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2008 Speedway Grand Prix | Event format | final win). This format means that the winner of each Grand Prix may not be the rider who scores most GP points from each race. |
Wintersingen | Demographics | 34 people or 5.5% who are over 80.
As of 2000, there were 237 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 298 married individuals, 27 widows or widowers and 26 individuals who are divorced.
As of 2000, there were 234 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per ... |
Wheelchair | Standing wheelchairs & Sports wheelchairs | access, relief of pressure, reduction of pressure sores, improved functional reach, improved respiration, reduced occurrence of UTI, improved flexibility, help in maintaining bone mineral density, improved passive range motion, reduction in abnormal muscle tone and spasticity, and skeletal deformities. Other wheelchair... |
APOPO | Detecting landmines & Advantages | indicate the scent of explosives usually by scratching at the ground. The points indicated by the rats are marked, and then followed up later by technicians using metal detectors; the mines which are found are then excavated by hand and destroyed. Advantages According to the NGO the main advantage over conventional met... |
Virtual community | Introduction & Purpose & Internet-based | among early nation-states. Some authors that built their theories on Anderson's Imagined communities have been critical of the concept, claiming that all communities are based on communication and that virtual/real dichotomy is disintegrating, making use of the word "virtual" problematic or even obsolete. Purpose Virtu... |
Unreasonable search and seizure in New Zealand | Unlawfulness vs unreasonableness & Visual observation | that in terms of the most common remedy of exclusion of evidence an unlawful search should usually be considered an unreasonable search. Elias CJ went so far as to say that unlawful searches should automatically be unreasonable. An exception is that where the search is only unlawful on minor or technical grounds it may... |
1788–89 United States elections | Presidential election | Under the Constitution, each state determines its own method of choosing presidential electors; in the 1788–1789 presidential election, many electors were appointed by state legislators, while others were chosen through elections. In the states that did hold elections, suffrage was generally restricted to white men who... |
Wendy Maruyama | WildLife Project & Executive Order 9066 | Charitable Foundation. Executive Order 9066 Wendy Maruyama: Executive Order 9066 is a series of works by Maruyama examining Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1942 Executive Order number 9066 which authorized the internment of 120,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Maruyam's maternal relatives were among those imprisoned... |
2013 Philippine general election | House of Representatives & Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao elections & Controversies | votes in the House of Representatives elections: one for party-list representatives, which shall comprise at most 20% of the seats, and another for district representatives, which shall comprise the rest of the seats. Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao elections Originally scheduled for 2011, Congress postponed the e... |
2003 Afro-Asian Games | Pressure on Organizing Committee & Qualification | in good terms with some other nations. The then Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, had hinted that "some nations might withdraw from the Games, rather than get embroiled in international conflicts". Qualification Qualification for the Games depended upon the performance of the countries in other major multi... |
2012 United States elections | State and territory initiatives and referenda & Election financing | done so, bringing the number of states that allow same sex marriage from 6 to 9 states. In Minnesota, a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage was defeated, the first time such an amendment has not passed.
A measure in Massachusetts resulted in that state becoming the 18th US state to allow medical ... |
2 bore | History and background | but it is a curious fact, that I never fired a shot with that rifle without bagging: the entire practice, during several years, was confined to about twenty shots. I was afraid to use it; but now and then it was absolutely necessary that it should be cleaned, after months of staying loaded. On such occasions my men had... |
2010 Team HTC–Columbia season | Giro d'Italia | the high mountain stages 14 and 15 (which Pinotti finished among the top ten in both) and the Plan de Corones time trial with stage 18 in mind. Very short and very flat, the stage was ideal for Greipel. The team rode a tempo at the head of the peloton to keep the day's breakaway in check, and caught them in the stage's... |
ACUPARI | Children’s Book Project & Volunteering & Cultural Activities | Quechua. Until now ACUPARI has printed and distributed four books. Volunteering Another service ACUPARI offers is to find jobs for people who want to do voluntary work in Cusco and the region. The school is in touch with many local charitable or non-profit organizations. Special Spanish courses beforehand prepare volun... |
400 SW Sixth Avenue | History | 400 SW Sixth Avenue History First National Bank of Oregon announced it would build a new headquarters building in 1957, with the contract to build the structure going to Hoffman Construction Company. The planned $3.5 million, five-story building was designed by Stanton, Boles, Maguire & Church and was to have 100,000 s... |
William Stanier | Biography | London. In 1912 he returned to Swindon to become the Assistant Works Manager and in 1920 was promoted to the post of Works Manager.
In late 1931, he was "headhunted" by Sir Josiah Stamp, chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) to become the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of that railway from 1 Janua... |
1980s in video gaming | Third-party development and an oversaturated market & Video game crash of 1983 | games on hardware.
In the aftermath of the lawsuit, an oversaturated market resulted in companies that had never had an interest in video games before beginning to work on their own promotional games; brands like Purina Dog Food. The market was also flooded with too many consoles and too many poor quality games, elemen... |
2012 United States elections | Unresolved issues from 2008 and 2010 & Wisconsin collective bargaining dispute | the power of Arizona's law enforcement agencies to investigate the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants, also remained important issues. On June 25, 2012, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Arizona v. United States, striking down three of the four provisions of Arizona's law. Wisconsin collective... |
A2 milk | Australia and New Zealand | six months ending 31 December 2010, it made a net $894,000, or 17 cents/share. In December 2012, A2 Corporation announced it would attempt to raise $20 million and list on the New Zealand Stock Exchange main board, and that it would use the funds to grow its Chinese infant formula and UK milk businesses under the a2 an... |
2009 International Bowl | Fourth quarter | possession Buffalo managed to get a first down off of a Drew Willy pass to tight end Jesse Rack, but were unable to move the ball further than UConn's 49-yard line and punted again.
Connecticut took over at their own 32-yard line and, after throwing only two passes in the first three quarters, completed three passes ov... |
361st Fighter Group | World War II | targets on the Continent.
The group also engaged in counter-air patrols, fighter sweeps, and strafing and dive-bombing missions. Attacked such targets as airdromes, marshaling yards, missile sites, industrial areas, ordnance depots, oil refineries, trains, and highways. During its operations, the unit participated in t... |
Thomas Dene | null | Thomas Dene Thomas Dene was an Irishman who was Bishop of Ferns from 1363 to 1400.
Formerly Archdeacon of Ferns, he was consecrated bishop on 18 June 1363. He died on 27 August 1400. |
Zebrawood | History | to be the product of Omphalobium lambertii DC., later reclassified as Connarus guianensis Lamb ex DC., and finally as Connarus lambertii (DC.) Britton. Despite similarities between the timbers of Connarus and Astronium, the former has yet to be identified on surviving furniture. "Published statements that certain spe... |
Åråsen Stadion | History | Åråsen Stadion History Lillestrøm SK originally used Jenseberg Stadion in Strømmen for their matches, as there was no suitable stadium in Lillestrøm. On 6 June 1920, the municipality opened Lillestrøm Stadion, where Lillestrøm SK moved their matches. In 1930, the club started working on plans for their own stadium. Led... |
2017 Liga 3 West Nusa Tenggara | Group stage & Lombok Region | 2017 Liga 3 West Nusa Tenggara Group stage This stage scheduled starts on 31 July 2017. Lombok Region Lombok Region divided into two groups. |
1864 State of the Union Address | null | 1864 State of the Union Address The 1864 State of the Union Address was given by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. It was presented to the United States Congress on Tuesday, December 6, 1864. It was given right before the end of the American Civil War. He said: "The war continues. Since the last... |
Vladimir Grig | Art | Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art in 2008. Vladimir participated in numerous Moscow art fairs between 2004 and 2013. His art project entitled Dimensionen was exhibited as part of the 55th Venice Biennale parallel programme.
Vladimir Grig is best known for his science art installations at Dokuchaev Central Soil Scie... |
Wherwell Abbey | Later history | gifts or grants was made. Like Maud, she seems to have been well loved by the nuns, as the surviving cartulary records.
Euphemia built a new farmery, dorter and areas for other functions, such as latrines with running water, all away from the main buildings, and nearby a chapel of the Blessed Virgin, with a large enclo... |
Wilsford, Lincolnshire | Heritage & Early buildings | gazetteer as "only a farm of 400 acres" (162 ha).
The parish belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.
The disused Ancaster stone (limestone) quarry on scenic Wilsford Heath is now screened by a coppice. The output of the quarry is reflected in the present appearance of the village, with its "attra... |
2010 Team HTC–Columbia season | One-day races & Stage races | 2010 Team HTC–Columbia season One-day races Greipel scored the team's first one-day victory in February, before the spring season and the races known as 'classics' were held. Greipel was first over the line in the Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanovoa, a part of the Vuelta a Mallorca quasi-stage race, and expressed surprise at his... |
Zuclopenthixol | Dosing & Pharmacodynamics | 20 mg of flupentixol decanoate or 12.5 mg of fluphenazine decanoate.
In acutely psychotic and agitated inpatients, 50 – 200 mg of zuclopenthixol acetate may be given for a calming effect over the subsequent three days, with a maximum dose of 400 mg in total to be given. As it is a long-acting medication, care must be t... |
Wreath | Wreaths worn as crowns & Maypole wreath | and on holy days. Wreaths originally were made for use with pagan rituals in Europe, and were associated with the changing seasons and fertility. Christianity accepted the symbolism of the wreath based upon its Roman association with honour and moral virtue. During the Middle Ages, Christian art featured depictions of ... |
Viche | History | no seats.
At the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006, it won 1.74% of the popular vote and no seats.
Inna Bohoslovska was the leader of the party. On August 3, 2007, Bohoslovska and other leaders of the party decided to participate in the 2007 parliamentary elections within party list of the Party of regions. Ihor... |
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 | Background | artist. But it’s not who you think it is. In fact, we’d wager that (although you will know the artist) you’d never guess in a million years. But once you get over the shock, you’ll be pleasantly surprised." Social media speculation on The Kickdrum blind item largely hypothesized that the reference was to Bonnie Tyler, ... |
Yonezawa Domain | History | consisted of 180,000 koku in Dewa Province, and 120,000 koku in neighboring Mutsu province. This 300,000 koku territory would represent the peak of the Uesugi clan's income during the Tokugawa period.
As with most of the han, Yonezawa acted as a semi-independent state, ruled directly by its daimyō. The Uesugi demanded... |
USS PC-817 | Career | 11 July. Though placed out of commission on 22 July, PC-817 remained active—in an "in service" capacity—as a Naval Reserve training ship for the 9th Naval District.
After over three years of service training naval reservists on the Great Lakes, PC-817 began her last voyage on 14 November 1949. From Chicago, Illinois, s... |
2013 Philippine general election | Source code & Gun ban | Dominion turned the source code, which was in a CD, to the commission. Dominion, the commission and SLI Global Solutions, which had certified the source code months earlier, encrypted the source code on a computer provided by the commission. The source code was then burned anew to a separate CD-R, placed inside a safet... |
1969 York race riot | Escalating racial tension and the murder of Henry Schaad & The murder of Lillie Belle Allen | injuries.
As Schaad lay dying, racial tension soared in the city. Fights broke out, buildings were set ablaze and police began barricading black neighborhoods. More than sixty people were injured, one hundred were arrested, and entire city blocks were burned. The murder of Lillie Belle Allen On July 21, Lillie Belle Al... |
Walter C. Oechel | Research | that upland, non-inundated tundra can be a more active emitter of methane than wet, inundated areas (Zona et al, 2016) changing the perception of the importance of the cold season and upland tundra on annual methane emission balances. Recently, Oechel has been looking at the importance of marine coastal and riverine s... |
A. J. Arkell | Career | himself. During this time he gained a deeper understanding for the history of Egypt, particularly the Predynastic period and in collaboration with his student P. J. Ucko published Review of Predynastic Development in the Nile Valley in Current Anthropology in 1965. He was promoted to Reader in Egyptian Archaeology in... |
Zealand, New Brunswick | Railway | established as access points to local communities along the route. Sometimes these community access points were quite a distance from the established community centers. Cardigan Station, at what is now called Burtts Corner, was established to serve Cardigan, some 16 kilometres distant. Heading northwest from Burtts Co... |
2016 Philippine House of Representatives election (party-list) | Aftermath | party-list was erroneous. In the motion they filed before the Supreme Court, they stated that since 20% of the district representative seats (238) is equal to 59.5, the correct seat total should be 60, not 59. This would allow the Gabriela party-list to gain one seat based on the computation done by the COMELEC.
Anoth... |
2010 NLL season | Team movement | 2010 NLL season Team movement After five seasons in San Jose, the Stealth announced shortly after the 2009 season ended that they would be relocating to Everett, Washington, approximately 30 miles north of Seattle. The Washington Stealth will play at the Comcast Arena. In addition it was announced on May 4, 2009 that... |
2019 Rafael Nadal tennis season | US Open & Schedule & Television | his 4th US Open and 19th Grand Slam title. Schedule Per Rafael Nadal, this is his current 2019 schedule (subject to change). Television At the Barcelona Open, the semifinals match versus Dominic Thiem had an average 914,000 viewers and 8.2% share on La 1.
At the Madrid Masters, the quarter-finals match versus Stanislas... |
101st Grenadiers | 1778–1878 | oldest grenadier regiment in the British Empire; the British Army's Grenadier Guards did not gain its Grenadier title until after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Meanwhile, the Regiment took part in the numerous Mysore Wars. In 1783, the regiment formed part of the Mangalore garrison, which the Tipu Sultan's Mysore Arm... |
A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael | A Light on the Road to Woodstock & The Price of Light | and asks that he be allowed to go back with them. The Price of Light Lord of the Manor Hamo FitzHamon, after a lifetime of lechery, overindulgence and general cruelty to his fellow men, reaches old age and begins worrying over some way to ensure his welcome into Heaven. Thoughts of charity for the poor are quickly disc... |
2009 International Bowl | Third quarter & Fourth quarter | UConn drove to the Buffalo 25-yard line and attempted a 42-yard field goal; the kick by Dave Teggart was blocked. Buffalo got the ball back with less than a minute left in the quarter and completed two passes, moving the ball 13 yards down the field before the quarter expired. The score remained in Connecticut's favor,... |
2017 Fresno shootings | Motel 6 shooting & Manhunt | at close range. He also fired several shots toward the motel and at another security guard before fleeing. That guard was uninjured. Manhunt The woman, who had fled back to the room, was taken into custody on a felony accessory charge after attempting to take evidence from the crime scene and refusing to identify the g... |
400 SW Sixth Avenue | History | insurance commissioner Ted Kulongoski, with later liquidation. After the bankruptcy of Farwest, Almaden Plaza Associates could no longer pay the mortgage, and the building was deeded to John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company by Almaden in 1990, who then sued United Trust over misrepresentations concerning Farwest.
... |
2018 Nashville mayoral special election | Candidates | 2018 Nashville mayoral special election Candidates Fourteen candidates nominated for the mayoral election. David Briley was the sole candidate in support of Nashville's transit plan, which was decided in a referendum on May 1. Nashville voters overwhelmingly rejected the plan, by about a 2–1 margin. |
1946 Cabinet Mission to India | Reactions | to central representations as Hindu India. Despite his preference for only two groups, the Muslim League's Council accepted the mission's proposals on 6 June 1946 after securing a guarantee from Wavell that the League would be placed in the interim government if the Congress did not accept the plan.
The onus was now on... |
7th BRICS summit | Legacy | the sphere of information and communications technologies (ICT). [While every BRICS state has advantages in a particular sphere of ICT] but today, information technologies are a driver of economic growth for all [BRICS countries], without exception. On the IT-market and in the Internet sphere there is a monopoly of one... |
William Kemmler | Murder, trial, and appeals | execution via electric chair drew the situation into the AC/DC "war of currents" between George Westinghouse, the largest supplier of alternating current equipment, and Thomas Edison, whose company ran its equipment on direct current. The alternating current that powered the electric chair (a current standard adopted b... |
1917 South Monmouthshire by-election | Result | history of their constituency.
Garrod Thomas achieved over 80% of the votes cast, comfortably holding the seat for the Coalition. He did not seem to take to Parliamentary life however as, apart from his maiden speech in the House of Commons on medical necessities during wartime, he does not seem to have made any other... |
2012 United States elections | Presidential election & Senate elections | by late April, Romney, a former Governor of Massachusetts, was declared the presumptive Republican nominee. Among the third party candidates, former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson was the Libertarian Party nominee, Jill Stein was the Green Party nominee, former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virg... |
1951–52 Detroit Red Wings season | Roster | 1951–52 Detroit Red Wings season Roster Terry Sawchuk, Bob Goldham, Benny Woit, Red Kelly, Leo Reise, Marcel Pronovost, Ted Lindsay, Tony Leswick, Gordie Howe, Metro Prystai, Marty Pavelich, Sid Abel (captain), Glen Skov, Alex Delvecchio, John Wilson, Vic Stasiuk, Larry Zeidel, Jack Adams (manager), Tommy Ivan (coach),... |
William Richards (Hawaii) | Missionary | were taught Hawaiian while Hawaiians (at least the chiefs) were taught English. A standardized orthography was developed and some simple texts were printed.
In 1825 Richards published a biography of Queen Keōpūolani.
Some time in 1825, the Richards moved back to Maui to establish a mission. Whaling ships had been visit... |
WEGL | History | Union.
WEGL remained in Foy Student Union until the summer of 2008. WEGL made its final broadcast from that location at 5:00 PM on Friday, August 15, 2008. The final song broadcast from Foy Student Union was "A Little Bit" by Tim Fite.
WEGL, along with all other campus media, relocated from Foy Student Union to the new... |
West Vancouver Secondary School | History | wing, and in 1960 a second gymnasium was installed. The building further went through an expansion adding a 500-seat theatre with two music rooms in the east wing. In addition, with provincial funds, a six-room shop wing known as the Tech Wing was added behind the north campus building, and a new South Campus building ... |
Žarko Paspalj | Back to Greece: Aris | led his team to victory in the Greek Cup, scoring 12 points (2/5, 5/10) but the majority of his teammates left the club the following day after having gone without payment for some time. Paspalj remained, but an injury meant that he did not play again that season after mid-February as Aris alarmingly dropped down the t... |
The Beu Sisters | First album & Soundtrack contributions | The Beu Sisters First album In 2002, the Beu Sisters' first album, Decisions, was released. Nine of the thirteen tracks on the album were co-written by them. The album includes the lead single "I Was Only (Seventeen)", for which a music video was filmed. To promote their album, the Beu Sisters toured as the opening act... |
1969 York race riot | Escalating racial tension and the murder of Henry Schaad | 1969 York race riot Escalating racial tension and the murder of Henry Schaad Racial tensions began to escalate in York, Pennsylvania in 1963. Black citizens of York protested police violence and discrimination at City Hall. Their demands for a bi-racial police review board were turned down by the all-white city council... |
ABC Stage 67 | Unaired episode | ABC Stage 67 Unaired episode A behind the scenes documentary of a May 1966 British concert tour by the musician Bob Dylan was promoted by the network as a forthcoming episode. Eat the Document, as the film was later titled, was never shown as part of the series. Editing delays and an un-television "art house" choice of... |
Žarko Paspalj | Early days in Titograd & Partizan years | of money, Budućnost's club management wouldn't let him train for a few days, which meant that Cibona never saw him and therefore picked another player.
Not too long after that, Paspalj entered the senior squad. Playing under young head coach Milutin Petrović and alongside seasoned Yugoslav League players such as the Iv... |
APOPO | Organization | as of 2016. The TB programmes are operational in Tanzania and Mozambique, with offices based in Morogoro, Dar es Salaam and Maputo. It has also two fundraising offices in Switzerland and in the United States. There is also an administrative support office in Antwerp (Belgium).
An APOPO foundation was established in Gen... |
ACUPARI | Cultural Activities & Counselling for students | lessons and get to know new friends in Café Berlin or on excursions to the region. In addition ACUPARI sponsors different concerts in Cusco and makes known and attends local cultural activities. Counselling for students In ACUPARI students who want to study or work in Germany can receive counselling. The staff members ... |
Window Rock, Arizona | Government & Geography & Features | President and Vice President. Geography Window Rock is located at 35°40′22″N 109°3′44″W (35.672752, -109.062097). The Arizona/New Mexico state line marks the town's eastern edge, and some of the town's buildings are located a few feet (meters) from the state line.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Wind... |
41ft Watson-class lifeboat | History & Description | 41ft Watson-class lifeboat History The 41 ft Watson was designed for service at stations which required a larger and more powerful boat than the standard carriage launched types, but which could not accommodate the larger Watson types through boathouse or slipway constraints. There was also a beach type with 7 inches m... |
Walkathon | History | several times since, including in 2009, when the "League", in memory of the first event, did a "Diplo Returns to San Juan" walkathon, raising almost $200,000.
In 1968, the first walkathon was held on the US mainland, sponsored by the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation. After receiving a national promo from Johnny ... |
Yellow Oval Room | Furnishings & History | number of bouillotte lamps to the room; and added an overmantel mirror. She also re-installed the chandelier from the Kennedy era, which Pat Nixon had replaced with an overscale, Empire chandelier, formerly in the Kennedy Blue Room. History On January 1, 1801, and before it was even complete, John Adams held the first ... |
2010 Team HTC–Columbia season | Tour de France | but it was only for second place. Cavendish won the Tour's last two road race stages, stage 18 in Bordeaux and on the Champs-Élysées for the second year in a row, a Tour first. His five wins in the 2010 Tour gave him 15 for his career, the most ever for a sprinter despite only having ridden four Tours. His poor perform... |
A. L. Narayan | Career | observatory was famous for observations on solar and stellar physics through the work of the great Astronomer John Evershed, who was its Director for many years. In recognition of his contributions, he was promoted as Director of the
Observatory. He was the first Indian to occupy the post.
During his regime, the librar... |
2009 International Bowl | Buffalo | in the MAC, Buffalo squandered a two-touchdown advantage with just over five minutes left, allowing the Broncos to win the game in overtime. Buffalo's overall record fell to 2–4, 1–2 in the MAC.
Bouncing back, Buffalo won their next five games. Against Army, Buffalo reversed the result of the Western Michigan game, com... |
Yip Kai Foon | AK-47 heists | with AK-47s and pistols, robbed five goldsmiths shops on the "Golden" Mut Wah Street in Kwun Tong. They fired 54 shots at police and escaped with gold and jewelry worth HK$5.70 million. Many onlookers believed the gun battle was being staged for a film.
The gang was linked to a robbery of two jewelers on Tai Po Road in... |
Waukesha County gangsters | What Is Happening | and Bonnie and Clyde," said Mr. Jeffrey Pickron, a University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh history professor. "And a lot of these gangsters stories would talk about how they stole from the rich and gave the money to the poor." Gangsters had money, they lived exciting lives, and they lived by their own rules. It's not that sur... |
A. L. Narayan | Career | work in connection with the war. But Narayan could not rest, and carried on his research work with the meagre staff remaining with him.
After the War, the Government of India appointed a Committee for the post-war development of astronomy and astrophysics in the country, with particular reference to the expansion of th... |
1928 Ethiopian coup d'état | null | in his favor. |
A5 pod | Losses | A57 (Kelkpa) was found dead on December 16, 1996, in a bay in British Columbia. Her death was due to erysipelas; she was the first orca of the Northern Resident population whose cause of death was determined. In 1973, a young whale was hit by a ferry from British Columbia. Two older whales supported the young one and h... |
ACUPARI | German Courses & Official Goethe-Institut Test Centre | B1, B2, C1, C2. They take place in the morning, late afternoon and evening. The teachers are usually from Germany, sometimes from Austria or Switzerland. They own a DaF (German as a Foreign Language) licence. ACUPARI divides the year into four trimesters each lasting eleven weeks. At the end of each course there is an ... |
Aalto University Executive Education | Accreditations and networks | Management). Aalto University School of Business is also a member of CEMS, a network united by the leading European universities and major companies. |
Weather lore | Empirical studies & Calendrical lore | weather observations is the Groundhog Day lore. It predicts that if the groundhog sees its shadow on this day (February 2), six weeks of winter remain. One analysis concluded the creature demonstrated no ability to predict. Other studies gave accuracy percentages, but differing figures. and some of the numbers were sli... |
Weather lore | July & August & Other feast days | years, holds reasonably steady until the end of August. When the jet stream lies north of the British Isles then continental high pressure is able to move in; when it lies across or south of the British Isles, Arctic air and Atlantic weather systems predominate. August The Hispanic tradition of cabañuelas predicts the ... |
Steve Young | Los Angeles Express | Express going through the season–enough to meet payroll, but not much else.
Under the circumstances, the 1985 season rapidly became a fiasco. Before one game, the team bus driver refused to drive the Express to their final home game–which had been moved to Los Angeles Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley–unless h... |
1969 National League Championship Series | Background | to win the East Division title by eight games, winning exactly 100 games.
The Braves, led by Hank Aaron, Orlando Cepeda and Phil Niekro, won a tough five-team race in the West Division, and were favored over the Mets as the playoff began, despite the Mets having won seven more games than the Braves. In what was expecte... |
A2 milk | Health effects | while there appears to be a positive correlation between consumption of dairy products by babies and the incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D), and an inverse relationship between the consumption of dairy products and the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D), these correlations are tentative; it would be very difficult to... |
Yellow cassava | Description & History | of three parts: the central pith, the peel, and a vascular bundle within the central pith. The new yellow varieties have high yields and are resistant to many pests and diseases. Like ordinary cassava, it does not need nutrient rich soils or extensive land preparation and does not suffer during droughts. History Cassav... |
Veterans Health Administration | History | serve a much larger population of veterans than it had served in previous years.
In 1988, President Reagan signed the Department of Veterans Affairs Act, which elevated the VA to Cabinet-level, then becoming known as the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Department of Veterans Affairs oversees the Veterans Health Adm... |
2019 Rafael Nadal tennis season | French Open & Wimbledon | Roland Garros. In the final, a rematch of last year's final with Dominic Thiem, Nadal was able to win his 18th GS title, and his 12th at Roland Garros with a victory in 4 sets. Wimbledon Nadal returned to Wimbledon in an attempt to win his 3rd Wimbledon title, after a SF appearance in 2018. In the first round, he defea... |
Yonsei University Korean Language Institute | Program overview | than the first three and deal with refining speaking and writing skills for everyday fluency, Korean university entrance, or professional application.
Each level consists of 10 weeks of instruction, totaling 200 classroom hours. If a student accumulates more than 40 hours of absences from class, he or she cannot move o... |
Valery Makharadze | Career in government | Valery Makharadze Career in government Under the USSR, Makharadze served as the chairman of the Volgograd Oblast soviet.
In 1991, Makharadze's role was to manage the relations between the federal government and the various regional administrations of Russia, as a member of Boris Yeltsin's team. He was also involved in ... |
2016 Muntinlupa local elections | Background | 2016 Muntinlupa local elections Background Incumbent Jaime Fresnedi is running for a fifth nonconsecutive term as Mayor of Muntinlupa. He was a former City Legal Officer before elected Vice Mayor from 1988 until he was elected Mayor in 1998. He ran for Mayor in 2010, however, he was defeated by then incumbent Aldrin Sa... |
Zainab bint Muhammad | Shia perspective | were three girls living in the household of Khadija. Their names were Zainab, Ruqayya and Umm Kulthoom. Zainab, the eldest of the three, was married to one Abul-'As ibn er-Rabi' of Makkah. This man fought against the Prophet in the battle of Badr, and was captured by the Muslims. To ransom his freedom, his wife sent to... |
2008 California wildfires | Weather | and lightning, rarely seen on the California coastline in June, rolled onshore on the weekend of June 20–21. The storm unleashed 25,000 to 26,000 dry lightning strikes across Northern and Central California, igniting more than 2,000 fires. The number of wildfires skyrocketed in the days after the thunderstorms and high... |
Wahl (Noble family) | History | on June 26, 1630. Axel Duwall was severely wounded and died in the conquest of the Pomeranian Wolgast Castle in July and died on September 6 of the same year. In the presence of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, he was buried on 13 November 1630 in Stralsund. The tomb of Axel Duwall is located next to the tomb of his h... |
Íbis Sport Club | History | 1984 without winning a game. Íbis were the runners-up of the Campeonato Pernambucano Second Level in 1999, when they were defeated by Central in the final. After celebrating their 70th birthday on November 15, 2008, the club started a project to become a private company, with the help of Portuguese entrepreneur Filipe ... |
Wing Commander: Privateer | Plot | the man is dead. Burrows seeks information about the artifact, eventually meeting Dr. Monkhouse, a Xenoarchaeologist on Palan.
Monkhouse tells Burrows the artifact was made by an ancient technologically advanced race, the Steltek. The artifact is half of a map; Monkhouse has the rest. Burrows agrees to explore the area... |
2017 Munster Senior Hurling League | Format | 2017 Munster Senior Hurling League Format Five of the six Munster teams compete in the league, with Tipperary opting not to participate.
Each team plays each other team once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top two teams play each other in the final. |
APOPO | History | APOPO History Bart Weetjens, the founder, liked his pet rats when he was a young boy; as a student at the University of Antwerp, he applied the idea of using rodents for mine detection. He believed that rats, with their strong sense of smell and ability to be trained, could provide a better means to detect landmines. A... |
Zhu Yihai | Biography | Zhu Yihai Biography Zhu Yihai was born in 1618, during the 46th year of the reign of Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He was son of Zhu Shouyong, he was one of 9th-generation descendant (same generation with Taichang Emperor) of Zhu Tan, Prince Huang of Lu, 10th son of Hongwu Emperor.
The mansion of Prince of Lu was ... |
2009 International Bowl | Team selection & Buffalo | each other in six consecutive seasons from 1999 to 2005, with Connecticut winning five of the six contents. The 2005 game, won by UConn 38–0, was the most recent meeting between the two teams. Overall, the Huskies and Bulls had played each other 16 times since their first meeting in 1939, with Connecticut holding a 12–... |
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