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Wreath | Maypole wreath | festivities, culminating in a race by young unmarried men to climb to the top of the Maypole to capture the May Day wreath perched at the top of the pole. The winner of this contest would wear the wreath as his crown, and would be recognized as the May Day King for the rest of the holiday. Plants traditionally used to... |
Volkoff Industries | Dr. Stanley Wheelwright & Yuri the Gobbler | opening the store by putting him in the "Aisle of Terror" (a Halloween attraction based on experiments by a UCLA colleague, Professor Schofield, whom Wheelwright resents). The plan backfires when he is driven mad by the imagery. Wheelwright hands over the antitoxin and is taken into custody. First seen in: Chuck Versus... |
Youth Studies Australia | null | directly with young people, ‘Peak news’ – updates on the activities of Australia’s state and national youth peak organisations, ‘Youth matters’ – items chosen from our news services for their relevance to research contained in the journal, book reviews and updates on Australian Government initiatives in the youth field... |
Wadham College Boat Club | Membership & Coaching & Equipment | of the boat club, and also to persons who have had a large involvement in the running of the club.
The club is run by a committee of 13 officers elected annually from amongst the members of the club. Coaching Rod Andrews has coached Wadham for over 30 years. He currently is the head coach for both men's and women's squ... |
Volcanic gas | Magmatic gases and high-temperature volcanic gases | in the magma decreases further causing more gas to exsolve. Depending on the viscosity of the magma, the bubbles may start to rise through the magma and coalesce, or they remain relatively fixed in place until they begin to connect and form a continuously connected network. In the former case, the bubbles may rise thro... |
West Donegal Railway | History | West Donegal Railway History The Finn Valley Railway had reached Stranorlar in 1863. The West Donegal Railway Company was incorporated by an act of July 1879 to extend the Finn Valley Railway line south west to Donegal, a distance of 18 miles in length.
Although nominally a separate company, the chairman was James Hewi... |
Zhuo Commandery | Sui and Tang dynasties | the You Prefecture (幽州). It administered 9 counties, and the population in 742 was 371,312, in 67,243 households. The seat was Ji (present-day Beijing). |
Whale watching | Northeast Atlantic & Northwest Atlantic | whales in Eyjafjörður, Breiðafjörður, Skjálfandi and Faxaflói. The towns offering whale watching are Dalvík, Hauganes, Húsavík, Akureyri, Hólmavík, Grundarfjörður and Reykjavík. Most common are the minke, humpback, blue, killer, and sperm whale, as well as the white-beaked dolphin, and the harbour porpoise. Northwest A... |
Winterbourne, Gloucestershire | Schools & Sport and leisure | was founded in 1813 by the abolitionists and educational reformers, Hannah More and William Wilberforce. The original school was located upstairs in the George and Dragon pub. Larger rooms were then provided in Bourne House, where the school remained until a permanent building was erected on the High Street. St Michael... |
What Goes On (Beatles song) | Composition & Recording | eight in the song, though one chorus and one verse are extended; Ian MacDonald believes those longer sections were written by McCartney. Starr contributed to the lyrics, his first-ever composing credit on a Beatles song. However, when asked what his contribution was to the song, Starr jokingly stated, "About five words... |
Yuri Chinen | Career | press release made by Johnny and Associates revealed that Chinen and Yamada would become members of a second Johnny's unit, NYC. They worked as a member of both Hey! Say! JUMP and NYC, which is a rarity in their talent agency. Ryo Nishikido (and formerly Uchi Hiroki) is the only such case of a Johnny's talent officiall... |
Workshop | null | Workshop Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Workshops were the only places of production until the advent of industrialization and the de... |
William N. Deramus IV | null | William N. Deramus IV William N. Deramus IV (born April 15, 1944) was the fourteenth president of Kansas City Southern Railway. |
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? | Reviews | documents stashed away in the Judaean wilderness"
A seminar on the Scrolls dated July 14, 2000, hosted by Australia's ABC Radio National's host Rachael Kohn with Dead Sea Scrolls scholars Geza Vermes, Lawrence Schiffman and Emanuel Tov, refers to this book as "An important dissenting opinion: Golb refuses to accept the... |
Yangchun | History | Yangchun History Under the Qing, Yangchun County made up part of the commandery of Zhaoqing. |
Črna pri Kamniku | Churches | as the scenes are set in real landscapes and much detail is given to clothes and expressions. A smaller, single nave, Gothic church, dedicated to Saint Peter, stands further up the hill. It contains a wooden painted ceiling dated to 1475 in the nave, although it is in very poor condition, and three 17th-century gilded ... |
William Óge Martyn | Later life | served as an interlocutor between the O'Flaherty's of Connemara and the administration in Dublin Castle in 1585 and 1586, and again in 1589 and 1590, when they rose in rebellion. He enjoyed a good working relationship with Murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh.
He was survived by his brother, Francis, sons John and Ric... |
Wendi Richter | Rock 'n' Wrestling | WWF owner Vince McMahon brought in Cyndi Lauper for a feud with Lou Albano (who had appeared as Lauper's dad in her Girls Just Want to Have Fun music video). Albano seconded WWF Women's Champion Fabulous Moolah, while Lauper was in the corner of Wendi Richter. Richter defeated Moolah at MTV's The Brawl to End It All fo... |
Zhuo-Hua Pan | RetroSense Therapeutics | develops treatment for the genetic disease retinitis pigmentosa, which causes blindness and affects about 100,000 people in the United States. In 2016, Allergan bought RetroSense for $60 million. |
Topaz Magno | Performance and design | Topaz Magno Performance and design The Magno is a versatile three-sail boat that is great as either a small family boat or for club racing or teaching. The spacious cockpit with its gnav kicker offers roomy and comfortable sailing and is an ideal teaching platform for groups. The boat can be sailed single-handedly due ... |
Yūko Kotegawa | Biography | Noriko Kai in the 1989 Toho film Hana no Furu Gogo (or Afternoon when Flowers Fell). She played Aguri (later Yōzei-in), the wife of Asano Naganori, in the 1994 Chūshingura Shijū-shichinin no Shikaku.
She appeared on television in 1977 as the female lead in Bakumatsu Miraijin on NHK. Her 1984 portrayal of Otsū, the love... |
William Day (horseman) | Training career | was not entered in the classics but established himself as one of the best horses in Europe by beating Tristan in the Grand Prix de Paris in June 1881. Later in the year he won both legs of the Autumn Double. Day was unable to travel to Newmarket to witness the Cambridgeshire, being confined to bed with a broken collar... |
Željko Mavrović | Professional career | then knocked Rahman out of the ring in a well remembered fight), but he always had to pull out due to injuries and he ultimately had to finish his career due to an undisclosed illness.
In December 2012 Mavrović announced his return to professional boxing. A match with Serbian Cruiserweight boxer Enad Ličina was schedul... |
Wheelchair | Single-arm drive wheelchairs & Reclining and tilting wheelchairs | together and using one of the footplates to control steering via a linkage to the front caster. Reclining and tilting wheelchairs Reclining or tilt-in-space wheelchairs have seating surfaces which can be tilted to various angles. The original concept was developed by an orthotist, Hugh Barclay, who worked with disabled... |
Ōkuninushi | White hare of Inaba | stinging pain than was before. Then came along Ōkuninushi lagging far behind. The gentle-hearted god told the hare to go to the mouth (of the river) and wash himself in the fresh water, then gather the flowering spikes of cattail plants growing all around, and scatter the catkins on the ground and tumble around until h... |
Élan School | History & Program | Élan School History Élan School was founded in 1970 by psychiatrist Gerald Davidson, investor David Goldberg, and Joseph Ricci, a college drop-out. Ricci headed the school until his death in 2001, when his widow Sharon Terry took over. Maine politician Bill Diamond served as its Director of Governmental Relations. Pro... |
Zhang Jun (serial killer) | Robberies & Previous crimes | robbed a cash truck in Changde, killing seven people and stealing two small submachine guns and 20 bullets. Previous crimes In 1993, Zhang Jun and his friend Liu Baogang, who was known to the Shaoguan Institute, went to Anxiang Country to rob. The robbery was not successful and Zhang accidentally injured his companion.... |
Žarko Paspalj | Health issues | pickup basketball with friends who reacted quickly and got him to a hospital where he got placed in intensive care at the cardiology unit of Belgrade's Urgentni centar.
In October 2005, during a discussion on RTS television's Ključ programme regarding coronary issues, he stated that two heart attacks weren't enough to ... |
Åråsen Stadion | History | 1967, the grandstand caught fire and the entire structure burned down beyond repair. The buildings and stands were subsequently demolished. At the same time, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration proposed that the Fetveien road, which runs to the south of the stadium, should be moved to run through the stadium, whi... |
Warlock (1989 film) | Plot | sacred ground in the Warlock's face. With the rules broken, the Warlock uses his magical abilities to subdue Redferne and claim possession of the final third of the Grimore. He assembles it and learns the true name of God.
Before the Warlock can speak the word backwards, however, Kassandra stabs him in the neck with th... |
Volkoff Industries | Vivian McArthur | criminal organization, having believed her whole life that he was an oil company executive. Team Bartowski is ordered to protect her when Boris Kaminsky begins a killing spree in search of a key to unlock a part of Volkoff's office and claim the company. When Boris confronts her, he reveals that Vivian's entire life, i... |
Zainab bint Muhammad | Marriage & Emigration to Medina | to separate, so they continued to live together despite Abu al-As's refusal to convert to Islam. Zainab remained in Mecca when the other Muslims emigrated to Medina. Emigration to Medina Abu al-As was one of the polytheists who was captured at the Battle of Badr. Zainab sent the money for his ransom, including the onyx... |
Wheelchair | Reclining and tilting wheelchairs | reclining wheelchairs, the seat-back tilts back, and the leg rests can be raised, while the seat base remains in the same position, somewhat similar to a common recliner chair. Some reclining wheelchairs lean back far enough that the user can lie down completely flat. Reclining wheelchairs are preferred in some cases ... |
Trichonephila clavipes | Distribution and transport | more widely; in summer, it may be found as far north as lower Eastern Canada. Beyond 40° N latitude, these spiders seldom survive the winter.
Because humans inadvertently transport spiders as passengers in cargo containers, plant nursery stock, and the like, T. clavipes generally occurs very unevenly over wide areas; o... |
Ziselmius | null | Ziselmius Ziselmius, or Zibelmius or Zisemis (Ancient Greek: Ζισέλμιος) was a chieftain of the Thracian Caeni tribe and son of Diegylis.
For ordinary offenses he was slaying people into parts, others burning alive. He made parents eat their executed children. |
Yasuhiro Wada (video game designer) | Career | Yasuhiro Wada (video game designer) Yasuhiro Wada (Japanese: 和田康弘 Hepburn: Wada Yasuhiro) is a Japanese video game designer and producer. He is known for his work on Story of Seasons, formerly known as the Harvest Moon series. Despite acclaim and success from the series, he had decided to no longer work on the series a... |
United Nations Peace Messenger Cities | Representatives | rights, and has attracted substantial public awareness in peacemaking efforts of the United Nations Organization, Economic and Social Council, Department of Public Information and other bodies. The participation at the international conferences throughout the years of IAPMC activities has been notable at prominent even... |
Žydrūnas Urbonas | Playing career & Coaching career | 2007 and played there until autumn 2008 before signing with Donetsk of the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague for the 2008–2009 season. He finished his career playing for Juventus Utena from 2009 to 2012. Coaching career In 2009, Urbonas became a player-coach and the team's president when he joined Juventus Utena, and th... |
Worm theology | null | Worm theology Worm theology is the idea in Christian culture that in light of God's holiness and power an appropriate emotion is a low view of self. The name may be attributed to a line in the Isaac Watts hymn Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed (Pub 1707) which says "Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?" ... |
Zadankai | Religious significance of discussion meetings & Evaluations | apparatus of conventional church organization”. Zadankai differ from other religious traditions also by allowing participants to address the challenges to happiness encountered in daily life situations. The discussion meeting is among the most important activities of the Soka Gakkai as well as the basis if propagation... |
Yellow Oval Room | Furnishings | Yellow Oval Room Furnishings The earliest written description of the room dates to the John Adams administration, and describes the room as a ladies drawing room. The room was papered in yellow with gilded stars, and a suite of crimson furniture. This furniture, likely a mix of Louis XVI and English Hepplewhite styles,... |
Women's music | Women's music festivals | festival is an example of an environment that celebrates all women not just those who conform to mainstream media. Morris describes attendees at the festival as "women who are sexy in wheelchairs, women who are sexy at 260 pounds, women who are sexy at age 70, long-term interracial romances - and all the rest of womenk... |
101st Grenadiers | Post-War | where operations against Hassan and his followers had resumed. The campaign, which encompassed the army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force, succeeded in defeating Hassan in 1920, after two decades of conflict.
In accordance with the Indian Army reforms of 1922, the 101st amalgamated with five other regiments to form six ... |
Yugan County | Demographics | Yugan County Demographics The population of the district was 841,443 in 1999. |
William Fowler (architect) | Life | designed by Sir Charles Barry. During this period he began living in Golspie where he thereafter had a lifelong connection. From 1881 he lived at 7 Duke Street in Golspie. In 1891 he retired and moved to Greenend in Liberton, Edinburgh. In 1900 he moved to Mount Chasse (now 11) Broomieknowe in Lasswade, south of Edinbu... |
Wintersingen | Demographics | age distribution, as of 2010, in Wintersingen is; 23 children or 3.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 113 teenagers or 18.3% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 62 people or 10.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 63 people or 10.2% are between 30 and 39, 113 people or 18... |
Wheelchair | Technological developments | to be made almost entirely out of carbon fibre
Recently, EPFL's CNBI project has succeeded in making wheelchairs that can be controlled by brain impulses.
Experiments have also been made with unusual variant wheels, like the omniwheel or the mecanum wheel. These allow for a broader spectrum of movement, but have made ... |
Žarko Paspalj | Partizan years | also joined the club that summer from Sloga. Together with young Sasha Djordjevic, Željko Obradović and more established players like Milenko Savović and Goran Grbović, they won the national title in a final against Crvena zvezda. Paspalj played well enough to earn a spot on the national team of Yugoslavia that won the... |
Wadham College Boat Club | Recent form | bumping St Johns College, and also gained the Torpids headship in 2015. W2 remains the highest second boat on the river, and currently enjoys a strong position in Division III alongside other colleges' first boats. External successes include W1 racing at Women's Henley in 2014, and a number of other external races whe... |
USS Garfield Thomas | Greek service | the Atlantic Reserve Fleet there where she remained until transferred to Greece under the Military Assistance Program on 15 January 1951. The ship served in the Hellenic Navy under the name Panthir, with the pennant number 67 and was struck in 1992. In 1998 it was reported that she was laid up in Souda Bay, Crete. |
Zealand, New Brunswick | History & Early Postal Service | Zealand, New Brunswick History The area was named New Zealand by Gould Crouse, whose Loyalist father Philip, born in Zealand in the Netherlands, came to New Brunswick from North Carolina after the American Revolution. Settlers of Keswick Valley included the surnames Alieen (Allen), Brouwer (Brewer), Kraus (Crouse), Jan... |
Zebrawood | History | of zebrawood were imported from the Mosquito Coast, a British colony (now Republic of Honduras and Nicaragua). In his History of Jamaica (1774), Edward Long relates, "The species of zebra wood at present in esteem among the cabinet-makers is brought to Jamaica from the Mosquito shore; it is of a most lovely tint, and ... |
Yeşilköy Feneri | History | Yeşilköy Feneri History Built in 1856, it was initially called Ayostefanos Feneri (Hagios Stefanos Lighthouse) after the suburb's former name.
The lighthouse was commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I (reigned 1839–1861) in order to provide safe navigation around the shallow waters before the Yeşilköy Point f... |
Whale watching | History | in the St. Lawrence River to view fin and beluga whales.
In 1984, Erich Hoyt, who had spent much time amongst the orcas of British Columbia, published the first comprehensive book on whale watching, The Whale Watcher's Handbook, which Mark Carwardine called his number one "natural classic" book in BBC Wildlife Magazine... |
WYSN | Early days | WYSN Early days This station, as WPLH, signed on for the first time on November 29, 1946, with a "grand opening" program broadcast live from the Hotel Prichard in Huntington. WPLH transmitted at 1450 kHz with a 250 watt non-directional signal. The Huntington Broadcasting Corporation, owned and operated by Flem J. Evans... |
Western Mail (Western Australia) | Published 1885-1955 & Published 1980-1988 | their only social connections beyond their families. The women's and children's sections became popular and often attracted the most revenue for the paper.
West Australian Newspapers management experimented with a variety of formats in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including the Weekend Mail for five years (see publi... |
Zombies of Mora Tau | Plot & DVD release | Zombies of Mora Tau Plot A team of deep sea divers, led by wealthy American tycoon George Harrison (Ashley), attempt to salvage a fortune in diamonds from the wreckage of a ship that sunk 60 years earlier off the coast of Africa. When the team arrives, they discover that the ship is cursed and the diamonds are protecte... |
Whirring | Reception & Music video | Whirring Reception Pitchfork ranked the song No. 68 on its list of the Top 100 Tracks of 2011, with author Amy Phillips writing: "The Joy Formidable aren't headlining soccer stadiums quite yet, but you wouldn't know it from listening to 'Whirring'. An aerobic rush of a song that builds to the kind of explosive alt-rock... |
Whale watching | Northeast Atlantic | February. Species seen all year include minke whales, orcas, harbour porpoises, and common, bottlenose, and Risso's dolphins. There is also a resident group of bottlenose dolphins in the Shannon Estuary which attracts tourists all year round.
Chanonry Point is one of the best spots in the UK to view bottlenose dolphins... |
Zainab bint Muhammad | Shia perspective | do. Zainab, however, died soon after her arrival in Medina. Later, Abul-'As also went to Medina, accepted Islam, and lived with the Muslims. |
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia | Critical reception | "a gritty, unflinching look at eating disorders," adding, "Hornbacher is at her best when she zeroes in on the specifics of eating disorders and their origins...Such phenomena aren't new to the literature on eating disorders, but Hornbacher describes them with a stark candor that captures both their pain and underlying... |
Yuenü | Life and legacy | Yuenü Yuenü (Chinese: 越女; pinyin: Yuènǚ; Wade–Giles: Yüeh-nü; literally: 'the Lady of Yue') was a swordswoman from the state of Yue, in the modern Chinese province of Zhejiang. She is also known as Aliao and Maiden of the Southern Forest.
In Chinese mythology, she is a reincarnation of Jiutian Xuannü. Life and legacy ... |
USS Bayfield | 1961–1968 | the western Pacific to bolster the 7th Fleet during the Laotian crisis. The tension soon subsided, however, and Bayfield returned to Hawaii to finish the interrupted training exercise before continuing on back to the West Coast.
The ship deployed to the Far East again in January 1962 and spent most of the overseas tour... |
Zhang Mingxuan | Chinese House Church Alliance & Incidents involving law enforcement officials | Zhang Mingxuan Zhang Mingxuan is a Chinese clergyman and president of the Chinese House Church Alliance. Chinese House Church Alliance Mingxuan is president of the Chinese House Church Alliance, an organization of unified Chinese house churches. Incidents involving law enforcement officials Zhang has been the subject o... |
Willem Van der Hagen | Career | views of an Irish city.
These views were followed in the 1730s by many capriccio landscapes.
One of Van der Hagen's paintings, titled "Corke Harbour 1738", was auctioned in Cork on Wednesday, 11 February 2004. It obtained a price of €360,000. The painting is the oldest known surviving view of Cork Harbour. |
Žarko Paspalj | Youth | Pavićević, Paspalj had a solid tournament, recording 14.6 points per game, just behind the team's leading scorer Ivica Mavrenski (18.4 ppg). Yugoslavia went on to win the title, beating Greece in the semifinal and Spain (led by Antonio Martín, Aitor González de Zarate, and Rafa Jofresa) in the final.
A year later, 18-y... |
Triora | Francesco Moraldo from Creppo | hid in his house and protected from deportation two German Jewish orphans nine and eleven years old.
Moraldo had been a butler in France of the Italian banker Angelo Donati who had taken the children under his protection in July 1942 when their parents had been deported from Nice to Auschwitz.
When Donati had to take r... |
Thomas Strakosha | Albania U19 & Albania U20 & Albania U21 | Strakosha again played every minute in all 3 matches of the Group 6, leaving behind youth Juventus goalkeeper, Entonjo Elezaj. Albania U20 Strakosha was called up to the U20 team by coach Skënder Gega for the 2013 Mediterranean Games football tournament, which began on 19 June, in Mersin, Turkey. However, Strakosha did... |
Virtual community | On communication & Internet message boards | on social practices and expectations. There is a shift from individuals who depend upon locally embedded, unmediated and stable social relationships to networked individuals who are more dependent upon their own combination of strong and weak ties across boundaries and weave their own fluid relationships. Manuel Castel... |
Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad | Line description | Wayne Line at New Galilee. |
Unmanned aircraft in Singapore | Accidents involving UAs & Breaches of regulations | Minister Lui Tuck Yew said in Parliament that there had been more than 20 reported incidents involving drones between April 2014 and May 2015, two of which involved the drones falling onto MRT tracks.
In 2016, the Singapore government received a report of a remote control aeroplane that damaged the roof of a housing bl... |
William Richards (Hawaii) | Diplomat | got back to the islands, November 28 became a holiday known as Lā Kūʻokoʻa o Hawaiʻi Nei ("beloved Hawaii independence day").
On their way back, the new American Secretary of State John C. Calhoun was invited to also sign the agreement, but said he would wait for a treaty that could be ratified by the Senate.
The USA a... |
Tampa International Airport | Aircraft & Color-coding system | largest passenger aircraft serving TPA on a scheduled basis is the Boeing 777. Color-coding system Since its opening on April 15, 1971, Tampa International Airport has used a special color-coding system throughout the terminal complex. The baggage claim areas and ticket counters are color-coded blue and red. Airlines a... |
Zombies of Mora Tau | DVD release & Reception | a two-disc, four-film set of Katzman-produced films called Icons of Horror Collection: Sam Katzman. The set contains Zombies of Mora Tau, Creature with the Atom Brain, The Werewolf and The Giant Claw. Reception David Maine of PopMatters rated the film 6 out of 10 stars and described it as "pretty entertaining overall, ... |
William Woodville | Biography | William Woodville William Woodville (1752–1805) was an English physician and botanist. Convinced by the work of Edward Jenner, he was among the first to promote vaccination. His four volume book on medical botany published between 1790 and 1794 with 300 illustrations of medicinal plants by James Sowerby was an importan... |
Stoneman | Bombay killings & Summer of 1989 in Calcutta | what seemed like a big break came to naught.
Shortly afterwards, in 1987, a ragpicker was hacked to death in the adjoining suburb of Matunga. Even though the police and the media were quick to label this the handiwork of the same person, no evidence to link this crime with the others was ever found.
As mysteriously as ... |
Will Flynt | null | Will Flynt Will Flynt (born November 23, 1967 in Escondido, California) is a former professional baseball player who played professionally in Taiwan and Japan. FLynt played for the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes in the Pacific League. He later worked as a coach in the Frontier League. |
Željko Mavrović | Professional career & Honors | was quoted after the incident where Croatian boxer Vido Loncar assaulted and seriously injured a referee after a loss, excusing Loncar with the argument "I believe that he is not a butcher or as bad as this act makes him look. This was part of his excessive ambition in that moment". Loncar was subsequently banned from ... |
Žarko Paspalj | 1991–92 season & 1992–93 season | contrasted sharply with Paspalj's later, sudden, loss of shooting ability. On the national team front, Paspalj was denied the chance to participate in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, due to the sanctions imposed on FR Yugoslavia. 1992–93 season In his second season at Olympiacos, 1992–93, Paspalj benefited from a ... |
Žarko Paspalj | One last professional stint in Bologna | half seasons in professional basketball, Paspalj is remembered for a successful globetrotting career that included a multitude of trophies and individual awards. Perhaps the single most memorable aspect of his game is the off-balance, unorthodox sling-style shooting technique he perfected — a move that served him so we... |
Žarko Paspalj | Back to Greece: Aris | Paspalj's free throw shooting, in particular, was more consistent than at any time since the dramatic deterioration of his statistics in 1994. Paspalj had some memorable performances in the autumn of 1997, including 18 points (6/6, 6/9) in a 63-56 home victory over Panathinaikos, and a game against PAOK when he steere... |
William Brodie Gurney | Religious & philanthropic interests | at Walworth, of which he in the following year became the secretary. In 1801 he commenced the Maze Pond Sunday school, an establishment almost akin to a ragged school, and here he introduced the Scottish method of catechising in the scriptures. On 13 July 1803 he was present at a public meeting in Surrey Chapel schoolr... |
Íbis Sport Club | History | Íbis Sport Club History Íbis Sport Club were founded on November 15, 1938 by employees of Tecelagem de Seda e Algodão, owned by João Pessoa de Queiroz, and located in Santo Amaro. Initially only employees of that company could play. The club were named Íbis after the African bird. After the death of João Pessoa de Que... |
WJTI | History | new smooth jazz format. Both stations flipped to urban contemporary in June 1991, becoming WKKV.
The AM station broke away from the simulcast in November 1993, flipping to a Spanish-language format as WBJX. The year 2007 brought the current call sign, WJTI, and a new city of license, the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis. |
Volkoff Industries | Riley & Sofia Stepanova | Before his death Riley revealed he was fully aware that Volkoff was Agent X, and of Stephen Bartowski's involvement in the project. He twisted this information to further his attempt at manipulating and shaping Vivian. First seen in: Chuck Versus the First Bank of Evil. Sofia Stepanova Sofia Stepanova (Karolína Kurková... |
USS Worden (DD-288) | History | Roads, then headed via New York to Boston for repairs at the navy yard which she completed early in November. On the 16th, she loaded torpedoes at Newport and headed south to Charleston, where she arrived on the 18th. She remained there until the spring of 1922. On 29 May of that year, she got underway for a voyage whi... |
Talwin Morris | Non-Book Design | received orders for four more. The 'Scottish Section' had been organised by Francis Henry Newbery, Headmaster of Glasgow School of Art and consisted mostly of Glasgow artists across a suite of three rooms designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Also in 1902 he introduced Charles Rennie Mackintosh to his employer Walter ... |
William Richards (Hawaii) | Missionary & Legal reform | Lahainaluna School, with Andrews as first principal. In 1836 Dwight Baldwin was assigned to the Waineʻe Church as the Richards family planned to travel back to the United States.
After leaving their children to attend American schools, he and his wife returned March 27, 1838.
In July 1838 he resigned from the mission t... |
147th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Service | 147th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Service The 147th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Loudoun Heights, Virginia from surplus companies of the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry and mustered in as Companies A, B, C, D, and E for a three-year enlistment on October 10, 1862 under the command of Colonel Ario Pardee, Jr.. C... |
Wreath | Harvest wreath | not merely to the farmer and his family. The festivals devoted to Dionysus, the Oschophoria and Anthesteria, included a ritual procession called the eiresîonê. A harvest wreath was carried to Pyanopsia and Thargelia by young boys, who would sing during the journey. The laurel or olive wreath would be hung at the door, ... |
The Wicker Man (film series) | Production & Soundtrack | the actor who played Reverend Moriarty in Hardy's previous film, The Wicker Tree. Hardy intended to cast French actress Juliette Binoche as the murder suspect.
In a 2013 Q&A session at the University of Hertfordshire, at a special screening of The Wicker Man, Hardy confirmed that he intended to begin shooting in the mi... |
The Brethren (Grisham novel) | Plot | The Brethren (Grisham novel) Plot The "Bretheren" are three former judges who are incarcerated at Trumble, a fictional federal minimum security prison located in northern Florida. The trio embark on a scam to deceive and exploit wealthy closeted gay men. None of them are gay, but they write convincingly as two young vu... |
Yolanda Cuomo | Diane Arbus: Untitled, Revelations, The Libraries, A Chronology | the book Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, designed by Marvin Israel and Doon Arbus. Revelations (2003) was a massive, collaborative effort resulting in a book and exhibition presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art... |
William Gaines | Senate Subcommittee investigation | good taste."
Beaser: "Then you think a child cannot in any way, in any way, shape, or manner, be hurt by anything that a child reads or sees?"
Gaines: "I don't believe so."
Beaser: "There would be no limit actually to what you put in the magazines?"
Gaines: "Only within the bounds of good taste."
Beaser: "Your own good... |
1759 Kienle | Rotation period & Diameter and albedo | a rotation period of 29.25 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.30 magnitude (U=2). Diameter and albedo According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Kienle measures between 6.9 and 7.3 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.18 and 0.... |
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons | Chapter 9: Sleights of Mind & Chapter 10: Honest Lying | This is another phenomenon known as anosognosia, which is the refusal to admit that one is ill, refusing to acknowledge the illness.
This leads into the discussion on delusions in general. There are ones such as Cotard's Delusion, in which people believe that they are dead, and Capgras syndrome, in which one believes t... |
Ulster coat | null | Ulster coat The Ulster is a Victorian working daytime overcoat, with a cape and sleeves. It is often seen in period productions of Victorian novels, such as those of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Ulster coat was referred to in Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, ... |
Yellow Oval Room | Furnishings | the Truman era hotel style furniture with late 18th and early 19th century French antiques. The furnishings today are mostly in the Louis XVI style, assembled during the Kennedy restoration. Two short columns of green marble were designed by Stéphane Boudin to hold antique, electrified candelabras and Boudin also found... |
Treytorrens | Politics & Economy | next three most popular parties were the FDP (20.13%), the PdA Party (7.52%) and the Green Party (6.24%). In the federal election, a total of 45 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.5%. Economy As of 2010, Treytorrens had an unemployment rate of 0.8%. As of 2008, there were 21 people employed in the primary... |
Wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones | Wedding ceremony | the wedding rings of the royal family dates back to 1923.
Sophie wore a wedding dress designed by Samantha Shaw. It had a long, fitted coat with long sleeves, along with an ivory train that according to one source was "made from hand-dyed silk organza and hand-dyed silk crepe, with rows of pearls and crystal beading". ... |
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