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Battle of Antietam | Background: Maryland Campaign | 1861 and the fact that President Lincoln had to pass through the city in disguise en route to his inauguration, Confederate leaders assumed that Maryland would welcome the Confederate forces warmly. They sang the tune "Maryland, My Maryland!" as they marched, but by the fall of 1862 pro-Union sentiment was winning out,... |
Willow Run High School | Dr. R. Wiley Brownlee | driven off the road he was traveling on, then tarred and feathered by five Ku Klux Klan members to discourage his lobbying to formally recognize the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., and in an attempt to discourage him from promoting racial harmony at the high school. He went on to become deputy superintendent ... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Public celebration | honey, holy water may be sprinkled on the tree by dipping a bunch of basil into a bowl with the water. This rite is generally performed after the placing on the fire, although it may happen before, in which case the consecration may be performed in the church itself or in its yard.
After the ritual the priest delivers ... |
Albert Collins | Career | album as personally important to him because of the involvement of the organist Jimmy McGriff, an early musical idol, with whom Collins had played in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1966.
On 12 February 1987 he appeared as a musical guest on the NBC talk show Late Night with David Letterman. Collins made a cameo appearance i... |
Battle for Jerusalem | End of the siege and truces | a Jewish medical convoy on its way to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. The British had provided no escort (as they had in previous months) and both they and Palmach forces were slow to intervene during the attack and help the ambushed Jews. After seven hours of fighting, the British put an end to the standoff; by the... |
Baldassarre Capra | Kepler's Supernova | the Aristotelian view that the sphere of the stars was unchangeable. Capra was offended by Galileo's failure to acknowledge him as the person who had discovered the star, and, encouraged by Mayr, in 1605 he published a pamphlet attacking Galileo's position, entitled Consideratione astronomica circa la nova et portentos... |
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album) | Promotion and release | for streaming on Spotify. A virtual reality experience made to accompany the song, titled "Dance Tonite", was released to the public on August 22, though first previewed privately in June. Available to use in an Internet browser, the experience allowed people with room scale virtual reality kits, such as the Oculus Rif... |
Amelia Earhart | Nearing Howland Island | equipped with a tuneable loading coil that changed the effective length of the antenna to allow it to work efficiently at different wavelengths. The tuner on the antenna was also marked with five settings, 1 to 5, but, critically, these were not the same frequency bands as the corresponding bands on the radio. The two ... |
Alfonso Parigi | null | and Careggi. |
Amazarashi | 2017–present: Chihou Toshi no Memento Mori | no Hi, Zanzou (夏の日、残像; "Summer Day, Afterimage").
On June 21, the band released a DVD of their previous concert, "amazarashi LIVE 360° 'Kyomubyou'".
On August 19, the band participated on SUMMER SONIC 2017, performing on Rainbow Stage.
On September 6, the band released their 4th Maxi Single, "Sora ni Utaeba" (空に歌えば; "S... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | Women and LGBT rights & Electorate | wants to extend asylum to LGBT people abroad. The policy change was sponsored primarily by Volker Beck, one of the Party's most prominent gay members. Because of the extensive support the Green Party has given the LGBT community since its conception, many gays and lesbians vote for the Green Party even if their politic... |
Anti-ballistic missile | David’s sling & Japan | Magic Wand (Hebrew: שרביט קסמים), is an Israel Defense Forces military system being jointly developed by the Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the American defense contractor Raytheon, designed to intercept tactical ballistic missiles, as well as medium- to long-range rockets and slower-fly... |
Aerobic gymnastics | Nature of the game & National Aerobic Championships | performed, the number of elements performed on the floor and much more.
Performances are scored in the following areas: artistry, execution, difficulty and the chair of the judges panel determines the final score deductions based on deductions that change with each code of points. If the combined scores are the same, ... |
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work | Synopsis | local businessmen, Beth writes newspaper articles and press releases, and Louise concentrates on visiting the local farmers' wives. (The women cannot vote – but they will "tell their husbands how to vote.") Uncle John spreads his cash around, even buying positive coverage for Forbes in the local paper. (The fee is $250... |
Awnsham Churchill | Early life | Awnsham Churchill Awnsham Churchill (1658–1728), of the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London and Henbury, Dorset, was an English bookseller and radical Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 to 1710. Early life Chirchill was the son of William Churchill of Dorchester, Dorset, and... |
Arthur Abraham | Later career & Abraham vs. Krasniqi | off the card. It was thought that a rematch would take place at a future date, however Murray would find another opponent for the Monte Carlo card. Russian boxer Dmitry Chudinov would step in Abraham's place until he withdrew due to a virus, having Nuhu Lawal replace him. Abraham vs. Krasniqi The World Boxing Organizat... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Stieglitz III, Sjekloca & Abraham vs. Smith I, II | the fight.
In April, Abraham planned a quick first defence to be made two months later against Serbian Nikola Sjekloca (28-1, 8 KOs). The fight took place at Velodrom in Berlin, Germany on 3 May 2014. The fight went full 12 rounds as Abraham came out victorious on points on all three judges scorecards (116-112, 116-113... |
Bartolino da Padova | Life | Bartolino da Padova Bartolino da Padova (also "Magister Frater Bartolinus de Padua") (fl. c. 1365 – c. 1405) was an Italian composer of the late 14th century. He is a representative of the stylistic period known as the Trecento, sometimes known as the "Italian ars nova", the transitional period between medieval and Ren... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | 2002–2005: Greens as governing party, second term | of Germany's 99 seats in these elections, mainly due to the perceived competence of Green ministers in the federal government and the unpopularity of the Social Democratic Party.
In early 2005, the Greens were the target of the German Visa Affair 2005, instigated in the media by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). At... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | 1980s: Parliamentary representation on the federal level | the Greens broke away to form the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP). Those who remained in the Green party were more strongly pacifist and against restrictions on immigration and reproductive rights, while supporting the legalisation of cannabis use, placing a higher priority on working for LGBT rights, and tending to ... |
Alfa Romeo in motorsport | Rally | homologation under FIA Group 2. In this form they were rallied with moderate success in 1975, winning the Elba and Costa Brava rallies overall, as well as winning the Group 2 category in the World Rally Championship's Tour de Corse. In 1980 the Alfetta GTV Turbodelta was already homologated in FIA Group 4, since the re... |
Bairrada DOC | null | Bairrada DOC Bairrada is a Portuguese wine region located in the Beira Litoral Province. The region has Portugal's highest wine classification as a Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC). It is located close to the Atlantic which ocean currents have a moderating effect on the climate. The region is bordered to the nort... |
Artur Bodanzky | Conducting style and critical reception & Family | claimed that Toscanini did not rate Bodanzky at all highly even though he was saddened by his death; this appears to conflict with the claim that Toscanini recommended Bodanzky to the Met. Family Artur was the brother of the noted journalist and playwright Robert Bodanzky. |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Taylor & Abraham vs. Dirrell | veteran Allan Green in the tournament. After being released from the hospital, Taylor released a statement saying that he's doing just fine and wanted to congratulate Abraham on his victory and wish him well in the tournament. Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was in attendance and was impressed by Abraham's inten... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Military situation | Battle of Cold Harbor Military situation Grant's Overland Campaign was one of a series of simultaneous offensives the newly appointed general in chief launched against the Confederacy. By late May 1864, only two of these continued to advance: Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and the Overland Campaign, in... |
Barr, Ayrshire | Buildings & Language | at all times. In addition, Kirk Angus lies at the heart of the village. Although the main building of the church has been converted into private residence, the clock tower was donated to the people of Barr. At present options are being investigated for ways to utilise this valuable and historic resource for the communi... |
Battle for Jerusalem | End of the siege and truces | and subsequently the morale of his forces collapsed. The end of the siege came with the opening of the "Burma Road" in June. In Yosef's words, "by the time the first truce (11 June 1948) came it had already broken the siege." This alternative route had been conceived in April after the failure of Nachshon to secure the... |
Barbara Thoman Curtis | Early life and education | Barbara Thoman Curtis Barbara Thoman Curtis, RN (Oct. 17, 1938 – Oct. 18, 2015) was an American nurse and activist. She received several awards for her work in nursing and healthcare, including induction into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2014. Early life and education Curtis was born on Oct. 17, 1938... |
Armstrong Siddeley | Armstrong Siddeley | engine business of Bristol Aeroplane Company (Bristol Aero Engines) to form Bristol Siddeley as part of an ongoing rationalisation under government influence of the British aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturers. Armstrong Siddeley produced their last cars in 1960. Bristol Siddeley and Rolls-Royce merged in 1966, t... |
Bantamwork | History & Oriental Process | Bantamwork Bantamwork in 18th century England signified a particular style of export lacquerware which was cut into a layer of gesso and then lacquered in colors. History By the mid-17th century, trade with China and Japan had flourished in Europe. Oriental curiosities included lacquered cabinets and screens. The beaut... |
Bartın | Culture | city also has beaches of good quality. |
Alabama Crimson Tide women's gymnastics | The nineties & The new millennium | 2014 of 12,826 (second only to Utah).
In 1995, the Tide won their third SEC Tournament championship in Gainesville. Alabama went into their final rotation in fourth place before scoring the highest team vault total in NCAA history as all their gymnasts scored 9.9 or higher, with junior Kim Kelly capping off the night ... |
Baron Chetwode | null | Baron Chetwode Baron Chetwode, of Chetwode in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for the noted military commander Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, 7th Baronet. As of 2014 the titles are held by his grandson, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1950. He is... |
Amelia Earhart | Early influence & Education | led to a transfer to Des Moines, Iowa. The next year, at the age of 10, Earhart saw her first aircraft at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Her father tried to interest her and her sister in taking a flight. One look at the rickety "flivver" was enough for Earhart, who promptly asked if they could go back to the merry... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Final phase of the war: Marwan's invasion of Khazaria | campaign is only provided by Ibn A'tham and the sources drawn from his work. According to this account, Marwan penetrated further north, and attacked a Slavic people called Burtas, whose territory extended up to that of the Volga Bulgars and who were Khazar subjects, taking 20,000 families (or 40,000 persons, in other ... |
Arizona Superior Court | Divisions | for the County of (County)". For example, the Superior Court division located in Coconino County is officially the, "Superior Court of the State of Arizona in and for the County of Coconino." However, since each county elects the sheriff, clerk, attorney, public defender, legal defender, and attorney of its branch and ... |
Battle of Goose Green | Terrain and conditions | isthmus connecting Lafonia on the south to Wickham Heights, which together form the large eastern island of the Falkland Islands. The terrain is rolling and treeless and is covered with grass outcrops, areas of thick gorse and peat bogs making effective camouflage and concealment extremely difficult. From May to Augus... |
Attila (horse) | Background & 1841: two-year-old season | Teazle, was a successful but unexceptional racehorse who had stood at a fee of 10 guineas at Bonehill Farm near Fazeley in Staffordshire, as well as covering mares for Lord Exeter at Burleigh, although his fee doubled after Attila's successes. He was known for siring both racehorses and hunters. Attila's dam, Progress,... |
Battle of Antietam | Cornfield | battery of 3-inch ordnance rifles and rolled them directly into the Cornfield, point-blank fire that slaughtered the Tigers, who lost 323 of their 500 men.
While the Cornfield remained a bloody stalemate, Federal advances a few hundred yards to the west were more successful. Brig. Gen. John Gibbon's 4th Brigade of Doub... |
Bassae | Construction and decoration & Re-discovery and removal by the British | frieze showing Athenians in battle with Amazons and the Lapiths engaged in battle with Centaurs. This frieze's metopes were removed by Charles Robert Cockerell and taken to the British Museum in 1815 (they are still to be seen in the British Museum's Gallery 16, near the Elgin Marbles). Cockerell decorated the walls o... |
Automotive X Prize | History | Automotive X Prize History The X Prize Foundation began work on the development of a competition to spur innovation in the automotive industry in 2005 and on 6 March 2006 announced that Mark Goodstein would join the Foundation as an Executive Director of the new prize.
A little more than year later, on 12 April 2007,... |
Alun Cairns | Early life and career & Political career & National Assembly for Wales | National Assembly. Political career Cairns unsuccessfully stood as the Conservative Party candidate for the Westminster Parliament in Gower at the 1997 general election. National Assembly for Wales First elected to the assembly as AM for South Wales West in 1999, he was re-elected in 2003 and 2007 and served as the par... |
Amarjot Sandhu | Background | Amarjot Sandhu Background Amarjot Sandhu was born in Punjab, India. He arrived in Canada in 2008 as an international student and went to George Brown College in Toronto and pursued Post Graduation in Wireless Networking and later worked as a Network Analyst with BroadConnect Telecom in Vaughan, Ontario for three years.... |
Barbara Arrowsmith Young | Early life & Education | Barbara Arrowsmith Young Early life Arrowsmith Young was born in Toronto on November 28, 1951 to Jack and Barbara Young. Her father was an electrical engineer who worked for Canadian General Electric. Her mother was a teacher. As a child she had exceptional visual and auditory memory, but it was coupled with several s... |
Archibald Roane | Governor of Tennessee | also signed anti-fraud measures, a law outlawing dueling, and a law prohibiting the disturbance of public worship. Like his predecessor, much of Roane's time as governor was spent dealing with disputes between white settlers and Indians.
Roane coordinated efforts to begin construction of the Natchez Trace, convincing ... |
Wantage Road railway station | History | siding (parallel to the road) was reserved for passenger tramcars.
The tramway closed to passengers on 1 August 1925, and to goods on 22 December 1945.
On 7 December 1964 British Railways withdrew passenger services from Wantage Road and all other intermediate stations between Didcot and Swindon; the goods yard survive... |
A2 milk | United Kingdom & China | in sales through 1,000 stores. On 1 January 2014, the a2 Milk Company exited its joint venture with Müller Wiseman Dairies by acquiring MWD's stake for a "nominal" amount. China The first consignments of the a2 Milk Company's infant formulas were sent to China in 2013. Shipments were interrupted for two months starting... |
Artur Bodanzky | Conducting style and critical reception | recordings of such contemporaries as Albert Coates, Fritz Reiner, and Furtwängler. As to the matter of cuts, it was the almost invariable practice in opera houses outside Bayreuth at that time. Bodanzky compares favorably with both Furtwängler and Reiner in this respect. In 1944, Szell gave a broadcast performance of D... |
Anti-ballistic missile | Soviet Union | but were only given the go-ahead to begin deployment of such a system on 17 August 1956. Their test system, known simply as System A, was based on the V-1000 missile, which was similar to the early US efforts. The first successful test interception was carried out on 24 November 1960, and the first with a live warhead ... |
Ballygunge Government High School | Classes | Ballygunge Government High School Classes Classes between class one to class five are taught in the morning section, while classes between six and twelve are conducted at the day section. |
Al Jouf Airport | Facilities | Al Jouf Airport Facilities The airport resides at an elevation of 2,261 feet (689 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 10/28 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,661 by 45 metres (12,011 ft × 148 ft). |
Arab–Khazar wars | Escalation of the conflict | the first time, by the khagan himself, as both sides escalated the conflict. Maslama, probably reinforced with more Syrian and Jaziran troops, took the offensive. He recovered the Darial Pass, apparently lost in the period since al-Jarrah's expedition in 724, and pushed on into Khazar territory, campaigning there until... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Smith I, II | 2015 at the O₂ World Arena in Berlin. With another win, Abraham was hoping to set up a fight with Felix Sturm. With 9,000 fans in attendance, the fight went the full 12 rounds as Abraham won via points on all three scorecards (116-112, 117-111 twice). Abraham was mostly dominant during the fight when he unloaded a barr... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | Clinical features and diagnosis | Then, the examination will investigate the presence of thin-walled, wide, hyaline, coenocytic hyphae and internal cleavage for the production of the sporangiospores in H&E (Haemotoxylin and Eosin) stained sections. Other characteristics of its appearance mentioned in the morphology section might also be used to identif... |
Ahed Tamimi | Analysis & Documentary | and her family have been denounced in Israel as "terrorist sympathizers". Others, including Israeli parliamentarian Michael Oren, accuse her of dressing up in "American clothes" to provoke responses from soldiers. Some Palestinians also suggest that the video may have hurt their cause by showing the soldiers behaving p... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | History | Basidiobolus ranarum History In 1886, the fungus was first isolated from the dung and intestinal contents of frogs by Eidam. In 1927, it was found in the intestines of toads, slowworms, and salamanders by Levisohn. In 1956, Joe et al. reported and described the first four cases of zygomycosis in Indonesia. Since then, ... |
Battle of Goose Green | British assault force | to "go firm" on having exploited their objective. This would be followed by C Company, who were required to pass through D Company and neutralise any Argentine reserves. C Company would then advance again and clear the Goose Green airfield after which the settlements of Darwin and Goose Green would be secured by A and ... |
Angelo Sabino | As poet | Its subject matter was more expansive than the title might indicate, as the De excidio also includes a description of Charles' wedding to Margaret of York.
Sabino composed the poem at the request of Onofrio de Santa Croce, the papal legate who traveled to Liège in 1467 in an effort to negotiate a peace settlement. Onof... |
William Gaines | End of EC Comics and conversion of Mad format & 1960 - 1992 | Mad was sold in the early 1960s for tax reasons, Gaines remained as publisher until the day he died and served as a buffer between the magazine and its corporate interests. In turn, he largely stayed out of the magazine's production, often viewing content just before the issue was shipped to the printer. "My staff and ... |
Barbara Arrowsmith Young | The Arrowsmith Program | published which use randomized controlled trials to evaluate whether it is actually more effective than any other "brain training" programs.
Additionally, other experts, including clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist Tim Hannan, speech pathologist Alison Clarke, and at least one human rights tribunal have made ... |
Amelia Earhart | Radio equipment | a dark column of smoke that can be seen over the horizon). All of the navigation methods would fail to guide Earhart to Howland Island.
The Electra had radio equipment for both communication and navigation, but details about that equipment are not clear. The Electra failed to establish two-way radio communications with... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Dirrell | second stage of the Super Six World Boxing Classic at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. At the end of round 10, Dirrell was comfortably ahead 97–92, 98–91 and 97–92 on the scorecards. In round 10, Abraham knocked Dirrell down following a straight right, but the referee ruled it a slip. Abraham lost via disquali... |
Bangor RFC (Northern Ireland) | History | Bangor RFC (Northern Ireland) History The club was founded in 1885 and enjoyed senior status between 1924 and the Second World War. The club returned to junior rugby after the war. Historically having played at Ward Park, leased from Bangor Borough Council, in 1968 the club purchased eleven acres of land on the souther... |
Antonie Adamberger | Biography | “Die Trommel gerühret” (“The drum is a-stirring”) and “Freudvoll und leidvoll” (“Joyful and woeful”) (first introduced at the Burgtheater on June 15, 1810) in his incidental music for Goethe’s Egmont with Adamberger specifically in mind. She would later repeatedly and enthusiastically recall her collaboration with him.... |
Austrian Empire | Foundation & Metternich era | split into the British and Hanoverian royal families. Metternich era Klemens von Metternich became Foreign Minister in 1809. He also held the post of Chancellor of State from 1821 until 1848, under both Francis II and his son Ferdinand I. The period of 1815-1848 is also referred to as the "Age of Metternich". During th... |
Archibald Roane | Governor of Tennessee & Later life | for Jackson.
Enraged that Jackson, 20 years his junior and lacking in military experience, had defeated him for militia commander, Sevier immediately embarked upon a campaign to regain the governorship. Roane and Jackson released the Nashville land office documents and accused Sevier of trying to thwart an investigati... |
Angus T. Jones | Two and a Half Men | well as being sexually active both with girls his own age and older women. The final episode of season 9 shows Jake graduating from high school and joining the army. At the annual PaleyFest held in Los Angeles, California in March 2012, Jones, who had turned 18 during the ninth season, said that he was uncomfortable wi... |
Amelia Earhart | Move from New York to California | Rye, destroying many family treasures and Earhart's personal mementos. Putnam had already sold his interest in the New York based publishing company to his cousin, Palmer Putnam. Following the fire, the couple decided to move to the West Coast, where Putnam took up his new position as head of the editorial board of Par... |
Battle of Antietam | "Burnside's Bridge" & Battlefield preservation | corps in reserve, Porter's V and Franklin's VI, but he was too cautious, concerned he was greatly outnumbered and that a massive counterstrike by Lee was imminent. Burnside's men spent the rest of the day guarding the bridge they had suffered so much to capture. Battlefield preservation The battle is commemorated at An... |
B-Prolog | Tabling | which can be min, max, + (input), or - (output). An argument with the mode min or max is assumed to be output. If the cardinality limit C is 1, it can be omitted with the preceding ':'.
Table modes are very useful for declarative description of dynamic programming problems. For example, the following program encodes th... |
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | History & Performance | the Trust was proposing to merge with Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The proposed merger was abandoned in November 2016. Performance In October 2013 the Trust was categorised as a band six, the best rating, in a hospital intelligence monitoring report published by the Care Quality Commission.
The Tr... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Military situation | of the inverted V would split his army and Lee could concentrate on interior lines to defeat one wing; the other Union wing would have to cross the North Anna twice to support the attacked wing.
The Union Army assaulted the tip of the apex at Ox Ford and the right wing of the V. However, Lee, incapacitated in his tent ... |
Anna Song (politician) | Political career | Anna Song (politician) Political career Originally being elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Education in November 2000, Song served as Board president in 2004, and she won overwhelming re-election to a second four-year Board term that fall. Her reelection to the Board in 2008 was a more contested race — Song p... |
Battle of Antietam | Disposition of armies | hollows and swales. The creek to their front was only a minor barrier, ranging from 60 to 100 feet (18–30 m) in width, and was fordable in places and crossed by three stone bridges each a mile (1.5 km) apart. It was also a precarious position because the Confederate rear was blocked by the Potomac River and only a sing... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | May 31 & June 1 | return to the crossroads and secure it "at all hazards." Torbert returned at 1 a.m. and was relieved to find that the Confederates had failed to notice his previous withdrawal. June 1 Robert E. Lee's plan for June 1 was to use his newly concentrated infantry against the small cavalry forces at Old Cold Harbor. But his ... |
Bantamwork | Oriental Process & European Process | tree, indigenous to China, was used on the pieces. Once the sap had dried, it could be applied in coats, forming a hard crust. This crust could be carved in relief. Color could be added to the sap, usually red, black and aubergine, to add variety to the pieces. European Process True Oriental lacquer could not be produc... |
Asdrúbal Padrón | Football career | 15 July of the following year, after winning promotion to La Liga, he signed a new three-year deal with the club.
On 24 January 2016, after making no league appearances during the season, Asdrúbal was loaned to second level's CD Leganés until June. After another top level promotion he returned to his parent club, and w... |
Alliance 90/The Greens | 2005–present: Greens back in opposition | state where it was defeated under Peer Steinbrück in 2005 came into office again on 14 June 2010 with the election of Hannelore Kraft as minister-president (Cabinet Kraft I).
The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U.S. on 13 April 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington ... |
Asclepiades of Bithynia | Medicine & Drug theory | their inclinations. He would treat all his patients fairly and not discriminate based upon gender or mental illness. He believed treating his patients kindly and amicably was a staple to being a good physician. Cito tuto jucunde meaning to treat his patients "swiftly, safely, and sweetly" was a motto that he followed.... |
Battle of Goose Green | Argentinian defences | about the same number of effective combatants as the British paratroopers. Some elements were well-trained and displayed a high degree of morale and motivation (C Company 25th Regiment and A Battery 4th Airborne Artillery Group); with Lieutenant Ignacio Gorriti of the 12th Regiment's B Company remarking that "there wa... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Public celebration | appointed officer, the representatives of military units of a garrison formed a festive procession on horses, accompanied with music. Members of citizens' associations and other civilians of the garrison town usually joined the procession as it proceeded to the nearest wood to collect the badnjak. They felled a set num... |
Asian Route of Industrial Heritage | History & Anchor Points | Asian Route of Industrial Heritage History This initiative started with the “Taipei Declaration for Asian Industrial Heritage” made on November 2012, at the 15th TICCIH Congress in Taipei. The project is co-organised by various associations for industrial heritage conservation in Asia. And, on September 2014, experts a... |
Barbara Bush | Political life | New York City with prominent diplomats. As the Watergate scandal heated up in 1973, Nixon asked Bush to become Chairman of the Republican National Committee; Barbara advised her husband to reject the offer because of the harsh political climate, but he accepted anyway.
Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, appointed Bush hea... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 3 | because Warren's V Corps to his right was reluctant to advance and the Confederate gunners in Warren's sector concentrated on Smith's men instead.
The only activity on the northern end of the field was by Burnside's IX Corps, facing Jubal Early. He launched a powerful assault at 6 a.m. that overran the Confederate skir... |
Avenida Corrientes | History | runs most of its length underneath the street.
The Asociación Amigos de la Calle Corrientes ("Friends of Corrientes Street Association") is a group that collaborates on the urban planning of the street. They have placed commemorative plaques on 40 street corners bearing the distinguished figures from the history of the... |
Austrian Empire | Metternich era | Habsburg foreign minister following Metternich held a similar position within the empire for such a long time nor held such a vast influence on European foreign affairs.
Historians often remember the Metternich era as a period of stagnation: the Austrian Empire fought no wars nor did it undergo any radical internal ref... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Similar European traditions | Days of Christmas. This was done as a protection against the demons called Kallikantzaroi, believed to be emerging from their dens at night during that period to attack people and damage their property. The fire and smoke from the log was thought to prevent the Kallikantzaroi from entering the house down the chimney. T... |
Bank Keshavarzi Iran | Operations | Financing Institutions of Asia and the Pacific's award for agricultural and environmental development.
Rohollah Khodarahmi - President
Current members of the board of directors include: Heshmatollah Nazari, Habibollah Salami and Davar Mahikar. |
B-Prolog | Matching clauses & Action rules | => Zs=Ys.merge(Xs,[],Zs) => Zs=Xs.merge([X|Xs],[Y|Ys],Zs),X<Y => Zs=[X|ZsT],merge(Xs,[Y|Ys],ZsT).merge(Xs,[Y|Ys],Zs) => Zs=[Y|ZsT],merge(Xs,Ys,ZsT).
The cons [Y|Ys] occurs in both the head and the body of the third clause. To avoid reconstructing the term, we can rewrite the clause into the following:
merge([X|Xs],Ys,Z... |
Bart Swings | Career | Bart Swings Career In his first world championship speed skating, the 2011 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Inzell, Germany, he finished 17th in the 5000 m.
At the 2012 World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Moscow, he finished 9th overall, with a personal record at the 500 m and a national r... |
Attila (horse) | 1842: three-year-old season | meeting, where he won very easily by at least six lengths from Palladium and Devil-among-the-Tailors.
In the Derby on 25 May, Attila started the 5/1 second choice in the betting behind the 3/1 favourite Coldrenick (previously known as "the Frederica colt"), a "dark horse" who carried the confidence and money of John Da... |
Battle of Antietam | "Burnside's Bridge" | to bolster his right flank. He ordered up every available artillery unit, although he made no attempt to strengthen D.R. Jones's badly outnumbered force with infantry units from the left. Instead, he counted on the arrival of A.P. Hill's Light Division, currently embarked on an exhausting 17 mile (27 km) march from Har... |
Ayad Alkadhi | Life | Ayad Alkadhi Life Born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq, Alkadhi left Iraq after the first Gulf War. He moved to the United States in 2000. Alkadhi graduated with an MFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. He currently resides and works in New York City.
Alkadhi’s best known works are:
1: “I am Baghdad” ser... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Overhead Valve V8 engine | 1950s, including 224, 259, and 289 cubic inch versions. It should be noted the Studebaker 289 was in production in 1956, a full seven years before the Ford Windsor 289 was available in 1963. They only had displacement in common. The Studebaker OHV V8 reached its zenith in the 1960s with the record-breaking Avanti R-... |
Barbara Bush | Post–White House years | heritage and to Barbara Bush's love for Maine.
In a November 2010 interview with Larry King, Bush was asked about former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Bush remarked, "I sat next to her once, thought she was beautiful, and I think she's very happy in Alaska, and I hope she'll stay there." Palin responded, "I don't want t... |
Annuit cœptis | Classical source of the motto | addressed to Caesar Augustus and translates to "give [us] an easy path and nod at our audacious undertakings." |
Babylonian cuneiform numerals | Characters | the first known positional numeral system, in which the value of a particular digit depends both on the digit itself and its position within the number. This was an extremely important development, because non-place-value systems require unique symbols to represent each power of a base (ten, one hundred, one thousand, ... |
B. H. Haggin | Career | first general guide to recorded classical music, Music on Records (1938), later expanded as The Listener's Musical Companion (1956), which Haggin regularly updated in new editions until 1978. His best-known books are about Toscanini: Conversations with Toscanini (1959), a personal reminiscence and the closest thing to ... |
Anti-ballistic missile | Transformation of SDI into MDA, development of NMD/GMD & U.S withdrawal from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 | proposed spending an additional $6.6 billion on intercontinental ballistic missile defense programs to build a system to protect against attacks from North Korea or accidental launches from Russia or China.
In terms of organization, during 1993 SDI was reorganized as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). I... |
Anna Leonowens | Anna Leonowens in fiction and film | image of Leonowens, and "in the mid-20th century she came to personify the eccentric Victorian female traveler". The novel was adapted as a hit musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, The King and I (1951), starring Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner, which ran 1,246 performances on Broadway and was also a hit in London and... |
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