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Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | Conscription, Corvee Labor, and Forced Tattooing | Burmese were in almost perennial conflict (see Burmese-Siamese Wars). Siam sought trade in weapons from Europe, and relied upon heavy conscription from the Lao, Cambodian,and the Malay areas in the south to strengthen their forces. During the campaigns against the Burmese near Chiang Mai, Prince Anouvong gained militar... |
Libertine (song) | Viewings | Farmer embodies "the liberal ideas of the [18th century], to the borders of vice and the loss of self", engaging in "extremes practices", such as the "sadomasochistic relationship" with the man. Thanks to this daring video, Farmer gained star status in France. The music channel M6 which, at the time, was showing only m... |
Karlo Štajner | Family | managed to reestablish contact with his wife through a woman who worked in the prison camp. The two met for the first time after almost 19 years in March 1955 when she visited him in Maklakovo, where he lived in exile. In 1956 she emigrated with her husband to Yugoslavia and lived with him in Zagreb. She was still aliv... |
Lauren Carpenter | Characterisation | big hug and a mug of hot chocolate when they're feeling down." The character was also described as being happy and "down to earth". Lauren has often put her role as the Turner family matriarch first, but she has dreams of being an artist. By moving to Erinsborough, Lauren was able to reconnect with her father Lou, with... |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | Conscription, Corvee Labor, and Forced Tattooing | Siam began the intense cultivation of sugarcane for the European trade. Sugar plantations are labor-intensive and required corvee labor from the Chinese, Khmer, Lao and hill tribes in their domain.
With the accession of Rama III, the years of corvee labor and conscription were brought to breaking point by the instituti... |
Karl Matzek | null | in 1949. The Serbs built St George Serbian Orthodox Church in 1966, after the Government granted them a block of land at the National Circuit, Forrest, close to Parliament House. In the following year, Matzek, then 77, was commissioned to decorate the interior of the church, and for the next 16 years, until his death i... |
Leviathan (audio drama) | Plot | Leviathan (audio drama) Plot The Doctor and Peri arrive via TARDIS near a small medieval village and a nearby castle. They find a young man named Gurth being chased down by what appears to be Herne the Hunter and his dogs. To the Doctor's curiosity, the dogs appear to be robots.
After evading Herne, Gurth explains that... |
Jesse Dylan | "Yes We Can" & Other work | as one of the most influential political ads of all time. Other work His feature film directorial work consists of comedies such as Kicking and Screaming, starring Will Ferrell and Robert Duvall, American Wedding and How High. Other feature-length projects include the documentary Crips and Bloods: Made in America, whic... |
Jon Wurster | Comedy/The Best Show | in the Judge John Hodgman podcast episode "A Trial of Two Cities". |
Jubal Early | Early and family life & Early military, legal and political careers | Academy, fellow cadet Lewis Addison Armistead broke a mess plate over Early's head, which prompted Armistead's departure from the Academy, although he too would become an important Confederate officer. Other future generals in that 1837 class were Union generals Joseph Hooker (with whom Early would have a verbal mess h... |
June Haver | Personal life | already a film actress. Haver filed for divorce less than a year after eloping with Zito, winning interlocutory decree on March 25, 1948. She admitted to the press the marriage was a failure from the beginning, saying: "I want to forget as soon as possible. We hadn't been married hours before I realized I had never rea... |
Licnophora | Systematics & Etymology | the Spirotrichea, Armophorea, and Clevelandellidae. Etymology The name means "fan-bearer". |
Krajmir | null | Krajmir Krajmir (Serbian Cyrillic: Крајмир; d. 15 June 1389) was a Serbian nobleman who served Prince Lazar (r. 1373–89), with the title of vojvoda (general). He was mentioned in Konstantin Mihailović's memoirs (1490–1501) regarding the Battle of Kosovo (1389), where he was captured and killed together with Lazar by th... |
Lesional demyelinations of the central nervous system | Demyelination process in MS & NAWM development & BBB breakdown | macrophage mediated demyelination, BBB breakdown, inflammation and axon transection. NAWM development Demyelinating lesions begin with the appearance of some areas named NAWM (normal appearing white matter) which despite its name, is abnormal in several parameters. These areas show axonal transections and stressed olig... |
Last Kiss | Other cover versions | sometimes performed as the encore to their show.
In 2011, Trent Dabbs recorded a cover of "Last Kiss" for the hit television series The Vampire Diaries in Season 2, episode 18: "The Last Dance".
Meadow Ryann covered this on her debut cover album, Wings.
Cœur de Pirate covered the song for the soundtrack of the 2014 sea... |
Lienzo de Quauhquechollan | Manufacture & Provenance | using indigenous artistic conventions to portray a mixture of Nahua and Spanish subjects. The main focus of the map lies within the borders of modern Guatemala, specifically the area around Chimaltenango and Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, the colonial capital. The Lienzo concentrates upon the role of the Quau... |
Japan (horse) | 2019: three-year-old season | very happy with them."
On 6 October Japan was made the 9/1 third favourite for France's most prestigious race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe over 2400 metres on very soft ground at Longchamp. Ridden by Moore he raced in mid-division before making steady progress in the straight and finishing fourth behind Waldgeist, En... |
Herbert Armitage James | Early life and education & Teaching career | to the Standing Committee). He was then ordained, and received his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1874. Later, on 31 May 1895, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity, having previously been excused by the University from satisfying the requirements normally set for the award of the degree. Teaching career He w... |
Light Tank Mk VI | Development history | Light Tank Mk VI Development history The Tank, Light, Mk VI was the sixth in the line of light tanks built by Vickers-Armstrongs for the British Army during the interwar period. The company had achieved a degree of standardization with their previous five models, and the Mark VI was identical in all but a few respects.... |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | The Funeral of Rama II & Rebellion | already been planning it and was just awaiting an excuse. Nevertheless, he made demands before he left. He wanted the return of the Emerald Buddha, the release of his sister (who had been taken forty-five years earlier), and the return of the Lao families who had been forcibly relocated in Saraburi. Thai historians ass... |
Kostromskoy District | Geography & History & Administrative and municipal status | km2 (about 3% of Kostroma Oblast). The administrative center is the town of Kostroma.
The district is bordered on the north by Buysky District, on the east by Susaninsky District, Sudislavsky, and Krasnoselsky District; and on the south by Nerekhtsky District. History Kostromskoy District was formally created in 1928 ... |
Jonathan Rosenbaum (scholar) | null | Jonathan Rosenbaum (scholar) Jonathan Rosenbaum (born 1947) is an American scholar, college administrator and rabbi; president of Gratz College. from 1998 to 2009; president emeritus of Gratz College and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, since 2009. He is a specialist in Biblical history, the paleo... |
Letty Green | null | Letty Green Letty Green is a village in the parish of Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire, England.
St John’s Church, Letty Green, the deconsecrated former parish church, is a grade II listed building, and Woolmer's Park country house is grade II* listed and was the source for the name of Woolmers Estate in Tasmania. |
Judicial elections in Pennsylvania | Advantages and disadvantages | were to appoint them. By the numbers, conservative governors never chose women to be judges, and more liberal ones appointed women about 30% of the time. In recent times, however, more than 28% of judicial seats in the Commonwealth are held by women.
The two main disadvantages often argued to counter the affirmative vi... |
Kuwait 25th Commando Brigade | Creation & Development and establishment | Kuwait 25th Commando Brigade Creation The 25th Commando Brigade was founded in 1960 by the deputy commander of Kuwait Army, Brigadier General Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah prior to the forming of the first Government of Kuwait. An initial selection pool of 33 commando specialists were selected to form the 1st spec... |
Lamar High School (Houston) | Historical demographics | schools who criticized them for going to Lamar that they only attended the school. Curtis wrote that some Lamar white students felt that "going to school with blacks [was] a duty they must perform, a quirk of history they must indulge."
In 2006 Lisa Viator from the Houston Chronicle stated that between the 1950s and 20... |
Joseph D. Summerville | null | Joseph D. Summerville Joseph D. Summerville (May 4, 1860 – July 27, 1905) served as the 15th Vice President of Liberia from 1902 until his death in 1905 under Presidents Garretson W. Gibson and Arthur Barclay, making him the only person to serve as vice president under two separate presidents.
Born on May 4, 1860 in Bu... |
Latremenoi Mou Geitones | Focus & Ratings | Latremenoi Mou Geitones Focus Although there are occasional glimpses of the underlying tensions involved with class and behaviour, upbringing and status, the series generally focuses on the obvious for its humour, for example the way in which Pelagia dresses and behaves betrays her origins and often the upper-class loc... |
Lake Success (California) | Marina | which began as a small trailer on the eastern shore selling sodas, candy and cigarettes, quickly evolved into a modern, for the times, circular floating marina with bait and tackle shop, gas dock, walk up fast food window, and sleeping quarters. Mr. Weaver held licenses to build and sell Glaspar fishing and ski boats,... |
Kia Stevens | Independent circuit (2007–2010) & Knockout Champion (2007–2009) | down one count before Kong, Kong won the match but bowed to Lee afterwards out of respect.
After winning this match, Kong was given a match against Martinez for the WSU Championship in December 2009 at a WSU and National Wrestling Superstars co-hosted event. Kong received another chance at the title at Evolve 5: Daniel... |
Jubal Early | Gettysburg and the Overland Campaign | to arrive, which repulsed Early's two brigades. On the third day of battle, Early detached one brigade to assist Maj. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson's division in an unsuccessful assault on Culp's Hill. Elements of Early's division covered the rear of Lee's army during its retreat from Gettysburg on July 4 and July 5.... |
Libertine (song) | Live performances & Cover versions | between 20 January 1986 and 22 January 1987. With more than 25 appearances in different programmes on various French and Belgian channels (TF1, Antenne 2, FR3, RTBF Belgium, La 5, RTL TV), "Libertine" is to date Farmer's song which was the most promoted on television. At certain performances, she also sang - in playbac... |
Lienzo de Quauhquechollan | null | Lienzo de Quauhquechollan The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan ("Quauhquechollan Cloth") is a 16th-century lienzo (cloth painting) of the Nahua, a group of indigenous peoples of Mexico. It is one of two surviving Nahua pictorial records recounting the Spanish conquest of Guatemala and one of the earliest surviving maps of wh... |
Lúcia Machado de Almeida | null | Lúcia Machado de Almeida Lúcia Machado de Almeida (1910 – April 30, 2005) was a Brazilian writer. She was born at a farm Nova Granja, in São José da Lapa city, state of Minas Gerais. She moved to Belo Horizonte, when she was a child. After that, she studied until High School at Santa Maria school, in the same city. She... |
Lactate threshold | Training types | an increase equal to 4.0mM; it then accumulates at the muscle and then moves to the bloodstream.
Regular endurance exercise leads to adaptations in skeletal muscle which prevent lactate levels from rising. This is mediated via activation of PGC-1α which alters the isoenzyme composition of the LDH complex and decreases ... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Philippines | Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) imposed a ₱120,000 (US$2,676) to ₱200,000 (US$4,460) fine for the use of the Uber app. A spokesperson for the board said that the fines were issued because Uber did not have an approved franchise to operate in the country. The LTFRB also remarked that Uber can still operate in M... |
Kulgachia railway station | History & Tracks & Electrification | Kulgachia railway station History The Howrah-Kharagpur line was opened in 1900. Tracks The Howrah-Panskura stretch has three lines. Electrification The Howrah-Kharagpur line was electrified in 1967-69. |
Libelle (Dutch magazine) | History and profile | the same company, each magazine has an independent editorial board. |
José Gabriel García | Printing and Publishing Company García Hermanos | a book store and a publishing and printing company. According to historian Frank Moya Pons, García Hermanos was the first printing and publishing company in the Dominican Republic properly established and it was the leading publishing and editorial company of the 19th and early 20th century in the Dominican Republic. T... |
Inverse gambler's fallacy | Real-world examples | Inverse gambler's fallacy (they called it the retrospective gambler's fallacy). They found that people believe a longer sequence of random events had happened (e.g., coin toss, die roll) before an event perceived to be unrepresentative of the randomness of the generation process (a streak of heads or tails, double-six)... |
League of Legends World Championship | Season 7 & Season 9 | people, breaking 2016's finals' viewer records. The tournament is widely praised for its high quality of plays and amazing ceremonial performances, while receiving worldwide attention for its dramatic and emotional series. It is currently the most watched tournament in League of Legends' history, and is lauded as one o... |
Johannes Willibrordus Maria Hendriks | Biography | 2017, Pope Francis appointed him a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. |
Kirby Law | Playing career | Kirby Law Playing career Born in McCreary, Manitoba, Law was not selected in any NHL draft. In the 2005-06 AHL season, his final in that league, Law led the league in scoring with 110 points for the Houston Aeros. Law left the AHL and in his fourth year abroad played in Swiss Hockey League with HC Ambri-Piotta. Law pla... |
Kosovo Liberation Army | Special Court of Kosovo | KLA are still widely considered heroes. |
Kosovo Liberation Army | Reported abuses | non-Albanians, as well as ethnic Albanian political rivals... widespread and systematic burning and looting of homes belonging to Serbs, Roma, and other minorities and the destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries... combined with harassment and intimidation designed to force people from their homes and communit... |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | Symbols and Identity & The Mekong and the Seizure of International Trade | Vientiane but also in Srichiangmai on the Khorat, Xieng Khouang, and later in Champasak. Anouvong also rebuilt and greatly enhanced the Haw Phra Kaew in Vientiane, the royal temple that had housed the Emerald Buddha before it was taken to Bangkok. His drawing continued attention to the loss of the Emerald Buddha clearl... |
Lakshya (film) | Production & Box office | Indian state of Uttarakhand. The scenes in Kargil were shot in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir. Some parts of the film centered around Hrithik's military training were also shot at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. Actual Indian Army officers also participated in the movie. Seeing both the actors and officers in the sam... |
Kia Stevens | Personal life | She is also an investor in Nu Skin Enterprises, a line of skin and nutritional products.
On May 30, 2011, Stevens revealed that she was pregnant with her first child. On December 31, 2011 she suffered a miscarriage. After competing in the 2012 Royal Rumble, false reports claimed that she had given birth to a baby boy n... |
Julie McLarnon | Record producer and recording engineer | console and Otari MTR90 24 track 2" tape machine, she produced and engineered albums by artists including The Vaselines, Jeffrey Lewis, Barbarossa and King Creosote. The studio moved to Ireland in 2014 where she continues to work producing albums by artists including Yorkston/Thorne/Khan, Alasdair Roberts and Lankum.
M... |
Let's Play Love | Reception | Its success led to the production of Blk 88, Singapore's first animated web series and i.Rock which stars Derrick Hoh, Keely Wee, Cavin Soh, Chen Yixi and Darren Lim. |
Lévy's continuity theorem | Proof | Lévy's continuity theorem In probability theory, Lévy’s continuity theorem, or Lévy's convergence theorem, named after the French mathematician Paul Lévy, connects convergence in distribution of the sequence of random variables with pointwise convergence of their characteristic functions.
This theorem is the basis for... |
Lauren Carpenter | Reintroduction | Bailey (Calen Mackenzie). Kendall revealed that a few original facts about Lauren would remain, like her love for horses, but she wanted to "create something fresh" that she could fit into.
Kendall called Lauren's family a "very strong" unit. She explained "There are also a lot of secrets they have in the family and we... |
Jonas Steponavičius | null | Jonas Steponavičius Jonas Steponavičius (10 March 1880 – 8 December 1947) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest active in Lithuanian cultural and political life. He was ordained a priest in 1906 and earned Ph.D. in psychology in 1912. He returned to Lithuania and became a priest in the Church of St. Johns, Vilnius. He... |
Libertine (song) | Reception & Live performances | number ten on 25 October. The song managed to remain for twelve weeks in the top 20 and for twenty weeks on the chart. The song was certified Silver disc in 1986 by the SNEP. It was thus the first Farmer's top ten hit, becoming a very popular song in France over the years and one of the ten best-selling singles of the ... |
Lamar High School (Houston) | Founding and early history | Lamar was the designation of children of Houston's most prominent families who attended public high schools. Many students in the 1950s had referred to River Oaks Boulevard as the only street with a country club at both ends: one being the River Oaks Country Club, and the "other" was Lamar High School. Gregory Curtis o... |
Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling | In Nepal & In Tibet & 2015 earthquake | the hills of Shivapuri National Park, was Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's main seat for many years. Now it serves as a place to live, study, and engage in short and long term retreats for nuns and lay sangha.
Hetauda Nunnery, home to about 50 nuns, Hetauda Nunnery is located 87 km south of Kathmandu Valley. In Tibet Dro... |
Kimber Lee | Women Superstars Uncensored (2012–2016) | Gulak entered the Queen and King of the Ring tournament for the second time, but were eliminated by the World's Cutest Tag Team (Candice LeRae and Joey Ryan) in the semi-finals. After retaining the championship against Rick Cataldo and Veda Scott, they lost it to The Juicy Product (David Starr and JT Dunn) in July 2014... |
Leviathan (audio drama) | Plot | they were then considered expendable and hunted down by the Herne, while a new clone replaced them. All the adults of the villages, the Duke, the Herne, and the castle guards are all robots doing the program's bidding. The recent change was an order issued from the other ship, who have access to the Leviathan's compute... |
Leonard Swindley | Casting | Leonard Swindley Casting At the time filming commenced of the pilot episode of Coronation Street, the character of Leonard Swindley had not even been cast. Because he wasn't supposed to appear until episode three, auditions were still taking place until Arthur Lowe walked in and read for the producers. Lowe, who went o... |
Lane, Kansas | History & Geography | Lane, Kansas History Lane was originally called Shermanville, and under the latter name laid out in 1855. It was renamed Lane in 1863 for James H. Lane, a leader of the Jayhawkers abolitionist movement, who served as one of the first Senators from Kansas.
Lane is the site where in 1856, the abolitionist John Brown and ... |
Light Tank Mk VI | Operational history | a retreat until Cruiser tanks arrived. The 2nd RTR continued to battle the Italians with light tanks as late as 6 February 1941.
Being widely used by the British Army, the tank participated in several other important battles. The Mk VIB made up a significant amount of the tanks sent over to the Battle of Greece in 1941... |
Kiyoshi Sakai | null | Kiyoshi Sakai Kiyoshi Sakai (酒井 澄 Sakai Kiyoshi) is an anime producer and animator. He worked for the animation studio Topcraft, where Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata worked immediately before forming Studio Ghibli in 1985. |
John T. Pawlikowski | Early life & Views | of Cambridge and the Catholic University of Leuven. Views Pawlikowski has been critical of John Cornwell's book Hitler's Pope, a scathing representation of the record of Pope Pius XII and the Vatican during the Holocaust. Pawlikowski characterized Cornwall's book as "full of exaggerated claims and deceptions," "a work ... |
Lesotho women's national under-17 football team | Background and development | Lesotho women's national under-17 football team Background and development Early development of the women's game at the time colonial powers brought football to the continent was limited as colonial powers in the region tended to take make concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cul... |
Liancheng County | Geography & Transportation | Liancheng County Geography Liancheng borders Changting and Shanghang counties to the west and south, and Xinluo, the municipal seat, to the southeast. Sanming Municipality's YongAn City and Qingliu County lie to the east and northeast.
Two watersheds meet here, with most of the county's rivers flowing north and east ... |
Kiymbi Dam | Rehabilitation plans | the Congo became independent in June 1960. The state electricity company, Société nationale d'électricité (SNEL), prepared a study of rehabilitating the Kiymbi power station in 1992. A 2007 report prepared for the World Bank evaluated rehabilitation of the power plant. The very rough estimate of cost from a "reconnaiss... |
Knockout rat | piggyBac (PB) DNA transposons | trap flanked by the binding sites for the transposase (ITRs). The transposase will catalyze the excision of the transposon from the plasmid and subsequent integration into the genome. Integration within a coding region will capture the elements necessary for gene trap expression. PB possesses several ideal properties: ... |
Lesotho women's national under-17 football team | Background and development | The number of female players has been increasing. In 2000, there were 210 registered players. In 2001, there were 350 registered players. In 2002, there were 480 registered players. In 2003, there were 750 registered players. In 2004, there were 2,180 registered players. In 2005, there were 4,600 registered players. In... |
Ladder | Historical usages | are ancient tools and technology. A ladder is featured in a Mesolithic rock painting that is at least 10,000 years old, depicted in the Spider Caves in Valencia, Spain. The painting depicts two humans using a ladder to reach a wild honeybee nest to harvest honey. The ladder is depicted as long and flexible, possibly m... |
Lectionary 100 | History | described by Paulin Martin. Gregory saw it in 1885.
The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).
Currently the codex is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 381) in Paris. |
Kia Stevens | Knockout Champion (2007–2009) & Knockouts Tag Team Champion (2009–2010) | Sacrifice. Knockouts Tag Team Champion (2009–2010) In August 2009 Kong and Saeed entered the tournament to crown the inaugural TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions. In the first round of the tournament, the team was able to defeat The Main Event Mafia (Traci Brooks and Sharmell) after Saeed blind tagged Kong and pinned Bro... |
Korhan Erel | David Rothenberg and Korhan Erel – Berlin Bülbül & The Liz | Berlin. Berlin is one of the most important cities in Europe for nightingales, which is one of the key routes of immigration from Africa through Europe in the spring. David Rothenberg and Erel started to improvise with nightingales in Berlin's parks at midnight. The first concert held on 9 May 2014 and this concert's r... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Massachusetts | Uber on the grounds that the GPS-based smartphone app was not a certified measurement device, but on August 15, the agency reversed its ruling after prodding by Governor Deval Patrick, saying that technique was satisfactory because it was under study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Uber worked ou... |
LSU Campus Mounds | Location and history & Folklore | to take its toll until a restoration project was initiated in 1996. Using river silt, the LSU Facility Services patched damage on both mounds and seeded a hybrid Bermuda grass to prevent future problems. In 2009, LSU professor Brooks Ellwood took core samples that revealed a layer of charcoal, possibly from a pit barbe... |
Le Crapouillot | Political period | into a magazine strictly of the Extreme Right.
The nationalist journalist Roland Gaucher was its owner and chief editor between from 1991 to 1994. The publication of Le Crapouillot continued until 1996. |
Lee Rocker | Awards and honors | honors In 2013, Rocker received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Bass Player magazine, and gave master classes in London and Los Angeles. He is a member of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Visionary Artist Award from the Laguna Beach Arts Council. |
John Buchanan (English cricketer) | Personal life | Edward Leigh. |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | Background | Lao rebellion (1826–1828) Background In 1707 the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang fragmented into rival kingdoms – Vientiane, Luang Prabang, and 5 years later into a third Champasak —- as a result of a dispute over the succession to the throne. The Kingdom of Vientiane was the strongest, with its influence extending across the ... |
Joe Martin (writer) | Teaching career & Personal life | worked in Europe and the Middle East as a Fulbright Specialist in Theatre, directing and creating college arts curriculums in Jerusalem and the West Bank in 2011, and in Bethlehem at Dar al Kalima University in 2014. The two theatre projects culminated in essays collected in Staging Athol Fugard in Palestine--And other... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | New Zealand | drivers were charged with violating the Land Transport Act and face fines of up to NZ$10,000.
On January 20, 2015, the Associate Transport Minister, Craig Foss, said that the rules covering taxis and private hire services, including Uber, will be reviewed by New Zealand officials by mid-2015.
In April and May 2016 the ... |
Lightning | Flashes and strikes & Lightning leaders | the process is through an examination of the most studied form, cloud to ground. Lightning leaders In a process not well understood, a bidirectional channel of ionized air, called a "leader", is initiated between oppositely-charged regions in a thundercloud. Leaders are electrically conductive channels of ionized gas t... |
Kim Ljung | Ljungblut & The future | February 26, 2005 under the alias Ljungblut. The sound is a lot more acoustic and melancholic than what we ever heard from Seigmen, but the melodies and lyrics are strong and personal and this is certainly a contender for the title Best Norwegian Album of the Year. The future Ljungblut and Zeromancer are both scheduled... |
L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2004 | Provisions | L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2004 The L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2004, referred to more briefly as the L-1 Reform Act, was a part of Title IV of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (sometimes also called the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2005) in the United States that focused on changes to regulations governing L-1 visas.... |
Li Rusong | Death | and subsequently killed. He was posthumously given the title of Zhonglie (忠烈) (Lord of Fidelity). |
Kelly Kelly (TV series) | Reception | bland family comedy we've seen too many times before". Elaine Liner of the Boston Herald gave the series no stars, as well as grading it "an F as a two-alarm failure". |
Lightning | Distribution and frequency | thunderstorm is usually negatively charged, this is where most CG lightning originates. This region is typically at the elevation where freezing occurs within the cloud. Freezing, combined with collisions between ice and water, appears to be a critical part of the initial charge development and separation process. Duri... |
LaVaughn Robinson | Street dancing | Broad and South became his corner at the age of 13. He also danced and played in a tramp band (washboard, washtub bass, and kazoo), and when he was older, he busked in clubs. Robinson earned enough money by busking to buy his own clothes, contribute to paying for the family groceries, and to go to the Earle Theater. ... |
LNER Class V4 | Features & Performance | LNER Class V4 Features Two locomotives were built at the LNER's Doncaster Works in 1941. The first engine, 3401 Bantam Cock, had a scaled-down version of the Gresley Pacific boiler with a grate area of 27.5 sq ft. Its tractive effort of 27,000 lbs was produced by boiler pressure of 250 psi and three cylinders of 15-inc... |
Kenroy Howell | Professional | goal against the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer in the tournament in an eventual 1–2 defeat.
In December 2016, it was announced that Waterhouse FC transferred Howell to the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the USL on a 1-year deal with a club option for an additional year. At the end of the season, the club did not p... |
Lars Müller-Marienburg | Biography | a step for a Protestant candidate for ordained pastoral ministry. He spent his Vicariate in Linz and in Pöttelsdorf. In 2010 he was ordained priest and became pastor of the Protestant parish of Innsbruck-Auferstehungskirche. In 2011 he delivered a sermon in Innsbruck Cathedral on the occasion of the Week of Prayer for ... |
Laser guide star | null | into the atmosphere. Light from the beam is reflected by components in the upper atmosphere back into the telescope. This star can be positioned anywhere the telescope desires to point, opening up much greater amounts of the sky to adaptive optics.
Because the laser beam is deflected by astronomical seeing on the way... |
Knowledge neglect | Hypothesis for cause | in their memory but that person failed to access or retrieve them from their memory and use them for the situation, also demonstrating knowledge neglect. Hypothesis for cause One possible reason that people fall victim to knowledge neglect is because people tend to have a truth bias, meaning that people tend to believe... |
Julius of Tarent | null | Julius of Tarent Julius of Tarent (German: Julius von Tarent) is a dramatic tragedy by Johann Anton Leisewitz. Published in 1774, it is a notable work of the Sturm und Drang era. The play was a favourite of Friedrich Schiller and much acted in Germany. Its central theme is the struggle between the two princes Julius an... |
Középiskolai Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok | null | Középiskolai Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok Középiskolai Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok [Mathematical and Physical Journal for Secondary Schools] (KöMaL) is a Hungarian mathematics and physics journal for high school students. It was founded by Dániel Arany, a high school teacher from Győr, Hungary and has been continually... |
Lightning | High-energy radiation & Air quality | the X-ray emissions is still a matter for research, as the temperature of lightning is too low to account for the X-rays observed.
A number of observations by space-based telescopes have revealed even higher energy gamma ray emissions, the so-called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). These observations pose a challe... |
Kat DeLuna | 2007–08: Early success with 9 Lives & 2009–2011: Move to Universal Music and Inside Out | overwrought. The event garnered much media attention, and landed the number one-spot on Billboard Magazine's "10 Worst National Anthem Performances Ever" in 2010. 2009–2011: Move to Universal Music and Inside Out In January 2009, DeLuna released "Unstoppable", featuring Lil Wayne, as a single from the Confessions of a ... |
League of Legends World Championship | Season 4 & Season 5 | contributed the theme song "Warriors" for the tournament, and performed live on the grand final stage in South Korea. All games were made available for free via live streaming.
The 2014 World Championship games were streamed live by 40 broadcast partners, and cast in 19 languages. The grand final was watched by 27 mill... |
Les Écuelles | Synopsis | Les Écuelles Synopsis This short film takes place in northern Burkina Faso, in a Mossi village. There, two old men patiently and skillfully make traditional wooden bowls for everyday use. Meanwhile, the young people leave the village to go to the city and abandon these tricky crafts. |
Kimber Lee | Early life & Combat Zone Wrestling (2011–2014) | Kimber Lee Early life Frankele was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Originally aspiring to be a dancer, she trained in dance from an early age. She first became interested in professional wrestling as a teenager, and cites Chyna as her inspiration. Combat Zone Wrestling (2011–2014) After moving to Philadelphia, ... |
Holiday Inn, Townsville | History | building has been said to represent the importance of sugar to the Townsville port and area.
The sobriquet was derived from its similarity to the top of sugar dispensers on the tables at a Coles caffetteria that existed in the Townsville CBD from about the mid 1960s to perhaps the late 1980s. The dispensers were glass... |
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