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2009 International Bowl
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Connecticut & Pregame buildup
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would prove to be their last win of the regular season, as the Huskies finished with losses to South Florida (17–13) and No. 23-ranked Pittsburgh (34–10). Connecticut ended the regular season with a record of 7–5, 3–4 within the Big East conference. Pregame buildup In the weeks leading up to the game, media coverage focused on the achievements of the Buffalo Bulls. Buffalo had been one of the least successful programs in college football from their transition to Division I-A in 1999 to 2006, during which they had a cumulative record of 12–79. In 2008, the Bulls had their first winning
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2008–09 Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey season
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Postseason
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2008–09 Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey season Postseason Vicki Bendus recorded four assists in the postseason. She assisted twice in the CHA quarterfinal victory over Niagara March 6. Meghan Corbett registered the game-winning goal in CHA final against Wayne State on March 7, after netting one goal in CHA semifinal March 6 vs. Niagara
On March 14, Bendus and Bailey Bram both got the helper on Kelley Steadman’s goal in NCAA quarterfinal win over No. 7 St. Lawrence. During the postseason, Meghan Corbett tallied three postseason goals, including a second period marker in national semifinal victory over No. 2 Minnesota
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Toyohara Kunichika
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Personal life
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A contemporary said of him: "Print designing, theater and drinking were his life and for him that was enough." A contemporary actor, Matsusuke IV, said that when visiting actors backstage for the purpose of sketching them, Kunichika would not socialize but would concentrate intensely on his work.
Around 1897, his older brother opened the Arakawa Photo shop, and Kunichika worked in the store. Because Kunichika had a dislike for both the store and photography, only one photograph of him exists.
In October 1898 Kunichika was interviewed for a series of four articles about him, The Meiji-period child of Edo, which appeared
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Wreath
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Advent and Christmas wreaths
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evergreens to represent everlasting life brought through Jesus and the circular shape of the wreath represents God, with no beginning and no end. Advent and Christmas wreaths are now a popular symbol in preparation for and to celebrate the coming of Christ, with the former being used to mark the beginning of the Christian Church’s liturgical year and both serving as décor during Advent and Christmas festivities. While Advent wreaths are erected on stands or placed on tables, Christmas wreaths are often hung on doors or walls. Within Advent, the Church observes Saint Lucy's Day, the memorial of Saint Lucy,
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Virtual community
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Disadvantages of Internet communities
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and makes sure it is up to a certain degree of quality.
In theory, online identities can be kept anonymous which enables people to use the virtual community for fantasy role playing as in the case of Second Life's use of avatars. Some professionals urge caution with users who use online communities because predators also frequent these communities looking for victims who are vulnerable to online identity theft or online predators.
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Ōkuninushi
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White hare of Inaba
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kin, the rabbit or the croc-fish. To settle the bet, he told the crocodile-fish to line up in a straight row across the strait, so he can hop on and count the numbers. But before the hare had completely gotten ashore to safety, he gloated about having tricked them, the last crocodile in line grabbed him and tore off the fur that clothed him.
The gods who listened on were cruel-hearted, and as a prank, instructed the hare to wash himself in the briny sea, and blow himself dry in the wind. The hare was of course in much more
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1908–09 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team
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Regular season
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1908–09 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team Regular season The 1908–09 season witnessed the fourth coach in just four years to head up the University of Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team. The only difference for this season, however; was that Herb V. Juul became the first coach to stay for more than one year. He also became the first former Fighting Illini player to head the Illinois basketball program, serving as captain of the 1906–07 team. The starting lineup for the team included captain H. J. Popperfuss and Carl P. Watson at the forward positions, Emmett V. Poston
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Wheeling Park High School
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Fine and Performing Arts & Sports & Facilities & Campus
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consecutive state championship in Huntington, WV at Marshall University. Sports Boys: soccer, football, basketball, baseball, softball, golf, lacrosse, hockey, wrestling, cross country, track, and swimming.
Girls: soccer, football, basketball, softball, golf, lacrosse, hockey, wrestling, cross country, track, swimming, volleyball, cheering, and competitive dancing Facilities The Wheeling Island Stadium, located on Wheeling Island, is the Patriots home field, while also serving as a location for various Wheeling sports teams to play. Wheeling Park hosts the WVSSAC Super 6 Football Championship annually.
Three gymnasiums, a fitness center, a wrestling room, and indoor Olympic-sized pool make up the Physical Education department. Campus The high school
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1921 (1988 film)
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Plot
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1921 (1988 film) Plot The screenplay was written by physical education teacher-turned-scriptwriter T. Damodaran. He was particularly good at writing political dramas, especially for director I. V. Sasi, with whom he formed a remarkably prolific partnership.
The film focuses on Mappila bullock cart driver Khader (Mammootty), a retired corporal and World War I veteran, and Unni Krishnan (Suresh Gopi), a hardline nationalist revolutionary from a family of upper-caste Hindu landlords. Both men join the brigade of Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammad Haji (T. G. Ravi), one of the prominent leaders of the 1921 Uprising.
The plot gradually introduces a variety of characters, representing the
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Wingman Project
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About the Wingman Project
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About the Wingman Project The Wingman Project is designed to decrease military suicides through human intervention in crisis events, referral to competent professional authority, public outreach to increase awareness, and de-stigmatization of mental health care.
Originally created as "Wingman For Life" by Air National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Edward Vaughan in 2007, the Wingman Project is a “show, don’t tell” suicide intervention program for military members. In this context, the term intervention is used as a distinct supplement to existing “prevention” programs. A string of suicides among Citizen-Airmen in the summer of 2007 created the sense of urgency to do something. At
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2015 Indonesia Super League
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Teams
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2015 Indonesia Super League Teams Eighteen teams competed in the league – the 17 teams from the previous season and the one team promoted from the Premier Division. The new teams this season were Pusamania Borneo and Persiwa, who replaced Persepam Madura United, Persita, Persija, and Persiba Bantul.
Persiwa and Persik were excluded before the season for failing to comply with financial and infrastructure requirements.
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2001 Maccabiah Games
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Opening ceremony & Notable medalists
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2,100 years ago, the Maccabees lit the torch in Modi'in and carried it to the gates of Jerusalem, in the Jewish people's struggle for freedom in its homeland. The same fire of freedom and faith, which was not extinguished during 2,000 years, is, today, passed on to you.... You represent the spirit of the Maccabees who fought for Jerusalem and for Jewish rights and independence 2,167 years ago." Notable medalists Gold medalist Lenny Krayzelburg of the United States set a new record in the 100-meter backstroke. He also won a gold medal in the 4 X
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1971–72 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
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Season Summary
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1971–72 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team Season Summary Sophomore Bill Walton lived up to his advance billing, leading the Bruins to a 30-0 record and the National Championship while averaging a double-double (21.1 PPG, 15.5 RPG). Greg Lee and Henry Bibby formed a solid back court, and forwards Keith Wilkes and Larry Farmer were double-digit scorers. Walton’s backup, 7-1 Swen Nater, could have been a star at other schools.
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Wherwell Abbey
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Later history
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church.
Abbess Euphemia also oversaw a significant expansion in the size of the community with the number of nuns being housed reaching 80. The Black Death later cut this number to single figures.
In 1291 the temporalities of the Wherwell Abbey were valued at a very considerable £201 18s. 5½d., in addition to which the abbess received pensions of £1 10s. from the church of Wallop and £1 6s. 8d. from the church of Berton.
That same year, on 12 August, Pope Nicholas IV granted a relaxation of one year and forty days to penitents practising imposed penance who visited the Abbey church
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2009 International Bowl
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Team selection
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the Sun Bowl invitation. The Meineke Car Care Bowl, which had the third selection, picked West Virginia. The fourth, fifth, and sixth selections of Big East teams belonged collectively to the International Bowl, PapaJohns.com Bowl, and St. Petersburg Bowl, which, in consultation with the Big East, decided which schools were the best fit for each bowl. There were three remaining bowl-eligible Big East teams: Connecticut, Rutgers, and South Florida. The previous season, Rutgers had played in the International Bowl and South Florida had appeared in the PapaJohns.com Bowl; bowls in general dislike inviting the same team in consecutive years, on
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Yuan Hongdao
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position in 1595. However he quit out of boredom after a year. He traveled and consulted with the radical philosopher Li Zhi. On another trip his brothers joined him. Hu's elder brother was a Buddhist-Confucianist synchronist. His travels resulted in his publishing a poetry compilation Jietuo ji [Collection of One Released]. His and his two brothers' poetry, which focused on clarity and sincerity, produced a following eventually known as the Gong'an school, the central belief of which was that good writing was a result of genuine emotions and personal experience. When his elder brother Zongdao died in 1600, Hongdao retired
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Yellow cassava
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Nutritional Information & Social/Cultural Benefits/Issues
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can provide up to 25% of daily recommended Vitamin A intake. Since cassava is a major part of many people’s diets, introducing cassava bio-fortified with Vitamin A is an excellent innovation to improve health on a large scale. Social/Cultural Benefits/Issues It is normally risky to change the colour of a staple crop because colour preference can negatively affect consumer adoption rates. This is not the case with yellow cassava. Since local consumers often add palm oil to white cassava flour in their foods, they are normally accustomed to the golden colour. Therefore, the yellow colour has been shown not to
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2010 Team HTC–Columbia season
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Giro d'Italia
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but their 21-second gap to stage winners Liquigas–Doimo meant that the team missed out on getting the pink jersey.
Stage 7 was difficult, long and run partially on unpaved roads. The day on which the stage was run happened to have very heavy rain, making the course muddy and still more treacherous. Pinotti rode with the leaders most of the day, following a move by Alexander Vinokourov after overnight race leader Vincenzo Nibali needed a bike change. Pinotti was not quite able to bridge up to the leading trio of Vinokourov, Damiano Cunego, and stage winner Cadel Evans in the final
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William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester
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Biography
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them in Riccarton. Mandeville North near Kaiapoi is named after Lord Mandeville.
He succeeded to the dukedom on the death of his father in 1855, inheriting the family seat of Kimbolton Castle in Huntingdonshire.
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12th Armoured Regiment (Australia)
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History
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status, with at least 65% of its members volunteering for overseas service.
However, by December 1942 the strategic threat to Australia had lessened as the Japanese advance had been halted following the battles of the Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, and the Kokoda Track campaign. Consequently, it was assessed that the large numbers of armoured units created for the defence of Australia were no longer required, and the 2nd Armoured Division was ordered to disband. While elements of the 6th Armoured Brigade were reallocated to other divisions, the 12th Armoured Regiment was disbanded on 13 February 1943.
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12th Armoured Regiment (Australia)
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History
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and Senior NCO leadership and tactics course, prior to conducting specialised training in driving and maintenance, gunnery and wireless for each squadron. The regiment trained on M3 Grant medium tanks and M3 Stuart light tanks, with support elements equipped with a range of carriers, trucks and weapons. Upon completion of elementary training, the regiment conducted squadron and regimental exercises in the Seymour district. At the completion of these manoeuvres the 12th Armoured Regiment, and the 6th Armoured Brigade in general, was at a high standard of training and was well equipped at close to war establishment. The unit achieved AIF
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Åråsen Stadion
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History
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Kjeller, should the airport close. By 2007, the club's management was working on ideas to building new stadium, as the luxury boxes were all sold out and the club could not make more than NOK 22 to 23 million per year on commercial income from Åråsen. In 2009, Lillestrøm launched itself as one of six candidate cities for Norway's joint bid with Sweden to host Euro 2016. This would involve building a new venue seating between 35,000 and 44,000 in Lillestrøm. The stadium would be built in modules, so the upper tiers could be dismounted after the championship and installed on
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Willing Expedition
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Background
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Willing Expedition The Willing Expedition was a 1778 military expedition launched on behalf of the American Continental Congress by Captain James Willing during the American War of Independence. Background James Willing was a former merchant who had achieved the rank of Naval Captain in the Continental Navy. He visited Baton Rouge in 1777 bringing an offer from the Continental Congress for West Florida to join the rebellion against the British monarchy and a proposal to become the fourteenth state. Although many West Floridians had sympathy with the cause of the American independence, they were content with their situation which
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Wilsford, Lincolnshire
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Amenities & Transport
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field. The village public house is the Plough Inn in Main Street, which serves meals. Main Street also a pizzeria and a local store that acts as a sub-post office.
The local community supports a Women's Institute branch, a theatre group, a club for the elderly, a horticultural society, horticultural allotments, and a Brownies group for girls aged seven to ten. Transport There are two-hourly daytime, weekday buses to Sleaford and Grantham. There are also demand-response minibus services.
The Grantham to Skegness railway line passes close to the north of the village, running alongside the A153 road and crosses the road at
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Suvarna Sahakari Bank
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Background & Allegations and arrests
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the deposits worth Rs. 725 crore. Hotel Ranjeet, a hotel owned by Agashe was auctioned off for the same reasons. Cosmos Bank planned to acquire the bank after it hit this roadblock with the RBI and the subsequent announcement of the proposed merger with Cosmos led to large-scale panic withdrawals by Suvarna customers. Allegations and arrests On 22 November 2008, Agashe along with 14 other board members was taken into judicial custody; the bank business was charged with a Rs. 436.74 crore scam allegation. The arresting police stated that the accused along with six others allegedly misused their rights and
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1965 English Greyhound Derby
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Competition Report
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Hi Joe the ante-post favourite at the turn of the year had disappeared. In January the Juvenile champion trained by Noreen Collin and owned by bookmaker Victor Chandler Sr. was stolen from his Epping kennels. Initial hopes were that he could be recovered quickly to allow him to line up for the Greyhound Derby as planned. Sadly as the weeks passed Collin received countless phone calls that led nowhere.
Hack Up Chieftain failed to even make the final 48 after the qualifying trials and lost his £60 entry fee. New rules determined that all of the entry fee £60 or £100
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Yuan Hongdao
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Yuan Hongdao Yuan Hongdao (Chinese: 袁宏道; pinyin: Yuán Hóngdào; Wade–Giles: Yüan Hung-tao, 1568–1610) was a Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers, along with his brothers Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Zhongdao. Hongdao's life spanned nearly the whole of the Wanli period (1573-1620) in Chinese history. A native of Gong'an in Hukuang, his family had been military officials for generations. Hongdao showed an interest in literature from youth and formed his own literary club at age fifteen. At the age of twenty-four in 1592 he took the jinshi examination and subsequently received an official
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2010 Team HTC–Columbia season
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Tour de France
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fortunate few to emerge from the crash-ridden second stage without any injuries. The fourth stage was again flat and more straightforward this time, as there were no serious crashes on the day. Cavendish, however, continued to struggle, coming home a distant twelfth in the field sprint. Finally, in stage 5, Cavendish took his first win of the Tour, and appeared very emotional on the podium when accepting the day's honors. He added another sprint win the next day in stage 6. Stage 8 was the last before the Tour's first day, ending at Morzine-Avoriaz in the Alps, a stage sure
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Åråsen Stadion
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Facilities & Events
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manufacturer. The latter is used for away fans. The stadium is owned by Åråsen Stadion AS, which is again wholly owned by Lillestrøm SK. Operation of the venue's commercial properties is done by Åråsen Eiendom AS, which is owned 75 percent by Åråsen Stadion and 25 percent by Lillestrømbanken. The stadium is within walking distance of both the town center of Lillestrøm and Lillestrøm Station. Lillestrøm SK hold their training sessions in the nearby Lillestrøm Stadion and LSK-Hallen. Events Åråsen has been the home venue for Lillestrøm SK since the 1951 season and has been the venue for all
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1974 Formula One season
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Race 1: Argentina
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1974 Formula One season Race 1: Argentina In qualifying for the opening round in Argentina, Ronnie Peterson took pole in his Lotus ahead of Clay Regazzoni's Ferrari and Emerson Fittipaldi's McLaren. Peterson led at the start, whereas fellow front-row starter Regazzoni spun, causing chaos. Fittipaldi was hit by teammate Mike Hailwood and lost two laps while repairing his car, and James Hunt inherited second whereas Peter Revson, who started fourth, retired in the chaos. Hunt spun before the first lap was over, and second place went to Carlos Reutemann's Brabham.
Reutemann passed Peterson on the third lap, and soon the Swede
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Viva Pataca
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Background & 2004–2005: Britain
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Viva Pataca Background Bred by the Dukes of Devonshire and Roxburghe, he was out of the mare Comic and sired by English Group One winner, Marju. He was purchased by Neil Greig - Osborne House for 26,000 guineas at the 2003 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and given the name "Comic Strip." 2004–2005: Britain Trained by Sir Mark Prescott at age two, Comic Strip won five of his six starts. After winning his last start in the October 2004 Silver Tankard Stakes, he did not run again until the end of July in 2005 when he finished fourth in a Handicap
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Yolanda Cuomo
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Early career
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Goldin photographed a pregnant female body builder at a Russian bath in New York City’s East Village. The image was eventually included in Goldin’s book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. VUE’s unconventional approach to fashion content was polarizing, which earned praise but also scorn. Radio personality Howard Stern called VUE “disgusting” after seeing Goldin’s photographs. David Schneiderman, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Voice, said, “An executive from one major store, whose goods grace another model in the spread, found the ladies in lace ‘shocking’… I knew the magazine would be controversial, but we’ve built a profitable business here in the
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Window Rock, Arizona
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Navajo Nation Museum & Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park
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people and Navajo Nation, many resources on the Navajo people, language and ceremonies are also offered in the Navajo Nation Library which is adjacent to the museum. The museum is open Monday through Friday and is free to the public. Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park The Navajo Tribal Zoo opened in Window Rock in 1963 featuring reservation animals such as bear, coyotes, snake, elk, and the golden eagle. The Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park offers a wide variety of plants, animals, fishes, birds and insects native to the Four Corners area of the Navajo Nation such as elk,
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2006 FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup
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Group A & Group B & Final round
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2006 FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup Group A 11 Aug – Greece – Australia 68:60
12 Aug – France – Greece 72:68
13 Aug – Australia – France 77:71
A1 – Greece
A2 – France
A3 – Australia Group B 11 Aug – Germany – China 82:73
12 Aug – Germany – Brazil 76:75
13 Aug – Brazil – China 88:78
B1 – Germany
B2 – Brazil
B3 – China Final round 15 Aug (A3-B3) Australia – China 61:63
15 Aug (A2-B2) France – Brazil 86:74
15 Aug (A1-B1)
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William Richards (Hawaii)
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Diplomat
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François Guizot who was the French Foreign Minister. Both verbally accepted Hawaiian independence, and so did Lord Aberdeen on another visit on March 25. Confident in their success, Sir George Simpson returned to Canada, thinking Richards and Haʻalilo could wrap up the details through April and May 1843.
Richards got his first hint of trouble reading a Paris newspaper account of how a British frigate HMS Carysfort, under the command of Lord George Paulet, captured the Hawaiian islands after threatening a military attack the previous February.
Using a coffin in the Royal mausoleum as a desk, Judd prepared letters for Richards and Haʻalilio,
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Žarko Paspalj
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Season with Panathinaikos
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could be attributed to Paspalj being the captain of the powerhouse Yugoslav squad that just ended Greek hopes of winning the title on home soil in an emotionally charged semi-final. Lifting that trophy in front of the Athens crowd served as huge vindication and confidence boost for Paspalj after a couple of tough seasons, and the release of tension was evident in his jubilant locker-room interview with Vassilis Skountis when Paspalj ebulliently joined in with the chant (meant ironically in this instance as he was clutching the trophy in his arms) that "You will never lift the Cup, Paspalj, Paspalj!"
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Åråsen Stadion
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Events
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their home league games. Since the 1975 season, LSK has played every season in the top tier of the league system. Åråsen has also been the venue for most LSK matches in UEFA tournaments, including the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, but the club has previously played some home matches at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo and Marienlyst Stadion. The record attendance of 13,652 spectators was set on 16 May 2002 in the match between Lillestrøm and their rivals Vålerenga. The second-highest attended match was a cup match against Rosenborg in 1993, which attracted 13,595 people. The team's highest average
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2009–10 Division 1 season (Swedish ice hockey)
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Format
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2009–10 Division 1 season (Swedish ice hockey) Format The 58 participating teams played the first half of the season in six groups divided geographically. The successful teams then moved into three new groups (the Allettan groups), while the remaining teams played in a continuation of their smaller existing groups. The teams with the worst records in these continuation groups were then forced to defend their places in Division 1 against challengers from Division 2 (see "relegation tournament" below) in a round-robin tournament called Kvalserien till Division 1. Meanwhile, the successful teams from the Allettan groups along with the group winners
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2017 Fresno shootings
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Aftermath & Personal background
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its own condolences to all those involved, including the family of the slain employee. Personal background Born as Cory Allen Taylor, and also previously known as Kori Taylor, Muhammad changed his name to his present one as a teenager. His grandmother said that Muhammad had been drawn to Islam at a young age. Muhammad's aunt said that her nephew also attended a Baptist church when he was younger.
Muhammad was a resident of both Fresno and Sacramento, California. According to Muhammad's Facebook page, he studied multimedia at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento. A spokesman for the Los Rios Community College District
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Åråsen Stadion
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History
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74 yd), was sown in mid-1950. The work also included a grandstand, changing rooms, a watering system and kiosks. The stand could accommodate 2,500 spectators, and the stadium had a total permitted capacity of 6,000 people. The inaugural match was played against Sarpsborg on 7 July 1951 in front of 3,500 spectators. A training pitch beside the stadium pitch opened in 1953. The following year, a new steel entrance was built, following in 1955 with a referees' changing room and administrative offices. In 1959, after eight years of planning, construction of an additional terrace started, which opened in 1960.
On 7 April
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Žarko Paspalj
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Back in Partizan for a season & Olympiacos
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transfer to Greek club Olympiacos in the late summer of 1991. Olympiacos Paspalj's signing for the Piraeus club was a direct consequence of its takeover by Greek businessman and investor Sokratis Kokkalis. Throwing his considerable financial means behind the operation, he wanted to turn Olympiacos, a club that hadn't won the Greek title since 1978 and languished in mediocrity for years, into a European power. Also signing the same summer was head coach Giannis Ioannidis who dominated Greek basketball throughout the 1980s as head coach of Aris, having led them to seven national titles and several EuroLeague Final Four appearances.
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2008 New York Democratic primary
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Vote discrepancies
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in Harlem where Clinton led Obama 141 to 0, the recounted vote was counted as 261 to 136, Clinton. In Brooklyn the primary night vote was 118 to 0, Clinton, whereas the recounted vote went 118 to 116, Clinton.
Democratic leaders blamed the discrepancies on "human error" due to weary election officials on primary day. According to ABC News, however, other candidates such as John Edwards did not have this problem; it seemed to be almost exclusive to Obama.
The counting errors only occurred in the election night tallies, which are always unofficial. Following normal procedures, the votes were re-tallied before
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1969 York race riot
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The murder of Lillie Belle Allen
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afraid or they didn't want to be seen as traitors. "It was tougher than pulling teeth," said Thomas V. Chatman Jr., who was lead detective on the murder investigations for the York City police. "There were witnesses. But no one wanted to tell you anything. People took sides according to race and didn't want to cooperate." Because there was distrust among blacks, prosecutors said they first tried to solve the Allen case, hoping that witnesses would then come forward to identify Officer Schaad's killer. They were never able to acquire sufficient evidence to charge anyone, and both shootings went largely
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1985 European Cup Final
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Disaster
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crumbling, fans could pick stones up and throw them across the divide.
The throwing became more intense as kick-off approached. Moments later, a group of Liverpool fans charged into section Z, causing the fans there to retreat. As they had nowhere to go, they moved towards the side perimeter wall. As more people moved up against the wall, it collapsed, which resulted in 39 deaths and injuries to 600 people. At the other end of the ground, Juventus fans began to riot in retaliation for the events in section Z. They advanced down the pitch towards the Liverpool fans and were
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Stephen Stewart
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International representative rowing
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Rowing Cup in Lucerne that year. In 2001 he was selected in to stroke the Australian men's eight. He raced at the World Rowing Cup IV in Munich and then at the 2001 World Rowing Championships where they missed the A final and placed seventh overall. Then in 2003 at the World Championships in Milan he stroked the Australian coxless four to a fourth-place finish.
In time for the 2004 Athens Stephen was back in the stroke seat of the Australian men's eight with his brothers Geoff and James at four and five. They raced well to a bronze medal. In
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Worm theology
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Origins
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in contrition. Origins John Calvin (1509–1564) a 16th-century theologian and Protestant reformer much of his theological thinking was similar to Augustine of Hippo (354-430). Calvin saw the human race as being totally unable to do anything for itself to free itself from the stranglehold of sin, hence the reason why Jesus came to reveal what God the Father was really like (John 14:6) and that it is only through faith in Jesus and a continual yielding of self to the Holy Spirit that one is able to have an intimate relationship with a holy and righteous God.
There are three passages
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Zeng Xueming
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Biography
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in Thanh Nien, although he was later exposed as an informer to the Sûreté. Ho later gave Zeng a ruby engagement ring. When Ho's comrades objected to the match, he told them, "I will get married despite your disapproval because I need a woman to teach me the language and keep house." The couple were married on October 18, 1926. The legal witnesses were Cai Chang and Deng Yingchao, wife of future Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. Zeng was 21 and Ho was 36. The wedding took place in the same building where Zhou had married Deng earlier. They then lived
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1902 Leeds North by-election
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Education & Other issues
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that Roman Catholics in the constituency put their support behind the Conservative candidate Sir Arthur Lawson. Other issues Other topical questions raised by the candidates included Irish Home Rule and Free Trade versus Tariff Reform. Temperance was also an issue supported by Barran while Lawson had the support of the electoral committee of the Amalgamated Licensing Trades. From the Liberal side there was an attack on the government for its inaction on social and economic questions, presumably against the background of the increasing importance being given to these issues by the emerging New Liberalism.
The Conservatives seem to have spent the
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1946 Cabinet Mission to India
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Reactions
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by Congress governments. However, Jinnah differed and saw the grouping plan as mandatory. Another point of difference concerned the Congress position that a sovereign constituent assembly would not be bound to the plan. Jinnah insisted it be binding once the plan was accepted. The groupings plan maintained India's unity, but the organisation's leadership and, most of all Nehru, increasingly believed that the scheme would leave the centre without the strength to achieve the party's ambitions. Congress' socialist section led by Nehru desired a federal government able to industrialize the country and to eliminate poverty.
Nehru's speech on 10 July 1946 rejected
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Women's music
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Women's music festivals
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has been on indefinite hiatus after the first event.
Though the festivals are centered on music, they support many other facets of lesbian and feminist culture. Designed to provide a safe space for women's music and culture, many festivals are held on college campuses or in remote rural locations. Many festivals offer workshops on topics concerning the lesbian and feminist community, offer activities such as arts, crafts, fitness classes, and athletic events, and serve to provide opportunities for women to take advantage of resources they often cannot find in mainstream culture. One festival that provides such workshops is the National Women's
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1871 Rockford Forest Citys season
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Regular season
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1871 Rockford Forest Citys season Regular season Rockford finished with 4 wins and 21 losses, 15½ games behind the champion Philadelphia Athletics club and good for last place. Player-manager Scott Hastings was found to have violated the "60 day rule" implemented by the league—if a player switched teams during the season, the team had to bench him for 60 days before he could play. Hastings had jumped from a Louisiana team to the Forest Citys in the spring and immediately begun playing for Rockford. This complaint was brought before the league, and the Forest Citys were forced to forfeit 4
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Zhuo-Hua Pan
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Optogenetics
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to the Journal of Neuroscience, but were again rejected. In May 2005, Pan presented his work at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference in Florida, which became the clearest public evidence of his invention.
Around the same time, other scientists around the world were doing similar research to Pan. In August 2005, Nature Neuroscience, the same journal that had rejected Pan's paper, published a paper by Stanford University scientists Edward Boyden and Karl Deisseroth describing their work using channelrhodopsin to make neurons detect light. Their research was hailed as a major breakthrough and caught the attention of mainstream
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1974 Formula One season
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Race 2: Brazil & Race 3: South Africa
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second and Ickx third. Race 3: South Africa The field went to South Africa after a two-month break. Lauda took pole position, with Carlos Pace's Surtees also on the front row. Arturo Merzario in the Iso-Marlboro team was an amazing third on the grid. At the start, Lauda took the lead, whereas surprise packages Pace and Merzario were soon swamped by the field. Reutemann was up to second, and he took the lead from Lauda on the tenth lap, and he would remain ahead for the rest of the afternoon. Regazzoni was third ahead of Fittipaldi and Hailwood, but soon
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2013 Philippine general election
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Controversies & PCOS transmission issues
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of candidates and irregular decisions made during the canvassing. PCOS transmission issues On the day of elections, an estimated 18,000 voting machines, representing a quarter of the total 78,000 machines, experienced problems in transmitting the voting results. The Comelec claimed that the problems were caused not by the machines themselves, but by corrupted compact flash cards and issues with the cellular network coverage. Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes claimed that the Comelec was aware of problems with cellular network coverage, but deliberately kept it from the public until after the election. The poll watchdog AES Watch issued a statement on May
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Welland House Hotel
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History & Current use
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1909, Mary Malcolmson started the first North American Girl Guide troop at the Welland House. Unfortunately, the spa business in St. Catharines went into decline and Welland House closed its doors in 1993.
The Hotel Bar, named the Alibi Room was known to be a meeting place for gays and lesbians in the area from 1968 until its closing. Current use The Welland House re-opened in 1994 as a restaurant (Average Joe's) and student residence. Although Average Joe's has since closed, the Welland House remains a student residence. Known as the "Downtown Student Residence", or DSR, many of the residents
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United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa
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Post–Cold War era & Iraq and Kuwait in the 1990s
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in 1990 to approximately 240 aircraft, 33,000 personnel, and six flying bases by the end of 1996. In July 1994, with President Clinton in attendance, the British, French, and American air and land forces in Berlin were inactivated in a ceremony on the Four Ring Parade field at Tempelhof Central Airport. Iraq and Kuwait in the 1990s With the onset of Operations Desert Shield in August 1990 and Desert Storm in January 1991, more than 180 aircraft and 5,400 personnel assigned to USAFE units deployed to the Persian Gulf area. In conjunction, more than 100 additional aircraft and 2,600 personnel
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WYSN
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1980s & 1990s
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claim and the FCC to dismiss the transfer request. On July 10, 1987, the new owners had the station's call letters changed to WHRD to match the Marshall University sports nickname, the "Thundering Herd." 1990s In July 1991, the Marshall University Foundation, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Southern Communications Corporation. The deal was approved by the FCC on August 27, 1991, and the transaction was consummated on October 23, 1991.
In February 1995, Southern Communications Corporation signed a deal to sell this station to Simmons Broadcasting Company. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 11,
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Youth Studies Australia
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Youth Studies Australia Youth Studies Australia (ISSN 1038-2569) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies – also known as ACYS – based at the University of Tasmania. The journal is published quarterly, in hard copy and online in full text for subscribers. The full text of YSA is also available via InformIT, EBSCO Publishing, and local libraries in the USA and Australia.
Its content includes peer-reviewed feature articles that are research- and/or practice-based, abstracts compiled from current national and international scholarly journals, ‘Practice notes’ – a column devoted to articles of particular relevance to practitioners working
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William Watt (Australian politician)
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Federal politics
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to the style "The Right Honourable".
He was a trusted figure in Melbourne business circles and shared the dissatisfaction that most conservatives felt at the increasingly erratic and autocratic way Hughes ran the government. He also disliked Hughes personally and felt that Hughes had not acknowledged his efforts as Acting Prime Minister. Although he remained loyal in public, he was keen to leave Hughes's ministry, and was seen by many as Hughes's likely successor.
In April 1920 Hughes dispatched Watt to London on a financial mission. Watt was in poor health, and his suspicion that Hughes was trying to get him out
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Yasuo Ogata
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Yasuo Ogata Yasuo Ogata (緒方 靖夫 Ogata Yasuo) is a member and the Vice Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party. He was a member of the House of Councillors from 2000 to 2010. In 1989, Ogata appealed to the Supreme Court of Japan to reopen a case where five officers were investigated for possible violations of the Telecommunications Enterprise Law after an eavesdropping device was found on his telephone line that was diverted to the apartment of the son of a police officer. Ogata is a supporter of the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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2012 United States elections
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Wisconsin collective bargaining dispute & Rape and pregnancy controversies and the "War on Women"
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retirement, health insurance, and sick leave of the state's public sector employees.
These protests became a major driving force of multiple recall elections, including state senators in 2011 and 2012, Governor Scott Walker in 2012 and a contentious Wisconsin Supreme Court election in 2011. Rape and pregnancy controversies and the "War on Women" Starting in August 2012, a series of controversies occurred involving comments made by a number of socially conservative Republican candidates regarding issues regarding rape, pregnancy, and abortion, bringing these issues to the forefront. The first most notable was Republican House Representative Todd Akin of Missouri, who was the
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United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa
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1961 Berlin Crisis
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from active duty.
However, the Berlin Wall was built and a barbed wire fence with minefields extended the entire north-south length of a divided Germany. The wall effectively isolated East Germany for the next twenty-eight years. But the American, British, and French Zones still remained in Berlin and access to the city was not challenged again. TACK HAMMER and STAIR STEP forces had served their purpose; their rapid deployment to France had unequivocally demonstrated the United States' determination to defend Berlin.
Beginning about 1963 due to the Vietnam War, USAFE/NATO's total strength steadily declined, as the U.S. reduced forces in Europe to
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2008 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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Bracket
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2008 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Bracket Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
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Zeng Xueming
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Biography
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Hong Kong. In May 1930, Ho sent a letter asking Zeng to meet him in Shanghai, but her boss hid the letter and she did not receive it in time. Ho was arrested by British police in Hong Kong on 6 June 1931. Unknown to him, Zeng attended his court hearing on 10 July 1931, the last time she would see him. To evade a French request for extradition, the British announced in 1932 that Ho was dead and later released him.
In May 1950, Zeng saw a picture of Ho in a newspaper and learned that he was now president
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Žarko Paspalj
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Health issues & Role on the Serbia-Montenegro bench
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to have suffered a stroke while visiting San Antonio. After spending some time in hospital, Paspalj moved to the home of San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, where he was visited by his former teammate Vlade Divac, who reported that the worst had passed but that Paspalj was only beginning to communicate again. Role on the Serbia-Montenegro bench In the early 2004 he became team manager for the Serbia-Montenegro national squad, working under head coach Željko Obradović who had just come back to the national team following a four-year absence. The most important aspect of Paspalj's job was helping create
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1999 Finnish parliamentary election
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Background
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1999 Finnish parliamentary election Background Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's five-party "rainbow government" consisting of the SDP, National Coalition Party, Left Alliance, Swedish People's Party and the Green League had been in power since April 1995. It had managed to keep Finland's economy growing, to reduce the state's budget deficit and to create jobs, although it had failed to halve the unemployment rate: in 1995, the unemployment had been 15.4% and in 1999, it still stood at 10.2%. This was, as the governing parties pointed out, still a better record than the previous centre-right government's performance; during its term
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Willie Brigitte
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Arrest and deportation & Personal life
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charged under French law with "associating with criminals in relation to a terrorist enterprise". On 15 March 2007 he was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison. Released in 2009, and then rearrested in 2012, in 2015 Brigitte was alleged to have links associated with the Charlie Hebdo shooting. Personal life Brigitte's first marriage was to a Syrian Muslim woman, with whom he had one child. At the time, neither of them were particularly religious. They divorced in 1996. He married for a second time in 1999. The marriage resulted in two children and the couple divorced
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Whale watching
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Southwest Atlantic –Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
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in Bahia State and at the National Marine Park of Abrolhos during their breeding season in austral winter and spring. Likewise, southern right whales are observed from shore in Santa Catarina State and Espírito Santo during the same season. Mother/calf pairs can come as close to shore as 30 meters (about 100 feet). Income from whale watching bolsters coastal communities and has made the township of Imbituba, the Brazilian "whale capital".
In Argentina, Península Valdés in Patagonia hosts (in winter) the largest breeding population of southern right whales, with more than 2,000 catalogued by the Whale Conservation Institute and Ocean Alliance.
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1981 Hall of Fame Classic
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Background & Game summary
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1981 Hall of Fame Classic Background The Bulldogs finished 3rd in the Southeastern Conference. This was the first time in school history that they reached consecutive bowl games. The Jayhawks finished tied for 3rd in the Big Eight Conference, in their first bowl game since 1975. Game summary On the first play of the game, the Bulldogs reached upon a stroke of luck. Ricky Green of the Jayhawks was receiving the opening kickoff when Rob Fesmire caused a fumble and recovered it at the Kansas 17. On the next play, John Bond ran 17 yards to the end zone to
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1880 Maine gubernatorial election
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Background
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1880 Maine gubernatorial election The 1880 election for Governor of Maine was held on September 13, 1880 for a two-year term that was scheduled to run from January 13, 1881 to January 3, 1883. The contest resulted in the victory of Greenback and Democratic nominee Harris M. Plaisted, who narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Governor Daniel F. Davis, one of the few times Republicans lost control of the governorship between the founding of the party in the 1850s and the Great Depression. Background In 1878, events including wage cuts that precipitated the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 caused Plaisted to
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2018–19 Stetson Hatters women's basketball team
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Media
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2018–19 Stetson Hatters women's basketball team Media All home games and conference road are shown on ESPN3 or A-Sun.TV. Non conference road games are typically available on the opponents website. Audio broadcasts of Hatters games can be found on WSBB AM 1230/1490 with Ryan Rouse on the call.
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2002 Mountain Dew Southern 500
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Background
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handling in a way that will be effective at both ends.
The track, Darlington Raceway, is a four-turn 1.366 miles (2.198 km) oval. The track's first two turns are banked at twenty-five degrees, while the final two turns are banked two degrees lower at twenty-three degrees.
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2007 European Cup (athletics)
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Group A & Group B & Group A & Group B
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2007 European Cup (athletics) The 2007 Spar European Cup took place on 23 and 24 June 2007 at the Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany. This was the 27th time the European Cup has been held and the second time the event has been hosted in Munich. It was the penultimate staging of the Cup. Group A At Vaasa, Finland, on 23 and 24 June 2007. Group B At Milan, Italy, on the same dates. Group A At Odense, Denmark, on 23 & 24 June 2007. Group B At Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the same dates.
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1996 Players Championship
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Venue
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1996 Players Championship Venue This was the fifteenth Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course, and it remained at 6,896 yards (6,306 m).
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William H. Mellen
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William H. Mellen William H. "W.H." Mellen (1829 – 1907) was an American politician.
Born in New York, Mellen came to Minnesota in 1866. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1876 while living in Currie, Minnesota.
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2010 Claxton Shield
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Overview
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a bye. During the season, each team had two bye rounds and played two rounds against each other team, one at home and one away. In total, the schedule allowed for 24 regular-season games per team before a postseason similar to the 2009 edition: the first-place team directly qualified for the championship series and played against the winner of a playoff series between the second- and third-place teams.
During the regular season, games were played on a Friday night and a doubleheader on Saturday; in each doubleheader one of the two games was shortened to seven innings. The exception to
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1974 Formula One season
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Race 5: Belgium & Race 6: Monaco
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Lauda, with Scheckter third after Regazzoni suffered fuel feed problems on the last lap. Race 6: Monaco In the streets of Monaco, Lauda and Regazzoni took the front row for Ferrari, with Peterson's Lotus behind them in third. The Ferraris motored away, with Regazzoni leading after beating his teammate off the line, with Peterson down in sixth. Regazzoni led until he made a mistake and spun off, rejoining fifth. Lauda was now leading Jean-Pierre Jarier's Shadow, Peterson and Scheckter. Peterson disposed of Jarier, and took the lead when Lauda's engine blew up. Peterson went on to win, with Scheckter taking
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Watershed (Bristol)
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Film
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film programme, Watershed has played host to (and helped organise and run) many film festivals, including RESFest 2002, Depict!, Brief Encounters (now Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival), the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Black Pyramid, Latin America Week, VisionSign (celebrating deaf moving image culture), and Slapstick Film Festival. Wildscreen, a festival of wildlife documentaries and related films, began at the Watershed as did Afrika Eye (an annual festival of African Cinema), in 2005.
Regular activities include evening classes, special film events, a film discussion group - Cinephiles, and educational screenings with introductions and documentation. British Film Institute touring programmes
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1969 York race riot
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The murder of Lillie Belle Allen
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out of a second-story window. Multiple members of two all-white gangs, the Newberry Street Boys and the Girarders, were on the street that night, and many of them were armed.
Dickinson began to turn around in the intersection of Newberry Street and Gay Avenue but the car stalled. As more armed white men began coming onto their porches, Dickinson panicked. Her parents, who were in the back seat, began praying. Her older sister, Lillie Belle Allen, jumped out of the car to get to the driver's seat and take the wheel. She flailed her arms screaming, "Don't shoot!" Multiple shooters opened
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1999 Finnish parliamentary election
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Campaign
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down sufficiently the large internal migration of Finns from the rural towns and small cities to the large economic growth centres, like the Helsinki and Tampere regions.
Several parties hired as their candidates previously non-political or only locally politically active celebrities, such as Leena Harkimo, the manager of Helsinki's ice hockey team Jokerit, Lasse Virén, a former long-distance running Olympic champion, and Anni Sinnemäki, the songwriter of pop music group Ultra Bra. Some of these celebrities got elected. After the elections, Prime Minister Lipponen formed a new government of the same five parties. Only one of those parties
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2019–20 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1
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Teams & Clean sheets
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2019–20 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 Teams 16 teams contest the league. US Biskra, NC Magra and ASO Chlef were promoted from the 2018-19 Ligue 2. Clean sheets * Only goalkeepers who played all 90 minutes of a match are taken into consideration.Updated to games played in August 2018
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Waukesha County gangsters
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What Is Happening
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Waukesha County gangsters What Is Happening The main gangster activity in Waukesha County in the early 1900s usually involved alcohol of some sort: smuggling it in from Canada (usually on a seaplane that would land in one of Waukesha's many lakes), distilling liquor in a hidden still, or loading it on to trucks and shipping it around the country, distilling liquor in a hidden still. During Prohibition this was all highly illegal. Despite all the illicit activity gangsters were often seen in a positive light. "A lot of (gangsters) had Robin Hood stories attached to them, like Pretty Boy Floyd
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2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship
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Driver changes
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two of Formula One team Haas' development drivers. Santino Ferrucci, who contested five rounds of the 2017 championship with the team, was signed for the season. He is partnered by Arjun Maini, who was promoted from the GP3 Series. Nabil Jeffri, who raced for Trident in 2017, left the team to join the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Sérgio Sette Câmara left MP Motorsport to join newcomers Carlin. He is partnered by Lando Norris, who won the 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship title with Carlin before making a guest appearance in the Formula 2 Championship with Campos Racing. Louis Delétraz and
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Wind wave model
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Validation & Reanalyses
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as GEOSAT and TOPEX, can also be used to infer the characteristics of wind waves.
Hindcasts of wave models during extreme conditions also serves as a useful test bed for the models. Reanalyses A retrospective analysis, or reanalysis, combines all available observations with a physical model to describe the state of a system over a time period of decades. Wind waves are a part of both the NCEP Reanalysis and the ERA-40 from the ECMWF. Such resources permit the creation of monthly wave climatologies, and can track the variation of wave activity on interannual and multi-decadal time scales. During
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2 bore
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History and background
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that I spun around like a weathercock in a hurricane. I really dreaded my own rifle, although I had been accustomed to heavy charges of powder, and severe recoil for some years. None of my men could fire it, and it was looked upon with a species of awe, and it was named "Jenna-El-Mootfah" (Child of a Cannon) by the Arabs, which being far too long a name for practice, I christened it the "Baby;" and the scream of this "Baby" loaded with a half-pound shell was always fatal. It was far too severe, and I very seldom fired it,
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10 Years (2011 film)
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Release & Reception
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premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Reception Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 60% rating from 55 critics.
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1961 Paraguayan Primera División season
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1961 Paraguayan Primera División season The 1961 season of the Paraguayan Primera División, the top category of Paraguayan football, was played by 11 teams. The national champions were Cerro Porteño.
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Walter C. Oechel
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Research
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showed methane was also being released into the atmosphere during the winter months from the ground of the Arctic than previously believed, increased the amount of presumed greenhouse gases released globally per year. ˣⁱⁱⁱ
Oechel has appeared on national news shows discussing the problem of climate change, such as, ABC News ˣⁱᵛ and The Washington Post. ˣᵛ
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Zhang Jun (serial killer)
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Early life & Robberies
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Zhang Jun (serial killer) Early life Zhang Jun was born on August 5, 1966 in Hualin Village, Changde, Hunan into a poor family. He was the youngest of seven brothers and sisters. Because of his poor family, he dropped out of school to participate in social activities in the first year of high school. He was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to labor reform. Robberies On December 22, 1995, Zhang robbed the Chongqing Friendship store, killing one person and stole gold jewelry worth 455,000 yuan.
On December 25, 1996, Zhang robbed Shanghai's first department store, stealing gold jewelry worth more than
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The Irish Rovers
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Television
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in Ireland. Locations for the special included Dunluce Castle, Carnlough Harbour, Portglenone, and various spots along the northeast coast of Northern Ireland. The show was transmitted in 2011 and 2012 across the PBS Network in North America.
In 2012 "The Irish Rovers Christmas" Television Special, which was filmed at various locations in Banff National Park, Sunshine Village and Chatham-Kent's Capitol Theatre, was shown across the PBS Network throughout the US and Canada. Both specials were released on DVD and are rebroadcast during the holiday seasons.
While The Rovers filmed their own 50th Anniversary concert on St. Patrick's Day in Nanaimo, Canada, Shaw
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William Watt (Australian politician)
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State politics & Federal politics
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as Premier in June 1914, allowing Sir Alexander Peacock to re-assume the Liberal leadership. Federal politics At the 1914 federal election Watt was elected Liberal member for the seat of Balaclava. He became a leading member of the Nationalist Party when it was formed in 1916 under the leadership of Billy Hughes, and in 1917 he was appointed Minister for Works and Railways in the Hughes Government. By now he had moved away from his earlier liberalism and was regarded as a hard-line conservative.
In March 1918 Watt was appointed Treasurer, and became in effect Hughes's deputy. When Hughes left Australia
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2009 International Bowl
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Second quarter
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UConn had committed its fifth fumble of the game, four of which were recovered by Buffalo. All of Buffalo's 20 points were directly off of UConn turnovers.
Connecticut fumbled the ball for the sixth time on the next possession; this time Donald Brown was responsible for dropping the ball. Buffalo recovered for the fifth time, but was unable to score, punting to ball back to UConn with 4:37 left in the half. Brown made up for his earlier mistake by breaking off a 75-yard run before being caught from behind. On the next play Tyler Lorenzen ran the ball into the
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2012 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election
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Background
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2012 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election Background Before the start of the election, Labour ran the council with 35 seats, while the Liberal Democrats had 9 seats and the Conservatives had 4 seats. 16 seats were contested in 2012, with Labour defending 9, Liberal Democrats 5 and the Conservatives 2.
Five councillors stood down at the election, two Conservatives, Betty Lowe and the former leader of the Conservative group Wally Ashcroft, two Labour members Leon McGuire and Eric Smith, and one Liberal Democrat, John Beirne. Meanwhile, a former Liberal Democrat cabinet member, Carole Kavanagh, resigned her membership of the party
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2nd Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China
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Party of China. In 1925, it started to be known as the politburo.
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Yaninee, South Australia
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History
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other buildings’: A fine hall has just been completed. The surrounding country is mainly devoted to wheat and sheep farming. Last season 50.000 bags of wheat were delivered at the siding… A telegraph line is being constructed along the railway line from Port Lincoln to Thevenard…
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Žarko Paspalj
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One last professional stint in Bologna
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in domestic play. During this period he had one final appearance in front of his old Olympiacos fans, in a EuroLeague game in October 1998, scoring 2 points (0/2 1/5), but by this time Paspalj was a shadow of his former self and struggled to keep up with the pace of games. The tragedy for basketball was that a player of his caliber was unable to continue to perform at a professional level and was lost to the sport at the age of 32, but for Paspalj himself a personal near-tragedy was still to come.
Summing up his 14 and a
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2009 International Bowl
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Team selection
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2009 International Bowl Team selection The International Bowl had contracts with the Big East and Mid-American Conferences that allowed them to select one team from each conference to participate in their annual game. By virtue of being the Big East champion Cincinnati was awarded an automatic Bowl Championship Series berth; they would play in the 2009 Orange Bowl. The Gator Bowl and Sun Bowl shared the second pick of Big East teams; after the Gator Bowl opted to select Big 12 member Nebraska and the Sun Bowl learned that they would not be allowed to select Notre Dame, Pittsburgh received
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1980 Fiesta Bowl
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Game summary
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early lead. Not to be deterred, Art Schlichter threw a touchdown pass to Doug Donley, but the extra point failed, narrowing the lead to only 7-6. But the Buckeyes responded again with a Gary Williams touchdown catch from Schlichter to give the Buckeyes the lead, though the PAT missed once again. Schlichter threw another touchdown pass to Donley to increase the lead to 19-7 (the PAT being successful this time). Herb Menhardt kicked a 38-yard field goal to make it 19-10 at halftime. It seemed Schlichter and his team were poised to win the game, due to him throwing 15
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1940 National Football League All-Star Game (January)
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Rosters
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1940 National Football League All-Star Game (January) Rosters The players involved in this game were:
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2013 Philippine general election
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PCOS transmission issues & Senatorial winners proclamation
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18, saying that up to 8.6 million votes had been affected, or possibly disenfranchised.
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, the Philippines' largest telecommunications company, released a statement dismissing the Comelec's allegations of cellular network problems, saying that the combined networks of Smart Communications and Sun Cellular covered every city and municipality in the country, and no unusually heavy traffic was recorded on election day.
The Comelec failed to meet its self-imposed deadline of proclaiming winners in the senatorial election 48 hours after the end of the voting period. Senatorial winners proclamation The COMELEC proclaimed the first six senatorial winners of the election
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