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The Kid from Brooklyn | Plot | In fact, as before, Speed is accidentally knocked out by Spider as a result of Sullivan's quick foot-work and propensity for ducking. Gabby decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter to turn the publicity to his advantage.
Burleigh goes on tour, but doesn't realize that all his fights have been fixed and his opponents hav... |
WYSN | Move to 1200 & 2010s | the signal of clear channel AM WOAI in San Antonio, Texas, which also broadcasts at 1200 kHz.
The station was assigned the WRWB call letters by the FCC on September 1, 2008. 2010s The call sign was changed again to WNBL on November 1, 2010, to match the station's "Better Life Radio" branding. As WNBL, the station playe... |
Tim O'Leary | Trouble with the law | money, so a vindictive Emily told Brian's family. Brian's wife was disgusted by this revelation and decided to leave him, taking their children with her.
Tinhead thought Emily had gone too far this time and decided they should both return to Brookside and confess to the police. Emily agreed to do this, but just as Tinh... |
Volcanic gas | Volcanic gases and volcano monitoring & Hazards | sampling campaigns. However, remote sensing techniques have advanced tremendously through the 1990s. The Deep Earth Carbon Degassing Project is employing Multi-GAS remote sensing to monitor 9 volcanoes on a continuous basis. Hazards Volcanic gases were directly responsible for approximately 3% of all volcano-related de... |
Wacey Rabbit | Playing career | helping them qualify for the Calder cup playoffs and beat the Chicago Wolves in the 1st round 3–2 and met with the Oklahoma City Barons by whom they were defeated 4 games to 1.
On June 21, 2012, Rabbit returned to Europe, signing a contract with Norwegian club, Lørenskog IK of the GET-ligaen. After three standout seaso... |
Waltham Iron Ore Tramway | History | Waltham Iron Ore Tramway History The Waltham Iron Ore Company was formed in 1882 to work ironstone from fields near the village of Waltham on the Wolds. It was a subsidiary of the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. The company worked these fields for less than two years, before the deposits were exhausted. They then lease... |
United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013 | Debt ceiling suspension | would allow Republicans to gain an advantage over Obama and Democrats in debt ceiling negotiations. This advantage would be due to the fact that postponing default until mid-March would allow for a triple deadline to be in March: the sequester on March 1, the default in the middle of the month, and the expiration of th... |
Vicente Lombardo Toledano | Early career | councilman, met with the colleague Juan Rico, and chose the day March 13th to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlan.
CROM lost most of its influence in 1928, after a right-wing Roman Catholic associated with the Cristero movement assassinated Obregón. Lombardo Toledano left CROM and the Labor... |
Vicente Lombardo Toledano | Formation of the CTM and alliance with Cárdenas | It also had the support of the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) and the industrial unions it had founded. Those unions nearly walked out of the CTM twice in its early years, however— the first time at the founding convention of the CTM in 1936, when Lombardo Toledano chose Velázquez, rather than the individual from their ... |
The Three Dogs | Synopsis | The Three Dogs The Three Dogs is a German fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book, listing his source as the Brothers Grimm. A version of this tale appears in A Book of Dragons by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 562, The Spirit in the Blue Light. Other tales of this type include T... |
Tivissa | History | Tivissa History The area was settled in prehistoric times, and cave paintings have been discovered in several sites near the village.
In Iberian times, Tivissa was an important community, and the name itself may be of Iberian origin. There are the remains of an Iberian settlement at Banyoles, some five kilometres from ... |
Wahl (Noble family) | History | Scotland, flourished until the end of the eighteenth century.
Around 1582, the Royal Scottish Officer and Captain Robert Albrecht MacDowall (1541–1641) emigrated from the more recent line of the house Makerstoun to Mecklenburg, Germany . Possibly he was, as the Clan Chief Uchtred MacDowall, Laird of Garthland, involved... |
Viva Pataca | 2004–2005: Britain & 2006–2011: Hong Kong | for three-year-olds at Goodwood Racecourse. Sold to Macau businessman, Stanley Ho, he was renamed Viva Pataca for the Macanese pataca, the currency of Macau. 2006–2011: Hong Kong Viva Pataca made his Asian racing debut at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong on 1 January 2006, finishing third in the 1400 metre Chang Jiang H... |
Thomas Jefferson (musician) | null | Thomas Jefferson (musician) Thomas Jefferson (June 20, 1920 – December 13, 1986) was an American Dixieland jazz trumpeter, strongly influenced by Louis Armstrong.
Jefferson was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1920. He played drums and French horn while young before switching to trumpet. He played with Papa Celestin's... |
Vampire Rodents | Hiatus and Project Revival (2016–present) | digitally issuing their back catalog along with unreleased material.
Vampire Rodents' sixth album Noises in the Wall was officially released for the first time on November 11, 2017. Ostensibly a double album, Noises in the Wall is the band's longest release to date and, in the spirit of Vahnke's Ether Bunny project, i... |
Veterans Health Administration | PTSD | mental diagnosis. The most prevalent diagnosis was PTSD. The typical veteran affected by PTSD was male, from the Army or Marines, and a lower-ranked officer. Veterans with PTSD had a high utilization of the VA system at over 91 percent.
While this was a comprehensive study, there is more to be studied and understood... |
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology | Notable research findings | 2007, a team of researchers at the Institute led by Henrik Ehrsson published research in Science which was the first to describe how it is possible to use cameras to trick the human brain into thinking that a person is elsewhere in a room than they really are.
In February 2011, a team of researchers at the Institute le... |
Wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones | Background and engagement & Wedding ceremony | Wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones Background and engagement Prince Edward, youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II, met Sophie Rhys-Jones at a tennis event in 1993. He announced his engagement to Sophie on 6 January 1999. Edward proposed to Sophie with a delicate engagement ring featuring a two-carat oval dia... |
The West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project | null | The West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project The West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project is an ongoing effort created by Thanks! Plain and Simple, Inc. (“Thanks!”), a nonprofit organization founded in 2005. “Thanks” developed the project to involve women who worked throughout America during World War II on “men’s jobs”... |
Unified communications | null | Unified communications Unified communications (UC) is a business and marketing concept describing the integration of enterprise communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence information, voice (including IP telephony), mobility features (including extension mobility and single number reach), audio, ... |
Volkoff Industries | Armand & Barbara | revealed to have been impersonating Stephen, Volkoff informs him that Armand is going to kill Casey and Ellie. Armand apparently smothers Casey with a pillow, but Casey is revealed to have faked his death and hits Armand with a bonsai tree. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Push Mix. Barbara Barbara (Monet Mazur) is a Vo... |
Wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones | Wedding ceremony | and Sophie made known their wish that the wedding not be turned into a state occasion, causing there to be no ceremonial state or military involvement. The ceremony was mainly a family occasion. Prime Minister Tony Blair and other politicians were not invited.
Rather than court dress, the couple requested that guests a... |
Veterans Health Administration | History | Veterans Health Administration History The first Federal agency to provide medical care to veterans was the Naval Home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The home was created in 1812 and was followed by the creation of Soldiers Home in 1853 and St. Elizabeth's Hospital in 1855. Congress created the National Home for Disabl... |
Veterans Health Administration | Primary care | matter one’s age, there are chronic health risks associated with IPV victimization, for both men and women. Early detection is key to providing effective support systems to victims in the armed forces and reducing potential negative health consequences that are associated with such violence.
Barriers to disclosure of I... |
Walter C. Oechel | Research | Walter C. Oechel Research Oechel has published over 250 papers and his H index is 71. His journal papers have been cited more than 22,000 times. He started his research in eco-physiology with Boyd Strain and WD Billings and moved on to ecosystem studies, global change research, and biosphere-atmosphere interaction. He ... |
WWF Hasbro action figures | Commonly-traded error cards and variants & Mattel's WWE retro figures | 1 Figure. Mattel's WWE retro figures In 2016, Mattel announced that they would be releasing their own line of "throwback" WWE action figures, similar to the iconic style and packaging of the WWF Hasbro series. Mattel's new line of action figures were released exclusively to Walmart stores in the U.S. Mattel's WWE lates... |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea | Conservation status in the United States & Ecology & Cultivation | The plant is endangered in Michigan. The minus subspecies listed as a species of special concern and believed extirpated in Connecticut. Ecology Vaccinium vitis-idaea keeps its leaves all winter even in the coldest years, unusual for a broad-leaved plant, though in its natural habitat it is usually protected from seve... |
To Live and Die in L.A. (film) | Plot | To Live and Die in L.A. (film) Plot Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are United States Secret Service agents assigned as counterfeiting investigators in its Los Angeles field office. Chance has a reputation for reckless behavior, while Hart is three days away from retirement. Alone, Hart stakes out a warehouse in the dese... |
Voreifel Railway | Opening of the line | Voreifel Railway Opening of the line The Voreifel Railway was opened on 7 June 1880. The station buildings at Bonn-Duisdorf, Kottenforst, Meckenheim (Bz Köln), Rheinbach, Odendorf and Kuchenheim (spelt Cuchenheim until 1936) were built at this time. The other buildings stations between Duisdorf and Kottenforst were bas... |
Unified communications | History | PBX or key system and replacing it with a solution based on IP. This IP solution is software driven only, and thereby does away with the need for "switching" equipment at a customer site (save the equipment necessary to connect to the outside world). This created a new technology, now called IP telephony. A system t... |
United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013 | Resolution & Political aftermath | refunds that would need to be paid during February. On February 11, after finding insufficient support for various conditions for increasing the debt ceiling, the House passed a bill suspending the debt ceiling without conditions through March 15, 2015. The Senate passed the bill unamended on February 12, 2014, and it ... |
United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013 | Debt ceiling suspension | passed an independent budget plan since April 2009. House Republicans quickly came up with an idea that would suspend the debt ceiling enough to allow time for both chambers of Congress to pass a budget.
On February 4, 2013, President Obama signed into law the "No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013", which suspended the U.S. d... |
War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave | Plot | Shackleford and Sissy are dying of a virus lethal to the Tripods, and he convinces George to inject his infected blood into himself. George and Pete are kidnapped again and arrive inside the mothership, where they find Alex in a cocoon. There, George injects his infected blood into a pod holding a brain telepathically ... |
Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar | null | He died in 1182, and is styled "Earl of Dunbar" by the Chronicle of Melrose. He was the first man to be called "earl of Dunbar" rather than "earl of Lothian". |
Weed, California | 2010 | with no wife present. There were 103 (9.1 percent) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 2 (0.2 percent) same-sex married couples or partnerships. Three hundred-eleven households (27.5 percent) were made up of individuals and 125 (11.1 percent) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average h... |
WWF Hasbro action figures | Unreleased prototypes | Smash figure. The figure was to use a new set of arms in order to have the figure beat its chest
Hasbro had plans to release a Tugboat figure. The plan for this figure can be found online. The figure was cancelled because Tugboat turned heel and switched his name to Typhoon. The Tugboat figure's head and body would hav... |
Union, New Hampshire | Geography | Union, New Hampshire Geography Union is in the southern corner of the town of Wakefield, along the Branch River, a tributary of the Salmon Falls River. It is bordered to the west by the town of Middleton and to the southeast by the town of Milton, both in Strafford County. New Hampshire Route 16 forms the northeastern ... |
Vide Noir | Background & Writing and recording | Vide Noir Background After recording their second album, Strange Trails, in 2014, and releasing it in early 2015, the band toured heavily in support of its release during the following few years. This exposure eventually led to the band’s song, "The Night We Met,” being featured in the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why. The ... |
Unmanned aircraft in Singapore | Personal Data Protection Act | activities that capture personal data should refer to the Personal Data Protection Commission’s (PDPC) advisory guidelines. Among other obligations, the Data Protection Provisions require organisations to
inform individuals of the purposes for which their personal data will be collected, used and disclosed in order to ... |
Veterans Health Administration | Primary care & Specialty care & Evaluations | information to help, and untrained personnel creating more harm than good. Specialty care Management and screening of chronic conditions includes heart disease, diabetes, cancer, glandular disorders, osteoporosis and fibromyalgia as well as sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.
Reproductive heal... |
Too big to fail | Bank size and concentration | of "too big to fail" entities increases the likelihood of a government bailout using taxpayer dollars.
The largest U.S. banks continue to grow larger while the concentration of bank assets increases. The largest six U.S. banks had assets of $9,576 billion as of year-end 2012, per their 2012 annual reports (SEC Form 10K... |
Toshiko Takeya | null | Toshiko Takeya Toshiko Takeya (竹谷とし子, Takeya Toshiko, married name 菊地とし子, Kikuchi Toshiko; born September 30, 1969) is Japanese Senator from Tokyo and a member of Kōmeitō ("Justice Party"). She received the second highest vote share (13.2%) in the 2010 Japanese Senate election in Tokyo and succeeded Yūji Sawa as Kōmeit... |
WAVY-TV | History | rotated between fourth and fifth place, a situation that allowed for Media General and, later, Nexstar to acquire WVBT directly in their respective group acquisitions involving the WAVY/WVBT duopoly. Furthermore, any attempt by Nexstar to assume the operations of WTKR/WGNT through local marketing or shared services agr... |
Warlock (1989 film) | Plot | break it open to get the Grimoire when the Warlock arrives, having forced the priest to reveal the location of the book by threatening to give his wife a miscarriage. Redferne quickly carries the book onto hallowed ground but the Warlock grabs Kassandra and threatens to kill her if Redferne does not bring him the book.... |
Walter Czollek | Life | May 1945, had been administered as the Soviet occupation zone of what had previously been Germany. He took a job with the "Treuhandverwaltung", responsible for administering confiscated and sequestered property in the Soviet (eastern) part of Berlin. In 1948/49 he took a senior position with the personnel office of... |
University of Roehampton | Chancellors and vice-chancellors & BBC Panorama investigation | Dame Jacqueline Wilson was appointed Chancellor of the university in August 2014, succeeding the first Chancellor John Simpson (2004–2014). She is also a Teaching Fellow, who teaches modules in both the Children's Literature and Creative Writing master's degree (MA) programs offered by the University.
The Vice-Chancell... |
WWF Hasbro action figures | Unreleased prototypes | breaking up a few months before the ad was printed. The Rhythm and Blues Greg Valentine was a hot topic among WWF Hasbro collectors because it was one of the few prototypes that had not turned up in a private collection. The figure has since been found and auctioned off via eBay for $13,400. Collector Matt Cera purchas... |
Stradivarius (horse) | 2019: five-year-old season | moved up to take the lead approaching the final furlong and looked likely to win comfortably but as Dettori celebrated by waving to the crowd, Dee Ex Bee rallied strongly and the final winning margin was only a neck. Dettori admitted that he celebrated prematurely before saying "Stradivarius wastes very little energy a... |
Toshiya Sugiuchi | Early years: 2002 to 2004 & 2005 | with a 3.38 ERA and 169 strikeouts, Sugiuchi struggled to live up to expectations to begin the 2004. On June 1, he gave up seven runs in the first two innings in a regular-season start against the Chiba Lotte Marines, slamming both of his fists into the dugout bench in frustration and breaking the fifth metacarpal bone... |
Trévou-Tréguignec | Trestel Tuberculosis Clinic & Cinema Charlot | Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Brieuc, and began to specialize in adult rehabilitation.
On January 1, 1989, the center became part of the Centre Hospitalier Pierre Le Damany of Lannion.
The center has more recently been recharacterized as the "Center for Salt Water Rehabilitation". In 1995, the facade overlooking Trestel... |
The Girls Next Door | DVD releases & Reception | on the same day.
On November 29, 2011, MPI Home Video released The Girls Next Door: Complete Collection on DVD in Region 1. The 17-disc set features all 91 episodes of the series as well as many bonus features. Reception The show was an instant hit for E! and quickly had its first season expanded from eight to fifteen... |
Viche | History & Ideology | of Regions to take part in the presidential election of the next year in May 2009. she became leader of Viche again.
The party did participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections in 14 simple-majority constituencies but did not win parliamentary representation.
The Party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parlia... |
Unreasonable search and seizure in New Zealand | Seizure & Implied license | involve the taking into custody of personal property including vehicles and clothing. It can also relate to detaining individuals to search or obtain evidence from them. Any seizure must be for a legitimate law enforcement purpose to be reasonable, this will generally mean the seizure must be authorised by an empowerin... |
The Heiress (1786 play) | null | to be the author and he acknowledged this after the play's debut. |
WAVY-TV | History | Media General, originally valued at $14.50 per share. On November 16, following opposition to the merger with Meredith by minority shareholders Oppenheimer Holdings and Starboard Capital (primarily because Meredith's magazine properties were included in the deal, which would have re-entered Media General into publishin... |
Wembley Wizards | Aftermath | owners in 1945, the story is told like this:
"English football fans shudder when the year 1928 is mentioned. The traditional enemy, Scotland came to Wembley and gave the Sassenachs a first class lesson in the art of playing football. So much so that, to this day, that Scottish team is still spoken of as 'The Wembley Wi... |
Vampire Rodents | Early years in Toronto (1987–89) & Hiatus and Project Revival (2016–present) | play a joke on the music industry. They named the project Vampire Rodents after an animal skull with two large incisors that Vahnke discovered on an Anthropological dig in Arizona. Hiatus and Project Revival (2016–present) In 2016, Vahnke established official YouTube and Facebook pages that serve as outlets for unrelea... |
Tiny Gallon | High school career & College career | in both points (20) and rebounds (7), while Naismith Sportsmanship Award winner Avery Bradley, Jr. (Texas) tallied 15 points and six rebounds. John Henson (North Carolina) shot 70% from the field, which led to 14 points.
The East Team came back from an eight-point halftime deficit, due in large part to strong second ha... |
University of Leicester | Archaeology and Ancient History & Business | The School of Archaeology and Ancient History was formed in 1990 from the then Departments of Archaeology and Classics, under the headship of Graeme Barker. The academic staff currently (as of January 2017) include 21 archaeologists and 8 ancient historians, though several staff teach and research in both disciplines. ... |
Welland House Hotel | Current use | are students attending Brock University or Niagara College. The building has become the home of CFBU-FM, Brock University's campus radio station.
In the Summer of 2007, major interior renovations were made in various rooms. Some rooms received new flooring, bathroom fixtures, ceiling lights, wet and dry kitchenettes, a... |
Warlock (1989 film) | Plot | Warlock (1989 film) Plot The Warlock is taken captive in Boston, Massachusetts in 1691 by the witch-hunter Giles Redferne. He is sentenced to death for his activities, including the death of Redferne's wife, but before the execution, Satan appears and propels the Warlock forward in time to late 20th century Los Angeles... |
The Family Handyman | Digital | newsletters. |
West Cheshire Railway | Early company history & Construction and early WCR operations | West Cheshire Railway Early company history The WCR was incorporated on 11 July 1861. In 1861, the WCR requested powers to construct a line from Northwich to Chester, with a branch to Helsby, but parliamentary approval was received only for a line via Mouldsworth to Helsby. In 1862, the WCR again sought powers for thei... |
Ulugh Beg | War of succession and death & Exhumation | to his son. Abd-al-Latif released his father from custody, allowing him to make pilgrimage to Mecca. However, he ensured Ulugh Beg never reached his destination, having him, as well as his brother Abdal-Aziz assassinated in 1449.
Eventually, Ulugh Beg's reputation was rehabilitated by his nephew, Abdallah Mirza (1450–... |
Wendi Richter | The Original Screwjob | During the match, The Spider broke from the pre-scripted events and pinned Richter's shoulders to the mat. The referee—who was in on the plan—delivered a swift three count, despite Richter kicking out after a count of one. Richter ignored the bell and continued to attack The Spider, unmasking the new champion to reveal... |
Tamil Methodist Church | History | Tamil Methodist Church History The church was built in 1908 and initially known as Kubu Methodist Church. As the congregation grew bigger, space became an issue. In 1954, the Peranakans and English-speaking expatriates built a new church at Tengkera Street. In 1955, Mandarin-speaking Methodist moved to their own church... |
Triumph Tour | Touring tenure | brothers. The tour was so well-received and popular that Epic had the brothers record a variety of shows, and compile them for an upcoming live release. It's rumored that the tracks were recorded during stops in Memphis, New York City, Buffalo and Providence. The live album, The Jacksons Live!, came out in the winter o... |
Veterans Health Administration | VA travel reimbursement | of transportation and travel is pre-authorized, as are certain non-veterans when related to care of a veteran (caregivers, attendants and donors). |
Valentine Ackland | Life | turned her attention to confessional poetry and a memoir concerning her relationship with Warner and its many emotional issues as Ackland pursued involvements with other women. At first, Warner was tolerant of her younger lover's dalliances, but the seriousness and length of Ackland's relationship with Elizabeth Wade W... |
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1634 | Observations | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1634 Observations The Security Council reaffirmed the need for a durable and mutual solution to the Western Sahara problem, which would provide for the self-determination of the people of the territory. Both Morocco, the Polisario Front and regional states were urged to co-ope... |
USS Ross (DD-563) | Ross disabled | further repairs were made and her journey was continued. On 2 March 1945 she reached Mare Island.
Repairs complete, Ross moved down to San Diego at the end of June and in July she steamed for Pearl Harbor en route back to the Western Carolines. She arrived at Ulithi on 14 August, the day hostilities ended.
From 24 Augu... |
Up (2009 film) | Critical response | is superlative ..." The Globe and Mail stated that Up is "the kind of movie that leaves you asking 'How do people come up with this stuff?'" along with an overall positive review on the film, despite it being predictable.
The character of Carl Fredricksen has received mostly positive reception. Bill Capodagli, author o... |
Trichonephila clavipes | Physical attributes | Trichonephila clavipes Physical attributes T. clavipes has the large size and the long legs with clumps of hair that are typical of the genus. It is large compared to most other members of the genus, and is distinguished by the bright colors of the female abdomen, which changes color as the spider matures.
As is usual ... |
Thomas Wade (writer) | Life | Thomas Wade (writer) Thomas Wade (1805 – 19 September 1875) was an English poet and dramatist. Life Wade, known in early life as Wade Lavender, was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk. He went to London at a young age, where he began to publish verse influenced by Byron, Keats and especially Shelley. He wrote some plays that w... |
Verbandspokal | History & Broadcasting | Lower Rhine Cup was established in 1980, the Westphalia Cup in 1981 and the Middle Rhine Cup in 1994.
In South Western Germany the Rhineland Cup was established in 1953, the South West Cup in 1973 and the Saarland Cup in 1974. Broadcasting In February 2016 it was announced that German broadcaster ARD for the first time... |
Suzy Amis Cameron | Career & Personal life | transform eating habits and the food system.
She also is a founder of Cameron Family Farms and Food Forest Organics, a plant-based café and market in New Zealand. Personal life Since June 4, 2000, Amis has been married to Canadian film director James Cameron, whom she met while filming Titanic.
In 2012, Amis and Camer... |
Volcano: The Blast Coaster | Ride experience | of track followed by a quarter loop to bring the train completely upside down, then a loose half-corkscrew. According to Roller Coaster DataBase, the roll out element was unique to Volcano. The highest point of the roll out is 155 feet (47 m) above ground level, which made it the highest inversion at Kings Dominion, ta... |
The Domestics | Production & Release & Reception | 2016, Kate Bosworth and Tyler Hoechlin were cast to star in the film. The movie was filmed in Louisiana. Release In May 2018, Orion Classics acquired distribution rights to the film and set it for a June 28, 2018, release. Reception The film has received favorable reviews from critics. On the review aggregation website... |
Villa Gazzotti Grimani | Architectural details | number of Palladio's villas, but it was not his invention; Giovanni Maria Falconetto placed the Villa Vescovile in Luvigliano, which was begun in 1534, on a base.
Along with this adoption of contemporary architectural thinking, the Villa Gazzotti also shows what was in the Venetian territories a new way of treating wal... |
Treytorrens | Demographics | due to births and deaths.
Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (97 or 95.1%), with German being second most common (3 or 2.9%) and Italian being third (1 or 1.0%).
The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 18.6% of the population, while adults (2... |
Veterans Health Administration | Use of electronic records & Initiatives | the health effects of the herbicide Agent Orange used by military forces in Vietnam.
In October 2012, the VHA announced a new goal "to care for and heal our wounded Veterans. In addition to repairing their damaged bodies and minds, VA has embarked on a unique campaign to repair their crumbling intimate relationships." ... |
West Vancouver Secondary School | History | West Vancouver Secondary School History West Vancouver Secondary was founded as Inglewood High School in 1927, located at 1735 Inglewood Avenue. The school opened with eight classrooms and a gymnasium, and a few years later, two portables were added to provide extra classroom and library facilities. Four more rooms wer... |
The Kid from Brooklyn | Plot | The Kid from Brooklyn Plot Well-meaning and mild-mannered milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Kaye) meets Polly Pringle (Mayo), a beautiful, but out-of-work, singer, whilst on his rounds early in the morning. He tries to get her a job at the club where his sister Susie (Vera-Ellen) is performing, but gets the sack for his troub... |
USS PC-817 | Career | was to have been decommissioned and berthed with the Florida Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet. However, her inactivation was never completed. She remained at Jacksonville until April 1946 when she moved north to Charleston, South Carolina, for disposal by the Commandant, 6th Naval District. However, while at Charleston, s... |
Vinux | Features | Vinux Features Vinux allows blind and visually impaired computer users to install a version of Ubuntu independently. It includes Orca (a screen reader and magnifier), Speakup (a console screen reader), Compiz (a magnifier based on 3d technology), and support for Braille displays. Braille displays operate automatically ... |
Walter C. Oechel | Research | out of the atmosphere over the millennia, which was released as ice melted due to global warming. ᵛⁱⁱ He has also shown that the world's oceans add more to the total greenhouse gas emissions than human activity does, adding substantially to global warming issues. ᵛⁱⁱⁱ
The National Science Foundation in 2004 wrote that,... |
Virgen de los desamparados | General hospital & Festival of Our Lady & Traslado | elderly, the blind, and the mentally ill. Festival of Our Lady The feast of 'Our Virgin of the Forsaken' is held on the second Sunday of May when Valencians pay tribute to their patron. Late, on the eve of the festival, at the 'Plaza de La Virgen', the Valencia municipal band performs, followed by fireworks over the To... |
WHLX | "Real Country" | station WBTI 96.9 FM. WIFN became WHYT (picking up the calls dumped by Detroit's 96.3 FM, now WDVD) under the "Real Country" format. Hanson Communications also moved the station's on-air operations from its longtime location at 5300 Marine City Highway to its main base of operations at 2379 Military Street in Port Hur... |
Vladimir Artemyev | Honours and awards | the far side of the Moon is named after him. |
Vladimír Šmicer | Liverpool | 22 minutes, however, an injury to Harry Kewell gave him his opportunity to end his Liverpool career in style: "Before the final, I so was eager to get on. It was my last match for Liverpool so I was determined to end it in style. I was free in my head and that was my motivation – to do well for the club in my last matc... |
Volkoff Industries | Development | Bartowski was secretly working, a threat that the government couldn't deal with, in which his wife was somehow involved. It has been revealed that in season four Chuck will be facing an individual villain, Alexei Volkoff, instead of another organization.
Vivian initially tried to turn the organization into a legitimate... |
Striding Folly | null | Striding Folly Striding Folly is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
First published in 1972, it contains the final three Lord Peter stories. The first two, "Striding Folly" and "The Haunted Policeman", were previously published in Detection Medley (1939), an anthology of det... |
Vienna Game | Max Lange Defence: 2...Nc6 & Paulsen Variation: 3.g3 & 3.Bc4 | Knights Game. Paulsen Variation: 3.g3 Louis Paulsen played 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 five times in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament. 3.Bc4 Most often, White plays 3.Bc4, when the solid 3...Nf6 transposes to the 2...Nf6 3.Bc4 Nc6 line. Weaker is 3.Bc4 Bc5, when 4.Qg4! is awkward to meet. 4...Kf8 and 4...g6 are thought the ... |
Welsh Bicknor | History | original hostel replaced the old Kerne Bridge hostel in 1936.
Property tenure: leasehold (to YHA Trust 30/9/1936). Later a freehold purchase (Ministry of Education grant-aided) (to YHA Trust 4/6/1948). The Old Billiard Hall, Old Laundry Cottage and a garage were leased (eg) for 20 years from 29/10/1980 (to YHA Trust) [... |
Wayne Simpson (ice hockey) | Playing career | attending the Capitals training camp, Simpson was reassigned to AHL affiliate, the Hershey Bears for the 2017–18 season. Simpson maintained his offensive game with the Bears, playing on a scoring line and finishing third on the team in points with 42, while appearing in every game (76), unable to earn a recall to the C... |
Thirunaal | Plot & Production | Thirunaal Plot "Blade" Ganesh (Jiiva) is a henchman for a local villain named Naaga (Sharath Lohitashwa) and is loyal to him without any reason. Vithya (Nayanthara) is the daughter of a local factory owner (Joe Malloori). She falls for Ganesh after he saves her from a kidnapping. Vithya's father arranges for her to mar... |
Through Black Spruce (film) | Plot | warns her that Danny is a drug dealer but Violet continues to include him in their circle of friends. Annie looks at some of Susanna's production stills and sees that signs of drug use have been photoshopped away. She berates Jesse for his dishonesty and prepares to leave Toronto. While she is telling Violet, Danny cor... |
Western Mail (Western Australia) | Published 1980-1988 | Robert Holmes à Court and Bell Group following his failed takeover attempt of The Times (UK).
The venture was wound up in 1988. |
Wembley Wizards | Aftermath | were among the mammoth crowd who saw the Scots make rings around England. It was Scotland’s day without a doubt. Alan Morton, Glasgow Rangers’ Wee Blue Devil, and Alex Jackson, then with Huddersfield and later with Chelsea, were on the Scottish wings and the English defenders just couldn’t do anything about them. Also ... |
Vivian Beynon Harris | Career | water & burst on pavements like poached eggs. Nobody seemed too keen on this and while it was going round the publishers I wrote another book sold it & signed a contract for three more. It wasn't that my books were any good as anything but time-wasters and laugh providers but it upset him to find a mere amateur was get... |
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