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White Butte, Saskatchewan | History | White Butte, Saskatchewan History The Prairie Indians inhabited the area for many years before any European settlement. Aboriginal people, who camped near Boggy Creek, used the Butte in Pilot Butte as a lookout and signal point.
European settlement in the area can be traced back to the 1840s. With the construction of t... |
AP Spanish Language and Culture | The course | the future.
While some students may be concerned about their ability to demonstrate proficiency in an assessment that native speakers of Spanish also take, only the scores of students who study Spanish as a second language are factored when creating the distribution curve of scores 1-5. Native speakers or heritage lan... |
Alekseyev I-21 | Development | engine nacelles which retracted into fairings. The main undercarriage of the I-215D also incorporated a kneeling feature which could increase the incidence of the aircraft by 3° to assist take-off. Trials with this undercarriage arrangement were successful and paved the way for its use in other Soviet aircraft, includi... |
Alicia Keys | 2003–2005: The Diary of Alicia Keys and Unplugged | the United States and was certified four times Platinum by the RIAA. It sold eight million copies worldwide, becoming the sixth-biggest-selling album by a female artist and the second-biggest-selling album by a female R&B artist. The album's lead single, "You Don't Know My Name", peaked at number three on the Billboard... |
Afia Nathaniel | Personal life | department at Princeton University. She lives with her husband and daughter . |
AP Spanish Language and Culture | The course | AP Spanish Language and Culture The course This course is primarily a comprehensive review of all previous knowledge pertaining to the Spanish language. This class builds upon the skills developed within introductory and intermediate Spanish classes by applying each skill to a specific, contemporary context (health, e... |
2009–10 Division 1 season (Swedish ice hockey) | Format | of the continuation groups played a playoff to determine who would have a chance to compete for promotion to the second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan in Kvalserien till HockeyAllsvenskan. |
2006 League of Ireland Premier Division | Overview & Independent Assessment Group | for Derry City away to Waterford United on 13 November ensured that for the third successive year the title would be decided on the final day of the season. Shelbourne clinched the title with a 2–1 win over Bohemians at Tolka Park. Jason Byrne and Glen Crowe scored the vital goals. However Shelbourne's celebrations wer... |
Albert Collins | Early life & Career | became the basis for a Fender Custom Artist signature model in 1990.
In 1954 Collins, then aged 22 and without a record release, was joined in the Rhythm Rockers by 17-year-old Johnny Copeland, who had just left the Dukes of Rhythm (a band he had started with the Houston blues musician Joe "Guitar" Hughes). Career Coll... |
A Yoke of Gold | Plot | by Frank Whitting. Don Ortega lives in Santa Barbara, California. Luis will rob the wealthy Don Mendoza who resides in “the valley of the seven moons.” After the men have completed both break-ins, they will travel back to San Gabriel. They both swear to distribute all their ill-gotten gains to the poor.
Before Jose de... |
Whickham F.C. | History | One. 1991–92 saw them relegated back to Division Two. In 1995, they were promoted again, as league champions, but after relegation in 1997, they have since stayed in Division Two. Whickham were promoted to the First Division at the end of the 2017-18 season. |
Agwanpur | Population | Agwanpur Vinay Nagar Agwanpur Chowk Faridabad Haryana-121003 Population The population in Agwanpur panchayat was 8277 in 2001. Male population was 4383 and female population was 3894. Of these, 3401 were literate. |
2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship | Other changes & Calendar changes | changes The championship will discontinue the use of promotional models or "grid girls". The decision was made by Formula One management in the face of changing social attitudes and the decision by other sports to phase out the use of models, and applies to all categories appearing on the Grand Prix support bill. Calen... |
Akudim | null | Akudim The realm known as Akudim/Olam Ha'Akudim (World of "Binding/Ringed") is one of the many spiritual worlds described by Kabbalah as being part of the order of development that God utilized to create the physical world. Its significance emerges in Lurianic Kabbalah, as a stage in the process of Tohu and Tikun.
Akud... |
8×58mmR Danish Krag | Cartridge dimensions & Military history | piezo pressure. This Pₘₐₓ level range is extreme, so loading up to a high Pₘₐₓ level can be dangerous in historic arms.
A dangerous error can occur when confusion occurs between the 8×58mmR Danish Krag and the 8×58mmR. The latter being an old German differing chambering. Military history The cartridge was developed in ... |
USS Clamagore (SS-343) | Operational history | when she entered Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for GUPPY II modernization and installation of snorkel.
Clamagore returned to Key West 6 August 1948 and assumed local and Caribbean operations for the next eight years, except for a tour of duty in the Mediterranean from 3 February to 16 April 1953.
Clamagore called at New ... |
1985 European Cup Final | Summary | a yellow card for the foul. The resulting free-kick came to nothing, and at half-time the score was 0–0. Almost immediately after the restart, Liverpool suffered another injury. Paul Walsh stretched to reach a pass from Neal, aggravated a stomach strain and was replaced by Craig Johnston. Juventus were gaining an ascen... |
Alain Resnais | Early life | film-maker Jean Grémillon was one of the teachers who had the most influence on him at that period.
Resnais left in 1945 to do his military service which took him to Germany and Austria with the occupying forces, as well as making him a temporary member of a travelling theatre company, Les Arlequins. He returned to Par... |
WARQ | History | WARQ History WARQ signed on the air as WXRY on February 6, 1971 in mono with a Beautiful/Easy Listening music format. Later, the station converted to FM stereo, still with a Beautiful/Easy Listening music format supplied on reel to reel tape by Schulke.
In 1983, the station adopted the call letters WCEZ and maintained ... |
Alexander Fraser McIntyre | null | the Ontario Bar in 1872. McIntyre set up practice in Cornwall and then moved to Ottawa in 1875, where he joined the law firm of Walker, McIntyre and Ferguson. In 1881, he became a partner in the law firm of Cockburn and McIntyre. After Cockburn died in 1883, he set up his own law firm of McIntyre and Lewis. McIntyre wa... |
2008 California wildfires | Health Impact | weight." There was also a trend of reduced total lung capacity in animals exposed to wildfire smoke as infants. Adolescent monkeys exposed to wildfire smoke as infants were also found to have a lessened PBMCs responses to TLR Ligands. TLR5 has been linked with the asthma phenotype experimentally and in human subjects. ... |
Alicia Banit | Biography | for the duration of the first season. In 2008, Banit appeared in Rush as Gemma Rose Parker acting alongside former Neighbours actress Eliza Taylor-Cotter. In 2009, she was Leah in season one of the Australian drama series Tangle. In late 2009, she was cast as one of the main characters Katrina Karamakov in the ABC tele... |
Ali Javan | Life and career | worked with Townes on the atomic clock research, and used the microwave atom beam spectrometer to study the hyperfine structure of atoms like copper and thallium.
In 1957, he published a paper on the theory of a three-level maser, and his discovery of the stimulated Raman effect that a Stokes-shifted Raman transition c... |
APOPO | History | according to International Mine Action Standards in 2004, beginning in 2006 machinery for ground preparation, manual deminers and the rats assisted with detection in long-running mine clearance operations in Mozambique. Tasked in 2008 as the sole operator to clear Gaza Province, the province was mine-free in 2012, one ... |
Airey Neave | Early life | Airey Neave Early life Neave was the son of Sheffield Airey Neave CMG, OBE (1879–1961), an entomologist, who lived at Ingatestone, Essex, and his wife Dorothy (d. 1943), the daughter of Arthur Thomson Middleton. His father was the grandson of Sheffield Neave, the third son of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet (see Neave ba... |
Yolanda Cuomo | Early career | Gilles Peress, Deborah Turbeville, Sylvia Plachy, Hiro, and Neil Selkirk, among others.
In 1983, while working at the Movies, Cuomo was asked by Laurie Simmons to design a book of her photographs from the series In and Around the House. In the early 1980s, Cuomo was the Associate Art Director at Vanity Fair, working cl... |
2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship | Mid-season changes | before the Spa-Francorchamps round. He was replaced by Dorian Boccolacci, who raced for the team in the GP3 Series. For the remainder of the season he joined Campos Vexatec Racing, replacing Roy Nissany. MP Motorsport promoted Niko Kari from their GP3 Series team, where he replaced Ralph Boschung for the remainder of t... |
2010 Claxton Shield | Rosters & Awards | the return series between the teams, and this resulted in two four-game series. In both cases, the teams had a 19-man roster for the make-up game, and an expanded 21-man roster for the originally scheduled series. Awards At the conclusion of the finals series, the winner of two awards were announced. Matthew Blackmore ... |
Alicia Keys | 2012–2015: Girl on Fire | through RCA Records on November 27, 2012. Keys has stated that she wants the album to "liberate" and "empower" fans. The album's title track was released on September 4 as its lead single and peak number eleven on Billboard hot 100, the single was Keys's first top twenty own single on the chart since 2007 single "Like ... |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Early history & Grand Prix racing | Sivocci won the 1923 Targa Florio with an RL and Antonio Ascari took second. Sivocci's car was painted with the green cloverleaf on a white background that was to become Alfa's good luck token. Grand Prix racing In 1923 Vittorio Jano was lured to Alfa from Fiat, designing the motors that gave Alfa racing success into t... |
Alabama Crimson Tide women's gymnastics | The Power of Pink | the DCH Breast Cancer Fund. The fund was set up to provide disadvantaged women with means for early detection and treatment for breast cancer. Other supporters include the University, community leaders and Tuscaloosa Toyota. Tuscaloosa Toyota became more and more involved donating free pink shirts to give away at th... |
2017 Fresno shootings | Views and statements | age of nine, the "black liberation movement" at the age of fourteen, and the NOI later on in his teens. The organization's director of operations described Muhammad, a frequenter at the facility, as "kind and curious" to the staff. However, a former friend who met Muhammad at the facility, but later removed him from hi... |
Alfredo Soressi | Biography | Alfredo Soressi Biography Born in Muccinasso, frazione of Piacenza, in 1897, he initially trained under Francesco Ghittoni at the Istituto Gazzola of Piacenza, but then traveled to Milan to study at the Brera Academy under Mentessi, Bignami, and Pellini. After the First world war, he obtained a diploma as an architect,... |
2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship | Technical changes & Sporting regulations | 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship Technical changes The season saw the introduction of a brand new chassis and engine package, the biggest change in the sport's history. The GP2/11 chassis, which was used by Formula 2 and its predecessor GP2 since 2011, was replaced by the Dallara F2 2018. It is powered by a fuel-efficie... |
Alex Stein | Early life and education & Legal career | serving in the C4I Corps. After being discharged, he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning an LLB in 1983 and an LLM in 1987, then earned a PhD in law from University College London in 1990. He clerked for Rachel Sukar, head of the Criminal Litigation Department in the Attorney General's Office, fr... |
A Thousand and One Nights (1969 film) | Plot | A Thousand and One Nights (1969 film) Plot Aldin, a poor traveling water seller, falls in love with Miriam, a slave woman on auction in Baghdad, but Havasalakum, the son of the chief of police, buys her. Before he can take her home, a sand storm interrupts the auction. Aldin uses the opportunity to steal away the slave... |
1969 National League Championship Series | Background | two each for the Mets.
The Mets would also go on to beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, four games to one.
It was the first of five NL pennants for the Mets. The first two came in the only two NL series between 1969 and 1980 that did not feature a Pennsylvania team (the other being 1973.). The Braves would ... |
Yvonne DeLaRosa | Cannabis Entrepreneurship | 27755 Pacitic Coast Highway in Malibu on 420, landing Tommy Chong as the first official patient. |
Acacia floribunda | Uses & Allergen & Cultivation | are components of the South American visionary medicine Ayahuasca. Allergen Some individuals are allergic to A. floribunda pollen. About 1.2% of the population not closely exposed to the pollen are allergic, but 31% of floriculturists are allergic to it, seemingly because of their increased exposure. Cultivation Acaci... |
Achiemore, Durness | History | in 1980 crossing the Daill River to the north west of Achiemore.
Achiemore is located just outside the Cape Wrath Training Area, a military training and live firing range which has operated on the cape since the early 20th century. A military sentry post adjacent to the site of the school restricts access to the area w... |
1946 Cabinet Mission to India | Interim government and breakdown | the League would enter it as it had joined the interim government. Instead, the Congress became more forceful and asked him to drop ministers from the Muslim League. Wavell was also not able to obtain a declaration from the British government that would articulate their goals.
In the context of the worsening situation,... |
Alicia Keys | 2003–2005: The Diary of Alicia Keys and Unplugged | her installment of the MTV Unplugged series in July 2005 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. During this session, Keys added new arrangements to her original songs and performed a few choice covers. The session was released on CD and DVD in October 2005. Simply titled Unplugged, the album debuted at number one on the U.S... |
Alexander Agricola | Compositional hallmarks | ficta for the performers (e.g. the Kyrie of the Missa Le serviteur plays with the expectations of the very well known plainchant cantus firmus by setting up some knotty issues of the implied possibility of modal inflection with consistent extra flats.) The music is characteristically athletic in all voice parts, with t... |
Acalypha hispida | Origins & Description | States, Mexico, and Belize. In cultivation it is widespread, particularly as a houseplant, and has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Description It can grow to be 5–12 feet (1.5–3.7 m) tall, and have a spread of 3–6 feet (0.91–1.83 m), with potted plants being the smallest in growth. The p... |
Adela Noriega | Continued success | Continued success Noriega obtained a contract with the rival network Telemundo in 1993 and played the leading role in Guadalupe. For signing a contract with a different company, she was banned from her previous network, Televisa. Guadalupe resulted to be an international success and was well received in the Arab world ... |
Agnone | Medieval sights | sights The town's medieval-style architecture is reflected in its nineteen churches, including the Church of San Marco, with a large Renaissance portal embellished by a copper lion. In the 11th century Odorisio and Gualtiero Borrello introduced the cult of Saint Mark and brought artists from Venice to decorate their h... |
Wheelchair | Technological developments | allow the user to override the hill hold to roll the wheels backwards if needed. The low gear also provides downhill control when descending.
A recent development related to wheelchairs is the handcycle. They come in a variety of forms, from road and track racing models to off-road types modelled after mountain bikes. ... |
A. J. Arkell | Career | A. J. Arkell Career Arkell joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and served with the 39th Squadron, now the Royal Air Force in World War I. On the 20th of March 1918, while on a night patrol with his gunner-observer First Air Mechanic Albert Stagg, the pair shot down a Gotha G.V bomber in their Bristol F.2 Fighter 'Dev... |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Sportscar racing | after having incredibly overtaken Achille Varzi without lights (at nighttime). Alfa Romeos won the Targa Florio six times in row in the 1930s. and the Mille Miglia every year from 1928 to 1938 except for 1931.
The 8C 2300 won the Le Mans 24 Hours from 1931 to 1934, with Alfa Romeo withdrawing from racing in 1933 when t... |
Ahed Tamimi | Activism & Slapping incident | after she was seen biting and hitting a masked Israeli soldier who was in the process of taking her younger brother away because he was throwing stones. In December 2016, the United States denied Tamimi a visa for a speaking tour titled "No Child Behind Bars/Living Resistance". Slapping incident On 15 December 2017, Ta... |
1946–47 Polska Liga Hokejowa season | null | 1946–47 Polska Liga Hokejowa season The 1946–47 Polska Liga Hokejowa season was the 12th season of the Polska Liga Hokejowa, the top level of ice hockey in Poland. Four teams participated in the final round, and KS Cracovia won the championship. |
Wat Prayurawongsawat | History | Wat Prayurawongsawat Wat Prayurawongsawat Worawihan, known in short as Wat Prayun is a 19th century Buddhist temple complex, located near the Memorial Bridge (Thonburi side) in Bangkok, Thailand. History The temple was built during the reign of King Rama III of the Thai Rattanakosin Kingdom. He was the king of Siam fr... |
Wireline QA/QC | null | Wireline QA/QC Wireline quality assurance and quality control (wireline QA/QC) is a set of requirements and operating procedures which take place before, during, and after the wireline logging job. The main merits of wireline QA/QC include accuracy and precision of recorded data and information. Accuracy is a measure o... |
Abbas Noyan | Early life and education | Abbas Noyan Early life and education Abbas Noyan hails from Turkman Valley of Parwan province and grew up in Kabul. He was born in a politically active family; his father Haji Saleh Mohammad Khan was one of the elders of the Turkmani Hazaras and served as a Member of Parliament during Dawood Shah's reign. Abbas Noyan b... |
Ahed Tamimi | Analysis | Israel's detention and prosecution of Palestinian minors. Ben Ehrenreich, a journalist who documented the Tamimi family in 2012, saw her physical appearance as a factor in her celebrity; "A great deal of work goes into ‘othering’ Palestinians," he wrote, "to casting them as some really recognizable other." Ehrenreich c... |
Alex Riggs | Professional | an unused substitute. He made his first professional start against Louisville City at World Wide Technology Soccer Park on September 19, 2015. |
2012 United States elections | House of Representatives elections & Gubernatorial elections & Other state-wide officer elections | January 2013. Gubernatorial elections 12 state and two territory governorships were up for election. In addition, Scott Walker of Wisconsin survived a recall election on June 5. Only one state governorship changed hands: In North Carolina, Republican Pat McCrory was elected to replace the retiring Democratic Governor B... |
Air shower (room) | Design and functionality | for 30–45 seconds, effectively removing loose particulate matter. Personnel inside the enclosure will lift their arms and turn their bodies for uniform exposure to the air streams, a procedure usually specified in protocol. Air currents from the jets create shearing and flapping forces, which lift and remove contaminan... |
All I Want Is You (album) | Music and lyrics & Release and promotion | about loyalty in a passionate committed relationship. Release and promotion After the album's completion, legal issues with his former production company prevented it from being released for two years, during which Miguel continued working with various underground acts and writing songs for mainstream recording artists... |
Ahed Tamimi | Slapping incident & Analysis | on the Separation Wall was completed by two Italian artists—including Jorit Agoch—as an act of homage to coincide with her release. Both artists were arrested and forced to leave Israel. Analysis Tamimi has been described as one of the new symbols of Palestinian resistance to Israeli military occupation in the West Ban... |
A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael | A Light on the Road to Woodstock | Cadfael saves his life. Roger presumes the would-be assassin to be one of the Prior's escorts, in an over-zealous attempt to protect his master.
However, the hearing of the lawsuit is unexpectedly delayed, when disastrous news arrives of the wreck of the White Ship off Barfleur, resulting in the loss, in one fell swoop... |
Alicia Keys | 2016–present: Here and The Voice & upcoming seventh album | that the album is almost ready. On September 17, 2017, Keys performed at Rock in Rio, in a powerful and acclaimed performance. On October 18, 2017, NBC announced that Keys would be returning to the series for the show's fourteenth season of The Voice alongside veterans Levine, Shelton, and new coach Kelly Clarkson. She... |
Akudim | The source of the world of Akudim & "Lights" and "Vessels" in the world of Akudim | Nekudim and Berudim. Luria read these three terms from the esoteric meaning of Jacob's breeding of Laban's flocks in Genesis 30:27-43. The world of Akudim corresponds to Hiyuli (הִיּוּלִי, meaning "Potential" Creation). These three stages then interact to produce more "worlds" of increasing developmental complexity. Th... |
2012 MLS Cup Playoffs | Format | Conference Championship series are conducted in a home-and-away aggregate-goal format. The lower-seeded team in the Conference Semifinal hosts the first game, and the higher seed hosts the second. If the teams are tied after two games, a 30-minute extra time period (divided into two 15-minute periods) will be played fo... |
Afrikanda (air base) | Post-war period | 1945 to July 1946, the 668th cap continued to be based on IL-2 aircraft at the aerodrome.
In the period from October 1953 to September 1993, 431st Fighter Aviation Regiment was based on the airfield, Armaments MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-19 and Su-15TM.
From 1954 to 1960, a bomber aviation regiment (military unit No. 32812), o... |
Wim Delvoye | Early life & Career | Wim Delvoye Early life Delvoye was raised in Wervik, a small town in West Flanders, Belgium. He did not have a religious upbringing but has been influenced by the Roman Catholic architecture that surrounded him. In a conversation with Michaël Amy of the New York Times, Delvoye stated, "I have vivid memories of crowds m... |
Alexander Winton | Life | Alexander Winton Life Winton was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. His father (also Alexander) was a marine engineer, and young Alexander followed in his father's profession. He emigrated to the United States in 1879. For three years he worked at Delameter Iron Works, and for two years thereafter as a marine engineer on... |
Alex Stein | Legal career & Personal life | account where he had criticized the Israeli Supreme Court over alleged judicial activism. Personal life Stein is married to Shirley Blaier-Stein, an author, an attorney and autism rights activist, and is a father of five. One of his children has special needs. He is a chess enthusiast, having been a teenage chess champ... |
Acacia floribunda | Uses | Acacia floribunda Uses In landscaping, Acacia floribunda is very useful for controlling erosion, especially in gullies. It is also useful as a hedge, as a wind breaker, around bogs and ponds and as a shade tree. It is sold frequently as an ornamental landscaping plant because it is fast-growing and it has many beauti... |
Yūko Kotegawa | Biography | Yūko Kotegawa Biography Yūko graduated from high school in the city of Ōita. She placed first in the 1976 Miss Salad Girl contest (the runner-up was Yūko Natori). She landed a part in a Kanebo cosmetics commercial and joined Toho Entertainment. Her sister Nobuko is also in acting.
Yūko made her film debut in 1976 in Ho... |
2009 International Bowl | Coaching change rumors & Legacy of the 1958 Buffalo Bulls | claimed was due to racism. Gill ended up signing a contract extension with Buffalo.
UConn head coach Randy Edsall, who had been with the Huskies since 1999, was also rumored to be a candidate for the Syracuse job. Edsall, a Syracuse alumnus, denied any interest. Offensive coordinator Rob Ambrose accepted the head coach... |
Allahverdi Khan | Background & Service under Shah Abbas I | Allahverdi Khan Background Allahverdi was born a Christian Georgian, surnamed Undiladze. Like many of his compatriots and fellow Christian Georgians, Armenians and Circassians, he was taken prisoner in the course of one of the Caucasian campaigns of shah Tahmasp I of Persia and converted to Islam to be trained for serv... |
Albert Collins | Career | Hayes with teaching him how to arrange for horns. In 1964 he recorded "Frosty" at Gulf Coast Recording Studio, in Beaumont, Texas, for Hall Records, owned by Bill Hall, who had signed Collins on the recommendation of Cowboy Jack Clement, a songwriter and producer who had engineered sessions for Jerry Lee Lewis and John... |
Aaron Brumbaugh | null | Aaron Brumbaugh Aaron John Brumbaugh (February 14, 1890 – February 25, 1983) was a higher education administrator and professor of education, and the sixth president of Shimer College.
Brumbaugh was born in Hartville, Ohio in early 1893. He subsequently became a teacher and superintendent in local schools, before trav... |
Weed, California | History & Boles Fire | Weed, California History The town of Weed derives its name from the founder of the local lumber mill and pioneer Abner Weed, who discovered that the area's strong winds were helpful in drying lumber. In 1897, Abner Weed bought the Siskiyou Lumber and Mercantile Mill and 280 acres (1.1 km²) of land in what is now the Ci... |
1965–66 Czechoslovak First League | Overview | 1965–66 Czechoslovak First League Overview It was contested by 14 teams, and Dukla Prague won the championship. Ladislav Michalík was the league's top scorer with 15 goals. The match between Sparta Prague and Slavia Prague had an attendance of 50,105 - setting a league record. |
Alain Resnais | Reputation | a devotee of popular culture. He owned the largest private collection of comic books in France and in 1962 became the vice president and co-founder of an International Society for Comic Books, Le Club des bandes dessinées, renamed two years later as Centre d'Études des Littératures d'Expression Graphique (CELEG). CELEG... |
Alabama Crimson Tide women's gymnastics | The Power of Pink | Pink meet, designated the "Drive 4 the Cause" meet, was held in February 2005 at Alabama's home meet against Auburn; Coach Sarah Patterson ordered pink leotards for her team and requested that all fans show up wearing pink. The meet, now known as the "Pink Meet", is an annual crowd favorite with each following "Pink M... |
West Lindsey District Council elections | null | after both candidates finished with the same number of votes, resulting in a victory for the Conservative candidate. |
Alexander V. Zakharov | Biography | Fobos-Grunt failure to the Planetary Society members. After the probe's fall into the southern Pacific Ocean on January 15, 2012, he commented that this crash was a tragedy for the Russian scientific community, and that with soil samples from Phobos his team could uncover information about the solar system's origins. L... |
Ahmed AlKuwaiti | Education & Career & Medical & dental education in Saudi Arabia | Ahmed AlKuwaiti Education AlKuwaiti graduated with a bachelor's degree in Biomedical sciences from Western Michigan University in 1991 and gained MScs in Teaching and Learning in Medicine and Quality in Hospital Setting in 1993 and 1994. He earned his PhD from Durham University in 2008. Career AlKuwaiti worked as a lec... |
1980s in video gaming | Third generation consoles 1983-1995 | 1980s in video gaming Third generation consoles 1983-1995 Starting in 1983 the third generation began with the Japanese release of the Family Computer (or "Famicom"; later known as the Nintendo Entertainment System in the rest of the world) by Nintendo. Although the previous generation of consoles had also used 8-bit p... |
1974 Formula One season | Race 10: Great Britain | of the championship, and Lauda surprised no one by taking pole, with Peterson again alongside and Scheckter third. At the start, Lauda led, whereas Peterson dropped behind Scheckter and Regazzoni. The order of Lauda, Scheckter, Regazzoni and Peterson remained unchanged for the first half of the race until Regazzoni and... |
2017 Fresno shootings | Manhunt | morning, he got off the rooftop, went to a nearby elementary school, and hid by a dumpster. He then traveled around Fresno over the weekend, changing his appearance by cutting his hair.
On April 18, Fresno police identified one suspect in the shooting, 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad (see below). He was a friend of the d... |
Acalypha hispida | Description | of the plant are poisonous if ingested by animals.
The plant is dioecious, and therefore there are distinct male and female members of the species. The female plant bears pistillate flowers which are 0.7 millimeters long and range in color from purple to bright red, and grow in clusters along catkins. This feature is t... |
Žydrūnas Urbonas | Playing career | season there before signing with AGE Chalkida of the Greek A2 Basket League for a brief time in 2003, though he returned to BC Šiauliai again to finish the 2003-2004 season and played a full 2004–05 season. He helped the team to win 3rd place in the LKL in 2004, and helped them win the LKL, BBL and FIBA Euro Cup Confer... |
21st Guards Motor Rifle Division (Russia) | World War II | division joined the Western Front, participated in counterattack near Moscow and the winter offensive of 1942, around Zhizdra and Kirov. On 24 May 1942 for its courage and heroism the division became the 31st Guards Rifle Division. The new regimental titles were the 95th, 97th, and 99th Guards Rifle Regiments and the 6... |
APOPO | History | partnership with the Central Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, the National Institute of Medical Research and the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, a study undertaken to determine the accuracy of the rats in a population of presumptive TB patients. In 2014 five additional health centres joined the TB d... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | 1980s: Parliamentary representation on the federal level | in mass demonstrations. The newly formed party was able to draw on this popular movement to recruit support. Partly due to the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and to growing awareness of the threat of air pollution and acid rain to German forests ("Waldsterben"), the Greens increased their share of the vote t... |
Alicia Keys | 1994–1997: Career beginnings | into KrucialKeys Studios with Brothers. Keys would return to her mother's house periodically, particularly when she felt "lost or unbalanced or alone". "She would probably be working and I would sit at the piano", she reminisced. During this time, she composed the song "Troubles", which started as "a conversation with ... |
Adam Bighill | BC Lions | Adam Bighill BC Lions After going undrafted in the 2011 NFL Draft, Bighill signed as a free agent with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL) on May 31, 2011. Bighill had an impressive rookie season, playing an increased role as the season progressed. He played in 12 games, including the final seven regular... |
Åråsen Stadion | Events | the team originally announced that they would play their fall games at Åråsen, as Strømmen Stadion was in need of a new pitch. In the end, Strømmen only played one of their matches at Åråsen, drawing 1–1 against Rosenborg on 10 August 1986 in front of 1,649 spectators.
Norway co-hosted UEFA Women's Euro 1997, and three... |
1965 English Greyhound Derby | Competition Report | have predicted. Sunbow trained by first year trainer Nora Gleeson was the favourite. The night before the final there was an attempt by a gang to infiltrate the kennels of Creggan Bush which was foiled by a group of his owners. The race was an anti-climax with the Adam Jackson trained Chittering Clapton from Clapton S... |
The Following | Writing & Casting | Standards and Practices department at Fox Broadcasting, Williamson explained, "There are tricks... Okay, in the same episode there's an actor cutting someone in the jugular, and you're harping on the sex scene? So I sent a little email to [Fox Entertainment chairman] Kevin Reilly, and within 15 minutes the broadcast-an... |
Winged Assassin | Plot & Production | will return to fight the Mysterons again. Production "Winged Assassin" marks the first appearance of the series' secondary title sequence, in which the Mysterons transmit their threat to Spectrum while the green Mysteron "eyes" slide menacingly over the regular puppet cast. These shots were recorded during the filming ... |
1974 Formula One season | Race 10: Great Britain & Race 11: Germany | extremely close four-way battle. Lauda led with 38 points, but he was only a point ahead of Fittipadi, with Regazzoni and Scheckter lurking three points behind. Race 11: Germany The third part of the championship started in Germany at the 14.2 mile (22.8 km) Nürburgring circuit, and Lauda took pole as usual, and Regazz... |
Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association | Administration & Location | designated members. In addition to these a representative from the associate members and the president of the Ahmedabad Textile Mills Association are also the members of the council. The 4 Directors of Cotton Textile Research Associations are ex-officio members including the Director of ATIRA.
At present the associatio... |
Alfred Gessow | University of Maryland (1980-2002) & Honors | Prof. Gessow founded the Center for Rotorcraft Education and Research, and continued as its Director until 1992, when he became Professor Emeritus. In 1997, the center that Prof. Gessow founded was renamed the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center to honor his extensive contributions to both the field of rotorcraft and to t... |
2004 Kisima Music Awards | null | 2004 Kisima Music Awards The 2004 Kisima Music Awards featured a newly expanded scheme which aimed to incorporate artists from across East Africa, most predominately Uganda and Tanzania. It was also a source of controversy when the organisation's CEO Tedd Josiah was awarded the category for Best Producer. The ceremony ... |
2012 Categoría Primera A season | Format | 2012 Categoría Primera A season Format Both the Apertura and Finalización had an identical format. Each championship was divided into three stages. The First Stage was contested on a home-and-away basis, with each team playing the other teams once and playing a regional rival once more. The top eight teams after eighte... |
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