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Amanpour & Company | History | block conducted by correspondents from WNET in New York. Correspondent Alicia Menendez left the show in October 2019 and joined MSNBC. |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Early history | Romeo started motor racing almost immediately after it was founded. A.L.F.A. ventured into motor racing in 1911, with drivers Franchini and Ronzoni competing in the Targa Florio with two 24 HP models. The marque's first success came in 1913 when Nino Franchini finished second in Parma-Poggio Berceto race with a 40-60HP... |
William Kemmler | Execution | Durston presented Kemmler to the 17 witnesses in attendance. Kemmler looked at the chair and said: "Gentlemen, I wish you all good luck. I believe I am going to a good place, and I am ready to go."
Witnesses remarked that Kemmler was composed at his execution; he did not scream, cry, or resist in any way. He sat down o... |
Alvin O. Austin | Life | Alvin O. Austin Alvin O. "Bud" Austin (born January 6, 1942 in Tampa, Florida) was the fifth president of LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas from 1986 to 2007. Since July 2007 he has held the role of University Chancellor, in accordance with the wishes of the Board of Trustees. Life He was raised in Florida and ... |
Alicia Keys | Impact and legacy | 2015, The Recording Academy honored Keys in Washington D.C., with the Recording Artists' Coalition Award for "her artistry, philanthropy and her passion for creators' rights as a founding member of the Academy's brand-new GRAMMY Creators Alliance". In 2018, she was honored by The Recording Academy's Producers & Enginee... |
Victor Pinchuk | Early life and career | is a member of the Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, of the International Advisory Council of Brookings Institution and of the Corporate Advisory Board of the Global Business Coalition against HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. Pinchuk holds a share of VS Energy International Ukraine together with Mik... |
Alejandro Galindo (footballer) | Atlético Juventud and Santa Fe | Alejandro Galindo (footballer) Atlético Juventud and Santa Fe Born in Guatemala from Guatemalan father and Colombian mother, Galindo moved to Colombia with his mother when he was 10 years old. At 12, he started playing in the lower divisions of the Colombian club Independiente Santa Fe. He debuted in the professional f... |
A Dog Named Gucci | Critical response | Tribbey, in the DVD & Blu-Ray Release Report called it "a heartfelt tale of love, kindness and a story of a man and his dog … a man and his dog on a very special mission."
Jonathan Tressler, in the News-Herald, called it, "shocking, yet inspirational."
Amos Lassen called the film, "a positive and uplifting look at one ... |
Analog telephone adapter | Purpose | Analog telephone adapter Purpose An ATA is connected between an IP network (such as a broadband connection) and an existing telephone jack in order to provide service nearly indistinguishable from public switched telephone network (PSTN) providers on all the other telephone jacks in the residence. ATAs are used by many... |
Amelia Earhart | Additional solo flights & Move from New York to California | and distance aviation records in a variety of aircraft including the Kinner Airster, Lockheed Vega, and Pitcairn Autogiro. By 1935, recognizing the limitations of her "lovely red Vega" in long, transoceanic flights, Earhart contemplated, in her own words, a new "prize ... one flight which I most wanted to attempt – a c... |
Virtual community | Howard Rheingold's study | knows that her father congregates with a family of invisible friends who seem to gather in his computer. Sometimes he talks to them, even if nobody else can see them. And she knows that these invisible friends sometimes show up in the flesh, materializing from the next block or the other side of the world." (page 1). ... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | 1990s: German reunification, fall out of parliament for the West, formation of Alliance 90/The Greens | and West Germany, that the Greens acquired any parliamentary seats at all. This happened because in the new states of Germany, the Greens, in a joint effort with Alliance 90, a heterogeneous grouping of civil rights activists, were able to gain more than 5% of the vote. Some critics attribute this poor performance to t... |
Alicia Keys | 2016–present: Here and The Voice & upcoming seventh album | 26, 2016, Keys performed at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. In October 2016, she released a single from upcoming album Here called Blended Family (What You Do For Love) feat. A$AP Rocky. On November 1, 2016, Keys unveiled her short film, "The Gospel," to accompany the LP. Here was released on N... |
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album) | Composition & Packaging | similar to David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy. The album's lyrics deal with depression, social issues, fear, and ending of friendship and love.
The album's closing track, "Black Screen" is an homage to Bowie. Murphy wanted to get Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen to perform a spoken word piece at the end of the track,... |
Andre Savelio | Early life & Playing career | Andre Savelio Early life Savelio was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand and raised in Warrington, England, having moved there as a one-year-old when his father, Lokeni, started playing in the Super League. He is of Samoan descent.
Savelio attended Cardinal Newman Catholic High School, and played his amateur rugby league f... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | Electorate | Greens received fewer votes from the unemployed and general working population, with business people favouring the party as well as the centre-right liberal Free Democratic Party. According to Infratest Dimap the Greens received more voters from the age group 34–42 than any other age group and that the young were gener... |
Adekan | Plot | about decency, Kojiro leaves to continue the investigation. It turns out Shiro was also investigating this same thing though and ends up being taken hostage by a local gang. Kojiro follows the sound of gunfire and attempts to "rescue" Shiro. Shiro suppresses the entire gang and ends up rescuing Kojiro, in the process r... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | 2005–present: Greens back in opposition | (two weeks after the Fukushima nuclear disaster had begun), the Greens made large gains in Rhineland-Palatinate and in Baden-Württemberg. In Baden-Württemberg they became the senior partner in a governing coalition for the first time. Winfried Kretschmann is now the first Green to serve as Minister-President of a Germ... |
Aldo R. Boccaccini | Biography & Academic work | joined the Department of Materials at Imperial College London (UK), where he was appointed Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 2008. In 2009 Boccaccini moved to Germany as Professor for Biomaterials and Head of the Institute of Bomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was appointed chair of the... |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Formula One & Formula Three | for the 2018 season onwards. In January 2019 the decision was made to rename the Alfa Romeo Sauber Team to Alfa Romeo Racing for the upcoming 2019 season. Formula Three Alfa Romeo has also supplied engines to Formula Three cars. Piercarlo Ghinzani driving a Euroracing March 793 with 2 litre Alfa engine won straight awa... |
Anatoly Brandys | Postwar | department; in 1967 he became a Candidate of Military Sciences. For two years he served as a military specialist in Egypt until 1975, after which he began work at the Military Academy of General Staff. That year he was promoted to the rank of General-Major of Aviation, after which he received several promotions at the ... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Overhead Valve V8 engine | units were installed in late 1950 model-year Commanders, thereby becoming the first OHV V8 available in a low-priced American-made automobile. The engine was officially available in 1951 model-year Commanders and Commander Land Cruisers. The engine displaced 232.6 cubic inches with a bore of 3.375 inches and stroke o... |
Angelo Sabino | As poet | Angelo Sabino Angelo Sabino or in Latin Angelus Sabinus (fl. 1460s–1470s) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, poet laureate, classical philologist, Ovidian impersonator, and putative rogue.
Sabino's real name was probably Angelo Sani di Cure, with the toponymic indicating that he was from Cure or Curi (ancient Cures),... |
Adventure Air Adventurer | Design and development & Operational history | estimated the construction time from the supplied standard kit as 1000 hours, or 400–600 hours from the quick-build kit. Operational history By 1998 the company reported that 120 kits had been sold and five aircraft were flying.
By November 2013 ten examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Avi... |
2011 Strabag Prague Open | Men's Singles & Women's Singles & Men's Doubles & Women's Doubles | 2011 Strabag Prague Open Men's Singles Lukáš Rosol def. Alex Bogomolov Jr., 7–6, 5–2 retired Women's Singles Lucie Hradecká def. Paula Ormaechea, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2 Men's Doubles František Čermák / Lukáš Rosol def. Christopher Kas / Alexander Peya, 6–3, 6–4 Women's Doubles Darya Kustova / Arina Rodionova def. Olga Sa... |
A.F.C. Euro Kickers | History | A.F.C. Euro Kickers History Euro Kickers was founded in 1984 by Jan Bernard Domburg, a Dutch entrepreneur then living in Panama. Four years later, they were among the six founding members of ANAPROF. One of their players in those days was Pedro Miguel González Pinzón, president of Panama's National Assembly from Septe... |
Alan Paton | Opposition to apartheid | who had moved to England in the 1930s, helped the party in many ways. Van der Post knew that the South African Secret Police were aware that he was paying money to Paton, but could not stop it by legal procedures. Paton himself adopted a peaceful opposition in protests against apartheid, as did many others in the party... |
2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship | Sporting regulations & Other changes | device, a wishbone-shaped frame mounted above and around the driver's head and anchored to the monocoque forward of the cockpit. The halo was designed to improve safety standards by deflecting debris away from a driver's head and was originally developed for use in Formula One before its application was expanded to oth... |
Tyler Clippard | New York Yankees | batting average and had three times as many strikeouts as walks. Clippard was 12–10 with a 3.35 ERA for the Trenton Thunder. He threw the first no-hitter in franchise history on August 17, shutting down the Harrisburg Senators. He was named the Eastern League's pitcher of the week for his accomplishment. Earlier in the... |
Angus Deaton | Biography | with the poor of the world and how people behave, and what gives them a good life". The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that economic policy intended to reduce poverty could only be designed once individuals' consumption choices were understood, saying, "More than anyone else, Angus Deaton has enhanced this unde... |
Veterans Health Administration | Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 | deaths during the delay. On May 30, 2014, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki resigned from office due to the fallout from the scandal. Despite the negative exposure and the subsequent vows by Washington lawmakers to take action, the major problems still exist.
On June 24, 2014, Senator Tom Coburn, Republican ... |
Amelia Earhart | Assuming another identity | Earhart survived the world flight, moved to New Jersey, changed her name, remarried and became Irene Craigmile Bolam. This claim had originally been raised in the book Amelia Earhart Lives (1970) by author Joe Klaas, based on the research of Major Joseph Gervais. Irene Bolam, who had been a banker in New York during th... |
Ann Donnelly | Early life and education & Career as a prosecutor | Ann Donnelly Early life and education Donnelly received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor in 1984 from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Career as a prosecutor From 1984 to 2009, she was a prosecutor in the New York County District Attorney's Office. Fro... |
227th (Sudbury-Manitoulin-Algoma) Battalion (Men o' the North), CEF | null | 227th (Sudbury-Manitoulin-Algoma) Battalion (Men o' the North), CEF The 227th Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Camp Borden, the unit began recruiting in early 1916 on Manitoulin Island and in Algoma. After sailing to England... |
Aldo R. Boccaccini | Publications | of the journal Materials Letters and the founding editor-in-chief of the Open Access journal Biomedical Glasses (launched in 2014). He has published more than 800 research papers, he has co-edited 5 books, more than 20 book chapters. Boccaccini is a highly cited researcher, according to the Highly Cited 2014 list publi... |
Alexei Volkoff | Series | However, after being apparently wounded in a gunfight while recovering the disks, Volkoff follows Chuck, Sarah and Mary to Stephen Bartowski's base of operations and reveals himself, explaining that the entire operation was a plan to locate and destroy Stephen's intelligence. He attempted to kill Chuck and Sarah in the... |
Alun Cairns | Personal life | lives in London and his Vale of Glamorgan constituency with his wife Emma and son Henri.
He is an avid marathon runner, and as of 2018 has completed seven runs of the London Marathon. His London Marathon personal best time of 3:28:02 makes him the seventh fastest running MP of all time. Through his marathon runs, he ha... |
André Hornez | Biography | André Hornez Biography Born in Lens in 1905, André Hornez a passion early for architecture and writing. He finally chose writing. He began his career as secretary of Saint-Granier. For him, he writes books magazines and operettas. The author is also hired by Paramount company in Hollywood to write screenplays.
His firs... |
Without Words | Plot | three-day time limit. In the next scene, Kit is standing on the dock where he and Snow would hang out and go fishing, scattering red powder into the water. It is later revealed that Snow has been cremated. |
Amelia Earhart | Move from New York to California | house in June 1935 adjacent to the clubhouse of the Lakeside Golf Club in Toluca Lake, a San Fernando Valley celebrity enclave community nestled between the Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures studio complexes where they had earlier rented a temporary residence. Earhart and Putnam would not move in immediately, howe... |
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? | Cites | with Qumran, or with the Essenes.
David Fiensy (2007) cites Golb's book for "the view that the scrolls represent Judaism in general and not a sect", citing A. Dupont-Somer, N. Avigad and E. L. Sukenik, F. M. Cross, D. Flusser, H. Stegemann, G. Vermes, J. Fitzmyer, J.C. VaderKam, Edrdmans, F. G. Martinez, J. H. Charlesw... |
51st Rifle Division (Soviet Union) | First formation | assault captured the Turetsky Val. The 51st Rifle Division continued to advance and broke through the Yushunskaya positions with the aid of the Latvian Rifle Division. The capture of the Yushinskaya position ended organized White resistance in the Crimea.
On 13 October, it became the 51st Moscow Rifle Division. On 14 S... |
Allen Dyer | Education | Allen Dyer Allen R. Dyer is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences with the George Washington University. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. As of January 2017 he is the sole surviving member of the committee that formulated the Goldwater rule of the American Psychiatri... |
Yolanda Cuomo | The Library of Julio Santo Domingo | to “altered states.” The resulting two-volume opus, The Library of Julio Santo Domingo, written by Peter Watts, includes photographs, posters, paintings, and objects related to drugs, erotica, the occult, revolution, and rock music. Santo Domingo’s library and archives featured more than one hundred thousand items and ... |
Alun Cairns | House of Commons | gaining the seat from Labour with a majority of 4,307.
Cairns is a member of the ‘Curry Club’ group of Conservatives, a dining society set up in 2010 composed of Conservative MPs that were seen as independently-minded though not hostile to the then Prime Minister David Cameron.
In 2011 Cairns became co-chairman of the ... |
William Day (horseman) | Background & Riding career | William Day (horseman) Background Day was one of twelve children of the jockey and trainer John Barham Day, making him the nephew of the jockey Sam Day. William's brothers included John Day, who trained twelve classic winners, and the successful jockeys Samuel and Alfred. Riding career Day began his career as a jockey ... |
A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael | A Light on the Road to Woodstock | A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael A Light on the Road to Woodstock In 1120, King Henry's force is returning in triumph to England, having secured control of Normandy once again. Cadfael, an experienced man-at-arms in the service of Roger Maduit, one of Henry's knights, accompanies his lord back to Engla... |
Alviso, San Jose | Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge | salt pond, salt marsh, mudflat, upland and vernal pool habitats located throughout south San Francisco Bay. Located along the Pacific Flyway, the Refuge hosts over 280 species of birds each year. Millions of shorebirds and waterfowl stop to refuel at the Refuge during the spring and fall migration.
In addition to its ... |
147th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Service & Detailed service | Brigade, 2nd Division, XII Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October 1863, and Army of the Cumberland to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to July 1865. Duty in the Department of Washington until July.
The 147th Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out of service on July 15, 1865. Companie... |
1969 National League Championship Series | Background | 1969 National League Championship Series Background This was the first year of the two-division format in Major League Baseball, after 99 consecutive years of straight non-divisional play.
This was the year of the "Miracle" Mets. The team had finished only one game better than last the year before, had never finished ... |
Ahmed AlKuwaiti | Medical & dental education in Saudi Arabia | education. In the Technical Institute of the same private hospital, he founded programs on Basic life support or Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS), and advanced cardiac life support, pediatric advanced life support and neonatal resuscitation program during his tenure from July 2002 to July 2003.
Between 2000 and 2004, ... |
Åråsen Stadion | History | was a complex of commercial and residential properties. This included a 8,500-square-meter (91,000 sq ft) section to the north which consists of 96 apartments, some with balconies facing the pitch, and a grocery store. Construction of the South Stand and affiliated buildings started on 15 November 2000 and was complete... |
Alain Resnais | Early life | Alain Resnais Early life Resnais was born in 1922 at Vannes in Brittany, where his father was a pharmacist. An only child, he was often ill with asthma in childhood, which led to his being withdrawn from school and educated at home. He was an eager reader, in a range that extended from classics to comic books, but from... |
1979 National Provincial Championship | Promotion/Relegation | 1979 National Provincial Championship The National Provincial Championship, or NPC, was the predecessor to the current Air New Zealand Cup and Heartland Championship in New Zealand rugby. 1979 was the fourth year of the National Provincial Championship, Counties were the winners of Division 1. Promotion/Relegation As t... |
2015–16 SPFL Development League | Changes | 2015–16 SPFL Development League Changes The league remained at 17 teams. All twelve 2015–16 Scottish Premiership clubs participated in the league, with Dunfermline Athletic, Falkirk, Hibernian, Rangers and St Mirren making up the numbers. Eligible players were those born in 1996 or later, but five players of any age we... |
Alexei Volkoff | Series | Volkoff weapon known as the "Norseman". Chuck and Sarah visit Volkoff at River Hill Penitentiary, only to learn that he has begun a path to redemption. In exchange for a meeting with Vivian, Volkoff helps Team Bartowski find the weapon's tracking device and killing agent, along the way apologizing to those he had wrong... |
Wild Adriatic | Musical influences | Led Zeppelin, Queen, Bill Withers, Mountain, Foreigner, early Rush, Free, and the Beatles as influences. More contemporary influences like the Black Keys, Mutemath, My Morning Jacket, Keane, Wolfmother, and Alabama Shakes have also been referenced. In recent years, the band has made a noted push towards developing the ... |
Zeng Xueming | Research and reaction | of Tuoi Tre Vũ Kim Hạnh was summarily dismissed from her post after the newspaper published a story about Ho's marriage. William Duiker's Ho Chi Minh: A Life (2000) presents additional CAOM documentation for the relationship. The government requested substantial cuts in the official Vietnamese translation of Duiker's b... |
Veterans Health Administration | Mental health | 2007. The percentage of veterans with mental illnesses has trended up. The VHA allocated an extra 1.4 billion dollars per year to mental health program between 2005 and 2008. Mental health services in 2006 were evaluated as a part of the Mental Health Strategic Plan. The report concluded:
"Quality of care at the VA wa... |
Alaska Airlines Flight 779 | Investigation & Causes | evidence of mechanical malfunction. Causes The investigation revealed that the approach lights for the runway were not lit on the night of the crash. The pilot could not have known that only one strobe light was lit because the air traffic controller failed to adequately inform of the status of the runway lights. The... |
Alicia Keys | 2006–2008: Film debut and As I Am & 2009–2011: The Element of Freedom, marriage and motherhood | after billboard posters for her forthcoming concerts in Indonesia featured a logo for the A Mild cigarette brand sponsored by tobacco firm Philip Morris. She apologized after discovering that the concert was sponsored by the firm and asked for "corrective actions". In response, the company withdrew its sponsorship. 200... |
Alien Intruder | Plot synopsis | Alien Intruder Plot synopsis Set in 2022, a group of convicts sentenced to life in prison are led on a mission into uncharted deep space by Commander Skyler (Williams) to salvage a lost ship. As incentive to go on this dangerous mission, the convicts are given the opportunity to spend their weekends in a virtual realit... |
Wasei Kingu Kongu | Plot & Production | and runs after them - with his gorilla suit still on! Santa creates chaos in the town as firemen and hunters chase him, thinking him an escaped gorilla that is running wild in the streets. Eventually Santa confronts the rich boyfriend and knocks him unconscious. He puts the gorilla suit on him and leaves him lying out ... |
Alexander Agricola | Genres & Compositional hallmarks | music by Gilles Binchois or Ockeghem. Many of these pieces had become quite popular in the late 15th century. Compositional hallmarks Above all the variants in his general musical style over his working life, Agricola himself wrote in a highly distinctive style, taking the mysteriously sinuous lines of Ockeghem as his ... |
Alekseyev I-21 | Development | (15 kN; 3,300 lbf) Lyul'ka TR-2 turbojet engines were mounted below the wings much like those on the German Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter. Underneath the engine nacelles were hardpoints that could carry 250-kilogram (550 lb) bombs or drop tanks. The slightly swept tail unit was cruciform in layout with the tailplane set... |
Vincenzo Lapuma | Biography | Vincenzo Lapuma Biography Lapuma was born in Palermo, and studied at the seminary in Palermo and at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on 13 September 1896, and then served as a professor at the same Athenaeum and as auditor of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops and... |
Zealand, New Brunswick | Community | community is one of the first rural communities in the province to be wired for broadband Internet.
Following the decision by Canadian Pacific Railway to abandon its line through Zealand in 1993, the rail corridor has been converted to a recreational trail and is also part of the Trans Canada Trail system. |
Anna Dostoevskaya | Early life & Marriage | Anna Dostoevskaya Early life Anna Dostoevskaya (née Snitkina) was born to Maria Anna and Grigory Ivanovich Snitkin. Anna graduated academic high school summa cum laude and subsequently trained as a stenographer. Marriage On 4 October 1866, Anna Snitkina started working as a stenographer on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The... |
Amelia Earhart | Nearing Howland Island | modification was made, but without voice communication from Itasca to the plane, the ship could not tell the plane to use its 500 kHz signal. Even if Itasca could get a bearing to the plane, the Itasca could not tell the plane that bearing, so the plane could not head to the ship.
Some sources have noted Earhart's appa... |
Amelia Earhart | Contemporary search efforts | was based on erroneous assumptions and flawed information. Official reporting of the search effort was influenced by individuals wary about how their roles in looking for an American hero might be reported by the press. Despite an unprecedented search by the United States Navy and Coast Guard, no physical evidence of E... |
Agnone | Post-Unification | a significant decline in years following the Unification of Italy in the 1860s. In 1884 the local newspaper L'Aquilonia reviewed the causes of emigration of peasants from Agnone and concluded that the two main factors were excessive taxes on consumers' goods and usurious interest rates that at times surpassed 20 percen... |
Anjouan scops owl | Conservation and status | June 1992, after an absence of records dating back to 1886. It has an estimated population of less than 400. It is classified as "Critically Endangered" because its range is restricted to such a small area, which is being rapidly deforested. However, later analyses have since downlisted it to Endangered. Bristol Conse... |
Alfred Gessow | Legacy | Maryland Department of Aerospace Engineering has a professorship named in Gessow's honor: The Alfred Gessow Professor. Distinguished University Professor Inderjit Chopra is the inaugural and current Alfred Gessow Professor. |
An Anna Blume | The poem | An Anna Blume An Anna Blume ("To Anna Flower" also translated as "To Eve Blossom") is a poem written by the German artist Kurt Schwitters in 1919. It has been described as a parody of a love poem, an emblem of the chaos and madness of the era, and as a harbinger of a new poetic language. The poem Originally published i... |
Ann Peoples (Antarctic manager) | null | Ann Peoples (Antarctic manager) Ann Peoples, an American anthropologist and business manager, was the first American woman to serve in a significant leadership role in Antarctica when she was appointed manager of the Berg Field Center at the McMurdo Station in 1986. She went on to manage Palmer Station from 1991 to 199... |
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album) | Packaging | Robert Reynolds. It consists of a blue sky with a few clouds and a white-hot sun in the middle. The band's name and the album title are aligned on top of the painting. It has also been labeled as the band's most colorful artwork to date. People thought of the artwork as a possible homage to the front cover of the 1996 ... |
Ampia (gens) | Branches and cognomina | the gens may have been a personal surname, perhaps reflecting a family connection with the Flavii, since the man who bore it was already of advanced years before the first of the Flavian emperors came to power. |
Air Kufra | History & Passenger Services & Training center | airlines. It was delivered to Buraq Air on 26 February, 2004. The plane was later passed on to the GST Aero Aircompany in March 2006. It was 21 years old when it was delivered, having take its first flight on October 31, 1983. Passenger Services Air Kufra provided many charter services. They were used for passenger and... |
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? | Reviews | Journal that "Contrary to scholarly consensus, Golb contends that, rather than being the product of sectarian scribes, the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of individuals from many diverse groups and that they were deposited in the caves near the Dead Sea (among other locations) by Jews fleeing the Roman army during the ... |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Grand Prix racing & Sportscar racing | Louis Chiron won the French Grand Prix in the P3 whilst the German Silver Arrows dominated the other 4 championship events. However the P3s won 18 of the 35 Grands Prix held throughout Europe. 1935 was even tougher, the P3 was simply outclassed by the remorseless Silver Arrows, but Tazio Nuvolari gave the P3 one of th... |
Alain Resnais | 1981–2014 | to make a film in which dialogue and song would alternate.
Music, very differently used, was a major component of L'Amour à mort (Love unto Death, 1984). For this intense chamber work with four principal actors (Azéma, Arditi, Ardant and Dussollier), Resnais asked Hans Werner Henze to compose musical episodes which wou... |
Allahverdi Khan | Service under Shah Abbas I | the large provinces would no longer be administered by semi-autonomous and frequently self-minded Qizilbash emirs, but by officers appointed directly by the shah.
In 1596/7, he was transferred to the governorship of Kohgiluyeh. In 1597, two clans of the Afshar tribe, the Arsahlu and Gundzulu, together with some Lur and... |
Anatole Fistoulari | Biography | Anatole Fistoulari Biography He was born in Kiev, Ukraine into a musical family. His father, Gregor Fistoulari, also a conductor, had studied with Rimsky-Korsakov and Anton Rubinstein. Anatole conducted for the first time at the age of seven, on the program Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, the Pathetique.
In 1931, he con... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | War | rationing that was seen during World War II, the impact was obvious, with steel being rationed to the different manufacturers under government control, rather than by market forces. The National Production Authority (NPA) had the final say on what resources each company would be given. In 1952, it limited the industr... |
Alun Cairns | National Assembly for Wales & Controversy, resignation and reinstatement | Wales. As a member of the assembly's economic development and audit committees, he criticised the Welsh Government over a range of issues from transport infrastructure, European regional aid, public spending, and the Welsh economy. Cairns has also been a vocal opponent of the Scarweather Sands offshore wind farm develo... |
Ambrose McCarthy Patterson | Life | York City.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (Canberra), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum are among the public collections holding works by Ambrose McCarthy Patterson. |
1936 FIRA Tournament | Italian players & Romanian players | Torino Rugby).
Manager : Michel Boucheron. Romanian players Forwards : I. Tarabega, G. Fantaneanu, S. Ionescu, S. Barsan, S. Burlescu, G. Ionescu, E. Marculescu, C. Beju.
Backs : A. Marasescu, N. Crissoveloni (c), A. Damian, I. Popa, C. Grigorescu, I. Irimia, C. Dinescu.
Substitutes : A. Matescu, Nicolescu, Epure, Crac... |
Alderson-Coston House | Description and history | Alderson-Coston House Description and history It is a 1-1/2 story wood-framed structure, rectangular in plan with a cross-gable roof, a projecting porch to the south, a porte-cochere to the east, and a two-story ell to the rear. The exterior is finished in wood veneer siding, and has Craftsman styling, with deep eaves ... |
Amarjit Singh Kiyam | Career | Amarjit Singh Kiyam Career Born in Manipur, Amarjit was part of the AIFF Elite Academy batch that was preparing for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup to be hosted in India. He was the captain of India u17 team that played 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. After the tournament, Amarjit was selected to play for the Indian Arrows, an ... |
2016 Philippine House of Representatives election (party-list) | Raffle | win seats will get a seat each until the 20% reserved for party-lists have been filled up.
As a result of the creation of new legislative districts during the 16th Congress, the number of party-list seats available for the 2016 elections was increased by one. Raffle On December 14, 2015, the commission raffled the par... |
Alicia Keys | 2006–2008: Film debut and As I Am | endorse the product, and was in an American Express commercial for the "Are you a Cardmember?" campaign. Keys, along with The White Stripes' guitarist and lead vocalist Jack White, recorded the theme song to Quantum of Solace, the first duet in Bond soundtrack history. In 2008, Keys was ranked in at number 80 the Billb... |
Alexander Fraser McIntyre | null | Alexander Fraser McIntyre Alexander Fraser McIntyre (December 25, 1847 – March 11, 1914) was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Cornwall in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal in 1875.
The son of Daniel Eugene McIntyre and Anne Fraser, he was born in Williamstown, Canada West.... |
Alain Resnais | 1981–2014 | Festival, it was the occasion for a special jury award to Resnais "for his work and exceptional contribution to the history of cinema".
In his final two films, Resnais again drew his source material from the theatre. Vous n'avez encore rien vu (You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!, 2012) was adapted from two plays by Jean Anoui... |
Aldo R. Boccaccini | Biography | Aldo R. Boccaccini Biography Boccaccini studied 2 years of electromechanical engineering at Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, in San Rafael, Argentina, and earned his engineering degree in Nuclear Engineering at Instituto Balseiro, S. C. de Bariloche, Argentina in 1987. He then moved to Germany and carried out his doc... |
Ann Peoples (Antarctic manager) | null | chemical weapons demilitarization at Johnston Atoll, Hawaii where she became the first woman to receive the Commander's Award for Public Service. She then returned to California where she studied at the University of California, Irvine, where she earned an MBA in 2003. She then joined Thomson Advisors, Virginia, specia... |
Amelia Earhart | Nearing Howland Island | and 6210 kHz. The Electra had been equipped to transmit a 500 kHz signal that Itasca could use for radio direction finding, but some of that equipment had been removed. The equipment originally used a long trailing wire antenna. While the plane was in flight, the wire antenna would be paid out at the tail; efficient tr... |
Angelo DeCarlo | Wiretapping & Saperstein death | transcripts also mentioned Sinatra. On one tape, DeCarlo discussed methods for committing murder; he described a so-called "humane" hit in which he shot a victim through the heart. According to DeCarlo, it was a painless way to die. Saperstein death In September 1968, DeCarlo and his men brutalized Louis Saperstein, wh... |
Anna Karenina (2012 film) | Plot | Alexandrovna, and Stiva encourages him to propose. However, Kitty declines as she hopes to marry Count Alexei Vronsky, a wealthy cavalry officer. Levin meets with his elder brother, Nikolai, who has given up his inheritance and taken a prostitute named Masha as his wife. Nikolai suggests that Levin marry one of the pea... |
World Bowl '99 | Game summary | responded with a two-yard touchdown run by Mario Grier. However, the Galaxy managed to put the game away, with Barnes leading a nine-play, 80-yard drive that ended with MVP Andy McCullough catching a seven-yard touchdown pass. With their victory, the Frankfurt Galaxy managed to become the very first NFL Europe team to ... |
1895–96 FA Cup | Final | 1895–96 FA Cup Final The final took place on Saturday, 18 April 1896 at Crystal Palace. Less than 50,000 supporters attended the match. The match finished 2–1 to The Wednesday, through two early goals from Fred Spiksley. Between the two goals, David Black had equalised for Wolves. |
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