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Amelia Earhart | Family fortunes & Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 | management and mechanical engineering. She began junior college at Ogontz School in Rydal, Pennsylvania, but did not complete her program.
During Christmas vacation in 1917, Earhart visited her sister in Toronto. World War I had been raging and Earhart saw the returning wounded soldiers. After receiving training as a n... |
Bárbara Virgínia | Career | Bárbara Virgínia Career Bárbara Virgínia was the first woman in Portugal to ever direct a feature film (there were some women before her who directed and produced films, but mainly documentaries or silent pictures). Her debut film was Três Dias sem Deus (Three Days without God, 1946) which she both directed and acted i... |
Ben Feldman | Early life and education | Ben Feldman Early life and education Feldman was born in Potomac, Maryland. His father, Robert, runs an advertising agency and his maternal aunt, Susan Feniger, is a chef. Feldman was raised in his father's faith, attending Conservative Jewish and Orthodox Jewish denominations.
He was involved in camp and school theat... |
Bandai Museum | Matsudo Era | Bandai Museum The Bandai Museum (バンダイミュージアム Bandai Myūjiamu) is a museum devoted to Bandai characters located in Mibu, Shimotsuga District, Tochigi, Japan. It opened on July 19, 2003 at Matsudo, Chiba, then closed on August 31, 2006, then moved on April 28, 2007 to Mibu, Tochigi (the given coordinates now match Mibu) w... |
Battle of Goose Green | Surrender | Argentine Air Force warrant officer prisoners of war were sent to meet with Piaggi and to hand over the proposed terms of surrender.
On receiving the terms, Piaggi concluded:
The battle had turned into a sniping contest. They could sit well out of range of our soldiers' fire and, if they wanted to, raze the settlement.... |
Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol | DES daughters | an established human carcinogen. DES was one of the first transplacental carcinogens discovered in humans, meaning a toxin could cross the placenta and harm the fetus. It had originally been believed that the placenta protected the developing fetus but it is now known that is not true. Daughters exposed to DES in utero... |
Battle of Long Tan | Opposing forces | the US A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 35th Artillery Regiment permanently attached at Nui Dat; 3rd SAS Squadron; 1st Field Squadron and 21st Engineer Support Troop; 103rd Signals Squadron; 161st Reconnaissance Flight operating Cessna 180s and Bell H-13 Sioux light observation helicopters; and an intelligence detachment. Sup... |
Blind Spot (1958 film) | Plot | same hospital, his tale of murder seems implausible, as no evidence of a crime is found.
After regaining his eyesight, Adams finds himself framed on a diamond-smuggling charge. He sets out to track down the real thieves, pretending that he is still blind in order to catch them off guard. Encountering an aircraft mechan... |
21st Guards Motor Rifle Division (Russia) | World War II | August it was awarded the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class. Major General Ivan Burmakov took command of the division in July and remained in command until the end of the war. The division has entered East Prussia on 18 October against stiff German resistance. On 14 November for valour and heroism of soldiers in the invasion... |
Bosque Andino Patagónico | Geography & Climate | bounded to the east by the Patagonian Desert. Ecologically the forest have no equivalent in the northern hemisphere. This is indebted to distinct biota histories and environmental differences.
The forest is divided into four regions; deciduous forest, Magellan forest, Valdivia forest and
Del Pehuén. Rainfall is more pl... |
Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame | 1982 & 1983 & 1984 & 1985 & 1986 | - Bill Evans - Sarah Vaughan 1983 Sidney Bechet - Ben Webster - Wes Montgomery - Harry James - Stan Getz - Gene Krupa - Eddie Condon - Jimmy Dorsey - Eubie Blake - Ma Rainey 1984 King Oliver - Charlie Barnet - Claude Thornhill - Eric Dolphy - Chuck Berry - Gerry Mulligan - Django Reinhardt - Fats Navarro - Chick Webb -... |
Alexis Ramos | Club career | Tanque Sisley withdrew from the 2018 league, he joined Venezuelan Primera División side Metropolitanos F.C..
Alexis Ramos made his debut in Cambodia League in 2019 For Angkor Tiger. |
Boris Kamkov | World War I and February Revolution & Collaboration with the Bolsheviks | of Lenin's Bolsheviks, and in the lead-up to the October Revolution, the Left SRs collaborated closely with the Bolsheviks. The Left SRs were not privy to the Bolsheviks' plans for a coup and were not included in the very first Council of People's Commissars; in fact, they had tried to discourage the Bolsheviks from a ... |
Bouri Field | Field Development Since 2004 & Export Development | the Bouri Field DP-4 Rig, included; a Removal project: decommissioning and removal of one of the two drilling rigs and associated modules from the DP-4 platform. These operations were carried out utilising the Saipem 7000, which is the world's second largest crane vessel. Export Development The Western Libyan Gas Proje... |
Billy Beane | Personal life | Brayden and Tinsley from his current marriage. He attended the University of California, San Diego during the baseball offseasons of his playing career. |
Bisa Kdei | Social media hack & Determination | his media team was working to get it resolved. The hackers posted several sexually suggestive videos and pictures on his page. His Instagram account was shut down and a new account was created.
He is back on Facebook, on Bisa Kdei World |url=http://facebook.com/bisakdeiworld%7C</ref> and Instagram as Bisa Kdei |url=htt... |
Bobbi Sykes | Early life and education & Early activism | she was Aboriginal. Early activism Sykes was, controversially, expelled from school aged 14 and, after a succession of jobs, including a nurses assistant at the Townsville General Hospital from 1959 to 1960, she moved to Brisbane and then to Sydney in the early to mid-1960s where she worked as a striptease dancer at th... |
Bran, Brașov | History | passed to the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria. The commune became part of the Austrian Empire in 1804 and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867. It was added to the Kingdom of Romania following World War I.
Bran Castle is one of Romania's most popular visitor sites, made famous in modern times when Queen Marie restored it a... |
Boxbe | Service & History | Boxbe Service Boxbe starts with the user allowing Boxbe access to all of the user's email contacts. Boxbe then gives priority to contacts that users allow. Integration within Gmail (including Google Apps), AOL, Yahoo! Mail and their affiliates lets Boxbe stay up to date so it can screen email. One way that Boxbe promot... |
Battle of Long Tan | Lessons learned and subsequent operations | force having been in the area uncovered. Poorly planned, it failed to trap the VC, while 5 RAR's involvement resulted in only two VC killed, one wounded and one captured without loss, although several tunnels were discovered in Long Tân village and destroyed. In the months that followed 1 ATF conducted further search a... |
Bonny Ibhawoh | null | Bonny Ibhawoh Bonny Ibhawoh is an author and professor of global human rights and African Studies at McMaster University. His scholarship includes studies in the history of human rights, the cultural relativism of human rights, the right to development and peace/conflict studies. He is the author of several books on Af... |
Bingo (1974 film) | Soundtrack | co-screenwriter, the actress Lise Thouin released "Bingo", written by Michel Conte as a single. |
Billy Felton | Manchester City & Tottenham Hotspur | almost immediately to London club Tottenham Hotspur of the Second Division. In total Felton made 83 appearances for Manchester City. Tottenham Hotspur At Tottenham, be became team captain and in 1932–33 he missed only one match as he led the club to promotion as runners-up by one point to Stoke City.
Once back in the F... |
Brändli BX-2 Cherry | Design and development | Brändli BX-2 Cherry Design and development Max Brändli designed the Cherry in 1979 when he was 55 years old and started its construction in his cellar. He carried out all the structural and aerodynamic calculations and supervised the building, which took 3½ years and 5,500 hours of work. He also flew it on its first f... |
Bremridge | Fortescue & Hill | the 1839 Tithe apportionment Bremridge Barton was listed as comprising 301 acres of mixed arable and pasture valued at £30 15s. 3d. The tenants were Henry Skinner and his son John Skinner. Earl Fortescue retained 130 acres of woodland on the estate for his own use, known as Bremridge Wood. Hill In 2014 the estate of Br... |
Antonio Raxel | Dubbing career | of Mazinger in his masculine role. He worked alongside dubbing novices such as Jesus Barrero and Juan Alfonso Carralero in this role.
Antonio Raxel died in Mexico City on November 25, 1999. |
Barrayar | Plot summary & Reception | the coup, they are married in the best Barrayaran fashion. In novels set later in the timeline, they are the parents of four outstanding young women who combine brains, beauty and, thanks to their mother, deadly unarmed combat skills. Reception Barrayar won both the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Be... |
António Mascarenhas Monteiro | Early life and education & Political career & Presidency of Cape Verde | António Mascarenhas Monteiro Early life and education Born in Ribeira da Barca in 1944, Monteiro went to university in Belgium and graduated with his law degree from the Catholic University of Leuven. Political career During the PAICV's single-party government, Monteiro served in various high level positions. He was th... |
Bolsøy | History | January 1964, Bolsøy Municipality (population: 7,996) ceased to exist when it was merged with the town of Molde (population: 8,239), the northern part of Veøy Municipality (population: 756), and the Mordal area (population: 77) from Nord-Aukra Municipality to form the new Molde Municipality. |
Birmingham Bulldogs | History | The club won their first silverware with the MASWARLA Challenge Plate in a final played at Worcester RUFC. The 1991-92 season saw Birmingham just fail to retain the Challenge Plate against the West Midlands Police RLFC, despite retaining the core of the successful team from the previous season.
The side began to flouri... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Battlefield preservation & In popular culture | of what was once at least a 7,500-acre (30 km²) battlefield are currently preserved as part of the Richmond National Battlefield Park. Hanover County also maintains a small 50 acre park adjacent to the NPS's Cold Harbor holdings.The Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved 110 acres (0.45 km²) of the battlef... |
Benny the Dip | Stud record | His stud fee at the time of his death was £6,000. |
Bremridge | Cobleigh | Tracy, Bremridge and Nymet St. George. Margaret was
the only child and sole heiress of John Coblegh (d.1542) of Brightley by his wife Joan Fortescue, whose small monumental brasses survives in Chittlehampton Church. Joan (or Jane) Fortescue was a daughter of William Fortescue (d.1520), 2nd son of John Fortescue, of W... |
Boyce McDaniel | Honors | Energy High Energy Advisory Panel, a trustee of the Universities Research Association and a board member of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
In 1993, the McDaniels donated a farm to the Cornell Plantations, which named the 60.6 acre property the Jane McDaniel Preserve.
McDaniel died of a heart attack in Ithaca, New York... |
Billy Pierce | End of peak | in which the White Sox scored only an unearned run in the first inning, was followed by the greatest game of his career. On June 27 against the Senators, he retired the first 26 batters before pinch hitter Ed Fitz Gerald lined Pierce's first pitch down the first base line for an opposite-field double that landed about ... |
Andrea Ossoinack | Biography | sovereign political body, a functioning state, had the right to be annexed to Italy, since this was the will of the majority of the population.
Ossoinack met with United States President Woodrow Wilson on 4 April 1919, a day after the meeting of the Council of Four where Wilson resolutely opposed Italian claims to Fium... |
Bosque Andino Patagónico | Fauna & Rock art | and Magellanic woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus) to the Chilean swallow (Tachycineta meyeni) and the torrent duck (Merganetta armata). Amphibians are represented by the toad (Rhinella spinulosa), the large four-eyed frog (Pleurodema bufoninum), Pleurodema bibroni and the marsupial Darwin's frog (Rhinoderma darwinii... |
Black Spring (EP) | Background and recording | Black Spring (EP) Background and recording Between 1989 and 1990, Lush released the mini album Scar, as well as two EPs—Mad Love and Sweetness and Light—that were compiled and released on the compilation album Gala in November 1990. Receiving unanimous acclaim, Gala was due to be succeeded by a full-length debut album ... |
Albert Fredrik Eggen | null | Albert Fredrik Eggen Albert Fredrik Eggen (29 September 1878 – 1966) was a Norwegian farmer and politician for the Liberal Party.
He was born at Østborg in Levanger landsogn as a son of farmer and petty officer Martin Gunerius Eggen (1839–1917) and his wife Karen Bergitte Maritvold (1853–1882). He graduated from middle... |
Bo Le | Huainanzi | who can take over for you and find me a good steed?" Bo Le replied; "A good horse may be judged by his physique, countenance, sinews, and bones. But in judging the best horse in the world, it seems as if it is not there at all, as if it has disappeared, as if it had lost its singular identity. A horse like that raises ... |
Billy Pierce | Development of style | delivery, which makes the ball spin too much and takes the life out of it. He flashed his curve-the Yankees always knew when he was throwing a curve. But mainly Bill didn't want to throw anything but fast balls in the old days. He laughed at the change-of-pace and the slider, so most of the strong right-hand hitters we... |
Battle of Charleston (1861) | Battle & Capture of Fish Lake Camp | drove them into a cornfield. Dougherty then ordered the men forward at the double-quick to the public square, where the main body of the infantry was encountered. The enemy took shelter behind the houses and poured a heavy fire on the Union troops. In the meantime the cavalry had been rallied and attacked Hart, who ... |
Barbara Arrowsmith Young | Education & Career | had met Joshua Cohen, a PhD. student at OISE who also had learning disabilities and ran a small clinic for learning disabled children. Cohen introduced her to the work of Alexander Luria. According to Arrowsmith Young, Luria's 1971 book The Man with the Shattered World which documented the recovery under his treatment ... |
Birth of the Cool | Background | of his instrument. In 1948, Davis, becoming increasingly concerned about growing tensions within the Parker quintet, left the group and began looking for a new band to work with.
At the same time, arranger Gil Evans began hosting gatherings of like-minded, forward-looking musicians at his small basement apartment, loca... |
Aria (comics) | Aria (1999) | Aria (comics) Aria (1999) The story opens in a New York bookshop, specializing in the esoteric. The shopowner, a sardonic young woman named Kildare, over the course of a day deals with a woman who found a sword in her flat, two goths who want to drink absinthe, and a man looking for a bargain-basement love potion. Afte... |
Binnie Roberts | Storylines | a lesbian and she starts denying the rumours; claiming that she'd never slept with a woman before in her life. Infuriated by Della's shame, Binnie threatens to leave the Square, which forces Della to prioritise. In order to convince Binnie to stay, Della kisses her in the middle of Bridge Street, which really gives the... |
Bremridge | Norman & Feudal barony of Barnstaple | Olim x solidos modo xx solidos.("Bremridge. Edmer held it in the time of King Edward the Confessor. It paid tax for half a hide. There is land for six ploughs. In demesne there are 2 ploughs with one servant. 3 villagers and 3 smallholders with one plough. there (are) 15 acres of woodland, 30 acres of pasture. (Value)... |
Aalaap (film) | Casting & Filming | sagar play the lead roles. Miss Sri Lanka 2009, Gamya Wijayadasa is making her Bollywood debut with an item song called "Chadti Jawaani Mazedaar". Filming Aalaap has got a specific significance as it portrays the youth in the background of Chhattisgarh. It has been produced and directed by the people of Chhattisgarh’s ... |
Boris Kamkov | Collaboration with the Bolsheviks & Conflict with the Bolsheviks | of the Left SRs). Kamkov was involved in many of the activities of the Left SRs over the next few months: organising resistance to the Brest-Litovsk Treaty and to the Bolshevik policy of forced grain requisitions, holding merger talks with the 'Socialist Maximalists' and Ukrainian revolutionary groups. Conflict with th... |
Black Lives Matter | Movement for Black Lives statement about Israel | "thousands of words that address both comprehensively and in great detail what it would take to fully end the legacy of slavery and the constant resurgence of racism", a single paragraph "and especially one word in it—'genocide'" has grabbed the attention of the American Jewish community. Waskow wrote that the specific... |
Borowski v Canada (AG) | Background | Borowski v Canada (AG) Background Joseph Borowski was a pro-life activist in Saskatchewan who wanted to challenge the abortion provisions under section 251 of the Criminal Code as violations of the Charter rights to life, security of person and equality of the foetus (because he felt the types of abortions permitted by... |
Asylum and Immigration Tribunal | null | Asylum and Immigration Tribunal The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) was a tribunal constituted in the United Kingdom with jurisdiction to hear appeals from many immigration and asylum decisions. It was created on 4 April 2005, replacing the former Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA), and fell under the administ... |
Battle of Rossbach | Initial battlefield dispositions | towns on the Saale. The Allies could attain this position only by marching around the Prussian flank, which could put them in the tenuous position of marching across their enemies' front. Consequently, the Allies posted a sizable guard against the obvious risk of interference on their exposed flank.
On the other side, ... |
Bob Miller (sportscaster) | Los Angeles Kings | It was in 1972 that Miller submitted a tape to then-Kings owner Jack Kent Cooke, who was also the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. While Cooke said to him "You're going to be my choice", Cooke instead decided to hire long-time San Francisco Bay Area announcer Roy Storey to fill the void left by McDonald... |
Battle for Jerusalem | United Nations position | "Military Governor of the Occupied Area of Jerusalem" on 2 August closed the door on the possibility of Jerusalem being internationalized. |
Battle of Long Tan | Fighting continues | with the Australians to negate its effect. Buick estimated 11 Platoon was being assaulted by at least two companies; down to the last of their ammunition and with just 10 of its 28 men still able to fight, he feared they would soon be overrun and destroyed, and were unlikely to survive beyond the next 10 to 15 minutes.... |
Brett Cairns | Cadet officer & Junior officer | the Air Cadet League of Canada Award of Merit in 1977. He was awarded the Crossed Clubs award for athletic performance, the Cross Swords for leadership, and the Academic Star for academic performance. He was selected to be the captain of the High Box Display Team, the Cadet Wing Academic Officer, and he graduated with ... |
Bo Le | Lüshi Chunqiu | enjoy the efficaciousness of the horse would be because he knows the principle of being a passenger. (24, tr. Knoblock and Riegel 2000:633)
Another Lüshi Chunqiu chapter lists ten specialist horse physiognomers.
Of those in antiquity who expertly physiognomized horses, Hanfeng Shi [寒風是] examined the teeth; Ma Chao [麻朝... |
Bo Le | Names | Bo Le Bole (Po-le; simplified Chinese: 伯乐; traditional Chinese: 伯樂; pinyin: Bólè; Wade–Giles: Po²-le⁴) or Bo Le was a horse tamer in Spring and Autumn period, and the honorific name of Sun Yang (simplified Chinese: 孙阳; traditional Chinese: 孫陽; pinyin: Sūn Yáng; Wade–Giles: Sun¹ Yang²), who was a retainer of Duke Mu of ... |
Bellamkonda Ramaraya Kavindrulu | Early life and education | Lakshminarayana Sastri and Sankaramanchi Seetaramaiah taught him Upanishads, Namaka Chamakam or Sri Rudra Chamakam, Vedas, etc. Later he continued his studies in Mahabhashyam, Vyakaranam(Grammar), and Tarkam (logic) under the guidance of Purighatla Rama Sastri, Bhagavatula Hari Sastri and Purighatla Subrahmanya Sastri.... |
Big Splash, Singapore | History | $1.50 for children for the first two hours and $1 and $0.50 respectively for every subsequent two hours. The air-conditioned restaurant was said to have pioneered the 'tank to table' concept of serving seafood.
From 1986 until at least 2002, Big Splash was owned by Potential Investments Pte Ltd.
Although Big Splash was... |
Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame | 1986 & 1987 & 1988 & 1989 | - Bunk Johnson - Lil Hardin Armstrong - Dave Brubeck - Kenny Clarke - Kid Ory - Gil Evans - Eddie Lang - Lionel Hampton - Johnny Hartman 1987 Pee Wee Russell - Willie Smith - Bennie Moten - Cab Calloway - Ray Noble - Sun Ra - Chet Baker - Jimmie Lunceford - Scott Joplin - Jimmie Noone - Dinah Washington 1988 Quincy Jon... |
Black Lives Matter | Criticism by Rudy Giuliani & Insufficient focus on women | tensions. Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza replied, "What those comments show me is that the former mayor doesn't understand racism," adding that his comments were "not rooted in fact." Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart wrote that Giuliani's comments reinforced his sense that the former mayor lives ... |
Bram Kohlhausen | College career | Bram Kohlhausen Bram Kohlhausen was born on August 7, 1992 in Houston, Texas. He is a former quarterback for the TCU Horned Frogs. College career As a walkon senior having never started a game for TCU before, he helped TCU comeback from the largest deficit in NCAA history in the 2016 Alamo Bowl. Down 31–0 at halftime, ... |
Bo Le | Lüshi Chunqiu & Hanfeizi | were the most skilled of their age. How they examined horses was not the same, but each looked for characteristics that confirmed a horse's qualities. From this they could know whether the horse had superior or inferior joints, whether it would be clumsy or fleet of foot, whether it was made of sturdy or inferior stuff... |
Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame | 1999 & 2000 & 2001 & 2002 | Marian McPartland - Nancy Wilson - Les Brown - Stanley Dance 2000 Joe Venuti - Harry Carney - Dave Tough - Sy Oliver - Hank Jones - Freddie Green - Chubby Jackson - McCoy Tyner - Ron Carter - Shirley Horn 2001 Art Farmer - Lawrence Brown - Lennie Tristano - Tadd Dameron - Jimmy Rowles - John Lewis - Terry Gibbs - Toshi... |
Berlin (The Blacklist) | Ratings & Reviews | viewers, making it the highest rated show in its time slot and the fourth most watched television show of the week. Reviews Jason Evans of The Wall Street Journal gave a positive review of the episode, stating: "Wow… just wow! I love the way the show has now connected many of the random Blacklisters to a larger story. ... |
Artur Bodanzky | Career | Artur Bodanzky Artur Bodanzky (also written as Artur Bodzansky) (16 December 1877 in Vienna – 23 November 1939 in New York) was an Austrian-American conductor particularly associated with the operas of Wagner. Career The son of Jewish merchants, Bodanzky studied the violin and composition with Alexander Zemlinsky Boda... |
Bookcraft | History | Kenneth Orton, started Bookcraft as a private publishing house in Salt Lake City, Utah.
When Durham presented a later manuscript to the Era, church leadership restricted book publishing to Deseret Book. John A. Widtsoe and Richard L. Evans, staff members of the Era and early supporters of Bookcraft, referred Durham to... |
Bo Le | Huainanzi & Han Yu | this story about Bole recommending Jiufang Gao to Duke Mu. For comparison, "A good horse can be picked out by its general build and appearance. But the superlative horse—one that raises no dust and leaves no tracks—is something evanescent and fleeting, elusive as thin air." Han Yu The Tang dynasty poet Han Yu (768-824)... |
Billy Pierce | Yankees rivalry | turnaround in his fortunes against the Yankees followed one of Chicago's most crushing defeats to their rivals; on July 29, 1952 he left with a 7–3 lead and one out in the eighth inning, only to see the Yankees come back against the White Sox bullpen to win 10–7 on Mickey Mantle's grand slam in the ninth. Years later, ... |
Big Three (Atlanta Braves) | Big Three era | did not go well for them as Greg Maddux gave up seven runs in just four innings in Game 1 and Tom Glavine gave up seven runs in just 2.1 innings in Game 2 and the Braves were swept by the Cardinals in the 2000 NLDS and missed the NLCS for the first time since 1990.
The 2001 season saw some changes for the Braves as Joh... |
Benyoucef Benkhedda | Algerian War | Jacques Chevallier), when he joined the new National Liberation Front. He became an adviser to Abane Ramdane in Algiers. In August 1956 the Congress of Soummam appointed him a member of the Algerian National Revolutionary Council and the Committee of Action and Co-ordination of the Provisional Government of the Algeri... |
Berechiah ha-Nakdan | Biography | fables, Berechiah mentions the "turning of the wheels of fate to the island of the sea (England) for one to die and the other to live," a reference to the English massacres of 1190. There is evidence that he was the same person as the Benedictus le Puncteur mentioned in a late-twelfth century Oxford document who presen... |
Black Lives Matter | Polls | of black American adults supported Black Lives Matter and 40% of white American adults support it. Fifty-nine percent of black Americans thought that Black Lives Matter would "be effective, in the long run, in helping blacks achieve equality" and 34% of white Americans thought so. A 2017 Harvard-Harris survey found tha... |
Battle of Long Tan | Initial contact | pausing to reorganise, 11 Platoon moved into extended line, sweeping the area and recovering an AK-47 and the body of a VC soldier. Sharp reported to Smith that the Viet Cong had been dressed in khaki uniforms and were carrying automatic weapons, yet D445 Battalion soldiers typically wore black and were equipped with U... |
Bremridge | John Dodderidge (1555-1628) | for this task. She was victualled for five months, for a crew of 40, at a cost exceeding £900, borne by the North Devon population. On 8 August 1596 she returned to Barnstaple, loaded with much pillage taken during the attack on Cadiz conducted by Lords Essex and Howard. Richard received at some time letters patent as ... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Military situation | Lee had demonstrated the weakness of his army. He wrote to the Army's chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck: "Lee's army is really whipped. ... I may be mistaken but I feel that our success over Lee's army is already assured."
As he did after the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, Grant planned another wide swing around... |
Angelo DeCarlo | Early years | Angelo DeCarlo Early years DeCarlo was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on September 2, 1902. He represented Genovese family business interests in the New Jersey underworld; he was an associate of Abner "Longey" Zwillman and Gerardo Catena. DeCarlo was an excellent cook; his specialty was fried pasta with anchovies. His wif... |
Bernhard Harms | Education & Kiel Institute for the World Economy | his habilitation.
Harms married in 1902 and had three children.
Harms began teaching as a professor at the University of Jena in 1906, then transferred to the University of Kiel in 1908 where he was Chair of Economics. There, he founded the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Kiel Institute for the World Economy Foun... |
Angelo Sabino | Literary feud | which he appended an annotated text of Ovid's gruesomely erudite curse poem Ibis, the source for the obscure figure Brotheus.
In the course of this literary feud, Calderini came to regard Sabino as one of his most bitter enemies, though hardly his only one. He accused Sabino of stealing the work of his students, admitt... |
Billy Pierce | End of peak | Chicago was behind 8–3 by the time Pierce was brought in to start the eighth inning; the Dodgers later added a run in the ninth inning to complete the 9–3 win and capture the Series championship. Being used out of the bullpen was a deep letdown for Pierce, who said in a 1982 interview, "Other guys, Early Wynn and Bob S... |
Benjamin Roxburgh-Smith | African aviation pioneer & World War II service | absorbed into Imperial Airways.
Roxburgh-Smith resigned from the new company in May 1931, with the aim of working for Glen Kidston. The latter was independently wealthy, and wanted in on South African aviation. Kidston's death in an air crash on 5 May scotched that plan, so Roxburgh-Smith returned to England on 1 June.... |
Bean bag chair | History | benefits."
Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro, inspired by their designer predecessors, came up in 1968 with the design of Sacco the ‘shapeless chair’. Although it was not the first design of an amorphous chair in Italian history, Sacco was the first successful product created in partnership with Zanotta. T... |
Alicia Keys | 1981–1993: Early life & 1994–1997: Career beginnings | with the cultural and racial diversity in the neighborhood, where she expanded upon her musical exploration, and her character was also solidified. "Harlem raised me in a lot of ways," Keys remarked. "[It] taught me how to think fast, how to play the game...taught me leadership, how to get out of bad situations when yo... |
Austrian Empire | Metternich era | Metternich's influence in the Austrian Empire. Francis' heir was his son Ferdinand I, but he suffered from an intellectual disability. Ferdinand's accession preserved the Habsburg dynastic succession, but he was not capable of ruling. The leadership of the Austrian Empire was transferred to a state council composed of ... |
Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol | DES daughters | Medicine under the authorship of RN Hoover et al., and lists these adverse effects and risk factors: Cumulative risks in women exposed to DES, as compared with those not exposed, were as follows: for infertility, 33.3% vs. 15.5%; spontaneous abortion, 50.3% vs. 38.6%; preterm delivery, 53.3% vs. 17.8%; loss of second-t... |
Beth Katleman | Exhibitions | and Design, New York, NY
2011- Folly, Jane Hartsock Gallery, New York, NY
2011- Pavilion of Art and Design, NYC, New York, London, England and Paris, France, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary
2009- Selections from the Kohler Company Collection,798 ArtZone, Beijing, China New Works/Old Story, Contemporary Jewish Museum, ... |
Baron Chetwode | null | the title passed to his son, the aforementioned seventh Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage in 1945 |
Boris Bakal | Biography | 1995.
He is also a co-founder and co-author of the projects of Bacači Sjenki/Shadow Casters (since 2001). |
Bořivoj Čelovský | Biography | Bořivoj Čelovský Bořivoj (Boris) Čelovský (8 September 1923 in Ostrava-Heřmanice – 12 February 2008) was a Czech-Canadian historian, member of the post-1948 Czechoslovak political exile and former political adviser. He was mostly dealing with historical and contemporary reflections of the Czech-German relationships. Bi... |
Birmingham Bulldogs | History | behind Leicester. The semi-final saw Birmingham play the winners of the Eastern division, North London Skolars in London. Skolars took an 18-point lead before Birmingham came back and the game eventually finished with Skolars holding on to win the semi-final 18 – 16.
In 1998, Birmingham adopted the name Birmingham Bull... |
Black Lives Matter | Ferguson activism & Inclusivity of the movement | protests, BLM has expanded to activism on American college campuses, such as the 2015–16 University of Missouri protests. Inclusivity of the movement Black Lives Matter incorporates those traditionally on the margins of black freedom movements. The organization's website, for instance, states that Black Lives Matter is... |
Black Lives Matter | United Kingdom & Democrats | death of Edson Da Costa, who died in police custody. There were no arrests made at the protest. Democrats At the Netroots Nation Conference in July 2015, dozens of Black Lives Matter activists took over the stage at an event featuring Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders. Activists, including Black Lives Matter co-founde... |
Borowski v Canada (AG) | Opinion of the Court | its discretion to hear the case anyway.
Sopinka found that the "live controversy" had disappeared with the striking down of section 251 of the Criminal Code, and that the Court should not exercise its discretion in these circumstances. |
Bhuj | Education & Transportation | The university has 41 colleges affiliated, nineteen of which are in Bhuj. The university gives degrees in Arts, Science, Commerce, Law Education, Management, Pharmacy, Social Welfare, Medicine and Engineering. Transportation Bhuj is connected to Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Gaziabad, Jaipur,... |
Brig | Development of the brig | with both a fore-and-aft mainsail, square topsails and possibly topgallant sails). The brig actually developed as a variant of the brigantine. Re-rigging a brigantine with two square-rigged masts instead of one gave it greater sailing power. The square-rigged brig's advantage over the fore-and-aft rigged brigantine was... |
Armaan (2003 film) | Plot | Armaan (2003 film) Plot The film is about Dr. Siddharth Sinha (Amitabh Bachchan) and his son Dr. Akash Sinha (Anil Kapoor). Both work in the same hospital founded by Siddharth. Siddharth wishes to run a state of the art hospital but his work and profession means he dedicates his time to his patients.
Soon enough Dr. Ne... |
Black Lives Matter | Law enforcement | in which he said he would have to "babysit these fools", in reference to a planned BLM event.
Deroy Murdock questioned statistics stated by some BLM activists over the rate at which black people are killed by police. Murdock wrote, "the notion that America's cops simply are gunning down innocent black people is one of ... |
Battle of Rossbach | Aftermath & Assessment | tracks, and covered 274 km (170 mi) from Rossbach to Leuthen (now Lutynia, Poland), 27 km (17 mi) west of Breslau in twelve days. On the way, at Liegnitz, they joined with the Prussian troops who had survived the fighting at Breslau. The augmented army of about 33,000 troops arrived at Leuthen to find 66,000 Austrian... |
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