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Areolate grouper | Commercial production | the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Apurva Asrani | Made in Heaven & Awards | on Indian TV and makes a powerful commentary about the vulgar exhibition of power and wealth and its intersection with gender and class to piece together an impeccably feminist masterpiece.' Raja Sen in his Livemint review called Made in Heaven 'possibly the best Indian web series so far'.
Apurva edited the first four... |
Archibald Roane | Early life | Archibald Roane Early life Roane was born in 1759 or 1760 in Derry Township (then a part of Lancaster County) in the Province of Pennsylvania. He was the son of Andrew and Margaret Walker Roane. Andrew Roane, who was born in Northern Ireland, was one of four sons of Archibald Gilbert Roane, a Scotsman who had been awar... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Public celebration | and is done by a priest or by a respected parishioner. Before the burning, the tree may be processionally carried around the church. In the case of more than one badnjak, the trees are placed in the shape of a cross. The assembled devotees throw then into the fire their twig bunches, each representing a small badnjak. ... |
Abul Kalam Azad (politician) | Social activism & Televangelism & Bangladesh Liberation War 1971 | development work is only sustainable through religion; otherwise sustainable development is impossible." As part of his social activism, he involved MACCA in an awareness campaign against AIDS. Televangelism He anchored a TV show called Apnar Jiggasa (আপনার জিজ্ঞাসা), or Your Questions on a private TV channel in Bangla... |
Vide Noir | Themes and composition & Release and promotion | the band's usual indie folk rock sound, while "Ancient Names (Part 2)" was described as moving into a more garage rock sounding sound. Conversely, "Wait by the River" was described as having a waltz-like sound with the vocals of an obsessive narrator. Release and promotion On January 26, 2018, the band announced the al... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Ramírez & Later career | the post fight interview, Ramírez said, "I took to him a Mexican boxing school. He was a very, very strong puncher, but he couldn't take any movement. I knew halfway through the fight I was going to win the fight. I came here to make history, and I did it." Later career Team Sauerland announced that Abraham would fight... |
Asclepiades of Bithynia | Medicine | the body. His ideas were likely partly derived from the atomic theories of Democritus and Epicurus. All morbid action was reduced to the obstruction of pores and irregular distribution of atoms. Asclepiades arranged diseases into two great classes of Acute and Chronic. Acute diseases were caused essentially by a constr... |
Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland | Release | in Europe, and October 6, 2011 in Australia. In North America, a premium edition was also released. It came with the game, as well as a softcover artbook and partial soundtrack CD. For customers ordering from NIS America's online store, the premium edition also came with a double-sided poster.
On November 29, 2012, an ... |
Altona railway station | History | was built in the same area to enable sand to be despatched by rail. In 1910, the Altona Brown Coal Colliery Company began railing quantities of brown coal, using a siding which was a north-west extension of the Altona line.
In 1917, the owners of the railway entered into an agreement with the Victorian Railways (VR) to... |
Alun Cairns | Early life and career | Alun Cairns Early life and career Brought up in Clydach near Swansea, he attended Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Pontardawe and Ysgol Gyfun Ddwyieithog Ystalyfera and is a fluent Welsh language speaker. His father was a welder for British Steel and his mother was a shop-keeper. At the time of his election to the Welsh National ... |
Welsh Bicknor | History | part of Herefordshire since the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844.
Religious dissension within the Vaughan families continued for several generations. In 1715, a John Vaughan (presumably one of Richard's descendants) refused the oath of allegiance to George I. He had estates in the several counties of Monmouthshire, R... |
Ampia (gens) | Praenomina & Branches and cognomina | Ampia (gens) The gens Ampia was a plebeian family at Rome, during the last century of the Republic, and into the first century AD. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Titus Ampius Balbus, who was first tribune of the plebs, then held the praetorship in 59 BC. Praenomina The only praenomen associated ... |
2007 Kazakh political shakeup | Appointments | 2007 Kazakh political shakeup Appointments Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakhstan's ambassador to the United States, became the secretary of the Kazakh Security Council, replacing Marat Tazhin. Tazhin became the Foreign Minister, replacing Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Tokayev became the Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan, replacing ... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Ardabil and the Arab reaction | capture of Derbent, Maslama's record was apparently unsatisfactory for Hisham, who replaced his brother in March 732 with Marwan ibn Muhammad, who would later reign as the last Umayyad caliph in 744–750.
In the summer of 732, Marwan led 40,000 men north into Khazar lands. The accounts of this campaign are confused: Ibn... |
Atlanta freeway revolts | Plans for new freeways & The result | along the BeltLine from Ponce de Leon Avenue north to Ansley Mall and from there alongside Piedmont Road north to today's I-85/GA-400 interchange. In July 1965 a dueling civic association, the Morningside Monroe Civic Association (MMCA), was formed to fight Route E. In February 1966 the highway department definitively ... |
Airey Neave | Political career | appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and, at the time of his death, was poised to attain the equivalent Cabinet position in the event of the Conservatives winning the general election of 1979. In opposition, Neave was a strong supporter of Roy Mason, who had extended the policy of Ulsterisation.
Nea... |
Aviation Week & Space Technology | Nuclear Bomber hoax & Soviet reusable space shuttle | Communist and non-Communist countries." In reality, however, the article was a hoax. The aircraft in the photographs was later revealed to be an M-50 bomber and not a nuclear-powered plane at all. Soviet reusable space shuttle After finding a December 1976 Titan IIID launch was for a secret KH-11 spy satellite, Aviatio... |
Amelia Earhart | Transatlantic solo flight in 1932 | pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland. The landing was witnessed by Cecil King and T. Sawyer. When a farm hand asked, "Have you flown far?" Earhart replied, "From America".
As the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress, the Cross... |
Aria (comics) | Aria (1999) & Aria/Angela (2000) & Aria: The Soul Market (2001) | we see that Ginny has moved to New York to live with Kildaire, the two of them work in Kildaire's antique and magic shop where the two of them watch over an urn that houses the soul of the dark one they trapped. Aria/Angela (2000) This mini-series is a two issue crossover where Kildare meets Angela, the angel who appea... |
Artistic roller skating at the 1981 World Games | Pairs | Bronze, Guy Aubin–Sylvia Gingras, Canada. |
Avenida Corrientes | History & Off-Corrientes | into an expansive outdoor reading room during Bookstore Night, an annual event inaugurated in 2007.
Mayor Mauricio Macri announced in 2010 that the financial district section of Corrientes - between Ninth of July and Avenida Leandro N. Alem, would become a two-way avenue. Off-Corrientes "Off-Corrientes" refers to the a... |
Attacks on Kure and the Inland Sea (July 1945) | Battle & Aftermath | The bomb strikes further damaged the vessel, and caused her stern to be broken off. The raid suffered the loss of two B-24s shot down and 14 others suffered damage.
Allied losses included 102 aircrew and 133 planes lost in combat or accidents during the attacks. These losses were higher than those suffered by the Third... |
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta | Commencement of Construction and First Stone-Laying Ceremony | 2000, with the blessings of Pramukh Swami Maharaj, a 29-acre plot of land was purchased in the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn. The Shilanyas Vidhi, a Vedic ceremony that dates approximately 8,000 years, was performed on June 13, 2004, where stones were placed in the foundation of the future temple. Led by Pramukh Swami and ... |
Amberley, Ohio | History & Geography & 2010 census | Amberley, Ohio History Amberley was incorporated as a village on April 5, 1940. The town was named after Amberley, a village in England.
Amberley was designated a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation. Amberley is home to French Park, owned by the city of Cincinnati. Geography Amberley is located at 39°11′... |
Austrian Empire | History & Foundation | final disaster of the First World War. In the aftermath of the First World War, the Habsburg realms soon disintegrated into multiple states based on nationalism and partition imposed by the victors. Foundation Changes shaping the nature of the Holy Roman Empire took place during conferences in Rastatt (1797–1799) and R... |
Barbara Bush | Texas years & Political life | the Bushes' daughter, Robin, died of leukemia.
When their daughter Dorothy was born in August 1959, the Bushes moved from Midland to Houston. In 1963, George Bush was elected Harris County Republican Party chairman, in the first of what would become many elections. In 1964, he made his first run for a prominent politic... |
Bart Swings | Career |
At The World Games, he has won seven medals, of which four are gold. He won two gold, one silver and one bronze at The World Games 2013 in Cali, Colombia and two gold and one silver at The World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland.
Swings is currently studying for an engineer's degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Arab–Khazar wars | Connection with the Arab–Byzantine conflict | wide-ranging autonomy and the Byzantines likewise refraining from active campaigning there. Indeed, given the common threat posed by the Khazar raids, the Umayyads found the Armenians (and the neighbouring Georgians) willing allies against the Khazars.
Some Byzantinists, notably Dimitri Obolensky, suggested that the A... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Air conditioning & Steering linkage | Imperial was the first production car in twelve years to offer air conditioning, following tentative experiments by Packard in 1940 and Cadillac in 1941. In actually installing optional Airtemp air conditioning units to its Imperials in 1953, Chrysler beat Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile, who added it as an option later... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Similar European traditions | possible. Such a branch used to be placed on Christmas Eve morning above the house door, under the eaves, or on the roof, and had an aesthetic role. The other type includes logs cut usually from oak trunks. In the evening the family used to ritually bring three such logs into the house and burn them on the hearth. Thes... |
Alberth Bravo | Career | Alberth Bravo Career At the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's 400 metres, and Men's 4 × 400 metres relay. |
8×58mmR Danish Krag | Sporting use | II. Documentation is scarce for the design pressure specifications of these surplus firearms. Although modern weapons may have been designed for smokeless powder loadings, their similarity to arms designed for gunpowder loadings causes uncertainty about the safety of firing modern cartridges in weapons lacking proof te... |
2013–14 Euro Hockey Tour | Rosters | 2013–14 Euro Hockey Tour Rosters These tables shows all skaters and goaltenders who have at least one game in the 2013–14 Euro Hockey Tour. The tables show how many games they played, how many points they've scored, and their penalties in minutes.
POS = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points;... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Felling and preparing | there are many regional variations surrounding the details. Early in the morning the head of each family, usually accompanied by several male relatives, selects and fells the tree from which a log will be cut for their household. The group announces its departure by firing guns or small celebratory mortars called prang... |
Alain Resnais | Reputation | shared "authorship" of the film he fully acknowledged. He was also known to treat the completed screenplay with great fidelity, to the extent that some of his screenwriters remarked on how closely the finished film realised their intentions. (On the few occasions when he did participate in writing the script, particula... |
Aurel Demo | Panegialios F.C. & Luftëtari Gjirokastër | Aurel Demo Panegialios F.C. Demo came up through the youth system at Panegialios, and he made his senior league debut for the club on 30 October 2016 in a 0-0 home draw with AO Chania F.C.. Luftëtari Gjirokastër In January 2018, Demo was sold to Luftëtari Gjirokastër for an undisclosed transfer fee. He made his league ... |
B. H. Haggin | Career | later editions of those recordings did without such interventions.) In addition, Haggin was strongly critical of the interpretive style of Romantically inclined conductors who often deviated from the printed score like Wilhelm Furtwängler, who at the time was considered Toscanini's polar opposite and greatest rival. No... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Texas A&M & Missouri & Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium | options, allowing the game to be played for a total of 30 consecutive seasons.
Following A&M's move to the SEC, the 2012 game was played at Kyle Field, and the 2013 game was played at Arkansas, and thereafter resumed at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Arkansas leads the all-time 41–31–3 as of the conclusion of the 20... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Industry consolidation | and Chrysler, each of which had bought out other companies to become conglomerates earlier in the 20th century. Together they accounted for 70 percent of auto sales. Their combined market share grew over the following decades, declining only slightly after World War II, but the Big Three soon came to dominate the indu... |
Antonio Raxel | Education and acting career | Antonio Raxel Education and acting career Raxel was born in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas. Raxel studied his career at the National Institute of Fine Arts under the tutelage of master Japanese Seki Sano. While here Raxel participated in 85 plays.
He started working in professional theater companies, primarily t... |
Amelia Earhart | Gardner Island hypothesis | footwear in world flight photos. Recently rediscovered photos of Earhart's Electra just before departure in Miami show an aluminum panel over a window on the right side. Ric Gillespie, head of TIGHAR, claimed the found aluminum panel artifact has the same dimensions and rivet pattern as the one shown in the photo "to a... |
Aussie Malcolm | Cabinet Minister & Rail & Immigration | third term of the Muldoon National government, serving at various times as Associate Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation and Railways, Minister of Health, and Minister of Immigration. Rail As Associate to Colin McLachlan, Malcolm's focus was on New Zealand Railways. He managed the transition from government departmen... |
Armstrong Siddeley | Diesel engines | (8.2 kW) at 1800 rpm and the twin-cylinder engine 22 bhp (16.4 kW) at the same speed. In 1955 the range was extended with the introduction of a 3-cylinder engine rated at 33 bhp (24.6 kW).
The engines were built at Armstrong Siddeley's factory at Walnut Street, Leicester until that factory closed in August 1957. Prod... |
Bank of America Building (Baltimore) | History | went into bankruptcy in 1933 and receivership in 1935. The empty building was subsequently used by the New Deal's Public Works Administration in Maryland.
From the 1940s into the 1960s, the building was first known as the Mathieson Building and then the O'Sullivan Building, reflecting its then-current major tenants.
Du... |
Apracaraja Indravarman's Silver Reliquary | Form and function | symbols of social status. Martha Carter associates the well attested wine festival tradition of the valleys of Hindukush with Dionysiac scenes in Gandharan art in general and heirloom silver cups of the modern Nuristanis with Gandharan goblets in particular which is quite persuasive.
According to Dr Richard Salomon, "i... |
Anthony Schrag | Awards | for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC. He has received a number of grants and awards for his work from institutions such as Creative Scotland and the British Council, as well as the Dewar Arts Award, the 2011 Standpoint Futures: Public residency award, and a Henry Moore Artist Fellowship. |
Assumption of the Virgin (Andrea del Castagno) | Description | and static appearance. Both men are elegantly dressed in the most expensive of contemporary costumes. Not only the damask fabrics, but also the saturated red color indicate the costliness of their garments.
The background was painted in gold, with a blending effect in correspondence of the saints' aureolas. |
Ashoknagar | Employment & Transport | with logistic business.
Ashok Nagar is famous for its market which includes textiles, Automobiles, Utensils, Cement works, Groceries, Gold and Ornaments and almost all other things.
It is a business hub, people from all around the division come over here for the trade. Transport Ashoknagar has road and rail connection... |
Barbara Bush | Second Lady of the United States & Activism | wearing designer clothes. She generally avoided discussion of political issues during the campaign, particularly those on which she and her husband differed, and those closely involved with the campaign have reported that she was actively involved in campaign strategy. Bush was elected in November 1988 and sworn in on ... |
Barr, Ayrshire | Location & Natural features & Buildings | walk along the service routes and read about the wind farm at the information point in the car park. Natural features Barr has many naturally occurring features and a wealth of wildlife. It is popular with many people who enjoy the peace and quiet of the village and surrounds. There are several signed walks in the area... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Media coverage | including 100 hours which were broadcast live. It also included daily segments which showed highlights from the games and Australian athlete. The highlights shown at 6pm where, "...pulling in an average audience of over 400,000 viewers".
The coverage of the games was shown over six platforms including television, onli... |
Ang Rita | Conservation | Ang Rita Conservation As a staff member with The Mountain Institute (TMI), Ang Rita participated in a task force that led in 1992 to the establishment of Makalu Barun National Park, an innovative protected area that combined biodiversity management with community development. Once the park was established, he served as... |
Bank of America Building (Baltimore) | Description & History | highly decorated with mosaic floors designed by Hildreth Meiere, and historic murals by Griffith Baily Coale and McGill Mackall on historic themes: the Baltimore fire of 1904, and the writing of the National Anthem at the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812. These mosaics are planned to be covered by artificial... |
Antioch/Oakley Regional Shoreline | Facilities & Access | fee to use them. No camping facilities are available and overnight camping is not permitted.
Kite flying is a popular activity at this park. Access The park is at the north end of Bridgehead Road in Oakley. There is no fee for access. A California fishing license is required for anyone over the age of 16. |
Arab–Khazar wars | Escalation of the conflict | of his approach, the Khazars retreated to the vicinity of Derbent, whose Muslim garrison was still holding out. Advancing swiftly, al-Jarrah was able to enter Derbent without facing resistance, and launched raiding columns into Khazar territory. Following with the bulk of his own army, he defeated a 40,000-strong Khaza... |
Balai of Qenneshrin | null | Balai of Qenneshrin Balai of Qenneshrin (Syriac: ܒܠܝ ܕܩܢܫܪܝܢ), was a Syriac saint who lived in Qinnasrin in the 5th century CE.
Very little is known about his early life. It has been suggested that he might have been a native of Edessa who later moved to Qinnasrin after being ordained a monk.
A collection of sermons i... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | null | accompanied by prayers that the coming year brings food, happiness, love, luck, and riches. The log burns on throughout Christmas Day, when the first visitor strikes it with a poker or a branch to make sparks fly, while wishing that the family's happiness and prosperity be as abundant as the sparks. As most Serbs today... |
Awnsham Churchill | Political career & Relationship with John Locke | perspicuously zealous representatives. Churchill was defeated at the poll at the 1710 British general election, and again in 1713. He made no further attempts to enter Parliament Relationship with John Locke John Locke met Churchill in Rotterdam. They remained on friendly terms for many years. Churchill was Locke's p... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | Habitat and ecology | in which B. ranarum might be present, or insects might have physical contact with the strains so that the strains can attach to the insects externally. Then, those insects might be devoured by predators, such as frogs. Next, the fungi will travel through the predator’s gastrointestinal tract and might either stay a lit... |
Alison Seabeck | Political career & Personal life | the additional room.
In the 2015 UK General Election, Seabeck again stood as the candidate in the Plymouth Moor View constituency, but was defeated. Personal life She married her former husband Denis in 1975 and they have two daughters. She is now the wife of the former MP for Greenwich & Woolwich, Nick Raynsford, for ... |
B-Prolog | Tabling | by edge/2.
:-table path/2.path(X,Y):-edge(X,Y).path(X,Y):-path(X,Z),edge(Z,Y).
With tabling, any query to the program is guaranteed to terminate as long as the term sizes are bounded.
By default, all the arguments of a tabled call are used in variant checking and all answers are tabled for a tabled predicate. B-Prolog ... |
Adventure Air Adventurer | Design and development | Adventure Air Adventurer Design and development The aircraft features a strut-braced high-wing, a four-seat enclosed cockpit, retractable tricycle landing gear, a boat hull with outrigger pontoons, a cruciform tail and a pod-mounted single engine in pusher configuration.
The airframe is made from composites. Its 35.85 ... |
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album) | Background | a backlash by some online users against the reunion, Murphy explained his reasoning for the reunion in a post on the band's website. He stated that he did not want to release a solo album with live performances including LCD Soundsystem members, nor did he want to release an LCD Soundsystem album with entirely differen... |
Automotive X Prize | Vehicle requirements | of electric cars should be not 21 but 16 kWh/100 km.
Vehicles in both classes also must have features expected of a modern automobile including an enclosed cabin with windshield and windows, operating windshield wipers, washers, headlights, horn, indicators, brake lights, reflective devices, rear and side-view mirrors,... |
Balanophora | Taxonomy | Balanophora Taxonomy The genus was first described in 1775 by Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg Forster in Characteres Generum Plantarum. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words balanos meaning "acorn" and phoras meaning "bearing". |
Adela Noriega | Career beginnings & Stardom | a commercial by Patty de Llano, wife of the producer Luis de Llano Macedo, she began working as a teen actress. She made her television debut at the age of fourteen in the telenovela Principessa and shortly after she participated in Juana Iris. In both shows she interpreted antagonists. She also guest starred on the co... |
Assumption of the Virgin (Andrea del Castagno) | History | Assumption of the Virgin (Andrea del Castagno) History An inscription mentioned by Filippo Baldinucci, dated 20 November 1449, reported that the altarpiece was commissioned by Leonardo di Francesco di Nardo Falladanzi, the rector of San Miniato tra le Torri, a church in Florence. Falladanzi kept a notebook in which he ... |
Basketball England | null | Basketball England Basketball England (BE, former: England Basketball) is the governing body of the sport of basketball for England. The organisation operates the English Basketball League for both men and women, as well as the England national team. The organisation was also involved in the establishment of the Great ... |
Badjaling Nature Reserve | null | Badjaling Nature Reserve Badjaling Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Department of Parks and Wildlife located at Badjaling in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. Nominally located at 31°59′21″S 117°29′56″E, it is a 272 hectares (672 acres) reserve of native bushland, surrounded by land long since... |
Bassae | Preservation | uses; the Temple of Apollo escaped both these fates. Due to its distance from major metropolitan areas it also has less of a problem with acid rain which quickly dissolves limestone and damages marble carvings.
The temple of Apollo is presently covered in a white tent in order to protect the ruins from the elements. C... |
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta | Mandir Inauguration & Events | infused into the idols inside the mandir. On this occasion, Pramukh Swami Maharaj noted that “this mandir is open to all. Whoever sincerely offers his prayers will attain happiness and peace.” Dignitaries present at this event included Congressman Henry Johnson Jr., Lilburn’s mayor, Jack Bolton, and Commissioner of Gwi... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Fundraising & Media coverage | figure beat the target that was set. Revenue of $2.26 million was earned through activities such as raffles, lottery draws and promotional sales. Allsports Direct Australia is a contracted raffle trader and contributed to helping the APC earn the amount fundraised.The APC acknowledges the support from their individual ... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Krasniqi | agreement was reached for an eliminator to take place on 22 April. A press conference on 19 February confirmed that the fight would take place at the Messe Erfurt Convention Center in Erfurt, Germany. Abraham constantly hurt Krasniqi in the second half of the fight on his way to winning a 12-round unanimous decision an... |
Allahverdi Khan | Service under Shah Abbas I | This act turned Allahverdi Khan into the most powerful man in the Persian Empire after the shah. From 1600 onwards, counseled by the English gentleman of fortune, Sir Robert Sherley, he reorganized the army and strengthened it by increasing the number of gholam troops from 4,000 to 25,000.
Allahverdi Khan led the Persi... |
361st Fighter Group | World War II & Cold War | patrols, fighter sweeps, and strafing and dive-bombing missions. Attacked such targets as airfields, marshaling yards, missile sites, industrial areas, ordnance depots, oil refineries, trains, and highways.
The group supported the airborne attack on the Netherlands in September 1944 and deployed to Chievres Airdrome, (... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Enduring models | marketed as a sportscar, but rather as a personal luxury car. The car changed dramatically in size during these production periods, sometimes having a back seat and other times not.
Chrysler produced the first of its 300 series automobiles for the 1955 model year, whereby they added a letter to the model name for each... |
Andrew Jayamanne | Professional career | cinema technicians, Jayamanne registered as film director, script writer, cinematographer, film editor and production manager. He is the only person in Sri Lanka to have been registered in five categories. |
Aymeri de Narbonne | Aymeri de Narbonne | syllable line at the end of each laisse (a similar use of shorter lines appears in the chansons de geste Aliscans and the Chanson de Guillaume). In Aymeri de Narbonne, Charlemagne, returning home from Spain after the tragic events of The Song of Roland, comes upon the city of Narbonne and offers the city as a fief to w... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Seat belts & Tires & Air conditioning | lead, and most automobiles had three-point front seat belts as standard equipment by 1964 and standard rear seat belts by 1968. Tires Radial tires were invented by Michelin in 1948, and quickly became standard equipment on Michelin's auto making subsidiary Citroën.
Use spread to 100% of the US auto population by the 19... |
Barbara Bush | Post–White House years | displaced by Hurricane Katrina when she told the radio program Marketplace,
Almost everyone I've talked to says, 'We're gonna move to Houston.' What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas... Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality, and so many of the people in the arenas here, you... |
Aussie Malcolm | Immigration | restaurants to employ ethnic chefs to improve cuisine; Chinese market gardeners to employ family members to replace their own children who were moving into the professions; the entry of skilled musicians and artists; and the first "entrepreneur" policy. Malcolm's liberalism saw an increase in non-white migration, espec... |
Alexander Agricola | Life | accordingly went to Florence. In 1476 he is known to have been in Cambrai, in the Low Countries, where he probably was employed as a singer. For the long period from 1476 to 1491 nothing definite is known except that he spent part of the time in the French royal chapel, and he must have been building his reputation as ... |
Austrian Empire | Foundation | and countries. This confederation, under French influence, put an end to the Holy Roman Empire. On 6 August 1806, even Francis recognized the new state of things and proclaimed the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, as he did not want Napoleon to succeed him. This action was unrecognized by George III of the United ... |
Automotive X Prize | Vehicle requirements & Competition events & Shakedown stages | in the Demonstration Division. These vehicles would have been stock vehicles, i.e., vehicles identical to those for sale or pre-production prototypes of vehicles intended for sales.
Vehicles in the Demonstration Division would have been tested in the same way as Competition Division vehicles and would have participate... |
Austrian Empire | Metternich era | Empire also gained new territories from the Congress of Vienna, and its influence expanded to the north through the German Confederation and also into Italy. Due to the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Austria was the leading member of the German Confederation. Following the Congress, the major European powers agreed to mee... |
Aralosaurus | Discovery | broad groove that communicates directly with the ventral side of the posterior part of the bone. It is therefore clear that in Aralosaurus the nasal crest surrounded part of the respiratory system. The extension of the nasal cavity inside a hollow crest is typically a lambeosaurine feature, thus confirming the inclusio... |
Amelia Earhart | Gardner Island hypothesis | it was most likely a coral ridge. The evidence remains circumstantial, but Earhart's surviving stepson, George Putnam Jr., has expressed support for TIGHAR's research. TIGHAR believes that missing bones - only 13 found out of an adult's 206 - is attributable to the existence of coconut crabs on the island. The crabs ar... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Escalation of the conflict & Ardabil and the Arab reaction | again having to defend Adharbayjan against a Khazar invasion. Ardabil and the Arab reaction In 729/730, al-Jarrah returned to the offensive through Tiflis and the Darial Pass. Arab sources report that he reached as far as the Khazar capital, al-Bayda, on the Volga, but modern historians such as Dunlop and Blankinship c... |
Ankara Esenboğa Airport | Overview & Terminals | the new runway will receive the latter's former designation. Terminals Esenboga Airport Domestic and International Terminal constructed under "Build-Operate-Transfer" model has been completed within a record time; a year earlier than the committed completion date. Esenboga Airport Domestic and International Terminal, w... |
Ballets with a Twist | Dancers & Collaborations | Ballets with a Twist Dancers Ballets with a Twist maintains a consistent roster of 12 to 14 dancers. In addition, young apprentices frequently join the professionals on stage. When on tour, the company often hosts workshop auditions for local children, some of whom have the opportunity to rehearse and perform with the ... |
Automotive X Prize | Vehicle requirements | from 0 to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 15 seconds or less, and be able to drive 200 miles (320 km) without refueling or recharging. The mainstream vehicle must have four or more wheels.
The alternate class vehicle must seat at least two people, accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 18 seconds or less, and be able to drive 1... |
Akwatia (Ghana parliament constituency) | Boundaries | Akwatia (Ghana parliament constituency) Boundaries The constituency is located within the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region of Ghana. |
Archibald Robertson (bishop) | Career & Family | Paul's Cathedral) and enthroned and installed at Exeter Cathedral on 5 May; he legally took up the See upon the confirmation of his election, which took place between his election and consecration (i.e. during April 1903). In 1912 Lollards Tower on the Exeter City Wall was rebuilt and several sculpted stone tablets di... |
Antonio Latini | null | di Somma, Orta, Nola, Aversa, Cardito, Arienzo, Acerra, Giugliano, Capua, Gaeta, Venafro, Sora, Isola di Sora.
Latini's manuscript autobiography, not included in Lo scalco moderna, brings his personal career to light by sharing details of a kitchen career that had hitherto been unheard-of when they were first described... |
Alicia Keys | 1981–1993: Early life | as it allowed her to play and take lessons as a child. Keys began receiving classical piano training by age seven, practicing six hours a day, learning the Suzuki method and playing composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, and Satie. She was particularly drawn to "blue, dark, shadowy" and melancholic compositions, ... |
Avenida Corrientes | Off-Corrientes & Once & Abasto | are themselves located on Corrientes. Once Further down, Corrientes traverses the Balvanera borough (popularly known as Once) the traditionally Jewish neighborhood known for its many synagogues and the wholesale and retail sale of clothing (now home to merchants of other nationalities, including Koreans, Bolivians and ... |
Ballets with a Twist | Collaborations | in 2012. Subsequent productions of Cocktail Hour: The Show have included appearances by the Rahway High School Marching Band, East Cleveland's Mighty Shaw High School Marching Cardinal Band, Newark Symphony Hall's Special Ensemble, Georgia's Academy of Richmond County Purple Pride Marching Band, and professional solo a... |
Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum | Life & Thought and depiction in literature | is known of his life, his depiction as a member of an earlier generation of Socratic followers places his birth in the early-mid 5th century BCE, a theory which is supported by his apparent inclusion in Aristophanes' comedy Banqueters of 427. Scholars assume that his death preceded the end of the 5th century, since he... |
Aralosaurus | Paleoecology | shallow marine waters west of this fluvial coastal plain were the site of intense organic productivity due to upwelling conditions caused by strong winds from the mainland. These winds were also the cause of a significant aridification of the climate in this region during the Santonian and early Campanian, causing a ch... |
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