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William Richards (Hawaii) | Diplomat | return to London, appointing Alexander Simpson to take his place. Charlton had met with officers of the British Pacific fleet in Mexico, where he reported that French and Americans were going to take over the islands unless the British acted soon.
Richards and Haʻalilio then went to London and requested a visit with
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Wahl (Noble family) | History | Wahl (Noble family) The Wahl family originated in Scotland and then settled in the Baltic states. History The von Wahl family is a branch of the old Scottish noble family "MacDowall" or "MacDougall of Makerstoun". The family originally came from Galloway on the Scottish west coast. In the Middle Ages, the Clan MacDowal... |
Zealand, New Brunswick | Early Postal Service & Railway | over, continuing the post office duties until 1885. Rev. Peter O. Rees took over from Mr. Brewer on August 1, 1885, as the new name for the post office changed from New Zealand to Zealand Station. Mr. Rees maintained this position until April 4, 1899. The final change came in 1961, after several postmasters, when the p... |
1985 European Cup Final | Disaster & Summary | stopped by the police. The resulting confrontation lasted two hours and was still ongoing when the match kicked off. Summary The match was delayed for over an hour as a result of the disaster, but was played because officials felt that abandoning the match would result in further violence. Two minutes into the match, L... |
Zoo Bar (Halifax, West Yorkshire) | Live music performances | to perform on Saturdays. The night was sponsored by local music shop First Floor Music.
The Tram-Shed part of the nightclub has also previously played host to the heats of 2005 The Pulse of West Yorkshire battle of the bands. |
Veterans Health Administration | Use of electronic records | procedures. Doctors can call up patient records, order prescriptions, view X-rays or graph a chart of risk factors and medications to decide treatments. Patients have a home page that have boxes for allergies and medications, records every visit, call and note, and issues prompts reminding doctors to make routine check... |
Α-Methylfentanyl | History | Α-Methylfentanyl History α-Methylfentanyl was initially discovered by a team at Janssen Pharmaceutica in the 1960s. In 1976, it began to appear mixed with "china white" heroin as an additive. It was first identified in the bodies of two drug overdose victims in Orange County, California, in December 1979, who appeared ... |
1991 Tour de France | Pre-race favourites & Race overview | 1991 Tour de France Pre-race favourites Greg LeMond, the winner of the last two editions, was still considered a favourite going into the race, although not by the French media, as his early season had been unsuccessful. Race overview The prologue was won by specialist Thierry Marie, who also had won the prologue in th... |
1948 Geelong state by-election | null | 1948 Geelong state by-election A by-election for the seat of Geelong in the Victorian Legislative Assembly was held on Saturday 13 November 1948. The by-election was triggered by the death of Labor member Fanny Brownbill on 10 October 1948.
The candidates were M. J. Travers for the Labor Party (a metalworker employed b... |
1979 Milwaukee Brewers season | Regular season | 1979 Milwaukee Brewers season Regular season Gorman Thomas enjoyed his best season in the majors, compiling career high numbers in home runs (45, tops in the AL), RBI (123), runs scored (97), hits (136), doubles (29), walks (98), on-base percentage (.356), total bases (300), slugging average (.539) and OPS (.895). |
Žarko Paspalj | Season with Panathinaikos | the head-to-head record that gave Olympiacos the crucial home court advantage throughout the play-offs. Paspalj's performances in the five-game playoff final series with Olympiacos were particularly disappointing, as although he scored 21 and 19 points in games 2 and 4 (when Panathinaikos played at home), he hit just 1... |
Victor Pinchuk | Early life and career | the state asset sale, which competitors complained was far below market rate. Later, the first Tymoshenko government reversed this sale, and held a nationally-televised repeat auction that netted $4.8 billion. In 2006, Pinchuk founded an investment advisory company, EastOne. Its portfolio includes industrial assets suc... |
1902 Leeds North by-election | Education | the by-election exclusively or predominantly on the issue. As a former member of Leeds School Board, Barran took a strong interest in education. There was a robust debate going on around the government’s plans for an Education Bill to replace school boards with local education authorities and Liberals were highly exerc... |
1954 NSWRFL season | Season summary & Records set in 1954 | Final has been played every year to determine the premiership winner.
This season, in a New South Wales versus England match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, referee Aub Oxford watched in disbelief the players fighting around him like street-brawlers before turning his back and walking from the field. Oxford never referee... |
1985 European Cup Final | Background | congestion, which was won 2–0 by the Torinese team with two goals from Zbigniew Boniek.
Juventus finished the 1984–85 Serie A in fifth position, which was outside of the European qualification positions. In order to participate in European competition in 1985–86, they needed to win the European Cup. Liverpool had finis... |
Žarko Paspalj | Season with Panathinaikos | pharmaceutical business, his signing was seen as a big coup for Panathinaikos – not only were the greens getting a marquee player in the prime of his career, but at the same time they also managed to weaken their biggest rival by luring away their best player. Therefore, the expectations were also big – success in both... |
Virtual community | Advantages of Internet communities | have access to thousands of specific discussion groups where they can form specialized relationships and access information in such categories as: politics, technical assistance, social activities, health (see above) and recreational pleasures. Virtual communities provide an ideal medium for these types of relationship... |
Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung | Early SA rank insignia (1924–1929) | the SA rank and file, senior SA officers began to wear oak leaves on their collars to signify their authority. Under this system, a Standartenführer wore one oak leaf, an Oberführer two, and the Supreme SA Commander wore three. The lower ranks of SA-Führer and SA-Mann still wore no insignia.
In 1927, the officer rank o... |
Đàn nguyệt | null | Đàn nguyệt The đàn nguyệt ([ɗǎn ŋwiə̂ˀt] "moon lute") also called nguyệt cầm, đàn kìm, is a two-stringed Vietnamese traditional musical instrument. It is used in both folk and classical music, and remains popular throughout Vietnam (although during the 20th century many Vietnamese musicians increasingly gravitated tow... |
Yolanda Cuomo | Career and artistic practice & Work with Aperture Foundation | Tharp, this time designing Push Comes to Shove: An Autobiography (1992). Titled after Tharp’s 1976 dance work of the same name, Push Comes to Shove features many photographs by Richard Avedon, Martha Swope, James Klosty, and Lois Greenfield, among others, in addition to numerous posters designed by Israel and Cuomo. Wo... |
Āma | Jain account & Skanda Purana account | Kosha states that he built a shrine of Mahavira in Gopagiri (modern Gwalior). Under Jain influence, he abdicated the throne in favour of his son Dunduka. He retired to Magadha-tirtha, where he died in 832-833 CE (890 VS).
Dunduka was killed by his son Bhoja. There is no information about Bhoja's successors. Skanda Pura... |
Žarko Paspalj | Aborted move to Atlanta Hawks & Racing Paris | with a woman in Athens. Paspalj considered giving up basketball in the autumn of 1996 and took a break from the sport for several months to give his body a chance to recover from years of non-stop wear and tear. Racing Paris Paspalj would end up signing with Racing Paris, joining the squad featuring French national tea... |
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 | Internal selection | James Fox (2004). To date, the only Welsh-born person to sing on a winning Eurovision entrant is Nicky Stevens of Brotherhood of Man, that group having secured Eurovision victory for the UK in 1976 with "Save Your Kisses For Me".
According to Bonnie Tyler, the arrangement for Tyler to represent the UK at Eurovision 201... |
2000 Mercedes-Benz Cup | Doubles | 2000 Mercedes-Benz Cup Doubles Paul Kilderry / Sandon Stolle defeated Jan-Michael Gambill / Scott Humphries walkover |
Virtual community | Internet-based & User Experience Testing to Determine Social Codes | and online communities. Virtual communities may synthesize Web 2.0 technologies with the community, and therefore have been described as Community 2.0, although strong community bonds have been forged online since the early 1970s on timeshare systems like PLATO and later on Usenet. Online communities depend upon social... |
Žarko Paspalj | Panionios & Aborted move to Atlanta Hawks | to hit outside shots. This culminated in a match against Irakleio in 1996, when despite missing his first free-throw attempt he hit the next 15, something that would have been routine in 1991 and 1992 but unthinkable in 1994 and 1995.
This was evident in both the semi-final of the A1 Playoffs, when he nearly led his te... |
Yonsei University Korean Language Institute | Housing & Private housing | are small television lounges on each floor, a study lounge with computers with internet access on the first floor, and a large lounge and laundry room in the basement level. Security is present in the buildings, and entry is permitted through the a key card, which is issued at the time of entry. The fee is approximatel... |
Zhang Jun (serial killer) | Trial | death by the First Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing for intentional homicide and robbery, and deprived of political rights for life. On May 20, 2001, he was executed in Chongqing. |
2001 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | Format | 2001 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Format The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and tenth seeds, the second and ninth seeds, the third seed and eighth seeds, the fourth seed... |
Yonsei University Korean Language Institute | Program overview | is paced a bit slower. Usually, students native to other Asian countries or having some prior knowledge of the Korean language opt for the A course, while students coming from Western language backgrounds are encouraged to take the B course. The B course may not be offered if there are not enough students enrolled.
Lev... |
Window Rock, Arizona | Transportation & Business & Health care | Window Rock Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile south of the central business district of Window Rock, in Apache County. It is owned by the Navajo Nation.
Local transportation is provided by the Navajo Nation Transit System which operates from Window Rock. It provides several routes that serve the... |
1788–89 United States elections | Presidential election | however, wanted Washington to be the nation's first president. The first U.S. presidential campaign was, to some degree, what today would be called a grassroots effort to convince Washington to accept the office. Alexander Hamilton was one of the most dedicated in his efforts to get Washington to accept the presidency,... |
Zaisu | null | many styles, and can either have a cushion built in or be used with a zabuton. For an even more relaxed seating arrangement, one may also use a Japanese style armrest called a kyōsoku (脇息).
Zaisu are very common in Japan, particularly in houses with traditional Japanese-style rooms (washitsu) where low tables and sitt... |
The Putney School | Campus & Academic program | The Putney School Campus Most of the buildings on the school's campus were partially or completely built by Putney students and faculty, with the exception of the most recent additions, the Michael S. Currier Center and the Field House. This Currier Center is a departure from Putney's customary white, colonial-style ar... |
Yonezawa Domain | History & Advisors | Domain became Yonezawa prefecture with the abolition of the han system as a whole two years later, and was then combined with Okitama prefecture to form Yamagata prefecture.
The final daimyō of Yonezawa, Uesugi Mochinori, was later ennobled with the new kazoku peerage title of hakushaku (Count). Advisors Famous advisor... |
Öner Erkan | Biography | Öner Erkan Biography Öner Erkan began acting at the age of 15 and graduated from Department of Theatre, Dokuz Eylül University. Between 2003 and 2004, he acted in various plays by İstanbul City Theatre. He was cast in Avrupa Yakası and later in comedy series İki Aile as Ferit Pamukçuoğlu. Erkan has also appeared in mo... |
Wind wave model | Reanalyses | the northern hemisphere winter, the most intense wave activity is located in the central North Pacific south of the Aleutians, and in the central North Atlantic south of Iceland. During the southern hemisphere winter, intense wave activity circumscribes the pole at around 50°S, with 5 m significant wave heights typical... |
1985 European Cup Final | Summary & Post-match | and at full-time the score was 1–0 to Juventus, who had won their first European Cup and became the first club to win all three seasonal UEFA competitions. Post-match Despite being considered, from a sporting point of view, as one of the better European finals played until then, after the match, much discussion centred... |
1923 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election | Aftermath | until his death in 1933. Sullivan's failure to secure the Leader and Deputy-leader positions signaled to the moderate wing of the Labour Party that they were clearly the caucus minority. After his election as the deputy-chair, Savage proposed that the votes for leadership positions be held at the start of every new par... |
101st Grenadiers | 1778–1878 | 101st Grenadiers 1778–1878 The regiment was formed in 1778 after six grenadier companies (two companies each from the three battalions of the Bombay Army) were combined to form a composite battalion. During the First Mahratta War, the grenadier companies fought against the Mahratta Empire and was engaged in the Battle ... |
Up All Night (TV series) | Conception | to a baby boy. Due to the nature of her job, she was required to take care of the baby and work late nights. She decided she wanted to make a show based on those extremes. NBC executives were "supportive and excited" for the new series. On February 1, 2011, Up All Night received a pilot order, written by creator Spivey... |
Zoo Bar (Halifax, West Yorkshire) | Effects & Live music performances | Trax night club in Havering was raided at 9 pm on 25 November for drug dealing and its licence revoked. Cardiff City has also implemented its usage to close down clubs.
In the first year of the Licensing Act 2003 being passed, 100 establishments in England and Wales had their licenses revoked, with some temporarily sus... |
Wheelchair | Vehicles | program to remove a small amount of seating on some trains to make more room for bicycles and wheelchairs.
New York City's entire bus system is wheelchair-accessible, and a multimillion-dollar renovation program is underway to provide elevator access to many of the city's 485 subway stations.
In Adelaide, Australia, al... |
2008 Speedway Grand Prix | Event format | 2008 Speedway Grand Prix Event format The format for 2008 was the same as that used in 2007 with 16 riders taking part in each Grand Prix. Over the course of 20 heats each rider raced against every other rider once. The top eight scorers advanced to a semi-final and from each semi-final the first and second placed rid... |
William Gaines | 1960 - 1992 | 'That's the whole raise!' "And Bill said, 'I like good conversation and good food. I don't enjoy giving raises.'"
In his memoir Good Days and Mad (1994), Mad writer Dick DeBartolo recalls several anecdotes that characterize Gaines as a generous gourmand who liked practical jokes, and who enjoyed good-natured verbal abu... |
2009 Australian Drivers' Championship | Points System | 2009 Australian Drivers' Championship Points System Championship points were awarded on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the top ten classified finishers in the Championship Class in each race. One additional point was awarded to the driver setting the fastest lap time in the class in each qualifying session and in e... |
1774–1775 papal conclave | Death of Clement XIV & Divisions in the Sacred College | representation of the Sacred College, as well as, other persons as subjects." Divisions in the Sacred College The College of Cardinals was generally divided into two blocs: curial, pro-Jesuit (zelanti) and political, anti-Jesuit. The first one was formed by the Italian curial cardinals who opposed the secular influence... |
Žarko Paspalj | Racing Paris & Back to Greece: Aris | During this period, he averaged 12 points per game and shot over 80 percent from the free throw line, indicating that his shooting confidence was returning. Back to Greece: Aris Paspalj returned to Greece, his second home, for the 1997–98 season and signed for Aris. This grand old club throughout the 1980s, had fallen ... |
Āma | Jain account | Āma Jain account The Jain chronicle Bappabhatti-Suri-Charita states Yashovarman's chief queen Suyasha gave birth to Āma during her exile at Ramasainya. Also called Yashodevi, the queen was exiled because of a conspiracy by another queen.
Āma was brought up by the Jain monk Siddhasena at Modherakapura, but he and his mo... |
Yuli, Hualien | Geography & Administrative divisions | Yuli, Hualien Geography The township is located at the Huatung Valley. Administrative divisions The township comprises 15 villages: Chunri, Dayu, Dewu, Guanyin, Guowu, Lege, Qimo, Sanmin, Songpu, Taichang, Tungfeng, Yongchang, Yuancheng, Zhangliang and Zhongcheng. |
Željko Mavrović | Honors & Retirement and later years | (Croatian for Iroquois). Retirement and later years After retirement he went into agricultural business. He opened "Eko-centar Mavrović" in Sloboština near Požega where he produces his own line of eco-friendly food. After initial success his business fell into financial problems in the early 2010s. |
Wireline QA/QC | Introduction | difficult to access.
With the best quality wireline logging data acquired, subsequent steps in well production and completion are more precise and effective. High quality data and conscientious data management enables the prognosis of potential problems and failures so the whole process (the whole rig or oilfield lifet... |
1985 European Cup Final | Summary | Liverpool full-back Phil Neal. Juventus' first chance came in the 30th minute when Antonio Cabrini, advanced from the left-back position, but his shot was saved by Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar. Liverpool immediately countered – John Wark ran onto Ronnie Whelan's chipped pass, but his shot was saved by Juventu... |
William Day (horseman) | Training career | that the latter had hardly been trained since the Guineas. Both William and John Jr. were strongly suspected of involvement in a series of plots to "nobble" the other leading fancy Wild Dayrell, who nevertheless won the race, with Kingstown second and Lord of the Isles third. Merry removed all his horses from Day's sta... |
10 cm M. 14 Feldhaubitze | Design | 10 cm M. 14 Feldhaubitze Design It was a conventional design, although the first versions used an obsolescent wrought bronze barrel liner and a cast bronze jacket. Later versions used a standard steel barrel. The spade was in two pieces, one designed for use in icy ground and the other in normal soil.
Two cannoneers sa... |
Wannia | Discovery and naming | Wannia Discovery and naming Wannia was first described and named by the late Dr. Wann Langston Jr. in 1949 as a species referable to Paleorhinus, P. scurriensis. An alternative generic name, Wannia, was proposed by Michelle R. Stocker in 2013 creating the new combination Wannia scurriensis. The generic name honors Lang... |
William Brodie Gurney | Religious & philanthropic interests | Westminster auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, he was elected a member of the first committee, and soon after became secretary. In connection with the baptist denomination he was treasurer of Stepney College from 1828, and of their foreign missions from 1835. Like his father he was warmly interested in... |
2003 Afro-Asian Games | History | a proposal for the renewal of the Games was accepted. Subsequently, Pune and then New Delhi were proposed as venues. However, they were postponed till November 2001. Slow preparations led to indefinite postponement again. After the occurrence of 9/11, Delhi pulled out. This led to the circulation of rumours that the ga... |
Wendy Maruyama | Background & Educator | School for American Crafts in New York. Educator Maruyama taught at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Smithville, Tennessee from 1980-1985, and served as head of the woodworking and furniture design program from 82-85. She then went on to work as the head of woodworking and furniture design at California College of ... |
Wheelchair | Powerchair football & Wheelchair stretchers & All-terrain wheelchairs | football While most wheelchair sports use manual chairs, some power chair sports, such as powerchair football, exist.
E-hockey is hockey played from electrical wheelchairs. Wheelchair stretchers Wheelchair stretchers are a variant of wheeled stretchers/gurneys that can accommodate a sitting patient, or be adjusted to l... |
Whaddon, Cambridgeshire | Village life | in around 1900, closing in 1956.
A travellers' site is located on the western side of the village. South Cambridgeshire has recently announced that the site is to be expanded and improved in a £1.4 million development project. |
Trent Richardson | Indianapolis Colts & Oakland Raiders & Baltimore Ravens & Saskatchewan Roughriders | March 12, 2015, the Colts waived Richardson. Oakland Raiders On March 17, 2015, Richardson signed a two-year, $3,850,000 contract with the Oakland Raiders. The deal included $600,000 guaranteed. He missed the first part of training camp due to a bout with pneumonia. On August 31, 2015, Richardson was released by the te... |
1991 FIFA Women's World Cup Final | Background | 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup Final Background The final was contested by Norway, who rebounded from a stunning 4–0 defeat by host nation China PR to qualify from their group. They then dispatched Italy and historic rivals Sweden in the knockout rounds to reach the final. The other team in the final was the United States... |
1875–76 Home Nations rugby union matches | Scoring system | 1875–76 Home Nations rugby union matches The 1875-76 Home Nations rugby union matches are a series of international friendlies held between the England, Ireland and Scotland national rugby union teams. These were the last international rugby games to field teams of twenty players a side, the teams reducing to fifteen a... |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | USAFE in Turkey | of passengers and cargo. From the 1950s – 1970s, the 39th supported various SAC activities in Turkey, which used Incirlik intensively as a base for U-2 reconnaissance flights along the Soviet border and in the Middle East.
In Ankara, the 7217th Air Base Group managed the logistical support for more than 40 units and ag... |
10 cm M. 14 Feldhaubitze | Royal Italian Army | service the guns were designated Obice da 100/17 Mod. 14 and Obice da 100/17 Mod. 16. The Royal Army Arsenal in Turin developed a new series of ammunition for the howitzers which were introduced in 1932 and included chemical warfare grenades. At the outbreak of World War II the Royal Army and the Guardia alla Frontiera... |
2009 International Bowl | Third quarter | line, the Huskies drove to within the Buffalo 10-yard line; an offside penalty on Buffalo's Jerry Housey gave UConn a 1st-and-goal at the Buffalo 4-yard line. Connecticut used a play-action pass, only their second pass attempt of the game, to fool the Bulls; UConn tight end Steve Brouse was wide open in the end zone, c... |
1946 Cabinet Mission to India | Reactions | satisfied Jinnah's insistence on a large Pakistan, which would avert the moth-eaten Pakistan without the mostly non-Muslim districts in Bengal and Punjab being partitioned away. By holding the full provinces of Punjab and Bengal, Jinnah could satisfy the provincial leaders who feared losing power if their provinces wer... |
1936 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) | 2. Class | 1936 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) 2. Class Budapest: 1. MUE 10, 2. NSC 9, 3. VAC 5, 4. MAFC 0 point.
Eastern Division: 1. MOVE Eger SE 10, 2. Orosházi UE 8, 3. Kecskeméti AC 6, 4. Szolnoki MÁV 4, 5. Egri TE 2, 6. Jászapáti Összetartás SE 0 point.
Western Division: 1. Győri ETO, 2. Tatabányai SC.
Final: MUE–G... |
Vivian Osborne Marsh | Career | Order of the Eastern Star.
Marsh was also active with the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, beginning as a member of the Phillis Wheatley Club in college. She was a member of the YWCA and the Berkeley Women's Civic Club, and was director of the Oakland junior branch of the NAACP from 1928 to 1929. She sup... |
William Woodville | Biography | going to study medicine at Edinburgh University, where he became the favourite pupil of William Cullen, and graduated M.D. on 12 September 1775. After spending some time on the continent he began to practise at Papcastle in his native county, but shortly afterwards moved to Denbigh. In 1778 he accidentally shot a man i... |
William Kemmler | Execution | to the chair, his face was covered and the metal restraint put on his bare head. He said, "Take it easy and do it properly, I'm in no hurry." Durston replied, "Goodbye, William" and ordered the switch thrown.
The generator was charged with the 1,000 volts, which was assumed to be adequate to induce quick unconsciousnes... |
Women's music | History | Cues such as tempo, articulation, and other dynamics signify many different types of meanings – they are not standard. Each musician uses these codes and cues to suit their music, and thus express themselves through song.
Feminist musicians aimed to show a positive, proactive, and assertive image of women that not only... |
Wireline QA/QC | Introduction | calibrated as per normal field operational procedure) or derived data (data resulting from the processing of the original data, e. g. calculating the volume of shale).
Main components of the well log data record are logs themselves (main curves for the main and repeat sections with relevant information - calibration in... |
1991 Tour de France | Race overview | post-war solo escape in the Tour de France. His margin to the rest was big enough to put him back in the top position of the general classification. The time trial in stage eight was won by Miguel Indurain, with LeMond in second place, only eight seconds slower. This was enough to make LeMond the new leader, with Breuk... |
1902 Leeds North by-election | Other issues | election in defence of the government but clearly took the attack to the Liberals on supposed internal dissensions in the Liberal Party, around the roles of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Lord Rosebery. Rosebery the former prime minister had become increasingly out of step with the mainstream of Liberal MPs on social... |
Willie Brigitte | Recruited to Al Qaeda & In Australia | He did not tell Keita where he was going. In Australia Brigitte is alleged to have stayed with Faheem Khalid Lodhi, better known as Abu Hamza, a Pakistani-born, Australian-naturalized contact of Mir, living in South-western Sydney. He worked at a halal restaurant in the center of Sydney, and along with fraternising wit... |
Whale watching | Southwest Pacific – New Zealand and Australia | tours from May to November.
Southern right whales are seen June–August along the south coast of Australia. They are often readily viewed from the coast around Encounter Bay near Victor Harbor and up to a hundred at a time may be seen from the cliff tops at the head of the Great Australian Bight near Yalata. See also Wh... |
Zainab bint Muhammad | Emigration to Medina & Reunion with Abu al-As | Medina wearing a striped silk cloak. Reunion with Abu al-As Zainab did not see her husband again until September or October 627, when he entered her house in Medina by night, asking for protection. Muslim raiders had stolen some merchandise that he was keeping in trust for other Quraysh, and he wanted to try to recover... |
2009 International Bowl | Buffalo | East championship but did not appear in the championship game due to a 31–28 loss to fellow division co-champion Miami (Ohio). Their 5–7 final record, while not good enough to qualify for a bowl game, was still the best by a Buffalo team since they had moved up to Division I-A in 1999. With 10 starters returning on off... |
Who Are You (The Who song) | Live performances | May 1979, which was also Kenney Jones's first live show with the band. Since then, it has remained a staple for their live shows. The Who opened their segment of The Concert for New York City on 20 October 2001 with the song and performed a medley featuring the song in Super Bowl XLIV. They also used the song to begin ... |
Wintersingen | Demographics | speaks German (564 or 95.9%), with Albanian being second most common (10 or 1.7%) and French being third (5 or 0.9%).
As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 576 Swiss citizens (93.4% of the population), and 41 non-Swiss residents (6.6%) Of th... |
1864 State of the Union Address | null | reasonably fair crops. The most remarkable feature in the military operations of the year is General Sherman's attempted march of 300 miles directly through the insurgent region." |
Wind wave model | null | Wind wave model In fluid dynamics, wind wave modeling describes the effort to depict the sea state and predict the evolution of the energy of wind waves using numerical techniques. These simulations consider atmospheric wind forcing, nonlinear wave interactions, and frictional dissipation, and they output statistics de... |
Unified communications | Definition | sender is online according to the presence information and currently accepts calls, the response can be sent immediately through text chat or a video call. Otherwise, it may be sent as a non-real-time message that can be accessed through a variety of media. Definition There are varying definitions for unified communica... |
Wild Coast Region, Eastern Cape | Geography | Mzimvuba. There are also many smaller rivers which, owing to their protected sources in the coastal forests, have much less siltation than the larger rivers, which drain vast tracts of land where poor farming practices are in place. Estuaries, bays and headlands are plentiful, whilst rocky shores predominate, be they s... |
Émile Nourry | null | les récits parallèles, 1923. |
1989 NBL Finals | Format | 1989 NBL Finals Format The 1989 National Basketball League Finals started on 20 September and concluded on 20 October. The playoffs consisted of two best of three Elimination finals, two best of three Semi-finals and the best of three game Grand Final series. As the two top teams at the end of the regular season, the N... |
Tyler Clippard | New York Yankees | strikeout-to-walk ratio of 4.53:1 in 25 starts.
Clippard was 10–9 with a 3.18 ERA for the Tampa Yankees of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League (FSL) in 2005. He was named to the West team in the FSL All-Star Game. However, he did not appear in the game, as the Charleston RiverDogs of the Class A South Atlantic L... |
WARQ | History | there also. Their lineup for Fallout '09 was Atlanta's Collective Soul (for their Collective Soul album, Atlanta's Cartel, and Charleston's Deepfield. In 2010, Fallout had Tennessee's Fuel, Jacksonville's Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and Athens' Dead Confederate. In 2011, Fallout had Canada's Theory of a Deadman and Michiga... |
Žarko Paspalj | Health issues | about a week at Athens' Asklipieio General Hospital of Voula where he got advised to fundamentally change his lifestyle, including stopping smoking and reducing sports-related physical activity to a minimum.
By own admission, Paspalj completely ignored the doctor's advice, soon suffering another heart attack, this time... |
101st Grenadiers | First World War | from the beginning of the campaign there in November 1914. There, the British encountered a formidable opponent in the form of Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck. The 101st took part in the initial landings and the Battle of Tanga, a German victory, that saw the British and Indian forces, including the 101st, sustain signif... |
Ōkuninushi | Vengeance of rivals & Love to Suseri-Hime | and reinterpretation. But recent commentary explains that the one goddess who represents the akagai or blood cockle gathered up her blood-red juices, which were placed in the shell of the other goddess who was a hamaguri clam.
His rivals then tricked him into walking onto a fresh tree log split open and held apart by a... |
Yellow Thunder | null | the Mississippi River to the United States. The delegates thought that the treaty gave the Ho-Chunks eight years to leave Wisconsin, which would leave them time to negotiate a new treaty, but the wording on the document gave the tribe eight months to vacate Wisconsin and resettle on reservations in Iowa and Minnesota.
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Åråsen Stadion | History & Facilities | to five. Facilities Åråsen Stadion has a capacity of 12,250 spectators, all seated. The stadium consists of four single-tier stands. The western stand is the main stand, with the upper section consisting of luxury boxes and club seating for 700 people. For sponsorship reasons it is known as the Lillestrøm Torv Stand, a... |
1991 Tour de France | Race overview | The team revealed that the remaining four cyclists (including Breukink, Kelly and Alcala, ranked in the top ten of the general classification) were also sick, and the next morning the entire team abandoned. There were rumours that a doping program had gone wrong, but no official penalties were given. After the eleventh... |
1968–69 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season | 1969 NCAA Tournament | 1968–69 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season 1969 NCAA Tournament Note: * denotes overtime period(s) |
Wendy Maruyama | Artist | of the first women to break into the field of Studio Furniture. These women responded to the marginalization felt by a male-dominated field by making work that used complex joinery, bent lamination, and technical processes. Maruyama felt restricted by this type of highly technical furniture, and set out to make more ex... |
Waldemar Kaempffert | Career | objectively truthful as possible. This devotion to objectivity, however, led to disputes with the board of directors, especially around the appointment of George Ranney, who was also a director of International Harvester. This appointment created an apparent conflict of interest in the museum, as International Harveste... |
Wireline QA/QC | Log Quality Control (LQC) Digitalization | name a few) with some software development in the area of well operational performance management and optimisation (RIGIQ® by Trigpoint Solutions, EnergySys), but log data and contextual information management (including wireline program optimisations) is sadly underrepresented. Some of the wireline service QA/QC compa... |
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