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Alviso, San Jose | History | series of several successful business ventures. Alviso Mills, founded in 1853, at its peak produced up to 300 barrels of flour a day. As wheat production in the San Joaquín Valley grew, production in the Santa Clara Valley waned and the Alviso Mills closed in 1885. In 1906, Sai Yin Chew opened the Bayside Canning Compa... |
Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland | Release | The main additional features to the port are the addition of a new post-game dungeon, along with several new boss enemies, new artwork, and new costumes for the player character. It also makes use of the Vita's back touchpad for navigating the world map.
The Vita version was localized in Europe and North America as Ate... |
Atlanta freeway revolts | 2010 plan for I-675 | again appeared on GDOT's list of potential projects, this time in the form whereby the intown portion would be in a 14.6 mile-long, 41 foot-wide tunnel. Rep. Pat Gardner held a meeting at Rock Springs Church in Morningside on January 4, 2010 with GDOT and Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) leaders, Mayor Kasim Reed, cit... |
Additional CPF Housing Grant | Eligibility conditions | Additional CPF Housing Grant Additional Housing Grant (abbrev: AHG) is an additional subsidy over and above the regular market subsidy and Central Provident Fund Housing Grant that new and resale HDB (Housing & Development Board) flat buyers in Singapore can enjoy. It offsets the purchase price of a new or resale HDB ... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Notable failures | its 68 hp, inline-four power plant and optional 80 hp inline-six, but starting at $1363, the consumer could buy a full-sized Chevrolet auto with an inline-6 for only $200 more than the Henry J inline-4, making it economically unappealing, and all three lines underpowered when compared to the offerings of the Big Three.... |
Anatole Vakhnianyn | Family Background & Life | Kazimierz Świtalski, Prime Minister of Poland (1929). The languages spoken in his home were Polish and German. Anatole Vakhnianyn's sister, Antonina, was the maternal grandmother of Ukrainian-American community leader Omelian Pleshkewycz. Life After completing studies at Przemysl's gymnasium, in 1859 Vakhnianyn began s... |
Aurisina | Overview | Aurisina Overview The town of Aurisina was inhabited in the Roman era because of nearby quarry with a well-known limestone, called Aurisina marble, used to build Roman Aquileia. The settlement was first mentioned as Lebrosina in 1308, and it grew in importance as the Vienna-Trieste railway was built in 1857. The world ... |
Anna-Lisa Thomson | Biography | Anna-Lisa Thomson Biography Anna-Lisa Thomson received her education at the Technical School in Stockholm from 1924 to 1928. She began immediately after training at the ceramic factory St. Erik lervarufabrik in Uppsala. After two years, she was the factory's artistic director. In the mid 1930s she came to Upsala-Ekeby ... |
Angus Deaton | Scholarship | consumption and savings, and the measurement of economic wellbeing.
2014—Elected to the American Philosophical Society.
2015—Elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
2015—Awarded with the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.
2016—Knighted in the 2016 Quee... |
American Independence Union | null | American Independence Union The American Independence Union was formed at a one-day conference of 58 civic leaders which was called by Richard Bartholdt, a U.S. Representative from Missouri, and which was held at the New Willard Hotel in Washington on January 30, 1915. Its purpose was to agitate for strict
US adherenc... |
2015 Solheim Cup | Team selection & Individual player records | beginning with the 2013 CN Canadian Women's Open (25 August) and concluding with the 2015 Canadian Pacific Women's Open (23 August). Points were increased in 2015 and doubled in the five major championships. The eight players with the highest points are automatically selected for Team USA. Two additional players will q... |
Žarko Paspalj | Role on the Serbia-Montenegro bench | the right atmosphere by acting as a liaison between the head coach and the players. The thinking was that such a well-liked former player would have a soothing effect on the damaged inter-squad relations. Paspalj was also entrusted with the role of convincing different players, especially ones from the NBA, to come pla... |
Ashes Divide | Inactivity and second studio album (2009-present) | Divide toured extensively in 2008, although they pulled out of a tour opening for Puddle of Mudd at the end of the year, for undisclosed reasons, and fell out of the public eye. Additionally, towards the end of 2008, after Maynard James Keenan announcing that he and Billy Howerdel were working on music for A Perfect Ci... |
Assyrian folk/pop music | Modern Assyrian Music | of northern Iraq and north east Syria, and World War II brought them in direct contact with the west especially the British army in Iraq, Russians in Urmia and the French in Syria. But the contact with the British caused the most influence on modern Assyrian music, especially the period after the independence of Iraq i... |
Abbas Noyan | Family Life and Career & Personal | critics of widespread corruption. He advocated for women's rights and elimination of violence against women.
After his term at the national assembly, he founded the Truth and Justice political party (also known as Rights and Justice) together with Hanif Atmar, Ehsanullah Zia, Sima Samar, Mohammad Sardar Roshan, and Ham... |
Arthur Augustus Tilley | Career |
In 1884, Tilley was still a tutor and lecturer for the Classical Tripos, and in that year he penned a valedictory:
The old type of scholarship, the name by which we have been accustomed to know 'a minute acquaintance with the niceties of the dead languages', is rapidly passing away from us. No longer is the skilful em... |
Ansar al-Din Front | Harakat Fajr ash-Sham al-Islamiya & Relationship with other groups | the Islamic Dawn Movement of the Levant.
On 2 August 2018, Ansar al-Haqq and Abna Sharia joined.
On 20 August 2018, Fursan al-Iman joined the group. Relationship with other groups The group has stated they desire to maintain a policy of neutrality and independence between various groups in fighting against the Syrian g... |
Autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati | Broadcast television & Email petition | upheld, two of the Authority's members went on record to note that "it is unusual to see autopsy photographs in the 6pm news, particularly involving children", and that "the warning could have made a specific reference to autopsy photographs of a child in order to leave viewers in no doubt as to the content of the repo... |
Australian Lightwing SP-6000 | Design and development | Australian Lightwing SP-6000 Design and development The aircraft was designed to comply with the Australian rules for amateur-built aircraft. It features a cantilever low-wing or optionally strut-braced high-wing, a six-seat enclosed cabin, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The S... |
2008 California wildfires | Spare the Air & Health Impact | smoke from the wildfires. Smoky conditions continued into late August, when most of the wildfires were extinguished. The smoke from the fires finally began to disperse on September 10, after the last of the wildfires was fully contained. Health Impact A paper in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Bi... |
1985 World Health Organization AIDS surveillance case definition | Revision | 1985 World Health Organization AIDS surveillance case definition Revision The 1985 WHO AIDS surveillance case definition was heavily criticised, for both medical and political reasons. The 1994 expanded World Health Organization AIDS case definition was introduced in 1994 to incorporate the statement that HIV testing s... |
Anti-Hit List | null | Anti-Hit List The Anti-Hit List is a weekly music column by Canadian music critic John Sakamoto.
The column presents a countdown list of Sakamoto's ten favorite non-hit songs of the week. This may include indie rock, mashups, forgotten classics, and other assorted bits of Internet musical culture. Each entry provides a... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Bret Bielema era (2013–2017) | of 8–5.
Bielema's fourth season was a topsy-turvy 7–6 campaign that ended with two embarrassing defeats at the hands of Missouri in the regular season finale and Virginia Tech in the Belk Bowl. The former saw his team blow a 17–point halftime lead and the latter was a 24–point blown halftime lead, the largest for Arkan... |
Alain Resnais | Reputation | of beauty is compromised by a lack of sensuousness, and that his seriousness of intent fails to communicate itself to audiences. Elsewhere however it is suggested that such views are partly based on a misreading of the films, especially his earlier ones, which has impeded an appreciation of the humour and irony which p... |
Alain Resnais | 1981–2014 & Reputation | a further Ayckbourn project, based on the 2013 play Arrivals & Departures. Reputation Resnais was often linked with the group of French filmmakers who made their breakthrough as the New Wave or nouvelle vague in the late 1950s, but by then he had already established a significant reputation through his ten years of wor... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | History & Coat of arms | into existence in 1947.
The Army Organization Act of 1950 renamed the Medical Department the "Army Medical Service," and on June 4, 1968, the Army Medical Service was renamed the Army Medical Department. Coat of arms A regimental coat of arms was devised for the Medical Department, and was most likely first used in 181... |
Amelia Earhart | Education & Family fortunes | their grandparents in Atchison, while their parents moved into new, smaller quarters in Des Moines. During this period, Earhart received a form of home-schooling together with her sister, from her mother and a governess. She later recounted that she was "exceedingly fond of reading" and spent countless hours in the lar... |
Attingal Outbreak | Details | were to be presented to the Queen through them only. But Gyffort was not ready to accept it. The people became furious and they attacked and killed the Britons. Then the local people laid siege to the fort and it was said that the sige continued for about 6 months. The English troops from the Fort of Tellichery came to... |
Arash Hejazi | Education & Translator & Witness of death of Neda Agha-Soltan | protests, and was one of those who attempted to save her life. He lived in Tehran. Arash Hejazi is reported to have since fled Iran out of fear of government reprisals. Education Arash Hejazi studied medicine and his thesis was "The influences of storytelling on children's anxiety disorders". Translator As a literary t... |
Abbeyfield School, Chippenham | UK Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge | overall. The following year, two teams were entered, Quantum and Enigma. Both teams made it to the final, but Enigma suffered from an engine misfire, and only came 15th. Quantum, had a successful launch, and came 5th overall. In 2012, three teams were entered Enigma, Quantum and Omega. Both Omega and Enigma qualified f... |
Arrow (season 1) | Casting | who was portrayed by Hartley. Instead, they opted to cast a new actor in the titular role. Amell, who was already in shape from Rent-a-Goalie, did physical fitness training at Tempest Freerunning Academy out of Reseda, California. He received archery training as well, which included watching a video on how archery has ... |
Amazarashi | 2007–2009: STAR ISSUE and あまざらし era | Amazarashi 2007–2009: STAR ISSUE and あまざらし era In January 2007, STAR ISSUE was formed. The name origin is said to be "We want to make songs with hope and 'light', just like periodic magazines and newspapers". On January 26, an event for amateur bands was held in Aomori, called "Glucon Vol. 17: Aomori ~JOKER STYLE SUMMI... |
Asylum and Immigration Tribunal | Further Appeals | that no error was made, that is the end of the matter in front of the AIT. If they conclude that there was a material error of law, they may either reconsider the case in full or in part themselves, or (more usually) order that it be re-heard at a later date. They may set out that all the case be re-considered, or only... |
APOPO | Detecting tuberculosis | program began in Tanzania in 2007, double-checking samples from four government clinics, by 2016 some 1000 samples a week were sent by 24 clinics in and around Dar es Salaam and Morogoro. The rats have been screening samples from clinics in Mozambique since 2013. APOPO have a facility at the Eduardo Mondlane University... |
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | Change of name & Organization | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Organization ASEEES' national office is located at the University of Pittsburgh. It handles membership, publication subscriptions, NewsNet, and organizes and coordinates programmatic activities like the annual convention.
Six regional affiliates and a geographically wide-ranging committee str... |
Antonio Latini | null | household steward, to Carillo Salcedo in 1682.
In Naples Latini cast his net widely for the best products of the Kingdom of Naples for Don Stefano's table. In Lo scalco moderna a brief description of the Regno listed fruits and local specialties in melons and game, oil and olives, vegetables and salads of "rare quality... |
Alekseyev I-21 | Development | the I-21's speed requirement. Even replacing the BMW 003 with the slightly more powerful (900 kgf (8.8 kN; 2,000 lbf)) Jumo 004 would not allow the I-210 to meet the speed requirement and the project was cancelled before any metal was cut.
Construction of the first two airframes, designated as the I-211 (I-21 version 1... |
Alicia Keys | Philanthropy and activism | the poverty in Africa and to pressure the G8 leaders to take action. In November 2006, Keys joined David Bowie for what would turn out to be his final live performance at a fundraising event in New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, where they sang a three-song set which included "Changes". In June 2011, Keys spoke alongside... |
Amelia Earhart | Early flying experiences | including photographer, truck driver, and stenographer at the local telephone company, she managed to save $1,000 for flying lessons. Earhart had her first lesson on January 3, 1921, at Kinner Field near Long Beach. Her teacher was Anita "Neta" Snook, a pioneer female aviator who used a surplus Curtiss JN-4 "Canuck" fo... |
Ain Beni Mathar Integrated Thermo Solar Combined Cycle Power Plant | Description & Specifications | funded by the African Development Bank (AfBD), the Official Credit Institute of Spain (ICO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through a grant of $43.2 million, with the balance being provided by L'Office National de l'Électricité (ONE). Specifications The plant consists of two 150.28 Mwe Alstom GT13E gas turbin... |
Attila (horse) | Background | Attila (horse) Background Attila was a small, but strongly built colt of a rich bay or brown colour with a white blaze. He was described as good-tempered horse with a "peculiar, Arab-looking head" but "excellent loins" and "very fine quarters". Attila was bred by Colonel Hancox, who owned him as a yearling before the c... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | Medical Specialist Corps (SP) | serve all around the world and at all echelons of the Army. The Chief of the SP Corps is COL John E. Balser. |
Ashgabat National Museum of History | null | Ashgabat National Museum of History The Ashgabat National Museum of History is a history museum in Ashgabat, the capital city of Turkmenistan. It contains over 500,000 exhibits particularly archaeological and ethnographical finds throughout the country including rare works of ancient art, paintings, drawings, sculpture... |
Arthur Grenfell Wauchope | Military career | Arthur Grenfell Wauchope Military career Educated at Repton School, Wauchope was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1893. He transferred to the 2nd Battalion Black Watch in January 1896, was promoted to lieutenant on 3 August 1898, and to captain on 30 October 1901.
He served in the Second Boer ... |
Ankara Esenboğa Airport | Overview | Ankara Esenboğa Airport Overview The airport is located northeast of Ankara, 28 km (17 mi) from the city center. The airport is connected with Kızılay (the city center) and Ankara Intercity Bus Terminal (Turkish: Ankara Şehirlerarası Terminal İşletmesi, AŞTİ) by EGO city bus number 442 (from 6 am to 11pm). Transportati... |
Adam Bighill | New Orleans Saints & Winnipeg Blue Bombers & Personal life | release from the New Orlean Saints and was waived. Winnipeg Blue Bombers On May 19, 2018, Bighill signed a one-year deal with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Bighill finished the 2018 season as the Blue Bomber's nominee for Most Outstanding Player, was named to the CFL All-Star team, and was ultimately named the CFL's Most ... |
Zhu Yihai | Reign | taken over by the invading force. His grave was discovered on the island in 1959, which disproved the theory advanced by the 18th-century History of Ming that he was killed by Koxinga. His eldest son, Zhu Honghuan (朱弘桓), married the fourth daughter of Koxinga and went to live in the Kingdom of Tungning Taiwan under t... |
American Legion | Headquarters & Eligibility | multiple expansions since its establishment. Eligibility Membership in the Legion was originally restricted to U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines who served honorably between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918. Eligibility has since been expanded to include military personnel who served on active duty in the Armed Fo... |
Arthur Addison | History & Politics | up a flour milling business at Middleton, which proved highly profitable. He later settled in Orroroo, where he founded, in partnership with Edward Trussell, another milling business, with which he was associated for the remainder of his life. Politics While at Port Elliot, Addison was involved with the district counci... |
50th Attack Squadron | Post World War I duty in France | 1919, to turn in all of its supplies and equipment and was relieved from duty with the AEF. The squadron's DH-4 aircraft were delivered to the Air Service Production Center No. 2. at Romorantin Aerodrome. There practically all of the pilots and observers were detached from the Squadron. Personnel at Colombey were sub... |
Aralosaurus | Description | shelf whereas in Canardia the same element is subhorizontal (it is parallel to the posterior segment of the dental row). The maxilla of Aralosaurus carries 30 rows of teeth while Canardia has at least 26 rows (part of the dental row is not preserved in the latter). The maxillary teeth of Aralosaurus bear a single centr... |
Arrow (season 1) | Casting | Queen the lover; Queen the man of action, and so on."
A week later, David Ramsey was cast as the original character John Diggle, named after the Green Arrow: Year One writer Andy Diggle. Ramsey enjoyed the fact that he did not have to worry about matching the comic books. It allowed him to "just kind of take [his char... |
Zeng Xueming | Biography | Zeng Xueming Biography Zeng was born into a Catholic family in Guangzhou in October 1905. She was the youngest daughter in a family of ten children, including seven girls. Her mother's surname was Liang (梁). Her father, a businessman from Meixian, Guangdong named Zeng Kaihua (曾开华), died in 1915. As the daughter of a co... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium | W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium (formerly Razorback Stadium) is the on-campus and primary home stadium for the Razorbacks located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Razorbacks began playing football at Razorback Stadium in 1938, where they beat Oklahoma A&M 27–7. The stadium was dedicated to Donald W. Reynolds for the $20 mi... |
Angelo Sabino | As poet & As educator | word meaning both "poet" and "prophet," divinely inspired to speak. Poets of the Augustan era sometimes assumed the persona of the vates, for instance Ovid in his Fasti. "Unfortunately," noted an early 20th-century historian who drew on Sabino's poem, "miraculous intervention, borrowed from paganism, long speeches and ... |
Aviation Week & Space Technology | Ownership and related products & Nuclear Bomber hoax | also publishes Business & Commercial Aviation and Air Transport World magazines. Nuclear Bomber hoax The 1 December 1958 issue of Aviation Week included an article, Soviets Flight Testing Nuclear Bomber, that claimed that the Soviets had made great progress in their own nuclear aircraft program. This was accompanied by... |
Art Kunkin | null | to include a printing plant, a typesetting firm and a small chain of bookstores. Underpaid staff members left in two waves of defections to form the competing newspapers Tuesday's Child and The Staff. By 1972 Kunkin and the paper were deep in debt to the pornographers whose advertising had been the source of the paper'... |
Avaya | Bankruptcy (2016–2017) & Acquisitions | to sell its call-center business. On January 19, 2017 Avaya filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11, saying that its foreign operations would be unaffected. In its petition, the company listed $5.5 billion in assets and $6.3 billion in debts.
In an effort to monetize its assets during the bankruptcy period, Av... |
Wheelchair | Manual self-propelled wheelchairs & Manual attendant-propelled wheelchairs | The high end of the market contains ultra-light models, extensive seating options and accessories, all-terrain features, and so forth. The most expensive manual chairs may rival the cost of a small car. Manual attendant-propelled wheelchairs An attendant-propelled wheelchair is generally similar to a self-propelled man... |
Australian Defence Movement | null | Australian Defence Movement The Australian Defence Movement was a minor Australian political grouping that ran candidates for the 1940 federal election. It presented itself as a non-party organisation, dedicated to significantly increasing defence spending. The party had four candidates run unsuccessfully in New South ... |
Austrogynacantha | Note | Austrogynacantha Note The Australian duskhawker, Austrogynacantha heterogena, should not be confused with almost-similarly named Australasian duskhawker, Anaciaeschna jaspidea, a different species of Aeshnid dragonfly. |
Arab–Khazar wars | Later conflicts | Georgian sources, the khagan desired to marry the beautiful Shushan, daughter of Prince Archil of Kakheti (r. 736–786), and he sent his general Buljan to invade Iberia and capture her. Most of the central region of K'art'li was occupied, and Prince Juansher (r. 786–807) was taken off into captivity for a few years, but... |
Anna Leonowens | Canada | and books.
In 1881 she settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with her daughter and son-in-law, the Scottish-born banker Thomas Fyshe. She again became involved in women's education, and was a suffragist and one of the founders of the Local Council of Women of Halifax and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Le... |
Attic | Etymology & Ventilation | an entire floor of the building, while a loft covers only a few rooms, leaving one or more sides open to the lower floor. Etymology The word "attic" is derived from the Attica region of Greece and comes from Attic style architecture. The term referred to "a low decorative facade above the main story of a building" and,... |
Anna Lehr | Biography | Anna Lehr Anna Lehr (November 17, 1890, New York City – January 22, 1974, Santa Monica, California) was an American silent film and stage actress. Biography Born in New York City to Austrian immigrant parents, Frank Lehr and Emilie Freisinger, Anna Lehr filmed Civilization's Child (1916) for Thomas Ince, a Triangle-Kay... |
Anna Dostoevskaya | Marriage | Dostoevsky asked if it was possible for a girl so young and different in personality to fall in love with the painter. Anna answered that it was quite possible. Then he told Anna: "Put yourself in her place for a moment. Imagine I am the painter, I confessed to you and asked you to be my wife. What would you answer?" A... |
Avenida Corrientes | null | Avenida Corrientes Avenida Corrientes (English: Corrientes Avenue) is one of the principal thoroughfares of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. The street is intimately tied to the tango and the porteño sense of identity. Like the parallel avenues Santa Fe, Córdoba, and San Juan, it takes its name from one of the Pr... |
Alex Hirsch | Career | Gravity Falls fans with clues hidden throughout the world including in the United States, Japan, and Russia. The goal of the hunt was to find a statue of the Gravity Falls character, Bill Cipher. After two weeks, fans of the show discovered the statue in Reedsport, Oregon. The hunt coincided with the release of Hirsch'... |
B-Prolog | Action rules | is a sequence of actions performed by the agents when they are activated. When the event pattern E together with the enclosing braces is missing, an action rule degenerates into a matching clause.
A set of built-in events is provided for programming constraint propagators and interactive graphical user interfaces. For... |
Art Kunkin | null | back to college and work toward a graduate degree. Soon afterward he had his first experience with a local newspaper on the staff of a Mexican-American paper in Los Angeles called the East L.A. Almanac. "For the first time in my life I was writing about garbage collection and all kinds of community problems," he later ... |
A. C. Schiffler | null | Virginia from 1918-1922. From 1925 until 1932, he served as prosecuting attorney for Ohio County. He was Ohio County Republican Committee chairman from 1936-1938. He was first elected to the U. S. House in 1938. His candidacy for re-election in 1940 was unsuccessful. He returned to the House after winning the 1942 elec... |
Alviso, San Jose | Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge & Drawbridge | of a complex made up of six other wildlife refuges in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1974 and administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, It was renamed Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in 1995 in recognition of Congressman Don Edwards' efforts to protect sensitive wetlands in sout... |
Austrian Empire | History | Austrian Empire History The power of nationalism to create new states was irresistible in the 19th century, and the process could lead to collapse in the absence of a strong nationalism. The Austrian Empire had the advantage of size, but multiple disadvantages. There were rivals on four sides, its finances were unstabl... |
Ann Donnelly | Federal judicial service | 1, 2015. Senator Charles Schumer recommended Donnelly for the position. On December 16, 2014, her nomination was returned to the President due to the sine die adjournment of the 113th Congress. On January 7, 2015, President Obama renominated her to the same position. She received a hearing before the United States Sen... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Eubank Jr. | two hours to lose the extra weight. Eubank Jr. weighed inside the limit at 11st 13lb 3oz. It was said that if Abraham couldn't make weight a second time, the fight would still take place in a non-title fight. Abraham made weight on third attempt.
Eubank Jr. won via a unanimous decision with the scorecards 120-108, 120-... |
Arthur Grimsdell | Club | Arthur Grimsdell Club Grimsdell started his career at St Albans City and Watford but transferred as a schoolboy player to Tottenham Hotspur at the age of 18 in April 1912. He played his first game that year. His career was interrupted by the First World War. On his return in 1919, he captained Tottenham and scored 14 g... |
Attila (horse) | 1842: three-year-old season | fast start. He was always among the leading group in a slowly run race and moved up to dispute the lead with Belcoeur and Combermere on the turn into the straight. A furlong from the finish, Scott produced Attila with a decisive run and the colt quickly went clear to win "with the most perfect ease imaginable" by two l... |
Association of Nail Technicians | History | Association of Nail Technicians History The Association of Nail Technicians (ANT) was set up in March 1998 due to the demand that from nail technicians that an association was needed to advise and represent the UK’s growing number of nail technicians. A voice was needed to represent the nail industry on serious issues ... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Krasniqi & Abraham vs. Eubank Jr. | This turned the fight around and put Krasniqi on the back-foot. Abraham spent most of the later rounds cutting off the ring. Abraham vs. Eubank Jr. Reports suggested on 1 June 2017 that Chris Eubank Jr. would make his ring return in July 2017 defending his IBO super middleweight title against Abraham in London. It is b... |
Anil Sinha | Education & Career | Anil Sinha Education Anil Sinha possesses a post-graduate degree in psychology and an MPhil degree in strategic studies. He is an alumnus of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also attended the National Defence College, India. Career Anil Sinha held several positions in his State cadre in Vigilanc... |
Arab–Khazar wars | The Caucasus as a frontier between the steppe and the settled world | Scythians and the Huns came to be regarded as one of the chief duties of imperial regimes of the Near East. This is reflected in the popular belief among Middle Eastern cultures that Alexander the Great had with divine assistance barred the Caucasus against the hordes of "Gog and Magog". As historian Gerald Mako points... |
Arnie Ferrin | Early life and playing career | He scored 345 points in '49 and 340 in '50, ending his career with 1,037 points in three years. He made 275-of-401 free throws in his career. He was inducted into the Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Hall of Honor during the 2012 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, March 10, 2012. |
Vienna Game | 3.a3 & Max Lange Defence: 2...Nc6 | with 3...Bc5 4.Nf3 Nc6, then 5.Nxe5! Nxe5 6.d4 gives White some advantage. The best line for Black may be 3...Bc5 4.Nf3 d5 5.exd5 0-0 (better than 5...e4 6.d4, when the normal 6...Bb4 is impossible), and if 6.Nxe5, 6...Re8 7.d4 Bxd4! 8.Qxd4 Nc6, as in the mirror-image line. Also possible is 3...Bc5 4.Nf3 d6, when Black... |
Arni (state assembly constituency) | null | Arni (state assembly constituency) Arani is a state assembly constituency in Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, India, which includes the city of Arani. Until and including the 2006 elections, the constituency was part of the Vellore constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India; thereafter, it has... |
Anna Leonowens | Literary career & Canada | of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household. She said the book influenced Chulalongkorn's reform of slavery in Siam, a process he had begun in 1868, and which would end with its total abolition in 1915. Meanwhile, Louis had accumulated debts in ... |
Adrian Yeggs | null | Adrian Yeggs The Adrian Yeggs were a Southern Michigan League baseball team based in Adrian, Michigan, United States that played from 1909 to 1914 as a whole and 1909 to 1911 under the Yeggs nickname. According to the book Baseball Team Names, 1869-2012, they were named after safe-cracker James Yeggs, one of the most w... |
Artur Crăciun | Football career | Artur Crăciun Football career Crăciun made his professional debut for Zimbru in the Divizia Națională on 20 May 2016 against Academia Chișinău, coming on as a 92nd-minute substitute.
On 23 July 2019 he signed a contract with Romanian Liga II side Universitatea Cluj. |
B.J. Annis | Personal life | had died of a staph infection he recognized an infection in both of Smith's legs and informed him that he needed to get antibiotics right away.
Annis lived in the East Village in Calgary from 1972 to 2012. |
Alex Hirsch | Career | June 2012 with a voice cast including Jason Ritter, Kristen Schaal, and Hirsch himself. Over the course of the series, he provided the voices of Grunkle Stan, Soos, Old Man McGucket, Bill Cipher, and many other minor characters. The show was moved to Disney XD in 2014. It would go on to win a BAFTA Children's Award and... |
Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society | The detective | Fogerty in this book; the character re-appears in a later volume of the series, Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation. Fogerty serves the "purpose of extricating the girls when necessary" from plot difficulties. Critic Fred Erisman has judged Baum's use of this "real world" character as a tacit admission that the genial milie... |
2016–17 Turkish Women's Volleyball League | Play-offs | 2016–17 Turkish Women's Volleyball League Play-offs The eight teams that finished in the places 1 to 8 in the Regular season, compete in the Play-off (1-8). |
Anna Leonowens | Marriage, Western Australia and widowhood & Teacher at the Siamese court | Thomas found work as a hotel keeper. In or before the first week of May 1859, Thomas Leonowens died of "apoplexy" and was buried (7 May 1859) in the Protestant Cemetery in Penang. His death left Anna Leonowens an impoverished widow. Of their four children, two had died in infancy. To support her surviving daughter Avi... |
Ayad Alkadhi | Life | assumes the shape of a sword, dagger, gun. The topic of this series is the power of words and their impact on self and others.http://aalkadhi.com/content/if%20_words_could_kill/
3: “Umbilical” series (2012). This series references the Arab Spring.http://aalkadhi.com/content/umbilical/
Alkadhi's work has been exhibited ... |
Andrea Ossoinack | Biography | to those presented in Budapest. The document begins with the statement that a profoundly unjust political system (the Habsburg Monarchy) founded on the principle of divide et impera had finally broken up, leading to the formation of several new states, including Fiume. It was stated that, "The State of Fiume is a livin... |
B-Prolog | Matching clauses | reasoning and learning system. B-Prolog is a commercial product, but it can be used for learning and non-profit research purposes free of charge (since version 7.8 for individual users, including commercial individual users, B-Prolog is free of charge ). Matching clauses A matching clause is a form of a clause where th... |
Aviation Week & Space Technology | Lockheed Martin's secret Compact Fusion Reactor project details & Vladimir Putin Named Person Of The Year | to develop a compact fusion reactor that is small enough to power interplanetary spacecraft, ships and ultimately large aircraft that would virtually never require refueling. If successful, the groundbreaking project could shake up the global energy industry. Vladimir Putin Named Person Of The Year On its January 16, 2... |
Aspidimorpha deusta | Description & Distribution | Aspidimorpha deusta Description This species reaches about 10 millimetres (0.39 in) in length. Distribution Aspidimorpha deusta occurs in Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia. |
Arash Hejazi | null | Arash Hejazi Arash Hejazi (Persian: آرش حجازی), born 1971 in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English and Portuguese into Persian. He is also an editor in Caravan Books Publishing House (Iran), and Book Fiesta Literary Magazine. He is a member of the Tehran Uni... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Concept cars | a concept car announced by Ford in 1958. The design lacked the capacity to house an internal combustion engine and was instead designed to be powered by a then nonexistent small nuclear power plant in the rear of the vehicle, similar to a submarine's.
The Mercury XM-800 was one of many concept cars created by Ford. I... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | Veterinary Corps (VC) & Medical Service Corps (MS) | food inspection service. Enlisted personnel can serve as food inspection specialists and veterinary technicians; enlisted personnel's collar insignia lacks the 'V' and is the same as that worn by medics.
The Chief of the Veterinary Corps is Brigadier General Erik H Torring, III. Medical Service Corps (MS) The Medical S... |
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