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Willem II (football club) | History | Volkskrant journalists revealed that Willem II had its matches fixed by an "Asian gambling syndicate", who had paid Willem's players a total sum of €100,000 to lose matches against Ajax and Feyenoord (in October and December 2009). According to the journalists, midfielder Ibrahim Kargbo was the Asians' main contact wit... |
Žarko Paspalj | Business ventures & Serbian Olympic Committee | which is when the project was taken over by Novi Sad based Genel company. Serbian Olympic Committee In February 2009, after Vlade Divac won the presidency of the Serbian Olympic Committee, he appointed Paspalj to be his second in command. |
Wherwell Abbey | Later history | of Wherwell, on the four feasts of the Blessed Virgin, and on that of the Holy Cross and its octave.
In larger monastic houses of both men and women, the sacristan held a highly responsible post and at Wherwell was the beneficiary of specific income from dedicated rents. During the time of another abbess Maud (1333-134... |
1788–89 United States elections | Congressional elections | overlapped heavily with both the federalists who favored the ratification of the Constitution and the later Federalist Party, while the Anti-Administration faction overlapped with the anti-federalists and the later Democratic-Republican Party. Using this divide as a lens through which to view the elections, the Pro-Adm... |
Triton (comics) | Fictional character biography | Triton (comics) Fictional character biography Triton is member of the Inhumans' Royal Family, son of Mander and Azur, brother to Karnak, and cousin to Gorgon, Black Bolt, Maximus, Medusa, and Crystal. Triton was born on the city-state island of Attilan and was exposed to the Terrigen Mist as an infant. The mists altere... |
USCGC Salvia (WLB-400) | Design | QBE-3A sonar system in 1945. Their armament consisted of one 3"/50 caliber gun, two 20 mm/80 guns, two Mousetraps, two depth charge tracks, and four Y-guns in 1945; these were removed in 1966. |
Vicente Lombardo Toledano | Fall from power | union, but only after delivering a bitter denunciation of those who had brought about his downfall. He also referred to himself in the first person ("yo") sixty-four times in that speech — a fact noted by some newspapers, which proceeded to nickname him the "Yo-yo Champion".
Lombardo Toledano launched two publications,... |
Åråsen Stadion | Events | league attendance was set in the 2007 season, when there was an average of 9,018 spectators per match. The team's season average has been above 6,000 during the 2000s, and was as low as 6,165 in 2010 and 6,448 in 2001. The team also saw high attendances in the 1970s, attracting its fourth-ever highest average in 1977 w... |
Willie Brigitte | Arrest and deportation | and deportation The Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST), France's internal security agency, had been passively monitoring 'Abderrahman the West Indian' since 1998. After fellow members of the Couronnes terror cell were found fighting for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan investigations on others was stepped up. It... |
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? | Reviews | specifically rejects the idea that the scrolls came from the Jerusalem Temple, attributing this theory to Karl Rengstorf and asserting that Rengstorf had failed to "conceive of other libraries in Jerusalem whose owners could equally well have hidden away their contents.")
A New York Times article of December 24, 2002 q... |
Xishan Society | null | Xishan Society The Xishan Society (simplified Chinese: 西山会; traditional Chinese: 西山會; pinyin: Xīshān Huì; literally: 'Western Hills Meeting') was an association consisting of prominent politicians from Shanxi province in China. The group was formed sometime around 2007, and was described as a "loose alliance" between o... |
Yūko Kotegawa | Biography | leading lady in Jīji: Mago to ita Natsu with Toshiyuki Nishida.
Meanwhile, she appeared on privately owned networks in many prominent roles. On Tokyo Broadcasting System, Yūko played characters in series in 1980, '81, and '82, including the female lead in Totsuzen no Ashita. Asahi TV cast her in the lead role in two 90... |
Šinkov Turn | Name & Church & Castle | an early owner, a Baron Šenk, and distinguished the castle from other castles named Turn. Church The church on the edge of the settlement is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. A church at the site was first mentioned in 1526 and the current structure dates from the 18th century. Castle A castle, after which the village gets... |
Whirring | Music video & In popular culture | by Dain Bedford, was released in 2009 and was filmed in Northern Wales. A second music video, directed by Christopher Mills, was released on 8 March 2011 on MTV's website. The 2011 version is a surrealist music video featuring the band exploring a house full of cats and them descending deeper and deeper through the hou... |
.357 Remington Maximum | Legacy | .357 Remington Maximum Legacy Guns designed for the .357 Maximum were built on a larger frame than their predecessors. Although Ruger only made 7,700 Blackhawks chambered in .357 Maximum, the frame size has been used as a base-gun to build bigger revolvers in .445 SuperMag and both the .475 and .500 Linebaugh Long/Max... |
Warlock (1989 film) | Reception | demanding a mood." On the flip-side, Los Angeles Times critic Michael Wilmington claimed there was "No wit or humanity, or even any genuine horror." Entertainment Weekly denounced the special effects for being "so low-budget they might have come out of a joke shop," and TV Guide declared that the "aging make-up used to... |
10 Years (2011 film) | Plot | 10 Years (2011 film) Plot Jake (Channing Tatum), and his girlfriend Jess (Jenna Dewan) arrive at his high school
friend's house owned by married couple, Cully (Chris Pratt) and Sam (Ari Graynor). There, some of
Jake's friends start to arrive including: best buddies Marty (Justin Long) and AJ (Max Minghella),
musician ... |
William Day (horseman) | Retirement | Day (not to be confused with his uncle) was a successful trainer, winning races including the Goodwood Cup, Stewards' Cup and Lincolnshire Handicap. He was also one of the founders of Fontwell Racecourse. |
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem | null | can be represented on an interval scale and the individual will always prefer actions that maximize expected utility. That is, they proved that an agent is (VNM-)rational if and only if there exists a real-valued function u defined by possible outcomes such that every preference of the agent is characterized by maximiz... |
Črna pri Kamniku | History & Churches | fifty local hostages on 8 July 1942 by Nazi soldiers as retribution for a Partisan attack on two of their numbers. A memorial to the victims of this event can be seen outside the abandoned mine. Churches On a hill above the village is a pilgrimage centre with two churches. The main church is dedicated to Saints Primus ... |
Yuenü | Life and legacy | art of the sword, and influenced Chinese martial arts for generations. |
Whale watching | South Africa | the Cape shoreline that visitors can watch whales from their hotels. The town employs a "whale crier" (cf town crier) to walk through the town announcing where whales have been seen.
You can watch the whales in Hermanus from the cliff tops, from a boat or the air. Boat-based whale watching tours are available out of th... |
Élan School | Film | The Last Stop was released in 2017. The film was directed by an Élan graduate and included interviews from various residents and professionals including Maia Szalavitz. |
Ulster coat | null | forearms. It was commonly worn by coachmen who would be seated outdoors in bad weather for long periods, but needed to use their arms to hold reins.
Often made of hard-wearing fabrics, such as herringbones or tweeds, it was not a formal coat at the time, though in the 20th century a cape would be seen as such. After t... |
Yellow-throated warbler | Ecology | sometimes seen in northernmost South America.
The yellow-throated warbler is a woodland species with a preference for coniferous or swamp tree species, in which it preferably nests. They are insectivorous, but will include a considerable amount of berries and nectar in their diet outside the breeding season. Food is ty... |
1298 Nocturna | Orbit and classification & Physical characteristics | 1298 Nocturna Orbit and classification Nocturna is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 2.7–3.6 AU once every 5 years and 6 months (2,018 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.15 and an inclination of 5° with respect to the ecl... |
Winding number | Topology & Polygons & Turning number | of a complex curve is just its homotopy class.
Maps from the 3-sphere to itself are also classified by an integer which is also called the winding number or sometimes Pontryagin index. Polygons In polygons, the winding number is referred to as the polygon density. For convex polygons, and more generally simple polygons... |
Öner Erkan | Biography | in acclaimed TV series Çukur written by Gökhan Horzum. |
1788–89 United States elections | Presidential election | votes.
On April 6, 1789, the House and Senate, meeting in joint session, counted the electoral votes and certified that Washington had received electoral votes from each of the 69 electors that had cast votes, and thus had been elected president. They also certified that Adams, with 34 electoral votes, had been elected... |
Žarko Paspalj | 1992–93 season | matches against Aris in the play-off quarter-finals (when he scored 44 points – 9/10, 13/22, 3/4) and PAOK in the semi-finals. He also top-scored in the final series, all of which Olympiacos won without home advantage. Paspalj scored an average of 25 points per game, including 29 points as Olympiacos defeated Aris 66-5... |
Yoko Nagae Ceschina | null | died on 10 January 2015 in Rome, Italy at the age of 82. She left no survivors. |
William Woodville | Biography | 4 April. His portrait, by Lemuel Abbott, was presented to the smallpox hospital. It was engraved by William Bond. |
Wheeling Park High School | Fine and Performing Arts | Phyllis A. Beneke Theatre and the JB Chambers Performing Arts Center. The music department has private recording studios, a piano lab, and two large practice halls.
Wheeling Park is home to bands, choral ensembles, orchestral groups, and bluegrass bands. Its concert band has achieved 27 consecutive "superior" ratings a... |
Volkoff Industries | Jasmine & K.K. & Marco | seen in: Chuck Versus the Agent X. K.K. K.K. (Andre Kincaid) is one of Volkoff's computer experts. He hacks into the Buy More's weapons system and takes control of several miniguns. However, he is unable to open the elevator to Castle. K.K. is last seen with Barbara guarding the hostages. In an episode that is largely ... |
Vampire Rodents | Early years in Toronto (1987–89) | Vampire Rodents Early years in Toronto (1987–89) Composers Daniel Vahnke and Victor Wulf met while studying anthropology at the university of Toronto. Victor had been composing film music under pseudonyms since 1977 and was composing experimental pop track with samplers during the 80s. Daniel had been working on player... |
Willoughby Spit | History & Ferries, bridge-tunnel | 428,000 cubic yards (327,000 m³) of sand, costing the city around
$3.8 million. Despite the costs of maintaining the coastline, renewed growth around the area and increased tourism have generated revenue that the region depends upon.
The area of water now located between Sewell's Point and Willoughby Spit is known as ... |
Yip Kai Foon | Imprisonment | Christianity in March 2004.
Yip was sentenced on 11 January 2010 to an additional six months in jail for assaulting an officer at Stanley Prison on 30 April 2009. He had complained that he had been badly treated by prison guards.
On 1 April 2017, he was hospitalised at Queen Mary Hospital for cancer treatment. He died ... |
Yuenü | Life and legacy | he invited her to court. Along the way, she was challenged by an old man who was in reality a magic white ape:
The Young Woman of Yue travelled north for her audience with the king. On the way, she met an old fellow who said his name was “Old Mr. Yuan” [Yuan Gong, 袁公].
He said to the young woman, “I hear you fight well... |
Veterans Health Administration | 1993 Clinton Healthcare Reform & 1994 VA Primary Care Directive | if a national healthcare system were adopted. They also found that there was a high demand for primary care throughout the VA system. Research showed that many VA facilities believed that 55 percent of patients would choose to receive primary care at the VA facility if a primary care system was fully implemented in 199... |
Yolanda Cuomo | Diane Arbus: Untitled, Revelations, The Libraries, A Chronology | elder daughter, assembled Untitled (1995), the third volume of Arbus’s work and the only one devoted to a single project, from contact sheets of previously unpublished photographs taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971. Untitled was not only an exposé of unknown photographs with a common th... |
Weed, California | 2000 & Ethnic migration | 26 minutes nationwide.
Housing: Median rent in Weed, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $348. Monthly mortgages were $676. Average monthly rent in all of California is $1341.
Education: seven percent of Weed residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree.
Of the population 84.97 percent spoke ... |
Wim Delvoye | Cloaca | unveiled at the Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, after eight years of consultation with experts in fields ranging from plumbing to gastroenterology. As a comment on the Belgians’ love of fine dining, Cloaca is a large installation that turns food into feces, allowing Delvoye to explore the digestive process. In ... |
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Summary | later because their keys are missing. Lyle approaches Teddy and admits he saw what was in his trunk (suggesting smuggled drugs). Teddy tells him he shouldn't have done that and Lyle agrees, but suggests that if Teddy were to have taken Richard's keys it would be a bad move since no one here wants any trouble. He pushes... |
1898 Windward Islands hurricane | Impact | several days, especially to vehicles. Phone service was completely disrupted as nearly all the power poles on the island were downed. The sugarcane plantations on the island also suffered crippling damage. The hurricane was compared to the “Great Hurricane” of August 1831, in which roughly 1,500 people died and the isl... |
Yip Kai Foon | AK-47 heists | store robbery on Nathan Road in Mong Kok, when a gang fired 30 rounds from AK-47s, killing a woman passerby. One robber was shot by police during the chase; the others dumped his body on the street when they switched getaway cars.
Macau police suspected Yip was involved in an April 1994 armed heist of HK$40.00 million ... |
Whale watching | Northern Mediterranean Sea & East Pacific –Colombia, Ecuador & Panama | from the ports of Genoa and Imperia, in Liguria, Northern Italy. East Pacific –Colombia, Ecuador & Panama In Colombia, the towns of Bahía Solano and Nuquí are visited by a large number of Humpback whales from late July to the beginning of October. In southern Costa Rica, Marino Ballena National Park has two seasons whe... |
Volkoff Industries | Vivian McArthur | list of a list of every black market agent and replaced the old operatives. As a sign of good faith, she gives Chuck a component of a Volkoff weapon known as the "Norseman", only to flee when she is apparently shot in the arm by a sniper. Team Bartowski then seeks the help of Vivian's father to find the weapon's tracki... |
ULTra (rapid transit) | Ajman City, United Arab Emirates (proposal, signed contract) | City, United Arab Emirates (proposal, signed contract) In July 2017 Ultra-Fairwood (a joint venture) announced that it had signed a contract with the Government of Ajman for the construction of a system in Ajman City. The proposed network will include 120 kilometres (75 mi) of track overall, including a total route le... |
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? | Reviews | access to those who are prepared to toe their party-line, but have abused and rubbished those 'heretics' who have attempted to place a different interpretation on them."
The Publisher Weekly, refers to this book as disputing the conventional wisdom that Dead Sea Scrolls related to the communal sect of the Essenes, and ... |
181st Rifle Division | First Formation & Second Formation & Third Formation | central and southern areas of the current Pskov Oblast. However, the core personnel were Latvian. The combat training level of the Latvian Riflemen was quite high - many of them received awards and honors from the commanders in the war, including for their period of stay in the 181st Division.
The division was wiped ou... |
The Naked Witch | Plot | The Naked Witch Plot A university student (Robert Short) is researching his thesis on the "thoroughly German" villages of modern-day central Texas. He's on his way to Luckenbach - where people speak German more often than English - when his car runs out of gas. He walks into town and meets Kirska Schöennig (Jo Maryman)... |
Wheelchair | Seating systems | to 1970, little was known about the effectiveness of wheelchair cushions and there was not a clinical method of evaluating wheelchair seat cushions. Most recently, pressure imaging (or pressure mapping) is used to help determine each individual’s pressure distribution to properly determine and fit a seating system.
Whi... |
Wheelchair | Buildings | features such as paternosters in public buildings without any alternative methods of wheelchair access is increasingly deprecated. Modern architecture is increasingly required by law and recognised good practise to incorporate better accessibility at the design stage.
In many countries, such as the UK, the owners of in... |
Tyler Clippard | Toronto Blue Jays & Cleveland Indians & Scouting report | 85 strikeouts over 68²⁄₃ innings. Cleveland Indians On February 23, 2019, Clippard signed a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians, receiving a non-roster invitation to spring training. The contract is worth $1.75 million if he pitches at the major league level. Clippard was released by the Indians on March ... |
Trials HD | Gameplay & Development and marketing | in their friends list. Every course in the game was created using the level editor, which allows users to create professional-quality levels. It also features leaderboards for each of the game's courses and modes. For each course the fastest five thousand times are able to be viewed as replays. During the replay the v... |
1923 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election | Dan Sullivan & Result & Aftermath | the time was Labour’s senior whip. He was a moderate and had supported all of the previous challenges against Holland by Jimmy McCombs. He was one of the mainly Christchurch based MPs who found Holland's leadership to be too autocratic and overbearing. Result The election was conducted through a members ballot by Labou... |
Étude Op. 25, No. 7 (Chopin) | Structure | the étude is very straightforward and elementary in rhythm, but not in harmony. The theme is repeated four times throughout the piece, interspersed between are modulated variations of other melodies and cadences. |
Žarko Paspalj | 1993–94 season & Season with Panathinaikos | unorthodox swing-shot became far more pronounced in the later, more erratic years of his career. However, Paspalj, in 1995, said that he never watched television footage of games he played in, and acknowledged that had been a mistake, as somewhere he had gone wrong in the act of shooting. Season with Panathinaikos In A... |
Worm theology | Origins | in the Old Testament that ascribe the term "worm" to human beings: Isaiah 41:14, Job 25:4-6, and Psalm 22:6. |
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia | Critical reception | Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia is an autobiography written by Marya Hornbacher, detailing her fourteen-year battle with eating disorders. Published by Random House in 1998, Wasted was a critical and commercial success. The author's young age (she wrote the book at the ... |
William Ralph Cartwright | Life & Family | and held the seat until he resigned in 1846.
Cartwright was lieutenant-colonel in the local militia during the Napoleonic wars, and was responsible for the Brackley Battalion. In the time of agricultural depression and increasing population, Cartwright helped settle many dozens of his surplus agricultural labourers i... |
Wildenstein Institute | Controversy | as genuine and have included it in Renoir's catalogue raisonné. The Wildenstein Institute declined to accept the painting citing insufficient evidence.
In 2011, a police raid discovered and seized 30 paintings valued at tens of millions of pounds from the Institute's Paris headquarters (see: Guy Wildenstein#Criticism... |
Too big to fail | Long-Term Capital Management & Canada | with the fund liquidating and dissolving in early 2000. Canada In March 2013, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions announced that Canada's six largest banks, the Bank of Montreal, the Bank of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada and Tor... |
1875–76 Home Nations rugby union matches | Scoring system | give a winner. If there was still no clear winner, the match was declared a draw. |
VK 4501 (P) | Development | by twin V-10 air cooled gasoline Porsche Type 101 engines which were mounted to the rear of the tank. Each of the twin engines would then drive a separate generator, one for either side of the tank, which would then power each of two electric motors, one powering each track from the rear drive sprocket. But the engines... |
Warlock (1989 film) | Release & Reception | years. The film was eventually picked up by Trimark Pictures and given a limited release beginning in January 1991. The film turned into a modest success for Trimark, grossing $9,094,451 and becoming the company's biggest grosser until Eve's Bayou. Reception The film received mixed reviews, and was heavily compared to ... |
Walton War | Course of the war & End of the war | Havner. All ten prisoners managed to escape and flee before the trial had begun, but it was later concluded that Samuel McAdams was responsible for Havner's death. The appearance of the North Carolinian militia and the arresting of the ten Walton County officials effectively led to the collapse of the Walton County gov... |
1902 Leeds North by-election | Education | the Rates’ and united the party against the government. Barran, a Baptist by religion, spoke out strongly against these plans at his first public meeting on 8 July 1902, saying the proposed Bill was biased towards the Anglican Church and what he described as ‘the clerical party’. The Bill was designed to endow the cle... |
Welsh Bicknor | History | were outlawed and their property seized, while they themselves fled to Spain and became officers in the army of that country. Both married Spanish Ladies and some of their descendants settled in the home of their adoption and became grandees of Spain.
Richard Vaughan died in Barcelona in 1795 but his son William eventu... |
Yangon United F.C. | History | Yangon United F.C. History Although Yangon United F.C. was officially founded in 2009, it started as the Air Bagan F.C side from the old Myanmar Premier League.
On 16 May 2009, Yangon United defeated Zeya Shwe Myay 4–0 in the league's first ever match to open the MNL Cup 2009. The club finished in second place in group... |
Williams Air Force Base | Postwar era | new program studied the use of fighter gunnery, bombing, and rocketry equipment. Students flew P-51 Mustangs, P-47 Thunderbolts, and beginning at midyear, P-80 Shooting Stars. The gunnery school, however was again discontinued on 1 June 1948 and moved to Las Vegas AFB, Nevada.
By early 1947 the AAF had sped up its conv... |
Yakus v. United States | Background | Yakus v. United States Background Massachusetts meat dealer Albert Yakus, criminally prosecuted for violating the wholesale beef price ceiling, had failed to launch a procedurally difficult pre-enforcement attack on the OPA regulations constitutionality and was barred from collateral challenges during his trial. The Co... |
Ébrié Lagoon | Geography | natural mouth of the complex is at Grand-Bassam, but this tends to silt up during the dry season. There are several large and many small islands in the lagoon. The cities of Abidjan, Bingerville, Jacqueville, Attécoubé, Tiagba and Dabou lie beside the lagoon and it is crossed by four bridges.
The Ébrié Lagoon has an ar... |
Williams Air Force Base | Closure in the 1990s | 31 March 1993, redesignating it as the 82d Training Wing and transferring it to Sheppard AFB, Texas, where it would control non-flying officer and enlisted technical training, a role it continues to this day. This left the now independent 82d Operations Group to close Williams AFB. The command inactivated the operatio... |
Toshiya Sugiuchi | 2005 & 2006 | ERA, in being voted to the Eiji Sawamura and league Most Valuable Player awards. He also went the entire season without recording a hit-batter, wild pitch, balk, or error. 2006 In 2006, Sugiuchi was named to the Japanese national team to play in the inaugural World Baseball Classic. However, he went 0–1 in two appearan... |
1774–1775 papal conclave | Conclave | belonging to his zelanti faction, tried to release Father Ricci from prison. This initiative obtained support of camerlengo Carlo Rezzonico and of Cardinal of York, but the anti-Jesuit faction was strong enough to frustrate it.
Every day at least one ballot took place, but no candidates with serious chances for the ele... |
Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase | Function in planta | Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase (XET) is an apoplastic enzyme found across the plant kingdom. The enzyme catalyzes the endotransglucosylation of two xyloglucan polysaccharides, effectively 'stitching' them together. Function in planta XET is thought to promote cell expansion by breaking ... |
Williams Air Force Base | F-5E/F Tiger II | 1973, the first upgraded F-5 Tiger II reached the 425th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron. This squadron was assigned the task of training for crews that had acquired the F-5E under MAP. Pilots from over 20 nations trained at Williams throughout the 1970s and 1980s on the F-5E. The F-5E/Fs assigned to the 425th for t... |
Winterbourne, Gloucestershire | Governance & Schools | Winterbourne, Gloucestershire Governance An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches from Winterbourne in the north west to Hambrook in the southeast. The total population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 6,994. Schools Winterbourne contains several schools. The main primary schools are Elm P... |
145th Street (Manhattan) | Description | 145th Street (Manhattan) 145th Street is a major crosstown street in the Harlem neighborhood, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is one of the 15 crosstown streets mapped out in the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan. It forms the southern border of the Sugar H... |
Ōkuninushi | White hare of Inaba & Vengeance of rivals | the rest of the group). Vengeance of rivals Just as the rabbit predicted, Princess Yakami/Yagami pronounced before the eighty gods that she had chosen Ōkuninushi as her mate. The rival gods, his brothers, were all furious, and conspired to slay him.
They compelled him, on pain of death, to chase down a red boar, which... |
Window Rock, Arizona | Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park & Ch'ihootso Indian Market Place & Transportation | mule deer, Mexican gray wolf, black bear, cougar, golden eagle, bighorn sheep, lynx, Rio Grande wild turkey, raccoon, Canada goose, and fox. The Navajo Nation Zoo is open Monday through Saturday and is free to the public. Ch'ihootso Indian Market Place The Ch'ihootso Market Place offers many vendors with Navajo arts an... |
181st Rifle Division | First Formation | 1941.
On June 22, 1941, it was stationed at summer camps in the Gulbene area in an abbreviated format. Here until July 29, the division was expanded to full wartime strength.
From the beginning of the war desertion of Latvians began, and from June 29, 1941, according to some sources, they began their demobilization. Mo... |
Victor Pinchuk | Philanthropy | tomorrow; the foundation is active in the fields of health, education, culture, international affairs, human rights and local communities.
The foundation's projects include the largest private scholarship program in Ukraine "Zavtra.UA", the scholarship program for Ukrainian students studying abroad "WorldWideStudies", ... |
101st Grenadiers | First World War | defeat, the British garrison in Jassin surrendered, after no relief force had arrived, with nearly 300 British and Indians troops taken prisoner, including the company of the 101st, but were subsequently released on parole with the pledge that they would have no further participation in the war.
One company of the Regi... |
V12 engine | V12 road cars | 1930 to 1940) and Marmon (1931–33) even developed V16 engines.
Improvements in combustion chamber design and piston form enabled lighter V8 engines to surpass the V12 in power starting from the 1930s; only the smaller, H-Series Lincoln V-12 remained after World War II and it was replaced by a V8 in 1949. Similarly, as ... |
Yangga | Language & Country | Yangga The Yangga were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland. They are not to be confused with the Yangaa. Language According to the colonial observer James Muirhead, the Yangga language was similar to the languages spoken by the Wangan, Yagalingu, Mian and Yambina.
However, it is also reported to ... |
Thomas DeMarco | Ottawa Redblacks & Edmonton Eskimos | in the 2014 CFL season before suffering a season-ending ACL tear in his left knee. He has the unusual distinction of punting for the first Redblacks touchdown at TD Place Stadium when his onside punt was recovered for a touchdown by Dobson Collins on August 2, 2014. DeMarco dressed for all 18 regular season games and t... |
World of Our Own (song) | Music video | the balcony of a futuristic building then on a deserted bridge. As they sing, the darkness lifts and the sun shines making everybody (the people) happy. The song ends with the scene shifting from the top of the roof of yet another futuristic building to back under the bridge from where the song initiated.
There is a vi... |
101st Grenadiers | First World War | that required intense patrolling to remove the threat. For the Regiment's involvement in the campaign it was awarded the Theatre Honour "East Africa 1914–16".
The 101st later saw service in the Middle East in the Palestine theatre – this theatre was the second largest, in terms of troop numbers, after the Western Front... |
Veterans Health Administration | Women & Primary care | However, studies show that 66.9 percent of women who do not use the VA for women's services consider private practice physicians more convenient. Also, 48.5 percent of women do not use women's services at the VA due to a lack of knowledge of VA eligibility and services. Primary care General care includes health evaluat... |
1852 East Suffolk by-election | null | 1852 East Suffolk by-election The 1852 East Suffolk by-election was held on 1 May 1852 after the death of the incumbent Conservative MP Frederick Thellusson, Lord Rendlesham. It was retained by the Conservative candidate Fitzroy Kelly, the Solicitor General for England and Wales and previously MP for Harwich, who was ... |
Weather lore | Where weather happens | sunny and dry all year long especially due to the non-stop presence of high atmospheric pressure aloft, whereas weather trends on the Indian subcontinent and in the western Pacific, for instance, the monsoonal belt, occur gradually over the very long term, and the diurnal weather patterns remain constant.
Weather folkl... |
1298 Nocturna | Physical characteristics & Rotation period & Diameter and albedo | is also an assumed carbonaceous C-type asteroid. Rotation period In February 2006, a rotational lightcurve of Nocturna was obtained from photometric observations by French amateur astronomer René Roy. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 34.80 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.11 magnitude (U=2). Nocturna... |
101st Grenadiers | 1778–1878 | badge. The regiment's second battle honour, "Mysore" for its involvement in the last of the Mysore wars, between 1789 and 1792.
The regiment raised a 2nd Battalion in 1793 and became the 1st Grenadier Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry. The 2nd Battalion would, in 1824, be separated from the 1st Grenadiers to become th... |
Yolanda Cuomo | Diane Arbus: Untitled, Revelations, The Libraries, A Chronology | artist’s life and trajectory. Revelations, the book, for the first time revealed the scope of Arbus’s artistic production and her life and work. Revelations includes an essay by Sandra S. Philips, senior curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; “In the Darkroom,” a discussion of Arbus’s printin... |
Wheelchair | Buildings | disabled in an environment without stairs.
Access starts outside of the building, with the provision of reduced height kerb-cuts where wheelchair users may need to cross roads, and the provision of adequate wheelchair parking, which must provide extra space in order to allow wheelchair users to transfer directly from s... |
Yonsei University Korean Language Institute | Program overview | Yonsei University Korean Language Institute The Yonsei University Korean Language Institute (Hangul: 한국어학당, Hanja:韓國語 學堂) provides instruction in Korean as a foreign language for international students and businesspeople in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul.
Established in 1959, over 62,000 students from more than 120 countries have... |
Up (2009 film) | Home media | the Luxo Jr. Premium Pack, includes a collectible lamp modeled after Pixar's bouncy short star that is designed to hold a complete Pixar Blu-ray collection.
In addition, Pixar also created a short film titled George and A.J., written and directed by storyboard artist Josh Cooley. This shows what the two Shady Oaks reti... |
Wintersingen | Demographics & Sights & Politics | new units per 1000 residents. As of 2000 the average price to rent three room apartment was about 877.00 CHF (US$700, £390, €560) and a four-room apartment cost an average of 1179.00 CHF (US$940, £530, €750). The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0%.
The historical population is given in the following cha... |
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