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Beloved (1998 film) | Critical reception | reviews. The film, however, was a failure at the box office and could not come close to surpassing its $80 million budget. According to BoxOfficeMojo.com and TheNumbers.com, the movie grossed only $8,165,551 on its opening weekend, ranking #5 and being beat out by the horror movie Bride of Chucky which ranked #2 and g... |
Black Lives Matter | 2016 | of "We love Baton Rouge" and calls for justice.
On July 6, Philando Castile was fatally shot by Jeronimo Yanez, a St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer, after being pulled over in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul. Castile was driving a car with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter as passengers when he was pu... |
Black Spring (EP) | Packaging and music video | and "they've got this much talent" on side 2.
A promotional music video was released for "Nothing Natural" in 1991. Reflecting on the music video, Berenyi said it was "an effing nightmare" and that the video's director had "some ludicrous idea of what he wanted [Lush] to look/act like in the video and it was nothing to... |
Black Lives Matter | 2016 & 2017 | Charlotte, North Carolina. The Charlotte Observer reported "The protesters began to gather as night fell, hours after the shooting. They held signs that said 'Stop Killing Us' and 'Black Lives Matter,' and they chanted 'No justice, no peace.' The scene was sometimes chaotic and tense, with water bottles and stones chuc... |
Beam projector | null | is used to the extent that it once was, as newer fixtures and PAR lamps have created easier ways to produce the effect. A similar effect can be produced using ETC Source Four PAR fixtures with a clear lens. A snoot/top hat can be added to control spill. |
Bo Le | Hanfeizi | selection. The shoulders of this horse are short but its laps are swollen. The horse that kicks habitually has to raise the hindlegs and lay its whole weight upon the forelegs. Yet swollen laps are not dependable. So the hind legs cannot be raised. You were skilful in selecting kicking horses but not in observing the s... |
Booky Wook 2 | Reception | Booky Wook 2 Reception A critic from Entertainment Weekly gave the book an A minus saying fans of Brands first book will also like the sequel. |
Bob Miller (sportscaster) | Honors & Personal | to be honored with a statue outside of Staple Center, joining Luc Robitaille and Wayne Gretzky. Miller also became the first non-player to be honored with a banner hanging from the Staples Center's rafters. Personal Miller is married. He and his wife Judy have two children. |
Brittan Golden | Arizona Cardinals | 17, 2013. Later the same season Golden was promoted 53-man roster. The Cardinals released Golden on August 30, 2014. He was signed back to the active roster on December 16, 2014.
On September 3, 2016, Golden was released by the Cardinals and was signed to the practice squad the next day. He was promoted to the active r... |
Billie Lou Watt | Career | their first successful project being Astro Boy in 1963. Along the way, Billie Lou and Hal learned how to write character dialog and situations as Ladd brought in more shows to work on, resulting in such series as Kimba the White Lion (as Kimba) and Gigantor (as Jimmy Sparks). Ladd's cast remained close during Watt's ca... |
Barbara Bush | Early life | Barbara Bush Early life Barbara Pierce was born on June 8, 1925, at Booth Memorial Hospital, a Salvation Army facility at 314 East 15th Street on Stuyvesant Square in the New York City borough of Manhattan, to Pauline (née Robinson) and Marvin Pierce. Because Booth Memorial Hospital moved in 1954 to Flushing, Queens (w... |
Boticca | History & Operations | BBC iPlayer) as Product Director.
In October 2014, Boticca appointed former Liberty Fashion Director and MyWardrobe Buying and Merchandising Director Luisa De Paula as the new Fashion & Brand Director.
In August 2015, the Boticca was acquired by Wolf & Badger. Operations Launching in January 2010, the company takes onl... |
Battle of Goose Green | British assault force | north". The "capture" component appealed more to Jones than the "raid" component, although Thompson later acknowledged that he had assigned insufficient forces to rapidly execute the "capture" part of the orders.
Two Para consisted of three rifle companies, one patrol company, one support company and an HQ company. Th... |
Birth of the Cool | Davis's nonet | nonet, Davis and Mulligan taking trumpet and baritone saxophone respectively. For alto saxophone, Davis originally wanted Sonny Stitt for the part, but it was decided that Stitt's sound, much like Parkers, was too bop for what the nonet was pursuing. On Gerry Mulligan's suggestion, Davis asked alto saxist Lee Konitz to... |
Wheelchair | History & Types & Manual self-propelled wheelchairs | outdoors and at the mines. Types There are a wide variety of types of wheelchair, differing by propulsion method, mechanisms of control, and technology used. Some wheelchairs are designed for general everyday use, others for single activities, or to address specific access needs. Innovation within the wheelchair indust... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | Annual session | British Columbia Youth Parliament The British Columbia Youth Parliament (BCYP) is a youth service organization that operates in the guise of a "parliament" in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The BCYP fulfills its motto of "Youth Serving Youth" by means of "legislation" enacting community service projects and... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Felling and preparing | the east, unhindered by surrounding trees. It must not be left half-cut, as then it will curse the house of the man. In some regions, if the tree is not cut down after the third blow of the axe, then it must be pulled and twisted until its trunk breaks. The resulting badnjak has a so-called "beard", the part of the tru... |
Black Jack, Missouri | 2000 census | There were 2,587 housing units at an average density of 972.5 per square mile (375.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 26.31% White, 71.32% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.35% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.35% from other races, and 1.52% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.... |
Beth Katleman | Influences | the Royal Palace of Capodimonte, Naples, which she visited during an artist residency at the American Academy in Rome.
Her early work incorporated bright colored glazes, gold details and overt references to pop art. Katleman's work has been included in group exhibitions intended to blur distinctions between fine art an... |
Bassae | Construction and decoration | Bassae Construction and decoration The temple is aligned north-south, in contrast to the majority of Greek temples which are aligned east-west; its principal entrance is from the north. This was necessitated by the limited space available on the steep slopes of the mountain. To overcome this restriction a door was plac... |
Bill Landry | Early life & Career | worked as a teacher. Career In the early 1980s, Landry wrote and performed a one-man play titled Einstein the Man and worked during the 1982 Knoxville Worlds Fair as a riverboat captain in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) exhibit. After the fair ended, he continued to play the role of "Captain Nat" on a TVA tour of... |
Battle of Antietam | "Burnside's Bridge" | authority, Burnside treated first Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno (killed at South Mountain) and then Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox of the Kanawha Division as the corps commander, funneling orders to the corps through him.
Burnside had four divisions (12,500 troops) and 50 guns east of Antietam Creek. Facing him was a force that had... |
Bradford Morrow | Life | Bradford Morrow Life Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 8, 1951, Morrow grew up in Littleton, Colorado, and, "after a decade of vagabonding from Honduras to France, Italy to England", settled in New York City, where he remains. In 1966, he was selected by the Colorado Medical Association to serve with a small number... |
Ayesha Bedora Choudhury | Career & Death | Government Hospital in Guwahati, Assam, India. She moved to Dhaka, East Pakistan, Pakistan, and joined Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. Afterwards she worked in the State Bank of Pakistan as a Medical officer. On 25 March 1971, Bangladesh Liberation war started. During the war she provided medical treatment to the P... |
British nationality law and Hong Kong | After the Sino-British Joint Declaration & British Overseas Citizen status for those who are 'otherwise stateless' | residents of Hong Kong with BDTC status by virtue of their connection with Hong Kong. Another 2 million were believed to have been eligible to apply to become BDTCs. After the handover, they would have lost this status and became solely Chinese nationals. At the time, Hong Kong was the largest of the remaining British ... |
2015–16 Georgian Cup | First round & Second round & Quarterfinals & Semi-finals | 2015–16 Georgian Cup First round The first legs were held on 17 and 18 August, with the return matches held 25 and 26 August. Second round The first legs were held on 16 September, with the return matches held 27 and 28 October. Quarterfinals The first legs were held on 2 December 2015 with the return matches held 16 D... |
Brushless DC electric motor | Heating and ventilation & Industrial engineering | increase overall system efficiency.
In addition to the brushless motor's higher efficiency, HVAC systems (especially those featuring variable-speed and/or load modulation) use brushless motors because the built-in microprocessor allows for programmability, control over airflow, and serial communication.
Some ceiling fa... |
Birr RFC | 2010 - 2020's | was also part of the Ireland squad for the 2014 Six Nations Under 20s Championship. Originally starting in the sub academy in Leinster he eventually switched to Connacht and went on to become a full member of the first team squad. Both Peter and Shane played against each other in the 2015-16 Pro 12 final.
Jack Regan pl... |
Bkerké | History | as a winter one.
The earlier building on Bkerké site was a monastery settled in 1703. In 1830 it became the winter residence of the Lebanon's Maronite Patriarch. The present red roofed structure was built in 1893 during the time of Patriarch John Peter El Hajj.
An old book references a convent, called Kourket, that was... |
Barbara Arrowsmith Young | Career & The Arrowsmith Program | closed. However, the New York school folded a few years later, and in 1994, Arrowsmith Young and Cohen's marriage ended. She returned to Toronto and re-opened the original school. Cohen remained in New York and died there in 2000. The Arrowsmith Program The re-opened Arrowsmith School in Toronto attracted increasing nu... |
Ben Speer | Technical and business career & Ben Speer's Stamps Baxter School of Music | 1950, founding the Ben Speer Music Company. Among songs published by the company are "What a Day That Will Be," "I'm Standing on the Solid Rock," and "Touring that City." Ben Speer's Stamps Baxter School of Music In 1988, Speer revived the Stamps-Baxter School of Music, which for many years had been an institution for ... |
Berlin (The Blacklist) | Plot & Ratings | sudden change of heart. Elizabeth goes on to tell Red how much she wants to kill him for ruining her life, but that she also needs answers from him. He tells her that he needs things from her also, and that nothing is worse than losing her. It becomes apparent to both that they are stuck with each other. As Red surrend... |
Battle of Long Tan | Fighting continues | Squadron RAAF to deliver it; however, the senior RAAF officer at Nui Dat, Group Captain Peter Raw, was not prepared to risk aircraft hovering at tree-top height in the heavy rain where they would be exposed to ground fire, citing Department of Air regulations. Relations between the Army and RAAF over the use of the hel... |
Ben Pease | Ben Pease & Bully Hayes | the cargo was his and that Pease was merely carrying it as freight, while Pease claimed a half share in the cargo. The cargo was sold in Shanghai; what happened to Pease is uncertain, except that he never returned to Apia. Restieaux recounts the two stories that he had been told: the first was that Pease drowned afte... |
Bremridge | Anglo-Saxon & Norman | Alre, i.e. South Aller, one mile south of Bremridge, also later referred to as Aure and Sudaure. Concerning the etymology of Bremridge, Risdon (d.1640) (who called it Bromridge) stated: "lands subject to brambles and briers so the name importeth". Norman In the Domesday Book of 1086 BREMERIGE is listed as the 56th of t... |
British Columbia Youth Parliament | General & Observers program | subsidized housing project at Cassiar and Broadway in Vancouver.
In the 1980s, the Youth Parliament projects expanded to include educational workshops, youth oriented conferences, and the Regional Youth Parliament (RYP) program. Projects introduced in the 2000s include summer youth festivals and essay contests. In 2005... |
Beth Katleman | Influences & Process | 1969 exhibition, “Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol”.
In 2010 Katleman transitioned to working entirely in white porcelain, often installed as sculptural tableaus to produce a three-dimensional wall paper effect. Literature, in particular classical mythology and fairy tales, also inspires the work. Process Katleman fa... |
Buchenwald concentration camp | Literature | 1945, and which likewise involved Goethe. Scholars have investigated how camp inmates used art to help deal with their circumstances, and according to Theodor Ziolkowski writers often did so by turning to Goethe. Artist Léon Delarbre sketched, besides other scenes of camp life, the Goethe Oak, under which he used to si... |
Boa imperator | Description | this species often has a darker tail, usually dark brown or very dark red. They are, however, usually just as colorful as their counterparts and, like the larger boas, can be bred into a variety of different colors, given the right conditions to breed.
One population is found on the Cayos Cochinos (Hog Islands) off the... |
Battle of Long Tan | Casualties | ARVN 18th Divisions positions a week later. Meanwhile, D445 Battalion–thought to have played a supporting role and to have suffered less heavily—was assessed as still capable of engaging forces up to company size, with a remaining strength of 300 men. McNeill states that this was based on the capture of the diary of ... |
Battle of Charleston (1861) | Capture of Fish Lake Camp & Arrest of Colonel Hunter | was situated in a dense wood which surrounded an open space of some eight acres. Day was just breaking and Noleman's men fired some forty shots and the enemy replied. The rebels then laid down their arms and surrendered. Noleman's men took 33 men prisoners, captured 38 horses, and took possession of about the same n... |
Bookcraft | Deseret Book merger | GospeLink 2001. The expanded collection was also at LDSWorld.com, along with new General Conference audio streaming, and was hosted by Millennial Star (MStar.net), the church's new ISP.
The merger created a publisher with a dominant position in the LDS market. Over next few years, Deseret Book would also acquire Excel... |
Antenna gain-to-noise-temperature | Selection of antenna aperture | Antenna gain-to-noise-temperature Selection of antenna aperture Satellite antenna aperture is closely related to quality factor (G/T value) of earth station. G/T value and satellite power demand, i.e. equivalent rent bandwidth, show logarithmic linear relationship. In other words, the value of equivalent rent bandwidth... |
Bruce McTavish | Philanthropy & Others & Naturalization | children in Angeles, Pampanga, as the chairman of the center's board of trustees. Bahay Bata is a project of Rotary Club of Clark Centennial. Others McTavish is the first non-Filipino director of the Metro Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the first non-Filipino presidents of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Pampanga... |
Battle of Goose Green | Argentinian defences | air force security cadets together with the anti-aircraft elements were charged with protecting the airfield. Minefields had been laid in areas deemed tactically important (refer to map 2) to provide further defence against attack.
On paper, Piaggi had a full regiment, but it consisted of units from three separate reg... |
1902 Leeds North by-election | Labour & Education | eventually forced Labour not to bring forward a candidate. They had another by-election to fight in Clitheroe in Lancashire which was a better prospect and at a meeting of the ILP in Leeds on 4 July, Hardie told members that the fight in North Leeds would have to wait for a future election. Ironically the Labour positi... |
Beloved (1998 film) | Plot | Beloved (1998 film) Plot Sethe is a former slave living on the outskirts of Cincinnati shortly after the Civil War. An angry poltergeist terrorizes Sethe and her three children, causing her two sons to run away forever. Eight years later, Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives alone with her daughter, Denver (Kimberly Elise). Pau... |
Blue Murder at St Trinian's | Synopsis | the school grounds, meets his daughter and tells her he has done a "small" job. They reach Harry's rooms, when police cars are seen heading there, and the sixth form girls decide to hide Mangan in the school. The police arrive just as the army is withdrawing because Dame Maud will arrive shortly to take control of the ... |
Barbara Bush | Awards and legacy | the Disadvantaged, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. In 1997, she was the recipient of The Miss America Woman of Achievement Award for her work with literacy programs.
In 2016, she received honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Houston chapter.
Barbara Bush Elementary School in the... |
Barbara Bush | Post–White House years | want to pick and choose their winners, instead of allowing competition to pick and choose the winners."
Bush was initially opposed to her son Jeb making a potential bid for the presidency; she believed that other families should have a try at the nation's highest office and that "we've had enough Bushes". However, she ... |
Bones (Son Lux album) | Critical reception | Bones (Son Lux album) Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66 based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". |
Arrow (season 1) | Filming & Broadcast & Home media | are kidnapped in the pilot episode, or the base of operations for the Chinese Triad in episode 108 "Vendetta".
Filming for the rest of the season commenced on July 18, 2012 and finalized on April 18, 2013. Broadcast The season began airing in the United States on The CW on October 10, 2012, and completed its 23-episode... |
Bucanellidae | Taxonomy | Bucanellidae Taxonomy Knight et al. 1960, in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I includes the Bucanellidae in the Prosobranchia, recognizing them as true gastropods, but as the subfamily Bucanellinae within the family Sinuitidae.
The current gastropod taxonomy, taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocr... |
Bunzl Processor Division | History | Bunzl Processor Division History Bunzl Processor Division used to be known as Koch Supplies which opened in 1883. Koch Supplies was known as a manufacturer and distributor of plant operating supplies, including footwear, work and safety clothing, and material-handling equipment to butchers and meat processors. Many of ... |
Boschniakia rossica | In Chinese medicine & Modern science | many traditional applications including: cleansing and nourishing the kidneys in tonic form, cures impotence in men, strengthens the heart, used in invigorating tonics, eases constipation, is used on skin rashes, it has anti-aging effects, used in conjunction with other herbs to increase memory retention. In some First... |
Bessie Bardot | Early life | girl" in her final year at school, by the time she was 21 she had already been married and divorced after discovering her husband of 12 months was maintaining 7 other girlfriends behind her back. |
Billy Pierce | Yankees rivalry | innings on June 5 later that year, a 2–1 loss on July 15, 1956, a 3–2 loss in 11 innings on September 18 of that year (in which the Yankees clinched the pennant on Mantle's 50th home run in the final frame), a 3–1 win on May 21, 1957, and a 4–3 win in 11 innings on April 30, 1959.
By the 1957 season, Shirley Povich of ... |
Burial of Drowned Persons Acts 1808 and 1886 | null | customary to unceremoniously bury drowned seamen without shroud or coffin and in unconsecrated ground. However the burial in this manner of the many dead from the Anson, and the length of time that many of the bodies remained unburied, caused controversy and led to a local solicitor, Thomas Grylls, drafting a new law t... |
Beach tag | Other places | neck or on their swimsuit. The goals of beach tokens is to restrict the beach to only community members or to generate user fees for lifeguards and maintenance (e.g. trash removal). |
Black Spring (EP) | Packaging and music video | come up with something fabulous that MTV would play". According to Berenyi, Nirvana vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain became a Lush fan after seeing the music video. |
B-Prolog | CLP(FD) | For example, the following defines a propagator for maintaining arc consistency for the constraint X+Y #= C. Whenever an inner element Ey is excluded from the domain of Y, this propagator is triggered to exclude Ex, the counterpart of Ey, from the domain of X. For the constraint X+Y #= C, we need to generate two propag... |
Bids for the 2018 Winter Olympics | Candidate cities overview | Bids for the 2018 Winter Olympics Candidate cities overview All three cities suggested hosting the Games between February 9–25, 2018. The Paralympics will be held from March 9–18. |
Buchenwald concentration camp | Liberation | permanent time of the clock at the entrance gate). The soldiers were given a hero's welcome, with the emaciated survivors finding the strength to toss some liberators into the air in celebration.
Later in the day, elements of the U.S. 83rd Infantry Division overran Langenstein, one of a number of smaller camps comprisi... |
Bronze Horseman | Thunder Stone & Siege of Leningrad | Based on the density of granite, its weight was determined to be around 1500 tonnes. Falconet had some of this cut away shaping it into a base, so the finished pedestal weighs considerably less. Siege of Leningrad A 19th-century legend states that while the Bronze Horseman stands in the middle of Saint Petersburg, ene... |
Analog telephone adapter | Purpose | change its configuration. Some providers do sell devices that are not locked and can be used with any compatible provider. This type of service, which is fixed to one location, is generally offered by broadband Internet providers such as cable companies and telephone companies as a cheaper flat-rate traditional phone s... |
Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol | Third generation | might be associated with epigenetic changes, which involve changes to the way genes behave (not involving the DNA itself) that may be heritable from one generation to another. If epigenetic changes occur and are heritable, studies of the DES-exposed third generation have implications for the influence of environmental ... |
Black Lives Matter | 2016 | peace officer", a charge that the state penal code had designated as "lynching" until that word was removed two months prior to the incident.
On July 5, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot several times at point-blank range while pinned to the ground by two white Baton Rouge Police Department officers in ... |
Alpharetta High School | Work Ethic & Athletics | is dedicated to a strong academic policy which is defined with the phrase RICH Raider, which stands for respect, integrity, citizenship, and hard work. A student exhibiting these policies by being engaged and helpful to the class may receive a RICH Raider ticket, in which a randomly selected students can receive prizes... |
Barrio Chino (Lima) | Culture | most renowned and venerable of these are located in the neighborhood. The San Joy Lao, for example, was first established before 1920. Other notable chifas in the neighborhood include the Salón China, Wa Lok, and Sala Capón.
Barrio Chino is the headquarters for several of the Chinese associations. There are also sev... |
British nationality law and Hong Kong | British Overseas Citizen status/British citizenship for certain ethnic Nepalese (reinterpretation of Nepalese law) & British citizenship for British Nationals (Overseas) who are otherwise stateless | be citizens of Nepal are in fact solely British. The British Government has recently accepted that certain Nepalese passport holders born in Hong Kong before 30 June 1976 are BOCs, and can register for British citizenship if they wish to do so. British citizenship for British Nationals (Overseas) who are otherwise stat... |
Black Lives Matter | Inclusivity of the movement & Loose structure | Matter movement are women, and Garza and Cullors identify as queer. Additionally, Elle Hearns, one of the founding organizers of the global network, is a transgender woman. The founders believe that their backgrounds have paved the way for Black Lives Matter to be an intersectional movement. Several hashtags such as #B... |
Bill Davis (musician) | Other projects | Shooter Jennings, and others.
In 2014, Davis was writing for both a forthcoming solo release and a new Dash Rip Rock record and playing live with Dash Rip Rock.[14] He spoke with a New Orleans journalist about some of his earliest guitar influences:
"A bunch of really strange guitar players I met in the 80s really infl... |
Brandon Bye | College and amateur & Professional | Brandon Bye College and amateur Bye was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and grew up in nearby Portage, Michigan. He played his college career at Western Michigan University where he played mainly as a winger. Bye played 64 matches for the Broncos, starting 62. He scored 22 goals and had 19 assists.
Bye also played for Nati... |
Buchenwald concentration camp | Liberation | responded:
KZ Bu. Hold out. Rushing to your aid. Staff of Third Army.
According to Teofil Witek, a fellow Polish prisoner who witnessed the transmissions, Damazyn fainted after receiving the message.
After this news had been received, inmates stormed the watchtowers and killed the remaining guards, using arms they had ... |
Bornean treepie | Ecology | areas. It forages in the tree canopy, alone or in small groups, searching for small fruit, seeds and large insects such as beetles and cockroaches. It can become tame, visiting villages to feed on scraps.
Little is known about its breeding habits. The nest is shallow, built of fine twigs and placed in a low tree. The e... |
Bohuslän | Culture & Sports | as the examples found in Bohuslän. The rock art at Tanum, possibly made earlier, c. 2,500 to 3,000 years ago, have been entered as a site in the UNESCO World heritage program. Rock carvings can be found scattered throughout Bohuslän. The carvings portray the life of an agricultural society with images of daily life, wi... |
Brushless DC electric motor | Brushless solution | are supported by the housing, they can be cooled by conduction, requiring no airflow inside the motor for cooling. This in turn means that the motor's internals can be entirely enclosed and protected from dirt or other foreign matter.
Brushless motor commutation can be implemented in software using a microcontroller or... |
Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Correspondence with Washington & After the war | contrary. I therefore give my consent readily ... After the war In 1789, he became an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church, serving as rector of Christ Church from 1790 to 1792. In 1790, he built Ash Grove, on Leesburg Pike, (2 miles west of Tysons Corner), for his son, Thomas Fairfax. It was sold to James Sherma... |
Black Lives Matter | Canada & United Kingdom | chapter protested outside the Special Investigations Unit in Mississauga in response to the death of Abdirahman Abdi, who died during an arrest in Ottawa. United Kingdom On August 4, 2016, BLM protesters blocked the London Heathrow Airport in London, England. Several demonstrators chained themselves together and lay ag... |
Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Correspondence with Washington | to have seen Your Excellency before I left the warm Springs the last of August where Colo. Lewis, Your Brother & Mr. W. Washington and to have brought my Son Tommy with me, when I came home I found they had put him on the Militia Roll and draught him tho' under the Age required and therefore I had him excused. He is n... |
Battle of Goose Green | Situation at last light on 28 May | between two men for A and C Companies, but B and D Companies could not be reached. At this time a British helicopter casualty evacuation flight took place, successfully extracting C Company casualties on the forward slope of Darwin Hill under fire from Argentine positions.
To Keeble, the situation looked precarious: th... |
Brussels, Wisconsin | History | Brussels, Wisconsin History Brussels, a civil town in Door County was created on November 12, 1858.
The largest Belgian-American settlement in the United States is located in portions of Brown, Kewaunee, and Door counties in Wisconsin, adjacent to the waters of Green Bay. Walloons settled the region in the 1850s and th... |
Burning of the Midnight Lamp | Composition and lyrics | song:
There are some very personal things in there. But I think everyone can understand the feeling when you're travelling that no matter what your address there is no place you can call home. The feeling of a man in a little old house in the middle of a desert where he is burning the midnight lamp ... you don't mean f... |
Brunei People's Party | PRB's Rebellion & PRB in exile | 9 December 1962, the rebellion was effectively broken when Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III declared PRB illegal and condemned the TNKU for treason although sporadic incidences continued to occur. The Sultan also publicly stated Brunei's intention not to join the Malaysian federation. The rebellion ended five months later... |
Black Lives Matter | "Blue Lives Matter" & "White Student Union" Facebook groups | United States. It expanded after the killings of American police officers. "White Student Union" Facebook groups In response to BLM, Facebook pages emerged purporting to represent "White Student Unions" on college campuses in the United States. The pages often promise a "safe space" for white students and condemn alleg... |
Beth Brant | Career | a range of subjects regarding the writer's craft and its meaning. In 2003, Brant continued with her second collection of essays called Testimony from the Faithful.
Brant embraced her connection with her Native Mohawk people while working on Testimony from the Faithful, and pursued her oral history as well. She edited a... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | Brooke family | forge in 1796. He hired Matthew Brooke III to assist him, and after Barde's 1799 death Matthew continued to operate the forges for Barde's widow. In 1800, Matthew's father and uncles formed Brooke & Buckley and bought the Hopewell forge, with Matthew's brother Clement in charge. In 1805, at age 43, Matthew married Bard... |
Battle of Goose Green | British assault force | hours of darkness.
SAS reconnaissance had reported that the Darwin–Goose Green area was occupied by one Argentine company. Brigade intelligence reported that enemy forces consisted of three infantry companies (two from IR12 and one from IR25), one platoon from IR8 plus a possible amphibious platoon together with artill... |
Benjamin Roxburgh-Smith | Combat duty & African aviation pioneer | Roxburgh-Smith the third highest scoring ace out of the seventeen in No. 74 Squadron, after Mick Mannock and James "Taffy" Jones. African aviation pioneer Roxburgh-Smith emigrated to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1920. He farmed for several years near the capital of Bulawayo. While he was farming, civil aviation ... |
Battle of Goose Green | Situation at last light on 28 May & Surrender | J Company of 42 Commando, Royal Marines, the remaining guns of 8 Battery, and additional mortars were helicoptered in to provide the necessary support. Surrender Once Thompson and 3 Brigade had agreed to the approach, a message was relayed by CB radio from San Carlos to Mr Eric Goss, the farm manager in Goose Green—who... |
Black Lives Matter | 2017 | Lives Matter" art exhibition was organized by three Richmond, Virginia artists at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond in the Byrd Park area of the city. The show featured more than 30 diverse multicultural artists on a theme exploring racial equality and justice.
In the same month Virginia Commonwealth ... |
Ardeşen | Geography & Sport | established a factory here to produce them legally and try and bring the industry under control ). Even the municipality logo features a picture of a mosque and a revolver. Sport The Ardeşen GSK, a women's handball club, play in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League. |
Billy Pierce | Development of style | that, too. Even today Pierce will pitch a whole ball game and almost never throw anything but fast balls. But only on certain days." Yankees star Joe DiMaggio was among those praising Pierce's ability, reportedly remarking, "That little so-and-so is a marvel. So little – and all that speed. And I mean speed! He got me ... |
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) | Bed & breakfast | it. Carmelo Leggio, owner of a pair of local pizza restaurants, purchased it in 1989 for $450,000. He made significant repairs to the interior and exterior, and added a new roof. He planned to open a gourmet restaurant on the mansion's first floor, decorated with his collection of Victorian antiques, and to operate a b... |
Bob Bailey (politician) | Politics | he served as Deputy Opposition Whip.
He is serving as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Government and Consumer Services. |
Bookcraft | History & Growth | ownership passed to his wife. When she died in 1980, the Ortons' son Russell took over with his sister-in-law, Diane Orton. Growth With growth, Bookcraft relocated to new facilities in 1947. In 1969, it moved again to a West Valley City location between Mountain States Bindery and Publisher's Press, the businesses th... |
Boa imperator | Description | to orange.
Another well known population of Boa imperator is the population from Nicaragua. While not as small as the dwarf insular island populations, adults are still smaller than the larger B. c. constrictor. The size of a mature female Nicaraguan boa is 1.1 m and 1.9 kg, while the larger female B. c. constrictor i... |
Buxton Smith | Career | Buxton Smith Career He moved to Manchester City in the close season in 1897, he made his debut on the opening game of the 1897/98 season against Gainsborough Trinity, he then only missed four league games in the next four seasons, and played in all 34 matches during there promotion from Division Two in 1898/99. |
Brock Marion | Miami Dolphins & Detroit Lions | with 97 tackles. he also was named as a first-alternate safety for the Pro Bowl. The next year, he finished with 109 tackles (second on the team) and 5 interceptions (second on the team).
In 2003, he was fourth on the team with 100 tackles and was released after the season in a salary cap move. With the Dolphins, he wa... |
An Anna Blume | The poem | was closely linked to many members of the group, in particular Raoul Hausmann and Hans Arp, and the poem is written in a dadaist style, using multiple perspectives, fragments of found text, and absurdist elements to mirror the fragmentation of the narrator's emotional state in the throes of love, or of Germany's politi... |
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