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Alan Whitehead (footballer, born 1956) | Career | scoring the winning goal in the fourth round of the FA Cup against Burnley. This goal gave the Shakers a plum 5th round tie at Anfield. In 1981, he moved on to Brentford for a club record fee of £78,000 and was their Players' Player of the Year in 1981–82. In early 1984 he joined Scunthorpe United again for a club reco... |
Aircraft warning lights | Transmission towers & On aircraft | Aircraft warning lights Transmission towers On electric transmission towers, lights may be energized either from the electric field surrounding the energized conductor, or the magnetic field produced by current through the conductor. The first approach takes advantage of the high electric potential gradient around con... |
Wahid Satay | Early life | Wahid Satay Early life Wahid was born in Indragiri, Indonesia and migrated to Singapore in 1935. He received his early education at the Geylang Malay School.
Prior to his acting career, he took painting, which is his hobby since his school days. Because of the quality of his paintings, Wahid was offered a job as a stud... |
Winchester House (Natchez, Mississippi) | History & Heritage significance | Winchester House (Natchez, Mississippi) History Winchester House was built for Horace Gridley, a city alderman, from 1836 to 1838. It was acquired by Judge Josiah Winchester in 1854. It stayed in the Winchester family until 1928, when it was sold to the Burns family. Eventually, it was purchased by Paul Brown Harringto... |
Ain Beni Mathar Integrated Thermo Solar Combined Cycle Power Plant | Description | Ain Beni Mathar Integrated Thermo Solar Combined Cycle Power Plant Description The plant site, which has a total area of 160 hectares (395 acres), is characterized by a very large solar field, covering about 88 hectares (217 acres).
The total capacity of the plant is 472 MWₑ of which up to 20 MWₑ may be delivered from... |
A5 pod | Naming & Capture | has died out with her sons, A5 (Top Notch) and A26 (Foster). She had no surviving daughters to carry on her line, although the matriarch of another family, A8 (Licka) was suspected to be her daughter. A9 washed up on a beach in Johnstone Strait in November 1990, her stomach containing 5 litres of fish bones representin... |
2011 FIA GT1 San Luis round | Championship Race | involved was the No. 23 car which was the Drivers Championship-winning car and also the first and only retirement for that car in the season. Other cars involved were the two All-Inkl Lamborghini's, the No. 48 DKR Lamborghini and the No. 21 Sumo Power Nissan. The Championship Race was won by Qualifying Race winners Buu... |
A2 milk | Australia and New Zealand | had A1 protein–free herds, promising better payment terms—a week in advance instead of once per month, after shipment.
In December, A2 Corporation sold its interests in A2 Australia to Fraser & Neave, a food marketing giant in Asian markets, for about $1.1 million. A2 Corporation had lost about $1.3 million for 2004, ... |
Adam Bighill | Personal life | Toronto-based charity Making Faces, a charity dedicated to helping people cope with facial differences. |
2019 Rafael Nadal tennis season | Indian Wells Masters & Monte-Carlo Masters & Barcelona Open | forced to withdraw from his match against Federer, ending his run at Indian Wells. Monte-Carlo Masters Nadal returned to competition at the Monte Carlo Masters, where he was the three-time defending champion. He scored dominant wins over Roberto Bautista Agut and Grigor Dimitrov to reach the quarterfinals, where he fac... |
Alan Paton | Family & Early career | You Departed, published in 1969. They had two sons, Jonathan and David. In 1969, Paton married Anne Hopkins. This marriage lasted until Paton's death. Early career He served as the principal of Diepkloof Reformatory for young (native African) offenders from 1935 to 1949, where he introduced controversial "progressive... |
Yonezawa Domain | History | of shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the Uesugi joined the "Northern Alliance" (Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei), voicing their support for the embattled Aizu domain and opposing Satsuma and Chōshū domination of the new imperial government, while stating an intent to "reconquer Japan, that the Emperor may indeed reign over it." The Allia... |
Whale watching | Northern Indian Ocean & Northern Mediterranean Sea | the island, migrating to the warmer waters of Southeast Asia.
Many pygmy blue whales can be seen at Dondra point in Sri Lanka, accessed through the Mirissa or Weligama harbour. Whale-watching tours can be arranged in Sri Lanka.
Blue whales and some types of dolphins can be seen in the sea of Mirissa in Sri Lanka. Many ... |
Alain Resnais | 1969–1980 & 1981–2014 | with three interwoven fictional stories; and a further counterpoint to the fictional characters is provided by the inclusion of film extracts of the classic French film actors with whom they identify. The film won several international awards including the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, and it also proved to b... |
2009 International Bowl | Connecticut defense & Game summary | returns. Game summary The 2009 International Bowl kicked off on January 3, 2009, at 12:00 PM in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Official attendance was listed at 40,184, the highest in the history of the International Bowl. The attendance record was largely due to Buffalo fans; an estimated 30,000 attended the game. John Sa... |
Adrião Acácio da Silveira Pinto | null | Adrião Acácio da Silveira Pinto Adrião Acácio da Silveira Pinto (born late 18th century - died 1868) served as a staff officer (Captain later Lieutenant-General) during Liberal Wars in the Duke of Terceira's army which landed in the Algarve and marched north to Lisbon in 1833. Later he was appointed to be a Portuguese ... |
Alain Zoubga | null | Alain Zoubga Alain Dominique Zoubga (born 1953 in Poa) is a Burkinabe politician and medical doctor who has served in the government of Burkina Faso as Minister of Social Action since 2013. Previously, he was appointed as Minister of Health by President Blaise Compaoré following the 1987 coup d'état and served until 19... |
Agrochemical | History & Companies | insecticides in the form of sulfur compounds. Additionally, the Chinese from about 3200 years ago used mercery and arsenic compounds to control body lice. Companies Syngenta was the worldwide leader in agrochemical sales in 2013 at ~$10.9 billion, followed by Bayer CropScience, BASF, Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto, and the... |
2010 Team HTC–Columbia season | Giro d'Italia & Tour de France | tenth on the day. Pinotti very nearly won the time trial which closed out the Giro. He posted a better split at the intermediate time check than provisional best and eventual stage winner Gustav Larsson, but faded in the final kilometers to finish two seconds back, for second. The result did, however, move him from ten... |
Alaska Airlines Flight 779 | Accident | from touchdown the aircraft was 30–40 feet below the glidepath, to which the controller again instructed the flight crew to "bring the aircraft up." Despite the warnings the flight still maintained the current path with no corrections to the altitude. The flight was still above the minimum safe altitude, and when the... |
Agnone | Romans & Medieval | architecture still prevailed. Medieval Agnone was an important center during the rule of the Lombards, but then was left decaying in the centuries immediately preceding 1000, while the Verrino Valley and surrounding hills became a place of hermitages, monasteries and small agricultural colonies. In 1139 the powerful B... |
Alain Resnais | 1959–1968 | novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. The fragmented and shifting narrative presents three principal characters, a woman and two men, in the opulent setting of a grand European hotel or château where the possibility of a previous encounter a year ago is repeatedly asserted and questioned and contradicted. After winning the Gol... |
APB (1987 video game) | Gameplay | game's life gauge of sorts is a demerit meter. The game ends when this meter is maxed out. When the demerit limit is reached, the message "TOO MANY DEMERITS. YOU ARE FIRED." is displayed, along with Officer Bob being dragged from the car, handcuffed, and thrown either into the back of a paddy wagon or into a garbage c... |
Ain Beni Mathar Integrated Thermo Solar Combined Cycle Power Plant | Specifications | increase the flow of steam produced in the recovery boilers. The steam produced in the two recovery boilers is expanded in the three body steam turbine (High, Medium and Low Pressure).
The solar radiation can contribute to up to 20 Mwe of the power plant output.
It is understood that the solar field does not increase t... |
Žarko Paspalj | Aborted move to Atlanta Hawks | Atlanta Hawks Paspalj had a very eventful summer in 1996. The rediscovered confidence and form became evident at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, when 30-year-old Paspalj scored 16 points in the first half of the final against the Dream Team as Yugoslavia only trailed 38-43 at halftime. He faded in the second half al... |
Wherwell Abbey | Foundation | Wherwell Abbey Foundation The nunnery was founded about 986 by Ælfthryth, the widow of King Edgar. She retired there to live a life of penance for her part in the murders of her first husband Æthelwald and of her step-son King Edward. She died at the monastery on 17 November 1002 and was buried there.
It would seem tha... |
Acalypha hispida | Description & Chemistry | hang on pendulous spikes and resemble the tassels of female plants. The leaves are large, oval and bright green to reddish copper. Chemistry The clear latex is poisonous and can irritate the skin and mucous membranes (signs of intoxication do not appear until massive amounts of plants have been absorbed). Roots, leaves... |
Alaska Airlines Flight 779 | Accident | 179° 08' East at an altitude of 10,000 feet. The flight was 100 miles from Shemya 43 minutes later. At 01:45 the flight made radar contact with the airport, at an altitude of 5,500 feet and 18 miles north-northeast of the destination. The air traffic controller reported that the flight entered the glidepath and stay... |
Adrian Yeggs | null | Adrian Champs in 1913. They finished first in the league with a 78-47 record and were managed by Dan Jenkins. The team was probably named after the Lion motor car manufactured in Adrian. The factory burned down during 1912 and the company ceased operations, thus the change of name in 1913.
In 1913, they were named the... |
Volkoff Industries | Riley | truth about her father.
Riley later carries out an attempt to recover Stephen Bartowski's laptop from Chuck, ambushing him and his friends during his bachelor party in Las Vecas, and later assaulting Team Bartowski at the house of Volkoff's—whose real identity as English scientist Hartley Winterbottom would be later re... |
A5 pod | Losses | July 27, 2003, a young male, A60 (Fife), Corky's brother, was injured by what was assumed to be a boat propeller. By 2004, the injury was well-healed, but left scarring all along his right side. In late 2012, A5 pod was sighted without Havannah (A28), as she was not encountered by the summer of 2013, she is now conside... |
2012 United States elections | Issues & Unresolved issues from 2008 and 2010 | 2012 United States elections Issues Despite various issues during this election cycle, ultimately little overall change occurred on both the Federal and the gubernatorial level. Unresolved issues from 2008 and 2010 Many of the major issues of the 2012 election were the same as in both 2008 and 2010. Candidates and vote... |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Sportscars | were to achieve outright victories. Carlo Chiti and the Audodelta team, designed a new 90 degree V8 engine for their Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 sportscar and ultimately a flat-12 engine for the Alfa Romeo 33 TT 12. These cars were raced in the World Sportscar Championship from 1967 to 1977, with the 3-litre TT 12, winning tit... |
Albert Collins | Career & Work outside music | at the Paléo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland, in July 1993 when he was taken ill. He was diagnosed in mid-August with lung cancer, which had metastasized to his liver, with an expected survival time of four months. Tracks for his last album, Live '92/'93, were recorded at shows that September. Collins died on 24 November... |
The Color of Paradise | Plot & Cast | the ending scene, Hashem sits weeping over his son's body and looking to the skies. You can hear the sound of a woodpecker, and Mohammad's fingers slowly start to move; perhaps he is "reading" the sound with his fingers as if they are Braille dots. Maybe he thinks the woodpecker is giving clues about "the color of God"... |
Alain Resnais | 1946–1958: short films | cultural colonialism.
Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, 1956) was one of the first documentaries about the Nazi concentration camps, but it deals more with the memory of the camps than with their actual past existence. Realising that standard documentary techniques would be incapable of confronting the enormity of the... |
Acme, Washington | History & Geography & Demographics | Acme, Washington History There are two accounts on how Acme was named.
The first states that Acme was named by Samuel Parks around 1887 after the name of a hymnal in his possession.
The second claims that in 1887, resident George Parls named the town after a local church's newly received Acme hymn book.
Nevertheless, a... |
Air shower (room) | null | Air shower (room) Air showers are specialized enclosed antechambers which are incorporated as entryways of cleanrooms and other controlled environments to reduce particle contamination. Air showers utilize high-pressure, HEPA- or ULPA-filtered air to remove dust, fibrous lint and other contaminants from personnel or o... |
A. Owen Aldridge | Career | A. Owen Aldridge Alfred Owen Aldridge (December 16, 1915 – January 29, 2005) was a professor of French and comparative literature, founder-editor of the journal Comparative Literature Studies, and author of books on a wide range of literature studies. Career He was born in Buffalo, New York on December 16, 1915. He was... |
Akurio people | Language | have Akuriyó as a second language. By 2012, only two semi-speakers remained. In December 2018, Sepi Akuriyó, one of the last surviving speakers of Akuriyó, went missing when a small plane carrying eight people disappeared during a flight over the Amazon rainforest. A search and rescue operation was called off after two... |
Aaron Brumbaugh | null | time that the school became coeducational.
In 1955, Brumbaugh left Shimer to take a staff position with the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta, Georgia. He held this position until retiring for the second time in 1970. He and his wife then moved to Florida. |
Ali Javan | Life and career | group repeated the Michelson-Morley experiment with a new order of accuracy by turning their lasers in different directions with respect to the earth's motion. Any change in the velocity of light would show up as a change in the frequency of the output beam. The apparatus used was sensitive enough to detect a change as... |
2008 California wildfires | Summer Fires | 2008 California wildfires Summer Fires The Summer 2008 fires were a concentrated outbreak of wildfires during the late spring and summer of 2008. Over 3,596 individual fires were burning at the height of the period, burning large portions of forests and chaparral in California, injuring at least 34 individuals and kil... |
1911 Horncastle by-election | Vacancy & Candidates | 1911 Horncastle by-election Vacancy Lord Willoughby, who had held the seat since 1895, succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father, Lord Ancaster. The by-election was called for 16 February 1911. Candidates The new Conservative candidate Captain Archibald Weigall, had fought the nearby seat of Gainsborough at t... |
A Yoke of Gold | Plot | is traveling behind Jose and headed in the same direction. Castro Arrellanes, performed by Harold Skinner, and his beautiful daughter – Carmen, featuring Dorothy Davenport, are traveling to visit Castro’s cousin. In a bit of irony, Castro’s cousin is none other than Don Ortega. They come across the crucifix half-buried... |
400 SW Sixth Avenue | History | First Farwest Life Insurance Company to serve as its headquarters, with the building renamed as the First Farwest Life Building. The building was expanded by 112,000 square feet (10,400 m²) in 1983 with Hoffman Construction again as the contractor.
First Farwest Corp. sold the building, which had served as the insurer'... |
William Óge Martyn | Execution of the earl's sons & Mayor of Galway | and destruction upon the Clann-Rickard, i.e. William Og Martin, and two bands of soldiers along with him. And after the Earl's son went in, William Martin and the Saxons acted treacherously towards him; and they apprehended himself; and nine of his people were hanged, and he himself was put in prison, in despite of the... |
Adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis | Epidemiology & Clinical signs & Treatment | Adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis Adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis, also known as Keratoconjunctivitis epidemica is a common and highly contagious viral infection of the eye.
The clinical course of (AKC) should be divided into an acute phase with conjunctival inflammation of varying intensity with or without corneal invol... |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Rally & Sportscars | Group A rally cars. However FIA reclassified it as a Group B car at the end of 1986, changing it from a winning car to a car which was much less competitive. The GTV6 placed 3rd in 1986 Tour de Corse. Sportscars On March 6, 1963, Alfa Romeo's racing department, Autodelta, was established, to run Alfa Romeo's sportscar ... |
Yellow cassava | Genetic Stocks/Breeding & Complaints about Yellow Cassava (Controversies) | but a distribution system is being implemented in Nigeria providing 25,000 local households with stems under the condition that they will share their stems with other rural farmers the next season. This is the main approach to widen the distribution of yellow cassava. Complaints about Yellow Cassava (Controversies) In ... |
A Star Is Born (Jay-Z song) | Background and recording | produced by Kanye West, Kenoe, and No I.D. and incorporates samples of the 1977 song "Touch Me" by R&B group Mother Freedom Band. It was originally slated to have two verses performed by Jay-Z and one by J. Cole, but the former added a third verse during a recording session. Cole wrote his verse for "A Star Is Born" in... |
AUSCANNZUKUS | History | Kingdom were considered; these discussions were the genesis of the current Combined Communications Electronics Board (CCEB).
The origins of the AUSCANNZUKUS organization arose from dialogue between Admiral Arleigh Burke, USN, and Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, RN, in 1960. Their intention was to align naval communica... |
Aircraft warning lights | Use and positioning | is the south scoreboard at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin built in 2013, which is the tallest structure in the general area of nearby Austin Straubel International Airport. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) sets standards, usually adopted worldwide, for the performance and characteristics of a... |
Aleksandar Dimitrić | Inđija | Aleksandar Dimitrić Inđija Born in Loznica, Dimitrić started his senior career with Inđija, and he made 6 appearances until the end of in the 2013–14 Serbian First League season, all as a back-up player. At the beginning of next season, Dimitrić was loaned to zone league club Ljukovo, where he spent 6 months. During th... |
A Star Is Born (Jay-Z song) | Background and recording & Critical reception | used in the final mix. Williams himself was not aware of the prominence of his vocals on "A Star Is Born" until his friend Omar Edwards approached him and complimented his performance on the song. Critical reception "A Star Is Born" received mixed reviews from music critics. Charles Aaron of Spin praised its "anthemic,... |
2009 International Bowl | Connecticut | polls and No. 23 in the Coaches' poll. However, starting quarterback Tyler Lorenzen broke his foot in the Louisville game; the Huskies would be forced to rely on backup Zach Frazer for the next few games.
The Huskies were unable to match their early success in the second half of the season, losing five of their next se... |
Youri Dolgoruki Vodka | History & Process | window and on the closure completing the motif. This unique bottle design strives to reinforce the brand's image as an upscale, truly Russian product and also to differentiate this brand in the crowded vodka aisle.
Youri Dolgoruki Vodka is the Belvédère Group's latest brand acquisition. Process Distilled four times acc... |
Alicia Keys | 1994–1997: Career beginnings | Robinson was excited by audiences' incredulous reactions to her. Impressed by her talents, charisma, image, and maturity, Robinson considered her to be the "total package", and took her under his wing. By this time, Keys had already written two of the songs that she would later include on her debut album, "Butterflyz" ... |
Alexis Candelario Santana | Massacre | and Candelario Santana suspected the owners of La Tombola, a new bar about to open in the city of Toa Baja, to be among the persons now in charge of his old business. Allegedly Candelario Santana planned executing them before he left prison.
La Tombola was a bar in Toa Baja which had been closed, then re-opened under o... |
2003 Afro-Asian Games | Legacy | rise in buyers was mainly driven by African visitors, who prefer pearls as jewellery. Also, sale of gold jewellery increased substantially, being driven by a large number of Muslim visitors who looked for traditional and intricate designs. In addition, bangles became the center of attraction for Chinese and African ath... |
Alexander Agricola | Life | Alexander Agricola Alexander Agricola (/əˈɡrɪkələ/; born Alexander Ackerman; 1445 or 1446 – 15 August 1506) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance writing in the Franco-Flemish style. A prominent member of the Grande chapelle, the Habsburg musical establishment, he was a renowned composer in the years around 1... |
Alicia Keys | 1994–1997: Career beginnings | had been giving Keys vocal lessons in Harlem. His brother had talked to him about Keys and advised him to go see her, but Robinson shrugged it off as he had "heard that story 1,000 times". At the time, Keys was part of a three-girl band that had formed in the Bronx and was performing in Harlem. Robinson eventually agre... |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Indycars | The 2648 cc, turbocharged V8 engine produced 720 bhp, and was partly developed from the unraced Ferrari 637 Indy car. The engine was mated to a chassis specially built by March and prepared by Alex Morales Motorsports in 1989, with Roberto Guerrero at the wheel. Guerrero only managed a best of 8th place at Detroit, be... |
Agiapuk River | Geography | not mineralized to any extent. |
Alicia Keys | 1994–1997: Career beginnings | Executives at Columbia also wanted to manufacture her image, with her "hair blown out and flowing", short dresses, and asking her to lose weight; "they wanted me to be the same as everyone else", Keys felt. "I had horrible experiences," she recalled. "They were so disrespectful...I started figuring, 'Hey, nothing's wor... |
Abu Bakker Qassim | Seeking asylum | also ruled on separation of powers grounds that he did not have the power to order their release into the United States. Qassim and Hakim immediately appealed.
A February 18, 2006, article in the Washington Times reported that Abu Bakker Qassim and A'Del Abdu al-Hakim had received military training in Afghanistan.
I... |
Agnes Sillars Hamilton | Life | an account of the skull's phrenology.
Hamilton died in Edinburgh in 1870. |
1980s in video gaming | Fourth generation consoles 1989-1999 & Golden age of arcade games | Entertainment System (1990), the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (1988), and the Neo Geo (1990). Nintendo's Game Boy was also released during the fourth generation, which would later become the most popular series of handheld gaming systems during the 1990s. A rivalry between Sega and Nintendo occurred during this generation, ... |
Zebrawood | History | Zebrawood The name zebrawood is used to describe several tree species and the wood derived from them. Zebrawood is characterized by a striped figure that is reminiscent of a zebra. The name originally applied to the wood of Astronium graveolens, a large tree native to Central America. In the 20th century, the most impo... |
Alan Wilkie | Career & Retirement | on 6 May 2000, when the home side won 3-1. Retirement Since finishing as an on-field official, Wilkie has fulfilled the role of Regional Refereeing Manager for the North East of England, being employed by The Football Association. He also acts as a match delegate for the Football League and the Premier League, overseei... |
Alex Riggs | College & Professional | Alex Riggs College Riggs played for Missouri State University from 2006 to 2010. He was named the Missouri Valley Conference Defender of the Year in 2009, and Missouri Valley Conference Goalkeeper of the Year in 2010. Professional Riggs signed with the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer in 2011, but did not appear in... |
Ébrié Lagoon | Geography | Ébrié Lagoon The Ébrié Lagoon lies in Ivory Coast, separated for almost all of its length from the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow coastal strip. The 130 km (80 mi) long lagoon is linked to the sea by the Vridi Canal, while the Comoë River flows into it. The lagoon averages 4 km (2½ mi) in width, and 5 m (16 ft) in depth. ... |
2007 McDonald's All-American Girls Game | 2007 Game | led the team in rebounds with 12. Other West Team notables included, Angie Bjorklund (Tennessee), who poured in 13 points and Victoria Baugh (Tennessee), who pulled down nine rebounds.
The 2007 John R. Wooden MVP Award went to Jasmine Thomas (Duke). She scored 16 points, grabbed nine rebounds and dished six assists in ... |
Yasuhiro Wada (video game designer) | Career | or competition. Wada felt he needed to make games that were different from those of his predecessors, and he drew on his experience growing up in rural life.
In 2005, he was the president of Marvelous Interactive. In 2008, he was the Chief Commercial Officer of Marvelous Entertainment. In 2010, he joined Grasshopper Ma... |
1880 Maine gubernatorial election | Background | reconstituted the legislature, and elected Davis to the governorship. The dispute was then submitted to the Maine Supreme Court. Composed of seven Republicans and one Democrat, the court sustained the Republicans in the legislature, and Davis was inaugurated.
During Davis' governorship, Maine's government was chiefly... |
Alexander Agricola | Compositional hallmarks | by shifting the metrical beat of some parts against others. As an example, the closing Agnus Dei of his unusually extended Missa 'In myne zin' features the cantus firmus stated in equal notes of eleven quavers' duration each in first statement, followed by a statement of five quavers' duration each, or in the second Sa... |
Alaska Airlines Flight 779 | Accident & Aircraft | at an altitude of approximately 500 feet. At 02:12, when the observer of the U. S. Weather Bureau was notified, the weather conditions as follows were recorded:
Indefinite 200-foot variable ceiling; visibility 3/4 mile variable, fog; temperature 45°; dewpoint 45°, wind south-southeast 8 knots; altimeter setting 29.84... |
Walter Czollek | Life | study course in Applied Economics ("Volkswirtschaft") at the German Academy of Politics in Berlin-Schöneberg. It was during this time, in 1929, that he joined the Communist Party. He worked secretly in the party's quasi-military "M-Apparat" ("Militärpolitischen Apparat" / "Military-political structure") between 192... |
APOPO | Detecting tuberculosis | the rats are used to double check the samples. According to the NGO, one trained rat can evaluate 40 samples in 7 minutes, which a laboratory technician can process in a day. The rats make it possible to mass-screen many samples. They work at low cost and a fast pace.
APOPO suggests it increased the detection of TB pat... |
Abbas Noyan | Family Life and Career | take away in the middle of the night by the secret police and executed. Abbas barely escaped capture. The family learned of the fate of Haji Saleh and his sons 35 years later including the place of their mass burial.
Abbas Noyan became the sole provider for his extended family. He started his business and ran it in Ru... |
Alicia Keys | 1994–1997: Career beginnings | stuff there wasn't any going back." Keys stated that Columbia had the "wrong vision" for her. "They didn't want me to be an individual, didn't really care", Keys concluded. "They just wanted to put me in a box." Control over her creative process was "everything" to Keys.
Keys had wanted to leave Columbia since they beg... |
1980s in video gaming | Video game crash of 1983 & Rise of home computing and PC gaming | a $536 million loss in 1983. Some entertainment experts and investors lost confidence in the medium and believed it was a passing fad. A game often given poster child status to this era, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial had such bad sale figures that the remaining unsold cartridges were buried in the deserts of New Mexico. R... |
1948 Czechoslovak First League | Overview | 1948 Czechoslovak First League Overview It was contested by 14 teams, and SK Slavia Prague led the league after 13 matches. However the season was interrupted due to league reorganisation and no championship was awarded. Josef Bican was the league's top scorer with 21 goals. |
Achiemore, Durness | Access & History | Achiemore, Durness Access Achiemore is in the Highland Council area in the far north of Scotland. Access across the Kyle of Durness is by a small passenger ferry operating from Keoldale during the summer months. The hamlet is on the U70 road linking the ferry to the lighthouse at Cape Wrath which was built in the 1830s... |
Young Joshua | Conversion | Young Joshua Young Joshua is an American Christian hip hop recording artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Joshua is signed to the Christian hip hop label Cross Movement Records and has released one studio album entitled Thinking Out Loud which reached 23 on the Gospel Billboard Charts in 2010. Conversion Young Joshu... |
Abbas Noyan | Early life and education & Family Life and Career | in Asmar district of Kunar province, one of the most dangerous parts of the country.
Abbas Noyan went on to studying civil engineering at Polytechnic Institute. His classmates included Ahmad Shah Masood and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Family Life and Career At the time of Abbas's graduation from university, the country was b... |
Ali Javan | Life and career | when they were tuned almost to the same optical frequency. Using this method Javan developed the first absolutely accurate measurement of the speed of light.
Javan first worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an associate professor of physics in 1961 and has remained Francis Wright Davis Professor Emeritus ... |
2003 Afro-Asian Games | Closing ceremony | Stadium for that purpose. The "camaraderie ceremony" was followed by speeches of various important people, among them being IOA President Suresh Kalmadi, IOA and OCA Secretary-General Raja Randhir Singh, ANOCA President Alfa Ibrahim Diallo, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and Union Minister for Youth Af... |
Aerobic gymnastics | FISAF aerobics & In popular culture | Fitness (FISAF) is an international non-profit "umbrella organization" active in over 40 countries. It is self-described as "the largest fitness industry organisation in the world" and "the largest instructor certification agency in the world". In popular culture The sport was added in the biannual Idol Star Athletics... |
Zulhasnan Rafique | Politics | that focused on development plans for all three Federal Territories was created. In the 2008 election, he was reelected again as a Member of Parliament. He was dropped from the new cabinet on 9 April 2009 by Najib Abdul Razak who took over as the 6th Prime Minister. He was not chosen by Barisan Nasional to recontest th... |
2013 Philippine general election | Source code | By early April, chairman Sixto Brillantes said that the deal to release the source was "97 percent" of being completed. However, on late April, Brillantes said that "I’m no longer interested because it’s too late already. Election day is so close and even if they give us the source code now, it can no longer be reviewe... |
Alaska Airlines Flight 779 | Aircraft & Investigation | serial number 45243. At the time of the accident it had accumulated 10,600 air frame hours and had undergone a major inspection 146 hours prior to the accident. Investigation The investigation revealed that the aircraft was in full working order when it crashed, in line with federal regulations and company procedures. ... |
Alicia Keys | 2006–2008: Film debut and As I Am | the point where I really needed to—basically, I just needed to run away, honestly. And I needed to get as far away as possible."
Keys made her film debut in early 2007 in the crime film Smokin' Aces, co-starring as an assassin named Georgia Sykes opposite Ben Affleck and Andy García. Keys received much praise from her ... |
Alexander Plisetski | Family & Death | the Motherland in Akmolinsk”. During her imprisonment, Alexander stayed with the family of her brother, Asaf Messerer, while his elder sister, Maya Plisetskaya, who later became a famous ballerina, was placed in the custody of Sulamith Messerer.
In 1969 Alexander married a ballerina, Marianna Sedova. Their daughter, A... |
Union for Democratic Renewal (Senegal) | null | Union for Democratic Renewal (Senegal) The Union for Democratic Renewal (Union pour le renouveau démocratique) is a political party in Senegal. It was founded by Djibo Leyti Kâ, a former minister under President Abdou Diouf who broke with the then-ruling Socialist Party, in 1998.
In the April 2001 parliamentary electio... |
2253 Espinette | Discovery & Orbit and classification | 2253 Espinette Discovery Espinette was discovered on 30 July 1932, by Belgian–American astronomer George Van Biesbroeck at the U.S. Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin. The body was independently discovered on the following night by English-born South-African astronomer Cyril Jackson at Johannesburg, and by Soviet–Russian as... |
1971–72 League of Ireland | Overview | 1971–72 League of Ireland Overview It was contested by 14 teams, and Waterford won the championship. |
Wireline QA/QC | Wireline logging QA/QC witness & Log Quality Control (LQC) Digitalization | Petroknowledge and Opus Kinetic). Log Quality Control (LQC) Digitalization Data management is more commonly done using a variety of software packages. Most equipment manufacturers have data transfer (real-time data transmission) or download software provided for their instruments which permits data editing and limited ... |
Alabama State Route 378 | History | (US 11), then north on Arkadelphia Road. Formerly, US 78 ran concurrently with US 31 north from downtown along Carraway Boulevard, then turned west onto Finley Boulevard, and then north again on Arkadeplhia Road. The SR 378 designation replaces US 78 on Finley Boulevard. |
1965 English Greyhound Derby | Competition Report | white dog collected £5,000 the biggest ever prize on offer in the history of the sport up to this date. |
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