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African-English businessman (d. 2019) 1930 – LaVell Edwards, American football player and coach (d. 2016) 1930 – Sam Johnson, American colonel and politician (d. 2020) 1932 – Saul Friedländer, Israeli historian and author 1932 – Barry Jones, Australian lawyer and politician 1932 – Dottie West, American singer-songwrite... | Salisbury, American football player and author 1969 – Merieme Chadid, Moroccan astronomer and explorer 1969 – Stephen Moyer, English actor 1969 – Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands 1970 – Chidi Ahanotu, American football player 1970 – Vanessa Harding, American wrestler 1970 – MC Lyte, American rapper, DJ, and actres... |
under William the Silent. 1572 – Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the relief of Goes. 1601–1900 1740 – France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins. 1774 – American ... | American actor (d. 2003) 1942 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate 1942 – Bart Zoet, Dutch cyclist (d. 1992) 1943 – Dunja Vejzović, Croatian soprano and actress 1944 – Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan physicist and philosopher 1944 – David Mancuso, American party planner, creat... |
blind father, King Wermund believed him to be a simpleton and in order to preserve his son's position as king had him marry the daughter of Freawine (a neighbouring warlord/king) so that Freawine would assist Uffi when he became king. However, the plans did not come to pass, as Freawine was killed by a marauding Viking... | marry the daughter of Freawine (a neighbouring warlord/king) so that Freawine would assist Uffi when he became king. However, the plans did not come to pass, as Freawine was killed by a marauding Viking warlord (a Swede called Atisl). Wermund subsequently raised Freawine's sons Ket and Wig as his own. The two would eve... |
resonance orbit in the same direction; however, the retrograde asteroid 514107 Kaʻepaokaʻawela appears to be in a stable (for a period of at least a million years) 1:−1 resonance with Jupiter. In addition, a few retrograde damocloids have been found that are temporarily captured in mean-motion resonance with Jupiter or... | orbiting in the same direction. A Laplace resonance is a three-body resonance with a 1:2:4 orbital period ratio (equivalent to a 4:2:1 ratio of orbits). The term arose because Pierre-Simon Laplace discovered that such a resonance governed the motions of Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, and Ganymede. It is now also often app... |
(d. 1339) 1409 – Elizabeth of Luxembourg (d. 1442) 1471 – Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533) 1474 – Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1536) 1482 – Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1553) 1573 – William Laud, English archbishop and academic (d. 1645) 1576 – John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634) 1... | Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor 1953 – Tico Torres, American drummer 1955 – Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author 1955 – Bill Henson, Australian photographer 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator 1956 – Steve Bainbridge, English rugby player 1956 – Mike Shipley, Australian-Eng... |
and nickname for Occidental Petroleum Oxy, a brand of cleaning products from Reckitt Benckiser Other uses Oxy or oxo, a ketone functional group Oxy, nickname for Occidental College | enterprises Oxy, a line of skin care products from Mentholatum OXY, Ticker symbol and nickname for Occidental Petroleum Oxy, a brand of cleaning products from Reckitt Benckiser Other uses Oxy or oxo, a ketone functional group Oxy, nickname for Occidental College Oxy, short for oxy-fuel welding |
(formula car, or often single-seater car in British English) is a car with the wheels outside the car's main body, and usually having only one seat. Open-wheel cars contrast with street cars, sports cars, stock cars, and touring cars, which have their wheels below the body or inside fenders. Open-wheel cars are built b... | its fastest. BAR Honda team recorded an average top speed of in 2006 at Bonneville Salt Flats with unofficial top speed reaching using their modified BAR 007 Formula One car. Speeds on ovals can range in constant excess of , and at Indianapolis in excess of . In 2000, Gil de Ferran set the one-lap qualifying record of ... |
the 1966 race only four of eighteen boats finished the course. Originally, the course started at Black Rock, Falmouth, to Plymouth and back with marks at the Manacles rock and Looe Island. From 1967, the course started in Plymouth. It was a straight run from Plymouth to the Black Rock, Falmouth, and then a return to Pl... | October. There are up to six races over the race weekend, lasting 30–45 minutes each. The free events attract thousands of spectators and often run alongside the AquaX jetski series. All teams race in P1 Panther race boats with 250HP outboard engines. Powerboat P1 Management Ltd is the rights-holder for P1 SuperStock a... |
length and irregular meter: Nash's poetry was often a playful twist of an old saying or poem. For one example, in a twist on Joyce Kilmer's poem "Trees" (1913), which contains "I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree"; Nash adds, "Indeed, unless the billboards fall / I'll never see a tree at all." Othe... | 1971. Nash thought of Baltimore as home. After his return from a brief move to New York, he wrote on Richard Lovelace, "I could have loved New York had I not loved Balti-more." Writing career When Nash was not writing poems, he made guest appearances on comedy and radio shows and toured the United States and the United... |
– Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians. 1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside. 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina ... | writer. (d. 1946) 1881 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (d. 1948) 1884 – Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author (d. 1941) 1888 – Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (d. 1961) 1888 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954) 1890 – Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (d. 1962) 1... |
vertex. Consequently, it is the only member of that group to possess mirror planes that do not pass through any of the faces. Using the standard nomenclature for Johnson solids, an octahedron would be called a square bipyramid. Truncation of two opposite vertices results in a square bifrustum. The octahedron is 4-conne... | but not areas or lengths. Straight lines on the sphere are projected as circular arcs on the plane. Cartesian coordinates An octahedron with edge length can be placed with its center at the origin and its vertices on the coordinate axes; the Cartesian coordinates of the vertices are then ( ±1, 0, 0 ); ( 0, ±1, 0 ); ( 0... |
assistant. Rømer added his own observations to Cassini's and observed that times between eclipses (particularly those of Io) got shorter as Earth approached Jupiter, and longer as Earth moved farther away. Cassini made an announcement to the Academy of Sciences on 22 August 1676: This second inequality appears to be du... | terrestrial orbit. Oddly, Cassini seems to have abandoned this reasoning, which Rømer adopted and set about buttressing in an irrefutable manner, using a selected number of observations performed by Picard and himself between 1671 and 1677. Rømer presented his results to the French Academy of Sciences, and it was summa... |
a "lascivious Moor" (1.1.127). In 3.3 he denounces Desdemona's supposed sin as being "black as mine own face". Desdemona's physical whiteness is otherwise presented in opposition to Othello's dark skin: 5.2 "that whiter skin of hers than snow". Iago tells Brabantio that "an old black ram / is tupping your white ewe" (1... | known North African interpretation was not until Edmund Kean's production of 1814. Honigmann discusses the view that Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish ambassador of the Arab sultan of Barbary (Morocco) to Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, was one inspiration for Othello. He stayed with his retinue in Lond... |
mainly the axial skeleton. The synthetic glucocorticoid prescription drug prednisone is a main candidate after prolonged intake. Some professional guidelines recommend prophylaxis in patients who take the equivalent of more than 30 mg hydrocortisone (7.5 mg of prednisolone), especially when this is in excess of three m... | CT or MRI, for detecting complications of osteopenia (reduced bone mass; pre-osteoporosis), such as fractures; for differential diagnosis of osteopenia; or for follow-up examinations in specific clinical settings, such as soft tissue calcifications, secondary hyperparathyroidism, or osteomalacia in renal osteodystrophy... |
High Commissioner Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division The Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division is headed by a Director who is accountable to the High Commissioner. The core functions of the Division are to: promote and protect the right to devel... | financial and personnel matters relating to the human rights program assist the High Commissioner and appropriate staff in the discharge of their financial, personnel and general administrative responsibilities and administering the associate expert and internship programs New York Office The New York Office is headed ... |
by John Locke asserting that a man has a right to kill someone who takes away his liberty. McVeigh entered Oklahoma City at 8:50 am. At 8:57 am, the Regency Towers Apartments' lobby security camera that had recorded Nichols's pickup truck three days earlier recorded the Ryder truck heading towards the Murrah Federal Bu... | VIN on an axle of the truck used in the explosion and the remnants of the license plate, federal agents were able to link the truck to a specific Ryder rental agency in Junction City, Kansas. Using a sketch created with the assistance of Eldon Elliot, owner of the agency, the agents were able to implicate McVeigh in th... |
goal was to annex the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East into its territory and enslave its peoples, as part of what he called a "Greater Israel". He stated that Jews and Muslims could never get along and that war was "inevitable" between them, and further accused the US of stirring up anti-Islamic sentiment. He cla... | US State Department and US Department of Defense were controlled by Jews, for the sole purpose of serving the Israeli state's goals. He often delivered warnings against alleged Jewish conspiracies: "These Jews are masters of usury and leaders in treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or the next."... |
change in behavior during development. We can conclude that the thrush itself, i.e. its behavioral machinery, has changed only if the behavior change occurred while the environment was held constant...When we turn from description to causal analysis, and ask in what way the observed change in behavior machinery has bee... | I am, and from the suffix -geny from the Greek -γένεια -geneia, which expresses the concept of mode of production. History In 1866, Ernst Haeckel and others imagined development as producing new structures after the earlier additions to the developing organism have been established. He proposed that individual developm... |
Northern Hemisphere's winter months, the Sun is below the horizon even at midday. Stars (and thus parts of Ophiuchus, especially Rasalhague) are then visible at twilight for a few hours around local noon, low in the south. In the Northern Hemisphere's spring and summer months, when Ophiuchus is normally visible in the ... | is best visible in summer. It is opposite of Orion. Ophiuchus is depicted as a man grasping a serpent; the interposition of his body divides the snake constellation Serpens into two parts, Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda. Ophiuchus straddles the equator with the majority of its area lying in the southern hemisphere. Ra... |
estate forfeited to John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset. Glyndŵr had been offered a pardon on March 10th 1401, but rejected the plea. On May 30th, Hotspur having won a battle near 'Cadair Idris' left his command for the English army and begun dealings with Glyndŵr. During this time in spring 1401, Glyndŵr appears in So... | Gruffydd Yonge and his brother-in-law (Margaret's brother), John Hanmer, to negotiate with the French. The result was a formal treaty that promised French aid to Glyndŵr and the Welsh. The immediate effect seems to have been that joint Welsh and Franco-Breton forces attacked and laid siege to Kidwelly Castle. The Welsh... |
a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies Buildings The Orion (skyscraper) in New York City Orion Assembly, a General Motors assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan Orion Building, a residential building in Birmingham, England Orion, the movie theater of Finland's National Audiovisual Archive Orion Theatre... | Wróblewski (born 1980), Polish musician Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998), American rockabilly singer Places United States Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community Orion, Illinois, a village Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois Orion High School, in Orion, Illinois Orion, Wisconsin, a town Orion (community), Wiscon... |
Three star systems are known to have planets. Mu2 Octantis is a binary star system, the brighter component of which has a planet. HD 142022 is a binary system, a component of which is a sunlike star with a massive planet with an orbital period of 1928 ± 46 days. HD 212301 is a yellow-white main sequence star with a hot... | Hope, and was originally named l’Octans de Reflexion (“the reflecting octant”) in 1752, after he had observed and catalogued almost 10,000 southern stars during a two-year stay at the Cape of Good Hope. He devised fourteen new constellations in uncharted regions of the Southern Celestial Hemisphere not visible from Eur... |
the Ryukyu Domain, the last domain of the Han system. Okinawa Prefecture was occupied by the United States of America during the Allied occupation of Japan after World War II, and governed by the Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands from 1945 to 1950 and Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands from 1950 until t... | Vietnam War highlighted the differences between United States and Okinawa, but showed a commonality between the islands and mainland Japan. As controversy grew regarding the alleged placement of nuclear weapons on Okinawa, fears intensified over the escalation of the Vietnam War. Okinawa was then perceived, by some ins... |
and of any mixture with oils of other kinds. It is then further refined into Refined olive pomace oil and once re-blended with virgin olive oils for taste, is then known as Olive pomace oil. International Olive Council In countries that adhere to the standards of the International Olive Council, as well as in Australia... | greater harvests occur in alternate years (the year in-between is when the tree yields less). However the quality is still dependent on the weather. Sometimes the produced oil will be filtered to eliminate remaining solid particles that may reduce the shelf life of the product. Labels may indicate the fact that the oil... |
since that time. Other leaves found on the same island are dated back to 60,000 BP, making them the oldest known olives from the Mediterranean. Outside the Mediterranean Olives are not native to the Americas. Spanish colonists brought the olive to the New World, where its cultivation prospered in present-day Peru, Chil... | Taxonomy The six natural subspecies of Olea europaea are distributed over a wide range: Olea europaea subsp. europaea (Mediterranean Basin) Olea europaea var. sylvestris, considered the "wild" olive of the Mediterranean, is a variety characterized by a smaller tree bearing noticeably smaller fruit. O. e. subsp. cuspida... |
alongside Titus Vinius, the fourth and twenty-second legions of Upper Germany refused to swear loyalty to the emperor. They toppled the statues of Galba and demanded that a new emperor be chosen. On the following day, the soldiers of Lower Germany also refused to swear their loyalty and proclaimed the governor of the p... | once dispatched to secure Liguria, and on 14 March Otho, undismayed by omens and prophecies, started northwards at the head of his troops in the hopes of preventing the entry of Vitellius' troops into Italy. But for this he was too late, and all that could be done was to throw troops into Placentia and hold the line of... |
The Orsini family is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome. Members of the Orsini family include five popes: Stephen II (752-757), Paul I (757-767), Celestine III (1191–1198), Nicholas III (1277–1280), and Benedict XIII (1724–1730). In addi... | (died July 5, 1479) was count of Nola and fought as condottiere under the Duke of Milan and the Republic of Venice. Later he entered the service of Ferdinand I of Naples, but, not having taken part in the Barons' conspiracy, he was rewarded with the fiefs of Ascoli and Atripalda. He took part in the Aragonese campaign ... |
comprehensive model of light, which includes wave effects such as diffraction and interference that cannot be accounted for in geometric optics. Historically, the ray-based model of light was developed first, followed by the wave model of light. Progress in electromagnetic theory in the 19th century led to the discover... | sky in photographs. Optical polarization is principally of importance in chemistry due to circular dichroism and optical rotation ("circular birefringence") exhibited by optically active (chiral) molecules. Modern optics Modern optics encompasses the areas of optical science and engineering that became popular in the 2... |
in Germany's Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany until World War II. After the War, it was divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland. Other places Os, Värnamo, a village in Värnamo Municipality, Småland province, Sweden OS, ICAO code for airports in Syria Religion Ōs, an Old English word denoting a god in Anglo-Saxon paga... | Anglo-Saxon paganism, related to æsir O.S., Order of Santiago, a Spanish order dedicated to St James the Greater O.S., Order of Sikatuna, the national order of diplomatic merit of the Philippines Science Ocean Science (journal), an oceanographic journal Osmium, a chemical element (symbol Os) Sport Ohio State Buckeyes, ... |
lengthens the light originating from the Big Bang to microwave levels via a process known as redshift; this microwave radiation background has wavelengths much longer than those of visible light, and so appears dark to the naked eye. Other explanations for the paradox have been offered, but none have wide acceptance in... | finite size of the observable universe resolves the apparent paradox. More specifically, because the universe is finitely old and the speed of light is finite, only finitely many stars can be observed from Earth (although the whole universe can be infinite in space). The density of stars within this finite volume is su... |
Antoine Faivre noted that rather than outright accepting "the triumph of scientism", occultists sought "an alternative solution", trying to integrate "scientific progress or modernity" with "a global vision that will serve to make the vacuousness of materialism more apparent". The Dutch scholar of hermeticism Wouter Ha... | an occult quality. Aether is another such element. Newton's contemporaries severely criticized his theory that gravity was effected through "action at a distance", as occult. Occultism In the English-speaking world, prominent figures in the development of occultism included Helena Blavatsky and other figures associated... |
of Scottish, Welsh and Irish inflection as well. In 2011, 47.3% of Oklahoma's population younger than age1 were minorities, meaning they had at least one parent who was not non-Hispanic white. In 2011, U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey data from 2005 to 2009 indicated about 5% of Oklahoma's residents were bo... | half of Indian-held land within the territory for outside settlers and for purchase. Major land runs, including the Land Run of 1889, were held for settlers where certain territories were opened to settlement starting at a precise time. Usually land was open to settlers on a first come first served basis. Those who bro... |
Oxbridge offers. Combined, the two universities award over one-sixth of all English full-time research doctorates. Oxford and Cambridge have common approaches to undergraduate admissions. Until the mid-1980s, entry was typically by sitting special entrance exams. Applications must be made at least three months earlier ... | Pendennis, published in 1850, the main character attends the fictional Boniface College, Oxbridge. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this is the first recorded instance of the word. Virginia Woolf used it, citing Thackeray, in her 1929 essay A Room of One's Own. By 1957 the term was used in the Times Educatio... |
his beylik. During his reign, the Ottomans made great strides towards transitioning from the Nomadic tribe system to settling down in permanent settlements. This helped them consolidate their position and rapidly develop into a major power. Moreover, the beylik's location in northwestern Anatolia, next to Christendom, ... | own return on the throne. Another story suggests that Kayqubad escaped and sought refuge in the Byzantine court where he remained until his death. In all cases, Kaykāwūs's rule was short-lived, lasting between 4 and 6 years at most, and when he died in 1308 CE, the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm was no more to be mentioned in... |
out of conquered children would induce other people to adopt, not only out of the children of the conquered nations, but out of a crowd of their friends and relations, who would come as volunteers to join the Ottoman ranks. Acting on this advice, Orhan selected a thousand of the finest boys from conquered Christian fam... | vast majority of the oriental writers concur in attributing to Alaeddin the introduction of laws respecting the costume of the various subjects of the empire, and the creation and funding of a standing army of regular troops. It was by his advice and that of a contemporary Turkish statesman that the celebrated corps of... |
was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 26 February 1618 until his regicide on 20 May 1622. Early life Osman II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ahmed I (1603–17) and one of his consorts Mahfiruz Hatun. According to later traditions, at a young age, his mother had paid a great deal of att... | a loyal chief black eunuch at his side, this could not compensate for the absence of what in the politics of that period was a winning combination, valide sultan–chief black eunuch, especially in the case of a young and very ambitious ruler. According to Piterberg, Osman II did not have haseki sultan, opposite with Pei... |
to commercial compilers. Characteristics Features characterizing the Oberon language include: Case sensitive syntax with uppercase keywords Type-extension with type test Modules and separate compiling String operations Isolating unsafe code Support for system programming Object orientation Oberon supports extension of ... | POINTER TO InterfaceDesc; InterfaceDesc* = RECORD draw* : PROCEDURE (f : Figure); clear* : PROCEDURE (f : Figure); mark* : PROCEDURE (f : Figure); move* : PROCEDURE (f : Figure; dx, dy : INTEGER); END; FigureDesc* = RECORD if : Interface; END; PROCEDURE Init* (f : Figure; if : Interface); BEGIN f.if := if END Init; PRO... |
to open source a version of IrisGL as a public standard called OpenGL. However, SGI had many customers for whom the change from IrisGL to OpenGL would demand significant investment. Moreover, IrisGL had API functions that were irrelevant to 3D graphics. For example, it included a windowing, keyboard and mouse API, in p... | bindings, some of the most noteworthy being the JavaScript binding WebGL (API, based on OpenGL ES 2.0, for 3D rendering from within a web browser); the C bindings WGL, GLX and CGL; the C binding provided by iOS; and the Java and C bindings provided by Android. In addition to being language-independent, OpenGL is also c... |
the center of force. Let be the distance between the object and the center and be the angle it has rotated. Let and be the standard Euclidean bases and let and be the radial and transverse polar basis with the first being the unit vector pointing from the central body to the current location of the orbiting object and ... | the Sun. For the planets, the cubes of their distances from the Sun are proportional to the squares of their orbital periods. Jupiter and Venus, for example, are respectively about 5.2 and 0.723 AU distant from the Sun, their orbital periods respectively about 11.86 and 0.615 years. The proportionality is seen by the f... |
A left-handed bowler who bowls with the same (finger spin) action as an off spinner is known as a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. While the orthodox spinner has the same action as an off-spinner, the ball itself spins in the opposite direction (akin to a right arm leg spinner). Such a ball is not normally called an off ... | that any miscalculation can more easily result in an outside edge off the bat and a catch going to the wicket-keeper or slips fielders. A left-handed bowler who bowls with the same (finger spin) action as an off spinner is known as a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. While the orthodox spinner has the same action as an of... |
provide that 'O Canada' shall be the National Anthem of Canada while 'God Save the Queen' shall be the Royal Anthem of Canada", of which parliament approved. In 1967, the Prime Minister advised Governor General Georges Vanier to appoint the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons on the National and ... | "sons" implied "that women can't feel true patriotism or love for Canada". Senator Vivienne Poy similarly criticized the English lyrics of the anthem as being sexist and she introduced a bill in 2002 proposing to change the phrase "in all thy sons command" to "in all of us command". In the late 2000s, the anthem's reli... |
colonization questions had become exciting ones throughout the whole country, and the students deemed it to be their duty thoroughly to examine them, in view of their bearing upon their future responsibilities as ministers of the gospel." Shortly after their arrival at Lane, the Oneida contingent held a lengthy, well-p... | for 11th for "Most Innovative", and tied for 12th best in undergraduate teaching among liberal arts colleges in the 2020 edition of U.S. News & World Reports "Best Colleges" ranking. Of Oberlin's nearly 3,000 students, nearly 2,400 are enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences, a little over 400 in the Conservatory of... |
(née Clancy) and Oliver Clay North, a U.S. Army major. He grew up in Philmont, New York, and graduated from Ockawamick Central High School in 1961. He attended the State University of New York at Brockport for two years. While at Brockport, North spent a summer at the United States Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class at... | had misled Congress, for which, along with other actions, he was later charged. He defended his actions by stating that he believed in the goal of aiding the Contras, whom he saw as freedom fighters against the Sandinistas and said that he viewed the Iran–Contra scheme as a "neat idea." North admitted shredding governm... |
a new approach addressing learning, innovation, development and growth with targets for 2017. Boye and his administration have been criticised for mismanaging the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen in 2005, above all for allegedly signing a contract with Tina Turner for a show which resul... | new approach addressing learning, innovation, development and growth with targets for 2017. Boye and his administration have been criticised for mismanaging the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen in 2005, above all for allegedly signing a contract with Tina Turner for a show which resulte... |
Vorbis. It has since been adopted in the specifications of Ogg encapsulations for other Xiph.Org codecs including Theora, Speex, FLAC and Opus. VorbisComment is the simplest and most widely-supported mechanism for storing metadata with Xiph.Org codecs. Notably, one or more METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE=… in a VorbisComment fo... | called an "Ogg page". Each page begins with the characters "OggS" to identify the file as Ogg format. A "serial number" and "page number" in the page header identifies each page as part of a series of pages making up a bitstream. Multiple bitstreams may be multiplexed in the file where pages from each bitstream are ord... |
refer to him as "that fat one", and often shows total confusion over which fat person people are referring to. When he does understand the allusions are made on his behalf, he flies into a rage and starts beating up the person who said it. Sometimes, when he is in a bad mood, just hearing the word "fat"—even if it is n... | village who is in a permanent state of superhuman strength. Because of this already enormous strength, Obelix is not allowed to drink the magic potion ever again, a ban he regards as being tremendously unfair. Other characteristics are his simplemindedness, his love and care for his dog Idefix, his anger when someone r... |
noted, While respectful of tradition, most English-born Jews were not orthodox in terms of personal practice. Nonetheless they were content to remain within an orthodox congregational framework – and introduced considerable synagogue reforms. Eastern Europe The much belated pace of modernization in Russia, Congress Pol... | two systems of thought competed for theological primacy, their advocates promoting them as explanatory foundations for the observance of the Law. One was the rationalist-philosophic school, which endeavored to present all commandments as serving higher moral and ethical purposes, while the other was the mystical tradit... |
22, 1978, Peterson performed in the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 that was broadcast live from the Palais des congrès de Paris. In 1974 he added British drummer Martin Drew. This quartet toured and recorded extensively worldwide. Pass said in a 1976 interview, "The only guys I've heard who come clos... | Music in the Key of Oscar, Peterson tells how Granz stood up to a gun-toting Southern policeman who wanted to stop the trio from using "whites-only" taxis. In 1950, Peterson worked in a duo with double bassist Ray Brown. Two years later they added guitarist Barney Kessel. Then Herb Ellis stepped in after Kessel grew we... |
clothing that they are most comfortable in (full leg cover is not required), unless specifically stated in the meet announcement. In Australia, under the 2021 rules, 2.1.21, the choice of clothing is also left up to the competitor, and full leg cover is not required. In Canada, no specific clothing is required, but par... | orienteering, ski orienteering, and trail orienteering. It is based in Finland and it claims on its website to aim to "spread the sport of orienteering, to promote its development and to create and maintain an attractive world event programme." Since 1977 the IOF has been recognised by the IOC National There are govern... |
force such as gravity is added to the system, the point of equilibrium is shifted. The time taken for an oscillation to occur is often referred to as the oscillatory period. The systems where the restoring force on a body is directly proportional to its displacement, such as the dynamics of the spring-mass system, are ... | a single degree of freedom. More complicated systems have more degrees of freedom, for example, two masses and three springs (each mass being attached to fixed points and to each other). In such cases, the behavior of each variable influences that of the others. This leads to a coupling of the oscillations of the indiv... |
Davis. Because construction was not finished by the start of the 1996 season, the Athletics were forced to play their first six-game homestand at 9,300-seat Cashman Field in Las Vegas. Although official capacity was stated to be 43,662 for baseball, seats were sometimes sold in Mount Davis as well, pushing "real" capac... | January 15, 2015, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the claims were barred by baseball's antitrust exemption, established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922 and upheld in 1953 and 1972. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo commented that the city would seek a ruling from the U.S.... |
the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. 1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners. 1915 – World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers. 1920 – Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some ter... | under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia. 1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. 1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene. 1898 – The steam ship sinks near the Lizard peninsula, ... |
Metal β-diketonates, alkoxides, dialkylamides, and metal phosphine complexes are representative members of this class. The field of organometallic chemistry combines aspects of traditional inorganic and organic chemistry. Organometallic compounds are widely used both stoichiometrically in research and industrial chemic... | are not considered to be organometallic. For instance, lithium enolates often contain only Li-O bonds and are not organometallic, while zinc enolates (Reformatsky reagents) contain both Zn-O and Zn-C bonds, and are organometallic in nature. Structure and properties The metal-carbon bond in organometallic compounds is g... |
Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people. 2018 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Births Pre-1600 1452 – Richard III of England (d. 1485) 1470 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Daughter ... | baseball player 1970 – Patricia O'Callaghan, Canadian soprano 1970 – Kelly Ripa, American actress and talk show host 1970 – Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress 1971 – Tiffany Darwish, American singer-songwriter 1971 – Jim Root, American guitarist and songwriter 1972 – Aaron McKie, American basketball player 1973 – Melissa H... |
projecting an alternately hip, entertaining, liberating lifestyle, while negatively portraying Microsoft Windows, IBM, or other competitors as anything from awkward and dated to totalitarian and sinister Big Brother figure. Microsoft Windows Neowin.net wrote editorials opposing Windows-bashing in the media. Microsoft h... | Advocacy Guidelines and the Guidelines for Effective OS/2 Advocacy. Advocacy and specific operating systems FreeBSD FreeBSD is served by a mailing list specifically for advocacy discussion. Advocacy-related materials and links are provided on the FreeBSD website, including a page of logos. Linux As there are a large nu... |
For example, the snip of a pair of scissors is in Italian, in Spanish, or in Portuguese, in modern Greek, in Albanian, and in Hindi. Similarly, the "honk" of a car's horn is (Han: ) in Mandarin, in French, in Japanese, in Korean, in Norwegian, in Portuguese and in Vietnamese. Onomatopoeic effect without onomatopoeic wo... | closed; UK campaign) or "click, clack, front and back" (click, clack of connecting the seat belts; AU campaign) or "click it or ticket" (click of the connecting seat belt, with the implied penalty of a traffic ticket for not using a seat belt; US DOT (Department of Transportation) campaign). The sound of the container ... |
Vice President of the Philippines (d. 1914) 1872 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (d. 1958) 1874 – Jimmy Burke, American baseball player and manager (d. 1942) 1875 – Aleister Crowley, English magician and author (d. 1947) 1878 – Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (d. 1956) ... | manager (d. 2015) 1935 – Tony Kubek, American baseball player and sportscaster 1935 – Sam Moore, American soul singer-songwriter 1935 – Shivraj Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence 1935 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2007) 1937 – Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (d. ... |
now Germany House of Orange-Nassau, a royal family in multiple European states | Orange-Nassau may refer to: Principality of Orange-Nassau, a former state in what |
– Malik Saidullaev, Russian businessman 1964 – Korina Sanchez, Filipino journalist 1965 – Trace Armstrong, American football player and agent 1965 – Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player 1965 – Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1966 – Dennis Byrd, American football player (d. 2016) 1966 – Sean M. Ca... | the Czech Republic (d. 2011) 1937 – Carlo Mastrangelo, American doo-wop singer (d. 2016) 1937 – Barry Switzer, American football player and coach 1938 – Johnny Duncan, American country singer (d. 2006) 1938 – Teresa Heinz, Mozambican-American businesswoman and philanthropist 1939 – Marie-Claire Blais, Canadian author a... |
and knows that one of its legs is a living olive tree. Penelope finally accepts that he truly is her husband, a moment that highlights their homophrosýnē (“like-mindedness”). The next day Odysseus and Telemachus visit the country farm of his old father Laërtes. The citizens of Ithaca follow Odysseus on the road, planni... | Homer relates it to various forms of this verb in references and puns. In Book 19 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus' early childhood is recounted, Euryclea asks the boy's grandfather Autolycus to name him. Euryclea seems to suggest a name like Polyaretos, "for he has much been prayed for" (πολυάρητος) but Autolycus "appar... |
Israel promised that it would not violate the right of the House to continue to operate freely. During his first tenure as Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu "tried and failed to have Orient House shut down, amid warning from the international community that such a step would be regarded very negatively." Whe... | House and banned PLO activity in it. It was renewed four years later in 1992. It was then rented and renovated by Husseini. In an exchange of letters preceding the 1993 Oslo Accords, Israel promised that it would not violate the right of the House to continue to operate freely. During his first tenure as Prime Minister... |
– Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer and coach 1977 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player 1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer-songwriter 1977 – Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer and singer 1977 – Jamie Laurie, American singer-songwriter 1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer and manager 1978 – Carolina... | Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (d. 1555) 1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and missionary (d. 1610) 1555 – Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (d. 1604) 1565 – Marie de Gournay, French writer (d. 1645) 1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (d. 1624)... |
Shaver, American author and illustrator (d. 1975) 1908 – Ezekias Papaioannou, Greek-Cypriot politician (d. 1988) 1910 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999) 1910 – Paulette Dubost, French actress (d. 2011) 1910 – Gus Hall, American soldier and politician (d. 2000) 1910 – Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier (d. ... | (d. 1973) 1890 – Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971) 1892 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and author (d. 1941) 1893 – Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1965) 1895 – Zog I of Albania (d. 1961) 1895 – Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, 29th President of Argentina (d. 1974) 1896 – Jul... |
gaseous exchange. In combination with separate pulmonary and systemic circulatory systems, it helps to reduce stress on the BGB. Circulation Heart anatomy The common ostrich heart is a closed system, contractile chamber. It is composed of myogenic muscular tissue associated with heart contraction features. There is a d... | The male common ostrich territory is between . With their acute eyesight and hearing, common ostriches can sense predators such as lions from far away. When being pursued by a predator, they have been known to reach speeds in excess of , or possibly and can maintain a steady speed of , which makes the common ostrich th... |
coach 1952 – Paul Geroski, American-English economist and academic (d. 2005) 1952 – Chuck Lorre, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1952 – Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer and photographer 1952 – Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese soldier and author 1952 – Allen Ripley, American baseball player (d. 2014) 1952 – Jerry ... | 1905 – Jan Gies, Dutch activist (d. 1993) 1905 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993) 1906 – James Brooks, American painter and educator (d. 1992) 1909 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2004) 1914 – Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer... |
initially painful. Masters and Johnson argued that all women are potentially multiply orgasmic, but that multiply orgasmic men are rare, and stated that "the female is capable of rapid return to orgasm immediately following an orgasmic experience, if restimulated before tensions have dropped below plateau phase respons... | use of a sex toy, such as a sensual vibrator or an erotic electrostimulation. Achieving orgasm by stimulation of the nipples or other erogenous zones is rarer. Multiple orgasms are also possible, especially in women, but they are also uncommon. Multiple orgasms are orgasms that occur within a short period of one anothe... |
men and a cargo worth £1,200,000. 1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded. 1806 – Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France. 1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: and . 1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain. 1825 – Resta... | poet, and scholar (d. 1638) 1586 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (d. 1632) 1593 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (d. 1674) 1601–1900 1609 – Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (d. 1688) 1623 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (d. 1688) 1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, G... |
Empire, Charlemagne, who had conquered much of its former territory, announced its restoration. Upon his death, he passed this realm to his son Louis the Pious, who would in turn pass it to his firstborn son Lothair I. However, the latter's brothers—Charles and Louis—refused to recognize him as their suzerain. When Lot... | of significant importance to the field of linguistics. As the scholar Philippe Walter wrote: Manuscript Nithard's text has been passed down to us via two manuscripts that are today kept at the National Library of France. The older manuscript was copied around the year 1000, probably for an abbey in Picardy (either that... |
– George Frazier, American baseball player and sportscaster 1954 – Claude Ribbe, French historian and academic 1955 – John Ferenzik, American keyboard player, guitarist, and composer 1956 – Joseph Toal, Scottish bishop 1956 – Sinan Sakić, Serbian singer (d. 2018) 1957 – Reggie Theus, American basketball player and coac... | the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania. 1269 – The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated. 1307 – Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy. 1332 – Rinchinbal Khan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of t... |
physicist and mathematician (d. 1647) 1622 – Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (d. 1686) 1686 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (d. 1758) 1701 – Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (d. 1771) 1711 – Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (d. 1741) 1762 –... | Gorbunovs of Latvia and the Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland. 1994 – The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island. 1995 – Saddam Hussein is reelected president of Iraq t... |
Scotland (d. 1460) 1483 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1542) 1535 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (d. 1585) 1588 – Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (d. 1657) 1601–1900 1605 – Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (d. 1677) 1620 – Pierre Paul Puget, French pain... | finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles. 1793 – French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed. 1793 – War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge. 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: ... |
rings" (one of the king's functions is to distribute treasure), and "famous chief". Such variation, which the modern reader (who likes verbal precision) is not used to, is frequently a difficulty in producing a readable translation. Litotes Litotes is a form of dramatic understatement employed by the author for ironic ... | of the finest, but both the beginning and end are missing and the only manuscript was destroyed in a fire in 1731. A well-known speech is near the end of the poem: Elegiac poetry Related to the heroic tales are a number of short poems from the Exeter Book which have come to be described as "elegies" or "wisdom poetry".... |
units were sold in the U.S. alone. To sell would-be customers on its technical abilities as a computer-based console, the Odyssey 2 was marketed with phrases such as "The Ultimate Computer Video Game System", "Sync-Sound Action", "True-Reality Synthesization", "On-Screen Digital Readouts" and "a serious educational too... | customers on its technical abilities as a computer-based console, the Odyssey 2 was marketed with phrases such as "The Ultimate Computer Video Game System", "Sync-Sound Action", "True-Reality Synthesization", "On-Screen Digital Readouts" and "a serious educational tool" on the packaging for the console and its game car... |
person to prophesy against Esau (Edom). Obadiah is supposed to have received the gift of prophecy for having hidden the "hundred prophets" from the persecution of Jezebel. He hid the prophets in two caves, so that if those in one cave should be discovered those in the other might yet escape. Obadiah was very rich, but ... | Yahweh." The form of Obadiah's name used in the Septuagint is Obdios. In Latin it is translated as Abdias while in Arabic it is either ʿAbdullah (), Ubaydah (), or Ubaidullah () "Slave of God". The Bishops' Bible refers to the prophet as Abdi. Prophet Obadiah The political situation implied in the prophecy points to a ... |
Lebombo Mountains. 1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf. 1987 – Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. 1988 – The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with ... | Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice. 1900 – Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation. 1901–present 1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Li... |
forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. 1867 – The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in the western Indian Territory. 1879 – Thomas Ed... | Neville, Duchess of York (d. 1478) 1527 – Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (d. 1578) 1536 – Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt (d. 1586) 1581 – Domenichino, Italian painter (d. 1641) 1601–1900 1650 – Jean Bart, French admiral (d. 1702) 1658 – Henri de Boulainvilliers, French nobleman (d. 1722) 1675 – Emperor Higashiyama of Jap... |
Günther Treptow, German tenor (d. 1981) 1908 – John Gould, American journalist and author (d. 2003) 1908 – José Escobar Saliente, Spanish cartoonist (d. 1994) 1913 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1954) 1913 – Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997) 1913 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer... | 1923 – Bert Trautmann, German footballer and manager (d. 2013) 1925 – Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012) 1925 – Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author, and hula expert (d. 2014) 1925 – Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (d. 2008) 1927 – Allan Hendrickse, Sou... |
journalist (d. 2006) 1930 – Unto Mononen, Finnish musician (d. 1968) 1931 – Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician (d. 2017) 1931 – William P. Clark, Jr., American judge and politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2013) 1931 – Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984) 1932 – Vasily Belov,... | – Eduardo Paret, Cuban baseball player 1972 – Bryan Pratt, American lawyer and politician 1972 – Jasmin St. Claire, Virgin Islander-American actress 1972 – Jimmy Wayne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1973 – Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer 1974 – Aravind Adiga, Indian journalist and author 1974 – Beatric... |
six months of general surgical training and four and a half years in ORL-H&N specialist surgery. In Canada and the United States, practitioners complete a five-year residency training after medical school. Following residency training, some otolaryngologist-head & neck surgeons complete an advanced sub-specialty fellow... | eating, drinking, speaking, breathing, swallowing, and hearing. In addition, ENT surgery encompasses the surgical management and reconstruction of cancers and benign tumors of the head and neck as well as plastic surgery of the face and neck. Etymology The term is a combination of New Latin combining forms (oto- + rhin... |
2021 still stands at the dorpsstraat, behind barber Prophitius, to communicate with the allies below the river Rhine (1944/1945). During the war, multiple families were hiding jewish people from the Germans. One location was betrayed however, resulting in a razzia in 1944 at the house 'De Lindenhof' at the Hoenderloose... | of the war, Otterlo was relatively unharmed. The local resistance made use of a secret telephone connection from a electrician house, which in 2021 still stands at the dorpsstraat, behind barber Prophitius, to communicate with the allies below the river Rhine (1944/1945). During the war, multiple families were hiding j... |
and temporary facilities. International Olympic Committee The Olympic Movement encompasses a large number of national and international sporting organisations and federations, recognised media partners, as well as athletes, officials, judges, and every other person and institution that agrees to abide by the rules of t... | practices be eliminated. Another date commonly cited is 426 AD, when his successor, Theodosius II, ordered the destruction of all Greek temples. Modern Games Forerunners Various uses of the term "Olympic" to describe athletic events in the modern era have been documented since the 17th century. The first such event was... |
Prussian ceased to be spoken probably around the beginning of the 18th century, because many of its remaining speakers died in the famines and the bubonic plague outbreak which harrowed the East Prussian countryside and towns from 1709 until 1711. The Germanic regional dialect of Low German spoken in Prussia (or East P... | in the Kaliningrad Oblast by the bands Romowe Rikoito, Kellan and Āustras Laīwan, as well as in Lithuania by Kūlgrinda in their 2005 album Prūsų Giesmės (Prussian Hymns), and Latvia by Rasa Ensemble in 1988 and Valdis Muktupāvels in his 2005 oratorio "Pārcēlātājs Pontifex" featuring several parts sung in Prussian. Impo... |
their external dependencies (if any). The framework is conceptually divided into the following areas: BundlesBundles are normal JAR components with extra manifest headers. ServicesThe services layer connects bundles in a dynamic way by offering a publish-find-bind model for plain old Java interfaces (POJIs) or plain ol... | a bundle. Life-cycle A Life Cycle layer adds bundles that can be dynamically installed, started, stopped, updated and uninstalled. Bundles rely on the module layer for class loading but add an API to manage the modules in run time. The life cycle layer introduces dynamics that are normally not part of an application. E... |
functions of the reproductive system important to the maturation of sperm and may be necessary for a healthy libido. Overview of actions Structural Anabolic: Increases muscle mass and strength, speed of muscle regeneration, and bone density, increased sensitivity to exercise, protection against muscle damage, stronger ... | Increase uterine growth Increase vaginal lubrication Thicken the vaginal wall Maintenance of vessel and skin Reduce bone resorption, increase bone formation Protein synthesis Increase hepatic production of binding proteins Coagulation Increase circulating level of factors 2, 7, 9, 10, plasminogen Decrease antithrombin ... |
legal implications with MPC Electronics. It was an influential device at that time, allowing drummers and percussionists the opportunity to trigger virtually any MIDI sound source without the need of a full electronic drum set. Features The Pad 8 Consists of eight individual pads (divided in two rows of four pads) and ... | different MIDI-Note number. Both MIDI channel and note numbers could be edited to suite the device being controlled over MIDI. There is one parameter adjustable for each pad: MIDI Note. The remaining five parameters adjustable are global: MIDI Channel; Pad Sensitivity; Volume Curve; Minimum Velocity; and the Gate Time.... |
teaching certificate. In 1905, Spengler suffered a nervous breakdown. Career Biographers report that his life as a teacher was uneventful. He briefly served as a teacher in Saarbrücken then in Düsseldorf. From 1908 to 1911 he worked at a grammar school (Realgymnasium) in Hamburg, where he taught science, German history... | a petrified body characterized in the modern age by technology, imperialism, and mass society, which he expected to fossilize and decline from the 2000s onward. The first-millennium Near East was, in his view, not a transition between Classical Antiquity, Western Christianity, and Islam, but rather an emerging new Cult... |
there was an oracle of Artemis Tauropolus. Oracle at Claros At Claros, there was the oracle of Apollo Clarius. Oracle at Ptoion At Ptoion, there was an oracle of Ptoios and later of Apollo. Oracle at Gryneium At Gryneium, there was a sanctuary of Apollo with an ancient oracle. In other cultures The term "oracle" is als... | polytheism, divination was performed by the priestly caste, either the druids or the vates. This is reflected in the role of "seers" in Dark Age Wales (dryw) and Ireland (fáith). China In China, oracle bones were used for divination in the late Shang dynasty, (c. 1600–1046 BC). Diviners applied heat to these bones, usu... |
continues the Hyperion Essbase tradition of multi-dimensional database management MySQL, a relational database management system licensed under the GNU General Public License, initially developed by MySQL AB Oracle NoSQL Database, a scalable, distributed key-value NoSQL database Middleware Oracle Fusion Middleware is a... | Microsoft SQL Server. IBM's DB2 dominates the mainframe database market. In 2004, Oracle's sales grew at a rate of 14.5% to $6.2 billion, giving it 41.3% and the top share of the relational-database market (InformationWeek – March 2005), with market share estimated at up to 44.6% in 2005 by some sources. Oracle Corpora... |
ruling Conservatives the first true opposition they had faced for decades (the local Liberal Democrat and Labour parties being negligible). Hughes retained his seats with increased majorities in subsequent elections, and took the Devon County Council seat from the local party's Chief Whip in the council. To date, two c... | The OMRLP succeeded in standing in the two by-elections of 19 July 2007 in Sedgefield and Ealing Southall, but again achieving derisory results: Alan Hope acquiring 129 votes (0.46%) and John Cartwright taking 188 (0.51%), beating the English Democrats but coming behind the Christian Party of the Reverend George Hargre... |
and cachexia, omega−3 fatty acids supplements may be of benefit, improving appetite, weight, and quality of life. Cardiovascular disease Moderate and high quality evidence from a 2020 review showed that EPA and DHA, such as that found in omega−3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplements, does not appear to improve mortali... | omega−3. The rapid evolution of human diet away from a 1:1 omega−3 and omega−6 ratio, such as during the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, has presumably been too fast for humans to have adapted to biological profiles adept at balancing omega−3 and omega−6 ratios of 1:1. This is commonly believed to be the reason why ... |
Clastic hosted or SEDEX Lead-zinc-silver deposits. They are typified, among others, by Red Dog, McArthur River, Mount Isa, Rammelsberg. Mississippi valley type (MVT) zinc-lead deposits Sediment-hosted stratiform Cu-Co-(Ag) deposit, typified by the Copperbelt of Zambia and DRC. Astrobleme-related ores Sudbury Basin nick... | of ore deposits follows these steps: Prospecting or exploration to find and then define the extent and value of ore where it is located ("ore body"). Conduct resource estimation to mathematically estimate the size and grade of the deposit. Conduct a pre-feasibility study to determine the theoretical economics of the or... |
with this property are the stilbenes, e.g., 4,4′-diamino-2,2′-stilbenedisulfonic acid. Older, non-commercial fluorescent compounds include umbelliferone, which absorbs in the UV portion of the spectrum and re-emit it in the blue portion of the visible spectrum. A white surface treated with an optical brightener can emi... | are listed in the international Colour Index database, but fewer than 90 are produced commercially, and only a handful are commercially important. The Colour Index Generic Names and Constitution Numbers can be assigned to a specific substance. However, some are duplicated, since manufacturers apply for the index number... |
paintings into the present day suggests that oil paints had been used in Asia for some time before the 7th century. Most European Renaissance sources, in particular Vasari, falsely credit northern European painters of the 15th century, and Jan van Eyck in particular, with the invention of oil paints However, Theophilus... | property. Supports for oil painting The earliest oil paintings were almost all panel paintings on wood, which had been seasoned and prepared in a complicated and rather expensive process with the panel constructed from several pieces of wood, although such a support has a tendency to warp. Panels continued to be used w... |
John Bell Hood sought to retake the city, Driver hung the flag out of the third-story window and left to join the defense of the city. For the rest of the American Civil War, Driver served as provost marshal of Nashville, serving in hospitals. Mary Jane Roland, Driver's daughter, said Driver gave her the flag as a gift... | salesman and served as vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church. In 1860, Driver, his wife and daughters repaired the flag, sewing on 10 additional stars, and Driver added by appliqué a small white anchor in the lower right corner, to symbolize his maritime career. By that time, the secession crisis had begun and Driver's ... |
government. In 1973, Letelier was recalled to Chile and served successively as Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Interior and Defense. In the coup d'état of 11 September 1973, he was the first high-ranking member of the Allende administration to be arrested. He was held for twelve months in various concentration camps a... | 2006, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), for which both Letelier and Moffitt worked, called for the release of all classified documents relating to the Letelier–Moffitt assassination. According to the IPS, the Clinton administration de-classified more than 16,000 documents relating to Chile, but withheld documents... |
a new play, Salomé, written rapidly and in French. A tragedy, it tells the story of Salome, the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but mother's delight, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. Whe... | imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He becam... |
loss of status. After the ten years, he was allowed to return without stigma. It was possible for the assembly to recall an ostracised person ahead of time; before the Persian invasion of 479 BC, an amnesty was declared under which at least two ostracised leaders—Pericles' father Xanthippus and Aristides 'the Just'—are... | 403 BC. However, while ostracism was not an active feature of the fourth-century version of democracy, it remained; the question was put to the assembly each year, but they did not wish to hold one. Purpose Because ostracism was carried out by thousands of people over many decades of an evolving political situation and... |
the number of prime divisors of n (counting multiplicity). In notation related to Big O notation to describe the asymptotic behavior of functions. Chaitin's constant. In set theory, the first infinite ordinal number, ω In set theory, the first uncountable ordinal number, ω1 or Ω As part of logo or trademark: The logo o... | Omega, believed to be one of the creators of the Time Lords of Gallifrey. The symbol for the highest power level of a PSI attack in the MOTHER/EarthBound games The symbol ω (lower case letter) The minuscule letter ω is used as a symbol: Biology, biochemistry and chemistry: In biochemistry, for one of the RNA polymerase... |
Gorky and Rostov to the port city of Astrakhan at the mouth of the Volga on the Caspian Sea. The report concluded that—once established—this military border would reduce the threat to Germany from attacks by enemy bombers. Although Hitler was warned by his general staff that occupying "Western Russia" would create "mor... | of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its Axis allies, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation was named after Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard"), a 12th-century Holy Roman emperor and German king. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering th... |
Solomon Islands and other Pacific islands. The Japanese were turned back at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Kokoda Track campaign before they were finally defeated in 1945. Some of the most prominent Oceanic battlegrounds were the Battle of Bita Paka, the Solomon Islands campaign, the Air raids on Darwin, the Kokad... | human remains found in Australia are that of Mungo Man, which have been dated at about 40,000 years old. Melanesia The original inhabitants of the group of islands now named Melanesia were likely the ancestors of the present-day Papuan-speaking people. Migrating from South-East Asia, they appear to have occupied these ... |
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