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Lactate threshold | Training types & Interval training | but varies between individuals and can be increased with training. Interval training Interval training uses different work and rest periods allowing the body to temporarily exceed the lactate threshold at a high intensity, and then recover (reduce blood-lactate). This type of training uses the ATP-PC and the lactic aci... |
Kansas City Bomber | Development | the script in March 1971 for their production company, Curtwel Productions. "She was a huge star at the time, and that meant if she wanted to do it, the movie would get made," said Sandler.
"I believe that he had me in mind when he wrote it," said Welch. "The girl is more than a little bitchy."
Sandler says the origina... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | New York & North Carolina & Ohio & Oregon | New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. Uber's premium sedan service was not affected.
In February 2017, the New York State Senate approved legislation allowing ridesharing companies to expand operations to Upstate New York and Uber began service there in June 2017. North Carolina In September 2015, Governor Pat M... |
Le pauvre matelot | Act 2 | He tells his wife that the sailor has returned, but will not come until nighttime, as he is being chased by creditors. His wife says that she too is without money. The sailor does not believe a woman as pretty as his wife could be without money, and the father-in-law makes a sound in agreement. The wife, however, is... |
John Askey | Port Vale | as Vale fell to four defeats in his first four games, though his coaching methods eventually paid off with an impressive 2–1 win over promotion-chasing Mansfield Town on 9 March. He was named EFL manager of the week after he made two attacking substitutions and reorganized the team's 4–4–3 system to a 4–4–1 formation f... |
Liu Zhen (PRC) | Formation of the PRC | the Chinese People's Volunteers. |
Lightning | Return stroke | result in a zone beginning at the point of attachment, which expands across the entire leader network at a fraction of the speed of light. This is the 'return stroke' and it is the most luminous and noticeable part of the lightning discharge.
A large electric current flows along the plasma channel from the cloud to the... |
Kosovo Liberation Army | Background | League of Kosovo (LDK). Headed by Ibrahim Rugova, its goal was independence from Serbia, but via peaceful means. To this end, the LDK set up and developed a "parallel state" with a particular focus on education and healthcare.
The KLA made their name known publicly for the first time in 1995, and a first public appeara... |
International Finance Corporation | Financial performance | services portfolio included 642 projects valued at $820 million in 2011, compared to 736 projects at $859 million in 2010. The IFC held $24.5 billion in liquid assets in 2011, up from $21 billion in 2010.
The IFC received credit ratings of AAA from Standard & Poor's in December 2012 and Aaa from Moody's Investors Servi... |
Jonas Steponavičius | Political work & Pedagogical work | the Seimas, Steponavičius was a member of various parliamentary committees, including Finance and Budget (November 1922 – December 1926), National Defense (November 1922 – December 1926 with a break in June–July 1923), and Foreign Affairs (October 1924 – December 1926). In the Third Seimas, he was also the second deput... |
LSU Campus Mounds | Save the Mounds | to prevent them from being damaged. |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (season 3) | Season synopsis | and all the enemies made throughout the course of the series enter the contest so they can take the bar away from the gang. The gang won't let the bar go without a fight—but not before using dirty tricks on each other. |
Le Crapouillot | Muckraking and satirical period | Le Crapouillot Muckraking and satirical period The first issue of Le Crapouillot was published in August 1915, carrying the subtitle "Courage les civils!" ("Take heart, civilians!"). It was distributed at first, by Boissière, to his fellow soldiers. It was "insolent", "non-conformist" and carried the spirit of "both th... |
Libertine (song) | Production & Synopsis | one of Farmer's dancers and also appeared in other singer's videos. She would also play Farmer's enemy in the video Tristana. Appropriately enough, Rambo Kolawski, the man who raped Farmer's character in the video for "Plus grandir", also appears as the man she kills in the duel. Synopsis The action takes place in mid-... |
Lois Wilfred Griffiths | Career | assistant professor of mathematics, and in 1938 she was named associate professor. She retired from Northwestern University in 1964 and was named professor emeritus.
During her professional career she published many mathematics papers such as "Generalized Quaternion Algebras and the Theory of Numbers" and "Representati... |
Lithopoma tectum | Description & Habitat | the carinated periphery, and about twenty-three in number on the body whorl. The base of the shell is nearly flat with radiating stripe and five subgranose lirae. The aperture is oblique and rhomboidal. The white columella is arcuate and bidentate at its base. The umbilical tract is pale violaceous, bounded by a plica... |
Lawrence Wright (American football) | College career | national championship by defeating the top-ranked Florida State Seminoles 52–20 in the 1997 Sugar Bowl. That same year, he also won the Jim Thorpe Award, recognizing the best defensive back in college football, and was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection in 1995 and 1996. He finished his Gator ca... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | York & Brighton and Hove & Alabama & Alaska | operators". Brighton and Hove On May 1, 2018, Brighton and Hove City Council's licensing panel refused to renew Uber's private hire operator license in the city. It cited "significant concerns" about the car hailing app's data breach in 2016, and whether the company was adhering to its commitment to use only Brighton a... |
League of Legends World Championship | Season 3 & Season 4 | after having qualified through their regional competitions. The grand final were held in the Staples Center on October 4, 2013, where Korean team SK Telecom T1 defeated the Chinese team Royal Club, granting them the title of the Season 3 world champions, the Summoner’s Cup and the $1 million prize.
The Season 3 World C... |
Kronk Gym | Proposed new Detroit gym | the legacy” of Steward and of the gym.
Former multiple world champ and Kronk Gym icon Thomas Hearns stated: “I don't know when and if we'll be open here again. I hope something good will happen.”
Andy Lee and Adonis Stevenson are two world champions still representing Kronk, with Wladimir Klitschko and Anthony Dirrell ... |
Last Kiss | Original version | then the drums start, and the bass picks up the beat; in contrast, the final version sounds like a cross between a pop arrangement and a reggae recording. Cochran loaded 45s in the trunk of his car, taking them along to gigs, to sell to fans, although it didn't help much. Over the course of the four versions, Cochran e... |
Israel Baseball League | Pitching & Awards | 1.94 ERA. Rafael Bergstrom was 7–2, with a 2.44 ERA. Daniel Kaufman, who pitched for Emory University, held opposing batters to a .170 batting average. And 6' 6" Maximo Nelson from San Pedro de Macorís, in the Dominican Republic, led the league with 85 strikeouts; he pitched for the Gulf Coast Yankees in 2004 (posting ... |
Jim Knox | null | Jim Knox Walter James Knox ONZ (6 March 1919 – 1 December 1991) was a leading New Zealand trade union leader. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 6 March 1919
Knox worked as a truck driver and watersider, becoming involved in the 1951 waterside strike, and rose through the union ranks to become secretary of the Auc... |
Le pauvre matelot | Act 2 & Act 3 | appearance of the sailor to her husband. Act 3 As the sailor lies asleep, his wife comes in with the newly returned hammer. She raises the hammer at the sailor, but decides against this action. She then coughs, and he does not react. The Wife again raises the hammer, and this time hits the Sailor on the head with it... |
Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade | Plot summary | investigating Frank Master's murder. At the Masters Foundation for the Care of Juvenile Vagrants Ghote meets two urchins who answer to names which they have chosen for themselves from American movies: "Edward G. Robinson" and "Tarzan". Inside, Ghote meats Dr Diana Uplea, who tells him that death was the result of arse... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Abu Dhabi & Dubai & United Kingdom | in 2013. In August 2016, Uber and Careem were suspended in Abu Dhabi after some drivers were detained over regulation violations. Careem resumed operation in December 2016.
Uber restarted service in Abu Dhabi in November 2018. Dubai Dubai based transportation network company Careem launched in 2012.
Uber launched in Du... |
Lamar High School (Houston) | Expansion of facilities and renovation & Architectural style | due to overcrowding. In 2014 Terry Grier stated that Lamar should reduce its enrollment to around 3,000 students.
Rita Graves, previously principal at Roberts Elementary and Pin Oak Middle School, became the principal of Lamar in August 2018 arriving as the transition to the construction of the new building began.
In 2... |
June Haver | Career | she had just turned 17 years old when her scenes were filmed. Even before Home in Indiana was released, she was assigned to replace Alice Faye in the Technicolor-musical, Irish Eyes Are Smiling. Later that year, she co-starred with her future husband, Fred MacMurray, in Where Do We Go From Here?, which was the only tim... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Belgium & Brazil | a sector that was difficult to regulate. Although already banned in Brussels, Uber advertised for a Brussels-based "General Manager" on the LinkedIn website in June 2014. The advertisement stated that the role was "by far the most demanding position Uber has to offer."
In October 2015, Uber suspended its UberPOP servic... |
Kolam | History | to free form art work and closed shapes. Folklore has evolved to mandate that the lines must be completed so as to symbolically prevent evil spirits from entering the inside of the shapes, and thus are they prevented from entering the inside of the home.
It used to be a matter of pride to be able to draw large complica... |
Journal of Philosophical Research | History of the journal | Journal of Philosophical Research History of the journal The journal was established as the Philosophy Research Archives in 1975 by the Philosophy Documentation Center, American Philosophical Association, and the Canadian Philosophical Association. It was jointly planned by these organizations as a solution to the spac... |
Lamar High School (Houston) | Founding and early history | Alabama; the attempt failed and Lamar was built across from River Oaks.
Lamar opened officially opened in 1937 as "Southwest High School" along Westheimer Road before changing its name soon after. The opening relieved pressure on San Jacinto High School in what is now Midtown. When the school opened it had 1,310 studen... |
Libbey High School | Fate of Libbey | to eventually send some Libbey neighborhood students to Scott, Bowsher, and Waite high schools is "segregation of different populations and is racist", they claimed. Libbey always had been the "unwanted stepchild" of Toledo Public Schools and 'their positive news is always overshadowed by the negative", students added... |
Libertine (song) | Reception | Reception "Libertine" was generally well received by contemporary media. France Soir considered this song has "a little music that puts in a good mood from the awakening". The video was much discussed in the media and caused the stir. It was described as a "detonating videoclip", "a real gem directed as a mini-movie", ... |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | Symbols and Identity | Vientiane. In the 1770s the Siamese needed royal regalia to reinforce the monarch's legitimacy along traditional cultural lines, since the Burmese had completely destroyed Ayutthaya and looted the palaces of everything worth taking. When Vientiane fell in 1779, the Siamese spared the city but took from the temples and ... |
Howard the Duck | Back to New York | Tara locate the final piece of the Abundant Glove, but are unable to put it back together when Talos grabs it and proceedes to use it to wreak havoc on the city. Talos is confronted by numerous heroes while Howard and Tara take cover. Howard is able to point out that Tara, who is revealed to possess shapeshifting power... |
Lee Rocker | Personal life & Awards and honors | is a country music singer-songwriter.
At age 12 Lee picked up the electric bass but quickly developed a preference for playing the double bass as his instrument of choice. He credits records by Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins for his new inclination “The slap bass on those records blew me away!” Rocker’s favorite bass p... |
Lauren Carpenter | 2013–2018 & Reception | and she does have some feeling for him, but she is committed to her marriage to Brad. She adds that she will tell Brad everything as soon as she gets back to the Gold Coast, and that Ned deserves happiness. Reception A writer for the BBC's Neighbours website said Lauren's most notable moment was "Falling under the spel... |
Lock Ridge Park | The Park Today | made up of the remains of the old furnace complex, now the Lock Ridge Furnace Museum, and the land surrounding it. Swabia Creek, which flows through the park grounds, offers limited fishing. The park also features a Little League Baseball field and a picnic pavilion with restrooms and a fireplace. The park also feature... |
Jenny Packham | Career | Jenny Packham Career Packham studied at Southampton College of Art, and then at Saint Martin's School of Art in London.
Her designs were first presented in 1988, at the London Designer Show. In 2013 a retrospective selection of her work was shown in the Raphael Gallery of the V&A Museum, in celebration of twenty-five y... |
Lexie Carver | Character history | will always be there for him. |
Kuwait 25th Commando Brigade | Development and establishment | State of Kuwait's various official Commando initiatives in the Military of Kuwait, during the reign of Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. |
Leonard Swindley | Storylines | was offered a promotion at Gamma Garments and duly accepted, leaving the Mission, and Weatherfield behind. The character later moved on to work as manager for Dobson and Hawkes, the clothes store seen in the spin-off Pardon The Expression.
In 1980, he sends a telegram to Emily congratulating her on her second wedding t... |
James L. Brooks | Television | find another job at a news agency, he met producer Allan Burns at a party. Burns got him a job on My Mother the Car where he was hired to rewrite a script after pitching some story ideas. Brooks then went on to write episodes of That Girl, The Andy Griffith Show and My Three Sons before Sheldon Leonard hired him as a s... |
Jubal Early | American Civil War & Serving under Stonewall Jackson | also appreciated Early's aggressive fighting and ability to command units independently. Most of Early's soldiers (except during the war's last days) referred to him as "Old Jube" or "Old Jubilee" with enthusiasm and affection. (The "old" referred to a stoop because of the rheumatism incurred in Mexico). However, his s... |
Liverpool Hope University | Charlie Chaplin | alumnus of the university, comedian and silent film actor Charlie Chaplin temporarily lived in Salisbury Street and was registered as a pupil at St Francis Xavier's Jesuit Secondary and Elementary schools (now part of the Creative Campus). |
London Wall | Demise | border of the original settlement – the River Fleet – along Fleet Street to Temple Bar. The city also took in the other "city bars", toll gates which were situated just beyond the old walled area: Holborn Bar, Smithfield Bar, and Whitechapel Bar. These were the important entrances to the city and their control was vita... |
Kip Simons | null | Kip Simons Kip Simons is a retired American gymnast. Simons competed in the 1996 Olympics and the 1994 and 1995 World Championships.
Simons competed for Ohio State University. In 1994, his senior year, Simons won the Nissen Award, the "Heisman" of men's gymnastics. Simons credited a hard summer of training between... |
London Wall | Roman wall | in the early 3rd century.
The wall's gateways coincided with their alignment to the British network of Roman roads. The original gates, clockwise from Ludgate in the west to Aldgate, in the east were: Ludgate, Newgate, Cripplegate, Bishopsgate and Aldgate. Aldersgate, between Newgate and Cripplegate, was added around 3... |
Leon Milo | Paris | partnership with designer/artist Arik Levy which began with creating music and sound design for Levy's films in 1995. Following, were numerous collaborations such as Levy's Pompidou Art Center installation, Love Counts and Osmosis for the SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL PALACE in Milan.
In 1998, he was accepted into the IRCAM Curses... |
Lochgair | In fiction | Lochgair In fiction Lochgair is one of the main the setting in Iain Banks' 1992 novel The Crow Road, which mixes real life locations in Argyll and the A83 road with fictional. |
Licnophora | Description | Licnophora Description The cell body of most Licnophora species is shaped like an hourglass. The oral region is on one end, and is surrounded by specialized cilia (the adoral zone of oral polykinetids). The other end contains a circular attachment disk (or basal disk) that is used to attach to the substratum, a feature... |
Lenny Breau | Posthumous honors | "lost" recordings have been issued since Breau's death, and most of his previously released albums have also been reissued. Due to efforts by Randy Bachman of Guitarchives, Paul Kohler of Art of Life Records, Tim Tamashiro of CBC radio and others, a new generation of listeners has access to his music.
A documentary ent... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Oregon & Oklahoma & Pennsylvania & Pittsburgh | December 8, 2014, Portland, Oregon sued Uber, claiming that Uber violates the city's Private for Hire Transportation Regulations and Administrative Rules. The court was asked to stop Uber from operating in Portland. Uber suspended its operations in the city for 3 months, pending planned changes to local regulations. Ok... |
League of Legends World Championship | Season 6 & Season 7 | second team (Samsung Galaxy) took $1,005,000, the third place (ROX Tigers) took $502,500. The rest of the prize pool was distributed among the 5th-16th places.
SKT won 3-2 vs. Samsung Galaxy in the 2016 World Championship Finals, with Faker winning the MVP award, and along with teammate Bengi captured their third world... |
Likoni | Transport & The Likoni Massacres | Likoni Transport Likoni is the site of the southern terminus of the Likoni Ferry, a double ended ferry serving road traffic and pedestrians from both Likoni and Mombasa island. Likoni also has a high concentration of Boda-boda services. Matatus bound for the southern districts of Kenya use the Likoni Ferry to cross the... |
Janet Barnes | Career & Awards | Memorial Fund committee and a member of the Humanities External Advisory Board for Oxford University. Barnes was the CEO of York Museums Trust from its founding in 2002 to November 2015. She was succeeded in the role by Reyahn King.
Barnes is a Director of John Ruskin's educational charity the Guild of St George, a Tru... |
Langhorne Creek Football Club | History & Premierships & Mail Medallists | Langhorne Creek have won six premiership and all of them have come in pairs. They were back-to-back premiers in 2001/2002, 2011/2012 and most recently in 2018/2019. Premierships A Grade - 1933, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1960, 1962, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2001, 2002, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019
Reserve Grade - 1976, 1998, 2006
Seni... |
Lisson Grove | Arts and antiques | Lisson Grove Arts and antiques The area has a long association with art, artists and theatre. In 1810 the Royal Academy catalogues give sculptor Charles Rossi's address as 21 Lisson Grove, where he had bought a large house. By 1817, Rossi was renting out a section of the house to painter Benjamin Haydon. A blue plaque ... |
Lawrence Manor | Politics & Recreation | Marco Mendicino and Liberal Mike Colle respectively. At Toronto City Council it is represented by Wards 15 councillor Josh Colle (and son of local MPP).
During the period of Metro Toronto, the area was under the Metro Ward of North York Centre South. Recreation Lawrence Manor is home to several municipal parks, includi... |
Karl Matzek | null | Siberia after the October Revolution. He was able to escape, and in the following years he managed to walk back to Europe, although details of this trek are largely unknown. On a winter day after World War II, he was found sick and half-frozen by villagers of Balatun in Bosnia. He remained in the town, supported by the... |
Gyro gunsight | History | in the North American P-51 Mustang, had separate projectors and displays for air and ground attacks. History In 1936 Royal Aircraft Establishment scientist Leslie Bennet Craigie Cunningham suggested using a gyroscope's resistance to rotation to modify the aiming point in a gun sight to compensate for deflection caused ... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Singapore & South Africa | Grab, in an attempt to open the ridesharing market to competition. South Africa Over 300 vehicles operating for the Uber service in Cape Town were impounded in 2015. Local transport officials claimed that the service was operating without suitable permits.
In Cape Town, on June 3, 2016, metered taxi drivers blockaded t... |
Lisson Grove | Education & Tube stations & Bus routes | fine black mullions, "assertive" gables, and Baker's bold geometrical masonry forms, and grand symmetry and rhythms. The interior lobby is lined in Carrara marble, with corridors lined with Ruabon tiles. When asked "Why the marble, Mr Manasseh?" he was reported as saying "Because it's boy-proof." Tube stations The near... |
Kane Evans | 2018 | Evans spoke to the media about being dropped saying “I’ve been going crap, I don’t think I’ve been up to standard coming off injury from the World Cup and a few little injuries in pre-season. I definitely need to work on my fitness and I’ll be doing that in the next couple of weeks, It’s the truth, my game doesn’t hide... |
Liam Gormley | Career | leaving East Kilbride, Gormley signed briefly with Junior side, Kilbirnie Ladeside before joining Cambuslang Rangers in September 2016. Gormley joined 'Langs local rivals Rutherglen Glencairn in September 2017. |
Josef and Ctirad Mašín | Books and documentaries & Controversy | source for non-Czech speakers. Controversy After the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia (1989), the communist era was officially condemned by the new regime, and those sentenced during the communist era for political crimes were generally recognised in law as innocent victims. The Mašíns became the most disputed excep... |
Li Xiucheng | Escaped from Suzhou & Donkey Jiang | today. In July 1863, Li ordered his daughter's husband, Tan Shaoguang, to capture Suzhou. But Li Hongzhang led the Huai Army combined by the "Ever Victorious Army," which, having been raised by an American named Frederick Townsend Ward, was placed under the command of Charles George Gordon. With this support, Li Hongzh... |
Kainji Dam | Power station & Lock & Discharge flooding | capacity to 760 megawatts (1,020,000 hp). The dam generates electricity for all the large cities in Nigeria. Some of the electricity is sold to the neighbouring country of Niger. In addition, occasional droughts have made the Niger's water flow unpredictable, diminishing the dam's electrical output. Lock The dam has a ... |
Limonana | History | product, the advertising agency admitted that no such drink existed. Spurred by customer demand, first restaurants and then soft drink manufacturers began to produce the flavor combination.
It is on the menu at Aroma Espresso Bars in New York, Florida, and Canada.
Limonana can be prepared as a lemonade, a smoothie, and... |
Lithopoma tectum | Distribution & Description | Lithopoma tectum Distribution This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil. Description The maximum recorded shell length is 63 mm.
The imperforate, solid shell has an elevated-conic shape. It is longitudinally subobliquely crinkled. Its color pa... |
Longwood University | Honor Code & Tuition and fees | scholars. I will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who do.
The Honor Creed is the last line of the pledge:
'I will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who do.'
Students sign an academic pledge on assignments for class that reads:
I have neither given nor received help on this work, nor am I aware of... |
Josef and Ctirad Mašín | Books and documentaries | Germany—Mittmann had retired and writing had become his full-time occupation —could he read the German files as well as Rambousek's book. For Mittmann the Mašíns were killers. He accused Rambousek and the Mašíns to consciously play down the actions in the Czechoslovak Republic. Mittmann's critics say, he never question... |
Hurts | 2009–2012: Happiness | office in Manchester. After they uploaded the video to their YouTube channel on 21 April 2009, it quickly went viral and has since had over 38 million views. In July, the band was signed to Sony subsidiary RCA Records as well as RCA imprint Major Label Records, run by their old friend Biff Stannard.
Although Hutchcraft... |
Gabriele Trevisano | null | in the harbour with the consent of their commanders, now turned into warships. On 28 April a battle broke out between Venetian and Genoese vessels on one side and Turkish ships on the other. Trevisano's galley was sunk by Turkish cannon-fire, and abandoned. At other times the Venetians and their allies won some minor n... |
Kaddare script | History & Form | Kaddare script History The orthography was invented in 1952 by Sheikh Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare.
A phonetically robust writing system, the technical commissions that appraised the Kaddare script concurred that it was a very accurate orthography for transcribing Somali. Form The Kaddare script uses both upper and low... |
Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine | History | Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine History Officially established in 1905, the first reference to veterinary medicine at Kansas State was in 1862. Starting in 1886, students enrolled in agriculture were offered animal health courses but not for any type of veterinary degree credit. The 1905 establis... |
Lapland New Forest | Venue | United Kingdom due to the extremely poor quality of its attractions; the nativity scene was a crudely painted billboard that could be seen across a muddy field, the 'magical tunnel of light' was a line of trees with fairy lights dangling from them, the ice rink had melted due to a faulty generator, the 'log cabins' wer... |
Lockheed Senior Prom | Testing and cancellation | end of the Senior Prom programme.
Despite the cancellation of the programme in 1982, the Senior Prom remained highly classified into the 21st century. There are rumours that a small number of Senior Prom aircraft, configured for aerial reconnaissance, were acquired by the United States Air Force, and were used in secre... |
Justin Nozuka | Biography | Justin Nozuka Biography Justin was born one of seven children to Canadian mother Holly Sedgwick and Japanese father Hiromitsu Nozuka. Sedgwick raised Nozuka and his six siblings as a single mother. He is the brother of musician George Nozuka, musician Henry Nozuka, and actor Philip Nozuka. Other family members include... |
Lightning | Return stroke & Re-strike | The nearly instantaneous heating during the return stroke causes the air to expand explosively, producing a powerful shock wave which is heard as thunder. Re-strike High-speed videos (examined frame-by-frame) show that most negative CG lightning flashes are made up of 3 or 4 individual strokes, though there may be as m... |
Kata Dalström | Social Democrat | working class movement. She placed her main focus in trade union activity, organizing the workers of the textile industry, railroad, miners and others within the trade union, as she regarded strikes as an efficient method to achieve suffrage. She was engaged in Swedish trade union work from 1898, and a member of the co... |
Linear ion trap | Linear traps and 3D trap | trap (or Paul trap) mass spectrometers are widely used but have limitations. With a continuous source, such as ESI, ions generated while the 3D trap is processing other ions are not used, thereby limiting the duty cycle. Furthermore, the total number of ions that can be stored in a 3D ion trap is limited by space charg... |
Jerry Yudelson | Professional achievements | served as president of the Green Building Initiative, a national nonprofit and originator of the Green Globes green building rating system. |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | Legacy | as the Laotian capital in a deliberate attempt win favor and to demonstrate French authority.
Several accounts of the Siamese-Lao conflict have been written by historians and authorities, many in direct conflict with one another. In particular, the accounts of the Siamese heroines Thao Suranaree (or “Lady Mo”) and Khun... |
Like a Champion | Critical reception & Live performances | and cultural appropriation on "Stars Dance" goes to this incredibly horrible song". Live performances "Like a Champion" was performed on November 28 during the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Halftime Show. Gomez performed the song as the first portion of a medley featuring "Come & Get It" and "Slow Down". The song was add... |
London Wall | Roman wall | on several occasions by Saxon pirates in the late 3rd century, construction of an additional riverside wall began in 280 AD, and repaired around 390 AD. The existence of a riverside section of wall was long doubted due to a lack of evidence, but excavations at the Tower of London in 1977 showed that the section of the ... |
Leviathan (audio drama) | Plot | The Doctor confirms his theory: they are aboard the Leviathan, a giant generational colony ship used by humans, explaining why no one aboard knew of this. The Duke is answering to the ship's automated computer system that is trying to maintain the systems, but failing like much of the rest of the ship. The Doctor surmi... |
Lake Shetek State Park | Geography & Geology | by a 1,000-foot (300 m) causeway. Two smaller lakes, two fish rearing ponds, and two marshes are also within the park boundaries.
The park lies on the Coteau des Prairies, a plateau at the juncture of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Iowa. Southwest of the drainage basin of the Des Moines River there are no natural lakes... |
Le pauvre matelot | Performance history & Synopsis & Act 1 | Milhaud/Menotti double bill played later that month in Baltimore at the city's Lyric Theatre and at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.
Kaminski describes the work as the most often performed of Milhaud's operas. Synopsis The setting of the opera is in the present at a seaport. Act 1 The wife keeps a bar where ... |
Kiryat Arba | Meaning & History | may refer to the four couples buried in the Machpela Cave: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah, and according to the Zohar, Adam and Eve. History A secret government plan to establish the settlement began with the expropriation of Palestinian land ostensibly for a military base. According to the minute... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Austin & Houston & Tennessee & Virginia | to Austin were overridden by Texas HB100, and Uber and Lyft resumed operations in Austin. Houston In late 2016, Uber threatened to leave Houston ahead of Super Bowl LI, insisting various city regulations, including fingerprint background checks of drivers, were too burdensome. Houston officials and Uber reached a compr... |
Kaiaphas | Biography | 1998, Kaiaphas moved to New Orleans, where he later formed a tribal gothic rock psychedelic rock band, called Oroboros, with his friend, Nicholas Syracuse. Oroboros played at the Burning Man Festival in 1999 and 2001. In this band, Kaiaphas played the drums, doumbek, djembe, and did some Tuvan/Mongolian style throat-si... |
Lightning | High-energy radiation | of X-rays by a bolt of lightning was theoretically predicted as early as 1925 but no evidence was found until 2001/2002, when researchers at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology detected X-ray emissions from an induced lightning strike along a grounded wire trailed behind a rocket shot into a storm cloud. ... |
Koda Glover | Major leagues | switched his number to #30 to allow Wieters to continue wearing the #32 he had worn with the Baltimore Orioles. In the early days of the 2017 season, Glover's left hip trouble recurred, and he was placed on the 10-day disabled list with what the Nationals described as a left hip impingement on April 26. The stint was s... |
Jack Deveraux and Jennifer Horton | 1991–98 | Nick and Jack and Jennifer were trying to prove her innocence. Eve and Frankie were developing into a couple, and Jack continued to pretend he had no feelings for Jennifer left.
After a lot of hurt and misunderstandings, Jennifer finally confessed to Jack what had happened. The revelation caused him a great deal of a... |
Lee Kernaghan | Biography | Lee Kernaghan Biography The son of country music singer and truck driver Ray Kernaghan, Lee Kernaghan was born in the Victorian town of Corryong and raised in southern New South Wales.
In 1986, Kernaghan traveled to the United States to represent Australia at the Nashville 'Fan Fair' country music festival. In 1993, hi... |
Lauren Carpenter | Cult | a pair of "fanatics" and members of the Children of Barabbas, a religious sect. As Lauren became closer to Jacob and Ruth, she was lured into joined the cult. Jim Schembri from The Age commented "She promptly turned into a religious nut and caused trouble in the coffee shop, from where she was promptly sacked". Lauren'... |
Longwood University | College of Business and Economics | Economics is among the fewer than 5 percent of the world's business programs accredited by Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International, the most prestigious accrediting agency for such schools. It was originally accredited in 1998 and has been reaffirmed twice.
Students of the college earn eithe... |
Katharine Balfour | Writings & Death | on WEVD in New York. In 1988 New York Magazine reported that she had written a two-hundred-page manuscript tentatively entitled "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," which was described as her "fictionalized memoirs." Death She died on April 3, 1990, in New York City. According to her New York Times obituary, the cau... |
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