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Basidiobolus ranarum | Physiology & Morphology | but may influence certain aspects of physiology. First, light may stimulate the production of the asexual spores, and certain blue lights (wavelengths 440 nm and 480 nm) may further stimulate the discharge of the those spores. Second, light may also stimulate the induction of aerial hyphae and favor the unicellular con... |
AutoCAD | AutoCAD 360 | 360 Formerly marketed as AutoCAD WS, AutoCAD 360 is an account-based mobile and web application enabling registered users to view, edit, and share AutoCAD files via mobile device and web using a limited AutoCAD feature set — and using cloud-stored drawing files. The program, which is an evolution and combination of pr... |
Airey Neave | World War II | capture by the Germans. In Western Europe, about 4,000 British and American military personnel were rescued by the escape organizations and repatriated to the United Kingdom, mostly through neutral Spain, before D-Day. While at MI9, he was the immediate superior of Michael Bentine.
He also served with the Internationa... |
Battle of Rossbach | Terrain and maneuver | Prussian Field Marshal James Keith was in Leipzig when the Imperial Army occupied Weissenfels. Frederick joined him there two days later. Over the next couple of days, the King's brother, Prince Henry, arrived with the main body of the army and his brother-in-law, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, arrived from ... |
Alicia Keys | Philanthropy and activism | by Unite 4 Humanity with the Music Visionary Award for "her work as an activist and Founder of Keep A Child Alive".
In 2017, Keys received and shared the award for the Ambassador of Conscience from Amnesty International alongside Canadian Indigenous rights activists. The award is bestowed on activists "who have stood u... |
Autovía A-375 | null | Autovía A-375 The Autovía A-375 is a highway in Spain. It passes through Andalusia. |
Battle of Goose Green | Darwin Parks | bodyguard. He checked his Sterling submachine gun, then ran up the hill towards an Argentine trench. He was seen to be hit once, then fell, got up and was hit again from the side. He fell metres short of the trench, hit in the back and the groin, and died within minutes.
As Jones lay dying, his men radioed for urgent c... |
Allamakee County Court House | Architecture | Architecture The architectural style of the building is known as Depression Modern or PWA Moderne. The exterior of the building is composed of pressed brick and Bedford limestone. On the interior, the central corridors extend the length of the building and various county offices open onto the corridor. The interior fea... |
Battle of Port Midi | The main battle | Battle of Port Midi The main battle The battle began on 19 December 2015, when the loyalists captured the city of Haradh after fierce fighting left dozens dead on both sides. The port was a very strategic location for the Houthis because Port Midi has been used to supply weapons for the capital, Sana'a, and for using t... |
Alexander of Roes | Views & Legacy | von Troppau, in considering a translatio of studium to Paris, supposedly made by Charlemagne. Conceding both the religious authority of the Pope, and the (quite mythical) antiquity of the University of Paris, Alexander's style of argument allowed him to assert strongly the authority of the Empire, as German, in the fie... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | Clinical features and diagnosis | happened on other anatomical regions such as the colon in the case of gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis. Infections may be associated with a diffusive bluish pigmentation generally associated with swelling. Joint function is often not affected; however, a few other cases reported the subcutaneous infection transfect ... |
Battle of Goose Green | Darwin Parks | Hill before taking up combat positions again on Darwin Ridge.
Major Philip Neame's D Company was temporarily halted by the Coronation Ridge position. Two of his men, 24-year-old Lance-Corporal Gary Bingley and 19-year-old Private Barry Grayling darted out from undercover to charge the enemy machine gun nest and protect... |
Arrow (season 1) | Home media & Critical response | DVD and Blu-ray box sets contain additional features, including making-of featurettes, deleted scenes, gag reel, and highlights from the Paley Fest 2012. Critical response The first season received favorable reviews, with a Metacritic score of 73 out of 100, based on reviews from 25 critics, making it the highest rated... |
Battle of Antietam | Disposition of armies | McClellan planned to commit more than half his army to the assault, starting with two corps, supported by a third, and if necessary a fourth. He intended to launch a simultaneous diversionary attack against the Confederate right with a fifth corps, and he was prepared to strike the center with his reserves if either at... |
Battle of Jao Modo | Background | his army encamped for the next six years. In 1691, the three Khalkha rulers declared themselves Qing vassals at Dolon Nor, ending the last remnants of the Yuan dynasty and allowing the Qing to assume the mantle of the Genghisid khans and merge the Khalkha forces into the Qing army.
Almost immediately, the Qing set abou... |
Be My Guest (short story) | Plot summary | to most animals, although it causes monkeys to go insane and literally bite themselves to death.
Kip is even more shocked when he begins hearing voices from within his body. He discovers that he can see four small ghostly, malevolent-looking humanoid creatures sitting on his shoulders. He is able to talk to them, and d... |
Argentina at the 1972 Summer Paralympics | Team & Team & Athletics & Swimming | Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Team Noemi Tortul was back again for her third consecutive Games. Noemi To... |
Anthony Firingee | Biography | of noted Bengali composers including Bhola Moira, Ram Basu and Thakur Singha. Anthony also helped construct a temple to Goddess Kali in the Bowbazar locality of Central Calcutta known as 'Firinghi Kalibari'. His wife Saudamini was burnt to death, for being a widow and remarrying Anthony, who was a foreigner. |
Battle of Long Tan | D Company regroups | and 12 Platoons in positions on the southern and eastern flanks, while the badly mauled 11 Platoon was allocated a position to the north-west. Company Headquarters was located in the south-west. During the lull, Smith walked around the position to gain an understanding of the situation and check the wounded. With one p... |
Anthony Miller (murderer) | Execution | recommend a reprieve, with a stall in Glasgow city centre. The petition received 30,000 signatures, but it was turned down.
Miller was hanged at 8.02 a.m. on 22 December by official executioner Harry Allen, assisted by Robert Leslie Stewart. It was the last execution to take place at HMP Barlinnie.
A theatre play about... |
Bank of America Building (Baltimore) | History | floodlit at night.
In December 2012, the building was acquired by a Virginia firm which plans to convert all floors above the fourth into 445 residential apartments. Bank of America announced that it would close the ground floor banking center in May 2013. Miles & Stockbridge, a prominent Baltimore law firm, had mainta... |
Beijing Subway restricted stations | Heishitou station (54#) & Beyond Heishitou station | There are two side platforms with space for two tracks. The (unofficial) name of the Heishitou station is derived from its proximity to the nearby Heishitou Village located in Shijingshan District, Beijing, in the Western Hills. There is a secret bunker-like facility used as an underground command centre by the Chinese... |
Auto Europe | Leadership & Charities | an International Travel Trade Manager and an International Licensee Manager. He is a member of the Association of Retail Travel Agencies, ASTA and CLIA. Charities In 2014 Auto Europe partnered with Toys for Tots, donating a portion of profit from every car rental booked during the weeks leading up to Christmas to the U... |
Autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati | Life and death | Autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati Ngatikaura Ngati was a New Zealand-Tongan toddler who died of child abuse in January 2006. The deliberate judicial release of official autopsy photographs after the trial of his killers, for the subsequent distribution of those images on the Internet and for the subsequent debate abou... |
Barrayar | Reception | in power, complexity and originality, such as the handling of Bothari, and its excursions into women's territory previously untravelled in SF, but also because it initiates a kind of second, deeper pass over the landscape of the earlier books. |
Ateneo Art Gallery | Collection | and Juvenal Sansó.
While the Fernando Zóbel bequest includes works of an earlier generation—notably Fernando Amorsolo and Fabian de la Rosa—it consists of paintings mostly by key postwar modernists, especially those who had exhibited in the now legendary Philippine Art Gallery of the 1950s and 60s. These include Vicent... |
Alain Resnais | Reputation | He nevertheless acknowledged his debt to the New Wave because it created the conditions of production, and particularly the financial conditions, which allowed him to make a film like Hiroshima mon amour, his first feature film.
Resnais was more often associated with a "Left Bank" group of writers and filmmakers who in... |
Battle of Goose Green | Terrain and conditions & Operational Purpose | The islands have a cold, damp climate and light, drizzly rains occur two out of every three days with continuous winds. Periods of rain, snow, fog, and sun change rapidly, and sunshine is extremely limited, leaving few opportunities for troops to warm up and dry out. Operational Purpose The bulk of the Argentine force... |
António Mascarenhas Monteiro | Global Leadership Foundation & Personal life | rights and the rule of law. It does so by making available, discreetly and in confidence, the experience of former leaders to today’s national leaders. It is a not-for-profit organization composed of former heads of government, senior governmental and international organization officials who work closely with Heads of ... |
Battle of Fort Anne | Pursuit | the morning of July 6, ordered the defenses to be taken down. With well-placed gunfire, the bridge and boom were eliminated as obstacles in the space of 30 minutes. At this point Burgoyne, breaking with rigid military discipline, ordered troops to follow southward as rapidly as possible, instead of remaining in formati... |
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Performance | rehabilitation care, were closed in June 2015 after a review carried out by the Clinical Commissioning Group found patients recovered better away from acute hospitals. Rehabilitation will in future be at Walton Community Hospital, Woking Hospital, nursing homes or at patients' own homes.
Suzanne Rankin, the Chief Exe... |
Battle of Antietam | Cornfield | the West Woods and pushed the Union troops back through the Cornfield again. The Texans attacked with particular ferocity because as they were called from their reserve position they were forced to interrupt the first hot breakfast they had had in days. They were aided by three brigades of D.H. Hill's division arriving... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | Vulnerable groups & Clinical features and diagnosis | groups or risk factors. Clinical features and diagnosis In general, the clinical presentation of subcutaneous zygomycosis is quite identifiable and characteristic and the diagnosis is fairly easy. Human infection is characterized by the single formation of enlarging, painless and firm swelling in soft tissues on extrem... |
Azmeer Yusof | Club career | 2016. |
2017 Fresno shootings | Personal background & Previous criminal history | identified a student named Kori McWallace—with the same date of birth as Muhammad—who attended Cosumnes, American River College, and Sacramento City College at various times from 1996 to 2004. However, no details were immediately offered about his studies or if he graduated. Muhammad also attended classes at Fresno Cit... |
Baldassarre Capra | Kepler's Supernova | years in the life of Jesus Christ. As both were situated among the fixed stars, their appearance must denote something of great significance.
Galileo did not respond to this provocation, but he scribbled marginal notes in his copy of it with terms such as "bue" ("ox") and "coglione" ("balls"), deriding him for his ign... |
Baltik vairas | Details & History | planned in the near future. Baltik vairas is a member of German–Baltic Chamber of Commerce and of Šiauliai Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts. History The company traces its history to a state factory established on 23 December 1948 in the Lithuanian SSR. It began producing bicycles for teenagers Ereliukas (Engli... |
Belarusian Ice Hockey Hall of Fame | null | Belarusian Ice Hockey Hall of Fame The Belarusian Ice Hockey Hall of Fame is the national ice hockey hall of fame in Belarus. It was established on February 10, 2012 in Minsk, with the induction of Ruslan Salei, who perished in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash in September 2011. |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Public celebration | placed the trees ceremonially on the fire, and gave an appropriate address.
More and more state institutions, private firms, organizations, and clubs joined the procession each year, and the event began to take on the character of a public holiday. During the 1930s, the laying of badnjak on the fire became a court ritu... |
Battle of Goose Green | Meeting between former enemy commanders | speech in honour of the fallen on both sides. During dinner that evening and accompanied by their wives, Keeble surprised all those present when he presented Frontera a token of friendship; the battle flag mast of the 12th Regiment his paratroopers had been able to recover from the seabed after the Argentine surrender. |
Battle of Goose Green | Prisoners and casualties | a 10-man army-air force patrol under Lieutenant Jaime Enrique Ugarte from the Argentine Air Force's 1st Anti-Aircraft Group and Sergeant Roberto Daniel Berdugo from the 12th Regiment that had been helicoptered to Egg Harbour House, an abandoned farm house in Lafonia to shoot down British aircraft with SA-7 shoulder-lau... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Chassis design & Overhead Valve V8 engine | it didn't come into popular use until the 1950s. Unibody construction differs from the traditional "coachwork on chassis" design in that it integrates much of the framing into a single body using a number of pieces welded together into a single unit, thus distributing the load over the entire frame of the car. Chrysle... |
Battle of Goose Green | Attack on the airfield | guns under the command of Sub-Lieutenant Claudio Oscar Braghini reduced the schoolhouse to rubble after sergeants Mario Abel Tarditti and Roberto Amado Fernandez reported to him that sniper fire was coming from there.
At around this time, three Harriers made an attack on the Argentine 35 mm gun positions; the army rada... |
Battle of Long Tan | Opposing forces | was headquartered in the Mây Tào Mountains. Operating in Phước Tuy, Biên Hòa and Long Khánh Provinces it comprised both South Vietnamese guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars. Given the task of isolating the eastern provinces from Saigon by interdicting the main roads and highways, including National Routes 1 and 15... |
Ashes Divide | Keep Telling Myself It's Alright (2008) & Inactivity and second studio album (2009-present) | the vein of the covers on A Perfect Circle's 2004 release Emotive.
Since Billy Howerdel played majority of the instruments himself on the album, and Josh Freese was busy with other commitments, a touring band was necessary. The touring lineup consisted of Jeff Friedl on drums, Matt McJunkins on bass, Jonny Radtke on l... |
Bassae | Construction and decoration | to admit light and air. The temple was constructed entirely out of grey Arcadian limestone except for the frieze which was carved from marble (probably in ancient times colored with paint). Like most major temples it has three "rooms" or porches: the pronaos, plus a naos and an opisthodomos. The naos may have housed a... |
B-Prolog | CLP(FD) & Arrays and the array subscript notation | also that we need to preprocess the constraint to make it arc consistent before the propagators
are generated.
'X_in_C_Y_ac'(X,Y,C),var(X),var(Y),
{dom(Y,Ey)}
=>
Ex is C-Ey,
domain_set_false(X,Ex).'X_in_C_Y_ac'(X,Y,C) => true. Arrays and the array subscript notation In B-Prolog, the maximum... |
Be My Guest (short story) | Plot summary | town, until he overhears a message passed through one of the local storefront mediums. It tells him that "One drink is half a drink, two drinks is a drink too much, and three drinks is no drink at all." This inspires him to attempt suicide by drinking more of Nancy's sample of the mystery vitamin. Unfortunately, once t... |
Belarusian ruble | First ruble, 1992–2000 | the proposal and stuck to the word ruble that was usual for Belarus from the times of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. In the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania of which Belarus was a major part, the word ruble has also been used as a name for a currency in circulation (see Lithuanian long currency).
From the co... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | stretched the limited forces available to 1 ATF. Meanwhile, in response to the growing threat posed by the Australians, the commander of the VC 5th Division finally ordered the 275th Regiment to move against Nui Dat.
For several weeks, Australian signals intelligence (SIGINT) had tracked a radio transmitter from the he... |
Barrayar | Plot summary | capture of Lady Alys Vorpatril and the murder of her husband, Padma. They rescue Alys, who is pregnant with the future Ivan Vorpatril. While in hiding, she delivers her son thanks to Bothari, who learned midwifery watching his mother minister to prostitutes. Cordelia dispatches Koudelka to get her to safety and sets... |
Auguste de Pradines | Early & personal life | his family owned a plantation. At the ceremony, someone possessed by the lwa (Haitian deity) Erzuli Freda performed a healing ritual, which purportedly gave the young artist, nearly paralyzed from his illness, increased mobility with the aid of a cane. Upon returning home later that day, Kandjo composed his greatest so... |
Anna Leonowens | Marriage, Western Australia and widowhood | stepfather had violently opposed the marriage. She gave birth to her first daughter, Selina, in December 1850. The girl died at just seventeen months.
In 1852 the young couple, accompanied by Anna's uncle, W. V. Glasscott, sailed to Australia via Singapore, where they boarded the barque Alibi. The journey from Singapo... |
B-Prolog | Loops with foreach and list comprehension | comprehension notation for constructing lists.
The foreach built-in has a very simple syntax and semantics. For example,
foreach(A in [a,b], I in 1..2, write((A,I)))
outputs four tuples (a,1), (a,2), (b,1), and (b,2). Syntactically, foreach is a variable-length call whose last argument specifies a goal to be executed f... |
Alexander Plisetski | Family | Alexander Plisetski Family Alexander Plisetski was born on 20 October 1931 into the family of a diplomat and an actress.
His father, Michael Plisetski (1899–1938), was Consul General of the USSR at the island of Spitsbergen, where he managed the coal concessions (trust "Arctic - carbon"). In 1938 he was purged, charged... |
Battle of Long Tan | 11 Platoon isolated | The VC continued their assault regardless, surging around the flanks of 11 Platoon. The Australians responded with controlled small arms fire, picking off a number of VC soldiers as the rain and artillery continued to fall. After making the required corrections, Stanley requested another regimental fire mission at 16:2... |
Bangladesh Army International University of Science & Technology | Location & Board of Trustees | Bangladesh Army International University of Science & Technology Location The main campus is located in Comilla with infrastructure support from Comilla Cantonment. Comilla is a city in eastern Bangladesh, part of the Chittagong Division. Comilla is an education hub in Bangladesh. The total area of this university is 1... |
Barbara Bush | Second Lady of the United States | becoming the third candidate's spouse to speak at the national party convention that nominated her husband (after Eleanor Roosevelt in 1940 and Pat Nixon in 1972). She promised voters that she would be a traditional first lady and campaigned actively for her husband. The campaign at times focused on the large Bush fami... |
Amelia Earhart | Marriage to George Putnam | referred to her marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control". In a letter written to Putnam and hand delivered to him on the day of the wedding, she wrote, "I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil [sic] code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly." She continu... |
Antefix | Etymology | Antefix An antefix (from Latin antefigere, to fasten before) is a vertical block which terminates the covering tiles of a tiled roof. In grand buildings the face of each stone ante-fix was richly carved, often with the anthemion ornament. In less grand buildings moulded ceramic ante-fixes, usually terracotta, might be ... |
Baltik vairas | Details | Baltik vairas Details Baltik vairas offers city, trekking, mountain, kids' bikes as well as e-bikes and custom bicycles such as tandems, tricycles for ice-cream carts, industrial bicycles etc. In total, around 500 different models and over 50 brand-name bicycles are manufactured each year.
The company is one of the lar... |
Baldassarre Capra | Kepler's Supernova & Plagiarism accusation against Galileo | la stella Nuova, written in the ancient dialect of Padua (called "dialetto pavano"). Plagiarism accusation against Galileo Capra’s second confrontation with Galileo was sufficiently serious for Galileo to decide he needed to confront it openly. In 1602 Capra and his father had asked Galileo to let them observe how his ... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | History & Physiology | situations. Physiology At room temperature (25–30 °C), colonies of B. ranarum show very rapid growth and are able to reach a diameter of 75–80 mm in a week on suitable growth media. The favored carbohydrate source of this fungus is glucose that can stimulate the growth of its mycelium. Generally, asexual reproduction i... |
Battle of Rossbach | Trap | wing cavalry advanced at the head and the left wing cavalry at the tail of the two main columns. Noting some Prussian movement, Soubise ordered a wheeling pivot to the east, a complicated maneuver under parade-ground conditions, and difficult in the field, with troops unfamiliar with each other, on uneven terrain. At f... |
Battle of Goose Green | Attack on the airfield & Situation at last light on 28 May | and Navy Aeromacchi aircraft struck the forward British companies; but the Argentine pilots did not have much effect, suffering two losses: at 5:00, when a Macchi 339A (CANA 1 squadron) was shot down by a Blowpipe missile from the Royal Marine Air defence troop, killing Sub-Lieutenant Daniel Miguel.
Just about 10 minut... |
Barsam | Growth of population & Sex ratio | Barsam Growth of population Population of the village has increased by 26.4% in last 10 years. In 2001 census total population here were 2004. Female population growth rate of the village is 25.4% which is -1.9% lower than male population growth rate of 27.3%. General caste population has increased by 26.1%; Schedule c... |
Anon Pairot | Art and philosophy & Business management | Inspirations Book n°11, which features Pairot's Cell armchair. "The Cell collection is produced using special craft techniques. The design is lightweight with thought to reducing waste and ease of recycling, reused material but sustainable for indoor–outdoor." Inspired by tropical pollen, Kaysorn (lit. pollen in Thai) ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | battalions—rather than the usual three—1 ATF lacked operational flexibility, as while one battalion carried out operations the other was required to secure the base and provide a ready reaction force. Significant logistic problems also plagued the task force, as 1 ALSG struggled to become operational amid the sand dune... |
Bartın | History | Bartın History The history of the antique Parthenios city (Παρθένιος in Greek), or Parthenia, dates back to 1200 BC, when its area was inhabited by the Gasgas tribe. In the following centuries, the region had entered under the dominance of Hittites, Phrygians, Cimmerians, Lydians, Greeks, Persians and Macedonians. Late... |
Beattie Casely-Hayford | Early years & Career | College, England. His education in England was interrupted when he returned to the Gold Coast at the onset of World War II.
Casely-Hayford fitted himself into a harsh wartime life and struggled through several tough self-employed occupations. He extracted coconut oil to make soap; ran two garages for repair and sprayin... |
Anti-ballistic missile | Japan | interceptor known as the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) with the US. So far tests have been successful, and there are planned 11 locations that the PAC-3 will be installed. A military spokesman said that tests had been done on two sites, one of them a business park in central Tokyo, and Ichigaya – a site not far... |
1774–1775 papal conclave | Death of Clement XIV | the Castel Sant'Angelo. However, the Jesuits still had many adherents in the Roman Curia and in the Sacred College of Cardinals. The attitude toward Jesuits remained the main criterion of the appreciation of the candidates to the papal succession in the subsequent conclave.
The death of a pope frequently presented an o... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Felling and preparing | Semberija, a piece of the splinter is put in the dough for the česnica, a round loaf of bread prepared specially for Christmas dinner. This is done "because of bees", as the reason is traditionally termed.
The top of the felled tree is removed, leaving the badnjak of such a length that allows it to be carried on a man'... |
A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek | Plot summary & Publication | A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek Plot summary The story begins with Joe's earlier, unsuccessful attempts to acquire a double buggy, and how Mary's suggestion to grow potatoes becomes a profitable venture. Following a string of good luck, Joe decides to buy a double buggy for Mary, to show his appreciation for all the sa... |
APOPO | History | 2008 proof of principle was provided in using trained rats to detect pulmonary tuberculosis in human sputum samples. In 2010 a research plan to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of the rats in diagnosing tuberculosis was started. The same year APOPO developed an automated training cage in order to remove hu... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | Pathology & Prevalence, mode of transmission | of the host and contribute to the pathogenesis of the infection. Prevalence, mode of transmission Considering the broad-range distribution of B. ranarum and its high ubiquity, subcutaneous zygomycosis is not really prevalent. In addition, the fact that infections were only reported at tropical and subtropical regions f... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Military situation | and by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside were unsuccessful. In the end, the battle was tactically inconclusive, but with almost 32,000 casualties on both sides, it was the costliest battle of the campaign. Grant planned to end the stalemate by once again shifting around Lee's right flank to the southeast, toward Richmond.
Gra... |
Apracaraja Indravarman's Silver Reliquary | Apracarajas' relations with yuvaraja Kharaosta & Bajaur, the home of Aspasioi clan | historical figures and also introduce some previously unknown persons. Noteworthy among the former are prince Indravarman and king Khara(y)osta who is to be identified with ruler Kharahostes or Kharaosta who had been known from numismatics and Mathura Lion Capital inscriptions. The Inscription no. II also establishes t... |
Adam Bighill | BC Lions | the Lions he played in all but one game of the regular season, contributing a league leading 117 tackles. Following the season, Bighill was named the CFL's Top Defensive Player. Bighill continued his dominant play in the 2016 season finishing 3rd in the league in tackles and earning his fourth CFL All-Star award in the... |
Battle of Goose Green | Attack on the airfield | men ... [My] men were very tense, there was a ferocious cold, we shivered with cold, with fear ... When they were about fifty meters away, we opened fire ... We kept firing for at least forty minutes ... They started to attack our flank, my soldiers had to take cover, the firing went down, and the situation started... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 3 | the left to assault at once, without regard to the movements of their neighboring corps. But all had had enough. Hancock advised against the move. Smith, calling a repetition of the attack a "wanton waste of life," refused to advance again. Wright's men increased their rifle fire but stayed in place. By 12:30 p.m. Gran... |
Battle for Jerusalem | Food rationing | gallons/person/day, of which four pints was drinking water. In June the weekly ration per person was 100 grams of wheat, 100 g beans, 40 g cheese, 100 g coffee or 100 g powdered milk, 160 g bread per day, 50 g margarine with one or two eggs for the sick. The mallow plant played an important role in Jerusalem history at... |
Battle of Long Tan | D Company reinforced | they did so the VC continued to attack from the north-east, although this too was soon broken off.
Linking up with D Company, the APCs moved through the company position. Around the perimeter the Australians engaged the withdrawing VC, while the APCs moved into a line from north to south on the eastern side of the comp... |
Battle of Antietam | "Burnside's Bridge" | problem. Burnside concentrated his plan instead on storming the bridge while simultaneously crossing a ford McClellan's engineers had identified a half mile (1 km) downstream, but when Burnside's men reached it, they found the banks too high to negotiate. While Col. George Crook's Ohio brigade prepared to attack the br... |
Aironi | History | Italian players played in France's Top 14. In order to ensure the new teams delivered players for the national side the Federazione Italiana Rugby put incentives in place for the new teams. The successful franchises would receive financial support from the FIR to recruit national team players at the time playing abroad... |
Amelia Earhart | Boston & Transatlantic flight in 1928 | Society's Boston chapter and was eventually elected its vice president. She flew out of Dennison Airport (later the Naval Air Station Squantum) in Quincy, Massachusetts, and helped finance its operation by investing a small sum of money. Earhart also flew the first official flight out of Dennison Airport in 1927. Along... |
Belarusian ruble | Monetary integration with Russia & Third ruble, 2016–present | States dollar instead of to the Russian ruble. "Stanislav Bogdankevich, a former bank chairman, called the decision political, saying it was tied to Belarus' open displeasure at Russia's decision to hike oil and gas export prices to Belarus earlier this year. Belarus' economy is largely Soviet-style, centrally controll... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Toyota Paralympic Talent Search Program & Fundraising | in the team from the Talent Program won medals at their first Paralympic games. Fundraising Since 1990 the Australian Paralympic Committee has been responsible for preparing the Summer and Winter Teams for the Paralympic Games. They also assist athletes to prepare by, "…providing funding for coaching, equipment and tra... |
Beattie Casely-Hayford | Music and literary work & Engineering work & Alternative energy | later years. Casely-Hayford gave several lectures on Ghana's highlife music; collaborated with the University of Ghana Music Professor John Collins; and served as a founding patron of Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation (BAPMAF), an NGO that Prof. John Collins established in 1990 soon after Casely-Hayford'... |
Austrian Empire | Foreign policy | Revolutions—and the rise of liberalism equated to his political downfall. The result was that the Austrian Empire was seen as one of the great powers after 1815, but also as a reactionary force and an obstacle to national aspirations in Italy and Germany.
During this time, Metternich was able to maintain an elaborate b... |
Be My Guest (short story) | Plot summary | were handy, including paint.
They evict Nancy, but Anjelica leaves too, with her usual remark that Kip should be doing more with his talents. He started studying law, then switched to science, where he did well until a mysterious psychosomatic affliction stopped him cold. He dropped out and held a series of outdoor job... |
2001 Protection One 400 | Race | giving him a 222-point advantage over Ricky Rudd in the championship standings. Rudd, Wallace, and Sterling Marlin closed out the top five. |
Autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati | Email petition | for child abuse and to highlight female family violence perpetrators. Family First's Bob McCroskie supported the shock value of the images. The images have also been used on placards (protest signs).
Preceding Commissioner Roger McClay said, that use of the photos would serve to raise awareness of the child abuse "epid... |
Attila (horse) | 1841: two-year-old season & 1842: three-year-old season | from Sally, a good filly who went on to win the Park Hill Stakes. At Newmarket on 12 October he won the Clearwell Stakes, beating the favourite Wiseacre by a length "with all ease". His performances were enough for him to go into the winter break as one of the favourites for the following year's Derby 1842: three-year-... |
Wintersingen | Economy | of which females made up 41.6% of the workforce.
In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 86. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 27, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 21, of which 17 or (81.0%) were in manufacturing and 4 (19.0%) were in construc... |
Battle of the Hatpins | Background & Battle of the Hatpins | Béatrice and Diane Desloges. In October 1915 the school board replaced the pair with English-speaking teachers, and the Desloges instead began teaching secretly elsewhere in the community. The unsuitability of these spaces for instruction in winter prompted parents to invite the Desloges back to the school to teach in ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Clearing the battlefield, 19–21 August 1966 | 09:21 D Company, 5 RAR reported finding the body of a dead VC soldier; while half an hour later D Company, 6 RAR found 12 to 15 more. A large number of VC dead were subsequently found around the area, including a 60 mm mortar crew killed by indirect fire. At 10:20 a bulldozer was requested to bury the bodies of approxi... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Notable failures | the mainstream price range when it came out with the upper priced Imperial line, putting the Chrysler marque in direct competition with it. By the 1961 model year, the DeSoto was reduced to a single model and on November 18, 1960, Chrysler ended the DeSoto marque, just two weeks after the introduction of the 1961 mode... |
Baron Chetwode | null | Chetwode of Oakley Hall, Staffordshire. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1698. His grandson, the third Baronet also High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1756. The fourth Baronet, represented Newcastle-under-Lyme and Buckingham in the House of Commons and was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1789. His son, the fifth Baro... |
Battle of Antietam | Sunken Road: "Bloody Lane" | following events.
As Caldwell's brigade advanced around the right flank of the Confederates, Col. Francis C. Barlow and 350 men of the 61st and 64th New York saw a weak point in the line and seized a knoll commanding the sunken road. This allowed them to get enfilade fire into the Confederate line, turning it into a de... |
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