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Wind wave model | Output & Coupled models | description of the wave spectra, with amplitudes associated with each frequency and propagation direction. Results are typically summarized by the significant wave height, which is the average height of the one-third largest waves, and the period and propagation direction of the dominant wave. Coupled models Wind waves... |
Up (2009 film) | Release | Lighten Up!, a live show featuring Disney characters. Other tie-ins included children's books such as My Name is Dug, illustrated by screenwriter Ronnie del Carmen. Despite Pixar's track record, Target Corporation and Walmart stocked few Up items, while Pixar's regular collaborator Thinkway Toys did not produce merchan... |
Vitangelo Spadavecchia | Bari & Andria & Match fixing scandal | Vitangelo Spadavecchia Bari Spadavecchia joined Bari in mid-2000.
Spadavecchia joined Pescara on 25 August 2006. Andria In December 2009 Bari released Spadavecchia who played as a backup; he joined third tier club Andria in January 2010. Match fixing scandal On 11 October 2011 Spadavecchia was banned 3 years and 3 mont... |
Whale watching | Northwest Atlantic & Caribbean & Northern Indian Ocean | and Canada. Caribbean About 25 species are observed in the Caribbean waters such as Humpback whales, Sperm whales, beaked whales and many other small cetaceans. Principle whale watch activities : Dominican Republic, East Caribbean islands. Caribwhale, the Caribbean whale watch association, include operators engaged in ... |
Wind wave model | WAVEWATCH & WAM | weather model. Up to 2008, the model was limited to regions outside the surf zone where the waves are not strongly impacted by shallow depths.
The model can incorporate the effects of currents on waves from its early design by Hendrik Tolman in the 1990s, and is now extended for near shore applications. WAM The wave m... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | Iraq and Kuwait in the 1990s & Balkans operations | and 40,000 personnel had been deployed at some point during the operation. USAFE also sent aircraft and personnel to help man Operation Southern Watch, operating from Saudi Arabia under Central Command Air Forces. Balkans operations USAFE also provided air protection over the skies of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Operation De... |
VOLI | Overview | VOLI Overview The company was founded in 1995, and begun its operations with a single supermarket in Blok 5 neighbourhood of Podgorica. The company has been expanding its retail network ever since, and as of 2012, its food retail market share in Montenegro stands at around 25%.
Its retail network consists of 35 outlets... |
Wild Adriatic | Lock & Key and Big Suspicious (2012-2014) & Never Enough (2015) | highest charting self-released album on the charts at that time.
Touring in support of the album, the band managed to play 176 shows in 2014, including slots at moe.down 2014 and 6 unofficial shows at SXSW. The groups very first European tour took place over 5 weeks in November and December 2014, landing the band rave ... |
Unified communications | History | communications arose in the mid-1990s, when messaging and real-time communications began to combine. In 1993, ThinkRite (VoiceRite) developed the unified messaging system, POET, for IBM's internal use. It was installed in 55 IBM US Branch Offices for 54,000 employees and integrated with IBM OfficeVision/VM (PROFS) and ... |
Up (2009 film) | Music | Theme", which starts out as a celebratory theme, and echoes through the film when Muntz reappears 70 years later. "Ellie's Theme" is first heard when she is introduced as a little kid and plays several times during the film in different versions; for instance, during the sequence where Carl lifts his house with the bal... |
Wayne Horowitz | Activities & Publications | law code of Hammurabi. (From a website showing Copyright 2008 - 2011 AFHU ) Publications His published works based on Sumerian and Akkadian texts written in cuneiform, these containing writings which in some way consider the structure of the Cosmos, are considered authoritative. |
Vinicius para Crianças - Arca de Noé | Production | Vinicius para Crianças - Arca de Noé Production The set designer Federico Padilla created ample spaces, set up at the Teatro Fênix, in the Jardim Botânico neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, allowing a great movement of musicians and actors on stage.
The stage set also made use of some effects, such as chromakey - a featu... |
Voreifel Railway | Opening of the line & Development since the rail reform | day. Services on the line were threatened with more cuts in the short term and with closure in the medium term. In 1979, the service was temporarily intensified significantly to provide trains every half-hour during the daytime on week days and hourly on weekends. As a result, passenger numbers rose significantly. Deve... |
The End of Man | Plot | replies: "Finis Hominis".
He saves the life of an adulteress and that of a young girl while gaining more followers all over the country as huge crowds follow him through the streets. He soon gains a messiah status after appearing to resurrect a dead man who actually was suffering a temporary nervous catalepsy. Nuns an... |
Western Institute | History & Mission & Criticism | Western Institute History The Western Institute was founded in 1944 and became the flagship of the Polish Research of the West. Mission The mission of the Institute is to conduct research projects within fields of political science, sociology, history, economics and law-especially focusing on Polish-German issues as we... |
Too big to fail | Depository banks | a large number of depositors withdraw their deposits at the same time. Since banks lend most of the deposits and only retain a fraction in the proverbial vault, a bank run can render the bank insolvent. During the Depression, hundreds of banks became insolvent and depositors lost their money. As a result, the U.S. enac... |
V12 engine | Early aero engines | degree air-cooled engine with individual finned cylinders and F-head valve arrangement, driven by single camshaft in the crankcase. This was developed to a 12.2 L (740 cu in) unit (96 x 140 mm) which weighed 350 kg (770 lb) and produced 138 bhp (103 kW) at 1,800 rpm. The propeller was driven from the nose of the camsha... |
Unreasonable search and seizure in New Zealand | Search and Surveillance Act 2012 | Unreasonable search and seizure in New Zealand Search and Surveillance Act 2012 While the NZBORA 1990 establishes the overall right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 provides the statutory framework for the practical application of the law in this area in New Zealand. ... |
William Watt (Australian politician) | Federal politics | of the way was aggravated by Hughes's habit of communicating directly with the British government over the head of Watt, who was supposedly his representative. Watt was appointed Australia's representative at the Spa Conference on War reparations, but when Hughes cabled that Watt was not to agree to anything without co... |
Wilsford, Lincolnshire | Geography & Heritage | Wilsford, Lincolnshire Geography Wilsford is geographically 4 miles (6.4 km) west-south-west of Sleaford, and 7 miles (11 km) north-east of Grantham. According to the 2011 Census the village had a population of 400. Some 9 ha of the north-eastern part of the village, along Main Street, form a mainly residential conserv... |
V12 engine | Marine engines & Motor car engines | (127 mm × 254 mm)) engines with four-valve cylinder heads the V12 was well established in motor boat racing. Motor car engines In October 1913, Louis Coatalen, chief engineer of the Sunbeam Motor Car Company entered a V12 powered car in the Brooklands short and long handicap races. The engine displaced 9 L (550 cu in),... |
Will Rawls | Collaboration | Pub, and to Kanye West's "Bad News" track from 808 and Heartbreaks, a work at the Ise Cultural Foundation as part of "In Pursuit: Art on Dating," and others. |
Voreifel Railway | Development since the rail reform | numbers soared. In 1996, the new Meckenheim Industriepark station opened.
The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (Rhine-Sieg Transport Association, VRS) in 1996 called for tenders to operate diesel services on the Voreifel Railway, Eifel Railway and the Oberbergische Bahn (Upper Bergian Railway) service from Cologne to Marienh... |
Vladimir Artemyev | Honours and awards | Vladimir Artemyev Vladimir Andreyevich Artemyev (Russian: Владимир Андреевич Артемьев) (July 6 [O.S. June 24] 1885 in Saint Petersburg - September 11, 1962 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian rocket scientist at the Gas Dynamics Laboratory. He was one of the inventors of the Katyusha. The first rocket propelled by smokeles... |
Wilsford, Lincolnshire | Heritage | + ford (Old English), so 'Wifel's ford'. It appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as Wivelesforde.
The earliest archaeological evidence of Wilsford consists of Bronze Age and Iron Age artefacts. There are some Romano-British building remains and possibly a cemetery with seven stone coffins to the north of the village... |
Williams Air Force Base | F-5 Freedom Fighter & Skoshi Tiger Program | first overseas order for F-5As was from Norway, which ordered 64 aircraft plus four attrition replacements on 28 February 1964. Other nations whose pilots trained at Williams were South Vietnam, Iran, South Korea, Greece, Philippines, Taiwan, Turkey, Morocco, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Libya, Joran and Yemen. Skoshi Tiger Pr... |
Wendy Maruyama | WildLife Project | attention to the wrongful slaughter of elephants and rhinoceroses for the harvest of their tusks for the $10 billion annual ivory industry. Maruyama places special interest on the unique social nature of elephants and their similarities to humans.
The series was started while Maruyama was a resident artist at the Pilch... |
Windsor-2 Vermont Representative District, 2002–12 | null | 2000 census, the state as a whole had a population of 608,827. As there are a total of 150 representatives, there were 4,059 residents per representative (or 8,118 residents per two representatives). The one member Windsor-2 District had a population of 4,258 in that same census, 4.9% above the state average. |
Thomas McNaughton | flour + water & central kitchen | restaurants of the year. Since its opening, the restaurant has received multiple accolades in a number of publications, both local and national, including 7x7 (magazine), The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Food and Wine, Travel + Leisure and others. central kitchen After the success o... |
The West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project | Overview | Frazier, headlined, “Help us find our Rosies.”
By January, 2011, 150 women, mostly West Virginians, had approached “Thanks!” to tell their stories of leaving low-population areas to work in defense jobs, usually in major cities throughout America, and to do highest quality work. Seeing that many “Rosies” wanted to part... |
William Richards (Hawaii) | Missionary | was released. Buckle pointed out that the woman named Leoiki had come willingly, and they were now officially married. There were precedents at the time for English of high rank and Americans to marry Hawaiian noble women. For example, the respected John Young had taken a Hawaiian bride much earlier.
In 1828, Maui isla... |
United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War | Report of Hans Blix on February 14 | Council. Blix gave an update of the situation in Iraq, and he stated that the Iraqis were now more proactive in their cooperation. He also rebutted some of the arguments proposed by Powell. Blix questioned the interpretations of the satellite images put forward by Powell, and stated that alternate interpretations of th... |
William Gaines | 1960 - 1992 | would eventually visit six of the world's continents.
Despite his largesse, Gaines had a penny-pinching side. He would frequently stop meetings to find out who had called a particular long-distance phone number. Longtime Mad editor Nick Meglin called Gaines a "living contradiction" in 2011, saying, "He was singularly ... |
Weather lore | Where weather happens | Weather lore Where weather happens It is in Earth's middle latitudes, between roughly 30° to 60° North and South, that a significant portion of "weather" can be said to happen, that is, where meteorological phenomena do not persist over the long term, and where it may be warm, sunny, and calm one day, and cold, overcas... |
United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families | Background and activities & Committee activities of 1991 | of a committee on children, youth, and families in order that the issues facing these individuals would be more adequately recognized and addressed. Committee activities of 1991 In 1991, the Committee held 11 hearings regarding the needs of children, youth, and families. There were many individuals who gave testimony ... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | USAFE in Spain | received regular visits from Lockheed F-104C Starfighters of the 479th TFW from George AFB, California. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a squadron of F-104Cs was stationed at Morón. Concern at the height of the crisis led to these aircraft being transferred to Hahn Air Base in West Germany, where they strengthened the... |
Transylvania (series) | Transylvania | witch, and an alien spaceship. The game has a time limit (dictated to the player by a note encountered early on that reads, "Sabrina dies at dawn"), as the Princess is trapped in a coffin in the castle tower. The game's usage of hand-drawn graphics were part of a trend where once entirely text adventure games started... |
Virtual community | Howard Rheingold's study & Advantages of Internet communities | frictions in offline and online communities and groups and in personal contacts. (Wellman & Haythornthwaite, 2002). Recently, Mitch Parsell (2008) has suggested that virtual communities, particularly those that leverage Web 2.0 resources, can be pernicious by leading to attitude polarization, increased prejudices and e... |
Weed, California | 2010 & 2000 | and 1,545 people (52.1 percent) lived in rental housing units. 2000 As of the census of 2000, there were 2,978 people, 1,184 households, and 747 families residing in the city. The population density was 613.4 people per square mile (237.1 km²). There were 1,293 housing units at an average density of 266.3 per square m... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | Balkans operations & Afghanistan and Iraq | continues to contribute to NATO-led forces promoting peace and stability in Kosovo. Afghanistan and Iraq During the War in Afghanistan, USAFE has supported an air bridge from Europe to Asia that delivered 3,300 tons of humanitarian daily rations to northern Afghanistan, opened the Manus base in Kyrgyzstan, and establis... |
William P. Sommers | Education & Career | William P. Sommers Education Sommers was born in Detroit in 1933. He held a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science in Engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering and aeronautical engineering, all from the University of Michigan. Sommers donated a significant amount to his alma mater. Career Sommers worked at Booz Allen H... |
Verbena bonariensis | Cultivation | long internodes give it a sparse appearance but allow it to intermingle and coexist with other plants. The flowers which appear in mid- to late summer, are very attractive to butterflies, and provide nectar for native bees and many beneficial garden insects.
This species grows best in a well-drained soil. It prefers f... |
Wilsford, Lincolnshire | Transport | a level crossing close to the east. The nearest station is at Ancaster (1.8 miles, 2.9 km), which has a six-day-a-week daytime service of three to five trains a day.
The A153 used to go through the village along Main Street before it was bypassed in the 1930s. |
Up (2009 film) | Development | nature in spite of his grumpiness derives from the elderly "hav[ing] this charm and almost this 'old man license' to say things that other people couldn't get away with ... It's like how we would go to eat with Joe Grant and he would call the waitresses 'honey'. I wish I could call a waitress 'honey'."
Docter revealed ... |
Wheelchair | All-terrain wheelchairs | have been developed. One hybridises wheelchair and mountain bike technology, generally taking the form of a frame within which the user sits and with four mountain bike wheels at the corners. In general there are no push-rims and propulsion/braking is by pushing directly on the tyres.
A more common variant is the beach... |
White Butte, Saskatchewan | History & White City | status in 1963 and grew substantially, becoming a town in 1979.
By this point, the community of White City had been formed and was growing as quickly as Pilot Butte and Balgonie. White City acquired town status in 2000 and it passed Pilot Butte in population in 2011, becoming the largest town in White Butte.
All three ... |
WCLT (AM) | History | WCLT (AM) History On January 11, 2017, at 12:00 p.m., WCLT changed their format from sports to adult contemporary, branded as "Kate 98.7". |
West Manchester Town Center | History & Redevelopment | year, Bon-Ton announced that its West Manchester store would close in January. Redevelopment Many shoppers believed the mostly-empty mall greatly needed to be revamped. In September 2012, the Texas-based M&R Investors purchased the West Manchester Mall for approximately $17.5 million. The group planned a $47 million re... |
Wild Coast Region, Eastern Cape | Tourism | coastal village of Cintsa is also a popular tourist destination.
Other popular tourist towns and villages along the Wild Coast include Port St Johns, Coffee Bay, Hole-in-the-Wall, Qolora Mouth, Kei Mouth, Morgan Bay, and Haga Haga. |
Up All Night (TV series) | Conception & Crew | movie Bridesmaids, Up All Night went through some retooling which now has her character Ava, as a talk-show host, and Reagan now as the show's producer, instead of them being PR executives. Spivey said the character change allowed Ava to be more fun. Some media critics compared the character change to Rudolph's imperso... |
William S. Schwartz | Biography | of his works.
He became a well-known figure in Chicago, mostly due to his memorable handlebar mustache and eccentric persona. He was also one of a group of prominent Chicago artists—including Ivan Albright, Malvin Albright, and Aaron Bohrod—that hung out at Riccardo's Restaurant and Gallery during the 1940s and 1950s. ... |
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? | Reviews & Cites | book for "its provocative assertions." Cites Géza Vermes, wrote in his An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (2000), that Golb is responsible for "another forceful attack on the common view," an attack which Golb has furthered in several papers since 1980, and which culminated in his book. Vermes asserts tha... |
The DeZurik Sisters | Background | returned to WLS in Chicago. By 1951, after a stint at Cincinnati's WLW-AM and WLW-TV, Lorraine had retired and Carolyn had joined the Ramblers as their new female vocalist, filling a decade-long vacancy created by the absence of trick yodeller Patsy Montana. Carolyn and Rusty moved back to Chicago, where they began app... |
WickFest | History | WickFest The Canadian Tire Wickenheiser World Female Hockey Festival, or WickFest is an annual festival showcasing women and girls hockey. It was started by Canadian Olympic Gold Medalist Hayley Wickenheiser. History The first WickFest was held in 2010 in Burnaby, British Columbia, following the 2010 Winter Olympics in... |
Valley View, Ohio | 2010 census | of the population.
There were 758 households of which 30.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.6% were married couples living together, 7.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 23.1% were non-families. 19.5% of all households were ma... |
Veterans Health Administration | History | (VA) in 1930 to consolidate all veteran services. General Omar N. Bradley was appointed to VA administrator and Bradley appointed Major General Paul Hawley as director of VA medicine, both in 1945. Hawley successfully established a policy that affiliated new VA hospitals with medical schools. Hawley also promoted resi... |
Valentine Ackland | Life | during the 1920s to the 1940s, but Ackland deeply regretted that she never became a noted and widely read poet. In this regard, much of her poetry was published posthumously, and she received little attention from critics until a revival of interest in her work in the 1970s.
In 1930, Ackland was introduced to the short... |
Winged Assassin | Plot | longer under Mysteron control and effectively "indestructible" – returns to duty to help lead the operation. Scarlet and Captain Blue (voiced by Ed Bishop) fly from Cloudbase to London accompanied by the Angel fighter squadron.
Meanwhile, the Mysterons use their powers to trigger a systems failure on board an airliner,... |
Up (2009 film) | Animation | Russell as an Asian-American, and modeled Russell after similar looking Peter Sohn, a Pixar storyboarder who voiced Emile in Ratatouille and directed the short Partly Cloudy, because of his energetic nature.
While Pixar usually designs their characters to be caricatured, Carl was even more so, being only at least three... |
Toshiya Sugiuchi | Early life and high school career | Jitsugyo's first game of the 80th National High School Baseball Championship against Hachinohe Institute of Technology First High School. His success was short-lived, however, as Kagoshima Jitsugyo matched up with powerhouse Yokohama Senior High School (the East Kanagawa champions) in the second round. Yokohama Senior ... |
William Hoare | Works | Works Hoare's oil painting Dr Oliver and Mr Pierce examining patients with Paralysis, Rheumatism and Leprosy hung prominently at the Royal Mineral Water Hospital until 2019, when it was transferred to a new building at Bath's Royal United Hospital site. |
WOKQ | History | controlled by Oaktree Capital Management. The sale to Townsquare was completed on November 14, 2013. |
Western Australian Development Corporation | Origin of concept & David Jones site | the purpose of attracting major inflows of capital to Western Australia and developing the Western Australia-based finance market". On the day after the 1983 state election, the incoming premier Brian Burke met with Laurie Connell, who was to become a regular financial adviser, and others, to whom he announced that he ... |
William Brodie Gurney | Religious & philanthropic interests & Works | came to reside with him. The house was then licensed as a place of worship, and during four years Carey and other ministers held Sunday evening services in the drawing-room. In March 1803 he married Miss Benham, who died at Muswell Hill in 1830.
Gurney died at Denmark Hill on 25 March 1855, and was buried in the family... |
Wheelchair | Buildings | on different floors, and by providing accessible bathrooms with showers and/or bathtubs that are designed for accessibility. Accessible bathrooms can permit the use of mobile shower chairs or transfer benches to facilitate bathing for people with disabilities. Wet rooms are bathrooms where the shower floor and bathroom... |
The Perfect Pumpkin Pie | Plot & Reception | he eats the third one and then goes underground... He comes back above the ground when he smells apple pie. Reception A Publishers Weekly review says, "He rejects the first, but three's the charm, and the fellow goes back underground--until an apple pie scent wafts his way. Playful type and a mix of full-spread composi... |
Wingman Project | Project goal | journals. The Wingman's Ask, Care, Escort (ACE) variation is not the same in curriculum, training requirements, or protocol. |
Tropaeolum tuberosum | Cultivation as an ornamental & Medicinal properties | lineamaculatum 'Ken Aslet' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Medicinal properties Mashua has putative anaphrodisiac effects. It has been recorded by the Spanish chronicler Cobo that mashua was fed to their armies by the Inca Emperors, "that they should forget their wives". Studies of... |
Wind wave model | Input & Representation | icebergs, and all operational global wave models take at least the sea ice into account. Representation The sea state is described as a spectrum; the sea surface can be decomposed into waves of varying frequencies using the principle of superposition. The waves are also separated by their direction of propagation. The ... |
Wheelchair | Powered wheelchairs | surfaces. An outdoor chair is more capable, but will still have a very restricted ability to deal with rough terrain. A very few specialist designs offer a true cross-country capability.
Powerchairs have access to the full range of wheelchair options, including ones which are difficult to provide in an unpowered manual... |
Wind wave model | Historical overview | ocean, the term ocean surface wave model is used.
Other applications, in particular coastal engineering, have led to the developments of wind wave models specifically designed for coastal applications. Historical overview Early forecasts of the sea state were created manually based upon empirical relationships between ... |
Vero Beach High School | Mu Alpha Theta & Bomb Threats | the first time in the soccer program's history and went on to the "Final Four" in the state championship. Bomb Threats In April 2009, two students were charged for making multiple false bomb threats to the school. After each threat, students had to leave their classrooms as investigators searched the school for explosi... |
Weed, California | Politics & In popular culture | Mayor Pro Tem.
In the state legislature Weed is in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican Brian Dahle, and the 1st Assembly District, represented by (vacant).
Federally, Weed is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa.
In Siskiyou County Supervisoral District 3,... |
Vivian Beynon Harris | Early life | in a number of hotels as he and his brother attended boarding schools. He wrote of his upbringing, 'We loved our mother and each other and we were as close as it is possible for a family to be.' Later, the two boys both attended Bedales School in Hampshire. Harris and his brother remained very close for the rest of the... |
Tumen River | Noktundo & Illegal crossings | Tumen River Noktundo Noktundo, a former island (now effectively a peninsula) at the mouth of the Tumen, has been a boundary contention between Russia and North Korea. The Qing Dynasty ceded the island to Russia as part of the Primorsky Maritimes (East Tartary) in the 1860 Treaty of Peking. In 1990, the former Soviet Un... |
Veterans Health Administration | Vet Centers & VA travel reimbursement | issues. Vet Centers are staffed with small multidisciplinary teams some of whom are combat veterans themselves. VA travel reimbursement Veterans may be eligible for mileage reimbursement or special mode transport in association with obtaining VA health care services if the veteran has a service-connected rating of 30 p... |
V12 engine | Heavy trucks | four exhaust manifolds. Fifty-six major parts are interchangeable between the Twin-Six and all other GMC V6 engines to provide greater parts availability and standardization. Its engine displacement was 702 cu in (11.50 L), and while power was not too impressive at 250 hp (190 kW), torque was 585 lb⋅ft (793 N⋅m). For f... |
Whale watching | Greenland & Russia & Iceland | been controversy over who is allowed to participate in hunts and consume the meat. Russia Russian whale watching involves orcas off the Kamchatka peninsula on the edge of the Sea of Okhotsk.
Beluga are hunted in the Sea of Okhotsk as well as farther north. Erich Hoyt of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has id... |
Where Sinners Meet | Plot | Where Sinners Meet Plot Leonard and Anne drive along the lovers' road to Dover, intending to embark for Calais and go to Paris. The car breaks down and Saunders takes them to a nearby hotel, which turns out to be a residence with servants, owned by a Mr. Latimer. They are told they cannot leave for seven days so that t... |
Volkoff Industries | Sofia Stepanova & Dr. Stanley Wheelwright | a means of moving an experimental smart bullet design. They managed to recover the bullets, but Sofia had already removed the control chips, hiding them in the sequins of her dress. Sofia was finally captured when Chuck and Sarah discovered the ruse, and was defeated by Sarah in a brutal (and public) fight on the catwa... |
Williams Air Force Base | World War II | where cadets received instruction on the AT-6 Texan. Graduates advanced to the twin-engine AT-9, then on to the RP-322. This training was intended to prepare pilots for photo-reconnaissance missions. Another course was given to experienced pilots who were transitioning to twin-engine aircraft, also in the RP-322. Later... |
Waldemar Kaempffert | Career | 1927. During the 1920s, he also wrote free-lance magazine articles. in a June 1924 essay for Forum magazine, "The Social Destiny of Radio," he addressed a non-technical audience, discussing where radio had been and how it was changing American life.
In 1928, following a nationwide search for a director, the Museum of S... |
Wendy Maruyama | Background | Wendy Maruyama Background Maruyama is a third generation Japanese-American living in San Diego. She was born deaf in both ears and has worn a hearing aid since nine years old. She studied woodworking at San Diego State University, where she received her BA in 1975. She then studied woodworking at the Virginia Commonwea... |
Williams Air Force Base | Skoshi Tiger Program & F-5E/F Tiger II | Vietnamese crews left for Williams AFB for training in August 1966.
The 4441st CCTS was transferred to Tactical Air Command and re-designated as the 425th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron on 15 October 1969. It was placed under the 58th Tactical Fighter Training Wing at Luke AFB, Arizona, although the squadron physi... |
Trent Richardson | Birmingham Iron & Personal life | rushing duties. Richardson caught his first touchdown in a week 6 victory against the San Diego Fleet, and has scored at least one rushing touchdown in each game through eight weeks, including what would have been a playoff clinching game in week 8 against the Atlanta Legends. However, the AAF ceased football operation... |
Whale watching | Southeast Pacific –Chile and Peru & Southwest Pacific – New Zealand and Australia | for blue whales [...] in the entire Southern Hemisphere". All of this makes Guaitecas Archipelago a privilidged place for whale watching. In the localities of Piñihuil, Quellón and Melinka local fishermen offer whale watching tours. Southwest Pacific – New Zealand and Australia Kaikoura in New Zealand is a world-famous... |
William Richards (Hawaii) | Death and legacy | law professor at Harvard Law School.
In 1850 a street in downtown Honolulu was named for him at 21°18′25″N 157°51′36″W.
A namesake was William Richards Castle (1849–1935). |
Wind wave model | Historical overview | at the Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center.
First generation wave models did not consider nonlinear wave interactions. Second generation models, available by the early 1980s, parameterized these interactions. They included the “coupled hybrid” and “coupled discrete” formulations. Third generation models explicitly r... |
Too big to fail | Resolution authority | U.S. federal bank regulators had essentially two options for resolving an insolvent institution: 1) closure, with liquidation of assets and payouts for insured depositors; or 2) purchase and assumption, encouraging the acquisition of assets and assumption of liabilities by another firm. A third option was made availabl... |
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey | Governor of Victoria | He returned to the United Kingdom in March 1900, by way of Colombo.
Brassey is remembered in Australia's national capital, Canberra, with Brassey House, now a hotel (originally a guest house) in the inner suburb of Barton, Australian Capital Territory, completed in 1927 to coincide with the relocation of the Federal Pa... |
Warlock (1989 film) | Production | of makeups to progressively age Singer had been designed, tested and approved. However, on the day of her transformation into a 40-year-old, Singer refused to wear any prosthetics, forcing the makeup men to resort to stippling, shadowing and having the actress don a gray wig. For her 60-year-old incarnation, she agre... |
Vietnam's Red Data Book | null | Vietnam's Red Data Book Vietnam's Red Data Book (Vietnamese: Sách đỏ Việt Nam) is a list of rare and endangered species of fauna and flora native to Vietnam. This is the important legal basis for relating governmental regulations for the protection of biodiversity and wildlife in Vietnam. Criteria for this book are set... |
William Hoare | Life | further publicised by the production of mezzotints by leading engravers of the day. Hoare himself was a delicate etcher and published a number of private plates, mostly of family and friends, including a Miss Hoare (probably Mary), Christopher Anstey and the 3rd Duke of Beaufort. His pastels were influenced by Rosalba ... |
Virtual community | Virtual worlds | other characters in the 3-D virtual world. It is similar to a computer game, however there is no objective for the players. A virtual world simply gives users the opportunity to build and operate a fantasy life in the virtual realm. Characters within the world can talk to one another and have almost the same interactio... |
Victor Pinchuk | Yalta European Strategy | meeting in Yalta is a Ukraine-EU forum for debate and policy recommendations development. Since the Crimean Crisis of 2014 these meetings have been taking place in Kiev. In September 2013, Pinchuk and Tony Blair introduced Hillary Clinton's keynote address to the conference at Livadia Palace, with Bill Clinton in atten... |
Wembley Wizards | Background | but also less physically powerful. Of the forward line of Alex Jackson, James Dunn, Gallacher, Alex James and Alan Morton, Jackson was the tallest at just 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m).
Nonetheless, there was still great excitement in Scotland ahead of the game, with 11 special trainloads of supporters travelling from Glasgow to ... |
Wim Delvoye | Art Farm & Gothic works | that “the pig would literally grow in value," both in a physical and economic sense. He ultimately moved the operation to an Art Farm in China in 2004. The pigs have been inked with a diverse array of designs, including the trivial, such as skulls and crosses, to Louis Vuitton designs, to designs dictated by the pig's ... |
William Day (horseman) | Training career | According to one version of events, William and John Sr. came to an arrangement whereby Lord of the Isles would be allowed to win the 2000 Guineas, but would not be trained seriously for the Derby, while the reverse would apply to St Hubert. Lord of the Isles duly gave Day his first classic winner in the Guineas, but w... |
Wireline QA/QC | Log Quality Control (LQC) Digitalization | in a format that enables quality QA/AC. |
Williams Air Force Base | Skoshi Tiger Program | USAF, and the DoD turned down a second request for F-5s, deciding instead to look at other types such as the Navy A-7 Corsair II. The surviving F-5s were turned over to the South Vietnamese in March 1966.
After the Skoshi Tiger program, substantial numbers of Freedom Fighters were supplied to the Republic of Vietnam A... |
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