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Alliance 90/The Greens | Former names and variants in the states | Alliance 90/The Greens Former names and variants in the states The Green Party was initially founded in West Germany as Die Grünen (the Greens) in January 1980. It rose out of the anti-nuclear energy, environmental, peace, new left, and new social movements of the late 20th century.
Grüne Liste Umweltschutz (green list... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio equipment | had sent the cutter USCGC Itasca (1929) to the island. The cutter offered many services such as ferrying news reporters to the island, but it also had communication and navigation functions. The plan was the cutter could communicate with Earhart's aircraft via radio, the cutter could transmit a radio homing signal to m... |
William Gaines | Early life & Senate Subcommittee investigation | William Gaines Early life Gaines was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish household. His father was Max Gaines, who as publisher of the All-American Comics division of DC Comics was also an influential figure in the history of comics. The elder Gaines tested the idea of packaging and selling comics on newsstands in ... |
Alan Wilkie | Career | Alan Wilkie Career Wilkie became a Class 3 referee in 1977, at the age of 26,† when a serious knee injury meant him having to give up playing football in local leagues. In 1981† he was selected as a linesman for the Northern League, and went on to referee in that league a year later. In 1984, he was appointed to the li... |
Alix Klineman | Controversy | ingestion of her mother's DHEA supplement. |
2009 International Bowl | Game summary & First quarter | to win by four and a half points. First quarter Buffalo received the ball first to begin the game, and returned the opening kickoff to their own 24-yard line. They were unable to move the ball in three plays, and punted the ball to Connecticut. The Huskies took possession on their own 18-yard line and drove down the fi... |
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album) | Background & Recording | Soundsystem record together. Recording The band recorded the album in multiple locations. Like previous albums Sound of Silver and This Is Happening, one of the recording locations was DFA Studios in New York City. Murphy announced after finishing recording that American Dream would be the last record to be recorded at... |
2018–19 Liga Națională (men's basketball) | Play-offs & 9th to 16th position | 2018–19 Liga Națională (men's basketball) Play-offs All series were played in a best-of-five games format, except the third place match which was played in best-of-three games format. 9th to 16th position All series were played by two-legged series. |
7th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam | Central Committee composition | from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (one ambassador and three deputy ministers) and the Ministry of National Defence (all of whom were incumbents), and two officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs (all incumbents) were elected to the Central Committee. Of these, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Trang Quang Co was... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Industry consolidation | combined. By 1960, one-sixth of working Americans were employed directly or indirectly by the industry, but automation and imports eroded the need for such a large workforce within a couple of decades. The 1950s were the pinnacle of American automotive manufacturing and helped shape the United States into an economic ... |
Alain Resnais | 1959–1968 | the traditional concept of narrative construction in cinema.
At the beginning of the 1960s France remained deeply divided by the Algerian War, and in 1960 the Manifesto of the 121, which protested against French military policy in Algeria, was signed by a group of leading intellectuals and artists who included Resnais.... |
1980s in video gaming | Rejuvenation | for nearly two years. Elsewhere, video games continued to be a staple of innovation and development. After seeing impressive numbers from its Famicom system in Japan, Nintendo decided to jump into the North American market by releasing the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short. After release it took several y... |
Agaricus campestris | Taxonomy & Description | A. campestris var. isabellinus (F.H.Moller) Pilat (1951), and A. campestris var. radicatus, are possibly still valid too.
The Latin specific epithet campestris means "of the fields". Common names given to the fungus include "meadow mushroom", "pink bottom", and "field mushroom".
An analysis of ribosomal DNA of a limite... |
Abebe Aregai | Life as an Arbegna | (Kane does agree with Mockler that Abebe did cooperate with Meleke Tsahai, meeting with him 27 November.) On 1 June, General Ugo Cavallero moved north to surround Abebe, and keep him from returning to Menz, and although Abebe made three unsuccessful attempts to break through the Italian lines before the rainy season, a... |
Alexis Candelario Santana | Arrest and trial | his case did not reach a unanimity in voting for the death penalty for Candelario Santana, therefore, he was sentenced to life in prison. On August 23, 2017 the federal court ordered a new trial seeking the death penalty for both defendants starting with jury selection on August 1, 2018. |
2009 International Bowl | First quarter | possession at the Connecticut 23-yard line. The Bulls were unable to move the ball any closer to the end zone, and settled for a 38-yard field goal by kicker A. J. Principe, giving them a 3–0 lead with 4:26 remaining in the first quarter.
The ensuing kickoff was returned by UConn running back Jordan Todman 45 yards to ... |
Alexei Volkoff | Personality | Family Volkoff" saw a drastic change in Volkoff's personality, as counseling sessions in prison have led him to regret the way he has lived his life. To prove that he is a changed man, he takes every opportunity to apologize to those he has wronged in the past. He is shown to play chess, nearly getting himself and Chuc... |
Alvin Colina | Career | Alvin Colina Career Signed by the Colorado Rockies as an amateur free agent in 1998, Colina made his Major League Baseball debut with the Colorado Rockies on September 18, 2006, against the San Francisco Giants at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado. He collected an RBI single in his first at-bat.
Colina was designated for... |
Agnone | Medieval & Post-Unification | the 56 royal towns, that reported directly to the King, and was free from any other type of feudal subjection. Joseph Bonaparte decided to create the region Molise, that was to exclude Agnone, but during the reign of Joachim Murat, the elders of Agnone asked and obtained the transition to Molise, basing the request on... |
Abby in Wonderland | Reception | Street. While the film is targeted to a very young audience, some of the jokes are for adults. An example given is on how Ernie explains to Bert "that, despite popular misconception," the characters of Tweedledum and Tweedledee are "not actually in this story". It was noted that while the songs written by Mark Radice ... |
Air Warrior | History & Reception | Gamestorm and CompuLink. A version of Air Warrior for Windows was ported back to the Macintosh in 1997 in an Internet open beta, and then later moved to America Online. In 1999, Electronic Arts purchased Air Warrior, and became provider of the latest version of the game, only to discontinue it in 2001. Reception Comput... |
Alpharetta High School | Athletics & Band & Orchestra | officially recognized by the Georgia High School Association, additional athletic activities include rugby, fencing, chess, cricket, and ping pong. Band The band is directed by Mike Walsh and Ira Jenkins and contains three concert bands. The program also contains a marching band and smaller ensembles, including a jazz ... |
Allochares azureus | Distribution & Biology | Nearctic ecozone in the most southern parts of the United States from Florida to California south to the Mexivan states of Jalisco and Veracruz. Biology Allochares azureus has a distinctive biology among spider wasps. Following mating the female hunts for a southern house spider (Kukulcania hibernalis). Searching for p... |
Albert Fredrik Eggen | null | Party. In the first round he carried 606 votes, and ended third behind Ivar Aavatsmark and K. A. Jensen. In the second round he finished fourth, now also beaten by Hans Konrad Foosnæs. In 1918 he was chosen as the running mate of Aavatsmark. They won, and he served as a deputy representative to Parliament of Norway dur... |
Agaricus campestris | Taxonomy | Agaricus campestris Taxonomy This species was originally noted and named in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus as Agaricus campestris. It was placed in the genus Psalliota by Lucien Quelet in 1872. Some variants have been isolated over the years, a few of which now have species status, for example, Agaricus bernardii Quel. (1878), ... |
Alviso, San Jose | Alviso Marina County Park & Day on the Bay | in the park, please walk your bikes on the boardwalks. The launch ramp provides one of the few clear routes in the San Jose area through the salt marshes out to the open waters of the San Francisco Bay. Day on the Bay Every year on a Sunday in October Alviso celebrates Day on the Bay, a multicultural event, free for al... |
Alicia Keys | Achievements | Achievements Keys is listed on the Recording Industry Association of America's best-selling artists in the United States, selling over 17.8 million albums and 21.9 million digital songs. She has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Billboard ranked Keys as the fifth-most successful artist of the 2000s decade, top R&B... |
United States men's junior national softball team | null | they finished ninth. The team competed at the 2001 ISF Junior Men's World Championship in Sydney, Australia where they finished ninth. The team competed at the 2005 ISF Junior Men's World Championship in Summerside, Prince Edward Island where they finished fifth. The team competed at the 2008 ISF Junior Men's World ... |
Water vascular system | Sea stars | canal. The ampullae are connected to suckerlike podia. The entire structure is called a tube foot. In most cases, the small lateral canals connecting the ampullae to the radial canal are of equal length, so that the tube feet are arranged in two rows, one along each side of the groove. In some species, however, there a... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio equipment | receiver, and that the system was limited to frequencies below 1430 kHz. During the first world flight attempt's leg from Honolulu to Howland (when Manning was a navigator), Itasca was supposed to transmit a CW homing beacon at either 375 kHz or 500 kHz. At least twice during the world flight, Earhart failed to determi... |
Amelia Earhart | Japanese capture theory | troops and Saipan natives. According to one cousin, the Japanese cut the Lockheed Electra into scrap and threw the pieces into the ocean, to explain why the airplane was not found in the Marshall Islands.
In 2017, a History Channel documentary, Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence, proposed that a photograph in the Nation... |
1945 Lagos by-election | Campaign | 1945 Lagos by-election Campaign The NNDP and the Nigerian Union of Young Democrats put forward Olorun-Nimbe, vice president of the NNDP, as a joint candidate. A doctor, he had studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and ran a private practice in Lagos. He was well-known in the town due to his role as a member of ... |
Akurio people | Name & Population & Language | Akurio people Name The Akurio are also called Akoerio, Akuliyo, Akuri, Akurijo, Akuriyo, Oyaricoulet, Triometesem, Triometesen, Wama, or Wayaricuri people. Population The population was estimated to be 50 in 2000. It fell to 40 by 2012. Language The group used the Akurio language, also known as Akuriyó, until the late ... |
Airport reference point | null | shall be measured and reported to the aeronautical information services authority in degrees, minutes and seconds. |
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa | 1961 Berlin Crisis & French withdrawal from NATO's military structure | fight a limited war in Southeast Asia for ten years. French withdrawal from NATO's military structure On 7 March 1966, French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France would withdraw from NATO's integrated military structure. He gave NATO forces one year (until 1 April 1967) to depart France. The United States ... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio signals | signals from the downed Electra but these were unintelligible or weak.
Some of these reports of transmissions were later determined to be hoaxes but others were deemed authentic. Bearings taken by Pan American Airways stations suggested signals originating from several locations, including Gardner Island (Nikumaroro), ... |
2015 Solheim Cup | Team selection | 2015 Solheim Cup Team selection The European and United States teams were selected by different methods.
Team Europe
Team Europe consists of the top four players from the LET Solheim Cup standings, followed by the top four LET members on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of 24 August who were not already qualified vi... |
1975 Argentine Grand Prix | Race summary | requiring the fire engine to be deployed. By now, Hunt had passed Lauda and was catching the two Brabhams. Pace took the lead on lap 15, but spun on the very next lap. Reutemann having retaken the lead, was understeering badly and on lap 25 was passed by Hunt. There was a ferocious battle with Emerson Fittipaldi for th... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio signals & Contemporary search efforts | any understandable information. The captain of USS Colorado later said: "There was no doubt many stations were calling the Earhart plane on the plane's frequency, some by voice and others by signals. All of these added to the confusion and doubtfulness of the authenticity of the reports." Contemporary search efforts Be... |
Alabama Crimson Tide women's gymnastics | The early years & The eighties | through four coaches in four years, until the summer of 1978 when Sarah Campbell was announced as the fifth head coach of the Crimson Tide. Her first team finished the year 7-7 and she followed up in 1980 with the first winning season in school history. In 1983, the Crimson Tide made its first championship appearance i... |
Albert Collins | Death and legacy | Cray's high-school graduation party in Tacoma, Washington, and the ice-pick sound sunk in deep: "That was it," Cray recalled. "That changed my whole life around. From that moment I started seriously studying the blues."
Collins is remembered for his informal and audience-engaging live performances. He would frequently ... |
Yolanda Cuomo | Teaching & Recognition and awards | Program. Cuomo is currently an adjunct professor of design in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts since 1996. Recognition and awards Cuomo’s devotion to art and design has been repeatedly recognized. In 2013 she was profiled by the New Yorker in a short film, “Let... |
A Dog Named Gucci | Critical response | to achieve what is right. It’s a wonderful and beautiful testament to Gucci, his owner, and all other animals and the people that care for them."
Joey Kennedy, in the Animal Advocates of Alabama website, said, "Perhaps what is so remarkable about the film is how well Bechard is able to convey Gucci's charming personali... |
Yellow cassava | History & Growing Conditions & Post-harvest processing | and new innovations hope to achieve a β-carotene level of 15 micrograms/gram by 2015. Growing Conditions The new yellow varieties have high yields and are resistant to many pests and diseases. Like ordinary cassava, they do not need nutrient rich soils or extensive land preparation and do not suffer significantly as ma... |
2011 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election | Candidates | Jones considered standing for the deputy leadership, but in the end did not run. Parker stated his preference for Robertson as deputy leader. Shearer did not indicate a preferred deputy.
Shearer was viewed as unlikely to win the election; Claire Trevett of The New Zealand Herald originally expected that only Cunliffe a... |
Walton War | The Orphan Strip and cession | gave it back to the federal government in 1798. At this time, the land was not under the direct control of any state, and settlers with land grants from South Carolina or North Carolina began to settle there.
Following the Revolutionary War, the new federal government encouraged states to cede their claims of land (dat... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Industry consolidation & Innovations | units. Studebaker struggled during the first half of the decade. The cars had styling ahead of their time but were overpriced when compared to the offerings of the Big Three. Low sales and financial difficulties led to a merger with Packard in 1954, itself in financial trouble. The new company, Studebaker-Packard Cor... |
2002 Mountain Dew Southern 500 | Background | 2002 Mountain Dew Southern 500 Background Darlington Raceway, nicknamed by many NASCAR fans and drivers as "The Lady in Black" or "The Track Too Tough to Tame" and advertised as a "NASCAR Tradition", is a race track built for NASCAR racing located near Darlington, South Carolina. It is of a unique, somewhat egg-shaped ... |
Yeşilköy Feneri | History | restaurant, which can host 100 guests in the main hall and 40 people in the conservatory. Furthermore, 150 customers can dine on an open-air terrace in the summer months. |
Wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones | Wedding ceremony & Title upon marriage | shots to the press.
The couple spent their honeymoon at Balmoral Castle. Title upon marriage Hours before the ceremony, Prince Edward was created Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn. Upon their marriage, the couple became known as Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex. Some constitutional scholars quest... |
Amelia Earhart | Transatlantic flight in 1928 | Louis Gordon on the flight, nominally as a passenger, but with the added duty of keeping the flight log. The team departed from Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m on June 17, 1928, landing at Pwll near Burry Port, South Wales, exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes later. There is a commemorative blue plaqu... |
Alicia Keys | Impact and legacy | "to songwriters, composers, and artists who have achieved extraordinary career milestones." ASCAP President Paul Williams stated: "Since joining the ASCAP family at the age of 17, Alicia has grown into one of the most highly recognized and influential songwriter/performers of the past decade, whose artistry puts her in... |
1991 Tour de France | Race overview | the last mountainous stage, and in this stage LeMond lost almost seven minutes. Indurain was leading the race, three minutes before Gianni Bugno. Because a time trial, Indurain's specialty, was the last serious obstacle in the race, Indurain was almost sure of the victory. And indeed, Indurain won that time trial, so h... |
10 cm M. 14 Feldhaubitze | Design & Royal Italian Army | howitzers for its mountain troops. The Mod. 16 could be broken down into three loads carried on small carts for transport in rough terrain.
Postwar some weapons were modernized for motor towing with new rubber-tired wheels and the seats on the shield removed. A more extensive postwar update by Czechoslovakia was design... |
145th Street (Manhattan) | Description | the southern border of Jackie Robinson Park. The street continues, crossing Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and Lenox Avenue, before crossing over the Harlem River Drive and then connecting to The Bronx over the Harlem River via the 145th Street Bridge. |
To Live and Die in L.A. (film) | Critical response & Impact | of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with two criteria: "The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L.A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list". Impact Although criticized at the time for the lack of accomplished celebrities in its cast, many of the actors have gone on t... |
Alan Whitehead (footballer, born 1956) | Early life & Career | Alan Whitehead (footballer, born 1956) Early life Whitehead was born in Bury, where he attended Wellington county secondary modern school. Career He began his football career with non-League club Darwen before being given his Football League debut for his hometown club Bury by Bob Stokoe while still an amateur, playing... |
Altona railway station | History | 1924, the private owner of the Altona line owed the VR £7,289, being the accumulated deficit on operating passenger services, so the VR took full control of the line on 1 October 1924. The track was electrified in 1926, and the station was renamed Altona in 1938. Apart from a few direct trains between Altona and Melbou... |
Alec Lamont | Political career & Personal life | Alec Lamont Political career Lamont was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, holding the seat of South Brisbane from 1902 until his defeat at the 1904 state election. He had also served on the Brisbane Water and Sewerage Board and was a Trustee of the South Brisbane Cemetery Board. Personal life Lamont m... |
Alicia Keys | Philanthropy and activism | affected by AIDS. Her work in Africa was recorded in the documentary Alicia in Africa: Journey to the Motherland which was released in April 2008.
Keys hosts and is the musical director of Keep A Child Alive's annual fundraising gala called the Black Ball. Every year, artists and other celebrities come together to supp... |
1950 Atlético Mineiro European tour | Background | 1950 Atlético Mineiro European tour Background In 1950, a commission formed by the German Football Association traveled to Brazil to choose a football club to a series of friendly matches in Germany against some of the country's club sides. The recency of both the Maracanazo, a traumatic event for Brazilian football, a... |
Ultraman Geed | Synopsis | Atrocious, Belial tries to absorb Ultraman King's essence, destroying Earth and moved on to attack the Land of Light and his inhabitants. Zero succeeded in separating Ultraman King from Belial while Father of Ultra came to Earth and sealed him within a barrier. The next day, Riku took matters on his own as he fights hi... |
399th Tactical Missile Wing | Bombardment training & Missile training | requirements. The 399th Group was disbanded, and along with its elements and supporting units at March was used to form the 420th AAF Base Unit (Bombardment Replacement Training Unit-Heavy). Missile training The second predecessor of the wing was the 589th Tactical Missile Group, which was activated at Orlando Air Forc... |
1936 FIRA Tournament | Italian players | Italian players Forwards : Tommaso Fattori (Rugby Roma Olimpic), S. Bonfante (CUS Torino Rugby), G. Zoffoli (Rugby Roma Olimpic), A. Albonico (CUS Torino Rugby), Vincenzo Bertolotto (CUS Torino Rugby), G. Visentin (Amatori Rugby Milan), I. Aloisio (Amatori Rugby Milan), A. Re-Garbagnati (Amatori Rugby Milan).
Backs : M... |
2017 Fresno shootings | Legal proceedings | demands for slavery reparations and also yelled "Allahu akbar." Muhammad's lawyer says he continues to gather evidence that he is incompetent to be held criminally responsible. Two psychiatrists have determined that he is incompetent but another says that he is not. On January 22, 2018, Judge Jonathan Conklin ruled tha... |
Xishan Society | null | of China who had roots or were otherwise associated with Shanxi province, and select wealthy businesspeople. They were said to have met once every three months in the Western Hills of Beijing (hence Xishan). The name "Xishan" is also the characters of "Shanxi" in reverse order. Members are taken to the site of the meet... |
Alun Cairns | Secretary of State for Wales | project, stating in 2017 that "none of us would want it to happen if it’s not good value for money for the taxpayer." Cairns came under criticism in 2018 when reports emerged the government was considering abandoning the project, Plaid Cymru politician Jonathan Edwards referring to Cairns as the "grim reaper of Welsh p... |
A2 milk | Australia and New Zealand | 2003 in Australia, by a dairy farm unaffiliated with A2 Corporation, run by the Denniston family. Shortly thereafter, an Australian company called A2 Dairy Marketers licensed patent rights and the A2 trademark from A2 Corporation and started offering Australian dairy farmers a premium price for their milk, if it was sh... |
Yakov Zeldovich | Soviet atomic bomb program | idea of hydrogen bomb to Andrei Sakharov and others. In the course of his work on nuclear weapons, Zeldovich did ground-breaking work in radiation hydrodynamics, and the physics of matter at high pressure.
Between 1950 and 1953, Zeldovich performed calculations necessary for the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb that w... |
Airey Neave | Death | targeted on the eve of the 1979 general election, which saw the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher enter power.
After his death, Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher said of Neave:
He was one of freedom's warriors. No one knew of the great man he was, except those nearest to him. He was staunch, brave, true, ... |
Abdul Hakim Munib | Background & Political career as governor of Oruzgan | Abdul Hakim Munib Background Munib studied Islamic Studies and also took courses at the Afghan Foreign Ministry. He is fluent in Dari and Pashto (Afghanistan's major languages) and speaks some English. Munib is a Pashtun, from the small Ali Khel tribe of Paktia Province. He was a senior official in the Ministry of Tr... |
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album) | Promotion and release | 42nd season of Saturday Night Live. On August 4, the band rolled out an ice cream truck outside of the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago promoting the album. The truck played songs from the album in the form of ice cream jingles through its speaker. A Twitter account for the truck was also launched to provide updates on... |
Yakov Zeldovich | Academia and cosmology | elected academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences on 20 June 1958. He was a head of division at the Institute of the Applied Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1965 until January 1983.
In early 1960s, Zeldovich started working in astrophysics and physical cosmology. In 1964, he and independently Edwin S... |
Amelia Earhart | Boston | where Earhart underwent another sinus operation which was more successful. After recuperation, she returned to Columbia University for several months but was forced to abandon her studies and any further plans for enrolling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, because her mother could no longer afford the tuit... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Labor union activity | 1950 Chrysler Strike which lasted 104 days between January and May and centered around the UAW's demand that Chrysler pay a pension to retired workers, as well as other benefits. A first for the UAW, the union paid striking workers benefits during the strike, dangerously depleting its cash reserves. In the end, Chrysl... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | 2005–present: Greens back in opposition | and more pedestrian-friendly real estate development. On 29 November 2010, the coalition collapsed, resulting in an election that was won by SPD.
Following the Saarland state election of August 2009, The Greens held the balance of power after a close election where no two-party coalitions could create a stable majority... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio equipment | at Darwin expected to be in contact with Earhart when she arrived there, but Earhart stated that the RDF was not functioning; the problem was a blown fuse. During a test flight at Lae, Earhart could hear radio signals, but she failed to obtain an RDF bearing. While apparently near Howland Island, Earhart reported recei... |
Allamakee County Court House | Architecture | An American Civil War monument dating from the 1920s stands on the courthouse grounds. |
Alviso, San Jose | The Laine Store & The Tilden–Laine House & Trivia | to 1912. In the 1920s it became a Chinese gambling hall. After the 1983 flood, the store was abandoned and fell into disrepair. In 2017 it collapsed and the debris was removed. The Tilden–Laine House An Italianate–Victorian home built in 1887 by Susan Tilden, and located on Elizabeth Street. The home is still occupied ... |
Alun Cairns | BBC | educate children about online dangers such as grooming and adult content, and implied it could be done through television shows such as EastEnders which he pointed out had educated the public in the past on issues like HIV, he said "the BBC's mission statement and stated public purposes fit perfectly for it to become t... |
Althea Wynne | Work | fountain Doves Rising was added to the Peace Park in Hounslow. A lifelong rider, she made a number of equine statues, and in 1989 Prudential Property gave her a commission for three bronze horses to stand by the steps at Minster Court in the City of London. Since nicknamed Sterling, Dollar and Yen, the group is ten fee... |
Alejandro Galindo (footballer) | Atlético Juventud and Santa Fe & Municipal & International career | for the Copa Colombia. Galindo played a total of 10 matches for Santa Fe (3 for the league and 7 for the Copa Colombia), and earned the 2012 Apertura title. Municipal He joined CSD Municipal from the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala for the 2013–14 season, after almost a year without having played a game. He debute... |
Allochares azureus | Biology | velcro like threads of the spider's web. The female attacks the spider from behind, sometimes flipping it on its back and paralyses the spider with a sting in the venter . The paralysed spider is then dragged, sometimes vertically, back to its web or to another unoccupied web and is secured in the web by the female usi... |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Formula One | cars in the early 1970s.
The Brabham team used Alfa Romeo engines from 1976 to 1979, foreshadowing a return by Alfa Romeo as a constructor from 1979 to 1985.
For the 1987 season, Alfa Romeo made a deal to supply engines to Ligier, but the deal was cancelled when Fiat took control of Alfa Romeo.
Alfa Romeo also supplied... |
Alicia Keys | 2012–2015: Girl on Fire & 2016–present: Here and The Voice & upcoming seventh album | her second child, son Genesis Ali Dean, on December 27, 2014. In 2015 Keys performed at the BET Awards 2015 with The Weeknd. In September 2015, Swizz Beatz stated that Keys' sixth studio album will be released in 2016. Keys played the character Skye Summers in the second season of Empire. She first appeared in the epis... |
A Study in Frustration | Background & Content | record itself is acknowledged as a catalyst for the swing era, and Goodman playing Henderson arrangements at the Palomar Ballroom on August 21, 1935, is generally looked upon as the launch of the big band craze that would dominate American popular music through World War II. Content Included are selections made famous ... |
Abbeyfield School, Chippenham | Link with the Gambia & UK Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge | travel to the Gambia to visit the school, help with lessons and spend time with local people. jole rider, an education organisation and registered charity, worked with Abbeyfield to supply refurbished, donated second-hand bicycles and classroom equipment to the school, to help young Gambians gain an education as many l... |
361st Fighter Group | World War II | 361st Fighter Group World War II Constituted as 361st Fighter Group on 28 January 1943. Activated on 10 February 1943. Joined Eighth AF at RAF Bottisham, England in November 1943. The group was under the command of the 65th Fighter Wing of the VIII Fighter Command. Aircraft of the group were identified by yellow around... |
Amelia Earhart | Planning | chosen as a second navigator because there were significant additional factors that had to be dealt with while using celestial navigation for aircraft. Noonan was experienced in both marine (he was a licensed ship's captain) and flight navigation. Noonan had recently left Pan Am, where he established most of the compan... |
10 cm M. 14 Feldhaubitze | Italian Army | a circular shooting platform, pneumatic wheels and a gun shield taken from reserve Ordnance QF 25-pounder howitzers, while the mountain artillery version omitted the circular shooting platform.
In 1961 the weapon was again modified by lengthening the barrel and recalibrating it for NATO ammunition, resulting in a barre... |
Alicia Keys | 2006–2008: Film debut and As I Am | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Superwoman".
In an interview with Blender magazine, Keys allegedly said "'Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other, 'gangsta rap' didn't exist" and went on to say that it was created by "the government". The magazine also claimed she said that Tupac Shak... |
2003 Afro-Asian Games | Television & Ceremonies & Opening ceremony | Games. Additionally, five cameras were used for the Sports news and the sidelights. Ceremonies The opening and closing ceremonies were described as "eye-filling" and "opulent" by several media centers. The ceremonies cost INR 150 million (US$3.34 million) to execute. Children from India, China and some African nations ... |
Alviso, San Jose | Bayside Canning Company | and he bought a tugboat and a barge to transport goods. He also bought land near Yuba City, Sutter County, to grow peaches, and near Dos Palos, Merced County, for rice. When Thomas Foon Chew died in 1931, his funeral attracted 25,000 people and was said to have been the largest in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Raw product... |
A. L. Narayan | Career | for Girls.
He was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in 1961, to follow Dr. V. S. Krishna. He was a strict disciplinarian, and did not hesitate to enforce discipline at any cost keeping aside the selfish interests. He proved to be a worthy successor to his eminent predecessors C. R. Reddy ... |
1991 Tour de France | Race overview | classification. After fifteen minutes, he was able to get up and walk his bicycle across the finish line. |
1985 European Cup Final | Background | 1985 European Cup Final Background Juventus were appearing in their third European Cup final, having lost their previous appearances in 1973 and 1983. Liverpool were appearing in their fifth final, they were the reigning champions after beating Italian team Roma 4–2 in a penalty shoot-out after the 1984 final finished ... |
1923 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election | Background & Harry Holland & Dan Sullivan | as had been the case in the previous leadership elections, the pair appealed to the democratic nature of the party and hoped it would appeal to the influx of new members. Harry Holland Holland had been Labour's leader since 1919 surviving several leadership challenges (opposed in all by McCombs). Many supported him as ... |
American Flyer (railcar) | null | American Flyer (railcar) The American Flyer was an early streamlined American passenger railcar built by Pullman-Standard in the 1930s. They were the first streamlined equipment operated in New England and acquired their name from the model trains that their design inspired.
American Flyer railcars weighed about 55 ton... |
A Study in Frustration | Background | A Study in Frustration Background After an absence of more than a decade, John Hammond returned to work for Columbia Records in the late 1950s. He envisioned a reissue project of musicians from the 1920s and 1930s who had been mostly forgotten by the record-buying public. Working with producer and record archivist Fran... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | null | was nearly over, as most of them either consolidated or went out of business.
A number of innovations were either invented or improved sufficiently to allow for mass production during the decade: air conditioning, automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, seat belts and arguably the most influential change ... |
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