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American automobile industry in the 1950s
Labor union activity & Racial discrimination
Chrysler an estimated $1 billion in lost sales. Racial discrimination During the 1950s, racial discrimination was common throughout America and the auto industry was not immune. African-Americans were typically offered only the lowest paying jobs or were outright denied employment as employers openly advertised for "w...
Aleksandr Shapiro
Cinema
Aleksandr Shapiro Cinema Сiсuta, Ukraine, 2002 Guide, Ukraine, 2004 Happypeople, Ukraine, 2005 Casting, Ukraine, 2008
Alpharetta High School
Extracurricular & International Baccalaureate
and second semesters. Some of the notable clubs include Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Raider Ambassadors, National Honors Society, Science Olympiad, and Beta. International Baccalaureate In the 2018-2019 school year, Alpharetta High School has officially been chosen to become an International Baccalaureate...
Abbey DiGregorio
Early life and career & Personal life
she goes by Abbey McBride professionally. Personal life In 2008, she married Drawn Together co-producer and writer Craig DiGregorio.
Anatoly Brandys
World War II
on 16 April 1945 when he totaled 217 missions, and he received the second gold start on 29 June 1945. By the end of the war he had flown 218 sorties, during which he took out 11 artillery batteries, 20 anti-aircraft artillery points, 8 aircraft on the ground, 20 railway cars, as well as several tanks. Often he flew wit...
American automobile industry in the 1950s
Entertainment & Concept cars
its luxury cars, which played proprietary seven-inch records. It proved unpopular and was soon discontinued. Concept cars Auto design in the 1950s reflected the Atomic Age, the Jet Age and the Space Age. Several technologies were pioneered in these prototypes, but most never reached production owing to their impracti...
ACUPARI
Official Goethe-Institut Test Centre & Quechua Courses
to evaluate the language skills of learners of the German Language internationally the Goethe-Institut offers certifications that are recognized worldwide. A standardized exam evaluates the language competence of the individual. ACUPARI holds the official license from the Goethe-Institut to offer these exams. There are...
Alun Cairns
House of Commons
Assembly Member, Cairns, along with then fellow Conservative AM Rod Richards, contested the conservative selection of Clwyd West ahead of the May 2001 general election, both were unsuccessful. Cairns was the Conservative Party's candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan at the 2005 general election, and was re-selected as Pa...
Althea Wynne
Early life & Life and career
Fleet Sir Charles Morice Pole, Governor of the Bank of England. At the time of Wynne's birth, her father was an officer in the Royal Air Force, and Wynne was educated at North Foreland Lodge, Farnham School of Art (1953–1955), Hammersmith College (1955–1957), and the Royal College of Art (1957–1960). Life and career In...
Abul Kalam Azad (politician)
In absentia trial
was indicted on eight counts for murder, rape and genocide. Investigators alleged that they had identified 14 people murdered by Bachchu: three were women he had raped and nine were other abducted civilians. Testimony was offered by 22 prosecution witnesses, including friends and families of the victims. The prosecutio...
All People's Congress (Ghana)
Disqualification
to declare his hometown or constituency of residence on his forms as well as two of the subscribers on his forms having been named on another candidates forms which are in contravention of the electoral laws. The forms were also alleged to contain forged signatures and were to be referred to the Ghana Police Service fo...
1907 Perth by-election
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1907 Perth by-election The Perth by-election of 1907 was held on 12 February 1907. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Robert Wallace, in order to become Chairman of the County of London sessions. It was won by the Liberal candidate Sir Robert Pullar, who was unopposed. Pullar w...
Afia Nathaniel
Early life & Education
Afia Nathaniel Early life Afia Nathaniel was born in Quetta, Pakistan. She is the eldest of three girls. Her father was in the Armed Forces and her mother a professor of English. Afia was brought up and educated in Lahore. Education Afia did her Senior Cambridge from Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore. She then attended...
Airey Neave
World War II
5 January 1942, again in disguise. Better uniforms and escape route (they made a quick exit from a theatrical production using the trap door beneath the stage) got them out of the prison and by train and on foot they travelled to Leipzig and Ulm and finally reached the border to Switzerland near Singen. Via France, Spa...
Amelia Earhart
Planning
the globe along with gathering raw material and public attention for her next book. Earhart chose Captain Harry Manning as her navigator; he had been the captain of the President Roosevelt, the ship that had brought Earhart back from Europe in 1928. Manning was not only a navigator, but he was also a pilot and a skille...
Agiapuk River
Geography
about 20 miles (32 km) extends parallel with Grantley Harbor and Port Clarence, from which it is separated by an upland of about 1,000 feet (300 m) elevation. Near its western end, this depression has an altitude of about 500 feet (150 m), and is about 5 miles (8.0 km) wide. The California River drains a part of this d...
Albert Collins
Death and legacy
were his wife, Gwendolyn, and his father, Andy Thomas. Collins was an inspiration to a generation of Texas guitar players, including Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan. He was among a small group of Texas blues players, along with Johnny "Guitar" Watson and Johnny Copeland, who shaped the legacy of T-Bone Walker int...
Alicia Keys
Philanthropy and activism
been honored at the Black Ball, including Oprah, former President Bill Clinton, Clive Davis, Youssou N'Dour, Sir Richard Branson, and Bono. According to Keys, the Black Ball held in 2014 raised around 2.4 million dollars. Keys and U2 lead singer Bono recorded a cover version of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush's "Don't Give...
Volcano: The Blast Coaster
History
new to the park, having encountered similar problems with the nearby Flight of Fear. Volcano had a soft opening on August 3, 1998. The ride officially opened on August 15, 1998. During the 1998 season, the ride operated at half-capacity, with every other row loaded. In 1999, the bugs were fixed and Volcano was running ...
American Flyer (railcar)
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American Flyer design in 1937 and 1938—four combination mail and baggage cars, three combination food service and coach cars, and two 84-seat coaches. Outside New England, ten American Standard cars were purchased by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, ten by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, ten by the Lehigh Valley Rai...
Aironi
Home ground & Kit & Member clubs
Aironi Home ground The team played in Viadana at Stadio Luigi Zaffanella. It was expected that Reggio Emilia's Stadio Giglio would be used for larger games but no games required its near 30,000 capacity. Kit The team's primary kit was all black with a silver stripe. Their alternative kit was white with a silver stripe....
A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek
Publication
that same year in the short story collection Joe Wilson and His Mates.
Amelia Earhart
Japanese capture theory
Saipan, had been rumored to be the grave of the two aviators. In 2004, an archaeological dig at the site failed to turn up any bones. A recent proponent of this theory is Mike Campbell, who published the 2012 book Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last in its favor. Campbell cites claims from Marshall Islanders to have wit...
Albert Collins
Career
Go Go and at the "Newport 69" festival in Northridge, California, in June 1969 and the Gold Rush Festival at Lake Amador, California, in October. In December 1969 his debut album, The Cool Sound of Albert Collins, was reissued as Truckin’ with Albert Collins by Blue Thumb. In November 1971 the Denver label Tumbleweed R...
Amelia Earhart
Gardner Island hypothesis
a half hours along the line of position Earhart noted in her last transmission received at Howland, then found the then-uninhabited Gardner Island, landed the Electra on an extensive reef flat near the wreck of a large freighter (the SS Norwich City) on the northwest side of the atoll, and ultimately perished. In 2012,...
Alain Resnais
1981–2014
the camera and entrusting most of its musical numbers to actors rather than to trained singers. There are many references to the theatre throughout Resnais's filmmaking (Marienbad, Muriel, Stavisky, Mon oncle d'Amérique), but he first undertook the challenge of taking a complete stage work and giving it new cinematic l...
Agnone
Post-Unification & World War II to present
of the 19th century. World War II to present When Benito Mussolini's fascist regime came to power, they effectively put a stop to Italy's out migration. During the Fascist era, Agnone was the site of exile for many opponents of the ruling party, including Don Raimondo Viale, protagonist of "The Just Priest" by Nuto Rev...
Abebe Aregai
Later career
on 13 December 1960, these three men and Ras Abebe were taken hostage. The rest of the military, however, remained loyal to the Emperor, and rushed to Addis Ababa and crushed the coup, although many of the hostages, including Ras Abebe Aregai, were killed by machine-gun fire as the army stormed the Genetta Leul palace ...
Wing Commander: Privateer
Sequel
Wing Commander: Privateer - Gemini Gold was made using the Vega Strike engine and released in 2005.
Andrea Ossoinack
Biography
protest on 24 April 1919.
Amelia Earhart
Planning
followed a roughly equatorial route. With financing from Purdue, in July 1936, a Lockheed Electra 10E was built at Lockheed Aircraft Company to her specifications, which included extensive modifications to the fuselage to incorporate many additional fuel tanks. Earhart dubbed the twin engine monoplane her "flying labor...
Alfa Romeo in motorsport
Sportscar racing & Formula One
cars.) In 1935 Alfa Romeo won the German Grand Prix with Nuvolari. In 1938 Biondetti won the Mille Miglia in an 8C 2900B Corto Spider, thereafter referred to as the "Mille Miglia" model. Formula One Alfa Romeo participated in Formula One, both as a constructor and engine supplier, from 1950 to 1987. The works Alfa Rome...
1946 Cabinet Mission to India
Plan & Reactions
establish three groups. The plan's main characteristic was the grouping of provinces. Two groups would be constituted by the mainly-Muslim western and eastern provinces. The third group would comprise the mostly-Hindu areas in the south and the centre. Thus provinces such as UP, CP, Bombay, Bihar, Orissa and Madras wo...
American Dream (Casting Crowns song)
Promotion
Georgia, the band performed "American Dream"; this version was later included on their 2004 live album Live from Atlanta. At an April 1, 2005 concert at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Casting Crowns performed it as the third song on their set list. At an July 10, 2005 concert at Seaholm High School in Ypsil...
Western Australian Development Corporation
David Jones site & Perth Technical College site
units were held by or on behalf of Bond Corporation and Connell, was offered for sale to the Superannuation Board, which contracted to spend $11,175,000 on a 50% interest in a joint redevelopment venture. However, the Superannuation Board was to bear the entire cost of the project, making an elaborate loan to materiali...
American automobile industry in the 1950s
Suspension design
with Cadillac marketing its new "Knee-Action" suspension in 1953 model year automobiles. The vast majority of American made vehicles continued to use simple Live rear axles into the 1980s, but Americans could access four wheel Independent suspension technology on imported cars, like the 1952 Volkswagen Beetle, 1961 Jag...
Alicia Keys
1994–1997: Career beginnings
her own. Keys began working separately from the label, exploring more production and engineering on her own with her own equipment. She had moved out of her mother's apartment and into a sixth-floor walk-up apartment in Harlem, where she fit a recording studio into her bedroom and worked on her music. Keys felt being o...
Amagertorv
Buildings
Ghost, located at the western end of the square, is the oldest surviving church in Copenhagen. The Mathias Hansen House (No. 6) was built in 1616 for Mathias Hansen, from 1622 the Mayor of Copenhagen. Typically of the Dutch Renaissance style, the house is built in red bricks with sandstone decorations, has a Dutch gabl...
Abu Bakker Qassim
Press reports
the "difficult and sad" decision of fellow Uyghur captive Bahtiyar Mahnut to remain in Guantanamo, rather than accept an asylum offer from the government of Palau. His older brother Arkin Mahnut had traveled to Afghanistan because their family was worried about Bathiyar. Of the Uyghurs remaining in Guantanamo Arkin was...
Aktia Bank
History
Aktia Bank History Aktia originated from the oldest deposit bank in Finland, founded in 1825 as Helsingfors Stads Sparbanks Inrättning. In 1891 the bank changed its name to Helsingfors Sparbank (Helsinki Savings Bank). Some banks that have merged with Aktia include: Kirkkonummen Säästöpankki in 1956, Säästöpankki Tork...
Amelia Earhart
Gardner Island hypothesis
scientific analysis and conclusions are those of the original British finding indicating that the Nikumaroro bones belonged to a robust, middle-aged man, not Amelia Earhart." In July 2017, staff from the New England Air Museum notified TIGHAR that the unique rivet pattern of the aluminum panel precisely matched the top...
2009 International Bowl
Buffalo
they were still played in Division I-AA. The Bulls proceeded to lose their next three games. Buffalo was unable to keep up with No. 5-ranked Missouri, losing 42–21 in a game that Missouri saw as a tuneup for their later season. In the next contest, against MAC opponent Central Michigan, down nine points with under thre...
Amelia Earhart
Gardner Island hypothesis
the Republic of Kiribati, about 350 nautical miles (650 km) south-southeast of Howland Island. The Gardner Island hypothesis has the plane making it to Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro), one of the Phoenix Islands. A week after Earhart disappeared, Navy planes from USS Colorado (which had sailed from Pearl Harbor) search...
7th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Central Committee composition
party committee or chairman of a provincial people's committee. Of incumbents, 42 (28.8 percent) were party officials and 47 (32.2 percent) were government officials. Of the new members, 18 (12.3 percent) were party officials and 15 (10.3 percent) were government officials. The majority of incumbent members retained th...
Achiemore, Durness
History
1935 and 1938, there were around 40 people living on the cape side. The farmsteads at Daill and Achiemore consisted of two or three buildings with assorted enclosures. Up to 10 children from across the cape were known to attend a side school to Durness Primary School which was located at Achiemore. The school closed in...
Air Warrior
Reception
Online Game Picks". They noted that "Kesmai did what was thought impossible at the time - put out a multiplayer flight sim online with a persistent environment."
Alicia Keys
2012–2015: Girl on Fire
Keys was also working with Pharrell Williams on her sixth studio album, first set for a 2015 release. In an interview with Vibe, Keys described the sound of the album as "aggressive". One of the songs on the album is called "Killing Your Mother". Keys also played the piano on a Diplo-produced song "Living for Love" whi...
2017 Fresno shootings
Aftermath
headquarters. Chief Dyer said that the incident was "a random act of violence" and that the gunman acted alone, adding that it was "too soon" to determine whether the shootings were acts of terrorism. A federal law enforcement official said the shootings did not bear the hallmarks of a terrorist attack and appeared to ...
2003 Afro-Asian Games
Technology & Transport
and Geographic Information System (GIS) was implemented, so as to ensure a smooth and rapid flow of work. Transport In the month of September, less than a month away from the Afro-Asian Games, the Transport Ministry of Hyderabad released a large number of luxury vehicles, to be used in the Games. It was the second time...
Andromache (play)
Plot synopsis & Context
he has found her son, Andromache allows herself to be led away. The intervention of the aged Peleus (the grandfather of Neoptolemus) saves them. Orestes, who has contrived the murder of Neoptolemus at Delphi and who arrives unexpectedly, carries off Hermione, to whom he had been betrothed before Neoptolemus had claimed...
Amagertorv
Buildings & Shopping & In popular culture
Apotek (No. 33), Copenhagen's first pharmacy, was based at the site from 1620 to 1969. The current building was built for the pharmacy in 1907-1908 to design by Victor Nyebøllle and Chr. Brandstrup. It replaced a building by C. F. Harsdorff. Shopping The Illum department store has been located on the corner of Strøget ...
Western Institute
Criticism
of the leading institutions in joint Polish-German scholarship and cooperation.
Andechy
Geography & History
Andechy Geography The commune is situated 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Amiens at the junction of the D54 and D139, 3 miles (5 km) from the junction of the A1 autoroute du Nord. History The village was completely destroyed during World War I.
Alicia Keys
1994–1997: Career beginnings
and a distant relationship with her mother. She often stayed away from home, and wrote some of the most "depressing" poems of her life during this period. Keys decided to drop out of college after a month to pursue music full-time. Columbia Records had recruited a team of songwriters, producers and stylists to work on ...
Alexei Volkoff
Series & Development
flawless IDs provided by Casey. He also sends Chuck and Sarah all the controlling interest shares to Volkoff Industries, allowing them to purchase the Buy More and start a freelance spy operation. Development It was announced in October 2010 that actor Timothy Dalton (famous for the role of James Bond in The Living Da...
0:12 Revolution in Just Listening
Writing and recording
0:12 Revolution in Just Listening Writing and recording Prior to the album's creation, the band was in the middle of a two-legged tour across the United States. The first leg in the East Coast, the second in the West Coast. One of the destinations for the West Coast leg of the tour was in Idaho, and by the time the gro...
Alain Resnais
Reputation
himself offered an explanation of this shift in terms of challenging what was the norm in film-making at the time: having made his early films when escapist cinema was predominant, he progressively felt the need to move away from exploration of social and political issues as that itself became almost the norm in contem...
Watts–Strogatz model
Limitations
preferential attachment family of models, such as the Barabási–Albert (BA) model. (On the other hand, the Barabási–Albert model fails to produce the high levels of clustering seen in real networks, a shortcoming not shared by the Watts and Strogatz model. Thus, neither the Watts and Strogatz model nor the Barabási–Albe...
Amelia Earhart
Gardner Island hypothesis
definitely stated that the skeleton is that of a MALE." [Emphasis in original.] Hoodless further stated, "Owing to the weather-beaten condition of all the bones it is impossible to be dogmatic in regard to the age of the person at the time of death, but I am of the opinion that he was not less than 45 years of age and ...
Warlock (1989 film)
Plot
the farmer's wife carry the ailing farmer back to the house. While the Warlock sheds his shackles, Kassandra follows him and hammers nails into his footprints, causing the Warlock unbearable agony. He manages to escape via a train but not before Kassandra recovers her bracelet from him, restoring her youth. The farmer ...
Alexei Volkoff
Series
virus written by Stephen which downloaded the entire Hydra database to a computer at his cabin. Volkoff is subsequently arrested by General Beckman. As Volkoff is taken away, he tells Chuck to have his mother come visit, saying, "It's been fun." It is revealed in "Chuck Versus the Masquerade" that Volkoff has a daughte...
2011 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election
Campaign & Outcome and aftermath
2008 Employment Relations Amendment Act (90-day workplace trial), and wanted New Zealand to invest further in research and development; Shearer mentioned striving for a more green economy. On 9 December, Horizon Research released a demographically-weighted survey which found that 35.4% of adult New Zealanders supported...
Alabama State Route 378
Route description & History
Alabama State Route 378 Route description SR 378 is part of the old alignment of U.S. Route 78 (US 78) along the entire length of Finley Boulevard in the East Thomas neighborhood. It begins at a junction with the new alignment of US 78 (Arkadelphia Road) on the west side, and it ends at a junction with U.S. Route 31 (U...
Alessandro Morace
Musical career
Alessandro Morace Musical career Since the autumn of 2012 he plays the banjo and the guitar in a folk rock band, "Old River Folks". In 2013 they released their first EP "Flower of Sighs".
Amelia Earhart
Contemporary search efforts
private search by local authorities of nearby Pacific islands and waters, concentrating on the Gilberts. In late July 1937, Putnam chartered two small boats and while he remained in the United States, directed a search of the Phoenix Islands, Christmas (Kiritimati) Island, Fanning (Tabuaeran) Island, the Gilbert Island...
Wild Winds Are Blowing
Critical reception
leaping off to football in your hobnail boots! Or in fact anything to make a definite dent in current music." Tony Raba of Wolverhampton Express and Star commented: "On October 24 their first record is released on the Fontana label. "Wild Winds are Blowing" is a powerful commercial number which could put the lads on th...
4118 Sveta
Physical characteristics & Diameter and albedo & Rotation period & Naming
has been determined for Sveta. Members of the Eos family are typically K-type asteroids. Diameter and albedo According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Sveta measures 13.232 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.192. Rotation period As o...
Alberto Machimbarrena
Biography
Alberto Machimbarrena Biography During his career he alternated between two clubs: hometown team Real Sociedad and Real Madrid. While he played for Real Madrid he was also studying architecture in Madrid. He became the leader of Real Madrid, captaining the team which won the Copa del Rey in 1917. He played for Real Mad...
A Dog Named Gucci
Music & Critical response
Ruth Moody, features the talents of Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Susanna Hoffs, Lydia Loveless, Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, and Brian May. It was produced by Dean Falcone, who also wrote the film's score. One Voice was released on Record Store Day, April 16, 2016, with profits from the sale of the single going to benefit ...
AVIA
Band history
concerts since.
Wherwell Abbey
Later history
efficient mill She rebuilt from the ground up the dilapidated manor house at Middleton, and took similar measures at Tufton. She was attentive to charitable works and in providing hospitality. She embellished the Norman church that had replaced the original Saxon church after the Conquest with crosses, reliquaries, pre...
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album)
Background
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album) Background LCD Soundsystem's third and previous studio album, This Is Happening, was released in 2010. After the album's release, the band announced their breakup in early 2011 and also announced that they would end with a show at Madison Square Garden on April 2, 2011. Due to the...
Alvera Mukabaramba
Career & Other considerations
in the Ministry of Local Government, replacing the late Christine Nyatanyi, who passed away in a hospital in Brussels, Belgium. Since then, she has been retained in the cabinet and has retained her portfolio in the various cabinet reshuffles, including the one on 31 August 2017. Other considerations Makaramba is a memb...
American automobile industry in the 1950s
Notable failures
grill was said by critics to look like "an Oldsmobile sucking on a lemon". It ended up being a marketing blunder that not only cost Ford almost $250 million ($2169 million in 2013 dollars), but also turned the word Edsel into an enduring metaphor for failure. The car sold poorly and production for the final 1960 mode...
2016 Philippine House of Representatives election (party-list)
Aftermath
representatives from the party. Ating Guro claimed that the seat gained by COOP-NATCCO should have been theirs. They filed a petition before the COMELEC on May 23.
American automobile industry in the 1950s
Industry consolidation
with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation in a deal worth almost USD $200 million ($1.735 billion in 2013 dollars) the largest corporate merger in U.S. history at that time. Other mergers with smaller independent manufacturers followed. Although AMC was moderately successful it was never sufficiently large to challenge any of...
Agnone
Culture
("borgate"), accompanied by the sound of bagpipes, to the Piazza Plebiscito where a brotherhood bonfire is lit. The Fiera delle Arti e Mestieri Antichi (Arts and Antique Crafts Fair) is held 17 to 19 August where a large area of the old town home to artisans, display their works. Artisan's crafts at the fair generally ...
Alicia Keys
Philanthropy and activism
Appearing in a public service announcement for EMPOWERED, Keys spoke with five women whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS. In December 2012, Keys performed alongside many other native New Yorkers in 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy. In July 2016, Keys participated in a ...
2003 Afro-Asian Games
Opening ceremony & Closing ceremony
divas Shilpa Shetty, Simran and Urmila Matondkar did dance performances. Unlike the Olympic Games, there was no individual march past for the countries. The countries came in batches of two - Asian countries in one batch and African countries in another. Closing ceremony The closing ceremony of the Games was marked by ...
American automobile industry in the 1950s
Brakes & Entertainment
servo brakes had been invented in 1903, but did not become generally available as an option until the 1950s. Self-adjusting brakes initially were offered on the 1957 Mercury and 1958 Edsel, and other manufacturers soon followed suit. Buick offered power brakes as standard equipment on several of its vehicles by the 195...
Alain Resnais
1946–1958: short films
the distancing effect. Although the film encountered censorship problems with the French government, its impact was immense and it remains one of the director's most admired works. A different kind of collective memory was considered in Toute la mémoire du monde (1956), in which the seemingly endless spaces and bibliog...
Abraham Ephiphanios
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Abraham Ephiphanios Abraham Mar Epiphanios was as of 2010 the metropolitan of the Sultan Battery Diocese of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. He was born on 17 September 1960 as the son of Vattamparambil Abraham Oommen and Gracy Oommen. He is a member of St. Mary's Cathedral, Malaysia. Ephiphanios had his education in...
A. J. Arkell
Career & Personal life
award of the degree of Bachelor of Letters from the University of Oxford. He was a Committee member of the Egypt Exploration Society for many years, and member of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries from 1956-7. In 1960, after a short course at Cuddesdon College, he had been ordained into Holy Orders. He serve...
Alexei Volkoff
Series
the failure. For the first six episodes of the fourth season, Volkoff directed his operatives from behind the scenes. In "Chuck Versus the Anniversary," General Beckman assigned Chuck, Sarah Walker, and John Casey to the same task as Mary. Volkoff first appears in person in "Chuck Versus the First Fight." Chuck meets h...
Andrei Bondarenko
Life
Garden, as Marcello in La bohème, a role he had previously played at Glyndebourne. Bondarenko is married to the Ukrainian soprano, Eleonora Vindau.
51 (film)
Plot & Reception
being a secured government facility to a place of horror. Reception Dread Central gave 51 a mixed review, stating that they would "write this one off as being a bit better than average by Syfy standards but still below par by conventional standards". HorrorNews.net also panned the movie, writing that it was "an interes...
Amelia Earhart
Spies for FDR & Tokyo Rose & Assuming another identity
search of numerous files in Japan and was convinced that the Japanese were not involved in Earhart's disappearance. Tokyo Rose A rumor that claimed that Earhart had made propaganda radio broadcasts as one of the many women compelled to serve as Tokyo Rose was investigated closely by George Putnam. According to several ...
Zofia Moraczewska
Life
Zofia Moraczewska Life Zofia Moraczewska was born of 4 July 1873 in Czernowitz, Duchy of Bukovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) and graduated from the Teacher's Seminary in Lemberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine), in 1893. She ...
Āma
Skanda Purana account & Historicity
former feudatory Kumarapala. Kumarapala originally ruled in the Punjab region, but later became the ruler of Moharapura. Historicity The Jain chroniclers' claim that Āma was the son and successor of Yashovarman seems to be historically accurate. No other king is known to have ruled at Kannauj in mid-8th century CE, unt...
Verband Deutscher Tonmeister
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international scientific conference and workshop program with a trade fair, focusing on applied research and technical excellence. It has been in existence since 1949. Similarly the International Tonmeister Symposium, dedicated to one thematic complex, is analogous to the AES-conferences. The Tonmeister Academy as init...
Andromache (play)
Background
Andromache (play) Background During the Trojan War, Achilles killed Andromache's husband Hector. The Greeks threw Andromache and Hector's child Astyanax from the Trojan walls for fear that he would grow up and avenge his father and city. Andromache was made a slave of Achilles' son Neoptolemus. Euripides dramatised the...
Stanbridgeford railway station
Present day
Stanbridgeford railway station Present day The station building, now known as Stanbridgeford House, has survived as a private residence and the platform area has been incorporated into the garden. In 1991, the A505 Leighton Southern Bypass opened and reused a section of the railway alignment from a point to the west of...
Alicia Keys
1994–1997: Career beginnings
recalled. "That was a changing point. My confidence was up, way up." The different experience reinvigorated Keys and her music. While the album was nearly completed, Columbia's management changed and more creative differences emerged with the new executives. Keys brought her songs to the executives, who rejected her wo...
Amazarashi
2012: Love Song & 2013–2014: From Nee Mama Anata no Iutoori to Yuuhi Shinkou Higashizumu
the song "Hikari, Saikou"). 2013–2014: From Nee Mama Anata no Iutoori to Yuuhi Shinkou Higashizumu On April 10 of 2013 the band released their 5th post-debut EP, titled Nee Mama Anata no Iutoori (ねえままあなたの言うとおり; "Hey Mom, It's Just as you Said"). The single Juvenile (ジュブナイル) from the EP was pre-sold on the iTunes Store ...
Ambrose McCarthy Patterson
Life
and exhibited at the first Salon d'Automne exhibitions. He had five paintings at the 1905 Paris Salon at which Henri Matisse and the fauves stunned the art world. He arrived in Hawaii in 1916 on a stopover from Sidney to New York, and decided to stay with a Parisian friend living in Honolulu. During the next 18 months...
Amelia Earhart
Early flying experiences
in medical studies among other programs. She quit a year later to be with her parents, who had reunited in California. In Long Beach, on December 28, 1920, Earhart and her father visited an airfield where Frank Hawks (who later gained fame as an air racer) gave her a ride that would forever change Earhart's life. "By t...
American Flyer (railcar)
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with an 84 passenger capacity, was placed by the New Haven Railroad with Pullman-Standard in March 1934. Built at the former Osgood Bradley Car Company facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, these cars were delivered starting in December 1934, and were followed by 20 more in 1936 and 30 in 1938 in an identical configura...
2009 International Bowl
Team selection
the theory that fans are less likely to want to travel to the same destination they were at the year before. Additionally, the St. Petersburg Bowl, in its inaugural year, sought to have local team South Florida play in their game to drive local attendance. Therefore, the teams were apportioned among the bowls as follow...
Alice Chalifoux
Education & Career
Alice Chalifoux Alice Chalifoux (January 22, 1908 – July 31, 2008) was Principal Harpist with the Cleveland Orchestra from 1931 to 1974 and, for many years, was its only female member. Education She was the youngest of four children born to merchant and violinist Oliver Chalifoux and his wife, harpist Alice Hallé Chali...
Alex Hirsch
Early life and education
Alex Hirsch Early life and education Hirsch was born in Piedmont, California in 1985. He graduated from Piedmont High School where, as a junior, he won the school's annual Bird Calling Contest in 2002 and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. He went on to attend the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)...