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Beloved (1998 film) | Plot | for many years learns of Paul D's plans for a family with Sethe, he pulls a newspaper clipping featuring Sethe and tells her story to the illiterate Paul D.
Years ago, Sethe was raped by the nephews of Schoolteacher, the owner of Sweet Home. She complained to Mrs. Garner, Schoolteacher's sister-in-law, who confronted h... |
Amazarashi | 2015–2016: Sekai Shuusoku Ni Ichi Ichi Roku & 2017–present: Chihou Toshi no Memento Mori | the band performed on a four-sided stage with large digital screens covering them from all sides so that the audience surrounded the band, hence the title "LIVE 360°".
On December 28, the band participated in COUNTDOWN JAPAN 16/17. 2017–present: Chihou Toshi no Memento Mori On February 22 of 2017, the band released the... |
Bisa Kdei | Music career | Bisa Kdei Music career Bisa Kdei is the first Ghanaian artiste to break into the limelight with a movie sound track.
Musically, Bisa Kdei has had successful collaborations with top musicians in Ghana, Africa and the World at large. Some of these Ghanaian musicians Bisa Kdei has worked with include Sarkodie, D-Black, Ef... |
Biggesee | Rail and bus & Cruises & Cycle tracks & Walking routes | the "Regionalverkehr Köln" company travel along the Biggesee.
Rail and road transport is grouped together in the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd|Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd (VGWS). Cruises You can cruise on the Biggesee. From April to the end of October, two ships of the Personenschifffahrt Biggesee ply the l... |
Brendan Kiernan | Ebbsfleet United & Hampton & Richmond FC | Forest Green.
. Following his departure from the club, he had brief spells with Lingfield and Hayes & Yeading. Hampton & Richmond FC On 29 September 2015, it was announced Kiernan would return to Bromley on a non-contract basis. He made his return debut on the same day against Dover Athletic in the Kent Senior Cup.and ... |
Black Lives Matter | Influence & Polls | in fourth of the eight candidates.
On May 9, 2016, Delrish Moss was sworn in as the first African-American police chief in Ferguson, where he acknowledges he faces such challenges as diversifying the police force, improving community relations, and addressing issues that catalyzed the Black Lives Matter movement. Polls... |
Boticca | Operations & Awards | as bags, scarves, belts and hats. After the second round of fund raising, the company launched Boticca.fr in September 2013, making France the companies' third biggest market after the UK and United States. Awards The Independent rated it first in their 2014 survey of the top six jewelry retail websites. |
B. F. Langworthy | Biography & Career | B. F. Langworthy B. F. Langworthy was a politician in the state of Minnesota. Biography Langworthy was born Benjamin Franklin Langworthy on January 20, 1822 to Cyrus and Charlotte Langworthy in Mansfield, Ohio. Eventually he would move to Oshkosh, Wisconsin and Mower County, Minnesota. His father served in the Ohio Sta... |
Barbara Arrowsmith Young | The Arrowsmith Program | case studies of learning disabled children who she says overcame similar problems by using her method.
Her method, which was the subject of a 2008 CBC documentary Fixing My Brain, has proved controversial. Psychiatrist Norman Doidge devoted one of the chapters in his book, The Brain That Changes Itself, to Arrowsmith Y... |
Boris Kamkov | Prison, exile and death | by the Soviet Government in 1991. |
Battle of Long Tan | Reaction at Nui Dat | for the safety of the entire force, Jackson was initially reluctant to authorise its dispatch should it weaken the position at Nui Dat. Although he was unsure of the size of the VC facing D Company, from Smith's reports it appeared to be at least a regular battalion. Intelligence suggested it was likely from the 275th ... |
Bassae | Re-discovery and removal by the British & Preservation | artefacts are on display at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
In 1902, a systematic excavation of the area was carried out by the Greek Archaeological Society of Athens under archaeologist Konstantinos Kourouniotis along with Konstantinos Romaios and Panagiotis Kavvadias. Further excavations were carried out ... |
Aracy Balabanian | Biography | Aracy Balabanian Biography Aracy was born in Campo Grande, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Her parents were Armenians Raphael and Esther Balabanyans. They emigrated from Ottoman Empire to Brazil, fleeing from the genocide promoted in that country by the Ottoman Turks.
At the age of fifteen she moved to São ... |
Arrow (season 1) | Production | own course, [their] own destiny", and avoid any direct connections to Smallville, which featured its own Green Arrow/Oliver Queen (Justin Hartley), opting to cast a new actor in the role of Oliver Queen. Unlike with Smallville, the series does not initially feature super-powered heroes and villains. Instead, the creati... |
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond | Early life | Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond Early life Brenda Marjorie Hale was born on 31 January 1945 in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. Both her parents were headteachers. She has two sisters. Hale lived in Redcar until the age of three when she moved with her parents to Richmond, North Yorkshire. She was educated at th... |
Yugure (song) | Details | Yugure (song) Details The first B-side track is Sutegoma (すてごま Sacrifice) is a live version of the song recorded on Stick Out, the band's sixth album.
The second B-side track, Yoru no Tōzokudan (夜の盗賊団 Night Thieves), was written by Masatoshi Mashima. |
Battle of Long Tan | A Company and 3 Troop fight through | rain began, Roberts moved along the edge of the rubber plantation north-east of Long Phước in column towards the heavily swollen Suối Da Bang. The terracing of the paddy fields resulted in a steep drop to the creek and a difficult climb out; however, using a bullock track alongside a dam (which he had previously utilis... |
Billy Pierce | Peak years | In 1957 Pierce became the first White Sox pitcher since Red Faber (1920–1922) to earn 20 victories in consecutive seasons; he tied Jim Bunning for the league lead, and bested him in voting for AL Pitcher of the Year. He had six consecutive complete game victories from May 16 to June 8 in which his total ERA was 0.64, w... |
Bo Le | Historical context & Horse physiognomy | as the 14th century BCE, Creel 1965:654), horse training, horse riding, horse tack, horse care, veterinary medicine, and horse shamanism.
The Chinese have traditionally believed the best horses and horse specialists came from foreign sources. While some individuals became outstanding equestrians, for Chinese people in... |
Billy Beane | Playing career | the Mets, who had two other first-round picks that year, allowing them to risk Beane not signing. After visiting the Mets clubhouse, Beane decided to sign with the Mets for a $125,000 signing bonus ($380,099 in current dollar terms). Beane called his decision to sign with the Mets instead of going to Stanford as the "o... |
Boreus | Biology | are known to feed on mosses, both as adults and larvae. Males use their hardened wing straps to grasp the female and lift her above their back during mating. |
Billy Felton | Altrincham | Second World War. In his five seasons at Moss Lane, he made a total of 210 appearances, scoring 17 goals. |
Bellerive, Tasmania | History | from local sandstone, much of the original structure still remains intact and contains an original cell. Later cells, made from weatherboards still survive as well. The building has had various usages in it life including municipal council chambers, district library and the CIB headquarters, although it is currently us... |
Bernadeth Prentice | null | Bernadeth Prentice Beverly Prentice (born 31 May 1969) is an athlete from Saint Kitts and Nevis.
She was a member of the first ever team to represent Saint Kitts and Nevis at the Olympic Games when she competed in the 4 x 100 metres relay and the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. The team failed to fini... |
Battle of Long Tan | Clearing the battlefield, 19–21 August 1966 | right assault companies, followed by A, B and C Companies in depth, each dismounted. The assault companies planned to sweep the area then dismount and commence a detailed search, while the others would clear the surrounding features and begin the follow-up. Moving cautiously in case the VC launched a counter-attack, th... |
Boris Kamkov | World War I and February Revolution | the PSR but increasingly called for a break with the Defencists. He was one of the leaders of the Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, which broke away from the PSR in the late summer of 1917. Later, at its first official congress in November, he was elected to its central committee. Kamkov was also elected to the ... |
Battle of Goose Green | Argentinian defences | fight and cover themselves in glory. The conscripts of 12th Infantry Regiment fought because they were told to do so. This did not make them any less brave. On the whole, they remained admirably calm.
Private Esteban Roberto Avalos fought in the Falklands as a sniper in the RI 12's B Company. In all, some fifty hand-pi... |
Bevier House | Property | the south (rear) elevation. A porch with a flat metal roof runs across the middle three bays of the north facade.
The roofline has overhanging eaves supported by paired brackets with acorn pendants over a plain frieze. The porch roof has smaller, similar paired brackets, with its roof supported by square pillars with p... |
Bernard N. Fields | null | named textbook Fields Virology.
Dr. Harold Varmus called Fields "the intellectual leader of the field for more than the last decade" and The New York Times said that Fields "is credited with spearheading the current resurgence of research on how viruses cause damage". The National Academies Press called him "a recogniz... |
Billy Felton | Early career & Sheffield Wednesday | regular in the first team. Grimsby finished the season in third place, but only the champions were promoted. Sheffield Wednesday In December 1922, he moved to Second Division Sheffield Wednesday for a fee of £1500, making his debut on 1 January 1923 in a goalless draw against Southampton. He soon became a fixture in th... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | Organizational structure | a cabinet appointed by the Premier-elect. The Premier-elect also appoints various other officers, such as a Lieutenant Governor, a Speaker, a chief clerk, and a Sergeant-At-Arms, among others. The legislative year for a Premier and their cabinet runs from October 1 to September 30 of the following year. The Premier and... |
Bosque Andino Patagónico | Del Pehuén & Fauna | scanty and consists of such shrubs as the bamboo caña coligüe (Chusquea culeou) and the box-leaved barberry (Berberis buxifolia). Fauna The fauna of the Andean Patagonian forest region is very varied with many endemic species. Predatory mammals include the cougar (Felis concolor), the culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus), the s... |
Bessie Bardot | Early life | Bessie Bardot Early life A child of hippie parents, she was born in the Blue Mountains, just west of Sydney in 1974. Her original name was Bessie Wilson and she attended Covenant Christian School, located in the Sydney suburb of Belrose. Given the nickname "Little Wing Kelly", she spent her early years in Mullumbimby i... |
Archibald Roane | Later life | votes to 5,795.
In 1811, Roane was elected to a circuit judgeship, and in 1815, he became a judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals, which had replaced the Superior Court of Law and Equity as the state's highest court in 1809. He served on that court until his death on January 18, 1819. He was a pro... |
Arthur Abraham | Abraham vs. Froch | was pushed back from 2 October in Monaco due to Froch suffering a back injury. The fight took place at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland. Abraham failed to become a two-weight world champion, losing to Froch in his third fight of the tournament. Abraham was dominated from start to finish, losing by a unanimous de... |
Billy Felton | Early career | Billy Felton Early career Felton was born in Heworth, Tyne and Wear into a mining family. His cousins included Sam Barkas (Bradford City, Manchester City and England), Tommy Barkas (Halifax Town), Ned Barkas (Huddersfield Town, Birmingham and Chelsea) and Harry Barkas (South Shields, Gateshead and Liverpool). While wor... |
Beverly Beach, Oregon | null | Beverly Beach, Oregon Beverly Beach is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located on U.S. Route 101 on the Oregon Coast, north of Yaquina Head and south of Beverly Beach State Park.
Beverly Beach was named in the early 1930s by Curtis F. and Florence May Christy, who owned ... |
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond | Judicial career | she was appointed the first female Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer as Baroness Hale of Richmond, of Easby in the County of North Yorkshire, under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.
In June 2013, she was appointed Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to succeed Lord Hope o... |
Biriyani (soundtrack) | Production & Release | film, with the duo explaining later that it was a remix of one of the film's original tracks. Moreover, two more remixes were produced by Yuvan Shankar Raja himself, for the first time remixing his own composition, and Premgi Amaren, respectively. Release The audio rights of the soundtrack were acquired by Sony Music i... |
Bouri Field | Overview | the drilling of 55 new wells and construction of three additional platforms, with production initiating from two oil platforms (DP4 and DP3) in August 1998.
In 1995, the Bouri field was producing nearly 150,000 bbl/d (24,000 m³/d), followed by a sharp decline to 60,000 bbl/d (9,500 m³/d) in 1998. This decline was large... |
British nationality law and Hong Kong | British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act, 1997: British citizenship for British Nationals (Overseas) without Chinese ancestry & Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act, 2002: British Overseas Territories Citizen status is not applicable to Hong Kong | no right of abode in the UK, nor a right to claim Chinese nationality.
The ethnic minorities petitioned to be granted full British citizenship, and were backed by several politicians and media The subsequently enacted British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act, 1997 gives them an entitlement to acquire full British citizenshi... |
Billy Beane | Front office career | ownership. In February 2012, the Athletics extended Beane's contract through 2019.
From their 2006 playoff appearance until 2012, the Athletics did not make the playoffs or finish above .500, which triggered criticism of Beane and his approach in some quarters, especially in 2009. Beane largely dismisses criticism of h... |
Boris Kamkov | Early years | Boris Kamkov Boris Davidovich Kamkov (Russian: Бори́с Дави́дович Камко́в; June 3, 1885–August 29, 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and a member of the Council of People's Commissars. He was killed during the Great Purge. Early years Boris Davidovich Kats, who became know... |
Black Spring (EP) | Background and recording | and Light with two extra songs on it, we're again left in a position where we haven't got any songs." She further said that "most bands have been going a fair amount of time and've built up a set", whereas Lush had not and didn't feel like writing an album's worth of new material unless it was "a more coherent body of ... |
Bayfield Peninsula | null | stretch of highway. The interior of the peninsula is mostly the northern end of the Chequamegon National Forest, an area of jackpine growth known as the Moquah Barrens. The Apostle Islands surround the end of the peninsula. |
Bernhard Harms | Education | Bernhard Harms Education Christoph Bernhard Cornelius Harms was born in Detern, Ostfriesland, on June 30, 1876 to Menno F. Harms (1845-?) and Anna M. Ries (1844-1921). In 1887, he attended the Städtische Volksschule in Aurich, and later Gymnasium in Norden. From 1890 to 1893 he completed an apprenticeship (Ausbildung) ... |
Boa imperator | Description | Boa imperator Description Boa imperator is wide-ranging, with animals living in both Central America and northern parts of South America. As a result, the appearance of this snake varies greatly depending on the specific locality. As one of the smaller Boa species, they average between 1.3 and 2.5 m in length when full... |
Bracken School Readiness Assessment | null | Bracken School Readiness Assessment The Bracken School Readiness Assessment ("BSRA") is an individual concept knowledge test designed for children, pre-K through second grade.
The BSRA was developed by Bruce A. Bracken and first published in 2002 by The Psychological Corporation. Raw scores can be converted to percenti... |
Bo Le | Zhanguo ce | ji 驥 "thoroughbred horse; virtuous person" being recognized by Bole. The (c. 121 CE) Shuowen Jiezi dictionary defined ji 驥 (tr. Spring 1988:188) as: "a thousand li horse that needs a Sun Yang (i.e., Po-le) to be recognized."
You have heard of the great stallion Chi, have you not?' asked Han Ming. When Chi was very old,... |
Belton-Honea Path High School | History & Enrollment & Extracurriculars | Belton-Honea Path High School History Belton-Honea Path High School was built in 1966, and renovations and additions were made in 1967, 1987 and 2003. The school originally opened as a merger of Belton High School and Honea Path High School. It merged with Geer Gant High School in 1969. Enrollment Belton-Honea Path has... |
Black Spring (EP) | Lyrics and music & Packaging and music video | was from a Boss CE-2 pedal and Anderson's from a Roland GP-16 multieffects unit. Berenyi used several other Boss effects on Black Spring, including distortion (DS-1), overdrive (SD-1) and delay (DD-3). Packaging and music video Black Spring's packaging and artwork was designed by Vaughan Oliver, who had designed artwor... |
Bob Edwards (satirist) | Early life and education | Bob Edwards (satirist) Robert Chambers "Bob" Edwards (September 17, 1860 – November 14, 1922) was a Canadian newsman, humorist, editorialist, entrepreneur, and provincial politician. He is best known as the writer and publisher of the early 1900s weekly newspaper, the Calgary Eye Opener. Early life and education Edwa... |
Bill Daniel | Death | on June 20, 2006 at his home in Liberty, Texas at the age of 90. |
Bowleaze Cove | In culture & Commerce | from Bowleaze, passing the Broadrock cliffs, Redcliff Point, and thence to Osmington Mills. In culture In 1816–17, the artist John Constable painted Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill while on his honeymoon. The painting is now in the National Gallery, London. Commerce The Riviera Hotel, a Grade II listed Span... |
Bo Le | Horse physiognomy | like the skinned head of a rabbit. (56, tr. Harrist 1997:138-9)
The Chinese historically used bronze scale models of horses as hippology reference guides to the ideal horse (Harrist 1997:149-150). The Book of the Later Han records two early examples. The horse expert Dongmeng Jing presented Emperor Wu of Han (r. 141-8... |
AutoCAD | Compatibility with other software & Language & AutoCAD 360 | (UK); also, conversion of .pdf files is feasible, however, the accuracy of the results may be unpredictable or distorted. For example, jagged edges may appear. Several vendors provide online conversions for free such as Cometdocs.autoCAD commonly use in all purposes. Language Auto CAD and AutoCAD LT are available for E... |
Bed of Stone | Critical reception | album, stating that the album was "one of the best albums you would hear this year"; they further praised it by calling it "Grammy-winning music". Udochukwu Ikwuagwu of The Breaking Times gave Bed of Stone another acclaimed review. He rated the album an 8 out of 10, and called it a "near-masterpiece"; Aṣa's vocal deliv... |
Alun Cairns | European Union & Welsh government & Personal life | we've compromised". Welsh government Cairns is a proponent of government decentralisation for Wales. He has noted specifically the example of English devolution and how it has created a "new dynamic" in England, one which he would like Wales "to be able to respond to" by "empowering the regions, north Wales, west Wales... |
Black Lives Matter | Law enforcement | banner were recorded in a video chanting, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" at the Minnesota State Fair. Law enforcement groups said that the chant promotes death to police. The protest organizer disputed that interpretation, saying "What we are promoting is that if black people who kill police officers are going... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Military situation | from Bermuda Hundred. The 16,000 men of Maj. Gen. William F. "Baldy" Smith's XVIII Corps were withdrawn from Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler's Army of the James at Grant's request, and they were moving down the James River and up the York to the Pamunkey. If Smith moved due west from White House Landing to Old Cold Harbor, 3... |
Bosque Andino Patagónico | Rock art | straight lines, with zig-zag lines, diamonds and triangles, and sometimes concentric circles. There is some figurative art showing humans and animals and the colour most often used is different shades of red. The style of the work makes it likely to have been performed by hunter-gatherers in the late Holocene era. |
Billy Pierce | Development of style | strikeouts eight times. He was Chicago's Opening Day starter seven times (1951–52, 1954, 1956–59), and started the home opener in 1953 and 1961. He had an outstanding fastball and an excellent curveball, and in 1951 added the slider (for which he used his motion for the curve rather than the fastball) as a third strong... |
Benjamin Roxburgh-Smith | African aviation pioneer | second pilot on an aerial survey for the Aircraft Operating Company. To garner the job, he qualified as the first South African commercial pilot at Roberts Heights, Pretoria. He was employed on the survey through February 1928.
Once again, he moved to England, only to return to Rhodesia in February 1929. This time, he ... |
Brett Cairns | Retirement and beyond | Strategic Planning that was based on the knowledge and experience that he derived from his 35 years of service to Canada and the United States. He currently operates a real estate and luxury homes business in Comox, British Columbia. |
Billy Pierce | Peak years | Baseball has rated Pierce as the best pitcher in the major leagues in 1955, after having placed him among the AL's top five pitchers each year from 1951 to 1953.
In 1956 he started his third All-Star Game, but was charged with the loss despite allowing only one run in three innings. Buoyed by the arrival of rookie shor... |
Bristol in the English Civil War | null | surrounding the city. It is further accepted that these defenses were inadequate and that their weakness was compounded by a serious shortage of ammunition. Despite these problems the Royalists breached the defenses by the chance of discovery of a weak point unknown to the defenders. Once the line was breached, the cit... |
Bo Le | Lüshi Chunqiu | 2000:220)
Obtaining ten good horses is not as good as obtaining one excellent physiognomist of horses, like Bole, nor ten fine swords as good as one excellent smith, like Ouye, nor a thousand li of land as good as one sage. (24, tr. Knoblock and Riegel 2000:609)
As for a horse, if Bole physiognomized its quality and ... |
Bidong Island | Vietnamese refugees | 4,500. Another 600 refugees arrived in August and thereafter the arrival of boats from Vietnam was a near daily occurrence. By January 1979, there were 18,000 Vietnamese on the island and by June 1979 it was said to be the most heavily populated place on earth with about 40,000 refugees crowded into a flat area hardly ... |
Black Lives Matter | 2017 & 2018 | Davidson County decided not to prosecute police officer Joshua Lippert, the Nashville chapter of BLM held a demonstration near the Vanderbilt University campus all the way to the residence of Nashville mayor Megan Barry.
On September 27, 2017, at the College of William & Mary, students associated with Black Lives Matte... |
Bronze Horseman | Thunder Stone | of ball bearings. Making the feat even more impressive was that the labour was done entirely by humans; no animals or machines were used in bringing the stone from the original site to the Senate Square. After Carburis devised the method, it took 400 men nine months to move the stone, during which time master stonecutt... |
Bobby Grich | Baseball career | Bobby Grich Baseball career Grich attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, and graduated in 1967. He was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the first round (19th overall) of that year's amateur draft. Grich made his major league debut with Baltimore midway through the 1970 season. That October, ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Recognition | Empire, Buick the Military Medal, and Roberts, Kendall and Sabben who were MiD. Both Townsend and Jackson later received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), although these were made on the basis of their entire period in command, not solely for actions during the battle. South Vietnamese gallantry medals were also a... |
Bob McPhail (rugby league) | Background & Rugby union career & Rugby league career | Bob McPhail (rugby league) Background Bob McPhail was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Rugby union career Bob McPhail started his rugby career with Sandal St Helen's RFC before joining Headingley FC where he played alongside elder brother John McPhail. Both later joined Wakefield RFC. Bob scored at... |
Amelia Earhart | Planning & First attempt | with Earhart to Australia and she would proceed on her own for the remainder of the project. First attempt On March 17, 1937, Earhart and her crew flew the first leg from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. In addition to Earhart and Noonan, Harry Manning and Mantz (who was acting as Earhart's technical advisor) w... |
Black Lives Matter | Media & 2014 | Matter movement. 2014 In 2014, Black Lives Matter demonstrated against the deaths of numerous African Americans by police actions, including those of Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Laquan McDonald, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Antonio Martin, and Jerame Reid, among others.
In Ju... |
Birr RFC | 1970s-1980s | in Birr. During this era Birr became one of the pioneers of youth rugby in the province. A thriving underage rugby culture evolved in Birr RFRC under the guidance of a continuous stream of volunteer coaches and mentors over the intervening years and the club purchased a further 7.5 acres of land in 1975 approx 4 km sou... |
British Racing Drivers' Club | Young driver support & Significant people | BTCC champion Tim Harvey was appointed Director of the program. Significant people In the recent past the Club Presidency has been held by former Formula One World Champions Sir Jackie Stewart and Damon Hill. As of July 2019, Former F1 Driver David Coulthard is the President of the BRDC, having replaced Paddy Hopkirk.
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Anthony Schrag | Early life and education | Anthony Schrag Dr. Anthony Schrag is a Scottish artist and academic whose work and research examines participatory practices in art. Early life and education Schrag was born in Zimbabwe in 1975 and grew up in a number of countries including Canada, the Middle East and the UK. Schrag studied creative writing at the Uni... |
Brett Cairns | General officer | 2004 and operations related to Canada's Role in the Afghanistan War.
Brett was appointed to the position of NORAD J3 from 2005 to 2008. He was responsible to execute NORAD's missions of Aerospace Warning and Aerospace Control for North America on authority of the Commander NORAD (first Admiral Timothy J. Keating and t... |
Battle of Rossbach | Initial battlefield dispositions & Opening moves | watch captain reported the French approaching. Although Gaudi's excited report at first appeared to confirm a French-Reichsarmee retreat, Frederick observed that Allied columns, which from time to time became visible in the undulations of the ground, appeared to turn eastwards from Zeuchfeld. When Frederick saw for him... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | Origin & Early years to World War II | as the YMCA preferred to take a lesser role in a movement that was diverting too much attention and resources from other Y programs. Early years to World War II The first Older Boys' Parliament of British Columbia was held in January 1924. The Premier was Walter S. Owen, who later became the Lieutenant Governor of B.C.... |
Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's relay | Summary | Russia also led the World Cup standings after four relay events.
Despite missing the veteran Olga Pyleva, suspended for two years after failing an anti-doping test last week, the Russian team led from start to finish. The Germans finished 50.7 seconds behind for the silver. The French team took the bronze. |
Bob Miller (sportscaster) | Honors | noted, "My greatest fear is that I retire and the Kings win a Stanley Cup the next year." Those fears would never come to be as on June 11, 2012, the Kings finally won the Stanley Cup. The team would win another one two years later in 2014.
In 2014, Miller was honored by the Big Ten Club as their Person of the Year. In... |
Battle of Antietam | Cornfield | U.S. Artillery, and Gibbon himself saw to it that his previous unit did not lose a single caisson. Hood's men bore the brunt of the fighting, however, and paid a heavy price—60% casualties—but they were able to prevent the defensive line from crumbling and held off the I Corps. When asked by a fellow officer where his ... |
Bo Le | Huainanzi | focuses on the internal and disregards the external. He looks at what is to be seen and does not look at what is not to be seen. He scrutinizes what is to be scrutinized and disregards what is not to be scrutinized. It appears that what he has judged is [a quality] more precious than just a horse." The horse arrived an... |
Berry Houses | Development | Charles W. Berry (1871–1941), who was both a soldier and a physician.
The Berry Houses are one of three public housing complexes located in Staten Island's 122nd Police Precinct. |
Bořivoj Čelovský | Biography | the University of Prague. But a few years later, after the quickly forming communists took over the political power in Czechoslovakia in 1948, Čelovský escaped into exile, not willing to participate or passively linger on any kind of totality.
Čelovský got to various places during the exile, but Canada became his final... |
Arab–Khazar wars | First Arab–Khazar War and aftermath | in Transcaucasia was more firmly established in the early 650s: in 652 the Armenian nobility, led by Theodore Rshtuni, recognized the Caliphate's overlordship, and in 654, following an abortive Armenian uprising, Arab authority was extended over Iberia as well.
Al-Tabari reports that the first Arab advance into Khazar... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | detected moving towards Nui Dat from a position north of Xuyên Mộc. It continued at a rate of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) a day and by 13 August was located near the Nui Dat 2 feature, a hill in the vicinity of Long Tân, 5,000 metres (5,500 yd) east of Nui Dat. Although direction finding only indicated the movement of the ra... |
B-Prolog | Action rules & CLP(FD) | make the agent perpetual.
AR has been found useful for programming simple concurrency, implementing constraint propagators, and developing interactive graphical user interfaces. It has served as an intermediate language for compiling Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) and Answer Set Programs (ASP). CLP(FD) Like many Prolo... |
Bridge to Nowhere (San Gabriel Mountains) | East Fork Trail | to the level of the bridge.
The maintenance of the East Fork Trail which leads to the Bridge To Nowhere is the responsibility of the San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders volunteer organization which works under the supervision of the United States Forest Service. Typically trail repairs and maintenance are performed by ... |
Bremridge | de Tracy | including Bremridge, were allocated as his wife's inheritance. Henry left a son and heir Oliver I de Tracy (died c. 1184), who in 1165 was charged scutage on 25 knight's fees for his moiety. In the Cartae Baronum of 1166 he declared 23 1/3 and in 1168 30 1/2 knights' fees. Oliver I left a son and heir Oliver II (died 1... |
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond | Personal life | In 1968, Hale married Anthony Hoggett, a fellow law lecturer at Manchester, with whom she had one daughter. The marriage was dissolved in 1992. In the same year, she married Julian Farrand, former dean of the law faculty at Manchester.
In April 2018, Hale featured as a celebrity judge on BBC cooking show MasterChef. |
Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame | 2002 & 2003 & 2004 | Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra - George Simon 2003 Bob Brookmeyer - Jim Hall - Toshiko Akiyoshi - Jimmy Rowles - Ray Nance - Scott LaFaro - Howard McGhee - J. C. Higginbotham - Bob Eberly - Jo Stafford - Eddie Sauter - B. B. King - Ted Weems - Norman Granz 2004 Mundell Lowe - Specs Powell - Paul Tanner - Gerald Wilson - Te... |
Boschniakia rossica | Modern science | the family Orobanchaceae is estimated to have originated about 52.2 million years ago. The strongest bootstrap support is for terminal clades. The most parsimonious tree of Boschniakia forms a grade with Conopholis and Epifagus as well as other species of Orobanche. In this tree, Lindenbergia and Schwalbea are sister t... |
Amelia Earhart | Gardner Island hypothesis & Japanese capture theory | available space.
In August 2019, ocean explorer Robert Ballard, who has found several ocean wrecks including RMS Titanic, started searching for Earhart's aircraft off Nikumaroro's reef. The search is funded by the National Geographic Society. Ballard considers that Bevington's 1937 photo shows a landing gear as plausib... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | null | a priest before it is ceremonially placed on a fire built in the churchyard.
The festive kindling of the badnjak commemorates the fire that—according to Serbian folk tradition—the shepherds of Bethlehem built in the cave where Jesus Christ was born, to warm the Baby Jesus and his mother throughout the night. The badnja... |
British nationality law and Hong Kong | British citizenship for British Nationals (Overseas) who are otherwise stateless & Future of the British National (Overseas) status: Lord Goldsmith's citizenship review in 2008 | or renounced any other nationalities, through action or inaction, on or after 19 March 2009. Future of the British National (Overseas) status: Lord Goldsmith's citizenship review in 2008 Lord Goldsmith discussed the BN(O) issue in his citizenship review in 2008. He regarded the BN(O) status as "anomalous" in the histor... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | Post World War II to the end of the OBP era | this period where the United Church began to have its greatest influence on the OBP.
Delegates from around B.C. attended this conference, which expanded to include representatives of other boys' groups such as Scouts and the Boys' Brigade. This expansion of OBP's base encouraged the boys to debate expanding its members... |
Brendan Kiernan | AFC Wimbledon & Bromley | Round of the League Cup against Stevenage on 14 August 2012. It would only prove to be a consolation, however, as AFC Wimbledon went on to be defeated 3–1. Having broken into the first team under manager Terry Brown at the start of the 2012 season, Kiernan left the club by mutual consent on 8 April 2013 under new manag... |
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