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Watts–Strogatz model | Properties & Average path length | Watts–Strogatz model Properties The underlying lattice structure of the model produces a locally clustered network, while the randomly rewired links dramatically reduce the average path lengths. The algorithm introduces about of such non-lattice edges. Varying makes it possible to interpolate between a regular lattic... |
William Ralph Cartwright | Family | a lieutenant general. These had respectively sons William Cornwallis Cartwright and Fairfax Cartwright who were both MPs. Cartwright's wife died in 1808 and he married again on 29 May 1810 to Julia Frances Aubrey, with whom he had five children including Henry Cartwright. |
Victor Deguise | Career & World War I | Victor Deguise Career Deguise entered the Belgian Army in 1874 as a lieutenant in the engineering corps. By 1888 he was appointed as professor of fortifications at the Military Academy of the Belgian Army. Between 1909 and 1911 he was the commander of the engineering units in Brussels. Between 1911 and 1914 he was a di... |
Thomas Stewart (civil engineer) | Life | Cradock waterworks. He designed the waterworks for Wynberg. In 1892, he began a private practice in Cape Town. His early projects included the design and construction of five reservoirs on Table Mountain. These were Woodhead, Hely-Hutchinson, Alexandra, Victoria, and De Villiers. He went on to build other reservoirs, w... |
West Cheshire Railway | Construction and early WCR operations & Route and stations | south from Mouldsworth to operate along the newly opened line to Chester Northgate (see below).
A six-mile (9.6 km) branch line was built from Cuddington Junction to Winsford & Over railway station, which opened to goods traffic on 1 June 1870 and to passenger trains on 1 July 1870. A further short but important one mi... |
Weed, California | Ethnic migration & Politics | has a much more ethnically diverse population than Siskiyou County as a whole. Netting the Hispanic or Latino population out of Census figures for white race, Weed's white population is 60.6 percent compared to Siskiyou County at 79.5 percent using the same metric. Politics The city council of Weed is composed of five ... |
WYSN | 2000s | a sports radio format.
In May 2003, Concord Media Group, Inc., agreed to sell this station to Mortenson Broadcasting through their Mortenson Broadcasting Company of West Virginia, LLC, holding company. The deal was approved by the FCC on November 12, 2003, and the transaction was consummated on January 30, 2004. The we... |
To the Dearest Intruder | Synopsis | leaving Yan Hao to pay off his father’s debt while also trying to establish his own company. Jia An stays by his side during this trying time, so Shao Qing feels she needs to be out of the picture. Ten years later, Yan Hao and Jia An are married and meet up with Shao Qing again at a school reunion. When Yan Hao sees Sh... |
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum | Contents | Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Contents SEG is a systematic collection of Greek inscriptions (which are presented with original critical apparatuses) and neutral summaries of new research into Greek inscriptions, which had been published in a certain year. There is some exception to this, as a small number of texts ... |
White Butte, Saskatchewan | History | town in 1907. Pilot Butte followed this path when it became a town in 1913. At the beginning of World War I, the towns were of substantial size. The war had a harmful effect on the towns, however, as Pilot Butte was disbanded in 1923 because of the loss of residents. Balgonie also suffered as the town's population plum... |
WAVY-TV | History | January 17, at which point the existing Nexstar stations and the former Media General outlets that neither group had to sell in order to rectify ownership conflicts in certain markets became part of the renamed Nexstar Media Group; this brought WAVY-TV and WVBT under common ownership with the Roanoke duopoly of Fox aff... |
Whale watching | Northwest Atlantic | for the whales to approach whale watching boats uninvited, particularly curious calves and juveniles: it is not unknown in particular, for example, for juvenile humpbacks to approach the boat and spyhop to get a better look at the humans aboard. In recent years it is also not uncommon to see these animals playing and f... |
Walter Czollek | Family | has achieved a certain notability as a lyricist and stage performer. |
Wahl (Noble family) | History | resided in Sweden and later their name was changed to "Duwall". His sons, the Royal Swedish Colonel Mauritz Duwall (1603–1655), and his half brother, the Swedish General Jacob Duwall (1589–1634), were promoted to the Swedish nobility in 1638 as Swedish Knights for their service in the Thirty Years' War. In 1674, Genera... |
Tobago United F.C. | History | Tobago United F.C. History Ensuring survival was the main ambition for the Trinidad and Tobago TT Pro League side Tobago United. Since they joined the league in 2003, Tobago United finished bottom in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. The club managed to avoid bottom place in 2009 with help from former Manchester U... |
Vide Noir | Themes and composition | canyons and way out to the darksome ocean,I started imagining Vide Noir as an epic odyssey through the city, across dimensions, and out into the cosmos. A journey along the spectrum of human experience. A search for meaning amidst the cold indifference of The Universe."
Schneider noted a slight change in sound for the ... |
Thompson Creek Metals | Projects | As part of the Terrane acquisition, Thompson Creek also acquired a copper, molybdenum and silver exploration property located in British Columbia, Canada (the Berg Property).
Berg Property — Located about 50 miles southwest of Houston, BC and 15 miles northwest of Huckleberry Mine, this project is continuously assesse... |
William Hamilton (Flint politician) | Political life | William Hamilton (Flint politician) Political life At the first Flint City elections in 1855, Hamilton was selected as Second Ward Assessor. From 1861-1863 for 2 terms, he was City Council Alderman from the 2nd ward. He was elected as the eighth mayor of the City of Flint in 1863 and again in 1864 serving two one-year ... |
West Cheshire Railway | Construction and early WCR operations | WCR commenced construction of its main 14.6 mile (23 km) line running west from the existing Cheshire Midland Railway at Northwich to join the Birkenhead Railway at Helsby Junction. On 15 August 1867, the WCR became a constituent of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC). Construction continued and the line from Northwich... |
University of Leicester | Engineering & Physics and Astronomy | professional institutions. The department also offers MSc courses. Physics and Astronomy The Department has around 350 undergraduate students, following either BSc (three-year) or MPhys (four-year) degree courses, and over 70 postgraduate students registered for a higher degree.
The main Physics building accommodates s... |
Where Is Freedom? | Plot | Where Is Freedom? Plot Difficulties and troubles of an ex-convict. Embittered and disillusioned by life, he will soon plan his return to prison. |
Vincenzo Lapuma | Biography | named Secretary of Sacred Congregation for Religious on 7 April 1925. As Secretary, he served as the second-highest official of that dicastery, successively under Cardinals Camillo Laurenti and Alexis Lépicier, OSM.
Pope Pius XI created him Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano in the consistory of 16 December 1935.... |
Trials HD | Development and marketing | the same series. It was released on August 12, 2009 as part of the second annual Xbox Live Summer of Arcade. RedLynx developed Trials HD using an in-house engine coupled with a modified version of Bullet Physics Library which was optimized to utilize the Xbox 360's CPU and vector units. RedLynx applied the physics syst... |
Valentim Fernandes | null | Valentim Fernandes Valentim Fernandes (died 1518 or 1519) was a printer who lived in Portugal. An ethnic German originally from Moravia, he moved to Lisbon, Portugal in 1495 where he lived and worked for 23 years, he was a writer and a translator of various classical texts. He printed on the orders of Leonor of Viseu a... |
Wadham College Boat Club | History | serve as a rowing base on the Isis.
This barge, moored on the most downstream part of Boathouse Island where Christ Church Boathouse is now located, was sold in 1973 when repairs became prohibitively expensive, and it later burned to the waterline and sank in 1983. A new boathouse was built in 1989, and is now shared ... |
Wahid Satay | Early life | and always making everyone on the set laughed, and thus decided to include him in Pontianak as a comedic role.
The role given to Wahid is the part of a satay seller (hence the stage name 'Wahid Satay', given by Cathay Keris Studios owner Loke Wan Tho) in a village where the people are afraid of Pontianak. Wahid so effe... |
William Kemmler | Early life | William Kemmler Early life William Kemmler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both of his parents were immigrants from Germany, and both were alcoholics. After dropping out of school at age 10, having learned neither how to read nor write, Kemmler worked in his father's butcher shop. His father would die from an i... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | USAFE in Spain | Morón near Sevilla in southern Spain, and Torrejón Air Base at Torrejón near Madrid.
The Spanish air bases were important for reinforcing USAFE via the southern Atlantic route. Aircraft that flew to Europe via Lajes Field in the Azores always made a refueling stop at Morón, and later at Torrejon as well. These bases al... |
William Knyvett (died 1515) | Life | William Knyvett (died 1515) Life Sir William married three times. The first was to Alice Grey, daughter of John Grey, Esq., of Kempston, eldest son of Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn by his second wife, Joan Astley; by whom he had issue. His second marriage was to Lady Joan Stafford, daughter of Humphrey Staffo... |
Weed, California | Ethnic migration | and Venice. Annually since 1954, the town has held the Weed Italian Carnevale in June or July, although recently dropping "Italian" from its name while maintaining the Italian spelling of carnival and the traditional bocce ball tournaments.
A large number of black-Americans migrated to Weed as well, to work in Long-Bel... |
William A. Chatfield | null | a lobbying firm with former Congressman Tom Kindness .
Chatfield attended Union College, majoring in political science and criminal justice, and continued studies at American University. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, with 35 years of active duty and reserve service. |
Vero Beach High School | History | school was becoming insufficient for housing all of the county's junior high schoolers, and was torn down to make way for a new, smaller school, Indian River Middle 8 - the present-day home of the Freshman Learning Center, and soon to become a middle school again, once all the renovations at Vero Beach High School are ... |
Ulugh Beg | Astronomy | Maragheh Observatory located in Maragheh, Iran. This is the observatory where the well-known astronomer Nasir al-Din al-Tusi practised.
In 1428, Ulugh Beg built an enormous observatory, called the Gurkhani Zij, similar to Tycho Brahe's later Uraniborg as well as Taqi al-Din's observatory in Constantinople. Lacking tele... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | USAF mobilization | had little effect on the three Berlin air corridors. The Soviet Union did not initially interfere with the cargo aircraft flying the Berlin Airlift, as they were convinced that supplying two million Berliners by air was an impossible task. In 1948, USAFE strength was limited. The command consisted of 485 aircraft, with... |
Wild Adriatic | Lock & Key and Big Suspicious (2012-2014) | Tick, the band was invited to open the main stage at 2013's Gathering of the Vibes festival. In September 2013, the band entered Edie Road Studios in Argyle, NY to record their debut full length.
A self-produced effort helmed by vocalist/guitarist Travis Gray, Big Suspicious was recorded and mixed in three weeks, assis... |
USS Manatee (AO-58) | World War II | steamed back to Leyte Gulf to fuel the amphibious forces gathering for the Okinawa campaign. On 28 March she began shuttling oil from Ulithi to the carrier groups operating in the Battle of Okinawa. She continued to work this supply line until the securing of the island on 21 June, 82 days after the initial landings. O... |
Wilfried Sanou | Freiburg | had agreed a two-year contract Sanou who would arrive on a free transfer. |
Wild Adriatic | Early years (to 2011) | Wild Adriatic Early years (to 2011) The genesis of Wild Adriatic came about in several parts. Initially, singer and guitarist Travis Gray and drummer Mateo Vosganian were both members of a high school age pop-punk group called Horse In A Box. After the band members graduated Queensbury High School in 2004, the members ... |
Wat Prayurawongsawat | History | coffee estate to build a royal temple. Hence the name "Prayurawongsawat" in his honour.
Wat Prayurawongsawat Worawihan is a "second class level" of royal temples.
The fair to celebrate temple's 190th anniversary was held in January 2018.
Moreover, at the Chao Phraya River in front of the temple during the Ayutthaya pe... |
Wheelchair | Seating systems | may also be required. |
What Goes On (Beatles song) | Recording & Reception and reviews | and was not commercially available until 1996 when an edited version of take 2 of this song was included on the Anthology 2 album. Reception and reviews Richie Unterberger, in AllMusic, says the song is an enjoyable, but lightweight, country & western-flavoured entry in The Beatles catalogue. Unterberger praises George... |
WWF Hasbro action figures | Unreleased prototypes | been found in the attic of a former Hasbro employee. Valentine himself has increased speculation on the whereabouts of the figure, giving conflicting reports as to where the prototype(s) may be in various interviews.
Other unreleased prototypes that have appeared in print include Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake in red and... |
Waterbed theory | null | everywhere at once, because the volume of the water remains a constant.
Waterbed theory has been cited as a significant part of the design philosophy of Perl 6. |
W. Robert Kohorst | Personal life | sons and two grandchildren. |
Unmanned aircraft in Singapore | Breaches of regulations & Opinions by industry players | National Day for flying a drone at Marina Barrage, which was marked within the Special Events Area. Unauthorised flying of unmanned aerial vehicles is not allowed for 24 hours on National Day. Opinions by industry players Experts highlight the risks of increasingly sophisticated drone technology being "accessible to th... |
Waris Jari Hantu | Plot & Production | Deeply traumatised by these insults, Ari continues to hide behind his close relationship with Tina. Despite parental objections, Tina seems destined to be the next in line as custodian of the mystical tiger. But Ari steps in, offering himself instead. Production Filming had been done in several locations namely Kuala L... |
University of Roehampton | Specialist facilities & Library | system; neuromuscular electrical stimulator; isometric strength testing devices; temperature logger and thermistors; various bike, running and rowing ergometers.
Sport and Exercise Psychology laboratories: facilities include standalone and mobile eye-tracking systems, electroencephalography systems, transcranial magne... |
We're No Bad Guys | Synopsis | We're No Bad Guys Synopsis Plane (Ekin Cheng), a troubled cop who hits the skids when his girlfriend Carrie (Gigi Leung) is killed by a stoic hitman named Angel (Alex Fong). One year later he finds himself saddled with new partner Turkey (Jordan Chan), an immature cop who is in love with up-and-coming idol singer Tinny... |
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? | Reviews | Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? Reviews Writing in Church History, Gregory T. Armstrong stated: "This book is 'must reading' for every historian regardless of her or his period of specialization. It demonstrates how a particular interpretation of an ancient site and particular readings of ancient documents became a str... |
Unmanned aircraft in Singapore | Breaches of regulations | warning by the police. He was believed to have been trying to take photographs of the NDP fireworks.
Between June 2015 and May 2017, the CAAS recorded 103 violations. Mr Tan Kah Han, senior director for safety regulation and director for airworthiness and flight operations at the CAAS, said that such incidents typicall... |
Wheelchair | Buildings & Vehicles | to providing personal service to access goods they are not otherwise able to reach. Vehicles Public transit vehicles are increasingly required to be accessible to people who use wheelchairs.
In the UK, all single deck buses are required to be accessible to wheelchair users by 2017, all double-deck coaches by 2020. Simi... |
Transport Legislation Amendment (Taxi Services Reform and Other Matters) Act 2011 | Commencement of the TSC as taxi regulator & Passage, assent and commencement | However, the Victorian Government has indicated that as designed these requirements will not come into operation until after the conclusion of the current Taxi Industry Inquiry. The legislation itself provides that unless triggered by proclamation to commence earlier, these changes will operate automatically on 1 July... |
Whale watching | Northeast Pacific –Mexico and United States | seen from shore on their annual migration (the best spot being Point Vicente), while blue whales are often seen between July and October. Fin whales, minke whales, orcas, and various species of dolphins can be seen year-round. In spring, summer, and fall at the Farallon Islands off San Francisco, one may see humpbacks,... |
Too big to fail | Inability to prosecute | the term "too big to jail" regarding the leaders of large financial institutions.
On March 6, 2013, United States Attorney General Eric Holder testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the size of large financial institutions has made it difficult for the Justice Department to bring criminal charges when they ar... |
Walter Pyramid | History & Name change | three true pyramid-style buildings in the United States, the others being Luxor Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada and Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Walter Pyramid rises 18 stories above the Long Beach skyline and its exterior is uniformly clad in sheets of dark-blue corrugated aluminum. Name change On March 5, ... |
Up (2009 film) | Accolades & Video games | at the 44th East West Players 44th Anniversary Visionary Awards and Silent Auction for his role as Russell by the East West Players. The organization also awarded the film with the EWP Visionary Award for its progressive casting of an Asian-American lead. Dug, the talking canine, was awarded the Palm Dog Award by the B... |
University of Leicester | Development & Organisation & Leicester Medical School | twice the size of the previous University Library, opened on 1 April 2008 and a new biomedical research building (the Henry Wellcome Building) has already been constructed. A complete revamp of the Percy Gee Student Union building was completed in September 2010, and another is underway, due for completion in spring 20... |
Sworn Enemy | Biography | Six Feet Under. They have also toured with Dying Fetus and Hatebreed.
In 2007, they were on the Trendkill Tour alongside Kataklysm, As Blood Runs Black, Too Pure To Die, and Suicide Silence.
They were asked by longtime friends, Earth Crisis, to be a part of their reunion tour.
On March 29, 2008 the music video for the ... |
Trygve Madsen | Career | of the optional pieces for Grade 8 pianists, and in 2009 The Dream of the Rhinoceros was used as an obligatory piece at a national horn competition in Poland. Aside from printed music, the composer has also had his work featured on thirty-six CDs, eight of which were solely dedicated to his work.
Madsen’s compositions ... |
Walter Pyramid | Non-university athletics | intention to move to Los Angeles for 2009.
The Walter Pyramid was also home to the Long Beach Stingrays, a women's professional basketball team of the now-defunct American Basketball League for a time in 1997 and 1998.
The Walter Pyramid also hosts the World Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships or, in Portuguese language,... |
West Manchester Town Center | Redevelopment | also being made, including increased visibility from US 30, an additional entrance, and a drive-through street to access the new stores. A demolition permit was filed and West Manchester Mall closed permanently in 2014 to prepare for the redevelopment.
In August 2014, Macy's announced that it would close its West Manch... |
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Tyler Clippard | Amateur career | two seasons, he transferred to J. W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida, where he played for the school's baseball team. As a junior, in 2002, he won six games. He was named to the All-Conference first team.
In 2003, his senior season, Clippard had a 1–1 record with an 0.81 ERA and 31 strikeouts in 17 ¹⁄... |
Villa rustica | null | Villa rustica Villa rustica (countryside villa) was the term used by the ancient Romans to denote a villa set in the open countryside, often as the hub of a large agricultural estate (latifundium). The adjective rusticum was used to distinguish it from an urban or resort villa, or villa otium built for purely leisure a... |
Willing Expedition | British raids & Aftermath | Willing and his militia occupied Natchez on February 19, 1778 and announced that a 5,000 strong militia under George Rogers Clark was following him down the river. He forced a committee of local landowners to pledge they would not take up arms against the army of the United States. Aftermath In response to Willing's r... |
Watershed (Bristol) | Film & Digital media | citing its wide-ranging, international programme. A 2002 poll for The Guardian rated the Watershed as Britain's fifth-most popular independent cinema. Digital media Watershed is more than just an arts cinema. It is at once a cultural centre, a business broker, a social networker, a research and innovation facility, a c... |
Szymon Buchbinder | Biography | able to find a position as a designer at the Vienna State Opera. Two years later, he enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, under the direction of Eduard von Engerth. He was there until 1878.
The following year, he moved to Kraków where he obtained a position in the studios of Jan Matejko at the Academy of Fine ... |
Wembley Wizards | Background | championship with Scotland.
The Scottish Football League XI had lost 6–2 to the Football League at Hampden on 10 March. An international trial match was played on the following Tuesday between the Anglos and Home Scots. The two sides for that game, a 1–1 draw on 13 March, were as follows:
Home Scots: Jack Harkness (Qu... |
Surface Hill Uniting Church | History | in perpetual reminder that work and worship go hand in hand." The relief labour went on to also construct a tennis court, lay paths and grade the church grounds. In the same year, the hall (the old church) was moved across the property and re-located to face Barter Street.
A new two storey hall was erected at the easte... |
William Richards (Hawaii) | Legal reform & Diplomat | should just annex the islands to counter the American domination of the government. Sir George instead favored Hawaiian independence, having seen the advantages of free trade in Canada. Diplomat April 8, 1842 Richards was appointed special envoy to U.S. and Great Britain with native Hawaiian Timothy Haʻalilio. Richards... |
UCSC Student Associations | History & Function | UCSC Student Associations History Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore hosts over 50 student organizations, covering a wide range of interests. The first corporation of UCSC was Ordo Monattorum, which was founded in 1922.
There are different religious associations like Communion and Liberation, Fuci and Unione Giuristi... |
Whale watching | West Pacific –East and Southeast Asia | Sound, Palawan. The Visayas is particularly known area for dolphin sightings, and is home to one of the larger populations of the Fraser's dolphin in the world. Dolphin species in the Visayas are attracted to fish lures and to commercial fishing operations. In the northernmost province of Batanes, at least 12 species o... |
WOKQ | History | WOKQ History WOKQ was put on the air in August 1970 by Eastminster Broadcasting Company under the call letters WDNH. Its country format was in place by 1972. Eastminster sold WDNH to Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting in 1977, at which point it became WOKQ. Fuller-Jeffrey was sold to Citadel Broadcasting in 1999. Citadel me... |
William Fowler (architect) | Life | William Fowler (architect) William Fowler (1 August 1824 – 3 February 1906) was a 19th-century Scottish architect closely linked to the northern town of Golspie and the surrounding area. Life He was born at 28 Jamaica Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town the son of George Fowler (1798-1862) a builder, and his wife Mar... |
University of Leicester | Other buildings & Development | on Salisbury Road and Regents Road are the Department of Education and the Fraser Noble Building.
On Lancaster Road there is the Attenborough Arts Centre, the University's arts centre.
Leicester's halls of residence are noteworthy: many of the halls (nearly all located in Oadby) date from the early 1900s and were the h... |
What Dreams May Come (1983 novel) | Main characters & Plot summary | which has been in his family for centuries. Ensley is a respected, if feared, figure in the community and makes significant contributions to the local parish although he does not regularly attend services.
Constance Bailey is a self-proclaimed white witch who works at the inn where Thunstone stays. Her benevolent acts ... |
William Watt (Australian politician) | State politics | government. When Murray resigned as Premier on 12 May, Watt succeeded him.
In December 1913 the rural faction, now led by Donald McLeod, moved a successful no-confidence motion in Watt's government, with Labor support. McLeod expected to become Premier, but instead the acting Governor, Sir John Madden, sent for the Lab... |
Wheelchair | History | and treatment they could never experience at home.
In 1933 Harry C. Jennings, Sr. and his disabled friend Herbert Everest, both mechanical engineers, invented the first lightweight, steel, folding, portable wheelchair. Everest had previously broken his back in a mining accident. Everest and Jennings saw the business po... |
Walter Howchin | Australia | Naturalists Society. Howchin held lecturing positions in mineralogy at the Adelaide School of Mines from 1899 to 1904, and geology and palaeontology at the University of Adelaide from 1902 to 1918, achieving the status of Honorary Professor in the latter year. Howchin retired in 1920, retaining his title of Honorary Pr... |
The Jordan Museum | Major artifacts | Jerusalem in circa 68 CE. It is written in a Mishnaic-style of Hebrew. |
WBZO | History | Long Island community and the loyal listeners of B103, including purchasing WALK-FM.
On May 15, 2015 WBZO rebranded as "103.1 Max FM". |
United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War | Report of Hans Blix on February 14 & Report of Blix on March 7 | have a nuclear weapons program, unlike what Powell had claimed.
This report of February 14 and the protests of February 16 appear to have created reluctance in some of the members of the Security Council over the proposed war on Iraq. A second resolution was being drafted with the intention that it would find Iraq in "... |
Suvarna Sahakari Bank | Background | against the Agashe family, after which a speedy merger was promised by Agashe. Initial non performing assets totaled Rs. 125 crore, 13% against the seven per cent maximum allowable under the RBI norms. After the non-performing assets of the bank grew to more than 43%, account holders and depositors held a day long toke... |
Valentine Ackland | Life | the grounds that she was a virgin. The doctor who performed the examination failed to spot that she was pregnant, due to an affair. Her husband had agreed to adopt the child but she had a miscarriage and she was determined to end the marriage.
She began wearing men's clothing, cut her hair in a short style called the E... |
The Secret Policeman's Ball | 1988 – Amnesty International Festival Of Youth | to follow just one week after the long-announced Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at England's 82,000 capacity Wembley Stadium. The Nelson Mandela concert had already lined up appearances by many of Amnesty's most prominent supporters in the music community – including Sting, Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, Phil Colli... |
Wild Winds Are Blowing | Critical reception | Guide to Rock, Peter Buckley described the song as an "excellent single". Giulio D'Agostino, in his book Glam Musik, described the song as an "excellent, rowdy single". |
The Wicker Man (film series) | The Wicker Man (1973) | planning a human sacrifice in the hopes that it will appease the gods and restore their crops. Believing that Rowan Morrison will be sacrificed, Howie strives to rescue her, only to discover that her supposed disappearance was just a ploy to lure him to the island. The pagans imprison Howie in a wicker man and set it a... |
William Colborne | Political career & Personal life | fourteen new members to the Council with Colborne amongst the appointees. He served for two years until the Council successfully voted for its abolishment, which took effect in March 1922. Personal life Colborne married Catherine Kelly at Ipswich in 1890 and together had six children. Catherine died in 1904 and in May ... |
Warlock (1989 film) | Production & Deleted scenes | the ability to conjure bolts of ectoplasm which he hurled at unsuspecting foes, but this proved problematic and had to be toned down since it could only be achieved through animation. Unfortunately, no one from Perpetual Motion was available to supervise on the set, so the crew had to shoot background plates and plot t... |
Willie Brigitte | Personal life | in 2001. He remains married to Melanie Brown. |
Wahid Satay | Early life & Career | than one million dollars, the highest amount then in 1957. Career Following his huge success in Pontianak, Wahid Satay was promoted from assistant painter to full-time actor with a three-year contract. Wahid was not only competent in the field of acting, but also singing. Besides his skills in front of the camera, Wahi... |
Valentim Fernandes | null | with different intellectuals and artists, some of them were Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymus Münzer and Mathias Ringmann (better known as Philesius Vogesigena who was a translator), particularly the last geographer who sent to Germany (which was part of the Holy Roman Empire) the news of the Portuguese discoveries. |
Vero Beach High School | Mu Alpha Theta | Indians retained their state championships in the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 seasons; outscoring their championship opponents 83 - 26. The baseball team made it to the "Elite Eight" in 1998, and the "Final Four" in 2003. In February 2016, the Vero Beach girls basketball team won the FHSAA Class 8A championship i... |
William Hoare | Life | William Hoare William Hoare of Bath RA (c. 1707 – 12 December 1792) was an English portraitist, painter and printmaker. From c. 1740 to 1759, he was the leading oil portraitist at Bath, Somerset, until the arrival in the town of Thomas Gainsborough. Noted for his pastels, he was a foundation member of the Royal Academy... |
WAVY-TV | WAVY Weather Station | used on other LIN-owned stations such as WISH-TV and WANE-TV. The name was changed to WAVY Weather Station in 2003.
The WAVY Weather Station was available over-the-air as a digital subchannel, but was pulled at the start of 2007, when a number of stations around the country pulled subchannels due to incoming E/I regula... |
Viraat | Reception | is more like the TV reality show The Bachelor". |
UFM100.3 | Post-media Merger | News, The Straits Times and The New Paper.
In 2006, UnionWorks was renamed as SPH UnionWorks after SPH increased its stake in the subsidiary to 70%. UFM 1003 was renamed as Radio 1003, while WKRZ 91.3 was rebranded as Radio 91.3 with a new format.
In November, SPH UnionWorks moved into the SPH Headquarters at News Cent... |
VK 4501 (P) | Design | development issues with the drive system. The two air-cooled V-10 engines designated Porsche Type 101, which were merged respectively with a Siemens-Schuckert 500 kVA generator, generated the necessary electric power to operate each of the two Siemens 230 kW (312.7 PS) individual-output electric motors. In this drive s... |
Toshiya Sugiuchi | Early life and high school career | Toshiya Sugiuchi Early life and high school career Suiguchi was born in Kasuga, a member of the so-called Matsuzaka Generation, and raised in Ōnojō, Fukuoka. He began playing baseball in the fourth grade for the Onojo Little League baseball club while attending Onojo Municipal Elementary School as an outfielder, being ... |
What Dreams May Come (1983 novel) | Background & Main characters | Worcester. Main characters John Thunstone is an American scholar and investigator of the paranormal. He has the imposing physical stature and square-jawed good looks of an archetypical literary hero. Although he suffers from no disability, he always carries a cane which was given to him by his good friend Judge Pursuiv... |
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