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Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Michigan & Minnesota & Mississippi & Missouri & Nebraska | Michigan In December 2016, Michigan instituted regulations on ridesharing companies. Minnesota In July 2014, the Minneapolis City Council voted almost unanimously to legalize ridesharing companies. Mississippi In April 2016, statewide regulations governing ridesharing companies in Mississippi were implemented.
In May 2... |
Kurt Semm | Work | The president of the German Surgical Society demanded that Semm should be suspended from medical practice. But Semm was tireless in advocating his techniques and gradually got some surgeons interested. In 1985 Erich Mühe showed that Semm’s laparoscopic approach could be applied for cholecystectomy, and it became the go... |
Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin | null | a life peer as Baron Silkin of Dulwich, of North Leigh in the County of Oxfordshire.
Samuel's son Christopher also disclaimed the hereditary peerage on the death of his uncle Arthur in 2001, the first time a peerage has been disclaimed twice. |
John Askey | Playing career | Conference title in 1994–95, but the club failed to gain Football League status as Moss Rose failed to meet the required capacity requirements. Askey broke his leg in a pre-season friendly with Winsford United and missed the entire 1995–96 season due to injury, leaving him unable to play in the FA Trophy and Conference... |
LaVaughn Robinson | Contribution to dance and technique | do today would not be possible without LaVaughn's innovations." In an encapsulation of a lifetime of thinking about tap dance, his solo piece Artistry in Taps, contains a wealth of the ideas that can be expressed in tap dancing. A completely choreographed piece developed over decades, Robinson drew on all the aspects o... |
International School of Port of Spain | Organization & Curriculum | with the consent and support of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. Curriculum The curriculum is that of a U.S. academic college-preparatory school. Spanish is taught as a foreign language from grade 2. All students participate in art, music, physical education, drama, health, and computer studies as well as in core... |
Fergus Nicoll | Writing | The Mahdi of Sudan in October 2009, under the title Seif al-Nabi: Mahdi al-Sudan. In September 2010, the Qasim Data Centre in Khartoum published Nicoll's Bibliography of the Mahdia. In April 2013, Pen & Sword published his reappraisal of British policy in Sudan: Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars, 1883-5: The Battle... |
Loko people | History & Culture | technologies, and esoteric power from the secret societies.
Speed (1991) thinks that the original settlements were north, bordering the Susu and Limba territories. The Temne and Loko have historically had long and complicated contact. The Temne drove the Loko into what is their present territory, reducing it significan... |
Lake Fenton High School | History | opening of the West Shore Elementary/Torrey Hill Middle School complex. Lake Fenton High School now served 7th through 12th grades. The school became overcrowded again in the 2000s and in 2004, the current high school on Lahring Road, which carries a Linden mailing address, opened. The 1956 Lake Fenton Community School... |
June Haver | Archive | Academy Film Archive houses the Fred MacMurray-June Haver Collection. The film material at the Academy Film Archive is complemented by material in the Fred MacMurray and June Haver papers at the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library. |
Lightning | Lightning strike & Thunder | cage. Thunder Because the electrostatic discharge of terrestrial lightning superheats the air to plasma temperatures along the length of the discharge channel in a short duration, kinetic theory dictates gaseous molecules undergo a rapid increase in pressure and thus expand outward from the lightning creating a shock w... |
Keswick, South Australia | Royal District Nursing Service /Silver Chain SA & Population | SA Population In the 2016 Census, there were 742 people in Keswick. 51.9% of people were born in Australia and 54.1% of people spoke only English at home. The most common response for religion was No Religion 38.6%. |
Lamar High School (Houston) | Organizations and clubs & Historical clubs | Corps,
Key Club,
Muslim Student Association,
Arrowettes Drill Team,
Senior Class,
Wakonda (Freshmen Club),
Warriors.
NewsLamar Life (Newspaper),
Orenda (Yearbook).
Leadership
Lamar Student Council.
Technology
Lamar Robotics Club
Lamar Life is a full-color quarterly news magazine. Childers described it as resembling "a ... |
Kuzman Shapkarev | Biography | his Great Bulgarian Textbook (Golema balgarska chitanka) from 1868, which he authored under the pseudonym "One Macedonian" (Edin Makedonets), he stated his intention to write in a language understandable to his compatriots, the Macedonian Bulgarians. He also announced a project of a dictionary that would contain transl... |
League of Legends World Championship | Season 2 | in early October 2012 in Los Angeles, California to conclude the US$5 million season. Twelve qualifying teams from around the world participated in the championship, which boasted the largest prize pool in the history of e-sports tournaments at the time at US$2 million, with US$1 million going to the champions. The gro... |
Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin | null | Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin CH (14 November 1889 – 11 May 1972), was a British Labour Party politician.
Silkin worked as a solicitor (Lewis Silkin LLP, the London law firm where he practised, still bears his name.), before becoming a member of the London County Council in 1925. He chai... |
Kia Stevens | Knockouts Tag Team Champion (2009–2010) & World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE (2010–2012) | though their previous defense had taken place just 21 days prior, against Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky. On March 22, TNA confirmed Stevens' release, while also claiming that she had requested her release due to personal reasons, but she later said it was due to monetary issues and recent changes to TNA management.
In M... |
Lightning | Thunder | possibly branching geometry of the lightning channel, by acoustic echoing from terrain, and by the usually multiple-stroke characteristic of the lightning strike.
Light travels at about 300,000,000 m/s, and sound travels through air at about 343 m/s. An observer can approximate the distance to the strike by timing the ... |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | Conscription, Corvee Labor, and Forced Tattooing & The Reign of King Anouvong | the ethnic Lao population. Tribute and taxes were calculated by the adult male population registered by tattooing. Politically, the move reduced the Lao kingdoms on the Khorat to little more than Siamese provinces, reducing the power and wealth of the vassal Lao aristocracy. The tattooing unified the Lao nobility and t... |
Lisson Grove | Theatres and music halls | with great refurbishment and extended capacity in 1867, was situated at 267, Edgware Road, opposite Edgware Road (Bakerloo) tube station entrance/exit and Bell Street. Paddington Green police station is now situated on this spot, having moved to make way for the Marylebone flyover.
The Royal West London Theatre was on ... |
Lightning | Extraterrestrial & Properties | lightning may be present in the upper atmosphere were detected. Although the Cassini–Huygens mission fly-by of Venus in 1999 detected no signs of lightning, the observation window lasted mere hours. Radio pulses recorded by the spacecraft Venus Express (which began orbiting Venus in April 2006) may originate from light... |
Judy (dog) | HMS Grasshopper | the river gunboats, Grasshopper included, were redeployed to the British base at Singapore. Judy was initially sea sick, but the crew ensured that she was properly exercised and by the time the ship arrived on station, she had recovered.
Initially the stay at Singapore was peaceful, and Judy stayed with a customs offic... |
LeSean Thomas | Career | as supervising character designer for Superman/Batman: Public Enemies for Warner Bros. Animation.
LeSean landed his first production deal with the late George Jackson's UBO Network, where he created an animated online series called BattleSeed. Thomas wrote, produced and directed the series which was presented at the Ne... |
Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade | Plot summary | that even he is a little afraid of Doctor Diana Uplea.
The following day Ghote has an interview with the Deputy Superintendent of Police. Ghote is ordered to have Singh arrested, with false evidence if necessary, and to suppress evidence that implicates Chatterjee. The D. S. P. leaves Ghote with a warning not to be too... |
Lenny Breau | Posthumous honors | guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry." The biography One Long Tune: The Life and Music of Lenny Breau by Ron Forbes-Roberts was published in 2006 containing interviews with nearly 200 people and a comprehensive discography.
CBC Radio presented a documentary on Lenny Breau e... |
Lisson Grove | Theatres and music halls & Places of worship & Education | classes and workshops, comfortable bar and friendly team enable this creative hub to support performers, the industry, diverse audiences, the local community and free radicals alike."
The Schmidt hammer lassen-designed City of Westminster College at 25 Paddington Green contains the Siddons Theatre, named for the much a... |
Ladder | Safety | can be attached, especially for activities like window cleaning, especially if a fellow worker is not available for "footing" the ladder. Footing occurs when another worker stands on the lowest rung and so provides much greater stability to the ladder when being used. However footing a ladder should be seen as a last r... |
Jeff Melvoin | Television career | CBS. It marked Melvoin’s first showrunner position.
Following Picket Fences, Melvoin signed an overall deal with Tristar Television and became a consultant on the light science fiction drama, Early Edition, for CBS. He took over the series as showrunner for seasons two through four, from 1997-2000.
In 2001, he was ex... |
Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum | History | utilizing former Oahu Railway and Land Company equipment. There was no perimeter fencing in the first decade of operation, so the public was free to wander the grounds and ask generous engineers for rides. By 1960, the attraction had become so popular that a formal station had to be established for riders to queue in a... |
Lockheed Senior Prom | Design and development | a reported budget of USD $24,000,000; the design of the aircraft was closely based on that of Have Blue, except scaled down. Intended for launch from Lockheed DC-130 Hercules drone launcher aircraft, the original configuration of the Senior Prom vehicle included winglets and a ventral fin; the aircraft was later modifi... |
Jorge Andrade | Deportivo | with the possibility of being increased to €13M (goalkeeper Nuno Espírito Santo was also part of the deal, for €3M). He appeared in only 11 La Liga games in his debut season, barred by César Martín and Noureddine Naybet, but was an undisputed first-choice when healthy in the following years.
On 21 April 2004, during a ... |
Josef and Ctirad Mašín | Books and documentaries | of the infamous detective series "Major Zeman". In contrast to reality, "Major Zeman" caught them. The Mašíns themselves, after losing the illusion that the West would wage a war to end Communism in Eastern Europe, were reluctant to talk about their past. Eventually another expatriate made them tell their story again: ... |
Kronk Gym | Detroit gym closure & Proposed new Detroit gym | flames in a suspicious fire. The roof was destroyed and the basement gym was heavily damaged. Proposed new Detroit gym The abandoned Kronk Gym in Detroit may see new life under a proposal to renovate the battered two-story building and revive the area around it. The effort was again being spearheaded by Emanuel Steward... |
John Cawthra | null | John Cawthra John Cawthra (1789–1851) was a merchant, distiller and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented Simcoe from 1828 to 1830 in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada as a Reformer and was the first Member of Parliament for Simcoe in the Parliament of the Province of Canada.
He was born in England so... |
Kia Stevens | Return to the independent circuit and Japan (2012–2016) | #1 contender match but was unsuccessful on capturing the Shine Championship. On September 21, 2014 Stevens was part of Smash CANUSA Classic where she was captain of Team USA, Stevens would lose in her tournament match against LuFisto who was team captain of team Canada which lead Team Canada victorious.
On August 26, 2... |
Lisson Grove | Bus routes & In literature | stops for Lisson Grove are served by bus routes 16, 6, 98, 414. In literature In Pygmalion, the leading character Eliza Doolittle was partly inspired by a child prostitution scandal in Lisson Grove and the West End, and Higgins claimed to be able to pinpoint her way of speaking to Lisson Grove. |
L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2004 | Provisions & Reinstatement of a hard 12-month requirement for L-1 intracompany transferees & New fraud detection fee | Visa Reform Act of 2004 had two main provisions and a slight change to the fee structure. Reinstatement of a hard 12-month requirement for L-1 intracompany transferees The Act amended section 214(c)(2)(A) of the Act to restore prior law requiring that the L-1 beneficiary of a blanket petition have been employed abroad ... |
Justin Nozuka | Biography | Dirty Bastard. The group filmed a music video for the single featuring clips of Ol' Dirty Bastard. The single is available on iTunes.
Nozuka has also had various acting roles, including an appearance on Degrassi: The Next Generation as Chuck Hosoda, the fictional brother to recurring character Chester, played by Justin... |
Lamar High School (Houston) | Integration and IB era & Expansion of facilities and renovation | brunch was scheduled at the University Club in the morning of Sunday, November 9, 2003. In 2004, Tune performed at Lamar. Foxworth and Jaclyn Smith attended the performance. Expansion of facilities and renovation The 2000s would bring speculation about Lamar's overcrowding and new attention to the school's need for new... |
Jubal Early | Shenandoah Valley, 1864–1865 & Postbellum career | to find a commander who would be more likely to develop the strength and resources of the country, and inspire the soldiers with confidence. ... [Thank you] for the fidelity and energy with which you have always supported my efforts, and for the courage and devotion you have ever manifested in the service ...
— Robert ... |
Lauren Carpenter | Matt's death and marriage to Brad | how we'd make it work. You just have to completely surrender yourself to the dream-like state of it and accept that, because anything goes in a dream." Kendall thought the dream showed Lauren that while she might have moved on from Matt too fast, it also allowed her to let go of a part of him too. When Brad first propo... |
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau | Lewis and Clark Expedition | boy's birth in his journal:
The party that were ordered last evening set out early this morning. the weather was fair and could wind N. W. about five o'clock this evening one of the wives of Charbono was delivered of a fine boy. It is worthy of remark that this was the first child which this woman had boarn [sic] an... |
Limerick to Foynes Railway Line | Future | unsafe Robertstown viaduct for the potential reintroduction of freight traffic with a new, single span structure. The Railway line is part of the EU infrastructure Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), because of this in 2015 the Shannon Foynes port company had received €800,000 to study the feasibility of reinsta... |
Laser guide star | Progress | Telescope started regular scientific operations in June 2007.
Since April 2016, the 4 Laser Guide Star Facility (4LGSF) has been installed at the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), as a new subsystem of the Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF). The 4LGSF is a complement of the VLT Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF). Instead of ... |
Lloyd Ruby | Indianapolis 500 & Death & Legacy and halls of fame | too soon. The refueling nozzle was still engaged in the car's left saddle tank, and as Ruby dropped the clutch, the car lurched forward. The nozzle ruptured a hole in the gas tank, ending Ruby's day. Death He died in 2009 at the age of 81 in his hometown of Wichita Falls, Texas. Legacy and halls of fame Ruby’s racing c... |
Lonnie Liston Smith | The Cosmic Echoes (1973–85) | Records, who had produced both Pharoah Sanders' and Gato Barbieri's output while Smith had been in their bands, the latter for Thiele's newly formed label. For his debut album, Astral Traveling (Flying Dutchman, 1973), Smith re-recorded the title song he had composed and played on with the Pharoah Sanders band two year... |
Leonard Swindley | Casting | early 60s.
In December 1961, only a year after the show's launch, a strike of the actor's union Equity meant that Lowe, who was not under contract with the show at that point, was forced to leave the series along with several other stars of the Street. The strike lasted until April 1962, and Lowe agreed to reprise his ... |
Kevin McHale (actor) | Acting | host a comedy panel show, Virtually Famous, for the British digital television channel E4. The show also features comedian Seann Walsh and radio presenter Chris Stark as series regulars and team captains.
On February 24, 2014, it was announced that McHale had signed on to play a supporting role in the Kathy Bates and D... |
Lexie Carver | Character history | it's discovered that the tumors have grown and are fatal, giving her a matter of weeks to live. Her family gathers around her, helping her with her bucket list, which included going to Paris. Unable to fly, Abe, with the help of EJ and Cameron, turn the Horton Town Square into a Paris-like setting. In late June, a frag... |
Like a Champion | Background | Like a Champion Background After the end of the When the Sun Goes Down era, Gomez announced that she would pause her musical career to focus on her film roles. After that, the singer confirmed the end of the band Selena Gomez & the Scene, after three studio albums. Gomez announced in October 2012 that she had started t... |
Immanuel College, Bushey | Admission and Entrance Examinations & ISI Inspection 2010 | examination. All senior-school candidates sit entrance examinations in English and Mathematics; Immanuel Jakobovits Scholarship candidates have the option of sitting a Jewish Studies examination of an hour's duration. All senior-school candidates are subsequently called for interview. The school offers academic scho... |
Lee Kernaghan | Controversy & Business ventures | – and respectful of, the memory of ... [soldiers who] laid down their lives for the freedoms we have today." Fellow local artists, Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham and Mark Seymour, objected to the use of their material at those rallies. Business ventures For several years, Kernaghan owned the historic Great Western Hotel in... |
KMVT | History | KMVT History The station went on the air on June 1, 1955 as KLIX-TV, a sister station to KLIX radio (1310 AM). It has been a CBS affiliate since sign-on; however, in its early years the station carried programs from ABC and NBC. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
I... |
Judicial elections in Pennsylvania | History | Judicial elections in Pennsylvania History The first State constitution was created in 1776, shortly after the country declared its independence from Great Britain. After heated debate over the issue, it was decided that the Pennsylvania governor would appoint state judges and justices. They served seven years, and cou... |
Kjell Magne Bondevik | Oslo Centre & Awards and decorations | in Atlanta, the Kim Dae Jung Library in Seoul and the Crisis Management Initiative in Helsinki. Awards and decorations Bondevik was awarded the Grand Cross of St. Olav in 2004, the first sitting Norwegian Prime Minister to receive the Order of St. Olav in 80 years. The award happened due to a change in the Statutes of ... |
Lee Rocker | Career | million albums and garnered twenty three gold and platinum certified records worldwide, and made them a mainstay on MTV. In addition to Stray Cats, Lee Rocker and Phantom Rocker and Slick albums, Rocker has recorded or performed with Carl Perkins, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Leon Russell, Keith Richard... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Bangladesh & Belgium | drivers decided to join Uber and the ridesharing companies, which operate auto-rickshaw service. Belgium In April 2014, Uber was banned in Brussels, and the company was threatened with fines of €10,000 if it offers fares to drivers who are not in possession of a taxi license. Bruxelles-Mobilite, the city's federal regi... |
LeSean Thomas | Career | and director on several other independent projects, marking him as the first American animator to be hired to work in-house as permanent, independent production staff for animation studios in South Korea. His exploits in the Korean animation industry have been recently recorded and featured in a web-documentary he prod... |
Leon Milo | Los Angeles | 1940s, an important interpreter of Schoenberg music and director of the Schoenberg Institute (at the USC). As a Professor, he encouraged generations of composers to develop their own ideas. Among his others students was notably, La Monte Young.
A year later, he was accepted to the composer's workshop at the Aspen Music... |
Liliana Gil Valletta | Affiliations & Personal life | Hospital's Gala por la Vida NY. Personal life Valletta resides in New York City and is married to co-founder of Mission Athletecare Chris Valletta, who was also on the practice team for an NFL football team in 2002. |
Lorraine O'Grady | Awards & Pop culture references | at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. There she became immersed in the internet during its early years.
Since 1997, she has been a Senior Fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School University. In 2009 she received the Anonymous Was A Woman award, a United States Artists... |
Laolu Senbanjo | Early life | Laolu Senbanjo Early life Senbanjo was born and raised in Ilorin, Nigeria by Yoruba parents. His father was a lawyer, his mother was a nurse. He grew up performing in his church's choir. While in school he had a music group called Light and Fire which performed original songs and covers.
Senbanjo studied law at Nigeria... |
John Horton Conway | Combinatorial game theory | the mathematical foundations of CGT.
He is also one of the inventors of sprouts, as well as philosopher's football. He developed detailed analyses of many other games and puzzles, such as the Soma cube, peg solitaire, and Conway's soldiers. He came up with the angel problem, which was solved in 2006.
He invented a new ... |
Lightning | Return stroke | communications antennas. The rate at which the return stroke current travels has been found to be around 100,000 km/s.
The massive flow of electric current occurring during the return stroke combined with the rate at which it occurs (measured in microseconds) rapidly superheats the completed leader channel, forming a h... |
Lenny Breau | Posthumous honors & Technique and guitars | one-hour feature was produced in Montreal by John Klepko.
Breau was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1997. Technique and guitars Breau's fully matured technique was a combination of Chet Atkins's and Merle Travis's fingerpicking and Sabicas-influenced flamenco, highlighted by right-hand independence and... |
Laolu Senbanjo | Early life & Art | art career. Art Senbanjo has coined his style of art, Afromysterics, meaning mystery of the African thought pattern. It incorporates African themes and African traditions. His uses charcoal and distinct patterns to create complex, story-rich art designs that draw heavily on his Yoruba heritage and feature ancient Niger... |
Lindsay Barrett | Move to Europe: 1962–66 | and for the Transcription Centre, an organisation that recorded and broadcast the works of African writers in Europe and Africa.
In 1962, Barrett left England for France, and during the next four years travelled throughout Europe and North Africa as a journalist and feature writer, based in Paris. There he was associat... |
Leon Milo | Recent work and projects | Arts on medici.tv.
In September 2009, Milo and Francois Daudin Clavaud played their interactive performance entitled “Sound Gardens” numerous times in Mexico. Notable performances of the duo Interact-Son took place at the Festival Musica Y Escena in Mexico City and the Festival Mediarte / Arte y Nuevas Tecnologías in... |
Lawman (TV series) | Main characters | romantic relationship with saloon owner Lily Merrill. Dan cared for Lily very deeply, but his job often thwarted their happiness. He had one brother, Clay Troop, played by James Drury, four years before the premiere of The Virginian. Clay Troop was killed in the season one episode, "The Gang". It was revealed that the ... |
Le pauvre matelot | Performance history | Le pauvre matelot Performance history The work was a successful part of a triple bill at La Monnaie in Brussels at the end of 1927 conducted by Corneil de Thoran, preceded by the premiere of Antigone by Honegger, and followed by Shéhérazade. The German premiere was at the Kroll with Zemlinsky conducting in 1929 and wit... |
Lightning | Transient currents during flash | conductors used in the protection of facilities tend to be multi-stranded, with small wires woven together. This increases the total bundle surface area in inverse proportion to the individual strand radius, for a fixed total cross-sectional area.
The rapidly changing currents also create electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) ... |
Liston (square) | null | Liston (square) Liston is a Venetian word used in various cities of the Veneto region and former possessions of the former Republic of Venice to indicate a part of the city, usually a square or section of a square. The term liston refers to the long marble slabs used for paving the streets. The term far el liston, mean... |
Khazar University School of Humanities and Social Sciences | History | Khazar University School of Humanities and Social Sciences History The idea of the School of Humanities developed in a year after Khazar University was founded. The importance of nourishing the younger generation of specialists in humanities was prioritized by the University in 1992 and several departments were establi... |
League of Legends World Championship | Season 6 | Draw Show on September 10. The games were played on the 6.18 patch of the game with Yorick disabled and Aurelion Sol was disabled for days 1-3. There were 16 teams and 4 groups that consisted of 4 teams. The group stage was Bo1 and the top two teams from each groups would advance to the Knockout Stage.
The Knockout Sta... |
Just5 | Just5 CP & Just5 Brick & Just5 Surf | called BestInSpace and released as a limited edition as Just5 had cooperated with the sound designers from BestInSpace for the project. Just5 Brick In July 2013, the Just5 Brick, a mobile phone model that follows the same mindset of having simple features, was released. It is designed with the appearance of a brick - b... |
Lockheed Senior Prom | Testing and cancellation | Groom Lake test complex was reportedly constructed to house the B-52 and Senior Prom combination.
Despite the success of the test programme, Senior Prom was cancelled in 1982; reportedly one reason for the cancellation of the project was that the size and configuration of the Senior Prom aircraft rendered it incapable ... |
Karli Coburger | Early years | reality with their previous agreements, the whole of Thuringia ended up in the Soviet occupation zone of what had been Germany. Between 1946 and 1948 Coburger attended the Economics Senior School in Sonneberg, and then, in 1948/49 worked as an informal trainee at the "Plastewerk" factory in the town's Köppelsdorf quart... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Italy & Japan & Netherlands | judge dott. Alfredo Landi banned the UberBlack, Uber-Lux, Uber-SUV, Uber-X, Uber-XL, UberSelect and Uber-Van app throughout Italy for unfair competition practices.
In November 2017, Italian taxi drivers implemented another nationwide strike action. Japan In September 2018, Uber struck a deal with the Fuji Taxi Group to... |
Ketene | History & Reactions and applications & Applications | the form of diphenylketene (conversion of -chlorodiphenyl acetyl chloride with zinc). Staudinger was inspired by the first examples of reactive organic intermediates and stable radicals discovered by Moses Gomberg in 1900 (compounds with triphenylmethyl group). Reactions and applications Due to their cumulated double b... |
Longwood University | Secret societies | home to two secret societies: CHI and Princeps.
CHI was founded on October 15, 1900 and serves to promote the Longwood spirit. Members are secretly tapped and revealed only at the conclusion of their senior year during the annual CHI Burning, a large burning held on campus. CHI members at times leave "CHI droppings" on... |
Lightning | Lightning leaders | a tree-like pattern. In addition, negative and some positive leaders travel in a discontinuous fashion, in a process called "stepping". The resulting jerky movement of the leaders can be readily observed in slow-motion videos of lightning flashes.
It is possible for one end of the leader to fill the oppositely-charged ... |
Kenneth Gandar-Dower | Cheetah racing & World War II | competitive and had no interest in pursuing the hare and could not negotiate tight bends. Gandar-Dower also caused uproar at the Queen's Club when he brought a male cheetah into the bar on a leash. World War II At the outbreak of World War II Gandar-Dower was in the Belgian Congo photographing gorillas. Returning to En... |
Lesional demyelinations of the central nervous system | Immune mediated attack | repair process, called remyelination, takes place in early phases of the disease, but the oligodendrocytes are unable to completely rebuild the cell's myelin sheath. Repeated attacks lead to successively less effective remyelinations, until a scar-like plaque is built up around the damaged axons.
According to the view ... |
Likhoslavlsky District | Transportation & Culture and recreation | traffic originating from Likhoslavl. Culture and recreation The district contains seven cultural heritage monuments of federal significance and additionally fifty objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance (seven of them located in Likhoslavl). The federal monuments are the Saint Nicho... |
Liverpool Hope University | Unification of colleges & University status | course provision and provided recognition of its academic standing.
In 1998, the Accreditation Agreement with the University of Liverpool was renewed for five years and extended to cover taught postgraduate awards. After extensive scrutiny by the Quality Assurance Agency in 2001 and 2002, Liverpool Hope gained taught d... |
Lenka Udovicki | Moving Theatre Company & Ulysses Theatre & Other notable works | Company.
For the Moving Theatre directed "Waterfall" by V. Stevanović, "Arsonists" by Max Frisch with Frances de la Tour (Riverside Studio), "The Consul" by Menotti (Leighton House), "Necessary Targets" by Eve Ensler. Ulysses Theatre For Ulysses Theatre directed a number of performances in the past 15 years, and in 201... |
Lienzo de Quauhquechollan | Provenance & Content | Puebla Academy"), dates to the final decade of the 19th century when it was in the collection of the Puebla Painting Academy, although its provenance was unknown. It has various pieces of paper fixed beside the images and bearing text using the Latin alphabet, although these are very poorly preserved. Content The top l... |
Liverpool Hope University | Campuses & Students' Union | Campuses The main campus, Hope Park, is located in Childwall and the second campus, The Creative Campus, is located in Everton. Students' Union Students at the university are represented by Liverpool Hope Students' Union (LHSU). Although there are two campus sites (plus another residential site) for the university, the... |
Lauren Carpenter | Long-lost daughter | into a kiss." Feeling guilty, Lauren flew home to her family, where she was surprised to discover that Matt had arranged for them to renew their vows. Lauren decided to keep the kiss from Matt, but did confide in her father.
Shortly after Lauren and Brad gave up their search, their daughter, Paige Smith (Olympia Valanc... |
Liu Jiawei | Club career | Liu Jiawei Club career In 2011, Liu Jiawei started his professional footballer career with Hubei Youth in the China League Two. He transferred to Chinese Super League club Shanghai Greenland in 2014 after a short spell with Guangzhou R&F. On 27 September 2014, Li made his debut for Shanghai Shenhua in the 2014 Chinese ... |
John Allan Grim | Major Publications | Indian Quarterly. University of Nebraska Press, Fall 1992, Volume XVI, Number 4.
•Grim, John. The Shaman, Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing Civilization of the American Indian Series #165, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983; paper back, 1984; reprinted in 1987 as The Shaman, Patterns of Religious Healing... |
Krishna's Butterball | null | Krishna's Butterball Krishna's Butterball (also known as Vaan Irai Kal and Krishna's Gigantic Butterball) is a gigantic granite boulder resting on a short incline in the historical town of Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu, India. The boulder is approximately 6 meters high and 5 meters wide and weighs around 250 tons. It sta... |
Lisson Grove | Arts and antiques | north on Lisson Grove on the corner of St John's Wood Road from 1825.
The arrival of Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema at nearby 44, Grove End Road in the late 1870s inspired the naming of one of the Lilestone Estate apartment blocks built in the 1920s as Tadema House. Eastlake House, situated opposite Tadema House, i... |
Kaisa (cue sport) | Rules | player shoots from where that player's cue ball lies if it remains on the table, or has ball-in-hand behind the head string if that cue ball was pocketed by the previous player. |
Lake Winnipegosis | Fisheries | account for over 80 percent of its commercial fishing. |
Just5 | Just5 Spacer & More Recent Models | 2s. More Recent Models From February 2015 through October 2017, Just5 released ten models of its new Blaster, Freedom, and Cosmo phones. |
Leonard McBury | null | Leonard McBury Colonel Leonard McBury is a North Carolina colonial militia officer who took part in early explorations of present-day Tennessee during the late 18th century. |
Landbeach | History | the parish were inundated.
The village was listed as Utbech ("out bec") in the Domesday Book and in the 13th and 14th century was occasionally referred to as Inbech ("in bec"). The original meaning of the "beach" part of the names is not universally agreed. One theory invokes the Anglo Saxon word bec meaning "stream", ... |
Lesotho women's national under-17 football team | Team | Team In 2006, there was an official FIFA recognised under-17 team. From 2002 to 2005, the team did not play a single match. In 2006, they played three games. In 2006, the team had three training sessions a week. |
Lisson Grove | Arts and antiques & Theatres and music halls | indoor market for antiques, collectables, vintage, and 20th century design is in the former Jordans Department Store, decorated with an Egyptian art deco theme similar to the Aeroworks – the indoor market, "houses more than 200 permanent stall holders and covers in excess of 35,000 sq ft of shop space on five floors." ... |
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