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Kirby's Avalanche | Plot & Version differences | way through the forest in Avalanche matches against an assortment of his old foes from Kirby's Dream Land and Kirby's Adventure (including recurring bosses such as Whispy Woods, Kracko and Meta Knight), and ultimately to a final showdown at the Fountain of Dreams with King Dedede to win the Cup. Version differences Whi... |
Jim Sullivan (singer-songwriter) | Life | his songs with leading Los Angeles session musicians, keyboard player Don Randi, drummer Earl Palmer, and bass player Jimmy Bond, who was also the record's arranger and co-producer. After Nick Venet at Capitol turned down the opportunity to release the record, it was issued by Sullivan's friend Al Dobbs on a small reco... |
Lightning | Re-strike | to understand the behavior of positive leaders, which a typical ground flash effectively becomes following the negative leader's connection with the ground. Positive leaders decay more rapidly than negative leaders do. For reasons not well understood, bidirectional leaders tend to initiate on the tips of the decayed po... |
Hoste da Reggio | Music and influence | manner, in which one or more of the voices sings in a more declamatory style, anticipating later developments in the century such as the solo madrigal, and an increasing importance of soprano and bass parts; prior to this time, especially in the contrapuntal style of the Franco-Flemish school in the 1540s, absolute eve... |
Lloyd Ruby | Indianapolis 500 | Ruby: The Greatest Driver Never to Win the Indy 500. Ruby led the race in five different years, for a total of 126 laps, however, his best finish at Indianapolis was third, in 1964. His only other top-five finish at Indy came in 1968. In 1991, he was inducted into the Auto Racing Hall of Fame.
Perhaps Ruby's most notor... |
Lightning | Distribution and frequency | boundaries between them. The flow of warm ocean currents past drier land masses, such as the Gulf Stream, partially explains the elevated frequency of lightning in the Southeast United States. Because large bodies of water lack the topographic variation that would result in atmospheric mixing, lightning is notably less... |
Longhill High School | History & Sports and clubs | Longhill High School History The school was officially opened in 1964, although took its first intake in 1963. The school originally had six houses named after castles in Sussex: Arundel, Bramber, Chichester, Hastings, Lewes and Pevensey.
On 16 September 2010, officially it opened its new block, named "Vaughan Block" a... |
Lightning | Electrical field generation | surface of the Earth, an equal electric charge, but of opposite polarity, is induced on the Earth's surface underneath the cloud. The induced positive surface charge, when measured against a fixed point, will be small as the thundercloud approaches, increasing as the center of the storm arrives and dropping as the thun... |
Light Tank Mk VI | Operational history | to a German aircraft attack. The tanks also saw limited service against the Japanese in Malaya. |
Leonard Swindley | Background & Storylines | Street (now home to Roy's Rolls), originally employed Emily Nugent. Storylines Swindley, in his role as lay preacher, was a central figure in the local community. The Mission Hall would regularly play host charity ventures and plays among other uses. Swindley and his assistant Emily Nugent (Eileen Derbyshire) also orga... |
Joseph Mills | Loan spells & Oldham Athletic | an unsuccessful appeal over his suspension, Mills returned to the first team and made the total of thirteen appearance for the club. Oldham Athletic On 4 June 2014, Mills signed for Oldham Athletic where he had spent a loan spell the previous season. He signed a two-year contract with the option of a third and was the ... |
Lonnie Liston Smith | Later career (1986–present) | 1 album (Chrysalis, 1993), once again finding a new audience for his earlier work as a result. He had also toured Europe in 1991, but after this short period of activity Smith produced little further work in the 1990s. Despite extensive radio play, appearing on a number of compilation albums and being name-checked and ... |
Last Kiss | Release and reception & Live performances & Other cover versions | Lost Dogs may refer to the subject of Winner's song "Der Deitcher's Dog", a dog that cannot be found, despite its description. Live performances Pearl Jam first performed its cover of "Last Kiss" live at the band's May 7, 1998, concert in Seattle, Washington, at ARO.space. Live performances by Pearl Jam of "Last Kiss" ... |
Lorraine O'Grady | "Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity" (essay) | rubber figure surrounded by black, a monkey on a bed, completely nude."
"O'Grady specifically refers to a tradition of iconography of black female sexuality that casts black women as simplistic stereotypes, such as the "Hottentot Venus," "Jezebel," "mammy," "Sapphire," "welfare queen," and more recently "quota queen" a... |
Jubal Early | Shenandoah Valley, 1864–1865 | West Virginia. Key subordinates (General Robert Rodes and A.C. Godwin) were killed, General Fitz Lee wounded and General John C. Breckinridge was ordered back to Southwest Virginia—so Early had lost about 40% of his troop strength since the campaign began, despite distracting thousands of Union troops. The Confederates... |
Longwood University | Joan of Arc | to protect and inspire students. The university's three prized sculptures of the 15th century French heroine are Jeanne d'Arc—known affectionately as "Joanie on the Stony"—an 1870 plaster statue by French sculptor Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu, Anna Hyatt Huntington's 1915 bronze Joan of Arc equestrian statue, nicknamed "... |
Last Kiss | The song's story | Last Kiss The song's story The narrator borrows his father's car to take his girlfriend out on a date. Coming upon a stalled car in the road, the narrator swerves to the right to avoid it, losing control and crashing violently in the process. The crash renders both the narrator and his girlfriend unconscious. The narra... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Early revolutionary career & L'Esprit de la Revolution | who uphold our tottering country against the torrent of despotism and intrigue; you whom I know, as I know God, only through his miracles...". Through their correspondence, the two developed "a deep and mysterious friendship that would last until the day [they] died". L'Esprit de la Revolution While Saint-Just waited f... |
Lightning | Upward streamers & Attachment | opposite charges on the ground enhances the strength of the electric field. The electric field is strongest on grounded objects whose tops are closest to the base of the thundercloud, such as trees and tall buildings. If the electric field is strong enough, a positively charged ionic channel, called a positive or upwar... |
Korhan Erel | Early life | Korhan Erel Early life Korhan Erel was born on 26 August 1973 to Şaziye Erel and Recep Celil Erel. At the time, Şaziye Erel was working in the Turkish Customs as a clerk, while Recep Celil was working in Anadolu Sigorta. Şaziye Erel's first memory of Korhan's deep interest in sounds was when Korhan as a toddler would m... |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | The Reign of King Anouvong | Lan Xang, and was taken to Siam in 1779. In 1791, Nanthasan convinced Rama I that King Anourouth of Luang Prabang was secretly meeting with the Burmese and plotting a rebellion against Siam. Nathasan was permitted to attack Luang Prabang and captured the city in 1792. The Luang Prabang royal family were all sent to Ban... |
Kat DeLuna | Early life | Arts High School, which was the only school she applied to. While there, DeLuna and her friends formed an R&B group called Coquette. DeLuna had a tough upbringing and was raised in poverty. She spent her time listening to Aretha Franklin and Billie Holiday records, which she imitated daily on her karaoke machine.
At ag... |
Linear ion trap | Linear trap and FTICR & Linear trap and triple quadrupole | FTMS can be ejected in the linear trap to improve the resolution, sensitivity, and dynamic range of the system. Linear trap and triple quadrupole The combination of triple quadrupole MS with LIT technology in the form of an instrument of configuration QqLIT, using axial ejection, is particularly interesting, because th... |
Lonnie Liston Smith | Early career (1963–73) | ever-revolving door of young modern jazz musicians as modes and moods rapidly changed during a fresh period of experimentation. Beginning with a live session at The Five Spot, New York City, November 9, 1965, Smith's time as a Jazz Messenger was fairly short-term, only lasting until a three-gig engagement at The Villag... |
Lei Ting curse charm | Overview | Emperor of the Song dynasty in the year 1013 AD. Like government decrees inscriptions on Lei Ting curse charms would carry phrases such as "quickly, quickly, this is an order" or "respect this command" to emulate them. Some curse charms contain the Chinese character for "dead ghost" as living people are startled to see... |
Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin | null | was Minister of Town and Country Planning in the Government of Clement Attlee from 1945 until he retired in 1950.
Silkin was raised to the peerage as Baron Silkin, of Dulwich in the County of London, in the 1950 Birthday Honours. He was further honoured in 1965 when he was made a Companion of Honour. Of his three sons,... |
Liberty Colored High School | Architecture | restrooms for the boys and the girls. In the 1950s, the stairway to the basement was closed, and the corridor was converted to new restrooms. |
Le Défenseur du Temps | Location & History | owes its name to this work. History Le Défenseur du temps was commissioned in 1975 by COGEDIM. The scales of the dragon were made by Louis Desouches, and the construction of the steel structure was by Alain Moirod.
The clock was partially installed in September 1979. It was formally dedicated on 8 October 1979 by the M... |
Lake Success (California) | Wildlife & In fiction | season. Trails make access to the wildlife area easy for hikers and add considerably to the natural experience. In fiction In the science fiction novel Lucifer's Hammer, written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, fragments of a comet strike the Earth, causing massive tidal waves to destroy most of the planet's coastal... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Arrest of the Girondins | Girondins During the time that Saint-Just was working on the constitution, dramatic political warfare was taking place. The sans-culottes—deemed "the people" by many radicals, and represented by the Paris Commune—had grown antipathetic to the moderate Girondins. On 2 June 1793, in a mass action supported by National Gu... |
Kosovo Liberation Army | Foreign support & Reported abuses | the KLA with weaponry, comparing it to French support of America in the Revolutionary War. Reported abuses There have been reports of war crimes committed by the KLA both during and after the conflict. These have been directed against Serbs, other ethnic minorities (primarily the Roma) and against ethnic Albanians accu... |
Loto-Québec | History | its Espacejeux online gaming site for preregistration. The site went live on December 1, offering adult players eight types of poker, table games like baccarat, sic bo and red dog, as well as a variety of blackjack, roulette games and sports betting.
Since early 2011, Quebec poker fans have been able to compete with pl... |
London Wall | Roman wall | London Wall The London Wall was the defensive wall first built by the Romans around Londinium, their strategically important port town on the River Thames in what is now London, England, and subsequently maintained until the 18th century.
It is now the name of a road in the City of London running along part of the cour... |
Kinabatangan River | Accessibility | and fruiting season, the climate is generally fairly dry and a good time to spot many birds and animals. During the northeast monsoon from November to March, there are often heavy showers during the afternoons which usually extended until December and January. Through the rainy season, it is possible to negotiate many ... |
Longwood University | Sustainability & Longwood House | is the only public institution of higher education in Virginia and one of only two state agencies that burns biomass for heating fuel, which the university has done since 1983.
Longwood has been voted one of the greenest campuses in terms of sustainability in the Southeast by Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine. Longwood Hous... |
Loto-Québec | History | the use of VLTs without informing users of the danger of developing a dependency on this type of game of chance. An out-of-court settlement between the parties was reached in December 2009.
In March 2009, Loto-Québec announced a plan to renovate the Casino de Montréal at a cost of C$100 million.
On April 1, 2009, Loto-... |
Lorraine O'Grady | Life and work | made her first video installation during a residency at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas.
Her strongly feminist work has been widely exhibited, particularly in New York City and Europe. O'Grady's early Mlle Bourgeoise Noire performance was given new recognition when it was made an entry-point to the landmark exhibit WACK!... |
Lightning | Lightning strike | conducting a lightning strike to ground, a lightning protection system can greatly reduce the probability of severe property damage. Lightning also serves an important role in the nitrogen cycle by oxidizing diatomic nitrogen in the air into nitrates which are deposited by rain and can fertilize the growth of plants an... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Last days | still in a defensive posture, and Saint-Just was sent back to Belgium to help prepare for the coming conflict. From April through June 1794, he again took supreme oversight of the Army of the North and contributed to the victory at Fleurus. This hotly contested battle on 26 June 1794 saw Saint-Just apply his most draco... |
John Mark McMillan | Career & Personal life | The album debuted at No. 41 on the Billboard 200 and No. 4 on Billboard's Top Christian Album chart. Personal life McMillan's parents are Robert "Robin" Agnew McMillan and Donna Boggs Wilson McMillan, and he is the eldest of four siblings. He has two younger brothers, Christopher Robin and Andrew Wilson, followed by h... |
Kosovo Liberation Army | Foreign volunteers | conflict has not been properly recognised in Kosovo.
Former KLA spokesman Jakup Krasniqi said that volunteers came from "Sweden, Belgium, the UK, Germany and the U.S.". The KLA included many foreign volunteers from West Europe, mostly from Germany and Switzerland, and also ethnic Albanians from the U.S.
According to t... |
Lonnie Liston Smith | The Cosmic Echoes (1973–85) & Later career (1986–present) | for the album's opener A Lonely Way To Be and side two's stunning opening Never Too Late. A major musician on the album was Marcus Miller on bass guitar. David Hubbard plays a series of saxophones and flutes on the album, with Yogi Horton, Buddy Williams and Steve Thornton leading on drums and percussion. The album rel... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Philadelphia & Texas & Austin | ridesharing companies in November 2016. Texas May 2017, Texas HB100 made the regulation of rideshare companies an exclusive power of the state of Texas. HB100 requires annual background checks of drivers but does not require fingerprinting. Austin In March 2015, UberPOOL began operations in Austin, Texas in advance of ... |
Johanna Solano | After Pageantry | on May 15, 2017, a third place in the 25-30 category at the Ironman Cozumel held in Mexico on November 26, 2017and other number of finishes in various Ironman around the world. |
Lauren Carpenter | 2013–2018 | realises that she has been deliberately trying to hide it from him. They argue and Matt briefly moves out of their bedroom. Lucy returns to town and Lauren tells her that she gave birth to Brad's daughter when she first left Erinsborough. Lauren explains that there were complications during the birth and her daughter d... |
Lorraine O'Grady | "Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity" (essay) | and race: "To say that psychoanalysis does not, or cannot, refer to non-European cultures, is to constitute those cultures in total ‘otherness’ or ‘difference’; to say, or to try to demonstrate, that it can, is to constitute them as the ‘same.’ "
"The creation of a black feminist aesthetic must challenge dominant cultu... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Last days | shepherded into law by Robespierre, and although Saint-Just was not directly involved in its composition, he was certainly supportive. The new statutes defined the Great Terror: in their first month, the number of executions in Paris rose from a previous average of five per day to seventeen, soaring in the following mo... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Indonesia & Israel | places were targeted during the protests, including the Istana Merdeka, the DPR/MPR Building, and the Ministry of Communication and Informatics central office. Taxi drivers accused that Grab and Uber were causing them to receive smaller daily incomes due to the rising number of app users. The demonstrators also demande... |
Lauro Lines v. Chasser | Opinion of the Court | suit.
Justice Scalia, concurring, wrote to express his opinion that the reason an interlocutory appeal would not stand in this case was that "the law does not deem the right important enough to be vindicated" by an interlocutory appeal. |
Lactate threshold | Lactate measurement of aerobic and anaerobic thresholds | an increased amount of glycogen stores and glycolytic enzymes. |
Lismore Township, Nobles County, Minnesota | Politics & Local politics | 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator Tim Walz, a Democrat. At the state level, Lismore Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Democrat Jim Vickerman, and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Doug Magnus. Local politics Lismore Township is represented by Nobles Count... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | London | stop Uber's calculation of fares based on distance and time taken, as they claimed it infringes upon their right to be the sole users of taximeters in London. The following week, London mayor Boris Johnson stated it would be "difficult" for him to ban Uber "without the risk of a judicial review"; however, he expressed ... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Character | change in his personality. Freewheeling and passionate in his youth, Saint-Just quickly became focused, "tyrannical and pitilessly thorough". He became "the ice-cold ideologist of republican purity", "as inaccessible as stone to all the warm passions". A measure of his change can be inferred from the experience of his ... |
Karl Matzek | null | Matzek converted to the Orthodox faith as "George". Following a brief illness, Matzek died on 16 April 1983, and was buried at the St. Sava Monastery Cemetery in Canberra. |
Lindsay Barrett | Life in Jamaica | Lindsay Barrett Life in Jamaica Lindsay Barrett was born in Lucea, Jamaica, into an agricultural family. His father, Lionel Barrett, was a lifelong farmer and senior agriculturist with the Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture; his great-uncle, A. P. Hanson, founded the Jamaica Agricultural Society in the early 1930s. Barre... |
Liverpool Hope University | THIS Radio & Charlie Chaplin | The result of the competition was The Hope Institute of Sound abbreviated to THIS Radio. A promo video featuring the XFactor Voiceover Man Peter Dickson and 75 name entries later... THIS Radio was born! THIS Radio was announced on-air during Radio Hope's return to the Student Radio Association National UK Student Radio... |
Lou Barletta | 2018 Senate race & Political positions & Abortion & Donald Trump | Casey, the incumbent Democrat in the general election on November 6, 2018. Political positions According to Vox, Barletta is "considered to be generally more moderate than other House Republicans, though he almost always toes the party line on major votes." Abortion Barletta voted for Micah's law, which prohibits abort... |
Loko people | Economy | an historically indigenous Loko population are Gbendembu and Kalangba. The economy of Loko country is based primarily on agriculture. Like most of the ethno-linguistic communities in West Africa, the Loko are primarily farmers. Rice, the staple crop, is grown both in the swamps and on the hillsides. Other important cro... |
Lightning | Electrical field generation & Flashes and strikes | – the greater the accumulated charge, the higher the electrical field. Flashes and strikes The best studied and understood form of lightning is cloud to ground (CG). Although more common, intracloud (IC) and cloud to cloud (CC) flashes are very difficult to study given there are no "physical" points to monitor inside t... |
Lamar High School (Houston) | Architectural style & Research center & As a filming location | F. Staub and Kenneth Franzheim, two architects, designed Lamar's original buildings with Louis A. Glover, Lamar Q. Cato, and Harry D. Payne. The design uses a "Z-plan" which has the auditorium and shop wings on opposite ends of the academic block. Jay C. Henry, the author of Architecture in Texas: 1895-1945, write that... |
Louis Fratto | null | Iowa distributor of "Canadian Ace Beer" which was a Capone Family enterprise.
Fratto was the brother of Frank "Frankie One Ear" Fratto, a hitman for the mob, the uncle of Rudy Fratto, Jr. and Gill Vlerio, and a cousin to alleged hitman, bagman, enforcer and short-lived Chicago front boss, Felix "Milwaukee Phil" Alderis... |
Libertine (song) | Cover versions | Ludwig von 88 on its album 17 plombs pour péter les tubes, in 1994, Edwige Chandelier, one of the dancers on the 1989 tour, in 1996, for the album Les Plus Belles Chansons françaises - 1986, Les Enfoirés, in 2000 (the song was performed by Liane Foly, Karen Mulder, Axelle Red and Michèle Laroque and their version is av... |
Koduvila | Landmarks & Tourism | Koduvila Landmarks Landmarks in Koduvila include St. Francis Xavier Church, which is one of the oldest Latin catholic churches in Kollam, St. Elias Church, St. Francis Upper Primary School, Koduvila ,which was established in 1870,Rural School, Koduvila Post Office, Shiva temple (Kodiyattu junction), Upaharamatha Hospit... |
Leedstown, Virginia | History | Leedstown, Virginia Leedstown is an unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, in the U. S. state of Virginia. It is the site of the signing of the Leedstown Resolutions. History Sometime before 1678, Edward Bray had built a brick church, an ordinary, ferry, and wharf at the present Leedstown. Up to this date the... |
Longwood University | Early history (1839–1884) | Longwood University Early history (1839–1884) Longwood was founded in 1839 as the Farmville Female Seminary Association. Led by Solomon Lea, a Methodist minister who had taught at Randolph–Macon College, the school flourished. Lea left to become the first president of Greensboro Female Seminary (now Greensboro College)... |
Li Anqi | Background & During Emperor Gaozong's reign | Tang's predecessors Sui and Northern Zhou. During Emperor Gaozong's reign During the Yonghui era of Emperor Taizong's son and successor Emperor Gaozong, Li Anqi served as a mid-level official at the legislative bureau of government (中書省, Zhongshu Sheng), and later served as Huangmen Shilang (黃門侍郎), the deputy head of t... |
Ladder | Safety & Historical usages | risk of a fall is greatly increased. The safest angle for a ladder is 75.5°; if it is too shallow, the bottom of the ladder is at risk of sliding, and if it is too steep, the ladder may fall backwards. This angle is achieved by following the 4 to 1 rule for a ladder placed on a vertical wall: for every four feet of ver... |
Lindsay Barrett | Plays and film scripts & Poetry | plays by Barrett have been performed at the Mbari Theatre of the University of Ibadan and on Nigerian National Radio.
Barrett has occasionally written film scripts and commentaries, as for Horace Ové's 1973 BBC documentary King Carnival. Poetry Barrett is in addition a poet, whose early militant poems dealt with racial... |
Lakshya (film) | Box office & Critical reception | better, grossing $380,000 on 59 screens [approx. Rs.17.5 million] in its opening weekend with the per screen average being around $6,440. Critical reception Lakshya was director Farhan Akhtar's second film, following the success of his first, Dil Chahta Hai. The film didn't fare as expected and flopped in comparison to... |
Light Tank Mk VI | Operational history | its rearmament process in 1937, the Mk VI was the only tank with which the War Office was ready to proceed with manufacturing; the development of a medium tank for the Army had hit severe problems after the cancellation of the proposed "Sixteen Tonner" medium tank in 1932 due to the costs involved, and cheaper models o... |
Likhoslavlsky District | History | first mentioned in 1624.
In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, the area was included into Ingermanlandia Governorate (since 1710 known as Saint Petersburg Governorate). In 1727 part of it was transferred to the newly established Novgorod Governorate, and the rest to Moscow G... |
Lightning | Electrification | droplets and very small ice crystals upward. At the same time, the graupel, which is considerably larger and denser, tends to fall or be suspended in the rising air.
The differences in the movement of the precipitation cause collisions to occur. When the rising ice crystals collide with graupel, the ice crystals become... |
Louis Bertrand Castel | The Ocular Harpsichord & Criticism of Newton | a small shaft to open, in turn allowing light to shine through a piece of stained glass. Castel thought of colour-music as akin to the lost language of paradise, where all men spoke alike, and he claimed that thanks to his instrument's capacity to paint sounds, even a deaf listener could enjoy music. Criticism of Newto... |
Kevin Dowd | Career & Brexit & Published work | Economic Affairs; the Istituto Bruno Leoni; the Independent Institute; and the Pensions Institute.
He has held previous positions with the Ontario Economic Council in Toronto, Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Nottingham. Brexit Kevin Dowd is a member of the think tank, Eco... |
Lauren Carpenter | Matt's death and marriage to Brad | goes out at Lauren's house, Paige asks Brad to come over and help out. He and Lauren run into each other in the garden and share "a charged moment". The following month, amidst Brad and Terese's marriage struggles and her alcoholism, Brad and Lauren finally admitted their feelings for one another and had sex. The plot ... |
Lonnie Liston Smith | Early career (1963–73) | the buttons to see what I could do with different sounds. All of a sudden I started writing a song and everybody ran over and said, 'What is that?' And I said, 'I don’t know, I’m just messing around.' Pharoah said, 'Man, we gotta record that. Whatcha gonna call it?' I’d been studying astral projections and it sounded l... |
Likhoslavlsky District | History | town status.
On July 12, 1929 the governorates and uyezds were abolished. Likhoslavlsky District, with the administrative center in Likhoslavl, was established within Tver Okrug of Moscow Oblast. On July 23, 1930, the okrugs were abolished, and the districts were directly subordinated to the oblast. On January 29, 1935... |
Lonnie Liston Smith | Early career (1963–73) | with Roland Kirk, first recording with his band on Here Comes The Whistleman (Atlantic, 1965), an album recorded live in New York on March 14, 1965. A further track from that gig, "Dream", appeared later the same year on Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler's live album A Meeting Of The Times (Atlantic, 1965).
Late in 1965, Smit... |
Kyushu Ceramic Museum | null | Kyushu Ceramic Museum The Kyushu Ceramics Museum (九州陶磁文化館 Kyūshū Toji Bunkakan) is a museum located in Arita town, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.
The museum was built to contribute to the local cultural heritage, and the development of ceramics and pottery... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Northern Territory & Queensland & South Australia | levy being imposed on all taxi, minibus, private hire and ridesharing trips. Queensland In mid-November 2014, the Taxi Council of Queensland (TCQ) launched an anti-Uber media campaign. Uber defended itself against the claims.
Effective 5 September 2016, Uber was legalized in Queensland. South Australia Ridesharing was ... |
James L. Brooks | Film | the film he also became interested in "the dilemmas of contemporary business executives, who are sometimes held accountable by the law for corporate behavior of which they may not even be aware." He created Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson's characters for this concept. Filming finished in November 2009, although Brooks la... |
Lightning | Detection and monitoring & Magnetism | lightning detection, several instruments aboard satellites have been constructed to observe lightning distribution. These include the Optical Transient Detector (OTD), aboard the OrbView-1 satellite launched on April 3, 1995, and the subsequent Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) aboard TRMM launched on November 28, 1997. M... |
LanSchool | Acquisitions & Security | acquisition of Stoneware which was completed on December 26, 2012. Security There have been cases of students being able to exploit the LanSchool software to bypass restrictions, and in some cases take control of other student computers. A post on CompSci.ca details the packet structure of older versions of the softwar... |
Loko people | History | Loko people History The Loko and other Southwestern Mande groups are thought to have derived from the Mane, dispersing around 300 AD from around the region of present-day Mali. Loko country was sparsely populated, and the people originally might have been West Atlantic speakers called Sapes. The ancestors of these Sout... |
Liliana Gil Valletta | Awards & Affiliations | the Latina Leadership Award from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). In 2011, she won a Latino Trendsetter Award. In 2013, she was named one of New York's 25 Top Rising Latinos by Latino Leaders Magazine. Affiliations In 2011, Valletta was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.... |
Kada Delić | null | Kada Delić Kada Delić-Selimović (born July 10, 1965) is a retired female race walker from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her former coach was Tomislav Stefanović from AK Sloboda Tuzla. |
John Hunwick | Biography | John Hunwick John Owen Hunwick (born 1936, Chard, Somerset, England, died April 1, 2015 in Skokie (IL), was a noted professor, author, Africanist. He has published several books, articles and journals in the African Studies field. He was formerly Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, having retired in 2004 af... |
Kosovo je Srbija | Serbian media campaign | Kosovo je Srbija "Kosovo je Srbija" (Serbian Cyrillic: Косово је Србија; English: Kosovo is Serbia) is a slogan used in Serbia since at least 2004, popularised as a reaction to Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008. The slogan has been used by a series of protests, and by the Serbian Gove... |
Lisson Grove | Education | and Lisson Green.
Primary schools are St. Edward's Catholic Primary School, Gateway Academy on Gateforth Street and King Solomon Primary.
King Solomon Academy, an Ark school, was recently established on the site of the former Rutherford School for Boys. The main building of the secondary school is Grade II* listed, des... |
London Wall | Post-Roman use & Medieval period | an in-depth defence of the Kingdom of Wessex against the Vikings as well as creating an offensive strategy against the Vikings who controlled Mercia. The Burghal Hidage of Southwark was also created on the southbank of the River Thames during this time.
The city walls of London were repaired as the city slowly grew unt... |
Louis Rizick Dominic | null | Louis Rizick Dominic Louis Rizick Dominic is a South Sudanese politician. He has served as County Commissioner of Raga County, Western Bahr el Ghazal since 18 May 2010. |
Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum | History | route to the High Line. From 2006-2007, the tracks comprising Webb Yard and Sutchville Station were updated extensively with more sidings and improved traffic flow. As a result, the 50th Anniversary Spring Meet was rescheduled from 2006 to 2007 along with the Fall Meet. From 2010-2012, a new station building was constr... |
Louis Secretan | null | Louis Secretan Louis (Gabriel Abraam Samuel Jean) Secretan (1758–1839 in Lausanne), was a Swiss lawyer and mycologist. He published Mycologie Suisse in 1833, though the names are not regarded as valid unless republished by other authors. |
Le pauvre matelot | Act 1 | chastity, and he admires her ability to do so despite living at a port. The wife responds that she would possibly have cheated were her husband present, but since he is gone, she feels it would not be the right thing to do. She also notes that no man has truly inspired her to be unchaste. Her father would rather that s... |
Liu Zhen (PRC) | Early life | Liu Zhen (PRC) Early life Tang was born into a poor peasant household in Xiaogan County, Hubei Province. As a youth, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1930. He participated in guerrilla warfare against Nationalist Forces during the 3rd Encirclement Campaign. He joined the Chinese Communist Party... |
LaVaughn Robinson | Street dancing & Club dancing | Jordan. Robinson admired Teddy Hale's rendition of "Begin the Beguine", and particularly liked Hale's improvisational style, in which on successive performances, he performed entirely different dances, as opposed to a fixed act—the norm at the time. At this formative age, Robinson met Henry Meadows, an older dancer w... |
Kenneth Gandar-Dower | Sporting career & Aviator & Explorer | pair in the 1931 final.
Gandar-Dower caused a reputation for himself in real tennis through his tactic of getting to the net as quickly as possible and volleying everything in sight. This was frowned upon by traditionalists and it was considered that Gandar-Dower "disrupted the game for a while". Aviator In June 1932, ... |
June Haver | Career & Personal life | the motion picture industry, June Haver has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1777 Vine Street. Personal life Haver insisted she had always been very close with her family. Her sisters followed her to Hollywood and served as her stand-ins, while her mother was Haver's personal secretary.
On March 9, 1947, Haver m... |
Liston (square) | Corfu | park. At one time it was a firing range for Venetian troops.
Now it holds a cricket pitch, a British innovation that is regularly used by local teams. |
Kristina Schröder | Political career | quota for female participation in the supervisory boards of companies in Germany, Schröder backed a voluntary scheme.
When Germany's government reduced compulsory military service from nine months to six in 2009, Schröder took the lead on introducing the Federal Volunteers Service (BFD), a German government program whi... |
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