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Anti-ballistic missile | Soviet Union & American Nike-X and Sentinel | the 1980s to a two-layer system, the A-135. The Gorgon (SH-11/ABM-4) long-range missile was designed to handle intercepts outside the atmosphere, and the Gazelle (SH-08/ABM-3) short-range missile endoatmospheric intercepts that eluded Gorgon. The A-135 system is considered to be technologically equivalent to the United... |
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | Institutional & Slavic Review & Annual conventions | become institutional members of ASEEES. Over fifty institutions demonstrate their support of the field via membership in the Association. Through their representatives on the Council of Institutional Members, they exchange viewpoints and work together on issues of common concern. Slavic Review The Slavic Review is ASEE... |
Amanda Vaill | null | Amanda Vaill Amanda Vaill is an American writer and editor, noted for her non-fiction. She lives in New York City.
A graduate of Harvard University, she worked in publishing before becoming a writer full-time in 1992. In the 1970s Vaill was an editor at Viking Press alongside Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
In 1995 Vaill p... |
BBC Radio Orkney | Radio Orkney's Evening Programme & Friday Requests | months of October and May. There are various programmes on the evening schedule, including the regular Monday night Bruck programme (swaps and appeals), a folk music programme (Tuesday Folk)), a country music programme (On The Border), Whassigo (described as "an Orcadian Call My Bluff"), Classic Concert (archive local ... |
B-Prolog | Action rules | event with its handling agents, and O is a Prolog term that contains the information to be transmitted to the agents. The built-in post(E) posts the event E.
Consider the following examples:
echo(X),{event(X,Mes)}=>writeln(Mes).ping(T),{time(T)} => writeln(ping).
The agent echo(X) echoes whatever message it receives. F... |
Armstrong Siddeley | Siddeley Autocar & Siddeley-Deasy | his own name to the Wolseley nameplate but it was dropped on his departure. Siddeley-Deasy In 1909 J. D. Siddeley resigned from Wolseley and in 1910 took on management of The Deasy Motor Car Manufacturing Company, Limited. The shareholders were so pleased with his success in that post that on 7 November 1912 they unani... |
Amelia Earhart | Transatlantic flight in 1928 | Atlantic in 1927, Amy Guest (1873–1959) expressed interest in being the first woman to fly (or be flown) across the Atlantic Ocean. After deciding that the trip was too perilous for her to undertake, she offered to sponsor the project, suggesting that they find "another girl with the right image". While at work one aft... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Beijing Sponsors and Supporters Program (BSSP) & Toyota Paralympic Talent Search Program | Paralympic athletes”. Toyota Paralympic Talent Search Program The Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) runs the Toyota Paralympic Talent Search Program. "Its main goal is to identify people with physical disabilities, vision impairments or intellectual disabilities who display the athletic potential to one day make it... |
Amelia Earhart | Childhood & Early influence | other girls in the neighborhood did not wear them. Early influence A spirit of adventure seemed to abide in the Earhart children, with the pair setting off daily to explore their neighborhood. As a child, Earhart spent long hours playing with sister Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and "belly-slamming" ... |
Assyrian folk/pop music | null | Assyrian folk/pop music Assyrian folk/pop music, also known as Assyrian folk music, Assyrian pop music or Syriac music (Syriac: ܡܘܣܝܩܝ ܣܦܝܢܘܬܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܬܐ/ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ), is the traditional musical style of the Assyrian people that includes a broad range of stylistic varieties, which would also encompass fusions of Western genr... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Escalation of the conflict | in a battle between the rivers Cyrus and Araxes that lasted for several days. The new caliph, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 724–743), promised to send reinforcements, but eventually failed to do so. Nevertheless, in 724 al-Jarrah captured Tiflis and brought Caucasian Iberia and the lands of the Alans under Muslim suzerai... |
Autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati | Broadcast television | Commissioner Cindy Kiro is shown commenting that the public did not need to see these "graphic images to show them how badly damaged this child was." After the broadcast, she lodged a complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA), arguing that "[One News] had displayed a disregard for the rights of the youn... |
2019 Rafael Nadal tennis season | Indian Wells Masters | Masters for the first time since 2017. He had a bye in the first round, and then defeated Jared Donaldson and 25th seed Diego Schwartzman in straight sets to set up his 4th round match with Filip Krajinović. He also defeated Krajinović in straight sets, and made it to the quarter-finals for the first time since 2016. T... |
Aviation Week & Space Technology | Vladimir Putin Named Person Of The Year | but the most cynical of observers, Putin’s far-reaching impact has definitely been for the worse. Because of this, he is Aviation Week's 2014 Person of the Year." The controversial issue caused a backlash among readers on its comments section and on social media, with some threatening to burn the print issue in protest... |
Aurisina | Overview | part of the Free Territory of Trieste. When this entity was disbanded in 1954, it was annexed to Italy. The ethnic Slovene population is aging and decreasing.
The settlement lies on top of the Karst Plateau, where the cliffs descend to the sea. Its elevation is 143 m. Around the village there are four rises named Ojstr... |
Anton Jerger | null | Anton Jerger Dr. Anton Jerger of Vienna was a philatelist who, in 1983, was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his handbooks on the philately of Austrian Lombardy-Venetia. He amassed a world class collection of this area over fifty years with his wife Elisabeth. The collection was sol... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Escalation of the conflict | al-Jarrah's orders. His army reduced the neighbouring fortresses as well, and continued their march north. The strongly garrisoned fortress of Wabandar capitulated in exchange for tribute, but the Arab advance was cut short before reaching the next important Khazar settlement, Samandar. Despite their success, the Arabs... |
Anti-ballistic missile | Transformation of SDI into MDA, development of NMD/GMD | expected to become operational in 2010 and capable of intercepting small number of incoming ICBMs. First called the National Missile Defense (NMD), since 2002 it was renamed Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD). It was planned to protect all 50 states from a rogue missile attack. The Alaska site provides more protectio... |
Arthur Abraham | Regaining composure & Abraham vs. Stieglitz III, Sjekloca | later, Abraham successfully defended the title against Giovanni De Carolis (20-4, 10 KOs) by unanimous decision (120-108, 119-109 twice). Abraham vs. Stieglitz III, Sjekloca A rubber match with Stieglitz (46-3, 26 KOs) took place on 1 March 2014, with the WBO super middleweight title on the line once again at the GETEC... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Texas & Texas A&M | served to reignite the once intense rivalry between the two schools. The teams will play again in Fayetteville (a return game for the 2008 contest in Austin) in 2021. Texas A&M The Razorbacks first played the Texas A&M Aggies in 1903. From 1934–1991, the two had played annually as Southwest Conference members. However,... |
Atlanta freeway revolts | 2010 plan for I-675 | audience. Mayor Reed expressed his total opposition to the tunnel.
The Reason Foundation has also advocated for such a tunnel paid as part of larger plan to reduce congestion via tolls. |
Avaya | Name | Avaya Name In 1995, Lucent Technologies was spun off from AT&T, and Lucent spun off units of its own in an attempt to restructure its struggling operations.
Avaya was then spun off from Lucent as its own company in 2000. It remained a public company from 2000 to 2007, when it was purchased by private equity firms.
In 2... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | Medical Service Corps (MS) & Medical Specialist Corps (SP) | "Army competitive category" branches (infantry, ordnance, quartermaster, etc.). In contrast, Medical Corps, Veterinary Corps and Dental Corps officers are limited to command billets specific to their respective corps (e.g. AMEDD Immaterial commands for Medical, Nurse, and Medical Specialist Corps officers; branch speci... |
Austrian Empire | Foundation | by the status of the Kingdom of Hungary, a country that had never been a part of the Holy Roman Empire and which had always been considered a separate realm—a status that was affirmed by Article X, which was added to Hungary's constitution in 1790 during the phase of the composite monarchy and described the state as a ... |
Alan Paton | Early career & Later career | cases, men were even permitted to reside outside the compound under the supervision of a care family. Fewer than 5% of the 10,000 men who were given home leave during Paton's years at Diepkloof ever broke their trust by failing to return. Later career Paton volunteered for service during World War II, but was refused. ... |
Yip Kai Foon | Capture and trial | immigrants and asked for identification. The rest of the gang fled, but Yip pulled a gun from a bag and began shooting. During an ensuing foot pursuit, the officers testified they ordered him to drop his gun, which he refused to do, instead shooting at the officers. After his gun jammed, he was captured. He was found w... |
1946 Cabinet Mission to India | null | 1946 Cabinet Mission to India The Cabinet Mission' came to India aimed to discuss the transfer of power from the British government to the Indian leadership, with the aim of preserving India's unity and granting it independence. Formulated at the initiative of Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, t... |
Anti-ballistic missile | U.S withdrawal from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 & ABM test targets | against the possibility of a missile attack conducted by a rogue state.
The next day, the Russian Federation dropped the START II agreement, intended to completely ban MIRVs. ABM test targets On 15 December 2016, the US Army SMDC had a successful test of a U.S. Army Zombie Pathfinder rocket, to be used as a target for ... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Athletics & Cycling | Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Athletics Jodi Willis-Roberts, Russell Short, and Darren Thrupp competed at their sixth Paralympics. Jessica Gallagher was selected in the team but was classified ineligible to compete. She attended the Games as a member of staff. Australian athletes set six world records, a fur... |
Attacks on Kure and the Inland Sea (July 1945) | Battle | and Haruna, the heavy cruisers Tone and Aoba, and the outdated armored training cruisers Iwate and Izumo were all heavily damaged and settled in shallow water. The shallow anchorage precluded the use of torpedoes. The US aircraft attempted to reduce their losses from the large number of anti-aircraft guns in the area b... |
Arvelia Myers | Tennis career & Entrepreneurship | On the ATA circuit in the 1960s, Myers was ranked number three as a single player and won doubles championship honors. Entrepreneurship After having worked with Claude Cargill's and Bill Brown's Harlem Junior Tennis Program (HJTP) at the Harlem Armory in 1973, Myers founded Pyramid Tennis, the first black female-owned ... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Cycling & Swimming & Venues | was to take part in the Beijing Games but had to pull out due to injury. Le Flohic broke his collar bone during training one week before the Games were to begin. Swimming There were eight men and eleven women making their Paralympic debut. Australia won 9 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze medals placing it sixth on the swim... |
Anti-ballistic missile | SDI experiments in the 1980s & Tactical ABMs deployed in 1990s | As research continued, SDI evolved through various concepts as designers struggled with the difficulty of such a large complex defense system. SDI remained a research program and was never deployed. Several post-SDI technologies are used by the present Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Lasers originally developed for the S... |
Anna Lehr | Biography | Ames" in the silent film Grafters (1917), which was directed by Allan Dwan.
In 1919 Lehr was chosen by David Powell to play in Teeth of the Tiger. She was forced to withdraw due to ptomaine poisoning. The movie was being filmed by Famous Players-Lasky in New York City. Lehr's continued absence necessitated the retaking... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Second Arab–Khazar War | appears to have been under Khazar control at the time. Further attacks on Derbent are reported by different sources for 708 under Muhammad ibn Marwan and in the next year again by Maslama, but the most likely correct date for the recovery of Derbent is Maslama's expedition in 713/714. Maslama then drove deeper into Kha... |
Weather records in Windsor, Ontario | null | Weather records in Windsor, Ontario Extreme weather has been known to hit Windsor, Ontario, and the city is home to several local, national, and international weather records. They are shown below, organized chronologically (by date): |
Bárbara Virgínia | Career | solo female director whose work was presented. Today only 22 minutes remains of the original 102 minutes long film, these 22 minutes are fragmented and without sound.
She also directed the documentary Aldeia dos rapazes: Orfanto St. Isabel de Albarraque (Village of the Boys: Sta. Isabel de Albarraque Orphanage).
She di... |
William Day (horseman) | Training career & Retirement | this point, with critical articles appearing in both the British and American press. Keene's horses, were removed from Day's stable and sent to Richard Marsh at Newmarket, Suffolk. Retirement Foxhall's Gold Cup win was Day's last important success. He left Woodyates to train at his own Cholderton Lodge Estate near Grat... |
Atlanta freeway revolts | Jimmy Carter's "Presidential Parkway" & Eastern part of Lakewood Freeway/Langford Parkway & 2010 plan for I-675 | Claire and Poncey Highland residents, who filed a lawsuit, the right-of-way east of Moreland became a park but without a roadway. Eastern part of Lakewood Freeway/Langford Parkway Langford Parkway, originally called the Lakewood Freeway (I-420) – now part of Georgia 166 – was to be built eastwards past its current term... |
Austrostipa ramosissima | Cultivation | Austrostipa ramosissima Cultivation Austrostipa ramosissima is cultivated as an ornamental grass by plant nurseries, for use in gardens and drought tolerant landscaping. It is planted in the ground and in pots. |
Argonnerwaldlied | Lyrics & Büxensteinlied | Deutsche aber halten stand,
Für das geliebte, teure Vaterland. :|
10. Argonnerwald, Argonnerwald,
Ein stiller Friedhof wirst du bald!
|: In deiner kühlen Erde ruht
So manches tapfere Soldatenblut. :|
11. Und komm' ich einst zur Himmelstür,
Ein Engel Gottes steht dafür:
|: Argonnerkämpfer, tritt herein,
Hier soll... |
Wheelchair | Technological developments | wheel attaching to the front of a manual wheelchair, again generally to the footplate mounting, which improves wheelchair performance over rough terrain. Unlike a handcycle, a wheelchair with Freewheel continues to be propelled via the rear wheels.
There have been significant efforts over the past 20 years to develop s... |
Amazarashi | 2007–2009: STAR ISSUE and あまざらし era & 2010–2011: From 0.6 to Sennen Koufukuron | was designed based on a Teru Teru Bouzu, a spirit believed to bring rain and a good harvest. 2010–2011: From 0.6 to Sennen Koufukuron On February 10, 2010, the band changed its name from あまざらし to amazarashi, and, with a bonus remix of "Hikari, Saikou" as an extra track, the album 0. was re-released as 0.6.
On April 29,... |
7th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam | Platform and economic plan & Political Report | built if the working class does not have its own contingent of intellectuals and if the worker/peasant alliance itself fails to improve its knowledge or to attain intellectualization". The "Strategy for Socio-economic Stabilization and Development until the year 2000" was an ambiguous economic plan for Vietnam until th... |
BRICSat-P | Mission | BRICSat-P Mission A four µCAT thruster head system was placed on one side of the spacecraft around the center of gravity and will de-tumble the satellite from its initial expulsion, demonstrate rotational control about 2 axes, and perform a delta-V end of life scenario. Orbital analyses performed indicate that the four... |
An Riabhachan | Geography | to the adjacent Munro of Sgurr na Lapaich and follows the steep edge above Coire Gnada. The mountain has a 2.5km long summit ridge which does not drop below 1000 metres throughout its length and contains three other high points. At the north east end of the summit ridge is the NE Top with a height of 1125 metres. In ... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Opposing armies: the Arabs and the Khazars | of the Turkic Khaganate, but following the latter's collapse, they emerged as an independent and dominant power in the area of the northern Caucasus by the 7th century. As the most recent steppe power in the region, early medieval writers came to identify the Khazars with Gog and Magog, and the Sassanid fortifications ... |
Bad Trip (film) | Premise & Production & Release | Bad Trip (film) Premise Directed by Kitao Sakurai, Andre's helmer on his Adult Swim series The Eric Andre Show, the prank comedy follows two best friends on a cross-country road trip full of inventive pranks, pulling its real-life audience into the mayhem.
— Deadline.com Production During the conceptualization of the f... |
Angus Deaton | Scholarship | an impact on consumers." The paper was listed as one of the top 20 published works in the AER in the first 100 years of the journal.
Morbidity and Mortality in the 21st Century
In 2015, Anne Case and Angus Deaton published the paper Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21s... |
Argent (TV channel) | History | cease broadcasting after April 30, 2016. The company cited the channel's poor profitability as justification for the decision. |
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta | Mandir Construction & Mandir Inauguration | Pramukh Swami Maharaj in August 2007. Mandir Inauguration In the days preceding the mandir inauguration, large scale festivals were held for devotees and the broader community to participate in the opening of the complex. On 24 August 2007, the congregation held a Vishvashanti Mahayagna for world peace and family unity... |
Anna Eriksson | Eurovision qualification and two successful albums (2000-2004) & From Sinusta sinuun and Ihode (2005-2009) | 57,000 songs, Kun katsoit minuun, Eriksson was again presented with the Emma Award as the Female Artist of the Year.
Released in November 2003, the Kaikista kasvoista album sold platinum and the title song became one of Eriksson's most famous hits. From Sinusta sinuun and Ihode (2005-2009) In the fall of 2005, Eriksson... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Interpretation | in a Serbian highlander family in the region of Krivošije, Montenegrin Littoral. Analyzing the practices, he concluded that the badnjak customs were connected with ancestor worship. The lighting of the log on the ognjište could be seen as a solemn annual rekindling of the sacred hearth fire, regarded as the center of t... |
Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics | Qualification | Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Qualification Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 36 athletes, 18 per each gender and 1 per each event. In total, 680 (340 boys and 340 girls) athletes will compete at the Youth Olympics with continental qualification events deciding the majority of a... |
Alicia Keys | 2003–2005: The Diary of Alicia Keys and Unplugged | Poems and Lyrics, a collection of unreleased poems from her journals and lyrics. The title derived from one of her poems, "Love and Chains" from the line: "I don't mind drinking my tears for water." She said the title is the foundation of her writing because "everything I have ever written has stemmed from my tears of ... |
Aurélio Dictionary | Publication history | orthography (o Novo Accordo da Língua Portuguesa de 7 de maio de 2008), ISBN 978-85-385-2824-1 (with CD). Publication history The second edition (copyright date 1986; 32nd reprinting, 1995) has 1809 pages plus front matter and bibliography, and was published by Editora Nova Fronteira. This edition was organized by Marg... |
Anna Karenina (2012 film) | Critical reception | with wit and verve; most exciting of all, it is filmmaking of the highest order, channeling every other art form from painting to ballet to puppetry while remaining completely cinematic". He lauded the entire cast for their work yet concluded that "this is really its director's movie".
In The Observer, Jason Solomons a... |
Alexis Gómez (footballer) | Club career | Alexis Gómez (footballer) Club career Gómez signed his first professional contract with Estudiantes in late 2016. After making his debut in a 2–2 draw against Excursionistas, his performances garnered interest from top Argentinian sides River Plate, Boca Juniors and Independiente. |
Arizona Superior Court | Divisions | Arizona Superior Court The Superior Court of the State of Arizona is the Arizona state court of general jurisdiction. Divisions Under Article 6, section 13, of the Arizona Constitution, "[t]he superior courts provided for in this section shall constitute a single court, composed of all the duly elected or appointed jud... |
Asclepiades of Bithynia | Drug theory & Music therapy | elements: drink, food, and the enema".
Asclepiades was heavily influenced by Pythagoreanism and the early work of Democritus on herbal powers and remedies. Pliny the Elder says of him that, “Above all, he was helped by magean deceits, which prevailed to such a degree that they were strong enough to destroy confidence i... |
Argent (TV channel) | History | Argent (TV channel) History On November 24, 2000, a consortium of companies including Groupe TVA (50.1%), Publications Transcontinental Inc. (30%) and BCE Media Inc. (19.9%) was granted a broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a television channel called LCN A... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Felling and preparing | for the badnjak associated with the woman of the house, called the badnjačica ([badˈɲatʃitsa]), meaning she-badnjak. The same term is also used in other areas where only a pair of oak logs is cut, in which case badnjačica refers to the smaller of the two. In Resava, the badnjačica is prepared from an Italian oak, and t... |
Anon Pairot | Biography & Education | Anon Pairot Biography Born in 1979, Pairot grew up in a family of five. He has one older brother and a younger sister. His parents were owners of a small convenience store in Nonthaburi, just on the outskirts of Bangkok. Education In 1997, Pairot graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from King Mongkut's Uni... |
Asclepiades of Bithynia | Drug theory | particles of food were small, digestion would follow its normal course. However, if the particles were too big, indigestion would occur. If an illness were to occur, he believed that drugs were not the solution. His prescribed treatment was food and wine (given in appropriate amounts) followed by an enema, which wou... |
Atlanta freeway revolts | Plans for new freeways | Atlanta freeway revolts There have been multiple freeway revolts in Atlanta, Georgia. However, the longest and most famous example of Interstate opposition is against I-485 and the Stone Mountain Freeway through Intown Atlanta, lasting over 30 years, from the early 1960s until the final construction of Freedom Parkway ... |
Avdeyevo, Ust-Kubinsky District, Vologda Oblast | Geography | Avdeyevo, Ust-Kubinsky District, Vologda Oblast Geography The village is located 13.5 km from Ustye and 4.5 km from Zadnee. |
Zainab bint Muhammad | Reunion with Abu al-As & Death & Shia perspective | protects." He told Zainab to treat Abu al-As like a guest. Then he arranged for the Quraysh merchandise to be returned, and Abu al-As took it to its owners in Mecca.
Abu al-As then converted to Islam and returned to Medina. Muhammad restored his marriage to Zainab, and they resumed their married life. Death Their recon... |
Alun Cairns | House of Commons & Secretary of State for Wales | Parliament that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation". According to Parliament's register of interests, Cairns was one of 72 Conservative MPs who voted against the amendment who personally derived an income from renting out property. The Conservative Government responded t... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Major Sponsors | support that were sent to athletes at the games. The program also ran Chat to a Champ. It allowed students from the Telstra Paralympic Education Program to talk to their Paralympic heroes at the games via the internet.
Toyota was another sponsor for the Paralympic team in Beijing. Toyota has been supporting the APC fo... |
Babylonian cuneiform numerals | Characters | for example, the combination represented the digit for 23 (see table of digits below). A space was left to indicate a place without value, similar to the modern-day zero. Babylonians later devised a sign to represent this empty place. They lacked a symbol to serve the function of radix point, so the place of the units... |
A2 milk | A2 Corporation & Commercial production and sale | casein A1, it acknowledged that it could not be certain that there was no A1 in A2 milk."
A2 Corporation changed its name to The a2 Milk Company Limited in April 2014, and at that time had about 8% market share of the milk products market in Australia.
"A2" and "A2 MILK" are trademarks held by the A2 Milk Company. Comm... |
Alun Cairns | Secretary of State for Wales | the Severn Bridge between Wales and England was to be renamed 'Prince of Wales Bridge' to mark the 60th anniversary of Prince Charles becoming the Prince of Wales. Cairns defended the decision by responding that a "silent majority" supported the name change, but a poll conducted by YouGov shortly after revealed 34% of ... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Public celebration | barracks yard but in a square in the garrison town. An open fire was built, on which the badnjak was placed by an Orthodox priest in the presence of soldiers and citizens. This tradition, symbolizing the unity of state, church, and people, was ended by the outbreak of World War II.
Yugoslavia's socialist government sup... |
Alviso, San Jose | Alviso Marina County Park | quarter of a century. Both the pathways and boardwalks of the County Park and trails around the ponds in the adjacent Wildlife Refuge offer fantastic views of the mountains surrounding the bay, and of the wildlife that call these ponds home.
Hiking, biking and bird watching are favorite activities in both the park and ... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Felling and preparing | should be adorned with leaved bay laurel, olive, juniper, and rosemary twigs, which are tied to the trunk's top, middle, and base with ivy or red silken or woolen threads. In parts of eastern Serbia and Kosovo the badnjak is wrapped in a man's shirt.
In west Serbia's region of Rađevina, centered on the town of Krupanj,... |
Arica Province | History & Geography and demography | Arica Province History On October 8 of 2007, Law 20.175 entered into force, effective on March 23 of 2007. It was signed by President Michelle Bachelet in the city of Arica. At a ceremony held on that morning, the community received in new milestone in its history.
The law divided the former Tarapacá Region into two: t... |
An Ungentlemanly Act | Reception | later shown on television in Argentina. |
Automotive X Prize | Vehicle requirements | that this plan is feasible.
With the lack of mainstream entrants from established automobile companies, a Demonstration Division was created so that automakers could at least display and promote their highest efficiency vehicles alongside the main competition. However, there were too few entrants by 1 March registrati... |
An Ungentlemanly Act | Production | An Ungentlemanly Act Production The film was written and directed by Stuart Urban, and commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of the Falklands War. The film was closely based on the historical record, and all of the major incidents portrayed were drawn from contemporary accounts by those who took part. Filming took... |
399th Tactical Missile Wing | Missile training | with the 589th Tactical Missile Group as the 399th Tactical Missile Wing, but has not been active since. |
Andriy Atanasovych Melnyk | Life | was to run diversion activities after Germany's attack on the Soviet Union. Melnik was given code name 'Consul I'. This information is part of the testimony that Abwehr Colonel Erwin Stolze gave on 25 December 1945 and submitted to the Nuremberg trials, with a request to be admitted as evidence.
After the German invasi... |
B. H. Haggin | Career | few critics who became personally close to Toscanini, who gave him access to private documents and other utterances that he had never permitted to any other author. The Haggin books were designed to serve as a corrective to factual errors, and to what Haggin regarded as misinformed opinions, which had already begun to ... |
Atalanti Maria Tasouli | null | Atalanti Maria Tasouli Atalanti Maria Tasouli (born 28 September 1976) is a Greek former basketball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. |
2011 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election | Outcome and aftermath | Hipkins the senior whip and Darien Fenton the junior whip. Upon election, Shearer stated, "I am a fresh face for Labour and I represent a fresh start for New Zealand." Espiner reported that Shearer received about twenty-two of the thirty-four votes for the leadership position, and a 3 News source claimed a similar numb... |
Austrian Empire | Education | of higher education in the empire. |
Amazarashi | 2010–2011: From 0.6 to Sennen Koufukuron | released the EP One-Room Jojishi (ワンルーム叙事詩; "One Room Epic").
On January 8, 2011, it was announced that the theme song for the TBS drama show Heaven's Flower The Legend Of Arcana (ヘブンズ・フラワー The Legend of ARCANA) was going to be a song titled "Anomie" (アノミー) by the band. On March 16 of the same year, the band released t... |
Asdrúbal Padrón | Football career | contract, and joined Thai Premier League side Port F.C. the following day.
On 28 July 2017, Asdrúbal joined Australian club Central Coast Mariners FC on a one-year contract. He scored his first goal for the club on debut in the first round of the 2017–18 A-League season against rivals Newcastle Jets FC, but in a 1–5 lo... |
Aymeri de Narbonne | Aymeri de Narbonne | chansons de geste.
The "Aymeri" of the poems may be conflated with a later historic figure, Aimery II of Narbonne, who was the Viscount of Narbonne from around 1106 to 1134. Aymeri de Narbonne Aymeri de Narbonne is the hero of an eponymic early 13th century (c.1205-1225) chanson de geste (based on earlier poems) attrib... |
Amazarashi | 2007–2009: STAR ISSUE and あまざらし era | the songs play in the background of the local, which became a trigger to get attention from the label and form a contract. Also, around the time of debut, Akita was not being very social, and had the intention of displaying a very linguistic world view; without showing his face publicly, he expressed his world view thr... |
Archibald Roane | Early life | uncle, John Roane, a Presbyterian minister, who provided him with a good education.
During the Revolutionary War, Archibald Roane served in the Continental Army as a member of the Lancaster County Militia (5th Company, 9th Battalion, Pennsylvania Volunteers). He was among the troops who took part in Washington's cros... |
Armstrong Siddeley | Armstrong Siddeley & Motor cars | "A-S Sphinx Logo" are trademarks and copyright of the Armstrong Siddeley Owners Club Ltd.
The "Siddeley" name survived a while longer in aviation, through Hawker Siddeley Aviation and Hawker Siddeley Dynamics. In 1977 they joined with others to become British Aerospace (BAe) which with further mergers is now BAE System... |
Archibald Robertson (bishop) | Career | doctorate (Doctor of Divinity, DD) from Durham University in 1893 and a further one (Legum Doctor, LLD) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901. He was Boyle Lecturer in 1900 and Bampton Lecturer in 1901, became an honorary fellow of Trinity in 1903 and was a Vice-President of the Clan-Donnachaid Society.
In his ac... |
Břetislav Benda | null | Břetislav Benda Břetislav Benda (March 28, 1897 in Sepekov – August 19, 1983, Prague) was a significant Czech sculptor, student of Josef Václav Myslbek and member of Mánes Union of Fine Arts from 1923.
Benda's bronzes often focused on the female body, being one of the few sculptors to focus on this almost exclusively. ... |
Anatol Petrytsky | Biography | Dmitry Buzk, Leonid Skrypnyk, Oleksiy Poltoratsky, Oleksii Vlizko and artist Vadim Meller) of the futuristic organization "New Generation".
He was the main artist of the First State Drama Theater of the Ukrainian SSR and the Ukrainian musical drama in Kyiv. He was engaged in the artistic design of books and magazines. ... |
1974 Formula One season | Race 13: Italy & Race 14: Canada | Reutemann and Pace. Soon, Regazzoni passed both the Brabhams to and then Reutemann retired with a gearbox failure and Pace had to pit with tyre troubles. This left Lauda leading Regazzoni for the perfect Ferrari 1–2, a long way ahead of third-placed Peterson. That was not to last as Lauda retired with a water leak, han... |
Austrian Empire | Metternich era | he also shared, he was able to establish security and predominance of the Habsburgs in Europe.
Under Metternich, nationalist revolts in Austrian north Italy and in the German states were forcibly crushed. At home, he pursued a similar policy to suppress revolutionary and liberal ideals. He employed the Carlsbad Decrees... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | Coat of arms | green associated with the Medical Corps during the last half of the 19th century. The colors Argent (silver/white) and Gules (red) are those associated with the flag of the United States. The rooster is associated with the ancient Greek and Roman god of healing and medicine, Aesculapius. The Ancient Greeks believed t... |
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem | Nested gambling & Incomparability between agents | problem where people choose to avoid the perception of risks about risks. Von Neumann and Morgenstern recognized this limitation:
"...concepts like a specific utility of gambling cannot be formulated free of contradiction on this level. This may seem to be a paradoxical assertion. But anybody who has seriously tried... |
Avenida Corrientes | History | (many second hand) Corrientes was during the day a favourite haunt for intellectuals during the '50s, '60s and '70s (specially at celebrated spots such as "Cafe La Paz") while its famous pizza parlours and restaurants (such as Los Inmortales and Güerrin) attracted city crowds on Fridays or Saturdays evenings – a night ... |
Annibale Ruccello | Career & Works | of XX century. Works Annibale Ruccello, Il sole e la maschera. Un'analisi antropologica della Cantata dei pastori, Napoli, Guida, 1978 (ed. agg. Stamperia del Valentino, Napoli, 2008).
Annibale Ruccello, Villa dei Misteri, in Babilonia, n. 45, aprile 1987.
Annibale Ruccello, Ferdinando, Napoli: Guida, 1988
Annibale ... |
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