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Argentina at the 1972 Summer Paralympics | Swimming & Table tennis & Wheelchair basketball | entered seven of its twenty one competitors, two male and five female. They won one medal, a bronze in this event. Richetti won the medal in this event. Table tennis Argentina entered two of its twenty one competitors, both male. They won no medals in this event. Wheelchair basketball Noemi Tortul won her first gold me... |
Apurva Asrani | Aligarh | the Busan International Film Festival and UK premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. It also enjoyed the rare honour of being the first Indian film to open Jio MAMI (Mumbai International Film Festival) in 16 years.
The film was among the best reviewed films of the year. Shubhra Gupta in her Indian Express review of ... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Ardabil and the Arab reaction & Final phase of the war: Marwan's invasion of Khazaria | Constantine V to the Khazar princess Tzitzak. Final phase of the war: Marwan's invasion of Khazaria After Marwan's 732 expedition, a period of quiet set in. Marwan was replaced as governor of Armenia and Adharbayjan in spring 733 by Sa'id al-Harashi, but he undertook no campaigns during the two years of his governorshi... |
Armstrong Siddeley | Siddeley Autocar | Armstrong Siddeley Siddeley Autocar The Siddeley Autocar Company, of Coventry, was founded by John Davenport Siddeley (1866–1953) in 1902. Its products, made for him by a Vickers subsidiary, were heavily based on Peugeots using many Peugeot parts and fitted with English-built bodies. J. D. Siddeley was appointed London... |
Walter Czollek | null | Walter Czollek Walter Czollek (8 April 1907 - 23 April 1972) was the head of the East German publishing house Verlag Volk und Welt between 1954 and 1972.
In 1929, as a young man, he joined the Communist Party. He was detained in a succession of prisons and concentration camps between 1933 and 1939, at which point he ... |
Antonie Adamberger | Biography | from which Johann Maria Monsomo produced a miniature of her.
In 1894 a street in Vienna in the Leopoldstadt district (District 2) was named the Adambergergasse after her. The Arnethgasse in the Ottakring district (District 16) was named after her husband. |
Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum | Thought and depiction in literature | sacrifices due to what he perceives as the gods' lack of need, leading some commentators to accredit Aristodemus with a potential brand of Socratic proto-atheism. R.D.C. Robbins states that Aristodemus both despised the gods and ridiculed those who worshiped them.
Aristodemus' representation in Plato's Symposium has g... |
Ashes Divide | Background and early years (2003–2007) | still fronting Tool, and over time, he began to be more and more involved in the creative process of the music, leading to disagreements on the musical direction for the second A Perfect Circle album, Thirteenth Step. The album, released in September 2003, was still a success, going platinum as well, though the two sti... |
Amelia Earhart | Gardner Island hypothesis | Anthropological Department at Sydney University. These bones were misplaced in Fiji long ago and cannot be reexamined.
Authorities also investigated the sextant box. Sir Harry Charles Luke, High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, provided the box to an expert aviation navigator, Harold Gatty. On August 8, 1941, Luke ... |
Antefix | Etymology | fasten. |
Antonio Latini | null | Antonio Latini Antonio Latini (1642–1692) was a steward of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, cardinal-nephew of Pope Urban VIII in Rome and subsequently to Don Stefano Carillo Salcedo, first minister to the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Born in Collamato, now a frazione of the town of Fabriano, in the province of Ancona, his co... |
Aurélio Dictionary | null | Aurélio Dictionary The Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa is a comprehensive dictionary of the Portuguese language, published in Brazil, first compiled by Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira. It is popularly known as the Dicionário Aurélio, or simply Aurélio or Aurelião ("Big Aurélio"').
The first edition was publish... |
Atlanta freeway revolts | Jimmy Carter's "Presidential Parkway" | lay empty through the 1980s as residents fought the construction of any road in the corridor. A "Presidential Parkway" was proposed as a smaller four-lane road to run from Downtown far into Druid Hills (see map).
Citizens of neighborhoods along the corridor formed CAUTION (Citizens Against Unnecessary Thoroughfares in... |
Annuit cœptis | On the Great Seal | Annuit cœptis Annuit cœptis (/ˈænuɪt ˈsɛptɪs/, Classical Latin: [ˈannʊ.ɪt ˈkoe̯ptiːs]) is one of two mottos on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. (The second motto is Novus ordo seclorum; another motto appears on the obverse (front) side of the Great Seal: E pluribus unum.) Taken from the Latin wo... |
Aurora Society | null | on one hand and a cultural and educational organization on the other. |
Attacks on Kure and the Inland Sea (July 1945) | Prelude | fleet. The BPF was instead used to attack airfields and the port of Osaka.
Kure had been subjected to several major attacks prior to July 1945. On 19 March 1945, 321 US Navy aircraft attacked Japanese warships in and around the city. This attack was unsuccessful, with no Japanese ships being sunk, though an escort carr... |
Attila (horse) | 1842: three-year-old season | from the start and set a strong pace, but Attila began to weaken before the horses entered the straight and was soon beaten. He finished eighth of the seventeen starters behind Blue Bonnet, a filly described in the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine as "a very inferior animal". Two days later Attila ran again... |
Air Warrior | Reception | three and a half stars out of five. The magazine in 1993 praised the flight models' accuracy, stating that it forced pilots to choose correctly when selecting aircraft to fly against other humans. The magazine suggested that if Kesmai were to add some upgrades to the offline single-player mode it would "blow away any o... |
Aircraft warning lights | Use and positioning & Aircraft warning paint | equally along the full height of the mast. Aircraft warning paint Aircraft warning paint usually consists of red and white paint at equal lengths on the antenna tower or mast. This paint scheme is usually required on towers over 200 feet tall, but may vary from state to state and near airports internationally. Because ... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Media coverage & Female Media Coverage | ABC television coverage, that really has brought inspiration not only to many Australians, but in particular people who do have a physical disability and looking at the opportunities, not necessarily the obstacles of sport. Female Media Coverage Inconsistent media coverage between males and females has always been an i... |
Arthur Lawson Johnston, 3rd Baron Luke | null | Louise Hearne, daughter of the actor Richard Hearne in 1971. He had one son, Ian James Lawson Johnston, 4th Baron Luke, and two daughters by his first wife, and one son by his second wife.
He died on 2 October 2015. |
Alan Wilkie | Retirement & Life outside football | behalf of CONCACAF (The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football), and in conjunction with the English FA. Life outside football Wilkie is married to Margaret, and has two sons. He is self-admittedly a Newcastle United fan, and his other hobbies and interests include music, crosswords... |
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | Background and formation | and the ASEER. However, ASEER was soon enlarged, revised, and renamed to become AAASS' own quarterly peer-reviewed journal, Slavic Review. Professor Donald Treadgold of the University of Washington was the initial editor of this new official AAASS publication. AAASS had (and continues to have) an interdisciplinary scop... |
Asclepiades of Bithynia | Music therapy | writers Galen and Aretaeus, both of whom lived in the 2nd century, credit Asclepiades with being the first individual to perform an elective (non-emergency) tracheotomy.
Asclepiades advocated humane treatment of mental disorders, and had insane persons freed from confinement and treated them with natural therapy, such ... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Media coverage | was a 65 per cent increase in Australian media coverage of the Games compared to the 2004 Games in Athens.
Independent research has also indicated that 64 percent of Australians followed the Beijing Paralympics, which indicates that APC's goal to broadcast the games to Australians over multiple platforms was achieved.... |
American Legion | History | American Legion History The American Legion was established in Paris, France, March 15, 1919, by a thousand officers and men, delegates from all the units of the American Expeditionary Forces (A. E. F.) to an organization caucus meeting, which adopted a tentative constitution. The action of the Paris meeting was confir... |
Apostle | Islam | scripture. Muslim tradition also maintains that Adam received scrolls as did some of the other patriarchs of the Generations of Adam. The term apostle or messenger is also applied to prophets sent to preach to specific areas; the Qur'an mentions Yunus, Elijah, Ismail, Shuaib and other prophets as being messengers as we... |
2019 Rafael Nadal tennis season | Australian Open & Mexican Open & Indian Wells Masters | was victorious in straight sets, and made his way to his first Australian Open final since 2017. In the finals, Nadal lost in straight sets to Novak Djokovic. It was his first ever straight set loss in a grand slam final. Mexican Open Nadal participated in the Mexican Open for the first time since 2017, after withdrawi... |
Austrian Empire | Foreign policy | into a secret military agreement with the Russian Empire in November 1804. This convention was to assure mutual cooperation in the case of a new war against France.
Austrian unwillingness to join the Third Coalition was overcome by British subsidies, but the Austrians withdrew from the war yet again after a decisive de... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Stieglitz III, Sjekloca | $2,351,250 (75%), while Abraham would receive the remaining $783,750 (25%). In a very close fight through 11 rounds, Stieglitz took a knee in the twelfth round, as Abraham's counter-punching took its toll. Stieglitz was the 'come forward' aggressor with jab attacks. Abraham fought with counterattacks that wore Stieglit... |
Ashes Divide | Background and early years (2003–2007) | Howerdel transition to a role of primary singer in his solo work. Once Emotive was completed, A Perfect Circle went into hiatus, and Howerdel centered his focus around his solo work.
He was quoted as saying that his solo music would be more uptempo than his previous work with A Perfect Circle, but many of those uptempo... |
Antonio Raxel | Education and acting career & Dubbing career | La Familia Barrett, Sexteto, where he performed alongside Chula Prieto, and La idiota, next to Vilma Gonzalez. Dubbing career Antonio Raxel’s distinctive voice was featured in various projects in film as well as TV and dubbing of the period. He appeared with comedy and suspense actors in such films as Santo y Blue Demo... |
Apurva Asrani | Simran & Made in Heaven | & Apurva.
Uday Bhatia in his Livemint review of the film said 'Having watched Simran I can understand why they’d squabble over the writing credits (officially, Apurva is story, screenplay and dialogue; Kangana is additional story and dialogue). Praful is a fantastically etched character, all quirks and hard edges and n... |
Arabesque (rapper) | Career | Arabesque (rapper) Career At the age of 16, Arabesque started his career in the music industry as a freelance contributor to various urban publications, interviewing the likes of Flava Flav and A-Trak, and writing featured hip-hop editorials. In 2000, shortly after he and his cousin formed a group, Babylon Point, their... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Final phase of the war: Marwan's invasion of Khazaria | and forty from Bardha'a, but his initial expeditions were against minor local potentates. In 735, Marwan captured three fortresses in Alania, near the Darial Pass, and the ruler of a North Caucasian principality, Tuman Shah, who was restored to his lands by the Caliph as a client ruler. In the next year, Marwan campaig... |
Arabesque (rapper) | Career | the album being distributed by Universal Records. The executive producer was Anonymous Twist from Toronto. Arabesque's first video, for the album Bellyache (directed by Cazhj) received rotation on Much Music's Rap City, shortly after shooting a video for the single "Stardust" (directed by Marc Andre Debruyne).
In Febru... |
Attingal Outbreak | Details | with the English East India Company. The treaty, aimed at suppressing the insurrection of Yogakkar and Pillamar, gave the English the permission to construct a fort at Kulachal The Battle of Kulachal was fought on 10 August 1741 [O.S. 31 July 1741] between forces of the Indian kingdom of Travancore and the Dutch East I... |
Alicia Keys | 1981–1993: Early life | parallels in the music industry, particularly as she was a teenager starting out; she could maintain a particular focus and not derail herself. She credits her "tough" mother for anchoring her on a right path as opposed to many people she knew who ended up on the wrong path and in jail. Keys attributed her unusual matu... |
Armaan (2003 film) | Plot | she is involved in a serious accident and has serious damage to her brain. Now Akash has to operate on her. For a moment he is in a dilemma, because curing Sonia would mean facing her problems again. But he decides that he is a doctor, and a doctor should never discriminate between patients, but his job is to simply sa... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Ardabil and the Arab reaction | far more limited campaign on the country immediately to the north of Derbent and then retired there to spend the winter. Marwan was more active in the south, where he raised Ashot III Bagratuni to the position of presiding prince of Armenia, effectively granting the country broad autonomy in exchange for the service of... |
Adela Noriega | Continued success | the Mexican post-independence period of the mid-19th century. This costume drama registered very high records of audience in Mexico and at the time of its airing on Univision, it occasionally managed to beat leading U.S. networks in the ratings. In 2005, Amor real was released on DVD and due to its success, it became t... |
Anti-ballistic missile | American plans for Central European site | Anti-ballistic missile An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a surface-to-air missile designed to counter ballistic missiles (see missile defense). Ballistic missiles are used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological, or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory. The term "anti-ballistic missile" is a generic... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Elcock, Ayala & Abraham vs. Miranda II | was accompanied by live performances of the Scorpions and is currently accompanied by the track "Ready For The Fight" by The Young Punx.
On 29 March 2008, Abraham defeated American Elvin Ayala via 12th-round KO after connecting with a devastating left hook that sent his opponent crashing to the canvas face first. This ... |
Australia–Vietnam relations | Modern days | soldiers at the Vietnam War. Nonetheless, Australia is also among one of the most critical of the violation of human rights in Vietnam done by the communist Government in the country.
In recently, Vietnam has become more reliant in need to Australia's support to counter growing Chinese influence and aggressive attitude... |
Alfred Gessow | Honors & Legacy | of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1982. Legacy Prof. Gessow was the founding editor of the Journal of the American Helicopter Society, published by AHS International, and served as editor for one year as was the custom of the time. The journal was established in 1956 to provide a forum in wh... |
Arrow (season 1) | Casting | is a corrupt businessman who is ripping off some people – behavior that has gotten the attention of Dinah Laurel Lance and her CNRI firm". On February 21, 2012 Colin Donnell was cast as Tommy Merlyn, named after Green Arrow's archenemy Merlyn. He is described as "Oliver's best friend, a playboy “trustafarian” who assum... |
Arthur Abraham | Personal life | younger brother Alexander is also a professional boxer, and his older brother Christian owns a furniture shop.
Abraham plans on opening a boxing school in Armenia following his future retirement. He will also have foreign-language classes for students at the boxing school, such as English and German, to help have succe... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Early history (1894–1957) | to install a very early edition of the hurry-up offense, as the team never huddled and chased the ball after every play. Creekmore was also known for "fast and slippery running, blocking, and passing" and could also return punts and tackle well.
There are differing stories about the origins of the 'Razorbacks' mascot, ... |
Artistic roller skating at the 1981 World Games | Men’s singles | Artistic roller skating at the 1981 World Games The artistic roller skating events of World Games I were held on July 27–30, 1981, at Cal Skate Roller Rink in Milpitas, California, in the United States. These were the first World Games, an international quadrennial multi-sport event, and were hosted by the city of Sant... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Opposing armies: the Arabs and the Khazars | of which was fundamental to the maintenance of tribal coalitions. For the Khazars, the strategic stake of the conflict was control of the passes of the Caucasus.
The eastern Caucasus range became the main theatre of the Arab–Khazar conflict, with the Arab armies aiming to gain control of Derbent (in Arabic, Bab al-Abwa... |
Anna Leonowens | Teacher at the Siamese court | accepted an offer made by the consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, King of Siam. The king wished to give his 39 wives and concubines and 82 children a modern Western education on scientific secular lines, which earlier missionaries' wives had not provided. Leonowens sent her d... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | Coat of arms & Regimental insignia (crest) & Medical special branches | The Latin motto Experientia et Progressus, (Experience and Progress), is meant to convey the steady and unfailing progress of the Army Medical Department since 1775. Regimental insignia (crest) The design of the AMEDD regimental insignia (crest) is derived from the regimental coat of arms. It is one of the US Army's 14... |
Wadham College Boat Club | Alumni society | the boat club which is open to all supporters and past members of the club. The Society exists to provide support to the boat club, and to foster the enjoyment of rowing and camaraderie amongst its members. The Society provides funding towards the coaching and equipment purchases of the boat club. The Society holds an ... |
Apostle | Latter Day Saint movement | D. Todd Christofferson, Neil L. Anderson, Ronald A. Rasband, Gary E. Stevenson, Dale G. Renlund, Gerrit W. Gong, and Ulisses Soares. There are also members of the Quorum of the Seventy (referred to as “Seventies”). They typically work under the direction of the twelve apostles and are given similar responsibilities tha... |
2001 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | Format & Bracket | In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the winner of the four vs. five game while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournamen... |
Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud | Context & Impact | for political conflict. In Egypt reasons such as conflicting ideologies were responsible. Of the nearly 2.5 million youth unemployed, 43 percent had university degrees. This can be seen as why the protests were non-violent and of the 300 deaths nearly all were at the hands of the security forces and none from the prote... |
Amelia Earhart | First attempt & Radio equipment | saw a tire blow. Earhart thought either the Electra's right tire had blown and/or the right landing gear had collapsed. Some sources, including Mantz, cited pilot error.
With the aircraft severely damaged, the flight was called off and the aircraft was shipped by sea to the Lockheed Burbank facility for repairs.
Mannin... |
Anti-ballistic missile | Brilliant Pebbles concept | was meant to avoid some of the problems of the earlier SDI concepts. Rather than use sophisticated large laser battle stations and nuclear-pumped X-ray laser satellites, Brilliant Pebbles consisted of a thousand very small, intelligent orbiting satellites with kinetic warheads. The system relied on improvements of comp... |
Abby in Wonderland | Premise & Reception | Abby in Wonderland Premise Abby is such fun to joy adventure to helps growing this and have fun.
Follow Abby drugged in a rabbit down the hole.
Elmo is rushed away to late helps this pocketwatch. Reception DVD Verdict gave the film a positive review, noting that while the original Alice in Wonderland story "kooky and f... |
Arvelia Myers | Activism & Death & Awards and acknowledgements | another front, when the ATA was on the verge of collapsing due to infighting, Meyers conferred with attorney James Ciccone to make sure the infrastructure was strengthened and that the organization remained independent and strong. Death In October 2017, Myers died while in Jacobs Nursing Home in The Bronx, New York. Aw... |
AutoCAD | AutoCAD 360 & Student versions | to migrate the majority of its software to "the cloud", starting with the AutoCAD WS mobile application.
According to a 2013 interview with Ilai Rotbaein, an AutoCAD WS Product Manager for Autodesk, the name AutoCAD WS had no definitive meaning, and was interpreted variously as Autodesk Web Service, White Sheet or Work... |
Abu Bakker Qassim | Background & Combatant Status Review | Abu Bakker Qassim Background In late 2001, Qassim was captured along with his compatriot A'Del Abdu al-Hakim by Pakistani bounty hunters.
Qassim and al-Hakim were transferred to U.S. custody by the Pakistani forces and held in Afghanistan for approximately six months, and were transferred to "Camp Delta," on the Guanta... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Overhead Valve V8 engine | as it introduced the Ford Y-block engine and the similar but larger Lincoln Y-block V8 engine in 1952 for its luxury car lines. These were soon phased out with the Ford Windsor engine in 1962, which still forms the basis for the current engine line. The Lincoln Y-block 317 cubic inch motor was rated at 160 hp, only s... |
Apocephalus borealis | Zombee Watch | better observers of nature. |
1980 World Championships in Athletics | Summary | by a final of twelve athletes.
The tournament followed the 1976 World Championships in Athletics, which featured just one event – the men's 50 kilometres walk – and was organised by the IAAF in reaction to the IOC dropping that event for the 1976 Summer Olympics. The 1980 World Championships preceded the launch of the ... |
Abu Bakker Qassim | Press reports | assured the American government that they would help him and his compatriots adapt to life in America, if they were given asylum in America.
To the BBC he said in January 2007 that "Guantanamo was a five-year nightmare, We're trying to forget it.""
On June 15, 2008, the McClatchy News Service published articles based o... |
Alexander Winton | Legacy | of Fame in 2005, and National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006.
The Winton Place Condominium in Lakewood, Ohio, was built in 1962 on the site of his former mansion. |
Austrian Empire | Foundation | Empire in September 1805. On 20 October 1805, an Austrian army led by General Karl Mack von Leiberich was defeated by French armies near the town of Ulm. The French victory resulted in the capture of 20,000 Austrian soldiers and many cannons. Napoleon's army won another victory at Austerlitz on 2 December 1805. Francis... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | Welfare, health, family and education & Women and LGBT rights | example, a provision for partial retirement.
The Greens advocate decriminalizing marijuana usage and the private growing of plants. Furthermore, the Greens support research on the drug and the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Women and LGBT rights The Green Party supports the implementation of quotas in executi... |
Alun Cairns | Views & BBC | tax and raising the National Living Wage were also important.
He has spoken in favour of fox hunting as he says it is a part of "countryside conservation".
Cairns has claimed society is only on "step one" of gender equality, and further progress has to be made. He believes all of society stands to gain from gender equa... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | History | Army Medical Department (United States) History Both the AMEDD and the Army Medical Corps trace their origins back to July 27, 1775, when the Continental Congress established the "Army Hospital", which was at that time overseen by the "Director General and Chief Physician". Congress provided an Army medical organizatio... |
1898 Windward Islands hurricane | Impact | except for Bequia, which was severely effected. At Guadeloupe, the sloop Marie Stella capsized offshore Goyave, drowning nine people. An additional nine deaths occurred after a landslide in Trois-Rivières buried two homes. On St. Lucia, impact was mostly limited to rain and landslides. |
Ahed Tamimi | Slapping incident | the soldiers' restraint in Palestinian and Israeli societies. Rallies in support of Tamimi took place in North America and Europe.
On 24 March 2018, Tamimi agreed to a plea bargain with prosecutors whereby she would serve eight months in prison and pay a 5,000-shekel ($1,437) fine. As part of the agreement, she pleaded... |
AutoCAD | Introduction & Compatibility with other software | of AutoCAD for Mac. The native file format of AutoCAD is .dwg. This and, to a lesser extent, its interchange file format DXF, have become de facto, if proprietary, standards for CAD data interoperability, particularly for 2D drawing exchange. AutoCAD has included support for .dwf, a format developed and promoted by Aut... |
An Anna Blume | The poem | a purely personal matter." Kurt Schwitters, 1920
The poem was the subject of a particularly well-orchestrated publicity campaign. Initially fly-posted in Hannover, then subject to a spoiler in Herwarth Walden's der Sturm magazine asking 'Who really is Anna Blume?' answered with 'Twited brain! He painted the image of th... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Ward | find a way to penetrate his tight defense. After a competitive first few rounds, Ward seized control of the fight, using his ring savvy and instincts to control Abraham. Although Abraham was somewhat passive at times, he gave an earnest effort and frequently threw combinations that were mostly blocked by Ward. Abraham ... |
Angelo DeCarlo | Presidential pardon | Nixon. It was rumored that Vice President Spiro Agnew, a personal friend of Frank Sinatra, persuaded Nixon to approve the request. Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox later investigated the DeCarlo pardon, but found no evidence of corruption.
In December 1972, DeCarlo was released from prison. He died in Mountai... |
Arrow (season 1) | Design | Colleen Atwood. According to Amell, it was important for the suit to be functional, and the best way that he knew for that was if he could put the costume on by himself: "If I can put it on by myself, I think that people will buy it. And that was our idea. That's our world. My boots are actually Nike Frees, which is ki... |
Areolate grouper | Commercial production | high market price, so fishing pressure is intense. To alleviate the pressure on wild grouper stocks, many nations have promoted aquaculture in the hopes of producing a more sustainable grouper yield. Hong Kong is the primary producer of areolate grouper raised by aquaculture, and about 155 metric tons were produced in ... |
Anna Karenina (2012 film) | Plot | Karenin comes to Stiva and Dolly's house to inform them he is divorcing Anna. They beg him to forgive her, but he refuses. After dinner, Levin and Kitty announce their love for each other and decide to marry. Anna goes into premature labour and sends for Vronsky. She berates him, saying that he could never be the man K... |
Anna Leonowens | Teacher at the Siamese court & Literary career | did not receive a legacy. The new monarch, fifteen-year-old Chulalongkorn, who succeeded his father, wrote Leonowens a warm letter of thanks for her services. He did not invite her to resume her post but they corresponded amicably for many years. At the age of 27, Louis Leonowens returned to Siam and was granted a comm... |
Amelia Earhart | Childhood | named after her two grandmothers, Amelia Josephine Harres and Mary Wells Patton. From an early age, Amelia was the ringleader while her sister Grace Muriel Earhart (1899–1998), two years her junior, acted as the dutiful follower. Amelia was nicknamed "Meeley" (sometimes "Millie") and Grace was nicknamed "Pidge"; both g... |
Antoin Sevruguin | Ethnographical photography & Sevruguin's photographic studio | Westerners, farmers working fields, womenweavers at work, army officers, religious officials, Zoroastrians, Armenians, Lurs, Georgians, Kurds, Shasavan, Assyrians, and Gilak. Sevruguin's photographic studio Many Westerners who lived in Persia and travellers who visited the country brought back pictures from Sevruguin, ... |
Arab–Khazar wars | First Arab–Khazar War and aftermath | Their contribution proved decisive for the eventual Byzantine victory in the war. For a few years afterwards, the Khazars exercised some control over Caucasian Iberia (approximately modern Georgia), Caucasian Albania/Arran (modern Republic of Azerbaijan) and Adharbayjan (modern Iranian Azerbaijan), while the western ha... |
Austrian Empire | Foreign policy | goal of further war with France.
Archduke Charles of Austria served as the Head of the Council of War and Commander in Chief of the Austrian army. Endowed with the enlarged powers, he reformed the Austrian Army to preparedness for another war. Johann Philipp von Stadion, the foreign minister, personally hated Napoleon ... |
A Yoke of Gold | Plot | what has happened. He vows to pursue the traitorous Jose and kill him. Even though Jose has a head start, Luis believes he can beat Luis to Don Ortega’s home.
Both Jose and Luis ride hard and fast across the desert to Santa Barbara - the home of Don Ortega. Jose wins the race and arrives before Luis. He warns Ortega of... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Escalation of the conflict | in the mud, under continuous rainfall, before scoring a victory against the khagan on 17 September 728. How great that victory was, however, is open to question, because on his return Maslama was ambushed by the Khazars, whereupon the Arabs simply abandoned their baggage train and fled headlong through the Darial Pass ... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Early history (1894–1957) | tough" as a band of fighting Razorbacks. The Wooo Pig Sooie or calling the Hogs became a tradition and the official school cheer in the 1920s when farmers rushing out to meet the bus returning from an away game called the hogs as a greeting. Arkansas prevailed over powerhouses Oklahoma, LSU and Washington of St. Louis ... |
900 Degrees | Commercial | the United States, and remained his only charting single there until his Esthero collaboration "Balmes (A Better Life)" became a top 40 hit on the Dance Club Songs chart the following year. |
Andrew Jayamanne | Professional career | at Vijaya Studios, Jayamanne met Sri Lankan director Titus Thotawatta. In 1970, he left Vijaya to join Thotawatta in the production of Haralaksaya, marking his debut as Director of Cinematography. Jayamanne continued to work as Thotawatta's principle cinematographer through the latter's final film Handaya.
Jayamanne ... |
Assyrian folk/pop music | Modern Assyrian Music | mode, and themes tend to focus on longing, melancholy, strife and love issues. Most recently, Assyrian dance music has a beat or rhythm similar to Jamaican music (see riddim). Solos are common in Assyrian music and they are usually protracted. Instrumentation is mostly arranged with a keyboard and electronic drums, nam... |
Anthony Firingee | Biography | Anthony Firingee Anthony Firingee (Bengali: অ্যাণ্টনি ফিরিংগী; Antōnī Phiringī; lit:"Anthony the foreigner"; 1786–1836), born as Hensman Anthony, was a Bengali language kavigan singer-writer and folk poet of Portuguese origin known for his works in Bengali devotional songs in the early part of the 19th century. He was ... |
Arthur Augustus Tilley | Career | buried at Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France Arthur died on 4 December 1942, three days after his 91st birthday, and at the time of his death was living at number 2, Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge. |
Aimez-vous Brahms? | Summary | the Salle Pleyel. Believing that she saw in him a being sensitive to music, she gave in and, for several weeks, accepted the passion that the young man offered her.
Paule soon realized that her love for Roger was, despite everything, more precious to her. Confronted with society's disapproval of the age difference, she... |
AutoCAD | Mac | other Mac applications. Autodesk has also built in various features in order to take full advantage of Apple's Trackpad capabilities as well as the full-screen mode in Apple's OS X Lion. AutoCAD 2012 for Mac supports both the editing and saving of files in DWG formatting that will allow the file to be compatible with o... |
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | Background and formation | and research institutes in the immediate post-war period, including notably Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Columbia University in New York City, and the University of Washington in Seattle. These institutions successfully produced the leading scholars of Slavic studies in North America. A number of gra... |
AutoCAD | AutoCAD 360 | supported drawing of lines, circles, and other shapes; creation of text and comment boxes; and management of color, layer, and measurements — in both landscape and portrait modes. Version 1.3, released August 17, 2011, added support for unit typing, layer visibility, area measurement and file management. The Android va... |
Albert Collins | Career | had started to appear regularly at a Fifth Ward club, Walter's Lounge, with the group Big Tiny and the Thunderbirds.
The saxophonist and music teacher Henry Hayes heard about Collins from Joe "Guitar" Hughes. After seeing him perform live, Hayes encouraged Collins to record a single for Kangaroo Records, a label he had... |
Arthur Grenfell Wauchope | Military career | 1923 and then Chief of the British Section of the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control for Berlin in 1924. He was appointed General Officer Commanding 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division in 1927 and GOC Northern Ireland District in 1929.
His last appointment was as High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for... |
Ashoknagar | Transport | shorter city roads are also has links to nearer villages and towns, such as Pachaadi Kheda Road, Mohri road, Aron road, Kolua road, Pawargarh road, Kabira road etc.
Ashoknagar is 44 km from the NH-3 Agra Bombay highway and one hour drive away from the NH-76. |
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