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Malus | Uses | flame.
Crab apple has been listed as one of the 38 plants whose flowers are used to prepare the Bach flower remedies. |
Manuel de Llanza y Pignatelli | Deputy and senator | to its political rules. In 1890 he launched his own electoral campaign, standing in the Catalan Vich close to where he lived and in the Aragon Huesca where his major estate was. Though in Huesca he clearly lost, the Vich result remained heavily contested; the voting took place in February 1891, but he was finally decla... |
Lauren Carpenter | Wayne Duncan | almost by accident and was initially helped along by Wayne's "matchmaking" brother, Troy (Damian Walshe-Howling). When Lauren got drunk at a dinner party, Wayne offered to walk her home and she grabbed him on the doorstep and kissed him in front of their friends. Sammy-Lee revealed "Then, when she invites him in for co... |
Likhoslavlsky District | History & Industry | but on March 4, 1964 it was re-established. In 1990, Kalinin Oblast was renamed Tver Oblast.
Another district created on July 12, 1929 was Tolmachyovsky District with the administrative center in the selo of Tolmachi. It was a part of Tver Okrug of Moscow Oblast. On January 29, 1935 the district was transferred to Kali... |
June Haver | Career | from 20th Century Fox. In 1943, Haver signed a $3,500-a-week contract with the studio and made her film debut playing an uncredited role as a hat-check girl in The Gang's All Here. She was dropped shortly after, because the studio executives felt that she looked too young, but was later resigned, after her costume and ... |
Malina Popivanova | Personal life & Career | to the city of Skopje from 1921 to 1924, and was an active member of the Cultural and Artistic Association, also known as "Abrasevic".
In the autumn of 1924, she moved to the USSR for schooling under the order of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and became the first Macedonian to graduate from Ia. M. Sverdlov Co... |
Los Jaivas | History & Name | when Gabriel died in Peru in a car crash. His daughter Juanita took his place behind the drums.
In January 2003, the main singer, Gato Alquinta, died in Coquimbo, Chile, of a heart attack while swimming in the sea. Gato's three sons soon joined the band to replace him: Ankatu (guitar), Eloy (saxophone) and Aurora (voc... |
Kirstie Marshall | Early life and sporting career | four-month scholarship in Inawashiro, Listel Ski Fantasia, the center for Freestyle Skiing in Japan, with Takayo as her coach.
Following the 1988 Australian Freestyle competition where she placed first, Marshall decided to follow the European winter and compete on the four-month World Cup Season. Sponsored by a Melbour... |
Manchester Cenotaph | History | of London, resulting in a sense of betrayal in the local community. Having cost £6,940, it was unveiled on 12 July 1924 by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. Derby's family had been involved in politics for generations, and he had held various public offices during the war including Secretary of State for War. He was ... |
Lightning | Electrification | Lightning Electrification The details of the charging process are still being studied by scientists, but there is general agreement on some of the basic concepts of thunderstorm electrification. The main charging area in a thunderstorm occurs in the central part of the storm where air is moving upward rapidly (updraft)... |
Marcelle Auclair | Biography | Marcelle Auclair Biography Marcelle Auclair was born 11 November 1899 in Montluçon, central France, and died in Paris on 6 June 1984.
She was the daughter of the architect Victor Auclair and his wife Eugénie Rateau.
She spent part of her childhood and youth in Chile, where her father settled in 1906 to participate in t... |
Manhattan, Kansas | Intercity bus service & Public transportation | McCall Road. Public transportation Within the City of Manhattan, limited mass-transit is provided by Riley County's subsidized paratransit service, ATA Bus. ATA Bus recently started its first set-route bus route in Manhattan connecting an apartment complex and an office campus, and is currently working with the city to... |
Mai Shiranui | Guest and cameo appearances | game Mad Blade (formerly Bladecraft) and an endless runner Kal Kal Kal All Together in 2013. Mai was featured as an avatar replacement model to promote the Japanese MMORPG Wizardry Online in 2014.
Mai has been appearing making guest character appearances in especially many Asian games since 2014, when she was added to ... |
Loh tarang | Instruments used in Indian Folk Music | Folk instruments from India have been used by musicians in world music and ethnic fusion. Although Indian classical music is regarded as a higher art form than Indian folk music, there is no denying that classical ragas have been influenced by various forms of folk music. Instruments used in Indian folk music stir the ... |
Kailash Chandra Meher | Personal life and education & Career | Award in 2001. Career Meher worked as an art designer in the Weavers Service Centre in Bhubaneswar, Govt. Of India, under Development Commissioner Handloom, New Delhi from 1978 to 1993 creating textile designs for weavers and weaving organisations, and developed some old Bomkai designs, which were developed into a prod... |
Marc Bélanger (musician) | Life and career | Scherchen.
Bélanger began his career working as an ensemble musician, conductor, and arranger for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Between 1956-1971 he played the violin and viola in various orchestras at the CBC in Quebec and from 1972-1976 he played in the CBC Orchestra in Montreal. From 1958-1972 he was a memb... |
Howard the Duck | Publication history | and Marvel's Howard an empty shell.
In 2001, when Marvel launched its MAX imprint of "mature readers" comics, Gerber returned to write a six-issue Howard the Duck miniseries illustrated by Phil Winslade and Glenn Fabry. Featuring several familiar Howard the Duck characters, the series, like the original one, parodied a... |
Manuel the Armenian | Escape to the Caliphate & Domestic of the Schools | back south. Manuel, who by then had apparently won the confidence of his Arab minders, suggested that he and 'Abbas take a part of the army and raid over the Pass of Hadath into Byzantine Cappadocia. Once across the mountains, he and the other Byzantine captives neutralized 'Abbas and his escort, took their arms and es... |
Hellmuth von Ruckteschell | Naval career & War crimes trial | of 94,363 GRT, and 10 ships of 58,464 GRT (4th and 6th highest), and stayed at large for 358, and 180 days ( 4th and 9th longest). War crimes trial Ruckteschell was the subject of one of the first war crimes investigations undertaken by the British Admiralty. It was alleged that on several occasions Ruckteschell had co... |
Margaret B. Fuller Boos | Early life & Geological contributions | at the University of Chicago, where she then completed her M.A. in Geology.
In 1924 Margaret Fuller received her Phd from the University of Chicago. Geological contributions Margaret B. Fuller Boos' primary interest was in mapping and interpreting the granite intrusives on the Colorado Front Range and discovered the fi... |
Just5 | History | Just5 History Just5 mobile phones are developed in cooperation with the design-bureau Newplan which is based in Beijing and Shenzhen and a joint company Just5-Newplan was created in 2009. Just5 mobile phones are manufactured by ODMs in Taiwan and are based on Infineon and MediaTek hardware platforms.
Just5 started sale... |
Manuel the Armenian | Domestic of the Schools | and taking some seven thousand prisoner. Manuel is also recorded as accompanying Theophilos on his great expedition in 837 against the Arab cities of northern Mesopotamia, which led to the sack of Zapetra and Arsamosata. This campaign, however, and the atrocities committed by the Byzantines' former Khurramite troops af... |
Lorraine O'Grady | Life and work | In addition to the articles she has written for Artforum magazine and Art Lies, her essay, "Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity," has now been anthologized numerous times, most recently in Amelia Jones (ed.), The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2nd edition, Routledge, 2010).
She was featured in "We... |
Marc Carol | Career | scoring one championship point.
Carol returned to the Supercopa in 2007, finishing thirteenth. He also competed in the Spanish GT Championship in 2007 and 2008. Carol also won the Spanish Endurance Championship in 2008. He currently leads the SEAT León Supercopa in 2009. |
Lightning | Attachment & Return stroke | a process referred to as attachment, a low-resistance path is formed and discharge may occur. Photographs have been taken in which unattached streamers are clearly visible. The unattached downward leaders are also visible in branched lightning, none of which are connected to the earth, although it may appear they are. ... |
Mai Shiranui | Film and animation | the god of war, Mars.
Mai has only a minor role in the first episode of original net animation The King of Fighters: Another Day (2005), voiced by Akoya Sogi and Sheryl Stanley, wherein she and Athena Asamiya save Soiree Meira and a little girl from a collapsing building in USA. She is more prominent in YouTube compute... |
Kolam | History | floor of the house, or wherever the Kolam may be drawn, is cleaned with water and the muddy floor swept well to create an even surface. The kolams are generally drawn while the surface is still damp so the design will hold better. Even powdered white stone (வெங்கசங்கள் பொடி / மொக்குமாவு) can be used for creating Kolam.... |
Manuel the Armenian | Biography | was the most senior of the Byzantine Empire's thematic governors, and Leo himself had held the office prior to his accession. According to historians John B. Bury and Warren Treadgold, in early 819 and for about a year, Leo seems to have appointed Manuel to the exceptional post of monostrategos ("single-general") of th... |
Lucky People Center | Members | Lucky People Center Members Lucky People Center is supposed to be more of a loose constellation than a group, and the projects done under the name has various members. The member list is in the sleeve-notes of the album Interspecies Communication listed as David Österberg, Jean-Louis Huhta, Johan Söderberg and Skander... |
Iris gatesii | Description | shorter and narrower, than I. susiana.
It has a stout stem or peduncle, that can grow in March, up to between 35–60 cm (14–24 in) tall. The stem is also taller than the stem of I. susiana.
The stem has pale green spathes, (leaves of the flower bud), that are between 10–12.5 cm (4–5 in) long.
The stems hold a single t... |
Lou Barletta | Immigration | reward some immigrants who are "murders, rapists, thieves, and terrorists" with legal status. In 2007, Barletta gave an interview to Americans for Immigration Control, which believes the "annual tidal wave of over a million immigrants (legal and illegal) is endangering our American way of life." In 2011, Barletta spoke... |
Longwood University | Club sports & Student life | 1 in Virginia Beach, VA. The National Championship is the school's first. The club baseball team in their second year of competition made it to the Division II club baseball world series in Johnstown, PA. They went 2-2 and finished 4th. Student life Located in Farmville, Virginia, Longwood is within 65 miles of three o... |
Managed lane | Bus lanes & Truck lanes and lane restrictions | solo vehicle pricing, it includes several sections where bus-only lanes and separate roadways into stations for buses exist. Houston has a similar approach to serving express bus transit on reversible HOV lanes and express toll lanes with direct access ramps connecting stations and park-and-ride lots. Truck lanes and l... |
Lee Kernaghan | Achievements | nominated in award categories numerous times.
As of 2015, Kernaghan has had 33 #1 hits on the Australian country charts, and has sold over two million albums.
He was named "Hit Maker of the Decade" twice, in 2001 and 2011. This title goes to country artists from anywhere in the world who achieves the most hits in the A... |
Main River (Newfoundland and Labrador) | null | Main River (Newfoundland and Labrador) Main River is a river in Newfoundland, Canada, a very popular canoeing destination. It is 57 km long, originates in the Long Range Mountains and enters the sea at White Bay.
Main River was designated a Canadian Heritage River in February 2001. |
Ken Piesse | null | Ken Piesse Ken Piesse is a Melbourne-based Australian sports journalist, commentator and after-dinner speaker. He has written many publications, mostly focusing on cricket and Australian rules football.
Piesse also appears on radio station Sport 927 with regular updates on news in the world of sport.
Ken Piesse has r... |
Manic-1 | Characteristics | station's hydraulic head is 120 ft (37 m) but can vary between 113 ft (34 m) and 128 ft (39 m) because of sea tides.
At the time of the plant's commission, Manic-1 was expected to operate as a peaker plant, generally run only at times of high demand for electricity, known as peak demand. It was expected to generate 40 ... |
Hudson River Museum | History & Funding | up to 22 million stars compared to its Zeiss projector which displayed up to 5,000 stars.
Since 1995 the museum has offered a Junior Docent Program; the program was recognized by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities with a Coming Up Taller Award in 2008. Funding The late 1980s was a difficult time for t... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | L'Esprit de la Revolution | to its success: its ultimate object was to "edge society in the direction of the distant ideal".
The new work, like its predecessor, attracted minimal readership. On 21 June 1791, just days after it was published, all attention became focused on King Louis XVI's ill-fated flight to Varennes. Saint-Just's theories about... |
Major facilitator superfamily | Fold | is built around 12 transmembrane helices (TMH), with two 6-helix bundles formed by the N and C terminal homologus domains of the transporter which are connected by an extended cytoplasmic loop. The two halves of the protein pack against each other in a clam-shell fashion, sealing via interactions at the ends of the tra... |
Lou Barletta | Immigration ordinance, lawsuit and financial distress | Defense and Education Fund sued in Federal District Court to block the ordinance.
In July 2007, District Court Judge James M. Munley ruled that the act was unconstitutional for interfering with Federal immigration laws and violating the due process of individuals, employers and landlords. The ruling was upheld on appea... |
Major facilitator superfamily | Substrate specificity | transporters, a function conserved from prokaryotes to mammals, the MFS family is notable for the great diversity of substrates transported by the superfamily. These range from small oxyanions to large peptide fragments. Other MFS transporters are notable for a lack of selectivity, extruding broad classes of drugs and ... |
Kevin Jepsen | Arizona Diamondbacks & Washington Nationals & Texas Rangers | with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was released on March 25. Washington Nationals Nearing a return after losing the first half of the season to a quadriceps injury, Jepsen reportedly signed a minor league deal with a July 26 opt-out date on June 29, 2017, to join the Washington Nationals organization. He elected free ag... |
Le pauvre matelot | Performance history | in 1934 and 1935.
The United States premiere of the opera, produced by the Curtis Institute of Music, took place on 1 April 1937 at the Philadelphia Academy of Music in a production directed by Austrian composer, librettist, and stage director Ernst Lert and using set and costume designs by Tony Award winning designer ... |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | Rebellion | 1826 Anouvong was actively making military preparations for rebellion. His strategy involved three key points: 1) respond to the immediate crisis caused by the popular discontent over the forced tattooing; 2) remove the ethnic Laos on the Khorat Plateau to the Kingdom of Vientiane, conducting a scorched Earth policy as... |
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center | Alternative fuels & Coastal restoration | of scientific investigation including gasification and cellulose conversion technologies. Coastal restoration Maintaining and restoring Louisiana's valuable coastline is vital to the future of not only Louisiana but the nation. The Louisiana coast is the gateway to Central and South America and the corridor for the oil... |
Loto-Québec | History | win cash prizes. The show was first hosted by Guy Mongrain and is currently hosted by Sébastien Benoît and Julie Houle.
On May 25, 2004, activists and public personalities came together to create the EmJEU coalition (Ethics for moderation in gambling). While not prohibitionist or anti-gambling per se, coalition members... |
Kevin Dowd | Published work | much of the developed world.
Dowd has also written extensively on financial risk measurement and management. He has argued that most financial modelling is conceptually invalid because it is based on a naïve 'scientistic' belief that economic systems can be modelled using quantitative methods inappropriately imported f... |
Manuel the Armenian | Domestic of the Schools | of the entire army. Manuel would remain Theophilos's leading general for the remainder of his reign. Furthermore, as the uncle of Theophilos's wife, the Empress Theodora, his position at court was now unassailable, as shown by the fact that the Emperor later served as godfather for Manuel's children. The Syriac sources... |
Margit Johnsen | Torpedoed in June 1940 | Margit Johnsen Margit Johnsen Godø, BEM, nicknamed Malta-Margit, (31 January 1913 – 20 July 1987) was a Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy. For her service on a merchant vessel in convoy to Malta in 1942 she was awarded the St. Olav's Medal with Oak Branch and several other gallantry decorations. Johnsen continued h... |
Llanvair Discoed | Surroundings and amenities | and amenities The village is nestled at the bottom of Gray Hill, an important archaeological site with earthworks and standing stones dating from the Neolithic period up to the Bronze Age.
It is on the road between Caerwent and Usk via Wentwood. It currently has 67 houses, one pub (The Woodlands Tavern), and one parish... |
Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum | History | a location situated on a former floodplain, and the area was leveled with decomposed granite.
Starting in 1957, the group installed elevated turntable steaming bays for 7.5" gauge and the smaller 4.75" and 3.5" gauges, then laid two concentric ovals of track. Prior to the construction of Zoo Drive and the Ventura Freew... |
Margie Orford | Biography & Non-fiction | Margie Orford Biography Orford was born in London and grew up in Namibia and South Africa. She was detained during the 1985 State of Emergency while a student at the University of Cape Town, taking her final examinations in prison. After travelling widely, she studied under J. M. Coetzee before embarking on a career i... |
John Van Maanen | null | high tech industries. |
LaVaughn Robinson | Street dancing | crowd, and then pass the hat. The competition required fierce demonstration of dancing prowess, like a gunfighter riding into town and challenging the local champion, with the winners getting better corners. The ultimate corner in Philadelphia was at Broad and South Streets. The better the dance ability, the nearer t... |
Longwood University | Longwood University (2002–present) & Academics | members of the Black Students Association, with the encouragement of Longwood's associate director for diversity and inclusion, staged a protest of Longwood's alleged mistreatment of minority students. Academics Longwood University is a small, highly residential public liberal arts university that offers more than 100 ... |
Manuel de Llanza y Pignatelli | Early political activity | of Barcelona appointed him to commission coordinating charity activities.
Solferino is not listed as key protagonist in an internal Carlist conflict, developing between Ramón Nocedal and the claimant Carlos VII. Hitherto pilgrimage activities seemed to format him as an Integrist supporter, especially that he kept addre... |
London Wall | Medieval period | crenellations, additional gates and further towers and bastions. Aside from the seven City Wall gates and the four bars, there are the 13 water-gates on the Thames where goods were unloaded from ships. These include Billingsgate and Bridge Gate. Additionally there were pedestrian-only gates such as Tower Gate and the p... |
Love of Life | 1951–1960 | Dale and her courageous struggle for human dignity."
The show changed directions when the character of Meg was phased out and the show changed locales; first set in the fictional town of Barrowsville, it moved to Rosehill, where it would remain for the rest of the show's run.
The actress who originated the role of Van ... |
Le Laudi | 1 | homophony, accompanied by the orchestra. The text speaks of praise of the Almighty Creator. The tenor, echoed by the men's voices, continues saying that the creatures are not worthy to name their creator.
An interlude leads to the Allegro section, which the children's voices (ragazzi) begin singing Laudate sia, mio Sig... |
Mai Shiranui | Other versions | "Mai is a ninja in her own series, she seems to fit perfectly within the Dead or Alive ethos."
The character has received mostly negative reception in regards to her film appearances. GamesRadar's Henry Gilbert commented in 2014 that Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture director Masami Ōbari "never miss[ed] a chance to fill ... |
Major facilitator superfamily | Function & Fold | Major facilitator superfamily Function The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) are membrane proteins which are expressed ubiquitously in all kingdoms of life for the import or export of target substrates. The MFS family was originally believed to function primarily in the uptake of sugars but subsequent studies reveale... |
Mansfield Brewery | History | the brewery once stood was immediately put up for sale. In 2008, Mansfield District Council released blueprints, showing plans to develop the area in a mixed-use scheme, including offices, leisure facilities and residential developments. As of 2018, the site was still undeveloped and being marketed for commercial use, ... |
Madonna della Grazie, Petriolo | History | Madonna della Grazie, Petriolo The Chiesa della Madonna della Grazie is a Roman Catholic church located just outside the town of Petriolo, at the point where the Strada provincial 36 splits toward either Mogliano or the Abbey of Fiastra and Macerata, in the province of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy. History The sma... |
Margrete Aamot Øverland | null | in June 1941. Aamot was sent to Grini concentration camp and later Ravensbrück. However, both survived. In 1946 they moved in at Grotten. Arnulf died in 1968, Margrete in 1978. |
Lawrence Manor | Education | Manor, the separate Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), and the secular Toronto District School Board (TDSB).
Both TCDSB, and TDSB operate public elementary schools in the neighbourhood. TCDSB operates St. Margaret Catholic School, whereas TDSB operate Baycrest Public School. TCDSB is the only public schoo... |
Lucia Joyce | Early life and career | James Joyce and his partner (later wife) Nora Barnacle, after her brother Giorgio. As her parents were expatriates living in Trieste, Lucia's first language was Italian. In her younger years, she trained as a dancer at the Dalcroze Institute in Paris. Joyce studied dancing from 1925 to 1929, training first with Jacques... |
Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum | History & Signaling & Facilities | celebrated its 60th anniversary by hosting a special Spring Meet and commemorating a new 1 gauge elevated live steam layout. Signaling Since the 1980s, the track has gained a comprehensive signal system based on Automatic Block Signaling for maintaining safe separation between trains and route indication. The layout ha... |
Marimbondo Dam | Background & Specifications | Marimbondo Dam Background Owned and maintained by Eletrobrás Furnas, the dam was their fourth power plant constructed. Construction began in 1971 and was complete in 1975 when the first generator went online. The last of the eight generators went online in January 1977. Specifications The Marimbondo Dam is a 3,100 metr... |
London Wall | Demise | the devastation of an air raid on 29 December 1940 at the height of the Blitz. Another visible section is at St Alphage Gardens, and other sections form part of the walls or foundations of modern buildings and are only visible from inside those buildings. One of the largest and most readily accessed fragments of the wa... |
Libertine (song) | Synopsis | man and runs away on a white horse, while the Woman in Red threatens revenge. Later, in a castle, Libertine has a bath with two other women, anatomies on full display. They then dress, Libertine in male attire, and go to a banquet hall filled with people engaged in various pleasures. A man sends Libertine a message and... |
Lenny Breau | Turning to jazz | his band with Vancouver CKNW's Rick Honey as his drummer.
In 1967, recordings of Breau's playing from The Lenny Breau Show found their way to Chet Atkins. The ensuing friendship resulted in Breau's first two albums, Guitar Sounds from Lenny Breau and The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau – Live! on RCA.
He lived in various C... |
Jawbone (company) | Aliph & Expansion (2008 to 2010) | Aliph released a YouTube demonstration of a wireless version of its Jawbone headset and announced that Yves Béhar would be hired as vice president and creative director.
The company’s earliest venture capital investor was the Mayfield Fund, which invested $0.8 million in December 2006.
In January 2007, Aliph revealed i... |
Lenka Udovicki | Other notable works & Academic career & Recent activity | project "Henry V" by William Walton with the Zagreb Philharmonic conducted by Sir Neville Marriner in the Vatroslav Lisinski concert hall in Zagreb. Academic career Worked a visiting professor at the California Institute of the Arts and UCLA in Los Angeles. In 2011, co-operating with Nataša Govedić, she directed the pe... |
Lesley Brooker | null | published work on birds in the Australasian region. |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Last days | of the First Coalition: France remained on the offensive until its eventual victory in 1797. After his return from the battle, Saint-Just was treated as a hero and "cheered from all sides".
Back in Paris, Saint-Just discovered that Robespierre's political position had degraded significantly. As the Terror reached its a... |
Ludwik de Laveaux (officer) | null | the main train station in Lviv between 3–4 November 1918. After the war he was assistant to Chief Executive lomendanta Czesław Mączyński in the peace negotiations.
From June to December 1919 he was a student at the military general staff School Course in Warsaw, but his studies were interrupted by the Polish-Soviet War... |
Lake Success (California) | Lake Recreation | kayaking especially popular. The lake is considered one of the best lakes in the Valley for large mouth bass, and tournaments are often held here. The bass aren't usually lunkers but are plentiful. In addition, bluegills, crappie, channel catfish and occasional trout are caught. A floating marina is also available on S... |
Main Street, Gibraltar | Description & Grand Casemates Square | British Regency styles, most of which have shops on the ground floor. Upper floors provide residential accommodation or offices. Tourists and visitors will find a wide variety of shops, many of which will be familiar from British high streets.
Irish Town is a street name and one of Main Street's sub-districts and was n... |
Luís Pimenta (football manager) | Personal life & Managerial career | Luís Pimenta (football manager) Personal life Pimenta was born in Lisbon, Portugal to a Portuguese father and a German mother. At the age of 5, he moved to Luxembourg with his family. Managerial career At 15, Pimenta decided that he wanted to pursue a career as a football manager, and completed all his UEFA training co... |
Kansas City Bomber | Development | as a bad girl who gets hissed at, beat up, and spit on every week. The irony is that she is able to find the stardom she desperately yearned for, but not as a movie star--as a star on the roller derby track getting booed at and spit at every week. And so it's kind of dark, and much grittier and different, kind of almos... |
Lindsay Barrett | As editor and contributor & Journalism and non-fiction | Goodness of Life, Madheart, published in 1997. Barrett has been an associate editor of several periodicals, including Afriscope in Nigeria, and Transition Magazine in Uganda, and he was a contributor to seminal black British publications in the 1960s such as Daylight, Flamingo, Frontline and West Indian World.
He has a... |
Margaret Manny | Flags | Margaret Manny Margaret Manny was a milliner in colonial Philadelphia who made flags for the United States during the American Revolution. She may have made the Grand Union Flag for the Continental Navy. Flags Manny began making jacks and ensigns for ships as early as December 1774. She also supposedly made the Grand ... |
Knockout rat | Production challenges & Early methods | genetic manipulation techniques widely used in the mouse are not possible in the rat. Early methods Until the commercial development of mobile DNA technology in 2007 and zinc-finger nuclease technology in 2009, there were only two technologies that could be used to produce rat models of human disease: cloning and chemi... |
LanSchool | History & Acquisitions | Doggett began exploring the concept of a software application that would allow an instructor to control multiple computers.
Doggett developed a software tool called PC Chalkboard that was then implemented by Novell. PC Chalkboard allowed Novell lab instructors to broadcast their screens to each PC in the lab. LanSchoo... |
Last Kiss | Release and reception | United States, the song reached number two on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart and became the band's highest-charting song in Canada. It later charted on the RPM Rock Report, where it reached number four and stayed there for two weeks. In Europe "Last Kiss" reached number 42 in the United Kingdom and number 77 in the... |
Lorraine O'Grady | Life and work | white, [who] walked around the float carrying empty gold picture frames." The performance not only encouraged onlookers - primarily people of color - to consider themselves art, but also drew attention to racism in the artworld. O'Grady also gives credit to Mlle Bourgeoise Noire for curating exhibitions, such as The Bl... |
Llanvair Discoed | History | Llanvair Discoed History The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Lamecare'. The name means Mary's (Mair > Fair) church (llan) under (is) the wood (coed). The 'd' at the start of Discoed only appears in more recent versions of the name. The correct Welsh language name is Llanfair Is Coed or Llanfair-is... |
Mai Shiranui | Other media, promotion and merchandise | if the number of pre-registered users exceeds half million.
Scores of figures, statuettes and dolls have been made in her image. Such figures include those made by A-Label, Aizu Project, Alphamax, Daiki, Gantaku, Hobby Japan, Kinetiquettes, Max Factory, Volks, and SNK themselves. Some of them can be stripped topless, a... |
Love of Life | Production | Love of Life Production Love of Life originally came from Liederkranz Hall on East 58th Street in Manhattan. Mike and Buff (Mike Wallace), Ernie Kovacs, and Douglas Edwards and the News, as well as Search for Tomorrow and The Guiding Light also came from that location. The program originated at other studios in Manhatt... |
Lyman Lemnitzer | Post-Korean War | Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington". Lemnitzer presented the plans to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962. It is unclear how McNamara reacted, but three days later President John F. Kennedy told the general that there was no chance that the US woul... |
Manhattan, Kansas | Earthquakes & Tornadoes | earthquake. Tornadoes The state of Kansas falls within an area sometimes called Tornado Alley. The most destructive tornado in Manhattan touched down at approximately 10:30 pm on June 11, 2008. Thirty-one homes and several businesses were destroyed by the EF4 tornado. Kansas State University's campus incurred about $2... |
LRRC8B | null | research has found that it is not as crucial to the activity of the channel in comparison to LRRC8A and LRRC8D. However, while we know that LRRC8A and LRRC8D are necessary for VRAC function, other studies have found that they are not sufficient for the full range of usual VRAC activity. This is where the other LRRC8 p... |
Leon Milo | New York | “Buster” Bailey. At the same time and also at Juilliard, he began studying composition and contemporary music analysis with Stanley Wolfe, who encouraged him while writing his first pieces.
Between 1975 and 1981 he worked in numerous orchestras and ensembles at Juilliard and as a freelance percussionist in New York Cit... |
Lou Barletta | Donald Trump & Economy and budget | had been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump. Barletta endorsed Trump for president in March 2016. According to NBC News, "Barletta is a favorite of Trump. ... Trump asked Barletta to run for Senate." Barletta was reportedly considered for a position in the Trump administration. In his 2018 Senate campaign, Barletta pl... |
Major League Baseball All-Star Game | Stuffing the ballot box | were a good offensive team, most baseball observers agreed that they did not deserve seven starters in the All-Star Game. An investigation ordered by Commissioner Ford Frick showed that over half of the ballots cast came from Cincinnati, as the Cincinnati Enquirer had printed up pre-marked ballots and distributed them ... |
Luís Pimenta (football manager) | Managerial career | destined to be his deputy for the years to come. After finishing the course, Pimenta and Pereira entered the technical staff of Rui Jorge at Belenenses. At the same time, Pimenta worked at the Academia Carlos Queiroz in Carnaxide.
In October 2011, Pimenta was invited to manage the youth academy of the Norwegian club of... |
Long Đại River | null | Long Đại River The Long Đại River (Vietnamese: Sông Long Đại) is a river in Quảng Ninh District of Quảng Bình Province, North Central Coast region of Vietnam. The river originates in the Annamite Range and flows generally northeastwards. Its total length is 77 km (48 mi). The Long Đại River creates a narrow fertile pla... |
Lonnie Liston Smith | The Cosmic Echoes (1973–85) | free jazz fans who had appreciated his earlier work, but this new relaxed fusion style proved popular with a cross-over audience not normally associated with jazz, and the following albums, Expansions (Flying Dutchman, 1974), Visions of a New World (Flying Dutchman, 1975) and Reflections of a Golden Dream (RCA, 1976) h... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Arrest of the Dantonists | tumultuous show-trial, Fabre, Desmoulins, and other top supporters of Danton went to the scaffold with their leader on 16 Germinal (5 April 1794). In his report, Saint-Just had promised that this would be a "final cleansing" of the Republic's enemies.
The violent removal of the Hébertists and Dantonists provided only a... |
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