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Tanith Lee | Works | in hardcover by Macmillan UK and subsequently printed as paperbacks in the US often by DAW, with occasional hardcovers by St. Martin's Press. Some of her work was only printed in paperback, mainly in the US by DAW in the 1970s to the early 1980s. She has received some small press treatment, such as the Arkham House edition of short stories Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee in 1986, and in the first "Night Visions" instalment published by Dark Harvest. Some of her work has been released exclusively in the UK with US publications |
Tarbes | Cathedral, churches and mosque | dating from the 17th century. In contrast, the apse chapel is topped by a lantern tower which was enlarged in the Gothic period and the transept dating from the 12th century are primarily marked by the Romanesque origins of the building. The high altar has a Baroque marble canopy, the implementation of which has been attributed to Dominique Ferrère. One can still see the ceiling painted by Henri Borde and the Testament of Louis XVI carved in the oratory. Saint Vincent de Paul was ordained deacon, here, in 1598.
A little further from the city centre, in the direction of Pau |
Synagrops japonicus | Distribution & Description | Synagrops japonicus Distribution It can be found from Eastern Africa up to the islands of Hawaii. Most of them live at a depth of 100-800 m (330-2600 ft). Description They have 10 dorsal spines, 9 dorsal soft rays, 2 anal spines, 7 anal soft rays, and 25 vertebrae. The body is elongated an compressed with large cycloid scales. Body uniformly blackish-brown in young, black dorsally, paler ventrally in adults. It is distinguished by its anal fin element counts, lack of fin spine with serration on the anterior edge, and 3 to 6 large canine-like teeth on lateral side of the |
SpaceX CRS-14 | Mission overview | SpaceX CRS-14 Mission overview In early 2015, NASA awarded a contract extension to SpaceX for three additional CRS missions (CRS-13 to CRS-15). As of June 2016, a NASA Inspector General report had this mission manifested for February 2018. The flight had been delayed from 9 February and 13 March 2018.
Launch occurred on 2 April 2018 at 20:30 UTC on a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40. The Dragon spacecraft rendezvoused with the ISS on 4 April; it was captured by Canadarm2 at 10:40 UTC and was berthed to the Harmony module at 13:00 UTC. It |
Royal Artillery Barracks | Related institutions in Woolwich | as providing new accommodation and stables for the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery.
A regimental school was opened nearby in 1808; the Royal Artillery School buildings (dating from the 1850s) can still be seen in Greenhill Terrace. The Royal Artillery Institution, which began as a scientific club for officers, first met in an observatory that stood nearby in 1838; in 1854 it moved into new purpose-built accommodation just to the east of the Royal Artillery Barracks. In 1941 the RA Institution was destroyed by enemy action; after the war it occupied the main block of the former Royal Military Academy (which |
Stephen Fried | Books | fifth book, titled Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West, was published in March 2010. The product of five years of cross-country research, the book is the first-ever full-length biography of restaurant and hotel mogul Fred Harvey, his innovative family business, the Harvey Girls, the Santa Fe railway, and the America they helped create. The book draws on newly discovered datebooks and letters of Fred Harvey and his son, Ford (who actually ran the company much longer than his father), which had been in family hands for decades. In |
Sir Angus Farquharson of Finzean | Death | Sir Angus Farquharson of Finzean Sir Angus Farquharson of Finzean KCVO OBE CStJ DL (27 March 1935 – 10 January 2018) was Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire from 1998 to 2010. Death Sir Angus died on 10 January 2018 at the age of 82. |
Tax-Sharing Reform of China in 1994 | New Problems & Policy Adjustment | reform. They also found out that China's government fiscal revenues were transferred to higher-level government while social security responsibilities were transferred to lower-level governments. As a result, the financial institutions at basic levels that were responsible for social security functions encountered the problem of financial strain, resulting in the weakness of social security functions. Besides, the existing transfer payment system was highly correlated with the level of economic development, yet local government expenditures in backward and rural areas showed an unreasonable structure, which intensified the lack of social security supply. Policy Adjustment After 22 years of the implementation of the |
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields | Aftermath | in Tamil whereas on the Channel 4 documentary they were speaking in Sinhala. This Tamil version was in fact not new – it had appeared on YouTube shortly after Channel 4 News had originally broadcast the Sinhala version on 25 August 2009. An investigation by a UN commissioned panel of independent experts found that the Sinhala version was authentic.
Kandanam Jegadishwaram (Nandavanam Jagatheeswaram), a British national of Tamil origin, was arrested on 4 July 2011 for allegedly supplying Channel 4 with video which was used in the documentary. The police alleged that 71 CDs were found at Jegadishwaram's residence in Kandy. |
Tarbes | Old mansions | the mercy of the movements of his father, Théophile Gautier was also born in Rue Brauhauban. The house is still visible today. The family, however, lived there for only three years. The Rue Brauhauban is also home to the birthplace of another poet of the 19th century, Laurent Tailhade.
English Imperial style or even Neobasque villas dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, adorn the Massey Garden, the Bel Air Park, the Paul Chastellain Park and their respective quarters. The Villa Massey, in the heart of its namesake garden, is Neo-Moorish (19th century). Villa Fould, formerly the residence of Baron Achille |
Scottish Patient Safety Programme | Acute hospitals & Mental health & Maternity and Children Quality Improvement Collaborative (MCQIC) & Primary care | 30 per cent. By March 2015, the programme was running in GP surgeries, hospitals, mental health and maternity services. Mental health NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is pioneering the mental health arm of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme. The SPSP Mental Health is working with Scottish Government and Partners to deliver the "Mental Health Strategy: 2017- 2027". Maternity and Children Quality Improvement Collaborative (MCQIC) The Maternity and Children Quality Improvement Collaborative brings together SPSP's Maternity, Neonatal and Paediatric care communities. Primary care In community settings there was a focus on three main workstreams: leadership and culture; safer use of medicines; |
Sandra Shamas | Books | Sandra Shamas Books Sandra Shamas : a trilogy of performances (Mercury Press, 1997)
Wit's end (Mercury Press, 2002) |
TS Pretoria | Post-war civil service | to a troopship, at a cost of £2,000,000. Trials were undertaken in November 1949, but had to be curtailed due to engine problems. Her maiden voyage as a troopship, scheduled for 10 December, was postponed. Sea trials resumed on 29 December.
The refit of Empire Doon was completed in January 1950 and she was renamed Empire Orwell to conform with the Ministry of Transport policy of ship names being prefixed "Empire" and Orient Line policy of using names beginning with "O". She had capacity for 1,491 troops in three classes. Empire Orwell departed on her maiden voyage as a troopship on |
Tarkus | Release & Reception | mixes and high resolution versions of the 2012 stereo mixes. Reception Although it is now considered a quintessential progressive rock album, Tarkus received generally unfavourable reviews from critics upon its release, such as David Lebin in Rolling Stone who wrote: "Tarkus records the failure of three performers to become creators. Regardless of how fast and how many styles they can play. Emerson, Lake and Palmer will continue turning out mediocrity like Tarkus until they discover what, if anything, it is that they must say on their own and for themselves." |
Tad Lincoln | White House years | became even more lenient toward his behavior.
During the time his father was alive, Tad was impulsive, unrestrained, and did not attend school. John Hay wrote that the boy's numerous tutors in the White House usually quit in frustration. Tad had free run of the White House, and there are stories of him interrupting presidential meetings, collecting animals, charging visitors to see his father, and more.
On April 14, 1865, Tad went to Grover's Theatre to see the play Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp while his parents attended the performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. That night, his father was |
Tarbes | Location | Tarbes Location Tarbes is a Pre-Pyrenees town within the rich agricultural plain of the river Adour, 155 kilometres (96 miles) southwest of Toulouse, 144 kilometres (89 miles) to the east of Bayonne, 70 kilometres (43 miles) southwest of Auch and 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Lourdes. Tarbes is 1 hr 30 mins from the Atlantic Ocean, 2 hrs 50 mins from the Languedoc coast and 35 minutes from the nearest ski resorts. It is located at an average elevation of 304 metres (997 feet).
To the south of Tarbes, along with the pilgrimage town of Lourdes, is the border with |
Stick-fighting | Styles | sport. A self-defense adaptation of la canne developed by Swiss master-at-arms Pierre Vigny in the early 1900s has been revived as part of the curriculum of bartitsu.
Nivkh people from Sakhalin used long sticks called z'ar t'ar for sacralized ritual fighting.
In the US during the early years of the 1900s, fencer and self-defense specialist A. C. Cunningham developed a unique system of stick-fighting using a walking stick or umbrella, which he recorded in his book The Cane as a Weapon.
Singlestick was developed as a method of training in the use of backswords such as the cavalry sabre and naval cutlass. It |
Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union | Soviet 1945 annexation and incorporation | UIA and Soviet units, the Soviets deported 600,000 people from these territories and in the process 170,000 of the local population were killed in the fighting. See also Operation Vistula. |
Tech Valley | Luring a chip-fab plant | Greenbush town council voted to terminate the review process. A site in Wallkill, Orange County was the first site in Tech Valley and in the entire state to receive pre-approval for a chip fab.
In 2002, the Saratoga Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) began to tout its proposed tech park, to be named the Luther Forest Technology Campus, as a site for a chip plant. It would be there that GlobalFoundries, a spin-off of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), decided to build a $4.2 billion chip fab, ground breaking was in July 2009. The State of New York gave nearly $1.4 billion in |
Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit | Credit & Resignation from the Treasury | and to guard against the misuse of the former by a speedy and vigorous administration of Justice, and by taking away every temptation to run in debt founded on the hope of evading the Just claims of Creditors." Resignation from the Treasury On January 31st, 1795, Alexander Hamilton stepped down from his position as Secretary of the Treasury and returned to his legal private practice in New York. |
TSS Earnslaw | History | Her 12 metre high funnel was painted bright red, with the hull a snow white, and her kauri timber decks glassed in.
During her long years on the lake, the most serious accidents to occur were two groundings on the shingle shores of the lake.
In March 1990, the Earnslaw carried Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Other royalty to travel on board have been the King and Queen of the Belgians and the Prince of Thailand.
The TSS Earnslaw made a brief cameo appearance in the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) as an Amazon River boat.
A plaque |
Suffolk County Air Force Base Missile Annex | null | Suffolk County Air Force Base Missile Annex The Suffolk County Air Force Base Missile Annex (SAGE codename "BED") is a Formerly Used Defense Site (NY29799F12240/C02NY0714) on Long Island (40.8317708°N 72.6831837°W) that was a CIM-10 Bomarc missile complex during the Cold War, 2 mi (3.2 km) west of Suffolk County Air Force Base. Planned in 1955 for completion in February 1960 and activated as the 2nd operational BOMARC complex on 1 December 1959 (4 missiles by 1 January), the annex was part of the New York Air Defense Sector defenses. The annex included a Launch Area with 56 Mode II |
Tax-Sharing Reform of China in 1994 | History | Tax-Sharing Reform of China in 1994 History In 1978, since China implemented the reform and opening up policy, China gradually got rid of the planned economic system and experienced a clear process of decentralization in the social and economic fields, including the decentralization of powers over financial administration. Compared with the fiscal system that was previously unified, the local government acquired independent budgeting rights and certain financial autonomy. For instance, local governments could determine their budget expenditures without interference from the central government. Prior to the fiscal reform in 1994, everything was pre-determined and the government revenues was divided into |
Takamure Itsue | Life | his classic article on Heian marriage in 1967 and has become the standard position in the field. |
Sapta Puri | Haridwar | the four sites where drops of Amrita, the elixir of immortality, accidentally spilled over from the pitcher, in which it was being carried away by the celestial bird Garuda, after the Samudra manthan (churning of the ocean); the other three places are said to be Ujjain, Nasik, and Allahabad.
Another legend narrated for this pilgrim place is that sage Kapila had cursed the ancestors of prince Bhagiratha. Bhagiratha, therefore, wanted to atone for their sins by performing penance to god Shiva here. Shiva pleased with the prayers of Bhagiratha, allowed the Ganges to trickle through his locks and fall on earth |
Talisman (band) | 2000s | album four demos from 1990 have been revisited with new drums and guitar recordings. Jamie, Fredrik & Pontus honor Marcels music with putting new sound to the recordings in the summer of 2012. The Five out of Five - Live In Japan. Now just named "Live In Japan" have got some additional music and complete new mix with the use of today’s technology. The Humanimal is a mix from the earlier Humanimal part 1 and 2.
On 21 December 2013, the band announced they were doing a one-off show on 6 June 2014 at the Sweden Rock Festival, in which they |
Sto Para Pente | Dahlia Hatzialexandrou | rendered her totally incapable of comprehending basic aspects of everyday life (such as colloquial expressions, or the mere value of money). Having disappeared for two decades (as she was a young adult at the time of the crash), her face and status remained incognito from the media and the public. She carries huge amounts of large-denomination Euro banknotes in her purse, to which she dismissingly refers as the purple ones (€500), the yellow ones (€200) or, rarely, the green ones (€100), and attempts to use them to buy chewing gum, dog food or cookies, with little success since she is |
Tabatha Cash | Appearances & Publishing | and starred in the mainstream movie, Raï, playing the central female character, a young Algerian woman. She was also on French national TV Canal+, and her face and figure have been seen on the cover of magazines such as Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and GQ. Cash was also featured in the 1995 calendar of the magazine Max. Publishing In July 2014, after the death of her husband and Hot Video group owner Frank Vardon in January, Cash took control of the Hot Video group and its five branches which includes its magazine and media operations. She is also the editor in |
Tessa Violet | Early life and career & Music | became an official music channel in 2019. Music Violet released her first album Maybe Trapped Mostly Troubled on March 18, 2014. The album was produced by Seth Earnest at Maker Studios, with John Zappin as A&R. Despite the lack of attention from traditional media sources, the record debuted at number 10 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and sold 5,000 copies in the first three months.
Violet released the lead single "Dream" from her EP Halloway on September 16, 2016. The full EP was released October 14, 2016. She released videos for all songs on the project.
In 2018, Violet revealed she was |
Sunshack | 1996 – 1997: later career & Stud record | he was sent to Germany for the Grosser Preis von Baden and finished third behind Pilsudski and Germany.
In 1997 Sunshack was transferred to race in the United States and entered the stable of Bobby Frankel in California. He failed to win but ran prominently in defeat on his only three North American starts. He finished second to Marlin in both the San Luis Rey Handicap and the San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita Park and then ran second to Rainbow Dancer in the Hollywood Turf Cup. Stud record At the end of his racing career Sunshack become a breeding |
Strategic bombing during World War II | Policy at the start of the war | should "launch an attack on the German fleet at Wilhelmshaven" and "attack warships at sea when found within range". The government communicated to their French allies the intention "not to initiate air action which might involve the risk of civilian casualties"
While it was acknowledged bombing Germany would cause civilian casualties, the British government renounced deliberate bombing of civilian property, outside combat zones, as a military tactic. The British changed their policy on 15 May 1940, one day after the German bombing of Rotterdam, when the RAF was given permission to attack targets in the Ruhr Area, including oil plants and |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Kinship and clans | Gaelic) or tacksmen (in Scots), who managed the clan lands and collected the rents. In the isles and along the adjacent western seaboard there were also buannachann, who acted as a military elite, defending the clan lands from raids or taking part in attacks on clan enemies. Most of the followers of the clan were tenants, who supplied labour to the clan heads and sometimes acted as soldiers. In the early modern era they usually took the clan name as their surname, turning it into a massive, if often fictive, kin group. Because the Highland Clans were not a direct |
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center | Clinical Trials Center & Scientific journal & Global Network | and scientists to test new therapies. It includes a National Clinical Study Center for Anticancer Drugs and a National Key Laboratory of Anti-cancer Drug Development. The CTC is CFDA certified. Scientific journal SYSUCC sponsors Cancer Communications, an oncology journal published in English formerly known as the Chinese Journal of Cancer. It publishes basic, clinical and translational cancer research. In 2014, it became Science Citation Indexed (SCI), it has a current Impact Factor (IF) of 3.822. The Editorial Board consists of members from around the world. Global Network SYSUCC has established collaborative and friendly relationships with many renowned international institutes from |
Station inspector | Singapore Police Force & National Police Cadet Corps | Station inspector Singapore Police Force Station inspector (SI; Chinese: 驻署警长) is the third highest non-commissioned rank in the Singapore Police Force, below inspector, and above senior staff sergeant. Station inspectors wear a rank insignia of two point-up chevrons, the Singapore coat of arms and a garland below. National Police Cadet Corps The rank of station inspector is awarded to cadets who have contributed greatly to their National Police Cadet Corps unit. NPCC station inspectors wear a yellow flash on their beret. The rank is above staff sergeant, and is the highest rank a cadet can attain while they are in |
Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Personal life & Characteristics | Saud foundation.
His other sons are Turki (1959–2012), Nayef (born 1979), Badr (born 1980), Mohammed, Saud, Ahmad, Nawwaf, Abdullah, Mishaal, Mansour, Fawwaz, Abdulmajid and Abdul Ilah.
Prince Sultan had fifteen daughters, the oldest of whom is Nawf bint Sultan. One of his daughters, Reema, is married to Muhammad bin Nayef, son of the late Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz. His other daughter, Noura bint Sultan, is married to Turki bin Nasser. Another daughter, Munira bint Sultan, who was late Faisal bin Fahd's spouse and died in June 2011 at age 59. Characteristics Prince Sultan was regarded as a workaholic .He doled out |
South Side Elevated Railroad | Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad & Bankruptcy and takeover | trains to maintain a schedule with a 3-minute headway. Bankruptcy and takeover When the World's Columbian Exposition closed, lack of development along the southern portion of the route led to plummeting passenger numbers. The Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company went into receivership in 1895 and was sold under foreclosure on September 16, 1896 for $4,100,100. The South Side Elevated Railroad was formed to take over the route in 1897. Service was extended into the newly built Union Loop on October 18, 1897 connecting the South Side Elevated Railroad with the Lake Street Elevated Railroad, the Metropolitan West |
Taylor Ewert | 2019 | 3,200 title in 10:23:14. With a 2:10 leg, she also anchored her Beavercreek 4x800 relay to an 8:58.95 for third in the state, but also 3rd fastest high school time in the U.S. for the year, to that point. On June 15, she broke the steeplechase meet record at the New Balance Nationals, with 6:33:61, and six hours later ran a 2:12 third leg helping her 4x800 team to a second place. On June 16, she finished second in the mile at 4:48.01. On June 23, she repeated as U20 champion in 48:24.61, breaking her meet record, almost eight minutes |
Tanycyte | Structure | Tanycyte Structure Tanycytes share some features with radial glia cells and astrocytes. Their form and location have led some authors to regard them as radial glia cells that remain in the hypothalamus throughout life. This has led some to believe that these cells share the same lineage.
Even so, tanycytes also display certain characteristics that distinguish them from radial glia cells. Tanycytes in rats begin to develop in the last two days of gestation and continue on until they reach their full differentiation in the first month of life. Radial glia cells on the other hand, are a key component of |
Snap election | Luxembourg & Slovakia | Chamber of Deputies. Juncker urged the Grand Duke for the immediate dissolution of parliament and the calling of a snap election. Slovakia A snap general election took place in Slovakia on 10 March 2012 to elect 150 members of the Národná rada. The election followed the fall of Prime Minister Iveta Radičová's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party-led coalition in October 2011 over a no confidence vote her government had lost because of its support for the European Financial Stability Fund. Amidst a major corruption scandal involving local center-right politicians, former Prime Minister Robert Fico's Direction – Social |
Suffolk University Law School | Curriculum and attendance statistics & Admissions | Property.
In addition to the JD, Suffolk offers an advanced LLM in Global Law and Technology. Suffolk University Law School also offers joint degrees with Suffolk's Sawyer Business School (JD/MBA, JD/MSF and JD/MPA), and the Suffolk College of Arts and Sciences (JD/MSCJ and JD/MSIE).
The average faculty to student ratio at Suffolk is 16.5 students per faculty member. Tuition for the 2013–2014 academic year is $44,934 for the day division and $33,700 for the evening division. Admissions Suffolk Law School students come from 50 states, 30 countries and more than 375 colleges and universities. Suffolk averages over 3,500 applications for its |
Sohan Lal Bhatia | Biography | dressed by him, in spite of the adverse conditions, afterwards elicitated (sic) the admiration of the medical officers in the dressing stations.
Bhatia was the sole IMS recipient of the Military Cross in 1918. After the war, he received a regular commission in the IMS, with effect from 15 March 1920. He was promoted to substantive captain on 8 April 1920, with seniority from the same date. The same year, he was appointed professor of physiology and hygiene at Grant Medical College in Bombay, becoming its first Indian dean in 1925. He was promoted to major on 8 April 1928, |
Tarbes | Intercommunality & University of Pau and Pays de L'adour | competence related to transportation, travellers, culture, sports, environment, the university and the city's policy. It now includes the municipalities of Aureilhan, Bordères-sur-l'Échez, Bours, Ibos, Laloubère, Louey, Odos, Orleix, Séméac, Salles-Adour, Sarrouilles, Soues and Tarbes, and thus contains some 75,000 inhabitants on 1 January 2015 (2012 legal population, INSEE). The mayor of Tarbes, Gerard Manty, was the presidenct until the 2014 municipal elections where he had to give way to the Socialist mayor of Orleix, Charles Habas, because of the more left-wing position of Odos. University of Pau and Pays de L'adour Located at the Spanish border, the University of Pau |
TL-6 | TL-2 | so that in addition to the original fire-and-forget capability, the only capability present on TL-10, there is an extra capability present on TL-2: operators can select to attack a different target other than the original one, if a greater threat has been identified after launching TL-2. These are other speculations on TL-2, such as TL-6 was purely for export, while TL-2 is the designation for domestic Chinese use, but these have yet to be verified when more detailed technical information is released in the future. Although the manufacturer has claimed that TL-1 can be deployed from various platform, the sample |
Silverliner | Silverliner II & Experimental Silverliners | replacement Silverliner V cars resulted in the Budds lasting in service well into 2012, a run of nearly 50 years. The final run took place on June 29, 2012 with former Reading car #9010 running with Silverliner III #235 on the Cynwyd Line. Experimental Silverliners As part of the High Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965 the United States Department of Transportation placed an order for 4 additional Silverliners for use as test vehicles to explore the feasibility of a high-speed rail line in the United States. Numbered T-1 through T-4, the cars were modified for operation up |
Tagline | null | Tagline In entertainment, a tagline (alternatively spelled tag line) is a short text which serves to clarify a thought for, or is designed with a form of, dramatic effect. Many tagline slogans are reiterated phrases associated with an individual, social group, or product. As a variant of a branding slogan, taglines can be used in marketing materials and advertising.
The idea behind the concept is to create a memorable dramatic phrase that will sum up the tone and premise of an audio/visual product, or to reinforce and strengthen the audience's memory of a literary product. Some taglines are successful enough to |
St. Rita of Cascia High School | School crest & Academics | St. Rita of Cascia High School School crest The colors which predominate the school crest are red and blue, as these are the school colors. The book and the burning and pierced heart are symbols associated with Saint Augustine. The rose and bees are symbols associated with Saint Rita of Cascia. Academics Students are placed into one of three academic programs, based on an entrance exam score, and input from parents and previous teachers. The Augustinian Academy is for gifted students, the Mendel Academic Program is a college preparatory program, and the Villanova Academic Study Center is |
Stephen Christmas | Biography | which blood was not routinely screened for this virus. He became an active worker for the Canadian Hemophilia Society and campaigned for transfusion safety ever since getting infected, but developed AIDS, of which he died in 1993. |
Strategic bombing during World War II | Bombing in Romania | were killed and damage was minor. The bombing of Ploiești on 1 August 1943 (Operation Tidal Wave) was a far more serious affair. Tidal Wave heavily damaged four refineries and more lightly affected three; it damaged the Ploiești rail station but did not have much impact on the city itself. Câmpina was more severely damaged. 660 American aircrew were killed or captured, while petroleum exports exceeded pre-Tidal Wave levels by October. Around 100 civilians were killed and 200 wounded as a result of Operation Tidal Wave.
Anglo-American bombers first attacked Bucharest on 4 April 1944, aiming mainly to interrupt military transports |
Texas State Highway Loop 1 | MoPac Intersections Project | the at-grade intersection at Slaughter Lane with a diverging diamond interchange and the at-grade intersection at La Crosse Avenue with a diamond interchange. The project broke ground in January 2018 with Webber, LLC as the general contractor.
On August 10, 2018, the existing Slaughter Lane intersection was rerouted to the south. The original intersection was replaced with a bridge over the new Mopac mainlanes. The DDI opened on November 11, 2018, with final completion expected by Spring 2019. The La Crosse Avenue intersection began construction in Fall 2018. On March 29, 2019, the La Crosse Avenue intersection was closed for reconstruction |
Teatro Stabile di Catania | null | Teatro Stabile di Catania The Teatro Stabile di Catania (Permanent theatre of Catania) is a theatrical institution based in Catania, Sicily, Italy which was formed in 1958. It has two theatres, the Teatro Giovanni Verga, the Teatro Angelo Musco. Annually, the program offers a choice of many shows, partly self-produced. It is the first permanent theatre in the South of Italy.
The theater was founded in 1958 in the small hall of the Teatro Angelo Musco, which was capable of only 250 seats, as Ente Teatro di Sicilia. The founding members were the Sicilian actors Turi Ferro, Rosina Anselmi, Umberto Spadaro, |
Shepherd Clark | Figure skating career | Shepherd Clark Figure skating career Clark was coached by Slavka Button and Diane Agle in Boston, Massachusetts. In December 1987, at the age of sixteen, he placed 4th at the 1988 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, and he won the silver medal at the 1989 Junior Worlds the following year. He won silver at the 1994 Nations Cup, placing second to Elvis Stojko, who was the reigning ISU World Figure Skating Champion.
In 1996, he became the Finlandia Trophy champion, the first American ever to win this trophy. He is also the 1998 U.S. national pewter medalist (4th place) and won |
Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel | Discovery | Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel Discovery The sculpture was discovered in 1919 at the base of a temple foundation made from mud and brick at the isolated Sumerian site of Tell al-'Ubaid, close to the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq. Archaeologists have determined from extant inscriptions and sculptures that the temple was dedicated to the goddess Ninhursag. Based on where it was originally found, it has been suggested that the copper panel was located above the temple door, in full view of the congregation. Soon after its discovery, the sculpture was shipped to London as part of the |
Tamghas | Education & Administration & Media | United Academy, Gandaki Boarding School, Vujelkharka School, Siddababa Higher Secondary School, Donbosco School, Buddha Lower Secondary School, Resunga Higher Secondary School, Mahendra Higher Secondary School and Reader's Public High School. Administration The district government offices and the police headquarters is located in the town and the Nepalese Army have a base there.
The town is served by Tamghas Hospital and a Jail. Media FM radio stations Radio Sky - 88.4 MHz and Radio Resunga 106.2 MHz, are local community radio Stations. |
Sto Para Pente | Season 1 (2005-2006) summary | the criminals, who seems to be a powerful and influential figure, finds out about the five. Though he does not know their identities or motives, he feels he is in danger of being exposed. Even more frustrated, however, is the leader's chief henchman, who is determined to eliminate them, and who is simply known as "the bad guy" or "the guy in black" by the five. The five always manage to escape his traps in the nick of time (a reference to the show's title) in ways he never seems able to predict.
The first episode begins with the five tied |
Staphylococcus | Groups & Biochemical identification | includes S. aureus, S. capitis, S. epidermidis, S. haemolyticus, S. hominis, S. lugdunensis, S. pettenkoferi, S. simiae and S. warneri.
Group B includes S. arlettae, S. cohnii, S. equorum, S. saprophyticus and S. xylosus.
Group C includes S. delphini, S. intermedius and S. pseudintermedius. Biochemical identification Assignment of a strain to the genus Staphylococcus requires it to be a Gram-positive coccus that forms clusters, has an appropriate cell wall structure (including peptidoglycan type and teichoic acid presence) and G + C content of DNA in a range of 30–40 mol%.
Staphylococcus species can be differentiated from other aerobic and facultative anaerobic, |
TSS Earnslaw | Current status | Lloyd's Register. |
Tarkus | Artwork and packaging & Release | below which Tarkus emerges from an egg. Tarkus faces a number of cybernetic creatures, culminating in a battle against the Manticore. The Manticore stings Tarkus's eye, and Tarkus retreats bleeding into a river. Release Tarkus was released on 14 June 1971 in the UK on Island Records, appearing two months later in the US by Atlantic Records' subsidiary label Cotillion Records. It is one of only two ELP studio albums to reach the Top 10 in the States, making it to No. 9 (Trilogy, the following year, got to No. 5), while in Britain it is their only number-one album. |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Rose tenure (1920–1942) & Countee Cullen branch | the second curator of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. At the behest of Reddick, in October 1940, the entire Division of Negro History, Literature and Prints was renamed the Schomburg Collection of Negro History and Literature.
In 1942 Rose retired after an extension was built onto the rear of the building, at a time when the library had 40,000 books. Dorothy Robinson Homer replaced her as Branch Librarian, after the Citizen's Committee of the 135th Street Branch Library specifically requested a Negro to replace Rose. Countee Cullen branch After the extension was built, the library became known as the Countee |
Synetic Theater | History & Facilities | Outstanding Director. Despite the artistic split, Synetic Theater and The Stanislavsky Theater Studio continued to share resources and performance space into the following season, but in 2003, after a series of disagreements over financial matters, Synetic set off on its own. The following year Synetic merged with Classika Theater, a children's theater based in Shirlington, Virginia.
In 2014 Synetic Co-Founders Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili were honored as Washingtonians of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine for their contributions to the Washington theater community. In 2010, the American Theatre Wing awarded Synetic with their National Theatre Company Grant. Facilities The Synetic Theater's offices |
Tax-Sharing Reform of China in 1994 | New Problems | led to an imbalance between central and local fiscal expenditures and a distortion of the relationship between China's central government and local governments. Through the implementation of the tax-sharing system and the direct control from the national taxation department, the central government mastered nearly 60% of the financial power, while a large number of devolutions was delegated to the local government, which increased their burdens and affected their effective operations, especially for basic-level governments.
The academic circles discovered ever since the housing market reform in 1998, China's urban housing prices continued to rise due to the land finance and the tax-sharing |
South Side (cocktail) | History | South Side (cocktail) History Its origins are subject to speculation. It has been proposed that it gets its name from either the South Side district of the city of Chicago, Illinois, or from the Southside Sportsmen's Club on Long Island.
The drink may have been the preferred beverage of Al Capone, whose gang dominated Chicago's South Side. The gin imported by Capone's rivals on the North Side of Chicago was smooth, and usually consumed with ginger ale. However, the gin consumed by Al Capone's gang had a rougher finish, and required more sweeteners to make it palatable. Thus the South Side |
Tancredo Neves | "Diretas Já" and the Electoral College | such traitor. This was the first time that a minister form the military had been challenged during the Military Regime. From then on, the adherence to Tancredo only grew. The Baiano leader, Antônio Carlos, then added: “To betray the Revolution of 1964 is to support Maluf for president”.
In an interview with the newspaper Pequim in 1984, Tancredo described Maluf as follows: “Maluf symbolizes all of the negative things the Revolution did in the last twenty years”!
Even though they were indirect elections, Tancredo still did many rallies in public places. And, in a speech made during his campaign in the city |
The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman | null | The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman was a pair of advertisement films promoting American Express, featuring Jerry Seinfeld as himself and Patrick Warburton (who appeared with Seinfeld on Seinfeld, as David Puddy) as the voice of Superman. The two films, A Uniform Used to Mean Something... and Hindsight is 20/20, each about five minutes in length, were directed by Barry Levinson. In addition to being on the Internet, they aired on television during 2004 on TBS. In addition to promoting American Express, the premise of the films were to show Seinfeld and Superman as |
Tancredo Neves | Illness and death | office!”
In Brasília at the “Dom Bosco Sanctuary” during the religious ceremony, he developed with strong continuous abdominal pain. In the hospital he told his cousin Francisco Dornelles – who had been appointed as Finance Minister – that he would refuse surgery if he didn’t have the guarantee that outgoing President João Figueiredo would induct José Sarney. Dornelles promised his cousin that Sarney would be inducted. According to information compiled by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, the maneuvers to bring Sarney to office were already under Ulysses Guimarães (President of the Chamber, PMDB-SP), and Leitão de Abreu's Chief of Staff of Brazil lead.
The official |
Tarbes | Political trends and results | in 1965 (58.4%) and 1971 (55.2%). However, his sudden death a few weeks before the 1977 elections caused confusion in the ranks of the outgoing majority.
In this election, the Communist Paul Chastellain prevailed in the first round (50.6%), at the head of a list of union of the left. He was reelected in 1983 with 54.8% against Jean Journé (UDF-RPR), but took ill with a heart attack during the count. Raymond Erracarret (FCP) was elected mayor by the municipal council. The new councillor regained his chair in 1989 with 54.1% against Jean Journé (UDF-RPR), then with a reduced majority (51.3%) |
Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge | Fish & Trails | the Salton Sea. Tilapia is the most populous fish in the Sea due to its ability to adapt to highly saline conditions and the fact that it is a prolific breeder. Tilapia are an important food source for birds and other fish, along with being a popular game fish. They can weigh more than 3 pounds (1.4 kg). Trails The refuge has two walking trails: the Rock Hill Trail and the Michael Hardenberger Trail. The Rock Hill Trail is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) roundtrip, leading visitors through several different habitats. It begins next to the picnic area at the Visitor Center |
The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game | Reception | FGU's Daredevils and Hero Games' Justice Inc. both take a broader look at the genre of 30s roleplaying, giving you a chance to take your life into your own hands with characters of your own creation. Indiana Jones does neither." |
Tanith Lee | Writing career | to the changes in publishing. The style that made her whole career met strict objections from publishers at that time.
She produced adult and young adult novels, science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, spy fiction, erotica, a historical novel, radio plays and two episodes of the television space opera Blake's 7. Yet all her work shares a tone – Lee captured like few other modern writers a gothic, not to say goth, sensibility in which the relentless pursuit of personal autonomy and sensual fulfillment leads her characters to the brink of delirium, as well as to a fierce integrity that can co-habit |
Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge | Wildlife | low annual precipitation and extremely high day time temperatures. Despite the harsh environmental conditions, the Salton Sea supports one of the most diverse avian compositions in the United States as well as a host of endangered and other wildlife species.
Habitat diversity on Refuge lands provides for the needs of resident wildlife species as well as numerous seasonal residents and migrants of the Pacific Flyway. Over 400 bird species have been recorded at the Refuge and at least 93 species have nested on the Refuge. In addition, 41 species of mammals, 18 species of reptiles, 4 species of amphibians and 15 species of fish have been |
Talisman (band) | 2000s | performed. |
Talisman (band) | 2000s | with a Japanese release on King Records.
The working title was "BAR" which stood for "Bitter-Angry-Resentful", basically a joke referring to the guys’ outlook on certain life events. The guys then opted for the more straightforward title "7" (it’s actually the band’s 7th studio album).
The new material is very melodic including some ballads, yet it encompasses what is the band’s trademark: catchy hooks, groovy rhythms, aggressive guitars and the ability to play different music styles. All songs were written by Marcel and Jeff, except "Shed a tear goodbye" which was written by Jamie and Jeff.
"7" was recorded at XTC Studios in |
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Tarpon Springs, Florida) | History | 6, 1976. |
Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Views & Wealth and property | Seyassa, concerning 9/11 attacks, Sultan stated “Who stands behind this terrorism and who carried out this complicated and carefully planned terrorist operation? Osama bin Laden and those with him have said what indicates that they stand behind this carefully planned act. We, in turn, ask: Are bin Laden and his supporters the only ones behind what happened or is there another power with advanced technical expertise that acted with them?”. Wealth and property Prince Sultan’s wealth in 1990 was reported to be $1.2 billion. Later, his fortune was estimated at $270 billion, which he distributed between his sons prior to |
St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Wapakoneta, Ohio) | Early parish history & Church building | later Bishop of Fort Wayne. Since 1850, the parish has been served by priests from the Congregation of the Precious Blood. Church building By the late 1850s, the parish's membership had grown significantly, and the original church had become too small; consequently, a larger brick structure was built to the east of the original building in 1858. Among its most distinctive elements were a massive single tower, four bells, and a large pipe organ. In later years, elderly parishioners remembered the organ and bells favorably: purchased for $2,200 and $1,700 respectively, they were seen as equal to |
Tech Valley | Luring a chip-fab plant | plant. Years before that the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's RPI Tech Park had been visited by semiconductor companies, but they had chosen not to build. The renewed interest by the region in luring them was spurred by the research centers and training of specialists for the industry by area colleges such as the University at Albany, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Hudson Valley Community College. Responding to the state's request for potential sites, Rensselaer County proposed the same RPI Tech Park site; Schenectady County proposed two sites, one of which was in Hillside Industrial Park in Niskayuna; Saratoga County proposed two sites; |
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center | History & Research | A few days later a Cancer Institute was opened under the leadership of Liang Boqiang.
In 1966, the name of the hospital was changed to the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Sun Yat-sen Medical School. The name was later changed again in 1985, to the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Sun Yat-sen Medical University. Twenty-three years after both their respective establishments, in 1987, the Cancer Hospital and the Cancer Institute merged under the name Sun Yat-sen Medical University Cancer Center. The name was simplified in 2001 to: Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. Research According to the 2018 Nature Index report for global healthcare, |
Talisman (band) | 2000s | Talisman (band) 2000s In May/June 2001 Pontus, Marcel and Jeff were busy working in Sweden on the album of Humanimal.
At the same time, dj Dr. Rock from the Swedish Radio Rock Klassiker persuaded the guys to perform at Sweden Rock Festival.
Two nights before the festival gig, Talisman played in Stockholm. Owing to a miscommunication between Jamie, Pontus, Marcel and the guys doing the mobile recording stuff, Marcel's entire gear (bass included!) was left at the venue in Stockholm instead of travelling with everybody else’s gear down to Sölvesborg, south of Sweden, where the Sweden Rock Festival takes place.
Marcel wanted |
Snap election | Slovakia & Slovenia | Democracy won an absolute majority of seats. Slovenia A parliamentary election for the 90 deputies to the National Assembly of Slovenia was held on 4 December 2011. This was the first early election in Slovenia's history. 65.60% of voters cast their vote. The election was surprisingly won by the center-left Positive Slovenia party, led by Zoran Janković. However, he failed to be elected as the new Prime Minister in the National Assembly, and the new government was formed by a right-leaning coalition of five parties, led by Janez Janša, the president of the second-placed Slovenian Democratic Party.
the National Assembly consists |
Startling Stories | null | 1952. He was known for equipping his heroines with brass bras and implausible costumes, and the public image of science fiction in his day was partly created by his work for Startling and other magazines. Merwin left in 1951, and Samuel Mines took over; the standard remained fairly high but competition from new and better-paying markets such as Galaxy Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction impaired Mines' ability to acquire quality material. In mid-1952, Standard attempted to change Startling's image by adopting a more sober title typeface and reducing the sensationalism of the |
Tarbes | 21st century & Economy | are now within the tertiary sector (services). In addition to its privileged geographical situation, less than an hour from the Pyrenees mountains, two hours from the Atlantic Ocean and three hours from the Mediterranean via the La Pyrénéenne autoroute, the city offers a certain lifestyle and boasts a cultural life which is packed with clubs and sport. Economy Being farther away from Toulouse than other cities of Midi-Pyrénées, Tarbes may appear to display greater economic independence. Also it often occupies the second place in the regional urban hierarchy. It maintains close relations with Aquitaine and, in particular, with Pau, a |
Talisman (band) | 2000s | and finally released the self-titled debut album of Humanimal in 2002. In May the band played a couple of shows to support it.
Unfortunately, this was not a good moment for the guys owing to some personal, professional and legal problems. Pontus and Marcel had a falling out and this meant that Pontus was out both of Talisman and Humanimal.
Humanimal split. Marcel and Jeff had a meeting with Christer Wedin who explained the guys were basically free to go into business without him. Since Jeff had already signed a deal with the Italian label Frontiers for his solo album "Love |
Smita Patil | Career | with parallel cinema directors like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Satyajit Ray (Sadgati, 1981), G. Aravindan (Chidambaram, 1985) and Mrinal Sen as well as forays into the more commercial Hindi film industry cinema of Mumbai. Patil was working as a TV news reader and was also an accomplished photographer when Shyam Benegal discovered her.
She was an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. In 1977, she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Hindi film Bhumika. In her films, Patil's character often represents an intelligent femininity that stands in relief against the |
Strategic bombing during World War II | The Battle of Britain and the Blitz | economic targets was to systematically extend up to the Midlands until daylight attacks could proceed unhindered over the whole of Britain, then a major attack was to be made on London causing a crisis with refugees when the intended Operation Sea Lion invasion was due to begin.
On 8 August 1940, the Germans switched to raids on RAF fighter bases. To reduce losses, the Luftwaffe also began to use increasing numbers of bombers at night. From the night of 19/20 August night bombing targeted the aircraft industry, ports, harbours, and other strategic targets in towns and cities, including suburban areas around |
Steve Pilgrim | null | Tuesday night. 'There will be 10 or 15 players at Cardiff Arms Park who have earned a lot more from rugby than Steve Pilgrim,' he said. |
Siege of Babylon Fortress | Battle of Heliopolis | in July 640. It was the city of the Sun Temple of the Pharaohs and was famous for its grandiose monuments and learning institutions. There was the danger that forces from Heliopolis could attack the Muslims from the flank while they were engaged with the Roman army at Babylon. With some detachments, 'Amr and Zubair marched to Heliopolis. There was a cavalry clash near the current neighbourhood of Abbaseya. The engagement was not decisive, although it resulted in the occupation of the fortress located between the current neighborhoods of Abdyn and Azbakeya. The defeated Byzantine soldiers retreated to either |
Stin Kardia Mou Mono Thlipsi | Music video | Stin Kardia Mou Mono Thlipsi Music video An official music video was never produced due to time conflicts. |
Tarbes | Road | Bayonne and joining Pau, which is also accessible from the RD 817.
Movements are facilitated by a boulevard circling the town. The recent development of the different centres of activity around Tarbes has promoted the creation of the southwest ring road which should extend to the north towards the D935 (Route de Bordeaux) and the N21 (Route d'Auch). A southern bypass is also projected between Tarbes-east to the Juillan interchange and the airport. Finally, a ring road is under consideration, which would connect Séméac to Orleix.
The new portion of dual-carriageway of the N21 which opened in December 2012 between Tarbes and |
Steven Hewitt | Youth & Professional | of Ireland. In 2010, Hewitt signed a two-year scholarship with the Clarets. He was part of the squad that got to the FA Youth Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1978, scoring against Boston United, Ipswich Town and West Bromwich Albion in the process. He scored a penalty in the 3–1 aggregate defeat against Blackburn Rovers in the semi-final. Professional After impressing during his first year as an apprentice he was taken on the five-day first team pre-season tour to South West England in July 2011. He was an unused substitute for the 2–0 defeat to Bristol Rovers but |
Tania Chernova | Historicity & In fiction | of Chernova claims, due to his research indicating a lack of female Soviet snipers at the battle. William Craig had confirmation of Chernova’s actions from Soviet Sniper Vasily Zaitsev, who trained her and had a relationship with her. A character, played by Rachel Weisz, based on Chernova, appeared in the film Enemy at the Gates. In fiction In the film Enemy at the Gates, portrayed by Rachel Weisz, Tania is a citizen of Stalingrad who has become a Private in the local militia. Danilov has her transferred to an intelligence unit away from the battlefield. She later reunited with Zaitsev |
South Side (cocktail) | History & Related drinks | was born. Related drinks The Tom Collins uses lemon juice in place of lime juice, does not include mint, and is carbonated. |
Susan J. Smith | Honours | Susan J. Smith Honours In 1999, Smith was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). In 2000, she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2008, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). In 2010, she was appointed as a Tanner lecturer at Clare Hall, Cambridge, a recognition for 'uncommon achievement and outstanding abilities in the field of human values'. In 2014, she was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. |
Sungei Pari Towers | Features | Sungei Pari Towers Features The central tower has 15 storeys with 120 units, and surrounded by 12 four-storey low-rise units with 288 units. The scheme and layout of this public housing project was prepared by Mr David A. Aitken and Mr E. B. Carlos.
It shares many features in common with the Unité d’habitation by Le Corbusier. It has a lively roof landscape that includes a giant asymmetrical overhanging dish that provides shade. Individual residential units are open to both the north and south sides and therefore benefit from cross breezes. Even the wayfinding system utilizes the Charette font that Le |
Testimony in Jewish law | Two witnesses | on their word; however capital punishment is no longer applied.
The testimony of two witnesses is equal in its force to the testimony of three or more witnesses. Thus if two witnesses say an event occurred, and one hundred witnesses say it did not occur, the groups of witnesses are considered to contradict one another, but no more weight is given to the larger group; other evidence is needed to reach a judgment. If one of the witnesses is disqualified, his entire group is disqualified, even if the other witnesses are themselves qualified and could present a valid testimony without his |
Tawhid al-Jihad (Gaza Strip) | Fatwa allowing the killing of noncombatants & Kidnapping and murder of Vittorio Arrigoni | airstrike two months later. Kidnapping and murder of Vittorio Arrigoni On 11 April 2011, a Gazan terrorist group named Tawhid wal-Jihad or Tawhid and Jihad (literally "monotheism and Jihad") announced that it had kidnapped Vittorio Arrigoni (age 36), an Italian peace activist, blogger and occasional freelance journalist, in the Gaza Strip. It threatened to execute him unless Hamas released its leader, Hesham al-Sa'eedni, by 5 pm the following day. Hamas, which is the elected majority party and governs the Gaza Strip, had imprisoned al-Sa'eedni the previous month. Some Israel allies countries, like the European Union, the United States and |
Tanith Lee | Writing career & Book sales | with self-sacrificing empathy.
Major publishing companies were less accepting of Lee's later works. The companies which Lee worked with for numerous years even refused to look at her proposals. Smaller companies were publishing just a few of Lee's works. The refusals did not stop her from writing and she had numerous novels and short stories which were just sitting in her cupboard. Mail from fans even asked if she were dead because no new Lee works had been released. Lee even tried changing her genre, but to no success. However, Internet sales succeeded in reviving her writing. Book sales |
Tez Ilyas | Comedy career | Muslim comedians commissioned by the BBC to be released on BBC iPlayer. Ilyas goes through the day in the life of a fasting Muslim, and shows how he copes with the stresses and strains of an ordinary day in the office during Ramadan.
In July 2015, Ilyas performed at Eid Special Comedy Night at The Comedy Store in London. In December of the same year, he performed at BBC Asian Network's special comedy night, celebrating 50 years of Asian programmes on the BBC with a special comedy night in Birmingham.
Ilyas has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe four times. In 2011, |
Sockpuppet (Internet) | Business promotion & Book and film reviews | performance. Prosecutors provided evidence of these postings in Black's criminal trial where he was convicted of mail fraud and obstruction. The postings were raised at multiple points in the trial. Book and film reviews An Amazon.com computer glitch in 2004 revealed the names of many authors who had written reviews of their books using pseudonyms. John Rechy, who wrote the best-selling novel City of Night (1963), was one of the more famous authors unmasked in this way, and was shown to have written numerous five-star reviews of his own work. In 2010, historian Orlando Figes was found to have written |
Shireoaks railway station | Facilities & Service | Shireoaks railway station Facilities The station is unstaffed and has no ticket provision - all tickets must be purchased prior to travel or on the train. The main building that used to be located here has been demolished, though there are brick waiting shelters still standing on both platforms. Train running information is offered via timetable posters, a help point on platform 1 and CIS screens. Step-free access is available to both platforms via the level crossing at the eastern end. Service Monday to Saturdays, there is an hourly service to Sheffield westbound and Gainsborough Central eastbound |
Suleiman (elephant) | Description & Death | 18 months later, in December 1553. Death Maximillian had a commemorative medallion issued after Suleiman's death to a design by sculptor Michael Fuchs. Parts of Suleiman's carcass were distributed around the Holy Roman Empire. His front right foot and part of a shoulderblade were given to the mayor of Vienna, Sebastian Huetstocker; the bones were fashioned into a chair that currently resides at the Kremsmünster Abbey. The elephant's skin was stuffed and exhibited in Kaiserebersdorf until Maximillian, as Emperor, presented it as a gift to Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, in 1572. The stuffed pachyderm survived for centuries |
TS Pretoria | Post-war civil service | 17 January 1950 bound for Tobruk, Libya and Port Said, Egypt. She served as a troopship in the 1956 Suez Crisis: landing troops in Cyprus and evacuating troops from the Suez Canal Zone.
In April 1958, Empire Orwell was damaged during storms in the Atlantic Ocean. She was towed into Lisbon, Portugal by a German tug. There were complaints about conditions on board Empire Orwell when she was returning troops from the Far East to the United Kingdom in 1958. The issue was raised in Parliament by Horace King, MP. In reply, Alfred Barnes, the Minister of Transport, stated that complaints |
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