95 million by that time. Along with the rest of Taiwan, the film grossed a total of NT$17,740,000 in the country.
In China, the film premiered on 28 April 2017 and debuted No.1 during its opening weekend where it grossed ¥168,772,602. On its second weekend, the film grossed ¥49,268,798, with a total gross of ¥356,695,899 by then. On its third weekend, the film grossed ¥5,193,102, with |
Rooster Teeth | Funhaus & Death Battle | Funhaus. On February 9, Poole announced his departure to return to his hometown, where he continues to live stream on Twitch. On April 5, Rubin announced his departure, where he would go to work for SourceFed as Director of Programming until March 2017, when SourceFed was cancelled by Group Nine Media. On September 3, 2019, Greene announced he would be leaving Funhaus to pursue his own brand after taking a month sabbatical to reflect on his decision. Death Battle On November 4, 2015, it was announced that fellow Fullscreen subsidiary ScrewAttack would become a division of Rooster Teeth and Let's |
Sigma Alpha Mu | History | and new chapters.
The eight Founders of Sigma Alpha Mu all came from Jewish backgrounds, and it naturally followed that they attracted to their brotherhood men of similar background. They believed in fraternalism among Jewish college men, convinced that without it, a large number of Jewish students would be deprived of the pleasant associations and companionships they now find in most colleges. Sigma Alpha Mu acknowledges its Jewish heritage and the ethical values of Judaism, but with the advent of the mid-twentieth century, expressions of liberalism suggested that constitutional limitations of membership to any particular religious group was not in keeping |
Sandy Hollow–Gulgong railway line | History & Current status | line was opened as a heavy-haul railway to the major coal mine at Ulan in 1982 and extended to Gulgong in 1985 to meet the line to Dunedoo and Dubbo. It is unlikely to be extended to Maryvale. Current status Because coal from Ulan is now the primary function of this line, Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) refer to the line as the Ulan line all the way from Muswellbrook to Gulgong. Coal from the Wilpinjong and Anvil Hill mines will also use this line when those mines begin production. In preparation for this, ARTC are upgrading the lines |
SDN48 | 2010-2011: Major label debut & 2012: Disbandment & 2013: Reunion & New Projects | would be leaving the group due to health problems. Chinese member Chen Qu was chosen as Fukuyama replacement. The group was scheduled to release their second single "Ai, Juseyo" (愛、チュセヨ Ai, Chuseyo, "Love, Give Me Please") on 23 March 2011; however, due to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March, the single was postponed until 6 April. 2012: Disbandment On March 31, 2012, all the members graduated from the group and the group was disbanded. On April 19, 2012, former SDN48 members participated in AKB48's 2nd revival stage concert which took place on May 15. 2013: Reunion & New |
Savile Row tailoring | H. Huntsman & Sons | is a part of L'Roubi and Lagrange's country lifestyle. L'Roubi explained to London Evening Standard that "rather than just owning the brand, we have a connection." He stated: “British upper-class fashion is about individuality. What we are wearing today is sombre but people wear tweeds and shooting stockings so bright that you’d never wear in the city, and that’s where the character comes out, in the high life." As well as the tailoring business, L'Roubi and Lagrange face challenges at Huntsman, including infrastructure updating. Among the technology being used is an electronic tracer that produces a digital file and a |
Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit | Seigniorage and Sequestration | into future investments as precarious, and the availability of funds will shrink. As availability of funds relates directly to the leverage a government can use to grow its economy, this breach of faith can have fatal consequences on the future of economic stability. Also, a tax on creditor citizens would be, at the time, wildly inestimable but definitively disproportionate. Those creditors would be charged not only the normal taxes subjected upon consumption, but those on investment as well. Therefore, those who had faith in government enough to invest in their success would unreasonably be charged the most for that success.
In |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Post-war to 1993 | surplus stock from depots at home, and returning in good order sites that had been requisitioned for the duration of the war, RAOC units were heavily involved in clearing ammunition from Germany's former depots and dealing with live devices still in the field. The RAOC's skills in bomb disposal were later put to increasing use in dealing with terrorist devices at home as well as in conflict zones overseas. The training of Ammunition Examiners, Ammunition Technicians and Ammunition Technical Officers at the Army School of Ammunition became progressively more specialised during the 1950s and '60s. In May 1970 a section |
Sir Erasmus Philipps, 5th Baronet | null | the Royal Society in 1727. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1737.
In 1743 Philipps was drowned in the River Avon on his way home from Bath after his horse was frightened by some pigs. He was unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet. |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Demography | 1597–1609.
The population expansion probably levelled off after the famine of the 1590s, as prices were relatively stable in the early seventeenth century. In the early seventeenth century famine was common, with four periods of famine prices between 1620 and 1625. The invasions of the 1640s had a profound impact on the Scottish economy, with the destruction of crops and the disruption of markets resulting in some of the most rapid price rises of the century, but population probably expanded in the period of stability that followed the Restoration in 1660. Calculations based on Hearth Tax returns for 1691 indicate a |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Collection | Phillis Wheatley, archival material of Melville J. Herskovits, John Henrik Clarke, Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X and Nat King Cole. The collection includes the files, or papers of the International Labor Defense, the Civil Rights Congress, the Symphony of the New World, and the National Negro Congress. It also includes the papers of Lawrence Brown (1893-1973), Ralph Bunche, Léon Damas, William Pickens, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Clarence Cameron White. The files of the South African Dennis Brutus Defense Committee (restricted). The collection also includes manuscripts of Alexander Crummell and John Edward Bruce, manuscripts of Slavery, Abolitionism and on the West Indies, and |
Sapta Puri | Ayodhya | also sometimes referred to as Ram Janmabhoomi ("Rama's birth place"). The modern town is located on the banks of river Sarayu, also spelt Saryu. There is a surfeit of temples in this town, numbering over 100. Some of the important ones are: Temple of Rama and his consort Sita, called the Kanak Bhavan; Hanuman temple called the Hanuman Garhi on top of a hill where, apart from a Hanuman statue in a sitting posture, there is also a 6 inches (15 cm) tall image of Hanuman always bedecked by flowers; the Kshireshwaranath temple of Sita, established by Kausalya, Rama's mother. In |
Shell plating | Strakes | Shell plating Shell plating is the outer-most structure on the hull of a steel or aluminum ship or boat. Strakes A strake is the name given to each line of planking in a wooden vessel. In modern ship construction it refers to the longitudinal run of plating covering the hull, deck and bulkhead structure. Certain specific strakes are uniquely identified:
Keel: is a special strake of the Bottom plating extending from the centerplane outboard.
Bottom: the Bottom Shell plate strakes extend from the Keel to the Bilge.
Bilge: is the plating which transitions from the more-or-less horizontal Bottom Shell to the |
Schola Cantorum de Venezuela | null | other choirs such as: Cantoría Alberto Grau, Pequeños Cantores de la Schola and Schola Juvenil. Together they provide a complete system to promote and develop choral music in Venezuela.
To date, SCV has a repertoire of more than 50 major symphonic-choral works and has performed under the batons of highly acclaimed conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado, Gustavo Dudamel, Krzysztof Penderecki, Helmuth Rilling, Robert Spano, John Adams and Edmon Colomer among others. In 1996, SCV performed the world premiere of Oceana by Osvaldo Golijov under the direction of María Guinand in the Oregon Bach Festival. In 2000, at the |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Dodson tenure (1984–2011) | building. In 2000, the Schomburg Center held an exhibition titled "Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery", which later went on tour around the world for more than a decade under the sponsorship of UNESCO's Slave Route Project. In 2005, the center held an exhibition of letters, photographs and other material related to Malcolm X. In 2007, the building was renovated and expanded in an $11 million project. The Schomburg Center had 120,000 visitors a year; by 2010, Dodson announced he would retire in early 2011.
In 2007, the Schomburg Center was one of the sponsors of the African Burial Ground |
Ryan Speedo Green | Life and career | where he was Resident Artist in 2010–11. There, he also sang Colline in La bohème and Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola. In 2012, he sang Colline for Central City Opera. In 2014 he sang Zuniga in Carmen for the Wolf Trap Opera Company in Vienna, Virginia.
He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2012–13 as Mandarin in Puccini's Turandot, followed by Parsifal as a Grail Knight. The following season at the Met saw him as the Bonze in Madama Butterfly and as the Jailer in Tosca. In 2014–15 he sang Rambo in The Death of Klinghoffer at the Met. Green returned |
Samuel Checote | Early life and education | Samuel Checote Early life and education Checote was born to a Muskogee family in the Chattahoochee Valley near in what is now eastern Alabama. In 1829, he was forced to move with his parents and family to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) as part of Indian Removal. They settled near where the present-day town of Okmulgee developed.
As a child Samuel first attended the Asbury Manual Labor School near Fort Mitchell; the school was named for a Methodist leader. Later, he attended an academy founded by John Harrell, a Methodist missionary. He was very influential, persuading Checote to become a minister to |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Aristocracy | They considered themselves the king's "natural councillors" and were also the heads of a system of local patronage and loyalty. This was often formalised through bonds of manrent that set out mutual obligations and allegiances.
Under the magnates were the barons, who held increasingly nominal feudal tenures of which an important vestige was the right to hold baronial courts, which could deal with both matters of land ownership and interpersonal offences, including minor acts of violence. Also important were the local tenants-in-chief, who held legally held their land directly from the king and who by this period were often the major |
Neale Cooper | Managerial career & Personal life | of the 2012–13 season, Cooper resigned as Hartlepool boss in late October. He is still held in high regard by Hartlepool fans.
On 23 November 2012, Cooper was appointed assistant manager of SPL side Ross County alongside Derek Adams. Cooper left Ross County at the end of the 2013–14 season. Personal life Cooper's son, Alex, played in Liverpool youth academy, after a £100,000 move from Ross County in December 2007. Alex spent the summer of 2006 at a training camp in Switzerland with Chelsea, and Jose Mourinho had reportedly tracked his development. He was released by Liverpool in 2011 and has |
Rob Zicari | Obscenity prosecution & Xtreme Pro Wrestling | to the intended minimum-security satellite facility, Zicari mistakenly reported to the prison's primary facility, where officials placed him in solitary confinement for nearly a month because it "was the only space they had available." In March 2013, Zicari revealed on his radio show, The Rob Black Show, that he was actually placed in solitary because he was mistakenly designated as a sex offender because of the obscenity charges. Xtreme Pro Wrestling In 1999, Zicari and Tom Byron founded the Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) independent professional wrestling promotion. He appeared on shows as the owner as well as a manager under |
SS Kowloon No.1 | Second World War | January 1944 for Cardiff, arriving that day and then sailing to join Convoy WP 459, which departed from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire on 9 January and arrived at Portsmouth, Hampshire on 11 January. She was the only merchant ship in the convoy, which was escorted by four Hunt-class destroyers: HMS Brissenden, HMS Glaisdale, HMS Stevenstone and HMS Tanatside. She left the convoy at Plymouth, Devon on 11 January, departing the next day to join Convoy WP 460, which departed from Milford Haven on 11 January and arrived at Portsmouth two days later. Empire Dirk left the convoy at Dartmouth, Devon on 12 January, departing two |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Before Crimea & Field Train Department of the Board of Ordnance | as lieutenant colonel, Deputy Storekeepers as major (if in independent charge) or else captain, Assistant Storekeepers as lieutenant and Clerks as a non-commissioned officer. The Storekeepers and their Deputies had oversight of the Ordnance Yards, both at home and abroad, however they were never deployed in the theatre of war. Field Train Department of the Board of Ordnance By the mid-eighteenth century, Woolwich Warren (the future Royal Arsenal) had outgrown the Tower of London as the main ordnance storage depot in the realm. In times of war, the Board of Ordnance Storekeepers found themselves responsible for conveying guns, ammunition and |
Rhins of Galloway | null | Rhins of Galloway The Rhins of Galloway, otherwise known as the Rhins of Wigtownshire (or as The Rhins, also spelt The Rhinns; Scottish Gaelic: Na Rannaibh), is a hammer-head peninsula in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Stretching more than 25 miles (40 km) from north to south, its southern tip is the Mull of Galloway, the southernmost point of Scotland.
The principal settlements are Stranraer at the head of Loch Ryan and the small tourist village of Portpatrick on the west coast, other villages are dotted up and down the peninsula, including Kirkcolm, Leswalt, Lochans, and in the South Rhins; Stoneykirk, Sandhead, |
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship | Description | the "significant and lasting contribution on a sustained basis over a period of time". The recommendations are received from the current fellows along with the members of the General Council of the Akademi.
The fellowship was established in 1954 and the first elected fellows were Carnatic music vocalist Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Veena player Karaikudi Sambasiva Aiyer, and film and theatre actor Prithviraj Kapoor. As of 2015, the fellowship has been conferred upon 144 individuals, including 29 dancers, 31 theater performers, 75 musicians, and 9 individuals awarded for their overall contributions in all three fields. Since its inception, the honour has been |
Ressentiment (Scheler) | Conclusions | theory of psychological pathology, though surely it is that in part. In addition, Ressentiment is a philosophical and ethical concept from which to assess the spiritual and cultural health both of individual persons and society as a whole: a task which seems all the more urgent given economic globalization (i.e., a tendency toward carte blanche predatory capitalism). For example, it is entirely acceptable to view human ethical transcendence as complementary and commensurate with a bottom-up psychology of needs and drives so long as the arch of that qualitative direction is positive in nature. However the reverse is false. Negative parallel |
SWM G01 | Overview | SWM G01 Overview The power of the SWM G01 comes from a 1.5 liter turbo engine developed by Brilliance, capable of producing 156 hp and a top speed of 180 km/h. Prices of the G01 ranges from 79,900 yuan to 147,900 yuan. |
Silent witness rule | Arguments | trial, and the right to due process). In practice the rule has been rarely used and often challenged by judges and civil rights advocates. Its use remains controversial. Arguments Lamb argues that the SWR would enable trials to go ahead that would otherwise be dismissed because of state secrets privilege. He especially points out El-Masri v. Tenet, in which a German citizen was allegedly kidnapped and raped by CIA agents but was never allowed to present his case in court, and United States v. Reynolds, in which widows of Air Force contractors sued the government; both cases were dismissed because |
Satymkul Dzhumanazarov | null | Satymkul Dzhumanazarov Satymkul Dzhumanazarov (Russian: Сатымкул Джуманазаров; 17 September 1951 – 2 April 2007) was a Soviet athlete from Kyrgyzstan who competed mainly in the marathon. He competed for the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union, where he won the bronze medal in the men's marathon.
He came fifth at the 1981 Tokyo Marathon with a time of 2:12:31 hours. He also ran in the AD 345 long distance triathlon. |
Sha-Rock | Career | her journey in becoming an emcee. She addresses her time spent as a member of The Funky 4 + 1. During an interview, she stated that her goal is to make sure that she solidifies her group in history. Not only did she decide it was the right time in her life to sharing her story, but she also decided to write her memoirs because she felt wholehearted that it's not just her children's history, but that it's also the world's history. Her hope was that by telling the truth and sharing her story, that she could encourage aspiring young |
Sha-Rock | Legacy | Funky 4 MC's, which later evolved into the Funky 4 + 1.
On March 2, 1981, a consumer guide to LPs, a pop critic Robert Christgau may have misled the general public into the popular belief that Sha-Rock was the "+1" in the group. He framed his perception of the group as if it consisted of four male emcees and one female emcee as if an excess. "Quick tradeoffs and clamorous breaks vary the steady-flow rhyming of the individual MCs, and when it comes to Sha-Rock, Miss Plus One herself, who needs variation?" Male dominance has been a popular assumption |
Sergei Alexandrovich Korolev | Early life & Career | Sergei Alexandrovich Korolev Early life Korolev was born in Moscow in 1874. He graduated in 1900 from Kazan University, and stayed at the department of geography in preparation for the professoriate. In 1902, for participation in the revolutionary movement Sergey Korolev was sent to the Arkhangelsk province, but since 1907 received permission to live in Moscow, worked for agronomists bacteriological station. Career At 1918, Sergei Alexandrovich Korolev worked at the Department of Microbiology and Zoology at the Vologda Milk Institute. In 1920, he was elected professor of microbiology. He was engaged in improving the quality of dairy products and increasing |
Shooting at the 2015 European Games | Qualification | Shooting at the 2015 European Games Qualification The bulk (295 from 330) of qualification quota places were awarded based on European rankings as of 31 December 2014. The quota places were for athletes who were among:
- 33 top-ranked in Men's Trap and Skeet;
- 30 top-ranked in all individual Pistol and Rifle events of either gender;
- 18 top-ranked in Women's Trap and Skeet, and Men's Double Trap.
The maximum number of athletes per country was 2 in each event. Should there be among the top ranked athletes more than 2 then the exceeding places are added to the pool of Universality places, |
Rockin' Robin Roberts | Life | Rockin' Robin Roberts Life Born in New York City, Roberts moved to the Pacific Northwest as a child after his father died, settling with his mother in Tacoma. While at Mason Junior High School he started listening to rhythm and blues music and buying records in Tacoma's black district. At the Puyallup Fair in 1957 he stood up and began singing Little Richard songs unaccompanied, and was heard there by members of a local band, the Bluenotes. He joined the band, who already had a regular lead singer in "Little Bill" Engelhart, and performed with them as |
Sha-Rock | Career | artists who may be at a crossroad at the moment.
On August 4th 2009, Sha-Rock was presented an award for "Women in Hip Hop all Female Rapathon and all pioneer luminary MC award" presented by the Hip Hop cultural center of Harlem. Sha-rock went on to say that "for all of the young kids and parents that really embrace the culture and if they do not, the information is out there get on the internet and try to find out the history and the culture of Hip Hop". She urged those who do not know the true history to go |
Roberto Massaro | Career | Milan got full registration rights for another €90,000, but Massaro then transferred to Varese. Since January 2008 he played for Olbia, but just played once. In June 2008 Olbia signed him on a free transfer. |
Redford Township District No. 5 School | History & Description | attending Redford Township District No. 5 School increased from 47 to 76.
In 1923, six of Redford's school districts, including district No. 5, consolidated to form Union School District No. 1. After consolidation, this school was used as an elementary school until 1961. An annex containing seven classrooms was constructed behind the school in the later 1950s. From 1960 to 1982, the building was used as the board of education headquarters. After 1982, it functioned as the district's instructional materials center, and now houses administrative offices for the district. Description The Redford Township District No. 5 School |
Shakespeare in Love | Plot | Shakespeare in Love Plot In 1593 London, William Shakespeare is a sometime player in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and poor playwright for Philip Henslowe, owner of The Rose Theatre. Shakespeare is working on a new comedy, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. Suffering from writer's block, he has barely begun the play, and is further distracted by attempts both to seduce Rosaline, the mistress of Richard Burbage, owner of the rival Curtain Theatre and to convince Burbage to buy the play from Henslowe. Shakespeare receives helpful advice on his play from rival playwright Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, but becomes despondent when |
Rick Campbell | Early life & Edmonton Eskimos | Rick Campbell Early life Campbell was born in Spokane, when his father, Hugh was the head coach of the football team at Whitworth College. As a result of his father's coaching career, Campbell grew up in Spokane, Edmonton, Los Angeles and Houston, before returning to Edmonton. Campbell was a high school football star at Harry Ainlay High School. Following his high school graduation, Campbell attended Washington State University, majoring in education before serving as the secondary and special teams coach for the University of Oregon Ducks as a graduate assistant from 1996 to 1998. Edmonton Eskimos Campbell was highly sought |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Field units | Store officers, clerks, artificers and labourers should accompany troops at time of war to ensure abundant provision of equipment for immediate use together with effective maintenance of reserve stocks in the field. These arrangements were put into practice both in China and in New Zealand in 1860. The labourers and artificers were civilians, until the establishment of the Military Store Staff Corps in 1865.
There was substantial support by the RAOC's predecessors to every late Victorian expedition with the major efforts being the two campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan (1882-5 and 1898) and the Boer War (1899-1902). Both campaigns |
Setpoint (control system) | Examples | operates more efficiently at higher temperatures may be rated to withstand 500°C. However, for safety reasons, the set point for the reactor temperature control loop would be well below this limit, even if this means the reactor is running less efficiently. |
Roos Field | Naming history & 2004 renovation | Roos Field Naming history The stadium was originally named Woodward Field in honor of former Eagles head football and basketball coach Arthur C. Woodward. It replaced the original Woodward Field, which was located near the present JFK Library. The field was renamed before the start of the 2010 season in honor of Michael Roos, an All-Pro NFL tackle and former Eastern Washington football player, and major donor for the Red Turf project. 2004 renovation Roos Field went under a massive renovation in 2004 that upgraded public facilities, the press box, new locker room, and also updated the stadium's capacity. The |
Quinceañera (film) | Plot | Quinceañera (film) Plot Magdalena, a fourteen-year-old girl from a working-class Mexican American family in Echo Park, Los Angeles, attends her cousin Eileen's quinceañera, an extravagant coming-of-age ceremony to celebrate her fifteenth birthday. Eileen's older brother Carlos—who has been disowned by his family due to his homosexuality and now lives with his great-uncle Tomas—arrives at the celebrations but is forced to leave by his father. Magdalena herself is about to turn fifteen but her parents cannot afford to host a quinceañera as lavish as Eileen's, and they deny her repeated requests to hire a Hummer limousine for the occasion. While preparing |
Senekane | Villages | Ha Motolo, Ha Motšoari, Ha Mphele, Ha Mpopo, Ha Mpusi, Ha Nchela, Ha Nkhotho (Sefikeng), Ha Nkoebele, Ha Nqetho, Ha Ntabejane, Ha Ntšoeu, Ha Paape, Ha Pampiri, Ha Penya, Ha Pholoanyane, Ha Polaki, Ha Popa, Ha Rakotsoane, Ha Ramabele, Ha Ramahata, Ha Ramaqopetsa, Ha Ramatseatsana, Ha Ramoloi, Ha Ramontsuoe, Ha Ramotšo, Ha Ranthiba, Ha Rantsane, Ha Rantsoku, Ha Rapholo, Ha Rasunyane, Ha Salemane, Ha Saremone, Ha Seboka, Ha Sekepe, Ha Sekete, Ha Selemo, Ha Selouoe, Ha Senekane, Ha Taaso, Ha Tau, Ha Thafeng, Ha Thebe, Ha Thotanyane, Ha Tšitso, Ha Tumo, Konkotia, Liphakoeng, Litšilong, Maqakaneng, Matebeleng, Matheneng, Meholaneng, Mothating, Papalala, |
Sierra Nevada National Park (Venezuela) | Geography | thirteen watersheds, and ten lakes of glacial origin, that global warming effects have been reduced, some of them are: Mucubají, La Negra, La Verde and Los Anteojos.
The vegetation of the park is representative of the Andean cloud forests, mostly trees and undergrowth layers well developed and numerous epiphytes and endemic species. The higher altitudes, above 3,000 m is developed typical moorland vegetation, consisting of a large number of species of Espeletia. It also presents a xerophytic scrub vegetation in the drier areas of the River Basin Nuestra Señora. In Barinas, the vegetation is predominantly forest, with trees up to 25 |
Simeon Prior | Early life & American Revolutionary War Service | Simeon Prior Early life Simeon Prior was born on May 16, 1754. American Revolutionary War Service During the American Revolutionary War, Prior was asked by Colonel John Durgey of Norwich, Connecticut to be an armorer for the regiment the Colonel was raising. Prior enlisted for a 9 month term and accompanied Colonel Durgey to New York. He later joined a regiment on Painter's Hook.
He served in the unit that provided escort and bodyguard services to George Washington. He was present during the crossing of the Delaware River after the Battle of Trenton.
His pension petition for service during the war was |
Sexuality in Japan | Film | feminine connotations with the Japanese who associate pink with a woman's vagina. Pink film was theatrical film which featured soft core, suggestive themes and later full-on nudity and sexual acts. The first wave of the Pink film in Japan was contemporary with the similar U.S. sexploitation film genres, the "nudie-cuties" and "roughies". Nudity and sex officially entered Japanese cinema with Satoru Kobayashi's controversial and popular independent production Flesh Market (Nikutai no Ichiba, 1962), which is considered the first true pink film. In the 1970s, some of Japan's major studios, facing the loss of their theatrical audience, took over the pink |
Sangguniang Panlalawigan | History | 6 elective SP members, unless they had more than one million residents (8 members) or less than 100,000 residents (4 members). Direct municipal representation was eliminated, and in its place was indirect "grassroots" representation through the president of the provincial association of barangay chairmen who was appointed by the President, who also happened to be the Prime Minister. Other members of the new Sanggunian were the governor and the vice governor, both elected by popular vote, and the president of the provincial federation of the Kabataang Barangay, appointed by the President/Prime Minister.
The powers and duties of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan |
Shakespeare in Love | References to Elizabethan literature | Italian...always in and out of love...until he meets...Ethel. The daughter of his enemy! His best friend is killed in a duel by Ethel's brother or something. His name is Mercutio.") Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is quoted repeatedly: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/ And burned the topless towers of Ilium?" A reference is also made to Marlowe's final, unfinished play The Massacre at Paris in a scene wherein Marlowe (Rupert Everett) seeks payment for the final act of the play from Richard Burbage (Martin Clunes). Burbage promises the payment the next day, so Marlowe refuses to part with |
Simon Steward | null | from 1617 to his death and for Cambridgeshire from 1614 to his death. He was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1611–12. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury for the Addled Parliament. He was elected MP for Cambridgeshire for the Happy Parliament in 1624 but was unseated in March the same year. In 1628 he was elected MP for Aldeburgh and sat until 1639 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.
He married twice:firstly Grace, the daughter of Edward St. Barbe of Ashington, Somerset and having one son and secondly Mary, |
Riona Kiuchi | Childhood and youth | Riona Kiuchi Childhood and youth As her mother had been a singer, Kiuchi could naturally keep in touch with many kinds of music since she was a baby. Her mother asked if Kiuchi would like to get into the music industry, and she was so willing that they started training. After signing the contract, as a developing student of avex Planning & Development, she entered avex artist academy in Tokyo where thousands of young people who hope to be singers, dancers, voice actors and so on are making huge efforts upon special lessons. Since then, she had worked hard and |
Sium sisarum | Cultivation & Culinary use | Sium sisarum Cultivation Skirret grows about 1 m (40 in) high and is very resistant to cold, as well as pests and diseases. It can be grown from seeds, but may also be started from root divisions. The roots are best eaten when the plant is dormant during the winter, as in the spring, the roots become woody and covered with small hairs. Lack of moisture can also make the root more fibrous. The plant prefers sandy and moist soil. Culinary use The roots are scrubbed, cut into lengths, boiled, and served like parsnips or carrots. Skirret roots can be stewed, baked, |
Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner | Wages and entitlements & National Code | construction industry participants. The ABCC also investigated complaints relating to the underpayments of wages, sham contracting or any other denial of entitlements for those working in the building and construction industry. National Code In 1997 the Australian Government put in place a National Code of Practice for the Australian building and construction industry. In order to be eligible to work on Australian Government building and construction projects businesses must be compliant with the National Code of Practice. The National Code and Guidelines encourage a culture of best practice workplace relations and the compliance to all legal obligations and ethical tendering |
Scissors, Texas | Demographics | 27.2% from 25 to 44, 13.1% from 45 to 64, and 5.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 22 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.6 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $18,963, and the median income for a family was $19,229. Males had a median income of $15,172 versus $14,438 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $4,914. About 47.0% of families and 51.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including |
Rooster Teeth | Commercial work & Film projects | website. In late November 2006, controversy arose over a Madden NFL 07 commercial, when Indianapolis Colts tight end Dallas Clark complained about his depiction in the commercial. Hit and tackled multiple times in the advertisement by Philadelphia Eagles players, Clark stated, "I haven't seen the commercial, but I'm upset about it. It makes me look like a punk." In response, Rooster Teeth posted a director's cut, in which Clark plays and dominates every position.
They have also made a trailer for a free to play PC game called Loadout, developed by Austin-based Edge of Reality. Film projects In February 2014, Burns |
Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet | null | Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, 1st Baronet, Lord Pitmedden (c. 1639 – 29 May 1719) was a Scottish advocate, a Senator of the College of Justice, a Lord of Justiciary, and a Commissioner. |
Salerno Lake | Cottagers' Association | newsletter by mail. |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Aristocracy | marks of status. Below the king were the great magnates, who by this period were no longer a feudal nobility, whose power was based on territorial landholding, but an honorific peerage, and land had become a commodity to be traded. They were headed by a small number of dukes (usually descended from very close relatives of the king) and a larger group of earls. These senior nobles formed the political classes at the beginning of the period: sometimes holding major office, holding a place on the king's council and taking part in the major crises and rebellions of the period. |
Sea Island (British Columbia) | Beaches and parks & Other services | information on the flora and fauna, as well as a walking trail that culminates in a 4 kilometer jetty out into the Sturgeon Bank. (See also: Iona Island, British Columbia.) Other services The island's south shore features a Canadian Coast Guard station, as well as floatplane docks, a business jet terminal and Vancouver Airport's South Terminal. Sea Island is also home to the Aerospace and Aviation Technology faculty of the British Columbia Institute of Technology as well as two hotels run by the Fairmont and Delta chains. There is a luxury designer outlet mall that opened in July 2015, as |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Depots and other installations | and other installations The earliest depot for military stores was the Tower of London, headquarters of the Ordnance Office, which for many centuries sufficed to hold the country's central stocks of artillery, gunpowder, small arms and ammunition albeit in unsatisfactory circumstances. The Tower continued to be used for storage into the 19th century, but in 1671 the Board of Ordnance acquired a parcel of land at Woolwich which soon supplanted the Tower to become the Board's main ordnance storage depot; manufacture as well as storage of guns and ammunition took place on the site, which was later named the Royal |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Dodson tenure (1984–2011) | its diaspora. In 1983, a scholars-in-residence program started at the center. In 1986, an exhibit entitled Give me your poor... sparked controversy. In March 1987, a public funding campaign was started to raise money to renovate the old library and to enhance the new Center's housing and its functions.
In 1991, completion of additions to the Schomburg Center were completed. The new center on Malcolm X was expanded to include an auditorium and a connection to the old landmark building on 135th. The Art and Artifacts Division and the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division were moved into the old landmark |
Royal Artillery Park (Halifax) | History | colony of New Ireland. History The site of RA Park was acquired in 1799 from John and Richard Cleary for £150, in the name of Prince Edward, to provide soldiers quarters, stores, officers' accommodations and a headquarters for the Royal Artillery personnel stationed in Halifax. Its acquisition resulted in the move of the Royal Artillery personnel and equipment from congested quarters on Argyle Street, opposite Grand Parade, Where the World Trade and Convention Centre is now located.
Around 1800, the Royal Engineer Establishment consisting of RE Square and the South Barracks were established on the east side of RA Park to |
Sheshunoff Consulting + Solutions | Sheshunoff Management Services | Alex Information purchased SIS, retaining SIS as the name for the combined company. In 2005, Gabrielle Sheshunoff sold SIS to Thompson Publishing Group, a Washington, D.C. based professional publisher that is unrelated to International Thomson.
In the 2000s, Sheshunoff Management Services expanded by acquiring a number of companies including Harcourt Group, a Boston-based provider of risk management services, Servique, a Houston-based risk and compliance management services firm, Bennington Partners, a provider of loan review services, and Brintech, a bank management consulting firm with offices in Austin and Atlanta. |
Narthamalai | History | Narthamalai History Narthamalai was ruled from the 7th to 9th centuries by the Mutharaiyars, who were feudatories of the Pallavas. The region was later captured by Medieval Cholas. Though the temple is called Vijayalaya Choleeswaram, the temple was originally built by Muttaraiyar lieutant, Sattan Paliyili, during the seventh regnal year of Pallava king Nripatungavarman during 862 CE. As per some accounts, the temple is believed to have been built by the first king of Medieval Cholas, Vijayalaya Chola (848- 891 CE), but the view is highly debated. As per the inscriptions, immediately after the construction, the temple was damaged by |
Robert Holmes (scriptwriter) | Doctor Who & Legacy | Pip and Jane Baker (who had written episodes nine through twelve) wrote episode 14.
His last work to be broadcast was an episode of the detective series Bergerac, another show script-edited by Chris Boucher, transmitted in 1987. He did little work outside of television, although he did novelize his script of The Two Doctors for Target Books in 1986. It was the 100th Doctor Who novelization published by Target Books. Legacy Holmes' work on Doctor Who has been discussed in numerous DVD documentaries, most notably Behind the Sofa, produced by Richard Molesworth, which appears on the DVD release of The Two |
Sisyphus fragment | Authorship | -, which he argued was written sometime after his return from exile in 411. The view that it was written by Euripides frequently identifies it as belonging to the Sisyphus, the satyr play capping his 415 trilogy: Alexandros, Palamedes and The Trojan Women, though Jan N. Bremmer suggests another lost play by Euripides, his Autolykos would be a more attractive candidate as the original source.
A major issue in discussing to authorship of the passage hinges round the question as to whether the speaker's views reflect those of an historic atheist, or whether the lines are simply a dramatic mise en |
Same-sex marriage in Campeche | Injunctions | 31 March 2014, a lesbian couple applied for a marriage license in San Francisco de Campeche but were denied in April 2014 based on the decision that same-sex couples must join via the state's civil union provisions. In July 2014, Mexico's Supreme Court declared that the current marriage laws were unconstitutional and told the Campeche Government that it must modify the Civil Code to allow same-sex marriages. It was later announced that the couple could marry after a district judge granted them an amparo (injunction), but the law still had to be revised. PAN said it would abide by the |
Razif Onn | Warriors FC | speculation about Onn's return anyway. His first match would be a round 13 clash opposing Tampines Rovers; he managed to hold them to a scoreless draw. Unlike his predecessor, he managed to get 18 points from 13 matches, and recorded only one defeat in his first five games in charge which signified an improvement.
However, he lost all his cup matches in 2016 by exiting the Singapore Cup and losing three times in the League Cup.
In the 2017 season, he improved well in terms of the Warriors FC style of play bringing back the lights of Shahril Ishak and Baihakki Khaizan. |
Right to property | John Locke and the American and French revolutions | given the same political power as those who owned property. Labourers, small-scale property owners and large-scale property owners should have civil and political rights in proportion to the property they owned. According to Locke, the right to property and the right to life were inalienable rights and that it was the duty of the state to secure these rights for individuals. Locke argued that the safeguarding of natural rights, such as the right to property, along with the separation of powers and other checks and balances, would help to curtail political abuses by the state.
Locke's labor theory of property and |
Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet | Marriage and issue | son of Captain Duncan McNeill and Fanny Charlotte Emma Talbot (married firstly on 31 January 1891 to Lady Hilda Maud Rous, daughter of John Edward Cornwallis Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke and Augusta Musgrave, by whom he had a son and a daughter), and had one daughter. |
Sheshunoff Consulting + Solutions | Sheshunoff Information Services | developed data reports, surveys and analysis, which were built into books. The company also offered seminars for bankers, focused on understanding the bank data. The seminars were expanded into an affiliation program to allow bankers to interact in small groups. The program for CEOs was first offered in 1982; for Senior Lenders in 1988; and for Technology and Operations in 1994.
In 1988, the Sheshunoffs sold the professional publishing branch of SIS to International Thomson, a Toronto-based company. In 1995, SIS acquired A. S. Pratt & Sons of Arlington, Virginia, a financial services publisher, and in 1997, SIS acquired 38 publications |
Sam Kirk | Biography & Weaving Cultures (2016) | Sam Kirk Biography Samantha Kirk was born in Chicago in 1981. In Kirk's sophomore year of high school, she discovered art was an outlet for her to communicate her queer identity which she later integrated into her artwork. Later in life, Kirk worked in the advertising industry as an integrated marketing specialist for 10 years, eventually leaving the industry. Kirk felt the advertising industry no longer challenged her and was not paying enough. In 2010, the opportunity to pursue an art career presented itself when she was offered 2 huge art commissions. Weaving Cultures (2016) Kirk collaborated with Sandra Antongiorgi |
Shock Wave (film) | Filming | with location scouting images where Lau and crew members were present. On 6 May 2016, reporters visited the film set for the filming of an indoors explosion scene, where Lau demonstrated safety measures of filming the explosion to the visiting reporters with Yau, while also demonstrating swift bomb disposal techniques. On 5 June 2016, a bomb disposal scene was filmed outside of the Revenue Tower in Wan Chai, where Lau wore a 70-pound heavy bomb disposal suit. Actors Philip Keung, Ron Ng, Louis Cheung and Babyjohn Choi were also present during that day. Filming officially wrapped up on 4 July |
San Martín de Albelda | null | San Martín de Albelda San Martín de Albelda was a Riojan monastery, whose ruins now lie within the municipal boundaries of Albelda de Iregua. It was an important and advanced cultural centre in Spain and western Europe during the tenth century.
The monastery was founded on 5 January 924 by Sancho Garcés I and Toda Aznárez, monarchs of Navarre, in gratitude for the recent reconquest of Nájera and Viguera (923) in conjunction with Ordoño II of León. The community was founded 'secundum Benedicti regulam uel id quod a sanctis patribus didicisti, that is, according to the Benedictine rule. It took its |
Shanb Ghazan | History | historical neighborhood there are no historical remains except for a bathroom and some scattered tiles. |
Peter Badcoe | Vietnam War | transmissions when he heard that Clement had been wounded and Thomas was in danger. Without regard for his personal safety, Badcoe ran across the intervening fire-swept ground to reach the PF platoon, with the enemy fire intensifying as he approached. He discovered that Clement was lying 160 yards (150 m) ahead of the platoon, and had been mortally wounded while going to assist a wounded PF soldier. Thomas had tried to reach Clement and had in turn been wounded and was lying in the open between Clement and the platoon, which had pulled back. Badcoe observed that the enemy were dug-in |
Samuel Fallows | American Civil War service & Later life | 40th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment and colonel of the 49th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was mustered out of the volunteers on November 1, 1865. On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Fallows for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from October 24, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866. After the war, he became a companion of the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Later life Fallows was a Methodist pastor following the war, and was appointed |
S. K. Majumdar | Early life & Controversies | S. K. Majumdar Early life The youngest son of Mr. Raj Kumar Majumdar, an inspecting director in the Education Department of India, S. K. Majumdar started his educational life as a Science student. However, all of a sudden he took up the study of law and became a pleader in Dacca. Thereafter, he decided to go to England and was called to Middle Temple on May 15, 1924. Controversies His seminal work Jinnah and Gandhi is also a suggested reading for M.Phil and Ph.D. Courses in the University of Peshawar for Indo-Pak Relationship."University of Peshawar's Course Material". Retrieved 25 March |
Shock Wave (film) | Filming & Release & Critical reception | 2016, after filming its final scene at a 1:1 scale set of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel built by the production team. Release Shock Wave was theatrical released in Hong Kong on 20 April 2017. The film also closed the 19th Far East Film Festival on 29 April 2017 and was also shown at the 57th Vienna International Film Festival on 20 October 2017. Critical reception On Rotten Tomatoes, Shock Wave has an approval rating of 83% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10.
Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter praised the film's action sequences by action choreographer Dion Lam, |
Mel's Hole | Description | of Ellensburg in Kittitas County, Washington that contained a mysterious hole. According to Bell's interviews with Waters, the hole had infinite depth and the ability to restore dead animals to life. Waters claimed to have measured the hole's depth to be more than 80,000 feet by using fishing line and a weight. According to Waters, the hole's magical properties prompted US "federal agents" to seize the land and fund his relocation to Australia.
Waters made guest appearances on Bell's show in 1997, 2000, and 2002. Rebroadcasts of those appearances have helped create what's been described as a "modern, rural myth". The |
Siviriez | Politics & Economy | The next three most popular parties were the SVP (25.0%), the SP (23.7%) and the FDP (10.4%).
The CVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election (28.1% in 2007 vs 26.1% in 2011). The SVP retained about the same popularity (26.6% in 2007), the SPS retained about the same popularity (19.2% in 2007) and the FDP lost popularity (18.8% in 2007). A total of 647 votes were cast in this election, of which 6 or 0.9% were invalid. Economy As of 2010, Siviriez had an unemployment rate of 2%. |
Richard Geigel | null | corresponds to the cremasteric reflex in males. |
Patrick Watts | Post BTCC | 24th in race one and 13th in race two at Silverstone.
Patrick is CEO of recycling company Sweeep Kuusakoski, one of the biggest recyclers of electronic components in the world. |
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