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Zoo Bar (Halifax, West Yorkshire) | Live music performances | live bands particularly on a Saturday night with varying frequency.
Many of the artists came from the West Yorkshire area and usually performed the Punk, Ska or Indie genres of music.
The bands that performed have gone on to receive varying degrees of national acclaim.
Bands which have performed at The Zoo Bar include ... |
1917 South Monmouthshire by-election | The campaign & Result | great national struggle. He made the successful prosecution of the war the principal plank of his campaigning. Garrod Thomas was supported by a letter from the prime minister underlining the wartime nature of the contest and held a number of public meetings. Cllr Thomas, perhaps intimidated by what was clearly a pro-wa... |
Zeng Xueming | Biography | of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which later became the government of North Vietnam. She then sent a message to the DRV ambassador in Beijing. This message was unanswered. She tried again in 1954, but her letter was again unanswered. Representatives of the Chinese government told her to stop trying to contact Ho ... |
Zhuo-Hua Pan | Optogenetics | electrical signals for neurons, into the eye to cure blindness. The method is now known as optogenetics. In the summer of 2004, he used a virus carrying the channelrhodopsin DNA to infect the ganglion cells in the eyes of blind mice, and successfully detected electrical activity when the cells were stimulated with ligh... |
Wembley Wizards | Aftermath | a standstill, made to appear utterly inferior by a team whose play was as cultured and beautiful as I ever expect to see." More than 30 years later he was still writing the same thing, adding that he had never seen a performance to match it in all the time that he had been watching football.
The Wizards were never sele... |
Texan sloop-of-war Austin | A period of inactivity & Naval Battle of Campeche | Then, in September 1842, General Adrian Woll led a large force of Mexican regulars in an invasion of Texas, capturing San Antonio in what has become known as the Woll Invasion.
In response to public outrage at the capture of San Antonio, Houston ordered the Austin and the brig Wharton to sail to Mexico and engage a Mex... |
Waukesha County gangsters | What Is Happening & Capone's Vacation Home | tip." They had a freedom that normal people during the Great Depression just didn't have. Capone's Vacation Home Al Capone owned a vacation home right off on Bluemound Road in Brookfield, Wisconsin. He picked this spot because there were no police departments in the area, instead it was patrolled by county sheriff depu... |
Walter Czollek | Life | where he supported himself with journalistic and translation work between 1939 and 1947. Life Walter Czollek was born in the Charlottenburg quarer of Berlin into a German-Jewish family. His father was a businessman. He had a conventional schooling, attending a Gymnasium (secondary school) locally and successfully c... |
Volcanic gas | Magmatic gases and high-temperature volcanic gases | dependent on pressure, temperature and the composition of the magma. As magma ascends towards the surface, the ambient pressure decreases, which decreases the solubility of the dissolved volatiles. Once the solubility decreases below the volatile concentration, the volatiles will tend to come out of solution within the... |
Åråsen Stadion | History | people helping at the weekends.
The grandstand was moved to the north side and a new grandstand with seating for 3,700 people was opened on the east end in 1978. The new stand was the first in Norway to have plastic seats and is the oldest part of the current stadium. Construction cost NOK 2.8 million, which was largel... |
Željko Mavrović | Early years & Amateur career & Professional career | Željko Mavrović Early years Mavrović was born in Zagreb, in the neighbourhood Srednjaci (which is the source of his nickname Šaka sa Srednjaka or Fist from Srednjaci). Amateur career As an amateur boxer, Mavrović was the Mediterranean champion in 1991 and Croatian champion in 1991 and 1992.
He quickly progressed from t... |
Wherwell Abbey | Later history | 1141, the Empress Matilda's forces fortified the abbey, but they were defeated by King Stephen's troops. Matilda's men fled into the abbey, which was then burned by Stephen's troops commanded by William of Ypres. Traces of the earthworks built by the Empress Matilda's forces are visible today.
In about 1186 a nun call... |
Xiao Zhichu | Biography | Xiao Zhichu Biography Xiao was born in 1897 in Lüling Town of Mudan District in Heze, Shandong, to Xiao Yuli (Chinese: 蕭于澧), a peasant. His grandfather Xiao Jinfeng (Chinese: 蕭金峰) was a teacher at local old-style private school. In 1915, when he studied at Shandong No. 6 High school (now Heze No. 1 High School), he dro... |
Željko Mavrović | Professional career | after twelve rounds on points. Although he was outclassed by Lewis in the fight, his daring performance pulled appreciative comments from boxing insiders. Lewis' manager Frank Maloney said that "Mavrović must have 240lb of steel in his chin" after the fight. Lewis described the fight as the most awkward win of his care... |
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense | Responsibilities | first in the line of succession to the secretary of defense.
The typical role of the deputy secretary of defense is to oversee the day-to-day business and lead the internal management processes of the $500-billion-plus Department of Defense budget, that is as its chief operating officer; while the secretary of defense ... |
Wendi Richter | Life after wrestling and WWE Hall of Fame (2005–present) | (2005–present) In the years after her retirement, Richter was uninvolved with wrestling. In a 2005 shoot interview, she expressed disgust towards the portrayal of women in the WWE product, and was still hurt over her WWF exit. In 2010, Richter was offered induction in the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2010, which she acce... |
Žarko Paspalj | Season with Panathinaikos | capable of leading the team to big trophies.
Predictably, Olympiacos fans immediately turned on their former hero and hounded him whenever the two teams met. This initially intimidated Paspalj, as chance had it that his first game for Panathinaikos was against Olympiacos in the Greek Cup, played at the neutral venue – ... |
Zebrawood | Zebrawood proper | with an interlocked or wavy grain. The interlocked grain of this wood, like that of many tropical woods, can make it difficult to work. It is also a decorative exotic wood, used in a limited way for veneer, wall paneling, custom furniture, furniture trim, inlay bandings, marquetry, specialty items and turnery. It is a... |
Traveling (basketball) | NFHS & NBA | Traveling (basketball) NFHS The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) traveling rule is almost identical to the NCAA rule, with an additional article clarifying restrictions regarding a player holding the ball while on the floor. NBA Rule 10, Section XIII—Traveling
a. A player who receives the ba... |
1880 Maine gubernatorial election | Background | leave the Republican Party because of dissatisfaction with their monetary policy. As did many farmers and laborers, Plaisted opposed currency backed by gold and silver, arguing that it caused the post-Panic of 1873 deflation that reduced wages and prices paid to farmers, laborers, and producers of raw materials. Inst... |
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center | null | a research program that includes more than 280 scientists. It was the first major cancer center to establish a formal research partnership with a national laboratory. The research programs at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center include biomedical technology, molecular oncology, comparative oncology, cancer therap... |
Žarko Paspalj | Early life | Žarko Paspalj Early life Paspalj's forester father Jovan moved from a small village on the slopes of Kozara in Bosanska Krajina to Pljevlja on business as he dealt in lumber trade. Once there he married a local woman, Mileva, and remained. Their first child, son Darko, was born in 1961, five years before Žarko was born... |
1965 English Greyhound Derby | Distances & Competition Report | 1965 English Greyhound Derby Distances 5¾, 3, 4, 6, Dis (lengths)
The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. From 1950 one length was equal to 0.08 of one second. Competition Report The 1965 Derby lacked a greyhound the calibre of Magourna Reject, Endless Gossip or Mile Bush Prid... |
Yakov Zeldovich | Academia and cosmology & Black hole thermodynamics | measurements by telescopes such as the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the South Pole Telescope has established it as one of the key observational probes of cluster cosmology. Zeldovich contributed sharp insights into the nature of the large scale structure of the universe, in particular, through the use of Lagrangian ... |
Zaisu | null | Zaisu A zaisu (座椅子) is a Japanese chair with no legs but a normal chair back. They are often found in traditional rooms with tatami mats, and are often used for relaxing under heated kotatsu tables.
Traditionally, the correct sitting style in Japan is seiza, kneeling with the weight on top of the lower legs, which are... |
Women's music | Record labels, distributors, and publications | with the record label Righteous Babe Records, and Holly Near with the record label Redwood Records in 1972. Redwood records expanded the scope of women's music recordings to include women of color by recording Sweet Honey in the Rock, an a cappella group of African-American singers founded by Bernice Reagon in 1978. A... |
1969 National League Championship Series | Background | an Atlanta team. |
1788–89 United States elections | Presidential election | 1788–89 United States elections Presidential election The presidential election of 1788–1789 was the first election of a federal head of state or head of government in United States history. Prior to the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, the U.S. had been governed under the Articles of Confederati... |
Wireline QA/QC | Log Quality Control (LQC) Digitalization | problems come from human error. This can be partly eliminated by employing smart software solutions. No matter how careful, people make mistakes, equipment fails, accidents happen. Effectiveness of a quality wireline logging management system is the ability of the wireline service companies, their engineers and logging... |
Yi Pyong-do | Japanese collaboration controversy | yoksahak. This group, specifically, excluded Yi Pyong-do due to his association with the colonial government, particularly the Chosenshi henshukai, which was generally viewed as an instrument used to distort Korean history by suppressing or delegitimizing important texts such as the Samguk yusa. Some sources, however, ... |
V12 engine | Characteristics | fewer cylinders.
Engines are often designed around cylinder units of a certain designed size, shape and speed. These are used as the working base of an engine, often of 6 cylinders. If more power is needed, it is easier to simply add more cylinders to increase displacement, without having to design a newer, larger cyli... |
Window Rock, Arizona | Origin of name | Window Rock, Arizona Origin of name Until 1936, the area was sparsely populated and known only by its ceremonial name Niʼ Ałníiʼgi ("Center of the World"). John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, chose the site to establish the seat of the Navajo Central Agency. His proposal to make the ceremonial name the offici... |
Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 | Court challenge | anticipation of it opening at 8 a.m., one hour before the 9 a.m. hearing scheduled to hear a Motion for Stay submitted by the State of Utah in the 10th District Court. An Emergency Motion to Stay, which would have granted a stay pending the ruling on the stay that is the subject of a hearing scheduled for December 23, ... |
Transit of Venus March | Background | Transit of Venus March Background One year after the 1882 Transit of Venus, Sousa was commissioned to compose a processional for the unveiling of a bronze statue of American physicist Joseph Henry, who had died in 1878. Henry, who had developed the first electric motor, was also the first secretary of the Smithsonian ... |
1974 Formula One season | Race 7: Sweden & Race 8: Holland | won, with Depailler completing a dominant 1–2 for Tyrrell, with Hunt third. Race 8: Holland Holland was host to the eighth round, and Lauda took his fourth pole of the year, with teammate Regazzoni alongside, and the McLarens of Fittipaldi and Hailwood next up. Lauda led from the start, will Hailwood jumping up to seco... |
Wintersingen | Economy & Religion | or 2.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 5.3% were in the information industry, 10 or 26.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 10.5% were in education and 4 or 10.5% were in health care.
In 2000, there were 26 workers who commuted into the municipality and 243 workers who commuted away. The municipalit... |
101st Grenadiers | Post-War | Battalion which had once been the 101st transferred to the Brigade of the Guards in 1952, becoming its 2nd Battalion (2 Guards). |
United Nations Peace Messenger Cities | null | in Marrakech, Morocco in 1991. The organization was born out of United Nations General Assembly designation as Peace Messengers based on idea that municipal authorities have profound responsibility to assume an active, creative role in establishing a Culture of Peace within their borders. Member cities of the Associati... |
Women's music | Record labels, distributors, and publications | single that was successfully sold by mail order, Olivia was able to release Meg Christian's I Know You Know and Cris Williamson's The Changer and the Changed. The Changer and the Changed was "one of the all-time best selling albums on any independent label" at that time, and was also the first LP to be entirely produc... |
Williams Air Force Base | F-5E/F Tiger II & Closure in the 1990s | was re-designated at Luke AFB.
The last two F-5Es off the production line were delivered to Bahrain on January 16, 1987. However, a few more were assembled from spares, the last ones being delivered on June 29, 1989. That month the squadron's F-5 training program terminated after having produced 1,499 graduates, and t... |
The Secret Policeman's Ball | 1979 – The Secret Policeman's Ball & 1981 – The Secret Policeman's Other Ball | Walker.
This film, plus four others, is included on the Secret Policeman's Balls DVD. 1981 – The Secret Policeman's Other Ball Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to b... |
Ángela San Juan | null | Ángela San Juan Ángela San Juan (born 23 November 1983) is a Spanish swimmer who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. |
William Ralph Cartwright | Life | William Ralph Cartwright William Ralph Cartwright (30 March 1771 – 4 January 1847) was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1797 and 1846. Life Cartwright was the son of Thomas Cartwright of Aynhoe Park and his wife Mary Catherine Desaguilliers. In 1793 a highwayman was tra... |
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey | Sailing activities & Honours and awards | Annual (generally referred to as Brassey's Naval Annual). He edited The Naval Annual until 1891. He was succeeded as editor by his son Thomas.
At the age of 79 Brassey sailed his yacht Sunbeam to Mudros Bay in order to support the troops as a hospital ship during the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign. Honours and awards Br... |
Weed, California | Recreation and tourism & 2010 | Rivers, or come to see and climb Mount Shasta, Castle Crags or the Trinity Alps. Visitors also engage in nearby skiing (both alpine and cross-country) and biking, or hike to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Mossbrae Falls, Lake Siskiyou, Castle Lake and Shasta Lake. 2010 The 2010 United ... |
Willem II (football club) | History | the fourth time in their history. They beat AZ Alkmaar in the semi-finals after a penalty shoot-out, but were defeated by in the final by AFC Ajax.
The fans of Willem II have close relations with the fans of English championship club Bristol City. For Bristol City's game on 31 October 2009 against Sheffield Wednesday, ... |
1877 Mississippi gubernatorial election | General election | 1877 Mississippi gubernatorial election General election In the general election, Stone ran unopposed. |
101st Grenadiers | The Second Afghan War | British-backed Amir of Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan. At the Battle of Maiwand, on 27 July 1880, the Bombay Grenadiers and its column, under Brigadier George Burrows were attacked by an Afghan force of up to 25,000 men.
The British began the battle with an artillery barrage that the Afghans responded to via their own ... |
Wintersingen | Religion | Roman Catholic, while 425 or 72.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.34% of the population), there were 4 individuals (or about 0.68% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 3 individuals ... |
Treytorrens | Geography | Treytorrens Geography Treytorrens has an area, as of 2009, of 3.1 square kilometers (1.2 sq mi). Of this area, 2.31 km² (0.89 sq mi) or 75.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.64 km² (0.25 sq mi) or 20.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.15 km² (37 acres) or 4.9% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of t... |
William A. Chatfield | null | William A. Chatfield William Austin Chatfield is an American government executive and lobbyist who served as the 11th Director of Selective Service from November 29, 2004 to May 29, 2009, having been nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He was directly responsible to the President fo... |
1974 Waltham Forest London Borough Council election | null | 1974 Waltham Forest London Borough Council election The 1974 Waltham Forest Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Waltham Forest London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council. |
Yangon United F.C. | History | also became champions of the 2011 Max Cement MFF Cup. This is the first time a team has won both the cup and the championship in the short history of the MNL. In 2012, the club won their second consecutive Myanmar National League title and qualified for the 2013 AFC Cup.
In 2010, Yangon United built their training grou... |
1936 FIRA Tournament | French players | 1936 FIRA Tournament French players Forwards : Francis Daguerre (Biarritz Olympique), André Goyard (Lyon OU), André Rochon (AS Montferrand), Étienne Ithurra (Biarritz Olympique), M. Laurent (FC Auch), François Raynal (USA Perpignan), Louis Dupont (Racing club de France), Lucien Cognet (AS Montferrand).
Backs : Pierre T... |
Zeeboids | Creating Zeeboids & Online Tournament in Brazil | Zeeboids Zeeboids is an avatar creation application developed by Zeebo Interactive Studios in Brazil and released exclusively for the Zeebo system. Zeeboids is compatible with Zeebo Football Club (F.C.) games such as Zeebo F.C. Foot Camp, enabling players to create custom characters ("avatars") and participate in onlin... |
Zeke Sinicola | null | Zeke Sinicola Emilio "Zeke" Sinicola (January 25, 1929 in East Harlem – June 6, 2011 in Manhattan) was an American basketball player. He played on the collegiate level at Niagara University and was a NCAA Men's Basketball All-American. In the early 1950s he played for the Fort Wayne Pistons of the National Basketball A... |
Yvonne DeLaRosa | Career & Cannabis Entrepreneurship | Mexican-American family living in the United States.
In 2011 DeLaRosa, also within his acting career had the opportunity to work on the Los Americans web series, sharing sets with well-known actors such as Esai Morales, JC Gonzalez and Lupe Ontiveros. Cannabis Entrepreneurship Along with her husband Boyer, DeLaRosa sta... |
The Secret Policeman's Ball | 1987 – The Secret Policeman's Third Ball & 1988 – Amnesty International Festival Of Youth | the videos were produced by Hollingsworth and Neville Bolt.
The 92-minute TV and video specials were subsequently criticised for the increased musical content. While all the musical performances were presented in full, the comedic performances were often edited heavily. The TV version also prominently featured spoof do... |
Yanagihara Naruko | Life | several prestigious honours in recognition of having continued the imperial line, despite a tendency to blame her for her son's increasingly poor mental health. However, she was permitted to be present at her son's deathbed in December 1926.
In 1941, Lady Naruko's great-grandniece, the Hon. Takagi Yuriko, married her g... |
Yonsei University Korean Language Institute | Housing | to the Korean Language Institute. KLI students are only guaranteed three semesters (9 months) of housing there, and living there in subsequent terms is subject to room availability. In the SK Global House, options are available between a single or shared room, both types of rooms come with attached bathrooms. In the In... |
Winterbourne, Gloucestershire | Sport and leisure | Parkside Avenue and a popular village cricket club that fields 5 senior sides - Winterbourne CC - who share the same ground. Winterbourne Down Border Morris performs during the year at events such as wassailing, and especially on Boxing Day when they perform a Mummers play. |
Women's music | Women's music festivals | and crafts promote a "positive lesbian identity." The festival has also been a place where women can openly display their sexuality including same-sex affections.
Currently, festivals continue to thrive in the United States and other countries. |
Western Mail (Western Australia) | Published 1885-1955 | permanent photographer Fred Flood, many of whose photographs were featured in the Western Mail.
In 1933 it celebrated its first use of photographs in 1897 in a West Australian article.
The Western Mail featured early work from a large number of prominent West Australian authors and artists, including; Mary Durack, Eliz... |
1969 York race riot | Investigations reopened | committed suicide over the years, but that another, who was suffering from terminal cancer, wanted to talk. Before he died he told investigators what he knew about the night Allen was killed. More developments came the following year after detectives visited the rural home of Donald Altland, another ex-member of the ga... |
Whale watching | Southwest Pacific – New Zealand and Australia & Whaling and whale watching | the Pacific coast. From headlands, whales may often be seen making their migration south. At times, whales even make it into Sydney Harbour.
New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife took an active role in 2010 during the peak southern whale watching season between May and November with the launch of its whale watchi... |
Åråsen Stadion | Events | Sweden in 1984, 1–0 against Finland in 1985, 4–0 against England in 1997, 2–0 against England in 1998, 4–0 against Ukraine in 2001, 4–1 against Ukraine in 2005 and 3–0 against Austria in 2007.
Norway hosted the 2002 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, with two group-stage matches being played at Åråsen. On 23... |
Waris Jari Hantu | Production | even to a point of watching several documentaries from Animal Planet and National Geographic as reference. |
Ébrié Lagoon | Flora and fauna | by a sandbar and much of the terrain close to the lagoon is swampy, with taller vegetation and some trees.
In the shallow parts of the lagoon there are a range of invertebrates including polychaete worms, nemertean worms, oligochaetes, isopods, amphipods and prawns. Over a hundred species of fish have been recorded in ... |
Thomas Whitbread | Arrest, trial and execution | was a firm believer in the Plot and deeply hostile to Catholic priests. In the circumstances Whitbread could not have hoped to escape, and, although he strongly maintained his innocence, Kenyon suggests that he had resigned himself to death. Certainly the sermon he had preached at Liege the previous year suggests tha... |
World Socialist Party of Canada | null | no longer belongs to the WSPC, or that the WSPC no longer exists. It was the beginning of the end for the World Socialist Party of Canada. |
Water vascular system | Ophiuroids & Sea urchins | arms. Unlike sea stars, the tube feet are paired instead of staggered, and there are no ampullae. Instead, a simple valve at the upper end of the foot helps to control water pressure in the tube feet, along with contraction of the associated canals. Sea urchins The madreporite of sea urchins is located within one of th... |
Tig Trager | Season 1 | Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent arrived in Charming and began investigating the club, they moved their weapons to Indian Hills, Nevada, where their brother club, the Devil's Tribe, is based. Tig and Juice Ortiz were stuck with the task of stealing a truck to transport the guns in. Juice drugged the guar... |
Vedder Van Dyck | Biography | Vedder Van Dyck Biography A graduate of Columbia College (1918) and the General Theological Seminary in New York (1914), he was consecrated on February 24, 1936. His consecrators were James DeWolf Perry, Henry Knox Sherrill and John T. Dallas. Prior to this, Van Dyck was served Saint Mary's Church in Amityville, New Yo... |
Yellow cassava | Complaints about Yellow Cassava (Controversies) & Consumption and Uses | Nigeria. Researchers have examined consumer willingness to purchase and eat yellow cassava in Nigeria and found that, in the absence of nutritional information, light yellow varieties are prized over white ones in the southwest (Oyo State) but not the southeast (Imo State). With an information campaign, yellow varietie... |
1935 World Series | Detroit: "City of Champions" | seen three major league championships in less than a year. Detroit's "champions" included Detroit's "Brown Bomber", Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion; native Detroiter Gar Wood who was the champion of unlimited powerboat racing and the first man to go 100 miles per hour on water; and Eddie "the Midnight Expre... |
Wheelchair | Buildings | equality legislation such the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). The Social Model of Disability defines 'disability' as the discrimination experienced by people with impairments as a result of the failure of society to provide the adaptions needed for them to participate in society as equals. This includes ... |
1969 York race riot | Investigations reopened | scrawled on a napkin, "Forgive Me, God."
On April 27, 2001, charges were filed for the first time in Lillie Belle Allen's murder. Two brothers, Robert Messersmith and Arthur Messersmith, both members of the Newberry Street Boys, an all-white gang, were charged with criminal homicide after witnesses told a grand jury t... |
USS R-7 (SS-84) | 1940–1946 | shipping lanes between Bermuda and the northeastern coast. She maintained those patrols through the German anti-shipping offensive of 1942 alternately basing her operations at Bermuda and New London. Once, in May 1942, she sighted a U-boat and launched four torpedoes, but lost contact while reloading.
From the spring o... |
William S. Schwartz | Biography | William S. Schwartz William Samuel Schwartz (February 23, 1896 – February 10, 1977) was an American artist who lived and worked in Chicago. Biography Schwartz was born in Smorgon in Belarus, then in the Russian Empire to Samuel Schwartz and Tauba Reznikoff. At the age of thirteen, he moved to the nearby city of Vilna t... |
West Vancouver Secondary School | International Baccalaureate program | as Biology, Chemistry, English, Film, French, Geography, History, Japanese, Mandarin, Mathematics, Physics, Spanish, Theatre, and Visual Arts. The standard Diploma programme course, Theory of Knowledge, is required in this program.
WVSS is the only public high school in the West Vancouver School District to offer the I... |
West Cheshire Railway | Route and stations & Chester & West Cheshire Junction Railway | line from Mouldsworth to Helsby Junction continued in use until 14 September 1991 for freight trains heading for the Birkenhead Railway. Chester & West Cheshire Junction Railway This company was incorporated on 5 July 1865 with the intention of seeking parliamentary approval for a railway linking the WCR's line at Mou... |
The Courtship of Stewie's Father | Production | Chris broke his window, he was meant to say more, but it was cut; one scene was intended to have Peter replying with "If he wants you to do a job, give him the best job you've ever given". When Quagmire is describing how he seduced two homeless twins, Fox censored the gesture which saw Quagmire pretending to put his ha... |
1921 (1988 film) | Plot & Reception | South Malabar society of the 1920s. The film also touches various social dilemmas which led to the 1921 Uprising, the atrocities committed by the British army and the rebels during the events and the eventual collapse of the rebel unity and organisation. Reception In a December 1988 report in India Today, Sreedhar Pill... |
Ullersmo Prison | null | Ullersmo Prison Ullersmo Prison (Norwegian: Ullersmo fengsel) is a prison in Ullensaker, Akershus. It was opened in 1970. The prison was intended as a replacement for the Botsfengselet in Oslo. It is used for long term prisoners from the whole of Norway, and has room for 205 inmates. The prison contains a sick ward, me... |
Zoo Bar (Halifax, West Yorkshire) | Background | Zoo Bar (Halifax, West Yorkshire) The Tramshed and Zoo Bar were two adjoining night clubs in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. First called "Theo's Zoo bar", in the early 1990s, and named after the head bouncer, the original venue was a standalone nightclub. The Tramshed and Zoo Bar were brought to national attention b... |
1788–89 United States elections | Presidential election & Congressional elections | states cast electoral votes; North Carolina and Rhode Island did not participate as they had not yet ratified the Constitution, while the New York legislature failed to appoint its allotted electors in time. Congressional elections In 1788 and 1789, there were no political parties, but the major political split was bet... |
USS Ross (DD-563) | Marianas and Palaus campaign | USS Ross (DD-563) Marianas and Palaus campaign Attached to the carrier support group for the invasion of Saipan, Ross arrived on station in the operating area to the east of the island on 14 June. Through the landings on the 15th, and until the 19th, she remained in that area providing screening and plane guard service... |
Villa Gazzotti Grimani | Architectural details | Villa Gazzotti Grimani Architectural details The villa was designed and built in the 1540s for the Venetian Taddeo Gazzotti and, like a number of Palladio's buildings, it incorporates a pre-existing structure. In 1550, before the building was completed, Gazzotti was facing financial problems and sold the villa to Girol... |
Žarko Paspalj | Back to Greece: Aris | heyday in the early 1990s. Two three-pointers against PAOK in the return game, which Aris also won, proved the point, as Paspalj dominated his young compatriot, Peja Stojaković, who was about to leave Greece for a stellar career in the NBA. Against Olympiacos, at a time when Aris was in economic crisis and many of its ... |
Wingman Project | Project goal | one’s, or even their own. Using a straightforward approach known as Ask, Care, Escort (ACE), men and women in uniform will have the tools to intervene during a crisis in order to help a friend or loved one get the professional help needed.
This project was developed with the assistance of the QPR Institute but did not ... |
Watts–Strogatz model | Average path length & Limitations | For a ring lattice, the average path length is and scales linearly with the system size. In the limiting case of , the graph approaches a random graph with , while not actually converging to it. In the intermediate region , the average path length falls very rapidly with increasing , quickly approaching its limiting v... |
Virtual community | On communication | two categories: 1) sustained, intimate human relations "are critical to well-functioning human beings as a matter of psychological need" and 2) people with "social capital" are better off than those who lack it. It leads to better results in terms of political participation. However, Benkler argues that unless Internet... |
Yellow-throated warbler | Description | Yellow-throated warbler Description In summer, male yellow-throated warblers display grey upperparts and wings, with double white wing bars. Their throats are yellow, and the remainder of their underparts are white, and are streaked with black on the flanks. Their heads are strongly patterned in black and white, with a... |
WAVY-TV | News operation | hours of local news a week. It operates its own weather radar, called "Super Doppler 10", at its studios. It was the first in the area to air a local broadcast at 5:30 in the morning (beginning in 1992) and added weeknight 5:00 (in 1989) and 5:30 (in 1994) newscasts. It is known for being the first Hampton Roads statio... |
Åråsen Stadion | History | a completely renovated stadium started in February 1999. To finance the stadium, a limited company, Åråsen Stadion AS, was established, and owned by the club, rather than by the limited company which runs the elite team. Only the East Stand from 1978 was kept. In 2000, new grass was laid on the pitch, replacing the ori... |
Transylvania (series) | Transylvania & The Crimson Crown - Further Adventures in Transylvania & Transylvania III - Vanquish the Night | sounds, and vintage "retro" graphics. The Crimson Crown - Further Adventures in Transylvania Released in 1985 under the title The Crimson Crown, on the same platforms as its predecessor. The game tasks the player with a quest to defeat a magical vampire with the assistance of Princess Sabrina (who is now a fledgling m... |
Åråsen Stadion | History | approved a new grandstand on the east long side. Construction started in late 1973, with the stand covering two-thirds of the length of the pitch, and opened ahead of the 1974 season with capacity for 1,056 spectators. The club house was expanded to 200 square meters (2,200 sq ft). In 1974, the club won promotion to th... |
1788–89 United States elections | Congressional elections | in designing and ratifying the Constitution, defeated James Monroe, an anti-federalist who favored major changes to the Constitution. In many elections, local issues and the personal popularity of the candidates played a more important role than positions on the Constitution and other national issues.
Retrospectively, ... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | SS-20s pointing at Europe | strong protests from the peace movements and heavy diplomatic pressure in the European Parliament. NATO's condition for not carrying out its plans was the Soviet Union's willingness to halt the deployment of mobile SS-20 nuclear missiles aimed at Europe and remove the missiles already deployed. In 1979, when the NATO d... |
Wu Ching-kuo | Response to Olympic Controversy & Financial Allegations against Wu | that only the removal of Wu, his administration and all of the officials at the Olympics could cut it out.
“President Wu needs to resign, as well as the executive director and the senior staff. Every RJ [referee and judge] and ITO [international technical official] needs to be suspended. That’s the only way it’s going ... |
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