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Apurva Asrani | Early career & Shahid | experiment for UK-based showstudio.com. Apurva's short film Imperfect Moon was showcased along with the films of Oscar nominated British director, Mike Figgis and Wong Kar Wai's editor William Chang.
On the UK stage, Apurva has collaborated with a British theatre company RIFCO Arts to write dialogue for three successfu... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio equipment | 1500 kHz. It is not clear that such a receiver was installed, and if it were, it may have been removed before the flight. Long & Long (1999, p. 115) describes Joe Gurr training Earhart to use a Bendix receiver and other equipment to tune radio station KFI on 640 kHz and determine its direction.
Whichever receiver was u... |
André Hornez | Biography & Personal life | Tête), Lucienne Delyle (Mon Cœur Attendait, 1951), André Claveau (Malgré Tout, 1951) or Line Renaud (Ni Pourquoi ni Comment).
In 1947, he collaborated for the first time with the composer Henri Betti for to write the lyrics of C'est si bon. This song became an international jazz standard from the 1950s.
A large majorit... |
Alison Seabeck | Early life & Political career | Alison Seabeck Early life Seabeck went to Harold Hill Grammar School (later Upper Bedfords Park School from 1973) in Harold Hill in London. She studied at the North East London Polytechnic (now the University of East London) in Stratford. Seabeck was a member of the MSF (now Unite), and whilst working at the House of C... |
Aeroflot Flight 315 (1959) | Accident & Aircraft & Investigation | 45 degrees and the Antonov began a rapid pitch down. 2,100 meters from the runway and in a 25 degree nose down attitude the aircraft crashed, flipped over and burst into flame. The impact and post-crash fire killed all on board. Aircraft Construction of the AN-10 involved, serial number 9401402-14-02, was completed at ... |
Anti-ballistic missile | Tactical ABMs deployed in 1990s & Brilliant Pebbles concept | been tested for an ABM role. In 2008, an SM-3 missile launched from a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, the USS Lake Erie, successfully intercepted a non-functioning satellite.
From 1992 to 2000, a demonstration system for the US Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense was deployed at White Sands Missile Range. Tests were co... |
Amelia Earhart | Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 | Toronto, Earhart was engaged in arduous nursing duties that included night shifts at the Spadina Military Hospital. She became a patient herself, suffering from pneumonia and maxillary sinusitis. She was hospitalized in early November 1918, owing to pneumonia, and discharged in December 1918, about two months after the... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Jack Crowe era (1990–1992) | Hatfield to Clemson and take over as head coach of the Razorbacks. The decision came as something of a surprise, since Crowe had only won five games in two seasons at Livingston University in the late 1970s. By the start of the season, the Razorbacks had seen Barry Foster give up his senior season to enter the 1990 NF... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | Medical Corps (MC) | increased. It is possible that the low retention rates of Captains and junior Major rank Physicians in the primary care fields are due to the discrepancies in deployment length and deployment frequency between primary care and specialty physicians.
Clinical Medicine is the field of Army medicine in which a physician in... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Entertainment | but on April 28, 1955, Chrysler and Philco announced the development and production of the first all-transistor radio for an automobile. Dubbed the Mopar model 914HR, it was jointly developed by Chrysler and Philco and offered as a $150 option for 1956 Imperial and Chrysler car models. Philco manufactured the radio exc... |
Aracy Balabanian | Biography | the theater, her true passion. She said that she lived in a time when it was considered ugly for a woman to do theater, since women were formerly educated to be housewives and obey their husbands. |
Alain Resnais | 1981–2014 | American composer's life and works were reviewed through the testimonies of performers and filmmakers, juxtaposed with commissioned paintings by Guy Peellaert. In On connaît la chanson (Same Old Song, 1997), his tribute to television works of Dennis Potter, the characters express their key emotions or private thoughts ... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Labor union activity | membership as a percentage of the total US workforce, with labor membership peaking at 35 percent of the nonagricultural workforce by mid-decade. The United Auto Workers (UAW) was founded in 1935 and helped play a major role in reshaping the automotive industry after World War II. By 1954, almost all UAW workers had h... |
Arash Hejazi | null | whose best known novel The Princess of the Land of Eternity was shortlisted for two major Iranian literary prizes and has sold more than 20,000 copies in Iran since its first publication in 2003. He in 2009 he received his MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. His dissertation on censorship in Iran was publi... |
Amazarashi | 2015–2016: Sekai Shuusoku Ni Ichi Ichi Roku | was used as the opening theme for the Fuji Television original anime series, Ranpo Kitan: Game Of Laplace.
On October 22, they were guest artists at "JFL presents LIVE FOR THE NEXT supported by ELECOM", an event supported by JAPAN FM LEAGUE, the event had other bands such as YEN TOWN BAND, flower in the basement, Lily-... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Suspension design | suspension allowed greater flexibility in adjustment and the use of a variety of methods to support the weight of the car: leaf springs, coil springs and torsion bars. In combination with a shock absorber, the newer suspension designs made cars safer and more controllable at highway speeds, although at the cost of bein... |
APB (1987 video game) | Gameplay | patrol car with brakes, guns, armor, radar, etc.
The game begins by having the player drive around a closed course with traffic cones. After that the player will ticket common misdemeanor infractions (such as littering) by pulling up behind them, pushing the siren button and having them pull over. Certain offenders req... |
Amelia Earhart | Japanese capture theory | the Archives in the National Diet Library Digital Collection. The original source of the photo was a Japanese travel guide published in October 1935, implying that the photograph was taken in 1935 or before, and thus would be unrelated to Earhart and Noonan's 1937 disappearance. Additionally, the researcher who disco... |
Archibald Roane | Early life & Governor of Tennessee | wrote the original Tennessee Constitution, which took effect that same year when Tennessee became a U.S. state. Later in 1796, he became one of the three judges of the Superior Court of Law and Equity, the highest court established under the new state constitution. Governor of Tennessee In 1801, Governor John Sevier ha... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Nielsen & Life outside of boxing | to win the vacant WBO International title. Two judges scored the bout 116-111 each for Abraham and the remaining judge scored it 114-113 for Nielsen. Abraham pressured Nielsen throughout landing heavy shots. Nielsen used good movement around the ring, catching Abraham with jabs and combinations, however lacked the punc... |
Alicia Keys | Achievements | 9 Billboard Music Awards and 7 BET Awards. Keys received 5 Grammy Awards in 2002, becoming the second female artist to win as many in one night. In 2005, Keys was awarded the Songwriters Hall of Fame Hal David Starlight Award, which honors "gifted songwriters who are at an apex in their careers and are making a signifi... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio equipment & Nearing Howland Island | problems with transmission quality on 6210 kHz were noticed. Once the flight took off from Lae, Lae did not receive radio messages on 6210 kHz (Earhart's daytime frequency) until four hours later (at 2:18 pm); Lae's last reception was at 5:18 pm and was a strong signal; Lae received nothing after that; presumably the p... |
Angelo Sabino | Literary feud & Text critic | The feud is also referred to in the Dialogue of Learned Men by Paul Cortese. Text critic Sabino is credited with the editio princeps of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, working from the manuscript Vaticanus Regiensis 1994. Sabino preserved the copyists' mistakes and the lacunae in the manuscript, a philosophy the te... |
Amelia Earhart | Competitive flying & Marriage to George Putnam | to fly screen actress Mary Pickford to Cleveland to open the races. Marriage to George Putnam Earhart was engaged to Samuel Chapman, a chemical engineer from Boston; she broke off the engagement on November 23, 1928. During the same period, Earhart and publisher George P. Putnam had spent a great deal of time together.... |
Ali Javan | Life and career | Ali Javan Life and career Ali Javan was born in Tehran to Iranian Azerbaijani parents originally from Tabriz. He attended a school conducted by Zoroastrians. He graduated from Alborz High School, and started his university studies at the School of Science at the University of Tehran for a year. During a visit to New Yo... |
Anti-ballistic missile | Japan & United States | a mock target launched from the coast. United States In several tests, the U.S. military have demonstrated the feasibility of destroying long and short range ballistic missiles. Combat effectiveness of newer systems against 1950s tactical ballistic missiles seems very high, as the MIM-104 Patriot (PAC-1 and PAC-2) had ... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Final phase of the war: Marwan's invasion of Khazaria | Islam is disputed: al-Baladhuri's account, which probably is closer the original sources, suggests that it was not the khagan but a minor lord who converted to Islam and was placed in charge of the Khazars at al-Lakz—in itself, according to Blankinship, an indication of the implausibility of the conversion of the khaga... |
Anthony Stover | Professional career | Basketball League of Canada (NBL) due to the possibility of winning a championship. Stover was named NBL Canada Player of the Week on February 7, 2016, after averaging 13 rebounds and six blocked shots in three games for the Mill Rats. At the end of the season he was named Defensive Player of the Year after setting a ... |
Alvin Alvarez | Family & Career | Alvin Alvarez Family Alvarez has one sister who is two years older than him named Amy Alvarez. The character of Larry Garcia is the youngest of 3 siblings on the show The Brothers Garcia, and back in 2000, Alvarez had disclosed to the publication company “Variety” that he relates to him on many different levels. He sta... |
Archibald Roane | Governor of Tennessee | New Orleans following the port's transfer to France, and Roane, acting on orders from President Jefferson, prepared the state militia for possible armed conflict. The situation was resolved by the Louisiana Purchase the following year.
In February 1803, the state militia convened to elect its commander. The vote ende... |
Aimez-vous Brahms? | Summary | also wishes to preserve her independence and freedom. Of course, she would sometimes like to go further with Roger, to get closer to him, instead of collecting adventures without a future.
At a turning point in her life, and ultimately dissatisfied, she met Simon, the son of Mrs. Van Der Besh, a wealthy American custom... |
Art Kunkin | null | late 1940s Kunkin was associated with C.L.R. James and the radical Marxist Johnson-Forest Tendency. During the 1950s he was Los Angeles editor of their journals Correspondence and News & Letters, while working as a master machinist and tool and die maker for Ford and General Motors. During this period a number of theor... |
Alicia Keys | 2016–present: Here and The Voice & upcoming seventh album | New-York Historical Society's "Hotbed" exhibit about women's suffrage, which ran from November 3, 2017 to March 25, 2018. On December 5, 2017, Hip-hop artist Eminem revealed that Keys collaborated on the song "Like Home" for his ninth studio album Revival. Keys also featured on the song "Morning Light" from Justin Timb... |
7th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam | Immediate aftermath | to the 7th Politburo, with the average being reduced from 72 to 65 years of age. The youngest member was 52 years of age. In contrast to previous politburos, the 7th Politburo was somewhat more professional and less rigid ideologically. Emphasize was put on science and technology and not class struggle and socialist th... |
Aralosaurus | Discovery | them, the bone fragments identified by Rozhdestvensky as the middle part of the nasal arch and the posterior portion of the premaxilla seem to have been lost. These fragments were originally found isolated while the rest of the skull was articulated (including a posterior fragment of the nasal). So that it is no longer... |
Anatole Vakhnianyn | Life | Przemyśl. Moving to Vienna in 1865 where he studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, he organized the first Ukrainian student organization there (Sich) and became its first head.
Vakhnianyn returned to Lviv in 1868 and helped to organize the Prosvita Society, an organization dedicated to educational and cultural... |
Alain Cophignon | Biography | devoted to this Romanian musician who lived in France, published by Fayard, hailed by the French-speaking press, the Internet or audiovisual as well as foreign; He is a laureate of the "Kastner-Boursault" prize awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts 2006 and the Prix des Muses2007. |
Arthur Abraham | Life outside of boxing & Personal life | panel of judges for the "Miss Germany" beauty pageant in 2012 and 2013.
On 9 January 2013, the RA Ministry of Diaspora hosted a presser for Abraham. Minister Hranush Hakobyan praised Abraham as a role model and awarded him the "Poghos Nubar" medal.
Abraham sent a letter of condolence on the death of Vladimir Yengibarya... |
Anon Pairot | Art and philosophy | a Thai designer, Pairot believed that Thai design was undervalued. Despite much overseas experience and success, Pairot is still drawn by the potential of Bangkok and Thailand. "Nobody knows what will happen next in Bangkok. It's a city filled with chaos and complexity. No other city is so stimulating. What we seek da... |
Andy (singer) | Other collaborations | Jovi recorded a version of the Leiber and Stoller standard Stand by Me, described by producer Don Was as a "worldwide solidarity with the people of Iran". The Persian introduction is done by both Andy and Jon Bon Jovi, as well as the rest of the song which continues in English. The record was produced by Don Was and Jo... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Early history (1894–1957) | Davidson. The Razorbacks didn't have a winning conference record until 1920, and didn't win the conference championship until 1936. Arkansas had the best record during the 1933 season, but had to forfeit the SWC Championship because Ulysses "Heine" Schleuter, who had no eligibility remaining, played on the team. Schleu... |
1974 Formula One season | Race 14: Canada | pole, just beating Lauda with Scheckter third. Lauda took Fittipaldi off the line and led, with Regazzoni up to third ahead of Scheckter, but Scheckter retook the position on the second lap. The four contenders were occupying the first four spots – Lauda leading Fittipaldi, Scheckter and Regazzoni. But Scheckter crashe... |
Arsuz | Geography & New district & History | located near the coastline). Arsuz was declared the center of Arsuz ilçe (district) in 2012 by the Metropolitan Law in Turkey. New district According to Turkish law no. 6360, in 2014 Arsuz became a district including seven towns and 25 villages in the rural area of the district. History Arsuz had many names throughout ... |
Additional CPF Housing Grant | Eligibility conditions & Undischarged Bankrupt | or an undischarged bankrupt), and can only be used as capital payment for the flat purchase. The balance, if any, must be used to reduce the mortgage loan before a housing loan from HDB can be granted.
In addition to the current eligibility conditions to buy a new flat and the conditions of income ceiling and continuo... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Froch & Abraham vs. Ward | it was his best performance to date. Abraham vs. Ward Abraham qualified for the semifinals, having one win out of three fights. But first, Abraham had a pre-fight with Croatian contender Stjepan Božić. Abraham won by technical knockout in the second round due to an injury in Božić's hand.
On 14 May 2011, Abraham fought... |
Albert Collins | Career | closed because of financial problems, leaving Collins without a record label. He was signed by Bruce Iglauer, the owner of Alligator Records, in 1978 on the recommendation of Dick Shurman, whom Collins had met in Seattle. His first release for the label was Ice Pickin' (1978), which was recorded at Curtom Studios, in C... |
2013 Philippine general election | Money ban & Results & Congress & House of Representatives | the "money ban", acting upon a petition by the Bankers Association of the Philippines. Results Polls opened at 7:00 and there were over 52 million eligible voters to vote for the more than 18,000 positions. In addition, police and military forces were put on higher alert for expectations of violence which had resulted ... |
Anatole Vakhnianyn | Life | Institute in Lviv, currently the Lviv Conservatory, and became its first director. Under the pen-name Natal Vakhnianyn, he composed the opera Kupala (written between 1870-1892, premiered at the Kharkiv Opera House in 1929), music to Taras Shevchenko's drama Nazar Stodolia, and various literary works. He also wrote four... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Miranda & Abraham vs. Elcock, Ayala | He had 22 screws inserted into two titanium plates. After the Miranda bout, Arthur was praised for his ability to finish the fight despite his injury.
Abraham defeated Canadian Sébastien Demers by KO in the third round after two minutes and fifty-seven seconds. Abraham was clearly physically superior than his opponent.... |
Alison Seabeck | Political career | during Ed Miliband's reshuffle.
In December 2010 it was revealed that Seabeck was under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in relation to declaration of member's interests. Seabeck was subsequently asked to apologise for speaking in a debate on fire safety without declaring that her partner, ... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Bret Bielema era (2013–2017) & Ole Miss | season with a 45–48 loss to Missouri. Ole Miss The Razorbacks first played the Rebels in 1908. Arkansas and Mississippi played many times sporadically in the following years. In addition to several occasional years of playing each other, the two teams played each other from 1940–47 and 1952–62 on an annual basis. The R... |
Apracaraja Indravarman's Silver Reliquary | null | is said to have been a wine goblet, similar to others found in Gandhara and Kapisa regions. The vessel was later reused by Apraca king Indravarman as a Reliquary to enshrine Buddhist relics in a stüpa raised by Indravarman. The inscriptions on the silver reliquary provide important new information not only about the hi... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Danny Ford era (1993–1997) & John L. Smith era (2012) | (8-4) seasons combined, to include a 1998 SEC West co-championship and a Cotton Bowl championship on January 1, 2000 with a victory over Texas. Both of those squads included players Ford had recruited to Arkansas. John L. Smith era (2012) On April 23, 2012, Petrino's coaching mentor, John L. Smith, was announced as Ark... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Ardabil and the Arab reaction | the Khazar ruler himself. Taking heart, the Muslims attacked and defeated the Khazars. It is probably this battle or campaign in which Barjik was reportedly killed. Taking advantage of his victory, Maslama evicted the Khazars from Derbent by poisoning their water supply and re-founded the city as a military colony, gar... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio signals | calls were broken up by static, but at this point the aircraft would still be a long distance from Howland.
At 6:14 am another call was received stating the aircraft was within 200 miles (320 km), and requested that the ship use its direction finder to provide a bearing for the aircraft. Earhart began whistling into th... |
Viscount Lorton | null | Viscount Lorton Viscount Lorton, of Boyle in the County of Roscommon, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1806 for General Robert King, 1st Baron Erris. He had already been made Baron Erris, of Boyle in the County of Roscommon, in 1800, also in the Peerage of Ireland. King was the second son of Robe... |
Arthur Abraham | Early life & Amateur career | in 2003. Amateur career Abraham boxed as an amateur in Bamberg and later in Nuremberg. He was an International junior welterweight German champion in 1997 and a three time Senior light middleweight Armenian champion in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Abraham attempted to compete for Armenia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but was un... |
Anna Karlin | Biography | Anna Karlin Anna R. Karlin is an American computer scientist, the Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Biography Karlin was born into an academic family. Her father, Samuel Karlin, was a mathematician at Stanford University, and her brother Kenneth became a professor of... |
Anna Pammrová | null | 1997. |
Anna Eriksson | Personal life | the family lives in Uusikaupunki. |
Apurva Asrani | Shahid & CityLights, Children of War, Waiting | lot of credit for it goes to Apu'. CityLights, Children of War, Waiting In 2014, Apurva edited Fox Star Studios & Vishesh Films CityLights (2014 film) starring Rajkummar Rao & Manav Kaul. The film received glowing reviews from leading critics.
Rahul Desai in his Mumbai Mirror review of Citylights said: Mehta and writer... |
Anti-ballistic missile | Defense against MIRVs & The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 | coverage. Now it was clear that an ABM system would always be many times more expensive than the ICBMs they defended against. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 Technical, economic and political problems described resulted in the ABM treaty of 1972, which restricted the deployment of strategic (not tactical) ant... |
Amy Jacobson | Early life and education | Amy Jacobson Amy Jacobson (born November 11, 1969) is a Chicago broadcaster who was a general assignment reporter for WMAQ-TV, the NBC television affiliate in Chicago, from 1996 to 2007, when she lost her job as part of a scandal involving a rival Chicago TV station's news cameras capturing footage of Jacobson clad in ... |
Apostle | Terminology | Apostle Terminology The term apostle is derived from Classical Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos), meaning "one who is sent off", from στέλλειν ("stellein"), "to send" + από (apó), "off, away from". The literal meaning in English is therefore an "emissary" (from the Latin mittere, "to send", and ex, "from, out, off".
The wor... |
Alain Resnais | 1946–1958: short films & 1959–1968 | with Chris Marker Les statues meurent aussi). Similar collaborations underpinned his future work in feature films. 1959–1968 Resnais's first feature film was Hiroshima mon amour (1959). It originated as a commission from the producers of Nuit et Brouillard (Anatole Dauman and Argos Films) to make a documentary about th... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Bret Bielema era (2013–2017) | Miss 30–0 to achieve bowl eligibility. Though Arkansas lost its remaining conference game against Missouri, they still achieved a Texas Bowl victory in the postseason, defeating Texas 31–7.
In Bielema's third season, the Razorbacks got off to a slow start, losing to Toledo and Texas Tech and starting 2–4. The Hogs then... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Ramírez | co-feature bout on the 9 April undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley III card on HBO pay-per-view. The fight card took place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. All three judges scored the fight 120-108 for Ramírez, who became the first Mexican fighter to win a super middleweight world title. Ramírez w... |
Arthur Augustus Tilley | Early life | Arthur Augustus Tilley Arthur Augustus Tilley (1 December 1851 – 4 December 1942) was an academic of the University of Cambridge. An Old Etonian, his first subject at Cambridge was Classics, after which he began a career as a barrister. He returned to his old college to teach Classics, going on to specialise in French ... |
All I Want Is You (album) | Music and lyrics | Marc Hogan from Spin said it featured neo soul music, while AllMusic critic David Jeffries described it as a "slick" and "sexy" synthesis of influences from Prince, Kanye West, and electro. "Girls Like You" and "Hard Way" feature aggressive hip hop beats, while "Pay Me" and "To the Moon" explore European electronic mus... |
Anthony Miller (murderer) | The murder & The trial | his body hidden under bushes, where it was later discovered by a man out walking his dog.
Denovan was arrested on 11 August 1960 while committing an act of indecency with another man on the Recreation Ground. A newspaper cutting relating to the death of John Cremin was found on his person; Denovan would finally confess... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio signals | YOU BY RADIO WE ARE FLYING AT A 1000 FEET
Earhart's 7:58 am transmission said she couldn't hear the Itasca and asked them to send voice signals so she could try to take a radio bearing. This transmission was reported by the Itasca as the loudest possible signal, indicating Earhart and Noonan were in the immediate area.... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | Medical Corps (MC) | in 1847. Congress made the designation of "Medical Corps" official in 1908, although the term had long been in use informally among the AMEDD's regular physicians. Today, members of the MC work around the world at all echelons of the Army. The Chief of the MC is a major general, whereas the senior Army Medical Departme... |
Alekseyev I-21 | Development | for a ranging radar in the nose, and better protection for the pilot. The armament was revised to the originally specified N-37 guns, although the ammunition capacity was marginally increased to 35 rounds per gun. Despite good results from flight testing, the I-215 lost out in production orders to the newer generation ... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Final phase of the war: Marwan's invasion of Khazaria | surprised the Khazars in a swamp. In the ensuing battle, the Arabs killed 10,000 Khazars, including the tarkhan, and took 7,000 captives. Thereupon the Khazar khagan himself is said to have requested peace. Marwan reportedly offered "Islam or the sword", whereupon the khagan agreed to convert to Islam. Two faqihs were ... |
Alicia Keys | 2006–2008: Film debut and As I Am | and became her fourth consecutive number one album, tying her with Britney Spears for the most consecutive number-one debuts on the Billboard 200 by a female artist. The week became the second-largest sales week of 2007 and the largest sales week for a female solo artist since singer Norah Jones' album Feels like Home ... |
Apostle | Bahá'í | sons of Jacob, the apostles of Jesus, Muhammad's companions, or the Báb's Letters of the Living. |
Alexander Agricola | Related schools and composers & Genres | he was writing using the pervasive imitation characteristic of Josquin des Prez. While few of his works can be dated precisely, he does use many of the non-imitative, complex, rhythmically diverse contrapuntal procedures more often associated with Ockeghem. Unlike Ockeghem, however, he was willing to employ repetition,... |
Ali Javan | Life and career | subsequently submitted his paper for publication which was reviewed by Samuel Goudsmit in 1960.
Javan's gas laser was the first continuously operating laser. It operated with a very low energy input of about 25 watts or 50 watts in the first model, compared to thousands of watts required for the ruby lasers to produce ... |
Andromache (play) | Context | an arrogant tyrant and a physical coward, and his daughter Hermione is portrayed as excessively concerned with her husband's faithfulness, and capable of plotting to kill an innocent child (of Andromache) in order to clear the household of rival sons for the throne; she is also portrayed as wealthy, with her own money,... |
Alicia Svigals | Life and career | Alicia Svigals Alicia Svigals is an American violinist and composer. A co-founder of the Grammy-winning band The Klezmatics, she is considered by many to be the world's foremost living klezmer fiddler. Life and career Alicia Svigals, violinist, composer and vocalist, was born in January 8, 1963 in The Bronx, New York C... |
Asclepiades of Bithynia | Life & Medicine | he reached a great age and died at last from an accident. Nothing remains of his writings but a few fragments.
The family lineage of Asclepiades is not well known. It is assumed that his father was a doctor due to ancient physicians coming from medical families. He received the names Philosophicus due to his knowledg... |
Asdrúbal Padrón | Football career | Asdrúbal terminated his contract with the Alfareros. |
Anna Dostoevskaya | Career & Philately | of his books. They did not have much time, but Anna was determined. Initially Dostoevsky dictated too fast but once they established a pace they completed the project just in time. They also fell in love.
Anna did not have the career she planned but she was essential to Dostoevsky's work. She took over sales of his n... |
2009 International Bowl | Pregame buildup & Coaching change rumors | 2009 NFL Draft. Brown indicated before the game that he had decided to return to UConn for the 2010 season. Coaching change rumors Following the regular season, speculation surrounded whether Turner Gill would leave Buffalo for another school's head coaching position. He was identified as a candidate at two schools: Sy... |
A2 milk | History | differently. A seven-amino acid peptide, beta-casomorphin-7, can be cut away from the A1-beta-casein protein by those enzymes, but the enzymes cannot cut the A2 protein at that location, so BCM-7 is not formed from A2 proteins. Studies in humans have not consistently found that BCM-7 is formed in the human digestive s... |
Art Kunkin | null | Renaissance Pleasure Faire and May Market, a fund-raising event for KPFK. The response was favorable enough for Kunkin to start publishing the Freep (as it came to be called) on a regular basis starting in July. The core group of volunteers and supporters who got involved in the paper included people from KPFK, the boh... |
Willem Van der Hagen | Career | founder of the Irish school of landscape painting.
He painted View of Drogheda in 1718, this is probably his earliest work in Ireland. The paining is part of Drogheda municipal collection on show in the towns Highlanes Galley. He is recorded in Dublin in 1722 painting sets for the Theatre Royal, Dublin. He painted a St... |
Arsuz | History | book. Theodoret, relates the history of the hermit Theodosius of Antioch, founder of a monastery in the mountain near Rhosus, who was forced by the inroads of barbarians to retire to Antioch, where he died and was succeeded by his disciple Romanus, a native of Rhosus; these two religious are honoured by the Greek Ortho... |
Alexei Volkoff | Biography & Series | (if any) of this is true, though, as he was posing as Frost's MI6 handler both times. Further, the revelation that Volkoff was born Hartley Winterbottom and raised by his mother in Somerset, England, casts doubt on the place of birth given in Chuck's flash. Series Volkoff has been present in the series as early as "Chu... |
Armageddon (1997 film) | Summary | Armageddon (1997 film) Summary In the near future, 10 men are voted as the 10 who could lead the world; on the list is leading Hong Kong scientist Dr. Ken (Andy Lau). When some of the other important figures on the list start dying in suspicious cases of spontaneous human combustion, the Hong Kong CID and the British M... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio signals | 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from each) neither station heard her scheduled transmission at 0815 GCT. Moreover, the 50-watt transmitter used by Earhart was attached to a less-than-optimum-length V-type antenna.
The last voice transmission received on Howland Island from Earhart indicated she and Noonan were flying along a li... |
Alviso, San Jose | Fireworks & Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge | hold barbeque picnics. Starting from shortly before sunset, many residents and visitors from out of town proceed to launch unregulated professional quality fireworks from the streets at high rates continuously until after midnight. Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Don Edwards San Francisco Bay Nat... |
Arrow (season 1) | Production | out there that's actually doing a lot of good; the kind of good that she wants to be doing in her role as a legal aid attorney." Learning from previous experiences working in television, the producers worked early on identifying the major story arcs for the series, specifically the first season, including "mapping out"... |
Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a One-Hour Period or Fantasy Single-Camera Series | null | Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a One-Hour Period or Fantasy Single-Camera Series The Art Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Production Design for a One-Hour Period or Fantasy Single-Camera Series is an award handed out annually by the Art Directors Guild. It was introduced at the A... |
Art Kunkin | null | Art Kunkin Arthur Glick Kunkin (March 28, 1928 – April 30, 2019) was an American journalist, political organizer, machinist and New Age esotericist best known as the founding publisher and editor of the Los Angeles Free Press.
Born in The Bronx in New York City, to Irving and Bea Kunkin, he attended the prestigious Bro... |
April 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) | null | April 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) April 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 22
All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For April 21, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 8. |
A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael | The Price of Light & Eye Witness | enraged, believing her to be the thief of the candlesticks, but Lady FitzHamon (after a word in her ear from Cadfael) realises that Elfgiva could expose her infidelity on the night of the theft, and quickly speaks up and says Elfgiva was attending her in her bedchamber that night.
A few days after a disgruntled Hamo de... |
Aria (comics) | Aria (1999) | noble. She meets a man named Pug, later revealed to be a dwarf, and the bartender Dion, who is none other than the Greek god Dionysus. On the way home, she is attacked by a group of shadowy creatures.
Meanwhile, in an elven pub in Cottingly, a group of Fae are killed by further shadowy creatures.
In New York, Pug has r... |
2009 International Bowl | First quarter & Second quarter | lead of the day, at 7–3.
Buffalo got the ball back at their own 21-yard line and were only able to advance it to their 34-yard line before punting the ball back to Connecticut. UConn cornerback Jasper Howard returned the ball 26 yards to the Bulls' 41-yard line. The Huskies handed the ball to Donald Brown for five stra... |
Arab–Khazar wars | The Caucasus as a frontier between the steppe and the settled world | Arab–Khazar wars The Caucasus as a frontier between the steppe and the settled world The Arab–Khazar wars were part of a long series of military conflicts between the nomadic peoples of the Pontic–Caspian steppe and the more settled regions south of the Caucasus range. The two primary routes over the mountains, the Dar... |
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