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Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society | Synopsis | beauty (though Diana and Beth dislike each other cordially on first acquaintance), and finds them at least marginally acceptable. Diana sponsors their debut, and all goes well; the cousins are accepted into the social whirl, and are soon managing the flower booth at the year's biggest charity ball.
Complications arise ... |
Battle of Antietam | Cornfield | building belonging to a local sect of German Baptists. Hooker had approximately 8,600 men, little more than the 7,700 defenders under Stonewall Jackson, and this slight disparity was more than offset by the Confederates' strong defensive positions. Abner Doubleday's division moved on Hooker's right, James Ricketts's mo... |
A Thousand and One Nights (1969 film) | Plot | guards invade the mansion, where he finds them and takes Miriam. Badli, the right-hand man of the chief of police, murders Sulaiman. Aldin is tortured and sent to prison by mistake for the murder of Sulaiman.
One year later, Aldin is set free. Meanwhile a heartbroken Miriam dies in childbirth. Aldin meets Badli in the ... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Venues & Venues Designed by Australian Companies & Administration | Cube), Beijing National Indoor Stadium (Fan) as well as many more. Venues Designed by Australian Companies Many of the venues where designed by Australian companies. One of the iconic venues ‘The Water Cube’, was designed by Australian companies PTW Architects, ARUP Aust., Anti Wave International CSCEC. Other facilitie... |
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album) | Promotion and release | team. On August 31, the band released a 14-minute instrumental track called "Pulse (v.1)" as a free download. On Facebook, Murphy wrote that the track was "not precisely part of the record," but instead thought of it as an "addendum" meant to be played after the album's closing track, "Black Screen". It was originally ... |
Alain Resnais | 1981–2014 | he did not make a separation between cinema and theatre and refused to make enemies of them. He preferred working with "people of the theatre", and he said that he would never want to film a novel. It was therefore something of a departure when he chose L'Incident, a novel by Christian Gailly, as the basis for Les Herb... |
Attingal Outbreak | Details | to examine kindness and truth. He started confronting the enemies by creating an armed force of his own and by procuring gunpowder and war equipment with the help of the British at Anjengo. He tightened his grip on the administration by brutally suppressing the revolt in the royal family by murdering his own kin and by... |
Alexander V. Zakharov | Biography | Fobos-Grunt will be repeated as called by IKI's director Lev Zeleny and later acknowledged by Roscosmos in April 2012. However, with an agreement for cooperation with the European Space Agency on ExoMars had been reached, the space agency chose to focus on that program instead, but not ruled out any possible future Pho... |
Arkansas Razorbacks football | Early history (1894–1957) | Although not SWC members, Ole Miss played Arkansas intermittently until a yearly series began from 1952–1961. During the 1938 season, the Razorbacks replaced their 300-seat stadium known as The Hill with Bailey Stadium, named after Arkansas governor Carl Bailey. It was known as University Stadium for one game before be... |
Battle of Fort Anne | Pursuit & Battle | James Gray; in the ensuing skirmish one American was killed and three more wounded before the Americans retreated to the fort. Battle On the morning of July 8, a supposed American deserter, who was really a spy, informed Hill that the fort was occupied by nearly 1,000 demoralized troops. Opting not to attack the numeri... |
Battle of Goose Green | Operational Purpose | loss of and damage to British ships in the area around the landing grounds. These attacks and the lack of movement of the landed forces out of the San Carlos area, led to a feeling among senior commanders and politicians in the UK that the momentum of the campaign was being lost. As a result, British Joint Headquarter... |
Automotive X Prize | Finals stage & Validation stage | final stages are scheduled for 19–30 July 2010 at the Michigan International Speedway. Validation stage The few remaining teams were validated on dynamometers under laboratory conditions at the EPA Labs in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois. This stage is scheduled for August 2010... |
Barbara Thoman Curtis | Career & Personal & Legacy | in Washington D.C. as a White House liaison on health care legislation. Curtis was the chief coordinator and a member of the White House's advance team for a health care rally. In retirement, she served as co-pastor of the Community of Christ congregation in Ormond Beach, Florida and held services at her residence. Per... |
Bank of America Building (Baltimore) | History | according to the 1952 memoir of Whittaker Chambers, whose Semmes attorneys were Richard F. Cleveland (youngest son of President Grover Cleveland) and William D. Macmillan.
In 1961, the building was purchased by Maryland National Bank, successor of Baltimore Trust, and the building name was changed to "Maryland National... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 2 | on the Chickahominy River, making any flanking moves impossible.
Lee's engineers used their time effectively and constructed the "most ingenious defensive configuration the war had yet witnessed." Barricades of earth and logs were erected. Artillery was posted with converging fields of fire on every avenue of approach,... |
Atacama Cosmology Telescope | Science goals | advanced our knowledge of cosmology, particularly the early evolution of the universe. It is expected that higher resolution CMB observations will not only improve the precision of current knowledge, but will also allow new types of measurements. At ACT resolutions, the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZ), by which galaxy cl... |
Battle of Goose Green | Brutal field punishments | the battle, Argentine army officers and NCOs were accused of handing out brutal field punishment to their troops at Goose Green (and other locations during the war). In 2009, Argentine authorities in Comodoro Rivadavia ratified a decision made by authorities in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, announcing their intention... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Military situation | Gregg in the Battle of Haw's Shop. Fighting predominately dismounted and utilizing earthworks for protection, neither side achieved an advantage. The battle was inconclusive, but it was one of the bloodiest cavalry engagements of the war. Hampton held up the Union cavalry for seven hours, prevented it from achieving it... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Felling and preparing | of household and the thinnest linked to the family's prosperity. If there is only one man in the household, three rather than two logs are prepared. The logs may be cut from different species of tree. In parts of the Bay of Kotor, each household prepares four sets of badnjaks, as they are burned there not only on Chris... |
Bassa people (Cameroon) | History | Bassa people (Cameroon) The Bassa (also spelled Basa or Basaa and sometimes known as Bassa-Bakongo) are a Bantu ethnic group in Cameroon. They number approximately 230,000 individuals. The Bassa speak the Basaa language as a mother tongue, which belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger–Congo language family. History Fo... |
Anti-ballistic missile | 1940s and 1950s | some warning, but were more useful in backtracking their ballistic trajectory and determining the rough launch locations. The Allies launched Operation Crossbow to find and destroy V-2s before launch, but these operations were largely ineffective. In one instance a Spitfire happened upon a V-2 rising through the trees,... |
Anna Leonowens | Early life and family & Marriage, Western Australia and widowhood | Reverend George Percy Badger and his wife. However, recent biographies consider this episode to be fictitious. Anna may have met Badger in India and listened to or read reports about his travels. Marriage, Western Australia and widowhood Anna Edward's husband-to-be Thomas Leon Owens, an Irish Protestant from Enniscorth... |
Amphimachus I of Elis | Family | Amphimachus I of Elis In Greek mythology, Amphimachus (/æmˈfɪməkəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίμαχος derived from ἀμφί amphi "on both sides, in all directions, surrounding" and μάχη mache "battle") was one of the leaders of the Elean contingent at the Trojan War. Family Amphiamchus was the son of Cteatus (son of Actor) and Th... |
Arima Onsen | History | Arima Onsen Arima Onsen (有馬温泉 Arima Onsen) is an onsen, or hot springs in Kita-ku, Kobe, Japan. This Onsen is still a hidden treasure of modern Kobe, behind Mount Rokkō. It attracts many Japanese who want tranquility with beautiful natural surroundings and yet easy access from the busy cities in the Kansai metropolitan... |
Battle of Fort Anne | Battle | Fort Anne and reported on the British position and troop strength.
Long, seeing how few British soldiers were following him, decided to attack their position. Moving as stealthily as possible, his force tried to surround the British while they were still on the road. However, Hill's men heard the rebel movements on the... |
Battle of Antietam | Sunken Road: "Bloody Lane" | the weakest. But Hill's men were in a strong defensive position, atop a gradual ridge, in a sunken road worn down by years of wagon traffic, which formed a natural trench.
French launched a series of brigade-sized assaults against Hill's improvised breastworks at around 9:30 a.m.. The first brigade to attack, mostly in... |
Allochares azureus | Biology | reacts to the wasp by retreating away from its web and finding a hiding place in a fissure or another spider's web where it hides and tries to remain motionless, the wasp seems unable to detect the spider so long as it is still. The wasp continues to search and if it touches the spider the spider will try to retreat an... |
Banco Popolare Siciliano | Predecessors & The creation of Banco Popolare Siciliano | Verona e Novara had 17 branches in the island, as well as more than 100 branches of Banca Popolare Italiana (ex-BPL). In 2007, the merger of BPVN and BPI made Banco Popolare had 143 branches in the island, which was increased to 145 in the next year. In the same year Banca Popolare di Novara transferred all its 18 bran... |
Batagor | History and origin | Batagor History and origin Batagor is ubiquitous in Indonesian cities, and can be found in street-side food stalls, travelling carts, bicycle vendors, and restaurants. However, it is most strongly associated with the West Javan city of Bandung. The dish is influenced by Chinese Indonesian cuisine, and might be derived ... |
Antioch/Oakley Regional Shoreline | Facilities | Antioch/Oakley Regional Shoreline Facilities The main attraction is fishing. The park features a fishing pier that was built atop the pilings of the original bridge. The pier extends 550 feet (170 m) out into the river. It is open for fishing 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Typical species that can be caught, dependin... |
Uniform Time Act | Non-observers | commonwealths of the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico, and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands, none of which observe Daylight Saving Time. The various Native American nations within Arizona have the right to use or not use DST. The Navajo Nation has chosen to use DST throughout its... |
Alicia Keys | Achievements & Philanthropy and activism | embodies excellence and integrity and who have improved the environment for the creative community." In 2014, Fuse ranked her as the thirteenth-most awarded musician of all time. Philanthropy and activism Keys is the co-founder and Global Ambassador of Keep a Child Alive, a non-profit organization that provides medicin... |
BBC Radio Orkney | History | History Celtic rock band Wolfstone wrote a signature tune for BBC Radio Orkney. However, it was ultimately unused and appeared on their second album The Chase (1992) as its first track, "Tinnie Run". |
Abbeyfield School, Chippenham | History & Location & Admissions | building was built to accommodate the growing sixth form.
Many changes were implemented after James Fox became headteacher in 2010, including a new uniform which featured blazers. Four houses were introduced, named after local and historical dignitaries: Alfred, Neeld, Brunel and Talbot. Location The school is on the e... |
Austrian Empire | Foreign policy | to Murat's regime in south Italy.
The latter period of Napoleonic Wars featured Metternich exerting a large degree of influence over foreign policy in the Austrian Empire, a matter nominally decided by the Emperor. Metternich initially supported an alliance with France, arranging the marriage between Napoleon and Franc... |
Armstrong Siddeley | Clubs & Diesel engines | times a year. In the Netherlands, ASOC Dutch also publishes six times a year, and in New Zealand, Armstrong Siddeley Car Club in New Zealand Inc. publish Sphinx-NZ monthly. Diesel engines In 1946 Armstrong Siddeley produced their first diesel engines. They were medium-speed engines for industrial and agricultural use.... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 3 | lines began entrenching, using cups and bayonets to dig, sometimes including bodies of dead comrades as part of their improvised earthworks.
Meade inexplicably bragged to his wife the next day that he was in command for the assault. But his performance had been poor. Despite orders from Grant that the corps commanders ... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | Clinical features and diagnosis & Treatment | identified that can be used measured in the sera of the infected patients using antibodies conjugated to fluorescein dye. The diagnosis of the rare cases, such as gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis, is challenging given the nonspecific clinical presentation as well as the need for surgical biopsy. Treatment Many cases... |
Alexander Agricola | Life & Related schools and composers | Castile. He apparently accompanied the Duke on his travels through his empire; by this time he was one of the most esteemed composers in Europe. He was in Valladolid, Spain, in August 1506, where he died during an outbreak of the plague on 15 August of that year. Related schools and composers Agricola is one of the few... |
Attacks on Kure and the Inland Sea (July 1945) | Aftermath | and heavy cruisers at Kure was seen by British official historian Stephen Roskill as avenging the losses suffered by the United States at Pearl Harbor. The attacks allowed the Soviet Pacific Fleet to operate without fear of interdiction in the Sea of Japan. |
Afrikanda (air base) | Post-war period | September 1993 received the name of the 470th Guards Vilna Order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Regiment. In service with the 470th Guards. Iap consisted fighter Su-27.
September 1, 2001 and the 470th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was disbanded. |
Arab–Khazar wars | Later conflicts | other Turkic nomads like the Oghuz Turks. The Khazar realm contracted to its core around the lower Volga, and became removed from reach of the Arab Muslim principalities of the Caucasus. Thus Ibn al-Athir's reports of a war between the Shaddadids of Ganja with the "Khazars" in 1030 probably refers to the Georgians inst... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Smith I, II | (35-3, 20 KOs) at Sparkassen-Arena in Germany on 27 September. Talks for the fight began in May 2014. Prior to the fight, Smith stated he had studied Abraham's loss to Carl Froch. Froch used Smith as a sparring partner before their fight. Abraham defeated Smith to retain his title in a controversial decision. The fight... |
António Mascarenhas Monteiro | East Timor controversy | the United Nations mission in East Timor. The appointment was criticized in East Timor, partly because Monteiro had a poor knowledge of English. It was reported that Timorese president Xanana Gusmão was among those who expressed their concern about the appointment.
On 25 September, Monteiro announced that he had c... |
Battle of Goose Green | Prisoners and casualties | After clearing the area and with military chaplain Mora and Sub-Lieutenants Bracco and Gómez-Centurión assisting with the burying of the dead, the prisoners were marched to and interned in San Carlos. The British lost 18 killed (16 Paras, one Royal Marine pilot and one commando sapper) and 64 wounded. The seriously w... |
Attila (horse) | 1842: three-year-old season | in winning bets.
On his first race after the Derby, Attila ran in the Drawing Room Stakes over two and a quarter miles at Goodwood in July. Carrying an eight pound weight penalty for winning the Derby, he ran what was considered a creditable race to finish third, beaten a length behind Envoy and Seahorse. Attila was gi... |
Battle of Antietam | Mathew Brady's gallery, "The Dead of Antietam" (1862) | in this presentation were graphic photographs of corpses, a presentation new to America. This was the first time that many Americans saw the realities of war in photographs as distinct from previous "artists' impressions". The New York Times published a review on October 20, 1862, describing how, "Of all objects of hor... |
Area bombing directive | null | Area bombing directive The Area Bombing Directive was a directive from the wartime British Government's Air Ministry to the Royal Air Force which ordered RAF bombers to attack the German industrial workforce and the morale of the German populace through bombing German cities and their civilian inhabitants. |
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta | Events & Activities and Schedule | 1 July 2017 in the presence of Mahant Swami Maharaj and Lilburn Mayor Johnny Crist. Activities and Schedule Similar to other BAPS Swaminarayan mandirs, the Atlanta mandir offers daily darshan worship and Aarti, and is open to visitors of all faiths and backgrounds. In addition, the facility holds weekly satsang sabhas ... |
Battle of Antietam | Sunken Road: "Bloody Lane" | after assuming command) and Col. John B. Gordon of the 6th Alabama. (Gordon received 5 serious wounds in the fight, twice in his right leg, twice in the left arm, and once in the face. He lay unconscious, face down in his cap, and later told colleagues that he should have smothered in his own blood, except for the act ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Opposing forces | the south and in Long Khánh. Under command of Bui Quang Chanh (alias Sau Chanh), it consisted of three rifle companies—C1, C2, C3—and a weapons company, C4; a strength of 550 men. Recruited locally and operating in familiar terrain, they possessed an intimate knowledge of the area. Guerrilla forces numbered 400 men ope... |
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Summary | in fatigues, and his much younger girlfriend, Cheryl, enter and tell everyone their car needs a new part. Lyle offers to take a look but Teddy insists he not look in the trunk. Teddy states they're on their way to Mexico while taking on an obvious and badly-mimicked southern accent which comes and goes. He comes off as... |
Uniform Time Act | History | Uniform Time Act History The law, as originally written, required states that observe DST to begin it at 02:00 local time on the last Sunday in April, and to end it at 02:00 local time on the last Sunday in October of the same year and explicitly preempted all state laws related to daylight saving time per the weights ... |
Azmeer Yusof | Club career | Azmeer Yusof Club career Azmeer has played with Kuala Lumpur and Proton before signing with Perak in 2010. He later was released by Perak at the end of 2011 season.
For the 2012 season, Azmeer signed with Pos Malaysia. He joined Negeri Sembilan on a three-month loan in August 2012 for the 2012 Malaysia Cup campaign. He... |
Barrio Chino (Lima) | Decline & Renaissance | and integration into the general society. This was coupled with an increase in migrants from the country's Andean highlands, who moved into Lima's downtown. Renaissance In the 20th Century, Barrio Chino had shrunk but nevertheless maintained a distinct ethnic character. In 1971, an archway was gifted from the people o... |
Automotive X Prize | Competing teams | them. These remaining teams represented 10 countries (some entries listed two countries of origin) with 28 coming from the United States and 7 from the state of California. Of the 53 vehicles, 28 were in the Alternative Classes and 25 in the Mainstream Class. By 15 April, only 30 teams remained. After the shakedown ... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Marquez & Super Six World Boxing Classic | retained his IBF title on 14 March 2009 against Lajuan Simon, his first fight over 12 rounds since his legendary battle against Edison Miranda. The 10th and final defense of his middleweight title took place in Berlin against Mahir Oral. Abraham won this fight by a 10th-round technical knockout. Oral's coach threw in t... |
Banco Popolare Siciliano | The creation of Banco Popolare Siciliano | a company but a division of Banco Popolare. In 2012 the department Banco Popolare Siciliano was created and managed by the bank division of BPN. |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | operations along Route 2, including the cordon and search of Bình Ba which had been postponed in late July. The village was considered key to opening the north of the province and linking Bà Rịa to Xuân Lộc in Long Khánh Province, yet it was dominated by the VC, and with a population of 2,100 the operation would be com... |
B. H. Haggin | Early life & Career | B. H. Haggin Early life A lifelong resident of New York City, he graduated from the Juilliard School in 1920 as a piano major. He published his first article in 1923, and his career as a journalist commenced shortly thereafter as a contributor to The New Republic. Career He was music critic of the Brooklyn Daily Eagl... |
Barrayar | Plot summary | rambunctious and intelligent, capturing even Piotr's affection.
In a side plot, Koudelka and Droushnakovi fall in love before the coup and indulge in some, to them, illicit sexual activity at Vorkosigan House. Cordelia, being a liberal-minded Betan, sees no harm in this but both are ashamed. While they are in hiding ... |
Aldo R. Boccaccini | Academic work & Publications | engineering scaffolds and drug delivery systems. He is also a pioneer of the field of electrophoretic deposition applied to biomedical and functional materials. Boccaccini is also member of the Advisory Board of the Network of Argentine Scientists in Germany and an international advisor to the Ministry of Science, Tech... |
Battle of Antietam | "Burnside's Bridge" | the right of Toombs's brigade and preparing for a counterattack. At 3:40 p.m., Brig. Gen. Maxcy Gregg's brigade of South Carolinians attacked the 16th Connecticut on Rodman's left flank in the cornfield of farmer John Otto. The Connecticut men had been in service for only three weeks, and their line disintegrated with ... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 1 | and Lockwood was not able to reach the impending battle in time to make a difference. Meade was also concerned about his left flank, which was not anchored on the Chickahominy and was potentially threatened by Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry. He ordered Phil Sheridan to send scouting parties into the area, but Sheridan resisted... |
Battle of Long Tan | Opening moves, 16/17 August 1966 | from several 82 mm mortars, 75 mm RCLs and an old Japanese 70 mm howitzer fired from a position 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the east. Most of the infantry were deployed at the time, with 5 RAR still engaged on Operation Holsworthy, although a small stay behind party remained. A Company, 6 RAR was on patrol in the north-ea... |
Battle of Long Tan | Patrolling east of Nui Dat, 18 August 1966 | of casualties having been evacuated by cart were located. Blood stains and a quantity of equipment and sandals were also found. The mortar and RCL firing locations were also examined. After briefing Smith, Ford and the remainder of B Company turned for Nui Dat. D Company subsequently took over the pursuit.
Smith decide... |
Battle of Goose Green | Darwin Parks | British advance by taking up positions on Darwin Hill, from which, although wounded, Lieutenant Estévez started calling down fire support. He thus succeeded in holding up the advance of 2 Para's A Company, dispersing the attackers, as his men, caught out in the forward slopes as they prepared to renew their advance, de... |
B-Prolog | CLP(FD) | events (ins(X),bound(X),dom(X,E), and dom_any(X,E)) for programming constraint propagators and the system has been enriched with new domains (Boolean, trees, and finite sets), global constraints, and specialized fast constraint propagators. Recently, the two built-ins in/2 and notin/2 have been extended to allow positi... |
Aralosaurus | Discovery | find any hadrosaurines diagnostic characters in Aralosaurus. On the contrary, the skull of Aralosaurus presents several features (in the maxilla, parietal, squamosal and especially the nasal) which indicates its inclusion among the Lambeosaurinae. Notably, the posterior fragment of the nasal, which is clearly articulat... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 2 | 4:30 a.m. on June 3. But Grant and Meade did not give specific orders for the attack, leaving it up to the corps commanders to decide where they would hit the Confederate lines and how they would coordinate with each other. No senior commander had reconnoitered the enemy position. Baldy Smith wrote that he was "aghast ... |
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey | Honours and awards & Freemasonry | Brassey the honor "Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Kalākaua". Freemasonry He was a freemason. He was initiated to the craft as an Oxford student. In 1868, he became a member of Abbey Lodge No. 1184 and remained for 48 years. He was also a member of Derwent Lodge No. 4 and a founding brother of Navy Lodge No. 261... |
Barbara Bush | Texas years | Bush was pregnant at the time with her second child, and was advised not to travel to attend the funeral. When the baby was born, she was named Pauline Robinson Bush in honor of Barbara's mother. The Bushes moved to the Los Angeles area for a time, and then to Midland, Texas in 1950. The Bushes would move some 29 time... |
American Dream (LCD Soundsystem album) | Background | A live album with the audio from the show was released in 2014 as a Record Store Day release.
In October 2015, online publication Consequence of Sound reported that "multiple sources" could confirm that LCD Soundsystem would be reuniting in 2016 and that they would be headlining "high-profile music festivals in the US ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Initial contact & 11 Platoon isolated | draw his platoon into all-round defence. He subsequently reported being under fire from a force estimated to be platoon-sized. The Australians had started the contact thinking they were numerically superior and would attack the VC, yet far from clashing with a small force which would try to withdraw before being decisi... |
Arrow (season 1) | Critical response | McNamara of the Los Angeles Times called the series an interesting setup with a quality look, describing Amell as "a poster boy (no doubt literally) for the Katniss Everdeen set." Brian Lowry at Variety described the series as a "handsome but stiff surrogate for Batman that could benefit from sharper execution." In rev... |
Alicia Keys | 2016–present: Here and The Voice & upcoming seventh album & Impact and legacy | the event.
In September 2019, Keys released a new single, "Show Me Love," featuring Miguel. The accompanying music video starred actors Michael B. Jordan and Zoe Saldana. The song impacted Urban radio on September 24, 2019 as the first single from Keys' upcoming seventh studio album.Keys performed the track for the fir... |
Ann Brill | Career | Ann Brill Ann Brill is the Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. Career Brill focuses her research work on how journalists are affected by the changes in media technology. Through her research, she has found that the developments in media technology have forced journalists to become adaptive and... |
Banca Carime | History | a warrants issued by the German bank to BPCI to buy Carime at the same price, which the contract would last until 2006. On 1 July 2003 Carime followed BPCI to become a member of Banche Popolari Unite (BPU). BPU also excised the warrants in 2005.
On 1 April 2007 Carime became a member of UBI Banca due to another merger.... |
Bambino (ice-cream) | Calypso & Cultural references | in Gdańsk, today known as Lodmor. The wrapping included a profile of the head of a small woman of African descent next to the manufacturer's logo that depicted a sea lion. Cultural references The song "Bambino Ice Cream" (Lody Bambino) was released by the band Diament. Bartek Koziczyński mentioned it in his book "333 p... |
AutoCAD | AutoCAD 360 | "Smart Pen" mode and linking to third-party cloud-based storage such as Dropbox. Having evolved from Flash-based software, AutoCAD 360 uses HTML5 browser technology available in newer browsers including Firefox and Google Chrome.
AutoCAD WS began with a version for the iPhone and subsequently expanded to include versio... |
Barrio Chino (Lima) | Origins | Central Market, then called La Concepción. During the Spanish Colonial period, the area was known as Calle Capón, as it was the location of the market for castrated pigs.
The consolidation of an ethnic Chinese neighborhood was spurred by the presence, from the 1860s, of large commercial houses established by Chinese im... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Notable failures | consolation. Added to the expense of changing signs at dealerships and other expenses, the estimated the cost of ending the marque was more than $2.2 million.
Hudson produced automobiles for 49 years, until 1957. Hudson cars were very popular in NASCAR in the early 1950s, in particular the Hudson Hornet, now known as... |
BNS Durbar | Career & Design | BNS Durbar Career BNS Durbar was commissioned on 6 April 1983. In the cyclone of 1991, the ship was damaged and later on repaired. In Exercise Sea Thunder 2014, BNS Durbar fired SY-1 missile. She was decommissioned from the Bangladesh Navy on 30 March 2017. Later on she was scrapped. Design The ship carries two SY-1 an... |
Ashoknagar | Geography | capacity for moisture retention. The other two soil types are lighter and have a higher proportion of sand. The year is popularly divided into three seasons: summer, the rains, and winter. Summer extends over the months of Chaitra to Jyestha (mid-March to mid-May). The average daily temperature during the summer months... |
Aba people | null | Aba people The Aba, who also call themselves the Aba Kizhi and a clan of the Shor people of Russia. They live along the Tom River in the general vicinity of Novokuznetsk. Although in the past they were at times considered a distinct people, they are now considered to be Shor. They are also called Abantsy, Aban, Abin an... |
Arratzua-Ubarrundia | null | Arratzua-Ubarrundia Arratzua-Ubarrundia is a valley and municipality located in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain. It is located just a few kilometers north of the provincial capital, Vitoria-Gasteiz. |
Battle of Long Tan | Opposing forces | despite their efforts, the capabilities of the ARVN remained limited. Meanwhile, the arrival of 1 ATF further restricted their ability to operate in Phước Tuy as it increasingly came to dominate the province.
Initially, 1 ATF consisted of two infantry battalions—5 RAR commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Warr, and 6 RA... |
Battle of Long Tan | Opposing forces | yet both were primarily defensive. While RF and PF units occasionally defended themselves successfully they rarely conducted offensive operations, and even when they did they were usually limited. Mostly recruited from the same population as their opponents, they were subject to the same motivations and pressures, and ... |
Van der Woude syndrome | Genetics | Van der Woude syndrome Genetics Van der Woude syndrome is inherited as an autosomal dominant disease caused by a mutation in a single gene with equal distribution between the sexes. The disease has high penetrance at about 96% but the phenotypic expression varies from lower lip pits with cleft lip and cleft palate to ... |
Battle of Antietam | Sunken Road: "Bloody Lane" | of Robert Rodes. The third, under Brig. Gen. Nathan Kimball, included three veteran regiments, but they also fell to fire from the sunken road. French's division suffered 1,750 casualties (of his 5,700 men) in under an hour.
Reinforcements were arriving on both sides, and by 10:30 a.m. Robert E. Lee sent his final rese... |
Apurva Asrani | Made in Heaven | look at the big fat Indian wedding and features a leading character who is gay. The show garnered superlative reviews from leading critics. Rahul Desai in his Film Companion review said 'there’s something to be said about the monumental manner in which homosexuality is normalized, especially in the bedroom. I don’t rem... |
Ann Pellegrini | null | Ann Pellegrini Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies (Tisch School of the Arts) and Social and Cultural Analysis (Faculty of Arts and Science) at NYU and the director of NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. In 1998, she founded the Sexual Cultures book series at NYU Press with José Muñoz; sh... |
Battle of Long Tan | Fighting continues | VC attacking 11 Platoon, and was unable to support its withdrawal. Meanwhile, 11 Platoon had gone to ground in extended line following the initial contact, leaving its flanks vulnerable, while its aggressive push forward prior to the engagement also complicated the application of artillery support, which had to be swit... |
Auto Europe | Travel industry awards & Car rental suppliers & Leadership | In 2014 Auto Europe received its 5th Magellan Award as a silver winner in the Car Rental - Overall Luxury Car Collection category. Car rental suppliers Auto Europe sells car rentals through a number of companies including Sixt, Europcar, Avis, Dollar, Enterprise, Easirent, Budget, National, Alamo, Peugeot, Buchbinder, ... |
Antoin Sevruguin | Early life & Celebrity & Landscape photography | Ferdowsi St.). Celebrity Many of Antoin's photographs were taken from 1870-1930. Because Sevruguin spoke Persian as well as other languages, he was capable of communicating to different social strata and tribes from his country Iran. His photos of the royal court, harems, and mosques and other religious monuments were ... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Military situation | V Corps crossed the river at Jericho Mills, fighting off an attack by A.P. Hill's corps, while Hancock's II Corps captured the bridge on the Telegraph Road. Lee then devised a plan, which represented a significant potential threat to Grant: a five-mile (8 km) line that formed an inverted "V" shape with its apex on the ... |
Barbara Bush | Post–White House years | business with an educational software company owned by her son Neil Bush.
On October 3, 2008, Barbara Bush and her husband George opened the "George and Barbara Bush Center" on the University of New England waterfront Biddeford Campus a few miles north of Walker's Point. The George and Barbara Bush Center lays the foun... |
Annibale Ruccello | Career | by Denis Diderot, and L'asino d'oro , renamed later Ipata, (1981), taken from Asinus aureus by Lucio Apuleio.
In 1980 he wrote his first work: Le cinque rose di Jennifer. In 1982, the cooperative Teatro Nuovo-Il Carro came into being from the association between Il Carro and il Teatro Nuovo of Naples. in 1983 he wrote... |
Arthur Augustus Tilley | Career | law until 1882, when Anthony Trollope wrote to his wife Rose "Arthur has given up the bar for good & all: – is to live at Cambridge." In 1883, he became Junior Tutor of King's. Although not a reactionary, he was very keen on good form and correct dress and was critical of the behaviour of the growing number of members ... |
Battle of Long Tan | 11 Platoon isolated | fire was reported at the time, they may have fired at B Company later in the battle.
Meanwhile, 10 Platoon was approximately 200 metres (220 yd) to the north and Smith ordered it to move up on the left of 11 Platoon to try to relieve pressure on them and allow a withdrawal back to the company defensive position. Droppi... |
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