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Bandai Museum | Character World | featuring various exhibit displays from series like Ultraman, Mazinger, Kamen Rider, Godzilla, and various anime and Super Sentai series. An admission fee is required to enter the Character World area. |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Smith I, II | Smith's promoter Eddie Hearn dubbed the decision a "disgrace".
The WBO stated they would review the fight and decision, with the possible outcome being a rematch. In October, the WBO rejected Smith's request for an immediate rematch, however confirmed that he would stay in the top 5 in their rankings. Smith still belie... |
Amelia Earhart | Nearing Howland Island | Island The USCGC Itasca was on station at Howland. Its task was to communicate with Earhart's Electra and guide them to the island once they arrived in the vicinity. Noonan and Earhart expected to do voice communications on 3105 kHz during the night and 6210 kHz during the day.
Through a series of misunderstandings or ... |
Albert Collins | Career | at the Wiltern Theater, in Los Angeles; the concert was subsequently released on video under the title Jazzvisions: Jump the Blues Away. The backing musicians for the concert were Rick Rosas (bass), Michael Huey (drums), Ed Sanford (Hammond B3 organ), Kip Noble (piano) and Josh Sklar (guitar). In 1986 Collins won a Gra... |
Battle of Antietam | Sunken Road: "Bloody Lane" | was severely wounded, and Richardson mortally wounded. Winfield S. Hancock assumed division command. Although Hancock would have an excellent future reputation as an aggressive division and corps commander, the unexpected change of command sapped the momentum of the Federal advance.
The carnage from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p... |
Belgrade Cooperative | History | credit and an advanced method for reviving both the trading business and the market within the capitalist economy.
Since 1897, when the Department of Insurance was founded, in addition to the cooperative banking activity, Belgrade Cooperative was increasingly developed as an insurance company. From being the savings f... |
Battle of Long Tan | Controversies & Assessment | "Chinese Generals". There are also additional issues with the fabrication of the size of the attacking NVA/VC forces and enemy dead by several authors and by the Red Dunes Film Group, which has received criticism from an Australian Vietnam War veteran and later historian and Vietnamese-language linguist Ernie Chamberla... |
Battle of Long Tan | Assessment | Company's success included superior radio communications which had allowed Stanley to co-ordinate the fire of the guns at Nui Dat, the weight of the artillery which repeatedly broke up the assaulting formations, its timely aerial resupply which prevented them running out of ammunition, and the mobility and firepower of... |
Battle of Long Tan | 11 Platoon isolated | beyond 11 Platoon, the rounds exploded amid the VC as they began to form up for an assault. But with 11 Platoon engaged from its left, front and right, it became clear the VC force was stronger than a platoon, and was probably at least company-sized. Supported by heavy machine-guns, they launched a series of assaults a... |
Battle for Jerusalem | United Nations position | the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, which the Jews of Mandatory Palestine accepted and the Arabs of Mandatory Palestine and neighboring states rejected, was that Jerusalem would be a corpus separatum, under United Nations control and not part of either the proposed Arab or Jewish states. Israel argued tha... |
Attila (horse) | 1841: two-year-old season | four races. He made his debut by running in the Champagne Stakes at the Pottery Meeting on 3 August, where he started the 6/4 favourite and won from Gipsy Queen. He was sent to Doncaster races, where he ran twice. On 13 September, he led all the way to beat Cabrera by "half a neck" in the Champagne Stakes, a race which... |
Arthur Grenfell Wauchope | Military career | only did immigration go up threefold (the Jewish population increased from 174,606 to 329,358), but Jews also increased their land holdings (in 1931 they increased their land holdings by 18,585 dunams or 4,646 acres, while in 1935 they increased them by 72,905), and finally Jewish business and commerce enjoyed an econo... |
Battle of Long Tan | Lessons learned and subsequent operations | changed the way the battle was fought, and afterwards both battalion commanders were regularly briefed on such intercepts. The value of patrolling in depth and in sufficient strength to prevent the VC concentrating their forces had also been reinforced, and while there was no change to the pattern of Australian operati... |
Basidiobolus ranarum | Physiology | Also, sporangiospores can be generated by internal cleave of the cytoplasm and can then be dispersed when the sporangial wall is dissolved. As a result, the ejected asexual spores can form satellite colonies in a distance. After around 10 days of growth, sexual spores, zygospores with 20–50 μm diameters can also be pro... |
Barachiel (Dungeons & Dragons) | Realm & Worshippers | enter and exit the castle to receive their orders from Barachiel.
The layer of Lunia is divided into 196 provinces, each ruled by a warden archon who answers to Barachiel. Worshippers The archons of the Hebdomad do not desire to be worshiped themselves; instead, they guide mortals toward the worship of the deities of l... |
7½ Phere | Plot | 7½ Phere Plot After having tasted great success with soaps based on traditional families, a national TV network is getting into the next phase of programming - that is - "Reality TV" so they decide to go for the evergreen subject of marriages in the Indian family. Channel asks their blue-eyed guy to produce the show. A... |
Anna Leonowens | Canada & Anna Leonowens in fiction and film | to Fyshe, Leonowens insisted that she had written "the whole truth" and that Mongkut had indeed been "a ridiculous and a cruel, wicked man".
After nineteen years in Halifax, she moved to Montreal, Quebec. Anna Leonowens died on 19 January 1915, at 83 years of age. She was interred in Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. T... |
Augusto Lamo Castillo | null | Augusto Lamo Castillo Augusto Lamo Castillo (25 September 1938 in Badajoz – 10 September 2002) was a Spanish football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup on his home soil in Spain. He also refereed one match in the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship in France |
Autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati | Life and death | been fostered to a cousin of his birth mother and was being raised in a Tongan language environment until shortly after his third birthday when he was returned to his birth mother, at her request. Maine Annabella Ngati, her partner, Teusila Fa'asisila, and their other children only spoke English. Within three months, N... |
Atıf Yılmaz | Film career | Shame), Zavallılar (The Poor People), Selvi Boylum, Al Yazmalım (My Girl with the Red Scarf), Baskin (The Raid), Adak (The Sacrifice), Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Sip of Love), Adı Vasfiye (Her Name is Vasfiye), Berdel, Düş Gezginleri (Walking After Midnight), Eylül Fırtınası (After the Fall) and Mine.
He made movies both fluen... |
Ayad Alkadhi | Life | in the Middle East, a book published by Black Dog Publishing, also features his work. |
Beloved (1998 film) | Filming locations & Praise for Winfrey & Critical reception | included New Castle, Delaware Praise for Winfrey During promotion of the film, Thandie Newton said to Vogue magazine, "Here we were working on this project with the heavy underbelly of political and social realism, and she managed to lighten things up ... I've worked with a lot of good actors, and I know Oprah hasn't m... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | able to concentrate anywhere in Phước Tuy within 24 to 48 hours, it remained a significant threat. As 1 ATF began to impact the VC's freedom of action, a response was increasingly expected. Mortar fire and small probes on the Nui Dat perimeter had been anticipated and had occurred, with such activity a possible prelude... |
B.J. Annis | B.J's Gym & Wrestling related | often featuring hearts, as a reference to the Hart family. Wrestling related Annis appeared for WWF in 1997 at the PPV In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede, he and his brother-in-law Wayne were punched and thrown over the guard rails by Stone Cold Steve Austin. Annis and his son Edward have held free presentations in Ca... |
Auguste de Pradines | Early & personal life & Musical career | served as president of Haiti (2011-2016). Musical career Beginning in the 1890s, Kandjo was a prolific composer of up to four songs per week. Nearly all of Kandjo's songs were written in Haitian Kreyòl (Creole). Over nearly five decades, he composed love songs, as well as satirical songs and songs of political and soci... |
Army Medical Department (United States) | Medical Corps (MC) & Nurse Corps (AN) | CSH (combat support hospitals)
Research Medicine is filled by a minority of military physicians. Most of these research physicians are based in larger Army Medical Centers and the research institutes. Nurse Corps (AN) The Army Nurse Corps became a permanent corps of the Medical Department under the Army Reorganization ... |
BKMA Yerevan | History | BKMA Yerevan History During the days of the Soviet rule in Armenia, the Central Sport Club of the Army Yerevan was founded in 1947 in Yerevan. It was commonly known with its Russian abbreviation as CSKA Yerevan.
After the independence of Armenia in 1991, the BKMA made their professional debut in domestic football compe... |
Avenida Corrientes | History | Corrientes was a symbol of night life in Buenos Aires, traditionally nicknamed "the street that never sleeps", In the 10 blocks West of downtown from Maipu St to Callao Avenue it held the largest concentration of theatres and cinemas (together with nearby pedestrian Calle Lavalle), making it the center of commercial th... |
Battle of Charleston (1861) | Capture of Fish Lake Camp | Cavalry advanced upon Charleston; passed through the streets without any resistance and captured two rebels, who informed the Captain that the forces under Colonel Dougherty had preceded them and had engaged the enemy. They also informed the Captain that there was an encampment of mounted rebels at a point near or upo... |
Battle of Port Midi | Insurgency | a market in the Red Sea port of Khokha killed 20 civilians and six Houthi fighters.
On 14 March 2017, the pro-government Yemeni Ministry of Defence said on its official news site, that as many as 28 Houthi fighters were killed in Midi District.
On 3 April 2017, pro-government forces say that they have stormed some neig... |
Bello, Antioquia | Communication & Education | Todelar and Super.
In Bello and the rest of Antioquia there are two major newspapers in circulation: El Colombiano and El Mundo, both with a long history at the regional level. Also circulating are the El Tiempo and El Espectador newspapers, both with national circulation. Education Bello has 111 educational institutio... |
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work | Party politics | Erisman notes that the book "specifically identifies the villains as Democrats" in keeping with "Baum's lifelong Republicanism...." Yet there is little evidence of party allegiance in Baum's life, books, or correspondence. Biographer Katharine Rogers observes that the text itself denies the significance of parties. In ... |
Ben Pease | Life | Ben Pease Life Pease was described as “a satanic looking rascal with a black spade beard – [who] was a more openly piratical operator than [Bully] Hayes”. Pease may have greater claim than Bully Hayes as being a South Sea pirate and "the last of the buccaneers," as Pease appears to have been engaged in filibustering i... |
Amberley, Ohio | 2000 census | years. For every 100 females there were 96.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.4 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $81,492, and the median income for a family was $92,684. Males had a median income of $61,220 versus $37,750 for females. The per capita income for the v... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | presence close to the base, with the battalion airlifted out by early evening. Although the warnings were unconfirmed and an attack against Nui Dat was considered unlikely, 1 ATF was re-postured. Company patrols were sent out in each direction over the following days, but found little of significance. Jackson had seeme... |
Battle of the Hatpins | Legacy | to prevent French-language teaching at Guigues. Bilingual schooling in Ontario was officially reinstated in 1927. On 22 February 2016, the Ontario government issued an official apology for its actions against French-language education. France Gélinas put forward a private member's bill in the provincial legislature to ... |
Banca Carime | History | local banks were started to merged into one subsidiary Banca Carime on 1 January 1998.
Right after Cariplo merged with Banco Ambrosiano Veneto to form Banca Intesa on 2 January 1998, Caripuglia ceased to be existed that year, followed by Carisal and Carical in 1999.
In January 2001, 19 branches of the bank was sold to ... |
Battle of Rossbach | Trap & Aftermath | Franconian Imperial troops threw aside their muskets and ran, and the French ran with them. Seydlitz's troopers pursued and cut down the fleeing Allies until darkness made the chase impossible. Aftermath The battle had lasted less than 90 minutes and the last episode of the infantry fight no more than fifteen minutes. ... |
Battle of Rossbach | Terrain and maneuver | the Prussian approach. When Mayr appeared at about 8:00 a.m. on the 31st, followed by the King and the rest of his army, the French were completely surprised. The force there consisted of four battalions and 18 companies of grenadiers, all but three of them French: 5,000 men under command of Louis, Duke de Crillon.
Cri... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Military situation | about 10,000 men arrived to join Grant's army about 3 p.m. on June 1.
Lee also received reinforcements. Confederate President Jefferson Davis directed Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard to send the division of Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke, over 7,000 men, from below the James River. (The first troops of Hoke's division arrived at Old ... |
Battle of Jao Modo | Background & Battle | back on an 80-day trek northwest across the Gobi Desert to confront Galdan. A second army was under the command of Fiyanggu, numbering 30,000 and to be reinforced with a further 10,000, was to trap Galdan, while a third, numbering 10,000, halted further to the east and would play no major part in the campaign. Battle T... |
Battle of Goose Green | Situation at last light on 28 May | Green. He had seen the C Company assault stopped in its tracks by the antiaircraft fire from Goose Green, and had seen the Harrier strikes of earlier that afternoon missing their intended targets. In an order group with the A and C Company commanders, he indicated his preference for calling for an Argentine surrender r... |
Battle of Long Tan | D Company reinforced | a number of uncoordinated manoeuvres by the APCs Townsend took command, and with the light failing he ordered Roberts to assault from the west into the flank of the main Viet Cong force.
Bolstered to nine M113s, 3 Troop again moved forward through the artillery fire with Roberts spreading the additional APCs across the... |
Alicia Keys | Achievements | 8 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Airplay number-one singles, and set a Guinness World Record on the former in 2008, when she became the first artist to replace herself at number one with "No One" and "Like You'll Never See Me Again". "No One" and "Empire State of Mind" are also amongst the list of best-selling singles world... |
Arthur Lawson Johnston, 3rd Baron Luke | null | Arthur Lawson Johnston, 3rd Baron Luke Arthur Charles St John Lawson Johnston, 3rd Baron Luke KStJ (13 January 1933 – 2 October 2015) was a British peer. He was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 until his retirement in 2015.
The s... |
Battle of Long Tan | A Company and 3 Troop fight through | penetrating the barrage, until a relief force arrived. A simultaneous assault from multiple directions would divide the artillery and might allow a strong thrust to overrun the Australian position. A fresh force was observed moving to the west, likely an attempt to encircle and cut off D Company.
Meanwhile, the progres... |
Austrian Empire | Foundation | December 1805, Maximilian IV Joseph, the prince-elector and Duke of Bavaria, proclaimed himself King, followed by the Duke of Württemberg Frederick III on 11 December. Charles Frederick, Margrave of Baden, was given the title of Grand Duke on 12 December. Each of these new states became French allies. The Treaty of Pre... |
Ya Basta Association | null | Ya Basta Association The Ya Basta Association is a network of Italian anti-capitalist and pro-immigrants rights organizations and groups, fueled by the Italian social center movement, formed in 1994, and known for the "authorship" of the Tute Bianche, and later disobbedienti phenomena.
Formed as a result of the "eros e... |
Battle of Goose Green | Commanders | Mercedes had plenty of 7.62mm rifle ammunition left, but had run out of 81mm mortar rounds, and there were only 394 shells left for the 105mm artillery guns. On 24 February 1992, after a long fight in both civil and military courts, Piaggi had his retired military rank and pay reinstated as a full colonel. He died in J... |
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | Sponsorship & Major Sponsors | of Paralympic sports has grown phenomenally in the past decade however there was concern this didn't translate into increased corporate sponsorship, especially before the 2008 games. Despite this, the Australian Paralympic Committee outlined in their Annual Report for 2007/08 that their corporate sponsorship revenue in... |
Battle of Long Tan | Assessment | aviation. Artillery had been the mainstay of the defence, with D Company supported by 24 guns from the 1st Field Regiment, RAA and A Battery, US 2/35th Artillery Battalion. Indirect fire provided close protection to the infantry, allowing D Company to hold their line and repulse any VC that succeeded in getting through... |
Andriy Atanasovych Melnyk | Life | part because of the hope for more moderate and pragmatic leadership and by the desire to repair strained ties with the Catholic Church. The group that had chosen Melnyk as their leader admired aspects of Benito Mussolini's fascism but condemned Nazism. In 1940 a more radical faction of the OUN led by Stepan Bandera and... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | been located, but neither patrol found anything of significance. SAS patrols focused on the Núi Dinh hills to the west.
By 16 August, the communist force was positioned east of the Long Tân rubber plantation, just outside the range of the artillery at Nui Dat. The operation was thought to have been planned by Colonel N... |
Armaan (2003 film) | Plot | own way and it is not long before she wants Akash for herself. She decides that since Akash is the man for her, she can latch on to him by literally 'buying' his love through financial agreement. The agreement states that on marrying Sonia, her father Gulshan Kapoor (Randhir Kapoor) will help finance the hospital proje... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Opposing armies: the Arabs and the Khazars | simply sought to contain the steppe peoples through fortifications and political alliances, the Arabs were "expansionists interested in conquest". From the beginning, they actively pursued a northward expansion, quickly posing a direct threat to the survival of the Khazars as an independent polity. The Khazars, on the ... |
Autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati | Broadcast television | boy's face and genitals, and, "in this respect, the Authority finds that TVNZ exercised care and discretion in order to preserve the child's dignity."
Regarding violence, the Authority quoted from their guidelines, which "recognises that news programmes will often contain 'violent, disturbing or alarming material', an... |
Battle of Long Tan | 11 Platoon isolated | they attempted to outflank them. Advancing to close range before dropping to their knees to adopt firing positions, 10 Platoon engaged them from the rear, hitting a large number and breaking up the attack. As the surviving VC withdrew, Kendall pushed on. Yet shortly after 10 Platoon was engaged on three sides from a he... |
Arthur Abraham | Amateur career & Early career | head coach Ulli Wegner. Arthur was a sparring partner for IBF and WBA super middleweight champion Sven Ottke, whom was in the preparations of a title defense. Wegner was so impressed that he began to train Arthur personally. Early career Abraham started his professional career on 16 August 2003. The Sauerland-promoted ... |
Before I Sleep (album) | Background | Johnny McDaid of Snow Patrol, Sia Furler, Greg Kurstin, Henry Binns of Zero 7, Joel Pott of Athlete and the second single co-written with former The Voice UK mentor Danny O'Donoghue, entitled 'Alive'. The album features several producers, including Tom Marsh, who worked on Bo's previous release Search The Night and Jam... |
Benny the Dip | 1997: three-year-old season | horse; Gosden said that he was coughing and "full of mucus". He recovered quickly however, and in May he led from the start in the Dante Stakes at York confirming his best two-year-old form by beating Desert Story by two and a half lengths with Medaaly unplaced. Richard Edmondson, writing in The Independent described t... |
Benyoucef Benkhedda | Later political career | Ben Khedda was forced to stand down to avoid a "fratricidal bloodbath". In 1976 he, with three leaders of the war of liberation (Ferhat Abbas, Hocine Lahoue, Kheir-Eddine) signed a proclamation which set about to create a constitutional national assembly, elected by universal suffrage to create a national charter (gran... |
Batagor | Varieties | dollar, as of 2018. |
Barbara Arrowsmith Young | Career | Young and Cohen married in 1980 and opened the Arrowswmith School for learning disabled children in Toronto that same year. Its curriculum was based on the exercises which Arrowsmith Young had developed for herself and which came to be known as the Arrowsmith Program. She named the school after her paternal grandmother... |
Anti-ballistic missile | Tactical ABMs deployed in 1990s | States throughout the 1990s.
The Patriot was the first deployed tactical ABM system, although it was not designed from the outset for that task and consequently had limitations. It was used during the 1991 Gulf War to attempt to intercept Iraqi Scud missiles. Post-war analyses show that the Patriot was much less effect... |
Aralosaurus | Discovery | the nasal migrates to a caudodorsal position because of the important development of the premaxillae in these forms. In addition, in more derived lambeosaurines, the skull roof is modified to form a fixation zone for the hollow crest, whereas in Aralosaurus the skull roof does not present any particular modification. T... |
Arthur Lawson Johnston, 3rd Baron Luke | null | worked for the family firm Bovril Ltd from 1955 to 1971, served on Bedfordshire County Council from 1965 to 1970, and was a fine art dealer in watercolours of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Between 1962 and 1978, he was president of the National Association of Warehouse-keepers, and between 1983 and 1990, Commander... |
Battle of Antietam | "Burnside's Bridge" | assault at the bridge by one of Sturgis's brigades, led by the 2nd Maryland and 6th New Hampshire. They also fell prey to the Confederate sharpshooters and artillery, and their attack fell apart. By this time it was noon, and McClellan was losing patience. He sent a succession of couriers to motivate Burnside to move f... |
Yellow cassava | Constraints to Wider Adoption & Practical Information | requires a localized approach. Practical Information Since cassava can be reproduced through propagation, cutting off part of the stem and sharing it with other farmers is a good way to provide Vitamin A-rich yellow cassava to rural populations.
When preserving cassava, pretreating prior to drying can have a positive e... |
Belarusian ruble | Commemorative issues | tender. With The first coins of the Republic of Belarus were issued on December 27, 1996. Their designs range from fairly commonplace to unique and innovative; themes range widely from "native culture and events" to fairy tales and pop culture topics not related to Belarus at all. A majority of these coins have a face... |
Battle of Rossbach | Terrain and maneuver | Reichardtswerben through Kaynau, and they met up at Großkorbetha. Their advanced guard patrolled Merseburg, and sought some information from the local inhabitants. Although the local Saxon peasants might have disliked the Prussians, they disliked the French and Austrian-allied Reichsarmee even more, and they gave up li... |
Battle of Long Tan | 12 Platoon attempts to link up with Buick | to move around their western flank to get between 11 and 12 Platoon and form a cut-off force prior to mounting a frontal assault. In so doing, 12 Platoon succeeded in opening a path to 11 Platoon, yet after 45 minutes under fire Sabben was unable to advance any further, and with the rain reducing visibility to just 70 ... |
Benny the Dip | 1997: three-year-old season | make all the running. On this occasion however, he was overtaken two furlongs out by the five-year-old Pilsudski, but stayed on well to hold on to second place from the filly Bosra Sham, who had started odds-on favourite. Although he was beaten, the form of his run was rather better than his Derby win: a Timeform handi... |
Ashoknagar | Geography | to about 165 cm in the east. Ashoknagar and surrounding areas receive an average of 140 cm of rainfall a year. The growing period lasts from 90 to 150 days, during which the average daily temperature is below 30 °C, but seldom falls below 20 °C. Winter is the longest of the three seasons, extending for about five month... |
Apracaraja Indravarman's Silver Reliquary | Form and function | of the Kafiristan where viticulture and wine festivals are known to have been widely practiced. Similar customs are also well documented in recent times in the region of Nuristan (pre-Islamic Kafiristan) which area had formed integral parts of ancient Kapisa. Bajaur, the presumed provenance of the silver reliquary, was... |
Berechiah ha-Nakdan | Biography | of Jewish scholars of Babylonia. He also knew foreign languages and translated and adapted several books into Hebrew.
Berechiah appellation ha-Nakdan ("the punctuator") suggests that Berechiah punctuated Hebrew books. Hermann Gollancz, on the other hand, conjectured that he had a brother, a French Tosaphist, called Sam... |
Barneyville Historic District | Description and history | Barneyville Historic District Description and history Barneyville is centered on the junction of Old Providence and Barneyville Roads, and extends eastward along Old Providence Road toward the Palmer River. Although the area was first settled in the 17th century, it only began to grow as a proper village in the mid-18t... |
Atrichomelina | Biology | Atrichomelina Biology The larvae kill and consume aquatic pulmonate snails of various species. |
Bello, Antioquia | Education & Sports | Bello’s territory: These are the University of San Buenaventura, Bello branch of Uniminuto, a sub-site of the Jaime Isaza Cadavid Colombian Polytechnic and the Marco Fidel Suárez Polytechnic. Sports Until 2010, the town had a football (soccer) team, Atlético Bello, in the Colombian Professional Second Division ("Primer... |
Bellamkonda Ramaraya Kavindrulu | Refuting Visishtadvaita | the Indian vaidic literature and spirituality. Though Ramaraya Kavi's family embraced the Vaishnava cult subscribing to the Ramanuja tradition of Visishtadvaita, his critical studies of Sri Bhashyam of Ramanuja and the commentary of Adi Shankara on the Bhagavad Gita had lent him deep insights into the gaping holes in ... |
Battle of Fort Anne | Aftermath | the vanguard of a much larger British force.
A British officer recovered some regimental banners either during this engagement, or following the American retreat from Fort Anne. It is widely claimed that one of the flags captured was a new design of American flag with thirteen red and white stripes and a constellation ... |
Anna Leonowens | Marriage, Western Australia and widowhood | quickly found employment as clerks in the colonial administration. Later in 1853, Glasscott accepted a position as government commissariat storekeeper at Lynton, a small and remote settlement that was the site of Lynton Convict Depot. Glasscott became involved in frequent disagreements with the abrasive Resident Magist... |
Battle of Rossbach | Aftermath | an unusually high count in eighteenth century warfare, although not surprising given the emphasis on cavalry action in this battle. Among the French and German Imperial troops, the Austrian demographer Gaston Bodart counted 1,000 dead (including six generals) and approximately 3,500 wounded (including four generals), ... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 4–12 | cessation of hostilities, it was too late for most of the unfortunate wounded, who were now bloated corpses. Grant was widely criticized in the Northern press for this lapse of judgment.
On June 4 Grant tightened his lines by moving Burnside's corps behind Matadequin Creek as a reserve and moving Warren leftward to con... |
Battle of Long Tan | Clearing the battlefield, 19–21 August 1966 | where they had been killed, largely undisturbed and still holding their weapons. The majority were from 6 Section, which had been the first to be hit. One of the men was found to have survived despite his wounds, having spent the night on the battlefield in close proximity to the VC as they attempted to evacuate their ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Recognition & Controversies | to awards to ten more soldiers, including Roberts, Alcorta and Lance Corporal Barry Magnussen who received the MG, and Sharp and six others a Commendation for Gallantry.
On 18 August 1969, 6 RAR erected the Long Tan Cross on the battlefield. Controversies In 2015, the commander of 6 RAR Harry Smith published Long Tan, ... |
Arthur Augustus Tilley | Early life | Secretary to the General Post Office, by his marriage to Mary Ann Partington, who was his second wife. Tilley's father had been married firstly, in 1839, to Cecilia Trollope, a favourite sister of the novelist Anthony Trollope, who sometimes stayed with the Tilleys in Cumberland. Cecilia Tilley had died in 1849, havin... |
Ben Speer | Technical and business career | Speer has contributed to both the technical and business aspects of Southern gospel music. Speer was the longtime music director for the Gaither Homecoming series.
The Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame's website noted his technical accomplishments as follows: "Ben chose experimenting with sound equipment as a hobb... |
Auguste de Pradines | Early & personal life | a "strong course of music", and he became proficient on piano, guitar, mandolin, and other instruments. By age 19 Auguste, who became professionally known as Kandjo, had devoted himself to a musical career. In 1903, he was chosen to sing the premier of the Haitian national anthem, La Dessalinienne.
de Pradines married ... |
Wild Winds Are Blowing | Release & Promotion | Beginnings/Play It Loud. Promotion A music video was filmed to promote the single. It featured the band performing the song at Philips Studios in London. After remaining unseen for many years, the video surfaced in 2016. To further promote the song, the band made their first national TV appearance on Alan Price's Monst... |
Battle of Landshut (1809) | The battle & Consequences | grenadiers of the 17th Line. In the face of heavy Austrian fire from all sides, Mouton ordered his men to attack without firing their muskets. The grenadiers reached the gateway and broke it down, allowing Bavarian troops to quickly reinforce the breach.
The fighting now continued in the streets of Landshut itself. How... |
Battle of Antietam | "Burnside's Bridge" | out in advance and isolated. They were enveloped and driven down the hills toward Antietam Creek. A counterattack by regiments from the Kanawha Division fell short.
The IX Corps had suffered casualties of about 20% but still possessed twice the number of Confederates confronting them. Unnerved by the collapse of his fl... |
Battle of Rossbach | Situation in 1757 | The Russians then used Memel as a base to invade East Prussia and defeated a smaller Prussian force in the fiercely contested Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf on 30 August 1757. However, the Russians were unable to take Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia, after using up their supplies of cannonballs at Memel and Gross-... |
Atanasie Rednic | Life | the vicar of the bishop.
On 30 June 1764, following the death of the Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, the bishop of Făgăraş Petru Pavel Aron, the electoral synod convened and Rednic ranked only fourth in the results. Nevertheless, and against the will of the monks, the Habsburg monarch, Empress Maria Ther... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | In popular culture | soldier too exhausted from war to celebrate the day's victory, and too proud to admit that the war ahead was surely lost. |
Beattie Casely-Hayford | Family & Early years | Beattie Casely-Hayford Family Beattie Casely-Hayford was the eldest son of Essie and Archibald Casely-Hayford, a lawyer, Gold Coast nationalist and former Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Ghana’s First Republic.
His brother was Louis Casely-Hayford, an engineer and former CEO of Volta River Authority in... |
Battle of Long Tan | Lessons learned and subsequent operations | while a number of APCs were modified as mortar carriers.
Despite detecting a transmitter from the 275th Regiment moving west towards Nui Dat, such intercepts were unable to predict VC intentions with certainty, while patrols through the area also failed to find it. Regardless, Jackson had responded by maintaining patro... |
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Arab–Khazar wars | Second Arab–Khazar War | the Caucasus, and the Caliphate tightened its grip on Armenia after the suppression of a large-scale rebellion in 705, placing it under direct Arab rule as the province of Arminiya. The Arabs and the Khazars now directly confronted each other for control of the Caucasus. Only the western parts of Transcaucasia, compris... |
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Battle of Long Tan | A Company and 3 Troop fight through | was forced to take a circuitous route south-east through the base. On arrival, he found the exit had moved due to road works being carried out by the engineers, and this resulted in further delay until an alternative was located. At 17:55, after finally clearing the wire, Roberts was ordered to send two APCs back for T... |
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